Why These Things are Ok In France But Illegal in the USA

Here are a few things that will get you into trouble in the US but totally okay in France! From kissing your colleagues at work (I promise it's not what it seems!) to weird French foods or laws around alcohol or swearing, let's see why France is more permissive on these things that tend to shock visitors!

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[guillaumehoudard]

as a french, seeing someone eating two rocamadour on a plane is wild, but funny.
i just discovered your channel and i love it.

[guillaumejeremia]

Buying cheese as a snack in the plane is very French indeed 😂

[ante]

Sp quality french cheeses are prohibited but processed mass-produced quasi-cheeses are interesting country

[billwilson]

British tradition is placing coins in Christmas pudding. We had that when I was living there.

[hepdepaddel]

You know you‘re leaving the civilized world when they make you throw away French cheese. Just so that you can start eating fast food.

[pjalexandra]

I live in Canada. Raw milk also mostly forbidden here. When we were in France last autumn and told the shopkeepers in cheese shops we couldn't get raw milk cheese in Canada they looked at us like we were crazy. . . I thought at first they didn't understand my French, but it was that they didn't understand why we don't allow raw milk cheese! (which is delicious, and healthy if made properly)

[BrendanKDavis]

My daughter’s birthday is 6 Janvier, she was born in Paris, so we adopted the galette des rois as her birthday cake! Anerican dad / Chinese mom / hybrid baby family here. ❤😂

[jayellingson]

I live in Minnesota and I partly grew up on raw milk. I love raw milk! It is hard to find a farmer that will sell it and the ones who do charge about $5/gallon, whereas the store is $3-4/gallon and when you are pinching pennies, it makes a difference. Raw milk, I can let it sit for a day and skim the cream off to make butter or use in cooking or other things, and even if you skim all the cream off, it still tastes like whole milk. Part of the problem is the chemicals used to make them produce more, or grow faster.

[IllyaKonakov]

As far as I remember, there is no drinking age in France. It’s only the alcohol buying age as 18 years old. But you can drink wine (or beer, or cidre) at any age as a minor if your parents allow you and if they are around when you’re drinking and you’re younger than 16.

[HK]

Nothing like a foreigners perspective to remind you that your country was settled by ultra conservative and religious "Puritans"

[PNL-DJ-]

You can buy a Galette du Rois in New Orleans at Croissant D’Or Patisserie at 617 Ursuline Ave in the French Quarter. They are quite wonderful. There are many cinnamon roll type of King Cakes which are OK, but nothing like a Galette du Rois! We generally start eating them on the Epiphany and stop on Ash Wednesday. You can drink alcohol out on the street or in a park too.

[solracer]

The US used to be much more liberal when it comes to nudity in movies than it is now, that's actually a more recent development. For example Logan's Run (1976) has nudity yet was rated PG and in high school we were actually shown Walkabout (1971), which also has some nudity and was rated PG, as juniors (16 years old). But somewhere around the middle of the 1980s when the PG-13 rating came out that changed and by the turn of the century pretty much any nudity would get you an R rating. Meanwhile we've become more and more willing to allow violence that would automatically get you restricted in France in films, even those with a PG rating.

[ewwthatsgross]

That's funny what Sarkozy said. One of our great comedians (George Carlin) make an entire routine in 1972 about the seven dirty words you cannot say on tv.

[LuxPurselove]

There are some exceptions, in my state it is legal for the passenger to drink alcohol. I don't know if any other states allow it, I know in CA if your passenger is drinking you as the driver can go to jail. And in Las Vegas you can drink alcohol anywhere as long as it isn't in a glass bottle.

[Off_the_clock_astrophysicist]

The 4th of July on the harbor in Pornic, South Bretagne. Mussels and french fries, and with that open wine and beer bottles on tables, with glasses left out, half full. Kids running around the said tables. There is music, cheer, and fireworks. No-one freaks out about kids sipping alcohol. I got my first taste when I was 4, and it wasn't stolen sip.

[danydany]

Je me souviens que, lorsque tu avais 10 ou 11 ans, nous allions dans des restaurants gastronomiques pour t'apprendre les bonnes manières, mais j'avais oublié que nous t'avions fait goûter des bons vins 😮

[stevebartley]

When I wad young, people would often bake a birthday cake and put in a coin, usually a quarter that would be wrapped in wax paper. I guess because of choking, I haven’t heard of anyone doing this for decades

[jps]

Yes, kissing on the cheeks or "air" kissing is just weird for us Americans, and immediately identifies someone as European. When I first worked in Ukraine, I discovered that men shook hands with other men they worked with *every day* upon meeting (but not with women). I thought that not shaking hands with women was sexist and that shaking hands between men upon every encounter was unnecessary. I like to wash my hands after I shake hands with someone, so when I was there, I washed my hands a lot, like I had OCD (obsessive-compulsive disorder). Maybe I do.

[objetivista]

Brazil is pretty much in the same league to France than to US in these cultural aspects

[dlancyy]

Kings Cake is legal in the us. Instead of a plastic man, it’s a plastic baby. You can get them at most grocery stores around Mardi Gras. Everyone I’ve bought had the baby in it.