4 Shocking Things Germans Do, Americans DO NOT Understand! 🇩🇪
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After moving to Germany and living in Germany, there are just still some things that we DON'T UNDERSTAND about Germany and German culture. What culture shocks do we still have even after working in Germany and living here for 4 years? Find out in today's video 😊
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4:33 - Thing 2
8:00 - Thing 3
11:24 - Thing 4
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May I interject? How about "Why are American tourists perceived as the funniest/most hilarious in Germany and all across Europe?"
As an American I find the German way of selling drinks much better . The crates are easy to stack and make for much less waste. When I first came to Germany back in thee early 80's you would almost never find soda that was packed in plastic . I find it better to bring the empties back to the store and not just throwing everything in the trash.
even more so that he mentions "why would i ever buy such huge quantities?"... how come an american is asking THIS question :D
Cause they might not buy in advance cause everything is open everyday. They don't have closed on Sundays. For us it makes Sense to buy a full Kasten of Beer anstead of cans. Glass reduces the Waste cause it will be reused.
@@Alexander-dt2eq As I just said in a different post: 6 x 1,5 plastic shrunken water bottles contain the same amount of liquid as 12 x 0,75 glass bottles in crates. Just sayin' ;)
Never heard anyone using calendar weeks other than in a business setting. Maybe there are people who know which calendar week is when, but I only know people who'd have to look that up. My reply to anyone asking me for an appointment in a specific CW is always "when is this" ? And I think, that's the most common response from mostly anyone.
Haha, I might just have to start asking for the specific date like you do rather than acting like I know when that is and then later having to look it up myself 😂
At my parents home we always bought every drink in "Kästen". They are easier to handle. You can store them easier, return them easier, carry them easier. For Cola, Fanta etc. it´s easier to change some bottles in the boxes than ripping the plastic appart and carrying the bottles individually.
The plastic crates protect the glass bottles. This is also relevant for logistics, enabling quick and safe stacking, loading on or off trucks and eventually road transport.
They don't only protect the glass bottles, but also certain plastic bottles. There are two type of plastic bottles, those which will be recyled and those which will be reused. The "Einweg" - disposable - bottles cause high costs for melting down and remanufacturing while the reusable bottles "only" need to be washed. But since we are so used to crates, there are now also disposable bottles in crates ;-)
up to the 1960ies these crates were wooden , for beer bottles , I cannot remember mineral water or sinalco type soft drinks befor mid sixties
2:34 weird, the ice cream shops near me are called Esicafe Dolomiti, Eiscafe Simonetti, Eiscafe Vinizzi, I AM LOVE, Kuhbar, Eis de Lorenzo, Eisdiele San Remo, Kuki's, Eiscafe Tiziani, Eiscafe Rizzuti, Eisbotique Romano, ... but not a single Eiscafe Venezia
Vinizzi ist doch im Prinzip der selbe name
The use of calendar weeks is common in business in which planning is done in different time scales. The first is a rough-cut capacity planning, how many products will be used in a certain week or how many shipments hat to be made. When it comes close to the particular week you take all the orders (production, transportation) and schedule these (detailed planning / scheduling). If you have a pool of orders for a week then you can optimize the production, procurement and delivery. Because of this, many businesses plan in weeks instead of months (which also vary in number of days) or days. It is also easier to compute delivery weeks if when you plan with fixed leadtimes - e.g., the furnitire will be produced in delivered in 10 weeks, i.e. week 38. If you to translate this to the first, second, third, forth or even fith week of month X than you need to check in week of which month the week 38 is. So it is just another way to subdive the year.
For subdivision of years, we have dates. If someone quotes a week, first thing everyone does is look at the calendar to see what date that is. Do quoting weeks is just being a smart ass and a nuisance.
@@peterkoller3761 Markus allready mentioned that the week issue is mostly a business topic where it might also be hard to mark a specific date. It is not that uncommon if you look on a bigger scale like quarters and halfs of the year. In fact originally someone would say something like spring, summer, fall or winter which however is actually a bad idea of setting a specific dateline as the dates of when each of them starts and ends is not similar to how the year works (winter of 2023 for example would not make much sense because it could mean january to march or the last december days ;) )
The 2nd scale therefore was halfs and quarters of a year to make it more obvious when something roughly is to be expected. However this is also not very detailed. So months then and we are back to the issue of when we have to split up where the date in the months is supposed to be so we are more or less used to say first or 2nd.... week of this and that month to beas accurate as possible. However we do not want to get more into the detail of a specific date from the business point of view and thats because of laws!
The law system uses terms of weeks and days to name deadlines for when someone has to pay for shipping late. In a business circle you do not want a specific date therefore but rather you will use the next bigger deadline which are weeks giving you 6 more days for a law deadline. Months on the other hand are used to limit all person related issues as employees get payd monthly and there vacation days and other benefits are mostly related to working months. While the limits of how much they are allowed to work is based on days and weeks again.
like Markus allready mentioned if you want to plan youre schedule for the work, weeks are also better as a unit as you are not limited to a single day for the whole progress like on june 15th we need to make 200 car wheels on june 16th we need to make 4000 car wheels and so on but you would rather look into the whole week and determine a total amount allowing for better calculations of working time and ressources needed in the progress and it allows to better plan logistics as well. It gets even more scary when you produce mutliple items and would produce them 3 or 4 times in a week rather than one time which safes time as well for stuff like the different setups and materials needed between each kind of product.
Eiscafe Venezia: Italians brought ice cream to Germany in the 1950s. Most of these early immigrant families came from the Dolomites, a part of the Italian alps near Venice. So in Germany, they did not name their cafes after the mountain villages they came from, but after the largest city in the area that everyone in Germany knew: Venice. Thus "Eiscafé Venezia".
And who cares for the name ? If the ice is good (or there is only one gelateria) we buy it. I usually don't even look for the name.
@@reinhard8053 Maybe no really a thing. But if one makes good experience in one Cafe Venezia in one town, why not trying to appeal to tha memory by naming the new cafe also Venezia. Where is the problem? I guess to distinguish one's icecream shop by giving it a different name has no value in it per se.
If one thinks of a nationwide brand then it makes sense to connect your product to a unique name to stand out from the competition. But it is the other way around when looking at small stores which have a unique product but it is also generic as being Italian Icecream. The point they want to make is "handmade Italain icecream". Not "better icecream than store XYZ".
BTW I live in a city where I had an "Eisparadies" just around the corner. During the season there was always a long line out to the street. Their unique selling point was, besides the quality, to use relatively small scoops and scaped out so much more icecream with them that it looked insanely overloaded. I cannot say whether their icecream was so different from other stores.
I wish he pronounced Venezia the italian way (like germans do) and not the horrible way he did (and probably the most americans).
You also get it at Eiscafé Roma..or Café da Vinci.😂😂😂
@@reinhard8053 In the good old ways (before ice came as a standardized powder to be added to standardized milk/cream, resulting in a yellowish (oder genauer (kann das wer übersetzen?): knallgelbes) vanilla ice) there were different regions with different recipes, tasting different.
So in case you know that you don't like the ice in one Eiscafe Venezia, you knew you most probably also don't like them in any other Eiscafe Venezia, because they most likely use nearly the same receipts. You liked ice in Eiscafe Dolomiti, you most probably like that in any other Eiscafe Dolomiti. Same with Cortina.
Those who used receipts from multiple regions, usually used their family name to name the Eiscafe.
Nowadays i would look for the colour of vanilla ice:
- If it's yellowish (knallgelb), then they most probably sell powder based ice.
- If it's white or beige/light brownish, then it's more likely nearer to a traditional receipt.
The tase of traditional receipts in my opinion is usually more intense and way better, but sad to say (at least in my region) more and more Eiscafe's (and Eisdielen) change to powder based ice, when the generation of the manager changes.
For the Crate i would say, why would i want to buy the shrink wrapped bottles? its harder to carry them with the grip digging into your hands, aswell as collecting them in some giant bag for the deposit. And usually buying bulk for drinks with one or two crates is more convinient, since i wouldn't wanna shop for drinks every week and instead just have enough at home for like 1-3 weeks
Most people in germany don't count the weeks, too. But if you're into transport buisness or you work in a store you might have to deal with it. A lot of times your delivery isn't suppost to come on a exact date, but in the span of this week. In the same way you can make plans for projects in the near future , like when to start some sales, advertizing and so on.
You can do the very same thing with dates, you know?
@@peterkoller3761 my comment was only about a common usage, not my opinion about it.
@@peterkoller3761 Week numbers are only mentioned if the entire week is meant. Absolutely useless in everyday life, but standard in administration, transport, etc. pp.
Yes, you could also say: week X in month X, from day X to day X in month X or just week XX.
Nope, not only used for whole weeks but also to refer to specific days in a specific week.
The real benefit of week numbers is to allow long term planning across multiple years, regardless of the specific date (which changes due to leap years).
The crates for drinks where here decades before the shrink wrap came to be. I think I saw my first shrink wrapped plastic bottle package in the 90s.
When I was a child there were no plastic bottles available, well some children's drinks, but everything else was in glass bottles, beer, Coca Cola (which was a rare treat back then) water, juices, lemonade, everything came in 0.5 liter bottles and in crates. The crates protected the bottles and they were stackable. Back then you did not buy your drinks in the supermarket, because those also only existed in bigger cities. When you lived in a small village or a small town, there was no big supermarket, only a small grocery store, a bakery, a butcher and that was it. Drinks would be delivered every week or bi-weekly, depending on how you scheduled your order. Our order usually came bi-weekly and since we were a family of 7 living in a house with one set of grandparents we needed a lot of different drinks. My mother wanted sparkling water, we children would get one crate of Lemonade ( lemon), my dad loved his Spezi, so that would be two crates, and one crate of beer for my grand dad.
There was also not that big of a variety available as it is today, They had a small leaflet handed out with every delivery where you could cross off everything you wanted to have for the next delivery and how much of each. This leaflet was usually just as big as a normal German envelope.
You did not have to worry about where to bring the crates or the bottles, everything would be picked up when your new order arrived. We had one room in the basement right beside the entrance for all of our drinks and we would go donw and get what we needed every day. The delivery company would provide you with a small carry-on crate which had space for 6 bottles. Those were the ones you used to carry the bottles from the basement into the kitchen. it was an easy system and very convenient.
This brought back some sweet memories. Thank you!
And the same can be done today, as well. We also get our sparkling water, juices and lemonades delivered biweekly by a company located close to Augsburg and which also serves the Munich area. Very convenient as the delivery men even carry the crates into our basement. Just perfect!
It was just the same in my childhood.This brought back sweet memries thanks!
When it comes to these shows you have to differentiate between live shows and pre-recorded shows. It is easy to mash only the highlights into a two hour window if its all pre-recorded, but the dynamics of a live show do lead to it requiring extra time as segments may take longer than initially expected. Wetten Dass being a live show for example is notoriously known to always go past the allotted time window.
one reason that I prefer recorded shows over live.
The best comparison probably wouls be superbowl, but remove the commercials and add more content.
Bei uns heißen die alles mögliche, nicht nur Venezia (Eisdiele Vaniglia, Cellino, Domeisdiele, Eisiglu, Serentissima, Eiscafe Pino, etc) Aber die Wahrscheinlichkeit, dass eine Eisdiele so heißt, ist in der Tat sehr hoch 😅
Ja, ok, nicht JEDER Eisdiele heißt Venezia...aber fast all 😉😂
@@PassportTwo Ja, ich denke, in fast jedem Ort mit mindestens einer Eisdiele, heißt eine Venezia 😆
@@melaniewolf5855 Wir haben drei Eisdielen in unserer Stadt und keine heisst Venezia 🙃Dafür haben wir ein Eiscafe Roma, welches zum allem Überfluss unter italienischer Führung ist und das schon seit mehr als 45 Jahren. Aber Ausnahmen bestätigen wie immer die Regel 😉
@@PassportTwo "Venezia" is by the way the Italian name for the city of Venice, pronounced VUH-NAY-TSEE-YA.
Bei uns heißen die Eisdielen in der Regel Roma
About the drink crates: those are usually for reusable bottles (glass and plastic ones) which are sent back to a bottling plant, washed, and filled again (several times over), while shrink wrap is for one-time-use bottles, which are copacted, shredded and then (hopefully, at least that what is claimed) made into new plastic things. And there is definitely an element of "that's how it has always been done", because the deposit system for reusable bottles has been around for quite a while (the one for non-reusable bottles has only been around for just over 20 years), and as Germans hate to run out of something drink ( ;-) ), they tend to buy larger quantities. And crates are actually quite a handy way of transporting larger quantities and have been since before shrinkwrap existed. The crates used to be mostly wooden, and that's why ocassionally (beer) crates are made up to to look like wood (not very convincingly, though).
Personally, I don't see why you need such large quantities of drink at home, either, but when I was young, there were usually several crates of mineral water (sparkling, naturally) and a crate of beer at our house. Nowadays, I hardly ever drink sparkling water and might buy a crate of beer every once in a blue moon (when I'm having a party at home).
Now I wonder: Don't Americans stock up on drinks? Is it because they can get some in the middle of the night?
Do you understand the difference between the Einwegsystem and the Mehrwegsystem - so both work with deposit (Pfand)? The bottles in the shrinking foils are one-way-bottles. The collector machines often even shredder them to save space. Whereas the Mehrwegbottles usually are made with harder plastics or from glass and get washed and filled again.
As a single I still buy all my drinks in crates. Usually every two weeks I get 4 crates of Mineralwasser in glass, 2 crates of juice, 1 small crate of Coke and a crate of beer. All in glass bottles. Makes storage easier, keeps the drinks fresh, preserves the carbonation and tastes better then anything sold in PET bottles. Crates can be used virtually until they brake and bottles can be refilled up to 50 times. So much better for the environment.
The crates are the easiest way to handle glass bottles. Imagine shrink-wrapped glass bottles, and how easily these would break during shipping and storage. The crates however can be handled in huge piles without too much damage - from the manufacturer to the wholesaler and retailer until they reach the consumer. And the empty bottles take the same way back. Of course you can also buy individual bottles, but in most cases it's easier to buy the drinks by the crate and store them in the basement.
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I'd say "gelato" is what Europeans understand by ice cream. American ice cream might be something specifically American. And I don't even know if there's an Eiscafé Venezia in Vienna, so this might be a specifically German thing...
The week numbers seem to be a business thing, that somehow jumped to everyday life.
Im german and Never heard of venezia. The only Thing i Know Is gelato
It is most definitely a typical German thing. Austria doesn't have the history with Italian "Gastarbeiter" like Germany.
@@arthur_p_dent But still almost every Gelateria is run by Italians in Vienna as well. And there are plenty of them.
I’m German and I have never (consciously) seen an Eiscafé Venezia. 🤷♀️
must be regional phenomenon - can also be Dolomiti - maybe it was in fact a group of Italiens that created all shops in your area and chose just one name
I find the bottle crates incredibly useful. Try carrying 10-12 bottles of soda, cola, etc. at a time. That works in crates.
There are also extra luggage racks for bicycles, where they can be hung, or they can be attached to the trailer and lashed down. 🤷♀
The week numbers are basically just another layer of abstraction and are used as an initial pointer while finding a date and time for an appointment. In practice, we mostly use it for doctors appointments and for work. However, it only works if all the participants trying to schedule an appointment have their calendar open. Also, at least in my work environment, we don’t use absolute numbers, but rather something relative like “are you free in the second week of august?”. Then everybody can scroll to that work week in their calendar app and play the minesweeper game. But honestly, if someone approaches me out of the blue and asks me “bro, what are you doing in week 23?” I’ve got no bloody idea when this is gonna be. I mean sure, the year has 52 weeks, so I roughly know it’s gonna be late spring/summer, bit that’s about it.
I live in a city with about 150000 inhabitants and we have 12 ice cream parlors. none of them are called Venezia. Here they are all called San Remo, la luna, Calabrese or Ciprian. To be honest I've never heard of an ice cream parlor called Venezia and I was born here. I think it's more of a regional thing. Many Greetings from NRW
2:30 Hairdressers have already used all the creativity that was available for finding a name for their shop that stays in people’s mind.
Italian gelato was long before the 1950s in Germany. But let's start in the beginning: Sorbet took also the route over Italia to the rest of Europe. "Granita" had become an Italian speciality even before the 16th century; some assume it was brought then to Paris by Caterina de Medici. In 1597 Anna Wecker published a German cookbook with a receipt for iced cream (not real gelato, but a step to it). The first French café offering also ice cream was established in Paris in 1686 by Italian Francesco Procopio di Cultelli, a chef at the court of Louis XIV. In 1770 opened the first gelateria in New York, in 1799 the first in Hamburg.
Most of the Italian "Gelatieri" in Germany come from the Val di Zoldo and Val di Cadore in the Dolomites. Those valleys were never very wealthy, and since the end of the 19th century farmers from the province of Belluno started to migrate to northern European countries to open there ice parlors during the summer, starting with Vienna in 1865.
The gelateria Venezia in my home town sorrily closed a few years ago - they had the best ice cream in town and also the lowest prices. Now we have "only" a Café Firenze, a Café Clamore, a Gelatomania, a Gelateria Dolce Vita, a Café Gelateria L'Arte, the Alfonso and the non-Italian ones ("I love Leo", yoghurt ice specialities; "Clausgemacht"; "Schokoladenmanufaktur")...
The only time I've encountered ppl using the week system is in academics or business settings. In my experience it is quite common to refer to certain weeks rather than dates in settings which don't require an exact date or in the case of academics are already counted in weeks (i.e. a semester is 14 weeks so assignments often mention week number and date)
As for the crates, a lot of people prefer buying glass bottles or reusable plastic bottles rather than one time use PET bottles. Also, the crates are stackable so they are great for storage. I never thought of this as a German thing but now that you've mentioned it I haven't really seen it in any other country I've lived in.
I have around 10 types of insurances + 2 types of retirement plans.
I have only seen the week numbers used in business settings. There the are pretty handy when it comes to planning projects, deliveries, and so on. You can say „we will start step one in week 13, step 1 will take bout three weeks, so we can start step 2 in week 16…“.
@@jennyh4025 I said the same, I work in purchasing.
About the TV shows: In the early days of television in Germany, there was only one, later two national TV stations and some regional stations, all of them were public, with a focus on information and education. Entertainment formats (like sports, movies, game shows, etc.) was, for the most part, broadcast on the weekends. That's when families would gather in front of the TV and watch TV together. There were many different live shows on Saturdays, mostly variety shows with talk and entertainment elements, as well as game show elements. These shows were big events and people would look forward to these shows. So when more TV stations became part of the German TV landscape, they tried to emulate the event character and more and more live shows were created that lasted for two or more hours. Today, even taped shows like The Voice are trying to do that, even though I don't think they have the same event feel to them and I also think many shows do run too long. WIth long format shows being on every day nowadays, the special event feeling that existed until the 90s has been lost. Schlag den Raab (or the currently still running Schlag den Star) is something of a special case: It also tried to get that Saturday evening event feeling back, but in this show people could win extremely high prizes (with the biggest prize money being 3.5 million Euro), so it was a battle of endurance by design, in which you had to earn that prize money by getting through a series of very exhausting (but incredibly entertaining) games, which could take anywhere between 3 hours and 46 minutes and 6 hours and 11 minutes.
I worked in a job where week numbers were sometimes used for project planning and the only numbers I ever memorized were 22 (middle of the year) and 52 (end of the year).
Never had to deal with week numbers outside of that job in Germany.
Shouldn't 26 be the middle of the year?
How many weeks are between the first week of August and the second week of October? And what actually would be the first week of June (June 1 falling on a Thursday this year)? Or even how many weeks would be between the week starting 30 July and the week starting on 8 October 2023? And then ask yourself how many weeks are between week 31 and week 41? Or what is shorter to say: “the week starting 8 October” or “week 41”?
One reason to use week numbers is to make it easy to calculate the length of the time period between A and B and vice versa to turn a time estimate (“It’s gonna take us five weeks to do this”) into a date when something will be done. This shows that week numbers are useful when you need to calculate output of a somewhat continuous production process. Weeks have always the same length, months don’t. Weeks have always the same number of working days, months don’t (before holidays, that adds complications whether you think in months or weeks). If a business closes down at some point in the year for more than a few days, it’ll mostly like be for a full week or multiples thereof.
In other words, week numbers are mainly used in business. A good percentage of all businesses interfaces with consumers and this is where week numbers bleed into personal lives (and also via the relationship with employees).
3 hour shows? In my childhood my parents would have said „Americans have only an attention span of kindergarten kids.“ today I think too that German directors don’t know the art of cutting.
German here- the KW thing (KalenderWoche) is driving me nuts too! I always have to ask back when this would be and continue.
The other name for Italian ice-cream shops in Germany is "Cortina", because that it the valley where so many ice-cream makers come from.
I think the crates explain themselves. A system where nearly every bottle and crate gets returned to the cycle is environmentally better than buying the bottles and their packaging as throw-away products. Also people just like to buy in bulk, which I guess Americans also like to do. However: Not everybody has the space to store crates or the capacity to transport them from the supermarket(by car is fine but how about by foot, bike, public transit etc.). Therefore you can buy cans, shrink-wrapped four or six-packs of soda, six-packs of beer and basically everything else.
Living in Germany for 39 years now, I have never ever been or seen a place called Venezia (and remember it).
The Cafes I remember are called Paolo, Cremoso, Roma, Dolce Vita, etc.
So I was quite confised about this part of the video 😅
The bottles in a crate makes sense, when one usually goes grocery shopping by foot and carry vegetables, bread etc home and go to a supermarkert once a month and drive many bottles home at once.
The Getränkekisten were invented in Sweden in 1885 and used for beer bottles. In 1903, a similar system was introduced by a german Brewery, followed by other producers shortly after. In 1929 Coca Cola introduced such a system in Germany. While the first Getränkekisten were made of wood or metal, since the 1950s they were made of plastic. Several producers of mineral water agreed to use the same type of bottle and the same type of grate. Also Beerbottles became standardized. The advantage was, that if several producers of mineral water use the same bottle and grates, the empty bottles could be brought to the nearest producer and not being transported through all of the land, minimizing costs and waste. The glass bottles were washed before used again, which is much cheaper, also from environmental point of view, than making new glass bottles and throwing them away.
Plastic bottles weren't very widespread in Germany until 2006. Aside from reusable glass bottles, there were one-way glass bottle (e.g. for wine) which are collected and then remade into new bottles, and cans, mostly used for soft drinks. The cans became a problem in the 1990s and early 2000s, since they produce a lot of waste. So, in 2006, a deposit system for one-way bottles was introduced. If you buy a one-way bottle, that is not made of glass, you have to pay a deposit of 0,25 €. You get the deposit back when you return the bottles to one of the machines in the supermarket. That also applies to the tin cans, which you can still buy. The system was meant to reduce waste because, who would throw away a bottle when it's worth money, right? The shrinkwrapped bottles you show in your video are such one-way refunable bottles.
The new system kinda backfired: The old deposit system for glass bottles was meant to save resources, since these bottles could be reused until they broke, which could a dozens of cycles. All you needed was water, washing agent and energy to clean them, which had a much lower impact on the environment than making new glass bottles. So, Germany were conditioned to use this system.
With the introduction of the deposit system for one-way bottles (and cans) the Germans though: The deposit system for glass bottles is good for the environment, so we should use it. The new system is a deposit system too, so it must also be good for the environment. And the bottles are much easier to carry than the heavy glass bottles. What they didn't understand was, that these were one-way-bottles, which produce a lot of plastic waste. And use a lot of resources to produce new one-way bottles.
buying drinks in crates is not german only. croatia for example has the same deposit system like the germans. crates are easy to stack and the drinks last long so you dont have to worry that one is going bad. you can also mix up the crates with different drinks if you dont like only one variety. maybe that most ice cream shops comes with the same name has also to do with german efficiency?
I think it's simply that it's an easily recognizable name. Everybody had heard of Venice even if they knew nothing else about Italy ; Venice was seen as romantic, and once you have several shops adopting that name that would suggest 'Italy' to Germans back in the 50s when Italian immigrants introduced us to their ice-cream, it then becomes an automatic association.
I have just googled it, we have 66 ice cafe‘s in Düsseldorf, and one of them is actually called „Venezia“. I wasn’t aware of that, have never been there. In my life I have so far only been to maybe less than 10 different Ice Cafes in my city and none of them was named Venezia or similar.
Beverage crates are a very old reusable system for beverage bottles. If you want to transport a lot of glass beer bottles, the crates are really a very practical solution.
The only trash with this system are broken stuff and the bottle caps.
And most of the sixpacks of beer, beer mix and soda drinks come in the same box to the shop - usually 4x6x0,33l.
The containers for for example water are very easy to carry around. Many Germans have a cellar, something that is almost a foreign concept to US houses. Yo can store your water in the cellar to keep it cold. But very often, there is no lift to get you to the cellar - you have to take the stairs. The containers come in very handy then.
Using week numbers you can count continously without the complexity of the different amount of days of the months.
We usually plan our vacation with week numbers. Reasons are companies like to plan full weeks and they need to be sure, anyone is left for working, except the whole company is on vacation and closed.
You raise so many good points. Also you annoy the desk outta my husband with your jingle. Please stop. TV. What about commercials? Timed in America at the acts. And short. I've got used to getting up and doing chores in Germany during commercials. I can read two chapters of proverbs during a commercial break. Now I'm in America and my husband has to call me... Show is on..short commercial!
You make a good point about shrink wrap vs crates. Why both???
But to answer the question my husband buys several crates of mio mio once monthly cuz they're on sale. We buy all our water in shrink wrap.
Thank you for a great video that we enjoyed while touring the Great West in America. It's hot here.
The KW (Kalender Woche) are used in same Jobs an schools. It is often just in a way where you have different subjects or working hours in an even week then in an uneven week. So only by hearing the number of the Week, same people will directly know if they need to work there. It is also often just in companies because it's easier to think in weeks than in months, where the end doesn't mean the end of the week and working time is also different. So in many companies the KW is often used for planning and orgenasing, so many people are used to it.
It is so normal, that it is on nearly all Kalenders.
Drinks in plastic crates are Mehrweg, often glas bottles but it can also be plastic bottles.
You have the Mehrwegpfand on it.
Bottles in shrink wrapper are Einweg, there is Einwegpfand on it.
And they get smashed in the Pfandautomat.
That's weird. Around the town (german, of course) where I live, not a single ice cream parlor is called "Eiscafe Venezia".
In office work we usually have calendars on the wall, where you can see the current month and the next two with large indications of the calendar week. So when planning a project it is extremely useful to refer to the weeks. "We need to publish in KW 40, so we should be done by KW 38. That means we need final meetings in KW 37 and the bulk of the work will be done during KW 33 and 36. Specific tasks will be distributed latest in KW 31. Done." This allows people to schedule the individual tasks as they need within their week as long as it's done by the end. It gives people more freedom in distributing their various tasks and projects and meetings during the work-week and saves silly detail-planning for dates, when it really isn't that relevant: ("Should we hand it in by 25th or 27th of July?.. oh no, on 27th is my free day.. What do I dooo??????" - Doesn't matter. Just do it sometime that week.) In my job we use this several times per day and that way we know by heart which week is which.
There are plenty more Italian names for ice cream parlours in Germany: Venezia, Milano, Roma, Rialto, etc, and very often the name of the family running it. BTW, if in Europe, you should pronounce these names in Italian, NOT in English (valid for German words, too, please pronounce them in German, not as if they were English words).
Week numbers are quite commonly used in large companies, not just in Germany or Denmark. In non-commercial situations we don't use week numbers either, except if we have an actual calendar with the numbers at hand.
The solid crates are reusable, making transportation more environment friendly, and are stackable quite high. It makes logistics far easier. This exists since a very long time, I have always seen those crates since childhood and I am over 60 now. Shrink wrap is a relatively new addition in the last 30 years, causing a lot of waste.
Insurance: Health and accident, liability, house insurance, pet insurance for my cats and pension.
Fun fact: 6 x 1,5 plastic shrunken water bottles contain the same amount of liquid as 12 x 0,75 glass bottles in crates. So the quantity might be the same when you buy the plastic bottles.
Crates have been here way longer, that's why there are both. You need to take into considertion, that when I grew up (I'm 56 now) most families went grocery shopping only once in a week (besides some fresh things you might have needed), so the crates were practical and the first re-usable system. Recycling plastic is actually easier and does not cost so much energy. If it is more eco friendly for that, I do not know.
In office we used the week number A LOT. It's just shorter than saying the "week of ...."
We used it a lot for project planning. You immediately know how many weeks there are left to finish a task. If you use the date you have to calculate more. As we used it on a daily basis we always knew which week we were in.
In private I've never used it.
Together with "Eiscafé Venezia" the other name most often used is "Eiscafé Rialto"
I think the crate system acually quite good as it helps with storage and helps enabling the use of glass bottles. That is actually a real benefit as your dinking water does not only taste better, but also will not be contaminated with plasticizers. Yes of course there are permitted limits for those, but even so when testing my blood my doctor could tell when we once switched from glass bottles to plastic ones....
As for the insurances:
-health insurance
-special health insurance for teeth
-"Haftpflichtversicherung"
- legal insurance
- car insurance
- hunting insurance ( you have to have this one if you want to go hunting)
- for each house: Gebäuseversicherung (insurance for damage to the building by f.e. fire), Elementarversicherung ("elemmental insurance" - for special damage to the house by high water, storm or breaking waterpipes in the building as far as not covered by your "Gebäudevresicherung") and Hausratversicherung (insurance for everything inside of the house that does not belnog fo the house itself)
In Germany all the naming creativity for non-chain stores is used up by hairdressers and barber shops ;D
Hey Donnie, I was in Freiburg yesterday and found an Eiscafé „La Gondola“ ;-)
If you want to drink water in good quality and taste you need to have glasbottles. The crates are to protecting them.
In our Village lives a few Americans. When we meet us, one of them Is always drinking Beer out of Plasticbottles. Thats Something a German would never understand.
Tbh using week numbers also feels really weird to me as a German. Maybe it's because I don't have that many doctor's appointments or because I'm young or maybe it's also somewhat regional but I don't recall ever getting asked whether I have time in a given week and I have no idea whatsoever what week we are in right now. I'd always have to check in a calendar.
I know, that bottles of plastic or glass in crates are reusable. They are brought back to the producer, cleaned and refilled, and sold again. It's a circulatory system, that lasts till the bottle is broken. So you don't put them to the waste (Pfandautomat), where single usable Pfand-bottles are shredded and used for plastic products of minor quality or burnt in cogeneration plants. We have an global environmental problem with plastic and reusable bottles (prefer glass) in crates are one way to solve it. In the US, you buy products for one-time-use and throw them away. Not the best way to save the planet...
Our ice cream shops have Italian names, like Dolomiti, Giotto, Santin, Tutti Frutti, Riviera, but no Venezia in this area 😅😅
And I don't use numbered weeks in private life, but at work (in a pharmacy) when talking to pharmaceutical companies it gets used. Our calenders at work have mostly the week number written somewhere 😇
It's a bit practical when using week calenders, the number is usually written on the edge so you can flip through faster (dates are written at the top where the pages are connected). 🤷♀️
The drinks in the crate are practical if you don't buy drinks regullarly. We used to go drink shopping when my dad was home from work every 3-4 weeks probably
Venice used to be part of Austria for the longest time. And through Austria, this Italian sweets became known as Venezia, just as Pilsner comes from the Sudenten city of Pilsen, now in Czechia, or Wiener Schnitzel, or Franks for Frankfurters (even if produced anywhere else in the world) or Hamburgers etc. Venezia is the reference to that type of dairy based chocolatier or vanilla frozen sweet etc
The bottles you buy in crates are "Mehrweg" so they don't go into the trash. They are cleaned and used several times. You can buy them as single bottles or in the crate. The crate just makes it easier to handle for everyone.
as a person without a car i don't buy drinks in crates, actually much of what I buy are juices in tetrapak or similar lightweight packaging that can be easily moved on the bike.
I dont know what date range correlates with a week number. But every time someone asks if I have time in week x I have a calendar either open on my phone or there is one in a room. Those tend to always have the week number. It is faster to ask if you have time in week 30 than it is to specify the start and end date.
The plastic crate „Pfand“ is also a system in Austria, it‘s already been there when I was a child and all bottles were glas-bottles. The plastic bottles have been around only since 20 years or so, but some people prefer the glass bottles, as they believe recycling is more sustainable. (which you can question as the higher weight increases transport costs and the moon asking if the bottles also uses energy…)
CW is just an easy time planing "tool".
In production, logistics and whatever needs planing ahead. Also vacation.
It's a really simple way to let others know when to expect something without going into unnecessary detail especially if the details are yet unknown.
AR the same time, it's much more precise than the next larger unit "Month".
But in general that's for business, not private.
My mother once met the mother of a friend of mine at the super market and had her trolley full of crates of drinks... The other mother asked "did you stack up for the month?" and my mum laughed and replied "this will last a week at most"... So - we were a big family and we drank water and juice like crazy.
The bundled bottles in plastic started appearing at some point of my life I guess and the Discounters don't sell any drinks in crates, probably because it would mean they would need a lot more space to display them.
I bet except for full time project managers, no one here in Germany can connect a week number to actual dates. And even telling which month requires a bit of math.
But you usually don’t find them used in everyday life, but almost exclusively in business and especially industry.
It‘s a quite nice way to do long forecast planning.
As when it’s week 25 and something will be going on sometime in week 32, there is no use in knowing the exact date yet, but only a rough overview for how many weeks you have left to get preparations done etc.
Also some larger industrial companies have departments that only ship out by the end of the week or Monday. So the actual workers just need to know in which week they have to have their parts ready for shipping and can flexibly work their batches as long as they are done within the named week.
In construction projects, it’s a convenient overview as well, as barely any handyman will finish on the exact deadline day. Usually things take longer than expected. So you plan in weeks, also to give the following team a good prognosis. And once getting closer to the named week, then eventually you switch to weekdays.
As a German I have no idea about the calendar week thing. Yes, I've heard them being used here or there, but it is extremely rare. Generally I hear "the week starting on the 12th" or something like that.
Regarding length of TV shows, in Germany stuff like "The Voice" is not seen as just an episode of an ongoing show, but as "evening filling entertainment", especially on saturday at prime time.
The amount of drinks is easy to explain. We don't want to go every day to the Supermarket to by 2 Bottles for Drinking.
Therefore we buy 1-2 "Kästen" and have a Stock for using for 1-2 weeks.
Well, Tap water IS undeniably delicious, but it still is NOT sparkling water. And there's no "Bierleitungen" so you'd have to find a way to safely transport a large number of glass bottles safely. And crates are just that practical.
I don‘t know one single „Eiscafe Venezia“ or similar in the place i live. But here is a) „Martino“ and b) „Martini“ not only in the same town but only a few steps away.
I hate the endless-long shows too. But same counts for movies, which get longer and longer.
The „week“-term isn‘t used that often. It applies mostly for production dates, like for example „2823“ on tires for week 28 of the year (20)23.
And to the forth part…
I can‘t understand why there are two ways of bottles and packages too. It doesn‘t make sense.
But there is a rethink at the moment.
Until the late 1980s or early 90s there were only glass bottles. But they were heavy. A full crate weighs a lot.
Then there came plastic bottles. A lot lighter. An empty crate can be carried by a child.
Now most people think more ecologically and the taste of the beverage seems better out of glass.
But the manufacturers doesn‘t do all the products in all sizes or returnable.
So i have to buy some things like water in crates full of glass, on the other hand things like some cola or juice in plastic, cardboard or can.
TV-Shows: When "Wetten dass" was introduced, it was on Public Televisions, private channels were no alternative. I think private channels stuck to this habit because it is a cheap way to create screen-time: Make an existent show last longer.
Ich zähle jetzt nur die freiwilligen Versicherungen: Zahnzusatzversicherung, Unfallversicherung, Berufsunfähigkeitsversicherung, Lebensversicherung, Private Rentenversicherung, Rechtsschutzversicherung, Hausratsversicherung - also mindestens sieben. Ich hab aber bestimmt noch was vergessen.
About the long shows:
it’s something that is supposed to be enjoyed in community. We’d often all meet up with my friends and while the voice or some show was on, we’d make dinner, chat, exchange gossip, even do some crafts project sometimes.
I think it’s just generally the expectation that people will prefer to spend time with each other in the evening so tv has to accommodate for that.
It’s supposed to kind of run in the background while you talk or comment about the show.
I have some of the fondest memories and funniest stories just watching tv together with friends.
For example there was a casting show where people had to learn dances. Because the whole thing took so long, you basically had time to learn the dances as well, which we tried and fell and laughed our asses of.
Some channels would show multiple episodes of American shows back to back to create that feeling.
During noon, the shows are usually a lot shorter and straight to the point, topping at an hour.
I know an icecream shop named Eiscafe Veneto 😄 they were a little bit more creative.
Buying drinks in a crate is usually much cheaper than buying the same amount of bottles individually. So many families buy crates when they are on discount and it will last for a while (hopefully until it's on discount the next time).
Hush, don’t tell Donnie that once his kid starts school, he’ll also have to deal with school weeks, which have a different number than calendar weeks.
I just got two crates of mineral water today 😃 Before that I used to buy the shrink-wrapped plastic bottles. I decided to go back to glass bottles because plastic is bad for the environment and microplastic is bad for your body.
If I wouldn't have been as lazy as today, I usually would have bought more than two crates. Larger quantity just means, I don't have to be bothered with it any time soon. And the crates are great for stacking without having the risk of them falling down. Also means, it barely takes up place on the floor.
At my company, we are repairing all kind of devices incl the logistics of that, we use the "week numbers" for when the repair of a device needs to be finished. To not give a specific day, more like a range of days. Doesnt matter if its finish on wednesday or thursday, but in this specific week. Also when we need to ship the devices or when we receive the next repairs.
The times can vary due to parts shortage, sick workers or other reasons. For that we use the week number to give a wider range, but still needs to be done during this time.
I hope I could expain it well. :D
In our small town not so far away from Ramstein we currently have 3 Eiscafes: Venezia (of course) and Dolomiti both owned by a family business founded in 1957 (they even had a 3rd one named Cortina quite nearby but closed it some years ago). There is also another one named Rialto founded in the early 60ies by Mr. Nicolo which was passed over in the early eighties to a German when Mr. Nicolo retired (fortunately only after we had finished school bc it was just across the street😛). So each of them has or had a clear connection to the "Regione del Veneto" and there is only one "Venezia".
Loved the Under the Tuscone Sundae 🤣🤣
Thank you! Numbering the weeks is a pain in the ass! Just gimme the f-ing date!
Berlin here. My favourite ice cream parlour, the best in the whole city by the way, is not called "Venezia" but "Hokey Pokey". Incidentally, there are only 3 ice cream parlours in Berlin with the name "Venezia" . Incidentally, I always had the impression that most ice cream parlours in Germany were called "Rialto". Well, which in turn is also a neighbourhood and a bridge in Venezia 😂
on: Why week numbers?
Because they don't change over the course of multiple years. Usually week numbers are used in contexts that occur yearly. The difference comes due to leap years.
For example week #10 started at March 6th in 2023 but on March 4th in 2024.
The “Kästen” thing is quite German if I think about it. But to make it short: efficiency. Better for transportation, better for storage, better for carrying large amount of bottles, better for organization within the supermarkets.
Donnie, I am from Austria and I also hate the „week 23“ BS. Doesn‘t make it easier. I hate it. The week of Sept 4th is far more efficient, so I am totally on your side with this one!
An important but seemingly forgotten point is that this is a week, not a day. Even if you say "week of September 4th" you still have to search for this week. Without looking at the calendar, you don't know exactly which day of the week is meant and which events could take place this week. Ultimately, however, this is mainly used in business situations where these reasons are very common and things are also calculated with weeks.
The efficiency comes from looking up the week number directly, rather than trying to do it in your head somehow. So it's based on matching the week to the calendar.
It is interesting to watch these from Finland, because some things in Germany are exactly the same as here and then some things are completely different.
Week numbers are also used here. Traditionally, people who worked in offices had a paper desk calendar right in front of them and it had the week numbers clearly visible, so that was the easiest way to refer to them.
When I went to university, I took part in a course that was taught by a Canadian teacher. The course started in September, and she explained about something that we'd do on week 3. Some students were like "what, in January?" because the course didn't even last until the end of December. But she meant the weeks of the course, not the weeks of the year.
The ice cream thing then, that is TOTALLY different here. I would never think of Italy in connection with ice cream. The Italian "gelato" may be available somewhere here nowadays, I dunno, but tradionally, that was something people were told to try if they went to Italy. Because it wasn't available here. Ice cream just makes me think of penguins because one of the oldest manufacturers of ice cream here has always used a penguin as their mascot. They also had a popular product called Eskimo for decades, but the name was changed a couple of years ago because it wasn't considered appropriate anymore.
The crate thing mainly just makes me wonder how many of those crates of beer are actually bought by Finnish people. That's one reason why people go to Germany in the first place, to buy beer, because it is much cheaper there. People hire a van, drive to Germany, load it up with beer, and drive back. Even when considering the cost of hiring a van + price of gasoline + ferry + whatever, it is a lot cheaper than buying the same amount of beer here.
Nah, those crates predates the times where you could just cross the border with a lot of alcohol. They are simply practical.
Why thinking outside the box? Italians from that particular region in Northern Italy came to Germany in the 50s, when also Germans discovered Northern Italy and the Adriatic coast for holidays. It was a big thing, and the Germans loved to have the amazing experiences at home. It was for Itslians as for Germans and everyone in Europe the dawning of a new and exciting time, after so much turmoil in the first half of the century.
Even the 70s and 80s I remember it was a big thing when the Eiscafé opened around Easter. And they are Valled Eiscafé Venezia/Dolomiti/Rialto. And now that has become some sort of a tradition. I love it.
Buying beverages in cradles: carbonated mineral water is very population Germany, and the different springs have a particular setting of minerals and therefore also taste. You buy enough for two weeks or so, and store it in your basement. Then you just grab a couple of bottles as you need. And having this as a recycling system just makes sense.
Beverages being sold in bottles wrapped up is for customers who need just a couple of bottles, on the go, or they don’t have a car to transport the cradles.
I miss Braum's so much. Made an internship in Tulsa, OK in 2015 and I'd love to get a milkshake at Braum's. Unfortunately it is only in OK an TX area, so all the other times beeing in the States (CA, AZ, UT, NV, WI) I had no chance to go there again 😢
Personally, I almost never hear people use the weeks when making appointments. Sometimes they will ask about something like 'the first week in july' or 'the last week of the summer holidays'. I can estimate when a week is roughly because I know how many weeks a year has, but no one uses it constantly
Then I make a motion that we abolish it completely so we aren't taken by surprise every time that odd occurrence does happen when someone does use it! 😂
It's been used in most of business conversations I have with worldwide costumers and the US is using it also 😉
I just went through my old school things and I found notes from during the lockdown and we actually used the weeks then. A bit sad if you think about it because it seems like we were thinking it will just be one or two weeks and then you get to week twenty and you think "well that certainly wasn't anticipated"
The prevalence of Eiscafe Venezia must be local to you. The one in our village is called "Eiscafe Mediterraneo". I did a search of the ones in our area and the first one called Venezia is 10 miles away.
In which town did you find the Eiscafé Venezia?
In Berlin we have lots of different names, like Kleine Eiszeit, Hokey Pokey, Kult Eis, Café Annamaria, Eisberg, Il Glaciale, Süßfein, Süße Sünde, just to name few.
I can tell you why we use these drink crates. We Germans like to buy drinks in advance. And with these boxes we can buy a lot of drinks and store them easily. And so we only have to go to the Getränkemarkt at least once a week.
I'm German and I find week numbers very confusing. Also, I can't say I've ever had a doctor's office etc. use week numbers instead of dates, and I've lived in four different states. I've noticed week dates on some fresh produce, such as mushrooms and herbs.
The crates have the great combination of medium sized bottles and a comfortable way to carry a lot of them. A 1L or half liter bottle will be empty way before all the fizz goes out. And then you can open a new one.
The Pfand system is way more efficient than you might understand.
First of all we have 2 differend kinds of containers reuseable and one time use container.
The plasticbottles you are familiar with from the US are only one time use containers while the plastic crates glass and some plastic bottles in Germany are basically reuseable containers.
Now it was actually quite uncommon to find onetime use plastic containers at all 30 years ago if anything you would have seen them for milk related or joice related drinks. Glas was the main way to go and is stil for beer for example.
however for the industry it is an issue of the reuseable containers to collect them, sort them and mostly clean them even it is way better for the environment and safes a lot of energy and even costs it is a logistical problem.
So a lot of the bigger players wanted one time only containers however this lead to an increased issue with waste so first tin cans were given the Pfand system as well. In that time plastic one time container where not that common at all and tin cans were nearly extinct because of the Pfand system because they were allready more expensive than bigger bottles to begin with.
However the rulings were extremly efficient in reducing tin can waste on the streets so people saw both sides of it.
When the first solo use plastic containers arrived on the market people where used to the Pfand system allready and because solo use bottles had such a high Pfand on it people would make sure to bring them back. While the industry now had a much easier way to handle the logistics. In fact every container you buy in a market the market has to take back! this is not just limited to drinking bottles but actually all wrappings and containers you find which is also why there are recycling stations at the exit of the supermarkets as well.
The whole idea behind the "Der Grüne Punkt" was basically that each producer had to pay a fee to make up for the recycling of their containers and originally only those items with the trade mark "Grüner Punkt" were allowed to be recycled in the yellow plastic bins and sacks you might now by today.
This is furthermore interesting if you understand that there are no costs for the costumer for the disposal of paper and plastic in this way but for general waste and biological wastes while the other 2 are payed by the producer of the products.
This is basically why both systems are in place til now and where the plastic crates have their origin from. While reuseable containers need to be protected from harm their crates also need to be durable enough to withstand multiple uses of course and it is way more efficient for transport and stacking them as they basically use the "Euro Palette" as a standart unit with 8 beer crates (20 bottles each) filling exactly on of them per layer or 12 crates for water and soda (12 bottle container)
The big disadvantage of glass bottles however is that they are easier to be damaged and they can't handle sommer heat well leading to bottles spontanously exploding from time to time.
Despite all of this their are other factors involved as well like the taste differences from different container forms for example.. Plastic bottles tend to alter the true taste of the liquids in them which is a huge issue for the beer industry for example. (also plastic is not as durable vs acids.
There are more facts about all the different pros and cons but in short it comes all down to the industry trying to reduce logistical issues with the multiuse containers for the most part while solouse containers are less environmental friendly and more expensive to produce.
Oh and for the amount of bottles..... well I think I know where you came from if you see that Americans tend to go shopping multiple times per week while Germans normally go shopping once per week so why would you buy just a single bottle or 2 if you need to calculate for the whole week? And is it actually more efficient to buy a crate of 20 bottles of beear or go 5 times per week and buy 4 bottles each time? Also it is not just bottles we buy more than one from you often can see people buying milk crates as well just because they need a lot of milk. Americans will sell much bigger bottles in exchange which most people will tell you they find disgusting as an opened bottle needs to be emptied quite fast or the drinks taste will alter badly.
On the other hand how many 6 packs of plastic bottles can you carry? Probably not more than 2 while thats 18 liters of liquid I give you that most adults can carry up to for crates of Soda, water and even beer on their own at the same time with 10 to 12 liter each up to 48 liter in total ;)
Also if you drink an average of 2 liter per day this allready would mean you need at least 1.2 crates each week for one person if you live with another person 2.4 crates and so on and in summer probably twice the amount. So I do not get your point of "why they need crates?" Even those plasticbottle 6 packs I need at least 3 to 4 each week with 2-3 bottles during work each time. I think you are mainly a tea trinker which lowers the amount of bottled drinks for you but not everyone is such a strong tea trinker in the first place.
In Austria crates are always always used when buying beer and they come in 24 0,5l glass bottles. And certain shops have different brands of beer crates for sale at different times; so when your favourite beer is on sale (say 1/2 the price off) you just buy 3-5 (or more haha) crates at once and then just store it in your storeroom. As the country where people drink the 2nd most amount of beer per person I'd say one crate lasts only about a week for two people on average so it's pretty convenient not to buy beer crates every week :D
Also when there's a party or just a family BBQ the host is expected to have enough beer for all the people, that's why a shopping cart with 4 crates of beer could just be because one hosts a BBQ ;)
Beer always in crates. No nia a Dackn kaft?!
@@peterkoller3761 Dackn? Des is a Schuhabstreifer, manst a Palettn oder wos? ;)
@@Nightey Popndecklpalettn. "24 Dosn auf ana Dackn - 24 Stunden da Tog: des kau ka Zuafoi sei!"
The week numbers are not used in private life, but only in business. And then, when the exact date is not yet known or not important. They will say: lets meet sometime in week x or the project is planned to be finished in week y. For any planning in a business context you'll have a calendar open anyway to keep track of your dates. If someone asks for a date in week a just just go down in your calendar to week a, which is easy because most calendars are organized in work weeks anyway:
It's just easier to scroll/page down to the week number in a calendar or ledger than to search a specific date containing a day, month maybe weekday in a calendar where the first is always on different weekday and column.
Might be confusing when you are young and work for the first time.. But in business, for dates where you don't yet know the exact day and time, everyone uses it.
You never use this in your normal private life. Except maybe a shop tells you: your new car or furniture will be delivered in week a.
Why?: Using the week number also signals some 'variance' in the date: If the shop say we will deliver from monday x to friday y. You can definitely expect the new car to be there on Friday y, 18:00 the latest. If they say it will come in week z, it implicitly contains that it might happen it comes a week later.. or maybe earlier.. it signals we are calculating time at a coarser layer.. by week, not days or even hours. So +/- 1 week inaccuracy c/should be expected.
Because of the possibility to signal this variance at the meta layer and that a single week number is much faster to say than day and month, and maybe even a week day; well.. it is much more efficient in business talk.
To sell drinks in a cases came from the history. In past all fluids were sold in glass bottles to reuse it a couple times. But damaged bottles you can’t use it anymore. So to save for damages it was sold in cases. Later the glass bottles was be changed against plastic bottles, but the cases still exist. The philosophy behind selling bottles is, it needn’t less space and you can throw it away. So the discounters needn’t storage place for the empty bottles and their cases. But then the idea of recycling became bigger and bigger to save the environment.
My personal opinion is that the case system is much better due less plastic foils.
You forgot "Rialto" (like the famous bridge in Venedig. They are surely on place two for boring names 😄😄
In Oregon, we have return stations in some stores, and dedicated bottle return locations as we get 0,10$ back on most can and glass/plastic bottles. There are a few brands of beverage that stores will mot take, and some wine and hard alcohol bottles have no deposit. Some people buy beverages in Washington, California, Nevada, or Idaho, and bring the bags of bottles to Oregon to receive the deposit/pfand for each bottle. QoTW: Health, Home Owners, Car, Handy Protection, Life/Disability, Mortgage insurance; used to have Renters insurance.
I still dont understand why carts of bottles water would be weird.
I drick about 5050 tap and sparkling and i usualy buy 3-4 crates, so 36 bottles at once, once per month.
And the bottles themselves: Ive had several people now that questioned why we still bought glassbottles in crates vs
the easily handled sixpack.
The moment they tasted the glassbottle water they went back to it. The plastik bottles just simply
impart a strange flavor into the content.
I never had someone ask me if I had time in a specific calender week. I also find the concept of the calenderweek wierd. Without looking it up, I know that week 1-4 is in january and 50+ is the end of the year, but everything in between is basically non existent.
About the bottles and crates: I do prefere shrink wrapped drinks, because once empy, you are not stuck with this crate that just sits there, taking up more space than the bottles inside need.
Buying massiv amounts of drinks is something I understand very much so: I drink a lot of sparking water, and I dont want to buy a new six pack every two days, so I buy 6-8 every two weeks. I rather go shopping once for whole week, than going every other day.