Comments by "Science in Engineering" (@matsv201) on "American Reacts to 11 Common Things That Don't Exist Outside the USA" video.

  1. Black Friday defiantly exist in Europe, but its not as large of a deal Solocups use to be fairly common in Europe 20 years back, but today they are fairly rare. But they was never red like in the US Free refills still exist in some places in europe, but they are getting very rare. Its also, at least in northern Europe, the soda is much more suggary than in the US... strange, one would think it would be the opposite, but no. Scandinavia got the most sugary soda. (its also different in different states in the US). Hence soda are considerably more expensive in Europe, on top of that there is a hefty sales tax. Some places, like som MC have a refill rate. Typically half the price. I would say this is a decent compromize. At least here in Sweden Government buildings usually have the nation flag and the specific flag for that government (like the municipality or region flag, depending on what kind of government building it is). While schools generaly only flag on flag days, so that is a diffrance. Road restaurants for some reasons often have 5 flags. The Nordic flags, yes, usually including Iceland. Inner city restaurants usually have two flags. Swedish flag, and a flag represented the type of food they are making (Thai, Indian, Japanese and so on, but not Chinese). Road side businesses like car sales usually also have a bunch of flags. Typically Swedish flags, but if they are nation typical, they can also have a nation flag for what car they sell (typically a US flag). This might be the main reason. Its really mostly only road front businesses that have flags. Street front businesses generally don´t have it. And in large European cities, road front businesses is really just very rare. in small towns is very different. A small town in Sweden, specially the north of sweden is very simular to a small town in the US, probobly because they generaly have the same age and space.
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