On the alcohol consumption map Estonia is the only former Soviet state to still "Strongly prefer spirits" Which gives a false image because strong alcohol is bought by many Finnish travelers due to the lower taxes in Estonia.

@mlgsty8880

11 ай бұрын

As a Finn I can confirm. Many of us just go to Tallinn to get cheap beer. Its just few hours of ferry ride across the sea after all.

@zuzannatruba

11 ай бұрын

Well, don't Estonians in turn go to buy alcohol in Latvia where it's cheaper, therefore evening things out for you guys? 😄

@Brrrr2

11 ай бұрын

​@@zuzannatrubabut the estonians and finns might choose different kinds of beverages

@TheCheese269

9 ай бұрын

Finns mostly buy beer I hear. Me, my friends and family still strongly prefer spirits.

The map for Garlic vs Onions is probably more of a Garlic + Onions vs Just-Onions map. There's no way that here in Italy we use more garlic than onions: Most recipes that use one of them actually have both. And with garlic being much stronger it's never a 1/1 ratio, garlic is always used in much smaller quantities than onions.

@AndyZach

11 ай бұрын

American here. I'm strong pro garlic and onions, both, in equal power.

@appa609

11 ай бұрын

A lot of Chinese cuisine uses garlic but not onions.

@aiocafea

11 ай бұрын

just feels random to me, they pretty much don't ever replace each other, they are coupled all the time, the quantities for which you may call them 'equivalent' to draw the boundary seems arbitrary cause there will be fewer grams of garlic, and onions as a name is way more wide-ranging i know all of these are very arbitrary, but with the oil/butter(/lard) i can see it, tomato/potato is a bit of a stretch, but onion/garlic just feels like too much ironically, it feels like everyone apples/oranges is more fitting

@goncaloaraujo6644

11 ай бұрын

Same in Portugal

@NeonBeeCat

11 ай бұрын

The only time I don't use garlic and onions is if I'm making rice sometimes I just use garlic but onions are great

I love your shirt, truly one of the shirts of all time

@FroggyNipNips

11 ай бұрын

Wherrr can you get a good view of it

@buddy1155

11 ай бұрын

Not all time, just Mondays

@ItylusLarp

11 ай бұрын

Yes

@BoraCM

11 ай бұрын

@@FroggyNipNipsAt the end.

@duffal0

11 ай бұрын

Very shirtlike

There's a BIG difference in acknowledging "God" as a concept, and believing in a being with actual powers

@baird5682

11 ай бұрын

Is there?

@theblacksilence

10 ай бұрын

​@@baird5682any person who's read in even vague detail about religion can tell you that there is a big difference :]

@baird5682

10 ай бұрын

@@theblacksilence Look if you acknowledge the existance of "Big Pharma" as a concept is kind of means that you believe in "Big Pharma" as an actual things with actual powers. Change "Big Pharma" to "Military Industrial Complex", "The Government" or "Invisible Man in the sky". But I understand it's a philosophical vs teological debate.

Around a quarter of all tea sold in germany goes to east frisia, whilst only containing 2% of the population. boosting average consumption from 28 liters per capita nationwide to over 300 liters per capita in the region.

@BadgerUKvideo

11 ай бұрын

I like the Frisians. Sensible language and sensible people. I'd imagine anyone related to them would be awesome at having empires and inventing cool stuff.

@andreaslind6338

11 ай бұрын

​​@@BadgerUKvideo....The Germans, Dutch and Austrians have all had "awesome empires" and "invented cool stuff", as you say 😊.

@christopherbentley7289

11 ай бұрын

I've made a point about tea and Northern Germany in a general comment. You might be interested in reading it.

Funny how Austria manages to sneak into Western Europe when its name is literally just Latin for 'EAST land' Not to be confused with Australia, whose name is Latin for 'south land'

@bj.bruner

11 ай бұрын

Austria comes from German (Österreich, from Old High German Ostarrîchi), but has the same meaning

@juanluisabreugomez8462

10 ай бұрын

It's called East land, because it was the most east point of german speaking countries and still is

The reason Southern Italy is poor is a mix of political, historical, and geographical reasons. Geography favored the north as northern Italy is of course closer to other countries than southern Italy. The south never industrialized on the same scale as the north did, sticking more to agriculture. When most countries were building up their industrial cities the southern Italians moved away from theirs, to places like the Americas and Australia. This reduced the population in the area as well as the tax base. The history of organized crime in the area is well known, have multiple groups not only steal from local populations, but also avoid tax, created a system of lower incomes and underfunded local governments. Southern Italy was also famous for having a very large percentage of its land owned by the church during the Industrial Revolution. Historians have seen that as key for why the region continued to depend on agriculture rather than invest in industry. There was a shortage of potential entrepreneurs and private bankers to start such ventures.

@F100cTomas

11 ай бұрын

Did you consider that southern Italy is just more at risk of being invaded by Russia?

@fildafernandes4366

11 ай бұрын

CHATGPT GAMING

@duffal0

11 ай бұрын

What’s up y’all. I’m laying in bed next to my dog right now at 5am. He’s a good little man.

@TAKTlmao

11 ай бұрын

​@@F100cTomasalso spain and wales

@The_Soviet_Onion

10 ай бұрын

⁠@@TAKTlmaoAnd Portugal

Out of the former Soviet countries, it makes sense Georgia and Moldova are the wine lovers! Why is a good question! The Georgians still remember their ancestors as fierce warriors and winemakers, who knew how to fight and celebrate their victories with a good cup of wine. There is archaeological evidence that wine has been made in Georgia since around 6,000 BC! The fertile valleys and protective slopes of the South Caucasus were home to grapevine cultivation and neolithic wine production. Thus, due to millennia of winemaking and the prominent economic role it retains in Georgia to the present day, wine and viticulture are entwined with Georgia's national identity! In the case of Moldova, Moldova's climate is greatly suited to winemaking and fossils of Vitis Teutonica vines, found in the northern part of the country. These vines date back between 6 to 25 million years ago, and grape seed imprints from 2,800 BC prove they were cultivated. Most of Moldova's commercial wine production is for export, 67 million bottles of wine are exported annually! Milestii Mici, the largest underground wine cellar in the world, is located in Moldova just 18km from Chisinau. It stretches for 250 km, of which only 120 km are currently in use.

@jmi5969

10 ай бұрын

Sadly, no one mentions Armenia and had anyone ever tasted Armenian wine? it seems like all their grape harvest goes straight to brandy distilleries. I clicked at the very first google call for online wines, and they list only 512 varieties of Armenian wine - albeit probably half of them are more like "fruit cocktails". By contrast, there's 1679 Georgian varieties and ten times more French.

1:32 Europe's eastern border is not the Russian border. It's the Ural mountains. So, geographically, Austria is in Western Europe and Poland is in Central Europe. Why does everybody in the English speaking countries make this mistake?

@stephanpopp6210

10 ай бұрын

And if you want to insult a Czech, a Pole or a Hungarian, just call them Eastern European. They are NOT. They are CENTRAL.

Someone told me once. "You can divide Europe in many ways, and then you have France." And I love how all the maps are actually showing France behind a little bit of everything xD

You REALLY need to look up - which side Italy was on in WW1 - who won WW1 in the East (treaty of Brest-Litowsk)

@stevecameron4700

11 ай бұрын

True, Italy never declared war on the Entente and even joined them in the latter half.

@felicepompa938

11 ай бұрын

​@@stevecameron4700they joined not even 10 months into the war, after the parliament agreed on what to do, stay neutral for limited, but free territorial gains or join the entente

@gerardvila4685

11 ай бұрын

For the people who never heard of Brest-Litovsk: - Russia was defeated by Germany in World War I, before Germany was defeated by the Western allies (France, Britain, Italy and the US at the end). - AFAIK most historians agree that if Russia hadn't been defeated, the 1917 Revolution wouldn't have happened.

@pelinalwhitestrake3367

5 ай бұрын

@@gerardvila4685 Which would most likely result in Russian Empire surviving into 21st century and probably still being allied with the west, while remaining a major power. Truly blessed timeline for me.

11:32 I bet that the reason Luxemburg is green is significantly because 19% of its citizens are Portuguese.

"...I thrive when I get money" So do we all Toycat, so do we all.

Um, Russia bowed out of WWI before the end due to a civil war/revolution.

The onion garlic one is complete nonsense. It is pretty common to use both together for one, or neither, more so than using just one. Also the assignment of the two regions is also incomprehensible to me.

@aiocafea

11 ай бұрын

i would say tomato-potato is also a bit too much too everyone loved the butter-oil map, cause as simplified as it can be, it still: a. has two ingredients that serve pretty much the same purpose b. are divided in comparative ease of production and of storage

Funny thing about Iceland going from strongly preferring spirits to strongly preferring beer is that beer was only legalized in Iceland in 1989. Beer above 2.25% ABV that is, but spirits and wine were legal.

4:15 - As a Czech, I can confirm that we have totaly British weather and it's raining right now, we have steal sky like 9 months fo 12, people go to Croatia to see the sun. 😀 When I visited Portugal in 2018, it was clear sky 9 days and very mild rain for few minutes and then clear sky again and that was at the end of september, I can't imagine it there in july. 😀 BTW, because of climate change, we are slowly getting used to tornados. 😀Summers in last years are pretty annoying, you have like 18°C and rain for half of the summer and then you have 2 weeks with like 35°C that you are dying and next day 18°C again. When you are in work, it's 35°C, when you want to do some river riding, it's gonna be 18°C and rain, that's for sure. There is 10°C outside right now, in middle of summer, few days ago, there was 20°C in night. With such stupid climate, you constantly carry umbrella, jacket and rubber boots when you are going somewhere like an idiot because you never know....people are always like "why do you have umbrella when there is 30°C and clear sky?" Few hours later I am laughing under umbrella while they are wet. :-D Spoiler: yes, brick house will survive better than american house 😀

@jmi5969

10 ай бұрын

This week and the forthcoming week promise to be very decent. Hope you'll have a most productive work week. I work mostly in the open, and +30C in the end of September is most welcome. If that's what they call climate change, I'm in it.

It's curious to see how in the first map of alcoholic beverages, Latin countries are usually wine countries, Germanic are beer and Slavic are spirits, with only a few exceptions. And then a few Germanic countries are turning to wine, whereas a few non-Germanic countries are turning to beer (even strongly, like Spain and Romania).

You missed Catholic vs Protestant vs Orthodox map. Well, ok, that would divide Europe into three not two, but then some of your other maps didn't have a clear dichotomy either. I heard there was an American head of sales Europe at some US company who claimed the Catholic vs Protestant line was the most important line of all (and Orthodox lumped with Catholic) and he had that map on his wall...!

Beer: 😒 Wine: 😒 Vodka: 🥹

@weirdguylol

11 ай бұрын

Pálinka 💪💪💪💪💪💪

>"Potato" >"To-MAH-to" Much love from a fan from that country across the pond

@skatingfreak1670

11 ай бұрын

France??

very entertaining video ! loved it !

Why the onion and garlic thumbnail? I can't get enough of both!

5:52 turkey is the biggest tea consumer worldwide iirc. we dont actually drink turkish coffee apart from occasions, it's mostly for tourists or when you have guests over lol

Today is indeed a Monday

Are you so energetic in your daily life or do you consume too much caffeine before recording videos? 😂

*North:* Onion *South:* Garlic *Latvia:* Potato

Those vegetable maps are weird. Europeans from all countries eat tomatoes and potatoes 🍅🥔

@ibx2cat

11 ай бұрын

But they all eat one more than the other!

@michaelwisniewski6047

11 ай бұрын

And they are essentially the same plant. One type prefers to store energy in the bulb the other in the fruit.

As a Geographer(/Linguist) myself I had high hopes for this video but was left on the disappointed side, mostly because it seemed infected with the virus that affects many KZreadrs such that everything has to be done at 90 MPH, when a little more reflection would be welcome, just to take everything in. It was interesting, however, to note the split between the two constituent parts of the former Czechoslovakia over belief in a higher being, backing up what I have learned thus far, that Slovaks are seen as rather backwardly pious by Czechs and that Czechs are seen as a bit godless by Slovaks. One thing that sticks in my mind about Germany in terms of things that divide that you missed was that the North of Germany tends towards tea, despite Bremen - the first foreign city I ever visited on a schools' exchange as a sixteen/seventeen-year-old (I had my seventeenth birthday in West Germany) back in 1978 - being famous as a coffee trading centre, while the South tends towards coffee. Perhaps the North is more 'English' while the South is more 'French' or 'Italian'. As for myself, as an Englishman, I'm equally into coffee and tea, it largely depending on the time of day what I prefer at that moment. On the subject of European geographical division and coffee, another interesting fact I once encountered was that, when it comes to preparing real ground coffee, it's stove-top percolators for the British and Dutch, moka pots for the Italians and French and electric filter machines for the Germans. I'm currently making some appropriately heavenly coffee from the mountains of Slovakia - Popradská Extra Špeciál - in my vintage Sona stove-top percolator, being British and all! As Popradská recommends steeping it in a coffee pot in the directions perhaps making it in a percolator is a bit 'heathen' to them - these godless Westerners with their fancy coffee-making gadgetry!

9:46 farewell toycat

I love how the Balkans are vastly different in all maps except the coffee vs tea one

@07:20 this is somewhat logical.... wine grapes dont grow in north so gotta drink something else.... while in south wine is dirt cheap as it is local and abundant.

Austrias position can be explained by political decisions. Just like Germany it was divided into four so it was not fully controlled by the Soviets. Also even though they attempted to put communists in power in Vienna the British made suggestions that they would not withdraw from areas in Northern Germany that were supposed to go to Soviets if this continued. It wound up being occupied well into the 50s and the impasse was only solved by Austria agreeing to total neutrality.

UK, RU, HU, LV: Beer, Potatoes, Onions, Butter, Heathens, Tea PT, IT: Wine, Tomatoes, Garlic, Olive Oil, Catholics, Coffee

Türkiye is the country that consumes the most tea with 7 kilos per person. not That interesting

Just started reading Guns, Germs, and Steel . . . if you haven't read it already, I think it's right up your alley.

Imagine there's no countries. (J. Lennon, 1971.)

Garlic v onions. Live in Leicester, so both, with liberal application of chilli. Moved here for several reasons, tasty food (Indian) being on the list. Best curries ever!

so I searched about it, and garlic is not a type of onion, but onion is a type of garlic, both belong to the allium family, which is garlic in latin

@Redkitt3n14

11 ай бұрын

@Kadanyix

11 ай бұрын

@@Redkitt3n14 science is trully amazing

Your 1914 map is wrong, Italy fought against Germany and Austria in the first world war. They were not allies.

Stop it Cat! Eating lobster rolls make everything easier and better.

Poland believing in God is impressive with how much they suffered.

Talks this dude always like he's een expert on it while he explains very very self-explainable maps?

Please do a video series where you badly explain all 50 US states one at a time.

Russia wasn't really a winner in WW1, they had to leave the war due to the ongoing revolution and lost a lot of territory in the west.

Technically, Italy in 1914, didn't join the war. It joined 1 year later (may 1915). Basically, at the start, Italy went with Germany and Austria, but suddendly, about territories, Italy decided to go in the France, UK and Russia part, where Italy could've take a few countries/colonies.

Oh no, leave the lobster alone

Hello. I can confirm this info. I come from Potato-Onion europe. I moved to Garlic-Potato europe, but i would like to retire in Tomato-Garlic europe.

I sure hope you're not suggesting that "eastern" europe willingly chose to unite with the USSR, as implied by your use of the word "aligned" It was a very repressive, hostile occupation.

@ibx2cat

11 ай бұрын

forcefully aligned is still aligned, sadly

This guy have never heard about the summer Sun in iceland....

5:52 turkey is the #1 consumer of tea per capita and it's not even close(3kg) what do you mean intrestigly (uk is #3 and ireland #2 both ~2kg)

I remember my portuguese grandma sitting at the table and peeling unholy amounts of garlic Damn, her cooking was good

@goncaloaraujo6644

11 ай бұрын

Ahahah typical Portuguese grandma

@andrewrobinson2565

11 ай бұрын

What amount of garlic is a holy amount? 😮

The algorithm example in 8:40 is a great example

@11:58 You should have done not bisection but the trisection of Europe, into following parts: 1.olive oil and wine, 2.butter and beer, 3.pork lard and vodka. But then you have Hungary with lard and wine…

Onion and garlic map starts at 11:22

@MarcoS-ow3gs

11 ай бұрын

Thx lol

Albania did join the Warsaw Pact in 1955 but left in 1968 and went pro China although that was largely theoretical because geography.

@ 11:37 the map author didn't mention Olivani or Margarine and that is punishable by death

5:57 That IS true though, Turkey is actually the country that consumes the most tea per capita.

Why Arena you talking that fast omg my brain cant follow that quick

Oh boy, finally a new video, aaaaabd now I'm imagining you drowning in lobster rolls.

Turkey is the biggest consumer of tea per capita by a large margin. Turkish people drink tea when they wake up, while at work, with breakfast, after lunch, when they are home after work, after dinner, before sleeping. Restaurants and cafes used to give complimentary tea when the economy was good (some still do). If you visit someones house they'll pour you some tea. There a job called "çaycı" which means tea vendor. They'll have tea shops in offices, arcades, streets etc. and their whole job is providing tea to nearby shopkeepers, workers etc. Tea is a huge culture in Turkey bigger than even Chinese, Japanese, British or Indian tea cultures.

@HarshSingh-1034

10 ай бұрын

Same here in India 🇮🇳😅

And there were guys like Tolkien, Lewis, Golding, Elliott, Chesterton. Really of questionable intelligence. 🙄

Italy left the Triple Alliance and fought with the Entente allies in WW1. Vienna was in Central Europe at that time in the English language world. 😮

So is that a BUTTERED (Hot) Lobster Roll? Or a MAYONAISE-SALAD (Cold) Lobster Roll? Where does that fall on the map?!

People in Bulgaria aren't afraid to be alone at night. It's a very safe country.

@michaelwisniewski6047

11 ай бұрын

Alone generally feels safe indeed - it's other people that I may worry about 😉

that garlic vs onion map😮

During the Cold War Berlin was in Eastern Europe. Be consistent and either abandon that division and introduce the concept of Central Europe to your mind, or accept that about 1/3 of Germany including their capital city of Berlin lies in the Eastern Europe.

Portugal may do a lot of things wrong but our wine love isn’t one of them

Andrew always likes to make fun of the Irish 😹 8:54

I dunno french have a song saying Germans get no onions

I live in Minnesota and we havent had live lobster in the groceries since the 90s. So libster sounds gross to me

Turkey consume the most tea

Being a Florida man I've been thinking a lot about the Climit recently, but oddly over here it;s the other way around, People in New York want green cars and people in Florida want tax breaks for gas and coal companies for some reason....

@appa609

11 ай бұрын

People in Florida aren't planning on living more than 20 years into the future.

@Krydolph

11 ай бұрын

I think you are the first I have seen bragging about being a "Florida man" ;)

@Buster-Sharp

11 ай бұрын

@@Krydolph Yah, but I'm not that kind, I don't do meth.

I can tell you with certainty that Northern Europeans hate the corruption and financial dependencies of Southern Europe. By far the stupidest thing was to include Italy and Greece in the Euro.

russians prefer beer over vodka? haha there goes the validity of that map lol

8:13 I am sorry but what is the source on that, because Austria is close to 78% Religious and Germany is also more than 50% so where did that Majority Don't come from?

@hkgehts9061

11 ай бұрын

That hasn’t been true for decades lol

@tedh9u

11 ай бұрын

According to Statistik Austria, a trusted source, it was 68,2% Christian in 2021.@@hkgehts9061

Yea, Israel being on the same continent as Japan just comes to show that Europe could just as well be in it too. Europe is Northwestern Asia

I'm german and we have a ton of balkans at work, they all put like 1kg of garlic in their food

8:49 "The KZread algorithm " exists, in fact like any large computer program, KZread uses a plethora of algorithms, one of which is the infamous recommendation algorithm. If I remember correctly, the basis for KZread's recommendation system are 2 neural networks, the first one takes all videos and divides them into 2 classes "User will engage with" and "User won't engage with", the few hundred videos that have been put into the former class are then ranked as user+video pairs by the second ML via logistic regression.

@extasja

11 ай бұрын

bro said plethora

@GGysar

11 ай бұрын

@@extasjaSo?

@extasja

11 ай бұрын

@@GGysar big boy using big boy words

@GGysar

11 ай бұрын

@@extasja Dude, what is your problem? English isn't even my native language, and 'plethora' is just a normal word, nothing special about it.

@extasja

11 ай бұрын

@@GGysar im just playin withchu brodda, im sorry 😭😭

10:40 potato, tomato & turkey

Within 14 hours!

Southern Portugal seems fine

zazabert

I swear I've seen this video before

Potato vs tomato?? This doesn't make any sense. Why not beet vs meat, or mayonnaise vs crème anglaise? 😆

Could he _ be _ more London?

did he really say hi im soy cat

According to eurovission im European but these maps im not 😅 im Australian btw just being silly 😜

The youtube algorithm is the real god

@andrewrobinson2565

11 ай бұрын

More people believe in the former 👍.

2:30 Italy was NOT on the German side during World War I. It was allied with France and Brittain.

@fjkfkfkf

11 ай бұрын

It was. then it changed sides because it wanted to annex some regions of austria

1990s consumption structure in Eastern Europe wasn't as much about preferences - but of the socialist rule legacy. Without free market and private initiative, there wasn't much to choose from. And the DIY production was severely limited by climate: if the land is good only for potatoes, it's strictly spirits. My grandmother tried brewing apple cider, but in the end it was almost all distilled into terminator stuff.

5:55 - The only reason Brits drink tea instead of coffee is because one Portuguese royal of the British political body drank tea. So this is not Brits being "different from the continent", it is Brits "trying to copy what the Portuguese royalty did (when the Portuguese royalty was richer than the British royalty)".

@appa609

11 ай бұрын

That was like 400 years ago though. The modern divide is actually Brits being different from the continent.

@jboss1073

11 ай бұрын

@@appa609 "That was like 400 years ago though. " Yes but that was the only initial motivation and they kept that fad ever since. In other words, nothing about drinking tea is originally British. There is no "modern drive to continue drinking tea". At this point they are just maintaining the inertia set in motion by the Portuguese royalty.

@pelinalwhitestrake3367

5 ай бұрын

@@jboss1073 To be fair, nothing about drinking tea is originally European. Drinking tea comes from China.

@jboss1073

5 ай бұрын

@@pelinalwhitestrake3367 "To be fair, nothing about drinking tea is originally European. Drinking tea comes from China." "Comes" from china, brought to Europe by Europeans. So, something about it is European.

@pelinalwhitestrake3367

5 ай бұрын

@@jboss1073I said "originally"

*cries in Welsh*

Only division that matters: MITTLE EUROPA / BALKAN (Slavoj Žižek) XD

The United Kingdom was not known as "England" in 1914. 🙄

Both tomatoes and potatoes originated in the Americas.

@Alphae21

11 ай бұрын

OK?

So Wales and Scotland didn’t fight in WW1 then? How come so many Welsh soldiers died in the fighting then?! Maps like that Is Why people think England and the UK are the same thing, it’s as if they purposely write Scotland and Wales out of existence. I wonder why they feel the need, don’t worry that’s rhetorical. I know full well why!!!!

Asia spicy Asia Vs non spicy asia

j'aime l'oignon frit à l'huile

Mackerel not lobster. 🤗