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Ok, i'm german and I'm confused by the salad thing. If I'm invited to a party and asked to bring a salad, I'd never even think of buying one these disgusting mayo flooded cups from a store. To me it's implicit to bring a self made salad and I think that's quite common here in rural northern germany
I would feel insulted if one of my guests brings one of these.
Absolutely.
Maybe they just didn’t commit enough with the production of their sketch (ie, they only used store-bought salads to make the production cheaper). Though they just would have needed to put the store-bought salads into Tupperware to create the illusion of homemade salads.
Bring your home made salad and a tub of meat salad. ❤🎉
yes, but even here in northern gemany its pretty common to bring a selfmade noodle salad or potatoe salad with mayo as far as I know
As a German, I would be ashamed to bring a store-bought salad to a party
It's okay if you communicate that beforehand. Party isn't party.
For real. If I say I bring something a salad to a party, it sure wont be store bought.
but that's not the point. They just wanted to show that "salad" might not be what a foreigner would expect.
@@CasanislYou're right. But since we're talking german habits, it's totally o.k. to say "Don't bring store bought salad to a party!".
@@Lancor84 If you can't or don't want to make a salad or a cake, it would be better to bring something to drink. To buy a bottle of wine is absolutely okay.
They should've added that you use Mahlzeit as a greeting only during the time people are usually having their lunch breaks, so from about 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
Yes, and that is also the reason why you only use it at the work place - because there you have a lunch break.
@@lawa3295 Typically, yes. Although I've known people here in Austria who also use it at the doctor's office, auf dem Amt, and in all other kind of waiting room situations.
yes, very important footer!
exactly.
wrong, in my region we use it all day
Even kindergarten kids bring muffins or a cake for the whole group in Germany. Same in school. The birthday person is the host, the others are the guests.
Yeah basically. In my afterschool care the birthday child could choose a theme and the caretakers would organize a party (for the boys it was basically just StarWars, Football or the antique) but in every case, the child’s parents would take care of sweets for everyone and a cake.
That’s how you could tell who had sucky parents because they would bring the worst snacks and cakes.
@@user-cx6kt3ku2fMy mother had to raise my brother and me despite being poor.
Not everyone gets everything shafted into their fine lil butt.
While expenses were never made easily, she tried her best to raise us to be open-minded and able to pursue goals we get ourselves.
Not everyone gets to be treated like a lil princess, and money definitely does not make good people overall.
How would it be for a kid if the others forgot the birthday? You don't forget your own birthday, but you can forget someone else's. At work all have to think about the other birthdays. In Germany you only have to bring one time the year a cake in other countries maybe 2 or 3 times a month.
well, tbh i would say how we do it is mainly a way to ensure no birthdays are forgotten and that there is always cake in the office ;D
Same in Norway 😅
Potato salad is different in every area in germany, in the north with mayonnaise and in the south with vinegar and oil. Here in Austria 🇦🇹 potato salad is made with vinegar and oil, in vienna the taste is more sweet. In my area i made it warm with pumpkin seed oil 👍🏻
So you are from Styria?
Passt!
Don't you forget the pickels that go with potato salad in nothern Germany!
Toasted pumpkin seed oil is a must!! An Austrian treasure from Styria.
@@habi0187 yes, from Graz and Lieboch 🍺😎🇦🇹
The birthday thing also extends to the Party itself. You invite people, you Plan Out everything, you buy and decorate most of the things. You will get presents, but don't expect anyone to throw a Party for you unless its your parents when you're a kid^^
I remember my four year old daughter threatening me with "I won't invite you to my birthday party!" when she was angry at me. WORST thing you could say to your friends in kindergarten!
... and because you can't invite all your colleagues to your birthday party, you bring somethink to work to celebrate with them - the easiest thing is a cake: you can easy prepare, bring to work and everybody is happy 😂
As a children's Birthday party host you also provide the guests with small gifts such as small toys and sweets for everyone.
"There's nothing to complain about." is by far the greatest compliment that can come from a German, because he really tries with all his might to find something to complain about.
Yup, it’s so perfect, there literally is nothing to complain about.
Well if you think about it, when there's absolutely nothing to complain about, the logical conclusion is that it's perfect!
it's also the basis for a really silly joke about a German lawyer whose business is not going well, since the German word "klagen" means both "to complain" and "to file a lawsuit"
@@LeyCarnifex "Eine Stadt die einen Anwalt nicht ernähren kann, kann zwei ernähren..." 😀
My €0,02 from Southern Germany... Stoßlüften: After the 1970s "oil crisis" houses and apartments were built with hermetically closing windows and doors, which lead to increased humidity inside, causing moldy walls, if not aired out regularly. I unfortunately, had my own experience with that. Mayo: Popular in Northern Germany, especially in salads. Not so popular in the South. My Swabian mom never bought mayo, and Swabian potato salad (as well as Wurtsalat) doesn't contain mayo. "Nicht schlecht": There is an even ruder version in Swabia: "Dr Honger treibt's nei!" Literally "the hunger forces it down".
that‘s the funniest way i‘ve seen someone use „my two cents“ 😂 i dunno why but this amuses me greatly 😂😂😂
...oder - " de'sch besser, wie a Gosch voller Glufa " ... (It's better than a mouthful of pins). 😂😂😂
Der Hunger treibts rein und der Geiz behälts drin :D (The hunger forces it in and the stinginess keeps it down)
Tja, des hat damit zu tun: net gschompfa isch gnug globt! (No offending is enough praise) Schwäbisches Understatement 🤣
@hartmutbohn, we say the same. Well, in an other dialect: "De Hunger dreibd's noi." (Mannheim in Baden) 😂
But here there you eat potatoe salad, noodle salad and sausage salad with or without Mayonnaise. It depends what you personally like more.
"It's wonderful, it's amazing!" No, it means you're American.
Or a German who uses that all the time so that you don't mind his opinion anymore. I know a guy like that. Very strange.
Nope ... I use it when its really the best thing I've ever had😉
If someone reacts so over the top, I would think he/she 's kidding me. Maybe it's good... but not over the top 😂 german logic
imagine eating a cake you dont like on your birthday
good point. you bring your favorite
Also if it's your birthday, then you are the host & invite.
😊
Also, you are celebrating your own birthday so makes sense if it is your cake.
It's nice that no one knows it's my birthday in three days' time. That way I don't have to bring a cake and worry about it. Birthdays are just annoying. 😇😅
Potato salad in Germany: There is not _the_ potato salad. Yes, there are a couple of varieties that are more or less standard in the different areas in Germany. But then, when you meet at a potluck dinner, you might -- depending of then number of people attending -- encounter 15 or more varieties of potato salad. Here each and everybody has his/her own four or five standard recipes for it -- depending on the occasion or dish it has to be served with..
I'm a wheelchair user and this is the perfect tool for opening beer bottles at least ten different ways 😀 Greetings from Hamburg
In franconia we would say "Passt scho." which means "It's ok." but this is actually the highest compliment you can receive.
bassd scho
What "Mahlzeit" is work related? I use it all the time around midday. =D It's rather time related here where i live. From 11am to 1pm you can say "Mahlzeit!".
Most people are at work around midday. And I don’t think, you say Mahlzeit at school (I never heard it there), university might be a bit more in the middle. I also don’t think, you’d say Mahlzeit to a bus driver or a shop clerk.
@@aphextwin5712 In school okay. But if i go shopping around midday, i will greet the cashier with "Mahlzeit" and every cashier greets back with "Mahlzeit". Today I had to go to the physiotherapist at 1pm and even the therapist greets me with "Mahlzeit". I think its a regional thing. I live in the so called "Ruhrpott" NRW.
Literally, it means _meal time._
We had someone in our company, an older engineer, who had a list with the birthdays of all people in the office and he showed up on those dates to get a piece of the cake. He normally wasn't even working close to the office but in production, but he walked all the way over the company grounds for that piece of cake. He sadly is retired right now, but people at the office still talk about that. We even made a cake last year and delivered it to his home. Never saw an old guy that happy.
That‘s nice 🙂
A salad is a mix of things cut together in a bowl, usually with a dressing. You don't need lettuce to call something salad. There is fruit salad, noodle salad, tomato salad, cucumber salad, potato salad, meat salad, sausage salad, cabbage salad, fish salad, egg salad... whatever you want.
You might even have some cable salad, but probably shouldn't eat that one :D
@@jozzetv Or a word salad, which even comes out of your mouth.
"Feeling bothered by noise because we all have the windows open...." I had to lough real hard, so accurate
And did the neighbors complain?
Yes, Lüften (airing) is a sience here. I guess 95% of our windows are completely sealed when closed to prevent the loss of heat and save energy costs. That not only results in a lack of oxygen in the rooms, much more important is the fact that together with moisture and not optimal temperatures, massiv and dangerous mold infestation is a result.
"...our windows are completely sealed when closed..."
Stinkwanze: _plays Mission Impossible theme_
Funnily enough it's never a lack of oxygen that's the problem. You can survive on the oxygen you have in your apartment for months, even if it was hermetically sealed. The problematic part is the CO2. Long before your oxygen runs out you'll have poisoned your brain with co2, which is why it's important to air out the apartment frequently.
(I have a ~90m² apartment and I'm a single adult with 2 cats. Together we produce a bit over 100ppm of CO2 per hour. ~400 ppm is the outside air and permanent brain damage can set in above 20000ppm while temporary mental impairment can already set in at 700ppm)
@@insu_na I actually calculated it once for a 10x10x3 meter room for 2 persons. It would take roughly 30 days for the oxygen to reach a critically low level. The CO₂ on the other hand reached a critically HIGH level after only 9 days. So less than a third of the time.
@@insu_na You'r right but the mayority of people here just had oxygen in mind when they are talking about the wrong, unhealty mixure of gases we all call air. Sometimes I also fall for such falsifying simplifications.
Well, while Danish windows (like Velux) are also designed to avoid draft, the general recommendations are 1-2 times 30 minutes a day... it's not so much about oxygen or CO2, it's mostly about mold.
Buildings are rarely hermetically sealed, even if you have a zerohaus, designed to preserve heat (or cold).
But Ryan gets it a bit wrong about when to change air.
In winter it makes most sense to "Lüften" during the warmest time of the day. While in summer it makes sense to do it during the coolest hours (usually right before sunrise, which can be a little tricky in DK when the sun rises at 4am in summer).
Our homes are so well insulated, that you can keep the inside temperature stable for half of a day, without a heat pump (two-way A/C).
Many individual houses have a wood stove/fireplace that can help on the coldest days of winter.
Apartment complexes most often rely on city-wide heating which is quite affordable, as the heat is a waste product from generating electricity.
Energy efficiency has been a thing in northern Europe since the 70s, while USAns have had cheap fossil fuel and nuclear power all along.
So, it's not that difficult to rely on energy when it's cheap and virtually unlimited.
I just don't understand why the US has so many wires above ground (as on poles above the street) when Europe has kinda figured out that the supply is more stable if it's delivered by an underground network of wires. Yes, it's easier to repair with overground wires... but if a tree falls, it's very unlikely (not theoretically impossible) to damage an underground wire in a tube that also carries Internet and what not.
I can understand above ground in mountainous areas like Switzerland and Norway...
Sorry, ended up in a rant... again.
i like that the person who celebrates birthday brings the cake, in this way everyone actually has to bring a cake only once a year. which is pretty great! if you had to bring one everytime someone else celebrates a birthday, it would be every week one cake.
And the cake is a reminder to congratulate the birthday person.
and if I don't want people to know that it's my birthday, I just don't bring any :P
11:30 running gag in my family: "I have eaten worse" - quote from my uncle.
14:30 your facial expression opening a bottle with a bottle - superb
Our family when you cooked something new and it taste not good: „It’s taste good, but you mustn’t cook it again!“
@@stichhalbierer9329 Or: "It tastes interesting, It's something different!"
Mahlzeit is not only used in the Workplace, it is mostly only used around Lunchtime 👍
If go into a shop around midday or enter a bus, would you say Mahlzeit? I don’t, I have not heard it in that context. Though of course, this might already be covered by the sub clause that you only say Mahlzeit to people you know in some form. I also never heard it at school, maybe another sub clause is that it is used only among adults (or rather adult contexts like work which thus includes apprentices).
@@aphextwin5712 Well that's how we do it here in Rheinland Pfalz 🤷♂️ Don't know what to tell you 🤷♂️
@@aphextwin5712 We do that here in northern Thuringia too. Everywhere. But of course, only around lunch time. It's not just at a work place. Propably differs between regions.
I live near Frankfurt and had never heard "Mahlzeit" used as a greeting before I started working. Maybe using it outside of work is a rural or regional thing.
@@Niki1A_ It's very common here in the Eifel 🤷♂️
I guess you had a southern potato salad 😅 they prefer vinegar and Northern germans prefer to mayo
Joghurt, Mayo is to fat.
@@meinich5488 yeah. Some use Joghurt but I know it mainly with mayonnaise
Bavaria belongs to Austria. 😂
@@SatieSatie meine reden 😅
@@SatieSatieAustria belonged to Bavaria!
The plus side of the birthday thing is that you have full control over how much fuss you want around your birthday. If you want, you can be completely stealth and not tell anyone it's your birthday. Or you can get a lot of attention by bringing a cake and telling all your coworkers "there's cake because it is my birthday". But if it's up to other people to organize something, you might experience negative surprises. People might forget about it and you could feel left out and neglected. Or people might get you a cake but you don't actually want all the attention.
NOT to let in fresh air blows my German mind.😂 Even staying long years in countries with A/C, never even have I left my windows constantly closed, that feels like in prison.
In the South we put rarely mayo in salads! Most Germans I know seldom eat it!
Keeping a normal noise level is kind of respect towards others. Tell your neighbours that you will have a party in advane and most of them will be completely fine.
And yes, I hate it to be run over on pedestrian streets when there is a special bike lane.
The idea of impact ventilation is to quickly replace the air in the room to improve air quality and remove excess humidity while not losing too much heat. The recommended time depends on the season and ranges from 5 (winter) to 15 minutes (summer). By replacing the air but not allowing enough time for the walls and furniture to cool down, only the heat stored in the air is lost while the the heat stored in the walls and furniture is preserved. As air only stores little heat that is way more efficient than having the window open for longer periods at once. The same applies in summer, but in reverse. You only allow some amount of heat in by replacing the air, but do not allow a constant stream of warm air that will in turn heat up the walls and furniture.
The 4 times a day only applies if someone is actually there, of course.
The advice for winter is spot on, one even adjusts the opening time depending on the actual temperature. Something like -10° C -> 2 min, 0° C -> 5 min, 10° C -> 10 min.
But in summer, the idea is rather that there is a temperature range where you can keep the windows open permanently (maybe 20 to 25° C) and a temperature range where you keep the windows open the whole night.
Yes the mold and humidity is one reason but my grandpa used to say "Nur weils draußen kalt ist muss es drinnen ja nicht müffeln" and I think that's beautiful
Schön erklärt 🥰
Think about the birthday cake this way: if you bring the cake on your birthday, you have to do that only once a year. If you bring stuff on the birthdays of your colleagues, you have to do that a dozen times per year, and you have to remember all the birthdays!
Ich mache nichts von beidem, weil ich keine Lust darauf habe. Es gibt Menschen die wirklih eine Erwartungshaltung haben, dass man etwas mitbringt zu seinem eigenen Geburtstag, es ist schon widerlich. Deshalb bringe ich nichts mit. Aber ich esse auch nicht von dem was andere mitbringen, denn dann hast du das Problem, dass sie sagen "Du hast aber von mir/uns/anderen gegessen, also bring gefälligst auch etwas mit!". Aus einer eigentlich gut gemeinten Sache in Form von einer kleinen Aufmerksamkeit und Anteilnahme am eigenen Geburtstag ist eine enorme Pflichtveranstaltung geworden auf die ich keine Lust habe. Also ziehe ich mich da vollständig raus.
The creativity with opening bottles is endless. The 3 ways shown are amongst the most common, but I've seen people open bottles with next to everything. The most impressive one I saw was, when a friend of mine opened a bottle with a tightly folded tissue. I had no idea this was possible, but he pulled it off somehow.
Yóu wouldn't believe how strong paper becomes, if you fold it enought. Although pulling that of with a tissue is very impressive, even from a physics point of view.
my best friend wears a metal ring which he can open bottles with. he once convinced some drunk ppl he was using magic, bc it does kinda look like he just folds his hand over the bottle and then when he takes it away the bottles has opened by itself
there ist a Book in Germany called 99 Arten eine Flasche Bier zu öffnen (99 ways to open a bottle of beer).
You can even open a bottle with a sheet of paper if folded correctly
@@thorstenstuker9044 Please elaborate. How do I have to fold the bottle?
But please don’t use your teeth for it, thats how my fiance lost one 😅
A friend of mine once opened a bottle of beer with hin eye socket. It worked, but he got a black eye from it. @@WoWHunterkari
@@legrandehassias7965take a piece of paper, then fold it horizontally until u have only a ~2 cm piece left and then fold it vertically until the piece is ~2x5cm. Then just use the closed side as lever to open the bottle. Dont know if my explaination makes sense, but if not u also can google „bier mit papier öffnen“ there are ytb tutorials explaining it
I think the birthday cake issue has two sources: 1) It's just practical, because how are the others at a work place to know when your birthday is? Same goes for students or e.g. members of a choir or something similar. So it's up to the Geburtstagskind to tell (and also it is their decision whether they want everybody to know or not). 2) It's an extension of the way you would celebrate your birthday at home, i.e. you would provide cake or drinks or whatever for your guests.
I would say "Mahlzeit" means when you are at work "enjoy your lunch break". When you are invited to a party people will never bring salads from a store. They would ask for the one that is desired or made a proposal and make it for themselves. Some years ago I played Tennis in a team and afterwards each hometeam made a meal for their guests. Approx. half of the hometeam had to bring a salad and it was really interesting which salads were made. Often we had a barbecue. The costs were shared of cause.
Birthday: You bring the cake on or shortly after your birthday. This comes from the custom that you invite your friends to your birthday at home and they get something to eat. When you bring the cake, you just extend your birthday party to the workplace or sportsclub or... -- and you don't have the mess at home. Generally, it is not expected to have an all you can eat cake-pie-tart buffet, a box of chocolate candies, a simple cake (large enough so everyone can get a slice) is o.k.
In short, nobody is offended if not invited to you party when you treat them a little at the workplace.
Warmer Kartoffelsalat:
1,5 kg 3ib Kartoffeln kochen, pellen, in Scheiben schneiden.
In einem großen Topf 1 kleine Zwiebel in Würfeln andünsten, 1 Hand voll Würfelspeck dazugeben und etwas braten.
Mit 500 ml 2 cups Brühe aufgießen. Die Kartoffeln dazugeben, mit Salz,Pfeffer, Essig und Muskat abschmecken.
Kann man warm und kalt genießen.
Ryan in Germany there is a North German potato salad that has mayo and a South German potato salad that has more herb vinegar.
In the US people ask ´how you are´, even though no one cares. In Germany they say ´mealtime (Mahlzeit)´, even though nobody goes to lunch ;-)
Wrong, because Mahlzeit is only said during lunch break.
@@marcgyver677 Nö, ich sag´ das schon als Morgengruß, wenn mal wieder einer zu spät zur Arbeit erscheint.
@@nettcologne9186 der Klassiker 😂
@@marcgyver677 depends on the region.. here its used
@@nettcologne9186 Netter Versuch, aber das zählt nicht. Im Video ging's um den üblichen Gruß mit der entsprechenden Bedeutung, wie es erklärt wurde!
The important thing when opening a bottle cap with another bottle cap is to not use the underside of the other cap, but the side. Otherwise, like in the video, you might open the wrong bottle.
So many of these are the same in Switzerland (at least in the German speaking part). We also bring a cake to work for our birthday, lüften is very important, we also say "en guete" (swiss German for "Mahlzeit") when someone leaves for lunch...
is that from guten appetit?
@@uinsel it is, we just usually drop the "Appetit"
3:11 „Mahlzeit“ ~ mealtime … greeting around noon meal time… In MY PAST, we also used that as a private greeting , day and night…
Also used Mahlzeit sarcastic at work between breakfast and lunch, if someone come WAY to late to work.. like it was really Mahlzeit.
I was "stoßlüften", while watching the video xD
Great video.
Opening a bottle with a piece of paper is the most impressive method
Would be funny if he sees a video about the different methods in the Future 😄
I live in the south of Germany, in Munich. Munich is at the same latitude as Seattle. The other large German cities are at the same latitude as Canada. Here it is more cold than too hot. That's why we only have a few air conditioning systems, but always heaters. For reasons of environmental protection and to save energy, many houses are very well insulated and sealed. To prevent mold from forming, the moist air must be removed from the houses through ventilation. The newest houses no longer need heating because they are so well insulated. These houses have a ventilation system so that there is always enough oxygen in the house to breathe.
In Europe we don't have bugs that will kill you !!
Sorry to disappoint you, but climate change brings mosquitos further and further north each year along the river systems; and with them viral diseases that have been known to kill people. Besides: not your typical bug, but ticks can lead to lyme disease which can have leathal complications. Sure the likelyhood of dying of an illness that was caused by an insect bite in Germany is incredibly low; but it's not zero.
Airing the rooms: In the USA you don't know the concept because of your heating/AC system "forced air". We don't force 🙂 our air, we let it flow freely. In closed rooms it may get humid and de-oxygenized over time. So you open the window the let fresh air in, dry the air in the room and prevent mold.
I was just flabbergasted. I was so used to looking up English words in a dictionary (and even German words) back when there was no internet.
It's just alphabetical
I hate "Mahlzeit" and refused to ever use it.
About the bicycle: generally they have to use the road except for kids up to a certain age. They may have designated lanes either on the road or pedestrian walk, or they even may share the pedestrian walk, but all of this depends on the situation as specifid by traffic signs.
Also generally bikes are to drive in the SAME direction as the road traffic, even when there are designated lanes on or next to the pedestrian walk - which again may be different when a traffic sign allows them to go both directions.
So there may be several rules broken, or none.
don’t know what kind of people hate common phrases like that. must be a peer group thing…
Nice also "Mahlzeit" 😊
Mahlzeit isn’t even that common here. "Lass es dir schmecke" is used regularly and I use it myself. At the dinner table it’s either the full "guten Appetit" or simply "guden“. There is also "guten hunger" but I think the people who use that also wear a helmet on a bike so I refuse to acknowledge that as a proper option.
Mahlzeit sag ich auch nur wenn jemand was isst oder ich was esse.
Same. I never say it.
i remember being invited to a farm for thanksgiving and the first dishes they served were all sweet so i asked if dessert normally came first but they said no it's all salads (jello salad, fruit salad)
but using salad for eggs is a strange thing we do in american english too "egg salad sandwich" might not have any lettuce in it at all. likewise we say "tuna salad" for a similar mixture. i guess i'm just used to ignoring the normal associations of veggies and salad with these exceptions
Oh and regarding potato salad: there's the North German variant with a mayo dressing and the South German variant with vinegar dressing. Both may also contain chopped up bacon (or chopped up bits of ham), and the North German potato salad often also contains bits of pickles.
Love how he seemed genuinely upset about the birthday cake thing haha
Where I lived before there was a woman... she did complain from time to time that we were banging the house door too much.
Now, first thing, there is an automatic closing mechanism, so she complained we didn't wait for that slow thing to nearly close the door and then grabbed the handle again to close the door slowly and smoothly.
Second that "Klatschtante" generally had her apartment door open a tiny bit during the day - I can only imagine to see when and who is coming and going.
Needless to say I didn't care at all about her complaint.
I work in a tutoring school, and I air out the room between every lesson. I found it makes it easier for the students to concentrate, and that the lesson seems shorter for them, if they come into a cool room that keeps heating up the longer they're there.
Many of my students have now started to take up this habit on their own. If I ever forget to air out the room between lessons, my students will open the window as soon as they come in 😂
I hate that in school... In Winter the windows is always open... while you sit next to it. But in the summer nobody wants it open... I hate it to sit in cold.
@@8Flokati8 it's not that cold and most of my students arrive with their jackets on, already used to the temperature outside. As long as I don't keep the windows open for like an hour it doesn't get as cold as it is outside, lol 😂
Everything is the same in the Netherlands, except for the Mahlzeit-thing.
No not only in business - also when you are beginning to eat. It’s not only a greeting it’s also a saying - it is time to eat - I am going to have some meal. It also says I am coming back to work 😂
Love from Austria 🇦🇹
1 hour every day?! No! Blasphemy.
5 minutes at a time. Turn off the radiators during these 5 minutes. Do this 2-3 times a day. 5 minutes are just about enough to ventilate the whole room and won't let your furniture, floors and walls cool out. The original temperature will be restored in no time. Many of us have Hygrometers to monitor the humidity & temperature in our apartments.
By the way, I watched another American UA-camr recently, who was visiting Germany.
And he tried the most basic Mayonnaise at the canteen of Miniaturwunderland. He was so shaken by how different it was to US Mayonnaise and loved it.
P. S. I suspect the 1.5 pages within her contract have large depictions/illustrations of what you're meant to do. You're not going to have two A4 pages full of text.
You people are just weak. One time Stoßlüften in the morning, than heating during the middle of the day. That heat is enough for the afternoon and evening. At night you put your windows on kipp and turn the heater off. Repeat that on a Sunday. On weekdays only minimal heating so the pipes don’t freeze up. Also don’t hear rooms you’re not in.
No wonder everyone freezes outside and in the lecture halls and offices if you hear your homes like saunas!
Wait the Wunderland has a canteen? I don’t remember that. Is it new?
No, it's been there for ages and it's train themed, but I've been recently and I feel like those guys are not taking as much pride in their work anymore, as they used to. It feels quite worn down, and they should increase the amount of cleaning staff.@@user-cx6kt3ku2f
6:17 if one shows up with any salad that was bought in shop, they get thrown out immediately😂- rather bring nothing! And if it is a non salad required, one actually talks about Nudelsalat or Kartoffelsalat. I hate this Mahlzeit nonsense, I usually reply "Mealtime" 😅
I hate those salads made with fake mayo (miracel whip or worse) too. That stuff is way too sour and contains lots of vinegar and superficial additives for the purpose of making it last for weeks and months.
Homemade or real Mayonnaise on the other hand is something else and very delicious but not many people are doing it because they think it's too much work or it's too difficult to make.
I use “Mahlzeit“ only ironically as we do not have fixed times to eat at my workplace and we do not have a cafeteria nearby to have meals. Most just bring a lunch and eat it in the office whenever. I feel like this is a thing mostly in blue collar jobs when they take official breaks or in large corporations with a cafeteria in the building when people between 12 and 1 p.m. take their break and they come by someone who already took hi/hers or is going to go to the cafeteria later…
Among my friends, the term "you heated that well" is the highest form of culinary compliment
6:00 those "salads" are mayo-based mainly in the northern regions or if bought in some supermarket. Mayo is generally not as much a "staple food" in the South as in some northern regions. Potato salad dressing in southern Germany is mostly based on broth (bouillon), a bit of vinegar and a bit of mustard; noodle salad and "Fleischsalat" (actually made with slices of so called "Fleischwurst", a "scalded" mortadella-like sausage, actually a variant of what is in German known as "Lyoner" = "sausage Lyonese") are often rather made with yoghurt than with factory-made mayo. Instead of "Fleischsalat" often "Wurstsalat" is the preferred variant, made from the same sausage, but "dressed" with onions, vinegar and oil (there are also variants "Schweizer Wurstsalat" = Swiss sausage salad with about half of the sausage replaced with Swiss cheese, and "Swabian" Wurstsalat with about half of the sausage being slices of "Schwarzwurst" = black sausage, which is a kind of scalded and then dried blood sausage containing some bacon). The northern regions also introduced the herring salad in different variations; in supermarkets you'll find often "white" (mostly mayo-based) herring salad as well as "red" herring salad (containing red bedroot). Classic recipes for herring salad however contain mostly at least 4 times as much cream and yoghurt as (self-made) mayonnaise (if there is any mayo at all) and also at least one apple; the herring used is either Matjes or Bismarck herring.
8:20 Nobody will be upset if you don't bring some cake into the office at your birthday - they will simply assume that you are not interested in celebrating your birthday and be quiet about it.
10:35 The gesture with waving your hand before your face is also called "Mattscheibe" (ground glass or diffusing screen) and relates to the other's world view.
11:50 Germans love understatements. "Nicht schlecht" (= not bad) or "nicht übel" (not evil) means "better than good", "kann man essen" (is edible) is a hidden plead for "give me more". Different regions have even different variants of the (ironically used) saying "Nicht geschimpft ist gelobt genug" - not complained is praise enough.
13:30 Only (smaller) kids are allowed to bike on the sidewalk, except if there are traffic signs explicitly allowing it. Generally cyclists are expected to use the street if there is no dedicated bike path. Electric scooters are also not allowed to use the sidewalk.
In my experience people are not upset that you don't bring something to your birthday but rather that if everyone else does it and you don't you kinda just leech of everyone without giving back
I just don't eat what they bring to work. 👍
Why is "blessed lunchtime" so weird? In my opinion it isn"t worse than wishing someone a blessing when they vacate mucus from their nostrils via a sneeze.
For your birthday it is kind of the same here in Switzerland. You bring either a cake or something to your office. If you have the "breakfast-break" (Znüni) in your company you also might bring some sandwiches or whatever.
In Germany the windows are very airtight. To avoid mould and let out bad smell and CO2 you must air out.
Additional, most houses have no air condition, and in summer it keeps the house cool, if you air out in the early morning hours before sunrise, and then close the windows and the shutters for the day. If we have more than 40°C/100°F (I live in a wine-growing area in southwest Germany) I keep the shutters almost closed and the windows tilted to get a little draft all the time.
"If someone would complain to me like that, I would think about that for the redt of the day." Welcome to life in Germany 😂
The word Salat used in non green terms origins in salt. To salt (corn) something was the way to cure food. The term is used that way in other languages e.g. French (salade) or Italian (insalata) as well.
If you have good friends or colleagues they'll still bake for you, even in Germany. But mostly it's in addition to your own cake.
I appreciate this tradition for three major reasons:
1. There will always be your favorite cake! As a picky eater, I was often gifted cakes I wouldn't eat (whole fruit pieces, ughh!) and then felt bad because ppl put in so much effort (first year at uni: 5 fruit cakes by 5 people!) but never rly asked what I liked.
2. Even if people don't know your birthday, they'll be reminded when they see the cake. 100% chance for best wishes and hugs if you bring a cake.
3. If there's someone you HATE at work, just bring something they're allergic to or dislike. Fuck off Bertha from first floor, fuck the boss, I'll have a nice almond cake here and you can continue clipping your nails and chit-chatting in your offices.
The CAKE on your own BIRTHDAY thing is that:
🎂
If you have birthday then _you_ throw the party and invite & host!..
🎂🍰🥳
That's the sense behind it.
Also you obviously don't _have to_ do it!
It's just a nice gesture.
😊
I use "Mahlzeit" all the Time - It is not only work related.
It's a regional thing probably. I guess you're from the north? Where I come from, it's pretty much exclusively used if you leave (work) for your lunch break. Or if you quote Werner, I guess.
Ich benutze es gerne als Begrüßung, wenn jemand zu spät zur Arbeit erscheint :-)
Ich mag deine Videos.
Aber:
"Kann man essen" ist doch kein Kompliment.
Deutsche werden oft seltsam dargestellt!
Wir machen Salate selbst wenn wir etwas zu einer Feier mitbringen!!!
"Kann man essen." ist aber auch nicht negativ behaftet.
Wenn ich etwas zum ersten mal koche, und das Urteil der Anderen lautet: "Kann man essen.", dann weiss ich, es geht besser, aber ausspucken wird es nun auch keiner.
Absolutely, normally you bring only self made salads to an appointment.
The meaning of "Kann man essen" or "nicht schlecht" is very dependent of the way you say it. Actually it can mean "yes, great" or "it's kinda okay but not really" just by the accentuation. At least in the northern region of germany, that is.
So to say, the explanations of @EasyGerman are sometimes missing important details.
@@Sven_H @EasyGerman finde ich auch nicht detailliert genug. Das führt zu einem falschen Eindruck. Es kommt ja auch darauf an in welcher Gegend man lebt.
"Kann man essen" ist vermutlich Norddeutsch. Ich komme aus Schleswig-Holstein. Hier sagt man manchmal sogar "Kann man sehr gut essen" für "schmeckt sehr gut". Mein Vater aus Köln kennt das nicht.
@@simeon4758 Das kann schon sein. Bei mir ist das so, dass ich das auch eher unter Freunden oder engen Bekannten so handhabe, wo ich schon einschätzen kann, dass sie verstehen, wie es gemeint ist.
Ich würde z.B. nicht auf die Idee kommen, das zur Bedienung im Restaurant oder zu relativ "fremden" Personen zu sagen, wo ich auf einer Feier eingeladen bin oder so. Es sei denn, es war wirklich nur so halbwegs gut^^.
We Germans call pretty much everything that is served cold in a bowl with some sort of 'dressing' a salad 😅
He, super auf den Punkt gebracht, in meinem Kopf ist beim Lesen der Kommentare hier eine ziemlich lange Liste entstanden, und hier seh ich, wie einfach es zu sagen ist...👍
Primarily, "Mahlzeit" is an indicator that you are now leaving the office for lunch.
It is also used in "Na Mahlzeit" ... which means something like "shit happened" or "what a disaster".
But with a distinct pronounciation, usually with a lower frequence of your voice.
OK, on the subject of Germans loving their peace and quiet, you need to know the following. In Germany there are quiet times during which you are not allowed to make any noise.
Noise is allowed from 7 a.m. in the morning until 1 p.m then there is a general lunchtime rest Children are not allowed to play in the playground either. this lasts until 3 p.m. From 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. you can make noise again After 8 p.m., no drilling, hammer sawing, etc. is permitted From 10 p.m. onwards, the night is quiet and then music and TV can only be played at room volume.
I'm German and would think about someone criticizing me also for the whole day lol
2:18 This stoßlüften I do every morning at first. I like the fresh air. In the evening I do it again. It reduced the dampness in the rooms.
"Mahlzeit" is a greeting around midday when you are heading out to eat. It's a greeting as well as signaling to people that you are on your way to eat or you are wishing them a "good meal" while leaving to your lunch break. It is commonly used at work to let everyone know you are heading out but it can also be used as a "blessing" before starting to eat with your friends and family. Many traditional restaurants will also serve your meal and wish you "Mahlzeit". You get so used to "blessing" and wishing a "good meal" you start to miss it if you don't do it XD.
In Hungary we have a saying "everything is a beer opener". Maybe it has german origins?
Many hungarian phrases area one to one translation from german because of Austria-Hungarian Kingdom. I bet some hungarian phrases and Words made it to german vice versa.
Wait English dictionaries work on the same principles as German ones?!?
Fun fact, there is not THE German potato salad! The North does it with mayonnaise, the south with oil, vinegar and onions.
Bringing a cake to work on your birthday is more loke throwing a little party at the office and colleagues are invited to join. of course they can also bring little presents or a birthday card or collect tips for you. But people here only do that if you really have a good relationship. people come visit you on your birthday at the office and have a piece of cake and a chat with you. mostly around lunchtime. but it does not have to be cake it could also be snacks or if you are very important (e.g. a boss) you sometimes order some catering food.
The best salad is sausage cut up with mayo and vinegar. Even better with some pickles and potatoes
No mayo. Vinegar and oil for life!!!
Yep. And spice up with Maggi ...@@user-cx6kt3ku2f
The thing about the rules is really the most German thing ever.
I like to do archery in my free time, but I like to go into the nature, shoot on some empty fields or in clearings in the woods, where I have a good view and can shoot into a slope. So savety is not an issue here. Many Germans think it must be against the law, because Archery is like shooting a weapon, and the weapon law is very strict, but actually, bows are not considerate a weapon at all in Germany, so it's completely legal.
But nevertheless, people start complain and argue about it, when I do it. And they also call the police on a regular basis, most often dog owners, because they think I could shoot their dogs.
So I printed out all the important laws regarding archery and marked all important passages with yellow ink, in case the police comes over.
And as a bonus, I also printed out a map of the rule, that you have to have your dog on a leash in the forest, which is my Uno-reverse card against the dog owners, who call the police on me. And of course, they never have their dog on a leash. :)
4:35 its like when you are passing by your coworkers on your way to eat at noon. you say `mahlzeit` to your colleges.
least thats what i got from it, working for a german company for a bit.
My grandfather made the best potato salad. With bacon bits. Loved it. Opa had a German mother.
In the Netherlands ‘luften’ is also the norm. At least in the east of the Netherlands
My colleague is from the Netherlands and she is the world champion of "lüften"! She will open all windows in the office like 4 times a day even when it's freezing cold outside.
Fun fact: Stoßlüften was the official strategy for schools in Germany when COVID hit. Most effective way to reduce exposure to the virus in a small classroom. This was fun, especially during winter...
8:30 - well, it is once per year "your turn", when it's your birthday. Thinking about all the other countries: there are some people in the Office, caring about the cake nearly every time a colleague has something to celebrate. Meaning: with 20 colleagues, you care about 10 times about the cake. The German version is: banking a cake one time per year, and then I can eat 20 times when the others celebrate their birthday.
8:00 yes sometimes there's gossip if you come into the office at your birthday without some cake.
Dann sollen sie sich selbst einen kaufen oder machen... Das ist so ätzend, ganz ehrlich. Ich kann von niemandem auf Arbeit irgendwas annehmen, weil ich immer denke, derjenige erwartet irgendwann etwas zurück, weil es nicht mehr möglich ist einfach selbstlos etwas zu tun um nett zu anderen zu sein und was gutes zu tun. Dem Druck beuge ich mich nicht länger, ist mir zu dumm.
Putting mayo in a salat is actually a bit more of a north german thing, like in south Germany you'd make a potato salad for example with vinegar and oil and like a broth (if that's the right word) and not with mayo
“Mahlzeit!” is a greeting that is used around lunch time, like when you meet colleagues in your lunch break. It can be translated as “Have a nice lunch!”, and it is abbreviated from “Gesegnete Mahlzeit!” which literally means “Blessed mealtime!”. Alternatively, one can say “Guten Appetit!”, which literally means “[Have a] good appetite!”. It’s not true that “Mahlzeit!” can only be used at work. It is too formal to be used at home, but you could perhaps greet your neighbors and fellows this way when you meet them in a restaurant.
12:23 yup, exactly that, if something is amazing it is literally amazing, can not be repeated, a once in a lifetime thing.
My window besides my bed is open ALL NIGHT, even in winter. i love the cold fresh air while sleeping
When I was 16 at scouting? I learned several skills to open beer bottles. The bottom rule was. You must be able to open it within anything within hand reach, so you couldn't move from your place. But you had to open it with whatever was an average. So yes really easy you can even do it with a rolled up newspaper
The most important thing with a potato salad is that you use waxy potatoes and, as soon as it is dressed, mix the salad long and vigorously with the spoons. This will make the potato salad sauce thick as the potatoes rub together and thus thicken the vinegar and broth it shouldn't be too dry.
There are many different versions of potato salad. My favorite is vinegar and oil.
Potato salad is always a side dish and not a main meal.
Hallo Leute! Ich kenne Kartoffelsalat durchaus als Hauptgericht, nur an Weihnachten gibt es Wiener oder Bockwürstchen dazu, oder im Sommer einen Schwenker. (Eingeweihten ist jetzt klar, wo ich herkommen muß)
@@jrgptr935 Wie meinst du als Hauptmahlzeit? Also Schnitzel wäre die Hauptmahlzeit und der Kartoffelsalat dazu die Beilage, kenne es gar nicht das man nur Kartoffelsalat ist.
@@BlauImHerzen Wie beschrieben. Manchmal gibts was dazu.
When it's someone's birthday, they bring a cake for their colleagues at work; Or sometimes you prefer something hearty, such as a potato or pasta salad and perhaps meatballs with mustard. Colleagues collect money for a small gift, a birthday card and a bouquet of congratulatory flowers. The colleagues get something delicious to eat and the birthday child can be happy about the gifts and that you have thought of them.
About the word Mahlzeit they didn't explain it properly. In Germany you say this as a greeting when you or someone else takes a lunch break
There seem to be some regionally differences. We say "Mahlzeit" in the office whenever you go to lunch break, not just as a greeting.
I like the way you are always surprised and shocked. You really try to understand it rationally. But some things are just the way they are.
The german way of bringing the cake has its perks.
1) If you dont want people to come congratulating you all the time, just dont bring anything.
2) As a guest who cant keep track of other peoples' birthdays, you wont have uncomfortable moments forgetting bringing something or forgetting congratulating, as you'll be reminded by the cake.
3) If the birthday person ends up sick or otherwise indisposed, you wont have brought the cake for nothing.
4) If you bring the cake yourself, you can bring what you like, not what others hope you like
5) What sounds more awesome in a group of 20 people, 19 times people bringing their cake and you dont have to do anything besides congratulate, OR having to 19times contribute preparing cakes for others they might not like/be there to eat, and having to bring a cake yourself on your birthday?
It may sound counter intuitive, but it is very practical, imo.
Potato salad falls generally speaking into two main categories: southern vinegar based, or northern mayonaise based. The former usually contains some onions and broth and some parsley too, while the latter typically includes pickles, hard boiled eggs and onions and/or apple dices. I like both very much.
The southern version is often eaten as a side dish accompanying things like schnitzel, leberkäse, cordon bleu and other. Whereas the northern dish can be the protagonist, accompanied by a slice of bread, and a frankfurter sausage.
Mahlzeit literally translates to "mealtime". It is not only a greeting, but also used as an alternative zu "Guten Appetit! /Good appetite!". Basically people wishing you an enjoyable mealtime. I think the reason as to why it became a greeting might be because of varying eating times within a company. You encounter someone around mealtime, or maybe an hour or soe before that, knowing you'll not meet them at the dinner table, so you wish them a good mealtime beforehand.
I've seen people open bottles with their eye sockets, no joke 🇩🇪🫡
In the North the salad is with mayo. In the south with vinegar
Because of the "negative" compliments: Here in southern Germany we have the saying "Ned g'meggrd isch gnuag gloabt!" (Not complaining is enough praise), which is the next level of unfriendliness, so to speak. But compliments like "Not bad" are actually very positive. If a German tells you "that's awesome", it means that they mean it, so that's a really big compliment.
In contrast, we Germans are also very direct, if we don't like something, we say it outright, which I think is considered very rude, especially in the USA. Here in Germany, however, this directness is seen very positively as honesty. We really appreciate knowing where we stand with someone else.
Back at school there was a constant battle in winter between the boys, who wanted the windows opened longer and more frequently and the girls who wanted the windows closed, period. The girls quote on this subject was "lieber derstunken als derfroren" = "better die of stink than die of cold" 😂
"Mahlzeit" is used in the middle of the day and maybe afternoon. it follows as a greeting after "morning" and before "good evening" yes its mostly for office but not exclusive. its just a greeting for the lunchtime. like " have a good lunch!"
it HAS to do with lunch. "mahlzeit" is ONLY being said around lunchtime and mostly in offices.
"it goes from something healthy to something totally full of calories and fat .... I love that! 👍" 🤣