Another difference is that Americans starts the calendar with the last day of the week. It is so weird starting the calendar week with the sunday. And everybody knows - sunday is the last day of the week. So WTF why???
H-Milk ... because of the heating process which kills some of the natural milk-bacterias in order to make it long-lasting is because of that lack of most of the milk-bacterias way easier to digest but yes the taste is therefore slightly different as well....I´ve got a little milk-intolerance..not as bad that I can´t eat or drink any milk product or that I have to use lactose-free milk but I´ll get troubles when I drink normal milk...so therefore I´m fine with H-Milk By the way the socalled "Locher" (2 hole-punch) has on one side a plastic thing which you can pull out in order to give you the right measurement for making the holes on the right spot (the middle of the paper) so therefore every piece of paper will get the holes on the same spot and it´s variable depending on how far you pull it out for A4 or A5 or other sizes ...just mentioned it because in your demonstration you didn´t use it and therefore you didn´t made the holes straight in the middle
When I wanted to get something like a Dayquil capsule or tablet in a German Apotheke, all they had was this really nasty powdered stuff that I had to mix with water. I missed being able to just swallow a capsule and not taste anything. One of the things that I do miss from Germany though is the Vitamin C or Magnesium tablets that you drop into a cup of water and it becomes a nice tasting fizzy drink.
I just went and checked, the powdered stuff that the Apotheke sold me for a treating a cold was called "Wick DayMed Kombi Erkältungsgetränk". I would so much have rather had Dayquil LiquiCaps.
Did you know that you can fold A4 in the middle to get to A5? Or that you can stick two A4s together to get to A3? Two of them to get A2? Two of them to get A1? And 18 of them to get the big billboard you can see on houses? The A system was actually invented in Germany and is now used in nearly all countries worldwide.
That's awesome! We really haven't looked into the A system of paper beyond just now knowing we need A4 paper for our printer. That seems like a neat system though!
Is your point that Germans have systems like this everywhere for everything and I shouldn't be surprised by that? I am surprised because I have never had a reason to have paper sizes so organized. 🤷♂️
@@PassportTwo Well, we germans have systems/norms for almost every aspect of our live. The thing is that most systems like that are part of the so called DIN-Norm (Deutsches Institut für Normung -> German institute for norm factors) and was before that and Standartisation Committee of german industry. With the industralization the germans (esp. the prussians) realized that "having the least possible standard factors/norms" is a way to success. When your engine is broken, you are able to repair it with almost every tool, use standard parts etc. That's why germany was so successfull back in the day. Then we realized, that standartization of the industry is nice though, but we could put a standard on almost everything. E.g. Colours have also DIN standards (as long as they are produced in germany or for the german market). So if you like to have a special colour, you can pick the main ingredients (colours) from any producer and you will get always the same endresult (as long as they follow the DIN). Even writing a letter succumbs DIN. Just google for "DIN 5008" and you will find the a huge rule set for stuff like punctuation, font, how to write dates, paragraphs etc. for a simple task like... writing a letter. Did you notice that almost all letters from public authorities look kinda the same with some variations? Welcome to DIN-Land ;) DIN is not a law, so when you wanna start a papersheet trade, go on and have your own sizes. But that could lead to problems when your awesome paper won't fit in the standardized enveloupes ;) But I guess the paper size standards are one of the most german things ever - besides Reinheitsgebot and "IHRE PAPIERE BITTE!" :)
Just one information: The "Expiration date" on german products is not really an expiration date. It says "mindestens haltbar bis" what translates to "best before" which means, that the product can be eaten at least until the shown date. It does not mean, that it is expired and that you have to throw it away after that date!
😂 You nailed it. They live on an island, don‘t know much about the rest of the world, but think it works the way they‘re used to and are appalled when they find out that it‘s different.
WhatsApp is not a thing in China (at least mainland). It's blocked there (unless you use VPN or a sim card from outside of China and don't connect to any Chinese WLAN). Chinese people use WeChat.
Literally all American phone plans come with unlimited sms/mms whereas in Germany mms are not included in unlimited texting. Also, mms in the USA supports group Messaging so there was never an incentive to use Whatsapp in the first place. Apple was just clever enough to enhance the experience by integrating iMessage into the texting app which makes everything more seemless.
@@christhejuggler7431 seamless. Sorry, I was not able to resist to point out that spelling mistake. That was the Klugscheißer in me which behaves like a Sheldon Cooper....
As for eggs, in Germany it is also _recommended_ to store them in the fridge, to keep them good to eat for as long as possible. However, once you put them in the fridge, you MUST KEEP them refrigerated until use. This is also the main reason eggs are never refrigerated in stores (nor during transport) in Germany: This way consumers can safely transport them home unrefrigerated, and can freely choose whether to store them refrigerated or unrefrigerated.
yes! when taking them out of refrigeration (even for a short time, for transport) they get "wet" (caused by cold items coming into contact with humid or normal warm air) and that voids the "natural protection" they had when not washing them. this effect gets worse the more often you cool and warm them, eg lots of steps during transport (to supermarket, to home, etc) or even when you often open and close the fridge with the eggs eg on a shelf in the fridge door. from that time on bacteria and other stuff can grow every time they are no longer cold.
If you want to put them into the fridge, you have to remove the cardboard. The cardboard could go a little moist inside the fridge. You wouldn't notice, but the eggs would. That's why there are these plastic egg holders inside the fridge. Normally the eggs are fine outside the fridge for 4 weeks.
I've never put my eggs into the fridge because I usually consume them before the "refrigerate after"-label would come into play. So far in my 30 years of life I never had any problems with any kind of salmonella at all.
That actually became an EU regulation which led to the Problem with Bavarian Beer Mugs. As they dont have that line. Or better said its inside and its not a see through thing. So the Bee rMugs got an exception for that Regulation. But that took some work and i do rememebr that they had to cheat the system. but i cant remember how.
@@Indifferent86 All the glasses /except for some *special* beer glasses) in my home do not have that line. The law is only for restaurants and bars and not for homes ;)
@@kaitan4160 If they serve you in that Bavarian beer mug you have the right to ask for a glas to pour it into that glass and check the quantity. But I have never seen anybody doing that xD In other places they give you an empty beer mug and a bottle of beer.
The reason most countries use DIN paper, like DIN A4 and so on is because of the ratio of the sides. When You half (or double) the paper the ratio stays exactly the same. It makes it way easier to shrink down or increase the size of Your layout. When You design a Layout in A4 You can blow it up to A1 or shrink it down to A6 or whatever You want and Your layout stays exactly the same, You have no borders, no stretching, no changes in the design... makes a lot of things easier
Furthermore: A0 is exactly 1 squaremeter, so it is very easy to calculate the paper demand in a printer shop. And you don't get any waste if you cut smaller formats from bigger sheets.
This paper standard is called DIN which is Deutsche Industrie Norm (German Industrial Norm)... of course, the Germans invented a clever and precise way to organize paper format and make it work across all sizes!!:-)
@@ThomasKossatz yes, I just wanted to compliment the Germans on their great work and love for detail!! That's why so many of their products are so great!!
@@PassportTwo it is somewhat surprising to me that you were looking for a three hole punch when you already figured out that due to the A4 system Europeans (and the rest of the world) only use two hole binders...also, I don't know where in Germany you are from, but I have stopped using a fountain pen during my 4 last years of high school and never had an issue to find other pens, be it ball point, gel or whatever...kinda weird to me that you felt the need to buy a childrens fountain pen, but you do you man ^^
@@jxyzbxt2355 a fountain pen isn't for kids only though. A lot of people I know from university use it, a lot of people use ball pens. Whatever your preference is, who cares? 😅
It's true that school children in Germany are taught writing with fountain pens, but in everyday life everyone uses biros or feltpens. If you see a grown up person using a fountain pen it won't usually be one of those preschool models, but an expensive one whose primary purpose is showing off :)
Here in Czech Republic kids have to write with classic ink pens only first few years, in first and second class 100% but then most of kids are writing with whatever. But I know one guy who was writing with ink pen even on high school, we had always blue hands like some little kid from elementary school. :-D
You should try writing with a pen. The writing is more fluid and the ideas flow faster. I write my designs with a pen first before I hammer the final text or book into the computer.
Right? I'm a french citizen, and washing/rinsing your fruits and vegetables makes sense, you might eat the "outside" of the product, the product may have pesticide... But with eggs, the inside never touch the shell. I've never seen a small feather or dirt fall in the bowl. I just wash my hands afterward though.
So at least mo here realizes when we say 'wash' what Americans really mean is rinse! Most people have that lost in translation and thought we were scrubbing our eggs with soap and water. Just simply rinse it off just to make sure that nothing does fall into the bowl after cracking. 🤷♂️
@@PassportTwo people understand that you mean 'rinse' when you say 'wash', that's not the point. To most Europeans rinsing the eggs doesn't make any sense, because should you encounter a feather you just pluck it away. I have lived in Europe all my life, and what you consider to be dirt, at least from my experience, is stuck to the shell this solidly, that 'rinsing' the egg really isn't necessary. I mean, I don't know if Americans crack their eggs differently from Europeans, but you don't get anything from the shell into your eggs if you crack them properly...that said, go ahead if you feel more secure rinsing your eggs xD
@@PassportTwo It is really simple. The natural egg is sealed by nature. This seal is broken if you wash your eggs. After washing the eggs should, no better must be refrigerated. The unwashed eggs can be stored outside the refrigerator but should be cooled close before the expiry date. The boiling kills all bacteria and i throw my eggs in cold water (abschrecken) to cool off. This is also rinsing, but after the boiling.
@@chocolatezt No, you can store them at ambient temperature at home without any problem, at least for a while. Usually, there are two dates on egg cartons in Germany: A "best before" date and a "refrigerate after" date.
Here in Germany, I haven't bought a bottle of water in several months. At home I drink from the tap and whenever I'm out and about, I have a reusable bottle that I can just fill up with tap water. I try to save as much plastic as I can.
@@detales91 That is correct. However, the quality control of the tab water ends in the water plant. There might be several tens of kms between the water plant and your house. The quality of the water that you take from the tab is not observed at all - unless you take a sample and let somebody check it at your own cost ;)
@@johncatty6560 I didn't know exactly if it was completely true, so thanks for that info! My partner drinks tab water no problem all the time but normally I only drink it when I don't have any drinking water left 😅 I'm still happy about the quality!
@@detales91 I did not say that the quality of the water from the tab is bad ;) I just wanted to express that the water is only tested in the plant and not in the houses of the consumers. I've had a bad experience once. We came back home after spending vacation in Spain not knowing that one of the water pipelines in the neighborhood had a leak. It was repaired during our vacation. When we wanted to take a shower after returning back home the water was fine at first. Then there was the noise of air mixing with the water followed by brown water coming from the shower. We had to let the water flow for quite some time until it looked clean again xD
There have been a lot of comments about when we said we 'wash' the eggs but I think it is getting lost in translation. Most of the time in the US when we buy produce, we 'wash' it before eating. However, when we say 'wash' in this context, what we really mean is 'rinse.' When we wash our eggs or produce, we literally are turning on water and running it under for a second or two just to rinse off anything from the farm, i.e. dirt or feathers. In the case of eggs, it is just to knock that stuff off so when we crack them, we don't have dirt falling into our eggs that we dig out. We know it won't kill us and 'washing' isn't for antibacterial reasons either.
@@PassportTwo But it is still the same question. Are you eating the shell? When you crack them nothing from the outside is getting in contact with the inside. On the other hand you heat up your ingredients above 70 °C by cooking and then every bacteria is dead. This thing I didn't came over when I was in Australia.
TheAschenbroesel I don’t think you fully read my reply. It’s not for antibacterial purposes. It is to get the feathers and dirt off and from falling into the cracked eggs.
For spray deodorant I'd recommend two things: 1: Short, controlled sprays. The more precise and accurate you are, the less aerosol ends up in your lungs. 2: Now, this is a weird one, but try putting a shirt on first and then spraying under it. This way, any extra spray is just gonna get caught in your clothes and eventually washed out instead of smelling up the room.
4:04 Texting to "My Friend": Wanna hang out? No Would you like to grab coffee? No Want to see a movie? No Want to come watch the game? No You Home? No Wanna grab a bite? No ... Great friendship :)
yes and no you repeat the same question , hey do you have time to hang out or are you busy ( have other plans ) i'm busy ...but what if we ... i'm still busy ...or .. or or i mean no is just the truth without any background but , sorry i have to work on such and such or i meat that person today is still the same answer or i just don't like to today after the second question i would have called and told why we don't meat today ...
The "normal" milk is restocked on a daily basis, so you won´t find lots of milk in the fridge, just enough for about one day. There is also an unwritten law for customers to prefer milk that is out of the area because of shorter transportation. So a shop usually has only a hand full of suppliers for fresh milk.
many people like to have (and keep up to half a year) ONE liter of H-milk as kind of reserve in case they forgot to buy some in time for the weekend when shops are closed although most people seem to not like the H taste. but the most common is the cooled milk "länger haltbar" (not longer than Hmilk but only longer than untreated milk) which usually lasts up to three weeks (some companies give a date of 3 weeks and one day later it turns bad, while others specify only one week but you can use it two more weeks after that date). until maybe 1-2 decades ago when that 3-week milk was introduced, normal cooled milk was only good for 1-3 or at most 7 days, and we had to adapt to a slightly different taste of the 3-week milk although by far it isn't as bad as the H milk. each of all these types of milk is/was available with different percentages of fat (usually 1.5% or 3% to 3.5%) about the eggs: in the usa they have to be cleaned and washed by law, and thus also have to be refrigerated. in europe they are not washed and thus are protected "naturally" unless they get wet which would be the case if you refrigerate them (cold egg plus humid or normal warm air gives wet eggs), and thus not only can they but even have to be sold unrefrigerated in europe. because of these different (even opposite) laws in the US and europe, neither egg may be exported to, imported from or sold in the other region. if you boil eggs in hot water or know how to open them without bathing the shell in yolk (and mostly you then immediately cook/bake them anyway) you don't need to additionally wash them before.
Well, I never buy the fresh milk. And no one in my family does. I have friends who will tell me that the different kinds of milk taste differently to them, but I never notice any difference. Maybe it's because I hate drinking warm milk and always drink my milk cold?
www.statista.com/statistics/999459/most-popular-dairy-products-germany/ This statistic also shows that maybe surprisingly, but long-life milk is more popular than fresh milk in Germany.
www.statista.com/statistics/999459/most-popular-dairy-products-germany/ I guess for some people if you click on the link it won’t show you the statistics but I don’t know why when I google it this is the first link and I see the data. However, if you can’t see it, data shows that in 2019, 58.5% of Germans (14 and older) have consumed long life milk multiple times a month vs 51.5% who have consumed fresh milk multiples times in a month. It also shows that this has been the case in popularity for the last 4 years (at least). 🤷🏻♂️
i dont use whatsapp and i know a lot of people who dont use it either. there are other apps like telegram or even signal you can use too. now you know ;)
I will never ever use Whatsapp. That's what all my inlaws are using and their family chat group is the purgatory where emojis and memes that sinned in life go after their death.
Kik and Viber is better in the US. WhatsApp has an issue of delivering messages to people. My husband sat next to me and sent me a message. I didnt receive it until I opened WhatsApp. Both of us had the same amount of bars of internet and it did put the the check marks on my husband's phone saying it was sent.
@@jessicaely2521 most likely the fault of your phone though. it can be caused by whatsapp not running in the background or your notificiation settings, or whatsapp settings.
DIN A Format is actually pretty smart. A0 is exactly one square-meter and the ratio of the sides is the only mathematically possible ratio, where when you cut it in half, the 2 resulting pieces have the exact same ratio. A1 is half of A0, A2 is half of A1, etc... and each size has the same ratio between its side-lengths.
We think this is getting lost in translation a bit...when we say we 'wash' our eggs, this does not mean we use soap or scrub them or even doing anything to really clean or disinfect them. When Americans say we 'wash' our produce or in this case the eggs, it simply means we run in under water for a second or two just to rinse the dirt or feathers off so those little bits don't drop in the eggs when we crack them! haha
I am working in retail in Germany and I can tell you that H-Milk doesn't get delivered as often to the store as fresh milk (2 times a week at the store I work at). So of course the stores have to put more on the shelves. Fresh milk gets delivered almost daily.
that's actually the reason 1st graders have to use them to learn writing. Almost all elementary schools prohibited the use of other pens in german classes in 1st+2nd grade (often for all 4 grades). Also you can buy "Lernfüller" (fountain pens for beginners) in all stationary shops. They have a replaceable tip since kids learning how to write tend to put to much pressure on them and destroy the tip this way. So you don't have to buy a new pen every week of the 1st grade instead of just buying 5-10 tips (maybe even in different sizes) for the same money :) I didn't even had anything besides (HB) pencils & 2x fountain pens in my pencil case until 5th grade.
@@Mangafan47 Not in first class. I really don'T know many elementary school, where they learn writing with fountain pens. They learn to write with normal pencils. Because it is also much easier to erase them (My daughter is in third grade now and they startet this year with writing with a fountain pen )
@@KaliqueClawthorne Aus welchem Budnesland bist du den? Meinem Nachhilfekind (NRW) ist es zumindest bis jetzt (auch 3.) nicht erlaubt mit Kulli oder so zu schreiben. Im Heft darf sie nur Füller (& Tintenkiller ;) ) haben, bei den Arbeitsblättern in der 1. durfte sie noch Bliestifft nehmen, aber nur die aller ersten, wo noch die Linienführung drauf ist.
@@thelasthandbook6704 You get left hand fountain pens nearly at every ''Art'' shop (the german word is ''Schreibwarengeschäft'' Shop for writing things)
It would be a very rare American who would ever use a fountain pen. Why? Because they’re messy and must be re-filled regularly. It’s been at least 50 years since fountain pens were in common use. We have ordinary ballpoint pens but also ones of better quality, if one prefers. The truth is, we mostly type.
Well, regarding milk I wouldn´t say that "fresh" milk is purchased less than "H-Milch". Both exist simultanously serving different purposes. I think the difference in taste does not have such a huge impact on peoples decision on which one to buy ... Mostly people buy H-Milch as kind of reserve in case they´re running out of "fresh" milk which (unfortunately) is not really as fresh as it was sold until ca. 10 yrs ago. The reason is simply that supermarkets wanted to reduce the amount of unsold (and thrown away = €€€) milk and forced the milk industry to switch to a mild UHT system which let´s milk last up to 1,5-2 weeks rather than the basic max. 1 week ... Even that mild UHT treatment came along with a slight change in taste - unfortunately. So, there are only very few options left to get really fresh (tasting) milk. Notably if you live in a rural area where a local farmer is allowed to sell milk straight from his farm.
The point that supermarkets want H-Milk more to reduce amount of lost product is a great point. Hadn't thought about the large corporations and stores influencing consumer behavior for their gain in this one particular field or product. In our village we do have a local farm that has set up a dispenser of 'farm fresh' milk in the parking lot of the grocery store. It is a bit more expensive but it tastes a lot better and I have assumed better health benefits.
Oh, H-Milk has been around much longer. In the past, fresh milk went bad within three days, sometimes earlier. So if you needed milk for cooking on Sunday and discovered that your milk had gone back, it was practical to have a package of H-Milk ready. Nowadays so called "fresh" milk holds way longer, so H-Milk is now mostly used by people who have limited cooling ability, simply like that it keeps so long or who remember Chernobyl (after Chernobyl, all fresh products, including fresh milk vanished from the shelves for a few weeks and naturally H-milk was sold out pretty fast. Those who had put some on storage (or reacted fast when the news hit) lucked out, everyone else had to improvise).
I disagree totally. H-Milch is a godsend. I remember when it came in when I was a small child, my parents totally went for UHT milk and never looked back, and I use it exclusively too. It's very convenient that you can stock up for months on milk, expecially as a single, and it's more economical and resource friendly because much less milk goes off before being drunk. Besides some of the fresh milk containers in the old days were leaky; there were different designs, especially the plastic hose ones were awful.
Well, even fresh milk is pasteurized, the difference ist the time it gets pasteurized. Today H-Milk doesn't taste much different of "fresh milk"; it mostly depends on available brands (as same brand fresh and H-Milk taste virtually the same). RAW-milk on the other side is somtehing completely different. But the change in taste mostly comes from homogenization (or the lack of it if you take raw milk). This leads to fat on top and less in the milk itself; making the popular first sip the "best". Besides that, the taste is quite the same (you'd agree if you ever tried homogenized raw milk), but the higher bacteria count can lead to a whole lot of intenstinal problems beginning with flatulence and going all the way up to diarrhea...
I don't know if you know this but Mindestens haltbar bis means that the manufacturer guarentate for a good quality of the product. Some products are abel to eat or drink after that time. Fish or so has Verbrauchen bis and wenn this time is up you should throw it in the garbage. We also have the DIN is for Deutsches Institut für Normung. All products with DIN doesn't matter from which manufacturer it comes, when the product have the same DIN there should be no difference.
Go drink tap water here in Germany. The regulations/quality standards for that are even higher than for bottled water. Cheap and, obviously, free delivery. 😉
I agree, but if you ask for leitungsvasser in a restaurant they look at you like you’ve lost your mind, and if you insist, the glass they bring is TINY, so you have specify grosse!
It might look like people are buying more of the H-Milk as I recall people just buying them in bulk. They just buy one of the bigger boxes they come in and thats like 10 or 12 H-milk cartons. In my family we are used to buying refrigerated milk once or twice a week. So you only buy like 2 cartons at once. As they also fill up the refrigerator at home.
When I first moved to Germany, I bought a small blue and white bottle of laundry detergent. Mentally I was thinking Woolite, but soon discovered I had used "Potato Starch" on my underwear.
well, last time I was in USA I would get charged even receiving SMS-text. In Europe it is not the case even in roaming (nor it was the case receiving sms, just when receiving phone calls).
yes they do. but prices are subject to a cap. in most cases the fees for sms are included in some flat rate offers. Thats why you don't notice. and in europe you cannot be charged more expensive fees abroad than you pay at home.
Talk and text hasn't been paid for the majority of people in the US since the early 2000's. You can get a plan that limits talk and text, but the people that I know who do this are parents or are not using the phone that much so unlimited talk and text is worthless to them. They want to limit their child's time on the cellphone. Really man you need to do your research before you open your mouth. instantcensus.com/blog/almost-90-of-americans-have-unlimited-texting
They are called "Ringbuch" you will find them not in the office section but with the stuff used by students. Back in the 90s I was desperately looking for some 3 ring binders for US gaming stuff. My first Magic The Gathering Binder was sold for over 50 DM (25 €)...
3 ring binding is unique to the US letter paper format. With the A series ISO format you use 2 or 4 holes with 8cm spacing. The slider on the side of your hole punch (black plastic thing) will have markings on it to line up the paper perfectly.... For 2 hole punching in A4 move it to the A4 position and your holes will always be perfectly centred. Need 4 holes but only have a 2 hole punch? Move the slider to the 888 or 4H position (different brands use different markings but 888 is more common) Punch the first 2, flip the page and punch the second 2 at the other end, the slider will ensure that the middle spacing is correct
3 ring binding is unique to the US letter paper format. With the A series ISO format you use 2 or 4 holes with 8cm spacing. The slider on the side of your hole punch (black plastic thing) will have markings on it to line up the paper perfectly.... For 2 hole punching in A4 move it to the A4 position and your holes will always be perfectly centred. Need 4 holes but only have a 2 hole punch? Move the slider to the 888 or 4H position (different brands use different markings but 888 is more common) Punch the first 2, flip the page and punch the second 2 at the other end, the slider will ensure that the middle spacing is correct
Water is served in the bottle because we have a fun little thing called "Mineral- und Tafelwasserverordnung (MTVO)". In order to preserve the quality and freshness of this fine natural product they're supposed to open the bottle at your table. There's quite a lot of regulation around mineral water.
Your videos where you compare the US and Germany seem to be your most popular ones. We Germans like seeing our country through the eyes of foreigners. I would love to see more of these comparisons from you!
We are definitely noticing that trend for our videos also and are trying to figure out what will be next! Glad you enjoy them and hopefully will be able to provide some more ASAP!
Tom - I think it is the case for every country. As a French, I watch a lot of videos about France but I also like videos on Germany because our countries are very similar.
I have never washed my eggs bought in the supermarket! The only time I washed them was when I was in the village and got my eggs from under the hen (literally).
There have been a lot of comments about when we said we 'wash' the eggs but I think it is getting lost in translation. Most of the time in the US when we buy produce, we 'wash' it before eating. However, when we say 'wash' in this context, what we really mean is 'rinse.' When we wash our eggs or produce, we literally are turning on water and running it under for a second or two just to rinse off anything from the farm, i.e. dirt or feathers. In the case of eggs, it is just to knock that stuff off so when we crack them, we don't have dirt falling into our eggs that we dig out. We know it won't kill us and 'washing' isn't for antibacterial reasons either.
@@PassportTwo As I understand it, in the US the egg producer wahes the fresh eggs with a chlorine like chemical. This kills any bacteria on the surface of the shell, but also removes the natural protective layer. Thus refrigeration is necessary.
For sure! We really enjoy learning all of this, especially the stuff that we don't feel like is right or wrong, but it still throws you for a loop because you are used to something you didn't even realize you were used to. haha
Wrong. Pasteurisation is using 60 C for a longer time instead of the 140+ C for a short time as used in H-milk. You'll have trouble getting milk that is only pasteurised in Germany nowadays. Nearly all milk you find in the fridge section in Germany is ESL milk. ESL is often heated to 120 C or filtered through membranes to get the "extended shelf life". Which is why the ESL milk tastes like mixing H-milk and fresh milk about 1:1. You can't get fresh milk from Lidl, Aldi or Netto for example.
I hope that i dont offend you german brothers if i say that i watch these video cuse i ran out of czech visiting videos and i feel like you are most similiar to us ( ofc with slovakia, austria, poland too) Edit : btw i would say that messenger is king here in czechia
We lived next to each other and with each other for last millenia and half or more. Czech and German customs are almost identical, we borrow socially from each others language. We eats similar food and drink lots of beer but those similarities go much deeper to architecture, philosophy, science and arts. I would say that Czechs, Germans, Austrians and Slovaks have a very similar world view even though we all tend to protect our own identity to some degree.
As a German living in Ireland i'm very happy about the polish stores all over since that is the only place I can get some german things like soup noodles :D Or Paprika Chips :P
BTW they don't really bring you the card terminal because it is more transparent but because the vast majority of cards nowadays uses pin codes all over Europe. So it is just more practical to either bring the machine or ask the person to come to the counter to pay
About the paper: you have just to tell your printer and computer that you want to print letter or DIN- size, so it does. My collegue went to Dubai for a building project, and there the sold printers are for letter size, but it is really no problem to switch.
Yup, we finally figured that out after our prints were coming out so funny. We didn't notice the paper difference because A4 and US letter size is so close to the same size that it wasn't obvious at first. Anyways, we have it switched on our computers now so we are good to go now 😊
The difference between A4 and Letter size is so negligible in my experience that I've never even bothered changing any settings. I notice I often print with the default Letter size settings on my A4 printer. And what usually happens is it just affects the size of your margins slightly. But who cares about margins in everyday life?
I am currently studying in the US (Ohio) and what I have noticed is the difference in interests in politics and education. I knew more about their systems than they did.
So the difference you're saying is in the level of interest in politics and education? As in, you were more interested in the subjects than they were and therefore you knew more about it?
Gotcha! Ya, it also may not be that they don't care, but because it is so divisive and people in the US have such a hard time talking about politics without it escalating, a lot of Americans will avoid talking about it especially if they recognize that two parts may not necessarily agree.
Just like the Letter paper format, 3-ring binders are essentially a North American thing only, and therefore of course not a thing here (except for very niche applications). Office supplies invariably follow the international ISO 838 standard, which is the 2-hole 8 cm system you've found. Binders are usually lever action ("Aktenordner"). In the educational sector, an extension to ISO 838 is also in common use, which features 4 holes spaced 8+8+8 cm apart. Binders for this system are usually implemented as snap action ("Ringbuch"), and you can get loose blank paper or tear-off notebooks with holes pre-punched for this "888" system. Tab sheets, transparent pockets and the like, even when targeted at the office sector, are also frequently pre-punched or shaped to fit the "888" system. Hole punches are usually 2-hole models with a fixed hole spacing, but their alignment aids typically also feature a setting for use with the "888" system (requiring A4 paper). Dedicated 4-hole punches are also available (sometimes implemented as two 2-hole punches connected with some rig), but can be expensive. If you _need_ a 3-ring binder for some reason, search for a fantasy/sci-fi/roleplay game shop, and look for trading card game accessories. That's the only niche I've ever seen 3-ring systems being used in (and also the only niche I've never seen a 2- or 4-ring system). But be aware that paper and punches will be hard to come by, as pretty much the only thing trading card gamers need are the binders and pre-punched transparent pocket sheets. If what you really want is snap action, smaller form factor, and a wider spacing of the outermost holes for less wear & tear on the holes, what you really want is a "Ringbuch" instead of an "Ordner"; you'll find that there are plenty of choices and accessories for those. If you want a lever-action 4-hole binder, look in a dedicated and reasonably large office supply shop for binders specifically designed for the archival of bank statements - in Germany, bank statements traditionally come in a form factor as wide as A4 but only about 1/3 as high, and are often archived using 2-hole binders half as high as a regular binder; however, regular-size binders exist that are designed to hold two stacks of bank statements, and their mechanics are deliberately spaced in such a way that they can also be co-opted for the "888" system.
There is also a Swedish hole punch standard with four holes 21, 70 and 21 mm apart. Four hole systems are really nice since instead of rings that open in the middle you can have two guide pins from each side. Both the forward and reverse facing pins are long enough to hold all papers in the binder. This means that you can open the binder and add or remove papers in the front or in the back without papers falling out. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hole_punch
@@magnusolert1195 While that may be right, it won't help you in Germany, as the Swedish system is unobtanium here as well, even more so than the US 3-ring format ;)
When it comes to drink milk :-) Did you ever buy fresh milk from a farmers 'Milchtankstelle' ? That's definitely my favorite way to buy milk here. I'ts a little room near the farmhouse with a vending machine where you can fill up 1Liter glass bottles with fresh, untreated, cooled milk from the nearby living cows. You can even buy the necessary bottles right there. This milk is not 'homogenisiert und ultrahocherhitzt' so you have to drink it during the next two days, but it tastes far better than the products out of the grocery store.
I never bought H-Milk, don't like to drink it and don't know anyone who does. It's funny that most foreigners think, that H-Milk is our preferred version. I think most Germans buy standard refrigerated milk.
I drink h-milk. My grandma was a farmer and had fresh milk, still warm. I hated it. It was stinky and got milk-skin on top. For some this would be the best milk to get, but not for me. Mich schüttelt es immernoch.
A4, A5,..., Paper makes the most sense because the ratio of the two sides is √2 this is the only ratio where the ratio stays the same if you fold it, that makes it very easy to scale things down or up
That’s what we have had explained to us. There have been very few times in my life where this was an issue for me and I needed to scale something. I was a graphic designer for three years so I did come across this issue every once in a while and I would have loved this format in those cases!
I just found your channel and love the content. I'm from Oklahoma and my Oma and Opa have lived in Germany my whole life. I haven't had the pleasure of visiting yet, but hope to soon. It's very interesting learning about different cultures!
Joseph Martinez nice! Love it when other Okies find us! Do you know where in Germany they were from? That would be awesome if you could make it over and see where they came from.
@@PassportTwo I'll be visiting soon I hope! My Oma was born in Berin in 35 and survived the war. She moved back to Berin in 82 after raising a family of 5 and only visited a few times afterwards so we have strong ties their. My Opa still lives there, about 2 miles from the Reichstag so it would be a cool home base for travel.
Wow, that would be amazing! Berlin is one of my favorite cities so that would be a dream if you could visit it and family at the same time. I bet they have incredible stories to about living in that area during the war.
#1 you can get a binder with 4 rings and punch just 4 holes #2 i love founten pens still use them every day at my job. Most popular brands are pelikan and lamy
The paper size is very logic. DIN A4 (Deutsche-Industrie-Norm => german industrial norm) explains a norm size for paper. A DIN A5 Paper is half of the size of DIN A4 paper and DIN A6 is half of the size of DIN A5. So.. DIN A0 is a very huge paper and DIN A8 a very small one. DIN describes exactly the form and size of every produced Item in Germany and a lot more… for example if you need a Job in Germany you can use DIN 5008, it explains how a Application has to be. Because of DIN the Logo "Made in Germany" was so succesful because DIN also has quality standards.
All of these 'tragic' nuances, and the starving children in Africa are crying for you. :) Love your videos. Warm greetings from an ex-pat now residing in the EU. PS) I, after four years here, cannot adjust to the zero customer service aspect, and people bashing into you in public and not saying a word. I won't say which country, but you've already been here. Other than that, I love it in the EU. Good luck in your transition, you'll do just fine! Jules
If you enjoy writing with fountain pens and want to get away from the school pens - but don't really want to spend a small fortune on a Mont Blanc or something of the likes I really recommend the Diplomat (Traveller) fountain pens. If you enjoy a soft, smooth writing experience I would also recommend going for a gold tip instead of a steel tip - it is somewhat more expensive and for the best writing experience you gotta be the only one who uses that pen (and you need to have to have developed a consistent way of writing with a fountain pen) ; the gold tip is softer, so after a few pages it adjusts to your personal style of writing and any scratching you might experience with harder tips disappears. Of course if the angle / pressure /etc changes all the time the tip never really adjusts and you won't notice a difference between the gold tip and a steel tip.
4:04 Also - there are very small, thin punchers to put into binders to use it in school for example. But also. You could pull out this 'little ''thing'' on the side of your puncher and got a little measuring-stick to put the holes exactly in the middle of the paper. There are stripes for the paper sizes, mostly A4, A5 and sometimes also B5 or B6 (Another DIN-Paper-Norm) and when you use it in the correct way you alway make the holes at the perfect ''place''
Nice video 💓 I just moved from Germany to the US in November last year and I definitely noticed that almost everyone has an iPhone.😀 For me as a Samsung user that is strange as I normally use Whats App (which most people here don't have) for texting. Normal direct text messages from iPhone appear in a weird form at my phone. 🙁 I still don't want to be getting an iPhone as, besides the texting, I don't really see any advantages of using this brand.
Nice! I hope you are enjoying your time in the US. That's neat to be able to see the opposite perspective on your channel! 😊 I would definitely say that I don't necessarily see an advantage of using Apple either but because it is so engrained in us using it like you said you have noticed in the US, I feel like I can't give it up for another. I feel like I would be losing so much connectivity to friends and family that we especially want while we live in Germany. If we stay with apple, we can still use Whatsapp with everybody else over here so we are able to stay connected with both...
I’m from Oklahoma, and studied German for several years like 30 years ago. That’s a long time to forget. But last year, I finally went with my wife to Germany (once the kids were out of the house). Stayed with my exchange student from 30 years ago for a few days, and travelled Germany and Austria for a few weeks. A few things surprised me. As you said, the sparkling vs still water (I’m from Stillwater, so that’s fun) was a bit odd to me when I didn’t know I was ordering sparkling water. The small sodas with no refill was another. Salami pizza vs pepperoni (since pepperoni is a different thing there). Square, unsliced pizza confused me - as did everyone eating it with a knife and fork. Public transportation was great, but the Italians and Americans (who were everywhere) seemed to be the most overtly friendly. The Germans generally kept to themselves with the exception of when we were seated at a table with them (another thing I found odd, but not totally unexpected). I spoke better german than I understood. The regional dialects can be very confusing, and I thought many people mumbled a lot. Loved the country. Visiting again likely this summer (did a Jeep tour of the US and skipped Europe this time around).
Nice! My brother went to OSU so I know Stillwater very well. I am studying German now also so hopefully I can catch up to the level you were at. However, the regional dialects are definitively something that is giving me a run for my money like you mentioned. haha Its like you learn one thing and then you go out into the real world and everybody speaks completely differently. All of your differences you pointed out are super interesting and a few we have noticed ourselves! Thanks for sharing some of these with us! 😊
Yeah, the Pepperoni is a fun one. I'm german and it took me a while to figure out that pepperoni was just supposed to be a type of salami and not a particular kind of pepper.
Thanks, as a german I like how you describe differences between Germany and the US. Here thigns somtimes are different - that does not mean better or worse - just different.
Thanks 😊 We get annoyed by people who just openly say things are "weird" or assume worse in a different country just because things are done differently. There are some things that are fine either way things are done! haha
You also like salmonella? This is something you can potentially get. Egg shells are porous. If there is salmonella on it will eventually get into the egg even though you never cracked the egg. Food for thought... 80% of the worlds salmonella cases is in the continent Europe.
oh boy oh boy you gotta get here to the austrian or swiss alps - when I went to netherlands and i took a sip it tasted a lot like plastik pipes, chlorene, something metallic and algee - also I became pretty sick from it I explicitly asked before if it is drinking whater /if the tap whater is good to drink straight out of -I was obviously lied to
3:47 I'm from Peru and over there we also only use the 2 puncher and when we moved to Canada we found it weird how in north america the 3 puncher is used instead
There have been a lot of comments about when we said we 'wash' the eggs but I think it is getting lost in translation. Most of the time in the US when we buy produce, we 'wash' it before eating. However, when we say 'wash' in this context, what we really mean is 'rinse.' When we wash our eggs or produce, we literally are turning on water and running it under for a second or two just to rinse off anything from the farm, i.e. dirt or feathers. In the case of eggs, it is just to knock that stuff off so when we crack them, we don't have dirt falling into our eggs that we dig out. We know it won't kill us and 'washing' isn't for antibacterial reasons either. 😊
Oh and dont forget the MHD = Mindestens haltbar bis = best before date is a best before date not a dont eat this after that date. Most food can be used after MHD passed for some weeks. Give it a try and dont simply throw food away because MHD passed away some days or so. Oh and on salt, sugar and such things a MHD is more for the law that says food needs one not for reality.
A lot depends on what the product is, and how it was stored. I wouldn't trust a yoghurt in a packaging that isn't 100% sealed more than a couple of days, or when I know it has been sitting out of the fridge for hours. Meat and fish, especially fresh, even less. But hard pasta, rice, tinned food, etc., if stored in a cool and dry place, could last months longer. Just keep your wits, if it looks off, smells off, it will probably taste off and be off. I have thrown out yoghurt that wasn't even past the date, but was completely blown up, too.
There are a lot of subtle differences for sure. I love the part at 8:15 when Aubrey made sure that she said "We have to wash our eggs before we use them" :) :). lol lol. :).
It's funny how a lot of people are confused by the "washing your eggs" thing. Actually in old German cooking books I've also seen comments about rinsing the egg before using it. Some decades ago it was more likely to get salmonella by touching the eggs as they often get pooped on by chickens due to the lack of space in the coop. So it definitely makes sense to rinse the eggs but as we Germans are less concerned about bacteria than Americans we just crack them open like that. If you cook the egg it doesn't matter anyways. Only if you prepare stuff with raw eggs, like e.g. Tiramisu, you might be more careful. I think Germans live more by the phrase: What doesn't kill you makes you stronger. ;) Still the information about the protective layer on the eggs was very interesting. I didn't know that and always wondered why eggs can be stored at room temperature in the supermarket as we usually keep them in the fridge at home. Thanks for that!
Guys, this is not US vs Germany. This is US vs the world. Almost 98% of the world does things one way and US stubbornly does it differently. As if they want to create and stick with their own identity. Such as metric system, or changing words in English language or predominantly using automatic cars. All the things you said (except milk) it applies to rest of the world. Such as using A4 size paper. Its the US which is weird for the rest of us. Better or not, you decide.
s i d e w a y s l i f e s t y l e nah h-Milch is where it’s at. Ganzen Karton kaufen und einfach in der Speisekammer lassen, immer nur eine im Kühlschrank? Das is Luxus
I know this video was made a while ago and you might know this now, but at quite a few German restaurants when they ask if you want wasser, you can ask for "tap" and they will bring you a carafe of it. And it's often free.
In Germany it is a law to open the glass bottle in front of your eyes in a restaurant, just to make sure you don't cheat on the cumstomer concerning the water brand.
I met some Americans during my vacation that I wanted to keep in contact in and none of them had whatsapp 😅 I was so shocked! They didn't seem to mind the cost that sending sms from Japan with a German mobile to an American one would produce at all 🙈
FiveOClockTea haha, I also wouldn’t be surprised if because most Americans don’t have friends from a foreign country they hadn’t realized the costs associated with sending an sms to a number outside their country 😂 But this is how we learned about WhatsApp as well! From new friends from another country who wanted to stay in contact but only messaged through WhatsApp! 😊
@@PassportTwo also true. It's not like there are any countries around the U.S. you could easily travel to 😅 Luckily they also installed whatsapp, so we're still in contact 😊
Well...besides Mexico, Canada, and the Caribbean not really! haha, but even then it depends on what part of the US you are from on whether it is actually easy to travel even to those places 😊 Glad to hear you were able to do so! I love staying in contact with those from other countries we meet along our travels 😃
@@FiveOClockTea it's difficult to travel to some countries from the US. For example it's easy for people from New York to travel to Canada, but flying to Mexico City is a 6+ hour plane ride with no stops. Florida it's easy to go to the Caribbean but more difficult to go to parts of Canada or Mexico. Southern California it's easy to go to Mexico, but takes forever to get to the Caribbean. This can be a 10 hour flight for some people in California.
The glass bottles for "Mineralwasser" are by law. If you get water in a restaurant that is not in a glass bottle it is either tab water or "Tafelwasser" but it must not be "Mineralwasser" I've seen a couple of your videos now - love them. Gives me another perspective of my beloved home country
Bullshit!... large bottles are opened in front of you as a form of Service just like a bottle of wine, but a small bottle will always come pre opened just like a beer or Cola.
Fountain pens were used by everybody in the USA decades ago, but by the 1960s they were replaced by ballpoints. Those had been around since the late 1940s but when really cheap disposable BIC pens appeared in the ‘60s, people shifted to those. Also in the ‘60s, the first fine-point felt-tip pens from Japan became popular in the USA.
In cinemas in the US I have seen people put melted butter on their popcorn. 🤢 There is an extra machine for it. I personally love caramelized popcorn 😍 my US friends all are disgusted by sweet popcorn. I find that difference super interesting and funny
At my school it was mandatory to use real fountain pens, we had to make sure to always have ink on hand. I went to a private school in California so it’s not just a German thing. Just an FYI
About H Milk: The first one was condensed milk, that was mixed with water and used to cook baby food. In my childhood in the 1970's we had fresh milk what needs cooling and H milk, at this time in the classical Tetra Pack, today it's almost the Tetra Brick you find instead the pyramid shaped package
Whahaah what the..? You don't know Whatsapp? I got nearly 200 people in my contacts and only 1 didn't got it, i thought it'd like that in every country.
Green as far as i know WhatsApp is the no1 Messenger in Europe. In America they message a lot with iMessage and then it's i think Whatsapp. In Asia for example it's KakaoTalk and Russia uses mostly viber or something else.
@@1anna1 In Czech Republic most of people are using facebook messenger, I've never used WhatsUp and I have no any reasong why using that when all people are on facebook and if not, I will just send normal SMS.
Ondřej Matějka We started using WhatsApp, when it wasn't owned by Facebook. So around 2010/2011. it used to have a subscription service back then. And when Facebook bought WhatsApp, nothing changed. So there was no Need to switch. And no one really uses Facebook anymore nor their messenger. Or sms...people using probably more Facebook messenger than sms. Also, just by comparing the two messengers, Facebook looks horrible and is really weird to text on.
Hey, i noticed your second camera is flickering. Try using 25fps as your framerate and a shutter speed that is 1/50th or a multiple of that. It has to do with the power grid being 50hz in Europe as opposed to 60hz in the us.
Agree, I never buy H Milch. I do not like the taste of it. One liter does not last here for weeks. That means that the storage period is also not a pro for buying H Milch. However, I do know several people that buy H Milch. But most of them do not use it for drinking pure milk but add it to coffee or tea.
Mineral water: Standard rule is: The waiter brings a closed bottle to your table and opens it (the "Kronkorken") in front of you. You should reject opened water bottles because some restaurants refill bottles with tab water and as say you can carbonated that very easily. You would be for an "expensive" bottle of mineral water and get cheap tab water.
Here in Czech republic fresh milk was popular in communism, today you can't even find it in shops, you have to visit farmers. But it's known that fresh milk is not good for human stomach and in many countries it's even illegal because of bacteries.
When I was in 2nd grade learning cursive my teacher required we learn with a fountain pen... The local drug store stocked the ink cartridges for her. I still love using a fountain pen but almost never do because ink cartridges are hard to find... I have recently found stuff on Amazon & am looking forward to practicing with them...
A4 is the standard paper size in Germany. It was invented in Germany. As well as the ring binder in the late 1870s. It was always a two-hole system. Only the USA decided to have three holes due to the slightly longer, but slimmer letter size paper. Ball point pens are also commonly used, as well as felt tip pens. BTW, that little handle you can see at 3:51 sticking out at the left side of the two hole punch can be extracted. This allows you to slide the paper to a specific setting to allow perfectly center holes being punched in A4, A5, and maybe even A6. The more expensive hole punches might have such exotic formats such as B4, B5, B6, or even letter. Ice in drinks. Well that depends on the seasons. In most seasons in Germany it's not hot enough to warrant ice in your drink. Summer or very hot spring or fall days might, but even then it is uncommon in Germany to get ice in your drink. Ice waters down the drink when it melts, and it takes up volume with, essentially, tap water that is not used for the drink itsself. Like you said in Germany there are almost never any refills. Because we are very conscious about the sugar contents of soft drinks we tend to drink them only for their taste, not as refreshment or liquid intake. Eggs don't need to be washed before using unless you want to use them raw, such as in Zabaione. For raw eggs, always get really really fresh eggs. Also, as someone else below already said, it is recommended to keep them refrigerated after a certain date to keep them fresh for consumption. The farmers don't have to vaccinate their chickens if their chickens are kept in an animal-friendly environment with clean nests. Only in cases of infections during the regular state controlled veterinary examinations are anti-bacterial agents applied to the chickens. Vaccinations can be used but many farmers don't have to use them. The process in the USA is due to unsanitary breeding and animal husbandry practices. The eggs can be contaminated with different infections. So during the process the eggs are washed in a chlorine solution, then washed again, and sprayed with an artificial coating. This both removes the natural cuticle as well as changes the taste of the eggs. And it makes cooling of the eggs mandatory in the USA. In a comparative study about the salmonella infections comparing the USA and Europe, Europe has consistently fewer than half the infections per 100 000 population than in the USA. H-milch. For me that isn't milk anymore. I personally dislike the taste of H-milk. But for using it in coffee it is ok as the coffee is much stronger in taste than the h-milk. Fresh milk in Germany usually has a much higher fat content than most milks in the USA. This is more appropriate to the natural milk fat content of cows milk of around 3.8%. If you want to treat yourself to some great milk try to find non-homogenized milk. It is still pasteurized but the natural fat content isn't extracted, then pressed through a micro-fine sieve and re-injected into the milk. This is in essence the homogenization process so that the fat does not separate from the whey part of the milk. But during that process nearly the whole fat content is extracted and dispersed. This changes the taste of homogenized compared to non-homogenized milk significantly.
You can let the Eggs outside of the Refrigorator, but usually People still lay them in there. They hold longer and you can even Eat them when the Expiry Date is exceeded. ( I and my Family eat sometimes Eags that were 7-10 Days over the Expiry Date. You still need to cook them completly, like doing an Omelette or such, but as long as they dont Smell and all its fine) The only Exception are the hard-boiled, brightly painted eggs that you can buy. You can let them outside for quite some Time ( Not so good if its Summer, but in Winter when its Cold you can let them stay outside for 3 Weeks or even 4 without Problems)
Thanks for the information! We figured it wouldn't do them harm to go ahead and just put them in the fridge right away. For some reason though, the act of putting the on a shelf not in the fridge, feels exciting to us since we have never been able to do that before... 😂
Place your eggs into the fridge after you bought them. In stores the eggs are relatively fresh and the store keeps consistent temperature. So they can store then on the shelfes. But when you bought it, place it in the fridge to keep the egg fresh and yourself healthy.
I'm American. When I go to any restaurant in the U. S. including McDonalds, coffee refills are always free. Restaurants always bring tap water, and it's always free. I heard that in Europe coffee refills are NOT free, and you even pay for tap water. Is this true?
Yup, refills aren’t free 99% of the time no matter the drink and most places won’t serve you tap water, only bottled. There are always exceptions to these rules but for the vast majority of restaurants, this is true 😊
What are some other small and random differences you know of between our two countries?? 😊
Another difference is that Americans starts the calendar with the last day of the week. It is so weird starting the calendar week with the sunday. And everybody knows - sunday is the last day of the week. So WTF why???
H-Milk ... because of the heating process which kills some of the natural milk-bacterias in order to make it long-lasting is because of that lack of most of the milk-bacterias way easier to digest but yes the taste is therefore slightly different as well....I´ve got a little milk-intolerance..not as bad that I can´t eat or drink any milk product or that I have to use lactose-free milk but I´ll get troubles when I drink normal milk...so therefore I´m fine with H-Milk
By the way the socalled "Locher" (2 hole-punch) has on one side a plastic thing which you can pull out in order to give you the right measurement for making the holes on the right spot (the middle of the paper) so therefore every piece of paper will get the holes on the same spot and it´s variable depending on how far you pull it out for A4 or A5 or other sizes ...just mentioned it because in your demonstration you didn´t use it and therefore you didn´t made the holes straight in the middle
@@rudig.997 That Sunday is the first day? Oh no!!!!! Definitely not.
When I wanted to get something like a Dayquil capsule or tablet in a German Apotheke, all they had was this really nasty powdered stuff that I had to mix with water. I missed being able to just swallow a capsule and not taste anything.
One of the things that I do miss from Germany though is the Vitamin C or Magnesium tablets that you drop into a cup of water and it becomes a nice tasting fizzy drink.
I just went and checked, the powdered stuff that the Apotheke sold me for a treating a cold was called "Wick DayMed Kombi Erkältungsgetränk". I would so much have rather had Dayquil LiquiCaps.
Did you know that you can fold A4 in the middle to get to A5? Or that you can stick two A4s together to get to A3? Two of them to get A2? Two of them to get A1? And 18 of them to get the big billboard you can see on houses? The A system was actually invented in Germany and is now used in nearly all countries worldwide.
That's awesome! We really haven't looked into the A system of paper beyond just now knowing we need A4 paper for our printer. That seems like a neat system though!
@@PassportTwo "That seems like a neat system though"... really? That surprises you while living in Germany?
Yes and Din A0 is 841 mm * 1189 mm which has a surface of 1 m². That's where it all begins. After that you get it all by halving it.
Is your point that Germans have systems like this everywhere for everything and I shouldn't be surprised by that? I am surprised because I have never had a reason to have paper sizes so organized. 🤷♂️
@@PassportTwo Well, we germans have systems/norms for almost every aspect of our live. The thing is that most systems like that are part of the so called DIN-Norm (Deutsches Institut für Normung -> German institute for norm factors) and was before that and Standartisation Committee of german industry. With the industralization the germans (esp. the prussians) realized that "having the least possible standard factors/norms" is a way to success. When your engine is broken, you are able to repair it with almost every tool, use standard parts etc. That's why germany was so successfull back in the day.
Then we realized, that standartization of the industry is nice though, but we could put a standard on almost everything.
E.g. Colours have also DIN standards (as long as they are produced in germany or for the german market). So if you like to have a special colour, you can pick the main ingredients (colours) from any producer and you will get always the same endresult (as long as they follow the DIN).
Even writing a letter succumbs DIN. Just google for "DIN 5008" and you will find the a huge rule set for stuff like punctuation, font, how to write dates, paragraphs etc. for a simple task like... writing a letter. Did you notice that almost all letters from public authorities look kinda the same with some variations? Welcome to DIN-Land ;)
DIN is not a law, so when you wanna start a papersheet trade, go on and have your own sizes. But that could lead to problems when your awesome paper won't fit in the standardized enveloupes ;)
But I guess the paper size standards are one of the most german things ever - besides Reinheitsgebot and "IHRE PAPIERE BITTE!" :)
Just one information: The "Expiration date" on german products is not really an expiration date. It says "mindestens haltbar bis" what translates to "best before" which means, that the product can be eaten at least until the shown date. It does not mean, that it is expired and that you have to throw it away after that date!
can be sold without extra notification is more correct imo. as it can be always eaten at least 1-2 days after the date.
Some Things you can even eat after Weeks or Months after it.
@@Sheppart92 definitely depends on the product though
@@cristina9202 sure but if you sniff on them before that and try it you know if you can eat it or Not. ^^
Yeah and everything has to have an expiration date too. So stuff like spices or even SALT has a date. Which is dumb as hell to be honest
I whatch this from Russia. Hmmm, it's like US vs rest of the world :)
Yes, because "they" feel special, without the substance of being special.
@@marianotorrespico2975 may be true. imho U.S. and Europe/exUSSR/Asia so different.
@@marianotorrespico2975 may be :)
Zet0ME I thought the same
😂 You nailed it. They live on an island, don‘t know much about the rest of the world, but think it works the way they‘re used to and are appalled when they find out that it‘s different.
I always thought WhatsApp is in every country the king. I didn’t know that the People in US don’t use it😂😂😂
PS: Sparkling Water forever 😂
WhatsApp is not a thing in China (at least mainland). It's blocked there (unless you use VPN or a sim card from outside of China and don't connect to any Chinese WLAN). Chinese people use WeChat.
It's is common in the US only Apple user stick to iMessage.
Literally all American phone plans come with unlimited sms/mms whereas in Germany mms are not included in unlimited texting. Also, mms in the USA supports group Messaging so there was never an incentive to use Whatsapp in the first place. Apple was just clever enough to enhance the experience by integrating iMessage into the texting app which makes everything more seemless.
@@christhejuggler7431 seamless. Sorry, I was not able to resist to point out that spelling mistake. That was the Klugscheißer in me which behaves like a Sheldon Cooper....
John Catty thanks!
Now my own Sheldon Cooper:
*resist pointing out
*the Klugscheißer who/that
As for eggs, in Germany it is also _recommended_ to store them in the fridge, to keep them good to eat for as long as possible.
However, once you put them in the fridge, you MUST KEEP them refrigerated until use.
This is also the main reason eggs are never refrigerated in stores (nor during transport) in Germany: This way consumers can safely transport them home unrefrigerated, and can freely choose whether to store them refrigerated or unrefrigerated.
yes! when taking them out of refrigeration (even for a short time, for transport) they get "wet" (caused by cold items coming into contact with humid or normal warm air) and that voids the "natural protection" they had when not washing them. this effect gets worse the more often you cool and warm them, eg lots of steps during transport (to supermarket, to home, etc) or even when you often open and close the fridge with the eggs eg on a shelf in the fridge door. from that time on bacteria and other stuff can grow every time they are no longer cold.
There are even dates that say „should be refrigerated from“
If you want to put them into the fridge, you have to remove the cardboard. The cardboard could go a little moist inside the fridge. You wouldn't notice, but the eggs would.
That's why there are these plastic egg holders inside the fridge.
Normally the eggs are fine outside the fridge for 4 weeks.
I've never put my eggs into the fridge because I usually consume them before the "refrigerate after"-label would come into play. So far in my 30 years of life I never had any problems with any kind of salmonella at all.
@@D0MiN0ChAn same here, only hard boild eggs
The filling line is required by law when you sell drinks. So the customer can´t get cheated so easily.
In the UK the line is the brim if the glass. Was a bit strange when I first saw it. But it also works
In Sweden, we also use the filling line at restaurants and bars, put not at home .
That actually became an EU regulation which led to the Problem with Bavarian Beer Mugs. As they dont have that line. Or better said its inside and its not a see through thing. So the Bee rMugs got an exception for that Regulation. But that took some work and i do rememebr that they had to cheat the system. but i cant remember how.
@@Indifferent86 All the glasses /except for some *special* beer glasses) in my home do not have that line. The law is only for restaurants and bars and not for homes ;)
@@kaitan4160 If they serve you in that Bavarian beer mug you have the right to ask for a glas to pour it into that glass and check the quantity. But I have never seen anybody doing that xD In other places they give you an empty beer mug and a bottle of beer.
The reason most countries use DIN paper, like DIN A4 and so on is because of the ratio of the sides. When You half (or double) the paper the ratio stays exactly the same. It makes it way easier to shrink down or increase the size of Your layout. When You design a Layout in A4 You can blow it up to A1 or shrink it down to A6 or whatever You want and Your layout stays exactly the same, You have no borders, no stretching, no changes in the design... makes a lot of things easier
Furthermore: A0 is exactly 1 squaremeter, so it is very easy to calculate the paper demand in a printer shop. And you don't get any waste if you cut smaller formats from bigger sheets.
This paper standard is called DIN which is Deutsche Industrie Norm (German Industrial Norm)... of course, the Germans invented a clever and precise way to organize paper format and make it work across all sizes!!:-)
@@WSupernatural77 ISO has addapted the DIN A series a long time ago. It is now a german and an international standard.
@@ThomasKossatz yes, I just wanted to compliment the Germans on their great work and love for detail!! That's why so many of their products are so great!!
The ratio is the square root of 2
wait, the us isnt using A4? wtf
@@jesperrusterholz9978 america is weird :D greetings from Russia lmao
Nope, we use ‘US Letter’ and my whole life I never realized it meant that we were the only ones using our own ‘US’ standard size...
@@PassportTwo it is somewhat surprising to me that you were looking for a three hole punch when you already figured out that due to the A4 system Europeans (and the rest of the world) only use two hole binders...also, I don't know where in Germany you are from, but I have stopped using a fountain pen during my 4 last years of high school and never had an issue to find other pens, be it ball point, gel or whatever...kinda weird to me that you felt the need to buy a childrens fountain pen, but you do you man ^^
@@jxyzbxt2355 a fountain pen isn't for kids only though. A lot of people I know from university use it, a lot of people use ball pens. Whatever your preference is, who cares? 😅
It's called DIN A4. DIN is for Deutsche Industrie Norm (German Industrial Standard)
It's true that school children in Germany are taught writing with fountain pens, but in everyday life everyone uses biros or feltpens. If you see a grown up person using a fountain pen it won't usually be one of those preschool models, but an expensive one whose primary purpose is showing off :)
I do not use my Cross Fountain Pen to show off. My handwriting is waaaaay better when I write with it than with every other writing supply.
Here in Czech Republic kids have to write with classic ink pens only first few years, in first and second class 100% but then most of kids are writing with whatever. But I know one guy who was writing with ink pen even on high school, we had always blue hands like some little kid from elementary school. :-D
I actually prefer writing with ink. It requires much less pressure and isn't as tiring on longer texts.
@@HappyBeezerStudios Maybe, but unfortunately it's useless for left handed people because ink needs time to dry.
You should try writing with a pen. The writing is more fluid and the ideas flow faster. I write my designs with a pen first before I hammer the final text or book into the computer.
I have never washed an egg before using it, this sounds so weird to me.
Right? I'm a french citizen, and washing/rinsing your fruits and vegetables makes sense, you might eat the "outside" of the product, the product may have pesticide... But with eggs, the inside never touch the shell. I've never seen a small feather or dirt fall in the bowl. I just wash my hands afterward though.
So at least mo here realizes when we say 'wash' what Americans really mean is rinse! Most people have that lost in translation and thought we were scrubbing our eggs with soap and water. Just simply rinse it off just to make sure that nothing does fall into the bowl after cracking. 🤷♂️
@@PassportTwo people understand that you mean 'rinse' when you say 'wash', that's not the point. To most Europeans rinsing the eggs doesn't make any sense, because should you encounter a feather you just pluck it away. I have lived in Europe all my life, and what you consider to be dirt, at least from my experience, is stuck to the shell this solidly, that 'rinsing' the egg really isn't necessary. I mean, I don't know if Americans crack their eggs differently from Europeans, but you don't get anything from the shell into your eggs if you crack them properly...that said, go ahead if you feel more secure rinsing your eggs xD
@@PassportTwo It is really simple. The natural egg is sealed by nature. This seal is broken if you wash your eggs. After washing the eggs should, no better must be refrigerated. The unwashed eggs can be stored outside the refrigerator but should be cooled close before the expiry date.
The boiling kills all bacteria and i throw my eggs in cold water (abschrecken) to cool off. This is also rinsing, but after the boiling.
@@chocolatezt No, you can store them at ambient temperature at home without any problem, at least for a while. Usually, there are two dates on egg cartons in Germany: A "best before" date and a "refrigerate after" date.
Here in Germany, I haven't bought a bottle of water in several months. At home I drink from the tap and whenever I'm out and about, I have a reusable bottle that I can just fill up with tap water. I try to save as much plastic as I can.
"I try to save as much plastic as I can."
Same here. However, we buy sparkling water in glass bottles.
I think tab water is very strictly observed and controlled in Germany; even more than drinking water in bottles.
@@detales91 That is correct. However, the quality control of the tab water ends in the water plant. There might be several tens of kms between the water plant and your house. The quality of the water that you take from the tab is not observed at all - unless you take a sample and let somebody check it at your own cost ;)
@@johncatty6560 I didn't know exactly if it was completely true, so thanks for that info! My partner drinks tab water no problem all the time but normally I only drink it when I don't have any drinking water left 😅 I'm still happy about the quality!
@@detales91 I did not say that the quality of the water from the tab is bad ;) I just wanted to express that the water is only tested in the plant and not in the houses of the consumers. I've had a bad experience once. We came back home after spending vacation in Spain not knowing that one of the water pipelines in the neighborhood had a leak. It was repaired during our vacation. When we wanted to take a shower after returning back home the water was fine at first. Then there was the noise of air mixing with the water followed by brown water coming from the shower. We had to let the water flow for quite some time until it looked clean again xD
Wer wäscht Eier wtf ? Man isst die Schale ja nicht mit
There have been a lot of comments about when we said we 'wash' the eggs but I think it is getting lost in translation. Most of the time in the US when we buy produce, we 'wash' it before eating. However, when we say 'wash' in this context, what we really mean is 'rinse.' When we wash our eggs or produce, we literally are turning on water and running it under for a second or two just to rinse off anything from the farm, i.e. dirt or feathers. In the case of eggs, it is just to knock that stuff off so when we crack them, we don't have dirt falling into our eggs that we dig out. We know it won't kill us and 'washing' isn't for antibacterial reasons either.
@@PassportTwo But it is still the same question. Are you eating the shell? When you crack them nothing from the outside is getting in contact with the inside. On the other hand you heat up your ingredients above 70 °C by cooking and then every bacteria is dead. This thing I didn't came over when I was in Australia.
Ich kenn nur, dass man die mit kaltem Wasser abschreckt, damit die Schale sich leichter löst
viele amerikaner sind germaphobes...
TheAschenbroesel I don’t think you fully read my reply. It’s not for antibacterial purposes. It is to get the feathers and dirt off and from falling into the cracked eggs.
For spray deodorant I'd recommend two things:
1: Short, controlled sprays. The more precise and accurate you are, the less aerosol ends up in your lungs.
2: Now, this is a weird one, but try putting a shirt on first and then spraying under it. This way, any extra spray is just gonna get caught in your clothes and eventually washed out instead of smelling up the room.
4:04 Texting to "My Friend":
Wanna hang out? No
Would you like to grab coffee? No
Want to see a movie? No
Want to come watch the game? No
You Home? No
Wanna grab a bite? No
... Great friendship :)
Finally someone noticed! haha
yes and no you repeat the same question , hey do you have time to hang out or are you busy ( have other plans ) i'm busy ...but what if we ... i'm still busy ...or ..
or or i mean no is just the truth without any background but , sorry i have to work on such and such or i meat that person today is still the same answer or i just don't like to today after the second question i would have called and told why we don't meat today ...
Here in Brazil Whatsapp is also the king.
So I felt no difference when I lived in Germany :)
Ya, it really seems like everywhere else besides the US uses Whatsapp all the time so I can definitely see that being true for you! 😊
So funny, Brazilians are loving, not living in Germany. I love you guys 🥰
@@maxbarko8717 hey, there. Vielen Danke. Wir sind echt süß. Da hast du recht 😁😁
Mariana Mendes Grüße aus Kanada 🇨🇦
@@PassportTwo it depends on the country, which messenger is the most used. Some have WhatsApp, some Viber, some Telegram, some Facebook messenger etc.
The "normal" milk is restocked on a daily basis, so you won´t find lots of milk in the fridge, just enough for about one day. There is also an unwritten law for customers to prefer milk that is out of the area because of shorter transportation. So a shop usually has only a hand full of suppliers for fresh milk.
Adam Abele yeah, h milk is definitely not more common.
many people like to have (and keep up to half a year) ONE liter of H-milk as kind of reserve in case they forgot to buy some in time for the weekend when shops are closed although most people seem to not like the H taste. but the most common is the cooled milk "länger haltbar" (not longer than Hmilk but only longer than untreated milk) which usually lasts up to three weeks (some companies give a date of 3 weeks and one day later it turns bad, while others specify only one week but you can use it two more weeks after that date). until maybe 1-2 decades ago when that 3-week milk was introduced, normal cooled milk was only good for 1-3 or at most 7 days, and we had to adapt to a slightly different taste of the 3-week milk although by far it isn't as bad as the H milk.
each of all these types of milk is/was available with different percentages of fat (usually 1.5% or 3% to 3.5%)
about the eggs: in the usa they have to be cleaned and washed by law, and thus also have to be refrigerated. in europe they are not washed and thus are protected "naturally" unless they get wet which would be the case if you refrigerate them (cold egg plus humid or normal warm air gives wet eggs), and thus not only can they but even have to be sold unrefrigerated in europe. because of these different (even opposite) laws in the US and europe, neither egg may be exported to, imported from or sold in the other region.
if you boil eggs in hot water or know how to open them without bathing the shell in yolk (and mostly you then immediately cook/bake them anyway) you don't need to additionally wash them before.
Well, I never buy the fresh milk. And no one in my family does.
I have friends who will tell me that the different kinds of milk taste differently to them, but I never notice any difference.
Maybe it's because I hate drinking warm milk and always drink my milk cold?
www.statista.com/statistics/999459/most-popular-dairy-products-germany/
This statistic also shows that maybe surprisingly, but long-life milk is more popular than fresh milk in Germany.
www.statista.com/statistics/999459/most-popular-dairy-products-germany/
I guess for some people if you click on the link it won’t show you the statistics but I don’t know why when I google it this is the first link and I see the data. However, if you can’t see it, data shows that in 2019, 58.5% of Germans (14 and older) have consumed long life milk multiple times a month vs 51.5% who have consumed fresh milk multiples times in a month. It also shows that this has been the case in popularity for the last 4 years (at least). 🤷🏻♂️
For real i dont know anyone that doesnt use Whatsapp except for my grandparents😂😂😂
My grandparents use whatsapp
i dont use whatsapp and i know a lot of people who dont use it either. there are other apps like telegram or even signal you can use too.
now you know ;)
I will never ever use Whatsapp. That's what all my inlaws are using and their family chat group is the purgatory where emojis and memes that sinned in life go after their death.
Kik and Viber is better in the US. WhatsApp has an issue of delivering messages to people. My husband sat next to me and sent me a message. I didnt receive it until I opened WhatsApp. Both of us had the same amount of bars of internet and it did put the the check marks on my husband's phone saying it was sent.
@@jessicaely2521 most likely the fault of your phone though. it can be caused by whatsapp not running in the background or your notificiation settings, or whatsapp settings.
DIN A Format is actually pretty smart.
A0 is exactly one square-meter and the ratio of the sides is the only mathematically possible ratio, where when you cut it in half, the 2 resulting pieces have the exact same ratio.
A1 is half of A0, A2 is half of A1, etc... and each size has the same ratio between its side-lengths.
German efficiency at its best :D
lol i have never washed my eggs. and most germans store their eggs in the refrigerator after buying them
We think this is getting lost in translation a bit...when we say we 'wash' our eggs, this does not mean we use soap or scrub them or even doing anything to really clean or disinfect them. When Americans say we 'wash' our produce or in this case the eggs, it simply means we run in under water for a second or two just to rinse the dirt or feathers off so those little bits don't drop in the eggs when we crack them! haha
I store my eggs in the refrigerator after buying them. That does mean I am like most Germans because I am not even a German.
9:12 Just buy fresh milk! That's what Germans do!
They don’t
@@Days. I always buy fresh milk!
We buy the h Milk only for storage
It's not really fresh. It's only fresh if you buy it from a dairy farmer lol
@@g-unit0744 That's what I do! I didn't buy milk from store since years, because the farmers don't get enough money!
hmm fountain pens.... in germany its called: Füllfederhalter xD
Just 'Füller' ist enough though
and Ball Pens are 'Kugelschreiber' x)
I always say Stift xd
i never ever heard anyone ever say that word
@@Yildryn aka Kuli
I am working in retail in Germany and I can tell you that H-Milk doesn't get delivered as often to the store as fresh milk (2 times a week at the store I work at). So of course the stores have to put more on the shelves. Fresh milk gets delivered almost daily.
Welcome to the fountain pen community. Unrivalled for ease of writing.
Fountain pen helps to maintain quality caliigraphy like hand writing style, also you can draw and sketch with it.
that's actually the reason 1st graders have to use them to learn writing. Almost all elementary schools prohibited the use of other pens in german classes in 1st+2nd grade (often for all 4 grades). Also you can buy "Lernfüller" (fountain pens for beginners) in all stationary shops. They have a replaceable tip since kids learning how to write tend to put to much pressure on them and destroy the tip this way. So you don't have to buy a new pen every week of the 1st grade instead of just buying 5-10 tips (maybe even in different sizes) for the same money :) I didn't even had anything besides (HB) pencils & 2x fountain pens in my pencil case until 5th grade.
@@Mangafan47 Not in first class. I really don'T know many elementary school, where they learn writing with fountain pens. They learn to write with normal pencils. Because it is also much easier to erase them (My daughter is in third grade now and they startet this year with writing with a fountain pen )
@@KaliqueClawthorne Aus welchem Budnesland bist du den? Meinem Nachhilfekind (NRW) ist es zumindest bis jetzt (auch 3.) nicht erlaubt mit Kulli oder so zu schreiben. Im Heft darf sie nur Füller (& Tintenkiller ;) ) haben, bei den Arbeitsblättern in der 1. durfte sie noch Bliestifft nehmen, aber nur die aller ersten, wo noch die Linienführung drauf ist.
What do left handed people (like me) do? Fountain pens are impossible to use in my case. 😞
@@thelasthandbook6704 You get left hand fountain pens nearly at every ''Art'' shop (the german word is ''Schreibwarengeschäft'' Shop for writing things)
If you like fountain pens, 'Lamy' pens are my recommendation!
I love my Pelikan M 200. ;)
My recommendation goes to Pelikan as well. I don't like Lamy pens 🙊
I love my Kaweco, however it is not as easy to purchase fitting ink cartridges for Kaweco as Pelican or other standard fit fountain pens.
It would be a very rare American who would ever use a fountain pen. Why? Because they’re messy and must be re-filled regularly. It’s been at least 50 years since fountain pens were in common use. We have ordinary ballpoint pens but also ones of better quality, if one prefers. The truth is, we mostly type.
Well, regarding milk I wouldn´t say that "fresh" milk is purchased less than "H-Milch".
Both exist simultanously serving different purposes.
I think the difference in taste does not have such a huge impact on peoples decision on which one to buy ...
Mostly people buy H-Milch as kind of reserve in case they´re running out of "fresh" milk which (unfortunately) is not really as fresh as it was sold until ca. 10 yrs ago.
The reason is simply that supermarkets wanted to reduce the amount of unsold (and thrown away = €€€) milk and forced the milk industry to switch to a mild UHT system which let´s milk last up to 1,5-2 weeks rather than the basic max. 1 week ...
Even that mild UHT treatment came along with a slight change in taste - unfortunately.
So, there are only very few options left to get really fresh (tasting) milk.
Notably if you live in a rural area where a local farmer is allowed to sell milk straight from his farm.
The point that supermarkets want H-Milk more to reduce amount of lost product is a great point. Hadn't thought about the large corporations and stores influencing consumer behavior for their gain in this one particular field or product.
In our village we do have a local farm that has set up a dispenser of 'farm fresh' milk in the parking lot of the grocery store. It is a bit more expensive but it tastes a lot better and I have assumed better health benefits.
Oh, H-Milk has been around much longer. In the past, fresh milk went bad within three days, sometimes earlier. So if you needed milk for cooking on Sunday and discovered that your milk had gone back, it was practical to have a package of H-Milk ready. Nowadays so called "fresh" milk holds way longer, so H-Milk is now mostly used by people who have limited cooling ability, simply like that it keeps so long or who remember Chernobyl (after Chernobyl, all fresh products, including fresh milk vanished from the shelves for a few weeks and naturally H-milk was sold out pretty fast. Those who had put some on storage (or reacted fast when the news hit) lucked out, everyone else had to improvise).
I disagree totally. H-Milch is a godsend. I remember when it came in when I was a small child, my parents totally went for UHT milk and never looked back, and I use it exclusively too. It's very convenient that you can stock up for months on milk, expecially as a single, and it's more economical and resource friendly because much less milk goes off before being drunk. Besides some of the fresh milk containers in the old days were leaky; there were different designs, especially the plastic hose ones were awful.
Well, even fresh milk is pasteurized, the difference ist the time it gets pasteurized. Today H-Milk doesn't taste much different of "fresh milk"; it mostly depends on available brands (as same brand fresh and H-Milk taste virtually the same).
RAW-milk on the other side is somtehing completely different. But the change in taste mostly comes from homogenization (or the lack of it if you take raw milk). This leads to fat on top and less in the milk itself; making the popular first sip the "best". Besides that, the taste is quite the same (you'd agree if you ever tried homogenized raw milk), but the higher bacteria count can lead to a whole lot of intenstinal problems beginning with flatulence and going all the way up to diarrhea...
I don't know if you know this but Mindestens haltbar bis means that the manufacturer guarentate for a good quality of the product. Some products are abel to eat or drink after that time. Fish or so has Verbrauchen bis and wenn this time is up you should throw it in the garbage.
We also have the DIN is for Deutsches Institut für Normung. All products with DIN doesn't matter from which manufacturer it comes, when the product have the same DIN there should be no difference.
Go drink tap water here in Germany. The regulations/quality standards for that are even higher than for bottled water. Cheap and, obviously, free delivery. 😉
It’s the only water we drink here 😊 delicious!
I agree, but if you ask for leitungsvasser in a restaurant they look at you like you’ve lost your mind, and if you insist, the glass they bring is TINY, so you have specify grosse!
It might look like people are buying more of the H-Milk as I recall people just buying them in bulk. They just buy one of the bigger boxes they come in and thats like 10 or 12 H-milk cartons. In my family we are used to buying refrigerated milk once or twice a week. So you only buy like 2 cartons at once. As they also fill up the refrigerator at home.
When I first moved to Germany, I bought a small blue and white bottle of laundry detergent. Mentally I was thinking Woolite, but soon discovered I had used "Potato Starch" on my underwear.
Tom Walter lol, just a couple of weeks ago we realized we had been buying fabric softener for two months thinking it was laundry detergent...
also: in Europe people do not get charged when receiving calls or text-messages on mobile phones (except if abroad)..
What????? That still exists in 2019? I thought paying for incomming calls is something from 80s. :-)
well, last time I was in USA I would get charged even receiving SMS-text.
In Europe it is not the case even in roaming (nor it was the case receiving sms, just when receiving phone calls).
@@COPKALA that's crazy :-) parents must be really angry when their kids have phone in USA :-)
yes they do. but prices are subject to a cap. in most cases the fees for sms are included in some flat rate offers. Thats why you don't notice.
and in europe you cannot be charged more expensive fees abroad than you pay at home.
Talk and text hasn't been paid for the majority of people in the US since the early 2000's. You can get a plan that limits talk and text, but the people that I know who do this are parents or are not using the phone that much so unlimited talk and text is worthless to them. They want to limit their child's time on the cellphone.
Really man you need to do your research before you open your mouth.
instantcensus.com/blog/almost-90-of-americans-have-unlimited-texting
There is also FOUR ring binders (and punches).
Really?? Didn't find any of those in the stores we were looking for! Thanks for the info!
They are called "Ringbuch" you will find them not in the office section but with the stuff used by students.
Back in the 90s I was desperately looking for some 3 ring binders for US gaming stuff. My first Magic The Gathering Binder was sold for over 50 DM (25 €)...
3 ring binding is unique to the US letter paper format.
With the A series ISO format you use 2 or 4 holes with 8cm spacing.
The slider on the side of your hole punch (black plastic thing) will have markings on it to line up the paper perfectly....
For 2 hole punching in A4 move it to the A4 position and your holes will always be perfectly centred.
Need 4 holes but only have a 2 hole punch? Move the slider to the 888 or 4H position (different brands use different markings but 888 is more common)
Punch the first 2, flip the page and punch the second 2 at the other end, the slider will ensure that the middle spacing is correct
3 ring binding is unique to the US letter paper format.
With the A series ISO format you use 2 or 4 holes with 8cm spacing.
The slider on the side of your hole punch (black plastic thing) will have markings on it to line up the paper perfectly....
For 2 hole punching in A4 move it to the A4 position and your holes will always be perfectly centred.
Need 4 holes but only have a 2 hole punch? Move the slider to the 888 or 4H position (different brands use different markings but 888 is more common)
Punch the first 2, flip the page and punch the second 2 at the other end, the slider will ensure that the middle spacing is correct
@@PassportTwo and there are always online shops to find everything you need ;)
If you drink a lot of carbonated water it is cheaper and easier to buy one of the machines
Water is served in the bottle because we have a fun little thing called "Mineral- und Tafelwasserverordnung (MTVO)". In order to preserve the quality and freshness of this fine natural product they're supposed to open the bottle at your table. There's quite a lot of regulation around mineral water.
Your videos where you compare the US and Germany seem to be your most popular ones. We Germans like seeing our country through the eyes of foreigners. I would love to see more of these comparisons from you!
We are definitely noticing that trend for our videos also and are trying to figure out what will be next! Glad you enjoy them and hopefully will be able to provide some more ASAP!
Tom - I think it is the case for every country. As a French, I watch a lot of videos about France but I also like videos on Germany because our countries are very similar.
I have never washed my eggs bought in the supermarket! The only time I washed them was when I was in the village and got my eggs from under the hen (literally).
You also not supposed to wash them. The eggs have a natural coating that protects them from germs. If you wash them, they will spoil rapidly.
There have been a lot of comments about when we said we 'wash' the eggs but I think it is getting lost in translation. Most of the time in the US when we buy produce, we 'wash' it before eating. However, when we say 'wash' in this context, what we really mean is 'rinse.' When we wash our eggs or produce, we literally are turning on water and running it under for a second or two just to rinse off anything from the farm, i.e. dirt or feathers. In the case of eggs, it is just to knock that stuff off so when we crack them, we don't have dirt falling into our eggs that we dig out. We know it won't kill us and 'washing' isn't for antibacterial reasons either.
@@PassportTwo As I understand it, in the US the egg producer wahes the fresh eggs with a chlorine like chemical. This kills any bacteria on the surface of the shell, but also removes the natural protective layer.
Thus refrigeration is necessary.
@@PassportTwo never done that either
@@PassportTwo you still shouldn't rinse off the eggs www.theprairiehomestead.com/2011/10/eggs-to-wash-or-not-to-wash.html
Thanks for posting difference videos. There are always surprises in other countries and knowing some beforehand helps.
For sure! We really enjoy learning all of this, especially the stuff that we don't feel like is right or wrong, but it still throws you for a loop because you are used to something you didn't even realize you were used to. haha
The H in H milk stands for haltbar; keeping or long-lasting.
The heating process is pasteurisation.
Wrong. Pasteurisation is using 60 C for a longer time instead of the 140+ C for a short time as used in H-milk. You'll have trouble getting milk that is only pasteurised in Germany nowadays. Nearly all milk you find in the fridge section in Germany is ESL milk. ESL is often heated to 120 C or filtered through membranes to get the "extended shelf life". Which is why the ESL milk tastes like mixing H-milk and fresh milk about 1:1.
You can't get fresh milk from Lidl, Aldi or Netto for example.
I hope that i dont offend you german brothers if i say that i watch these video cuse i ran out of czech visiting videos and i feel like you are most similiar to us ( ofc with slovakia, austria, poland too)
Edit : btw i would say that messenger is king here in czechia
Why do you think we're most similar to Czech? Is it because of our preference for dumplings, or the oompah music? :)
We lived next to each other and with each other for last millenia and half or more.
Czech and German customs are almost identical, we borrow socially from each others language. We eats similar food and drink lots of beer but those similarities go much deeper to architecture, philosophy, science and arts. I would say that Czechs, Germans, Austrians and Slovaks have a very similar world view even though we all tend to protect our own identity to some degree.
As a German living in Ireland i'm very happy about the polish stores all over since that is the only place I can get some german things like soup noodles :D Or Paprika Chips :P
Why should that be offending? I like our eastern neighbours
Vaclav Havel.
What a great man he was.
Thanks! Finally a NICE video about the differences instead of complaining about Germany :)
BTW they don't really bring you the card terminal because it is more transparent but because the vast majority of cards nowadays uses pin codes all over Europe. So it is just more practical to either bring the machine or ask the person to come to the counter to pay
About the paper: you have just to tell your printer and computer that you want to print letter or DIN- size, so it does. My collegue went to Dubai for a building project, and there the sold printers are for letter size, but it is really no problem to switch.
Yup, we finally figured that out after our prints were coming out so funny. We didn't notice the paper difference because A4 and US letter size is so close to the same size that it wasn't obvious at first. Anyways, we have it switched on our computers now so we are good to go now 😊
The difference between A4 and Letter size is so negligible in my experience that I've never even bothered changing any settings. I notice I often print with the default Letter size settings on my A4 printer. And what usually happens is it just affects the size of your margins slightly. But who cares about margins in everyday life?
I am currently studying in the US (Ohio) and what I have noticed is the difference in interests in politics and education. I knew more about their systems than they did.
So the difference you're saying is in the level of interest in politics and education? As in, you were more interested in the subjects than they were and therefore you knew more about it?
@@PassportTwo more or less :) I just thought since caucuses are happening right now more people would care about politics.
Gotcha! Ya, it also may not be that they don't care, but because it is so divisive and people in the US have such a hard time talking about politics without it escalating, a lot of Americans will avoid talking about it especially if they recognize that two parts may not necessarily agree.
The H-milk thing is really regionally varying.. Usually fresh milk is preferred as well, but H milk is a lot more convenient..
Just like the Letter paper format, 3-ring binders are essentially a North American thing only, and therefore of course not a thing here (except for very niche applications). Office supplies invariably follow the international ISO 838 standard, which is the 2-hole 8 cm system you've found. Binders are usually lever action ("Aktenordner").
In the educational sector, an extension to ISO 838 is also in common use, which features 4 holes spaced 8+8+8 cm apart. Binders for this system are usually implemented as snap action ("Ringbuch"), and you can get loose blank paper or tear-off notebooks with holes pre-punched for this "888" system. Tab sheets, transparent pockets and the like, even when targeted at the office sector, are also frequently pre-punched or shaped to fit the "888" system. Hole punches are usually 2-hole models with a fixed hole spacing, but their alignment aids typically also feature a setting for use with the "888" system (requiring A4 paper). Dedicated 4-hole punches are also available (sometimes implemented as two 2-hole punches connected with some rig), but can be expensive.
If you _need_ a 3-ring binder for some reason, search for a fantasy/sci-fi/roleplay game shop, and look for trading card game accessories. That's the only niche I've ever seen 3-ring systems being used in (and also the only niche I've never seen a 2- or 4-ring system). But be aware that paper and punches will be hard to come by, as pretty much the only thing trading card gamers need are the binders and pre-punched transparent pocket sheets.
If what you really want is snap action, smaller form factor, and a wider spacing of the outermost holes for less wear & tear on the holes, what you really want is a "Ringbuch" instead of an "Ordner"; you'll find that there are plenty of choices and accessories for those.
If you want a lever-action 4-hole binder, look in a dedicated and reasonably large office supply shop for binders specifically designed for the archival of bank statements - in Germany, bank statements traditionally come in a form factor as wide as A4 but only about 1/3 as high, and are often archived using 2-hole binders half as high as a regular binder; however, regular-size binders exist that are designed to hold two stacks of bank statements, and their mechanics are deliberately spaced in such a way that they can also be co-opted for the "888" system.
There is also a Swedish hole punch standard with four holes 21, 70 and 21 mm apart. Four hole systems are really nice since instead of rings that open in the middle you can have two guide pins from each side. Both the forward and reverse facing pins are long enough to hold all papers in the binder. This means that you can open the binder and add or remove papers in the front or in the back without papers falling out.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hole_punch
@@magnusolert1195 While that may be right, it won't help you in Germany, as the Swedish system is unobtanium here as well, even more so than the US 3-ring format ;)
Funny. I moved to the US from Germany 20 years ago, and I am still importing my roll-on deodorants and Tempo Taschentücher from Germany :)
Hahaha, i can manage with German tissues, but you can import all the roll-on you want as long as you send some stick! 😂
Passport Two Deal!
When it comes to drink milk :-)
Did you ever buy fresh milk from a farmers 'Milchtankstelle' ?
That's definitely my favorite way to buy milk here.
I'ts a little room near the farmhouse with a vending machine where you can fill up 1Liter glass bottles with fresh, untreated, cooled milk from the nearby living cows.
You can even buy the necessary bottles right there.
This milk is not 'homogenisiert und ultrahocherhitzt' so you have to drink it during the next two days, but it tastes far better than the products out of the grocery store.
Yup, we buy that milk weekly and actually have talked about it and showed them in 2 or 3 of our videos 😊
I never bought H-Milk, don't like to drink it and don't know anyone who does. It's funny that most foreigners think, that H-Milk is our preferred version. I think most Germans buy standard refrigerated milk.
I drink h-milk. My grandma was a farmer and had fresh milk, still warm. I hated it. It was stinky and got milk-skin on top. For some this would be the best milk to get, but not for me. Mich schüttelt es immernoch.
I don't think so, many supermarket chains stock UHT milk exclusively.
@@MiSaLiAnW There's also a risk of infection from non-pasteurized milk.
@@xaverlustig3581 maybe, there's also risk in living life ;) but yeah, i don't like original milk
I don't know amyone who don't buy H-Milk 🤔
First video that is 100% right. Thanks and keep it up!
You can pull out the black stick on the side of the holepunch, it´s a ruler, you can adjust it to the papersize you need and always get the middle ;-)
A4, A5,..., Paper makes the most sense because the ratio of the two sides is √2 this is the only ratio where the ratio stays the same if you fold it, that makes it very easy to scale things down or up
That’s what we have had explained to us. There have been very few times in my life where this was an issue for me and I needed to scale something. I was a graphic designer for three years so I did come across this issue every once in a while and I would have loved this format in those cases!
And when you are drinking too much of "Fettarme" milk, then you will get "Fett-arme" ;-D
I just found your channel and love the content. I'm from Oklahoma and my Oma and Opa have lived in Germany my whole life. I haven't had the pleasure of visiting yet, but hope to soon. It's very interesting learning about different cultures!
Joseph Martinez nice! Love it when other Okies find us! Do you know where in Germany they were from? That would be awesome if you could make it over and see where they came from.
@@PassportTwo I'll be visiting soon I hope! My Oma was born in Berin in 35 and survived the war. She moved back to Berin in 82 after raising a family of 5 and only visited a few times afterwards so we have strong ties their. My Opa still lives there, about 2 miles from the Reichstag so it would be a cool home base for travel.
Wow, that would be amazing! Berlin is one of my favorite cities so that would be a dream if you could visit it and family at the same time. I bet they have incredible stories to about living in that area during the war.
@@josephmartinez18579 My Ma was born in 35 too, but not in Berlin. And she has 5 Children too.
@@sinusnovi3826 Germans loved to have kids back then! Lol😁
#1 you can get a binder with 4 rings and punch just 4 holes
#2 i love founten pens still use them every day at my job. Most popular brands are pelikan and lamy
The paper size is very logic. DIN A4 (Deutsche-Industrie-Norm => german industrial norm) explains a norm size for paper. A DIN A5 Paper is half of the size of DIN A4 paper and DIN A6 is half of the size of DIN A5. So.. DIN A0 is a very huge paper and DIN A8 a very small one. DIN describes exactly the form and size of every produced Item in Germany and a lot more… for example if you need a Job in Germany you can use DIN 5008, it explains how a Application has to be. Because of DIN the Logo "Made in Germany" was so succesful because DIN also has quality standards.
we germans eat raw pork (no this is not a joke) maybe you can make a video on that and why you can eat raw pork in germany without getting sick
All of these 'tragic' nuances, and the starving children in Africa are crying for you. :) Love your videos. Warm greetings from an ex-pat now residing in the EU. PS) I, after four years here, cannot adjust to the zero customer service aspect, and people bashing into you in public and not saying a word. I won't say which country, but you've already been here. Other than that, I love it in the EU. Good luck in your transition, you'll do just fine! Jules
If you enjoy writing with fountain pens and want to get away from the school pens - but don't really want to spend a small fortune on a Mont Blanc or something of the likes I really recommend the Diplomat (Traveller) fountain pens. If you enjoy a soft, smooth writing experience I would also recommend going for a gold tip instead of a steel tip - it is somewhat more expensive and for the best writing experience you gotta be the only one who uses that pen (and you need to have to have developed a consistent way of writing with a fountain pen) ; the gold tip is softer, so after a few pages it adjusts to your personal style of writing and any scratching you might experience with harder tips disappears. Of course if the angle / pressure /etc changes all the time the tip never really adjusts and you won't notice a difference between the gold tip and a steel tip.
4:04 Also - there are very small, thin punchers to put into binders to use it in school for example. But also. You could pull out this 'little ''thing'' on the side of your puncher and got a little measuring-stick to put the holes exactly in the middle of the paper. There are stripes for the paper sizes, mostly A4, A5 and sometimes also B5 or B6 (Another DIN-Paper-Norm) and when you use it in the correct way you alway make the holes at the perfect ''place''
Nice video 💓 I just moved from Germany to the US in November last year and I definitely noticed that almost everyone has an iPhone.😀 For me as a Samsung user that is strange as I normally use Whats App (which most people here don't have) for texting. Normal direct text messages from iPhone appear in a weird form at my phone. 🙁 I still don't want to be getting an iPhone as, besides the texting, I don't really see any advantages of using this brand.
Nice! I hope you are enjoying your time in the US. That's neat to be able to see the opposite perspective on your channel! 😊
I would definitely say that I don't necessarily see an advantage of using Apple either but because it is so engrained in us using it like you said you have noticed in the US, I feel like I can't give it up for another. I feel like I would be losing so much connectivity to friends and family that we especially want while we live in Germany. If we stay with apple, we can still use Whatsapp with everybody else over here so we are able to stay connected with both...
@@PassportTwo Thank you!🧡 That's absolutely true. We'll see how long it will take me until I decide an iPhone might be the better option 😅 🙈
I’m from Oklahoma, and studied German for several years like 30 years ago. That’s a long time to forget. But last year, I finally went with my wife to Germany (once the kids were out of the house). Stayed with my exchange student from 30 years ago for a few days, and travelled Germany and Austria for a few weeks.
A few things surprised me. As you said, the sparkling vs still water (I’m from Stillwater, so that’s fun) was a bit odd to me when I didn’t know I was ordering sparkling water. The small sodas with no refill was another. Salami pizza vs pepperoni (since pepperoni is a different thing there). Square, unsliced pizza confused me - as did everyone eating it with a knife and fork. Public transportation was great, but the Italians and Americans (who were everywhere) seemed to be the most overtly friendly. The Germans generally kept to themselves with the exception of when we were seated at a table with them (another thing I found odd, but not totally unexpected).
I spoke better german than I understood. The regional dialects can be very confusing, and I thought many people mumbled a lot.
Loved the country. Visiting again likely this summer (did a Jeep tour of the US and skipped Europe this time around).
Nice! My brother went to OSU so I know Stillwater very well. I am studying German now also so hopefully I can catch up to the level you were at. However, the regional dialects are definitively something that is giving me a run for my money like you mentioned. haha Its like you learn one thing and then you go out into the real world and everybody speaks completely differently.
All of your differences you pointed out are super interesting and a few we have noticed ourselves! Thanks for sharing some of these with us! 😊
Yeah, the Pepperoni is a fun one. I'm german and it took me a while to figure out that pepperoni was just supposed to be a type of salami and not a particular kind of pepper.
"Weird Al" Yankovic is that you?
No, but here is his channel if you are interested:
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I was about to write the same. 😂
@@aircolumbia9579 - Go for Al's "White and Nerdy!" MUAHAHAHAHAHHAHHHAHHAH ...
@@aircolumbia9579 Same here
Thanks, as a german I like how you describe differences between Germany and the US.
Here thigns somtimes are different - that does not mean better or worse - just different.
Thanks 😊 We get annoyed by people who just openly say things are "weird" or assume worse in a different country just because things are done differently. There are some things that are fine either way things are done! haha
I Love my eggs with fethers and dirt
I'm sure there are some added proteins, vitamins and minerals when eating it that way 😉
Michael Vogl what? You eat the eggshell or something?
@@celestiacrystal9317 sure extra calcium
@@celestiacrystal9317 Same here, I guess it feels less like a product of a soulless egg industry, more like a home-made.
You also like salmonella? This is something you can potentially get. Egg shells are porous. If there is salmonella on it will eventually get into the egg even though you never cracked the egg. Food for thought... 80% of the worlds salmonella cases is in the continent Europe.
Another difference is the taste of tab water. Most countries add chlorine in their tab water but Germany doesn't.
The water in the netherlands is even better
oh boy oh boy you gotta get here to the austrian or swiss alps - when I went to netherlands and i took a sip it tasted a lot like plastik pipes, chlorene, something metallic and algee - also I became pretty sick from it
I explicitly asked before if it is drinking whater /if the tap whater is good to drink straight out of -I was obviously lied to
I am German and my whole life I had refrigerators with integrated egg holders. So of course I put them in there.
Nothing wrong with doing that either 😊
3:47 I'm from Peru and over there we also only use the 2 puncher and when we moved to Canada we found it weird how in north america the 3 puncher is used instead
It's a small but funny difference for sure!
you have to wash your eggs before you use them? So you eat them with the shell in the states? ;)
There have been a lot of comments about when we said we 'wash' the eggs but I think it is getting lost in translation. Most of the time in the US when we buy produce, we 'wash' it before eating. However, when we say 'wash' in this context, what we really mean is 'rinse.' When we wash our eggs or produce, we literally are turning on water and running it under for a second or two just to rinse off anything from the farm, i.e. dirt or feathers. In the case of eggs, it is just to knock that stuff off so when we crack them, we don't have dirt falling into our eggs that we dig out. We know it won't kill us and 'washing' isn't for antibacterial reasons either. 😊
Oh and dont forget the MHD = Mindestens haltbar bis = best before date is a best before date not a dont eat this after that date. Most food can be used after MHD passed for some weeks. Give it a try and dont simply throw food away because MHD passed away some days or so. Oh and on salt, sugar and such things a MHD is more for the law that says food needs one not for reality.
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Urgh
A lot depends on what the product is, and how it was stored. I wouldn't trust a yoghurt in a packaging that isn't 100% sealed more than a couple of days, or when I know it has been sitting out of the fridge for hours. Meat and fish, especially fresh, even less. But hard pasta, rice, tinned food, etc., if stored in a cool and dry place, could last months longer. Just keep your wits, if it looks off, smells off, it will probably taste off and be off. I have thrown out yoghurt that wasn't even past the date, but was completely blown up, too.
There are a lot of subtle differences for sure. I love the part at 8:15 when Aubrey made sure that she said "We have to wash our eggs before we use them" :) :). lol lol. :).
Those subtle differences are our favorites! 😊
@@PassportTwo Absolutely
Having lived and worked in the US, we find some of your clips really amusing. If you like, we can set up contact - we are not that far from Ramstein.
Thank you for the upload. I really like your informative channel. 👍😀
The deodorant in Germany is different because most are shaving under their arms🤷♂️
It's funny how a lot of people are confused by the "washing your eggs" thing. Actually in old German cooking books I've also seen comments about rinsing the egg before using it. Some decades ago it was more likely to get salmonella by touching the eggs as they often get pooped on by chickens due to the lack of space in the coop. So it definitely makes sense to rinse the eggs but as we Germans are less concerned about bacteria than Americans we just crack them open like that. If you cook the egg it doesn't matter anyways. Only if you prepare stuff with raw eggs, like e.g. Tiramisu, you might be more careful. I think Germans live more by the phrase: What doesn't kill you makes you stronger. ;)
Still the information about the protective layer on the eggs was very interesting. I didn't know that and always wondered why eggs can be stored at room temperature in the supermarket as we usually keep them in the fridge at home. Thanks for that!
Jessica S FINALLY!! 😂 someone who gets it! Haha, thank you for the info and background on some German cookbooks!!
TIL Americans put 3 holes to their papers.
Guys, this is not US vs Germany. This is US vs the world. Almost 98% of the world does things one way and US stubbornly does it differently. As if they want to create and stick with their own identity. Such as metric system, or changing words in English language or predominantly using automatic cars. All the things you said (except milk) it applies to rest of the world. Such as using A4 size paper. Its the US which is weird for the rest of us. Better or not, you decide.
aint no normal person be drinking h milch 💀💀
Ja oder Fett arme Milch
You are right, milk is unhealthy
@SHIGARU That's ok. It's ok to be wrong. Halt mehr gute Milch für uns Normalos.
s i d e w a y s l i f e s t y l e nah h-Milch is where it’s at. Ganzen Karton kaufen und einfach in der Speisekammer lassen, immer nur eine im Kühlschrank? Das is Luxus
I know this video was made a while ago and you might know this now, but at quite a few German restaurants when they ask if you want wasser, you can ask for "tap" and they will bring you a carafe of it. And it's often free.
In California, I saw a lot of different UHT milk brands.
In Germany it is a law to open the glass bottle in front of your eyes in a restaurant, just to make sure you don't cheat on the cumstomer concerning the water brand.
Great transparency for sure!
I met some Americans during my vacation that I wanted to keep in contact in and none of them had whatsapp 😅 I was so shocked! They didn't seem to mind the cost that sending sms from Japan with a German mobile to an American one would produce at all 🙈
FiveOClockTea haha, I also wouldn’t be surprised if because most Americans don’t have friends from a foreign country they hadn’t realized the costs associated with sending an sms to a number outside their country 😂
But this is how we learned about WhatsApp as well! From new friends from another country who wanted to stay in contact but only messaged through WhatsApp! 😊
@@PassportTwo also true. It's not like there are any countries around the U.S. you could easily travel to 😅
Luckily they also installed whatsapp, so we're still in contact 😊
Well...besides Mexico, Canada, and the Caribbean not really! haha, but even then it depends on what part of the US you are from on whether it is actually easy to travel even to those places 😊
Glad to hear you were able to do so! I love staying in contact with those from other countries we meet along our travels 😃
@@FiveOClockTea it's difficult to travel to some countries from the US. For example it's easy for people from New York to travel to Canada, but flying to Mexico City is a 6+ hour plane ride with no stops. Florida it's easy to go to the Caribbean but more difficult to go to parts of Canada or Mexico. Southern California it's easy to go to Mexico, but takes forever to get to the Caribbean. This can be a 10 hour flight for some people in California.
The glass bottles for "Mineralwasser" are by law. If you get water in a restaurant that is not in a glass bottle it is either tab water or "Tafelwasser" but it must not be "Mineralwasser"
I've seen a couple of your videos now - love them. Gives me another perspective of my beloved home country
Mineralwasser ("sparkling water") needs to be served in a closed bottle and be opened by the waiter at the table by law
Bullshit!... large bottles are opened in front of you as a form of Service just like a bottle of wine, but a small bottle will always come pre opened just like a beer or Cola.
Fountain pens were used by everybody in the USA decades ago, but by the 1960s they were replaced by ballpoints. Those had been around since the late 1940s but when really cheap disposable BIC pens appeared in the ‘60s, people shifted to those. Also in the ‘60s, the first fine-point felt-tip pens from Japan became popular in the USA.
You didn't mention they put sugar on popcorn??
Only a madman would put anything else on it :-D
Who? Germans?
@@Pidalin Yes, here in Germany we prefer popcorn with sugar. You can also buy salted popcorn, though.
@@mafumaru5899 I prefer bacon popcorn. :-)
In cinemas in the US I have seen people put melted butter on their popcorn. 🤢 There is an extra machine for it. I personally love caramelized popcorn 😍 my US friends all are disgusted by sweet popcorn. I find that difference super interesting and funny
At my school it was mandatory to use real fountain pens, we had to make sure to always have ink on hand. I went to a private school in California so it’s not just a German thing. Just an FYI
the US doesnt have a DIN format? didnt know that
The US is different ... they still use the imperial system too ... I hate it metric is much easier
DIN is the German Institute for Normation, why would you think it's universal?
@@Sarah_Snooze cause almost the whole world is using a4
@@Sarah_Snooze because its handy?
About H Milk: The first one was condensed milk, that was mixed with water and used to cook baby food.
In my childhood in the 1970's we had fresh milk what needs cooling and H milk, at this time in the classical Tetra Pack, today it's almost the Tetra Brick you find instead the pyramid shaped package
Whahaah what the..? You don't know Whatsapp? I got nearly 200 people in my contacts and only 1 didn't got it, i thought it'd like that in every country.
Green as far as i know WhatsApp is the no1 Messenger in Europe. In America they message a lot with iMessage and then it's i think Whatsapp. In Asia for example it's KakaoTalk and Russia uses mostly viber or something else.
@@1anna1 In Czech Republic most of people are using facebook messenger, I've never used WhatsUp and I have no any reasong why using that when all people are on facebook and if not, I will just send normal SMS.
Ondřej Matějka We started using WhatsApp, when it wasn't owned by Facebook. So around 2010/2011. it used to have a subscription service back then. And when Facebook bought WhatsApp, nothing changed. So there was no Need to switch. And no one really uses Facebook anymore nor their messenger.
Or sms...people using probably more Facebook messenger than sms.
Also, just by comparing the two messengers, Facebook looks horrible and is really weird to text on.
Hey, i noticed your second camera is flickering. Try using 25fps as your framerate and a shutter speed that is 1/50th or a multiple of that.
It has to do with the power grid being 50hz in Europe as opposed to 60hz in the us.
I never buy h milk, and no anyone who does except old people. But maybe it's different where you live.
i only buy H-Milk. as do all of my friends and family (except for m boyfriend). I like the taste better and it keeps for ages.
I buy lots of H milk, mainly because its cheaper.
Agree, I never buy H Milch. I do not like the taste of it. One liter does not last here for weeks. That means that the storage period is also not a pro for buying H Milch. However, I do know several people that buy H Milch. But most of them do not use it for drinking pure milk but add it to coffee or tea.
I never bought h milk in my life and i never will. Its gross
Also i know no one who buys it
Mineral water: Standard rule is: The waiter brings a closed bottle to your table and opens it (the "Kronkorken") in front of you. You should reject opened water bottles because some restaurants refill bottles with tab water and as say you can carbonated that very easily. You would be for an "expensive" bottle of mineral water and get cheap tab water.
What's with all the H-Milch bashing here in the comments? H-Milch is very popular, I only knew a very few people who prefer fresh milk.
Here in Czech republic fresh milk was popular in communism, today you can't even find it in shops, you have to visit farmers. But it's known that fresh milk is not good for human stomach and in many countries it's even illegal because of bacteries.
When I was in 2nd grade learning cursive my teacher required we learn with a fountain pen... The local drug store stocked the ink cartridges for her. I still love using a fountain pen but almost never do because ink cartridges are hard to find... I have recently found stuff on Amazon & am looking forward to practicing with them...
A4 is the standard paper size in Germany. It was invented in Germany. As well as the ring binder in the late 1870s. It was always a two-hole system. Only the USA decided to have three holes due to the slightly longer, but slimmer letter size paper.
Ball point pens are also commonly used, as well as felt tip pens. BTW, that little handle you can see at 3:51 sticking out at the left side of the two hole punch can be extracted. This allows you to slide the paper to a specific setting to allow perfectly center holes being punched in A4, A5, and maybe even A6. The more expensive hole punches might have such exotic formats such as B4, B5, B6, or even letter.
Ice in drinks. Well that depends on the seasons. In most seasons in Germany it's not hot enough to warrant ice in your drink. Summer or very hot spring or fall days might, but even then it is uncommon in Germany to get ice in your drink. Ice waters down the drink when it melts, and it takes up volume with, essentially, tap water that is not used for the drink itsself.
Like you said in Germany there are almost never any refills. Because we are very conscious about the sugar contents of soft drinks we tend to drink them only for their taste, not as refreshment or liquid intake.
Eggs don't need to be washed before using unless you want to use them raw, such as in Zabaione. For raw eggs, always get really really fresh eggs. Also, as someone else below already said, it is recommended to keep them refrigerated after a certain date to keep them fresh for consumption.
The farmers don't have to vaccinate their chickens if their chickens are kept in an animal-friendly environment with clean nests. Only in cases of infections during the regular state controlled veterinary examinations are anti-bacterial agents applied to the chickens. Vaccinations can be used but many farmers don't have to use them. The process in the USA is due to unsanitary breeding and animal husbandry practices. The eggs can be contaminated with different infections. So during the process the eggs are washed in a chlorine solution, then washed again, and sprayed with an artificial coating. This both removes the natural cuticle as well as changes the taste of the eggs. And it makes cooling of the eggs mandatory in the USA.
In a comparative study about the salmonella infections comparing the USA and Europe, Europe has consistently fewer than half the infections per 100 000 population than in the USA.
H-milch. For me that isn't milk anymore. I personally dislike the taste of H-milk. But for using it in coffee it is ok as the coffee is much stronger in taste than the h-milk.
Fresh milk in Germany usually has a much higher fat content than most milks in the USA. This is more appropriate to the natural milk fat content of cows milk of around 3.8%.
If you want to treat yourself to some great milk try to find non-homogenized milk. It is still pasteurized but the natural fat content isn't extracted, then pressed through a micro-fine sieve and re-injected into the milk. This is in essence the homogenization process so that the fat does not separate from the whey part of the milk. But during that process nearly the whole fat content is extracted and dispersed. This changes the taste of homogenized compared to non-homogenized milk significantly.
You can let the Eggs outside of the Refrigorator, but usually People still lay them in there. They hold longer and you can even Eat them when the Expiry Date is exceeded. ( I and my Family eat sometimes Eags that were 7-10 Days over the Expiry Date. You still need to cook them completly, like doing an Omelette or such, but as long as they dont Smell and all its fine)
The only Exception are the hard-boiled, brightly painted eggs that you can buy. You can let them outside for quite some Time ( Not so good if its Summer, but in Winter when its Cold you can let them stay outside for 3 Weeks or even 4 without Problems)
Thanks for the information! We figured it wouldn't do them harm to go ahead and just put them in the fridge right away. For some reason though, the act of putting the on a shelf not in the fridge, feels exciting to us since we have never been able to do that before... 😂
Place your eggs into the fridge after you bought them. In stores the eggs are relatively fresh and the store keeps consistent temperature. So they can store then on the shelfes. But when you bought it, place it in the fridge to keep the egg fresh and yourself healthy.
I'm American. When I go to any restaurant in the U. S. including McDonalds, coffee refills are always free. Restaurants always bring tap water, and it's always free. I heard that in Europe coffee refills are NOT free, and you even pay for tap water. Is this true?
Yup, refills aren’t free 99% of the time no matter the drink and most places won’t serve you tap water, only bottled. There are always exceptions to these rules but for the vast majority of restaurants, this is true 😊