U want to know the most popular item? It's called "das da" So basically we don't know the name of every item at every baker, because they all have their own names and not always signs, so we just point and say "that one"
Just putting it out here that your channel is basically an advertizement for Germany lol, probably the best "Life-in-Germany" channel there is from an expat's perspective, you deserve more subs and likes
to be honest she just covers the convenience food in this video, it barely covers the choices you have ... as a german this video is really disappointing
what might be important to know, is that throught the last 10 years in Germany we have had a lot more industrial bakeries, that offer bread slightly cheaper than traditional bakeries, but often times at a lower quality. So try to find bakeries that are unique and not on every corner, to find the good stuff. The same goes for supermarket bread of course.
Croissants are from Austria, not France :-) The general term for that kind of pasty in France is even "Viennoiserie." Sorry for being pedantic - I just think it's interesting and it's a misconception I had for a long time myself.
I had the best pretzel with cream cheese but I wasn't sure whether it was in Austria or Rosenheim or Munich or Stuttgart or even Zurich. I was there for only 1 day in each city so I don't remember which shop it was but it was delicious I still remember it to this day.
Just wanting to leave a bit of knowledge here since I found your channel today and find your videos very entertaining. The item you are showing at min 7:34 are actually not Haribo chips. Haribo has nothing to do with the so called Pom Bären as they were invented from a completely different company. Might be a bit nit picky from me but I just wanted to mention it. Anyway great video.
Flammkuchen is common in Baden and Pfalz too. This are the areas close to Alsace. So the same with Schlachtplatte. Alsace and Saarland often changed the owner in the past. Sometime they belong to France and some time to Germany
Fun video, some food items are new to me. The spaghetti ice sounds interesting. I have seen the cornflake chocolate bar in Chicago, but I have not tasted it.
It is funny that the food stuffs you name are clearly region dependent. Because in Hamburg there is no bakery without Franzbrötchen, Fischbrötchen and Matjes have to be named and tea is alot more important, but you qould be hard pressed to find a good Leberkäse
I've been watching your content now for a few weeks and can't tell you how much I am enjoying your videos. You bring up a lot of topics that are not always noticed. Thank you for all of the work that you are doing and putting into these. Wishing you wonderful journeys.
Flammkuchen can Taste in France and the Near of the Borderline in Baden and Rheinland-Pfalz or Saarland. Maultaschen comes from South West Germany named Württemberg
I lived in Germany for three years and I absolutely loved the food. The street food was incredible as were the restaurants. That was over thirty years ago and I still miss it.
I've spent 12 years in Germany. This country definitely has the best bakeries AND supermarkets I've ever seen. 👌👌👌 The Germans have no idea how lucky they are.
1:15 _"And can easily disappoint you if you get the wrong one."_ I know, right? I don't know why they even _make_ the ones with chocolate! The raisin ones are clearly superior in every way at all times! Mmhh, juicy~
in west frisia (netherlands) they drink tea from a saucer, so it cools off quicker and they can get back to work :D it's a more widespread working-class thing across europe, but here in the netherlands, it's pretty specific to frisia/fryslan
Love to try some of these German foods as i travelled back and forth to there as my dad was stationed over there and i was born in Berlin and my brother in Hannover 😊😊😊
Very good video, I love how accurate it is and how it covers a wide variety of food. Just one thing: when you showed the Erdnussbutter that had bad texture, on the package it said Erdnussmus - and that might be the clue as to why. Mus is very different from butter and has a more porridgey, purée kind of texture. It's not designed to be spread.
I love your videos. Seeing Trier has made me so homesick but I am happy to see it in your videos. Thank you!!! I miss it dearly and have not been home in a very long time. I have enjoyed seeing the market place and how much it has changed. Your christmas market video also brought back alot of memories and I am able to show my child. Thank you again and look forward to more. 💜
In fact it is a speciallity of the regions in the Alsace/Elsaß and the Saarland and since the German - France treaty regulates that those RECEPIES, in the SENSE OF CULTURE, are both also FRENCH and GERMANIC the food from these areas has therefore no clear provenience in the meaning of Nationality
Oh my god i once ate the ritter sport chocolate that someone got me from germany. I took a picture of the name so i could buy it again but lost the pic when i switched phones. Now i find them in this video!! THANK YOU ERIKA. It has been 3 years since ive been searching for that chocolate
Just came across this, and had to say, nice video! About the thing that looks like parmesan cheese on the spaghetti Icecream: It's rasped white chocolate usually. In regards to the peanut butter: you'd be best of getting calvé pindakaas from the Netherlands. Up until now I have not found good peanut butter anywhere else in the world.
7:18 when u searching the Namehistory of Dickmann´s u will see and understand why they have to change their name to this. Dickman´s are perfekt an Delicious in a Bun.
My husband is German (from Cologne) and so much of this food looks familiar. I haven't been back to Germany since before I found out I was gluten intolerant. I think I would struggle now with the sheer amount of food that contains gluten, but the best thing I remember from my gluten days was a thing called Kirschplunderteilchen - a delicious pastry with cherries, custard and glace icing over it.
Hello, your videos are true, honest and not boring. Not like all those culture shock videos because of stuff that's just different and a little weird at times. Good to know at best but no dramatic culture shocks.🐸
@@irgendeinname9256how do most Germans like their coffee? Espresso, black, one cream one sugar or sweeter? In Canada, it is normal a lot of working folks who are sugar conscious just get black, but the way normal parents or labourers who need the sugar order a "double double" (for two sugars, two creams) made famous by the Tim Hortons' chain
Yes, totally! The sausages that were shown are usually used for barbecues - they can be fried in a pan but putting them on a grill is the more popular option.
What food will you find? Döner. If you want German food, you'll have to go to the supermarket and make it yourself... Or look for it, unless your in Bavaria perhaps.
Great video just want to add please if possible ask a German for a recommended bakery :) There’re so many so of course there are huge quality differences.
7:33 That's BS, the chips ain't from Haribo at all, she just thinks that, because the mascot looks like the Gold-Bear on the Gummybears, but you can clearly read it is from "funny-frisch", nowhere says it Haribo.
And for our former American friends: In Europe, especially in Germany, only ingredients that have been proven to be safe for human consumption are allowed in food. In your country, everything is allowed in your "food" until an uncoverable number of consumers have died or become seriously ill. So, feel free to feast here without any worries until your belt bursts. And good luck for the next four years, you'll need it.
Problem in Germany, is, that coffee is drunken often, but to find places which have good coffee is actually quite hard, things change though! The rest is pretty spot on, btw. re Döner, the grilled meat existed, but a turkish german immigrant invented the modern Döner in Berlin in the 1960s by putting the meat with salad into a grilled bread roll!
We have many types of cheese aswell. Sorry, but you are spreading big city stereotypes of ONE region in Germany. Tea for example is a big thing in northern Germany. The Frisian Tea Culture is famous.
It’s hard to believe in a country like Germany with such culturally diverse cuisine Options they still have big face food chains. Personally after experiencing the amazing tasting food, I would never go to a mcds or similar when in this part of the world
Depends how long you're there and also your budget. McDonalds is comfort food for some and depending on where you come from, if you've been there for a couple of weeks you might just crave "stupid food". I lived in Japan for a year and I love Ramen, Sushi, Bento and all that. But every couple of months I really needed the trash food. There was an all you can eat pizza place in Kyoto that must have hated me, whenever I was there. Pizza wasn't even good but I NEEDED it. And also sometimes prices is just an important consideration. McDonalds and Burger King have some very cheap items on the menu. I mostly cooked my own food because that was the cheapest option but if I could have afforded it I would have loved to eat out every evening. We have a million decent burger restaurants in Germany but a lot of them are pricey (relatively speaking, for germans at least). E.g. a lot of burger joints will price their burgers around 10€ and if you're hungry you'll want fries or some variation on that. If you do a "full meal" with a drink and maybe some shared extra and including tipping, you'll easily be short 20€ per person afterwards. That really isn't something you'll do everyday for lunch and dinner. As a tourist if you're going for lunch deals during work days, where you skip the drinks, you can get away with 10€-ish most places. And another factor is simply where you're actually be in Germany. Berlin and most other bigger cities just has so many options but even in Ruhrgebiet with it's many cities and high population you'll quickly run out of "things to try" unless you fancy hopping on a train to get to another city everytime you're hungry and you don't feel like cooking. Like... reality just is different. Sure, when you're a tourist and you're only in Germany for like a week, don't go to McDonalds etc. Get a Döner, eat Vietnamese food, eat whatever local specialities, try out some arab cuisine etc.
Some statements and assumptions here were not quite right. But for me this makes it a quite authentic insight in your view. And I really love the dry humor.
The Elsas is an interesting region. It started italian, switched to German, then to French, switched Back to Germany, just to switch Back to France after the First World War. Then it switched to Germany again, only to switch back to France, where it is today. The Mettbrötchen is a bit of clichée, but from a bakery it tastes pretty nice. There is a special cake, the Grillasch Cake, but there are not many bakerys that sell it. It is a cake, that is not baked but frozen. Something not from a bakery is Himmel und Ääd, so mashed potatos and mashed apples with a fried sausage made out of blood. It sounds horrible but tastes quite nice (not the sausage part, but there are a lot of people, who like it)
Alsace was german back in the day. And Austria as well, if we say the holy roman empire, which wasn't a nation but german was the main language in all of its regions, was to be "germany" back then. Germany as a nation didn't exist throughout most of history :D
When I'm older, I will devour a savory, buttery, soft pretzel from one of these places. I also will enjoy their pastries, AND a sachertorte which I think is Austrian or something but either way it's a childhood favorite of mine.
German Fastfood is the little trailer at the next corner who went Currywurst, Bratwurst, Pommes or who went Döner or Pizza Slice and no Mcdonalds or Burger King
Alsace and Lorraine are also known as Elsaß und Lothringen. The Region was german for centuries until the napoleonic wars, then recaptured in the Franco-German War of 1871 and then permanently given over to France as Reparation in the Treaty of Versailles. So yeah... saying that the Region is the most german region of france is a bit of an understatement.
Back in England now, I really miss the poppy seed strudel cake, which is a real pain to make at home (grinding poppy seeds is not fun), but was really cheap in Berlin. In the UK it's very hard to get and bloody expensive if you can find it.
Even after 30+ years living in the US I miss the food from Germany . I was able to find a lot of German products in NJ and PA but since I moved to Michigan I can hardly find any products from home . Brot und Brötchen is what I miss the most and Pretzels over here aren’t even close to a good German Laugenbrezel.
dont forget the legendary leberkaesebroetchen which is a sign of the friendship between germany and austria :) Its in general kinda hard to say whats really german and whats not i would consider the whole DACH region as germanish culture. the same i would say for parts of france , poland , czech , alpen region and also netherlands , belgium and danish. its a thing about history and goverments but overall there isnt ONE german culture. its more likely 1000s of kingdoms combined into countrys xD anyways thank you so much for promoting my roots ! I aint live anymore in germany but still i do miss the cuisine sometimes :D Especially authentic german kebab
there is also Fleischkäse, which is really popular in south-west germany, tastes similar, really good one. Currywurst and Döner is really different in any place u can visit.
"Leberkäse" or "Fleischkäse" are two words for the same thing. But please, "Brötchen" is a word used only from people who aren't native to the south. It's called Leberkäs-WEGGA or simply LKW
One specialty most tourists leave unnoticed is Leberkäsebrötchen, also known as LKW. It is basically a German original hamburger, but it was invented several 100 years ago. The patty is made out of a kind of sausage meat and the bun is a very soft Milchbrötchen. While a hamburger thrives from it´s various toppings, the LWK gets its flavour from rhe gooeyness of the sausage patty and the sweet softness of the roll and a little bit of ketchup or mustard on top. Not all LWKs are created equal, but if you are in Southern Germany and ask your host where to find the best LKW in town (they are usually sold in some bakeries and butcheries), I am sure he will give you a recommendation..
Bavarian here - who eats Pudding Brezl? Thats gross... as us Mayonnaise with Bratwurst... Absolutely not german Krapfen or as you said Berliner Donuts are not regional, but depending in time of the year
Puddingbrezeln sind weder eklig noch "nicht deutsch", sie sind ein Plundergebäck und in ganz Norddeutschland absoluter Standard, gehört zur Mindest- Ausstattung jeder Bäckerei. Das ist natürlich kein Laugengebäck, sondern süßer Blätterteig.
Just for you to know if you live in germany ans youre an american , you have always the possibility to visit one of the military outpost of america in germany. They normally have american stored goods to buy for natives, as example as one of them is rammstein the biggest one, there are many american stores where you would easily get your american pb
Pindakas, its a very nice Not overly sweet Peanut Butter you get in the Afro-Asian Stores from the netherlands. These Shops also have great exotic vegetables 😁
I love Franzbrötchen. Tho if not in North Germany u can get them in Kaufland wich is not the most Authentic but it helps the craving since i lived there for 2 years (bad Ppl i had to deal with but franzbrötchen were bomb!)😊
German bread is definitely the best. But as as a swede now living in Germany I like the swedish supermarkets more. More to choose from. More variety from different parts of the world and also much cheaper vegetarian food. I also like the swedish pastries and cookies, tarts and so on more than the german onces. But bread and also meat and veggies are top class in germany.
U want to know the most popular item?
It's called "das da"
So basically we don't know the name of every item at every baker, because they all have their own names and not always signs, so we just point and say "that one"
HAHAHAHAH stimmt
Just putting it out here that your channel is basically an advertizement for Germany lol, probably the best "Life-in-Germany" channel there is from an expat's perspective, you deserve more subs and likes
It’s more of a normal German channel and not those typical German channels were they only cover the things from a POV of a tourist.
to be honest she just covers the convenience food in this video, it barely covers the choices you have ... as a german this video is really disappointing
As a german i have to say that this is probably the best breakdown of german food i have seen
Noi dui hennd Flädlesupp vergessa ond moinad Mauldascha senn "slavic dumplings"...des godd edda!
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what might be important to know, is that throught the last 10 years in Germany we have had a lot more industrial bakeries, that offer bread slightly cheaper than traditional bakeries, but often times at a lower quality. So try to find bakeries that are unique and not on every corner, to find the good stuff. The same goes for supermarket bread of course.
Croissants are from Austria, not France :-) The general term for that kind of pasty in France is even "Viennoiserie." Sorry for being pedantic - I just think it's interesting and it's a misconception I had for a long time myself.
French croissant and austrian croissant are not the same 😅
Kroissanten😅😅😅
So was Marie-Antoinette. She liked cake, not croissants, or at least wanted her friends to eat them.
here in paraguay we also have the schnitzel, or at least something extremely close to it! i love them especially when it has chicken meat
I had the best pretzel with cream cheese but I wasn't sure whether it was in Austria or Rosenheim or Munich or Stuttgart or even Zurich. I was there for only 1 day in each city so I don't remember which shop it was but it was delicious I still remember it to this day.
Just wanting to leave a bit of knowledge here since I found your channel today and find your videos very entertaining. The item you are showing at min 7:34 are actually not Haribo chips. Haribo has nothing to do with the so called Pom Bären as they were invented from a completely different company. Might be a bit nit picky from me but I just wanted to mention it. Anyway great video.
Flammkuchen is common in Baden and Pfalz too. This are the areas close to Alsace. So the same with Schlachtplatte. Alsace and Saarland often changed the owner in the past. Sometime they belong to France and some time to Germany
Fun video, some food items are new to me. The spaghetti ice sounds interesting. I have seen the cornflake chocolate bar in Chicago, but I have not tasted it.
It is funny that the food stuffs you name are clearly region dependent. Because in Hamburg there is no bakery without Franzbrötchen, Fischbrötchen and Matjes have to be named and tea is alot more important, but you qould be hard pressed to find a good Leberkäse
Ans no Mettbrötchen in Bavaria
@@sandraankenbrandalso not in the länd
I've been watching your content now for a few weeks and can't tell you how much I am enjoying your videos. You bring up a lot of topics that are not always noticed. Thank you for all of the work that you are doing and putting into these. Wishing you wonderful journeys.
Flammkuchen can Taste in France and the Near of the Borderline in Baden and Rheinland-Pfalz or Saarland. Maultaschen comes from South West Germany named Württemberg
Loved that video, I see the effort that had to went into that, all those different cuts!
I lived in Germany for three years and I absolutely loved the food. The street food was incredible as were the restaurants. That was over thirty years ago and I still miss it.
hope you come again. :)
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Did you order Fritten?
I've spent 12 years in Germany. This country definitely has the best bakeries AND supermarkets I've ever seen. 👌👌👌 The Germans have no idea how lucky they are.
The German bakeries do look very good but Switzerland and France have the Germans beaten there.
@@Superbustr Yeah.... I'm not sure about that. I've been to too many German bakeries to believe these bakeries could be rivalled by other countries...
Yes. We are. But if you on a Trip to Skandinavien. Look in danish bakeries and their supermarktets. 110%.👍🇩🇪🇩🇰
What about Austria?
@@Superbustrno.
Flammkuchen is a specialty from Elsass, Lothringen, Saarland, Pfalz und Baden. So its not french nor german its both
1:15
_"And can easily disappoint you if you get the wrong one."_
I know, right? I don't know why they even _make_ the ones with chocolate! The raisin ones are clearly superior in every way at all times!
Mmhh, juicy~
Erika: "Tea is not that popular."
East Frisians: "Hold my tea!"
Tee ostfriesische Art: Schwarzer Assam mit 1 Stück 'Kluntje' und einem Schuß Milch, und wichtig dann, bloß nicht umrühren 😋🫖!!
in west frisia (netherlands)
they drink tea from a saucer, so it cools off quicker and they can get back to work :D
it's a more widespread working-class thing across europe, but here in the netherlands, it's pretty specific to frisia/fryslan
Maultaschen in no way are Slavic. They are Swabian. Southwest Germany. Baden-Wurttemberg is the state and Maultaschen is its' national dish.
Same regional origin as the slavic ones, though. Since, you know, medieval times had little seperation between peoples.
She didn’t say that Maultaschen were of Slavic descent. She said if some of the viewers were of Slavic descent, they would like Maultaschen.
@@Suedetussyshe said that they’re slavic directly after saying what you stated in your comment
Lies again? Grab Food USD SGD
@@NazriB ?
Love to try some of these German foods as i travelled back and forth to there as my dad was stationed over there and i was born in Berlin and my brother in Hannover 😊😊😊
Very good video, I love how accurate it is and how it covers a wide variety of food.
Just one thing: when you showed the Erdnussbutter that had bad texture, on the package it said Erdnussmus - and that might be the clue as to why. Mus is very different from butter and has a more porridgey, purée kind of texture. It's not designed to be spread.
Erdnuss- oder Mandelmus ist etwas völlig anderes als Erdnussbutter 🥜!
A video that says "tea isnt popular in germany" is automatically disqualified from being deemed accurate.
Kebab is the same as gyros in USA. Gyro mean spin or turn like the meat does on the spit.
You showed a lot of stuff :) Glad you like it in germany.
Amazing Video !
Love Germany From Tunisia 🇹🇳❤️🇩🇪
I love your videos. Seeing Trier has made me so homesick but I am happy to see it in your videos. Thank you!!! I miss it dearly and have not been home in a very long time. I have enjoyed seeing the market place and how much it has changed. Your christmas market video also brought back alot of memories and I am able to show my child. Thank you again and look forward to more. 💜
I share your feelings. I miss my German Home and culture too! Greetings from Canada 🇨🇦
Well done overview!
Where the "Flammkuchen" originate from, depends in which timeframe you place it 😅😅😅
In fact it is a speciallity of the regions in the Alsace/Elsaß and the Saarland and since the German - France treaty regulates that those RECEPIES, in the SENSE OF CULTURE, are both also FRENCH and GERMANIC the food from these areas has therefore no clear provenience in the meaning of Nationality
A most delightful video. Thank you!
Oh my god i once ate the ritter sport chocolate that someone got me from germany. I took a picture of the name so i could buy it again but lost the pic when i switched phones. Now i find them in this video!! THANK YOU ERIKA. It has been 3 years since ive been searching for that chocolate
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excellent video here
Grüße nach Trier ✌️🙂
Currywurst…….. love it!
I’m back in September and can’t wait for it again!!!!
Just came across this, and had to say, nice video!
About the thing that looks like parmesan cheese on the spaghetti Icecream: It's rasped white chocolate usually.
In regards to the peanut butter: you'd be best of getting calvé pindakaas from the Netherlands. Up until now I have not found good peanut butter anywhere else in the world.
7:18 when u searching the Namehistory of Dickmann´s u will see and understand why they have to change their name to this. Dickman´s are perfekt an Delicious in a Bun.
My husband is German (from Cologne) and so much of this food looks familiar. I haven't been back to Germany since before I found out I was gluten intolerant. I think I would struggle now with the sheer amount of food that contains gluten, but the best thing I remember from my gluten days was a thing called Kirschplunderteilchen - a delicious pastry with cherries, custard and glace icing over it.
Hello, your videos are true, honest and not boring. Not like all those culture shock videos because of stuff that's just different and a little weird at times. Good to know at best but no dramatic culture shocks.🐸
We have pick up and toffifi in the UK too and they're some of my favourite sweet snacks- they're pretty great!
Those pastries are often eaten with Coffee, in my region we call them "kaffeestückchen" a word by word translation would be Coffee pieces or bits ^^
Yea besides our well known alcohol problem we are also addicted to caffeine
@@irgendeinname9256how do most Germans like their coffee? Espresso, black, one cream one sugar or sweeter?
In Canada, it is normal a lot of working folks who are sugar conscious just get black, but the way normal parents or labourers who need the sugar order a "double double" (for two sugars, two creams) made famous by the Tim Hortons' chain
@@p_eople6789 it's very individual, I personally prefer it with some milk and no sugar
From German bakeries, I like mett with minced onions on bread. At traditional German restaurants, I like rouladen, spatzle, and red cabbage.
Recognised Trier just from the first street sign..😮😊
Amazing content, thank you!
The sausages on the Barbeque would be perfect!
Do Germans regularly barbeque?
Yes, totally! The sausages that were shown are usually used for barbecues - they can be fried in a pan but putting them on a grill is the more popular option.
Maultaschen und Schwartzwälder kirschtorte !!!!! My family is from Black forest, i just love that food ! (and Apfel zahn hering)
What food will you find? Döner. If you want German food, you'll have to go to the supermarket and make it yourself... Or look for it, unless your in Bavaria perhaps.
Yay for the restaurant in the end. I really enjoy this video. Ich liebe dich 👍🏻 I sub to you.
Great video just want to add please if possible ask a German for a recommended bakery :) There’re so many so of course there are huge quality differences.
7:33 That's BS, the chips ain't from Haribo at all, she just thinks that, because the mascot looks like the Gold-Bear on the Gummybears, but you can clearly read it is from "funny-frisch", nowhere says it Haribo.
And for our former American friends: In Europe, especially in Germany, only ingredients that have been proven to be safe for human consumption are allowed in food. In your country, everything is allowed in your "food" until an uncoverable number of consumers have died or become seriously ill. So, feel free to feast here without any worries until your belt bursts. And good luck for the next four years, you'll need it.
'former friends'
yeah this is getting increasingly more true
Problem in Germany, is, that coffee is drunken often, but to find places which have good coffee is actually quite hard, things change though! The rest is pretty spot on, btw. re Döner, the grilled meat existed, but a turkish german immigrant invented the modern Döner in Berlin in the 1960s by putting the meat with salad into a grilled bread roll!
We have many types of cheese aswell.
Sorry, but you are spreading big city stereotypes of ONE region in Germany. Tea for example is a big thing in northern Germany. The Frisian Tea Culture is famous.
Very good video
It’s hard to believe in a country like Germany with such culturally diverse cuisine Options they still have big face food chains. Personally after experiencing the amazing tasting food, I would never go to a mcds or similar when in this part of the world
Depends how long you're there and also your budget. McDonalds is comfort food for some and depending on where you come from, if you've been there for a couple of weeks you might just crave "stupid food".
I lived in Japan for a year and I love Ramen, Sushi, Bento and all that. But every couple of months I really needed the trash food. There was an all you can eat pizza place in Kyoto that must have hated me, whenever I was there. Pizza wasn't even good but I NEEDED it. And also sometimes prices is just an important consideration. McDonalds and Burger King have some very cheap items on the menu. I mostly cooked my own food because that was the cheapest option but if I could have afforded it I would have loved to eat out every evening.
We have a million decent burger restaurants in Germany but a lot of them are pricey (relatively speaking, for germans at least). E.g. a lot of burger joints will price their burgers around 10€ and if you're hungry you'll want fries or some variation on that. If you do a "full meal" with a drink and maybe some shared extra and including tipping, you'll easily be short 20€ per person afterwards. That really isn't something you'll do everyday for lunch and dinner.
As a tourist if you're going for lunch deals during work days, where you skip the drinks, you can get away with 10€-ish most places.
And another factor is simply where you're actually be in Germany. Berlin and most other bigger cities just has so many options but even in Ruhrgebiet with it's many cities and high population you'll quickly run out of "things to try" unless you fancy hopping on a train to get to another city everytime you're hungry and you don't feel like cooking.
Like... reality just is different. Sure, when you're a tourist and you're only in Germany for like a week, don't go to McDonalds etc. Get a Döner, eat Vietnamese food, eat whatever local specialities, try out some arab cuisine etc.
@paulszki no offense but that is kind of how addiction works, if you eat less and less fast food you will stop craving it
i still enjoy a mcdonalds milkshake from time to time
only thing i visit it for really :D
Nice!!! Very helpful
i fell in love with the food was stationed in Germany in the 70s
Iv e got to try the sausage bratwurzt and fries.....like so severenty!!!🇺🇸🇺🇸🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇩🇪🇩🇪🇬🇧🇬🇧
Some statements and assumptions here were not quite right. But for me this makes it a quite authentic insight in your view. And I really love the dry humor.
Great video❤
The Elsas is an interesting region. It started italian, switched to German, then to French, switched Back to Germany, just to switch Back to France after the First World War. Then it switched to Germany again, only to switch back to France, where it is today.
The Mettbrötchen is a bit of clichée, but from a bakery it tastes pretty nice. There is a special cake, the Grillasch Cake, but there are not many bakerys that sell it. It is a cake, that is not baked but frozen.
Something not from a bakery is Himmel und Ääd, so mashed potatos and mashed apples with a fried sausage made out of blood. It sounds horrible but tastes quite nice (not the sausage part, but there are a lot of people, who like it)
So fun to see it from an expats perspective, keep up the fun work!
Great videos Erika, you have a talent🎉
Have you come across Bavarian mustard or cheese for the pretzels?!
actually Flammkuchen is a german & french speciality
Alsace was german back in the day. And Austria as well, if we say the holy roman empire, which wasn't a nation but german was the main language in all of its regions, was to be "germany" back then. Germany as a nation didn't exist throughout most of history :D
When I'm older, I will devour a savory, buttery, soft pretzel from one of these places. I also will enjoy their pastries, AND a sachertorte which I think is Austrian or something but either way it's a childhood favorite of mine.
The sürinkles on the spaghetti ice is white chocolate
I so need to go to Germany again after watching your video, the imbiss was my go to when there
German Fastfood is the little trailer at the next corner who went Currywurst, Bratwurst, Pommes or who went Döner or Pizza Slice and no Mcdonalds or Burger King
Alsace and Lorraine are also known as Elsaß und Lothringen.
The Region was german for centuries until the napoleonic wars, then recaptured in the Franco-German War of 1871 and then permanently given over to France as Reparation in the Treaty of Versailles.
So yeah... saying that the Region is the most german region of france is a bit of an understatement.
the best peanutbutter in germany you find in asian/african stores its called "PCD ERDNUSSBUTTER 500G" with big PANDA KAAS on it :)
Bakeries in germany looks so delicious you can only find that bread in a 5 star restaurant here in philippines. Basic bakeries here are not that good.
I love bread 🥖 too, especially Croissant 🥐 and pizza 🍕.
Didnt know such thing as puddingbrezel existed 😳🤯🤤
aaaaaw and the Japanese ritter sport 😍 sooooo cuuuuute!!! 🌸
the puddingbrezel is the best 😋
It's part of the pastry group "Plunderteilchen". Sweet flaky pastry with custard in the center, optional with fruits and frosting on top.
@@helloerika IT LOOKS AMAZING
Back in England now, I really miss the poppy seed strudel cake, which is a real pain to make at home (grinding poppy seeds is not fun), but was really cheap in Berlin. In the UK it's very hard to get and bloody expensive if you can find it.
Ok I never made poppy seed cake on my own, but I did look it up. None of the recipes contained crushing the seeds, what exactly do u mean by that?.😮❤
@@lisal.1114there are recipes which acquire crushed (better grinded/squeezed) poppy seeds for example poppy seed strudel.
funny and correct video 😍😂
Even after 30+ years living in the US I miss the food from Germany . I was able to find a lot of German products in NJ and PA but since I moved to Michigan I can hardly find any products from home . Brot und Brötchen is what I miss the most and Pretzels over here aren’t even close to a good German Laugenbrezel.
Hello Erika, ich komme aus Bayern, Was solls das Essen wir halt ;-) Schöne Zeit bei uns
My favorite German dish is doner kebab and my favorite English dish is chicken tikka masala
7:16 Well we once had a different name for it...But I rather not mention it here :D
mmmmm all are mouth watering and look yummy
You will find bread in every city (worldwide, I know😂). But: here, also Austria and Swiss, you find bread made of rye. And that's a huge difference.
dont forget the legendary leberkaesebroetchen which is a sign of the friendship between germany and austria :)
Its in general kinda hard to say whats really german and whats not i would consider the whole DACH region as germanish culture. the same i would say for parts of france , poland , czech , alpen region and also netherlands , belgium and danish. its a thing about history and goverments but overall there isnt ONE german culture. its more likely 1000s of kingdoms combined into countrys xD
anyways thank you so much for promoting my roots ! I aint live anymore in germany but still i do miss the cuisine sometimes :D Especially authentic german kebab
there is also Fleischkäse, which is really popular in south-west germany, tastes similar, really good one. Currywurst and Döner is really different in any place u can visit.
"Leberkäse" or "Fleischkäse" are two words for the same thing. But please, "Brötchen" is a word used only from people who aren't native to the south. It's called Leberkäs-WEGGA or simply LKW
@@sickheadsumaddy5231 wollte gerade schreiben : LKW 🤣
@@larifari7876 Sehr gut!👍
@@sickheadsumaddy5231 falsch, sind nicht das gleiche, sehr ähnlich, aber nicht gleich.
One specialty most tourists leave unnoticed is Leberkäsebrötchen, also known as LKW. It is basically a German original hamburger, but it was invented several 100 years ago. The patty is made out of a kind of sausage meat and the bun is a very soft Milchbrötchen. While a hamburger thrives from it´s various toppings, the LWK gets its flavour from rhe gooeyness of the sausage patty and the sweet softness of the roll and a little bit of ketchup or mustard on top. Not all LWKs are created equal, but if you are in Southern Germany and ask your host where to find the best LKW in town (they are usually sold in some bakeries and butcheries), I am sure he will give you a recommendation..
Who the heck puts Leberkäs on a Michlbrötchen??? That's grounds for excommunication! *lol* Here in Bavaria, we use regular Semmeln.
@@veladarney also who puts ketchup and Mustard? You put Süßersenf and gib him
Hamburger is actually a german invention lol
LEBERKÄS-WEGGA!
@@theWebViking ketchup senf hat schon was, in salzburg jeden abend an der tanke
I finally get the JFK Jelly donut joke now.
Im moving to Deutschland next year . Im ecxiiiited to have their food
dumplings exist all around the world, it doesn't really make Maultaschen slavic in any way ^^;
7:18 - the name of that product used to be so much worse back in the days :D
Thank you! Great video to bad that you cut the edition to quick and short😢🎉🎉🎉
the crosant is from vienna ;)
croissant is french
@@hanswurst2220 nope, it has become french by association
@@hupfgugell1522nope it's from France, austrian croissant are different
Bavarian here - who eats Pudding Brezl? Thats gross... as us Mayonnaise with Bratwurst...
Absolutely not german
Krapfen or as you said Berliner Donuts are not regional, but depending in time of the year
Puddingbrezeln sind weder eklig noch "nicht deutsch", sie sind ein Plundergebäck und in ganz Norddeutschland absoluter Standard, gehört zur Mindest- Ausstattung jeder Bäckerei. Das ist natürlich kein Laugengebäck, sondern süßer Blätterteig.
@@LettersFromAFriend okay, hat aber dann mit den traditionellen bayerischen Brezn nichts zu tun... lustig, was es alles gibt
10:01 - This Black Forest cake itself would probably worth the trip.
Just for you to know if you live in germany ans youre an american , you have always the possibility to visit one of the military outpost of america in germany. They normally have american stored goods to buy for natives, as example as one of them is rammstein the biggest one, there are many american stores where you would easily get your american pb
Ok, I just subscribed. I get a feeling that you really like Peanut Butter 🤣😁
5:35 Kiba is the best thing you can drink, I swear to god!!
Also me -a german- watching this as if I’m a tourist 😂
Pindakas, its a very nice Not overly sweet Peanut Butter you get in the Afro-Asian Stores from the netherlands. These Shops also have great exotic vegetables 😁
Uh, speaking of croissants - you should try "Franzbrötchen" which are very common in north west germany (especially Hamburg).
I love Franzbrötchen.
Tho if not in North Germany u can get them in Kaufland wich is not the most Authentic but it helps the craving since i lived there for 2 years (bad Ppl i had to deal with but franzbrötchen were bomb!)😊
In Germany sausages and potatoes are a staple like a burger and fries is in the US
German bread is definitely the best. But as as a swede now living in Germany I like the swedish supermarkets more. More to choose from. More variety from different parts of the world and also much cheaper vegetarian food. I also like the swedish pastries and cookies, tarts and so on more than the german onces. But bread and also meat and veggies are top class in germany.
like your white, sleeveless shirt, as it looks like french style to me
7:16 years ago those were called N...kisses
Good vedio