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I guess this girl is swedish or danish or something, you can hear it in the accent but then, if you weren't sure, she fries her Bratwurst for too short and eats it in a bun with. fucking. MAYONNAISE! The Bratwurst....with mayo....
Insanity
She should have used mustard with it! 😊
@@ursulaposse-kleimann25 yes, she sure should have. I almost through my phone when I saw that. Mayo... on Bratwurst.... I'd have understood ketchup since that's how some kids(and some adults) eat it. But MAYO!!!??
Latvian, I just checked her YT channel ^^
@@sukiemonsoon901 Yeah, definitely not one of ours (SE/DK)! 😅 I can understands one could think so though with the accent, but Baltic not Nordic, close but also quite a difference. More Finnish-sounding than us.
I had a very hard time placing her accent. ^^ But I definitely knew it wasn't Danish.
Haribo chips? She's calling Pommbär Haribo Chips? 😂
well at least she picked the good ones (ketchup style)
@@LeyCarnifex 🤕
And there is a bear on them. 😂
I kinda get her point. It's still wrong, but I get it. :)
I think the girl in the video dont know the north of Germany where tea is very popular and they have a tea ceremony in East Frisia/ Ostfriesland.
And she don’t know Stuttgart where they love Maultaschen
I prefer a tea over any kind of coffee. Maybe because I live in the north (Grüße aus Flensburg)
@@nulle1968 oh you're from the _north_ north, damn. Grüße aus Hamburg (ursprünglich aber auch aus Schleswig-Holstein, nur viiieeel weiter südlich)
@@JohnSmith-iu8cj she said maultaschen are slavic best joke call i have heard this year xD
Im from NRW and throughout my friends and family drinking tea is pretty common
White asparagus and green asparagus, while they are the same plant, are worlds apart.
Basically the green asparagus is the asparagus that breached the ground and was exposed to light, while white asparagus was harvested BEFORE that happened. It is less woody and can therefore be thicker (green asparagus beyond a certain width is basically inedible).
Traditionally in Germany, white asparagus is cooked in water and then served with boiled potatoes, smoked ham and then either sauce hollandaise or a browned breadcrumb-butter-sauce (very yummy).
both can taste great, depends on what you have and how you cook it.
Yes, but we should still state that we ALSO have green asparagus. I prefer the white one.💖🙂
Never said, that we didn't have the green ones here in Germany... The white version is much more prevalent though.
I remember, that my grandma had an asparagus field and we kids used to run through the lines and look for cracks in the flattened earth mounds (a good sign, that a sprout tries to break through). We then told the adults about it and they came and picked it.
@70It was Ryan who just spoke about the white asparagus in Germany. And you brought up the topic so I answered. 💖🙂
Or you can use the water you cooked the asparagus in to make a soup and a roux, Then serve it with crisp, fluffy German pancakes to have a vegetarian variation. I'm personally not a big fan of sauce hollandaise and prefer the pancake version as it's lighter on the hips.
About Pizza: First there is no special german style pizza. Italy isn't that far from Germany and luckily many Italians decided to enrich our menu with original italian pizza. This also saves us from eating american style pizza like at Pizza Hut. I'm still wondering who eats there but there can't be that many because there are only 85 shops all over Germany.
Hey dont knock a good meat lover's, that one's decent
The best Pizza i know is only available in my village, its callled Pizza Crema. Its with White wine sauce and Shrimps 😍😍
I disagree. Even in most 'italian' pizza places they serve some kind of 'german style' pizza. An authentic italian pizza is rather uncommon.
Pizza Hut is actually really great. Love proper Italian pizza. Love a good American pizza too.
We in Austria don’t even have Pizza Hut anymore
So maybe it's time to tell you, Brezel (or "pretzel" for some reason) is just the shape, the bread itself is Lye-bread. There are many different types of baked goods made out of "pretzel", things that are much more conducive and practical for eating than the Brezel-shape. Like buns. My favourite is the Laugenecke as seen at 4:24. Imagine a "pretzel" with the consistency of a Croissant shaped like a triangular breadroll.
Pro tip: using these to make hamburgers should require some kind of license. Best burgers in my _life._
Oooh, a nice Laugenecke with some Gouda cheese and fresh cucumber slices is heaven to me.
I love them, they're so good as sandwiches!
How about a Laugenzopf
It's still just Lye-bread but wrought to look like a braid.@@Alexbdm04
Laugenecke is king, when I get some veil sausages from the butcher I always use those instead Brezen
I honestly hate peanut butter, but that might be, because ours sucks. People don't really eat that here, at least the way Americans do. Nutella is Germany's peanut butter.
Try Nutella with peanutbutter on a fresh warm Toast 😅👌
Nutella is not german😊
I fully agree .😊
Nutella is made of hazelnuts, not peanuts.
i think in germany the best peanut butter can be bought from thai supermarkets because it's part of many recipes. Many even stock Jif.
The Croissant is not French, while it was adopted and popularized by the French, it was "Invented" by Austrian Bakers to celebrate their Victory over the Ottoman Empire when they attacked and the Bakers were the first to notice the Ottomans digging tunnels under the City, since they were awake and working Long before the other citizen.
From a German Baker.
Which is one of many legends and none of them can be proven to be truth. In fact there's no consensus on where it actually is from. No one really knows.
@@xYonowaaru That is true, and since Rolling up dough to be made into the shape of a moon is not Crazy original, so it could have been made by many people simultaneusly.
Ich kenne diese Legende als Grundlage für den Ursprung der Vanillekipferl. Bei Ihrer Flucht sollen die Türken auch Säcke mit Vanille liegen gelasswn haben, welche man dann dem Kipferlteig hinzugefügt hat.
@@Wolf_Khain That's for sure. Way more complicated things were invented simultaneously and in the end it was some kind of patent race.
So croissant ant crescent have the same origin?
Lindt-Spruengli is originally Swiss and manufactured now in Aachen (Germany) with Trumpf.
Their headquarters are still in Zurich, Switzerland.
The Lindt family were originally German immigrants though. My hometown is very proud of them 😅
@@ErklaerMirDieWelt Rudolphe Lindt was born in Bern, Swiss...
@@jensen7875 Yes, that's why I wrote "the Lindt family". His ancestors immigrated from Hesse.
@@nna2341 No, they were from Hesse
Whatever looks like parmesan? It's white chocolate.
Btw. the white asparagus is the same plant as green asparagus. The difference is in the way it's planted, the white asparagus is kept underneath the soil and then harvested, if it grows out it becomes green and changes it's texture a little to what you're familiar with. And yeah, as you know Asparagus season is a huge deal.
Here in my region it's coconut flakes.
@@GeneralGoodGames interesting, have never seen that
AND she says it looks like Spaghetti Bolognese but its clearly Spaghetti mit Tomatensoße
Why don't they use dandelion blossoms?
Its supposed to look Like Parmesan
"This feels very german.... probably cause it is" - Ryan Wass 2024
Love your humor ❤
As a German, i can assure you, I'm fat. All those carbs are just too delicious.
You're not fat, just undersized!
... and BTW a man without belly is a cripple!
Seriously, who needs a sixpack when you can have a whole keg?
eh, German tourist raid on Croatian Grill restaurants
if you've seen it once, you'll never forget it 😁
100% can relate. 😂
@@tihomirraspericguilty
+1 😅
In Germany most people don’t see McDonald or anything similar as „real food“ or a full meal. Is more like of an alternative fast option if there is nothing else to eat at the moment, not making you satisfied and full.
??? Of course lol
It's more seen as just another form of takeout when you're too tired after work and dont wanna cook
@@maeschder Na its something you eat after a night of drinking or if everything else is closed. If I want a good burger I go to Hans im Glück or a local, family owned restaurant.
this is why americans are the undisputed kings of reaction channels: "applejuice is considered unhealthy"....now where is my burger.
To be fair, the American ones probably are, with as much sugar as Cola. And while I would not consider apple juice to be unhealthy, it is not exactly healthy too (at least the clear stuff without any fibres).
@@steemlenn8797 might not be strictly healthy but have you seen what is eaten in the us, when someone from the us says applejuice is not healthy it is objectivly funny.
...or my coke...
Right, apple juice is considered unhealthy. But Coke is not?
I think the point is, smoothies AND juices are often promoted to be a healthier alternative to soft drinks (with regular sugar) but they really aren’t.
Smoothies at least have some fiber in it, which can be beneficial if your diet doesn’t contain enough fiber. But if someone wants to limit their calorie consumption then they shouldn’t drink smoothies, juice, soft drinks with regular sugar or fancy coffee drinks with large amounts of sugar and cream without being aware of the calories and amount of sugar in it.
There was a whole generation raised on the principle „orange juice in the morning is healthy“ when healthy is a tricky term. People who struggle to consume enough calories can benefit, sure. But with the obesity epidemic being the much bigger problem, it’s important to know what calories and macronutrients & micronutrients each drink and food contains.
@Spaghetti ice cream: was the favorite ice cream of my six years older brother. As a small kid I indeed thought: "How disgusting that he eats frozen Spaghetti!!" until he once told me: "You are so stupid! They are no real Spaghetti! It's vanilla ice cream!" I clearly can remember me thinking: "Vanilla ice cream with tomato sauce and Parmesan cheese! Still so disgusting!!!"😂🙈
I tried pudding with tomato ketchup and soy sauce. It isn't as bad as it sounds.
@Subway fun fact: Actually, Subway is not allowed to call its bread "bread" in Germany since it is made of too much sugar.
That's wrong. There's no limit on ingredients for bread in Germany.
Their bread gets *taxed* as cake instead of bread in *Ireland*.
No, it's not: "Subway: Sandwich-Brote sind nach Definition kein Brot, sagt Gerichtsurteil
Denn jetzt haben fünf Richter endgültig entschieden: Die Subway-Sandwiches enthalten zu viel Zucker, um nach gesetzlicher Definition als Brot zu gelten. Und zwar viel zu viel Zucker. Laut Gesetz darf der Zuckergehalt zwei Prozent - im Vergleich zum Gewicht des enthaltenen Mehls - nicht überschreiten. Das Subway-Brot hat einen Zuckergehalt von zehn Prozent." (Merkur 08.10.2020)
@@CriticalPoliteness Heisst das, sie sind eine Konditorei?
@@eljanrimsa5843 😂 Warum kann ich mir nicht vorstellen, dass das ohne irgendwelche zusätzlichen Fomalitäten und ganz viel Bürokratie möglich ist... ?
@@eljanrimsa5843 Preislich eher eine Apotheke.
4:19 the way she ate that pretzel upside down made me furious xD
it's cut in half because, as you have learnt in a previous video, we put butter on our bread and pretzels. NOT mustard, NOT mayo :P
8:25 Germans, for some reason, love to put lots of stuff on a pizza. that one there was probably ham, mushrooms and onions
... yeah e.g. pineapple and ham on pizza 😄
ham, mushrooms, salami and bacon (as well as at least 2 different kinds of cheese)
There is no such thing as "upside down" for eating Bretzel, at least ive never heard of it here
@@maeschder
@@rock3t88 This happens to be delicious when a fresh ripe pineapple is used. The fruity slightly acidic taste perfectly complements the smoky ham and rich cheese.
We do not eat this food daily. That's why many people are not fat. Many families eat cake and pastries only on the weekend and on special occassions. Most days the meals are: breakfast- one or two slices of bread with butter, cold cuts or a slice of cheese (maybe a joghurt or a glass of milk), lunch - a warm meal, mostly home cooked (think of stews, soups, protein with potatoes and veggies) (optional dessert like one popcicle, some pudding or a piece of chocolate), dinner - bread with butter and cheese, cold slices, jam, etc. Sometimes you can have something warm like a light soup. If we have Snacks through the day it is mostly fruit, joghurt, a slice of bread , nuts.
Some people eat out more often or have fast food and Snacks, but a big breakfast is mostly for the week end. Eating out gets expensive very quickly. It is a treat. When I was very stressed at work I ate out a lot and went to a bakery every morning, had Döner for lunch and Pizza in the evening. I got fat really fast. You need to stick to the traditional food to keep in shape.
Exactly....the "only" fastfood is the reason....:)
This meal plan sounds bit out of date to me. A lot of people eat porridge or muesli in the morning nowadays. And who has time to cook lunch? Everyone I know (apart from retirees) has their warm meal in the evening (when they don't eat something cooked at work, at least).
@@mareiketje4899 Nobody says that every American is too fat. Quite a few Americans will consciously live a healthy lifestyle. It is the average that we are talking about here. Those who significantly influence the average in terms of obesity don't eat porridge or muesli for breakfast....and there are more of them in the US, than in China, Turkey or Lapland...;)
@@mikeromney4712 I was talking about Germany only and responding to the OP's description of the typical German meal set up.
@@mareiketje4899my bad...:)
White asparagus grows underground. Farmers prepare their fields with rows of small hills where the asparagus plants grow inside. When cracks appear on top of these hills, experienced workers use a very long push-knife styled tool to cut the asparagii very close to the root so the whole length is harvested. Green asparagus grows above the ground. Asparagii only become green when sunlight can reach them.
Some difference might be, that many germans only eat 3 meals a day and skip snacks. Also we dont use as much sugar
And sometimes we eat only twice a day.
@@anna-ranja4573 yeah, you got me. I often skip one meal
american which is drinking colas and soda and milkshakes and over sugar everything they eat/drink talking about apple juice that has many calories :D
Perhaps it even has to be clarified that in Germany you are only allowed to call it "juice" if it is made 100% out of apples. As soon as you put artifical sugar in it you have to name it "Nektar"/nectar. I wonder whether this is the same in the US.🤔
"you guys drink apple juice??" Lmao you got me on the floor😂😂
It was a culture shock for me when I came to Germany, that adults drink apple juice. I only had it as a young child. Now when I'm in a German restaurant and don't want to spend too much on a beverage, I get the Apfelschorle. I tried drinking plain apple juice yesterday and couldn't.
@@LythaWausW At home I always drink it with tab or sparkling water with at least half of the glas being water.
If you havent tried it Johannisbeerschorle is also a german favourite in german restaurants.
Apple juice is great, but adults tend to drink it with sparkling water, which we then call Apfelschorle. It is really refreshing and a somewhat more healthy drink than a normal soda. You can also do it with other fruit juices.
My fave "fancy" soft drink: black currant juice with sparkling water 😍
Juice is dangerous. Never drink too much and only with water.
I'm on my third half liter today.
Where was the FRANZBRÖTCHEN?????😂 Oki, I guess they are more a thing in the north.
yeeees, i searched for this comment. I would have written it otherwise. Its probably THE favourite of all the german norths
Das ist das hamburgischste Ding, was ich kenn...südlich von Hannover wird man das nicht finden...leider, ich liebe diese Dinger, war aber seit locker 10 Jahren nicht mehr im Norden
@@laisito Ich auch nicht! 😭 Ich habe mal 15 Jahre in Hamburg gelebt und vor der Berufsschule und später dann jeden Tag vor der Uni habe ich mir ein Franzbrötchen gegönnt, welches damals für mich als Westfälin auch etwas Neues war. Hab damals sehr über den Namen Franzbrötchen gelacht 🤣, es aber sooo geliebt! Wie lecker kann ein Gebäck sein?! Franzi war schon vorher da.😂🙈
@@muegaschneemann It definitely is, I am sure! I know no northy that isn't obsessed with it. Which leads to the question why other parts of Germany don't copy this recipe of success? 😂
I live in the south and Love franzbrötchen so i guess she Just thought IT wasnt important (pathetic)
Apple juice is awesome. We have an 100+ years old apple tree in our garden. When ripe we pick them, bring them to a little factory and they make juice out of it. You can bring your apples and buy fresh juice in the shop at a discount or you wait a few days and get the juice from your very own apples. This juice tastes like heaven and has not much in common with apple juice from the shelf.
Naturtrüb 100 %
A German saying goes, "You are what you eat." Means - eat good food and you'll feel good too.
I suppose what really makes Americans fat is not so much the calories in the food, but more the many chemicals that are banned in the rest of the world
What makes Americans fat is their love for fat and sugar in everything and their hate for walking. I share all of these traits with them and I am fat - despite being a German :)
"Why are you not fat" because we walt, everywhere, even for grocery shopping, we walk a lot.
Yes we dance everywhere 😂
Also our stuff doesn't have highfructose cornsyrup and corn flour + 50000kg of sugar in it.
Because it's not over sugered. And we don't eat Pastries cause there are other options...like Croissant filled with salad, egg, a spread Frischkäse ect with sliced ham ect. Mostly Bread with non sweet stuff on it. Leberwurst, cottage cheese, cheese, Liptauer..there are different spreads, Not only sweet.
@@silviahannak3213 I now thinking about it if you compare it to what you see online and in popculture I just have the feeling many germans and europeans eat a little less. Like a meal isn't as huge as in the US or the bigger more fatty and calory heavy meals happen less often. I think many americans eat a Hamburger or a steak and fries and lot's of sweets and snacks every day. (Ofcourse some people do that here aswell and some americans eat less and only healthy but as a general trend)
And I believe it also has to do with EU regulations. There's so much weird stuff in american processed food.
@@simonl.6338 Fructose is poison. And highly processed food is just waste.
If you want a really 😱😱😱 good night, horror dreams podcast, you can search for "Dr. Robert Lustig: How Sugar & Processed Foods Impact Your Health" for a crash course with all the biological details and useful links.
I wonder that after so many videos about German food Ryan is still surprised seeing white asparagus :) :)
his attention span doesn't last the whole length of an asparagus stalk.
Cause this is the first video of all the "experts", showcasing white asparagus... @ryan: This is the thing. Green you can get all year in a relative good quality. But the white tastes only good in season and fresh. I think, in asparagus season 95% of the selling is white.
You don't eat a cake or go to a restaurant every day. If anything, I only go to a restaurant once a month. Furthermore, once a week I have a so-called “I don’t care” day where I eat something sweet or savory or drink two beers. I don't know, but here in northern Germany we drink a lot of tea. I assume the lady is at home in the south and that's why she thinks Germans drink less tea. All in all, less is more.😊😉
Schnitzels.... it's not fried but baked in a pan with butter.
baking is what you do in the oven. in english "frying" is used for everything that happens in a pan ("searing" too but you get what i mean).
The bakery stuff here in Germany is made fresh every day. it is not a processed product, all packed up in plastic, with a shelf life of six months like you get in the states.
That's the ideal world. But less and less bakeries actually make stuff themselves from pure ingredients. It's mostly pre-produced in factories and just "freshly baked" while the ingredients are industrially processed.
In cities you really have to dig for proper bakeries and outside of cities traditional bakeries are dying thanks to supermarkets' overflow and lazy customers.
@daveking3494 Did you hide under a rock the last 20 years?
Not everything is always fresh. They also sell stuff from the day before, depending on the bakery even without declaring it.
That’s true, but the bakery goods are a big difference from the processed food that you can buy at grocery stores. That’s why people still like to go to bakeries here.@@SD-ed8is
I have a favorite bakery. They get fresh stuff from their main Backstube every morning. I love it.
Lindt is a Swiss company, actually the company that invented the conche machine that makes all the delicious chocolate bars even possible.
Germany is a peanut butter novice, because peanuts are not really grown here and we like to eat them roasted with a bit of salt. But while we don't have good peanut butter, there are tons of good hazelnut spreads.
Asparagus is serious business here and as we are Germans, there are rules for that. White asparagus is the same plant as green asparagus, but the plant is kept from photosynthesising by keeping it covered in soil. Sometimes there is even purple asparagus, which is white asparagus that managed to get a tiny bit of sunlight before being harvested. There is also the thing that the season ends on the 24 of June. Every year.
Tea is extremely popular and widespread in northwest Germany. In fact, people drink more tea per capita than any other person in the world! ☝️ This area called "Ostfriesland" ♥️🍵
Ostfriesland, where there's more rain and tea than in Great Britain!
@@CakePrincessCelestia That's unfortunately true too 😩🤷
11:42 The kebab was first mentioned in Anatolia in 1936. At that time, the so-called “Sis Kebab” was still grilled on a horizontal spit over charcoal. Only mutton was used. It happened in Berlin: Legend has it that Kadir Nurman was the first to put meat in a flatbread in 1972 and invented the kebab version that was so popular in Germany. A “doner kebab” or “döner” consists of thin pieces of beef/veal and/or mutton/lamb threaded onto a rotisserie. Minced meat can also be used to make a kebab skewer, but up to a maximum of 60 percent.
The original Wiener schnitzel is from Vienna, made from calf meat. The German version is usually made from pork, it is tastier in my opinion.
Fun fact: I think due to legal reasons you have to call it "Vienna style" if it is made from pork since the original Wienerschnitzel has to be made of calf. I am also pretty sure that this frightening Toasty snack is not allowed to be called that way either.😂 Never saw it in a German household... .
@@CriticalPoliteness For the Toasty, the issue is "Schweinefleisch 60% (zum Teil fein zerkleinert)" ("Pork 60% (partly finely minced)"). For a Schnitzel it would need to be cut from a solid piece, for a Formfleischschnitzel ("Moulded meat schnitzel") it would have to be made from solid pieces of meat that were glued together. As it is, it's more like a breaded slice of sausage or meatloaf.
Also, I wouldn't call it frightening. It's quite ok as a snack and better than a candy bar. The consistency is like one of the better artificially formed Chicken Nuggets, but way thinner.
@@HenryLoenwind There's a reason they advertize those with "Don't call it Schnitzel!", because they aren't ^^
My inner (inherited) swabian is refusing to allow that packaged not self made stuff to be called "Spätzle"
To be fair, self made Spätzle are not very common outside restaurants nowadays. On the other side she could have at least used the Spätzle to cook.
Käsespätzle are the better Mac & Cheese...🤓
The real Schnitzel ist made from veal and it's called "Wiener Schnitzel" = "Viennan Schnitzel". If a Schnitzel in a restaurant is for example made of pork it has to be marked "Schnitzel Wiener Art" = Schnitzel in the style of "Wiener Schnitzel".
I don't know where the myth came from that Germans aren't fat. Half of our population is obese. It's just that America has it even worse than we do.
Yes that ist true. Many Germans are fat. May be not fat as Americans and may be not so many but there are definitely fat Germans.
Obesity rates in Germany actually went down in the past years but in the US it keeps rising. According to the CIA World Factbook Germany has an obesity rate of 19% in 2024 and the US 42.7%!! Germany still has one of the highest obesity rates in Europe but compared to the US we are skinny 😂
Overweight in America: round about 66% (a TWO THIRD of the population) and in Germany: round about 52%, BUT the americans are WAY MORE fat.
Not just a little bit, that makes an huge difference too
@@goose-lw6js I think the right term is overweight for the 50+%. I should've chosen that.
@@DaGuys470 Oh yeah for overweight (BMI > 25) it's closer than for obese (Adipositas, BMI > 30). Americans are much more extreme.
Most people drink Apfelschorle which is Applejuice with sparkling water. But normal juice is also marketed for adult people not only for kids. Hohes-C for example is a brand that advertises a lot with how many vitamins are in there juice and its mostly bought by adults.
Jiffy Peanut Butter dont come here, we dont like peanut butter, the hazelnut is our fave. You are gonna crash like walmart!
Not true. We even have pea it flavored flips.
A lot of people do like peanut butter or PBJ.
It's just that we don't allow the additives that US companies put in their peanut butter
Many Thai/Asian supermarkets stock Jif.
I am German and I like peanut butter. But I prefer the dutch version ("Pindakaas"). It's way better than the "American" style peanut butter you find in German supermarkets.
Jiffy peanut butter also does not exist in America. He combined the two leading brands Jif and Skippy. Or he's one of those people who actually believe it existed.
7:00 Alsace used to belong to Germany. Tarte flambée is a traditional specialty from the southern German-French border region. The origin of the tarte flambée can be found in great-grandmother's times, when bread was baked in a wood-fired oven on every farm in Baden and Alsace.
I live in western Germany and don't understand the hype about pretzels. Yes, they exist here too, but they have a niche existence. Here we eat real bread ;-)
I live in NRW Region and see a lot of pretzel. I like that it is usually soft and fluffy and not the crispy variant. Also those sandwich triangle things which use pretzel dough or something? I don't remember the name but I like them.
Same in Eastern Germany
@@alihorda These are soooo great - fluffy but not sweet.
Well then I'm very blessed being born in Bavaria and now living in Baden-Württemberg (Southwest Germany). Here are the best pretzels made. I don't like the bavarian. They are too dry and hard. 💖🙂
Maultaschen are an invention of Swabian monks during the medieval. If you are catholic, you are not allowed to eat meat on Fridays (because Jesus died on a friday) but Swabian monks wanted to eat meat on fridays, too. So they decided to hide the meat in dough, that the Lord can't see the meat. The dough is a simple pasta dough that is rolled out thinly, and the filling is well seasoned minced meat. Maybe you know chinese wan tan or italian ravioli, it's the same system. On the first day, Maultaschen are cooked in broth and traditionally eaten with potato salad, with the potato salad on the plate in the broth, because they are eaten with Swabian potato salad. It is not made with mayonnaise, but with meat broth. On the second day, they are taken out of the broth, cut into small pieces and fried crispy in a pan.
The stuff that was in the bretzel is very simple butter. Butter pretzel is a very simple, cheap and extremely delicious snack in Germany. Butter and pretzel are a perfect combination.
Schnitzel: the real traditional Wiener Sch ituel comes from Austria and is a very, very thin slice of Veal In a crispy breading that must detach from the meat when frying in the pan in air bubbles. In Germany we call nearly every slice of meat fried in a pan as Schnitzel. There are different varieties. We have the Wiener type Schnitzel, which is chicken or porc In a crispy breading. We also have Jägerschnitzel (hunters schnitzel) which is usually a unbreaded slice of meat with a mushroom cream sauce. And also very popular: Zigeunerschnitzel (gipsy schnitzel) which is also an unbreaded slice of meat in a pepper cream sauce.
What is Döner made of? It can be made of lamb, beef or chicken. To do this, the meat is put on the skewer in very thin slices and each layer is seasoned with marinade. Then the skewer comes into the vertical grill and when grilled is peeled in thin strips from top to bottom. There is also a cheaper kebab version with less expensive meat in slices. In this kebab, minced meat is packed between the layers of sliced meat. This kebab may then not be sold as a döner kebab, but only as a "meat skewer doner style"
We have white and green asparagus, but the white one is much more popular, simply because it has the better taste.
Besides the bakery items, this is more a collection of fast food items, mostly made to avoid German types of food in bigger cities for foreign people or tourists. The most terrible one is that "meat"toast. That would be the most ugly industrial kind of "food", we even have a hard time to name that "food",
and as you saw, all was selected by a non German foreign person. Also, in the supermarket she chose most industrial made "ready made" meals, which are terrible, but we get flooded with them more and more. People and foremost children "dislearn" real food tastes, and the habit and ability to make original healthy meals, and even how to keep food items at home. Every supermarket ha big fresh meat and meat products, the same thing does the fresh cheese counter with hundreds of different cheeses, and then there always is a big fresh bakery counter , and sometimes a fresh seafood counter, and of course always the first thing is the fresh fruit and vegetable section. All of them have hundreds of different choices, and there is no need for and industrial made and packed "ready" meal. So sad, seeing how the industry takes down culture.
I cook most of my meals from scratch, but I neither have the energy nor the will to do that EVERY day. Sometimes after a busy day you just want the convenience of only having to heat something up. Stuff like 5-Minutenterrine or Dosenravioli isn't even bad for a ready-made meal and I always have a few of these on stand-by.
Somebody probably already said it, but one possible answer to "What food will you find in every German city?" is indeed "Big Mac".
1:35 to 2:14
This is "Frittenwelt" in the beautiful city of Trier. It's literally a two-minute walk away from the school I went to. We used to go there during lunch break all the time.
Edit: Most of this footage seems to have been recorded in Trier.
I wasn't paying too much attention to the background footage until I suddenly saw the porta in the background and realised that I have been in most of the shops shown in the video.
You mean FrittenWerk? If so (and not a copy of it) it is a small chain.
Their initial offering was Canadian style Poutin but also offer different variations.
@@SomeReallyUniqueName you know, I'm not so sure anymore if it's any of these, but there is certainly a "Frittenwelt" in Trier.
@@lhering Darn, just looked it up and it really is FrittenWelt. Seema to be *very* inspired by FrittenWerk.
@@Elholzsame for me. I thought it looks so familiar and then I saw Trier on a sign and later in the back I recognized the furniture from Textorium 😂
Regarding asparagus: white asparagus is kept in the dark before harvest, green asparagus has been exposed to sunlight.
Regarding TooGoodToGo: it is amazing!
For many things it still depends where in Germany you are.
I live in Schleswig-Holstein (furthest north, next to Denmark) and tea is extremly common here, also tea houses, like shops only selling hundrets of tea varients often with a small cafe attached.
We have a bakery car coming to our house once a week with fresh buns, bread, cake, cookies - I live in the middle of nowhere (well, there is a town 10 min away with 3 bakeries and a vet, a döner, pharmacy, small grocery store, mail office and a butcher. :)... Also like 5 restaurants because we get many tourists here near the baltic sea).
Goods in every bakery in Germany look so fresh because they are, many bakers get up as early as 2-3 am in the morning to get all the bread and buns ready for the day! SOme bakerys open as early as 6am, even though 7am is the most common time to open. The "late" ones open around 8am.
Dönermeat is normally a tower made from stacked thin meat slices, minced meat, herbs, spices, onions, eggs, oil, milk and joghurt - depending on the type of Döner and place. Many server lamb and chicken as the most common variety, but also bull/calf is pretty common.
Apple juice is very common in Germany, also because nearly everyone living in the countyside has a couple of apple trees and produces their own juice or applecause even. Around 33 liters of fruit juice is consumed per head in Germany each year - making us the world record holders. Alone 630.000.000 liters of apple juice were produced in Germany 2022.
Our family alone has 7 apple trees, 2 sweet and 2 sour cherry trees, 2 pear trees, 3 plum trees, 1 peach tree and a huge amount of various berry bushes in our garden. :)
The typical Fast Food chains like McDonals and stuff taste very different, even compared from a northern more countryside Mc Donalds to a southern big city one. 93%+ of the meat and above 60% of all other produce is bought from German farms/producers. Only in off seasons they buy fresh produce from outside of Germany. Everything is prepared fresh as soon as you order and isn't just sitting in a "heating bay" waiting to be sold like in some other countries. Also the ingredients are extremly reduced and simplified compared to the US - many things would even considered non food safe here that are normal overseas.
Burgerking has a much better plant based offering than McDonalds and just frankly tastes better for me :)
The high protein peanut butter jar she bought, is the one type of peanut butter I like the most. It mostly just contains peanuts and nothing else. I think many people don't like it, because when you buy it, the oil from the peanuts is mostly seperated and you have to mix it because there is no "Bindemittel" in it
I don't know anyone who drinks pure apple juice. You usually mix it with sparkling water. You can also buy it already mixed.
Well...I do. I love fresh apple juice directly from the fruit press. I do not like sparkling water as I get acid stomach from that, but mixing apple juice, especially the non-filteted, with water is soooo good.
I prefer tap water.
I love fresh Apple juice
peanut butter has a tough time as people are used to either used to jam/honey or chocolate hazelnut cream, if they like sweat on their bread. A lot of people would try to convince you how lovely and sweat nutella (the most sold and famous chocolate hazelnut cream here) is and i would even put it on the lower end of available chocolate cream.
I guess the whole "Then why are we fat and you guys aren‘t?" comes from american food containing a lot of chemicals to make it tastier or just taste like something more.
My girlfriend is from Canada and i remember her first time visiting me in Germany she said that even our mayo tastes 100 times better and not like a bunch of taste enhancers thrown together and to be honest … i agree.
This is in my hometown Trier😊. I literally walk this streets every day😅. She's wrong about the Berliner though: you can get them all year round.
6:40: this Restaurant is called "Ratskeller" and the building is from the 1480's.....(it's the white building shown at 9:39)
PS: i hate peanut butter. When i was in the US for the first time (more than 20 years ago) i wanted to try the peanut butter so desperately and was absolutly disappointed. So disgusting...
Same here, the snippets from Aldi where probably filmed in the Store on Paulinstraße.
Wo sind die Trierer?
Nope, that's definitely not the Ratskeller, but the "Cubiculum" in Trier.
hello, Ryan...This IS a Pretzel with chives! They Cut IT in half, Butter on IT and then chives on IT..We call IT Schnittlauchbrezel..and you get IT in everey Bakery for 1.70 Euro..there are delicious..Also there are Cheesebrezels, baked over with cheese..also delicious;)
"Whatever looks like parmesan" ist actually white chocolate 😀
Just went for a jog along some of the shown places. Crazy 😮 Finally we see some TRIER on this channel. (Some say it's the oldest town of Germany)
Believe me, germans are getting more and more overweight.
The health problems associated with being overweight, especially considering kids, have been on the rise for decades now.
I think its not as big as a problem as in the US yet because theres still more of a "I know what I'm eating" cilture here and also the industry is heavily regulated in the use of sugar but the numbers are still definitely rising.
Also people are pretty lazy. I mean most people around here consider going to the gym once a week and pumping up the muscles as being "a fit person".
And why wouldnt they? Being overweight is getting more and more normalized and the prooven health risks are just "fatshaming".
16:54 The mettwurst in a glass jar probably tastes pretty good! :D The jelly stuff you see in there is just congealed meat juice. :D But it might be an indicator that it's a little on the fattier side, and is best suited for open sandwiches topped with onions and/or pickles / pickle slices and accompanied by beer or a light white wine.
What about LKW? You'll find it all across Germany at the butchers. It is a white bun with kind of meat loaf (yummy)
There are variations with cheese, pizzastyle or onion and bavarian style. I am hungry now
I am from Bavaria and I have to think a long time about what LKW is. I've never heard this. I think you come from a region where the SEMMEL (bun/bread roll) is called a Weckerl. Here we buy Leberkässemmeln, that's it.
Only weirdos eat their trucks. But seriously I have no idea what you are talking about.
What? What the hell is that? And does the Kraftfahrzeugbundesamt know you are illegally disposing Kraftfahrzeuge?
@@gabibavaria i think they refer to 'leberkäsweckerl' as lkw
@@gabibavaria LKW=Leberkässemmel warm
When will you come over to Germany?
Yes, I think we all would very much look forward to it!!!! But with masses of footage, please!😂
I have the feeling, he is not interested to come. It is no secret that Germans are eager to watch reactions and videos on Germany. Reactions are all about clicks and money.
Ryan, please correct me if am reading your mind wrongly. At least you were interested in German traffic signs. Maybe our Autobahn is teasing you enough to come? But please get a drivers license first. I mean a real one.
7:10 SCHNITZEL are ... pieces of meat that are a) WHACKED WITH A HAMMER to become TENDER and THIN ... then b) the crust is added ... and c) it is NOT "fried" in a bath of oil [just mentioning it, because you americans love your fries] ... just a frying pan WITH a little oil.
original wiener schnitzel is shallow fried in clarified butter so it technically is fried but, as you said, not like you would fry fries or chicken nuggets
🥙Döner Kebab meat was originally lamb, but then changed to veal, because lamb was too expensive.
You can also choose chicken as an alternative.
In my hometown there is a special Döner restaurant, selling steak Döner with beef and it‘s absolutely delicious! 😋
Interestingly enough, peanut butter is VERY popular in The Netherlands (where it is called peanut cheese). THE go to brand is Calvé.
In Germany Burger King is waaaaay better than McDonalds.
BK rules
I absolutely disagree
no it isnt...BK is disgusting...i mean mc donalds is disgusting too but not as much as BK.... KFC rules :)
@@xDasMottex kfc is good but BK has the Long Chicken which is fine and the BigKing XXL which is the King. And the fries are bigger, more natural and not overly salted like Mc
@@PaulWinkle bk is always half cold, the fries are dry and the sweets are way too much
For me as a Swabian, hearing people call spaetzle pasta plunges me into a deep depression.
Germans are not fat because the pastries are made from natural ingredients not full of additives and preservatives like most foods in America are processed.
About bakeries:
Just to deepen the information about bread, cakes and bakeries. In Germany there are two types of bakeries. The first, normal bakery specializes mainly in bread and buns but also simple pastries. Here you will find, for example, the "Berliner", "Rosinenschnecken", marzipan croissants, simple cakes such as "Bienenstich" and strawberry or other fruit cakes you can see in this vid. The ones shown here are delicious and there are many regional specialties, but I would still describe these baked goods as “everyday” foods. We'll get to some much more special, small works of art in a moment. These bakeries are run by a master baker.
However, there are also "Konditoreien" which are specialized pastry shops that have special education for cakes, tarts and other fine confectionery. They can also sell bread and buns/rolls, but this is more of a side business here. These shops are managed by a master confectioner. Here you will find the best high quality cakes, tarts based on their training. Are these the best cakes in the world? A matter of opinion, there are very good tarts, cakes and sweets in Austria, France and also Italy, but the latter are often very sweet. This countries also have the profession of master confectioner and overall, there has been an intensive exchange of craftsmanship between these countries for decades. Konditoreien or pastry shops also often have a fine café attached just to enjoy the delicacies on the spot. Just the right place for "Kaffee und Kuchen" (coffee and cake), the German way of heaving "tea time". 🍰☕
The Zebra Crossing sign is an old version. The new sign actually has a stick figure instead.
How we arent fat...well first we are just not as much as the US. Second, we put way less sugar and oil in our food greatly decreasing its caloric content. Third, we move a lot more as in we walk instead of driving for short distances, bike for medium distances and just use the car if we are in a hurry or for long travel
Also germans tend to be, on average more active in their spare time being in various sport clubs. And since government and insurance incetivises joining sport clubs, some germans are even in multiple.
As example families pay one single fee a year for joining sport clubs. Doesnt matter if one person in the family or 5 join in (they have to live in the same house though) and it doesnt matter if you join 1 sport club or 5.
In my families case my wife does badminton, my son does karate and judo, my daughter does volleyball, handball and dancing, i do medieval swordfighting and my other son plays soccer - all included in one package. Oh and if we were to hurt ourselves during sport - insurance covers that 100%
also for accuacy....elsas used to be german before a certain war so....id count Flammkuchen as german anyway
To peanut butter - its just my guess but i think the reason why german made peantu butter sucks is because original good american peanut butter has stuff in it that is banned in europe - very strict food laws - and that makes the american one taste a lot better or give it better texture but you aint allowed to put that in peanut butter here which is again my guess why american brands didnt make it here
The yellow thing in the pretzel that she called "pudding" is called remonce in Danish/Denmark. It's a sweet cake cream made of creamed butter, sugar and sometimes cinnamon and other ingredients. Used in a lot of traditional Danish pastries :) Also Too Good To Go is Danish, and has expanded to other countries.
No it’s actually pudding
Correct it is actual Pudding
13:02 We drink the apple juice in different versions. The most popular are 50% and 100% apple juice. Apple juice mixed with sparkling water (apple spritzer) is also popular to drink; it is very refreshing, very popular in summer and a real thirst quencher.
We have lots of juices in Germany. They are made mostly without adding sugar. The general calories are 21cls to 48cls per 100 ml, depending in the fruit. Personally, juices are to sweet for me, so I water them down. And I never drink sodas or bottled teas, because they have much more calories and added sugar than the average juice.
Since you asked what a Döner Spieß is made out of: AFAIK they're just a tall stack of thin slabs of meat. Some producers apparently use minced meat as "filler" for gaps and to smooth the outside.
Good peanut butter in Germany can be found in Asian (Thai!!!) supermarkets especially in bigger cities because it's essential to many recipes.
I think the reason why Americans are more overweight is because in the US everything has a lot more sugar and other unhealthy stuff in it, the EU has a lot of regulations about that.
The fact that we walk/bike everywhere probably plays a role in that as well.
TooGoodToGo: The stores can put together "bags". If it is selling vegetables and fruit, you might get a bag that contains those. Or a restaurant putting a to-go-box together
They usually put the "normal" price (though I doubt it adds up) and the discounted price there.
I've used it a few times and usually got WAY more value than was put there. I've also gotten halved veggies (which were either going bad or for display?) and some smushed things
There's lots of variety (I know there is a small shop selling beers that sometimes puts up a "bag" with 6-8 bottles of beer for way cheaper - but you won't know what you get. So if you're allergic or have food intolerances, you might not be able to use what you get
All in all: it is a great way to try and help prevent throwing out good stuff that - for whatever reason - couldn't be usually sold in stores.
Every time I've used them I got like 2-5kg of veggies and fruit for 3-4 EUR instead of the proclaimed 10-12 EUR (as stated: I doubt the value put as "normal" actually reflects "normal" ;-) )
Regarding peanut butter: The only use I see for it is in Asian-cuisine-sauces XD
You can cut the pretzel in half and put something on it. Usually butter. Buttered pretzels are the German PB&J. That favorite kid dish that always works.
The Ketchup Style Pombären (Chips) are tasting so good. And it totally makes sense -> potatoes + Ketchup is the perfect fit.
- A lot of cities have a "Ratskeller" (Council basement) - A tavern in the basement of a current or former city hall, a tradition going back to medival times. Back then it was for the wealthier people of a town.
- Kebab meat is usually beef or chicken, in some cases pork but more rare
- We are also fitter because our food doesn't contain corn syrup or similiar things in the amounts (or at all) US food does
That changed. More and more corn syrup is used in Germany, too.
in case you read this. the puzza is topped with fungi, red onions and i think tuna. its quite classic
There are some studies hinting to heavy processed food as the main reason for weight gain. It's still unclear why, but it seems that the body does process food reconstituted from their components, as heavy processed food is, is consumed faster.
Peanut butter was popularized through the efforts of George Washington Carver, it is uniquely prevalent in the USA.
Of the fast food chains, my favourite is "NORDSEE". I think a person who doesn't like fish or seafood will still find something they like there. A delicious "BREMER", a "Spicy Tuna Baguette", a "Bismarck Baguette" or a "Smoked Salmon Walnut Bread". Or if you want something a little more substantial, "Salmon pasta with spinach leaves", a "Cocktail prawn pan" or "Mushroom fish fillet". Maybe you can watch a video about this German fast food chain. This will give you a comparison between US fast food chains like McDonalds, which you know well, and a large German fast food chain.
I don't have a problem with the sea food. It's just what they so often put on it and even more the small. Can't stand it. Funnily enough pure fish doesn't bother me at all.
4:11 its not cut in half cuz there is something in there. they just slighty cut it when its still raw, so it can bake properly. otherwise its "exploding" while baking
The Döner Kebap skewer holds tightly packed slices of meant and ground meat - the cheaper the Döner, the higher the ground meat content. The basic version is beef, and many Döner joints also run a smaller skewer from chicken.
What I know is that Burger King is supposed to taste better in Germany than in the USA. It's probably the other way around there. But of course it's all a matter of taste...
There are around 1,520 different types of sausage in Germany. The Federal Republic is world-famous for its sausage products and ham: bratwurst, Thuringian, Bockwurst, currywurst, liverwurst, white sausage, meat sausage - nowhere is the variety greater than here. The Central Association of the German Bakery Trade assumes 3,200 types of bread. In 2022, in Germany A total of 1,507 breweries operated.
Schnitzels are thinly sliced pieces of meat in which the original bone has been removed. Most of the time they are also pounded flat with a meat mallet (flattening iron) or pressed flat with a meat roller, which makes the meat more tender by breaking up the muscle fibers. In Switzerland, schnitzels are also called Plätzli.
In English, the word schnitzel always refers to a breaded schnitzel in the style of Wiener Schnitzel. The English word for schnitzel comes from the French language and is escalope.
Well-known veal or beef schnitzel dishes are:
Wiener Schnitzel: breaded veal schnitzel
Munich Schnitzel: The veal schnitzel is spread with a paste of sweet mustard and horseradish before breading. Pretzel crumbs are used for the breading.
(Schnitzel) Cordon bleu: breaded veal schnitzel filled with ham and cheese
Schnitzel (à la) Holstein: veal schnitzel with fried egg and fish canapés
The only difference between white asparagus and green ( they are the same plant ) is the growing process. The white when cooked is sweeter and more tender than the green.
I wanna object and say we do drink a lot of tea, but it's not something you would necessarily get to go. You get coffee to go, you make tea at home.
18:40 I had Jiffy peanut butter before but still hate peanut butter. I love creamy hazelnuts (nutella), creamy almonds (marzipan) or creamy pine nuts (pesto) but creamy peanuts give me goosebumps. I don't know why.
The difference between white and green asparagus lies in the cultivation.
The green asparagus has been allowed to shoot up in the air and get sun, while
the white asparagus is covered with soil until it is harvested.
The white asparagus is therefore a green asparagus that just hasn't been colored.
Too Good To Go is a really cool thing... I once got so much stuff from the local bakery at the train station that I shared it with a bunch of homeless people around. It is always a good deal but contains sometimes stuff you don't like.
hey Ryan, heard you talking alot about pretzels throughout your videos so i got a little german-gift for you ;)
here's my favorite pretzel-recipe ;) feel free to use it to taste some REAL german pretzels.
See below
1 1/2 cups warm water
1 Tablespoon brown sugar
1 Teaspoon Salt
2 Teaspoons dry yeast
1/4 cup butter (melted and about lukewarm)
4 cups flour
coarse salt (to sprinkle over before baking)
also for the pretzel-bath
10 cups of water
2/3 cup baking soda
how to:
Mix Sugar, Salt, 1 1/2 cups Water and Yeast in a bowl and let rest until a little bit of foam has been built up on top of the mixture (about 4 - 5 Minutes)
add molten Butter and flour and knead until you have a soft dough that doesn't stick to your hands but feels soft to the touch
put dough on a flour covered area and knead for a while (until the dough bounces back if you poke it)
let the dough rest in a bowl at a warm (not hot!) place (best covered with cling film ontop of the bowl) - resting time about 1 hour (until the dough has roughly doubled in size)
meanwhile:
boil 10 cups of water, take the pot off of the cooking field and add 2/3 cup baking soda (this will be our pretzel-bath)
If dough has risen appropriately remove from bowl, cut into 10 pieces of the same weight
carefully roll your pieces of dough to about 50cm long strings and form in cute pretzel shape (honestly, any type of knot will work)
pre-heat oven to about 392 Fahrenheit (about 200°C)
for the next part i figured a spatula works best for me: put your pretzel-knot on the spatula and put it into the pretzel-bath for about 30 - 60 seconds (it's best to not remove the pretzel from spatula, just lower that whole thing in the bath) - do so with all the pretzels
Finally sprinkle some coarse salt (or pepper if you like that - i do) on top of your bathed pretzels and bake for about 12 Minutes
there you go - bakery worthy TRUE german pretzels to impress your friends ;)
@ryanwass in Europe and Germany there are way more strict rules about food regarding quality, additives, etc. a lot of chemicals which are usual in the US aren't allowed over here. Also there are rules about how much stuff like corn syrup, inverted sugars, foodcolouring, flavour enhancers, etc. is allowed. And a lot of the obesity comes from such additives not only the caloric surplus.
17:52 In Germany there are both types of asparagus "green + white"
You have to look up "Mettbrötchen"! It`s an all time classic here in NRW.
Pizza Hut and KFC are often together in one store / building in germany. Subway is usually a solo store (often smaller franchise with one store per owner) between Döner King and self service bakery like backwerk in our Fußgängerzonen.