3rd WORLD PEOPLE REACT: 10 THINGS ONLY DUTCH PEOPLE UNDERSTAND | NETHERLANDS REACTION

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[dimsel]

Dutchie here. We don't regularly deep fry Mars bars. Never had one, never seen one in my life. She makes it sounds like women are expected to wear a skirt on the first nice day of the year. It's not, it's just that you may expect to see more bare legs because of the nice weather.

[oddkitsunya]

Wat I missed was the;
- poffertjes (puffed small pancakes)
- stroopwafels, and (flat wafels with surgery syrup in between)
- drop (licorice)

[qazatqazah]

It's true that most Dutch people can speak English (some quite good, some not so good). We have a couple of advantages when learning English:
1) Our language and English are closely related. (England is our nextdoor neighbour.) We still need to learn English, but we share a lot of words, and (mostly) the basic word order.
2) We get a lot of media in English: not only music, but also movies, which are generally subtitled in Dutch.
3) English is taught in schools nowadays from an early age.

[wgsips]

One fun fact we do is: we put a wooden sign with the name of a newborn baby in the front yard, useally it stays there for 6 weeks ...

[merkvandermeulen]

Frisian here, so from the north. Learning the Frisian language and the regional Stellingwerfs dialect in my family from an early age, and Dutch in grammar school, later on helps a lot in learning foreign languages. In particular those with Germanic origins, covering a large chunk of the European Continent. I enjoyed the challenge though, studying French in High School. Totally different thing, although many a Dutch noun originates from the period a nasty guy called Napoleon (1794-1814) had a say over here. Cheers!

[raisan]

5:40 I had students from brazil stay at my place and they made "brigadero" condenced milk with chocolate powder, to be made into little balls covered with chocolate sprinkles, for us, which I learned from them is typical Brazilian.

[andyhorvath]

I have never ever had or seen a fried mars bar in my life! For the rest I totally agree with her.
And, yes, I will have hot meals three times a day, but maybe I'm a bit weird because I'm half Hungarian, we also have 10 o'clocks and 4 o'clocks to fill in the gaps ...
Love your video's!

[jeffafa]

A fun fact: The Netherlands has the highest proficiency of English speakers for any non-English country.

[Soren_DK]

Hello from Denmark.. The kissing thing on the cheeks is definitely not a thing here.. and i have always thought it was a little weird.. haha.. The cycling part is not an uncommon thing for a Dane.. We Danes, do also cycle a lot.. well most do.. In any kind of weather aswell.. Freezing cold, Snow, Rain and hot summers.. And that thing with "chocolate sprinkles" is not that weird for me either.. We have something called "Pålægschokolade".. A thin slice of chocolate that is produced and made just for the purpose of putting on top of bread.. Both white bread and brown bread.. You buy boxes of it with about 30 slices in.. you can get it both as dark and milk chocolate... and we can get sprinkles here too but we use pålægscokolade.. lol.. and here it also common to eat only one warm meal a day and that is normally around 18.00 aswell (6 pm) ... so i guess for a Dane the dutch people aren't that weird.. Hahaha.. They are wonderful people the Dutch... Great reaction as usual you two.. Thank you..

[MartinWebNatures]

This Saturday April 27 it's again Kingsway 🎉🇳🇱😊

[ikke]

I will never forget when Romario (de Souza Faria) came to Holland and he was once asked what he thought about "appelmoes." His reaction was hilarious (at least to me).

[mavadelo]

3 kisses: Obviously this is only people youknow and are friends/re;atives with. We are not going around kissing random strangers we happen to meet. In general this is between a man and a woman or between two woman. man giving kisses is only between real good friends, very close family and partners unlike in some other countries where kissing as greeting between men is fairly common. I tend to let the woman "lead" in this regarding what side to start.

Rain never has been a reason not to ride my bike. Neither is snow and ice.

Fried food: Yeah, we love our fried snacks. Every country has their national types of places to get a quick snack. In England these are fish&Chip shops, in Brasil this might be streetfood places or a bodega (I really have no idea)... in the Netherlands our "national eatery" has traditionally been the "snackbar" a.k.a Cafetaria. They have all sorts of fried food. Dutch favorites are caseless sausages called Frikandel, croquetes (beef, shrimp, veal, crab.. you name it we have it), a fried dough filled with cheese called "cheese soufle" and of course Fries with mayonaise, ketchup, curry peanutsauce or a combination of those.

Skirts day: Nothing translated "roughly" in that... it is exactly how it should be translated, a Rok is a skirt (and "rokje" is a msall skirt, if a word ends in je, it often is diminutive). It is a weird but true phenomenon. As soon as the sun comes out, the Dutch come out and will dress like it is mid summer. I am sure most men in the Netherlands are familiar with and most likely have uttered the phrase "Er is weer een blik mooie meiden opengetrokken" which translates to "They pulled open a can of beautiful girls again"

Sprinkles on toast: Don't try this with non Dutch sprinkles... but if you come across a store that sells Dutch products and they have chocolate sprinkles definitely try it. On the package you see either Melk or Puur, Melk is milk chocolate, Puur is dark chocolate. Also available as flakes which imho are even better. Make sure to put some butter on your bread before sprinling the sprinkles. If I search online it seems to be that at least chocolate sprinkles are a Dutch invention made in 1936. On the website ispiceyou there is a story called "The History of Chocolate Sprinkles: From the Netherlands to the World", I can't link it due to youtube doing weird when you put links but if you cope and then paste the title in google you should find it

What she tells about birthday circles is kind of depending on the people nowadays. It seems to originate from the Dutch having fairly small homes in which case a circle was the most efficient way to pack as many people in a room that could all interact with eachother without it becoing a chaos. Nowadays it is much less of a thing. We still congratulate everybody and their grandmother.

It is that she says she is dutch because there is zero Dutch accent there. When she started talking I thought she was from the UK.

Vlaai: Regional pie from the province of Limburg but popular with very good reason in the entire country. If you ever make it to the Neterlands it is a must try. She is correct that the best Vlaai can be found in Limburg but generally the Vlaai found in other regions is also very tasty.

Beschuit met muisjes:: Horrible explenation. Beschuit is called Rusk in English and Biscoito in Portugese. Muisjes is Mice in English and Ratos in Portugese. don't panic please, no Ratos are harmed in the making of the stuff. They are anis seeds covered in a sugary coating, the "tail" sticking out is the ittle sprout of the seed. They are... meh. It is tradition and I don't think there are many people that buy them for normal breakfast or lunch.

Snack from the wall: We call the place "Automatiek" and I would say Febo is the "McDonalds" of the automatiek. All those snack I mentioned above can be found there. Hop in, pull out a Croquete (or Kroket in Dutch) and eat it on the go.

One warm meal: highly depending on the person, I know enough people that start the day with porridge or with something like bacon and eggs and such. But we tend to keep the main hot meal for dinner, lunch if often just some bread and cheese or sprinkles.

[jeroenberkenbosch]

"muisjes" are "anis" ( potugese translated ) seeds with a coloured sugar skin ! then we have the apple syrup, its a thick syrup made of fruit - usualy apples, but also pear and grapes are included, high on iron !

[Toby-NL]

The greetings whit the 3 kisses, it’s s a old social custom from the past . It’s a social custom that has gone out of style since the ending of the 90s . And hardly any does it . And not consider as a common custom of social greeting .

[mostuc]

you two are such loveable persons.. great video from a dutch person. Do you know that the dutch people celebrate carnaval at the same period as Brazil does. Only the south of the Netherlands celebrate carnaval, the rest of the country doesn't.

[Toby-NL]

The blue and pink color kousjes on toast, we only gave when we vissit poeple who just had their baby born . And toast whit mouse are served as celebration of such happiness . Pink for a baby girl, blue if it’s a baby boy .

[heidivanbrabant]

we have lot of movies and series and they are mostly subtitled and not dubbed. and music we grow up around english for me personally I never learned english in high school french I learned in school but I can speak and write english but french is difficult for I speak dutch I'm from belgium.

[angelajason-ikvd]

The Netherlands exports a lot of condensed milk (Friese Flag is/was the brand name). Indonesia is a country where I have seen the Dutch brand. Don’t know where it originates from.

[johannetje]

When I see your reaction, I really realize how rich we are in the Netherlands,
and still we complain that we don't have enough,
I'm even a little ashamed

[michiel]

From the netherlands and the marsbar is non existent here.. scotland?