The first time I encountered it was at an annual polka festival, and the people who were thrilled about it were all heavily intoxicated. It's a lot of fun, but I wouldn't ever have associated it with Germans!
Watching you enjoy the funky chicken makes me happy. I think you should react to German music on UA-cam, if such exists. I watch a lot of folks react to American songs, but I think it'd be cool to learn about your favorite German songs.
It isn't entirely clear how it got the name. Some say the dark chocolate reminds of the dark forest, some say the cherry liquor is the reason, it's made mainly in the black forest, some suggest that the colors and design of the cake looks similar to the traditional garb from the black forest region. But the recipe is less than a century old.
We dont have bounty bars in the US, but we have something packaged like and the same kind of font lettering as bounty called Mounds. The red one is called Almond Joy but its all bounty overseas. No one really likes them either and theyre everywhere
I never had the illusion that the chicken dance was German, but I do love that Germans say Ohrwurm just as I say earworm. Beer cheese is great, though. German chocolate cake is one of the only chocolate cakes I like, regardless of how German it isn't; incidentally, the other is Black Forest cake, which I think actually DOES come aus dem Schwarzwald.
Oh man… the whole town of Frankenmuth, MI is a huge Faux German Bavarian contradiction. When I was in high school someone took the German exchange student Meream and she was traumatized.
Never heard of the German pickle, but I know my mom got a chimney sweep ornaments in Duesseldorf. So after that we always had the chimney sweep in the tree for good luck. Not sure if it's German or not. My family is of German ancestry from the 1700s.
Viennese specifically, from the Hotel Sacher. Linzer torte from further up the Danube (in Linz!) is also excellent, although it’s hard to beat the one-two punch of dark chocolate and apricot jam in the Sacher.
Well Feli did list three German bands that added lyrics and parodies. It's played at festivals all over the country, just not Bierfest. Definitely not German though🙄?
The cheese sauce is an entirely American thing and we all know that. The thing we thought was German was the mustard for dipping. To be fair I have gotten a soft pretzel with mustard to dip it in while I was in Germany, but I was near an American Army garrison so they might have been selling the American stereotype.
One of the biggest reasons I watch reaction channels talk about US culture is to learn more about THEIR cultures and how they differ from US culture, so I will greatly enjoy it if you talk more about German culture!
Things I think of as being German are Beer, sausages, sauerkraut, and potato cakes. Germans also have a reputation of liking rules for things. And sporty cars that go fast on the highway. maybe industrial music? lol Silly stereotypes.
As a matter of fact, the French eat much more sauerkraut than the Germans because it's mainly a thing in the South while it's part of the entire French cuisine. - What is a potato cake?! I guess you confused it with potato salad.
@@AlexTheGerman A potato pancake. There was a company (Knorr) that sold a mix for it. It was labeled "Product of West Germany." I know about the odd German style potato salad. It's served hot, has bacon in it?
As an American of German descent I’ve long held the dream of retiring to the Black Forest, living in a treehouse and making cuckoo clocks. Maybe go looking for some gnomes, hunt for the gingerbread house of Bros. Grimm fame, and drinking lots and lots of bier! Maybe one day…
As someone from Tulsa, Oklahoma, I'm really not surprised that the whole duck/chicken mix up started here. Not having the appropriate duck costume and then saying, "Y'all don't got any duck outfits? Hell, those chicken outfits are close enough" is pretty on brand for an Okie.
😂 My question to you is this; in Germany, when someone sneezes, does one say to the one who sneezed, "gesund heit?" I believe a lieral translation is "Be healthy," in the preterit past tense. People of all backgrounds say "gesund heit." Vielen danke!
Saying "Gesundheit" actually originated from the middle ages around the time when the black plague was going around. It is not completely confirmed but highly likely that people back then said "Gesundheit" not to wish another person health but to wish themselves health bc sneezing was considered one of the earliest symptoms of the plague. This is also the reason why it is considered impolite in higher etiquette, tho most people actually don't know about that and say it to be polite and wish someone else health when they sneeze.
Biggest Oktoberfest outside of Munchen is arguably in Cincinnati OH where she lives (or Kitchener Ontario, or Blumenau Brazil depending on whose numbers you believe).
Germanfest in Milwaukee is amazing. It's 1/10 the size of Cincinnati's Octoberfest, but Cincinnati is not as German a city as Milwaukee. Cincinnati is 20% German ancestry today, Milwaukee is almost double that, and 50 years ago over half of Milwaukee's residents were of German descent. At one point, more than half the counties in the state were majority German ancestry, so one could argue it's the most German influenced state in the union.
@@reaperthemad8731also, Cincinnati has a massive Oktoberfest, and then just a mile or so away across the river in Northern Kentucky they have yet another Oktoberfest in their Mainstrasse German neighborhood at another date
@@notmyproblem88 we also have Goettafest right across the river as well. Not as German focused per se, but based on German American breakfast meat used in all sorts of ways
The chicken dance is a polka, played on an accordion. Americans consider both polkas and accordions to be German. The first time I heard it was at a German wedding.
A German band played a Polka in 1981 at an Octoberfest in Tulsa and the crowd was going to do a "Duck Dance" but could only find a chicken costume and the dance was born.
As a Californian who doesn't drink, I had no idea that adults ever did the chicken dance. Frankly, I thought it was obnoxious and infantilizing when my class was forced to do it in the 1st grade...
@@sluggo206lmao well that’s a lie. Americans literally make buffalo chicken pizza and barbecue pizza with a barbecue sauce base instead of tomato sauce
@@OrysB-po1fy I said most Americans. Buffalo chicken pizza may be a regional thing. I've never heard of barbecue sauce base on pizza, but it's not that much of a stretch because barbecue sauce is basically tomato sauce with vinegar and a sweetener.
@@sluggo206bro papa John’s is a national chain and has a barbecue and buffalo pizza 🤣 You foreigners need to stay where you belong. Domino’s has a buffalo and barbecue pizza too. 🤣 Two national chains in all 50 states have pizza with chicken on it but the foreigner wants to talk about it
In Pennsylvania a marriage isn’t considered official until we dance the chicken dance. And speaking of things that people think belong to one culture but don’t… The Pennsylvania Polka is from California. We have adopted it, however, as our unofficial state anthem.
@timmooney7528 In my 30 years of living in Michigan, I have never done nor have ever heard of anyone doing the chicken dance at a wedding. The last time I did a chicken dance was when I was like 8.
My great-grandmother came to America in 1868. She brought many of the delicious recipes she learned at home. They included German ginger cake, shortened cookies, and homemade saurkraut.
BUT! (as a German northener) I must say that especially the Akkordeon versions of the chicken dance sound a lot like the style of music played at Oktoberfest in Munich or the style of music I connect with Bavarian folklore dance groups. Sorry Bavarians...
In south central Missouri, many Germans settled the area from here all the way to north of St. Louis. They have always been known for their proficiency and excellence. Now, they own most of the vineyards. 😊
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I think The Chicken dance was mostly introduced to Americans by Polka bands mostly doing it at Weddings and it became really popular for awhile. My grandma made German Chocolate cake but she did not make it as a layer cake and usually put walnuts in the frosting. I thought it was made with German cocoa. I have a pickle ornament but I didn't learn about it until the 1990s.
My MIL is from Germany. We always bring her a gift on st Nicholas Day. On Christmas Eve, we have sausage and sauerkraut to represent the German side of the family and gumbo to represent the Cajun side of the family. The potato salad is from both! 😂
I'm not sure why she thinks the "Chicken Dance" is associated with Octoberfest. It is played and done often during it but also at many other parties and gatherings, especially if kids are included. You will here it most often here where community clubs (clubs like Slovak American Club as one example) have community picnics or gatherings then it is often played for the parents to get the kids up and dance to as well as a few other friendly kid songs during the day so the kid feel a part of things too. I've never heard anyone associate that with Germany specifically in any way before. The German Chocolate Cake thing cracks me up every time 😂 It's very true that most American's think that is from Germany... Thanks for leading me to learn about it's origin by the way, I knew it was American but no clue where from or how! As for what I think of as German= Pretzels, good engineering, good beer, Aldi and Trader Joe, and more I can't think of at the moment I'm sure... All things I like I notice.. but I am admittedly biased.
I’m mean…I think our Fauxthethnic of Germans is still closer than what people think of us because at least the pretzel and chicken dance are German things even if we get it a little wrong (unlike pizza with hotdog on it) . Most people know Hitler wasn’t originally German. Sure the German cake thing is off but I feel like that is a little understandable because of the name and I have never ever heard of the Christmas pickle so that seems more like a niche thing for Americans with heavy German heritage over the typical American belief in the Christmas pickle story.
There''s so many mixed cultures, I think we just kinda adopt things and put our own twist to them, like Cinco De Mayo or St. Paddy's Day, FF, crispy tacos, deep dish pizza etc. Mustard on a pretzel just makes a good thing better......lol
@@Roadtrip635 you turned the frikadellenbrötchen into the hamburger, despite not putting any people from Hamburg in the meat. But then goblin pie doesn't contain any goblin and hot dog doesn't contain any dog either.
As a French Canadian, the duck dance is the right name, pretzels is not really a thing here (in my province) as german immigrants represented a minute proportion. As for a "traditional" German cake, the black Forest cake filled with cherry soaked in kirsch (+40% alcohol). What I find hilarious in the USA (as we have kept the artisanal sausage making (Bavarian, Polish, French (blood pudding, white pudding and all others), North African tradition alive), is how they unknowingly but wrongfully named bratwurst (brats for short) knockwurst. Pretty much all their hot-dog Weiner's are named brats even if their are generally made with pork and their spices tend to incorporate 2 or 3 spices (excluding salt and pepper😂).
My family, German on one side and mostly German with a bit of Hungarian on the other, has always celebrated Christmas on Christmas Eve. Sometime after dinner all the kids are rounded up into a separate room where one of the older kids is tasked with reading a Christmas story or keeping the rest of the kids entertained in some other way. With the kids distracted, the adults get all the presents out and place them under the tree. Once all the presents are out, one of the adults rings some sleigh bells as a signal for the kids to come out - a signal that Santa just dropped off the presents and left. The kids race into the living room all wide-eyed at the sudden avalanche of presents under the tree. I was always told that this is how it is done in Germany and I suppose if a German told me that's not true I would be a _little_ disappointed... But even if it isn't a strictly German tradition it's still a fun tradition that my family has always participated in and probably always will.
As a german I would say it is basically true. At least the presents are put under the christmas tree on Christmas Eve. Every family has it's own techniques how to not let the children know they weren't brought by the Weihnachtsmann. ;-) Alternativley you can rent a Santa that brings the presents.
Sauerbraten and spaetzle are German! I make the authentic dishes and bought my spaetzle utensil in Germany. I’ve never seen one in the US. Also Wiener schnitzel is German I believe…Rhine wine and certain beers. Am I correct? Also the Mercedes Benz and another car here that slips my mind.
We have a Pfefferneuse family recipe that is purported to be brought over from Germany. We always bake them for Christmas. When I was visiting Germany in 2008, our guide purchased a bag. They were ok, but awful in comparison to homemade. I was glad to find out that they are actually considered a Christmas cookie.
What is a Braunschweiger? I was born in Braunschweig/Germany. I only know a sausage that's called Braunschweiger Mettwurst. By the way: There is originally no Oktoberfest in Braunschweig. That's a Bavarian thing. But many guys in Northern Germany like it too nowadays.
OMG, I love German Chocolate Cake. Its the cake I usually have for my birthday. Ironically I never thought of it as being German. I was told it used German Chocolate, hence the name, which I guess is close to the truth.
Another myth is that the Germans invented the car or automobile should I say, well now while it is true that Carl Benz created the “modern” day car and was the first to properly put cars out in the market in 1886, it was actually first created by (you are all going to hate me for saying this) the British. The same man who invented the steam locomotive (The train for dum dums who don’t know what I really mean) also invented the first motor car Richard Trevithick’s Puffing Devil in 1803.
A fond memory from my childhood is that , for parties and the like, we would regularly make a German potato salad. It is a hot dish made with sliced potatoes, onions, garlic, vinegar and bacon. Now I wonder if this is actually a German thing or not.
Stock, bacon, oil.vinegar and mustard over hot potatoes is more the southern version. In the north mayo is more common. The west often adds pickles or apple. the north apples and eggs, the east radishes and onions, franconia adds chives. And those are only the versions within germany. There are also czech, slowak, polish, french, and spanish potato salads.
My German American family values being on time. If you aren't a few minutes early, you are almost late. Also my dad's family celebrated St. Nicholas Day (Dec 6) by putting their shoes outside of the bedroom door and St. Nicholas would come and put an orange in one of them during the night and maybe a small gift or some candy.
LOL, I'm an American with German Heritage, but I'd never heard of the pickle tradition, but I think it would be fun. I might try this and see if it takes on.
Woahh 1. Never considered the ‘Chicken Dance’ as German. Thought it was just annoying, honestly 2. I (falsely) assumed vinegary spicy mustard on top of soft pretzels to be German, but not cheese for some reason. I’m not from the Midwest, though 3. I have seen glass pickle ornaments before, but never thought much of them. They make ornaments to look like anything and everything 4. I think most Americans know Hitler was Austrian? That’s what I was taught
Omg when my grandpa passed away in 2004 we got a box of antique Christmas ornaments from the estate and one was a pickle. We were so confused. But it was his so, on the tree it went which led to the amazing holiday line “put your granddaddy’s pickle on the tree”.
Unfortunately, Feli is wrong. The first republic on German soil was not the Weimar Republic but the Mainz Republic under the rule of Napoleon Bonapart. The Mainz Republic is often forgotten when people talk about German republics.
This German girl gets a lot of things wrong. I lived in Germany for years in the early 90's and she knows nothing about what the old timers use to do. She always says, "modern Germans". Then we in America have had German immigrants for probably 200 years. German family traditions passed down over the last 100 years are way oof this woman's radar. I live in the same state as her and she gets American things completely wrong as well. She thinks we run around with check books from the bank. Don't think I have seen a check book since like 1995. I don't watch her videos because it is misinformation.
! like mustard on my pretzels but I don't think of it as particularly German. German Chocolate cake is my favorite cake and I would ask for it on my birthdays.
Something that a lot of Americans think that Germans do that is not correct is yell angrily as they speak. To American ears German language can sound harsh with sharp consonants and difficult to pronounce letter pairings. Couple this with many Germans in American media have been Nazi soldiers, movie bad guys screaming at people in German accents or language. Americans aren't really exposed to much German music, German romance movies, German children's programming to get the normal and often gentle and sweet German side of language. A shame really.
Iv watched a good number of her videos now and i take everything she says with a whole pile of salt. She always talks about american misconceptions about Germany. Then she takes her personal experience with a small number of americans in one area and explains how that is the way all americans are. I spent a couple years working at The Old German Beer Hall, or the Milwaukee Hofbrauhaus. I never heard any of these things! They did have Obatzter cheese spread made with beer but it wasnt runny. It was a thick spread and it was amazing. At their holiday parties i was told to try it on rye bread with raw beef and onions. I am glad i did because it was amazing!
She never says that her experiences apply to the whole US. She doesn't put a disclaimer on every single video, but she has said countless times that she doesn't mean to imply that the things she says are true everywhere in the US. You unfortunately can't make content like that without generalising. In the end, she is talking about things that are common or less common in the US. Not omnipresent in each and every American person's life, but significantly more or significantly less common than in the average German's life.
We just don't have many things to put mustard on, burgers, hot dogs, mix it around in vinegar and make a dressing, cold cut sandwiches, and ... pretzels. That's it for mustard
My grandmother was German. I never heard of the Christmas Pickle OR the Chicken Dance. Here are the things she implied were German: cuckoo clocks, Sauerkraut (of course) and Bratwurst (and all the other 'wursts), Pfeffernüsse, Rye and Pumpernickel bread, THE CHRISTMAS TREE, Santa Klaus, Yule log cake... and HER TEMPER (lol). Things I'm unsure about: Polka, Black Forest Cake, Schnapps, Reisling...
@@matchu.j I guess different schools are different after all. Here we avoided date memorization because it's just trivia you forget or doesn't mean much, and focused on the events and their significance. Through multiple years, so I'm not sure if it was different teachers just happening to be that way, or if there was something more to it, but I agreed with the perspective and kept it even in other classes. (Also I just don't like memorizing numbers)
Remember that any outlook about Americans has to be a generalization. Imagine thinking Berlin defines all countries that even speak German. We have a wide range of outlooks .
There are a lot of germans in the US. we had so many that during the worldwars we put them in internment camps but we never apologized because most people agree it was a good idea since so many were still loyal to germany.
@@nullakjg767The US interned Japanese Americans in WW2. There was little, if any internet of Germans. Anti-German sentiment was strongest during WW1, not so much during WW2. German Americans would Anglicize their names during the first war and would assimilate into the larger American society. For obvious reasons it was far easier for German Americans to do that than Japanese. A lot of the anti German histeria was the result of WW1 propaganda, a lot of which was false.
As native born Texan...I'd like to thank Feli for pronouncing Pecan properly. It's Comanche word that means.....pecan....and THEY pronounce it the way Feli does.
Tornadoes usually don't give more than a few minutes warning. They move at speeds anywhere from 30 to 80 KPH. One of the really dangerous things about them is that their path is unpredictable. A tornado can touch down, move in one direction and then suddenly turn and go another way. Or lift up and touch down somewhere else with no warning.
Regarding stuff that I think is German, but maybe not, I am often inclined to think of food in this regard… Like… Various kinds of sausages…. As far as I know, (authentic) bratwurst 🌭, Nuremberg sausage (weisswurst/pork sausage), Jagerwurst, bockwurst, etc. are German, served along with a little authentic German mustard, sauerkraut, etc. Frankfurters, German hamburger 🍔 (but the emoji is American style..), braunschweiger, etc., yes-German. Canned Vienna sausage, Johnsonville bratwurst, hot dogs 🌭 , hmmm, not so much…. 😁😁😁 Pretty sure sauerkraut is German. Some potato 🥔 salads are more German than others, ya…. Pumpernickel bread 🍞 is pretty darn German. Spätzle is apparently Hungarian, Austrian, Swiss, etc. as well as German, so there’s that…. I associate Cherry 🍒 and apple 🍎 cider, drinks like this, etc. strongly with Germany. (Not just the alcoholic stuff.) Spritzers especially. Definitely spritzers are German. I often think this stuff is German, but a lot of juice companies and types of juices come from Turkey, etc., sure… bramanswanderings.com/2015/09/13/cherry-juice-ii/ A lot of pickled vegetables are not only German, but also Slavic, etc., sure, like pickled beets, pickled asparagus, etc. 🤔🤔 I often associate fresh cherries 🍒 with Germany, but that’s just me…. 😁😁 There’s also those canned Trader Joe’s/Aldi cherries-I think they are actually Italian-Morello cherries. I haven’t seen them for a while over here in the U.S.A. Also some chocolates 🍫, yes. (Werthers? Riesens?) And of course, there are the closely associated Swiss chocolates…. (Lindt, Sprugli, Toblerone…) With cheeses, I just hate cheese 🧀 . 🤪🤪🤪 But yeah, Munster cheese, Quark? cheese, that stuff is German, Limburger is Belgian…. 🤔🤔 Herring and sardines are just kinda Northern European…. 🤪🤪🤪😁😁😁. Lingonberries are Scandinavian. Strudel? Is that German? I’m pretty sure it is…. Cobblers are more English or American of course. Interesting about German chocolate cake not being German.. Pretzels 🥨 are different in Germany, yes… Stroopwaffels…. I think they are Belgian, Dutch, etc. Schnitzel-that is German, but more meaty/light breading there, sure… I know about German music. I was/am a music major. 😁😁😁 Same deal with all the other arts… With clothing, old clocks, etc., the general idea I have is still more from Southern Germany/Switzerland/Austria. In the north they have garden gnomes, elves, etc., sure. 😁😁😁 I think everybody in Germany knows about Santa Claus (yeah, I know the jolly fat man in red is more Dutch in origin). 😁😁😁😁
Chicken dance is Portuguese.. unfortunately. I am Portuguese and its bloody annoying. There is a version that predates the 1950s verner Thomas version. I must have heard 100 versions of this thing..... Make me want to gouge my eyes out. The only thing worse is nagila hava, or its a small world ......Dang.
Unfortunately...ja, I've heard that the chicken dance is German. My German workmates and the military brides and their kids at Carswell Air Force base (it'll NEVER be JRB Fort Worth) we're great representatives of Germany and kept us yank kids honest about, Germany and Britain.
Growing up I would always wonder why "German Chocolate Cake" had coconut on top and why was it even called "German Chocolate Cake" the cake is named after it's creator. In fact the proper name for the cake is "German's Chocolate Cake" the television show Hogan's Hero's unfortunately helped perpetuate the idea that German Chocolate cake is German which is sad because the cake wasn't even created until 1952.
Because post WW2 the American sector of occupied Germany was mostly Bavaria, Americans assumed a lot of Bavarian culture was German culture. It would be like only living in Texas and thinking Texas culture was the same as all American culture.
And again this misrepresentation and outright lie. The American zone included Bavaria, Baden-Württemberg (north), Hesse, Bremen and a sector in Berlin. That's not all Bavaria.
@@Ul.B the zone included bavaria and it is pretty much exclusively bavarian culture that went back with them. where is the representation of the other areas?
@@HappyBeezerStudios That's not really the point, so the question is wrong. Also, you should ask the actual commenter, not me. The point is that the original comment claims that the American zone mainly included Bavaria and ignores the other areas. In addition, these are only supposed traditions from Upper Bavaria. This is only a small part of Bavaria. The Franconians are also lumped in with the Bavarians, which they aren't particularly happy about. Politically, Franconia is part of Bavaria. Bavarian Swabia is also politically part of Bavaria, but let's not start with the traditions or traditional costumes. It's hard to say why the Americans only concentrate on Upper Bavaria, and it's hard to say why they lump everything together. It's probably just another business idea, similar to the tradition of the Christmas pickle. This tradition is unknown in Germany.
The most surprising thing I learned in this video was that the Chicken Dance isn't American. I never once thought it was German, I just figured it was so goofy that it must have originated in America. Edit: ok, nevermind, the most surprising thing was Christmas pickle. I have never once, in my 34 years of life, heard of a Christmas pickle. What even...?
Howdy from Texas. That whole Christmas tree pickle thing is nothing that I've ever even heard about before this video. I've lived in Texas my entire 61 years of my life and it's completely unknown by myself, my family, and anyone that I've ever known here in Texas and we have thousands if not millions of people of German ancestry here in Texas. Myself included. Never even heard of this. So it's probably an isolated regional misconception.
I live near Terre Haute, Indiana. I go to the Oktoberfest every year. I feel the Ofest isn't complete until I've had my brats, sauerkraut, and German potato salad, drink my bucket of bier, and then hear the Chicken Dance at least once!
Chicken Dance - never ever thought German! I hate liquid cheese dip. 😝 Plain. Yum! German pickle ? HAHAHA , Volkswagen beetle is German ! We had one for 17 years!
Gorgeous barmaids with blonde 👱♀️ hair and large pints of beer 🍺 are not German 🇩🇪 nooooooooo! That’s one fantasy gone lmao 🤣 please 🙏 let this be true as well as the Laderhosen ! Are the glasses German 🇩🇪? I got one my girlfriend hates it , says it’s to much 😢
I used to think German people in Pennsylvania brought the tradition of pulling a groundhog out of its den on February 2nd was something they brought from Germany. I did a google search that said it was started in the US because German immigrants were suffering from ennui in the snowy winter months. So to have something to look forward to, they created Groundhog Day. Not sure if it’s true, but it was a fun read.
I've been to Germany so I'm very familiar with the culture there and I don't think it's complicated to grasp. Every girl is a busty blonde wearing a dirndl and carrying 20 litres of beer in one go, an obsessive compulsion to obey rules, no speed limits for cars throughout the country, a slight tendency to invade Poland and a great sense of humour. A couple of examples: Knock knock. Who's there? It doz not matter who's here. Open ze door in ze name of der Furher or ve vill kick it down and come in anyway. Why did the chicken cross the road? It voz only following orders. Oh how I laughed.
You can go to an American pancake restaurant called I - Hop ( International House of Pancakes) and on their Nenu find German potato Pancakes. My younger brother had his friend from Germany visit with him and we took him to I - Hop. When he saw the " German Pancake on the menu. He was very animated and loud denouncing that such a thing even existed in Germany at all. I found it rather amusing myself and messed with him over it for a few gratifying seconds.
The chicken dance is,, in my mind, for drunk people at wedding receptions.
The first time I encountered it was at an annual polka festival, and the people who were thrilled about it were all heavily intoxicated. It's a lot of fun, but I wouldn't ever have associated it with Germans!
The roller rink when I was 12 lol
Watching you enjoy the funky chicken makes me happy. I think you should react to German music on UA-cam, if such exists. I watch a lot of folks react to American songs, but I think it'd be cool to learn about your favorite German songs.
I like to get pretzels with cinnamon sugar on them.
I've heard of Black Forest cake. A dark chocolate cake. Always wondered if it had something to do with the Black Forest in Germany. (I'm sure not)
It isn't entirely clear how it got the name. Some say the dark chocolate reminds of the dark forest, some say the cherry liquor is the reason, it's made mainly in the black forest, some suggest that the colors and design of the cake looks similar to the traditional garb from the black forest region.
But the recipe is less than a century old.
We dont have bounty bars in the US, but we have something packaged like and the same kind of font lettering as bounty called Mounds. The red one is called Almond Joy but its all bounty overseas. No one really likes them either and theyre everywhere
I never heard of the Christmas pickle until I moved to Germany and my kids told me about it. They learned it at school. How funny. 😂
Es gibt keine Weihnachtsgurke in Deutschland
I never had the illusion that the chicken dance was German, but I do love that Germans say Ohrwurm just as I say earworm.
Beer cheese is great, though.
German chocolate cake is one of the only chocolate cakes I like, regardless of how German it isn't; incidentally, the other is Black Forest cake, which I think actually DOES come aus dem Schwarzwald.
Oh man… the whole town of Frankenmuth, MI is a huge Faux German Bavarian contradiction. When I was in high school someone took the German exchange student Meream and she was traumatized.
German Chocolate cake was named after a baker named Samuel German.
Never heard of the German pickle, but I know my mom got a chimney sweep ornaments in Duesseldorf. So after that we always had the chimney sweep in the tree for good luck. Not sure if it's German or not. My family is of German ancestry from the 1700s.
Every wedding here does the chicken dance
Weird. If you say "German chocolate cake" to me, my first thought is Black Forest cake.
Few people talk about black forest cake and almost no one talks about stollen.
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My Husband tried the french 🍟 and Mayonnaise on it when he was stationed there for 3 years
Pomme Frites aka Belgian fries
"Chicken Dance" is such a good example how a simple melody could work, with the right Instrument as the Akkordeon. Cheers! 😀
I know it's Austrian, but Sacher Torte looks like it is tasty.
Viennese specifically, from the Hotel Sacher. Linzer torte from further up the Danube (in Linz!) is also excellent, although it’s hard to beat the one-two punch of dark chocolate and apricot jam in the Sacher.
I never heard of the chicken dance being German.
I just posted the same thing. It was news to me too.😂
Well Feli did list three German bands that added lyrics and parodies. It's played at festivals all over the country, just not Bierfest. Definitely not German though🙄?
Kaczuszki in Poland. Duck.
Oh, I know about that
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Same. I thought it was American because we always did it at wedding parties. 🫠
No matter where it originated, German Chocolate Cake is wonderful!
It is good, yes, but have I ever seen it layered? Not in California. To me it is just chocolate cake with that very specific frosting.
The cheese sauce is an entirely American thing and we all know that. The thing we thought was German was the mustard for dipping.
To be fair I have gotten a soft pretzel with mustard to dip it in while I was in Germany, but I was near an American Army garrison so they might have been selling the American stereotype.
In my experience if pretzels are being sold, nachos are as well, so I thought it was another way for vendors to unload the cheese sauce.
@@GuavaConQueso i think thats probably how it got started
In New York, pretzels are sold without a dip.
One of the biggest reasons I watch reaction channels talk about US culture is to learn more about THEIR cultures and how they differ from US culture, so I will greatly enjoy it if you talk more about German culture!
I love TRYING to understand other cultures. People are fascinating. Our very different cultures so misunderstood.
Things I think of as being German are Beer, sausages, sauerkraut, and potato cakes. Germans also have a reputation of liking rules for things. And sporty cars that go fast on the highway. maybe industrial music? lol Silly stereotypes.
Arent all those things german? minus the last 2. I dont think of germans driving fast. I think of them driving tanks and volkswagon.
@nullakjg767 50% of German highways have no speed limit, so?
Rammstein, Kraftwerk in Music, so he is right.
@@nullakjg767 Drving tanks? Are you stuck in WW2? Grow up.
As a matter of fact, the French eat much more sauerkraut than the Germans because it's mainly a thing in the South while it's part of the entire French cuisine. - What is a potato cake?! I guess you confused it with potato salad.
@@AlexTheGerman A potato pancake. There was a company (Knorr) that sold a mix for it. It was labeled "Product of West Germany." I know about the odd German style potato salad. It's served hot, has bacon in it?
As an American of German descent I’ve long held the dream of retiring to the Black Forest, living in a treehouse and making cuckoo clocks. Maybe go looking for some gnomes, hunt for the gingerbread house of Bros. Grimm fame, and drinking lots and lots of bier!
Maybe one day…
Me too. Me too…. 👍👍👍
But no beer for the Ben. You can have my bier. 😁😁😁
As someone from Tulsa, Oklahoma, I'm really not surprised that the whole duck/chicken mix up started here. Not having the appropriate duck costume and then saying, "Y'all don't got any duck outfits? Hell, those chicken outfits are close enough" is pretty on brand for an Okie.
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Never heard of the Christmas Pickle. Never thought the Chicken dance was German.
Didn’t expect to be over here doing the chicken dance in my living room at this hour 😭😂
Hahaha 😂 love it
I've never been to an Oktoberfest in America (or anywhere). The time I've come across The Chicken Dance is at wedding receptions.
@@markadams7046that’s so true lol. The chicken dance and cha cha slide are mandatory at wedding receptions…
@@markadams7046 dude i remember the chicken dance from elementary school, ive never seen it apart of any celebrations that i can remember
A lot of confusion is that Germans came to America and basically started their own "German" culture. German-American culture is such a unique thing.
That's all immigrants.
😂 My question to you is this; in Germany, when someone sneezes, does one say to the one who sneezed, "gesund heit?" I believe a lieral translation is "Be healthy," in the preterit past tense. People of all backgrounds say "gesund heit." Vielen danke!
Yes wie say "Gesundheit"..... translated: health... So you wish someone health
It is quite right not to say Gesundheit, but to excuse yourself when you sneeze. Saying Gesundheit is considered impolite among well-educated people.
No one in America under 60 really says this. I have not used this in probably 20 years.
Saying "Gesundheit" actually originated from the middle ages around the time when the black plague was going around. It is not completely confirmed but highly likely that people back then said "Gesundheit" not to wish another person health but to wish themselves health bc sneezing was considered one of the earliest symptoms of the plague. This is also the reason why it is considered impolite in higher etiquette, tho most people actually don't know about that and say it to be polite and wish someone else health when they sneeze.
@@Ul.B It's not the person sneezing who says it, it is something you say to someone who sneezed.
One of the largest German-American celebration takes place in Milwaukee Wisconsin in late July at Germanfest.
Biggest Oktoberfest outside of Munchen is arguably in Cincinnati OH where she lives (or Kitchener Ontario, or Blumenau Brazil depending on whose numbers you believe).
Germanfest in Milwaukee is amazing. It's 1/10 the size of Cincinnati's Octoberfest, but Cincinnati is not as German a city as Milwaukee. Cincinnati is 20% German ancestry today, Milwaukee is almost double that, and 50 years ago over half of Milwaukee's residents were of German descent. At one point, more than half the counties in the state were majority German ancestry, so one could argue it's the most German influenced state in the union.
@@reaperthemad8731also, Cincinnati has a massive Oktoberfest, and then just a mile or so away across the river in Northern Kentucky they have yet another Oktoberfest in their Mainstrasse German neighborhood at another date
@@notmyproblem88 we also have Goettafest right across the river as well. Not as German focused per se, but based on German American breakfast meat used in all sorts of ways
@@reaperthemad8731 I ate Glier's Goetta across the street from their factory at The Anchor Grill for many years!
The Bounty candy bar is not available in the USA. We have almond joy & mounds, but not bounty.
They are the same thing . They use different names in different countries but they are the same.
13:37 Thanks for the German's Chocolate Cake lesson
And it sounds delicious! Would like to have it in Germany :)
The chicken dance is a polka, played on an accordion. Americans consider both polkas and accordions to be German. The first time I heard it was at a German wedding.
Not Polish? I think of Polish being Polkas. Polka originated in the Czech Republic
The chicken dance is not a polka, it is played in 4/4 time. A polka is played in 2/4 time.
Polka ist auch nicht deutsch/ kein deutscher Tanz. Polka ist Not a German Dance
A German band played a Polka in 1981 at an Octoberfest in Tulsa and the crowd was going to do a "Duck
Dance" but could only find a chicken costume and the dance was born.
I’m American and have German ancestry, hence my last name is otto. I have never, until this video, heard of a Christmas pickle.
My full name is Karl Ernst Schneider you can't get more German than that. My paternal grandparents were literally right off the boat.
As a Californian who doesn't drink, I had no idea that adults ever did the chicken dance. Frankly, I thought it was obnoxious and infantilizing when my class was forced to do it in the 1st grade...
As a non white person I didn't realize it was a thing at all for a very long time. Imagine my surprise the first time I went to a white people wedding
@@xavvi it's not a white thing though. I've only been to white and Indian weddings and never heard it in person. Only seen it on TV. And I'm old.
@@lavenderoh right, I'm not saying it's at every white wedding, but I'm saying the weddings that it does appear at are all white ones
Roller skating rinks in the Midwest play it. I’m sure other niche places but none come to mind
I wonder how many foreigners are shocked to find that most Americans have never even thought of putting hot dogs on pizza.
Or eggs or chicken on pizza.
@@sluggo206lmao well that’s a lie. Americans literally make buffalo chicken pizza and barbecue pizza with a barbecue sauce base instead of tomato sauce
@raamjames1 No joke. Hot dogs on a pizza sounds like someone going through hard times.
@@OrysB-po1fy I said most Americans. Buffalo chicken pizza may be a regional thing. I've never heard of barbecue sauce base on pizza, but it's not that much of a stretch because barbecue sauce is basically tomato sauce with vinegar and a sweetener.
@@sluggo206bro papa John’s is a national chain and has a barbecue and buffalo pizza 🤣
You foreigners need to stay where you belong.
Domino’s has a buffalo and barbecue pizza too. 🤣
Two national chains in all 50 states have pizza with chicken on it but the foreigner wants to talk about it
In Pennsylvania a marriage isn’t considered official until we dance the chicken dance.
And speaking of things that people think belong to one culture but don’t…
The Pennsylvania Polka is from California. We have adopted it, however, as our unofficial state anthem.
I assume that's for white people marriages right?
Same applies for wedding receptions in Michigan
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In my 30 years of living in Michigan, I have never done nor have ever heard of anyone doing the chicken dance at a wedding. The last time I did a chicken dance was when I was like 8.
It's common in Wisconsin weddings as well. But not recently. People probably go out of their way to not have it anymore. 😅
@@xavvino Germans are black hence German chocolate cake.
My great-grandmother came to America in 1868. She brought many of the delicious recipes she learned at home. They included German ginger cake, shortened cookies, and homemade saurkraut.
As the former dance leader of a German Folk Dance group in the US, we were always asked to do the Chicken Dance...we refused.
Well done.
BUT! (as a German northener) I must say that especially the Akkordeon versions of the chicken dance sound a lot like the style of music played at Oktoberfest in Munich or the style of music I connect with Bavarian folklore dance groups. Sorry Bavarians...
No the Chicken Dance is not famous in Germany. In the 80s people danced the Entendanz all over Europe . Nobody dance it now
In south central Missouri, many Germans settled the area from here all the way to north of St. Louis. They have always been known for their proficiency and excellence. Now, they own most of the vineyards. 😊
Don't anybody get your lederhosen in a bunch!
I believe "Bounty" is a British candy bar that's the equivalent of the American "Mounds."
So, chocolate-covered coconut, but no almonds?
@@aquilapetram Right. The almonds are in Almond Joy.
@@bob_._.sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you don't 😁
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I think The Chicken dance was mostly introduced to Americans by Polka bands mostly doing it at Weddings and it became really popular for awhile. My grandma made German Chocolate cake but she did not make it as a layer cake and usually put walnuts in the frosting. I thought it was made with German cocoa. I have a pickle ornament but I didn't learn about it until the 1990s.
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My MIL is from Germany. We always bring her a gift on st Nicholas Day. On Christmas Eve, we have sausage and sauerkraut to represent the German side of the family and gumbo to represent the Cajun side of the family. The potato salad is from both! 😂
I'm not sure why she thinks the "Chicken Dance" is associated with Octoberfest. It is played and done often during it but also at many other parties and gatherings, especially if kids are included. You will here it most often here where community clubs (clubs like Slovak American Club as one example) have community picnics or gatherings then it is often played for the parents to get the kids up and dance to as well as a few other friendly kid songs during the day so the kid feel a part of things too. I've never heard anyone associate that with Germany specifically in any way before.
The German Chocolate Cake thing cracks me up every time 😂 It's very true that most American's think that is from Germany... Thanks for leading me to learn about it's origin by the way, I knew it was American but no clue where from or how!
As for what I think of as German= Pretzels, good engineering, good beer, Aldi and Trader Joe, and more I can't think of at the moment I'm sure... All things I like I notice.. but I am admittedly biased.
I’m mean…I think our Fauxthethnic of Germans is still closer than what people think of us because at least the pretzel and chicken dance are German things even if we get it a little wrong (unlike pizza with hotdog on it) . Most people know Hitler wasn’t originally German. Sure the German cake thing is off but I feel like that is a little understandable because of the name and I have never ever heard of the Christmas pickle so that seems more like a niche thing for Americans with heavy German heritage over the typical American belief in the Christmas pickle story.
There''s so many mixed cultures, I think we just kinda adopt things and put our own twist to them, like Cinco De Mayo or St. Paddy's Day, FF, crispy tacos, deep dish pizza etc. Mustard on a pretzel just makes a good thing better......lol
I can't see how a pretzel with mustard could be better than with butter or Obazda, but even Italians eat hotdogs and fries on it, so ... 💁♀
@@Roadtrip635 you turned the frikadellenbrötchen into the hamburger, despite not putting any people from Hamburg in the meat. But then goblin pie doesn't contain any goblin and hot dog doesn't contain any dog either.
@@HappyBeezerStudios We took a schnitzel and turned into a chicken fried steak and there's no chicken in that either.....lol
@@Roadtrip635 so like wienerschnitzel or tonkatau
As a French Canadian, the duck dance is the right name, pretzels is not really a thing here (in my province) as german immigrants represented a minute proportion. As for a "traditional" German cake, the black Forest cake filled with cherry soaked in kirsch (+40% alcohol).
What I find hilarious in the USA (as we have kept the artisanal sausage making (Bavarian, Polish, French (blood pudding, white pudding and all others), North African tradition alive), is how they unknowingly but wrongfully named bratwurst (brats for short) knockwurst. Pretty much all their hot-dog Weiner's are named brats even if their are generally made with pork and their spices tend to incorporate 2 or 3 spices (excluding salt and pepper😂).
I would recommend soaking them in liquor instead of soaking them in cherries ;)
@@HappyBeezerStudios Kirsch is a hard alcohol made from cherries 🤣🤣🤣😉
My family, German on one side and mostly German with a bit of Hungarian on the other, has always celebrated Christmas on Christmas Eve. Sometime after dinner all the kids are rounded up into a separate room where one of the older kids is tasked with reading a Christmas story or keeping the rest of the kids entertained in some other way. With the kids distracted, the adults get all the presents out and place them under the tree. Once all the presents are out, one of the adults rings some sleigh bells as a signal for the kids to come out - a signal that Santa just dropped off the presents and left. The kids race into the living room all wide-eyed at the sudden avalanche of presents under the tree. I was always told that this is how it is done in Germany and I suppose if a German told me that's not true I would be a _little_ disappointed... But even if it isn't a strictly German tradition it's still a fun tradition that my family has always participated in and probably always will.
As a german I would say it is basically true. At least the presents are put under the christmas tree on Christmas Eve. Every family has it's own techniques how to not let the children know they weren't brought by the Weihnachtsmann. ;-)
Alternativley you can rent a Santa that brings the presents.
Sauerbraten and spaetzle are German! I make the authentic dishes and bought my spaetzle utensil in Germany. I’ve never seen one in the US. Also Wiener schnitzel is German I believe…Rhine wine and certain beers. Am I correct? Also the Mercedes Benz and another car here that slips my mind.
How about the cuckoo clock?
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The Kuckucksuhr is indeed german. From the southern part. Not common where I come from.
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Wiener Schnitzel ist from Vienna = Wien in Austria. So not from Germany.
We have a Pfefferneuse family recipe that is purported to be brought over from Germany. We always bake them for Christmas. When I was visiting Germany in 2008, our guide purchased a bag. They were ok, but awful in comparison to homemade. I was glad to find out that they are actually considered a Christmas cookie.
In Cincinnati we have one of the top 4 biggest Oktoberfest outside of Germany. And we love our Braunschweiger
What is a Braunschweiger? I was born in Braunschweig/Germany. I only know a sausage that's called Braunschweiger Mettwurst. By the way: There is originally no Oktoberfest in Braunschweig. That's a Bavarian thing. But many guys in Northern Germany like it too nowadays.
@@DiegoCortez-rf8eb Liverwurst.
. Goose liver
@@DiegoCortez-rf8ebpork liver paté
Braunschweiger? Never heard about it. Greetings from Germany
OMG, I love German Chocolate Cake. Its the cake I usually have for my birthday. Ironically I never thought of it as being German. I was told it used German Chocolate, hence the name, which I guess is close to the truth.
there is a good chance the chocolate comes from Ivory Coast, Ghana or Indonesia. Those three countries produce close to 70% of the world's chocolate.
Another myth is that the Germans invented the car or automobile should I say, well now while it is true that Carl Benz created the “modern” day car and was the first to properly put cars out in the market in 1886, it was actually first created by (you are all going to hate me for saying this) the British. The same man who invented the steam locomotive (The train for dum dums who don’t know what I really mean) also invented the first motor car Richard Trevithick’s Puffing Devil in 1803.
If this is supposed to be a joke, then maybe it will still work. Otherwise, I would advise you to keep your mouth shut.
A fond memory from my childhood is that , for parties and the like, we would regularly make a German potato salad. It is a hot dish made with sliced potatoes, onions, garlic, vinegar and bacon. Now I wonder if this is actually a German thing or not.
At least the ingredients are correct for one type of a german "Kartoffelsalat". There are of cause more recipes with different ingredients.
100% how my Oma and Mutti made potato salad growing up and I still do
Stock, bacon, oil.vinegar and mustard over hot potatoes is more the southern version. In the north mayo is more common. The west often adds pickles or apple. the north apples and eggs, the east radishes and onions, franconia adds chives.
And those are only the versions within germany. There are also czech, slowak, polish, french, and spanish potato salads.
My German American family values being on time. If you aren't a few minutes early, you are almost late. Also my dad's family celebrated St. Nicholas Day (Dec 6) by putting their shoes outside of the bedroom door and St. Nicholas would come and put an orange in one of them during the night and maybe a small gift or some candy.
LOL, I'm an American with German Heritage, but I'd never heard of the pickle tradition, but I think it would be fun. I might try this and see if it takes on.
Woahh
1. Never considered the ‘Chicken Dance’ as German. Thought it was just annoying, honestly
2. I (falsely) assumed vinegary spicy mustard on top of soft pretzels to be German, but not cheese for some reason. I’m not from the Midwest, though
3. I have seen glass pickle ornaments before, but never thought much of them. They make ornaments to look like anything and everything
4. I think most Americans know Hitler was Austrian? That’s what I was taught
hitler is like the only austrian americans know.
Omg when my grandpa passed away in 2004 we got a box of antique Christmas ornaments from the estate and one was a pickle. We were so confused. But it was his so, on the tree it went which led to the amazing holiday line “put your granddaddy’s pickle on the tree”.
Unfortunately, Feli is wrong. The first republic on German soil was not the Weimar Republic but the Mainz Republic under the rule of Napoleon Bonapart. The Mainz Republic is often forgotten when people talk about German republics.
This German girl gets a lot of things wrong. I lived in Germany for years in the early 90's and she knows nothing about what the old timers use to do. She always says, "modern Germans".
Then we in America have had German immigrants for probably 200 years. German family traditions passed down over the last 100 years are way oof this woman's radar. I live in the same state as her and she gets American things completely wrong as well. She thinks we run around with check books from the bank. Don't think I have seen a check book since like 1995.
I don't watch her videos because it is misinformation.
! like mustard on my pretzels but I don't think of it as particularly German.
German Chocolate cake is my favorite cake and I would ask for it on my birthdays.
One thing I wish you could get here in the States is CURRYWURST!!! And a side of fries & mayo!🤤🤤
Something that a lot of Americans think that Germans do that is not correct is yell angrily as they speak. To American ears German language can sound harsh with sharp consonants and difficult to pronounce letter pairings. Couple this with many Germans in American media have been Nazi soldiers, movie bad guys screaming at people in German accents or language. Americans aren't really exposed to much German music, German romance movies, German children's programming to get the normal and often gentle and sweet German side of language. A shame really.
Chicken dance= played of every wedding reception I've been to.
Iv watched a good number of her videos now and i take everything she says with a whole pile of salt. She always talks about american misconceptions about Germany. Then she takes her personal experience with a small number of americans in one area and explains how that is the way all americans are. I spent a couple years working at The Old German Beer Hall, or the Milwaukee Hofbrauhaus. I never heard any of these things! They did have Obatzter cheese spread made with beer but it wasnt runny. It was a thick spread and it was amazing. At their holiday parties i was told to try it on rye bread with raw beef and onions. I am glad i did because it was amazing!
You should watch her disclaimer and video again and listen to more!!!
She never says that her experiences apply to the whole US. She doesn't put a disclaimer on every single video, but she has said countless times that she doesn't mean to imply that the things she says are true everywhere in the US. You unfortunately can't make content like that without generalising. In the end, she is talking about things that are common or less common in the US. Not omnipresent in each and every American person's life, but significantly more or significantly less common than in the average German's life.
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Germany is a big place, even for Germans.
German national anthem the third verse is sang instead of the first
We just don't have many things to put mustard on, burgers, hot dogs, mix it around in vinegar and make a dressing, cold cut sandwiches, and ... pretzels. That's it for mustard
dip sausages in
My grandmother was German. I never heard of the Christmas Pickle OR the Chicken Dance. Here are the things she implied were German: cuckoo clocks, Sauerkraut (of course) and Bratwurst (and all the other 'wursts), Pfeffernüsse, Rye and Pumpernickel bread, THE CHRISTMAS TREE, Santa Klaus, Yule log cake... and HER TEMPER (lol). Things I'm unsure about: Polka, Black Forest Cake, Schnapps, Reisling...
Warum bewertest du Videos die den Amis deutsche beschreibt wenn du Deutscher bist! Warum machst du nichts eigenes?
In school the only thing we were taught about Germany was the holocaust...so it's a stigma...love u bruh....
you never learned about the many immigration waves that shaped our nations demographics?
@@nullakjg767 nope we were never taught that... we were trained to memorize dates and location's century old sh!t
@@nullakjg767 I have since learned it but not in school...
@@matchu.j I guess different schools are different after all. Here we avoided date memorization because it's just trivia you forget or doesn't mean much, and focused on the events and their significance. Through multiple years, so I'm not sure if it was different teachers just happening to be that way, or if there was something more to it, but I agreed with the perspective and kept it even in other classes. (Also I just don't like memorizing numbers)
German Chocolate Cakes are amazing. If you like caramel and coconut with your chocolate cake.
Remember that any outlook about Americans has to be a generalization.
Imagine thinking Berlin defines all countries that even speak German.
We have a wide range of outlooks .
There are a lot of germans in the US. we had so many that during the worldwars we put them in internment camps but we never apologized because most people agree it was a good idea since so many were still loyal to germany.
The same for Germany, or Bavaria.
Feli comes from Munich (the Bavarian capital), but Munich is not Bavaria for most Bavarians.😂
@@nullakjg767The US interned Japanese Americans in WW2. There was little, if any internet of Germans. Anti-German sentiment was strongest during WW1, not so much during WW2. German Americans would Anglicize their names during the first war and would assimilate into the larger American society. For obvious reasons it was far easier for German Americans to do that than Japanese. A lot of the anti German histeria was the result of WW1 propaganda, a lot of which was false.
Bounty is UK version of the mounds bar in America
Thanks for explaining that. I was confused, since Bounty is a paper towel brand. Lol
As native born Texan...I'd like to thank Feli for pronouncing Pecan properly. It's Comanche word that means.....pecan....and THEY pronounce it the way Feli does.
Tornadoes usually don't give more than a few minutes warning. They move at speeds anywhere from 30 to 80 KPH. One of the really dangerous things about them is that their path is unpredictable. A tornado can touch down, move in one direction and then suddenly turn and go another way. Or lift up and touch down somewhere else with no warning.
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Heinz pickles probably promoted this. But I believe Heinz is from Pittsburgh Pennsylvania. It’s an old large company.
Regarding stuff that I think is German, but maybe not, I am often inclined to think of food in this regard…
Like…
Various kinds of sausages…. As far as I know, (authentic) bratwurst 🌭, Nuremberg sausage (weisswurst/pork sausage), Jagerwurst, bockwurst, etc. are German, served along with a little authentic German mustard, sauerkraut, etc. Frankfurters, German hamburger 🍔 (but the emoji is American style..), braunschweiger, etc., yes-German.
Canned Vienna sausage, Johnsonville bratwurst, hot dogs 🌭 , hmmm, not so much…. 😁😁😁
Pretty sure sauerkraut is German. Some potato 🥔 salads are more German than others, ya…. Pumpernickel bread 🍞 is pretty darn German. Spätzle is apparently Hungarian, Austrian, Swiss, etc. as well as German, so there’s that….
I associate Cherry 🍒 and apple 🍎 cider, drinks like this, etc. strongly with Germany. (Not just the alcoholic stuff.) Spritzers especially. Definitely spritzers are German.
I often think this stuff is German, but a lot of juice companies and types of juices come from Turkey, etc., sure…
bramanswanderings.com/2015/09/13/cherry-juice-ii/
A lot of pickled vegetables are not only German, but also Slavic, etc., sure, like pickled beets, pickled asparagus, etc. 🤔🤔
I often associate fresh cherries 🍒 with Germany, but that’s just me…. 😁😁 There’s also those canned Trader Joe’s/Aldi cherries-I think they are actually Italian-Morello cherries. I haven’t seen them for a while over here in the U.S.A.
Also some chocolates 🍫, yes. (Werthers? Riesens?) And of course, there are the closely associated Swiss chocolates…. (Lindt, Sprugli, Toblerone…)
With cheeses, I just hate cheese 🧀 . 🤪🤪🤪 But yeah, Munster cheese, Quark? cheese, that stuff is German, Limburger is Belgian…. 🤔🤔
Herring and sardines are just kinda Northern European…. 🤪🤪🤪😁😁😁. Lingonberries are Scandinavian.
Strudel? Is that German? I’m pretty sure it is…. Cobblers are more English or American of course. Interesting about German chocolate cake not being German..
Pretzels 🥨 are different in Germany, yes…
Stroopwaffels…. I think they are Belgian, Dutch, etc.
Schnitzel-that is German, but more meaty/light breading there, sure…
I know about German music. I was/am a music major. 😁😁😁
Same deal with all the other arts…
With clothing, old clocks, etc., the general idea I have is still more from Southern Germany/Switzerland/Austria. In the north they have garden gnomes, elves, etc., sure. 😁😁😁 I think everybody in Germany knows about Santa Claus (yeah, I know the jolly fat man in red is more Dutch in origin). 😁😁😁😁
How about Braunschweiger? I'm assuming it is a German food. My dad used to love it when we were kids, but I never grew very excited about it.
Chicken dance is Portuguese.. unfortunately. I am Portuguese and its bloody annoying. There is a version that predates the 1950s verner Thomas version.
I must have heard 100 versions of this thing..... Make me want to gouge my eyes out. The only thing worse is nagila hava, or its a small world ......Dang.
Chicken dance... Only seen at Germanfest or faux Oktoberfests... often in October
Unfortunately...ja, I've heard that the chicken dance is German. My German workmates and the military brides and their kids at Carswell Air Force base (it'll NEVER be JRB Fort Worth) we're great representatives of Germany and kept us yank kids honest about, Germany and Britain.
Growing up I would always wonder why "German Chocolate Cake" had coconut on top and why was it even called "German Chocolate Cake" the cake is named after it's creator. In fact the proper name for the cake is "German's Chocolate Cake" the television show Hogan's Hero's unfortunately helped perpetuate the idea that German Chocolate cake is German which is sad because the cake wasn't even created until 1952.
Because post WW2 the American sector of occupied Germany was mostly Bavaria, Americans assumed a lot of Bavarian culture was German culture. It would be like only living in Texas and thinking Texas culture was the same as all American culture.
And again this misrepresentation and outright lie. The American zone included Bavaria, Baden-Württemberg (north), Hesse, Bremen and a sector in Berlin. That's not all Bavaria.
@@Ul.B the zone included bavaria and it is pretty much exclusively bavarian culture that went back with them. where is the representation of the other areas?
@@HappyBeezerStudios That's not really the point, so the question is wrong. Also, you should ask the actual commenter, not me. The point is that the original comment claims that the American zone mainly included Bavaria and ignores the other areas. In addition, these are only supposed traditions from Upper Bavaria. This is only a small part of Bavaria. The Franconians are also lumped in with the Bavarians, which they aren't particularly happy about. Politically, Franconia is part of Bavaria. Bavarian Swabia is also politically part of Bavaria, but let's not start with the traditions or traditional costumes.
It's hard to say why the Americans only concentrate on Upper Bavaria, and it's hard to say why they lump everything together. It's probably just another business idea, similar to the tradition of the Christmas pickle. This tradition is unknown in Germany.
Only one chocolate cake for me, and it happens to be German. Schwarzwalder Kirsh Torte, perfection.
The most surprising thing I learned in this video was that the Chicken Dance isn't American. I never once thought it was German, I just figured it was so goofy that it must have originated in America.
Edit: ok, nevermind, the most surprising thing was Christmas pickle. I have never once, in my 34 years of life, heard of a Christmas pickle. What even...?
11:52 - The flag of Braunschweig looks exactly like that of Ukraine.
Absolutely love your channel Chris! Keep up the amazing work!
Howdy from Texas.
That whole Christmas tree pickle thing is nothing that I've ever even heard about before this video.
I've lived in Texas my entire 61 years of my life and it's completely unknown by myself, my family, and anyone that I've ever known here in Texas and we have thousands if not millions of people of German ancestry here in Texas. Myself included. Never even heard of this. So it's probably an isolated regional misconception.
I live near Terre Haute, Indiana. I go to the Oktoberfest every year. I feel the Ofest isn't complete until I've had my brats, sauerkraut, and German potato salad, drink my bucket of bier, and then hear the Chicken Dance at least once!
Chicken Dance - never ever thought German! I hate liquid cheese dip. 😝 Plain. Yum! German pickle ? HAHAHA , Volkswagen beetle is German ! We had one for 17 years!
Here I thought that hot soft pretzels with mustard was invented in Philadelphia, PA! Learn something new every day 🤷♀😆😆😆
Gorgeous barmaids with blonde 👱♀️ hair and large pints of beer 🍺 are not German 🇩🇪 nooooooooo! That’s one fantasy gone lmao 🤣 please 🙏 let this be true as well as the Laderhosen ! Are the glasses German 🇩🇪? I got one my girlfriend hates it , says it’s to much 😢
If an English person talked about German chocolate cake, we would assume he was referring to Black Forest Gateau
I used to think German people in Pennsylvania brought the tradition of pulling a groundhog out of its den on February 2nd was something they brought from Germany. I did a google search that said it was started in the US because German immigrants were suffering from ennui in the snowy winter months. So to have something to look forward to, they created Groundhog Day. Not sure if it’s true, but it was a fun read.
I've been to Germany so I'm very familiar with the culture there and I don't think it's complicated to grasp. Every girl is a busty blonde wearing a dirndl and carrying 20 litres of beer in one go, an obsessive compulsion to obey rules, no speed limits for cars throughout the country, a slight tendency to invade Poland and a great sense of humour. A couple of examples:
Knock knock.
Who's there?
It doz not matter who's here. Open ze door in ze name of der Furher or ve vill kick it down and come in anyway.
Why did the chicken cross the road?
It voz only following orders.
Oh how I laughed.
You can go to an American pancake restaurant called I - Hop ( International House of Pancakes) and on their Nenu find German potato Pancakes.
My younger brother had his friend from Germany visit with him and we took him to I - Hop. When he saw the " German Pancake on the menu. He was very animated and loud denouncing that such a thing even existed in Germany at all. I found it rather amusing myself and messed with him over it for a few gratifying seconds.