late, he's proud of the title and we'll find out why. hot crispy and really tasting why fries are the most popular street food in belgium. and are they boring or daring? what's the average german like in the evenings after work? find out that and a lot more now on your own max. the, we'll start off in italy in a cute little town about 250 kilometers north of rome. she'll become here. people don't care about the world wide beauty craze. loveliness is celebrated. how refreshing, and if you don't believe it, take a look. the title, this man bears is the envy of virtually no body. she's italy's ugliest person,

the rather dubious sounding distinction is awarded in po to go a tiny mountain village in central italy. chapter 13 the camera, the unit. so my name's daniella, is it pertaining to pick name to toto. i think it's at least a police person since 2019 way. that's an appeal. i'm proud of this session and i want to keep it. then i think of going into the club to the association of ugly people, was founded over 100 years ago in po to go into the lease mark to region in 1879. it became a kind of marriage agency and then a matchmaking agency. in the 1970s, the members turned it into a protest against the decrease anybody whether ugly or beautiful can become a member. currently, membership members are around 35000 worldwide gianni luigi is the clubs, the vice president with

a no similar to i must have goes on doing this as a virtue of beauty of slavery. but let's just give it to go into a little bit. and if we oppose the beauty craze that discriminates against the not so beautiful so that i so far and have to struggle the price is hard for me, it's all about external appearances, but he's really repel against that. we believe in other values like interview, intelligent said, amiability, village and stuff. i think but the yeah, yeah, yeah. so, so i'm just totally, truly ugly from the from i can't do anything about it and i'm proud of it. the worth a lot. anyone who wants to challenge me for the title, come on and step up, and then have a hard fight. the initial got a into something here, major. a 50 year old daniella is a bit. he didn't always look this way. in the early 19 ninety's key wasn't a serious car accident. he had several operations on his face and a leg amputated while you're from getting out any time or so. and i'd like to keep that title, italy's ugly as person. yeah. because it's fun. okay,

maybe i'm maybe 30, my life has gotten better since i've been detained on the one to on people gets around a lot more. yeah. maybe a minute the show and get invited to tv shows and events and parties like kind of guiding because people want to learn more of that with me to get to know me a better sense of what a manual is. number one in the world, almost everyone in pico newton. the other piece of village celebrity. no, he's not have the views he comes from within. what's another sees is beautiful month to absolutely nothing to me. he's most likely he's got a wonderful soul. every year in september, people celebrate it's festival of the ugly, with music dance and a healthy dose of humor. the ugly and beautiful come together. no one here takes

themselves too seriously. the 3 day festival includes plenty of good food, like fuel because typical polenta at the high point white smoke indicates the election of a new president. and the winner is the current and vice president. johnny luigi, the new king of the ugly. sam with sam pretty thaws, it's about the weakest about inclusion for everyone. not just the only ones, for example, homosexuals to everyone else who is excluded that were there for the move itself and the ugliest. it's the 5th. when for daniella, is it the tv? but then this year he was the only entry this time nobody was brave enough to go up against me. and i'm happy to have been chosen. next year i'll be

running again. but i want to be elected for 10 years running. i don't want to say one thing. come to p up because we're all doing just fine here. thanks and kisses to everyone. he dreams of one day becoming president of the world association. for the potato slice is deep frying fat and a pinch of salt. you don't need much more for really good french fries, but in fact, belgian fries are considered the best in the world. here's why. the let me introduce myself to french fry, colors, fries for short. most people do just simple little sticks, potato tumble root vegetables takes a path towards a crispy face. it's sometimes hard to believe,

but i am actually belgium's favorite st. food crispy on the outside to. we on the inside, that's what we strive for. i don't really like to talk myself up, but people do seem to enjoy my company. it's amazing is the best buy i have ever tried. not crispy, not to greasy, not saki know yes, just right. and always on my son's name. i still can't quite a bit, chris. here the spanish ones got hold up here, and those are the best price. the problem is there are 22, not the perfect prize or in belgium most if we prize a lot. my home is the french priced at chippy. this is just one of some, 5000 around the country. behind the counter is his domain was oh hello. glad to meet you. my name's steve pitts is. i'm a 500 north brussels and my level stand. as you can see here, get on the come with what life as a free to or east isn't easy. but steve got the hang of this, what he job deck,

his weapon is cooking oil. fuel define oil. that's how they everything we work with beef. that's not vegetable oil. is be fun, gives it more. flavorful is the 1st 2 deep fat friars. are for park looking at 150 degrees with the negative the fries and let them sit here. and it's very important to let them sit where they have us, but then they'll come out of the 2nd find nice and crisp. of course the old frank twice but not too hot. that's how the belgians do it. when it's been long enough and the deep sadness done its work, steve gets sick. we don't even know what do you hear this as a citizen themselves? they sound like doctors if you'll hear it when they're done this morning where the sound is much higher. pitched ok. we always say the front seat. i'm truly a fast food. all the belgians know me as more than i reliably feeling side dish and

never, never boring. adventurous souls love my passing topics. my goodness, maine days and to lose some are really pepper, politically big, trying to catch up with american american spicy shifts. of course pico gene but as brazil was pineapple garlic dallas cocktail talk, mamma, smoke jumpy and many others. if you don't go down you'll find the 1st and all across boucher from will allow me to flanders whether a fill in a sheet got auto loan in feature chippy as a place for everyone. a place to get off the main strange place to get together. refuge, trouble supplies, difficulty. good. it's a nice little bag of fries with main names. it's always a joy. some people, it's part of our cultural heritage. and then we go for fries after

a soccer game and on the national holiday for la fitness for them to sing. for jo, kia, it's a culture you find almost everywhere in belgium houses, and we get fries in the little village under the same. it's always a perfect moment. also in the us, we don't have the same as susie as i'm for fries, as in belgium. so we might be able to avoid this victory to the belgians. so i'm always getting caught between the front, french on one side and the belgians on the other, and they fight over my origins. one thing is certain. i started out as an ordinary star to potato, but in belgium, always a fresh one and never frozen. my feel for research, preserve adults. you see the course thing of us, you know, way it, all of, if that's not feeling and continue, i was talking the potatoes at 4 am, so no sex and they started deliveries at the h w mother. this is how i get fresh potatoes every day to pick, crush, 2 days from pitts. this fun, ryan, to see you later. how are you? how is your vacations lucky or anything?

let's say my customers is one big family one. and i think for many of them it's the same. they're like, oh, they're steve. i specially let's go to steve for years there's, they're steve surprising what sort of like that? he's more than just a ship. he's my loyal companion and a daily struggle against hungry valleys. if you were to put me in an office at a monthly summary of 3000 bureaus, a company car and a computer, i wouldn't be happy. i stand here, i'm in touch with my customers. what else do i need? just this the way it is. i'm from 7 to imagine life without me, steve. salt hill. no job. okay. but no fries, no way. no worries. now i'm not going anywhere. i'll be by your side until the next a crispy adventure in our

new series on the average german we'll find out which cliches about germans can be statistically proven. our average german is called me shout, you know, and it's 43 years old. in this episode, we secretly follow him around to see what he does me evenings. so far we've watched messiah wake up in the morning, and we've joined him as he commutes walks and flats his way through a day at the office for what's next. so now the what side of the way, what does michelle get up to in the evening? does he have any hobbies? what does he have dinner? so you're gonna get a little tipsy. let's find out the year and that way

it's friday, it's full. so 2 pm and me says finish what for the week? looks like he's off the place and football. this is me say of friend lucas lucas asked me say it and how his day was and like 70 percent of german. he says it was typical. by contrast, for, it's like me, a more likely say it was good the all those the most germans, the reasons for doing for a not rooted in will be sizes. most germans do sports to stay healthy and to optimize the physical strength fit. hi michelle, you find a note from his name but probably kept saying that he was annoyed that someone in the building is having loud sex. germans report also being annoyed by cigarettes.

ugh, loud music and d r y. ready the german loving fan with bridge knows no bounds. yes, even off to bread for breakfast. bread for lunch. you guessed it. the most common web page in it is the old bridge loan is all the germans top bread with sliced meat cheese, chopped. the, i think michelle, since he's a drink but which one the germans are the full, heavier string cause in your and t g. i s michelle's having a bit. yes . timmons, and then love hiking, according to the gem and free time on this, the most leisure activities actually take place indoors. germans enjoy watching

tv, listening to music, browsing the internet, and being alone with the thoughts the sale. so like spending time with a romantic for what the germans wish, the 72 percent of the germans wish they had more time to hold the place on the 9 pm and says on the way to the tonight says basically the pods meeting,

his friends, the germans drink to 90, to disappear from any of the alcoholic treasury like 56 percent of germans. michelle is stressed about spending his free time with people he doesn't like we'll find for in the german st. relatively low on the kids. i'm drunk scale, the average german me say, oh, gets drunk almost 11 times per year, which is considerably less than the $26.00 size. so yes, the average australian gets from the judging by the twinkle in miss sales i and looks like tonight could be one of those 11 times.

the 13 percent of germans have written an east coast to walter. and luckily, michelle is an average chapman. so he refrains, looks like call me say i was going to have a soul ahead tomorrow. what's he going to do with the rest of his weekend? how does he supply from the shop suppose on sundays? and what do you have a text julia back like can subscribe to average german we'll stay here in germany and move to the south of the country where our reporter rachel stuart is on a road trip between noise launched on and this way the announce rachel explores

this scenic and cultural and culinary highlights of southern germany. and there are plenty see for yourself the bell. you see the looks up in germany because the people here are so warm hearted, like the temperature. finally the good wine here. the food here is very tasty. ok, and there's a culture too many southern nice states, a buyer, and then an english for various and thought that they have 2 of the biggest states making up nearly a 3rd of japanese territory and population. both states have a relatively young population, very low unemployment and hyatt. oh. how do you tell the difference between these 2 pretzels? this one with consistent slickness all around is a buffet. it's a from the various. and this one with it's to skinny. um is a believe so from this wavy and part of the bottom button that this the view is, is a metaphor of how the 2 southern states have a lot in common. but if you look close enough, you can tell the difference is also a metaphor how, but very often sales and i might take traditional dress,

for example. there are lots of different types of taxable folk clothing on a gemini, but the most famous internationally made of all isn't the dental which technically belong device to very about and looking at no doubt you've heard of unix october past the biggest folk festival in the world it's no leslie as these and rather confusingly, it actually begins to come back when it was founded in 1910 it really did begin in october. but it was seen before to make the most effective weather condition. bavaria is the most visited german state by foreign and domestic doors. recognize this type. the fairytale style noise sponsored on castle is one of the most popular tourist attractions in your which wasn't quite the original plan. can you look this the 2nd, the diarrhea had no intention of opening his prize project to the public, but his novice plans go him deep into that. not on after he died, the cost of those were opened in order to help pay the bills. germany's largest state also has germany's highest peak. that's the expense of 2960 images.

the various most low is me, us on. yeah. which translates to we all who we are, is used to convey a sense of pride and a will to succeed. that's got some move, a copying or a to help us visit and with the locals glue. scott said it was, you can say that either as a greeting or to say good bye up to them of to let someone know that all is okay. fast to advise, you know, it's time for some traditional bavarian grub, both sides. it is on the perfect the company meant any bavarian meal, you got minutes and it doesn't matter if you live in the city or in the country side of the bavaria, beer festival, certain everywhere you can v. i think it was always a very nearby in the who lives in the when i was an 8th grade, we did a very to her as a school trip. i feel most of it much that you kind of have a connection to be, are in berries and still the new, but i say, how long it so often we'll go to the south, west of germany. it was split into 3 states. they were then bundled together to form the states of buttons looking back in 1952 more of a practical economic reasons than any real sense of congest. visa is

a cultural divide, it's still particularly clear between the regions of bob and sway via the stereotype of this bottom. it's straight laced, connected to on a bit since the name for inventing the calvin kind of push the cleaning rates with a shed building. and the mission in life is supposedly help the shock of voice nobela work, work and build a house. the bad know are often seen as more relaxed and open minded. another well worn phrase is the bottom left. the don't know if a spot and that is the sun life plays a button. the world last apps with you, the grain of curious and not is the bottom is the warmest region of germany that makes it a great spot for vineyards. and the most important region in gemini for script window open while one once i pass anything sway be a has a behind, is in the kitchen way, be and specialities are among the most comforting on a shipment menu molar tests and that are kind of ravioli needs something i know sometimes cold has specialized in them or little good. cheaters. legend has it. monks invented fees that will pass the parcels as

a way of hiding neat from the old lights when they were supposed to be fasting. but the absolute king of sweden cuisine has got to be spread to the specified. spect we make the that's what gravely trusted in the plan with a bit of butter or as caves. a spencer with cheese in case management at home, should be on the spot to the right to the surface. then they're ready to answer the case. a specialist should be premium gooey incident. enjoy with the now on to bulgaria and it's capital. sophia, one of the oldest cities in europe, the metropolis has a very unique john. soviet architecture from the 20th century meets ancient thermal springs from roman times, a vibrant city with rough edges and lots of surprises. the

welcome to my hometown offices here. my name is vanessa. i'm a traveled blogger, and the youtube are, and i'm looking forward to showing you my favorite spots. so the my hometown was marked by its social in this past. because for more than far as the case bulgaria was under the very strong influence of the soviet union, it was, it's closes so satellites. so when you all come around sophia, you'll see lots of buildings. that's our gray, monumental built in this typical stylist architectural style that is meant to last forever the,

the, the so if you want to know how ordinary bulgarians used to live back in the eighty's when bo guerria was on the other side of the iron curtain. the time of gorbachev and right then you're welcome to the red. it's in the center of sofia. so you see young people mostly foreigners who have never experienced this area. they have only heard about it. they just want to come here and to see how people used to live. what was their life to experience? what socialism looked like. i want to show you the most is the grammar both place in my hometown. just look at this. this is the cathedral, alexander netscape and just look at those those the covered with fewer. 1 old and

they're shining like yellow sun across all the city the when you're in sophia and your thursday, this is the place you need to be the, you know, my home town has the got hot springs and the city and my grandma used to come here almost every week from the other parts and so she used to bring lots of because she was sure that this water is magic far around much is the, this is a bit, this guy, the most important is the truth is sophia,

the n on the other side. so we've got the model, so this uh, after which this 3 things name with scott is the busiest theories and sophia, there are lots of shops causes and restaurants here. charles to describe boulevard, and enjoy yourself the and that was all from euro max this week. don't forget to follow us on social media for more exciting stories from the world culture and lifestyle in europe. thanks for joining us and to me and again, next week, the

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