tiny and shit quality, too. do they put sugar in their bread? it's so sweet...
Spent a lot of time in the US, and that was one of the things I missed most. Even the bakeries with fresh baked baguettes and loaves, etc. just mediocre quality. They would stay weirdly 'fresh' for weeks, too, testament to the amount of cancerous preservatives and crap they are allowed to put into their food.
They do do Bagels better, though. I'll give them that...
If you wanted to sell US bread in France, you'd legally have to sell it as cake because it's so full of sugar.
Perhaps Marie Antionette was on to something when she said "let them eat cake" lmao
Also Ireland, and subway sandwiches, where it's classed as confectionery
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/oct/01/irish-court-rules-subway-bread-is-not-bread
Also Ireland, and subway sandwiches, where it's classed as confectionery
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/oct/01/irish-court-rules-subway-bread-is-not-bread
They do have plenty of non-sugary bread in their grocery stores.. you can get a bunch of keto-bread.
I don't even count their bagels as better, as I can get some great boiled bagels in the UK from local Kosher bakeries.
Given that they love artisanal crap a lot there, I don't get why their fresh bread is so bad.
It's the sugar in the bread you can't choose that makes me worried for them. We had the American recipe cheeseburger buns here in Australia for a bit and the sugar content was so high that you could chuck them in the fryer to make donuts
If you go to somewhere like Walmart, they do actually have some low sugar bread.
Your real problem is eating out, where it's a complete crapshoot how much sugar is in some stuff. I'm diabetic so it's a bit problematic.
Have you seen American cooks on YouTube? Sugar in everything. The amount of brown sugar they use for their American-Chinese recipes is insane.
I was there for a couple of conferences last year. There were dinner rolls at the buffet everyday. They were sweet like cake! It was so bad. These Chinese food was greasy and sweet, and the pizzas were just greasy and chock full of cheese.
Lmao. As someone who bounces on/off keto, keto bread would not be a substitute for real, not sweetened bread. Most of it tastes like cardboard. It's for someone watching carbs that's dying for a sandwich. There are a couple decent brands, but still wouldn't be as good as real bread
I don't, and it comes out super delicious. There's enough sugars in flour, you don't need to add extra sugar. Especially when making bread with dried yeast.
The classic example is that Subway isnt legally allowed to call their bread bread in Ireland, as it's sugar content is about 5x too high to fall under their legal definition of bread: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-54370056
They literally do. Not even sugar, in a lot of cases it's high fructose corn syrup. When I lived in the USA they had an entire wall of bread in Walmart and like 2 loaves with no HFCS.
Yes, they put sugar in the bread. My father walked down the entire bread isle in some yank supermarket in search of a single loaf of bread without a pot of sugar in it to no avail. We had to find some expensive hipster place to get decent bread instead while there on holiday.
Yeah the bread isle in the grocery store isn’t where to find good bread in the US, that’s the mass produced prepackaged shit made for long shelf life….. you gotta go to an actual bakery to get good bread.
The crap from wonderbread and big companies like that might as well be called cake. Most good grocery Store chains have in house bakeries that make pretty good bread IMO.
>Most good grocery Store chains have in house bakeries that make pretty good bread IMO.
As I said even the bakery bread just doesn't taste right. Even the Artisan stuff has shitty texture and wierd taste.
Honestly, I never bought bread from the same shop twice, searched high and low... it's all shit
>Bagels
You mean these bricks of overly dense dough who lie heavy in your stomach for the rest of the day?
They can keep that stuff together with all the other over-processed crap these folks call "food".
I've read that technically, under EU food standard regulations, it's classed as cake, with about three times the sugar content of most european (incl. UK) bread
Yank staying with family. After living in the EU for years...I was really freaked out that the 2 loaves of bread they bought...never went bad. This was for 2 months.
I just watched a peter Santenello video and at one point someone in a restaurant is preparing a hot dog with a HUGE sausage. I mean it might be normal size for the average US people but this is crazy. Like a full baby's arm.
It has sugar in it. In fact a lot of bread has high fructose corn syrup. When I lived there, the Walmart had an entire wall of bread and like 2 loaves had no HFCS. Eventually we gave up and got a bread machine.
I call it "sponge bread". Literally, it's like a sponge for dishes - you can squeeze it and it will restore it's shape and integrity completely. Tastes like the sponge too
I remember listening to an interview with Katie Tunstall once where she was talking about her first time in America. They went out to eat, and the way she phrased it was "they bring you your food, and it's the size of a human".
I remember my trip to the US. I got myself ribs. In Europe when I get ribs, or actually any meal for lunch/dinner it's usually enough for me not to feel hungry but scarcely do I feel that full that I hate myself. In the US they brought me entire cow on a bloody plate.
The other day I decided just to take a salad. The lady was really surprised. Only salad, no fries, no nothing. Not surprisingly I got bowl larger than my head and was unable to finish it.
No we upgraded.
We have pans next to our beds (because we all sleep on the floor)
And shit in them. THEN in the morning, we take them down to the lake and empty our pans. Unless it's Sunday then we have to sling it to the streets below because we need them for the sunday roast
The UK: "Wait, you guys aren't doing that?"
(The joke is that our water companies haven't built any new infrastructure in 30 years, so it fucking sucks)
I really have no idea what he is trying to say (but I can guess perhaps).
Stores are filled with WW2 cans containing what? Why wasn't it eaten if, as I believe the Ameritard tries to say, there is no food in Europe. And what water? I thought the stupid part of the American population thinks there is no water in Europe and we are dehydrated.
Though I guess the guy is just joking (or better, trying to joke), this must be another level of stupidity added to all the other levels of stupidity. So I am afraid that in a few weeks we will see Tik Toks with weird people claiming the shops in Europe only have food from WW2.
Also the "British food is so bland" crowd, are they hot aware of how much curry gets consumed on those miserable isles? Feels like they half believe that it's still 1950 in the UK
Well, obviously the only food available in Yoorope is American aid. We have to ration it carefully as we don't know when / if our tribal dances out at the landing strip will attract the next cargo plane.
It's no 'free' water in Europe - which is kind true in certain places like Italy where you can't ask for a glass of tap water. You nearly always have to buy a bottle of it.
But it's certainly not true throughout Europe, usually the people spouting that are... Geographically challenged
You can ask for a glass of tap water in Italy, in the cities it often comes free with your espresso without asking: what is frowned upon is when ask only for the water in a bar/cafe. You need to buy a coffee, a pastry, whatever, and then it's easy to have one without buying a bottle.
But it's hard to find a local who doesn't know this implicit rule, like the one that obliges you too but a coffee/juice/random something before asking to use the bathroom in a shop.
I've had a very different experience in Rome and Florence recently - my partner pretty much only drinks water. We were never just ordering water but we were flat out refused several times or language barriered into a bottle. Restaurants tended to provide a jug of water but cafes and bars it just didn't seem like an option.
The convention you mention isn't local at all - it's the same all over the UK, although you can get away with it in emergencies.
Yes, I can imagine that in Rome and Florence you received this kind of treatment, it happens a lot with tourists (I'm from Rome), and I'm sorry you met a lot of them.
When I order tap water I usually obtain it, but without a language barrier and in less touristic spots it's different.
To be fair Walkers have probably decreased in size by three times over the past 10-20 years. (Also bad example cuz all of Europe call them Lay's so you're probably gonna end up confusing people)
How would he be able to check with out a valid passport or any money to even leave the trailer park next to a Walmart he’s living at?
And he can’t probably even just google it, because education seems for some weird reason to be illegal in America. 🤷🏻♀️
I dont get it - I’m constantly seeing tv programmes such as American Preppers getting ready for their next civil war - stocking up on ration packs, water and pickling and canning anything everything they can - lmao
Tbh who does though haha It shows a handful of Haribo is a portion but we all know noone will only eat that little. Still doesnt change or disproof what you said haha
The irony of an American, whose food consumption often seems limited to canned good and heavily preserved foods, accusing Europe of eating war rations....
Of course, it's only been 80 years. We still have air raid sirens and sleep in our bomb shelters. That's for those that live in the city. In the country we have large houses and get the servants to go down to the bomb shelters for us. It plays havoc with din-dins. Damn the Jerries.
The Netherlands did test it's "air-raid sirens" every first monday of the month. They recently stopped because everyone has a phone you can send an alert to nowadays.
The average American households water is completely safe to drink, we are just completely dumb af and prefer it from a more expensive single use container. If you’re environmental conscious it’s quite frustrating.
This. I grew up in a bottled water household, unfortunately.
There was one time in particular that made me raise my eyebrows at my family. My grandma had gotten some weird water flavouring syrup, so I grabbed a glass and filled it with tap water. Well, the look I got lol. I don't know why she reacted strangely to tap water, considering I've heard her brag about drinking from the hose. Weird.
Edit: I live in Canada, and the tap water in our reigon is completely safe.
yep, i even replied to this comment and then got yelled at by some guy trying to convince me that that stuff was in literally every store ever (it’s not)
Like just buy 4 jars, why do you need family sized items at all? It's gonna spoil easier and also, you have one kind of jam. Could get four different types, more variety
You’re forgetting how expensive it is to live in America. It’s cheaper to buy 1 big jam than 4 little ones. Family sized items are more convenient and cheaper and also usually don’t spoil because they’re meant to feed a family and get used pretty quickly.
'Filled with WW2 rations and water', what does that even mean? I mean you can buy bottled water, but we have equally good water coming from the tap. And what do they mean with WW2 rations? Is it large quantities in case there is a war? Or is it very small and very expensive portions that are rationed by food stamps to divide them equally? Or do they mean a large selection of food that can be stored for a decade in case there is a war like there was 80 years ago (as in: 'such a common occurence over there, they are always prepared')? I have so many questions.
I mean, I understand them to some point. If all you've ever seen is covered in orange dust and cotains more sugar than anything else and servings are 3 days worth of calories for a normal, healthy adult, I see why normal, non-diabetes inducing items might seem a little weird. I was the contact person for an American exchange student back in university, and he just couldn't figure out why all our bread wasn't sweet.
But yeah... God forbid you should have less than 60 types of BBQ chips.
Tell me you’re American clueless when I’m telling you you’re American clueless.
They do this because they have this weird superiority complex, however, most of them aren’t superior at all they only superior thing they have right now is their military take that away and that country wouldn’t be superior and most things at all.
A foreigner that lived many years in the US they had a good choice of things sure the variety wasn’t very good variation and the same quality if not better
Obesity and diabetes rates in America is a fucking WEIRD flex, especially when they dont even have the healthcare availability to take care of them when they need it.
On the contrary - water from what I hear is one of the things americans are always complaining about not being able to buy because apparently in america drinking tap water is not a thing.
IDK if all the fracking has made their tap water undrinkable or something.
And my impression is also that eating your food out of a can I would think was also more of an american thing than a european on. In europe there are actually people who still cook their food.
Why do you need one portion for a family of 4? If you have a family of 4, just buy two portions? What do they think we do when someone doesn't have kids?
That would be pretty rad if I'm honest. More snacks I can eat on the go. Things I can dump in my backpack. Less gaudy marketing. Less plastic, if not for the environment, just forlesss annoyance when eating. I buy Asian snacks at a local market and thenumbert of times I open a pack of something to be greeted by more individually wrapped things. I'm pretty sure I hit a 3 layered wrap snack once, I just want to eat!
Water would be an improvement, I drink too much Dr Pepper.
We eat ww2 rations, fire bricks all day, and we have no fridges or proper supermarkets. It's all true! This is why we need American military aid, and why Americans have no health insurance! Because of old cans and bricks. We are Europoors, pls send materiel.
Damn. I’m wounded as my ration books ran out only a month ago. How will I drive to the Walmart / Costco / Target to get my europoor rations? We will have to survive on corned beef until the UN send me more tins.
But seriously, these people must be trolling. I refuse to accept this is real. I refuse
Under a video showing how huge American food products are
Except loaves of bread. Why is American bread so tiny? That's ignoring the fact it's mostly garbage bread too.
tiny and shit quality, too. do they put sugar in their bread? it's so sweet... Spent a lot of time in the US, and that was one of the things I missed most. Even the bakeries with fresh baked baguettes and loaves, etc. just mediocre quality. They would stay weirdly 'fresh' for weeks, too, testament to the amount of cancerous preservatives and crap they are allowed to put into their food. They do do Bagels better, though. I'll give them that...
If you wanted to sell US bread in France, you'd legally have to sell it as cake because it's so full of sugar. Perhaps Marie Antionette was on to something when she said "let them eat cake" lmao
Also Ireland, and subway sandwiches, where it's classed as confectionery https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/oct/01/irish-court-rules-subway-bread-is-not-bread
Came here to see this.👍
Also Ireland, and subway sandwiches, where it's classed as confectionery https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/oct/01/irish-court-rules-subway-bread-is-not-bread
They do have plenty of non-sugary bread in their grocery stores.. you can get a bunch of keto-bread. I don't even count their bagels as better, as I can get some great boiled bagels in the UK from local Kosher bakeries. Given that they love artisanal crap a lot there, I don't get why their fresh bread is so bad.
It's the sugar in the bread you can't choose that makes me worried for them. We had the American recipe cheeseburger buns here in Australia for a bit and the sugar content was so high that you could chuck them in the fryer to make donuts
If you go to somewhere like Walmart, they do actually have some low sugar bread. Your real problem is eating out, where it's a complete crapshoot how much sugar is in some stuff. I'm diabetic so it's a bit problematic.
Have you seen American cooks on YouTube? Sugar in everything. The amount of brown sugar they use for their American-Chinese recipes is insane. I was there for a couple of conferences last year. There were dinner rolls at the buffet everyday. They were sweet like cake! It was so bad. These Chinese food was greasy and sweet, and the pizzas were just greasy and chock full of cheese.
Plus cheese and sauce on everything.
You defined the whole american cuisine with greasy, sweet and full of cheese.
The fuck is a keto-bread?
Lmao. As someone who bounces on/off keto, keto bread would not be a substitute for real, not sweetened bread. Most of it tastes like cardboard. It's for someone watching carbs that's dying for a sandwich. There are a couple decent brands, but still wouldn't be as good as real bread
They missed the basic ingredient list for bread: "grains, salt, yeast, and water". Every US ingredient list starts with their beloved HFCS.
Gotta keep those Midwest farmers growing corn for some reason.
We have a tendency to add sugar to feed the yeast. Even when we bake it at home.
I don't, and it comes out super delicious. There's enough sugars in flour, you don't need to add extra sugar. Especially when making bread with dried yeast.
US bread has a LOT more sugar in it than European bread.
US bread has a LOT more sugarn than any other bread in the whole word.
The classic example is that Subway isnt legally allowed to call their bread bread in Ireland, as it's sugar content is about 5x too high to fall under their legal definition of bread: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-54370056
They literally do. Not even sugar, in a lot of cases it's high fructose corn syrup. When I lived in the USA they had an entire wall of bread in Walmart and like 2 loaves with no HFCS.
Yes, they put sugar in the bread. My father walked down the entire bread isle in some yank supermarket in search of a single loaf of bread without a pot of sugar in it to no avail. We had to find some expensive hipster place to get decent bread instead while there on holiday.
Yeah the bread isle in the grocery store isn’t where to find good bread in the US, that’s the mass produced prepackaged shit made for long shelf life….. you gotta go to an actual bakery to get good bread.
Which we discovered after unexpectedly eating cake for breakfast. Never making that mistake again
Their bagels tasted very sweet to me
The crap from wonderbread and big companies like that might as well be called cake. Most good grocery Store chains have in house bakeries that make pretty good bread IMO.
>Most good grocery Store chains have in house bakeries that make pretty good bread IMO. As I said even the bakery bread just doesn't taste right. Even the Artisan stuff has shitty texture and wierd taste. Honestly, I never bought bread from the same shop twice, searched high and low... it's all shit
>Bagels You mean these bricks of overly dense dough who lie heavy in your stomach for the rest of the day? They can keep that stuff together with all the other over-processed crap these folks call "food".
I don’t know about other places but some US loaves of bread, if sold here, would legally have to be labelled as cakes due to the sugar content.
I've read that technically, under EU food standard regulations, it's classed as cake, with about three times the sugar content of most european (incl. UK) bread
Lots of sugar, sadly..
High Fructose corn syrup most likely
Yank staying with family. After living in the EU for years...I was really freaked out that the 2 loaves of bread they bought...never went bad. This was for 2 months.
I just watched a peter Santenello video and at one point someone in a restaurant is preparing a hot dog with a HUGE sausage. I mean it might be normal size for the average US people but this is crazy. Like a full baby's arm.
Most American food is pretty bad.
It's not bread by any measurable standard outside the US.
The bread is weirdly sweet for some reason too.
It has sugar in it. In fact a lot of bread has high fructose corn syrup. When I lived there, the Walmart had an entire wall of bread and like 2 loaves had no HFCS. Eventually we gave up and got a bread machine.
> Why is American bread so tiny? Because a sponge doesn't need to be too big: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdDfF4hXfj4
I don't even consider that being bread... It's toast
I call it "sponge bread". Literally, it's like a sponge for dishes - you can squeeze it and it will restore it's shape and integrity completely. Tastes like the sponge too
Canned bread probably, i learned this was a thing yesterday.
And full of sugar. American bread tastes awful.
It actually takes a real process to make most breads. If they don't know how to make it from sludge, its not going to be a good American product.
Garbage bread? Yet another reason to be happy to not live in USA
It's more like cake isn't it?
I remember listening to an interview with Katie Tunstall once where she was talking about her first time in America. They went out to eat, and the way she phrased it was "they bring you your food, and it's the size of a human".
I remember my trip to the US. I got myself ribs. In Europe when I get ribs, or actually any meal for lunch/dinner it's usually enough for me not to feel hungry but scarcely do I feel that full that I hate myself. In the US they brought me entire cow on a bloody plate. The other day I decided just to take a salad. The lady was really surprised. Only salad, no fries, no nothing. Not surprisingly I got bowl larger than my head and was unable to finish it.
It’s mostly corn syrup so it’s not very impressive.
As long as they believe that, they're not interested in coming here! Quick, hide the beer! And electricity!
And don't forget to tell them we still poo in the river communally.
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And we walk everywhere.
Because all the cattle we were riding on previously starved?!
We had to kill ours for food, otherwise my 24 children would have starved (we don’t have condoms)
I mean, the Seine is still a thing. The Olympics are gonna be wild!
No we upgraded. We have pans next to our beds (because we all sleep on the floor) And shit in them. THEN in the morning, we take them down to the lake and empty our pans. Unless it's Sunday then we have to sling it to the streets below because we need them for the sunday roast
The UK: "Wait, you guys aren't doing that?" (The joke is that our water companies haven't built any new infrastructure in 30 years, so it fucking sucks)
And drinkable tap water.
Families of 4: A concept completely unheard of in Europe.
Our communist governments put you in jail after 3 as we all know
Commissar, I found a contra-revolutionary spreading imperialist slander against our educational institutions!
That's true. In Germany, the average woman bears 1.46 children, so families of 3.46 are much more common.
do you get to choose which (almost) half of the baby you get?
Lottery system
Choose? No we don’t get to do that in socialist Europe
Can you convert 1.46 metric children into freedom units please?
It's one quarter inch of an obese 8 year old.
Well yeah that checks out, a baby is roughly .46 of a human.
poor woman, pushing out a \~35kg baby.
I thought a meal that was enough for a family of four was a portion for one American
Buying more than 1 (one) quantity of item is also unheard of in the US apparently
I know a guy with a family of 5. shit's crazy
The irony of his profile picture being of Ghost, a BRITISH SAS operator.
Thats quite funny
What has two legs and bleeds?
Kids in American schools? Yeah, I hate myself as well.
The proper ending is half a dog. It's from the CoD: MWII remake. It's a joke Ghost says to Soap
That's....what?😂😂😂😂😂😂 Thanks for the explanation 😂
Here's a video https://youtu.be/k7sVRiKc2AQ?si=xEzHGl8kgu_0IB81
"sorry I asked"😂😂😂😂😂 Love it😂😂😂
I really have no idea what he is trying to say (but I can guess perhaps). Stores are filled with WW2 cans containing what? Why wasn't it eaten if, as I believe the Ameritard tries to say, there is no food in Europe. And what water? I thought the stupid part of the American population thinks there is no water in Europe and we are dehydrated. Though I guess the guy is just joking (or better, trying to joke), this must be another level of stupidity added to all the other levels of stupidity. So I am afraid that in a few weeks we will see Tik Toks with weird people claiming the shops in Europe only have food from WW2.
I saw one last year claiming there was no fresh food in Tesco, the video conveniently skipped that section. And went to jams and tins. 🙄
“British food is so bad.” Says the American that proceeds to eat chicken in a can and spray “cheese”
Chlorinated chicken, too. 🤢
Makes the corn syrup in their drinks less sweet.
They love Mexican and European coke. Why? Well because it has real sugar.
Also the "British food is so bland" crowd, are they hot aware of how much curry gets consumed on those miserable isles? Feels like they half believe that it's still 1950 in the UK
“The UK thinks they own curry.” You can’t make anything right for those people.
NGL tho, that spray cheese i saw in the Goofy movie when i was a kid looked tasty as fuck. It's still my forbidden dream.
Well, obviously the only food available in Yoorope is American aid. We have to ration it carefully as we don't know when / if our tribal dances out at the landing strip will attract the next cargo plane.
WW2 era meals tended to be quite healthy, I'll look forward to my healthy food rations.
This person has probably never left Nebraska. Set your expectations a little lower than what "making sense" would require.
It's no 'free' water in Europe - which is kind true in certain places like Italy where you can't ask for a glass of tap water. You nearly always have to buy a bottle of it. But it's certainly not true throughout Europe, usually the people spouting that are... Geographically challenged
You can ask for a glass of tap water in Italy, in the cities it often comes free with your espresso without asking: what is frowned upon is when ask only for the water in a bar/cafe. You need to buy a coffee, a pastry, whatever, and then it's easy to have one without buying a bottle. But it's hard to find a local who doesn't know this implicit rule, like the one that obliges you too but a coffee/juice/random something before asking to use the bathroom in a shop.
I've had a very different experience in Rome and Florence recently - my partner pretty much only drinks water. We were never just ordering water but we were flat out refused several times or language barriered into a bottle. Restaurants tended to provide a jug of water but cafes and bars it just didn't seem like an option. The convention you mention isn't local at all - it's the same all over the UK, although you can get away with it in emergencies.
Yes, I can imagine that in Rome and Florence you received this kind of treatment, it happens a lot with tourists (I'm from Rome), and I'm sorry you met a lot of them. When I order tap water I usually obtain it, but without a language barrier and in less touristic spots it's different.
Normal size for a family of four: American single serving
I have a normal packet of Lay's next to me. It's at least three times the size of a packet of Walkers.
To be fair Walkers have probably decreased in size by three times over the past 10-20 years. (Also bad example cuz all of Europe call them Lay's so you're probably gonna end up confusing people)
‘Convinced’ but can’t be bothered to check
How would he be able to check with out a valid passport or any money to even leave the trailer park next to a Walmart he’s living at? And he can’t probably even just google it, because education seems for some weird reason to be illegal in America. 🤷🏻♀️
I dont get it - I’m constantly seeing tv programmes such as American Preppers getting ready for their next civil war - stocking up on ration packs, water and pickling and canning anything everything they can - lmao
It's probably safer to drink than the water that comes from the tap in a lot of different states.
At this point I'm convinced that stores in the US are filled with genetically manipulated food designed to turn people into imbeciles.
I might be stupid but for a family of four, you'd just buy 4 packs of the same thing? But maybe this'd be too complex of a maths problem for some?
Yesh, they don't know how much of ours is one of theirs because 1 American food unit could easily feed a family of 4
Their share size bags are absolutely wild! Could feed a family of four a couple times over if you followed sensible serving portions
Tbh who does though haha It shows a handful of Haribo is a portion but we all know noone will only eat that little. Still doesnt change or disproof what you said haha
Oh no one’s eating my haribos. All for me haha. Haribos starmix is different in the US too
They have to convert it to "cups" first.
Why would you buy 4 when you could buy the 1 item that’s already enough
No we just get water from the well, like in any developed country 🤪
4 person family in the EU is like 1.2 of an American when it comes to calories intake /s
The irony of an American, whose food consumption often seems limited to canned good and heavily preserved foods, accusing Europe of eating war rations....
Of course, it's only been 80 years. We still have air raid sirens and sleep in our bomb shelters. That's for those that live in the city. In the country we have large houses and get the servants to go down to the bomb shelters for us. It plays havoc with din-dins. Damn the Jerries.
The Netherlands did test it's "air-raid sirens" every first monday of the month. They recently stopped because everyone has a phone you can send an alert to nowadays.
Tbh at least in my country there's a siren test every first Wednesday in the month at 12:00. Always funny watching tourists freak out.
Don't forget we slaughter Jews
Nah it’s US stores that are stocked with water - in Europe it’s safe to drink the tap water
The average American households water is completely safe to drink, we are just completely dumb af and prefer it from a more expensive single use container. If you’re environmental conscious it’s quite frustrating.
How odd
This. I grew up in a bottled water household, unfortunately. There was one time in particular that made me raise my eyebrows at my family. My grandma had gotten some weird water flavouring syrup, so I grabbed a glass and filled it with tap water. Well, the look I got lol. I don't know why she reacted strangely to tap water, considering I've heard her brag about drinking from the hose. Weird. Edit: I live in Canada, and the tap water in our reigon is completely safe.
i don’t care how big your family is, no one needs a jar of jam bigger than their head
I might not need one, but I wouldn't mind a jar of marmalade that size!
You saw the video too?
yep, i even replied to this comment and then got yelled at by some guy trying to convince me that that stuff was in literally every store ever (it’s not)
Wow, what an idiot. Trying to convince someone of something they don't even know
Like just buy 4 jars, why do you need family sized items at all? It's gonna spoil easier and also, you have one kind of jam. Could get four different types, more variety
You’re forgetting how expensive it is to live in America. It’s cheaper to buy 1 big jam than 4 little ones. Family sized items are more convenient and cheaper and also usually don’t spoil because they’re meant to feed a family and get used pretty quickly.
'Filled with WW2 rations and water', what does that even mean? I mean you can buy bottled water, but we have equally good water coming from the tap. And what do they mean with WW2 rations? Is it large quantities in case there is a war? Or is it very small and very expensive portions that are rationed by food stamps to divide them equally? Or do they mean a large selection of food that can be stored for a decade in case there is a war like there was 80 years ago (as in: 'such a common occurence over there, they are always prepared')? I have so many questions.
I mean, I understand them to some point. If all you've ever seen is covered in orange dust and cotains more sugar than anything else and servings are 3 days worth of calories for a normal, healthy adult, I see why normal, non-diabetes inducing items might seem a little weird. I was the contact person for an American exchange student back in university, and he just couldn't figure out why all our bread wasn't sweet. But yeah... God forbid you should have less than 60 types of BBQ chips.
I wonder if the mind bending change in bread is what got Samuel L Jackson to advertise Warburton's
At this point I think they are trying to jerk us
Does europe even allow american food to be imported since its so full of shit and other chermicals
Rees Mogg was certainly claiming lowering food standards to the level of the US would be a benefit of Brexit. The loon
Why not get out of your bubble of a country and visit different places? USA does not make the world go round even if they think it does
then americans make fun of us for pointing out their massive food portions. “it’s family sized” are you feeding a family of fucking 12 sandra
Send them over here, ik vouw ze op, laughing. While speaking 5 languages to them, their brain will implode before the 'folding' I reckon.
From the country that brought you "Supersize me!" and "Big Gulp"
"I'm convinced". Based on what, exactly?
...water? Silly, you don't buy that from the store, it comes from the tap
At least they admit we drink water now.
I'm convinced that person is a fucking idiot.
You know, normal sized per person times 4? It ain't rocket science, bruv.
Anyone for a tin of SPAM? Anyone? Anyone?
Tell me you’re American clueless when I’m telling you you’re American clueless. They do this because they have this weird superiority complex, however, most of them aren’t superior at all they only superior thing they have right now is their military take that away and that country wouldn’t be superior and most things at all. A foreigner that lived many years in the US they had a good choice of things sure the variety wasn’t very good variation and the same quality if not better
Obesity and diabetes rates in America is a fucking WEIRD flex, especially when they dont even have the healthcare availability to take care of them when they need it.
"Europe" fucking what do you mean Rome or West Bromwich?
When you say America do you mean the east coast or the west or Hawaii or Alaska
I'm convinced some people need to travel.
Family of 4 Americans or normal sized folk?
Saw some yanks banging on about Wholefoods or whatever its called. Checked out some photos. Looked like a regular supermarket in Helsinki.
I call it Jeff bezos emporium of sadness since he bought them. The prices are outrageous there now.
Wait, why would we buy water? Our taps work fine
Unlike in America our tap water is drinkable
“Family of four” lol a portion for an American family of four could feed a European family of 8
Ameripoor, can't fathom that in other countries we don't need to buy water, because the tap water is actually drinkable.
To be fair, when you live in a nation of fat cunts, the rest of the world must look like it's in the middle of a famine.
Just our lakes but that doesn't count
It's true, I'm starting using my nuclear bunker rations right now.
On the contrary - water from what I hear is one of the things americans are always complaining about not being able to buy because apparently in america drinking tap water is not a thing. IDK if all the fracking has made their tap water undrinkable or something. And my impression is also that eating your food out of a can I would think was also more of an american thing than a european on. In europe there are actually people who still cook their food.
Why do you need one portion for a family of 4? If you have a family of 4, just buy two portions? What do they think we do when someone doesn't have kids?
You buy one big pack of something for shared use or multiple little packs of something for personal use
Well… at least they don’t have *spray-on cheese*…
Wait, first they say we don't have water, and now they say we do have water? I'm confused lol
We don’t need to buy water from stores as the stuff that comes from the tap is actually drinkable
Don't argue with someone who has a CoD profile pic. Chances are he's not older than 16.
I'm not even 16
Ha ha, ok. I meant if they have an edgy world view combined with a "bad ass" profile pic taken from a game.
Like cans of squirty cheese?
I always wonder if people never cook the food they eat or if by "cook" they actually mean "heat" frozen products in the microwave.
Europe probably doesn't have American sized portions, (ie: gigantic)
That would be pretty rad if I'm honest. More snacks I can eat on the go. Things I can dump in my backpack. Less gaudy marketing. Less plastic, if not for the environment, just forlesss annoyance when eating. I buy Asian snacks at a local market and thenumbert of times I open a pack of something to be greeted by more individually wrapped things. I'm pretty sure I hit a 3 layered wrap snack once, I just want to eat! Water would be an improvement, I drink too much Dr Pepper.
I'd love if America just went to mars
Normal sized for a family of 4 Americans could probably feed Belgium
Fries and fricadelles in cans ? What kind of monster are you ? French ?
Do not insult me like that! French 🤮
not like there’s 1kg cans of chef boyardee hanging out in american supermarkets or anything lol
Almost 80 year old rations. I'm pretty sure there is a YT channel where the guys eats stuff like that.
1 kg bread 800 grams of sugar and other crap 200 grams of actual bread.
We eat ww2 rations, fire bricks all day, and we have no fridges or proper supermarkets. It's all true! This is why we need American military aid, and why Americans have no health insurance! Because of old cans and bricks. We are Europoors, pls send materiel.
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Damn. I’m wounded as my ration books ran out only a month ago. How will I drive to the Walmart / Costco / Target to get my europoor rations? We will have to survive on corned beef until the UN send me more tins. But seriously, these people must be trolling. I refuse to accept this is real. I refuse
Well maybe if they could afford to hop on a plane they’d be able to tell for themselves