What Europeans Do That Americans Are SO AFRAID Of 

Who’s had their Mettbrötchen today?? 😅

As a German, I find it absolutely disturbing that you can be legally shot in the US if you accidentally stray onto your neighbor's property. This has nothing to do with common sense.

i can understand the fear of raw meat in america, if i would live in a country with third world food safety standarts i wouldnt risk it either.

I grew up in Paris and my brother (he was 11) and I (I was 12) we took the metro every day to go to school. We never had any problem during 6/7 years. There were 6 stops, many people in the tube and several street to cross ! WE ARE STILL ALIVE

You have to keep in mind, that "Mett" (raw pork) has VERY different, much stronger food safety standards, than normal pork. The Mett has to have been produced on the same day as it is sold. It can be sold after that, but not as Mett and not for raw consumption. Also the pork for Mett is 100% checked by a vet - especially in larger butchers, where there is usually a vet on the payroll of the butcher. Fun fact: The German word for butcher - Metzger - originates from the word Mett, which simply meant "meat dish" in old high German.

So basically, people are scared for their children to walk or cycle through the traffic. Solution: Drive them and create more traffic. That is a problem in Germany aswell, especially right in front of the schools: parents bringing their kids by care are the most dangerous thing for the other kids. I wonder what the solution could be... RIGHT. Buy an SUV so you can drive your kids more safely. Smh

I remember the American tourist almost fainting at the sight of a group of young moms letting their pre-school kids play in the buff at a public fountain in the pedestrian area in Würzburg. No one actually would bat an eye, but those fat-bottomed Puritans almost started yelling at the Moms in English. It was a great scene.

Visiting friends in America I decided to cook a meal for them. I had to go shopping for that. I decided to walk. My American friends‘ children couldn‘t believe that such a thing could be done. They accompanied me with their bikes on my way to the supermarket and sang: no one here would do something like that, he‘s crazy, he‘s a German. The supermarket was about 1 km away. 😂

Americans visiting Italy: "oh I love this Prosciutto di Parma, the Pancetta, the Guancale and the Salame ❤" Americans visiting Spain: "Oh, I love this Chorizo, the Sobrasada, the Fuet and that Jamon Serrano 😍😍😍" Americans visiting France:"oh, I love this Coppa de Corse, the Chasseur, the Rosette de Lyon, the Crepinette and the Jambon de Bayonne 🥰" Americans visiting Germany:"EATING RAW PORK IS DISGUSTING !" 😂😂😂😂 Guess what ...

UK. I (and every other kid in the street) walked to school from age 5. Basically, Mum took me for the first week to learn the route, then I was on my own (actually, we tended to walk in 'friend' groups). That school was about a mile away from home.

There are no school busses here in my hometown in Northern Germany, but the normal bus routes have additional buses at the times when kids get to and from school. As a child I walked to the elementary school (~1.5 km) with a girl who lived two houses down the road and who was in my class (yes, our parents had planned that). Later at secondary school I used my bike (~2.5 km).

The funny thing about the Mett tasting is, it wasn't even the real deal. It was some prepackaged cured Mett with a totally different taste and texture. If you decide to give it another try one day, get some from the meat counter. It's creamy and smooth deliciousness. My personal go to is Jägermett. It's Mett with some spices add into it like pepper and mustard seeds. And if you still don't like it and have leftovers, it can be used for cooking, just like normal ground meat. Btw, I love your new glasses! Did you get them in Germany? I've been looking for years now but still couldn't find white frames.

The end-all for U.S. natives is walking naked across a field to school alone with a row pork bun in the hand

I have seen my parents naked in the bathroom, changing clothes etc. and they have seen me too of course. So there is no big thing going with them to the sauna. Dont American kids see their parents naked at home? But I have to say things change a bit when kids are in pubery.

Pork meat gets tested for trichinosis in Germany's abbatoirs, unless the pig comes from a certified farm with the highest hygiene standards. Did you just spread met on a dry bit of Brötchen there? Yeah, that won't be nice. You need a very fresh bread roll, put butter on it, then spread the freshly ground Mett on it quite thickly, add salt (and pepper if you like) and then raw onions on top. It is SO good!

Swiss lady here (from the French speaking area, though). Totally with you concerning the kids safely walking to school or taking public transportation ! But due to the "American way of life" spreading to our country, we have to promote walking to school with adult people walking with the kids to enhance safety (because more and more cars). We don't have the "naked culture" here in Switzerland, and we also don't eat raw pork (except raw meat that has been salted, spiced and dried, like ham or pancetta). But we love raw beef steak tartare and carpaccio, as well as raw beef spiced and dried (viande séchée), very common and especially appreciated when coming from the mountains, as well as many different sorts of raw-meat-based sausages. And what about raw milk cheese (= full of germs, of course !) like the amazing Gruyère, or the deliciously stinking vacherin fribourgeois. French people will not contradict this. And also drinking water directly from the tap, or from mountain torrents when hiking. And living with opened windows because we don't have air conditioning (and don't like it "because it gives us neck muscle pains"). Lol. By the way, you don't look like an American guy at all : Germany has already significantly europeanized you, lol.

The deadliest food-borne illness outbreak in Europe in recent history was actually in Germany It was fenugreek sprouts. Nobody suspects the salad

Speaking for myself I came in contact with "Mett" fairly early in my life beeing at my grandparents house. At that time (I might not have been older than 5 or 6 years) I didn't know that Mett was raw pork. For me it was more like another form of sausage or cold cuts and very similar to liver sausage or "Teewurst". So I think if you try "Mettbrötchen" for the first time without knowing what it actually is, you might get a really different experience. And I don't know what kind of "Mett" you ate there, but there are basically 2 sorts of "Mett". Real fresh "Mett" from the butcher and "(Zwiebel-)Mettwurst" which you can find in almost every grocery store. If you dont like one or another you should try the other one. Mett normally is more coarse and less seasoned so you can eat it together with onions, pepper&salt, mustard or sometimes even "Maggi". However "Mettwurst" commonly is more smooth and fine and already seasoned heavily with spices and often times garlic- or onion -powder ("Zwiebelmettwurst"). Oh and please don't mind my english, I'm a foreign speaker.

What does a beekeeper do in the US when his bees flies away on private property? In gemrany we have rules for it. §961 BGB Loss of ownership of bee swarms Where a swarm of bees takes flight, it becomes ownerless if the owner fails to pursue it without undue delay or if the owner gives up the pursuit. §962 BGB Right of pursuit of the owner The owner of the swarm of bees may, in pursuit, enter on plots of land belonging to others. If the swarm has entered an unoccupied beehive belonging to another, the owner of the swarm, for the purpose of capturing it, may open the hive and remove or break out the combs. The owner is to provide compensation for the damage caused.

Fear 2: Nudism is not as widespread as you make it seems. If people get naked, that is not as frowned upon, but it does not happen often. You will not see naked people walking around in a park for example.

The elementary school in our village was a 20 minute foot walk for me. At the school there was the bus station I already used for 3 years to get to the kindergarten 🙂 My mother showed me the way for about a week and than I had to go on my own, to take the bus to the kindergarten next village.

Important to mention is that theres an important different between Mett und Hack. You can eat mett raw, but you dont eat Hack raw. Its also important that the Mett is fresh

My parents had been every vacation on FKK camping places. Same we as parents with our daughters. I will never go bathing on a place, where people are so crazy to go with clothes.

Yes, I can confirm number 1 from my own experience. I grew up in a rather dangerous region in the Ruhr area. Nevertheless, when I started school (I was 5) I walked 2 km to school every day and of course back again. We were a group of 4-7 kids in our neighborhood and our parents just made sure we walk together and told us not to let anyone walk alone. That went on through elementary school, so for me from 5-8 years. And from 9 I took the public bus to school (alone) because it was much further away. I walked about 10 minutes to the bus stop and then took the bus for 30 minutes. When I arrived I had to walk another 10-15 minutes. Later there was a better connection where I had to walk less but change to another bus. Regarding nudism, I recommend everyone who is unfamiliar with the topic and who wants to be shocked to watch the current "Kytta Salbe" advertisement. It runs during the day on TV and every child can see it 😂

When I was in elementary school I lived a bit too far for walking to school as well, but the solution my teacher gave me/my parents was dropping me off at a classmate who lived closer to the school so we could walk there together. I actually enjoyed this a lot ^^

Let me illustrate how ingrained the use of public transport is in German culture! From 8th to 10th grade, I had been living in Russia, attending St. Petersburg's first German school. On the first day, we celebrated the beginning of the school year, it was announced with a ringing bell as is Russian tradition. When all lessons were done, I walked home immediately as I would have in Dresden, Germany. But I got lost and only spoke one Russian word, my English was much better. I asked a random jogger for the way to the Metro (underground) station and she escorted me there. Only seconds after arriving in my flat, the telephone rang. It was my mother, who explained that the teachers were freaking out about my sudden absence. 😁

To Elementary school in my home town I walked 1,5 km. The Realschule was in another town but without public transportation to this town, so a school bus picked us up in the center of our town, still 1 km to walk to the bus. And for Gymnasium I had to go to a bigger town 20 km away and took public transportation. And for an even higher education level I had to go to Stuttgart, the capital of Baden-Württemberg. Therefore I lived 1 year by my aunt and used the public train system S-Bahn and U-Bahn in Stuttgart.

During my schoolyears in Poland - all the way until high school i was taking bus or walking by foot (usually the distance to school was around 2-3km). High school was various public transport routes, whatever got me faster to Warsaw from suburbs.

Air-dried ham, salami and several other similar pork products are actually raw meat. Aren't they also eaten in the USA?

I guess I would have a really hard time in america then. I really love taking walks and to imagine that I'm not allowed to just follow a road is just crazy. There are a few exceptions obviously, like a road that ends at a private property and leads no where else is usually considered off limits, but even then, germans might come out and ask if you got lost instead of threatening you, because you stepped on their property :D Most will even tell you of the next path you are allowed to use and how to reach that, never mind if you have to walk across their property for that. This is just that common. I felt uneasy once, walking directly next to a very expensive property. I met one of the people who lived there as I walked past and simply asked them, if I am allowed to walk here, as Google Maps was showing me I could take a shortcut across the fields. They simply smiled, said yes and even pointed me to the correct path I had to take.

I live in austria and i walked to school from 1st to 6th or 7th grade( in austria we would say the 3rd class of gymnasium) Then i moved very close to vienna and the last 8th and 9th grade i had to take a public bus to school but the bus would be full with other students and all of my friends too😊 When i did 2 years of a higher school (like 10th and 11th grade i think) i even had to take a bus, a train, and the metro because my school was in vienna in the 10th district(10. Bezirk)

In the Netherlands there's a spread made of raw beef mixed with mayonnaise and some spices and it's called... "Filet Americain" 😂

As a German living permanently in USA I very much enjoyed your video! I very much miss many of the things you mentioned about life in Germany

I find it hilarious that the idea of moving from the US to Rheinland-Pfalz is leaving a "comfort zone".

In Belgium we eat also raw meat

Damn, I want a Mettbrötchen now, but I'm trying to abstain from eating meat currently... As for how well trichinella screening for pork in Germany works: Last I checked the statistics, Germany has only very few cases of trichinosis at all, and those few are typically linked to either imported pork or people having consumed undercooked pork abroad, rather than contaminated pork produced in Germany. An interesting detail about farmland in Germany, that also might also affect how people treat it: Often, it's not big swathes of land owned by a single owner. It's usually a patchwork of many small pieces of land owned by many different people (after centuries of changing hands, being subdivided by sales or inheritance, and the like), which a farmer or farming cooperative might rent for their use. (Even though that's changing, too, these days, and investment and holding companies try to buy some of it up - usually to the detriment of farmers) And if I find hair in my food at a restaurant, and there are neither too many nor so dirty/disgusting as to be a problem, I'll still eat the meal, and simply inform the staff afterwards, just as feedback for what they might need to improve.

Took public buses with downtown transfer in Providence, RI. Unique part was a bus tunnel under Brown University as buses were unable to drive up the hill from downtown due to the grade.

When I was in school I had to walk like 15 - 20 minutes to school. There was a bus, but since I lived to close to my school I havent got a ticket to take it. I had to cross roads and there is not always sunshine in germany... really not! My calendar say it has 7 days and It has monday, thuesday, mettwoch, thursday, Mettwoch, saturday, Mettwoch

Even though I understand your American perspective, I still find it strange and inaccurate to describe Germany as "buttoned up and conservative". General German consensus would be that North Germany is "progressive, liberal, and secular", while South Germany is "conservative, traditionalist, and religious".

When I was a kid I in the last year of kindergarden I was already walking there by my own. I also visited the nearby playground with my friends from the street where I lived without our parents. So it was totally natural to walk to school even as a first grader, because the school was just about 50 meters away from kindergarden. In the suburb I lived we had just one main street dividing our suburb of about 3000 citizens into two parts. The main street was also where the most traffic happened because everyone from the outskirts of our city who loved in the more eastern areas in villages and towns had to use this street either to get to work or to go shopping big. At this time most towns had their basic shops like a bakery, a butcher and sometimes even a tiny supermarket. Even in my street across from our house we had an Edeka that was the size of a living room. But in the mid 70th this shop disappeared for a bigger supermarket along the main street where there were also our bakery, two butchers, a hairdresser, a pharmacy, a bank, a driving school, two pubs and a restaurant. So almost every other street in our town/suburb was in a residential area where kids and cats could play outside on the street. And we had just one (later a second one in front of the new supermarket) traffic light for pedestrians when I was a student at our local elementary school. So I had to cross main street at said traffic light every day. While almost every student who’s living in my town was walking to school, over two thirds of students came from towns in the surroundings. They were the ones who came with a school bus that was like you said a regular bus that was driving a special route only for students. Later on when I went to middle school, I also had to take a school bus to to that was dedicated for students only but I still walked to the bus stop from where the bus picked up me and my friends. In high school though, while still living in the same house, I had to take two regular busses to get to my school. One into the city and from there a regular bus that made an additional stop at the school center but could be used by everyone with a ticket. While the dedicated school busses were of no cost (at least no cost that I as a kid was aware of), I had to buy a regular monthly ticket to get to high school.

In some ancient germanic tribes it was common for groups of warrior to run into battle totally naked and chained to each other (and most likely high under the influence of drugs, that their heathen priests had served them). Puritanism - on the other hand - never became popular on this side of the pond. But you see: In both cases, the attitude towards nudity was influenced by priests. Just that one was influenced by cool barbarian priests and the other one by pain-in-the-ass-priests that were so annoying, that they had to leave the old world.

The „Schulranzen“ they get in primary school is much bigger than I had in the Netherlands.

In many german regions, there are schools not in every town or village, espcially secondary schools. That even applies to sprawling regions like the Rhein-Main-Neckar-Region. Children from these more distant settlements have to use public transportation to get to school. Often, regular busses are designated as school busses, as you showed in the video. If you live close enough to the school, children usually come there by foot or by bike. I grew up in a town where there were all types of schools. My elementary school was about 10 min on foot from my parents house, so I walked there. A traffic light in front of the school made it easy to cross the main road. My secondary school was about 2 km from my parents house so I biked there. We also have a good system of bike lanes in my town (which is quite common in Germany). Even today, I usually bike to work. There's another aspect that is to consider: Even in primary school, there are mandatory courses called "Verkehrserziehung." These are lessons, where children learn how to move savefly in traffic, be it as pedestrians (how to us pedestrian crossings and traffic lights) or on bike (traffic rules for bikes, including practical exercises on the school yard). At least it was like that back in my days 40 years ago.

I'm from Germany and to be honest, I only walked to school in fifth grade and vocational school, where I always took the bus. But in preschool and elementary school, I used a taxi service offered by the school. A taxi picked me up from home every morning and then drove me home again in the afternoon. And from sixth to tenth grade I was in a residential group where my social worker drove me to school every day. Well, I couldn't walk there anyway as the school itself was an hour away by car. My residential group was in Herzlake in the Emsland district and my school was in Gildehaus in the Grafschaft Bentheim district. And Gildehaus is so close to the Netherlands that on the town sign there is the Dutch name under the German name.

'I'd better take my kids with the oversized SUV the half mile to school, because it's to dangerous to walk with all those oversized SUV's out there'

My way to school was: 800 m walk (10 minutes) in 1st to 2nd class A school bus to the next village (provided by school) in 3rd/4th class (due to an arrangement to keep a small annex school alive in that village, which had only two classes, so pupils were shipped back and forth by bus ...) 190 m walk (2 minutes) in 5th to 13th class. Now when I look it up I see that the 3.5 km distance to the school in 3rd/4th class would also be a comfortable cycling distance but that age (8 to 10 years) was when I just learned to ride my bike, so I wasn't ready for such "long" rides on my own yet. What, there are saunas where you aren't naked, anywhere in the world? I guess I'm not such a sauna enthusiast but all I ever tried in a variety of countries were textile-free.

Elementary school was ca. 700 to 800 meters away from our house. High school was ca. 2 km away from our house. And of course I walked there in the morning and back again after school.

The hygiene standards in German food production are among the highest in the world. This is especially true when it comes to the production of raw minced pork. Every time a pig is slaughtered, an official veterinarian takes a meat sample and examines it for dangerous germs and parasites. Only then can the pig be processed. Nowhere else in the world are hygiene and health standards for pig slaughtering as high.

As a child I lived in a small village (~500 people) in the country side of Bavarian Swabia (at the fringe of the Nördlinger Ries meteorite crater😍) and we had a school bus take us to and from school which was essentially a chartered coach from a local bus company with the “school bus” sign attached. Later on I lived in a slightly bigger village (~1500 people) in Upper Bavaria and there I took a bus to and from school that was part of the public transit before I switched to riding my bike for the last two and a half school years, because the bus transit was no longer paid by the state at that age and it benefited my health. So I rode to/from school all year round no matter what kind of weather around 8 km across the country side. 😅 (it went from taking around 45 minute at the beginning down to 20 minutes and I also had gotten rid of 20 kg of weight in a few months😁) I'd probably simply remove the hair and continue eating... 🤔

Mett I love it about the hair. Remove it and keep eating. It’s just a hair nothing you would die from. Food safety in Europe is on a higher standard as in the US and a lot of stuff that bad for you that is allowed in the us is illegal in Europe.

I live in Hamburg and it was an absolute no go for our parents to drive us to school. So, in elementary school I walked a mile with a friend who kived next door. When I changed to the Gymnasium it was a 40 minutes ride on public transport. And yes, alone and on my own but I am still alive 😂

well i am living in a village so ive been walking to school / kindergarten by myself pretty much since i was 5 i guess, when i was 10 i had to use public transportation to get to the next city to go to school, its totally normal

I can't remember if I ever had a Mettbrötchen. Maybe because I'm bavarian and we eat Semmeln? Sometimes we had Tatar but in the '90 when Rinderwahnsinn and Salmonellen were a problem I stopped eating raw eggs and meat. I'm not longer afraid about it but I also don't miss it. I'm not sure if it is so popular everywhere in germany.

In elementary school, from grade 1 to 4, I walked to school every day. Before that, I also walked to kindergarden, maybe beginning at the age of 5 or 4. After elementary school, I got to high school (or in german Gymnasium) either by train or by bus. Depending on the exact time of day, when I got to go home, either one may be quicker, but the train involved a bit more walking to get home.

I really enjoy your videos! Taking up your themes: 1. It is not allowed that children go on their own to Kindergarten - even when they live next to the Kindergarten. As soon as they go to Primary school they have to walk, but not more than 3 kms. If the distance is more than 3 km or if they live in other villages, they can use the bus. In cities with public transportation, at the country side there are special school buses. (These are the laws in Bavaria, maybe it is different in other Bundesländer). 2. Hey, don't be afraid: Normally you won't see any naked persons - despite you go to a sauna or lakes with FKK areas. FKK was much more common in DDR, but in Saunas it is completely normal for everybody. It is not hygienic to ewar swimsuits there.. and well it is also much nicer to swim without clothes. Try it out... 3. Raw meat? For me, Mett-Igel or Tartar is disgusting! I even can't try sliced meat when I am cooking. 4. Betretungsrecht: You are allowed to go into every forest, although many of them are private. Concerning farm land, it depends: You can cross it, but only if you don't cause any damages (from autumn to spring!). No farmer will be happy about people destroying his harvest.

Living in a 110k+ city in western Germany I have to admit, that school-busses are quite a different thing here. First: there are special school-types (i.e. Waldorfschule or private schools), which are located a bit on the outside of the city, where a private contractor is hired to "collect" the pupils every day on dedicated routes with certain stops. Second: there are the busses ordered for public schools to provide transportation for pupils to special facilities (i.e stadium, swimming pool or big gymnasium) which couldn't be included to the school-complex. Those will be mostly be the same buses as public transportation, since both (schools and buses) are organized in a communally way. Both types are marked with a special symbol for school-busses in some way. Sometimes in the digital displays, other times with a plate-sign mounted to the vehicle... To the trespassing part: as long as you don't walk through the crops (destroying them) or encounter signs telling you "Betreten verboten" (do not enter) most agricultural pathways and gravel roads are open for hiking and extended walks.

I’m from suburban New York and in the 1970’s walked or road my bike sometimes before 3rd grade.

If I find a hair in my meal I first check if it is not my own, but if not, I send the meal back, because I am so disgusted and it is my right. I feel sorry for them, but I cant eat it any more.

I grew up in a small town called Jüterbog and walked or biked to school ever since first grade (2004). Well, I went to middle and high school (Gymansium) school in a different town, so I took the bus because walking or biking 14km while possible isn't that nice at 6 in the morning when it is still fairly dark outside in spring, autumn and winter, but I actually did it a few times. I think not only me, but most of my classmates would have been embarrassed to be driven to school by their parents.

Imagine living in a third world country like America where you cant go to school safely. I am from the Netherlands and cycled 48km to and from school every day. Once i forgot to bring an important paper with me to school and got send home to get it... that day i cycled 96km. Also eating raw pork is actually dangerous... especially if its minced. IF there is no sign telling you not to trespass and/or is fenced off then feel free to walk on the property, worst that can happen is someone asking you to leave

RQotW: glad to say that never happened to me. But if it did, I would let Owner/Chef know. I would probably not want to eat anymore of it. I BTW, Did you get your topic idea from the BlackForestFamily? They had same topic of free roaming last weekend. Our daughter walked to school alone after I practiced the walk with her a few weeks, from 7 years onwards, as of 11 even had to change underground lines and to go to music practice, change tram to bus line. It really helps their sense of independence AND competence.

Semi-rural area in saxony and i walked to school my entire school-life. Was only 1km, so like 10-15min walk. About a third of the school took busses from the surrounding villages. The people being driven there by car were very much in the minority.

Its easy in Germany. If the property is fenced/gated, you cant enter. Othrwise you just go where you want to go. If its private property, the owner has to make signs and prevent entry by putting up fences

How do I access a doorbell in america without crossing the property?

I'm from the region Heidelberg (Germany). I went to school by bike or walking and my children are also walking to school.

2:58 I am from Freiburg im Breisgau in Baden-Württemberg. As I was a child, I go to the elementary school in my district by walking. The higher school from the 5th grade/ Klasse, in the next district, I go in the winter by the normal city bus line and in the summer by bike. Now we have a schoolbus from our lokal bus company, because the bus line had changed.

The thing about walking through private property is definitely true in rural areas of Germany. My parents live in a small German village and people walk through their yard (plus the yards and meadows of like six neighbouring houses) all the time. It's a really convenient shortcut from the center of the village to some of the residental areas, so it has become an inofficial footpath over time. My parents drew the line when people started riding up there on motorbikes, though...

In Piemont we don't eat raw pork, but we are fanatics for raw beef!

Bavarian Forrest, had to go a few hundred meters to the bus stop, take the bus which went to the school. After school roughly 1km to the bus and afterwards a few hundred meters home. No parents available for driving, my dad's income was not great, only one car available which he had to use to go to work, hence being driven to the school was impossible. Besides my parents had to walk to school several kilometers, no school bus, no car. So already having a bus available in their mind was more than enough.

Hehe, Donnie, I KNEW, with absolute certainty that both nudism and Mett would be on the list. When it came to the "right to roam" I was wondering if this video had been recorded well before last weekend. Cause the Black Forest Family did a whole video on this topic last Sunday. Synchronicity and such 😊. Random question: that really depends on the hair, both length and type, if you know what I mean. A somewhat long and straight hair, and only ONE, hey, it can happen, so remove it and keep eating . Also it depends on if the food is piping hot or cold. Piping hot kills the bacteria, cold not so much. However if it is one of the short and curly ones from a pubic area I would send it back, with a stern but still polite comment. And fairly quiet, so as not to cause a scene.

#fear1: I had my seondary school years during the 1980s. Pretty much all students came to school by bicycle. Those who lived very close chose to walk. Automobiles were not an issue because even then, many routes to school had separate bicycle paths. During college years, I commuted by train; the university campus was at walking distance from the station. During the trin ride, I could prepare my lectures. And yes, children learn at a young age how the public transit works. So you will see groups of children riding the bus here. Greetings from the Netherlands.

@Passport Two i am from The Netherlands and i went to school by taking a Taxi(a taxibus wich is used for taking people to schopl,hospital etc)

We walked to school. 10 kilometers, uphill, in both directions, thru 4 feet of Snow, even in the Summer and of course without shoes 😺😺 to be honest, yes we walked from the first day, but it was about 15 minutes, in a small town without crossing any bigger roads. Totally normal for a small town in bavaria in the 80's

I went to school in a town of 50,000 inhabitant in North Rhine-Westphalia. The Catholic Elementary School had got a branch for the first two classes nearby. So I could walk there. The very first three times mother went with me and then I was allowed to walk by myself. From the third class on we had to go to the main building of the school which was across the town centre. The parents of the neighbourhood decided that it was too dangerous for us to go by bike. So they took turns to drive us for the autumn and winter. From spring of the third class on we were allowed to go by bike. When I changed to The Town’s Grammar School in the fifth class we moved to the periphery of the tow, where my parents had built a house. Luckily, the grammar school was on the fringe of the town centre towards us. So the way by bike was no problem. It took 13 minutes. I had to cross one major road without traffic lights. But I was older then, though. I did this for the next nine years to the 13th class. Thanks for your reactions to German topics!

I wonder if the trouble with the Mettbrötchen was more from the mind being against it rather than the taste, kind of like a self-fulfilling prophecy.

I dated an American a few years ago and when he visited me in France he always wanted his eggs overcooked and the yolk couldn't be runny, which to me was 😳 To him it was the official health recommendation so that's what he was used to... We were both vegetarians so I didn't bother telling him that a steak tartare actually included a raw egg yolk. I think he might have fainted 😄

One of your best! Wlll done...

Sauna with cloth on doesn‘t feel good. Its sticking to the skin.

My mum walked to school the first week and after that i walked with a friend, i was 5 years old at the time

As a German, I was extremely surprised when I found out that children are not allowed on American nude beaches. Children are allowed on German nude beaches. I even went to a nude beach as a child.

I went to school in Australia and had to walk daily ~ 40 minutes, one way. I survived and I don’t think I had any negative impact.

I walked to elementary school and biked to highschool but for middleschool I took the train and a bus because it was in the next town over. And if I find a hair i pick it out and continue eating. I even once found a fly in my breading and kept eating. I just don't want to waste food.

5:54 Try to pronounce the Umlaut Ö like the i in Kirk or dirt or the o in worry. Not Latin, unless it comes from corpus.

I walked to school during the entire time. I took the bicycle or public transportation to university. I find it anoying to see signs in school, like "from here I can walk alone". When I find a hair in my food, I send the food back. Certainly I don't know if a hair was seen by the kichten staff and was removed. I also believe that most people wash their har regularly. But do not reward the lack of care -- so I send it back

I didn't eat Mettbrötchen for years but after watching expat RU-vidrs talking about them I remembered how much I like them and so since a few month now I eat Mettbrötchen at least one time a week. I buy them at a local bakery where thy prepare them fresh if you ask for them. They are delicious and I could eat them every day but I'm just too lazy to walk to the bakery every morning. I wish they had a Mettbrötchen delivery service. 😆

I lived in a 38K people town in Germany when I grew up where my mom drove me to school till I was in 5th grade. She, and some other parents only did it cause they feared we kids could get lost on the way home and cause many other adults saild it would be not save to walk alone if you life further away from school than just 2-3 streets. And it was also mainly cause the school was in a residential area near a very big road full of trafic and a railway, so yeah you can imagine how carefull families were with their kids. When I started 5th grade I used a bycicle to school but when it rained my mom drove me to school, so even if it was sunny at noon she had to come and pick me up so I was punctial for lunch at home. When I did an aprentice ship, I lived in a building provited by my work so at first I just walked down the giant 10 floor building and worked in the ground floor but later when they switched things up I lived in a smaller dorm 3km away and took a bus with some of my coworkers who all lived in dorms from our workplace. The funniest thing for my aprentice ship also is that the school you need to atend for an aprentice ship was also in the same building as my work and my new home so all people who lives further away or lived in a dorm outside from work got jealous how 70% of the people working there had luck by not needing to leave the place after work and school since it saved them time xDD

I live in NRW in a small city. And I usually walked to school. Same with my kids. The first 1-2 weeks I walked them, but soon they wanted to go alone because having their parent bring and pick them up was embarrassing for them. Like with every kid in their class. And I told my parents the same when I was 6.

On uncooked meat /fish its quite common in Europe . Germans Dutch belgiums Nordic countries etc all eat one or multiple types of meats and fish raw .

Can you do a video about Oklahoma? If it's worth a visit during a road trip?

I walked to elementary school (250 metres), I biked to middle school (2 kilometres) and took public transport to Gymnasium (20 kilometres). All of my classmates did that.

The more prevalent risk with ground meat isn't trichinosis, but botulism. Trichinosis is usually addressed by the mandatory meat inspection in the slaughterhouse. But botulism may occur _after_ you picked up your Mett at the butchers or the supermarket, when the vendor is no longer responsible for maintaining an uninterrupted cold chain - or gets contaminated, while it sits in your fridge far too long. Generally, it is advisable to consume it the same day, and to put it in the fridge until you prepare and consume it. If you have any suspicion, that there might be a contamination, your second option is to thoroughly heat it above 100 °C for more than 5 minutes, which should result in the destruction of the bacteria, spores and the toxins. Because this is difficult with conventional boiling water, it is advisable to either use a pressure cooker, or fry it. The problem results from the fact, that grinding meat results in a much larger surface for contamination to get hold, and multiply. Which is why it is much less of a problem with meat loafs.

I was an exchange student to the U.S. (rural central Illinois) 49 years ago. My host family (farmers who were raising pigs) were really nice. But when I felt like eating a "raw" slice of bacon (packaged, not from their own hogs) on my slice of toast, just like I had always done with Schinken or Speck at home, my lovely host mother was alarmed and objected, "Oh, you're gonna get trichinosis." And I said, "Why should I get trichinosis when there are no trichinella in the meat? Or don't you have controls for that?" As for Mett, I really love it with onions etc. (it "is for me", to pick up the wording in the video). But it must be fresh, and I don't go to the butcher's daily and so prefer their somewhat processed Zwiebelmett which keeps up for quite a while in the fridge.

I lived not more far than about 500 m from the school, so I could walk and I had not to cross a busy street. In Berlin we have a lot of schools, so there it's an exception to need a bus or tram ride. It can be, if you go to a special school.

Careful, eating raw pork is not the same in the U.s. as it is in Germany. "Mett" in Germany is highly regulated, no Blood-Meat can be used as blood carries most viruses and bacteria. The animals and the meat is tested for diseases, raw meat for consumption has to be from the same day, no selling or consumption after laying around for several days. Standards and Control/Testing are much higher in Germany than in the U.S. please do not just eat raw pork when you are from the U.S. just to try it. There are diseases German meat has to be tested on, which is not the case in the U.S.

Unfortunately more and more parents in German cities adapt to a livestyle where its normal to drive less than a mile or even just a half mile with oversized cars as SUVs to school and cause a traffic chaos in front of primary schools. Those kids are lost from the start 😊. Nudism was very popular in the GDR and still has a lot of supporters in the east german part.

In my first years of elementary school, I had to walk. I don't know, where the route of the schhol bus was, but this way was shorter. Later we moved within the town while I was still in elementary school and I had to switch schools. There even for a bike-ride the way was too short. Especially, because there are passages, where bike-riding wasn't allowed. Only walking. In later schools I mostly went by bus. Sometimes I rode my bike to school, but I would have to climb a hill dayly. Mett is something I like. But I don't eat it often as it seems that strings of I-don't-know stick between my teeth. I have never gotten hair in my meal in a restaurant. So I don't know, what I would do.

I switched schools from Primary to Secondary (between 4th and 5th grade) IN early December 1966. (Long, irrelevant backstory.) I had two choices -- either going by train, or by tram. Train was DM5 cheaper per month, which mattered to my parents at the time. So a one-stop train ride it was. I had a 10-minute walk to the station, and the train left at 6.58am. I arrived at the central train station 11 minutes later, then faced another 20-minute walk to school. And that walk took me past the red-light district -- a short street with door-to-door brothels, separated from the main paths by 6-foot high fences on both ends, with just a narrow passage on either side. My mother made it very clear that I, a ten-year-old girl, should NOT enter that street -- and told me exactly why, too. Frankly, I wouldn't have let my son take that walk in 1997, when he was ten, but back then? It was just the thing you did, or chose another school. My parents trusted me to use proper caution, and nothing ever happened to me.

I would be grossed out if that happened but I’m not sure that I would send it back. I just ordered a special type of burger that had barbecue sauce and bacon and cheese and I asked them to leave off the cheese but they didn’t & I discovered as the waiter placed it down and reacted in shock and the waiter was embarrassed and took it right back without me asking him to do so but briefly when I had realized what had happened I was thinking of just scraping it off (of course there were 2 separate melted slices on 2 different parts) and not sending it back. By the way while at university I worked as a waiter at a country club and this older woman who was married to a doctor used to have very specific food issues which I did find annoying back then.

do school busses need that iconicity? FKK definetly depends on the location and I rarely go to a sauna only a "Dampfbad" at a swimming pool, which probably isn't the same thing. not just because I keep on swimming trunks (I am not female, like Sage from Sonic Frontiers, the avatar I use while posting this right now) Random Question: I've never found hair, but I might just assume it to be my own, so I probably would keep eating.

2:06 😆That explains a LOT. 😉