Which BALKAN Region Are You? 

When you create new kinds of Balkans but still miss Portugal 💀

5:34 Fun fact about that, in French, we actually do call that letter double V not double U. That's a rare W for the French language right there.

The drew kidnaping arg is getting more advanced every video .

0:59 as a brazilian... i can confirm that(if you put brazil in the title its 200k). WE ARE NOT BALKAN, I REPEAT, WE ARE NOT BALKAN(just because portugal is balkan it dosent mean that we are)

I like my Balkans

Hi Drew, Italian here, happy to contribute with something about my country every now and then (but also totally happy with the amount of space it gets on the channel maybe even less, more interesting realities for me to learn about) still, couple contibutions: at 2:00 Germany and Italy actually share the concept of celebrating the defeat in WW2, one of the more cherished national holidays is the Liberation day (Festa della Liberazione, quite similar to the 4th of July, even in that it's often referred to just by the date, 25 aprile. The titular liberation is from nazifascism, it's the day the command of north Italy stationed in Milan, ordered the general insurrection against the ocupying nazi fascist forces - actually some days before the arrival of allies troops which were in the gruesome central Italy fight, giving the Italian people some margin to rebuild a collective identity to be proud of, while metabolizing in full the sick path of the past. the other one is about pizza ahaha just to confirm, in all Italy sweet pizza is legit, like nutella and bananas or coconut (French crepes still better for this imo) or just plain nutella which we are fond of like you would be about peanuts and jam :D edit: in Rome where I live, a classic and very popular pizza you can find in late summer (typically takeway NewYork style) or just make youself, it's plain pizza, stuffed with ripe figs and italian ham - pizza 'prosciutto e fichi' (re-edit: if you happen to google image it, most images are bad american-trendy round pizzas, the good one is a close up of a stuffed one, it's like in the middle of the second row) it's delicious trust me. And yes, we love our melon and ham 'prosciutto e melone' which is a fantastic appetizer indeed, but not on pizza lol

8:45 Drew, you covered a meme in this very channel 2 or 3 years ago, in which it was stated that the so-called 'world news' by default meant only USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, S. Korea, Philippines, Sweden, Spain, Poland & Cold-War era NATO countries (except Turkey).

Wow, the ghost of Drew seems to have everything handled. Should we just keep him?

I think South Asia ( except Pakistan) can be renamed to “rice Balkan 3” cause Bangladesh and India consume more rice per capita than Japan I live in west India where we eat rice like 2 times a day lol but if you go to south and east india rice is like the staple food there. Bangladesh ,Nepal and Sri Lanka even consume rice more than china and South Korea ( per capita)

8:49 - Kingdom Come: Deliverance. Daniel Vávra doesn't like fantasy elements mixed into real history games, so this one has neither dragons nor black people in the middle of medieval Bohemia (something that some Americans found very difficult to come to terms with).

It would be amazing if you made a Croatia plushy hold a parasol referencing their beaches

8:28 Oceania didn't even appear in the meme.

I feel like Mongolia is like the Slovenia of Rice Balkans 1

RIP Drew Durnil 1994 - 2023 Let’s hope the imposter can continue this channel after the real Drew was oofed

5:10 also true when you speak any kind of Slavic language when someone's not familiar with them. They immediately think it's Russian, even when it's not even close.

2:55 Can confirm. I was his brother sitting in his room whilst he discovered it.

Everybody knows the US and cheese but nobody knows Hungary and sour cream.

6:32 Drew you missed the joke she was saying Steve Jobs

Thank you for making my morning every day for the past year or two we love you Drew

8:22 German, Italian

5:30 Funniest thing is, in English, it's Double-U, but looks like two V's In Fr*nch, it's "Double-V", but when written by hand, it's two U's In Spanish, from what I've seen, what it is interchangeable from Double-U, Double-V, or sometimes even Double-UV, and looks the same. *Important to note that in Spanish, there is no real 'W' letter, it's only for loanwords from another language, like Washington, Waffles, or something similar

9:54 OH NOOOOOOOO! POOR DREW!!!

8:06 this also applies to us Filipinos, just a little bit lessened

Drew when he realised that Sweden made banana pizza: Delete Sweden Hungary who made orange pizza with honey and jalapeño: Better run

4:08 It's actually Pokemon diamond

It’s a shame that the kidnapper killed drew. He can’t enjoy anymore time in that Patagonian village with his Argentinian grandpa

2:14 Can confirm this is a popular thing in the UK. Thing is, our chips are often so unseasoned that people would put _anything_ on them for a bit of flavour. Also, it's not _that_ bad. There's a trend of people disregarding cuisine _just_ because they know it's British. If someone were to tell you this is, idk, a Japanese or Mexican thing, then people would be praising it like the golden calf.

3:43 The USA has bad "British" beans. If you went to the UK and got some Heinz beans, they would taste good. People in the USA will just make something bad then call it British. Respect to the people in the USA who don't do that.

Drew if you listen to the people telling you to make Balkan plushies then give Romania a bottle of blood or a garlic chain to keep away vampires.

1:46 Finally my meme has been seen! Thank you Drew ❤

9:36 I have been waiting for so long for someone to make a joke about Pakistan's capital.

7:02 I find it funny how each of them has at least one "The War Criminal" type in them.

3:15 Well the genius part of the Newton's 1st law was the "in motion" part. More precisely, velocity, including direction and speed, won't change. But yup, the "at rest" part sound pretty dumb.

As one of Jerma's knees, I'd argue that all Jerman speaking regions should also be honorary balkan

Fun fact about the "W" is that it can be both a "double-u" and a "double-v", because in Latin the two letters were the same and I believe it always made the sound that "W" now makes. So for example "Veni Vidi Vici" would have been pronounced as "Wueeni Wuiidi Wuiiki"

8:49 a good subversion of this is the ranger’s apprentice book series. john flanagan started it out as a fantasy series but gradually replaced everything with 13th century european history

0:24 Red Alert 2 reference.

0:14 Pizza tower

Another day of asking Drew to put up the Guernsey flag

5:26 The reason why "W" is called double-U, is because the letter used to instead be two U's printed next to each other, but then we decided to combine them to create one character. Then, like all English things, it got simplified down to 2 V's, even though it is still called "double-U," not "double-V".

6:23 lets gooo Steve -Jobs- sjdhfhhd

Islamabad often in central Asia and some parts of south Asia Abad is a post fix to a name that means town. You see a similar thing in English with Ford or Bridge exposing the origin of the town

We need more historical medieval RPGs. And we need more fantasy Map Games. xD

You can thank the JRPG's for turning the medieval area into a fantasy era.

0:58 Não se preocupe Drew, vc não nos invocou... nós sempres estamos te observando 👁👁👁👁👁👁 🇺🇲 Don't worry Drew, you didn't summon us... we are always watching you 👁👁👁👁

You can also do the summoning with the Dutch, but that requires you to be Dutch yourself otherwise its much less effective

as an Iowan whos state never gets mentioned i was just happy to have my state included for once... Thank you Drew for that meme

Isaac Newton did sort of invent Calculus, but that's hard to explain to kids when you can just say "lol, apple go bonk."

In all fairness with the British Chinese food, it very rarely actually looks like that, Chinese food is massive over here

Petition for Drew to make a series covering Ace Combat and its multiple universes: [Day 143] The A-143 Buzzard was primarily built for the Altis Armed Forces as a multi role attack jet. Post conflict, seized assets were stripped of all weaponry and sold to the civilians of Altis. Its one of the cheaper jet air planes available to purchase on Altis. Its often used now for quick transport around the island as well as a recon vehicle during rebel activities.

4:01 It makes sense that they drew him that way because: Regesteel sounds like pact of steel

1:08 Me as a German:" did you forget about me?!", calls the beerbuddies to infiltrate a new comment section 😂, but no worries, we`re peaceful

I like how Drew got a polish Monacan and Indonesian flag to flex

4:16 meanwhile South Africa just outright stole erika, still sung by some in Afrikaans.

"This is probably gonna be the only time in history where a country celebrates their own L" *screams in Catalan* (our national day is also the day we lost as a nation)

0:26 The tower has been a radio transmitter for over a hundred years and currently provides wifi.

0:30 Red Alert 2 vibes

4:36 that is Erika and it means peace but since it’s German it’s a Nxzi even if it was not in world war 2

The letter W or Double U comes directly from Latin where U and V were represented by the same character and the expression of the rare W that wasn't in any native Latin word was expressed as VV or 2 V's overlapping slightly. Over many decades the U, V and W all evolved further into seperate distinct characters. In French they refer to W as Double V.

You mencionou Brasil mano, estamos here now

8:18 tentacle no no anime 😂 nice name

I’ve been watching Drew for 2 years now daily!

5:34 V and u used to be the same letter because the sounds used to be similar enough that the romans didn't care

1:48 He forgot about the American civil war

6:46 honestly as a midwesterner we sort of are Balkan because there is just random rivalries against each other and we don’t know why

pfffft Balkan in the name!

8:35 no mention of pacific islands, or australia or NZ

It was funny because for the first bit I forgot to turn on my speaker and it just made it 20x more funny.

This drew lore is insane

5:21 this is funny because in Italian it’s literally just “vu vu vu”

6:40 Here you go, balkans of the world.

*Ball...kan* What a great place lol. Let's build a great ball in ballkan as well

Brazil army, let’s go!

At least in my language (Finnish) "double-U" is actually "double-V", but it's not used much, at least anymore, except some loanwords.

8:50 i think the game kingdome come deliverance is one of the only game that is and will come this close

6:45 “The Cold Balkans” is pretty funny, and as someone from MN, I find it to be somewhat true. Just try not to start an argument on whether it’s ‘hotdish’ or ‘casserole’

Drew just made every Norwegian watching him very happy when he said that about Sweden we all 100% agree and give the land to Finland and Norway 50/50

Oh man I love this guy I'd skip skool to watch this guy's

"A body at rest will remain at rest, unless acted on by an external force" >Skips the important part >Laughs >Leaves >Refuses to elaborate

5:35 This is why it is called a double V in french.

7:59 as an indian I can confirm that , and also we atleast do not have LGTVHD+

9:22 looks kinda good

BRAZIL MENTIONED!

7:03 don’t forget the westAfroBalkans

R.I.P. to the legend We will miss you, funny paintbrush man

5:27 W was named W because the way people wrote it, it looked like two U It look like two V due to the printing press which changed its look and that form of W became vary popular But we write W as two U

You gotta be an FBI agent or something bro, I was JUST looking up your Balkan videos yesterday and then you post this today 😭😭😭😭

4:14 fun fact: there are a few versions of That

as a winter Balkan i can say its chaotic (but its fine.)

4:14 Små grodorna, små grodorna. Så lustiga att se

Blonde Mientje 4:20

Didn’t know Henya’s gonna be featured in Drew’s video

9:13 it’s pretty good though. You can’t deny it. It’s like Hawaii but more tropical. And don’t forget to mention it has curry.

5:15 i unfortunately relate to this

You need to try stronghold 2

I wonder if Drew has ever heard of Jellied Moose Nose?

0:47 uff…🫥 I’m confused what to think of this as an German

3:12 Newton was cenrtainly not the first to think for these simple things. He was the first to prove it mathematically for wich he had invernted calculus.

Kingdom Come Deliverance: non fantasy medieval RPG. The save system is unique but anoying. A solid game regardles.

I live in Florida, I am part of the underwater balkans, along with the Netherlands.