Hate It or Love It: The Origins of Sparkling Water
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- Опубліковано 31 тра 2024
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Sparkling carbonated water is the next big thing for the beverage industry. But where is it from, and why do Germans drink so much sparkling water?
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00:00 Intro
2:16 Saltzer Sparkling Water
3:51 The Start of the Roadtrip
4:44 BetterHelp Sponsorship
5:59 Bad Homburg
11:03 Niederselters
16:39 Löhnberg-Selters
22:13 Tasting the OG Sparkling Water
25:05 Conclusion - Навчання та стиль
Fun fact: After shooting this Andong had to pee for five hours straight.
I will neither confirm nor deny
@@mynameisandong My guess is that if you drink too much of that one that limited you to 5 glasses a day you might cause a change in bowel habits. The magnesium salts can have a laxative effect.
Is that not normal? Should I see a doctor?
@@leesharra1413 Or could have a lot of iron in it, too much iron makes you sick too.
The last days were so hot, he just sweated the water out.
"Tastes like blood and salt" is probably the most hardcore description of water that I've ever heard
Than he should try the water from Aachen. It tasted like and smells like rotten eggs, but is super healthy in the rigth among :D
There's a couple mineral springs in a city north of where I live in the States, and it's got this weird coppery, iron taste, and it's weirdly good but does kinda taste like blood
Who is the first to ask what we all are thinkin´?
Sparkly water tastes like a fart alone uggh.
Certainly the most METAL and BRUTAL description!
"you may not drink more than 5 cups a day"
*pulls out comically large cup*
Bach approves.
Funniest shit I’ve ever seen
To me as a German it actually looks like a regular drinking glass 😄 And this shape is particularly typical.
@@CrossingWolfi he's not talking about the cup that Andong uses
@@CrossingWolfi I was making a joke regarding a vine video made by King Bach where his friend says he can have only one spoon of ice cream so he pulls a very large spoon almost the size of him. it's fine if you didn't get the joke though
the most german thing ever; traveling across the entire country just to be stopped by a chain-link fence.
preventing you from getting sparkling wasser
@@poke-champ4256 Some years ago chain-link fences used to prevent you from leaving the socialist paradise
@@mincos_outon I wouldn’t call it paradise but aight
@@mincos_outon I might have misunderstood you, but if you are talking about WW2 period Germany, it wasn't socialist. It had socialist in name, but was far right in it's politics (pro-corporations, pro-religious power, pro authoritarian, pro discrimination, romanticized a twisted imaginary version of "good old times", openly persecuted leftists, attacked worker unions and union strikes, etc.) and very far from the actual socialism, which is left wing.
@@Alex-cq1zr Thank you for the polite and elaborate response, seriously. I was only making a silly joke about the fences surrounding the Deutsche Demokratische Republik and other countries of the eastern block before the fall of the Berlin´s wall. Best regards
The dog was the best part, he was so excited to be in the show
@Stellvia Hoenheim cute dogi
Der will nur spielen =)
this video is super amazing and informative but did you see that dog! I miss the dog.
He had like a 100 ft leash. I thought that was strange.
Its the way he/she rolls up like “oh we kidding okay let’s kid”
Little German Fun Fact:
The city of Aachen could also be named Bad Aachen since they are also a bath city but they decided against it because then they wouldn't be the first city in the telephone book anymore (which was always listed in alphabetical order).
Make Aachen Bad again!
Kaiserstadt AC ❤
To explain this:
The german word "Bad" means:
Pool, or bathhouse.
I was born near Aachen and i didn't know this, thanks a lot!
@@lennartweber2228 Damn that should've been in the video, oh well
As a child we visited one of those fizzy water springs in swiss. It literally tasted like blood or licking some metal. Our parents hated it. However, me and my cousin with an iron deficiency liked it. Probably because our bodies loved the extra iron intake ^^
Yup. I went low-no salt for a while to the point that anything salty was the best thing I ever tasted. I realized then I went a WEE bit too far.
@@Saitaina good choice, the body needs salt for basic and complex functions, there's definitely too far and too little with salt.
"Me and my cousin with an iron deficiency" 🤣
Makes you wonder if that was part of the healing properties of the original springs. Now as he says they take the iron out, take the carbonic acid out, only to the artificially recarbonate the supposed "spring water". They should sell a natural untreated version, might be better for some customers.
Hahaha.. I love Mineralwasser. I love when there's so much carbonation, that you sort of lose your breath when you bring the glass up to your mouth 😂
Looks like you need to take a trip to the Azores (Portuguese islands that have natural mineral springs as well). They even cook corn in the most active hot mineral springs
This is the way.
"I kind of love when it hurts just a little in the back of my throat" - Andong 2021
How else do you put the dong in Andong?
That's what she said!
Same
Sus
@@trainedwarrior502 you really don't want to know.
No one is going to talk about the dog not understanding the “guardian” assignment? 😂😂 just was a cute floof
How does he not get tangled up with that 100 ft leash? That's the shocking part to me.
Dog leads like this are for overactive or anxious dogs to allow them to roam freely while hindering their just running off (too far too quickly). They run slower since they have to tow all that lead behind them, and the lead is (hopefully) very visible, allowing their humans to track them better. If they get their lead stuck, they just have to wait for their human to free them. This dog was just having a bit of fun out in the park, it wasn't on guard duty.
Sparkle dog is full of fizz!
this is how a dog is guarding here in germany XD with love
I remember my first time as an Asian in Germany trying to find 'normal' water and kept only seeing sparking water that it frustrated me. Haha. But thankfully I did find non sparkling ones. Oh and beer is cheaper than water.
Normal water comes from any sink tap. It may taste better or worse in some places, but unless there is a rare official notice saying otherwise (on non tested sources that may be mistaken you will find a sign saying "kein trinkwasser"-no drinking water, which is sometimes still drinkable) its perfectly fine for drinking.
U can drink from the tap
@@the_retag Also if you live in an old house with lead plumbing, don't drink it.
@@Aras14 old lead pipes will have likely gotten a mineral coatig by now, or should be replaced
Beer cheaper than water? You couldn't find non carbonated water? Get a therapy, Spatzenhirn.
"I love it when it hurts a little bit in the back of my throat" .... Dude
Wat
he grew up in Germany, what do you expect?
@@idenpoelchau1656 sausages
@@juanmanuelc6644 a self-saucing sausage
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"I'm thirsty but I want my water to be more difficult to drink."
The water has to be able to fight back, otherwise it wasn't a fair hunt.
Making easy things difficult is a very german trait :D
@@stefanfranke5651 So true, so true. Otherwise, why bother.
Fizzy water has a different taste to it and texture, and the applications are immeasurable if you've got an imagination. Anyway, I think it's very much an acquired taste.
Americans: ah this is so stupid it tastes like tv static and burns in your mouth"
*Add even more acids and tons of sugar*
"NOW THATS WHAT IM TALKING ABOUT MARY -ANN YEEEE HAAWW"
*dies of Heart failure while shooting in the sky on a harley davidson
I absolutely love when you do road trips stuff. Specifically the things that may seem mundane and regular to German but the sparkling water, pickles, and white asparagus episodes are magic
Co signed!!!
YES germany (and Europe) has so much to offer that people(me included) do not know about
I spent a lot of time in Germany as a child and these episodes really bring back fond memories
My hometown was once famous for it's magical, curative springwater, too! The sick, the elderly, and the uber-rich would come from all over the world to drink and bathe in it, and everyone left their vacation with a much healthier glow.
As it turns out, the secret ingredient is... radon.
The springs are no longer available to the public.
ah, yes. I also take my radon tablets every morning to get me through the day. I'm basically radiating with energy
Did you see Tom Scott actually made a video exploring a German radiation therapy cavern? There is a study which suggested small doses of ambient radiation could significantly lessen cancer symptoms so now people are literally being prescribed radiation!
@@ElliotShayle the cancer bit is unproven and highly questionable, but it does seem to help with pain and other ailments. The mechanism of action they propose is quite reasonable, that it does a little cell damage prompting your body to make new cells to repair the damage, and along with that comes natural endorphins, cellular repair factors, and other effects that have system-wide benefits beyond just repairing the damaged cells. That's the same mechanism of action as a whole array of accepted treatments, like cryotherapy, laser therapy, microneedling for skin, etc. The difference is that none of those other treatments involve ionizing radiation which damages DNA and can cause cancer.
As a German living in the US, I've been very happy that sparkling water has been more and more available over the past 2-3 years! Just like Andong, I love this stuff over anything else!
Beside bread, it's the most German thing most people are not aware Germans are obsessed with.
The reason the water got kinda yellow and murky is that the minerals in it slowly get out of solution. Underground, they're dissolved into the water. However once it's out of the ground, the contact with air and probably the difference in pressure creates, for example, iron oxide from the dissolved iron. It's that or there's weird crap growing in your water...
definitely the oxidation, mineral water in my home town turns full on rusty brown after like an hour in a bottle
@@SuperMarijus oh wow
dissolved minerals and solids, it looks funky but will not harm you if you happen to drink it. fun fact: if you stick the bottle in the fridge, all the dissolved solids will settle to the bottom of the bottle and the water will be clear again (though the taste will be lesser than from the fresh source.) I lived in an area with a sulfur aquifer as the towns water source...everything smelled of boiled eggs. We would fill water jugs from the tap, and place them in the fridge to let the dissolved sulfur solids settle and remove the slightly eggy taste. The water was so soft from the sulfur that you never felt clean when you took a shower. We always looked forward to vacation and going places with hard water in the pipes....ah, bliss.
I have to wonder how sterile it could be
Normal ppl: I want to go to Germany for the beer. Me: I want to go to Germany for the water.
Try tap water. It is super cheap and the best for the environment. And it is not dangerous to drink it in Germany. :D
You must purchase!
and when you do it is fizzy most of the time.
Drinking a refreshing glass of the ubiquitous "Kranberger" is arguably more German than doing a relaxed 180 on the autobahn's right lane
(Kran-berg-er = From Faucet Mountain = tap water :)
Shit I am with you
@@KitsuneHB nah fam fizzy water
includes dog, would watch again. 10/10 documentary.
Fun fact: After finishing watching this video, you may amaze yourself by realizing that you just watched a guy spilling a few historical facts and drinking fizzy water for almost 30 minutes.
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I wish this was called “two boys one cup”
Uhh...
Best comment EVER! 😂🤣😅🤣
You really don't want to go there. Not even in jest!
Oof.
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First of all, awesome video.
And fun fact: We in Argentina are the second country in the world in seltzer consumption, of course behind Germany.
Super interesting!
The 'sodero' still comes to our place every week, kinda like the milk man in old american movies where you leave the empty 'sifon' and get refilled ones! Sustainable and forever sparkly :D
Until not long ago it was also common to have your own "sifón". Typically a metal bottle like recipient but instead of a normal cap it has a siphon like mechanism. You filled the bottle, put on the siphon and used carbonated gas charges (kinda like what homebrewers use nowadays) to put the gas into the "sifón".
Argentina also is the second country in Nazi population, of course behind Germany
@@watson22ify I doubt that, probably Austria has more, and there's also Brasil and the US (don't forget operation paperclip and Steve Bannon).
Nestle wants to know your location to privatize those fountain and sell you that water.
Not so much. Nestle mostly wants to sell you bottles of tap water; it's more profitable.
These fountains are already private and selling you that water 😄
@@RolandHutchinson In a lot of very low income parts of the world, Nestle privatizes natural water and charges money to the already very poor citizens of those countries to drink it.
Thank you for explaining something that has puzzled me for a long time. In high school I had the pleasure of spending a year in Germany as an exchange student (CB 97: Experiment gone wrong :), and I found it odd how hard it was to get non-sparkling water, ie. tap water. In the US, we have still water drinking fountains all over the place, and any restaurant gives you ice water along with your silverware and menu. In Germany, merely asking for still tap water in a restaurant was enough to get you thrown out, as if you had asked to do horrible things to the owner's family. In all my travels through 10 Lander, I found 1 still drinking water fountain in the whole country. Now, thanks to this video, I finally understand why :)
I had to laugh so hard at the 'Bauzaun' surrounding the spring and your disappointment. That was such German moment. I feel like only in Germany, would anyone feel the need to erect a man high fence in a situation like that.
SICHERHEIT!
I kind of expected him to just climb over the fence... i certainly would have tried that
I appreciate your comment. However, I would suggest it doesn't compare with the over-abundance of signs, fences, railings, barriers and locked gates 'protecting' people from the natural beauties kept from visitors throughout the US. Just saying, as one who grew up there.
@@christianh2581 Me too, but I think doing so on camera is different. After all, it's technically a crime and you know we germans are sticklers for rules :P
Ordnung muss sein!
The "guard dog" at 21:35 is the cutest thing ever! Melted my heart. And what a well made and interesting documentary! Great work!
What the dog doin?
Same so cute
I see what you did there. "Well" made hehehe
Great video! Here In Spain, my grandpa called the sparkling water "Agua de Seltz", which means "Seltz's water", and now I know why! Thanks a lot!
Same with my father. He loved carbonated water and I do too.
In denmark sparkling Walter is called “danskvand” and that translats too “Danish water”
@Otto Hermann Feltan It's because "Swedish (soda)water" used to refer to the sodas with colors and flavoring. So to differentiate, the plain sparkling water was called "Danish water".
I'd never had sparkling water before I visited Europe (Im Australian), and ended up having to drink it there out of necessity. I ended up hooked. Its so much more refreshing than still water, and has a better mouth-feel (still water feels almost like drinking cream to me now, its kinda unpleasant). Since Im lucky enough to have always lived in houses with good tap water, I can just soda stream that for plentiful and next-to free sparkling water
Most households in Germany have a soda stream or some sort of. Depends where you are tab water is super tasty. The us army bottles their water where I grew up.
@@martinh6095 newer taps have a carbonate function with different levels of carbonation
@@sgschmidt whaaaat? 😱😱
Buy it from the store lmao
@@mitchs6488 Why... would I do that when its way more expensive and way less convenient?
There is still a saying in Germany about beverage choice. It is: "Sekt oder Selters", literally "Champagne or sparkling water".
To me it shows how revered Selters was that it was/is suggested as the alternative to champagne. :)
Not really, it's meant more in a fancy or plain dichotomy, like the stuff you choose to toast to. It probably wasn't a successful endeavor when you choose to break out the water instead of booze.
Never heard of that. Is it more of a northern thing?
@@blarfroer8066 No, its more a thing of being bonded with your own language and the love to use it. Because its an all over the place thing.
@@franzfred7511 Standard German is not my native language, maybe that's why. The only brand I've heard being used for water is Valser
You know you’re a great story teller when you just got me to watch a 30 min story about water
That was really cool! I'm a fantasy writer and this was in a sense, inspiring.
What really hooked me was the passion and fascination that was had when tasting the natural spring in which you had sought so hard to find. "A gift from nature." Absolute magic.
Thank you for taking me on this awesome journey with you, and know that the knowledge and ideas that I have attained from your passion will be passed on to mine.
I loved how you went full 'Journey Across Germany' by the last destination. Awesome video!!
Same lmao
All he needs now is local guy who barely can speak english(and will steal the show) and bilingual ausie that talks about questionable stuff for living
Ah yes Andong in German
@@aleksisgabliks3881 My man hahaha
Love how he used the same theme music as "Journey Across Japan"
"There's another spring just 10-15 minutes away.." - "Nein." - "9 minutes away!"
As German as it get's. That had me laugh pretty hard!
lmao
The punchline should have been "Doch!"
I don't see a problem here ^^
When I went abroad for university, one of the things I missed the most was VERY carbonated sparkling water. There's just nothing else that can replace a nice bottle of almost painfully fizzy water after a meal.
I have drank from that exact fountain as a kid, and I remember my reaction being similar to the "oh my god, it tastes like blood and salt"
The reason why they used to use earthenware bottles instead of glass was because for the longest time, they were the only sealable vessels that could hold meaningful amounts of pressure. Glass technology wasn't as advanced back then to produce glass sturdy enough to hold much CO2 pressure. That also shows in your bottle: the opening has a slight "lip" on the outside. That was used for tying down the cork to withstand the pressure.
I always have a keg of sparkling water on tap in the brewery - the higher the pressure the better.
Do you all use it for cocktails? Or just strictly it's pure awesomeness. Great idea btw, as someone that has bartended for a longtime. I'd go there.
What state?
@@Jondayzz Brewery is in my basement at home - water is just for it's pure awesomeness, though I do make a selection of pop syrups to mix it with.
@@GlenAndFriendsCooking Cool, I subbed btw, will check it out later.
Glen I always knew you‘re a man of culture!
Hey Friend :)
*Edit: jesus why did so many people comment on my comment
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I can confirm this. I discovered sparkling water being the regular basic water on every restaurant on Netherlands, Germany, Belgium and Italy. Sometimes you were offered both sparkling and regular water on France or Denmark. That was a shock for me the first time. Now here on Spain, we are starting to have some decent brands of this nice water, and as you have told, nothing beats it while being cold. Cheers!!!
Despite being a sparkling water devotee myself, I thought an episode about it wouldn't be that good. After all, it's just water. But this actually ended up being one of my favorite videos of yours!
He´s usually very enthusiast about the things he presents to us, but i agree this chapter tops any of them
The German-code held Andong back from climbing over that fencing...
“Oh my god you’re so cute but I’m carrying an antique” 😂🤣
Such a great story Andong, brings me back to high school. Lived in Wiesbaden, went to the international school in oberursel , had many friends in bad homburg. The German obsession with water is so evident in its town names and so surprising for a much inland country.
I still think San pelligrino tastes so good be it’s just in a green bottle. Thanks for the video
tldr: man drinks sparkling water for 30 minutes straight
Not tl! Enjoyed every minute.
Good thing this comment was short, or I would've skipped it and I'd never have taken the time to look up what "tldr" means. 💡
@@giuseppelogiurato5718 what does it mean? I’m too lazy to Google it
@@calico9046 Means TOO LONG; DIDN'T READ (TL;DR)...im pretty sure...maybe
"it doesn't taste like blood and salt anymore" clearly has to be selters next ad campaign
"Not gonna lie, I love when it hurts JUST a little bit in the back of my throat,"
Me too, dude. Me too.
Hey Andong! I'm from Brazil, here in São Lourenço we do have a large sparkling water park, with 9 fountains with different properties, it's a beautiful park, and it's so cool to feel the nature's gift taste! (unless the ferruginous ones, haha).
As a german now living in the UK for over 10 years I'm still baffled that there is usually only one kind of sparkling water at the shops...whereas you'd get different brands with different carbonation(?) In germany to your taste. Missing my 'schorle' over the summer :/
A sodastream can be your friend then.
@@77LCJ indeed - my parents back home invested into one of those fancy in tap soda streamers because of the schlepping to the 4th floor. But here at least london water I'm filtering before using soda stream to get rid of the chlorine taste.
Yeah, I miss that from Germany
That's because most people cannot stand the flavour. Can you import proper pretzels and beer into the british culture before fizzy water please.
@@Scott3387 You can get proper beer at least sometimes (for now) although of course not the same selection you'd get back home (my local tesco has imported Franziskaner e.g. which I like).
Just need to be careful with your watered down versions that wouldn't fly in germany (looking at you Becks vier).
I don't know what it is about pretzels here but whenever I've tried one they are always so dry. Whereas one of the main selling point for me at least with laugengebaeck is that it's quite moist (not talking about the dried little pretzels or sticks here of course).
Who would have thought that Selters has such a long and illustrious history?! Great video!
I’ve been almost exclusively been drinking water my whole life, but I’ve never had carbonated water in my life.. I’ll have to get a bottle from the supermarket & give it a try
What do you think of it?
this is the most interesting video I've ever seen about a subject I do not care about
"Many Germans" that's a regional thing, I've never heard anyone use the word Selters, it's either Sprudel or it's Mineralwasser where I live.
From Schleswig Holstein here. People where i come from all know selter and usually call it as such.
Wohnst du in Nordrhein-Westfalen?
@@gamermen321 I thought ur profile picture was a swastka
Yes Sprudel and as a child I used to call It 'kribbel Wasser'.
yeah "Bring mir mal ne Selter mit mein Bester." is what we say where i live, and nobody refers to the Selter brand by saying that, but just carbonated water in general.
When I studied in Germany, back in 2009, the Gymnasium I was attending had sparkling water refills stations for water bottles! I couldn't believe it. At the time I was disgusted, but I adjusted and now I'm addicted to the stuff.
Same at my school
after all the enthusiasm i felt it in my heart at 20:00 like ive been watching a whole documentary about seltzer water…. mineral water… i love the enthusiasm
I am so weirdly obsessed with this whole channel. Love the format, presentation, host, info, etc. Danke!! ♡♡♡
21:32 - Extremely cute pupper alert! This is not a drill! CUTE PUPPER!!! Skweeee!
was kinda dissapointed that he didnt play with him/take the leash and look for the owner. dont think the dog would have cared if hed take the leash
@@Marcohalt We don't know what happened off camera :)
What the dog doin?
@@smileysproduction5245 Being cute.
"Salt and blood" - that sounds like the tap water from my parents' farm in northern Manitoba. You draw a bath, and it smells like a morning-after battlefield.
There is a very special spring in Texas that my dad would take me to on the weekends and the water was bright green from the algae that lived in it , it was completely safe to drink . The well has been there for almost 150 years it was very healthy with a high mineral count .
As a sparkling water lover I hold this video very close to my heart
20:55
That was a German "NEIN". He was just fed up with it and didn't want to continue driving ^^
Dort know in you are joking but it actually was a „Nine“ for 9 Minutes to Drive.
@@wtsn_exe The english "nine" and the german "Nein" sound exactly the same. In the context of the situation both fit. Its up to interpretation.
@@wtsn_exe 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 as a german its funny
I have an entire section of my fridge dedicated to Spindrift...
The pineapple one is hands down the best.
I'm a topo chico and Polar guy, but spindrift is also very good (it just has calories due to the real juice), but damn is it delicious. I'll drink spindrift in the evenings around meal time, but I don't want to break my fast during the day.
@@Jondayzz Polar is so damn good, but I really need to branch out because I don’t think I really experienced that many seltzers.
I've been drinking sparkling water majority of my life and I'm 62. Just buy a sodastream and use tap water. Sparkling water all day everyday. No waste of any kind, no bottles so saving the planet and getting your Sparkling water on tap.
dude, I swear you comment on every single video I watch....
This was just the video I needed today. Thank you kindly.
I just moved to Frankfurt for uni and the brand Selters is everywhere here because we are quite close to the spring here in Hessen. Since at my university this is the water you can buy and at every restaurant they have Selters here I also started buying it for drinking at home just because of yeah I like it and it’s around so much. I did not know that this specific brand has so much history. This is such a funny coincidence and I love it.
Keep up the great content, I’m loving it 😁
the scene with the dog is the best plot twist in 2021
That was straight up magical.
If religion exists, this is how i depict entering the afterlife. Minus the tether! 10/10 good doggo
"if there is one thing i cannot live without is sparkling water" - i feel you bro 100000%
this was such a fun, educational, well made, and engaging video! you've got me hooked. have my sub
Back in about early 2015 that's when I started to realize that I actually really liked sparkling water myself, ever since then whenever I go out I usually buy some and I love the stuff cold as can be this was a cool video man keep it up.
You should definitely do more road trips
Especially in Germany
He should try a "Grünkohltour" in North Germany in the winter with some locals! XD Could be very funny especially if they play this special games like "Gummistiefelweitwurf" or "Boßeln".
Reminds me of my time as a "beer driver" in the 80s. On my delivery tour I had the St. Martinus Hospital in my city, which was run by nuns. The nuns specialized in "treatment" with mineral water because the hospital did not have the financial support at the time. I have 27 different mineral waters on my list .......
each specialized in a different disease or symptom, one for diarrhea, one for constipation, another for kidney stones, etc.
One thing in particular sticks in my memory "Bad Driburger Heilwasser" that is drunk warm! Brrrr, cruel this stuff !!!
This is amazing, didn’t Know I needed this video
I like your clear pronounciation, your energy, the quality of the information, the Camera and the cuts. Subscribed
I'm from Germany and have literally never heard of Selters. For me the "standard" brand is gerolsteiner
Gerolsteiner is the most disgusting water for me.
So do the taste differ :P
„Sekt oder Selters“ is a very famous German saying
@@feelinggrape that depends on the region, as I have also never heard that one
I grew up in Franconia and throughout the video I felt like the whole saying Selters instead of Mineralwasser must be a joke.
The best water is the cheap brand that's exclusive to the supermarket you are at (Saskia etc.)
I love the "Journey Across Japan" vibes in this video.
Aaaaah, another fan of "Journey across Japan"! :D
@@KitsuneHB definitely!!
Your non cooking videos are seriously so good. Not that the cooking ones aren't -- they're amazing! -- but it's so cool to see this kind of stuff too, and the execution is on point
heard the "journey across japan" royalty free song, and now I want a "journey across Germany" series
Can we also talk about the ecological madness of shipping water hundreds of kilometers in trucks when (at least in Germany) you can have perfectly save water from the tap? 🤭
Of course, many places have a local springs where you can get mineral water that has traveled only a few km, but there is also a huge variety of brands that get shipped from north to south and south to north. 😞
Great video btw
True! :) Would have been a nice fact too in this video.
Where I lived temporarily in Germany (near Munich) had horrendously hard water, way too much calcium in the water. Even filtered through a Brita filter. My point is that even though I am the kind of person who would enjoy quite metallic tasting water, too much limescale is just too much limescale. Not everywhere in Germany will have great quality water, and being able to occasionally buy refilled glass bottles of tasty fizzy or still water as treat is really nice.
I should mention that I was quite anemic and all that calcium was directly bad for me, which may have affected my taste buds. And I now live in a soft and iron rich water area which has been a tremendous boon to my tastebuds, hair, skin, and anemia.
"I'm not gonna lie, I kinda love when it hurts just a little bit on the back of my throat"
Andong
That's what he said... 😉🤣
This reminds me of a trip as a kid in Australia. Somewhere on our way to or from Melbourne for a holiday, we stopped somewhere that had natural mineral water. We filled up the big water bottle we kept in the car, and as good as the water was, we didn't finish it by the end of the trip, and weeks later after we'd gotten home again, we found the inside of the bottle was full of rust which had come out of the water. I just wish I could remember where it was.
Okay, I'm fourty years of age now but seeing my hometown in a video - even for just a few frames - makes me giggle like a little girl.
Journey across Germany! That list of nutrients in the water is like the onsen hot springs in Japan where they list all the minerals in the bath.
Well as he hinted at we also have ever since Roman times had a strong bathing culture and many people go to these "Kurorte" (curing places) to bath and refule their energy. While we don't have hot springs we have a combination of Sauna (after all we are closely related to the Nordics) and mineral baths (though foreigners should be aware that they are usually mixed gender and fully nude before entering a Bad or Therme (heated mineral water so i guess an artificial hot spring)
Seltzer with alcohol in it? We have a region in Germany where this is normal. In the Palatinate / Pfalz, it is a Weinschorle. And the water you combine with the wine (Riesling for me) is very, very important. Not every wine is matching every water.
SPECTACULAR and informative video documentary, Mate!!!
This is really interesting. I am German, and although I live in Switzerland (where non-sparkling water is big), I know sparkling water from my parents and grandparents (the latter of which always offer us sparkling water first), and I never saw „Selters“ brand sparkling water in any stores. Ever. There must be some sort of regional variety even in Germany (as to where what brand is sold, I mean).
Of course, the other possibility is that I didn‘t pay enough attention in the supermarket, given that I‘m not particularly interested in sparkling water (expect drinks and lemonade).
My Spanish grandfather lives in a city in Brazil where they have a park with a lot of natural fountains. Half of them are naturally sparkling and taste delicious. Drinking water straight from the fountains was one of the hallmarks of our trip when visiting him. I just can't drink sparkling water anymore because how better natural sparkling water is. Unfortunately there isn't any brand that bottles natural sparkling water anymore (that I'm aware of) and all of them are full of artificial carbonation.
Wasn't betterhelp proven to be scamming people by not providing licensed Healthcare professionals? I remember something about that happening like a year or two back. Have they actually improved their service at all?
I also remembered that controversy, but I couldn't find any updates. I assume Andong did his research on them
As a licensed mental health professional, I know that their screening process verifies through the licensing boards of each state's healthcare quality assurance division. That's been true since at least September 2020. I can't speak to prior dates.
@@UraniumFire i think the controversy was before that (2018- early 2019 maybe?), so I imagine that policy is likely in response to that.
At least it shows that they actually made a change, and didn't just wait out the controversy like 99% of companies
They have this in Saratoga Springs NY as well. I took a sip of the water coming out of the spring once and had the same exact reaction. It was awfully salty/minerally
When I was a kid, I went to a water fountain here in Portugal that had the the effect of making those who drink it very hungry. I can assure you that it worked! Last time I heard, you now need a physician's prescription to drink it.
On the subject of salty waters: there is a town in Germany, Goslar, that has a traditional beer brewed using the naturally salted water of the region (it's called a Gose). It's very nice.
You have a project, everything works fine and a tiny little obstacle breaks the whole Project. That's literally what this video can teach you, if you look behind the curtain. Love it! Andong, I like how you're channel evolved from a pure cooking to something more individual, special, very entertaining and educational channel! Keep up that good work and spirit and a big shout out to your team 🙂!
Regarding the "it's not gonna kill you":
It takes drinking about 7 liters of water to desalinate the average person enough for it to be dangerous (google "hyponatremia").
Also, if you try to breathe the carbonated water, you're running risk of CO2 poisoning. Or, you know, drowning.
Idk if hyponatremia would be a problem considering the high salt/mineral content. Hypernatremia (don't think that's the word) may be more of a risk
That and the heavy/toxic mineral content
Watching this video has given me a crazy desire to travel to Germany. I really wanna go on a road trip like that!!
Love your videos man!!
When I was 17 years old I did a student exchange and lived in Germany for a month. My first night with the host family I asked for water and was shocked when I got a mouth full of bubbles! lol
I personally am not a fan, but the cultural aspect is fascinating!
Had the same experience when I visited years ago. Had to say "kein Gas" many, many times.
@@tissuepaper9962 I had the same experience in Poland. If you just asked for water, you got fizz. Had to ask for “nie gazowana” or “no gas”.
I am one of those germans who is also not really into the fizz but luckily the tap water quality is very good in my area (most areas).
@@derPetunientopf Is SodaStream popular in Germany? Or is fizzy water so common that no one needs to carbonate their tap water at home? There’s such a large price gap in the US that it makes economic sense (and environmental) but we miss out on the minerals.
@@choreomaniac I know that some people have soda streams but i think its far away from popular. I dont know about the water prizes in the US but in germany when you buy bottled water fizzy and non-fizzy are more less in the same price range, its rather the non-fizzy water thats a bit pricier.
In the shops fizzy water is ultra common but tap water is not fizzy. I havent heard of any place with fizzy tap water. Soda streams have also the problem that you have to be extra diligent when cleaning them otherwise you get the risk of cultivating germs.
I guess you have to use soda stream for a long time to actually save money in germany. Not sure if its worth it.
I nearly had a heart attack when Andong waved around his clay treasure at ~18:07, lol
The most amazing 30 minutes about water I will ever see...
Thanks for the video. Being Berliners ourselves we decided to copy you and take the trip to Bad Homburg, and yes, the water really does taste funky. The only difference is we're gonna probably add a few wine tastings to the itinerary! Thanks for the tips, keep them coming!
„Selters... aus Selters an der Lahn“ was such a common TV advertising claim in my childhood, I still hear it in my head every time I hear someone say Selters.
Und ich komme aus dem anderen Selters xD (Westerwald)
When he was filling the glass from the tap all I could think about was Limmy's sketch.
"and it tastes... of fuck awl. Cheers!"
Also, Argentinians love carbonated water a lot too. I wonder if there could be a connection there...
This was amazing. I want to travel with you through my computer screen all over the world. also, my childhood dream was to be a Water Connoisseur and be paid to taste water, so I breathed this experience. Inhaled it. Well done.