American Reacts to Fascinating Maps of Europe

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[catonkybord]

To be brutally honest with you, mixing coffee with olive oil and calling it "Italian coffe" is probably one of the most American things I ever heard of 😅

[NikosChristi]

No one in Europe will spoil perfectly good coffee or olive oil by mixing the two. That's an American or should I say Starbucks thing.

[Aria]

I'm not Italian, I'm from Spain, but I'm offended on their behalf regarding the "Italian coffee" with olive oil... WTF starbucks? Is this revenge because they didn't let you open stores there until recently? 🤣

[NicoLReino]

I'm from Spain, we love olive oil here but we would never put that in the coffee. That sounds kinda gross lol

[pavelmacek]

Olive oil in coffee presented as an Italian speciality is simply yet another marketing trick Americans failed to recognise and jumped on the bait 😂
PS: btw if you want to know more about what kind of "olive oil" you can buy intheUS, you can check the video from Johnny Harris

[BrHck]

About the quality of the roads. I live in the capital of Bulgaria, and I love the street I live on. It was last renovated by the Romans and is absolutely perfect for NASA to test their moon rovers here. They just have to wait for the summer because now the holes are full of water and another company is testing their boats here right now.

[annamariamiciotto]

15:20 wtf?! Coffee with olive oil?
and they call it an "italian coffee"?!

What's wrong with starbucks?!

[BennoWitter]

The countries that are on the side of olive oil are also the big olive oil producers in Europe.

[ricanekk]

olive oil vs butter is simple stuff - you can grow olives, you use olive oil, you can't grow olives, you usually use butter or lard, because you local cuisine works mostly with local sources of fat. There are huge differences in what people eat in different european coutnries. And yes, in Europe we still mostly eat our local cuisine. I guess there are some more cosmopolitan countries culinary wise, like Britain or Netherlands, but when you're a Greek, you generally eat Greek food, when you're Polish, you eat Polish cuisine 90% of the time, so you use traditional ingredients. In much of Europe people also eat homecooked meals all the time, even young single people often cook for themselves, so that's the reason.

[steel]

The UK roads are really safe, as my wife has stopped driving😁

[baloccobruno]

the Po Valley in Italy has high level of air pollution because there you have concentration of factories, intensive agriculture and half of the national population. Also, in winter is cold, so you need a lot of heating. All of this is combined with the landscape.The Valley is sorrounded by montains that prevent the fresh air from the sea to enter, so the pollution is trapped there.

[vaclavkrpec]

Poland has high level of air pollution because its electricity and also local heating (homes) comes from burning coal. (That's, more generally, the reason of higher air pollution in Eastern Europe.)

UPDATE: Re the American feelings about European countries: I still remember very well how, after the 2013 Boston marathon bombing, internet fora in the US got filled with discussion about whether the US should bomb Prague in retaliation. Our ambassador actually had to make an official statement basically saying that the Czech Republic and Chechnya are 2 different countries, quite apart from each other... So yes, I'd take that map with more like a bucket of salt, rather than a pinch.

[afgncap]

Dinner is a weird one because in Poland at least it is often translated as supper, where from my understanding it should be the biggest meal of the day which is usually eaten in the afternoon or late afternoon at the latest so working class eats dinner usually somewhere between 2 or 4 PM. Older, retired people tend to eat even earlier. We have never really had lunch and it just started being a thing fairly recently but it's not what we would call "obiad". Dinner is much better word for it.

[SlavYuriy]

From what I understand, the air quality is much better now then in the early 2000s. I live in the Czech republic and frequently visit the Polish border and wouldn´t say there´s anything wrong with the air per say. Comparing that to what my father, who lived in the Industrial aglomeration around Ostrava on the Polish border (coal mining and burning), used to say, we are much better off nowadays.

[GiuseppeLeopizzi]

Olive oil in coffee, um, basically a laxative

[TallisKeeton]

this mountainious terrain of Europe is IMO one of the reasons why we got so many small countries there in history. esp on the south - it means that nearly every valley was able to defend itself for long time sorrounded by mountain ranges from all sides :)

[TheTerkzzz]

The European microstates or European ministates are a set of very small sovereign states in Europe. In modern contexts the term is typically used to refer to the six smallest states in Europe by area: Andorra, Liechtenstein, Malta, Monaco, San Marino, and Vatican City (the Holy See). Balkans and Baltics are not on there. Americans don't know enough about those parts.. it is mostly off of movies etc i would imagine, not actual experiences.

[enriqueperez]

Spain uses CET [Central Europe Time] which is shared by many countries including Poland or Hungary, being Spain the most western one [Portugal is already shifted one hour less]. So, according to Sun position, we are not that that far from other countries in our behaviour. In June-July, day is still pretty bright at 22:00...

[Gazer]

In Norway dinner is usually the first thing you do after getting home from work. Back when I was in school i was the first to get home and I usually started to make dinner so it was mostly ready when my parents got home. My dad got off work around 3:15pm (he started very yearly) and my mom around 4:30pm.

[Superfluous.]

You know, as someone whose job is making maps for a living and knows the ins and outs of these sort of data, I can tell you that maps, more often than not, lie through their teeth.
Depending on how careless the map maker was when handling/dividing said data or how intentional it was to mislead anyone who reads the maps, you can be told 20 different stories with the same data when pinned to a map.
The maps are interesting, yes, but almost none of them give you an accurate view on whatever subject they're showing you, so it's good to look at them with a good dosage of salt in the mix, and I can even give you an example using the road fatality map.
The data is shown in what appears to be a NUTS 2 division map of Europe, but the nature of the data dictates it shouldn't even be used at a NUTS 3 level. However, they proceed to tell you the areas where fatalities are lowest in a localized frame. Why? If there's a hotspot of accidents (a particular stretch of a highway, a known intersection where big accidents happen often, etc) inside that NUTS 2 division, everything is thrown into disarray and that whole region becomes a hotspot. It also omits road density, completely disregards traffic and ignores how old, on average, the vehicles are per country, amongst other 10-15 variables, where bigger fines can also be one of them. I'll also say that sometimes it's not even the fault of whoever is making the maps, but the source of the data themselves who only provides said data at a NUTS 2 level, perhaps.
I'm not going to deep dive into it anymore than that because I'm saying this to simply give you an idea on how a map can lie to you, and once you start looking at maps with this POV in mind, you'll start noticing what I said above. They are interesting, but they're very far from showing/telling you the full story.