3 parts filtered coffee (not machine-made) and 1 part milk. Always reaches a perfect drinking temperature, and it isn't bitter, so you need no added sugar.
Tchibo originally was a coffee roaster based in Hamburg. One of its founders was Carl Tchiling and to my knowledge the "bo" stands for "Bohne", bean. In contrast to their competitors like Jacobs in Bremen, Arko or Melitta they sold coffee per mail order and soon discovered that selling items in their shops that are not necessarily related to coffee like chinaware, cutlery or other promotional items attracted more customers. The less those things had to do with coffee, the better.
From a marketing perspective it is the same idea followed by groceries and discount stores to add time limited offers of hardware. Or like gas stations have also branched out to non car related items. They take advantage of cheap mass produced items they offer for a limited time. That attracts customers, just like any sale item, who might also buy the original product. Or put the other way around, in the case of single commodities like gas or coffee, broaden the customer base and help to bear the costs by more sales. The strangest development is in my view is the existence of Tchibo sections in groceries and drugstores which offer their coffee and their non-food items. Which is in groceries done parallel (competition?) to the grocery's products (food and non-food). I still remember the time when Tchibo was a pure coffee outlet/shop. And we as students went their during breaks to have a cheap coffee (0.20DM). Which would be 0.11 Euros in today's currency. Even roughly quadrupled to adjust for inflation (≈ 0.50 Euro) this would be a phantastic price today.
According to Wikipedia, the name was originally Tchilinghiryan, because Carl Tchiling's father was Armenian by birth. I find it fascinating that such an established brand name allows us to take a glimpse into German migration history.
@@haukenot3345 Well, Hamburg is Hamburg.Think of Albert Ballin (Danish Jewish origin) or Godeffroy (French Hugenots) who shaped Hamburg's shipping. I had children from Iranian, Afghan and Lebanese merchants in my classes.
And don't forget Eduscho ... Both competing against each other started them expanding in other areas to get an edge over the other.. Eduscho didn't survive this, which left Tchibo in this bloated state
When you said the ingrediance for the creamer I´ve heard "industrial garbage, industrial garbage and industrial garbage", neither of those substances belong inside the human body.
The main difference is, how we meassure, if a coffee is strong enough. In the US, the classic way to test this, is the horseshoe test. You put a horseshoe into the coffee and if it sinks, the coffee is to weak. In our modern times, car tires can be used as a substitute (It fits, because US drinks are bigger). Both methods can be problematic, because the meassurement can influence the taste of the coffee, especially if the horseshoe is taken freshly from the horse or the tire from the car. In Europe we have the metric system. Therefore we generally do not need spoons as a device to meassure stuff. And therefore the spoon is free to be used on the coffee. For the test, you stick the spoon in the middle of the coffee. If it stays upright, the coffee is in line with the respective DIN- norm for minumum coffee strength.
Americans highlighting our "Coffee & Cake" breaks has really made me appreciate it as a tradition and cultural institution. Before - as with so many things that you grow up with - it was nothing special to me. Now I really cherish it everytime. Especially the smell and the fancy cups we usually whip out for it. So cute.
Yeah, Tchibo is surely something weird for any non-German, even neighbouring Frenchmen. Which is why the Franco-German TV channel ARTE made this short little explanation video for how Tchibo was made and what the concept is behind the chain at all. ua-cam.com/video/jkXrd8dIOoc/v-deo.html&ab_channel=IrgendwasmitARTEundKultur
Your coffee creamers are basically chemically created products with lots of artificial flavors. As you might have realized already, most Germans are very wary of ingesting such stuff. The logo of Tchibo is either an attempt of depicting a roasted coffee bean which is still fuming after freshly leaving the roaster, or a combination of a coffee bean with the the steam of hot, steaming coffee.
@@ChristianKurzke same, but something people do, that would probably be the most comparable to it, is adding flavored Sirup Like a simple syrup mixes with concentrates. Tho personally I only ever saw it used in Eiskaffee, or in a different take on Irish coffee
@@gameboy-nq7je I have never put syrup into my coffee, and I personally don't know anybody who does that at home. I think, that this syrup fad also came to Germany (Europe?) only with (American) Starbucks. But I'm a country bumpkin, not a city hipster.
Tchibo is a coffee roaster and originally only sold coffee. The other stuff was originally a free giveaway for their customers, but then a court decided that it is forbidden to give away these extras for free, so Tchibo decided to sell them for a low price. And this became widely appreciated, so that the kept selling it.
Another type of coffee that you probably never had in America is "Blümchenkaffee". That word is from a time when cups made from chinese porcelain were rather common. These cups have blue floral motifs in the inside of the cups and if the coffee is so thin that you can see the flowers on the bottom of the cup then we say that its "Blümchenkaffee" xD
I think Tchibo is something even we Germans ourselves don't get. To quote Felix Lobrecht (a fairly popular German stand-up comedian): "Was genau ist eigentlich das Geschäftskonzept von Tchibo?".
I second this. Many people are puzzled by the concept. I personally have never had a coffee on one of their stores. About the random assortments of weekly (or so) changing offers... I think it is bringing the Aldi-Offer principle to other stores offering a good chance to get once-in-a-while non-food products at stores, including seasonal stuff. Speaking in my own experience, I like the specialty of checking the offers and the anticipation of finding something cool, unexpected, extraordinary or really good price-for-value in there.
The team of Karambolage by arte (Franco-German TV channel) uploaded a very short but fun and informative video on Tchibo and its history. Including the history of its concept.
Try looking for "Kaffee Sirup" as a surrogate for Coffee Creamer. It's practically sugary syrup flavoured in many different ways and seems to meet what you described.
@@gamergamer5345 Not my cup of coffee, either, but some people like it. Not that I'm an avid coffee drinker at all. I always get nauseated by coffee, and the caffeine doesn't work on me.
Right before I read your comment I thought what about Italian syrups, the kind they use at American espresso bars? OK so he won't get his non-dairy cream but he can still get vanilla, almond, and all the rest. I haven't seen them in German groery stores but it must be possible to get them.
The closest thing to American 'Iced coffee' you can find in Germany is 'Café frappé', originating from Greece. No idea why Germans in your comments never suggest that, it may not be as common here as it is in Greece but should still be a known coffee beverage.
Cold brew coffee is starting to become popular too, in Germany. Wait for it Tchibo and other online coffee equipment vendors start to sell the pots etc.
I actually saw some Coffeemate in Rewe the other day (in the international aisle) and almost bought it, because I have seen so many people use it on UA-cam! I didn't, because what I was actually looking for was powdered milk, the price was outrageous, the ingredients strange and lastly, it is owned by Nestle.
Tchibo is what happens when someone owns a shop selling coffee beans and then decides to take the "weird stuff" middle aisles from Aldi and put them into his shop. BTW they also sell all the weird stuff online on their website, too.
Tchibo did the weird stuff isle first. That's where Aldi got the idea. Tchibo Was not making enough profit with Coffee so they bought up restposten very cheaply and then sold them cheap in a kind of weekly sale, thereby subsidizing the coffee sale.
Tchibo! That’s brought back great memories. Working in Greifswald in 1992 when supermarket opened next to building site. One of our gang who spoke no German whatsoever saw the sign for the in store cafe and assumed Tchibo was German for coffee. 10am every morning he would shout “Titchy Bow time” it was easier to just go along with it than explain
as a kid my mother made me drink caro coffee, which is a different kind of "kinderkaffee". and I HATED it. after years of forcing it down my throat I asked her why I needed to drink it and she told me it was healthier than coco and I said "can't I simply drink water?" and then my suffering was over. and to be clear, I never asked for coco.
I am old enough to remember that at the beginning of the 60's my parents could not afford real coffee every day, and therefore mostly drank "Muckefuck" (brand name: Linde's). But once in a while, a parcel arrived with fresh Tchibo coffee, they probably ordered it by mail. In these parcels, a pound of coffee was sewn into a man's handkerchief, and half a pound into a woman's handkerchief. However I do not remember if this was the standard at that time, or if it was just a temporary special offer. The Tchibo shops came later, and they started as shops mainly for coffee with small assortment of other items for the household. When I was a student I liked them because in the big cities they also sold freshly brewed coffee - an inexpensive place in the city to drink a cup of good coffee - significantly cheaper than a Cafe.
🤣 Great summary of why Coffee Creamers aren't really missed here! Tchibo has weekly changing offers of medium quality, low priced goods to encourage people to come in and also buy coffee. They are one of the largest (if not the largest) seller of bed linens and clothes. You can also buy the stuff online. If you need stuff for your household (also baby stuff), a good place to look. No pineapple on Pizza, which is basicaly then a round Hawaii toast.
Pineapple on pizza and coffee creamer - two things to really piss off Italians. 🤣 So, if anyone from Italy says that Americans have no culture - those are just two of many reasons.
@@Nikioko Just came back from Italy yesterday and saw there a pizza topped with french fries and hot dog sausage. If Italians eat that, they should shut up about pineapple...
From movies etc. I'm always wondered why people buy their coffee always on the street or in shops. Don't they have machines at home or in their offices ? There are full automated espresso machines affordable today.
There is one difference missing between US and Germany - You can't get a normal sized coffee in the USA. Everything is to big. I got an Espresso (small!!!!) in a coffee shop that was 0.4l - that's more than ten times the size of a normal sized cup (25-35ml) of Espresso. And getting an unflavored unsweetened coffee was a chore. In the end I stopped buying coffee on the way to work and just drunk water. American don't enjoy coffee. They just chug it down.
In europe 0.4l of espresso would have about 1g of caffeine - more than twice of what the european food safety authority consideres safe for an adult to drink per day :D
I think that the rise of Starbucks changed the coffee culture in the USA from one that was mostly about drip coffee that's typically found in diners to more variety based on espresso brewed varieties in addition to drip. Starbucks was also likely a big driver of flavored coffee drinks (mocha, vanilla, pumpkin spice, etc.) and the advent of iced coffee drinks (along with Dunkin Donuts). Here in Miami, the coffee culture is completely different from most of the USA. It's based on Cuban Coffee, often heavily sugared, and ranges from shots of cafecito to versions with milk like cafe con leche. I do enjoy a good Hawaiian pizza from time to time. Thanks Canada!
Tchibo really is the weirdest store... The concept doesn't make sense. Coffee, but also pyjamas and technical gimmicks? But for some reason, it works. All their products share a certain Tchibo vibe. A vibe of "We're home, in our comfortable blanket, sipping some tea, happy with our weird nic-nacs".
Like with other food it seems Americans are not satisfied with the taste of it on its own. They need to change it or add it up. Similar to their cookie tasting where everything was immediately dipped in coffee.
muckefuck - never thought about it. how would you americans think about a coffee which has a naughty word at the end? well, when i was in the us the first time, 1988, i almost spit out the coffee. too hot, and too weak. muckefuck, i thought. in germany, it has to be strong, dark black. i am a coffeedrinker and i know the difference between good and bad coffee. muckefuck is no coffee at all. as you said. but we germans call american coffee also as muckefuck. just a no-worthy-hot-black-not-so-tasty-coffee-substitute. which is filles up immediatedly when in a coffee shop. you wait until the coffee cooled down to drink, the waitress filled it up so you are not so happy to burn your tounge again. great topic.
RQOTW: YES - Pizza Hawaii is delicious. I used to drink Muckefuck as a child, later I would sip the decaffeinated instant coffee my mother used to drink. Between 12 and 14 (I don't remember the exact date) I switched to real coffee with sugar and a little bit of milk. But when I was 17 my Russian language class made a 10 days trip to the USSR including Baku in Azerbaijan where they served us Turkish coffee - black as the night, strong like Hercules, hot like hell, and sweet as honey. Since then I have never drank a drop of milk in my coffee. Btw. on our other stop in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia - the country, not the state) we visited a tea manufacture where I drank the best tea in my life. I'm not the type for black tea (sorry, Frisians and British people) so I tried a "yellow tea" which is a half-fermented tea and this was delicious.
I was born and lived in the US until I was about 27….to Italian immigrant parents. We never had a drip coffee maker in the house and I was drinking a Kid’s latte from about 5 years old -warm frothy milk in an espresso cup with a splash of espresso. I always hated flavored and/or sweet coffee. I do admit, in summer I would make an iced coffee….from coffee from my Italian Bialetti Moka espresso machine. I have been to Starbucks only twice in my life when I was traveling and had no other option and only got a small cappuccino. I think Tchibo is more a shop to buy coffee ( beans or ground) or Tchibo products and get a quick coffee before continuing on your errands. It is not a spend my afternoon relaxing with friends for Kaffee und Kuchen. Personally I think typical American coffee creamer ( flavored or not) it gross.
"...that Germans probably wouldn't want to drink anyways." Nailed it. While the whole business concept of Tchibo looks weird at first sight it's been so succesful that there were once even two competing coffee chains doing the exact same thing: Tchibo and Eduscho, the latter based in Bremen. It was swallowed by (of course!) Tchibo in 1997. Still a coffee brand today. Pineapple on pizza? Yeah, it's alright. The supersweet taste of the pineapple is a nice contrast to salty ham, same on the infamous Toast Hawaii.
When I was a child in the 1950s, my parents regularly ordered their coffee from Tchibo. The pound of coffee always came in the mail, wrapped in a tea towel and a coloured tin can. The cloths accumulated in such a way that some even came into my possession as quasi dowries and are still used today.
You are right assuming that (most) Germans would prefer to have coffee taste like coffee and not like any of the artificial flavors that are available in the USA ... one BIG reason being that all those flavors contain heeps of sugar totally covering up the pure coffee taste. Then again: Who would have added fresh, hot coffee to a cup half filled with already cooling coffee from the last serving, as is common, too, in the USA. It's a lack of 'coffee culture', as coffee is just a substitute for sweetened soft drinks that are considered more like a drink for kids & teens]
While I was watching the video, the excitement grew as to what coffee creamer actually is, until the explanation finally came - in Mickey Mouse language I would say: "kotz. würg - puke, gag!"
The equivalent to US americans using creamer would probably be syrup here in Germany. The most popular brand is Monin and it also has a wide variety of flavors to choose from. I personally like hazelnut and caramel syrup, however I usually only drink my coffee with syrup when I go to a café at home it's either black, black with milk or sometimes black with milk and Ovomaltine and Kardamon.
In the 70s we had two major coffee brands, Tchibo and Eduscho. Their shops sold different coffee types, you could get it grinded right in place, and you could buy either 1/4 p Pfund, 1/2 Pfund or 1 Pfund (= 500 Gramm) amounts. Coffee was still a luxury in the post war time. Then both shops started to have some special items once in a while, like a tiny transistor radio, or some clothing item. That was likely to push sales by attracting more walk-by customers, but then it got advertised, so people interested in the item of the week would go there specifically to get that item, and while being there, a couple would also buy some coffee. So it was intended for boosting walk-in sales. With time, this business expanded and both brands started selling a special assortment of every day life items, but as a special line of products that couldn't be bought anywhere else. Today, only Tchibo has been able to successfully run this concept.
Having grown up in Germany, I never questioned the concept of Tschibo, but looking at it from an outside perspective really made me realise how odd it is. Still love it XD Also, having so many people who come to Germany from abroad talk and enjoy "Kaffee und Kuchen" has really made me appreciate it more as a tradition. Now I finally understand what coffee creamer is. Thank you! I always thought it's flavoured heavy cream and I was a little jealous that we don't have it here. Now that I know what it actually is, I'm totally ok with not having it. As for the questions, I take my coffee with a dash of milk. No sugar. And no thanks to pineapple on pizza. I don't like the taste and texture when it gets warm, so also no "Toast Hawai" for me.
Muckef*** is a colloquial term for the Ersatzkaffee-Varieties. Typical brand names are 'Caro Landkaffee' and 'Linde's (sic!)' in the west (both now Nestle) and 'Im Nu' in the east. If you put lots in the water, im Nu actually is quite ok.
Tchibo logo: A coffee bean and hot steam // The coffee dealer Max Herz and the spice merchant Carl Tchiling-Hiryan founded Tchibo GmbH in 1949, which they owned equally. Her business idea was to send coffee by mail. On October 13, 1955, the first Tchibo branch opened in Hamburg, where customers could try the coffee before buying. The branch network subsequently grew quickly and expanded to cover the entire Federal Republic of Germany.
Random thought about Kaffee & Kuchen: Do you know the song "Hätt' ich dich heut' erwartet, hätt' ich Kuchen da" as sung by Sesame Streets Ernie & Bert? 😊 And yes, Pizza Hawaii all the way. 😃
you cant buy ammo at tchibo, so the transformation isnt complete, but on the other hand we dont have 27 schoolshootings a week so no need to reload so often
"it contains corn syrup..." - is there ANY food in the US that does not contain corn syrup? It's really not surprising why there's such a huge obesity problem in the US if they have those concentrated sugars in everything..
Tchibo and Eduscho too long time ago were only coffee shops. Later they get the other things (clothes aso...) in there shops ! The logo of Tchibo is a roasting coffee bean!
THe difference is germans, europeans and italians in particular want to drink coffee and enjoy the flavour of the coffee, whereas most americans prefer a overly sweetend hyper flavoured drink that tastes more of vanilla, pumpkin spices or cookies or peanut butter chocolate than actual coffee. I believe this is not only the case for coffee, when you look at other dishes in the german cuisine that americans often consider bland, but germans prefer less spices and seasoning so you can taste the actual vegetable. Salt, pepper and a little butter at max and cooked only as long as necessary is what i personally like meals and i like to taste simply the pure broccoli, carrots or tomatoes without adding 10 more extra flavours. Dont want to discredit the american way, it is just the way i prefer it and i think it actually is like it is for many food related things in US vs Germany, maybe there is a pattern.
"Tschibo" 🤣 in old times in Germany there were mostly specialized shops. You go to the butcher to buy meat, you got to the milk shop, to get milk and chese, hardly find a "supermarket". In those times (I remember some 1960) there was also a "koffee shop" - that also roasted coffee. There you could buy different coffee types but nothing else. Then Tschibo arrived. They worked as a franchise chain and sold coffee. They had to differentiate - so they offered a cup of coffee as a tasting - originally pretty cheap. This 'tasting' quickly got frequent and everybody liked to have a quick cup there during the day. In Cologne there were one Tschibo shop that was surrounded by yellow cars at 9:00 am. That were all the Telekom technicians at their brake and gossiping. Well some time they thought about new income. They started some 'special offers' - not coffee related. This got a HUGE market. Selling coffee beans becomes a minority.
Tchibo is a German treasure haha. Their core product are coffee beans, but they sell a weekly changing range of other products, too and I'm sure the non-coffee items generate more profit nowadays. The quality is usually great. Online you can browse all the products and they even sell furniture there, too. Highly recommended. The coffee is also good.
I thought about how long it took to find this snippet in Nalf‘s videos. Or do you (Donnie) watch videos and collect snippets for later, if they inspired you somehow?🙃
Finland here again. Like many Germans here have already commented, here people would add a coffee syrup to a coffee to make it taste different. But what is even more common here is that the coffee itself is flavored in the first place. I regularly buy chocolate coffee, vanilla coffee, hazelnut coffee, tiramisu coffee, and my personal favorites, banana nut toffee coffee and chocolate chili coffee. Chili and coffee sounds like a crazy combination but it actually works really, really well. It is coffee that has the same bite as strong chili peppers. Very difficult to describe. It sort of first tastes like normal coffee with a chocolate flavor but then the aftertaste burns your mouth like chili. I've never heard of that mucke coffee here though, not during my lifetime. People made a coffee replacement from birch bark during the second world war, but got rid of it as soon as real coffee became available again.
I find your bit on coffee creamer so funny. Back in the eighties, my father went on a work trip to Dallas and my mother went along. He was working in the daytime and my mom would - with a very limited command of English - go out to see things. They had a water boiler in their hotel room and she was able to find instant coffee in the store, but, since she knew Coffeemate from Germany back then but lacked the vocabulary for coffee creamer, she would ask several store people for „coffee whitener“ and they had zero clue of what she wanted. LIke, they did not have any idea of what she might have wanted. Back then, coffee in America was still pretty much an offence to one‘s tastebuds - especially for European coffee drinkers. It was like really dark dishwater. So, for their entire stay, my parents had to drink black coffee believing that there is no such thing as coffee creamer or Kondensmilch in a fresh or powdery form in the U.S….
Tchibo is easy explained. Originally a pure coffee selling/shipping company they also noticed selling stuff by shipping them to the customer is giving them a nice penny so they basically started selling nearly everything. With this they were one of the first catalogue shops like otto and so on. its basically an older version of Amazon. I mean Amazon started as book selling/shipping company. Oh and the logo is a coffee bean with the steam still coming out of it because it is so freshly roasted. We have a really old Tchibo in my city and that is still mostly just selling coffee beans and a few coffee items like coffee machines and mugs and handy coffe related items.
There are many syrups in most of the supermarkets that might fill the gap? They are made to put into drinks, cocktails and coffee and tea. With many different flavours like vanilla, hazelnut, maccadamia and so on..
However, a thorough look at the Tchibo shelf would reveal many funny videos. Because sometimes you find things that the common German can't live with, but everyone else in the world can. Mug holders for bicycles, for example, or banana slicers, fly whisks, reversible rain hats, meditation frogs, identity protection stamps...
as you might know, we have a great community of greek people here. whenever you ask for ice coffee, they will serve you a frappe´which is a cold double espresso with ice, mixed, no vanilla ice cream on top, as the german version.
When I was with my family in Germany in '50s and '60s I was surprised that they had coffee beans but it was my duty to grind the coffee in a hand mill so that the powdered coffee could be put in a coffee pot (kaffe kanne) with boiling water, it would then be strained and served with evaporated milk, (never condensed milk that was invariably sweetened) in preference to fresh milk, rarely was sugar added. The coffee beans were usually Java and the Italian and South American roast were considered not to be to the German taste. In Britain getting coffee beans was a treat from only the best up-market grocery store and almost all coffee was instant powder (Nescafe) or chicory based (Camp Coffee). The Germans had no concept of instant coffee until it came in gradually in the '70s. Sunday afternoon always involved kaffe and kuchen with the bakery being the only store allowed to be open. The cakes were amazing especially with a huge dollop of solid whipped cream that would also be bought at the bakers and transported home in a waxed paper parcel. Only until a few years ago I had white coffee with cream, milk or still preferably evaporated milk but now I have moved to the Dark Side, much preferring black strong coffee that I now consider is the purest taste. Eiskaffe to me is chilled coffee with maybe a floatation of cream on the top, certainly not with any flavours. The purpose of Eiskaffe is a refreshing drink on a hot Summer's day so that adding sugar in any form defeats that objective.
Iced Coffee? Why put ice cubes in a hot drink that you order precisely because it's HOT? Are Americans so obsessed with ice cubes that they put them everywhere? CoffeeCreamers are banned in some EU countries because of the high sugar content - as in many other US foods. In Europe, much more emphasis is placed on the health aspects of food and, for example, attempts are made to reduce, if not eliminate, the sugar content in many foods.
"Fake coffee", grain based, seems to be some kind of niche but fan favourite in Austria. Certainly nothing for the people drinking it for the coffeine.
Just use monin syrup and similar stuff for flavour. There are tons of flavours to choose from. Macadamia nuts is great by the way. Pizza Hawaii is absolutely great. Sweet and savoury yummy
I am a child of the sixties, and therefore I know Muckefuck. We children were also allowed to drink it, with us it was called both Muckefuck and Caro coffee and Blümchenkaffee (because it was so thin that you could see the little flowers on the bottom of the cup). I don‘t eat Ananas on pizza 🍕.
My Oma would always have Caro Kaffee for me as a kid. Whenever I stayed with her and it was time for the afternoon coffee I would get a cup of Caro Kaffee.
I don't understand Tchibo either, but I love it. It started off as a coffee shop and evolved to lifestyle. They have really nice kitchen appliances and accessories, and even sell furniture sometimes. Their non-food products are usually seasonal, colour-coordinated, practical and pretty.
the funny thing is: even as a German, I've never come to understand Tchibo either. In the first place it's been a coffee brand for decades. First time I had stumbled across these shops was as a teenager in the 90s. I had the exact same feelings about these stores and hardly ever walked into one. Still think it's a weird concept...
In my younger times, when we went to "Schullandheim"/school hostel with our class for one or two weeks we get Muckefuck in the morning and tea in the evening!
Yes I like my fresh pinapple on toast or pizza. I had the canned ones. So fresh toast with good quality ham, pinapples and cheese. (not like a toast ham or toast cheese) , same for pizza - tomatoes from Mutti, ham, pineapple and cheese. Greetings from Vienna, first coffee house 1683. So there is difference between even Austrian and German coffee traditions.
The Muckefuck actually was very common in eastern Germany when it still was the GDR. I was born there. Since there always were food shortages people had to get creative , so they used that substitute. Real coffee was unbelievably expensive.
I missed real good coffee when I lived in the US. The worst Coffee was the one at the Diners. It seats on that warming plate all Day and there is only one type of Coffee you can get, the Filter Coffee. Starbucks is really big in the US, but there Coffee Beans are not really good. I read ones they wanted to open up a franchise in Italy 😂. They didn’t make it. Wonder why 😂 I use Cream in my Coffee.
Tchibo was one of the first retailers in Germany that adopted the non-food special offer concept. At the time it was a genius method to "lure" customers into their shops by offering usually hard to find or quite expensive goods for reasonable prices. Over the years it just grew bigger and bigger.
There is one more aspect about non-dairy coffee creamer that I learned about during a business trip in Israel: Kosher food regulations require that meat and milk should not be eaten together, but only with several hours in between. So, if somebody who is eating kosher food only cannot have a coffee with dairy cream after a meal that contained any meat. The solution to the dilemma is: Dairy-free coffee creamer. Maybe this played a role in the US, too, originally?
There is no flavored coffee creamer in Germany, and maybe Europe in general, is because we don’t drink our coffee in such way as Americans do. We enjoy the coffee and not the artificial flavors that can be added to them. Yes, you can find some coffee mixes in the store with flavor, but I personally don’t like them as much as the pure coffee with milk. Milchkaffee is my all time favorite coffee drink. 😊
There are of course many Americans that also very much enjoy the flavor of coffee and would drink coffee black, we don't exclusively drink our coffee with creamer 😅😊 I definitely appreciate your comment and love to hear different ideas! I would wonder though if the reason you don't have flavored coffee creamers in Germany is less because Germans "just enjoy the coffee" and more because of the ingredients in creamer isn't allowed? 🤔 My reasoning for this is, like you said, you can still find some coffee mixes in the store with flavor, but also because Germany sells lots of flavored syrups that are used in coffees, and because in cafes you can still by things such as caramel macchiatos and other flavored coffee drinks. 🤔😊
Something I noticed was the way Americans traveling to Germany were really surprised about the late opening times for coffee shops. Starbucks or Coffee Fellow's or whatever open around early noon at 10-11am. Your first cup of coffee is usually had at home, but if you want early morning coffee you get it at a bakery! They're open starting 6-7am and you can get your quick breakfast and a coffee to go there if you need to pick some up. The idea of a fancy coffee drink so early in the morning just seems unnecessary? And if you want simple coffee, even if not iced at all, you can always get it there
Tchibo shops are just the Ikea idea of combining furniture shopping with a restaurant replicated in small scale for basic consumer products combined with coffee. While you wouldnt spend enough time in such a small shop to reward yourself with a meal (how many do in Ikea), you might do so with a coffee offered right on site. Difference being that Tchibo started with the coffee and then they expanded into branded consumer products. While Ikea started with furniture and then they added food to bind their costumers to the brand.
How do you take your coffee?? 🤔 Milk and sugar? Black? Just milk?
3 parts filtered coffee (not machine-made) and 1 part milk. Always reaches a perfect drinking temperature, and it isn't bitter, so you need no added sugar.
A little Splenda and half & Half and strong by American standards.
Black, strong and hot, made with a coffee press.
A litten bit vanilla icecreme and an hot espresso on top. Delicious
just a little milk
Tchibo originally was a coffee roaster based in Hamburg. One of its founders was Carl Tchiling and to my knowledge the "bo" stands for "Bohne", bean. In contrast to their competitors like Jacobs in Bremen, Arko or Melitta they sold coffee per mail order and soon discovered that selling items in their shops that are not necessarily related to coffee like chinaware, cutlery or other promotional items attracted more customers. The less those things had to do with coffee, the better.
From a marketing perspective it is the same idea followed by groceries and discount stores to add time limited offers of hardware. Or like gas stations have also branched out to non car related items. They take advantage of cheap mass produced items they offer for a limited time. That attracts customers, just like any sale item, who might also buy the original product. Or put the other way around, in the case of single commodities like gas or coffee, broaden the customer base and help to bear the costs by more sales.
The strangest development is in my view is the existence of Tchibo sections in groceries and drugstores which offer their coffee and their non-food items. Which is in groceries done parallel (competition?) to the grocery's products (food and non-food).
I still remember the time when Tchibo was a pure coffee outlet/shop. And we as students went their during breaks to have a cheap coffee (0.20DM). Which would be 0.11 Euros in today's currency. Even roughly quadrupled to adjust for inflation (≈ 0.50 Euro) this would be a phantastic price today.
According to Wikipedia, the name was originally Tchilinghiryan, because Carl Tchiling's father was Armenian by birth. I find it fascinating that such an established brand name allows us to take a glimpse into German migration history.
@@haukenot3345 Well, Hamburg is Hamburg.Think of Albert Ballin (Danish Jewish origin) or Godeffroy (French Hugenots) who shaped Hamburg's shipping. I had children from Iranian, Afghan and Lebanese merchants in my classes.
And don't forget Eduscho ... Both competing against each other started them expanding in other areas to get an edge over the other.. Eduscho didn't survive this, which left Tchibo in this bloated state
As far as I know, their side business started with cheap watches back in the 1970s.
When you said the ingrediance for the creamer I´ve heard "industrial garbage, industrial garbage and industrial garbage", neither of those substances belong inside the human body.
The main difference is, how we meassure, if a coffee is strong enough. In the US, the classic way to test this, is the horseshoe test. You put a horseshoe into the coffee and if it sinks, the coffee is to weak. In our modern times, car tires can be used as a substitute (It fits, because US drinks are bigger). Both methods can be problematic, because the meassurement can influence the taste of the coffee, especially if the horseshoe is taken freshly from the horse or the tire from the car.
In Europe we have the metric system. Therefore we generally do not need spoons as a device to meassure stuff. And therefore the spoon is free to be used on the coffee. For the test, you stick the spoon in the middle of the coffee. If it stays upright, the coffee is in line with the respective DIN- norm for minumum coffee strength.
Americans highlighting our "Coffee & Cake" breaks has really made me appreciate it as a tradition and cultural institution. Before - as with so many things that you grow up with - it was nothing special to me. Now I really cherish it everytime. Especially the smell and the fancy cups we usually whip out for it. So cute.
right???!! same here :) I always whip out the special grandma cake&coffee plates & cups, with cute spoons & tiny forks. it's a whole vibe.
Yeah, Tchibo is surely something weird for any non-German, even neighbouring Frenchmen. Which is why the Franco-German TV channel ARTE made this short little explanation video for how Tchibo was made and what the concept is behind the chain at all.
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Your coffee creamers are basically chemically created products with lots of artificial flavors. As you might have realized already, most Germans are very wary of ingesting such stuff.
The logo of Tchibo is either an attempt of depicting a roasted coffee bean which is still fuming after freshly leaving the roaster, or a combination of a coffee bean with the the steam of hot, steaming coffee.
"creamer" should be illegal in Germany.
I'm rather drinking it black than putting that stuff in my coffee..
@@ChristianKurzke same, but something people do, that would probably be the most comparable to it, is adding flavored Sirup
Like a simple syrup mixes with concentrates.
Tho personally I only ever saw it used in Eiskaffee, or in a different take on Irish coffee
What on earth is wrong with putting plain milk or cream into coffee anyway?
@@gameboy-nq7je I have never put syrup into my coffee, and I personally don't know anybody who does that at home.
I think, that this syrup fad also came to Germany (Europe?) only with (American) Starbucks. But I'm a country bumpkin, not a city hipster.
@@Dahrenhorst
There is syrup and there is syrup!
A shot of quality syrup is good substitute for sugar.
Tchibo is a coffee roaster and originally only sold coffee. The other stuff was originally a free giveaway for their customers, but then a court decided that it is forbidden to give away these extras for free, so Tchibo decided to sell them for a low price. And this became widely appreciated, so that the kept selling it.
Another type of coffee that you probably never had in America is "Blümchenkaffee". That word is from a time when cups made from chinese porcelain were rather common. These cups have blue floral motifs in the inside of the cups and if the coffee is so thin that you can see the flowers on the bottom of the cup then we say that its "Blümchenkaffee" xD
I once heard someone call it a "Bodenseekaffee" in "you can See the bottom of the lake" also refering to a weak Coffee.
I've never heard of Blümchenkaffee
I think Tchibo is something even we Germans ourselves don't get. To quote Felix Lobrecht (a fairly popular German stand-up comedian): "Was genau ist eigentlich das Geschäftskonzept von Tchibo?".
😂😂 I had no idea Germans felt the same! I gotta look up Felix saying this 😂
I second this. Many people are puzzled by the concept. I personally have never had a coffee on one of their stores.
About the random assortments of weekly (or so) changing offers... I think it is bringing the Aldi-Offer principle to other stores offering a good chance to get once-in-a-while non-food products at stores, including seasonal stuff. Speaking in my own experience, I like the specialty of checking the offers and the anticipation of finding something cool, unexpected, extraordinary or really good price-for-value in there.
The team of Karambolage by arte (Franco-German TV channel) uploaded a very short but fun and informative video on Tchibo and its history. Including the history of its concept.
@@BunterAlltag Thanks! Here's the link: ua-cam.com/video/jkXrd8dIOoc/v-deo.html
@@europhil2000 they used to have really good hot chocolate in their coffee shops.
In the context of the etymology of Muckefuck, "faul" probably doesn't mean lazy, but rather foul/rotten.
Try looking for "Kaffee Sirup" as a surrogate for Coffee Creamer. It's practically sugary syrup flavoured in many different ways and seems to meet what you described.
sounds disgusting
@@gamergamer5345 Not my cup of coffee, either, but some people like it. Not that I'm an avid coffee drinker at all. I always get nauseated by coffee, and the caffeine doesn't work on me.
I agree the best equivalent are coffee syrups…/syrup. Cause Starbucks uses and sell them in Germany , too. Schwartau, Monin are other brands
Yeah, that's what I thought... He is talking about coffee syrups...
Right before I read your comment I thought what about Italian syrups, the kind they use at American espresso bars? OK so he won't get his non-dairy cream but he can still get vanilla, almond, and all the rest. I haven't seen them in German groery stores but it must be possible to get them.
The closest thing to American 'Iced coffee' you can find in Germany is 'Café frappé', originating from Greece. No idea why Germans in your comments never suggest that, it may not be as common here as it is in Greece but should still be a known coffee beverage.
Every single frappé I've had (both in Greece and Germany) felt to be closer to German Eiskaffee as it's very creamy.
Frappe is based on instant coffee though. If done right, with the original, more fake, Nescafé taste.
i did, before you commented it. see above pls.
Cold brew coffee is starting to become popular too, in Germany. Wait for it Tchibo and other online coffee equipment vendors start to sell the pots etc.
In my cafe in Leipzig they have iced filter which is "iced coffee" & you get cold brew in many grocery,- bio stores.
I actually saw some Coffeemate in Rewe the other day (in the international aisle) and almost bought it, because I have seen so many people use it on UA-cam!
I didn't, because what I was actually looking for was powdered milk, the price was outrageous, the ingredients strange and lastly, it is owned by Nestle.
Tchibo is what happens when someone owns a shop selling coffee beans and then decides to take the "weird stuff" middle aisles from Aldi and put them into his shop. BTW they also sell all the weird stuff online on their website, too.
my wife was so surprised when I told her they were a coffee company. I had to ask her why she thought they had a coffe bean as a logo.
Tchibo did the weird stuff isle first. That's where Aldi got the idea. Tchibo Was not making enough profit with Coffee so they bought up restposten very cheaply and then sold them cheap in a kind of weekly sale, thereby subsidizing the coffee sale.
Tchibo! That’s brought back great memories. Working in Greifswald in 1992 when supermarket opened next to building site. One of our gang who spoke no German whatsoever saw the sign for the in store cafe and assumed Tchibo was German for coffee. 10am every morning he would shout “Titchy Bow time” it was easier to just go along with it than explain
The ingredients of Coffee Mate:
Inhaltsstoffe / Zutaten
Zucker*, Pflanzenöl (teilweise gehärtetes Kokosnuss- oder Palmkern-, gehärtetes SOJAbohnenöl)*, Maissirup*-Feststoffe, Natrium CASEINATE (MILCHableitung), Enthält weniger als 2 % von: Säureregulator E-340, natürliche und künstliche Aromen, Emulgator E-471*, Trennmittel E-554, Salz, Aromen. * --> Gentechnisch verändert
Who would buy that???
Why would you add it to the coffee?
as a kid my mother made me drink caro coffee, which is a different kind of "kinderkaffee". and I HATED it. after years of forcing it down my throat I asked her why I needed to drink it and she told me it was healthier than coco and I said "can't I simply drink water?" and then my suffering was over. and to be clear, I never asked for coco.
I am old enough to remember that at the beginning of the 60's my parents could not afford real coffee every day, and therefore mostly drank "Muckefuck" (brand name: Linde's). But once in a while, a parcel arrived with fresh Tchibo coffee, they probably ordered it by mail. In these parcels, a pound of coffee was sewn into a man's handkerchief, and half a pound into a woman's handkerchief. However I do not remember if this was the standard at that time, or if it was just a temporary special offer. The Tchibo shops came later, and they started as shops mainly for coffee with small assortment of other items for the household. When I was a student I liked them because in the big cities they also sold freshly brewed coffee - an inexpensive place in the city to drink a cup of good coffee - significantly cheaper than a Cafe.
🤣 Great summary of why Coffee Creamers aren't really missed here! Tchibo has weekly changing offers of medium quality, low priced goods to encourage people to come in and also buy coffee. They are one of the largest (if not the largest) seller of bed linens and clothes. You can also buy the stuff online. If you need stuff for your household (also baby stuff), a good place to look. No pineapple on Pizza, which is basicaly then a round Hawaii toast.
Pineapple on pizza and coffee creamer - two things to really piss off Italians. 🤣
So, if anyone from Italy says that Americans have no culture - those are just two of many reasons.
I fail to see the problem with a big round hawaii toast.
@@Nikioko Just came back from Italy yesterday and saw there a pizza topped with french fries and hot dog sausage. If Italians eat that, they should shut up about pineapple...
@@florianschaefer78 Italians don’t eat that. Only tourists do.
I just sat down with a cup of coffe and sweets for a late Kaffeekränzchen when I stumbled over this video 😄
From movies etc. I'm always wondered why people buy their coffee always on the street or in shops.
Don't they have machines at home or in their offices ? There are full automated espresso machines affordable today.
There is one difference missing between US and Germany - You can't get a normal sized coffee in the USA. Everything is to big. I got an Espresso (small!!!!) in a coffee shop that was 0.4l - that's more than ten times the size of a normal sized cup (25-35ml) of Espresso. And getting an unflavored unsweetened coffee was a chore. In the end I stopped buying coffee on the way to work and just drunk water. American don't enjoy coffee. They just chug it down.
0.4 l of espresso? That’s not an espresso that is…. I have no words other than sacrilegious!
In europe 0.4l of espresso would have about 1g of caffeine - more than twice of what the european food safety authority consideres safe for an adult to drink per day :D
I think that the rise of Starbucks changed the coffee culture in the USA from one that was mostly about drip coffee that's typically found in diners to more variety based on espresso brewed varieties in addition to drip. Starbucks was also likely a big driver of flavored coffee drinks (mocha, vanilla, pumpkin spice, etc.) and the advent of iced coffee drinks (along with Dunkin Donuts).
Here in Miami, the coffee culture is completely different from most of the USA. It's based on Cuban Coffee, often heavily sugared, and ranges from shots of cafecito to versions with milk like cafe con leche.
I do enjoy a good Hawaiian pizza from time to time. Thanks Canada!
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Tchibo really is the weirdest store... The concept doesn't make sense. Coffee, but also pyjamas and technical gimmicks? But for some reason, it works. All their products share a certain Tchibo vibe. A vibe of "We're home, in our comfortable blanket, sipping some tea, happy with our weird nic-nacs".
ok coffeecreamer sounds rly disgusting xD but americans make everything out of corn i guess xD
Coffee Creamer is even more scary than I Imagined ;)
Like with other food it seems Americans are not satisfied with the taste of it on its own. They need to change it or add it up. Similar to their cookie tasting where everything was immediately dipped in coffee.
@@reinhard8053 americans dont even know how real food tastes
muckefuck - never thought about it. how would you americans think about a coffee which has a naughty word at the end?
well, when i was in the us the first time, 1988, i almost spit out the coffee. too hot, and too weak. muckefuck, i thought.
in germany, it has to be strong, dark black. i am a coffeedrinker and i know the difference between good and bad coffee. muckefuck is no coffee at all. as you said. but we germans call american coffee also as muckefuck. just a no-worthy-hot-black-not-so-tasty-coffee-substitute. which is filles up immediatedly when in a coffee shop. you wait until the coffee cooled down to drink, the waitress filled it up so you are not so happy to burn your tounge again. great topic.
perfect topic. want more?
RQOTW: YES - Pizza Hawaii is delicious.
I used to drink Muckefuck as a child, later I would sip the decaffeinated instant coffee my mother used to drink. Between 12 and 14 (I don't remember the exact date) I switched to real coffee with sugar and a little bit of milk. But when I was 17 my Russian language class made a 10 days trip to the USSR including Baku in Azerbaijan where they served us Turkish coffee - black as the night, strong like Hercules, hot like hell, and sweet as honey. Since then I have never drank a drop of milk in my coffee. Btw. on our other stop in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia - the country, not the state) we visited a tea manufacture where I drank the best tea in my life. I'm not the type for black tea (sorry, Frisians and British people) so I tried a "yellow tea" which is a half-fermented tea and this was delicious.
The Tchibo Logo showing a coffee bean and this "swing" is supposed to show the smell of the bean ^^
No idea how to describe that better in english :D
I recommend the song "Aber bitte mit Sahne" for the coffee and cake theme
I was born and lived in the US until I was about 27….to Italian immigrant parents. We never had a drip coffee maker in the house and I was drinking a Kid’s latte from about 5 years old -warm frothy milk in an espresso cup with a splash of espresso. I always hated flavored and/or sweet coffee. I do admit, in summer I would make an iced coffee….from coffee from my Italian Bialetti Moka espresso machine. I have been to Starbucks only twice in my life when I was traveling and had no other option and only got a small cappuccino.
I think Tchibo is more a shop to buy coffee ( beans or ground) or Tchibo products and get a quick coffee before continuing on your errands. It is not a spend my afternoon relaxing with friends for Kaffee und Kuchen.
Personally I think typical American coffee creamer ( flavored or not) it gross.
Thank you very much! I will never see the Tchibo logo as naively as I did before watching your video again in my life! 😨😳😅
I think even us Germans don't understand the concept of tchibo😅
"...that Germans probably wouldn't want to drink anyways." Nailed it.
While the whole business concept of Tchibo looks weird at first sight it's been so succesful that there were once even two competing coffee chains doing the exact same thing: Tchibo and Eduscho, the latter based in Bremen. It was swallowed by (of course!) Tchibo in 1997. Still a coffee brand today.
Pineapple on pizza? Yeah, it's alright. The supersweet taste of the pineapple is a nice contrast to salty ham, same on the infamous Toast Hawaii.
Dang, i remember Eduscho actually being a thing when i was a kid and then one day it was gone. Now i know why.
The Logo from Tchibo is a coffebean with smoke which symbols hot coffee
When I was a child in the 1950s, my parents regularly ordered their coffee from Tchibo. The pound of coffee always came in the mail, wrapped in a tea towel and a coloured tin can. The cloths accumulated in such a way that some even came into my possession as quasi dowries and are still used today.
I have the exact same memory and experience!
BTW the intake/high consumption of high fructose corn syrup is linked to the development of fatty liver, metabolic syndrome,/diabetes.
You are right assuming that (most) Germans would prefer to have coffee taste like coffee and not like any of the artificial flavors that are available in the USA ... one BIG reason being that all those flavors contain heeps of sugar totally covering up the pure coffee taste.
Then again: Who would have added fresh, hot coffee to a cup half filled with already cooling coffee from the last serving, as is common, too, in the USA. It's a lack of 'coffee culture', as coffee is just a substitute for sweetened soft drinks that are considered more like a drink for kids & teens]
Not calling out @NALF 😂
No no no…never would do that 😉
While I was watching the video, the excitement grew as to what coffee creamer actually is, until the explanation finally came - in Mickey Mouse language I would say: "kotz. würg - puke, gag!"
The equivalent to US americans using creamer would probably be syrup here in Germany. The most popular brand is Monin and it also has a wide variety of flavors to choose from. I personally like hazelnut and caramel syrup, however I usually only drink my coffee with syrup when I go to a café at home it's either black, black with milk or sometimes black with milk and Ovomaltine and Kardamon.
Minor correction: I don't think you were "weary" about going into Tchibo, but were probably "wary."
yes I do eat pineapple on pizza, bc it's nice. Also didn't expect the wild NALF appearance
In the 70s we had two major coffee brands, Tchibo and Eduscho.
Their shops sold different coffee types, you could get it grinded right in place, and you could buy either 1/4 p
Pfund, 1/2 Pfund or 1 Pfund (= 500 Gramm) amounts. Coffee was still a luxury in the post war time.
Then both shops started to have some special items once in a while, like a tiny transistor radio, or some clothing item.
That was likely to push sales by attracting more walk-by customers, but then it got advertised, so people interested in the item of the week would go there specifically to get that item, and while being there, a couple would also buy some coffee. So it was intended for boosting walk-in sales.
With time, this business expanded and both brands started selling a special assortment of every day life items, but as a special line of products that couldn't be bought anywhere else.
Today, only Tchibo has been able to successfully run this concept.
Who would put pumkin flavour in Coffee. Disgusting.
Who would water down their coffee with ice cubes? Tastes like piss
Having grown up in Germany, I never questioned the concept of Tschibo, but looking at it from an outside perspective really made me realise how odd it is. Still love it XD
Also, having so many people who come to Germany from abroad talk and enjoy "Kaffee und Kuchen" has really made me appreciate it more as a tradition.
Now I finally understand what coffee creamer is. Thank you! I always thought it's flavoured heavy cream and I was a little jealous that we don't have it here. Now that I know what it actually is, I'm totally ok with not having it.
As for the questions, I take my coffee with a dash of milk. No sugar. And no thanks to pineapple on pizza. I don't like the taste and texture when it gets warm, so also no "Toast Hawai" for me.
Muckef*** is a colloquial term for the Ersatzkaffee-Varieties. Typical brand names are 'Caro Landkaffee' and 'Linde's (sic!)' in the west (both now Nestle) and 'Im Nu' in the east. If you put lots in the water, im Nu actually is quite ok.
Pizza Hawaii is one of my favoured Pizzas.
A good coffee does not need any creamer, milk or sugar.
You can add syrup to your coffee. Like caramel, chocolate or nut. Always tasty. But no creamer.
Tchibo logo: A coffee bean and hot steam //
The coffee dealer Max Herz and the spice merchant Carl Tchiling-Hiryan founded Tchibo GmbH in 1949, which they owned equally. Her business idea was to send coffee by mail. On October 13, 1955, the first Tchibo branch opened in Hamburg, where customers could try the coffee before buying. The branch network subsequently grew quickly and expanded to cover the entire Federal Republic of Germany.
Random thought about Kaffee & Kuchen: Do you know the song "Hätt' ich dich heut' erwartet, hätt' ich Kuchen da" as sung by Sesame Streets Ernie & Bert? 😊
And yes, Pizza Hawaii all the way. 😃
Pineapple on pizza is called 'Pizza Hawaii'. I like it.
Tchibo stores in Germany went through the same transformation as pharmacies in the USA. 😁
Not a bad comparison! 😂
you cant buy ammo at tchibo, so the transformation isnt complete, but on the other hand we dont have 27 schoolshootings a week so no need to reload so often
"it contains corn syrup..." - is there ANY food in the US that does not contain corn syrup? It's really not surprising why there's such a huge obesity problem in the US if they have those concentrated sugars in everything..
Tchibo and Eduscho too long time ago were only coffee shops. Later they get the other things (clothes aso...) in there shops ! The logo of Tchibo is a roasting coffee bean!
11:27 Fun fact: Condensed milk was the first kind of milk, you could store many weeks without cooling. It was also used for baby food
So muckefuck is an adept approximation of the quintessential watery delight that is American Coffee so ubiquitous for example in diners…
Nice!
THe difference is germans, europeans and italians in particular want to drink coffee and enjoy the flavour of the coffee, whereas most americans prefer a overly sweetend hyper flavoured drink that tastes more of vanilla, pumpkin spices or cookies or peanut butter chocolate than actual coffee.
I believe this is not only the case for coffee, when you look at other dishes in the german cuisine that americans often consider bland, but germans prefer less spices and seasoning so you can taste the actual vegetable. Salt, pepper and a little butter at max and cooked only as long as necessary is what i personally like meals and i like to taste simply the pure broccoli, carrots or tomatoes without adding 10 more extra flavours. Dont want to discredit the american way, it is just the way i prefer it and i think it actually is like it is for many food related things in US vs Germany, maybe there is a pattern.
"Tschibo" 🤣 in old times in Germany there were mostly specialized shops. You go to the butcher to buy meat, you got to the milk shop, to get milk and chese, hardly find a "supermarket". In those times (I remember some 1960) there was also a "koffee shop" - that also roasted coffee. There you could buy different coffee types but nothing else.
Then Tschibo arrived. They worked as a franchise chain and sold coffee. They had to differentiate - so they offered a cup of coffee as a tasting - originally pretty cheap. This 'tasting' quickly got frequent and everybody liked to have a quick cup there during the day. In Cologne there were one Tschibo shop that was surrounded by yellow cars at 9:00 am. That were all the Telekom technicians at their brake and gossiping.
Well some time they thought about new income. They started some 'special offers' - not coffee related. This got a HUGE market. Selling coffee beans becomes a minority.
Tchibo is a German treasure haha. Their core product are coffee beans, but they sell a weekly changing range of other products, too and I'm sure the non-coffee items generate more profit nowadays. The quality is usually great. Online you can browse all the products and they even sell furniture there, too. Highly recommended. The coffee is also good.
Coffeemate actually was around in Germany in my childhood, that is the 1970s. I've never tried it, though.
The NALF Part confused me 😅😅
The guy loves him Starbucks! 😅
I thought about how long it took to find this snippet in Nalf‘s videos. Or do you (Donnie) watch videos and collect snippets for later, if they inspired you somehow?🙃
Yes! Pizza Hawaii is my 2nd favorite Pizza 😋
Finland here again. Like many Germans here have already commented, here people would add a coffee syrup to a coffee to make it taste different. But what is even more common here is that the coffee itself is flavored in the first place. I regularly buy chocolate coffee, vanilla coffee, hazelnut coffee, tiramisu coffee, and my personal favorites, banana nut toffee coffee and chocolate chili coffee. Chili and coffee sounds like a crazy combination but it actually works really, really well. It is coffee that has the same bite as strong chili peppers. Very difficult to describe. It sort of first tastes like normal coffee with a chocolate flavor but then the aftertaste burns your mouth like chili.
I've never heard of that mucke coffee here though, not during my lifetime. People made a coffee replacement from birch bark during the second world war, but got rid of it as soon as real coffee became available again.
Im Süden, hier in RLP gibt es noch „kalter Kaffee“, was kein Kaffee ist sondern Spezi, also Cola mit Fanta. 😂
I find your bit on coffee creamer so funny. Back in the eighties, my father went on a work trip to Dallas and my mother went along. He was working in the daytime and my mom would - with a very limited command of English - go out to see things. They had a water boiler in their hotel room and she was able to find instant coffee in the store, but, since she knew Coffeemate from Germany back then but lacked the vocabulary for coffee creamer, she would ask several store people for „coffee whitener“ and they had zero clue of what she wanted. LIke, they did not have any idea of what she might have wanted. Back then, coffee in America was still pretty much an offence to one‘s tastebuds - especially for European coffee drinkers. It was like really dark dishwater. So, for their entire stay, my parents had to drink black coffee believing that there is no such thing as coffee creamer or Kondensmilch in a fresh or powdery form in the U.S….
Tchibo is easy explained. Originally a pure coffee selling/shipping company they also noticed selling stuff by shipping them to the customer is giving them a nice penny so they basically started selling nearly everything. With this they were one of the first catalogue shops like otto and so on. its basically an older version of Amazon. I mean Amazon started as book selling/shipping company. Oh and the logo is a coffee bean with the steam still coming out of it because it is so freshly roasted. We have a really old Tchibo in my city and that is still mostly just selling coffee beans and a few coffee items like coffee machines and mugs and handy coffe related items.
There are many syrups in most of the supermarkets that might fill the gap?
They are made to put into drinks, cocktails and coffee and tea.
With many different flavours like vanilla, hazelnut, maccadamia and so on..
We had Caro Kaffee (a brand of Kinderkafee) in Kindergarden every day.
However, a thorough look at the Tchibo shelf would reveal many funny videos. Because sometimes you find things that the common German can't live with, but everyone else in the world can.
Mug holders for bicycles, for example, or banana slicers, fly whisks, reversible rain hats, meditation frogs, identity protection stamps...
as you might know, we have a great community of greek people here. whenever you ask for ice coffee, they will serve you a frappe´which is a cold double espresso with ice, mixed, no vanilla ice cream on top, as the german version.
When I was with my family in Germany in '50s and '60s I was surprised that they had coffee beans but it was my duty to grind the coffee in a hand mill so that the powdered coffee could be put in a coffee pot (kaffe kanne) with boiling water, it would then be strained and served with evaporated milk, (never condensed milk that was invariably sweetened) in preference to fresh milk, rarely was sugar added. The coffee beans were usually Java and the Italian and South American roast were considered not to be to the German taste. In Britain getting coffee beans was a treat from only the best up-market grocery store and almost all coffee was instant powder (Nescafe) or chicory based (Camp Coffee). The Germans had no concept of instant coffee until it came in gradually in the '70s.
Sunday afternoon always involved kaffe and kuchen with the bakery being the only store allowed to be open. The cakes were amazing especially with a huge dollop of solid whipped cream that would also be bought at the bakers and transported home in a waxed paper parcel.
Only until a few years ago I had white coffee with cream, milk or still preferably evaporated milk but now I have moved to the Dark Side, much preferring black strong coffee that I now consider is the purest taste.
Eiskaffe to me is chilled coffee with maybe a floatation of cream on the top, certainly not with any flavours. The purpose of Eiskaffe is a refreshing drink on a hot Summer's day so that adding sugar in any form defeats that objective.
I have to confess- I had a reflux only seeing these coffee creamer bottles.... it's a clash of cultures
Iced Coffee? Why put ice cubes in a hot drink that you order precisely because it's HOT? Are Americans so obsessed with ice cubes that they put them everywhere?
CoffeeCreamers are banned in some EU countries because of the high sugar content - as in many other US foods. In Europe, much more emphasis is placed on the health aspects of food and, for example, attempts are made to reduce, if not eliminate, the sugar content in many foods.
"Fake coffee", grain based, seems to be some kind of niche but fan favourite in Austria. Certainly nothing for the people drinking it for the coffeine.
Just use monin syrup and similar stuff for flavour. There are tons of flavours to choose from. Macadamia nuts is great by the way.
Pizza Hawaii is absolutely great. Sweet and savoury yummy
I am a child of the sixties, and therefore I know Muckefuck. We children were also allowed to drink it, with us it was called both Muckefuck and Caro coffee and Blümchenkaffee (because it was so thin that you could see the little flowers on the bottom of the cup).
I don‘t eat Ananas on pizza 🍕.
My Oma would always have Caro Kaffee for me as a kid. Whenever I stayed with her and it was time for the afternoon coffee I would get a cup of Caro Kaffee.
The other brand was Lindes.
The malt based pseudo coffee was also part of my childhood
I just love the weirdly specific and sometimes random gadgets that are available in the Tchibo sections in the supermarket. Very entertaining :D
3:50 i believe in this instance "faul" doesn't mean "lazy" but rather "foul"
I don't understand Tchibo either, but I love it. It started off as a coffee shop and evolved to lifestyle. They have really nice kitchen appliances and accessories, and even sell furniture sometimes. Their non-food products are usually seasonal, colour-coordinated, practical and pretty.
Iced Coffee in Germany is called frappee
There are some brands of this stuff which are quite tasty, if "brewed" correctly.
Pineapple on pizza, of course! Very popular here in Sweden.
Pineapple as a pizza topping? Of course, it goes perfectly with tuna / anchovies!!!!
Tchibo is just Tchibo.
It's a weird store but we learned to live with these.
the funny thing is: even as a German, I've never come to understand Tchibo either. In the first place it's been a coffee brand for decades. First time I had stumbled across these shops was as a teenager in the 90s. I had the exact same feelings about these stores and hardly ever walked into one. Still think it's a weird concept...
As a German: I never understood Tschibo myself. Though their icon is obviously a coffee bean with fume coming of it.
In my younger times, when we went to "Schullandheim"/school hostel with our class for one or two weeks we get Muckefuck in the morning and tea in the evening!
Yes I like my fresh pinapple on toast or pizza. I had the canned ones.
So fresh toast with good quality ham, pinapples and cheese. (not like a toast ham or toast cheese) , same for pizza - tomatoes from Mutti, ham, pineapple and cheese.
Greetings from Vienna, first coffee house 1683. So there is difference between even Austrian and German coffee traditions.
I would suggest searching for a cold brew, if you want an iced cafe, baristas sometimes serve it seasonal
The Muckefuck actually was very common in eastern Germany when it still was the GDR. I was born there. Since there always were food shortages people had to get creative , so they used that substitute. Real coffee was unbelievably expensive.
I missed real good coffee when I lived in the US. The worst Coffee was the one at the Diners. It seats on that warming plate all Day and there is only one type of Coffee you can get, the Filter Coffee. Starbucks is really big in the US, but there Coffee Beans are not really good. I read ones they
wanted to open up a franchise in Italy 😂. They didn’t make it. Wonder why 😂
I use Cream in my Coffee.
Tchibo was one of the first retailers in Germany that adopted the non-food special offer concept. At the time it was a genius method to "lure" customers into their shops by offering usually hard to find or quite expensive goods for reasonable prices. Over the years it just grew bigger and bigger.
There is one more aspect about non-dairy coffee creamer that I learned about during a business trip in Israel: Kosher food regulations require that meat and milk should not be eaten together, but only with several hours in between. So, if somebody who is eating kosher food only cannot have a coffee with dairy cream after a meal that contained any meat. The solution to the dilemma is: Dairy-free coffee creamer. Maybe this played a role in the US, too, originally?
There is no flavored coffee creamer in Germany, and maybe Europe in general, is because we don’t drink our coffee in such way as Americans do. We enjoy the coffee and not the artificial flavors that can be added to them. Yes, you can find some coffee mixes in the store with flavor, but I personally don’t like them as much as the pure coffee with milk. Milchkaffee is my all time favorite coffee drink. 😊
There are of course many Americans that also very much enjoy the flavor of coffee and would drink coffee black, we don't exclusively drink our coffee with creamer 😅😊 I definitely appreciate your comment and love to hear different ideas! I would wonder though if the reason you don't have flavored coffee creamers in Germany is less because Germans "just enjoy the coffee" and more because of the ingredients in creamer isn't allowed? 🤔 My reasoning for this is, like you said, you can still find some coffee mixes in the store with flavor, but also because Germany sells lots of flavored syrups that are used in coffees, and because in cafes you can still by things such as caramel macchiatos and other flavored coffee drinks. 🤔😊
Something I noticed was the way Americans traveling to Germany were really surprised about the late opening times for coffee shops. Starbucks or Coffee Fellow's or whatever open around early noon at 10-11am. Your first cup of coffee is usually had at home, but if you want early morning coffee you get it at a bakery! They're open starting 6-7am and you can get your quick breakfast and a coffee to go there if you need to pick some up. The idea of a fancy coffee drink so early in the morning just seems unnecessary? And if you want simple coffee, even if not iced at all, you can always get it there
Tchibo is the Coffeeshop which accidantly sells coffee (German joke)
" US Coffee creamer is made of corn sirup" ... surprise, surprise 🤣
Tchibo shops are just the Ikea idea of combining furniture shopping with a restaurant replicated in small scale for basic consumer products combined with coffee. While you wouldnt spend enough time in such a small shop to reward yourself with a meal (how many do in Ikea), you might do so with a coffee offered right on site.
Difference being that Tchibo started with the coffee and then they expanded into branded consumer products. While Ikea started with furniture and then they added food to bind their costumers to the brand.