Cold War cooking at East German themed restaurant
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- Опубліковано 29 лип 2015
- (12 Feb 2012)
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Berlin, Germany - 21 January 2012
1. Various of people dining in DDR restaurant
2. Close of mural
3. Close of mural, pull out to people dining
4. SOUNDBITE (German) Ulrich Mittenzwei, Tourist from former East German state of Thuringen :
"We know the DDR from a long way back and we have stayed interested in it. And we like the food"
5. Close of book reading: (German) "DDR cook book"
6. Close pull of traditional salad dish, waitress carries plate away
7. Close of traditional dish of fried sausage schnitzel
8. Various of sous-chef Renee Loock taking sausage meat and battering it to make schnitzel dish
9. SOUNDBITE (German), Renee Loock, DDR restaurant sous chef :
"The DDR cuisine is a good traditional type of cuisine, with hearty wholesome food and with influences from East European countries through the Polish and the Soviet areas in the DDR. It is also simple and well priced."
Berlin, Germany - 16 January 2012
10. Various of Loock frying sausage schnitzel
11. Various of Russian meat soup
12. Various of sausage schnitzel frying
13. Mid of Loock putting fried sausage on plate, adding garnish
14. Mid zoom of Loock spooning goulash onto plate
Berlin, Germany - 21 January 2012
15. SOUNDBITE (German), Renee Loock, DDR restaurant sous chef :
"It has been made with cheap ingredients because in the DDR there was a shortage of the expensive luxury ingredients - like veal for example. So that everyone could afford it we just took the cheaper version - like pork or chicken."
16. Various of people eating
17. SOUNDBITE (German) Annette Mittenzwei, Tourist visiting from former East German state of Thuringen :
"80 to 90 per cent of the food was correct and authentic. That is really how it was."
18. Mid of people eating
19. SOUNDBITE (English) Joe Bell, tourist visiting from the UK, vox pop
"I'm very interested in history, I used to be a history teacher in England and taught a lot about the Second World War, the Cold War. So, I think, it was a must-see for me really."
20. Various of food and diners
21. SOUNDBITE (English) Marcia Hummel, Tourist visiting from Ireland, vox pop
"A lot of people recommended the restaurant so we decided to come in because of the great reviews. And we are glad we did because the food was beautiful."
22. Wide of people dining
Berlin, Germany - 16 January 2012
23. Tilt down from Berlin TV tower to statues of the founders of the socialist ideology Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
24. Close of statues (Marx, left - Engels, right)
25. Mid tilt up from Trabant car manufactured in the DDR, on display at the DDR Museum
26. Mid of DDR style living room, displayed at the DDR Museum
27. Close of television screen showing DDR leader Erich Honecker (leader 1971-1989) giving a speech
28. Various of remains of the Berlin Wall
LEADIN
A restaurant in Berlin is serving up dishes which recreate the days of former East Germany.
All the recipes date back to life behind the Iron Curtain, a time before the fall of the Berlin Wall.
STORYLINE:
Diners at this restaurant in the old Eastern part of Berlin celebrate the innovative cooking that took place in the shadow of the Berlin Wall, in the former German Democratic Republic.
In the restaurant a Socialist Realist mural called "In Praise of Communism" covers an entire wall.
The painting depicts children playing, workers in the factories and the ever-present soldiers guarding the state.
Under the painting a mix of tourists and people from the former Deutsche Demokratische Republik (DDR) dine on culinary treats from history.
Life behind the Iron Curtain during the Cold War was not easy.
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If boris goes to this place he will probably think that this is western spy food blyat
hahahaha
They used doctors sausage in plate
Spam fritters on a bed of Pasta Marinara? In the West, students have been embracing that kind of cuisine for decades, lol.
+Joanne Gray Spam fritters.....yuk! I was staying in a student house in East Berlin in 1994 and I remember this food.
Simon Ellis Jaegerwurst, I had some on my recent trip to Berlin. Sausage meat (baloney/mortadella) breaded and fried, served with spiral pasta in a simple tomato sauce.
The restaurant at the DDR museum no longer exists, but you can find this at the Volkskammer, near the Ostel.
That's not spam. Thats a special german sausage
That kind of looks like doctor sausage
Shallow fried balona. The cook messed up by not heating the oil first. It was cold when the balona went in. Makes it so greasey. Fried food ain't greasey when the oil is hot!
@33kaus holokaust German food is of excellent quality, as long as it has been skillfully made.
I’m pretty sure the top party members of the DDR didn’t eat like this.
I am not sure. For example, Janos Kadar, the first secretary of the Hungarian socialist party (and so head of the country) was famous for his humble eating habits as a private person. During one of his trip travelling on the special presidential train he required a very simple (but tasty) soup called 'caraway soup'. One of his accompanying persons later told in a recollection that the cook hadn't had caraway seed on the train, but still the staff obtained it from the surface of some croissants without informing Kadar. (One sort of Hungarian croissants is sprinkled by coarse granular salt and caraway.) Of course the menu would have been much different on an interstate protocol dinner.
I’ll be visiting Berlin in November. What is the name of this restaurant as I would love to try it.
And once you’re done packing on the pounds with fried bologna and French fries, you can work those calories off by trying to outrun our dogs as you run through multiple electric fences on your way back to your ridiculously overpriced car!
Ja der stasi minsterum security
I'd eat it. Actually looks damn good.
I really wanna go there now
Ja...bet youd enjoy..good meals there flavor of a lost society Meinen vaterland
Wow 🤩
Why did they import expansive noodles and ketchup? That makes no sense.
This is for reminding the past
shhhhhhhhhh
I’m pretty sure Eastern Europe had tomatoes to make ketchup and factories that made noodles.
@@frankgarrett242 Then they should have sold the pure tomatoes to the DDR i think, and not waste the tomatoes to bad ketchup.
@@frankgarrett242 For example, Bulgarians produced ketchup. I remember we could buy it here in Hungary. I think there was Hungarian ketchup too, but the Bulgarian one was better. There was a choice of various kind of cheap domestic noodles, too. (Perhaps, Hungary had the best food industry amongst the countries of the Eastern-Block. I claim that it was much better then of nowadays.)
English Subtitles Please
DDR still lives on! Hurrah!
Improvisierter Schnickschnack
Should be a worthwhile experience, though it's not likely to win any Michelin stars anytime soon 😊😊
I think, in the socialist era these foods was born from necessity not from gourmand minds.
@wanderowa
Foods of necessity are pretty much all Eastern European cuisine.
Why would you possibly want to go back to that? And the DDR accents are hilarious.
DDR accents, lol
This is seriously like some “Man In The High Castle” crap.
Nostalgia and the taste of growing up
UA-cam's automatic captions think it's Dutch.
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Theres two kind of folk that are gonna go for that crap. 1: Ex East Germans that only know prison/Gulag food missing that home food, 2: the West GermanEuropean tourists that want to sample a little of the hell of the East the Germans endured for decades under Russian rule. This crap makes Polish food look gourmet. Think I'd rather endure the pain of a nasty sweaty bun Big Mac and greasy stick fries than that crap
I have lived in that era myself though not in the GDR but in Hungary and lot of us can state that life was by no means hell here. The 'hell' of Russian rule (which was Soviet 'rule', more correctly) was western propaganda for the devaluation of these countries and for spreading hysteria against them in the Western world. I have never been to the GDR (I mind it) but in Hungary restaurant food and generally all foodstuff was better in that times than todays. And, shame on me, but I have eaten that humble and inexpensive Polish foods (e.g. bigos) and since I remember its good taste.
You are a total idiot.
@@xkm-thebasetecchannel3823 thankyou, that's very kind of you👍🏻
Oh, cry me a river.
You're spoiled with choice, while people all over the world in capitalist countries which haven't been so lucky as you starve.
It's not "prison/gulag food" just because you would prefer something else.
the one youtube video that could have used a shitty sound track and useless voice over
Damn lol everything about that place looks depressing as fuck
1:00 wear gloves heck dammit 😣
I've eaten worse.