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A few months ago, we did a piece on a viral thread that had Europeans revealing their biggest WTF moments while traveling in the US. But since planes fly both ways across the Atlantic, let's turn the tables, shall we?

Turns out, Reddit user Cyber-Gon submitted a question to r/AskReddit, asking: "Americans who visited Europe, what was your biggest WTF moment?" and their answers are just as entertaining as the Europeans'.

From divine German tap water to the number of bicycles in the Netherlands, here are some of the most-upvoted replies!

#1

Americans Reveal Their 40 Most WTF Moments While Visiting Europe In This Viral Thread Y'all get how many days of paid vacation?! And sick leave? And public healthcare?! And you don't live in a socialist hellhole like I've been told? America, you lied to me!

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#2

Americans Reveal Their 40 Most WTF Moments While Visiting Europe In This Viral Thread Tripped on an escalator in England. Got stitches. Was laughed at when I offered to pay the bill. "What bill? This is the civilized world."

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The person shouldn’t have laughed at you and instead gave you the appropriate form to complete in order to pay for the service you received from the NHS as a non-British citizen.

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Americans Reveal Their 40 Most WTF Moments While Visiting Europe In This Viral Thread In Toulouse, France, I went to a nice restaurant and ordered dinner. When it arrived, I was like, 'Where's the rest of it?' The waitress laughed, as she grew up there and in Canada. (I'm from Brooklyn, New York, where portions are huge.) She calmly told me to eat it and if I was still hungry to order another one. By the last bite, I was stuffed. That was my WTF moment: when I realized how rich and high quality the food was over there.

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Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa)
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I am always overwelled by American portions, and I was born and raised here. American portions are ridiculous. Where else in the whole world would you have contests to see who can eat a 2kg (72oz) stake the fastest?

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Americans Reveal Their 40 Most WTF Moments While Visiting Europe In This Viral Thread It boggled my mind how old everything was and how it was still integrated into everyday life. Like in the UK, drinking in a pub that had been in the same spot since the 11th century or eating dinner at restaurant in an 18th-century cathedral. Or in Prague, staying in a hotel that had been operating since the 15th century

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Americans Reveal Their 40 Most WTF Moments While Visiting Europe In This Viral Thread My biggest WTF was coming back to the States. Seemed like such a downgrade.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

lol it kind of is... Ive always dreamed of going to Germany, but the cost of living there is a ton.

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#6

Americans Reveal Their 40 Most WTF Moments While Visiting Europe In This Viral Thread Not American, but Canadian.

First time I went to Ireland, I go through customs and the agent says to me...

"business or personal"

"personal"

"oh yeah, what's up?"

"Visiting the Inlaws."

"first time in Ireland?"

"Yes sir"

"feck*ng eh... Well, why ya standin around. go get pissed.

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#7

Americans Reveal Their 40 Most WTF Moments While Visiting Europe In This Viral Thread We were driving through Spain, and to the side of one of the roads, we noticed these MASSIVE bird nests in the high power electrical towers. They were at least twice the size of eagles nests that I had seen. And there were so many of them!

Then we saw these giant birds in them! We stopped by the side of the road and tried to take some pictures (didn’t have a great zoom lens, sadly). But no one else was stopping. It was so odd. We are accustomed to at least a few people stopping to watch the osprey, eagles, or other birds where I’m from.

So a few days later, we are chatting with a German tourist, and we bring up the birds...

I think she thought we were joking until we pulled out the pictures. Then she started laughing.

Storks. Those are storks. Of course, don’t you know that? They are everywhere and such a nuisance. Don’t you have storks in America?

Well...no?

Then she looked confused. Well, if you don’t have storks, who brings the babies in kids stories?

Storks.

Um...how does that work?

And that was when we realized that the story of the storks makes a whole lot more sense when storks are nesting on every chimney, tree, or tall place...

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

In Poland the storks are believed to be noble birds and are extremely regarded and respected. Some people would purposedly build starting of the nests for them just to have them in the neighbourhood.

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#8

Americans Reveal Their 40 Most WTF Moments While Visiting Europe In This Viral Thread French butter made me stop and reflect on the beauty of being alive. I didn't think butter could be improved upon, but holy sh*t. So creamy."

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#9

Americans Reveal Their 40 Most WTF Moments While Visiting Europe In This Viral Thread If something costs five euros, it's exactly that. Tax is included.

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#10

Americans Reveal Their 40 Most WTF Moments While Visiting Europe In This Viral Thread In Europe, wait staff are paid a living wage so they do not need tips. The eating experience is much more laid-back and slower in Europe, relative to America. It also seems like [European] wait staff is never trying to force you out of the restaurant once you are done eating.

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Americans Reveal Their 40 Most WTF Moments While Visiting Europe In This Viral Thread Went to Dover England and saw a mother f*cking castle. The newest section was built like 300-400 years before my country was founded. Turned a corner and the next part was 200 years older than that. Ten minutes later walk up to a Roman light house built 2000 years ago. Daaaammmnnn

Edit: The best part was we arrived the night before we went to the castle. I didnt see it on the ride to the hotel. (We get inside and our room is the largest room we had seen at any of our hotels apparently the hotel was built by an American company so the rooms were built like they would be In the US.) I open the curtains to see what is out my window, usually a parking lot, another random building or something boring. Not today Yank, not today. CASTLE.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Love this. Lived in USA 21 years and laughed at how old Americans think is old.

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Americans Reveal Their 40 Most WTF Moments While Visiting Europe In This Viral Thread I lived in Spain for 9 months at one point and was trying to get to the supermarket in the middle of a weekday and the entire city center was blocked off. I had to park and walk a ways and discovered that they were having a giant block party. Kegs and all. Around noon. Celebrating the towns new garbage trucks.

I love Spain.

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Americans Reveal Their 40 Most WTF Moments While Visiting Europe In This Viral Thread Funny enough, my biggest WTF moment came from an American. We were at a restaurant in Cinque Terre, Italy called Trattoria Dal Billy. About halfway through our meal, I overheard a guy with a Tennessee/Arkansas accent say, verbatim, in a frustrated tone "you need to speak more American!" to his waiter. This isn't Rome. This isn't Venice. It's a small town called Manarola. The odds of finding someone fluent in your language are drastically lowered; however, this guy was pompous enough to not only continue to berate his waiter, but then tell the manager who came around that he needs to hire someone who can speak American...in a foreign country...of which he obviously speaks ZERO of their language. Seriously, WTF!

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Americans Reveal Their 40 Most WTF Moments While Visiting Europe In This Viral Thread I was doing a study abroad program in the UK but also had to take monthly blood tests for a medication I had been put on before I flew over. I was fully prepared for a laundry list of paperwork and fees to deal with the tests as well as getting these results to my doctor back in the states.

After the first blood test I went up to the receptionist and asked what I owed. She looked at me with a bit of confusion and said, "Oh, no, you're fine you can just go." My doctor doctor also got my blood results in less time than they did when I got them in the states. Screw our broken healthcare system.

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Americans Reveal Their 40 Most WTF Moments While Visiting Europe In This Viral Thread Went to Denmark on a whim with some friends. The biggest surprise was when I realized that I had met a ton of strangers over the course of a week and I had no idea what they did for a living. Never once did we talk about work or school.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Amazing insight I'm going to screen cap this and repost to instagram. Americans are so brainwashed they don't know how hard they're being screwed.

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Americans Reveal Their 40 Most WTF Moments While Visiting Europe In This Viral Thread Every night in Spain, around 3 a.m. this MASSIVE fleet of street scrubbers, vacuum-mobiles, and water hoses appeared and cleaned the entire city for about an hour. It was like ~100 people every night just cleaning the city. The following morning, all of Salamanca was spotless. That sh*t was magical.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Better they do it. Salamanca is full of students partying all nites

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Americans Reveal Their 40 Most WTF Moments While Visiting Europe In This Viral Thread My biggest WTF moment was when I visited England and people respected me a lot more when I told them I was canadian and not american (I'm actually canadian)

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Now that America is untrumped you might get some of that luv for being American too

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Americans Reveal Their 40 Most WTF Moments While Visiting Europe In This Viral Thread When I️ visited the hospital and had X-rays done, spoke with two doctors, and was triaged by a nurse, all with no health insurance, and my total bill was 24 euros. Then I️ had to pay 10 additional euros for some painkillers, again with no insurance or anything.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I believe it is called basic human rights. Something about the right to live and have health taken care of.

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Americans Reveal Their 40 Most WTF Moments While Visiting Europe In This Viral Thread In my early twenties, on my first trip to Europe, I took an Italian ocean liner, New York to Genoa. My WTF moment was going out on the deck on morning six for the foggy passage through the Straits of Gibraltar. Europe emerging through the mist on my left and North Africa on my right, coupled with the awareness of how many voyagers throughout history had sailed through that passage (including my Italian grandparents traveling in the other direction), gave me chills.

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Americans Reveal Their 40 Most WTF Moments While Visiting Europe In This Viral Thread Not paying for a gynecological exam. I developed an ovarian cyst while in England that was causing some pain. I made an appointment at a health clinic and was examined. Afterwards, I expected to pay because A) that's always the first thing that happens in US healthcare and B) I was a foreigner who had never paid into the UK National Health Service. They just laughed and said, "We don't take money for services and we'd have no idea what to charge you".

Mind blown. God save the NHS.

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Nat Hedley
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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You're our guest. We don't bankrupt you just because you got ill while you visited.

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Americans Reveal Their 40 Most WTF Moments While Visiting Europe In This Viral Thread In Amsterdam, the number of bicycles outside the central station. How the F do people find their bikes once they park them?! Also, the Dutch are easily the most graceful cyclists. The way you guys can weave through dumb folks standing in the bike paths is outstanding.

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Americans Reveal Their 40 Most WTF Moments While Visiting Europe In This Viral Thread In Spain, the siesta is real. I just thought that it was an archaic thing that some people did. Nope. Everything shuts down for an hour or two. Even in super-touristy places, 99% of shops and businesses shut down.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This has to do more with extended working hours rather than actual siesta. Shops are open from 9-10 am to 8-9pm, so in order to not make more than 8 hours a day they have an unnecessarily long lunch break, but workers in big cities rarely get to have lunch at home, let alone take a nap.

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Americans Reveal Their 40 Most WTF Moments While Visiting Europe In This Viral Thread Blatant nudity everywhere. Porn mags just sitting at the front of newsstands in the middle of the city. A giant graffiti penis and nobody cared. Made me realize how prudish we are in the US

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Americans have the right to bare arms. Europeans have the right to bare their entire body

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This was a few years ago before "chip" credit/bank cards were like "a thing" in the States. But when I stopped in Amsterdam, and hoped over to Latvia, I discovered that in both countries, my DEBIT card that needed to be swiped to buy anything, was like a weird old relic. Every cashier everywhere gave me a confused look when I handed them my card and they saw it didn't have a chip. They would, after I politely mentioned it had to be swiped, question whether or not that was even possible with their register. They always looked shocked to discover that the little slat along the side of their credit card thing was to be used to slide a card through. And when it actually worked, they always looked even MORE shocked. That's the first time I learned "Oh damn. Maybe America is behind in a lot of ways." Because everyone looked at my card as if it were carved out of stone and would pay them in some Flinstones-style currency that they were convinced they couldn't actually accept. By Day 2 of the trip, even I was like... "You f*cking American assh*le with your ancient technology."

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

A guy from an American company shouted at me a few years ago when he wanted to fax something over to our office and I told him we didn’t have one. He angrily asked why we didn’t have a fax machine. I replied “because we’ve moved on from the 1990s”.

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How easy and unencumbered by useless bullsh*t most things are.

Getting on a 5:30 train from Burssels to Berlin? Show up at 5:20. And get laughed at by the Germans who will finish their beer at exactly 5:28 because they know the walk from the bar to the platform is 1 minute and 57 seconds.

In the states that would require showing up at 3:15 because of at least 4 security checkpoints and 8 lines of people who can't figure out how an escalator works.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Not to mention in many places in the US you don't know if it will be late or early or whatever. From what I understand, things run more on time in a lot, if not most, of Europe

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Americans Reveal Their 40 Most WTF Moments While Visiting Europe In This Viral Thread How to party like a German: pre-party on Friday at 11 p.m., get into club at 2 a.m., leave club on Sunday at 6 a.m. Germans are nuts, in a good way.

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Americans Reveal Their 40 Most WTF Moments While Visiting Europe In This Viral Thread The quality of the fast food surprised me. Everything from the street vendors to chains like McDonald's was better quality then anything I'd gotten at home.

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Late to the thread but here goes... Went to Sweden on a vacation package. Stayed at a wonderful historic hotel for part of the trip that had a restaurant inside of it. Part of our package called for a free dinner at the hotel and we had asked that it be the night we arrived.

We arrived and got settled in our room and then went to check out the restaurant. As soon as we walked in, there was no one there, only a hostess. She immediately said they were expecting us and we could sit anywhere. There was no one else in this gorgeous, ornate restaurant. A waiter came out and said they had prepared a special meal for us. We asked why it was so empty and he said the restaurant was closed one day a week and today was that day.

We were shocked, we apologized profusely and told them that we had booked through another company and would have just scheduled it for another day. He said it was no problem and we had some free extras such as wine and dessert. The main course ended up being a huge piece of meat, which we jokingly said must have been because we were big fat Americans. No one rushed us, we had a great time, and after we left they closed the restaurant for the night.

It was a total WTF moment because if you booked something like this in America, they'd either force you to reschedule or just have the restaurant closed with no explanation.

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Americans Reveal Their 40 Most WTF Moments While Visiting Europe In This Viral Thread In Spain, everyone appears to be very thin yet I swear eats a loaf of bread a day.

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lenka
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Bread is not the enemy. Especially if it is made from flour without the added thickeners, stabilisers and preservatives. In most European countries, bread, and other food, is real.

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Americans Reveal Their 40 Most WTF Moments While Visiting Europe In This Viral Thread That their standard of living was just as high as ours, but everything was smaller. Smaller apartments, smaller cars, smaller grocery stores, and fewer jars of peanut butter in the smaller grocery stores.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I've never known standards of living to be measured in quantities of peanut butter 🤔

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Americans Reveal Their 40 Most WTF Moments While Visiting Europe In This Viral Thread In Lisbon, feeling proud of myself for eating late like a local at 9 p.m....only to walk into an empty restaurant. By the time I’d finished eating at 10 p.m., the place was full.

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Americans Reveal Their 40 Most WTF Moments While Visiting Europe In This Viral Thread In Italy, when buying a soccer ticket, they needed to know which team I was rooting for to determine where I could sit. Then, during the game, people were setting things on fire.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Aaaah, the tradition of stadium bonfires. Amazing how destructive people get and how quickly they get back in the prehistoric "wolfpack" mode when in an uncontrolled crowd.

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Had a positive what the f*ck moment in Greece in the eastern Peloponnese where I saw a guy walk down to the end of a pier and throw an actual f*cking trident into the Aegean and pull out a wriggling octopus. Dude walked up the beach and handed it over the deck railing to a chef.

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I lived in Germany for 8 years from 1992-2000 (Ages 4-12). I didn't realize it until I moved back to the states but there were recycling bins on EVERY street corner. It wasn't just a green bin then a trash can, it was a giant blue bin. One section for green glass, one for brown glass, one for clear glass, one for plastic, and one for paper.

Oh and going to a German school, students took public transit. There wasn't such a thing as a school bus.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I saw kids with their school packs riding public transit to school in Germany and didn't think of no school bus until I read your post.

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Americans Reveal Their 40 Most WTF Moments While Visiting Europe In This Viral Thread Most stores are not open on Sundays. Not even grocery stores.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This one would depend on the country, in the UK shops are open on Sundays, although for a more limited time. (UK still being in Europe, if not the EU)

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Americans Reveal Their 40 Most WTF Moments While Visiting Europe In This Viral Thread In Germany, they had the cleanest, safest, and best-tasting tap water, but nobody drank it and they called it toilet water.

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Jeannette Treusch
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I am German and I can tell you: only beer and wine fanatics call it toilet water. In fact, Germans drink gallons of tap water.

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Mii
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm German too and I only drink tap water although the water in each city tastes different. Didn't like the water in Berlin at all.

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Eliška Hůlková
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Wait, the tap water is not like this in every (developed) country? Now I feel a bit like priviliged fool for thinking that so many more people could drink tap water if they wanted. Where I am from, tap water is awesome.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"Developed" is a scale - there are several countries which definitely aren't "undeveloped" where I wouldn't drink from the tap. Even if it is all treated for waterborne diseases, the types and amounts of treating chemicals or processes varies widely. Country A treats their water with a small amount of ozone and a secondary process of UV light filtration? Cool. Country B treats with a crap-ton of chlorine and nothing else? Nowhere near the same. Also there are things in the water which technically aren't diseases and so aren't treated for which can be quite a shock to the system. Tap water safe for the locals may have a traveller ensconced on a porcelain throne for days.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Tap water in germany has to meet higher standards than bottled water

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Rick
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Nobody refers to tap water as toilet water unless they were humouring you.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I think together with the Netherlands Germany has the cleanest tap water and everyone is drinking it.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Greetings from Finland, I bet you our endless supply of groundwater tops both of yours.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Although the tap water is really good, you hardly ever get free tap water in restaurants. They make more margin on the drinks they sell than on the food.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yeah. And it is a bit awkward to go to the toilet with your glass and fill it up on the tap there ;-)

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Is tap water not drinkable in the US? Just genuinly curious

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Cain Hargreaves
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I don't know, I think the small towns in Switzerland had the best, cleanest, freshest tap water anywhere. I think it could give Germany's water a run for its money.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Sweden boasts about their tap water. You cannot buy bottled water.

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Marius Jan
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I live in Sweden and I drink only tap water. I've been living in my apartment for 3 years and I never needed to descale my water kettle.

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Keith Wollenberg
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I was discussing water quality with a visiting professor from Germany in the context of beer-making. He insisted Canadian water was better. Perhaps he was just being polite.

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Daphne
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The Netherlands have very clean tap water, it is considered eco-friendly to refill your bottle with tap water because it is clean and perfectly drinkable. It would cause an outrage if it was not!

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I've been to Germany, I was in a cafe and asked for a glass of water, I was asked 'Tap or bottle?'. So I'm pretty sure they drink it.

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Roe Rainrunner
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

We do. In fact, our tapwater is usually better than bottled water, because bottled water can be really old and therefore grows bacteria ;)

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BananaJo
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's not just Germany, England has it too. Every time I go to my grandparents' house I'm like where are the water bottles. ( But this isn't the case with te whole of Europe)

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SJM
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Not all places in England. Some cities get water from lakes and that water is treatet and taste like chlorine.

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Jelena Putinja
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

try Croatian tap water - every other will taste like toilet water to you to

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Peter Drgon
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You should visit Slovakia. We have had even better tap water and we also use it also for the toilets or showers ;-)

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Travelers from here to Germany and other destinations were shocked to find tap water wasn't a normal drink option at restaurants. Bottled water at a cost vs tap water with unlimited refills for free as we are used to here.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I hate water in Florida. It stinks of sulfur or something. You never feel clean after showering and forget drinking it.

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Helmut Kok
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

In Europe tap water have more strict regulations that bottled water have

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Legen ( wait for it ) dary
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Tap Water in Germany it's great, in my area it's full of kalk but still great. Never heard of calling toilet water.

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sylvantic
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

wait what? at my elementary school some of the water fountains you couldn't even use that's how gross they were. they tasted weird and probably hadnt been cleaned for 40+ years. our normal tap water is fine but sometimes tastes funny, so u only use it for teethbrushing.

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Katchen
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

In the US we can be served tap water in restaurants. When I asked for “Leitungswasser” in German restaurants, the wait staff looked at me like I had lobsters crawling out of my ears. Maybe I used the wrong words, or maybe I actually had lobsters coming out of my ears.🤷

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Ayra
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Propably because when in restaurants we order "Stilles Wasser".

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Ray Heap
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Wrong on this account, tap water gets a 4000% knock on and is sold in bottles. But most people drink tap water, I havn´t bought a bottle of water for home consumption in over 20 years.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I met some Germans at a hostel on the Banff-Jasper highway who couldn't understand why they were told to not drink out of streams. It looked clean to them so they thought it was okay. I had to explain about a parasite called giardia.

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Laura Mende (Human)
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The picture confuses me. Had to google what "tap water" is. I myself only drank it in school, when nothing else was available. Straight from the tap. But anytime else, I buy water at the supermarket, but maybe it's just my specific taste. I don't like this plain water, only Mineral water with bubbles. My opinion...

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

There are little machines that can add the gas, so you can make you own mineral water.

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Its called toilet water because most places recycle their sewage back into clean drinkable tap water.

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SJM
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

No, i dont think any country does that. In Denmark we get our water from water deposits deep under ground. Its clean and taste good. Sewage water is send cleaned at af sewage plant and discarded.

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Americans Reveal Their 40 Most WTF Moments While Visiting Europe In This Viral Thread When I visited Prague, water cost two crowns and beer cost one.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Just to make it clearer - approximately 22 crowns is one dollar. And the prices are exaggerated of course :) Beer is ~30 crowns (~$1.4) and water... it depends. But I seen it for as much as 60 crowns (~$2) per litre in some restaurants. It's because there is (or maybe was) law, that at least one non-alcoholic beverage has to be cheaper than beer, so most of the restaurants put tap water for such ridiculous price on menu, just to comply.

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Americans Reveal Their 40 Most WTF Moments While Visiting Europe In This Viral Thread British food. I went there expecting chip shops and roast dinner, but instead was amazed by every variety of tikka sauce that could possibly exist.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

What did you think they british were doing when colonising the world... stealing our foods

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Americans Reveal Their 40 Most WTF Moments While Visiting Europe In This Viral Thread I was 16 years old, ordering a beer at McDonald's.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Our school trip to Paris had wine and beer available at every meal. We were instructed in no uncertain terms we weren't to have it even though our meal tickets would cover it. Absolutely none of it smuggled up to the rooms noooo..

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