4 Of Our Weirdest Culture Shocks in Germany As Americans
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After moving to Germany and living in Germany for nearly 3 years, we have made some interesting culture shock observations that honestly, we don't know if they are just our weird observations, or actually things other people have observed about Germans...in any case, here are a few interesting things we have been surprised by based on what we are used to. 😊
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There is no such thing as "too much" sauce on salads or other dishes, as the leftover sauce is used to dip the bread. :D
True that
Theere is that, and I would alsways ask myself if there the salad would not be rather dry and "natural" if there was not at least somewhat sauce on the platter left.
About there beeing to much sauce I am wondering though why that is such a big difference. Thinking about cole slaw or pulled pork that are some examples for me thinking about too much sauce (in general),
German here... A good salad or really any other dish succeeds or fails with it's sauce/dressing... and if there's not enough... well, that's just equally bad.
Regarding the asking you may also not forget that germany is a country with cities being centuries old so its actually harder to navigate through than the block system that the US cities have, gotta be honest whenever american shows said „its around the block“ I didnt really know what they meant when I was young
That certainly is the main reason for asking for the way. I still have to find a german city that more ore less build like a chess board as almost every US city is. That might result in google telling you, that you reached your goal, while in reality you would have to enter from a small side street.
@@shimone6116 easy, visit Mannheim. Our inner city is in squares and the housenumbers going around the square not down the street.
@@raan1887 Oh Gott bitte komm mir nicht mit den Quadraten. Des ist der größte Irrgarten überhaupt 🙈
@@hd_mb2043 musst nur als Kind oft genug durchgeirrt sein^^
@@raan1887 Nein muss man nicht. Man kann oft in der Stadt unterwegs sein und sich trotzdem verlaufen
The thing is not just with dressing, it's all about sauces. Oh boy we germans love sauces. Every food has to be drown in sauce :D
This sometimes happens in the US also. Whenever I discover a particular restaurant over-dresses its salads, I ask for the salad to be brought plain (undressed) with the dressing on the side.
SAAAAAAAUUUUUUUCEEE
an italian friend once said to me: Germans are babarians - drowning everything in sauce. 🤣 well - i am a proud babarian in this case
It's Not true . Only people with Bad Taste in Germany eat everything with Sauce.
You know the one thing that never has enough sauce on it? Aldi frozen pizzas. I like to squeeze half a tube of Tomatenmark on my pizza but thanks to Putin there is no Tomatenmark to be found: (
Leftover dressing is great for dunking bread. So tasty! There is never to much dressing on salat or sauce on food.
I'll give you that! This is a great reason for lots of dressing 😊
@@PassportTwo In some parts of germany (especially the "Schwabenland") it's very important that your food has enough sauce. The same kinda applies to Salads i guess. "Lieber zu viel als zu wenig" wie man so schön sagt.
That’s why you normally get bread with your salad 🥗 Is that something you would find in an American restaurant as well?
@@katharinar.4463 you would get bread with a salad course in the US but there is apparently much less dressing on the salads and there wouldn’t be enough for dunking your bread in. Even with that I will sometimes order my dressing on the side and just dip my fork in the dressing before taking a bite of salad. Generally the bread is served with either butter or olive oil for dunking. It’s become quite popular to put some olive oil a little Parmesan and black pepper on a plate for dunking bread.
British in Germany here. Have lived in the north and south. My comment: Yes, you're spot on about the salad dressing. When I've had salads with tuna in them, for instance, I've actually thought they were trying to put the tuna back into its original environment.
😂
For me as a German, I rather hate to be asked for the dressing. It's like the cook is asking the client for the recipe. Also from your comment, I cannot learn what you expect on tuna. I'm just sure there is no water-based dressing. canned tuna doesn't belong on anybodies plate in general.
@@holger_p Well, I don't want the lettuce to look like seaweed! ;-)
@@pragmatastic sure, thats why time between dressing and eating should be less than 5min.
Lol
German cities generally have a layout that has grown over centuries, sometimes millenia (Karlsruhe or Mannheim being rare exceptions) - they are way more unintuitive than the rectangular blocks that US cities are made of, so the probability that you get lost in there and need to ask for directions is way higher.
Not all cities are on a grid system. Gigantic cities (example New York, Chicago, Boston, etc) that weren't following Native American trails I agree with you. A lot of cities in the US follow old Native American trails. Nashville Tennessee city follows old Native Amrrican Trails. You think that you are going to join a certain road, but you don't because you went way northeast instead of north. The only thing that makes sense about the city is there is one road that is a wagon wheel, then it has spokes coming off of it that gets you into the downtown area, anf then has streets that comes off of the spokes. They may or may not conntect. I've lived here for 15 and have a pretty good sense of direction. I still get lost in this damn city. It's a lot less since I found out about the wagon wheel.
Grid systems are good when you get into a bad neighborhood you can keep going and end up where you came from quickly.
Well...considering how american women often tell stories about how more aggressive american males go at chasing them than their european counterparts...there might be a good reason why the US womens soccer team is great at kicking balls.
Nothing beats experience 🤷♂️😏
Lol !
I used to be a handball goalie in highschool. We know how to throw a proper round ball, an egg-shaped wannabe-ball is a different matter. ;)
Also: "Schnick-Schnack-Schnuck" or "Stein, Schere, Papier"
When you mentioned swimming, I thought that you would talk about FKK, the local nude beaches. They are still fairly popular here, especially on the Baltic Coast.
Although, stereotypically Americans seem prude to Germans, but Germans seem prude to Finns.
Edit: I'm familiar with both names of the game, but I usually call it "Schere, Stein, Papier".
here speedos and 1 piece suits are seen for swimm sports, not for leisure time
nah, seems like they are down in bavaria i wouldn't expect many nude beaches there. even the sauna's aren't textile free.
@@hightidemidafternoon didn't know there were differences, thought Saunas were pretty much everywhere textile free with exceptions
Or women just wearing panties and go topless at clothing-beaches
We called it "Schere Stein Papier". Maybe another part of older women wearin bikinis is not just body confidence but also practicality. When you need to use the bathroom it is way more convinient to wear a 2 piecer.
And changing in a dry bikini after the swim
My Bavarian husband once told me, "It is a compliment to the chef if you drink the dressing! (But not in a 5-star restaurant.) "
In Hessia we call rock paper scissors: „Sching Schang Schong“
I'm from Bremen and we call it that, too
I call "the game" Schere Stein Papier BUT I say "Schnick Schnack Schnuck" during the selective process.
For me it depends on the actual salad..a cucumber salad or potatoe salad has to swim in oil+vinegar dressing (I hate those "creamy dressings" of all kind anyway) or cabbage salads in general as well because the dressing simply has to pervade the salad in order to taste good but a green salad shouldn´t in order to not become flaccid.
In the western Bavarian district of Schwaben, more specifically at Augsburg, we call that game "Knobeln".
WRT salad I agree with you. A salad should never fall dry of dressing, nor should soma pasta, especially Spätzle, fall dry of sauce while eating. On the other hand the preparation of an ordinarily "wet" salad or pasta dish should take place immediately perceding its consumption in order for the food not to become soggy with the dressing / sauce.
@@joeviolet4185 I´m from Vienna and "Knobeln" is here a dice game.
Depends on the audience .. usually I'd call it "Schere, Stein, Papier" - but if I am with my sister we usually call it "Janken" - because we both learned a bit of japanese and its way shorter. On the other hand - I think this quote is used rarer here than movies and so on make you think.
I'm a chef here in Germany and we get taught early that germans love sauces. I myself do too. There can't be enough sauce on a dish and if someone asks for more, I feel honored xD
For steir fried beef maybe. But allow Germans to change habits and don't serve everything "like grandma liked it" ... please. And if there is too much sauce on the gulash, you just want to save the meat. ;-) Or something like potato salad drawn in sauce can be disgusting. Don't mind your 24h simmered jus.
funny enough a British friend of my family uses to say there is never enough custard (for apfelstrudel) so maybe we are not alone
Let‘s be honest….the dressing makes the greens taste a whole lot better 😉
More dressing, more taste🤷🏻♂️
Schere, Stein, Papier….but you forgot Echse, Spock😁
But it doubles the number of calories
Weeeeeell…😬
I am Hungarian and I have visited Germany lots of times, I have also spent several months in the US. I hope I don't upset some American women but I think part of the bikini issue is that the Americans tend to be more overweight than the Germans, at least in my experience. Of course, the FKKs (nudist beaches) are very popular in Germany, even in some city parks people strip off to sunbathe in the nude (go to the Englischer Garten in Munchen on a sunny day). I even saw ladies in places like Köln (Cologne) sunbathing topless in busy parks during their lunchbreak. I look like a German, over 6 feet tall and used to be blonde when I still had hair, so in Germany people thought that I was local. I was asked for directions every few days when I was there, the same in Austria. Interestingly, it never happened in Switzerland. The sauce issue bothers me too, In Hungary we do not cover everything in sauce. In the early 70s when we were allowed to visit only East Germany (DDR), we always had to argue with the waiters that we do not want sauce on the Schnitzel, not even a small amount.
American here, currently in Berlin:
Dude, I spent 2 yrs before the pandemic traveling to Europe every 2 months to see my fiancee. The obesity in the US was shocking every single time I returned the US even after only 2wks of being gone. Every time. It's shocking.
You might know, though, that Americans typically get very little vacation/holiday time and work like slaves. Food and TV is a way of coping for many poorer Americans. Europeans can be smug and judgemental about American dysfunction (not saying you are!) but living there is very rough unless you're wealthy. Respect to Hungary, I love visiting your lovely country.
Well, on a Schnitzel it's insane, you are right. It destroys the panade, although some germans still believe gipsy style sauce, especially Letscho, is hungarian style.
Or in matter of gulash, what germans consider the sauce, hungarians consider a soup.
First - whereas Germans usually do not buy ready made salad sauce out of the bottle it is something that somehow seems the standard in the USA. Yes, you can get them here, too, but most people make their salad sauce out of basic ingredients or this small packs from Maggi/Knorr/Nonamebrand. To bath them like this with the ready-made-salad sauce in bottles would be much too heavy for my taste. So I guess on reason might be the type of sauce we eat our salad with that is just less heavy and thinner from the consistency.
And yes, I eat lots of salad - and usually bath in sauce. I just prefer it that way so that it is even much for a German. But I am a sauce fan with everything - I do not like my food being too dry. And that even includes cakes etc.
I grew up in the 70s and 80s. We played Völkerball on the street, Handball, Volleyball etc. in school sports + table tennis, badminton, gymnastics, track and field etc.. A lot of us played handball in a club. And even the boys played more ball sports with their hands than with their feet, even if football is the most favourite club sport in Germany. When you looked at popular sports ski jumping etc. so your table was about the interest in TV sports but not into the type of sports that is learned/exercised the most. So I do not really trust your observations here. But yes, maybe Americans are better in throwing non-round balllike objects... as they learn to throw eggs... ;)
Schere, Stein, Papier, Echse, Spock
As for salad dressing: I'm German and I usually season my salad with oil and vinegar only, and will ask at the restaurant for such. Don't need a fresh salad to be drowned in dressing.
As a kid I always had vinegar, with a little oil, and (at my mother's parents) a good bit of sugar. These days, I avoid oil and/or vinegar. Preferably give me something yogurt-based.
@@KaiHenningsen I wouldn't want sugar on the salad. A bit of pepper and salt. The pepper direct from the pepper mill.
@@arthur_p_dent It's surprisingly tasty, but it's not what I usually look to salad for. Plus, as a diabetic, it's more bother than it's worth.
@@arthur_p_dent That's the wrong approach, to save these 5 calories. If sugar is used like salt, it can enhance the taste decently, without sweeting.
Little sugar is base for the caramel of most brown sauces. Onions really need it.
@@holger_p this has nothing to do with saving calories. I just don't _like_ sugar in the salad dressing; that's all.
About the salad and dressing part: In Switzerland it is the same when eating in a restaurant and the salad was prepared ahead of time and the dressing was added just before serving. They would add (more than) enough dressing to make sure the salad is not too dry ;-). It is just very easy for the restaurant to prepare 100 plates with salad for lunch time and put the dressing - usually you have a choice of french or italian dressing - just before serving. In a more classy restaurant you would get a salad which was especially prepared for you and mixed with the dressing and carefully arranged - and would certainly not swim.
I've noticed that there is a difference between the North and South of Germany. I'm from the Northwest and I noticed that in the South (for example in Badem Württemberg) they use more dressing than we do and it tends to be more acidic as well.
Yea we eat potato salad with vinegar NOT Mayonnaise 🧙
"Germans love drownign their food in sauce" as a frusttrated german cook ocne told me.
For me: I simply do not liek salad that much to begin with, but like any "good german" I do like lots of sauce for other dishes ;)
I'm going to have to pay attention to all other foods and sauces but I do think now that you mention it, it does go beyond just salads! So interesting 😅
And I don't like sauces at all...even the salad, I tend to eat without any sauces at all. Hence me nearly never ordering one when I eat out, and then only if it is a "high end" salad which DOESN'T drown in some nasty sauce (honestly, its mostly the cheaper restaurants who do that).
The sauce needs to be thick enough for a fork to stick in
@@PassportTwo If you prefer living without sauce, I hear that's the Turkish default. I hear Germans report their food as "terribly dry".
I use both, Schnickschnackschnuck and Schere, Stein, Papier...but I always say Schnickschnackschnuck when I play it and more likely Schere, Stein, Papier when I talk about the game.
When I had to go to the Kreiswehrersatzamt for the Bundeswehr, so ~25 years ago, there weren't the navi-systems a thing, so you had to navigate via map. My father drove me to Hanover and we had to go through 30 km/h-zones. And I managed to navigate my father to the Kreiswehrersatzamt. So, when you can read a map, and if you have one, then you doesn't need to ask for the way. Even now, there even is a navigation on the mobile phone, with map. So, no asking necessary.
My favorite sport without kicking is judo. Kinda with throwing.
I call that game usually "Schere-Stein-Papier", when I want to use it.
4:50.. nice touch with the fancy sports car "parking" in the disabled spot. :D
Wenn i talk about it, "Schere, Stein, Papier", adding " ohne Brunnen" immidiately. But during the whole choosing and shaking the hand-thing, we chant "schnick, schnack, schnuck"
Why are you leaving out the Lizard and Spock part of Schere Stein Papier..
I have to admit...not a Big Bang fan...😅
@@PassportTwo .. I didn't even know that game variant appeared in BBT as I never watched that, but half the internet claims they invented it. Weird. We've been playing it that way back at high school already, decades before BBT..
My favorite non kicking sport in school was "brennball" which is basicly baseball with throwing 🙈
German here:
I like my fresh salad with just a little bit of good oil and some fresh herbs.
I don’t like kicking or throwing sports at all, my sports are kayaking, running, Yoga, Pilates, and (belly) dancing.
And I usually say Schnick Schnack Schnuck and don’t realise, which name is used. 🤷♀️
I am from Austria but my favorite sport ist Tennis. No kicking but no throwing either
My wife and I have always observed that Germans (generally) can't throw!😂 We have come to the same conclusion as you, that it is a function of exposure. In America, everyone grows up doing some sort of throwing and "trying out" all the different ballsports. Handball is popular but you don't really play it unless you play on a team/club, so many don't learn. No one "recreationally" goes and plays handball in the park.
On the flip side, we've been at parks with German friends who "quit playing Fußball when they were 11/12" because they "weren't very good" and they can play CIRCLES around me 😂.
It's all exposure!
I love that I'm not the only person who has noticed this.
The only thing we throw in school, have been granates. No joke. Of course empty and non-explosive. On Handball it's more low weight height precision short distance, there is hardly any sports where you need to throw something 50yards or meters or so.
Being a German, I can confirm that I am rather clumsy at throwing things - with one exception: throwing a boomerang. When I was in school, one of the exercises was throwing a small ball (like a baseball) as far as possible, and I really sucked at it. My sports teacher was already under the impression that I was doing it on purpose. So I brought my boomerang (made by my father from .5" plywood) to the field and did some throws for him to watch.
I was so bad at throwing things that in Handball, they put me between the goal posts, so I didn't have to do too much target throwing, and I became a rather good Handball goal keeper, even playing for the school team on occasion.
#SchereSteinPapier
it is all what you are used to, i guess, i sucked at throwing a baseball, or the javelin. but i can throw a frisbee like nobody's business. surprisingly, after i moved to the US, i can throw a football, nice swirl and everything. never tried the boomerang thing in earnest.
I guess I'm very German when it comes to salads. That shit better be swimming in salad dressing, if I wanted dry salad I'd just eat it without anything else :P
Definitely Schnick Schnack Schnuck growing up, no room for debate :D
We don't like it DRY, just not swimming 😂😉
@@PassportTwo Well, to Germans that might as well count as dry :P
13:05 We call it Sching-Schang-Schong
Regarding the US women's soccer team I would say: "Da hast du so gerade noch mal die Kurve gekriegt" I used to live 5 years in the US with my family and soccer in the US was considered a "girls sport". The local club (Folsom, CA) only had a girls team.
Es gibt wohl nichts schlimmeres als zu wenig Soße oder Dressing am Essen. Ich hasse es wenn einem nach der Hälfte des Essens die Soße ausgeht.
11:52 tbh I noticed that to as a german, because at home we use alot less dressing then the most restaurants.
So interesting! I wonder why restaurants are so generous with their dressing here?? 😅
@@PassportTwo ... maybe their answer to not offering refills on softdrinks? *winks
"Germans love drowning their food in sauce" I hate this. I don't like vinegar, mustard, mayonaise, etc. so ordering food is always a bit difficult because people just can not get their head around the idea, that I actually like the taste of meat and vegetables. I know, I must be crazy. I had this exact conversation more than once:
cashier:"Was hätten sie gerne?"
I:"Ich hätte gerne einen Döner / Big Mac / was auch immer ohne Soße."
cashier:"Wie, ohne Soße?"
I:"Ohne Soße halt, also kein Senf, Mayonnaise oder so."
cashier:"Aber das ist doch dann trocken, das schmeckt doch nicht."
I: ._.
And then I get what I ordered and they put sauce on it! I hate people. Once at McDonnald's they even told me "Das ist keine Soße, das ist Remoulade, das hätten sie sagen müssen.", which still makes me angry.
Oh, and yes, I am German, born in Berlin, raised in the middle of Brandeburg and now living in NRW.
I call the game "Schere, Stein, Papier"
Ich dachte, ich wäre der einzige! Diese "Krankheit" braucht nun unbedingt einen Namen! Aversoßion oder sowas.
We lived in Pennsylvania before we came over here to Leipzig, and I can't remember the last time someone asked me for directions. But in the 7 months we've been in our current apartment, I've been asked for directions at least 5 times. But you might be right, maybe it was just because I was out walking around.
As for the dressings, I love that! I enjoy a salad drenched in dressing and I always had to ask for extra in the US. Excited not to have to do that here.
About the dressing, having living in the US for some time and traveling a lot, I would say this is more a matter of consistency than amount. Dressings here are usually very liquid-y, so that anything that doesn't stick to the salad ends up in the puddle on the bottom of the bowl. Dressings in the US are often much thicker (thinking of the classic Caesar or Ranch dressings for example), so much more of it sticks to the salad, instead of flowing right through. That at least would be MY observation. ;-)
Yes, but things like carrots or cellery or potatoes can stand a milky sauce. Also for ceasar salad you take the hardest lettuce, the romaine.
Maybe the mistake started, when they used the dressing intended for ceasars salad, to pure it over regular iceberg lettuces or tomato and cucumber salads.
Nobody stopped people from doing that.
Viel Dressing ist ein muss 🤤… denn nichts ist schlimmer als trockener Salat 🥗und anschließend das Baguette 🥖 oder 🍞 darin tunken 👌
Auch zum Reis, zu Nudeln oder zu Kartoffeln (Klößen und Kroketten) gehört eine ordentliche Sauce. Diese darf auch nicht zu dünn sein. 👍😆 wir sind schon merkwürdige Gestalten mit seltsamen Gewohnheiten!!!
"Braune" Soße zu Kartoffelbrei
@@Hanmacx Ein dünner Ring aus Kartoffelbrei am Tellerrand und darin der Kratersee mit einem halben Liter Bratensauce. So muss es sein😁
@@Hanmacx 😆👌👍
@@Bluepeter62 🤣👍 stimmt
Interesting.
I've got a theory about the asking for directions thing. As you said: woman are more likely to ask for directions. I've seen a lot of videos in which American women talked about feeling much saver in Europe or about America being out feeling more dangerous. Therefore maybe in America women won't ask for directions as often, because it feels unsafe to ask a stranger plus to give away their destination/admit being unfamiliar with the territory and more vulnerable,.... something like this.
About the sport: I think your theory still stands because girls tend to play non competitive games that focus on social interactions, like playing family, with dolls, dressing up, etc and probably start to do sports regularly when they area little older and probably mainly at school or sports clubs.
I used to love football as a kid 35 years ago (we lived near the living quarters of us soldiers and received AFN on TV). But my dad, who was watching with me, didn't know how to throw a football and no one I knew even owned one. I don't know if you could buy one in Germany at this point. I finally bought a football a few years ago. But I suck at throwing even a regular ball and have no idea how to learn throwing a football😅
I played basketball for 2 years as a teenager, so at least I'm doing ok aiming at the waste bin.
regarding the dressing, i just feel that americans use dressing that are stickier, like ranch or ceasars and such really heavy stuff which sticks to the salad very well, while the typical german dressings like oil and vinegar/balsamico and joghurt dressing are thinner/runnier so they tend to pool on the bottom of the bowl easier
Oil is sticky, if it doesn't stick any more, maybe it was too much vinegar. It's 2parts oil , 1 parts vinegar, some people take half/half.
@@holger_p but it's a thin coat because it's way more liquid than mayo for example
and who uses twice as much oil as vinegar?
@@Bioshyn It's the recipe of oil-vinegar, or italian dressing. So everybody should use this relation. You form an emulsion of oil and a liquid, and the oil only can hold a certain amount of liquid.
You have to stir it hard, for many portions take a blender.
If you have a layer of oil after that, it was too much oil, if you have still little bubbles of vinegar, on balsamico you see this in the colour, you had too much vinegar.
Too much oil feels better than too much vinegar, cause oil tastes more pleasant and it does not pull the water from the plants.
@@holger_p so an American recipe?
which just proves my point that Americans use more fat in their salad dressings which makes them more viscose and as such "stickier"
The one time I can vividly remember being asked for the way in Germany in 62 years (and I *_know_* that I've been asked more often than that) was a man (driving some kind of larger truck - close to where I worked was a railway bridge, and he wondered if he could pass that. I told him how to reach the other side without going through it).
I can't speak for salad, but one of my favorite dishes as a child was a piece of fried fish with potatoes and lots and lots (and by that I mean half a liter) of Kräutersoße...
Observation1 - asking for directions. When my husband and I visited the US in the early 1990ies we drove from San Francisco to a college town west of Portland, Oregon where we wanted to meet with a pen-pal of my husband. As we didn't know when exactly we would arrive and she was in Seattle for another two days, we agreed to meet her husband at the bar, where he worked. When we arrived in town we found her address pretty easily but we couldn't find the bar. So we looked for someone to ask for directions and couldn't find a single person on the street. But we spotted a patrol car and my husband went to ask the officer (German mindset: die Polizei, dein Freund und Helfer - the police, your friend and helper) . Only later did we learn that this might have ended badly for us.
Schnick-Schnack-Schnuck
I honestly can't imagine why asking a police officer for help with directions would end badly for you...that's a pretty common thing to do in the US as well 😅 Who better to ask than the people who patrol the streets and know them like the back of their hand? 😊
@@PassportTwo Our friends told us they'd never just get off the car and walk directly toward a police officer. They were too scared to do such a thing because the officer might feel threatened and react accordingly.
And tbh: my husband told me the officer had one hand on his gun when my husband approached, clearly showing both hands. But when the officer learned we were tourists from Europe he relaxed, was very friendly, and explained the way very comprehensively.
I obviously can't discredit any personal experiences your friends may have had with a police officer that led this to this very unfortunate conclusion about our police, so I cannot say they are wrong. However, I am sorry to hear that someone has given you the impression that this is how the US police force is because I do not believe this to be the case in the slightest. I would encourage anybody to ask the police for directions if needed and to always ask them for help if required. (I have derailed this comment completely but it makes me sad to hear that this is your perspective of our police 😅, sorry! 😊)
@@PassportTwo No need to be sorry. We never had any bad experiences with the police in the US, but we were a white tourist couple (recognizable by our clothes), driving a rental car, moving mostly in white neighborhoods in cities, adhering to the speed limit, trying to figure out 4-way stops, and therefore driving cautiously. Even when we were involved in an accident with a black driver in a predominantly black area in New Orleans (airport highway) the police were very professional.
The current bad picture of the police provided by news and certain products of mass media is something else, but at that time in the 1990ies this image was just beginning to emerge in mass media and hadn't reached our news, yet. So we were somewhat ignorant or rather innocent in our approach. And we knew, of course, police officers are humans, some are good people, others are jerks, combine this with having a bad day and you might get every imaginable outcome. And this is true for the US police and for the German police as well.
There's a proverb in our area: es gibt gute, es gibt schlechte, und es gibt Schifferstadter (there are good ones, there are bad ones and then there are Schifferstadtians).
Last, but not least, you're not responsible for anything from that all.
Btw. Saumagen stuffed with chestnuts is the best.
@@PassportTwo Given everything I've heard *from Americans* about the American police, I'm afraid that I suspect that this is indeed not a particularly unusual thing. Admittedly, it's less usual if you're white, but "less" isn't "not". American police has a reputation internationally, and it's not a good one. Look at pretty much _any_ UA-cam video comparing US and _(other place)_ police for more detailed explanations.
I remember advice for German tourists on how to behave when pulled over to ensure continued health. Never heard such a thing for any other place on Earth.
Wearing speedos for swimming was a normal thing in the 90ies here in Germany. Shorts were used for sports and street walks in the summer but not for swimming.
Wearing those large "shorts" (that are more suited for street walks but not for swimming) became popular in the early 2000s ...but I still can not understand why one would wear so much fabric for swimming. 😁 Also so much fabric will not get dry for hours after swimming... 😏
Young men fear, someone could see they have a penis.
Don't think it's very politically correct, but 30 yrs ago we called it shing Shang shong 😂
At my area we call it Schere Stein Papier but we say " Ching Chang Chong " during the process.
Germany has a Hugh FKK(nude) swimming culture. Mostly in the east. So that could influence our swimwear style.
Definitely could be!
`Huge`??? I cannot agree to that. I'm German, living here for 60 years, visited many places in Germany and saw only 2 FKK beaches in my whole life!!!
@@ronnie3561 Half of Norderney is a FKK beach. And today i was in Travemünde there is one too. I dont know them a lot, but FKK cultur was Born in germany.
@@ronnie3561 What are you talking about? I live in Munich and - off the top of my head - I could name you five FKK places within the city alone. Don't even get me started on the surrounding lakes.
@@ronnie3561 Hier im Osten hast du an so gut wie jedem zweiten See nen FKK Strand.
I'm from a hockey town. As I was a child you could see about an equal number of kids playing street hockey as kicking on a meadow with a pair of improvised goals. So we have a DEL2 team, but the biggest success for our Fussball team was the recent ascent to Landesliga. Currently however we have also a team running in the German Football League (no Play-Offs qualification, but also no relegation in the last saison).
the game in Italy it's called "Carta forbice sasso" (paper scissors rock) or "Morra cinese" (chinese morra, where morra is a similar game but you have to guess the number of fingers shown, and it's mainly a gamble, played for money, opposite to morra cinese which is a child game)
I say schnick schnack schnuck because they're one syllable words and are easier and faster to say.
Oh boy.. I actually think some restaurants don't put enough dressing on their salads 😂 Especially if it's a green salad with mostly lettuce and tomatos since those don't really taste like much on their own. And as others have also commented, dunking bread in the leftover dressing is one of the best parts. 👌
Sehr schön, sehr interessant. Toll gemacht. Weiter so..
About the gps thing here in Germany. To be honest sometimes Google Maps isn't that accurate at least if you're going by foot. For example on my first day of my recent internship Google Maps sent me to a different place than where I was supposed to be going. Or another example, me and a former friend of mine wanted to go to a cafe and Google Maps sent us to the opposite building and we couldn't find it until we asked someone. I can mention many other situations where Google Maps sent me to the wrong direction. But there's also another problem with Google Maps. Sometimes the app doesn't recognize which direction you're walking in, doesn't load properly or the compass of the app doesn't work properly and you have to tilt your phone in order to be able to see where you're supposed to go or where you're supposed to take a turn. To be honest asking people for the direction is much easier than using Google Maps. I only use Google Maps when I've got no one to ask. Another problem is that the time indications aren't accurate. Sometimes Google Maps indicates that it only takes 10 minutes, in the end you walked for 15 to 20 minutes
There has to be a lot of sauce to food. if salad or Jägerbraten. Have you never been asked if you need more sauce to your meat at Wirtshaus? Otherwise i have never seen a German putting extra ketchup on burger at MCD or dipping it into.
I Do mayo on my Burger at mcd and my husband Ketchup 😅
Another funny video😀
My non-kicking sports are climbing, hiking, cycling, table tennis and handball.
Fußball only interests me every 4 years for the World Cup and this year I miss it.
And indeed women's football is very exciting and the American ladies are great👍
Schere, Stein, Papier - but all the young folk now say Schnick, schnack, schnuck; throwing chalk at my students - just kidding, volleyball (where you are actually not allowed to throw; a case in point, I guess); I think you are right about the salad thing, and boy do I hate soggy lettuce!
A fellow student from America once told me that he never asked for directions because he was afraid that he would either be robbed or the other person would think he was trying to mug him.
Currently there is a quite popular video on UA-cam "Why america sucks at everything". If you would make a reaction video to this it would be very cool, because it seems very exaggerated to me. I would like to know how correct the video is from an American point of view.
Pretty sure that one was made by Americans.
@@KaiHenningsen yes, but by an american comedian.
Mmh, depends on the kinds of salad, but in this area - around Duisburg - most restaurants don't overdo the dressing.
My favorite US sport not throwing is hockey, my favorite German sport not kicking is also ice hockey (in Germany hockey is being played on lawn). I am a German and like my meat with a lot of sauce, I like my salad with a little bit of dressing. Therefore I usually order my salad with the dressing separately so I can pour the amount I like on my salad.
Greetings from Hessia, neighbour! We Germans like to drown all our foods in sauces and dressings. This is a correct observation. :D
Must be a southern Germany fashion with that "salad soup" ;)
Here in Hamburg the salads are served with not so much dressing. Often just Oil, vinegar and herbs...
Speedos: when I was a kid, I was in a swimming sports club, where obviously the people young to old wore exclusively speedos and sportive one-piece-swimsuits. Of cause I wore the same stuff at the lake with my friends and I may be wrong but I think in the late 80s to early 90s almost no one did fashion loose knee-long schorts for swimming. Even the older ones. And still for me the speedo is the comfiest thing to wear in the water. I hate the feel of a loose parachute at my hips when swimming. And so I wear it at the beach as well, giving me the most minimal tan lines and collecting less sand with their snuggly fit. Maybe you did not observe this, but on germans coasts and lakes it is not uncommon for the middle-aged to old women to go topless or for both genders to be neked near or in the water.
I love ice hockey the most and yes the US soccer/Fußball women team is amazing! I've seen them here live.
Regarding the throwing part. I kinda agree with that. It's been three years now, but when we girls had PE in school they all only threw the ball about 21 metres far. I think the best of them threw the ball around 25 metres. The teacher always used to go back about another ten metres in order to measure the distance of my throw whenever it was my turn. 😂
Out of 15 girls I was the only one who could throw the ball around 35 - 37 metres far (37 being my own personal best).
two points:
- swimwear: talking about confidence - I have never seen a guy in a German public pool waring a shirt in the water
- in Bavaria (my region at least) we even have our salads swimming in the "dressing" (bav: "Stand") and do not pour it over the salat at all in the most cases
-That's an interesting point! Yes, a lot of men in the US will wear a shirt in the water because they are self-conscience. It also is becoming more and more popular as a sun prevention measure so that don't get burned...not a fan of that myself.
-That's an interesting difference! Never heard of not pouring the dressing over the salad! Thanks for sharing 😊
Some men and women will also wear shirts in the pool to help prevent burning. I see a lot of parents putting shirts on their young kids to protect their skin. Of course, this is a double edged sword because a wet shirt (usually cotton) also makes it more difficult for a young kid to swim and be safe.
@@jlpack62 Don’t they have UV protective shirts/rash guards in Germany? They are made out of the same material that many women’s swimsuits are made out of. They have become quite common in the US. I often wear them even when not swimming if I’m going to be in the sun for a long period of time. Much easier than worrying about reapplying sunscreen.
@@pjschmid2251 yes, we do
@@pjschmid2251 we do have that in Europe. I really prefer that for the kids, don't need to cream them every hour, and sun cream aren't so good for the ocean and people skin.
At Decathlon (European sport shops) you can find beach anti-uv tie-shirt (not coton and not loose) for grown-up and kids, and tie-shirt, shirt for hiking or every day use, this looks like ordinary clothes. Useful !
1) asking for the way: I love your last conclusion, my first thought was "well......way more pedestrians offer way more opportunities to ask".
2) bikini and speedo: Fat women tend to wear more one piece suits because there is a lot of body shaming for overweight. But age is something everybody will run into, so... well. Speedoes seem to be a generation issue. When I was young, every man used one, there was no other kind of "Badehose" available. But nowadays I observe sort of an "Americanisation" in that field :)
3) kicking and throwing: *big smile, nothing else.
4) salad - well I am not a big salad lover at all. And when I decide to eat some, I really need much sauce, because to me it is what makes the difference between salad and "rabbit food". :) But since I have no idea how much "less sauce" Americans would use...... no clue! (Btw., Mom used to DRINK the leftover sauce with pleasure, stating it was "the only good thing about the salad).
5) random: To me it has always been "Schere, Stein, Papier."
Also, more walking means more people have an opportunity to ask you. In addition, the places where you are make a difference. Since I started working in the inner city, I have been asked more often for directions than in the years beforehand...because there it is more likely to encounter people who aren't already familiar with their surroundings.
Hahaha I never thought of our way of putting dressing on our salad is so unusual. It's very interesting how people from other countries see that ❤ I like the drowning salad because the dressing is so yummy and you can dip the bread into it 😊 yum yum 😋
12:38 as a german, I hate eating out or eating salads cause most salad is in fact drenched in vinegar dressing and generally tastes horrible. Some dressings are alright but most are a vinegary mess, way too acidic
Well if you ever come to the US maybe you’ll try a salad. There are a lot more dressing options and they don’t put nearly that much on. You can even order it on the side if you like and decide how much dressing you prefer.
I have only been to restaurants where you can choose between at least three different dressings🤔
My favorite "sport" is competitive minigolf, i grew up with it and i love it
I find Google Maps to work great for traveling by public transportation and driving in Germany but walking in a city is where it tends to be much less useful as it doesn't seem to work very well most of the time to get you to a destination so you really have to pay attention to the map and street names to make sure you are going in the right direction and sometimes asking for directions will help more than the map depending. With the salad dressing that is a fantastic way to enjoy a salad as then you have all that leftover dressing to sop up with some glorious German bread to add extra flavor to a roll etc.
I as a german in a small village have even gone with a truck driver to his destination so he would find it.
My favourite not-kicking-sport is defimetly beerpong 😅😂😂😂
It’s a throwing sport😂
This explains why salad isn't so popular in the US. 😉🤣
Swimming is a big word for this. But we don't like our food not too dry and this also is related to sauce. If there are side dishes like potatoes, fries, rice or something like that, mix/dip it with the rest. If you have mashed potatoes, you mix them in. And trust me, with some of our favourites, the potatoes will be amazing. And you will enter a whole new world.🤤 (Also if there is plain bread served with the salad, it will be used to absorb the dressing to eat. ( And I'm not talking about croutons. Trust me, not only the French, will be angry.))
Yeah, you wonder why Germans can't throw an american "Football" and we wonder how it could have been been possible to design a "Ball" like this.
I think Donnie was including baseball and basketball as throwing sports with round balls that U.S.Americans play in their yards, parks, and playgrounds.
I'm surprised somebody having a mustache and a man bun can experience a culture shock at all!?
as a resident of the Palatinate, you should also visit the Upper Palatinate (which is in Bavaria ;-) )
Why U.S. homes usually doesn’t have light fixtures at the 2nd floor (bedrooms) ceiling but power outlets controlled by wall switches. As a result you see much more table lamps in the U.S.
Schnick schnack schnuck.
Well, now that I think about it, I think you're right and the salads I've had in the US always had less dressing than in Germany on average.
Used to call it SchnickSchnackSchnuck as a kid, now call it Schere, Stein, Papier.
When I comes to swimsuits, what about burkinis, are they a thing in the US?
Handball is a great throwing sport, my guess why it's not much bigger is the narrative of König Fußball allowing no rivals for his throne.
I'm considering moving to Germany for a number of reasons, one of the greatest of which is that it's more PTSD friendly than the US. Besides, I've lived most of my 53 years in the US and a whole life makeover would be refreshing. So glad I found your channel!
On the sponsor spot, thank you IMMENSELY for not "going there" with euphemisms and the like as others do. We're a smart group and we can do the math. We know what goes where. :)
My favourite non-kicking sport is Volleyball. I think it depends on the location you live, i get asked quite often how to get to the Autobahn or next petrol station, but i guess that's because we live in little villages were you can lose the right way quite fast. We live in Rheinland Pfalz as well.
Oh, and we call it Schnick-Schnack-Schnuck 😉
In Rheinland- Pfalz schwimmt ALLES in Soße
Es sind dort sogar schon Wiener Schnitzel ertrunken, und Pommes davongeschwommen.
We normally eat salad in a separate bowl.
Favorit non-kicking sport? Motorsport, especially 24h of the Nürburgring.
And Schnick Schnack Schnuck
In my region (near Stuttgart) we all call it Schere, Stein, Papier
I'm from Hamburg and we call it "Sching Schang Schong"
At #1 on the food chain, dressing makes me forget I'm chewing on grass-like substances🤣
Perhaps that's the problem. If our salads weren't mostly tasteless and watery lettuce and cucumbers, we wouldn't need the dressing.
First time you got me. Serve me a "dry" salad and I will go ballistic. 😱
Sauces in general, not just dressings, tell you how good a restaurant or cook is. I say that fully admitting that I don't always bother with a sauce, because if you have already three pots on the stove for meat/fish, vegetables, and carbs, also doing a nice sauce just seems one pot too much. There are many German traditional dishes, where the sauce is really the star of the dish and has to be made from scratch to be good. Hühnerfrikasse, Königsberger Klopse, Eier in Senfsoße or any kind of Sunday roast, to name a few. The worst experience is really, if you go to a restaurant, shell out quite a lot of money, and then the sauce tastes like it came out of a pouch.
Yes, I want to taste the dressing as well as the vegetables and salad. Has to have a good ratio to each other.
And my fav sports playing are Basketball and Football...and I suck both with throwing😅 but to be fair I can't kick either!
The game I call Stein Schere Papier but when playing Schnick Schnack Schnuck.
Years ago my best friend's uncle married a woman from Germany and I remember we took her brother to the baseball field to take batting practice and to shag some flies. He figured out swinging the bat and by the time we left he was making decent contact but he couldn't quite get the hang of throwing the ball.
Cannot stress this enough. There is never too much dressing or sauce in German food. noodles swimming in sauce too.
I live in germany and i get asked for direction so many times. I always use Google maps to show them the direction. I don't understand why they can't use their phone
In France you’re not allowed to wear shorts for swimming at most pools you have to wear speedos 🤣
Bonn Origin here as well. Hope you enjoyed your time in Bonn. Speedos were as popular in the us until the maybe early 90‘s or late 80‘s too. I mean they re still standard with competitive swimmers so it’s not that awkward. But in most 70‘s or 80‘s movies or series everyone’s wearing speedos. I kinda remember that the other ones were banned or tried to be banned from public pools because they absorbed too much water carried out of the pool… but do not know for sure. Saladdressing? Yep rather more than less. I used to complain in restaurants if you had to search the dressing somewhere between the leafs and were chewing on dry greens… no. But I never noticed it to be more dressing than in other European countries 🤔 cheers from Berlin
Bonn remains one of my favorite places in all of Europe because of how great of a time I had there 😊
Don’t believe everything you see in TV shows and movies. I grew up in the US (Midwest) in the 70s and was in University in the early 80s and I do not remember anybody wearing a speedo at public pools or beaches outside of competitive swimming in the 80s or 90s. That was a thing that was probably part of the 70s more than anything else. Even in the 70s my dad wore ordinary swim trunks, they weren’t as long as the board short style they have today but still swim trunks. Speedos were considered kind of risqué.
as a Swede, there should be just enough dressing on a salad. have watched many youtube channels where American people do reviews on buffets, they hardly take any sauce / gravy to the food. the same with the accessories such as applesauce, lingonberry jam, pickles etc. there is nothing better than a ham steak with boiled potato cream sauce and some applesauce.
We didn't block Google Streetview so much as pictures of faces, houses, and so on - enough so that Google just gave up on the project, much to the disappointment of large parts of the population.