😂😂🤭 Google sagt, es sind sogar über 1.520 Sorten Würstchen! Na da hat Dwayne ja eine ganze Menge zu tun wenn er JEDE probieren wil😨 Außerdem verlängert sich sein Urlaub bei uns in Deutschland dann mindestens um ein paar Wochen, inklusive dem ein oder anderen Kilo mehr auf den Rippen 😂😂 Armer Dwayne, niemand wird ihn mehr erkennen wenn er wieder nach Hause kommt🤭 Hihi😉
Yorkshireman now living in Thüringen Wald (forest) Germany for 7 years and can't believe i used to travel each year for the German christmas markets! Now just 10mins away! 🌭🍷😜👍
Glad you chose Thuringia as your new home! I was born and grew up there, now living in Bavaria with my fiancé and our daughter. But we visit my family in Thuringia quite frequently.
The fried potatoe pancakes or Kartoffelpuffer are served with apple puree on Christmas Markets or any other festivities all the year round as a snack. But in the area in the Southwest where I come from it's also a common dish combined with a soup of beans and potatoes. And I love it 😍
another traditional Christmas market snack is hot roasted sweet chestnuts. You used to only get them in the wintertime in France, Austria, Switzerland and southern Germany, but they have made their way north to Northen Germany by now. You can also buy sweet chestnutspre-cooked and already shelled and vaccuum-packaged in supermarklets; they are a delicious side-dish to dark meat like i.e. venison (deer), wild boar, rabbit, with earthy mushrooms and brown sauce.
In my hometown the christmasmarket is 51 years this year. It is in the citycentre around the City Hall. I love the rosted chesnuts there. The fried potato pancakes are called „Kartoffelpuffer“; „Reibekuchen“ or „Kartoffelplinsen“ I love them with mushed Apples.
Hey Dwayne 😀👋 If you really want to come to Germany next summer and travel the country a bit: start in the north and then work your way south... Most people usually only look at the south (the Alps in Bavaria and the Black Forest) - but always forget the equally beautiful north of the country! And no, the north is NOT just Hamburg, hihihi... 😂😂😂 In case you're interested: I made a series of 5 videos about the north of Germany for fun, where a slightly different picture of Germany is drawn. Here is the link to part 1, Lower Saxony: ruclips.net/video/iPhQCT5r94g/видео.htmlsi=oxLgrsEuH_NdSfdA (Unfortunately 2 or 3 pictures are blurred when uploading, I have no idea why... So if anyone watches it: please don't "tear me apart" in the comments - this was the very first video I made myself... 😆) I think you and your videos are really cool and very entertaining - keep it up! 😀 Greetings from beautiful northern Germany
I love you, Dwayne. You're my favourite Brit, right after the Royals. Enjoy your stay in Vietnam and keep up this wonderful Christmas spirit. You would be a great funky Santa!
German Woman Here, 58 years old... I live in a small village with about 3000 inhabitants. At Christmas time I usually visit about 10 Christmas markets: the biggest one is 15 minutes away by car in the second largest city in Lower Saxony and is located in the middle of the historic castle square with the cathedral and the adjacent streets. This market lasts about 4 weeks... Then there are the many, many small Christmas markets, also known as Advent markets, which can be found in almost every small village and only take place on a single weekend during the Advent season. In my local area alone, there are at least 10 of them every year. The nice thing about these smaller markets is that you ALWAYS meet people you know and can have a chat with them. Even if you're out and about on your own, you're never really alone... 😀 These small markets usually take place in the immediate vicinity of the community centers - where there are also small concerts, children's performances and the like. This is an additional attraction for me, as such events increase the pre-Christmas atmosphere many times over. And I never go home without something homemade by the local people... (Yes, my cupboards are overflowing... 😂😂😂)
Dwayne, dear neighbor, here in todays Germany, we have many influences from history. How often we were invaded or other peoples came through and left their heritage and culture with us. The Romans brought us beer (cerveza) and wine, they also brought us foods from their empire like lentils, peas, cucumber, yoghurt and so on. When you travel through our home-country you also will discover the foods of our neighbors. History blessed us with many different things tasty and practical. Sadly, most people only remember the 1930s and the world wars. But we have a rich history before that, going back even before the Roman empire. Friend, I wish you and your family a peaceful Christmas and a blessing from up there. Sincerely your German Neighbor Elmar.
The Romans brought wine and wine grapes with them when they conquered the southern German lands and found that grapes grew in the warm microclimate of the Rhine valley. But the Romans did not teach the Ancient Germans (Teutons) how to brew beer, as Roman influence was less in Germania than in Alba/Britain. Every culture that grows wheat and hops and used yeast for bread baking figured out beer brewing, from the Ancient Egyptians to the Celts to the Germans. In northern Europe and Scandinavia, people also brewed mead from honey and spiced it with herbs.
The first Christmas markets in German-speaking countries were mentioned more than 600 years ago. The Bautzen Wenzelsmarkt is said to have taken place as early as 1384. The Dresden Striezelmarkt was mentioned in a document in 1434. The Nuremberg Christkindlesmarkt and the Augsburg Lebzeltermarkt have been around for a similar length of time.
Raclette is a Swiss tradition like Fondue. Both have become beloved Christmas meals in Germany, when the family sits around the fondue pot or the Raclette grill and prepares individual food while eating for a long time…
_Germknödel:_ a spherical sweet yeast dumpling filled with plum jam. Traditionally the _Germknödel_ is served warm and covered in vanilla custard and poppy seeds. In general, "Knödel" means a dumpling. Germany also has _Kartoffelknödel_ (savory potato dumplings) and _Semmelknödel_ (bread dumplings), both served with meat and gravy.
3:30 is potato salad prepared in a weird shape to make it look special. Potato salad with wieners was a typical GDR Christmas meal that prevails until today.
@@MrTuxracer Sieht aus wie ein Kartoffelsalat mit Mayo, der halt etwas dickflüssiger angerührt wurde. Warum sollte ein Gratin abgebildet sein, wenn es um traditionelles Weihnachtsessen geht? Würstchen und Kartoffelsalat ist das traditonelle Essen an Heiligabend.
About the thing with the church: Markets were and still are usually held in the marketplace, which is typically in the center of the town-and there’s usually a church nearby as well. Or, to put it differently: Try finding a German or European old town where there isn’t a church within walking distance.
I live in the south of Germany and we do have here an old Christmas Market inside of an old granit rock quarry! < hard to describe it, but ... < extremly nice! It's rather small, but extremly cozy! :)
Kartoffelpuffer = Potato pancakes ( although they have other regional names. ): Waxy potatoes Onion Two eggs Flour Salt Neutral plant oil for frying Deskin potatoes and fine grate them in little striped chunks. Then dry out the liquid from the mass of potatoes with a cheesecloth or kitchen paper towel. Cut the onion into cubes and mix it with the potatomass, eggs, flour and salt. From the mass you form small paddys ( sry, ireland. ) and shallow fry them in the oil. My favourite way is consumed with applesauce. Wish you good luck on your first batch and Guten Hunger ( Good Hunger. ), Mate. For your community, I hope you make a video of you preparing them. ;)
Dwayne, lentils are like peas, but smaller seeds. Cooked with herbs potatoes, little bits of smoked ham and a side of Wieners (we call them Frankfurters) warms you up in cold times, especially with Swabian noodles (Spätzle). It is hearty, nourishing and like stews are everywhere, easy to eat with a big spoon. Neighborly greetings. Elmar from Germany
@@josefineseyfarth6236 Raclette is one - but by far not the only - kind of (cheese) fondue. There are several other kinds of fondue, e.g. chocolate fondues, oil fondues (like Japanese shabu shabu).
In summer you will love the "beer gardens" - there you can also get traditional German cuisine (hot and cold) and various types of beer - Hefeweizen or, in the Frankfurt area, "Apfelwein" - a type of apple cider - best mixed with sparkling water and the "Handkäs mit Music" - which means: a strong-smelling cheese with vinegar/oil and caraway and lots of onions (for the music ;-) ) ... in any case, there is a lot for you to discover in Germany - have fun!
I have never seen this thing next to the sausages. I have no clue if it is potato mash or salad or sth like that. Here in Saxony people eat lentil soup or sausages and potato salad on the 24th (a simple meal) and the next day potato dumplings, red cabbage and goose. The lentils are for the small money, the dumplings for the big money.
The thing shown in the video is not a potato pancake, it is Lángos, which is a Hungarian dish. It is a corn pancake basically. They were sold at every Christmas market I have been to.
Different sausages for different dishes. If I remember it right, we have about 300 different sausages. The fried potato pancakes you can get at nearly every supermarket in Germany all year around in the frozen food part of a store. Just throw them into a pan for a few minutes and they are ready to eat. They are rather easy to make yourself though. All you need are a few potatoes, eggs, onion (optional) a little flour, salt and oil. Short version, the potatoes are grated, mixed with the grated onion and the rest of the ingredients, given form and fried in a pan. Usually served with apple sauce.
The had mulled wine and mead called metheglyn, Lebkuchen, hot sausages, cheese noodles, marzipan, honey bread etc.. So, basically everything they have now plus ribbons, candles, bits and bobs.
You should come to Germany and try German food. Unfortunately since the lockdowns the markets became thinner and thinner. With much less assortment of food. Only grilled sausage, Pommes and some sweet food like Crepes.
Rudolf Kunzman from Augsburg produced the first commercial Glühwein (mulled wine) as we know it today in his small winery in 1956. But he didn't invent it. It was the Romans who first made spiced mulled wine, they called it Conditum Paradoxum and it was a mixture of red wine, honey , laurel, pepper, saffron and dates... ...and they drank it nice and cozy, that cold, nasty winter weather in Germania and on the British islands. I can well imagine that the locals copied this and that there was something similar later on at a medieval market in winter, especially since you don't necessarily need expensive imported wine from southern countries, cheap fruit wine made from blueberries or blackberries is also possible .
You might even take ale or beer (I have had Belgian Glühbier once - but it isn't one of my most precious christmas memories). Hot spiced mead also should go for a drink for Christmas.
Hello Dwayne - I actually cook many of the delicacies offered at the Christmas market at home (and better and cheaper). Whether it's potato pancakes with apple sauce, or sauerkraut with potato dumplings, baked mushrooms with bacon in a tasty sauce, steamed dumplings with sauerkraut or vanilla sauce. What I like to make in the oven are shashlik skewers (with chunks of chicken or pork, onions, bacon, pieces of pepper, pickled gherkins, all nicely seasoned), with a rustic brown sauce - slowly braised - with chips on the side... Yummy... My family grins and feasts...!
I don't know if someone mentioned - the time of Lent is the 40 days between Adhwednesday and easter Sunday. In former times the time of Advent was also a time of Lent but nowadays it is free. You could have a time of Lent but don't have to. Greetings from Germany
Actually, the pandemic was forecasted as the main risk to civil safety in GB. The spanish flu was a very good example of how to handle a pandemic. The solution they learned during that phase, was that shutdowns are the only way to get a grip on situations like those.
Germany has around 1,200 different types of sausages such as Frankfurters, Bratwurst, Munich Weisswurst and hundreds more. Germany's varieties of sausage far outnumber the many kinds of French cheese. Pretty much every butcher has their own secret recipes that are traded down through the generations. There are regional varieties, different techniques and woods for smoking, different combinations of spices and herbs. Some are made for cooking, some of frying, some for barbecuing, some are smoked to be eaten raw or cooked etc…. Easy….
Nobody calls potato pankakes "Latke" in Germany! It's either "Reibekuchen", "Kartoffelpuffer" (probably the most common word), "Reiberdatschi", "Plinse", "Bambes", "Kartoffelpfannkuchen" (literally potato pancake), "Erdäpfelplatzke" and maybe some other regional words I don't know. My father used to eat them with salt instead of sugar right off the pan, while baking them. Edit: There is a Jiddish/ Jewish dish called "latke" or "latka", which is similar to potato pancakes, but they're not really the same.
I love that you are only eating the food served in the country you are going to. I tried Pizza in Nepal once and regretted it instantly. Because that is not what they are good at. Curries, Momos, Rice, Soups…that’s what they are amazing at ❤
by 4:50 on the Video what u look at it is a "Germknödel" its sweet yes, the white Sauce what u see is Vanille Sauce and the black is "poppy" (sry i use google translator im German and my english is very bad) ... the "thing" under the sauce is a sweet "bun" filled with jam but it has a second variant of it without the filling in the "bun" we call this "Hefekloß" in english "yeast dumpling" ... at the beginning of the video idk which timestamp but before the menu with the duck ... this with the sausage ... what u would know what it is: it is potato salat but the cook has it arranged creativ .. in germany we eat sausage with potato salat or duck/goose with red cabbage and dumplings or in my family we ate in my childhood karpfen with beersauce ... i hated it ... if u would try german sausages here the favorites of our land i think: "Weißwurst" (Bayern and u need to look a video to know HOW to eat the because u dont eat they normal trust me^^ and u should eat a Brezel to this sausage :D ) then we have the "Nürnberger" its a spicy little sausage ... the standard is a "Bockwurst" u can eat they cold at work or something u dont need to cook them ... also the "Wiener Würstchen" u dont need to cook but i love them warmed up and its my favorite .... and then the "Bratwurst" u can do it in a pan or u grill it but on a barbecue its a lil better .... my absolutly highlight are Sausages with cheese in it but they very rare where i live sadly :3 hope u enjoy it
But yes, they had mulled wine back in the Middle-Ages! Not one sliver of doubt about that. In fact, many of the dishes served at our modern day Christmas Markets partly go back to much more ancient times. No potatoes, though, because they'd been brought in after discovering the Americas, and actually took some time to be a true food staple in Europe.
Well I even can name all sauseges...and every region has its on style...so you might need quite some time to taste them all. There are ad least 8 main kinds (Nürnberger, Wiener, Krakauer, grobe Bratwurst, Käseknacker, Brühwurst, Frankfurter, Schinkenbratwurst, Kohlwurst) and thats what I know right now.
germknödel is a fluffy dumpling with a plum reduction as filling and usualy served with vanilla sauce and poppy seeds on top, it is still used as a main course though mostly...also pretty sure its czech not german..
Hello and have a nice day, Dwayne - CORONA was an "asshole", pretty much the worst thing that could have happened to us in modern times. YES, nature struck back (and the INCOMPETENT politicians WORLDWIDE failed across the board!!) SO LET'S HOPE THAT IT DOESN'T HAPPEN TO US AGAIN. Because it would teach us - given the current global climate situation - a very serious, irreversible mess. I fear for my children and the descendants of this world...!!
It's funny :D over 90 % of all german bakeries can be made at home in the UK :D Don't wait! Just make it. Same for the fried potato pancakes. Millions of recepts online. Baking is no wonder, it's a miricle! Just do it!
Hey mate, I feel obliged to point out, that the germans seem to claim Raclette and Fondue to be traditional german streetfood. These dishes are swiss though, from Romandie, the french speaking part, to be precise. So, if you're interested in proper Raclette or Fondue, you have to visite Switzerland!
"Fried potato pancake" is a weird translation for "Kartoffelpuffer", but okay. But you don't eat Kartoffelpuffer with your hands! It's not like a slice of pizza! You eat them with fork and knife (because they are served hot and have been fried in oil). Ingredients: Firm potatoes (500g), onions, eggs (1 egg per 500g potatoes), a tablespoon of flour, salt, pepper, neutral-tasting vegetable oil for frying in a pan (i.e. rapeseed oil, but avoid olive oil). Peel the raw potatoes, then use a grater to grate the potatoes into thin strips. Chop onions into small cubes. Put grated raw potato and diced onions into a bowl, mix thoroughly with the raw eggs, a bit of flour to help everything stick together, salt, pepper. Knead with your hands. Mixture must be firm and moist but not too wet. (Note: Don't let the mixture stand around for too long or the grated potatoes will lose too much water.) Pre-heat the pan. Form the mixture into hand-sized flat patties, like a thick pancake (about two fingers thick). Fry in a pan from both sides in plenty of oil on high heat for a few minutes until the Kartoffelpuffer is nice and brown and slightly crispy on the outside but still moist on the inside. Decide for yourself how crispy you want it. Best served while hot, fresh from the pan. Kartoffelpuffer are traditionally served with cold applesauce, if eaten on their own. Or they are served alongside roast meat or roast salmon with savory sauce. Some people eat them with white horseradish sauce. (Left-over fried Kartoffelpuffer can be eaten cold, too.)
historically there a fasting period during advent in preparation for christmas. Nativity Fast it was initially a time of fasting, prayer, and reflection to prepare spiritually for the celebration of Christ's birth.
A fun fact about changing christmas traditions, it was not a christian tradition in the beginning. It was a try to move the presents from Saint Nickas, a rather low ranked saint from Istanbul, to a previous heathen holiday. So I think, it's just fair that 'christmas' is more religious agnostic again 😃
Nicholas was and is one of the most popular and celebrated saints (cp. Sinterklaas and Santa Claus). St. Nicholas‘ day was when German children would receive presents before the reformation. By that time, Christisns had been celebrating Christmas for over 1000 years. The reformation shifted the attention from a (human) saint to the birth of Jesus.
Regular (catholic) lent is between Carnival (Mardi Gras, Rose Monday, whatever you wanna call that), but if I remember properly more orthodox christians might lent/fast during advent before Christmas, too... I'm kinda positive that mulled wine actually is older than you might think 😅 If I remember properly spicing wine and maybe drinking it warm, too, goes back to the Middle ages as well - seems kinda logic, too, wine used to be bitterer and sourer tha it is today, so spices and honey (maybe?) would make it more palateable ❤
To get more in a christmas mood let‘s hear Sido : Weihnachtssong ( Christmas song ) ruclips.net/video/i-unBLOI7uM/видео.htmlsi=lbl6LzhSn15cIAeJ Enjoy 🎄
Do you have all the spices to make proper mulled wine? Ask a German friend to send you some from a Christmas market - they sell lovely mixes there. These spices and the right amount of sugar MAKE the drink. 🙂
Before Protestantism European countries were Catholic. So there were two lents. One before Christmas including the 24th Dec - our Christmas Eve - and the other one 6 weeks before Easter Sunday. That's why there were families that didn't eat meat on the 24th but fish like carp. Since the rules were less strict in Protestant families and even nowadays in Catholic ones it is common to have either a simple meal with sausages and have the more opulent one on the 25th or have a big meal on the 24th.
Let's be honest, the reason Christmas is set on December 24th/25th and features pagan elements like a big fir tree is that when early Christianity spread north from the Middle East, its preachers trying to proselytize the pagan Celts and Norsemen overwrote pagan midwinter fire festivals with Christian iconogaphy. Even before Coca Cola invented the American "Santa Claus", Northern Europe already had the folklore character of "Saint Niklaas/Nikolaus" (based on a medieval monk) bringing gifts (traditionally foodstuffs for children who had been good, and lumps of coal for children who had been bad) and putting them into stockings or (in Germany) into your cleaned winter boots that you leave outside the door on the night from December 5th to December 6th. Germany still has the tradition of "Nikolaustag" (Day of St. Nikolaus) as Dec 6th, which means German children get a small gift on December 6th morning, and then get Christmas presents on Christmas Eve (December 24th), traditionally thought to be brought by the "Christkind" (Christ child/little Jesus child)... until the "Weihnachtsmann" (Christmas-man) clad in robes and a long white beard and ringing a big brass bell (but without elves or reindeer) was also brought into the mixture. Due to the cultural influence of American movies featuring red-clad bearded Santa Claus riding a Scandinavian reindeer cart from roof to roof and having Hollywood "elves" as unpaid forced labour, things have become a bit confusing for German children. The "Christkind" bringing gifts is disappearing, and the "Weihnachtsmann" is fusing with "Santa Claus".
You have to notice that german food is not international but intertribal . Germany of today only exist for ,more or less 200 years ,Before it was a micture of Kingdoms and dutchies , part of the "holy roman empire ". Go further back ( much)and the country was home to more than 75 tribes. Mixed up during time with slavs ,celts ,huns , vikings ,avars,arabs, and some roman leftovers. All of them brought parts of their culture and o.c. their food .Not to mention the migrants from all over the world in modern times . So it is not a miracle there is such a variety of food.
It's arguably not bad at all that people stopped associating Christmas with Jesus. You should look at a history of Christmas. It was a "pagan" holiday that got coopted by the church and had most of the elements we still have today, like trees, gifts, family gatherings, feasting etc.
Well, with all due respect to her efforts, but there are a lot of things that aren't correct. In the past, Christmas markets were often supply markets, but fun was ALWAYS the focus. Everything that you find there today (sweets, alcohol, greasy food, toys, christmas oraments, pleasures, Christian and non-Christian trinkets) has always been there. The markets didn't take place in front of churches so that people could go to church, but because the church was usually in the middle of the city, in one of the market squares. It's the question who was first the egg or the hen. By the way, Santa Claus is Saint Nicholas, who today is shown in the outfit invented by Coca-Cola and no longer in his red and white bishop's regalia. Here in Germany, Christian tradition (which is inspired by the Roman Sol Invictus cult anyway) has always been mixed with Celtic-Germanic tradition. The Christmas tree or the Advent wreath, for example, come from this. Mulled wine or spiced mead have always been typical winter drinks. In the past, wine was rarely drunk unseasoned because it would have been far too sour and the beer would have been too bitter. People didn't drink water, soda hadn't been invented yet, alcohol was relatively safe because the alcohol killed germs, but in order not to get completely drunk, people heated it up. This kept them warm and also nourished them well. And the fact that you eat so many sausages and meat can also be explained logically. People used to slaughter in late fall and early winter. Then when it was cold enough to store meat for a longer time and they had the time. It also eliminated surplus livestock for which the harvested fodder was insufficient.
Because the Bible mentioned nowhere that the 24/25 of December was the birthday of Jesus. And because the celebration of the Wintersolstice in an much older pagan holday tradition than the fake Birthday of Jesus.
Nor did Christians ever claim that Jesus was actually born on this specific date. The very first Christians assembled regularly at dawn to worship, and the winter solstice is the „bigger“ version of that. Christmas celebrates the fact that Jesus was born, the date was chosen for its symbolism. There is nothing fake about it.
@@LettersFromAFriend Maybe it isn't ur claim, but of thousands of other christians. Yes it is about the symbolism, if you don't believe his birthday was literally 24/25 of december, my comment wasn't written for you.
„I need to try all the sausages“…
me as a German: „good luck!“
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There are over 1000 different sausages 😂😂
😂😂🤭 Google sagt, es sind sogar über 1.520 Sorten Würstchen!
Na da hat Dwayne ja eine ganze Menge zu tun wenn er JEDE probieren wil😨
Außerdem verlängert sich sein Urlaub bei uns in Deutschland dann mindestens um ein paar Wochen, inklusive dem ein oder anderen Kilo mehr auf den Rippen 😂😂
Armer Dwayne, niemand wird ihn mehr erkennen wenn er wieder nach Hause kommt🤭 Hihi😉
Yorkshireman now living in Thüringen Wald (forest) Germany for 7 years and can't believe i used to travel each year for the German christmas markets! Now just 10mins away!
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Glad you chose Thuringia as your new home! I was born and grew up there, now living in Bavaria with my fiancé and our daughter. But we visit my family in Thuringia quite frequently.
The fried potatoe pancakes or Kartoffelpuffer are served with apple puree on Christmas Markets or any other festivities all the year round as a snack. But in the area in the Southwest where I come from it's also a common dish combined with a soup of beans and potatoes. And I love it 😍
In northern Germany they are a main dish, eaten with sugar and apple sauce. (Restaurants serve Them as a starter or small dish with salmon.)
I put cheese on them 🧀 😋
@@LettersFromAFriend Oh ja mit Lachs schmecken sie auch sehr lecker!
Germknödel = yeast dumpling filled with plum jam served with vanilla sauce and poppy seeds.
another traditional Christmas market snack is hot roasted sweet chestnuts. You used to only get them in the wintertime in France, Austria, Switzerland and southern Germany, but they have made their way north to Northen Germany by now. You can also buy sweet chestnutspre-cooked and already shelled and vaccuum-packaged in supermarklets; they are a delicious side-dish to dark meat like i.e. venison (deer), wild boar, rabbit, with earthy mushrooms and brown sauce.
In my hometown the christmasmarket is 51 years this year. It is in the citycentre around the City Hall.
I love the rosted chesnuts there.
The fried potato pancakes are called „Kartoffelpuffer“; „Reibekuchen“ or „Kartoffelplinsen“ I love them with mushed Apples.
They are quite close to (but not exactly) hush browns.
Hey Dwayne 😀👋
If you really want to come to Germany next summer and travel the country a bit: start in the north and then work your way south...
Most people usually only look at the south (the Alps in Bavaria and the Black Forest) - but always forget the equally beautiful north of the country! And no, the north is NOT just Hamburg, hihihi... 😂😂😂
In case you're interested: I made a series of 5 videos about the north of Germany for fun, where a slightly different picture of Germany is drawn. Here is the link to part 1, Lower Saxony: ruclips.net/video/iPhQCT5r94g/видео.htmlsi=oxLgrsEuH_NdSfdA
(Unfortunately 2 or 3 pictures are blurred when uploading, I have no idea why... So if anyone watches it: please don't "tear me apart" in the comments - this was the very first video I made myself... 😆)
I think you and your videos are really cool and very entertaining - keep it up! 😀
Greetings from beautiful northern Germany
That side to the sausage is most likely potato salat pressed in a weird mold.
The “Germknoedel” is a neutral dough from yeast, cooked in steam, served hot with vanilla sauce and poppy seed with sugar
And sometimes there‘s plum und it 😋
What you describe are steamed dumplings/ Dampfnudel, I have never seen yeast dumplings/ Germknödel without plum jam.
@@onnasenshi7739 Sometimes they are filled with blueberry jam.
@@klarasee806 That could be, but I only know yeast dumplings with a filling.
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I love you, Dwayne. You're my favourite Brit, right after the Royals. Enjoy your stay in Vietnam and keep up this wonderful Christmas spirit. You would be a great funky Santa!
German Woman Here, 58 years old...
I live in a small village with about 3000 inhabitants.
At Christmas time I usually visit about 10 Christmas markets: the biggest one is 15 minutes away by car in the second largest city in Lower Saxony and is located in the middle of the historic castle square with the cathedral and the adjacent streets. This market lasts about 4 weeks...
Then there are the many, many small Christmas markets, also known as Advent markets, which can be found in almost every small village and only take place on a single weekend during the Advent season. In my local area alone, there are at least 10 of them every year.
The nice thing about these smaller markets is that you ALWAYS meet people you know and can have a chat with them. Even if you're out and about on your own, you're never really alone... 😀 These small markets usually take place in the immediate vicinity of the community centers - where there are also small concerts, children's performances and the like. This is an additional attraction for me, as such events increase the pre-Christmas atmosphere many times over.
And I never go home without something homemade by the local people... (Yes, my cupboards are overflowing... 😂😂😂)
Dwayne, dear neighbor, here in todays Germany, we have many influences from history. How often we were invaded or other peoples came through and left their heritage and culture with us. The Romans brought us beer (cerveza) and wine, they also brought us foods from their empire like lentils, peas, cucumber, yoghurt and so on. When you travel through our home-country you also will discover the foods of our neighbors. History blessed us with many different things tasty and practical. Sadly, most people only remember the 1930s and the world wars. But we have a rich history before that, going back even before the Roman empire.
Friend, I wish you and your family a peaceful Christmas and a blessing from up there.
Sincerely your German Neighbor Elmar.
The Romans brought wine and wine grapes with them when they conquered the southern German lands and found that grapes grew in the warm microclimate of the Rhine valley. But the Romans did not teach the Ancient Germans (Teutons) how to brew beer, as Roman influence was less in Germania than in Alba/Britain. Every culture that grows wheat and hops and used yeast for bread baking figured out beer brewing, from the Ancient Egyptians to the Celts to the Germans.
In northern Europe and Scandinavia, people also brewed mead from honey and spiced it with herbs.
@@TF2CrunchyFrog THANK YOU FRIEND
The first Christmas markets in German-speaking countries were mentioned more than 600 years ago. The Bautzen Wenzelsmarkt is said to have taken place as early as 1384. The Dresden Striezelmarkt was mentioned in a document in 1434. The Nuremberg Christkindlesmarkt and the Augsburg Lebzeltermarkt have been around for a similar length of time.
Raclette is a Swiss tradition like Fondue. Both have become beloved Christmas meals in Germany, when the family sits around the fondue pot or the Raclette grill and prepares individual food while eating for a long time…
And there is often at least one person, who is unpatient and would like to use 10 forks or pans at a time.
_Germknödel:_ a spherical sweet yeast dumpling filled with plum jam. Traditionally the _Germknödel_ is served warm and covered in vanilla custard and poppy seeds.
In general, "Knödel" means a dumpling. Germany also has _Kartoffelknödel_ (savory potato dumplings) and _Semmelknödel_ (bread dumplings), both served with meat and gravy.
3:30 is potato salad prepared in a weird shape to make it look special. Potato salad with wieners was a typical GDR Christmas meal that prevails until today.
Looks like someone has squeezed potato salad too tightly into a Tupperware container and then put it on a plate from the Tupperware container. 😂
That potato pancake is called "Reibekuchen". Its really easy to make on your own! Potatos, onions (if liked), egg, some flour, salt, pepper...
No, it's "Rievkooche" 😉
No, it's Kartoffelpfannkuchen.
No, it's Kartoffelpuffer or just Puffer.
That meal is Bockwurst und Kartoffelsalat. Boiled sausage (not Bratwurst) and potatosalad.
So sieht doch kein Kartoffelsalat aus… das ist doch ne Art Omelette oder sowas auf dem Bild…
@@peg_e Der wurde einfach nur zum Servieren in eine Form gepresst. So, wie man das im Restaurant oft mit Reis macht.
honestly, the picture was quite weird, I wouldn't have recognized the potato salad as a non-german (or maybe even as a german)
@@StellaTZH Da es gebräunt ist und Kartoffelsalat auch schwerlich die Form behalten würde, denke ich, es ist ein kleiner Kartoffelgratin.
@@MrTuxracer Sieht aus wie ein Kartoffelsalat mit Mayo, der halt etwas dickflüssiger angerührt wurde. Warum sollte ein Gratin abgebildet sein, wenn es um traditionelles Weihnachtsessen geht? Würstchen und Kartoffelsalat ist das traditonelle Essen an Heiligabend.
About the thing with the church:
Markets were and still are usually held in the marketplace, which is typically in the center of the town-and there’s usually a church nearby as well.
Or, to put it differently: Try finding a German or European old town where there isn’t a church within walking distance.
Oh, I'll try to jump on your Christmas Stream (23.12.) and btw I love the english bangers and mash with brown sauce😋😋
whats thad? potato salad served through one of those fancy rings they use nowadays in the kitchen😊
Liebe Grüße aus Düsseldorf , ich wünsche dir eine wunderschöne Zeit 🙏
I live in the south of Germany and we do have here an old Christmas Market inside of an old granit rock quarry! < hard to describe it, but ... < extremly nice! It's rather small, but extremly cozy! :)
3:29 this is Wiener sausage and potatosalad.
Kartoffelpuffer = Potato pancakes ( although they have other regional names. ):
Waxy potatoes
Onion
Two eggs
Flour
Salt
Neutral plant oil for frying
Deskin potatoes and fine grate them in little striped chunks.
Then dry out the liquid from the mass of potatoes with a cheesecloth or kitchen paper towel.
Cut the onion into cubes and mix it with the potatomass, eggs, flour and salt.
From the mass you form small paddys ( sry, ireland. ) and shallow fry them in the oil.
My favourite way is consumed with applesauce.
Wish you good luck on your first batch and Guten Hunger ( Good Hunger. ), Mate.
For your community, I hope you make a video of you preparing them. ;)
Americans know something like hash browns, that are quite similar to Kartoffelpuffer (but not exactly the same).
@@ReisskIaue Heard of hash browns. Never saw one in person. Thank you and a wonderful and blessed day to you and your family.
The dish for Christmas was a grilled duck with red cabbage and bread dumplings
i like your vids and your sight of the things
Raclett, is a fat cheese from Switzerland you heat up until it is like a cream and dip in pickles, potato-peaces and so on, MMMMMM!!!!
Dwayne, lentils are like peas, but smaller seeds. Cooked with herbs potatoes, little bits of smoked ham and a side of Wieners (we call them Frankfurters) warms you up in cold times, especially with Swabian noodles (Spätzle). It is hearty, nourishing and like stews are everywhere, easy to eat with a big spoon.
Neighborly greetings.
Elmar from Germany
germknödel is a lightly sweet dumpling with a vanilla sauce usually and poppyseeds
i can give you an easy recipe for panfried potatoe pancakes.... if you wish
In Germany we eat goose with dumplings and red cabbage or sausages with potato salad! That perfect portion is potato salad!
Raclette is melted cheese
That's fondue
@@josefineseyfarth6236 Raclette is one - but by far not the only - kind of (cheese) fondue. There are several other kinds of fondue, e.g. chocolate fondues, oil fondues (like Japanese shabu shabu).
You have to Whatch Rammstein - Deutschland !!!!!
This Musicvideo is from another World. it puts every blockbuster in the shade ❤
In summer you will love the "beer gardens" - there you can also get traditional German cuisine (hot and cold) and various types of beer - Hefeweizen or, in the Frankfurt area, "Apfelwein" - a type of apple cider - best mixed with sparkling water and the "Handkäs mit Music" - which means: a strong-smelling cheese with vinegar/oil and caraway and lots of onions (for the music ;-) ) ... in any case, there is a lot for you to discover in Germany - have fun!
I have never seen this thing next to the sausages. I have no clue if it is potato mash or salad or sth like that. Here in Saxony people eat lentil soup or sausages and potato salad on the 24th (a simple meal) and the next day potato dumplings, red cabbage and goose. The lentils are for the small money, the dumplings for the big money.
German sausages, beer and bread is kind of like Netflix. There's endless varieties and options, but only about 5 are actually good.
Lent occurs several times during the year, not only before Easter.
Germknödel or Dampfnudeln are sweet with a vanillasauce
03:29 I guess it's potato salad. Formed in a mold. (Nobody does that at home)
The thing shown in the video is not a potato pancake, it is Lángos, which is a Hungarian dish. It is a corn pancake basically. They were sold at every Christmas market I have been to.
Langos is made with regular wheat flour…
Different sausages for different dishes. If I remember it right, we have about 300 different sausages.
The fried potato pancakes you can get at nearly every supermarket in Germany all year around in the frozen food part of a store. Just throw them into a pan for a few minutes and they are ready to eat.
They are rather easy to make yourself though. All you need are a few potatoes, eggs, onion (optional) a little flour, salt and oil. Short version, the potatoes are grated, mixed with the grated onion and the rest of the ingredients, given form and fried in a pan. Usually served with apple sauce.
The had mulled wine and mead called metheglyn, Lebkuchen, hot sausages, cheese noodles, marzipan, honey bread etc.. So, basically everything they have now plus ribbons, candles, bits and bobs.
we have tousands of different Sausages and Meatstuff, you gonna be fat after visiting Germany ! My favorits is Sauerbraten try that if you can.
oh mulled wine was pretty comon spiced and heated wine they had that even in the antiques
You should come to Germany and try German food. Unfortunately since the lockdowns the markets became thinner and thinner. With much less assortment of food. Only grilled sausage, Pommes and some sweet food like Crepes.
Rudolf Kunzman from Augsburg produced the first commercial Glühwein (mulled wine) as we know it today in his small winery in 1956.
But he didn't invent it.
It was the Romans who first made spiced mulled wine, they called it Conditum Paradoxum and it was a mixture of red wine, honey , laurel, pepper, saffron and dates...
...and they drank it nice and cozy, that cold, nasty winter weather in Germania and on the British islands.
I can well imagine that the locals copied this and that there was something similar later on at a medieval market in winter, especially since you don't necessarily need expensive imported wine from southern countries, cheap fruit wine made from blueberries or blackberries is also possible .
You might even take ale or beer (I have had Belgian Glühbier once - but it isn't one of my most precious christmas memories). Hot spiced mead also should go for a drink for Christmas.
Many communities used to have winter markets as well in late fall, where people would buy warm socks and stuff….
Hello Dwayne - I actually cook many of the delicacies offered at the Christmas market at home (and better and cheaper).
Whether it's potato pancakes with apple sauce, or sauerkraut with potato dumplings, baked mushrooms with bacon in a tasty sauce, steamed dumplings with sauerkraut or vanilla sauce. What I like to make in the oven are shashlik skewers (with chunks of chicken or pork, onions, bacon, pieces of pepper, pickled gherkins, all nicely seasoned), with a rustic brown sauce - slowly braised - with chips on the side... Yummy...
My family grins and feasts...!
I don't know if someone mentioned - the time of Lent is the 40 days between Adhwednesday and easter Sunday. In former times the time of Advent was also a time of Lent but nowadays it is free. You could have a time of Lent but don't have to.
Greetings from Germany
On 24. Dezember it is usual to eat sausages (called Wiener) and potatoe salad
i think it`s gonna be the "wurst case scenario" you coming over here 🤤🤤
1:44 "...mulled wine and foods. They didn't have all those things ..." WTF - shouting all the people of the roman empire ;-)
Since 1925 we have the Glühwein😅
Actually, the pandemic was forecasted as the main risk to civil safety in GB.
The spanish flu was a very good example of how to handle a pandemic. The solution they learned during that phase, was that shutdowns are the only way to get a grip on situations like those.
Germany has around 1,200 different types of sausages such as Frankfurters, Bratwurst, Munich Weisswurst and hundreds more. Germany's varieties of sausage far outnumber the many kinds of French cheese. Pretty much every butcher has their own secret recipes that are traded down through the generations. There are regional varieties, different techniques and woods for smoking, different combinations of spices and herbs. Some are made for cooking, some of frying, some for barbecuing, some are smoked to be eaten raw or cooked etc…. Easy….
Google says that we have around 1500 types of sausages in Germany.
Nobody calls potato pankakes "Latke" in Germany! It's either "Reibekuchen", "Kartoffelpuffer" (probably the most common word), "Reiberdatschi", "Plinse", "Bambes", "Kartoffelpfannkuchen" (literally potato pancake), "Erdäpfelplatzke" and maybe some other regional words I don't know. My father used to eat them with salt instead of sugar right off the pan, while baking them.
Edit: There is a Jiddish/ Jewish dish called "latke" or "latka", which is similar to potato pancakes, but they're not really the same.
I love that you are only eating the food served in the country you are going to. I tried Pizza in Nepal once and regretted it instantly. Because that is not what they are good at. Curries, Momos, Rice, Soups…that’s what they are amazing at ❤
by 4:50 on the Video what u look at it is a "Germknödel" its sweet yes, the white Sauce what u see is Vanille Sauce and the black is "poppy" (sry i use google translator im German and my english is very bad) ... the "thing" under the sauce is a sweet "bun" filled with jam but it has a second variant of it without the filling in the "bun" we call this "Hefekloß" in english "yeast dumpling" ... at the beginning of the video idk which timestamp but before the menu with the duck ... this with the sausage ... what u would know what it is: it is potato salat but the cook has it arranged creativ .. in germany we eat sausage with potato salat or duck/goose with red cabbage and dumplings or in my family we ate in my childhood karpfen with beersauce ... i hated it ... if u would try german sausages here the favorites of our land i think: "Weißwurst" (Bayern and u need to look a video to know HOW to eat the because u dont eat they normal trust me^^ and u should eat a Brezel to this sausage :D ) then we have the "Nürnberger" its a spicy little sausage ... the standard is a "Bockwurst" u can eat they cold at work or something u dont need to cook them ... also the "Wiener Würstchen" u dont need to cook but i love them warmed up and its my favorite .... and then the "Bratwurst" u can do it in a pan or u grill it but on a barbecue its a lil better .... my absolutly highlight are Sausages with cheese in it but they very rare where i live sadly :3 hope u enjoy it
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The fried potatoe cake ist called Langos, is an hungarian Food.
They are called Reibekuchen or Kartoffelpuffer… there are no potatoes in Langos. Langos are fried yeast dough pancakes.
Around 1500 types of sausages.
But yes, they had mulled wine back in the Middle-Ages! Not one sliver of doubt about that. In fact, many of the dishes served at our modern day Christmas Markets partly go back to much more ancient times. No potatoes, though, because they'd been brought in after discovering the Americas, and actually took some time to be a true food staple in Europe.
Pretzels are OK, but when you cut them in half, put butter on them and then add chive - then they are 10 times as good.
In German "Schnittlauchbrezn".
Well I even can name all sauseges...and every region has its on style...so you might need quite some time to taste them all. There are ad least 8 main kinds (Nürnberger, Wiener, Krakauer, grobe Bratwurst, Käseknacker, Brühwurst, Frankfurter, Schinkenbratwurst, Kohlwurst) and thats what I know right now.
germknödel is a fluffy dumpling with a plum reduction as filling and usualy served with vanilla sauce and poppy seeds on top, it is still used as a main course though mostly...also pretty sure its czech not german..
Hello and have a nice day, Dwayne - CORONA was an "asshole", pretty much the worst thing that could have happened to us in modern times.
YES, nature struck back (and the INCOMPETENT politicians WORLDWIDE failed across the board!!)
SO LET'S HOPE THAT IT DOESN'T HAPPEN TO US AGAIN. Because it would teach us - given the current global climate situation - a very serious, irreversible mess.
I fear for my children and the descendants of this world...!!
It's funny :D over 90 % of all german bakeries can be made at home in the UK :D Don't wait! Just make it. Same for the fried potato pancakes. Millions of recepts online. Baking is no wonder, it's a miricle! Just do it!
I think you will have enough to do tasting all the German food. Good luck 😂
Hey mate, I feel obliged to point out, that the germans seem to claim Raclette and Fondue to be traditional german streetfood. These dishes are swiss though, from Romandie, the french speaking part, to be precise. So, if you're interested in proper Raclette or Fondue, you have to visite Switzerland!
"Fried potato pancake" is a weird translation for "Kartoffelpuffer", but okay. But you don't eat Kartoffelpuffer with your hands! It's not like a slice of pizza! You eat them with fork and knife (because they are served hot and have been fried in oil).
Ingredients: Firm potatoes (500g), onions, eggs (1 egg per 500g potatoes), a tablespoon of flour, salt, pepper, neutral-tasting vegetable oil for frying in a pan (i.e. rapeseed oil, but avoid olive oil).
Peel the raw potatoes, then use a grater to grate the potatoes into thin strips. Chop onions into small cubes. Put grated raw potato and diced onions into a bowl, mix thoroughly with the raw eggs, a bit of flour to help everything stick together, salt, pepper. Knead with your hands. Mixture must be firm and moist but not too wet. (Note: Don't let the mixture stand around for too long or the grated potatoes will lose too much water.)
Pre-heat the pan. Form the mixture into hand-sized flat patties, like a thick pancake (about two fingers thick). Fry in a pan from both sides in plenty of oil on high heat for a few minutes until the Kartoffelpuffer is nice and brown and slightly crispy on the outside but still moist on the inside. Decide for yourself how crispy you want it.
Best served while hot, fresh from the pan. Kartoffelpuffer are traditionally served with cold applesauce, if eaten on their own. Or they are served alongside roast meat or roast salmon with savory sauce. Some people eat them with white horseradish sauce. (Left-over fried Kartoffelpuffer can be eaten cold, too.)
the things next to the duck are serviettenknödel which are just semmelknödel for cheaters, and are pretty much the best sidedish ever invented.
Please react to the song Michael X from the German Rapper Casper. He wrote this for his friend who took his own life. Its a really deep song.
historically there a fasting period during advent in preparation for christmas. Nativity Fast it was initially a time of fasting, prayer, and reflection to prepare spiritually for the celebration of Christ's birth.
But food in Vietnam is awesome, I really miss that and Huda beer and Cà Phê Sữa
there might not be christmas stuff in vietnam but all the ingredience for glühwein come from there so you should be fine :P
I'm a vegetarian, but I also like to have sausages in my mouth.
What does they sell 600 years ago? - BRATWURST!
A fun fact about changing christmas traditions, it was not a christian tradition in the beginning. It was a try to move the presents from Saint Nickas, a rather low ranked saint from Istanbul, to a previous heathen holiday.
So I think, it's just fair that 'christmas' is more religious agnostic again 😃
Nicholas was and is one of the most popular and celebrated saints (cp. Sinterklaas and Santa Claus). St. Nicholas‘ day was when German children would receive presents before the reformation. By that time, Christisns had been celebrating Christmas for over 1000 years. The reformation shifted the attention from a (human) saint to the birth of Jesus.
I'm a bit concerned that she knows what happend a whole century after the end of WWII. Spooky!
I think we have most kinds of bread and sausages in Germany.
U easily can find recepies for most of these lol
Regular (catholic) lent is between Carnival (Mardi Gras, Rose Monday, whatever you wanna call that), but if I remember properly more orthodox christians might lent/fast during advent before Christmas, too...
I'm kinda positive that mulled wine actually is older than you might think 😅 If I remember properly spicing wine and maybe drinking it warm, too, goes back to the Middle ages as well - seems kinda logic, too, wine used to be bitterer and sourer tha it is today, so spices and honey (maybe?) would make it more palateable ❤
Advent is officially a time of fasting for Catholics and Lutherans. That’s why the antependium is purple and the hallelujahs are omitted.
To get more in a christmas mood let‘s hear
Sido : Weihnachtssong ( Christmas song )
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Enjoy 🎄
Do you have all the spices to make proper mulled wine? Ask a German friend to send you some from a Christmas market - they sell lovely mixes there. These spices and the right amount of sugar MAKE the drink. 🙂
Before Protestantism European countries were Catholic. So there were two lents. One before Christmas including the 24th Dec - our Christmas Eve - and the other one 6 weeks before Easter Sunday.
That's why there were families that didn't eat meat on the 24th but fish like carp. Since the rules were less strict in Protestant families and even nowadays in Catholic ones it is common to have either a simple meal with sausages and have the more opulent one on the 25th or have a big meal on the 24th.
Go to the Philipines for Christmas you will see alot of Christmas stuff
Let's be honest, the reason Christmas is set on December 24th/25th and features pagan elements like a big fir tree is that when early Christianity spread north from the Middle East, its preachers trying to proselytize the pagan Celts and Norsemen overwrote pagan midwinter fire festivals with Christian iconogaphy.
Even before Coca Cola invented the American "Santa Claus", Northern Europe already had the folklore character of "Saint Niklaas/Nikolaus" (based on a medieval monk) bringing gifts (traditionally foodstuffs for children who had been good, and lumps of coal for children who had been bad) and putting them into stockings or (in Germany) into your cleaned winter boots that you leave outside the door on the night from December 5th to December 6th.
Germany still has the tradition of "Nikolaustag" (Day of St. Nikolaus) as Dec 6th, which means German children get a small gift on December 6th morning, and then get Christmas presents on Christmas Eve (December 24th), traditionally thought to be brought by the "Christkind" (Christ child/little Jesus child)... until the "Weihnachtsmann" (Christmas-man) clad in robes and a long white beard and ringing a big brass bell (but without elves or reindeer) was also brought into the mixture.
Due to the cultural influence of American movies featuring red-clad bearded Santa Claus riding a Scandinavian reindeer cart from roof to roof and having Hollywood "elves" as unpaid forced labour, things have become a bit confusing for German children. The "Christkind" bringing gifts is disappearing, and the "Weihnachtsmann" is fusing with "Santa Claus".
You have to notice that german food is not international but intertribal .
Germany of today only exist for ,more or less 200 years ,Before it was a micture of Kingdoms and dutchies ,
part of the "holy roman empire ".
Go further back ( much)and the country was home to more than 75 tribes. Mixed up during time with
slavs ,celts ,huns , vikings ,avars,arabs,
and some roman leftovers. All of them brought parts of their culture and o.c.
their food .Not to mention the migrants from all over the world in modern times .
So it is not a miracle there is such a variety of food.
Spoiler alert: I think it will be hard to visit German Christmas markets in summer 2025 😆
What were they selling 600 years ago? How about food? 😅
And why wouldn't there be mulled wine and stuff? It wasn't cavemen in the stoneage. 😆
It's arguably not bad at all that people stopped associating Christmas with Jesus. You should look at a history of Christmas. It was a "pagan" holiday that got coopted by the church and had most of the elements we still have today, like trees, gifts, family gatherings, feasting etc.
Well, with all due respect to her efforts, but there are a lot of things that aren't correct. In the past, Christmas markets were often supply markets, but fun was ALWAYS the focus. Everything that you find there today (sweets, alcohol, greasy food, toys, christmas oraments, pleasures, Christian and non-Christian trinkets) has always been there.
The markets didn't take place in front of churches so that people could go to church, but because the church was usually in the middle of the city, in one of the market squares. It's the question who was first the egg or the hen.
By the way, Santa Claus is Saint Nicholas, who today is shown in the outfit invented by Coca-Cola and no longer in his red and white bishop's regalia. Here in Germany, Christian tradition (which is inspired by the Roman Sol Invictus cult anyway) has always been mixed with Celtic-Germanic tradition. The Christmas tree or the Advent wreath, for example, come from this.
Mulled wine or spiced mead have always been typical winter drinks. In the past, wine was rarely drunk unseasoned because it would have been far too sour and the beer would have been too bitter. People didn't drink water, soda hadn't been invented yet, alcohol was relatively safe because the alcohol killed germs, but in order not to get completely drunk, people heated it up. This kept them warm and also nourished them well.
And the fact that you eat so many sausages and meat can also be explained logically. People used to slaughter in late fall and early winter. Then when it was cold enough to store meat for a longer time and they had the time. It also eliminated surplus livestock for which the harvested fodder was insufficient.
In Germany the Christkindchen brings the Presents (the Christ Child) not Santa he comes on the 12.06. here on Saint Nikolas Day .
Christkind is a regional thing. At least half of Germany has Father Christmas (Weihnachtsmann) delivering the presents.
Because the Bible mentioned nowhere that the 24/25 of December was the birthday of Jesus.
And because the celebration of the Wintersolstice in an much older pagan holday tradition than the fake Birthday of Jesus.
Nor did Christians ever claim that Jesus was actually born on this specific date. The very first Christians assembled regularly at dawn to worship, and the winter solstice is the „bigger“ version of that. Christmas celebrates the fact that Jesus was born, the date was chosen for its symbolism. There is nothing fake about it.
@@LettersFromAFriend Maybe it isn't ur claim, but of thousands of other christians.
Yes it is about the symbolism, if you don't believe his birthday was literally 24/25 of december, my comment wasn't written for you.
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