I'm a French exchange student who has been in Spiekeroog, an Island in East Frisia, for half a year, and the thing I miss the most from there is the tea. Everytime I go in Ostfriesland again, I buy true East Frisian tea and kluntje.
@@VainoOtsonen that’s a couple of islands up from me it hasn’t changed much still a very small community whereas Norderney is totally ruined and centered on tourism unfortunately 😢
@@hablin1 I've also been on Norderney for a few days, I believe you when you say it's touristic ! It's something completely different from Spiekeroog...
@ I know, when I came here first it was a sleepy tourist town where everything closed for the winter and we where on own now 🤦🏼♀️ it’s all year round every weekend is full of stag weekend revelers it’s bad 😢
So happy to see that there is more attention for the Frisian cultures. I myself come from Friesland (the Dutch Friesland) and am and feel a true Frisian. Our culture is one of the oldest (Germanic) cultures in Europe, even during the era of the Romans and the Vikings we already made ourselves heard, even though we were a small but respected region. And you can only be proud of that. I have enormous respect for our East Frisian friends and I hope that they can continue to exist forever in their norms and values. Leaver dea as slaef (rather dead than slave).
What do you mean 'small' Frisia once ranged from the Zwin in Belgium all the way up to the Weser! Which is why East Frisia even exists. Friesland and East Frisia are the only parts left of a much larger entity.
@@telebubba5527 It was quite small compared to other countries at that time, and that's fine, even though we were small, we still had a lot of influence in Europe :)
Ik spreek Nederlands en Fries (of allebei door elkaar gemengd) vanwege mijn vader en waar ik nu woon spreekt men Aalsmeers dus ik zou me ook in oost Friesland thuisvoelen. Ik kan me helemaal herkennen in hun cultuur, dat is twee generaties terug alweer. Ik wil het graag een keer bezoeken met een gids. Ik bin sa grutsk op East Fryslân foar it trochsette úse tradysjes ! Meitsj fierder sa ! Ik hoopje dat se it no better op 'e kaart sette kinne.
I am not east Frisian. I am from west Germany. I had a Frisian pen pal. On a visit I got my first Frisian tea. My pen pals mother explained the three sips like that: with everything in life, when you begin something, it is nice (and creamy). Then I gets hard and bitter, but only after the bitter part, you get the sweetness. That really stuck with me!
and thats a good thing, why would you want to drink a drink that is responsible for world hunger? its all the teas fault, tea is a drug that caused the poor british to force poor african,american and asian countries to work for them as slaves
Moin moin aus Texas. I grew up in Ostfriesland and the daily tea times always brightened up my days no matter how lousy the weather, school, or work. Left Germany over 40 years ago and gave up a lot in terms of food, traditions, customs, etc. but what I will never give up is my Ostfriesentee, even in the blistering 45 degree C (115F) desert heat. There have been times when it was a little difficult to find a source for my ‘elixir of life and happiness’ here in the USA but, fortunately, throughout the years I’ve always managed to fulfill my annual 300 liter quota😊
I am a citizen from the region of Hannover (aka where the "purest" German is spoken), when i visited the region of Ostfriesland that sits between the Ems river and Dollart (and thus close to the Dutch border) it was always funny that Germans and Dutch among the border could communicate in the local dialect of Plattdeutsch (low German). Plattdeutsch essentially is a language with its regional dialects (for example the Hannover Platt is definitely different than the one in the R(h)eiderland).
high german was manufactured specifically to try and unite Germany under one dialect, yeah. Without it, we'd still have low german, and low German and Dutch are quite close, especially near the border. There is not much difference, ethnically either... it's one of those 'almost' pointless borders.
Very informative video. I'm from India, and I must confess that I had no idea that a certain German province has such a unique Tea culture. However, I'm very much surprised by the graphics at 3:29 that India doesn't feature among the top tea drinking nations. Apart from parts of Peninsular India where Coffee may be more popular, Tea is an integral part of Indian culinary culture. Serving Tea to any guest who comes to your house is almost a universal practice in India. Whichever part of India one may visit, you will never be far from a Tea shop. That's how prevalent Tea drinking is over here. We have 3 prominent Tea growing regions in Darjeeling, Assam and the Nilgiris, and each region produces Tea with unique attributes. Anyways, feels good to know that there exists such a passionate tea drinking population in mainland Europe also..!!
@@jayjayn007 How rude... No it's the Germanic tribes who have a historical record of wrecking havoc in the world and destroying healthy thriving cultures. From Ancient Rome to Catholic Europe to the destruction of colonialism in Africa to two world wars. The German people should be using their brilliance and ingenuity for good , but too often their cultural arrogance and blind stupidity leads them down dark paths . Either that or God himself has cursed them .
I researched that, the per Capita (per person) consumption is relatively modest, due to the large population base and high poverty levels according to wikipedia. India is leading in consumption over all.
I'd also be curious to see what the statistic is for Germany as a whole, rather than just East Frisia. I saw another stat that had Germany ranked 18th overall. I think also, that the unit of measurement matters. Here, we're seeing it ranked by volume of tea consumed, whereas the same rank table I looked at based it upon weight of tea leaves consumed per capita, which makes a difference depending on whether the culture likes their tea weaker or stronger relative to liquid volume.
There is some connection between East Frisia and England, historically speaking - the Low German dialect spoken by East Frisians is linguistically very close to English, much more so than High German by far! Like, the English sentence "The door is open" would be "Die Türe ist offen" in High German", but in East Frisian dialect it is "De Door is open".
And after WW II Eastern Frisia was within the British zone. My mom, born in 1921, told me that they got tea from the British soldiers and were immensely grateful.
Great! It’s from the city Emden 😊 Bünting Tea is very good as well! It’s the other original brand from East Frisia. This one is from the city Leer. I switch them - both are great in their own way!
North German here, I live in Emsland in a town right on the "border" of East Frisia, we speak Low German just like the East Frisians and also drink tea. I'm happy to see how our culture is being given attention. Thanks for the video.
Moooiiin, I moved to Marseille earlier this year to study there, safe to say that tea and my teapot were part of my luggage! One of my favorite moments since I arrived in the south of France (as backwards as it might sound) was a dim grey morning, with rain. I sat next to the open window in my appartment and had my Friesentee. It was beautiful!
A friend from East Frisia introduced us to this custom when we were living in Amsterdam a decade ago! She brought back the tea and sugar from home to share with us. I thought it was delightful.
Seriously, try to get some "Ostfriesen Mischung", get proper cream, and Kandiszucker, it's a divine experience, But as they say in the video, with tea you seriously notice the difference of water quality from region to region. I'm from Bremen, N. Germany and the water is pretty good, but when you go to the country city the water really does get softer and tea taste more "elegant".
My homeland!! These days I mostly drink coffee, but as a child, I spent two years at my grandmother's house during the day, and there we had tea at least four times a day. As a child, I drank a lot of tea because of this, always with rock sugar (Kluntje), though over time the cream was replaced with milk (except when we had visitors!). Until recently, I even had an East Frisian tea set for six people and donated it to charity, because it wasn't used for a long time. My mother has lived in deepest Bavaria for many years, almost at the Austrian border, and every year I send her Bünting tea by package. Now even her neighbor (who once borrowed tea from my mother) asks about it, and her best friend in Linz/Austria asked if I could send my mother Bünting-Tea for her. She tried the tea at my mother's house and was thrilled. Important: The common tea found in almost every German supermarket labeled "Ostfriesenmischung" (East Frisian Blend) is not the best - it must be tea from Bünting, Thiele, or Onno Behrends, which are from this region. Only these are genuine East Frisian tea with its strong character! I always have Bünting tea at home; in winter or when sick, brewed strong, it's a delight, although unfortunately, for health reasons, I have to use sweetener instead of rock sugar.
I am from Irland but for the past 45 years I have lived on Norderney an East Frisian island it’s a big thing here tea bags are a big no no 🤣🤣🤣🤣 on the island 15.30 is tea time without fail it’s 11 utje is mostly on Sunday that’s to say it’s usually tea and Schnaps 🥰
In Lenkaran region of Azerbaijan, we first rinse tea leaves with cold water. Then fill the pot half-way with boiling hot water, put on the stove and half-way through the process, add the rest of water to fill the pot. We never bring tea to boil, when it starts to steam, we turn off gas. What is in the pot is the dark part of the tea, mixed with kettle water in the cup. We love tea and drink it all day long, brew couple time a day, always fresh. Tea bags are not preferred method at all. We would leave restaurants if we find out the tea is not brewed. Sadly living in the UK now, finding brewed tea in just any place is difficult.
Is it true that in Azerbaijani tea culture you have to add jam/syrup to the tea but you don`t mix it? First you eat a spoon of the syrup, then you drink the tea on it. When I was there (in Lahij) the waiter served me the tea and a jar of honey with rose hip he told me to do so. But I am not sure if I understand him correctly and maybe did it wrong... 😅
@@alexejvonyserne4744 Hmm, I don't know of this tradition to be honest but it can very much be Lahici tradition. As we are locals there, maybe when we visited Lahic waiters skipped this part :D We drink tea with jam/fruits in syrup, but we mainly eat the fruity part and syrup part is by preference. What some regions do and I love is adding special rose water to the tea, it makes it more fragrant and taste great! Next time you visit, try to sea if you can find it, must be common in Gabala region. We are glad we made it possible to bring our 'samovar' tea to the UK and make tea often here using woods. But every time we go back, we still try to visit different regions and find out more traditional foods/drinks/sweets.
Thank you, I will definitely look for it when I come back 😊 I heard about rose water in tea in Iran but I didn't know that it's also common in Azerbaijan. It might be a remain of the long cultural influence by these two regions there.
@@alexejvonyserne4744 Absolutely, whole region shares culinary traits in some form. There are approx. 12-20 mln Azerbaijanis living in Iran. Just over the weekend I went to Tajrish restaurant in London, all staff was speaking Azerbaijani which was extra nice for us :)
@@alexejvonyserne4744 I experienced what you say in the Svanetia region of Georgia with various forrest berry jams. I liked it, but as an East Frisian myself (who lives in Switzerland) I always gravitate back to our traditional tea ceremony :)
Visited East Frisia last year, staying in Leer (Ostfriesland). I myself am from southern Germany, but always felt a connection to the sea. I was only there 5 days during off-season, but I loved my time there. Calm, friendly people and definetly slower lifestyle than I'm used to. During those five days I walked around Leer, visited Emden and even took the ferry to Norderney. Also bought some local tea (Bünting, Thiele) and thoroughly learned the tea ceremony. After returning back home I introduced other people to this rather unkown culture of Germany. I love tea, the north sea and East Frisia! Won't be my last visit up there.
@@juleeeeee16 Ich habe meine Zeit dort wirklich genossen. Ich war die paar Tage Ende Februar vor Ort, hatte sich spontan ergeben weil ich noch eine Woche Urlaub übrig hatte. Der Jahreszeit entsprechend war sehr wenig los, aber das hatte auch etwas. Im Herzen bin ich Norddeutscher und werde evtl. zu einem späteren Zeitpunkt im Leben (22 Jahre alt) in den Norden ziehen. Die Teezeremonie zelebriere ich aber seitdem regelmäßig auch hier im Süden, mir fehlt nur noch die stilechte Keramik! :)
In that region people also start to sound more English. Like that lady saying "Stop" (exactly like in English) and not "Schtop" like everywhere else in Germany, pretty much.
No. That's the former Northern German dialect of "Plattdeutsch". The real Frisian is rarely spoken (mainly only in Saterland). There may be some minor influences though.
@@checkcommentsfirst3335 well, I mean technically there are three Frisian languages currently recognised as regional or minority languages in Europe: Frisian (in the Dutch part of Frisia), Saterfrisian (in a few villages in East Frisia) and North Frisian (in Schleswig-Holstein). But of them Saterfrisian is certainly doing the worst, whereas speaker numbers especially in the Netherlands are relatively solid. Saterfrisian is not likely to make it through this century and Speaker numbers of North Frisian are also dwindling, bc German minority language politics do leave quite a bit to be desired and the social climate surrounding the topic is also not great. That being said Frisian would also not have the st -> 'sht' development. That is a feature of Upper German dialects, which Standard German is a part of. Other members of the West Germanic language family generally do not do this (apparently East Low German is the odd one out here). This includes the other continental West Germanic languages (Low German, Dutch and Afrikaans) but also the Anglofrisian languages (The Frisian languages, English and Scots) (no promises made for Pidgins and Creoles that draw from these languages but placing these within language families is difficult anyways. Also the term in general is a little controversial but that really doesn't matter here)
The Anglo-Saxons immigrated to the british isles from northern Germany. You will find many words in the english language and pronounciation that go back to the north-german dialect. For example "zwo" turned into "two" and "reep" turned into "rope".
I am from Frisia / Friesland (Dutch part) myself and I'm delighted to hear and see other Frisian cultures speak and do their thing ❤ Fun to hear this algamation of Dutch and German language.
I drink 7g (700-800ml) worth of tea daily and on weekend 21g (2100-2400L) of tea. Easily over 400 L of tea per year for me. I'm inflating the US yearly tea consumption.
I am from germany and my ancestors come from the North (Niedersachsen. I live in the West). I drink about 2 Liter Tea a Day (every Day. Mostly Darjeeling First Flush) . Thats double the amount of an Ostfriesen. Tea is the best.Thank you for sharing and Thank you to the Netherlands for the tea.
Certainly new to me. I would never associate tea with Germany. Hot chocolate, coffee , yes. Tea never. Thanks enjoyed this and also learning about a community of sub- Germanic cultural ethnic group. 🩷
As an East Frisian inhabitant myself, I feel most delighted by seing that our great tea culture is now made known to the english speaking tea world as well! I can highly recommend anyone who has not tried east frisian tea so far, to give it a go, but mind the strength, it's able to keep you up at night, enjoyed too late in the evening ☕ Cheers to every fellow tea enjoyer :-)
I think this statistic is skewed - It's contrasting a small part of germany, where tea is popular, with whole countries; China in particular is very large (and I mean, HUGE) and tea consumption propably varies greatly between different regions, as well as big cities and rural areas. If you were to focus on traditional tea producing areas like Yunnan, things would be looking different. But if you include a metropolis like Hong Kong, which on it's own has many many more people living in it than east frisia and where tea culturally does not play as big a role as in other parts of china, you are more likely to get a result like this.
That's because most Europeans have switched to primarily drinking coffee (especially the stereotypical tea drinkers of the UK), or soft drinks (especially Southern Europe). Having been throughout Germany, I can say their coffee culture is awful, even in big cities like Berlin and Munich. But I live in Prague, and the roastery and boutique café culture here is highly developed, so it might not be a fair comparison.
Note, not (all) the Germans, only the (few) East-Frisians. Regarding the per capita tea consumption for *all Germans* we'd take only the 18th spot I read. I love both coffee and tea but come nowhere close to 300 litres per year. The majority of Germans prefers coffee.
@@serebii666 " Having been throughout Germany, I can say their coffee culture is awful, even in big cities like Berlin and Munich." Yeah, we are quantity and ·"effect" drinker by and large not quality drinker. The classical German coffee always was "Filterkaffee",
@@adrianseanheidmann4559 Czechia's roasteries also make great coffee beans for filter too - local Prague companies like Candycane, La Boheme, Doubleshot have good selections for it, and lots of cafes collaborate with international roasteries like Round Hill or Climpson and sons from the UK or Stooker from NL. Cafés here likewise have filters on standby - they're part of the culture too, especially from the "turek" (where the lógr or kaffeesatz settles at the bottom of the cup) variant's historic popularity. Germany really has no excuse.
We in east frisia don't speak a dialect. We speak Plattdeutsch, which is its own language. There is a frisian language too, but that one died out in eastern frisia. In the Saterland the frisians still speak frisian and I think in the dutch frisia
Yes! I grew up in a Lower German speaking family. When I first learned English in school this became apparent to me with certain words. bottle - Buddel (Standard German Flasche) pot - Pott (Standard German Topf)
That region "roughly" is where your ancestors came from, namely the Angles and the Saxons.. The local language they speak there is called "low German" which is different from standard German and more related to Dutch than standard German..
They are a lovely and welcoming people. I enjoyed my visits to Friesland more than those I made to any other place in Europe. I was able to understand some Frisian much faster than I was able to understand either German or Dutch. Even after having studied German for five years in high school. If you are interested, the Upton Tea Company in the U.S. imports a wonderful "East Frisian Blend" that tastes just like the tea I remember from Friesland.
One of the oldest tea importers in Germany is in Bremen. Germany traded tea, silk and ceramics from China and Asia from a long time ago. Don't forget the profitable Hansa Trade.
I have to say, I do like the LARGE variety of tea from China though. The different types, and the different locations that produce it... so much variety!
3:29 I'd be curious to see what the statistic is for Germany as a whole, rather than just East Frisia. I saw another stat that had Germany ranked 18th overall. I think also, that the unit of measurement matters. Here, we're seeing it ranked by volume of tea consumed, whereas the same rank table I looked at based it upon weight of tea leaves consumed per capita, which makes a difference depending on whether the culture likes their tea weaker or stronger relative to liquid volume.
i don't know why they had to cherry pick the data to prove Frisians were number one. Their way of drinking the tea is awesome, and doesn't need an artificial boost on the data. If you chose a what I'd call "tea hotspot" in a country, and not the entire country full of people who are outside this region, then took this hotspot's average but compared this data with the other countries and not those countries' own tea hotspots, you get this... weird result.
My family has been successfully integrating in-laws to east frisia for a few generations and I don’t want to live elsewhere. My favorite part about east frisian traditions is that they are a little bit different from village to village just like the language differs a bit, it makes it even more personal for me
What I heard in the video from the local dialect in Ostfriesland sounded more like Dutch than like Frisian to me. I think Frisian is hardly spoken anymore outside the Dutch province of Friesland, some 50 km west of Otsfriesland.
Moin moin ! East Frisian Tea is good stuff a lot of east Frisian things are great ,Food 👍🏻Tea👍🏻 Korn( clear schnapps 70%, almost like vodka is good if you have a cold you put that in tea with kluntjes wich is candied sugar ) I love east Friesia .
I am from East Frisia (born and raised there) - we are by the way an official minority. So I consider myself East Frisian, besides German. My husband and I (he is from the Danish minority) got a whole tea set as a wedding gift. We both love East Frisian tea - I am so glad he loves it as well. It’s just so nice to drink on a Sunday at 3 p.m. and eating some delicious cake ❤ but even in Germany our tea culture is not very well known 😢
I'm from Hessen but spent every vacation at the north sea when I was a child and I still enjoy black tea😊 more than coffe. Especialy assam leaves. Also I too have a package of Ostfriesen Tee at home and the water is truly a factor.
I'm a proud east frisian and whenever I meet someone who never had our te before, I make them taste it. Most fall in love with it like me. I became kind of a tea broker for my world wide friends 😁
It's always so interesting how even in germany there are so big differences. I lived for some time in North Frisia. Not that much tea to find there but much more Pharisäer, Tote Tante and Grog, which I suppose is also common in East frisia.
Our language is closely related to dutch. My mom told me when she was taking her mom to the netherlands for the first time, she lost her mom and found her happily chatting with some dutch people, them being oerfectly able to communicate because of how close our languages are
Friesian is the modern language most closely related to English. It has a lot of commonality with neighboring languages, Low German (Plattdeutsch). Dutch (Nederlandisch) and Flemish.
@@leviturner3265 As far as I know, Hollandisch is the same language as Nederlandish. But properly speaking, Holland is only one area of the Netherlands, the country that also contains 10 other provinces (besides North Holland and South Holland).
@@censusgary I did not know that. I assumed it was called Hollandisch because some regions of The Netherlands speak dialects of German, and Hollandisch would be a differential word, as closer to Holland it is more commonly spoken. I have never been to the Netherlands, so I am probably wrong. Maybe it is just the border regions where German is spoken. To be fair though Dutch is a language instead of a dialect for political reasons. From my limited knowledge it is very similar to northern German dialects.
When there was a food shortage after WWII, people had food stamps. The east frisians were famous for trading their meat stamps for tea stamps with others 😂 I think they would get along well 🤝
Funny how most of those East Frisian words are more similar to Dutch or Northern Dutch Dialects than actual Frisian. “Klontje” with Dutch diminutive rather than Frisian “klontsje”
I thought Frisian is in the Netherlands? 😂 Btw, Indonesia is also a country with strong tea drinking habit. It's the classic beverage to drink after eating, either in restaurant just for personal breakfast/lunch/dinner or in a big party, informal or formal, serving guests or just serving your own at home, served hot or iced. Plus, there are many variants & flavors of bottled tea beverage here.
Frisia is kind of split in half. West Frisia is in the Netherlands and East Frisia is in Germany. The difference between is pretty just in the passport.
@@glorialiedtke8931 Frisians used to settle large parts of the coast between France and Denmark basically. The remaining people that speak Frisian are overwhelmingly In Westfrisland. In Germany they are a few in Saterland and some more in Northfrisland. East Frisians speak a German language that comes from the Saxon tribe and not from the Frisians. The Saterland Frisians are the only East Frisians by language coming from Frisian settlers that left the coast. We had different Germanic tribes in Europe with diverging languages that created the modern regions. From Austria to the Netherlands it's one single gradient and to me these are all Germans with regional differences. The people from Eastfrisland are more similar to the people in the Netherlands and the Bavarians are more similar to the people in Austria. Different Germans in different countries. Dutch is called dutch for a reason.
Dang i think i can totally just talk dutch over there and these people will understand me just fine. Their dialect is just like the dutch/frisian language.
I am actually East Frisian myself. Born and raised and my whole family as well. First of All, to all the people noticing how close our accent of Low-German (Plattdeutsch) sounds; Yeah! Frisians and Anglo-Saxons share common ancestry! And as far as I know (at least according to my history nerd brother) East Frisia, as part of the kingdom Hannover, was under British reign for a while. (But take that with a grain of salt…) Also, Fun Fact, at one time King Frederick II (Friedrich II) or Frederick the Great tried to make East Frisians stop drinking tea, because the Royal Prussian Asiatic Company failed, which caused some trouble with the East Frisian locals, later known as the “Teekrieg“ or tea war. In the end, he didn’t manage to stop our tea consumption because it’s a core tradition in our region. Thanks for reading!
Great video ❤ But I still don't understand why tea has become such a cultural drink in East Frisia. It's so regionally unique. Was there some unique marketing? Was there a lack of coffee at one point? I'm still missing the big why.
To my knowledge black tea became much more popular before coffee in northern Germany, the reason for the Assam blends was the poor quality of water in Frisia, you needed a robust base for your beverage. The Dutch ships brought tea from the Asia, many sailors were from Frisia...
I think it is explained the video though, no? They're next to the Dutch, and the Dutch have plenty of tea from their China trade. Just a little easier than most other places to get tea leaves, then.
@@olafkunert3714 Poor water quality in Eastfrisland? These days the water is great and perfect for tea. Much better than in many other parts of Germany as said in the video.
I'd really love to drink authentic Ost-Frisian tea in one of the isles 😍 When I move to Germany from the UK I was missing proper strong tea and everyone suggested I should buy Ostfriesland Tee. I tried Meßner and other mainstream brands but it tastes like paper. Any suggestions?
There is a long tradition of great tea shops in many German cities. The north and west has more than the rest though. Might be related to the Hanse. Good Ostfriesentee never comes in bags and, in my opinion, black tea from e.g.Teekanne and Messmer is undrinkable, as you had to discover. I‘d suggest to try and find a „Teehaus“ and buy something like a very strong Assam or Assam/Ceylon blend. The rock candy is called „Kandis“ and I personally prefer the brown over the white. You can get that at a DM for example.
Fun Fact: The inarguably most famous celebrity from Ostfriesland is the comedian Otto Waalkes. Not just for his comedy, but he repeatedly used his home-region as backdrop for his stories and made people aware that the Ostfriesen are a real people with a real culture and history.
It is a small device with a bundle of wires (like a whisk) holding back the tea leaves in the teapot. After use, you just pull it out of the snout and rinse it.
I'm a French exchange student who has been in Spiekeroog, an Island in East Frisia, for half a year, and the thing I miss the most from there is the tea. Everytime I go in Ostfriesland again, I buy true East Frisian tea and kluntje.
@@VainoOtsonen that’s a couple of islands up from me it hasn’t changed much still a very small community whereas Norderney is totally ruined and centered on tourism unfortunately 😢
And the sadesst is: you can get easily Friesentee or at least Black tea, but not the right cream for a Wulkje. The cream have to be very fatty.
@@f.1395 yes but a lot of people here use condensd milk with a high fat content
@@hablin1 I've also been on Norderney for a few days, I believe you when you say it's touristic ! It's something completely different from Spiekeroog...
@ I know, when I came here first it was a sleepy tourist town where everything closed for the winter and we where on own now 🤦🏼♀️ it’s all year round every weekend is full of stag weekend revelers it’s bad 😢
So happy to see that there is more attention for the Frisian cultures. I myself come from Friesland (the Dutch Friesland) and am and feel a true Frisian. Our culture is one of the oldest (Germanic) cultures in Europe, even during the era of the Romans and the Vikings we already made ourselves heard, even though we were a small but respected region. And you can only be proud of that. I have enormous respect for our East Frisian friends and I hope that they can continue to exist forever in their norms and values. Leaver dea as slaef (rather dead than slave).
What do you mean 'small' Frisia once ranged from the Zwin in Belgium all the way up to the Weser! Which is why East Frisia even exists. Friesland and East Frisia are the only parts left of a much larger entity.
@@telebubba5527 It was quite small compared to other countries at that time, and that's fine, even though we were small, we still had a lot of influence in Europe :)
Ik spreek Nederlands en Fries (of allebei door elkaar gemengd) vanwege mijn vader en waar ik nu woon spreekt men Aalsmeers dus ik zou me ook in oost Friesland thuisvoelen. Ik kan me helemaal herkennen in hun cultuur, dat is twee generaties terug alweer. Ik wil het graag een keer bezoeken met een gids.
Ik bin sa grutsk op East Fryslân foar it trochsette úse tradysjes ! Meitsj fierder sa ! Ik hoopje dat se it no better op 'e kaart sette kinne.
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Call it culture is a real stretch. They're drinking cups of teal Like everyone else. I was expecting more.
I am not east Frisian. I am from west Germany. I had a Frisian pen pal. On a visit I got my first Frisian tea. My pen pals mother explained the three sips like that: with everything in life, when you begin something, it is nice (and creamy). Then I gets hard and bitter, but only after the bitter part, you get the sweetness.
That really stuck with me!
At last some Germany-related content that is NOT about Bavarian or Baden-Württemberg. If you haven’t had East Frisian tea, you haven’t had tea at all😂
and thats a good thing, why would you want to drink a drink that is responsible for world hunger? its all the teas fault, tea is a drug that caused the poor british to force poor african,american and asian countries to work for them as slaves
Moin moin aus Texas. I grew up in Ostfriesland and the daily tea times always brightened up my days no matter how lousy the weather, school, or work. Left Germany over 40 years ago and gave up a lot in terms of food, traditions, customs, etc. but what I will never give up is my Ostfriesentee, even in the blistering 45 degree C (115F) desert heat. There have been times when it was a little difficult to find a source for my ‘elixir of life and happiness’ here in the USA but, fortunately, throughout the years I’ve always managed to fulfill my annual 300 liter quota😊
Na Mensch olle Berliner hier . Friesland ist toll . War als Kind oft da , auch auf Sylt .
Gruß aus Bremerhaven!🫖🍪
schön zu hören,beste grüße zurück!^^
Moin moin? Sabbelkopp.
Wohl bekommt's ☕
I wish she would speak more in the local dialect.
As a Dutch person, it was fun when she spoke words that were very familiar to me.
Elführtje and kloentje made me laugh.
luister eens naar liedjes van Hannes Wader of Otto Groote. Ostfriesisch Plattdeutsch is een mooi dialect.
@@joshuatendoornkaat8558 Bedankt voor de tip!
I am a citizen from the region of Hannover (aka where the "purest" German is spoken), when i visited the region of Ostfriesland that sits between the Ems river and Dollart (and thus close to the Dutch border) it was always funny that Germans and Dutch among the border could communicate in the local dialect of Plattdeutsch (low German). Plattdeutsch essentially is a language with its regional dialects (for example the Hannover Platt is definitely different than the one in the R(h)eiderland).
high german was manufactured specifically to try and unite Germany under one dialect, yeah.
Without it, we'd still have low german, and low German and Dutch are quite close, especially near the border.
There is not much difference, ethnically either... it's one of those 'almost' pointless borders.
Very informative video. I'm from India, and I must confess that I had no idea that a certain German province has such a unique Tea culture. However, I'm very much surprised by the graphics at 3:29 that India doesn't feature among the top tea drinking nations. Apart from parts of Peninsular India where Coffee may be more popular, Tea is an integral part of Indian culinary culture. Serving Tea to any guest who comes to your house is almost a universal practice in India. Whichever part of India one may visit, you will never be far from a Tea shop. That's how prevalent Tea drinking is over here. We have 3 prominent Tea growing regions in Darjeeling, Assam and the Nilgiris, and each region produces Tea with unique attributes.
Anyways, feels good to know that there exists such a passionate tea drinking population in mainland Europe also..!!
Nightmares, thought you'd invaded already.
@@jayjayn007 How rude... No it's the Germanic tribes who have a historical record of wrecking havoc in the world and destroying healthy thriving cultures. From Ancient Rome to Catholic Europe to the destruction of colonialism in Africa to two world wars. The German people should be using their brilliance and ingenuity for good , but too often their cultural arrogance and blind stupidity leads them down dark paths . Either that or God himself has cursed them .
I researched that, the per Capita (per person) consumption is relatively modest, due to the large population base and high poverty levels according to wikipedia. India is leading in consumption over all.
It goes to show how much more and more often tea drinkers in these countries are drinking tea, to outrank India even with this all being true.
I'd also be curious to see what the statistic is for Germany as a whole, rather than just East Frisia. I saw another stat that had Germany ranked 18th overall. I think also, that the unit of measurement matters. Here, we're seeing it ranked by volume of tea consumed, whereas the same rank table I looked at based it upon weight of tea leaves consumed per capita, which makes a difference depending on whether the culture likes their tea weaker or stronger relative to liquid volume.
One per person and one for the pot is exactly what we say in England! 🏴
During the War in propaganda films they said not to include one for the pot, as tea was strictly rationed.
There is some connection between East Frisia and England, historically speaking - the Low German dialect spoken by East Frisians is linguistically very close to English, much more so than High German by far! Like, the English sentence "The door is open" would be "Die Türe ist offen" in High German", but in East Frisian dialect it is "De Door is open".
And after WW II Eastern Frisia was within the British zone.
My mom, born in 1921, told me that they got tea from the British soldiers and were immensely grateful.
We don't put cream in tea, like a bunch of psychos.
Milk goes in tea or you suppress the flavour.
@@gozerthegozarian9500also probably that east England and Frisia shared a culture and probably DNA before, during and after Roman occupation.
Glad to see Frisian culture and language are alive and well.
I had a cup from a Brand called Thiele. Best cup of tea i’ve ever had. seriously. I order it regularly now. thank god they ship
Good choice!!
Great! It’s from the city Emden 😊 Bünting Tea is very good as well! It’s the other original brand from East Frisia. This one is from the city Leer. I switch them - both are great in their own way!
@@tommysara Yep, I prefer Bünting to Thiele. But both are good.
As a half german half sri-lankan (aka where they get their tea from) this is fascinating
North German here, I live in Emsland in a town right on the "border" of East Frisia, we speak Low German just like the East Frisians and also drink tea. I'm happy to see how our culture is being given attention.
Thanks for the video.
Emsland mentioned!!!!
That's also the case in the Ammerland, bordering East Frisia from the sout-east. Successful cultural imperialism ;-)
Moooiiin, I moved to Marseille earlier this year to study there, safe to say that tea and my teapot were part of my luggage! One of my favorite moments since I arrived in the south of France (as backwards as it might sound) was a dim grey morning, with rain. I sat next to the open window in my appartment and had my Friesentee. It was beautiful!
They forgot to mention the 'Kluntjeknieper', a pair of pincers used to split pieces of rock suggar which are too big.
A friend from East Frisia introduced us to this custom when we were living in Amsterdam a decade ago! She brought back the tea and sugar from home to share with us. I thought it was delightful.
I’m not usually a tea drinker, but this makes me want to go digging through my cabinets for some tea😅
Please get some fresh tea.
Seriously, try to get some "Ostfriesen Mischung", get proper cream, and Kandiszucker, it's a divine experience, But as they say in the video, with tea you seriously notice the difference of water quality from region to region. I'm from Bremen, N. Germany and the water is pretty good, but when you go to the country city the water really does get softer and tea taste more "elegant".
My homeland!! These days I mostly drink coffee, but as a child, I spent two years at my grandmother's house during the day, and there we had tea at least four times a day. As a child, I drank a lot of tea because of this, always with rock sugar (Kluntje), though over time the cream was replaced with milk (except when we had visitors!). Until recently, I even had an East Frisian tea set for six people and donated it to charity, because it wasn't used for a long time. My mother has lived in deepest Bavaria for many years, almost at the Austrian border, and every year I send her Bünting tea by package. Now even her neighbor (who once borrowed tea from my mother) asks about it, and her best friend in Linz/Austria asked if I could send my mother Bünting-Tea for her. She tried the tea at my mother's house and was thrilled. Important: The common tea found in almost every German supermarket labeled "Ostfriesenmischung" (East Frisian Blend) is not the best - it must be tea from Bünting, Thiele, or Onno Behrends, which are from this region. Only these are genuine East Frisian tea with its strong character! I always have Bünting tea at home; in winter or when sick, brewed strong, it's a delight, although unfortunately, for health reasons, I have to use sweetener instead of rock sugar.
The struggle wich drinking tea outside of Eastfrisland is getting good water.
@@christopherstein2024 True
@@eastfrisianguy we usually use condensed milk instead of cream now 🥰
o no. cream is the best in tea. nothing else and im not from uk, india or east frisia! it just tastes the best 😋
I am from Irland but for the past 45 years I have lived on Norderney an East Frisian island it’s a big thing here tea bags are a big no no 🤣🤣🤣🤣 on the island 15.30 is tea time without fail it’s 11 utje is mostly on Sunday that’s to say it’s usually tea and Schnaps 🥰
Interesting, thanks! As a tea lover, I appreciate this video a lot. Keep on tea drinking!
In Lenkaran region of Azerbaijan, we first rinse tea leaves with cold water. Then fill the pot half-way with boiling hot water, put on the stove and half-way through the process, add the rest of water to fill the pot. We never bring tea to boil, when it starts to steam, we turn off gas. What is in the pot is the dark part of the tea, mixed with kettle water in the cup. We love tea and drink it all day long, brew couple time a day, always fresh. Tea bags are not preferred method at all. We would leave restaurants if we find out the tea is not brewed. Sadly living in the UK now, finding brewed tea in just any place is difficult.
Is it true that in Azerbaijani tea culture you have to add jam/syrup to the tea but you don`t mix it? First you eat a spoon of the syrup, then you drink the tea on it. When I was there (in Lahij) the waiter served me the tea and a jar of honey with rose hip he told me to do so. But I am not sure if I understand him correctly and maybe did it wrong... 😅
@@alexejvonyserne4744 Hmm, I don't know of this tradition to be honest but it can very much be Lahici tradition. As we are locals there, maybe when we visited Lahic waiters skipped this part :D We drink tea with jam/fruits in syrup, but we mainly eat the fruity part and syrup part is by preference.
What some regions do and I love is adding special rose water to the tea, it makes it more fragrant and taste great! Next time you visit, try to sea if you can find it, must be common in Gabala region.
We are glad we made it possible to bring our 'samovar' tea to the UK and make tea often here using woods. But every time we go back, we still try to visit different regions and find out more traditional foods/drinks/sweets.
Thank you, I will definitely look for it when I come back 😊
I heard about rose water in tea in Iran but I didn't know that it's also common in Azerbaijan. It might be a remain of the long cultural influence by these two regions there.
@@alexejvonyserne4744 Absolutely, whole region shares culinary traits in some form. There are approx. 12-20 mln Azerbaijanis living in Iran. Just over the weekend I went to Tajrish restaurant in London, all staff was speaking Azerbaijani which was extra nice for us :)
@@alexejvonyserne4744 I experienced what you say in the Svanetia region of Georgia with various forrest berry jams. I liked it, but as an East Frisian myself (who lives in Switzerland) I always gravitate back to our traditional tea ceremony :)
Visited East Frisia last year, staying in Leer (Ostfriesland). I myself am from southern Germany, but always felt a connection to the sea. I was only there 5 days during off-season, but I loved my time there. Calm, friendly people and definetly slower lifestyle than I'm used to. During those five days I walked around Leer, visited Emden and even took the ferry to Norderney. Also bought some local tea (Bünting, Thiele) and thoroughly learned the tea ceremony. After returning back home I introduced other people to this rather unkown culture of Germany. I love tea, the north sea and East Frisia! Won't be my last visit up there.
Es freut mich das es dir bei uns in Leer gefallen hat :)
@@juleeeeee16 Ich habe meine Zeit dort wirklich genossen. Ich war die paar Tage Ende Februar vor Ort, hatte sich spontan ergeben weil ich noch eine Woche Urlaub übrig hatte. Der Jahreszeit entsprechend war sehr wenig los, aber das hatte auch etwas. Im Herzen bin ich Norddeutscher und werde evtl. zu einem späteren Zeitpunkt im Leben (22 Jahre alt) in den Norden ziehen. Die Teezeremonie zelebriere ich aber seitdem regelmäßig auch hier im Süden, mir fehlt nur noch die stilechte Keramik! :)
In that region people also start to sound more English. Like that lady saying "Stop" (exactly like in English) and not "Schtop" like everywhere else in Germany, pretty much.
No. That's the former Northern German dialect of "Plattdeutsch". The real Frisian is rarely spoken (mainly only in Saterland). There may be some minor influences though.
@@checkcommentsfirst3335 well, I mean technically there are three Frisian languages currently recognised as regional or minority languages in Europe: Frisian (in the Dutch part of Frisia), Saterfrisian (in a few villages in East Frisia) and North Frisian (in Schleswig-Holstein). But of them Saterfrisian is certainly doing the worst, whereas speaker numbers especially in the Netherlands are relatively solid. Saterfrisian is not likely to make it through this century and Speaker numbers of North Frisian are also dwindling, bc German minority language politics do leave quite a bit to be desired and the social climate surrounding the topic is also not great.
That being said Frisian would also not have the st -> 'sht' development. That is a feature of Upper German dialects, which Standard German is a part of. Other members of the West Germanic language family generally do not do this (apparently East Low German is the odd one out here). This includes the other continental West Germanic languages (Low German, Dutch and Afrikaans) but also the Anglofrisian languages (The Frisian languages, English and Scots) (no promises made for Pidgins and Creoles that draw from these languages but placing these within language families is difficult anyways. Also the term in general is a little controversial but that really doesn't matter here)
The Anglo-Saxons immigrated to the british isles from northern Germany. You will find many words in the english language and pronounciation that go back to the north-german dialect. For example "zwo" turned into "two" and "reep" turned into "rope".
I am from Frisia / Friesland (Dutch part) myself and I'm delighted to hear and see other Frisian cultures speak and do their thing ❤ Fun to hear this algamation of Dutch and German language.
Always something interesting from DW.
How fascianating and beautiful! I had no idea of this unique culture. 😊 Greetings from Finland, from a tea lover.
I drink 7g (700-800ml) worth of tea daily and on weekend 21g (2100-2400L) of tea. Easily over 400 L of tea per year for me. I'm inflating the US yearly tea consumption.
I am from germany and my ancestors come from the North (Niedersachsen. I live in the West). I drink about 2 Liter Tea a Day (every Day. Mostly Darjeeling First Flush) . Thats double the amount of an Ostfriesen. Tea is the best.Thank you for sharing and Thank you to the Netherlands for the tea.
I come from near Hamburg, and I love my tea as a mixture of East Frisian, a bit of Earl Grey, spoonful of honey and a dash of cream. ^^
Certainly new to me. I would never associate tea with Germany. Hot chocolate, coffee , yes. Tea never. Thanks enjoyed this and also learning about a community of sub- Germanic cultural ethnic group. 🩷
As an East Frisian inhabitant myself, I feel most delighted by seing that our great tea culture is now made known to the english speaking tea world as well! I can highly recommend anyone who has not tried east frisian tea so far, to give it a go, but mind the strength, it's able to keep you up at night, enjoyed too late in the evening ☕
Cheers to every fellow tea enjoyer :-)
My kind of people - nothing beats a nice cup of tea - and plenty of them.
My mother made tea in the pot exactly as they do. Austro-Hungarian, but maybe some Frisian got mixed in there somehow ... lol. Always w/ milk & sugar.
Lol my first thought were the Chinese with all the tea legends and history they have
I think this statistic is skewed - It's contrasting a small part of germany, where tea is popular, with whole countries; China in particular is very large (and I mean, HUGE) and tea consumption propably varies greatly between different regions, as well as big cities and rural areas. If you were to focus on traditional tea producing areas like Yunnan, things would be looking different. But if you include a metropolis like Hong Kong, which on it's own has many many more people living in it than east frisia and where tea culturally does not play as big a role as in other parts of china, you are more likely to get a result like this.
Never thought that Germans took the top spot for tea drinkers in Europe. Always knew it was English. Such refreshing facts ☕️😊
That's because most Europeans have switched to primarily drinking coffee (especially the stereotypical tea drinkers of the UK), or soft drinks (especially Southern Europe). Having been throughout Germany, I can say their coffee culture is awful, even in big cities like Berlin and Munich. But I live in Prague, and the roastery and boutique café culture here is highly developed, so it might not be a fair comparison.
I thought it was the Russians.
Note, not (all) the Germans, only the (few) East-Frisians. Regarding the per capita tea consumption for *all Germans* we'd take only the 18th spot I read. I love both coffee and tea but come nowhere close to 300 litres per year. The majority of Germans prefers coffee.
@@serebii666 " Having been throughout Germany, I can say their coffee culture is awful, even in big cities like Berlin and Munich." Yeah, we are quantity and ·"effect" drinker by and large not quality drinker. The classical German coffee always was "Filterkaffee",
@@adrianseanheidmann4559 Czechia's roasteries also make great coffee beans for filter too - local Prague companies like Candycane, La Boheme, Doubleshot have good selections for it, and lots of cafes collaborate with international roasteries like Round Hill or Climpson and sons from the UK or Stooker from NL. Cafés here likewise have filters on standby - they're part of the culture too, especially from the "turek" (where the lógr or kaffeesatz settles at the bottom of the cup) variant's historic popularity. Germany really has no excuse.
The wonderful aesthetic of it
So cool to hear the Friesian dialect. It's not much more difficult to understand for an English speaker than some dialects of English are.
We in east frisia don't speak a dialect. We speak Plattdeutsch, which is its own language.
There is a frisian language too, but that one died out in eastern frisia. In the Saterland the frisians still speak frisian and I think in the dutch frisia
I'd say it's pretty much Dutch, from what I heard in the video.
We've been to the Tea Museum in Norden a decade or more ago! Very worth visiting. Thank you very much!
Yes, as a American i had 3 full years of enjoyment living around OstFriesland, hooooaaaah !!! This was back around 1987 - 1990.
My best friend is from East Frisian. I don’t really get to drink a 2nd cup before she finishes the whole pot by herself.
The cups are small thin and wide for fast drinking. If you wait to long it gets cold.
I am West Friesland from North Holland in the Netherlands 🇳🇱.
Really wonderful revelation of tea tradition in a surprising part of Europe!
crazy the difference in quality of this video vs the baklava video, loved this video
Tea drinking cultures such as this one must be very hydrated over all. I'm happy for them lol
It's interesting to hear how some of their dialect sounds closer to English than does the standard German.
That's because both Frisian and Low-German are not dialects of German but Germanic languages of their own.
Friesian is the modern language most closely related to English. High German (Hochdeutsch) is more distantly related to English.
Yes! I grew up in a Lower German speaking family. When I first learned English in school this became apparent to me with certain words.
bottle - Buddel (Standard German Flasche)
pot - Pott (Standard German Topf)
as a standard german, I don't understand any person who starts to talk "platt".
@@sarahmichael270244 It is not a German dialect, it is a completely different language.
Fascinating!
I can't unhear it but they sound like British northerners speaking German especially the old guy bring interviewed
That region "roughly" is where your ancestors came from, namely the Angles and the Saxons..
The local language they speak there is called "low German" which is different from standard German and more related to Dutch than standard German..
Lovely people, hope their tea legacy continues for generations to come!
They are a lovely and welcoming people. I enjoyed my visits to Friesland more than those I made to any other place in Europe. I was able to understand some Frisian much faster than I was able to understand either German or Dutch. Even after having studied German for five years in high school. If you are interested, the Upton Tea Company in the U.S. imports a wonderful "East Frisian Blend" that tastes just like the tea I remember from Friesland.
@@eichfelder1951 Thank you for sharing, will try to find it.
@@born2fren Upton has a website and great mail order service.
German Tea Culture??? Never thought I'd see those words together. Thank you for the overview!
East Frisian here and happy to see this. ♡ Maybe make a video about our language, too! We speak low german, a mix of Dutch, German and English. ♡
To keep us warm during cold winter days, we also put some rum into the tea!
Now I am really curious to see how Frisia is.
Wide, plain, monotonous, many channels and more friesian cows than people.
Very flat, it has a certain rough beauty too it that you can learn to love... windy as heck aswell haha
Never knew this… absolutely fascinating, and agree regarding the water issues. In U.K. and especially London, the water is very hard 😢
One of the oldest tea importers in Germany is in Bremen. Germany traded tea, silk and ceramics from China and Asia from a long time ago. Don't forget the profitable Hansa Trade.
I'm East Frisian and it's really cool that our tea craze is getting known outside Germany 😊
me drinking tea while watching this video
I have to say, I do like the LARGE variety of tea from China though. The different types, and the different locations that produce it... so much variety!
3:29 I'd be curious to see what the statistic is for Germany as a whole, rather than just East Frisia. I saw another stat that had Germany ranked 18th overall. I think also, that the unit of measurement matters. Here, we're seeing it ranked by volume of tea consumed, whereas the same rank table I looked at based it upon weight of tea leaves consumed per capita, which makes a difference depending on whether the culture likes their tea weaker or stronger relative to liquid volume.
i don't know why they had to cherry pick the data to prove Frisians were number one. Their way of drinking the tea is awesome, and doesn't need an artificial boost on the data. If you chose a what I'd call "tea hotspot" in a country, and not the entire country full of people who are outside this region, then took this hotspot's average but compared this data with the other countries and not those countries' own tea hotspots, you get this... weird result.
My family has been successfully integrating in-laws to east frisia for a few generations and I don’t want to live elsewhere.
My favorite part about east frisian traditions is that they are a little bit different from village to village just like the language differs a bit, it makes it even more personal for me
Frisian is the language most closely related to English. Anglo-Saxons and Frisians share a common ancestry, so it's not surprising we both like tea!
What I heard in the video from the local dialect in Ostfriesland sounded more like Dutch than like Frisian to me. I think Frisian is hardly spoken anymore outside the Dutch province of Friesland, some 50 km west of Otsfriesland.
Moin moin ! East Frisian Tea is good stuff a lot of east Frisian things are great ,Food 👍🏻Tea👍🏻 Korn( clear schnapps 70%, almost like vodka is good if you have a cold you put that in tea with kluntjes wich is candied sugar ) I love east Friesia .
Moin Moin ist schon Gesabbel
I am from East Frisia (born and raised there) - we are by the way an official minority. So I consider myself East Frisian, besides German. My husband and I (he is from the Danish minority) got a whole tea set as a wedding gift. We both love East Frisian tea - I am so glad he loves it as well. It’s just so nice to drink on a Sunday at 3 p.m. and eating some delicious cake ❤ but even in Germany our tea culture is not very well known 😢
Man, I wish I was born here! That sounds like such a good way to spend the day.
I'm from Hessen but spent every vacation at the north sea when I was a child and I still enjoy black tea😊 more than coffe. Especialy assam leaves. Also I too have a package of Ostfriesen Tee at home and the water is truly a factor.
Omg, loved this. thank you
I'm a proud east frisian and whenever I meet someone who never had our te before, I make them taste it. Most fall in love with it like me. I became kind of a tea broker for my world wide friends 😁
I am USA but I love traveling and drink them few times. It was so delicious!
It's always so interesting how even in germany there are so big differences. I lived for some time in North Frisia. Not that much tea to find there but much more Pharisäer, Tote Tante and Grog, which I suppose is also common in East frisia.
This made me get up for a nice big mug of tea❤
Its basicly the Netherlands but in Germany, the local dialect even sounds somewhat dutch
Our language is closely related to dutch. My mom told me when she was taking her mom to the netherlands for the first time, she lost her mom and found her happily chatting with some dutch people, them being oerfectly able to communicate because of how close our languages are
A beautiful tradition!
I'm Swedish, it's 03:30 as I'm watching this and am about to go to sleep. Now I want to make a cup of tea!
The art of it love it
And the East Frisian tea ceremony has become part of the World cultural heritage.
Ah. So this is why my family drinks so much tea. All day every day. Hello from America!
I usually don't like black tea but the Frisian way just tastes amazing
Friesian is the modern language most closely related to English. It has a lot of commonality with neighboring languages, Low German (Plattdeutsch). Dutch (Nederlandisch) and Flemish.
I thought that the language Dutch was called Höllandisch, or is that a different language/dialect than what you call Nederlandisch?
@@leviturner3265 As far as I know, Hollandisch is the same language as Nederlandish.
But properly speaking, Holland is only one area of the Netherlands, the country that also contains 10 other provinces (besides North Holland and South Holland).
@@leviturner3265it's not Frisian at all, though some words have remained. It's kind in between Low German and Dutch.
@@censusgary I did not know that. I assumed it was called Hollandisch because some regions of The Netherlands speak dialects of German, and Hollandisch would be a differential word, as closer to Holland it is more commonly spoken. I have never been to the Netherlands, so I am probably wrong. Maybe it is just the border regions where German is spoken.
To be fair though Dutch is a language instead of a dialect for political reasons. From my limited knowledge it is very similar to northern German dialects.
@@leviturner3265 Linguists have a proverb: A language is a dialect with an army behind it. A dialect is a language that doesn’t have its own army.
I wonder if East Frisians drink more tea than Tibetans. Tibetans practically use tea as a food source
When there was a food shortage after WWII, people had food stamps. The east frisians were famous for trading their meat stamps for tea stamps with others 😂 I think they would get along well 🤝
In Copenhagen a tea- merchant , Perchs , opened in 1835, still exists. ...they have a "Frisian blend" ...and now I know why, thank you
Funny how most of those East Frisian words are more similar to Dutch or Northern Dutch Dialects than actual Frisian. “Klontje” with Dutch diminutive rather than Frisian “klontsje”
It's because we don't speak Frisian anymore.
They speak Saxon German not Frisian. And mostly the old people. It's not looking to well for Platt here.
@@christopherstein2024That's such a shame.
I thought Frisian is in the Netherlands? 😂
Btw, Indonesia is also a country with strong tea drinking habit. It's the classic beverage to drink after eating, either in restaurant just for personal breakfast/lunch/dinner or in a big party, informal or formal, serving guests or just serving your own at home, served hot or iced. Plus, there are many variants & flavors of bottled tea beverage here.
Frisia is kind of split in half. West Frisia is in the Netherlands and East Frisia is in Germany. The difference between is pretty just in the passport.
@@glorialiedtke8931 Frisians used to settle large parts of the coast between France and Denmark basically. The remaining people that speak Frisian are overwhelmingly In Westfrisland. In Germany they are a few in Saterland and some more in Northfrisland. East Frisians speak a German language that comes from the Saxon tribe and not from the Frisians. The Saterland Frisians are the only East Frisians by language coming from Frisian settlers that left the coast.
We had different Germanic tribes in Europe with diverging languages that created the modern regions. From Austria to the Netherlands it's one single gradient and to me these are all Germans with regional differences. The people from Eastfrisland are more similar to the people in the Netherlands and the Bavarians are more similar to the people in Austria. Different Germans in different countries. Dutch is called dutch for a reason.
Frisia is a divided nation, at risk everywhere from assimilation.
This sounds like heaven!
It is heaven! I love my home region and culture!
Time for another cup 🫖
Dang i think i can totally just talk dutch over there and these people will understand me just fine. Their dialect is just like the dutch/frisian language.
I can almost hear my mum's voice, as she added that last spoon of leaves, "And one for the pot!" She is dearly missed, but the tea ritual lives on.
Frisian culture is so unique!
My foster father is a East-Frisian and He always drank his tea like that.
But there is also the saying: "Three times is Bremen's right".
I am actually East Frisian myself. Born and raised and my whole family as well. First of All, to all the people noticing how close our accent of Low-German (Plattdeutsch) sounds; Yeah! Frisians and Anglo-Saxons share common ancestry! And as far as I know (at least according to my history nerd brother) East Frisia, as part of the kingdom Hannover, was under British reign for a while. (But take that with a grain of salt…)
Also, Fun Fact, at one time King Frederick II (Friedrich II) or Frederick the Great tried to make East Frisians stop drinking tea, because the Royal Prussian Asiatic Company failed, which caused some trouble with the East Frisian locals, later known as the “Teekrieg“ or tea war. In the end, he didn’t manage to stop our tea consumption because it’s a core tradition in our region.
Thanks for reading!
I've tried to recreate the cloud with cream in the tea, by dropping it in a half circle on the side of the cup. Never worked like this
4:12
"China"
*shows Japanese building*
Beautiful tea pot ❤
I am SHOCKED that India didn't even make the list 😅😅😅
Great video ❤ But I still don't understand why tea has become such a cultural drink in East Frisia. It's so regionally unique. Was there some unique marketing? Was there a lack of coffee at one point? I'm still missing the big why.
To my knowledge black tea became much more popular before coffee in northern Germany, the reason for the Assam blends was the poor quality of water in Frisia, you needed a robust base for your beverage. The Dutch ships brought tea from the Asia, many sailors were from Frisia...
I think it is explained the video though, no? They're next to the Dutch, and the Dutch have plenty of tea from their China trade. Just a little easier than most other places to get tea leaves, then.
Lesenswert: "Das Buch vom ostfriesischen Tee" von Johann Haddinga. Erschienen 1977 beim Verlag Schuster in Leer.
@@andreas7937 direkt mal auf die Liste gesetzt! :)
@@olafkunert3714 Poor water quality in Eastfrisland? These days the water is great and perfect for tea. Much better than in many other parts of Germany as said in the video.
Ostfriesentee ist der beste Schwarztee. Er schmeckt nicht bitter, egal wie lange ich den Teebeutel drinne lasse ❤
It looks and feels like a bunch of people from Sweden and Denmark moved to Holland and then a generation or two later, we get this.
I'd really love to drink authentic Ost-Frisian tea in one of the isles 😍 When I move to Germany from the UK I was missing proper strong tea and everyone suggested I should buy Ostfriesland Tee. I tried Meßner and other mainstream brands but it tastes like paper. Any suggestions?
There is a long tradition of great tea shops in many German cities. The north and west has more than the rest though. Might be related to the Hanse.
Good Ostfriesentee never comes in bags and, in my opinion, black tea from e.g.Teekanne and Messmer is undrinkable, as you had to discover.
I‘d suggest to try and find a „Teehaus“ and buy something like a very strong Assam or Assam/Ceylon blend. The rock candy is called „Kandis“ and I personally prefer the brown over the white. You can get that at a DM for example.
interesting that the video at the beginning does not mention China, where tea originated.
How did China not even make the list in the introduction? They are literally the origin of tea culture.
Fun Fact: The inarguably most famous celebrity from Ostfriesland is the comedian Otto Waalkes. Not just for his comedy, but he repeatedly used his home-region as backdrop for his stories and made people aware that the Ostfriesen are a real people with a real culture and history.
Tee, gesund und refreshing immer
The thing of the spout of the teapot seems very interesting.
It is a small device with a bundle of wires (like a whisk) holding back the tea leaves in the teapot. After use, you just pull it out of the snout and rinse it.
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does it make sense to compare tea drinking areas with whole countries?
They did distinguish between Hong Kong and China, so it is what it is.