Why is that even a thing? It is painful to read. Like, a beer from a proper glass, yes, that is a thing, but how to open a chocolate? Bro... Are we living in an advertisement clip or what?
Me: - waiting until he opens the Ritter Sport - he opened it - as expected - the wrong way - scrolled the comments to find the hint - found it at first place 😂
4:45 we don’t make s’mores… at least not that I know of. There’s probably not even a lot of people in Germany that know what that is. When we’re having a fire, we make „Stockbrot“ that’s bread dough on a stick, grilled over the fire. It’s awesome.
the only thing i remember from my childhood in germany thats anywhere "close ish" to smores, would be chocolate teacake (schaumkuss/schokokuss) sandwiched between 2 bread buns ^^
Some do smores, had them with lepniz keksen … but stockbrot is the probably one of the most famous campfire snacks , but marshmallos got popular as well in the last 2 decades. For me, i had them more often than stockbrot (still i prefer stockbrot)
3:15 That's how I figured you'd try opening the RItter Sport packaging. No one seems to read the instructions on the back of the package. You're supposed to bend the one row designated by the line that says "Break open here". Sometimes it helps to read.
@@annasannanas2044 Milka is actually the most popular chocolate in Germany with 35.4%. It is followed by Lindt (10.3%) and Ritter Sport (7.8%). However, the most “German” in geographical terms is still Ritter Sport.
American chocolate tastes sour in comparison to european chocolate because of butyric acid. Butyric acid can be found in human vomit. This substance was added to the chocolate recipe by Hershey's in the early 1900s to slow down the rotting process of the milk part in the chocolate. Hershey's chocolate itself was part of the standard food ration for soldiers in WW2 (called "D Ration Bar" at this time) and many soldiers got used to the taste and after the war they wanted more of that "sour" chocolate. That's why it became the standard in US. Butyric acid is not used in Europe. They use other ingredients to stabilize the milk.
Not really to slow down the rotting process as having a "processed milk" as ingredient, product using "fresh milk" had to have very short shelf life by law. Hershey's just provided longer shelf life by changing ingredient.
American Chocolate???? 🤔 You mean USA chocolate!! América is a continent with 35 different countries! In the other countries in the American continent, you'll find the finest of The finest in chocolate! 😎 But yeah... USA chocolate is 🤮
@@Stephstar80 It IS american chocolate. Dont dare to say european chocolate. For me there are 2 american contients not one. And USA is just an Akronym for United States of AMERICA. So hence america the country. No one is calling my country BRD. Or in englisch FRG.
When the first 3 ingredients of your chocolate are sugar, milk and cocoa butter... And cocoa is even further away... Not a good sign. Go try some 75% black chocolate. That s where you ll taste cocoa.
Ritter Sport comes in all colours. :) It depends on the flavour. For example, the one with Yogurt is white, the one with cornflakes is yellow, marzipan is red and so on.
There are regular sorts (milk chocolate, with hazelnuts, etc) as well as seasonals like for christmas season, summer season and so on. All in all you probably get more than 20 sorts all the time.
I love the marzipan and dark chocolate one the sweetness of the filling is perfectly balanced by the bitter dark chocolate coating. I had a lemon and white chocolate one once but never found it again. It was perfection the normally overly sweet white chocolate enhanced by little crystals of sharp lemon flavour.
@@NiersFloater I know........ But I often only see the regular flavours in my supermarkets, and rarely the special editions. That's why I'm simply surprised at what other varieties are now available.
the 'sport' naming and the square shape comes from its origin. It was a customary for many spectators to sports events in Germany to have chocolate as a snack. The traditional rectangular shape would poke out of men's jacket pocket, also foil packaging wasn't ideal when one wanted to re-wrap up the left over. Hence the square shape and resealable packaging, that fits in a jacket pocket neatly and with less chance it soiling inside the pocket.
The package was not resealable from the beginning. There was no real difference from other brands. I still remember when the new package was introduced, which you open by breaking off a row. That was in the 70's. The wrapping was still not made of plastic.
Its ridiculous how much I'm excited to watch you try european/ german products😂 please continue with these videos! Edit: Yes we have Easter Bunnies (and Santas) but many different brands make them. There's Lindt, Milka, Noname brands,...
@@Miessa1989It made me (as a Swiss person) a bit sad when he roasted chocolate bunnies and had a golden Lindt bunny on his screen. But we have to admit: beside the fancy ones (and the golden one) most chocolate bunnies are (in Switzerland for someone who has eaten Swiss chocolate for his whole life) very underwhelming.
Even in Germany it's a bit of an odd design, but it makes sense, too. Ritter gives all of its different chocolates a unique color for the packaging. That makes them really easy to identify and also makes for a pretty display on the shelves.
@@pdeissler7911 I didn't know that, but I dunno about perfect. Sounds like a weird marketing idea to connect chocolate and sports... You wanna be healthy and fit? I'd say keep the chocolate out of your sports jacket. I had no idea why it was called Sport, either. It's possible that I've seen old commercials when they were still making it a selling point, but I don't have a good memory when it comes to commercials.
@@avi.chan23 living in Switzerland, I know Lindt very well. But its so disgusting when you buy it outside of Switzerland. The quality of Lindt is just crap in other countries. Espcially Lindor, I never buy Lindor outside of Switzerland.
I think he mentioned not liking bitter chocolate, but something a little darker would probably still be fine. He picked the lightest you can get after literal white chocolate.
Try swiss chocolate like Lindt Chocolate! Buy one from america and from Switzerland and see if theres a difference, as a swiss i have been told that swiss chocolate tastes different in america too
when you "WOW" on ritter sport, you should try Lindt Lindor; that's another level. It is kind of premium chocolate. Still not as premium as belgian chocolate, because this is another universe. About the easter bunnies: yes, we have them. You can get them in cheap version (still not near to wax taste) or from Milka, Lindt and other companies I can't remember now.
I wanted to comment as well, he tries German chocolate, and starts with what I would consider almost the worst stuff you can get here. And then compared to all the other ones, let us not even start with Belgian or Swiss chocolate.
Hersheys have tried to lauch here in Aus a couple of times over the years and have always pretty much completely failed. The most common description you hear (and I'd agree) is that it tastes like sweet dirt. We mostly have Cadbury (originally English I think) and Lindt/Lindor (Swiss - which I think is one of the best chocolates in the world) but we do have a wide selection of other European etc chocalate too, including Ritter, and a couple of localish brands
Oh boy, that was wonderful. As a German, being used to eat Ritter Sport for decades now, the way he opened the package was so hilarious. I always thought the package design was self explanatory. This was the equivalent of opening a can of Coke with a power drill instead of just pulling the lid.
Ritter Sport introduced by the founder Ritter decided in the 1930's to make a chocolate bar that would fit into a sport jacket pocket without breaking so he made it into a square shape easily pocketable . Hence the perfect square shape of the chocolate .
Europeans don't really do smores, partially because we don't specifically have graham crackers and it's also just not very known. I grew up just roasting marshmellow above the fire and then you just eat the marshmallow. No chocolate or graham crackers. I've also made bread on a stick above a fire, which is pretty awesome
@ ohh it didn’t know, thanks for the info! I thought graham crackers would be more of a ‘cracker’ as the name says, but digestive with chocolate and marshmallow sounds pretty good 😋
the package is light blue because that is just how the brand is communicating its different flavours; Every single flavour has its own color, so you can easily tell which one of them you want to grab in the super market (eg milk = light blue, nougat = marine blue, cornflakes = yellow...)
10:54 Yes there are chocolate easter bunnies in Germany. There also are chocolate Santas (and even chocolate Krampus, the latter one is a little bit more difficult to find but the one made by Milka is by far my favorite) :D
I'm from France and I discovered Ritter Sport when I was an exchange student in Germany. It's delicious ! Especially the fruits/nuts one, I often pick one when I come across them.
@@gregorygant4242 Keks is great, and hazelnut in any chocolate is my absolute favorite. However, Ritter Sport in general is quite expensive. I get bio bitter chocolate from DM for about 2/3 the price. I have no idea how Ritter Sport is able to compete with that.
@@njm1971nyc Listen, I was about to make the same comment, then it hit me - raisins are ... dried grapes. So baumstamp is not wrong. And it does not say Rum-Rosine-Nuss - it says Rum-Traube-Nuss ... So that was a direct translation of the name. Don't have a go at baumstamp for this, complain to Ritter Sport
Yes, we have easter bunnies as well, and over here (Belgium) there is afcourse a big difference between bunnies from a real chocolatier or from a retailchain... ofcourse the price difference is just a big
Belgian choccy is the best IMO, we get Ritter Sport here in the UK, its ok but not always my first choice, when the sell by date gets down to two months left it gets discounted in my local store, if there is any left when there is one month left they practically give it away.
Hi, Ryan! The first chocolate Easter bunnies🐇 were produced in Germany in the 19th century. Historical reports suggest that the chocolate Easter bunny first appeared in Germany in the 1830s. At this time, chocolate figures were becoming increasingly popular as Easter decorations and gifts, especially in connection with the custom of the Easter bunny bringing coloured eggs to children.😀
I would say Rittersport and Milka are the standard chocolate you get as a German for a medium price. It's a really good Chocolate bar for it's price. We also have worse Chocolate from our Discounters own brand and obviously more expensive ones (Lindt or even more expensive ones). I personally prefer Milka and I think most Germans do. Oh and please next time try to not Chew at least 1 piece of chocolate. It enhances the flavour even more if you just let it melt.
I am not a Milka fan, it leaves an acidic after taste, a very slight burn in my mouth. And I do like Moser Roth, the Aldi brand. They are good chocolate! Astonishingly good - because Storck was not the best chocolate producer and they are made by Storck. But the Moser Roth line is just good. There are other own brands I would not go for, where you are perfectly right. But Moser Roth? Not so much.
It would be interesting for me if you could also tell the prices of the products. For example, a "Ritter Sport Vollmilch" would cost about €1.40 in Germany (about €0.60 - €1.00 when it's on offer).
If you buy the chocolate Bunnys and Santas from Milka, Kinder oder Lindt, they are actually really good! And of course we habe them here 🇩🇪 And yeah, please just break Ritter Sport in the middle. They have a patent on that Thing 😂
10:54 "do you guys have chocolate easter bunnies?" And literally one of the first row of pictures he pulls up in the google search shows a Lindt Easter Bunny :D
Marabou from Sweden (orig. Norway), Fazer from Finland, Kalev from Estonia... all delicious. Not to mention Lindt (Swiss) and the quality of Belgium chocolate. One particularly good Milka chocolate was a special edition with coconut, I think it was called Champiolada coconut or smthing.
I had a good laugh watching you struggle with the Ritter Sport package. Just break it in two along the marked line, and the package will open. Btw... if you get the chance, try Ritter Sport joghurt! In my opinion, brilliant! Greetings from Slovenia
For me Rittersport is the perfect spot between affordable and quality. They usually also have chocolate without palm oil. But personally, I dislike Milka a lot. It just tastes too sweet and fatty, overpowering all properties of what makes chocolate good. Aaand they use a lot of palm oil on top.
When did we reached the point where we hate plam oil but not the cocoa which is also from rain forests and child labor etc. It's so funny how we alwas choose the most easy things to hate and ignore everything which is too tasty or too affordable to hate. "Everybody look how morale I am eating chocolate but critiizing palm oil!! 😊And check out this fancy eco-friendly tote bag I carry my plastic trash around in!"
@@vommthere are other good brands of chocolate even sold at Aldi that is fair trade certified organic chocolate, it's a little more expensive per bar but I absolutely prefer it over Rittersport or milka since it's not only with out palm oil but also responsible cultivation of cocoa and no child labor 😊
Hey Ryan, nice to see you eating Ritter Sport (spell it like it was written shport) . It comes from Waldenbuch, my neighbor town. So for me it is local „food“😂 and I always like things that come from my local area. When I made the direct confrontation between Ritter Sport and Milka, I had to say Ritter is the more chocolate intensive taste, Milka the more buttery one. I prefer the more chocolate taste. My favorite chocolate is Toblerone, originally maybe by Tobler, a Swiss Brand, but now from Mondelez, but still so good! Favorite Easter Bunnie is the golden one from Lindt, also Swiss Brand. Hope to see you trying these😍 Greetings from Filderstadt/Stuttgart/Germany
We do have campfires with marshmallows and stockbread. RitterSport and Milka are good and very popular chocolate brands, one who is a bit better is chocolate from Lindt. Or if you like it, Lübecker Marzipan from Niederegger (it's not everyones taste). And the packaging of RitterSport opens easily if you crack it in half up to the front, the back will open then by itself. One thing you should try, which is very popular in Germany, especially in the winter, is a chocolate fountain, where you throw your favourite chocolate in, let it melt and run like a fountain; there you can dip fruits or cheese or vegetables or if you like more chocolate in, it's fun especially for kids and delicious if you have a sweet tooth.
About the chocolate Easter Bunny: There's an ongoing annual joke in Germany, that the chocolate easter bunnies are made from the remains of unsold chocolate christmas santa clauses 😁
Fun fact: hersheys had some stuff in their chocolate production that gives the tiniest hint of a vomity flavour. It isn't really noticable though. But when they found another way of production and left the vomity stuff out, people protested there was something missing in their chocolate so they put it back in. But when non americans try hersheys they subconsciously taste vomit and therefore don't like it.
Can confirm Hershey's just tastes like slighty OFF. I can't really explain it, it had a slightly sour (not bitter but sour) taste to it and also tasted quite chemical. Like it was a chocolate for sure and it tasted like actual chocolate, just with a weird little twist to it. And also yes Hershey's doesn't melt in your mouth like Rittersport or milka does. It does melt but it's not very smooth - more like a bitter chocolate that takes longer to melt in your mouth.
Well, in high concentrations butyric acid (Buttersäure) smells (and I guess tastes) like vomit, but in small concentrations it just kinda gives it some tangy, interesting flavor. Sounds funny to say sth like "americans like vomit flavor in their chocolate", but its not really accurate.
not noticable? well, then I am very sensitive to this. I had to get it out of my mouth as fast as possible, when I tried it … and I did not even know that it was amarican chocolate … let alone hersheys. For me it was really disgusting.
a couple of unrelated fun facts: 1. Only Ritter chocolate has this square shape. It's their signature. At the company headquarters, the family Ritter has an art museum, where they collect all kinds of art that is related to squares. Very intersting. 2. When I was at university, we once had a lecture by an expert from Milka (the other very wide-spread German brand) about "The crystallization of chocolate" in which he passed around all kinds of samples of how chocolate tastes, when you cool it too slow or too fast... I think I ate two full packages of chocolate in that one lecture 🙂 3. When I was an exchange student in the rural US in 94/95 I really didn't like Hersheys, but that was all there was to be had there. But then my highschool choir did a fundraiser selling chocolate bars and those tasted actually quite good. We each should sell like 100 bars for a dollar each. So I got permission from my parents to invest 100 bucks in chocolate. The next morning in school, everyone was comparing "How many have you sold already?" "Five" or "Eight". Then they asked me and I said "All of them". "All of them? Who did you sell it to?" "Myself!" :-D Anyway, that stash lasted almost all year. I guess I should have bought some additional bars from my friends ;-)
The way you say hello at the beginning is quite strange. German is actually a very melodic language. The hard-sounding syllables like CH don't occur in Hallo. 🙂
The mouthfeel you experience with Rittersport chocolate probably comes from a processing step that is often done with chocolate here it's called “conching”, where melted chocolate is slowly stirred for hours over and over in large pots, which later ensures that the chocolate is slightly buttery in the mouth, as you say, and melts smoothly. I'm not sure if this is also done with American chocolate.
The Ritter Sport has a special way to open it. The bar is 4x4. You lay the hands on each side. The white overlap dividing right and left side between your palms. Fingers on the middle slit and now press. The bar break in the middle, and opens the foil at the overlapping part.
We have LOTS of Easter bunnies here in Aus, and some are crap! Just a heads up, on the page of Easter bunnies you pulled up the one in gold foil with a red ribbon is Lindt and they're fantastic (and twice the price of course, but well worth it!)
We do have Easter Bunnies. But the best ones are usually made by Lindt. (And yes, we do eat marshmallows, usually on our beaches on a campfire. In France anyway.)
Comparing Ritter Sport and Hershey’s was a good idea, I think. Both are popular brands, while in terms of quality they’re considered average or a little above average in their respective countries. Ritter Sport is the only brand that sells their chocolate in this shape and they’ve got a patent on the shape. Milka sued them for it, but lost. There’s also a very neat Ritter Sport museum owned by the family, with one part history of the brand and production info, where there are nice gimmicks everywhere like little trucks that come out of a miniature factory to bring kids small chocolates to try. And then there’s a beautiful art exhibition with Mrs Ritter’s private collection of modern art and changing themes, all dedicated to squares and other geometric shapes. The restaurant has delicious things, too, with their chocolate incorporated in the recipes… To everyone nearby, I recommend a visit in Waldenbuch, Baden-Württemberg, Germany!
There is good easter bunny choclate here arround as well, and you see it at about 11:20 on the google search. Check out the Lindt Easter Bunny. (the golden one with the red band arround its neck and usually a little bell)
Fun fact : the first Ritter Sport chocolate was produced in Bad Cannstatt, located in Stuttgart. That's where I grew up, and my school was literally next to the old ritter sports shop 😅
If you'd like to try some more german chocolate, you might look for Hachez. It's a traditional chocolate brand from Bremen in Northern Germany, deemed a bit more high-class than Ritter Sport. Pretty tasty.
You should try Chocolate from Elly Seidl once. Its my old workplace, they mix different kinds of chocolate together to get a unique taste and I love it ^^
Sorry, but kinder eggs are banned. Stupid american law, to prevent children from choking on the capsule. But if the capsule sticks out of the choclate (meaning the choclet is melted on/fused to the plastic) then it is ok...
They have a type of Kinder eggs that don't have the toy inside. (It's just included in the package.) They also have Kinder Bueno and, recently, Kinder Maxi. They have Toblerone original, and very occasionally you can find a Toblerone white or dark chocolate. Twix, I believe, is owned by American Mars corporation, so you can definitely find that. Other good chocolates are Freia Kvikk Lunsj (compare side by side with KitKat), and Nidar Stratos, both Norwegian. Freia NonStop and Nidar Smash are also good choices. (Sorry, I seem to be biased as a half Norwegian, lol. I promise my most favourite chocolates ever are Anton Berg marzipan eggs and white Toblerone.)
We have something similar to s'mores, we put chocolate marshmallows (Schokoküsse) in bread rolls like "Kaisersemmel", it's pretty similar to what you do at the campfire just without the camp fire.
It is now Merican company Mondelez that owns it. Mondelez also owns… Belvita, Chips Ahoy!, Oreo, Ritz, TUC, Triscuit, Nabisco, LU, Sour Patch Kids, Barny, and Peek Freans; chocolate brands Milka, Côte d'Or, Toblerone, Cadbury, Green & Black's, Freia, Marabou, and Fry's; gum and cough drop brands Trident, Dentyne, Chiclets, Halls, and Stride; as well as Tate's Bake Shop cookies and powdered beverage brand Tang.
@verttikoo2052 I'm aware. That's unfortunately how the world works. It's the same with breweries and car companies. In the public perception though, Milka is a German brand (not Swiss), just like Bugatti is still an Italian car even though Volkswagen owns it.
@ That is how the world works if we let it. It is just important that we remember it. Why does Berkshire Hathaway and Warren Buffett allow these chemicals in the USA and not in the European Union 🇪🇺? Because we in the European Union 🇪🇺 don’t allow it. He allows it in the USA so that he can earn more money out of YOU! Billionaires are no charity. Funny thing is that they still make good money from us and at least the Fanta tastes closer to an Orange 🍊 than some even more toxic blend of pure chemicals with full of diarrhea causing sweeteners? Ever have had an explosive diarrhea? What did you drink few hours earlier? Was it Soda Zero? Sweeteners are so toxic for your body that your body doesn’t even want to extract any important minerals or vitamins. Your body just needs to get rid of everything. It fills your stomach with as much water than possible and then flushes your guts with it and then you are already running to the toilet 🚽 American food is full of sweeteners and the reason why adult diapers are even a thing like Diaper Don.
It is actually hilarious that for the first things you try you managed to pick the 2 things on the German market which are to be consumed/opened in a very specific way XD when I saw the Ritter Sport on the thumbnail I immediately thought oh my good the comments are going to be so annoying... Don't let it get to you, your videos are great, your enthusiasm is a pleasure to watch. I really hope you manage to get over here one day. You have a huge community ready to show you the ins and outs of Germany.
The main difference between American chocolate and European chocolate is the way milk is added to the mixture. In the U.S., it is often in the form of butric acid, while in Europe, it's milk powder.
Butyric acid is produced by digestion and, yes, it's present in vomit. It's also responsible for the smell of rancid butter. Its only used in chocolate to stabilise it and to stop the sugar crystallising, giving a longer shelf life. Personally, I'd rather take my chances and not have it!
The secret for a good chocolate is how fine you grind the cacao beans. The Swiss and Belgians are masters at this , Italians and Germans are pretty good too. By the way MILKA is short for MILk n’ KAkao, we spell it with K over here ;-)
Ritter Sport is a very well choclate but Lindt&Sprüngli (it is from switz) is even better, it kind of melts in your mouth is maximal smooth and tastes very smooth but full of flavour but the original flavour nothing added.
Its a square in this size because in former days it fittet in the sports shirt pockets. Thats also why its named Ritter (family name) SPORT. Regarding the design: every taste has its own color. So by the bright blue color I already knew, it would be alpine milk. And: you are right. Regarding the 100gr. bars Ritter overtook Milka a couple of years ago.
Ritter translates to „Knight“ which is a common family name in both of our countries. In the fifties men going to a sports event, often wore everyday clothes. That means they often wore jackets shirts, ties, (suite and tie) and hats, which nowadays you would go to your office job with. Now these jackets usually have shallow pockets. All chocolate bars at the time were packed in the rectangle fomat (like the Hershey‘s bar) and also they were wrapped in aluminium foil wrapper and then in paper. Quite a mess when you took a chocolate bar as a snack with you to the stadium. And on top of that it would stick out of your pockets. Mr. Ritter‘s inventions were the square format, but a little thicker, so it would fit into the pocket without sticking out. PLUS he did away with the aluminium foil liner, PLUS you open the package by breaking it into two pieces right down the middle, ate some of the chocolate and folded it back together without chocolate crumbs in your pocket. So Ritter Sport is the chocolate of your choice to take to the soccer stadium. In France many people think it is some power bar for when you do workout or the like, but it is just regular chocolate. I must say though that I do get the impression sometimes that it doesn’t melt quite as soon as other chocolate (besides Hershey‘s which seems to be made from bakelite) which would add an advantage when carrying it in the pocket. And this, is _the rest of the story_ 😂 Viele Grüße aus Deutschland 🇩🇪
I saw a show on TV where people of different countries tried chocolate. Most of them preferred they chocolate they grew up with and liked European chocolate. Nobody except the Americans liked Hershey's. As a German, I find - like most Europeans - Hershey's "chocolate" disgusting. I favor Swiss and German followed by Belgian chocolate. A good place to find good and affordable German milk chocolate is ALDI. I usually get the Choceur or the Moser Roth min bars. Both are great. The Moser Roth is smoother and milkier, but slightly more expensive than the Choceur. They have a lot of other types of good chocolate, too. I am a true chocolate fan and even did the walking chocolate tour in Zurich, Switzerland. You walk through the city to all these amazing chocolatiers and experience next level chocolate art and taste. It's among the best experiences for true chocolate fans. And yes, Europe has chocolate bunnies, Santas and even advent calendars. They usually have good chocolate. In the US, you can find them at ALDI and other places. By the way, Ikea has also European chocolate. I think it's usually from Sweden, but I've seen advent calendars with German chocolate at Ikea, also.
every time i see american reaction to chocolate i have to think about how my relatives from america used to send us american chocolate for christmas and how everyone hated the chocolate and every year it was the same thing either it was mixed with some mint flavor or just bad and i don't exactly know what happened but they stopped sending any and i'd like to believe that we sent them some back and they realized that ours was better and so they stopped
I am not a chocolate eater but out of curiosity I tried both Feastables and Hershey's 2 or 3 weeks ago and it is horrible, it literally tastes just like sugar and the best comparison is 1€ advent calendar chocolate but it's even worse than that. The most common brand here in germany probably still is Milka, Ritter Sport is more known for their filled chocolate with crispies and stuff like that, I didn't even know that they sell plain milk chocolate. Another popular but pricy one is Lindt (that's actually a Swiss company) and especially their Lindor Pralines (fancy chocolate candies) are really good. If you want the best of the best you probably want to go more towards smaller belgish or swiss brands.
My personal favorite is Milka Alpenvollmich. The highest rated brand is Lindt chocolate over here I would say. They make the best easter bunnies and also Santa shaped chocolate aswell. But Ritter Sport is pretty good too. In general Germany or probably most of Europe has pretty strict rules about what things can go into food and drinks. Think the US isn‘t regulated as much.
Depends on the "plain" chocolate. Milk chocolate is made ti be eaten as is. Pastry chocolate (50 to 60% cocoa) is made for cooking (as branded😅) Fine chocolate (70% cocoa and more, up to 95%) are to eat as is, but in small quantity and to enjoy the flavours. Anything below 50% cocoa (not cocoa butter, but real cocoa) doesn t deserve the label "chocolate". It s more 'chocolate flavoured'.
The Alfred Ritter Company was founded in 1912 by confectioner Alfred Eugen Ritter and his wife Clara. Clara was responsible for marketing and sales, while Alfred managed the production. In 1919 the company moved from Stuttgart-Cannstatt to the small town of Waldenbuch, because they needed larger premises; at this time they sold their chocolate still mostly under the brand "Alrika" (for Alfred Ritter Kannstatt). But in 1932 Clara invented the squared chocolate bar, which did fit exactly into the pocket of the jackets (without any part of the bar sticking out) worn by wealthier people while visiting sporting events - those jackets were also known as "sport jackets". And so the slogan "Quadratisch, praktisch, gut" ("square, handy, good") and the brand "Ritter Sport" became a complete success, even more so during the 1950s and 1960s. 11:12 The Easter Bunny right in the middle of the top row, that in the golden foil with the red collar, that is a German Easter Bunny. This design is copyrighted to Lindt & Sprüngli, a Swiss company with a subsidiary in Aachen, Germany, where those bunnies are produced. The chocolate for those "hollow figures" has another consistency than "normal" chocolate; in most cases they taste not very good also in Germany. But the quality of the Lindt ones is a little bit better than most. 12:25 Milka was a Swiss brand by the Suchard company (which merged in 1970 with Tobler and was the biggest Swiss chocolate producer until its main plant was closed in 1990). In 1982 Suchard was bought by Klaus J. Jacobs, owner of coffee trading house Joh. Jacobs + Co in Bremen, and merged into the Jacobs Suchard AG, which was sold in 1990 to Philip Morris, became in 1993 Kraft Jacobs Suchard and in 2012 part of the US company Mondelez International. Milka chocolate is nowadays produced mostly in Lörrach (Germany) with additional factories in Bludenz (Austria) for big bars (200g - 400g), Straßburg (France) for chocolate pralines, Bratislava (Slovakia) and Poznań (Poland). By this account it is a German chocolate produced by an US company - and you can see the US influence in the newer varieties (like Milka & Oreo, Milka & Daim, Milka & TUC, as well as other products and brands belonging to Mondelez).
THe color of the packaging varies for Ritter Sport depending on the ngridiants. Liek basic Milk chocolate is light blue. Strawberry Joghurt chocolate is pink, hazelnut is green and so on. :D
You should try Moser Roth chocolate from Aldi. It's an Aldi-exclusive brand and, I checked, also available at Aldi in the US. It's the best German chocolate IMO.
You have to fold half lf the chocolate onto the other side then it opens automatically and you can break pieces inside the packaging without melting the chocolate on your hands. Its very creative design you just have to use it😂
4:50 - smores are strictly USAian, I made them but only because I saw it in movies. Here in Poland if you make food at the fire pit, 98% of the tiume it's going to be sausage
Just FYI, Ritter Sport is so chunky/thick because of the square format, which is pretty much unique to the brand. All other chocolate bars are rectangular, like Hersheys, but still about quite as thick. Standard weight for any chocolate bar is 100 grams, or roughly 3.5 ounces. It also comes in at least a dozen different flavors -- dark, white, with almonds, nuts, raisins, various fillings like a mint or yogurt cream, or seasonal varieties, like cinnamon, say, for Chistmas. (My personal favorite is "dark milk" -- milk chocolate with a higher cocoa content, so not quite as sweet.) Ritter Sport is also considered very run-of-the-mill as chocolate goes; okay, but not top of the line -- and a bar is usually around $1.50.
I'm from Italy and we have easter bunnies too the most popular is from the Lindt brand which have factories all over Europe 🇪🇺...chocolate here in Europe is great❤
RITTER SPORT: when I was a child there were "instructional advertisements" on TV on how to open the packaging... the name "SPORT" in the chocolate indicate that you can always close the packaging, even when you're doing "sports" what you've TORPED OFF is the marking where you break the chocolate and bend it to open the package. You can actually close this "lip" again, it stays closed by itself.
You should try Lindt's bunny. It's selling for Easter, but the same chocolate have small bears, which is normally product by whole year in the shops. It's really fine product, not a wax like. One of my favourite brand of chocolate products- Lindt, still very popular, but quality is high.
You have to break it in the middle. The size is actually chosen (by co-founder, the wife Clara Ritter of the founder) to fit in a sports jacket. Their slogan was (German "Quadratisch. Praktisch. Gut.") which means literally translated Square, practical, good. The smoothness comes with the cacao butter used in the (real) chocolate manufacturing. Most likely similar to the Milka you have (the name means milk and chocolate). Downside is that it melts quicker and sugar and fat flackes appear as stains if it gets older. Its still eatable and not spoiled but it doesnt look nice. The most famous chocolate easter bunnies are from Lindt (which is a Swiss brand). Their easter bunny is (as far as Im aware) the most famous. They have a golden wrapping and the bunny has a red collar with a small bell.
You open Ritter Sport by breaking the bar in its packaging into two pieces at the marked point.
What did I just watched?
Spotted the German! "You are doing it wrong." 😅
👍👏
@@Simplicity4711gotta honour German engeniered packages 😊
Lol beat me to it 🤣
PLEASE google how to open a Ritter Sport chocolate bar, that was a bit painful to watch lol
i skipped to the comments for that part. didnt want to watch that
He doesn't read the comments anyway.
triggerd u that much?
Why is that even a thing? It is painful to read. Like, a beer from a proper glass, yes, that is a thing, but how to open a chocolate? Bro... Are we living in an advertisement clip or what?
It was foreseen in his previous video he would commit this crime of ignorance. And the prophets did not fail 😂
Me:
- waiting until he opens the Ritter Sport
- he opened it - as expected - the wrong way
- scrolled the comments to find the hint
- found it at first place 😂
you nailed it!! 😁
😂😂
exactly my journey
considering he also struggles opening the hershey's bar I am not surprised
me too lol
4:45 we don’t make s’mores… at least not that I know of. There’s probably not even a lot of people in Germany that know what that is. When we’re having a fire, we make „Stockbrot“ that’s bread dough on a stick, grilled over the fire. It’s awesome.
You’re right I‘ve never heard of it! But I think I have seen it somewhere before! 🤔 Maybe on TV?!
the only thing i remember from my childhood in germany thats anywhere "close ish" to smores, would be chocolate teacake (schaumkuss/schokokuss) sandwiched between 2 bread buns ^^
@@Eryniell Oh yes, that’s very delicious! 😋
Some do smores, had them with lepniz keksen … but stockbrot is the probably one of the most famous campfire snacks , but marshmallos got popular as well in the last 2 decades. For me, i had them more often than stockbrot (still i prefer stockbrot)
@@philipplippe3607 I had Stockbrot only two times and I never had S‘Mores. Would you recommend it? 😃
3:15 That's how I figured you'd try opening the RItter Sport packaging. No one seems to read the instructions on the back of the package. You're supposed to bend the one row designated by the line that says "Break open here". Sometimes it helps to read.
omg I never knew there were instructions printed on. I guess as Germans we are just born with this sacred knowledge.
Quadratisch. Praktisch. Gut.
Du bist ü40, oder?😂
Ich glaube mich daran zu erinnern, dass es die schon in den 70igern gab. Ja, ich bin alt.
@@Winona493
Also, ich bin u30 und ich kenne den Slogan auch.
Man muss nicht Ü40 sein, um das zu kennen
You don't even need to be German to know this.
Greetings from Ukraine!
I would not call it "finest"...but definately it is one of the most popular.
And its most certainly far from the worst🙃
Definitely
Yes. Bit hard though by consistency. Could ne a bit more sift and jektung easier
Isn't Milka more popular
@@annasannanas2044 Milka is actually the most popular chocolate in Germany with 35.4%. It is followed by Lindt (10.3%) and Ritter Sport (7.8%). However, the most “German” in geographical terms is still Ritter Sport.
American chocolate tastes sour in comparison to european chocolate because of butyric acid. Butyric acid can be found in human vomit.
This substance was added to the chocolate recipe by Hershey's in the early 1900s to slow down the rotting process of the milk part in the chocolate.
Hershey's chocolate itself was part of the standard food ration for soldiers in WW2 (called "D Ration Bar" at this time) and many soldiers got used to the taste and after the war they wanted more of that "sour" chocolate. That's why it became the standard in US.
Butyric acid is not used in Europe. They use other ingredients to stabilize the milk.
Ah that's why the Hershey's in Europe tasted oke compared to the one I ate from the US
Got it, thanks 👍
Not really to slow down the rotting process as having a "processed milk" as ingredient, product using "fresh milk" had to have very short shelf life by law. Hershey's just provided longer shelf life by changing ingredient.
American Chocolate???? 🤔
You mean USA chocolate!!
América is a continent with 35 different countries!
In the other countries in the American continent, you'll find the finest of The finest in chocolate! 😎
But yeah... USA chocolate is 🤮
@@Stephstar80 It IS american chocolate. Dont dare to say european chocolate. For me there are 2 american contients not one. And USA is just an Akronym for United States of AMERICA. So hence america the country. No one is calling my country BRD. Or in englisch FRG.
When the first 3 ingredients of your chocolate are sugar, milk and cocoa butter...
And cocoa is even further away...
Not a good sign.
Go try some 75% black chocolate. That s where you ll taste cocoa.
"I actually voted for ..." then suddenly realized if he tells who he voted for, maybe half of his viewers will stop watching his videos 😂
I was actually waiting for him to continue the topic.
I thought he meant kamala because of the blue packaging
@Emmentaler I thought so aswell, but I guess we never know 😂
@@Emmentaler I feel like he is a Trump supporter.
When he reacted to a funny trump video he said trump would be a sad choice @@YurinanAcquiline
Now try Belgian Chocolate ie. Leonidas - It's in another world.
Or Godiva, Neuhaus...high quality chocolate
Ritter Sport comes in all colours. :) It depends on the flavour. For example, the one with Yogurt is white, the one with cornflakes is yellow, marzipan is red and so on.
In my mind I instantly had five more combinations of flavour and color 😅
Real German kid 😂😂
@trishtrash6754 and they create more every day. There is one with smarties?? Pistachio? Sweet and salty? I feel oooold 😂
There are regular sorts (milk chocolate, with hazelnuts, etc) as well as seasonals like for christmas season, summer season and so on. All in all you probably get more than 20 sorts all the time.
I love the marzipan and dark chocolate one the sweetness of the filling is perfectly balanced by the bitter dark chocolate coating. I had a lemon and white chocolate one once but never found it again. It was perfection the normally overly sweet white chocolate enhanced by little crystals of sharp lemon flavour.
@@NiersFloater I know........ But I often only see the regular flavours in my supermarkets, and rarely the special editions. That's why I'm simply surprised at what other varieties are now available.
the 'sport' naming and the square shape comes from its origin. It was a customary for many spectators to sports events in Germany to have chocolate as a snack. The traditional rectangular shape would poke out of men's jacket pocket, also foil packaging wasn't ideal when one wanted to re-wrap up the left over. Hence the square shape and resealable packaging, that fits in a jacket pocket neatly and with less chance it soiling inside the pocket.
exactly :) Thank you for spreading the knowledge...
The smokes in the socks and the chocolate in the jersey pocket
Smart guy ,clever design and marketing besides being good chocolate .
I've heard it was for the athletes, as an energy boost. the pocket thing is what I've heard, too.
The package was not resealable from the beginning. There was no real difference from other brands. I still remember when the new package was introduced, which you open by breaking off a row. That was in the 70's. The wrapping was still not made of plastic.
Its ridiculous how much I'm excited to watch you try european/ german products😂 please continue with these videos!
Edit: Yes we have Easter Bunnies (and Santas) but many different brands make them. There's Lindt, Milka, Noname brands,...
Also, if you need suggestions on what to try, i have MANY!😂
Sameee
He even had a picture of a Lindt bunny on the first row on his google search in the video. :D
@@Miessa1989It made me (as a Swiss person) a bit sad when he roasted chocolate bunnies and had a golden Lindt bunny on his screen. But we have to admit: beside the fancy ones (and the golden one) most chocolate bunnies are (in Switzerland for someone who has eaten Swiss chocolate for his whole life) very underwhelming.
@@timberwolf7213 The Lindt golden bunny has too thick chocolate. So you get even more lower class chocolate per piece. Not a fan - as a Swiss.
Your first reaction to Ritter Sport just being wow, was fantastic!
7:25 I love his looking down to the chocolate like: How am I going to move to Europe to get more of this chocolate for ever!!! 🤣🤩
Even in Germany it's a bit of an odd design, but it makes sense, too. Ritter gives all of its different chocolates a unique color for the packaging. That makes them really easy to identify and also makes for a pretty display on the shelves.
If you know the reason behind that design, it isn't odd at all.
@@pdeissler7911 Compared to other chocolate packaging it is, though. It very much stands out.
@brei2670 You are totally right but because of the fact that the chocolate bar should fit into the pocket of a sports jacket it's literally perfect.
@@pdeissler7911 I didn't know that, but I dunno about perfect. Sounds like a weird marketing idea to connect chocolate and sports... You wanna be healthy and fit? I'd say keep the chocolate out of your sports jacket. I had no idea why it was called Sport, either. It's possible that I've seen old commercials when they were still making it a selling point, but I don't have a good memory when it comes to commercials.
@brei2670 The form was designed in the 1912s when Gentleman were wearing Sport Jackets while watching an event in the stadion.
11:08 Easter Bunny - "Is that an American thing?"
Lindt Goldhase literally in CENTER of the screen! 🤣🤣🤣
Right, lol 😂😂😂 Lindt bunnies are great. Love them. Thought, they are the same as the Santa ones. 😅
@@avi.chan23 living in Switzerland, I know Lindt very well. But its so disgusting when you buy it outside of Switzerland. The quality of Lindt is just crap in other countries. Espcially Lindor, I never buy Lindor outside of Switzerland.
Milka also make easter Bunny's
@@schroter09 your mom is dressed like one
Also in Germany ?@@timurkral3781
oh god the way you opened the Ritter sport 😂🙈 pure torture
It really did hurt watching it 😖
You need to try „Zartbitter Schokolade“, it’s really dark chocolate, like 70% cocoa
I think he mentioned not liking bitter chocolate, but something a little darker would probably still be fine. He picked the lightest you can get after literal white chocolate.
🤮 😂
Try swiss chocolate like Lindt Chocolate! Buy one from america and from Switzerland and see if theres a difference, as a swiss i have been told that swiss chocolate tastes different in america too
when you "WOW" on ritter sport, you should try Lindt Lindor; that's another level. It is kind of premium chocolate. Still not as premium as belgian chocolate, because this is another universe.
About the easter bunnies: yes, we have them. You can get them in cheap version (still not near to wax taste) or from Milka, Lindt and other companies I can't remember now.
Absolut überbewertet
1. Lindt is Swiss, not German. 2. If you love Lindor (I do too), try the Aldi Eigenmarke, schmeckt fast genauso! 😊
My personal favourite is Feodora.
Lindt find ich eher durchschnittlich
Can you please give me a tip on Belgium chocolates?
Next Easter, buy the Lindt Gold Bunny with the bell! THAT’S the real deal, Swiss milk chocolate!
Lindt tastes awful. Way overrated
There are also Santas with a bell on the belt from Lindt. No reason to wait half a year...
I wanted to comment as well, he tries German chocolate, and starts with what I would consider almost the worst stuff you can get here.
And then compared to all the other ones, let us not even start with Belgian or Swiss chocolate.
i was thinking: "if he likes Ritter Sport so much, he will be blown away if he tastes real chocolate" =D
Exactly my thoughts: next time try real chocolate. 😂
To open a Ritter Sport, "You have to break it in half", or better "break it at the line, where you saw the opening on the back" 😊 !
nerd
Oh, shut up! I eat it how i want it
He said he disliked the packaging and didnt even understand it :')
1/4 to 3/4 is the breaking point...lol
Einfach ein ja 😂
Hersheys have tried to lauch here in Aus a couple of times over the years and have always pretty much completely failed. The most common description you hear (and I'd agree) is that it tastes like sweet dirt. We mostly have Cadbury (originally English I think) and Lindt/Lindor (Swiss - which I think is one of the best chocolates in the world) but we do have a wide selection of other European etc chocalate too, including Ritter, and a couple of localish brands
Oh boy, that was wonderful. As a German, being used to eat Ritter Sport for decades now, the way he opened the package was so hilarious. I always thought the package design was self explanatory. This was the equivalent of opening a can of Coke with a power drill instead of just pulling the lid.
Ritter Sport introduced by the founder Ritter decided in the 1930's to make a chocolate bar that would fit into a sport jacket pocket without breaking so he made it into a square shape easily pocketable .
Hence the perfect square shape of the chocolate .
† Frau Ritter 😱
Nice information 👍
Europeans don't really do smores, partially because we don't specifically have graham crackers and it's also just not very known. I grew up just roasting marshmellow above the fire and then you just eat the marshmallow. No chocolate or graham crackers. I've also made bread on a stick above a fire, which is pretty awesome
Digestives is the european version which is much older and was the inspiration for graham crackers
@ ohh it didn’t know, thanks for the info! I thought graham crackers would be more of a ‘cracker’ as the name says, but digestive with chocolate and marshmallow sounds pretty good 😋
the package is light blue because that is just how the brand is communicating its different flavours; Every single flavour has its own color, so you can easily tell which one of them you want to grab in the super market (eg milk = light blue, nougat = marine blue, cornflakes = yellow...)
I'd say it is more due their mix-packs, mainly Ritter Sport Minis, so you know which one to pick from the box.
@@wurgel1 pretty sure the coloring came before they created the mini versions.
Ingenious packaging , clever marketing of an already very good chocolate no wonder it's so popular
in Germany and many other European countries !
9:07 "This feels a little bit more - fake."😃😆😅😂🤣😂😂🤣😂🤣
10:54 Yes there are chocolate easter bunnies in Germany. There also are chocolate Santas (and even chocolate Krampus, the latter one is a little bit more difficult to find but the one made by Milka is by far my favorite) :D
These golden Chocolate Lindt Easter Bunnies are incredible, I love them. So yes, we do have them as well
Yes, it's very common in Germany too, but Lindt & Sprüngli is swiss. 😉
They are very tasty, but they are very expensive
Lindt is one of the very few chocolate brands I/my food intolerance can stomach.
not completely, but a lot better than the rest.
Absolutely, love them
I'm from France and I discovered Ritter Sport when I was an exchange student in Germany. It's delicious ! Especially the fruits/nuts one, I often pick one when I come across them.
I was actually disappointed when he picked the boring one.
@@teliph3U It's still good personally I lover Ritter Sport mit Keks , Ritter Sport mit Traube and Nusse .
Lecker !
@@gregorygant4242 Keks is great, and hazelnut in any chocolate is my absolute favorite. However, Ritter Sport in general is quite expensive. I get bio bitter chocolate from DM for about 2/3 the price. I have no idea how Ritter Sport is able to compete with that.
@@teliph3U honestly me too. But from the other side... Plain basic flavour is kinda great when you want to try a new brand
Tipp: if you want to write ü for Nüsse bur dont have it on your keyboard, write ue instead; "Nuesse"
you really have to try the more fancy ritter sports ... like "white crisp" , "grape & hazelnut" or "rum, grape & hazelnut"
Grandfathers loves the "fancy" "rum, grape & hazelnut" 😂
Raisin, not grape 😊
@@njm1971nyc Listen, I was about to make the same comment, then it hit me - raisins are ... dried grapes. So baumstamp is not wrong. And it does not say Rum-Rosine-Nuss - it says Rum-Traube-Nuss ... So that was a direct translation of the name. Don't have a go at baumstamp for this, complain to Ritter Sport
salted almond is one of my favorites
Definitely. They have some great sorts.
Yes, we have easter bunnies as well, and over here (Belgium) there is afcourse a big difference between bunnies from a real chocolatier or from a retailchain... ofcourse the price difference is just a big
Belgian choccy is the best IMO, we get Ritter Sport here in the UK, its ok but not always my first choice, when the sell by date gets down to two months left it gets discounted in my local store, if there is any left when there is one month left they practically give it away.
Hi, Ryan! The first chocolate Easter bunnies🐇 were produced in Germany in the 19th century. Historical reports suggest that the chocolate Easter bunny first appeared in Germany in the 1830s. At this time, chocolate figures were becoming increasingly popular as Easter decorations and gifts, especially in connection with the custom of the Easter bunny bringing coloured eggs to children.😀
I would say Rittersport and Milka are the standard chocolate you get as a German for a medium price. It's a really good Chocolate bar for it's price. We also have worse Chocolate from our Discounters own brand and obviously more expensive ones (Lindt or even more expensive ones). I personally prefer Milka and I think most Germans do. Oh and please next time try to not Chew at least 1 piece of chocolate. It enhances the flavour even more if you just let it melt.
I am not a Milka fan, it leaves an acidic after taste, a very slight burn in my mouth. And I do like Moser Roth, the Aldi brand. They are good chocolate! Astonishingly good - because Storck was not the best chocolate producer and they are made by Storck. But the Moser Roth line is just good. There are other own brands I would not go for, where you are perfectly right. But Moser Roth? Not so much.
Lindt ist aus der Schweiz, Deutschland hat nicht wirklich gute Schokolade😂
@@franhunne8929 Would second this on both counts. Moser Roth is really good. Ritter is ok. Milka... definitely not a fan despite its popularity.
@@bushcraftadventurebrothers1190 Hachez ist sehr gut :)
Aldi´s Moser-Roth is really good imo. My dad liked Alpia.
3:18 First mistake: You opened our Ritter Sport totally incorrect :-D Just break it in half! Along the seam line of the packaging. There ya go!
Beginner
not pouring beer correctly, not opening ritter sport correctly..
@@palanin7885 Lets cut him a break and not be too "german" on him :-)
I mean, not really a "mistake" but instead just way easier to open it that way.
😂😂I haven't eaten one in a while, if I ever do buy chocolate its more like Kinder or Milka but I never knew you have to open a specific way
maybe you should try choco easterbunnys from Lindt, or Lindt chocolate in general. thats the good stuff
It would be interesting for me if you could also tell the prices of the products.
For example, a "Ritter Sport Vollmilch" would cost about €1.40 in Germany (about €0.60 - €1.00 when it's on offer).
If you buy the chocolate Bunnys and Santas from Milka, Kinder oder Lindt, they are actually really good! And of course we habe them here 🇩🇪 And yeah, please just break Ritter Sport in the middle. They have a patent on that Thing 😂
Lindt is by far better than Milka.
@@MiaMerkur true
Lindt is Swiss, so was Milka originally and Kinder is Italian.
Ritter Sport needs to be broken in the top quarter. And as eater of preferable dark chocolate I prefer the darkest from Ritter Sport.
The best are St Nikolaus and Krampus from Milka bc they really look like Nikolaus and Krampus not Santa
10:54 "do you guys have chocolate easter bunnies?" And literally one of the first row of pictures he pulls up in the google search shows a Lindt Easter Bunny :D
Lindt isn’t german!
@@Julie-Patchouli I know? it's Swiss.
I assumed "you guys" meant europeans in general.
@@Julie-PatchouliYou can still buy it in germany though.
Marabou from Sweden (orig. Norway), Fazer from Finland, Kalev from Estonia... all delicious. Not to mention Lindt (Swiss) and the quality of Belgium chocolate. One particularly good Milka chocolate was a special edition with coconut, I think it was called Champiolada coconut or smthing.
2 particularly good Milka chocolates were:
1) a special xmas edition and
2) with roasted almonds
I heard, Lindt tastes in the US much worse than in CH. Actually it is already different between CH and DE…
@@The12th_they probably put butyric acid in the American version cry😢
I miss Fazer chocolate bonbons with Finlandia filling.
Please try "Die Gute Schokolade". It's a not all too expensive fair trade product that also tastes very good.
I had a good laugh watching you struggle with the Ritter Sport package. Just break it in two along the marked line, and the package will open. Btw... if you get the chance, try Ritter Sport joghurt! In my opinion, brilliant! Greetings from Slovenia
3:36 triggerd crazy as a german
Same😅 why does he open it that weird ? 😂
100%
Yes, so hard.
For me Rittersport is the perfect spot between affordable and quality. They usually also have chocolate without palm oil.
But personally, I dislike Milka a lot. It just tastes too sweet and fatty, overpowering all properties of what makes chocolate good. Aaand they use a lot of palm oil on top.
When did we reached the point where we hate plam oil but not the cocoa which is also from rain forests and child labor etc. It's so funny how we alwas choose the most easy things to hate and ignore everything which is too tasty or too affordable to hate. "Everybody look how morale I am eating chocolate but critiizing palm oil!! 😊And check out this fancy eco-friendly tote bag I carry my plastic trash around in!"
@@vomm roughly 15-20 years ago
Mondelez spoiled Milka completely, they introduced a new recipe in the quest for maximum profit. It was a great Swiss chocolate fifty years ago.. 😊
@@mick-berry5331 Thank you! I don’t like it anymore. I thought it was me, but it’s the chocolate!
@@vommthere are other good brands of chocolate even sold at Aldi that is fair trade certified organic chocolate, it's a little more expensive per bar but I absolutely prefer it over Rittersport or milka since it's not only with out palm oil but also responsible cultivation of cocoa and no child labor 😊
Hey Ryan, nice to see you eating Ritter Sport (spell it like it was written shport) . It comes from Waldenbuch, my neighbor town. So for me it is local „food“😂 and I always like things that come from my local area. When I made the direct confrontation between Ritter Sport and Milka, I had to say Ritter is the more chocolate intensive taste, Milka the more buttery one. I prefer the more chocolate taste. My favorite chocolate is Toblerone, originally maybe by Tobler, a Swiss Brand, but now from Mondelez, but still so good! Favorite Easter Bunnie is the golden one from Lindt, also Swiss Brand. Hope to see you trying these😍 Greetings from Filderstadt/Stuttgart/Germany
We do have campfires with marshmallows and stockbread.
RitterSport and Milka are good and very popular chocolate brands, one who is a bit better is chocolate from Lindt. Or if you like it, Lübecker Marzipan from Niederegger (it's not everyones taste).
And the packaging of RitterSport opens easily if you crack it in half up to the front, the back will open then by itself.
One thing you should try, which is very popular in Germany, especially in the winter, is a chocolate fountain, where you throw your favourite chocolate in, let it melt and run like a fountain; there you can dip fruits or cheese or vegetables or if you like more chocolate in, it's fun especially for kids and delicious if you have a sweet tooth.
It's a shame Trump got in, now that Imported Chocolate is going up 200%. Anyway, I am pleased you find European Chocolate while it's affordable.
About the chocolate Easter Bunny:
There's an ongoing annual joke in Germany, that the chocolate easter bunnies are made from the remains of unsold chocolate christmas santa clauses 😁
Fun fact: hersheys had some stuff in their chocolate production that gives the tiniest hint of a vomity flavour. It isn't really noticable though. But when they found another way of production and left the vomity stuff out, people protested there was something missing in their chocolate so they put it back in. But when non americans try hersheys they subconsciously taste vomit and therefore don't like it.
😂
Yuckety YUCK
Can confirm Hershey's just tastes like slighty OFF. I can't really explain it, it had a slightly sour (not bitter but sour) taste to it and also tasted quite chemical. Like it was a chocolate for sure and it tasted like actual chocolate, just with a weird little twist to it. And also yes Hershey's doesn't melt in your mouth like Rittersport or milka does. It does melt but it's not very smooth - more like a bitter chocolate that takes longer to melt in your mouth.
Well, in high concentrations butyric acid (Buttersäure) smells (and I guess tastes) like vomit, but in small concentrations it just kinda gives it some tangy, interesting flavor. Sounds funny to say sth like "americans like vomit flavor in their chocolate", but its not really accurate.
not noticable? well, then I am very sensitive to this. I had to get it out of my mouth as fast as possible, when I tried it … and I did not even know that it was amarican chocolate … let alone hersheys. For me it was really disgusting.
Milka was originally a Swiss brand, but it now belongs to the American company Mondelez International, Inc.
As does Suchard too... so sad
The first Milka was produced in Lörach (Germany), dont knpoe why the swiss founder (Suchard) produced in Germany
Is that why it has gotten so bad some years ago? I no longer buy Milka at all.
@@steemlenn8797 Yes!
I used to like milke, now i know why i dont anymore
a couple of unrelated fun facts:
1. Only Ritter chocolate has this square shape. It's their signature. At the company headquarters, the family Ritter has an art museum, where they collect all kinds of art that is related to squares. Very intersting.
2. When I was at university, we once had a lecture by an expert from Milka (the other very wide-spread German brand) about "The crystallization of chocolate" in which he passed around all kinds of samples of how chocolate tastes, when you cool it too slow or too fast... I think I ate two full packages of chocolate in that one lecture 🙂
3. When I was an exchange student in the rural US in 94/95 I really didn't like Hersheys, but that was all there was to be had there. But then my highschool choir did a fundraiser selling chocolate bars and those tasted actually quite good. We each should sell like 100 bars for a dollar each. So I got permission from my parents to invest 100 bucks in chocolate. The next morning in school, everyone was comparing "How many have you sold already?" "Five" or "Eight". Then they asked me and I said "All of them". "All of them? Who did you sell it to?" "Myself!" :-D Anyway, that stash lasted almost all year. I guess I should have bought some additional bars from my friends ;-)
Milka is NOT a german brand! Read Wikipedia
The way you say hello at the beginning is quite strange. German is actually a very melodic language. The hard-sounding syllables like CH don't occur in Hallo. 🙂
The mouthfeel you experience with Rittersport chocolate probably comes from a processing step that is often done with chocolate here it's called “conching”, where melted chocolate is slowly stirred for hours over and over in large pots, which later ensures that the chocolate is slightly buttery in the mouth, as you say, and melts smoothly. I'm not sure if this is also done with American chocolate.
Damn next german memes episode gonna be a roast
The Ritter Sport has a special way to open it. The bar is 4x4. You lay the hands on each side. The white overlap dividing right and left side between your palms. Fingers on the middle slit and now press. The bar break in the middle, and opens the foil at the overlapping part.
We have LOTS of Easter bunnies here in Aus, and some are crap! Just a heads up, on the page of Easter bunnies you pulled up the one in gold foil with a red ribbon is Lindt and they're fantastic (and twice the price of course, but well worth it!)
We do have Easter Bunnies. But the best ones are usually made by Lindt.
(And yes, we do eat marshmallows, usually on our beaches on a campfire. In France anyway.)
Comparing Ritter Sport and Hershey’s was a good idea, I think. Both are popular brands, while in terms of quality they’re considered average or a little above average in their respective countries.
Ritter Sport is the only brand that sells their chocolate in this shape and they’ve got a patent on the shape. Milka sued them for it, but lost.
There’s also a very neat Ritter Sport museum owned by the family, with one part history of the brand and production info, where there are nice gimmicks everywhere like little trucks that come out of a miniature factory to bring kids small chocolates to try. And then there’s a beautiful art exhibition with Mrs Ritter’s private collection of modern art and changing themes, all dedicated to squares and other geometric shapes. The restaurant has delicious things, too, with their chocolate incorporated in the recipes…
To everyone nearby, I recommend a visit in Waldenbuch, Baden-Württemberg, Germany!
There is good easter bunny choclate here arround as well, and you see it at about 11:20 on the google search. Check out the Lindt Easter Bunny. (the golden one with the red band arround its neck and usually a little bell)
Yeah, someone needs to send Ryan a Lindt Easter bunny to compare with the US ones!
@@fallyoverguy Where could we send him goods and food. ?
Fun fact : the first Ritter Sport chocolate was produced in Bad Cannstatt, located in Stuttgart. That's where I grew up, and my school was literally next to the old ritter sports shop 😅
If you'd like to try some more german chocolate, you might look for Hachez. It's a traditional chocolate brand from Bremen in Northern Germany, deemed a bit more high-class than Ritter Sport. Pretty tasty.
You should try Chocolate from Elly Seidl once. Its my old workplace, they mix different kinds of chocolate together to get a unique taste and I love it ^^
If you like smooth and melty, try Milka Noisette. It tastes like pralinees. My favourite of the regular supermarket brands.
11:10 the 6. one ,the easter bunny in gold package with the red band and a bell on it, is from the "Lindt" Brand and quite good
Another chocolates to try:
- Marabou
- Toms Gold Caramels
- Toms Holly Bar
- Toms Yankee Bar
- Toblerone
- Anton Berg Marzipan
- Kinder eggs
- Twix
- Merci
- Ferrero Rocher
- Fazer Dumle
- Cloetta Mini-Muh
Sorry, but kinder eggs are banned. Stupid american law, to prevent children from choking on the capsule. But if the capsule sticks out of the choclate (meaning the choclet is melted on/fused to the plastic) then it is ok...
Marabou ❤ really good swedish chocolate
They have a type of Kinder eggs that don't have the toy inside. (It's just included in the package.)
They also have Kinder Bueno and, recently, Kinder Maxi.
They have Toblerone original, and very occasionally you can find a Toblerone white or dark chocolate.
Twix, I believe, is owned by American Mars corporation, so you can definitely find that.
Other good chocolates are Freia Kvikk Lunsj (compare side by side with KitKat), and Nidar Stratos, both Norwegian. Freia NonStop and Nidar Smash are also good choices.
(Sorry, I seem to be biased as a half Norwegian, lol. I promise my most favourite chocolates ever are Anton Berg marzipan eggs and white Toblerone.)
Marabou and Milka are the same
We have something similar to s'mores, we put chocolate marshmallows (Schokoküsse) in bread rolls like "Kaisersemmel", it's pretty similar to what you do at the campfire just without the camp fire.
Milka really isn't Swiss chocolate. It was originally a Swiss brand by suchard but has been produced in Lörrach Germany since 1901.
It is now Merican company Mondelez that owns it. Mondelez also owns…
Belvita, Chips Ahoy!, Oreo, Ritz, TUC, Triscuit, Nabisco, LU, Sour Patch Kids, Barny, and Peek Freans; chocolate brands Milka, Côte d'Or, Toblerone, Cadbury, Green & Black's, Freia, Marabou, and Fry's; gum and cough drop brands Trident, Dentyne, Chiclets, Halls, and Stride; as well as Tate's Bake Shop cookies and powdered beverage brand Tang.
@verttikoo2052 I'm aware. That's unfortunately how the world works. It's the same with breweries and car companies. In the public perception though, Milka is a German brand (not Swiss), just like Bugatti is still an Italian car even though Volkswagen owns it.
@ That is how the world works if we let it.
It is just important that we remember it. Why does Berkshire Hathaway and Warren Buffett allow these chemicals in the USA and not in the European Union 🇪🇺?
Because we in the European Union 🇪🇺 don’t allow it. He allows it in the USA so that he can earn more money out of YOU! Billionaires are no charity.
Funny thing is that they still make good money from us and at least the Fanta tastes closer to an Orange 🍊 than some even more toxic blend of pure chemicals with full of diarrhea causing sweeteners?
Ever have had an explosive diarrhea? What did you drink few hours earlier? Was it Soda Zero?
Sweeteners are so toxic for your body that your body doesn’t even want to extract any important minerals or vitamins. Your body just needs to get rid of everything. It fills your stomach with as much water than possible and then flushes your guts with it and then you are already running to the toilet 🚽
American food is full of sweeteners and the reason why adult diapers are even a thing like Diaper Don.
It is actually hilarious that for the first things you try you managed to pick the 2 things on the German market which are to be consumed/opened in a very specific way XD when I saw the Ritter Sport on the thumbnail I immediately thought oh my good the comments are going to be so annoying...
Don't let it get to you, your videos are great, your enthusiasm is a pleasure to watch. I really hope you manage to get over here one day. You have a huge community ready to show you the ins and outs of Germany.
The main difference between American chocolate and European chocolate is the way milk is added to the mixture. In the U.S., it is often in the form of butric acid, while in Europe, it's milk powder.
He should look into why American chocolate is different in the process (just don’t get over the acid fact…I mean…baby vomit?) 😂
Butyric acid is produced by digestion and, yes, it's present in vomit. It's also responsible for the smell of rancid butter. Its only used in chocolate to stabilise it and to stop the sugar crystallising, giving a longer shelf life. Personally, I'd rather take my chances and not have it!
The secret for a good chocolate is how fine you grind the cacao beans.
The Swiss and Belgians are masters at this , Italians and Germans are pretty good too.
By the way MILKA is short for MILk n’ KAkao, we spell it with K over here ;-)
not really, i dont like belgium chocolate, because its too much sugar in it and you taste it too sweet. Swiss and German chocolates are my favorites.
Ritter also have a lot of different flavors to try. They have some wild combos too.
Ritter Sport is a very well choclate but Lindt&Sprüngli (it is from switz) is even better, it kind of melts in your mouth is maximal smooth and tastes very smooth but full of flavour but the original flavour nothing added.
Actually smores arent a thing here. We do more savoury stuff and dough on a stick (Stockbrot) over a bonfire
Person of culture ^
We have choclate Easter bunnys, often they are no name brands and not super good, but theres good ones by brands like milka and lindt
You need to try Lindt or toblerone
Toblerone is horrible
@@Terra_Incognita201
Not horrible, special.
Toblerone is like Liquorice or Jaffa Cake, either you love it or you hate it. 😉
Its a square in this size because in former days it fittet in the sports shirt pockets. Thats also why its named Ritter (family name) SPORT.
Regarding the design: every taste has its own color. So by the bright blue color I already knew, it would be alpine milk.
And: you are right. Regarding the 100gr. bars Ritter overtook Milka a couple of years ago.
Ritter translates to „Knight“ which is a common family name in both of our countries. In the fifties men going to a sports event, often wore everyday clothes. That means they often wore jackets shirts, ties, (suite and tie) and hats, which nowadays you would go to your office job with. Now these jackets usually have shallow pockets. All chocolate bars at the time were packed in the rectangle fomat (like the Hershey‘s bar) and also they were wrapped in aluminium foil wrapper and then in paper. Quite a mess when you took a chocolate bar as a snack with you to the stadium. And on top of that it would stick out of your pockets. Mr. Ritter‘s inventions were the square format, but a little thicker, so it would fit into the pocket without sticking out. PLUS he did away with the aluminium foil liner, PLUS you open the package by breaking it into two pieces right down the middle, ate some of the chocolate and folded it back together without chocolate crumbs in your pocket. So Ritter Sport is the chocolate of your choice to take to the soccer stadium. In France many people think it is some power bar for when you do workout or the like, but it is just regular chocolate. I must say though that I do get the impression sometimes that it doesn’t melt quite as soon as other chocolate (besides Hershey‘s which seems to be made from bakelite) which would add an advantage when carrying it in the pocket. And this, is _the rest of the story_ 😂 Viele Grüße aus Deutschland 🇩🇪
Please try Lindt ! That’s chocolate 🍫!
Just imagine comparing a Lindt Goldhase with American Easter bunny’s.
but its not from Germany
@@bushcraftadventurebrothers1190 that’s true 🤣 but my favorite
It's fantastic but more expensive than others ,Swiss chocolate .
Lindt is not that good, even objectively speaking based on the ingredients. Try Hachez, it's really good.
I saw a show on TV where people of different countries tried chocolate. Most of them preferred they chocolate they grew up with and liked European chocolate. Nobody except the Americans liked Hershey's.
As a German, I find - like most Europeans - Hershey's "chocolate" disgusting. I favor Swiss and German followed by Belgian chocolate.
A good place to find good and affordable German milk chocolate is ALDI. I usually get the Choceur or the Moser Roth min bars. Both are great. The Moser Roth is smoother and milkier, but slightly more expensive than the Choceur. They have a lot of other types of good chocolate, too.
I am a true chocolate fan and even did the walking chocolate tour in Zurich, Switzerland. You walk through the city to all these amazing chocolatiers and experience next level chocolate art and taste. It's among the best experiences for true chocolate fans.
And yes, Europe has chocolate bunnies, Santas and even advent calendars. They usually have good chocolate. In the US, you can find them at ALDI and other places. By the way, Ikea has also European chocolate. I think it's usually from Sweden, but I've seen advent calendars with German chocolate at Ikea, also.
Thumbs up for Choceur!
Moser Roth ist echt lecker
Moser Roth is great chocolate
every time i see american reaction to chocolate i have to think about how my relatives from america used to send us american chocolate for christmas and how everyone hated the chocolate
and every year it was the same thing either it was mixed with some mint flavor or just bad
and i don't exactly know what happened but they stopped sending any and i'd like to believe that we sent them some back and they realized that ours was better and so they stopped
I am not a chocolate eater but out of curiosity I tried both Feastables and Hershey's 2 or 3 weeks ago and it is horrible, it literally tastes just like sugar and the best comparison is 1€ advent calendar chocolate but it's even worse than that. The most common brand here in germany probably still is Milka, Ritter Sport is more known for their filled chocolate with crispies and stuff like that, I didn't even know that they sell plain milk chocolate. Another popular but pricy one is Lindt (that's actually a Swiss company) and especially their Lindor Pralines (fancy chocolate candies) are really good. If you want the best of the best you probably want to go more towards smaller belgish or swiss brands.
My personal favorite is Milka Alpenvollmich. The highest rated brand is Lindt chocolate over here I would say. They make the best easter bunnies and also Santa shaped chocolate aswell. But Ritter Sport is pretty good too.
In general Germany or probably most of Europe has pretty strict rules about what things can go into food and drinks. Think the US isn‘t regulated as much.
We eat chocolate plain bc it's quality stuff. You don't put it on smores... But we don't eat the whole package, maybe 3 or 4 bits :D
Speal for yourself. There are a lot of people in Germany who might agree with you, and a lot of who don't!
Niemals!
Wenn auf dann weg😂
Depends on the "plain" chocolate.
Milk chocolate is made ti be eaten as is.
Pastry chocolate (50 to 60% cocoa) is made for cooking (as branded😅)
Fine chocolate (70% cocoa and more, up to 95%) are to eat as is, but in small quantity and to enjoy the flavours.
Anything below 50% cocoa (not cocoa butter, but real cocoa) doesn t deserve the label "chocolate". It s more 'chocolate flavoured'.
The Alfred Ritter Company was founded in 1912 by confectioner Alfred Eugen Ritter and his wife Clara. Clara was responsible for marketing and sales, while Alfred managed the production. In 1919 the company moved from Stuttgart-Cannstatt to the small town of Waldenbuch, because they needed larger premises; at this time they sold their chocolate still mostly under the brand "Alrika" (for Alfred Ritter Kannstatt). But in 1932 Clara invented the squared chocolate bar, which did fit exactly into the pocket of the jackets (without any part of the bar sticking out) worn by wealthier people while visiting sporting events - those jackets were also known as "sport jackets". And so the slogan "Quadratisch, praktisch, gut" ("square, handy, good") and the brand "Ritter Sport" became a complete success, even more so during the 1950s and 1960s.
11:12 The Easter Bunny right in the middle of the top row, that in the golden foil with the red collar, that is a German Easter Bunny. This design is copyrighted to Lindt & Sprüngli, a Swiss company with a subsidiary in Aachen, Germany, where those bunnies are produced. The chocolate for those "hollow figures" has another consistency than "normal" chocolate; in most cases they taste not very good also in Germany. But the quality of the Lindt ones is a little bit better than most.
12:25 Milka was a Swiss brand by the Suchard company (which merged in 1970 with Tobler and was the biggest Swiss chocolate producer until its main plant was closed in 1990). In 1982 Suchard was bought by Klaus J. Jacobs, owner of coffee trading house Joh. Jacobs + Co in Bremen, and merged into the Jacobs Suchard AG, which was sold in 1990 to Philip Morris, became in 1993 Kraft Jacobs Suchard and in 2012 part of the US company Mondelez International. Milka chocolate is nowadays produced mostly in Lörrach (Germany) with additional factories in Bludenz (Austria) for big bars (200g - 400g), Straßburg (France) for chocolate pralines, Bratislava (Slovakia) and Poznań (Poland). By this account it is a German chocolate produced by an US company - and you can see the US influence in the newer varieties (like Milka & Oreo, Milka & Daim, Milka & TUC, as well as other products and brands belonging to Mondelez).
America choosing if Plague or Cholera will ruin their country and this dude is here eating german chocolate. I love you man
@@amiigaf4476 Pest is called The Plague in English.
@@mick-berry5331 eh, when i dish out a comment on youtube i dont take literacy too serious but there you go
They literally chose the extra deadly orange form of plague and cholera in one, so let Ryan have his fun as long as he still can.
After hearing that election result, I resorted to comfort eating too, and I don't even live in America.
@@mick-berry5331 And Hest is called The Hague.
(well actually Den Haag, but it didn't work as a joke)
If you need snacks from Germany to compare, feel free to reach out.
Also you open Ritter Sport by breaking it at the fold there, it opens itself 😊
THe color of the packaging varies for Ritter Sport depending on the ngridiants. Liek basic Milk chocolate is light blue. Strawberry Joghurt chocolate is pink, hazelnut is green and so on. :D
You should try Moser Roth chocolate from Aldi. It's an Aldi-exclusive brand and, I checked, also available at Aldi in the US. It's the best German chocolate IMO.
You have to fold half lf the chocolate onto the other side then it opens automatically and you can break pieces inside the packaging without melting the chocolate on your hands. Its very creative design you just have to use it😂
4:50 - smores are strictly USAian, I made them but only because
I saw it in movies. Here in Poland if you make food at the fire pit, 98% of the tiume it's going to be sausage
Just FYI, Ritter Sport is so chunky/thick because of the square format, which is pretty much unique to the brand. All other chocolate bars are rectangular, like Hersheys, but still about quite as thick. Standard weight for any chocolate bar is 100 grams, or roughly 3.5 ounces. It also comes in at least a dozen different flavors -- dark, white, with almonds, nuts, raisins, various fillings like a mint or yogurt cream, or seasonal varieties, like cinnamon, say, for Chistmas. (My personal favorite is "dark milk" -- milk chocolate with a higher cocoa content, so not quite as sweet.)
Ritter Sport is also considered very run-of-the-mill as chocolate goes; okay, but not top of the line -- and a bar is usually around $1.50.
In Germany easter bunny/Santa chocolate from Lindt is amazing.
Ritter Sport has a unique very quick opening option
You can brake it while it is closed at a marked point and it brakes open without fumbling
I'm from Italy and we have easter bunnies too the most popular is from the Lindt brand which have factories all over Europe 🇪🇺...chocolate here in Europe is great❤
And Lindt's bunnys/santas are thicker, most beautiful golden, with a little bell. 🐇
Ferrero like Rocher, Raffaello , Duplo , Kinder Bueno, some of the best chocolates in Europe all originally from Italy.
Forza Italia !
@gregorygant4242 sempre forza Italia 💚🤍❤
RITTER SPORT: when I was a child there were "instructional advertisements" on TV on how to open the packaging...
the name "SPORT" in the chocolate indicate that you can always close the packaging, even when you're doing "sports"
what you've TORPED OFF is the marking where you break the chocolate and bend it to open the package. You can actually close this "lip" again, it stays closed by itself.
You should try Lindt's bunny. It's selling for Easter, but the same chocolate have small bears, which is normally product by whole year in the shops. It's really fine product, not a wax like. One of my favourite brand of chocolate products- Lindt, still very popular, but quality is high.
You have to break it in the middle. The size is actually chosen (by co-founder, the wife Clara Ritter of the founder) to fit in a sports jacket. Their slogan was (German "Quadratisch. Praktisch. Gut.") which means literally translated Square, practical, good.
The smoothness comes with the cacao butter used in the (real) chocolate manufacturing. Most likely similar to the Milka you have (the name means milk and chocolate). Downside is that it melts quicker and sugar and fat flackes appear as stains if it gets older. Its still eatable and not spoiled but it doesnt look nice.
The most famous chocolate easter bunnies are from Lindt (which is a Swiss brand). Their easter bunny is (as far as Im aware) the most famous. They have a golden wrapping and the bunny has a red collar with a small bell.