5 DELICIOUS FOODS: Differences in Germany & USA
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- Опубликовано: 24 июл 2024
- Pizza, chips, soda, popcorn & ice cream exist in both Germany & the USA...but they're not the same in the two countries!!
So my question for you is: What have you noticed? What kinds of foods are the same but different in different places?
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Paprika...or paprika?! In German it's the same word for the spice and the veggie, but in English it's two different words!! Check out this video on the Telekolleg FB page for more info: goo.gl/JYfTWy 😃
Thanks for that! As I'm allergic these it's good to know what they are called!
(wasn't easy to understand just reading in the dictionary when to use what.)
Tha paprika-thing is actually not true. The spice IS powedered paprika. Some idioms saying paprika to pepper or chilli, but thats not real german.
Paprika is ground up dried sweet red pepper
I think the confusion comes with the double use of the name Paprika. The industry actually uses the illustration of a red bell pepper, because no one knows what the peppers used for paprika powder look like. So the spice used for these chips is Paprika, but they illustrate it with a bell pepper.
That's because paprika is made from peppers....
Some of the soda bottles (and other plastic bottles aswell) are made from thicker plastic because you return them to the store and they get reused multiple times.
Nice. I like that.
Well, you can return the other bottles made from thinner plastic, too, just to clarify ;-) However, if I'm not mistaken, they won't just be reused as they are (the difference is Mehrweg-Einweg = used several times-used one time)
That's about right. The thinner bottles are crushed and recycled, the sturdier ones and reused. And the glass bottles roll a die and hope for the best, but mostly they get recycled as well...
Ron Ja You can actually hear the thin bottles getting crushed by the machine when you return them.
yeah, it was a good idea but the results were stupid. thin plasic bottles wherent a thing until the "dosenpfand". the aim was to reduce the usage of aluminium cans for beverages. that worked. the downside is that there are often shards everywhere at public gatherings or bottles are banned.
as for thin plasic bottles: there are used way more often than before the reform. its a logisics thing. if ure not selling multiple use bottles, you dont have to take them back, return them to the company etc...
I never understood why salami is called peperoni in american english. It is after all an italian speciality and salami is the italian original name whereas what italians call peperone and germans peperoni is chillies or red pepper in english.
Confusing.
My German friend and I had a long conversation about this. Our best guess was that since the US doesn't have more than a couple of types of salami, we have what we call salami, and then our pepperoni is what the Italians would call spicy salami. The stores just shortened "pepperoni salami" to "pepperoni" and thus we have salami and pepperoni. The word "pepperoni" is not used for anything else here so it works.
Also, in the US, a "red pepper" is a red bell pepper, which is completely different from a chili pepper (different vegetable). A chili is only the narrow, crescent shaped one.
Ah, so peperoni translates only to chilli and not red pepper. Good to know.
Bell peppers and chili peppers aren't different vegetables, they're just different varieties of the same one. And "red pepper" can mean anything from red bell pepper or Cayenne pepper to crushed dried chili flakes or chili powder depending on who you ask. That pepper mess might be the most complicated thing in the English language...
steph The pepperoni peppers I got on my pizza in Germany tasted just like our American pepperoni salami and not at all like our regular salami. Could pepperoni salami be Sicilian?
pepperoni and salami are two different things in the US. Salami is salami as you would think, and pepperoni is a usually smaller cased, redder, greasier and sometimes slightly spicier meat
I was in New Zealand for a few month and I went to the movies. But when I ate the popcorn, it was super salty and disgusting and I also had this life-changing moment, when I realised, that most countries DO NOT sell sweet popcorn in cinemas. I always thought that sweet popcorn was the most common thing in the world 😮
Live in Norway, same thing here. No sweet popcorn anywhere.
In German restaurants the pizza isn't cut into slices because they don't expect you to pick up a slice with your hands, you're supposed to eat it piece by piece with knife and fork.
Paprika spice is made from bell peppers ;)
And it isn't Germans being weird with Peperoni and Tuna pizza, it's Americans being weird. Pizza comes from Italy, and in Germany we kept the Italian customs...
Jen .Jen I agree with you! But, I think the US does Mexican food better- for the same reason.
tbh... i had Pizza czut into slices even her in Germany (also: Italian customs... original pizza afaik were eaten by hand... folded together... i've read an interview with a Pizza maker from Neapels and he said that "real Pizza" has to be folded twice, into a "bag" and hten eaten by hand
In the US and maybe Britain (not sure), it doesn't matter that the spice is made from bell peppers. They are called two different things. Paprika refers only to the spice here.
undertakernumberone1 You mean like a Wrap oder a Burrito? That sounds pretty nice. Although I'd probably make a terrible mess if I'd try that with some 32 cm Pizza Hawai. :D
yes... pretty much... and yes... i doubt it'd work witha Pizza Hawai... iirc he was mostly talking about real neapolitanian pizza, with a bigger amount of olive oil in the dough to makei t soft enough to do it and with not much of topping... though i guess it still could work for a pizza topped with cold cut and the likes
Paprika powder is made from bell peppers...
ytxstream exactly!!!
She reinforced the 'merican stereotype. :D
ytxstream plus, in many languages (including german), the word paprika also refers to the plants. so chili, peperoni, etc. => types of paprika (also botanically).
ytxstream I really love those videos, but this made me really sad... you can google it in 5 min... or Mr Germanguy could have said something... why oh why. 😂
The difference is that in English, paprika *only* refers to the spice, not the plant or the fruit/vegetable. In other languages, it refers to either or both. So even though paprika powder is made from bell peppers, it is still not the same thing in English. Or, at least not in American English. I'm not sure about British English.
I live in Germany and at my fav cinema you can also order mixed Popcorn. So it's a surprise when you pick one 😂
+BroBastii - LetsPlays der kleinen Sorte I love sweet and salty popcorn mixed together! I think it's much better than just sweet or just salty 😃
Oh I'd love that! I got that mixed thing one time, by accident, loved it, and got it never again ... :(
it's funny about the popcorn, cause when I came for the first time in US movie theater and I realised my one and only sweet popcorn doesn't exist here (and I am from Europe) I had the same moment of cultural shock 😂
What I'm taking from reading the comments, is that germany is an island of sweet popcorn, surrounded by a sea of salty popcorn. ^^ It's very easy and delicious to caramelize your own popcorn, by the way. If you're into sweet popcorn and want a home-cinema experience, you should definitely do that.
I'm always annoyed if my pizza from a fast-food place isn't properly cut. But in a restaurant, i guess you're simply expected to cut it yourself to your liking ...
There are barbecue-flavoured chips in germany, too. But they are quite rare and I believe only one brand of chips did it right for german taste as of now. Bellpepper-flavour is pretty basic, on the other hand. Did you try it, Dana? It's one of those flavours that are so generic, you almost can't dislike it.
As for the ice cream, if you're buying a cheap brand and get unlucky, you'll also get a stone instead of delicious ice cream right out of the fridge.
even lidl has his own brand of BBQ flavored chips.
In Austria you can't get sweet popcorn in the movie theater (from my experience), you can only get salty in the movie theatres I go to. But you can buy caramel popcorn at the store.
Cary berry
Yes, it was Austria that first assaulted my taste buds with salted popcorn. I was both surprised and a bit disgusted. Totally not to my liking.
In some bigger theaters they also have sweet popcorn (at least in vienna). I once asked if anybody is really ordering this. The man told me, that it's mostly for german tourists and normally nobody else is taking it ;)
Theresa S
Immer diese Extrawurst für die doofen Deutschen ;)
Jedem das seine! Ich finde süßes Popcorn zB. ganz schrecklich. Aber wäre ja langweilig, wenn wir alle denselben Geschmack hätten. Sollen die "doofen" Deutschen ruhig ihr süßes Popcorn essen ;)
Ich werde definitiv dabei bleiben, auch wenn wir scheinbar die einzigen auf diesem Planeten sind, die das tun oO
US "Milky Way" is in Germany "Mars", "Three Musketeers" is in Germany "Milky Way", US "Milky Way" (only chocolate covered caramel), was sold in Germany a limited time.
Yes!! I find this really interesting 😃 I made a video about it too ruclips.net/video/bc39DoAFVe0/видео.html
Salty Popcorn sells Drinks. I see what u did there America :D.
If you ever come to Austria (I guess you can get it in Germany too, not sure) try "Almdudler". It's great. Really. Believe me. (Sorry for that :'D)
Oh, and for that Popcorn Thing: I'm from Austria and I also think of Salty Popcorn when someone says "popcorn". On the other Hand, I like sweet popcorn more. Someone gace mit "Coconut flavoured" popcorn lately. Have to try it out :D
Ja, man kann Almdudler auch hier in Deutschland kaufen.
Zwar nicht überall, aber bei Edeka und Rewe haben sie das normalerweise immer im Sortiment :)
TOS Coconut Ich hab das noch nie gehört hier in MV
Nicht?
Ich hab neulich eine Freundin in Bamberg besucht, da gabs das auf jeden Fall.
Auch hier in Nürnberg/Fürth/Erlangen find ich das in vielen Läden.
Vllt. gibts das dann doch nur in Bayern? :o
TOS Coconut naja ich lebe in der Nähe von Rostock und hab es in noch keinem Laden gesehen
Claus Celeda Mir wurde Almdudler auch empfohlen! (Von Chaosflo44 falls du den kennst).Als ich dann in den nächsten Getränkemarkt gehen wollte und den Verkäufer fragte wo es sei sagte er, dass es nicht mehr in Deutschland produziert wird... :c
Ah ... about the Ice Cream ... I would say, that about 30% of the Ice Cream Brands are hard as stone ...
Popcorn ... I remember the first time I ate Popcorn in Forida ... I nearly started to vomit ... I didn't expect that salty tast ... I'm happy that we got sweet Popcorn here in Germany in the movie theatres
Sven Ketelhut I
Loved this video!
When hearing of tuna and onion as pizza toppings my wife and I decided to be adventurous and make it, and this is now my favorite combination!
As for the orange/cola thing I have never heard of it. In the US, we commonly use corn syrup for a sweetener, so the only way to get a good soda pop is to buy Mexican imports which are made with cane sugar. I'll have to try it, although I'm not much for sweet things.
Thanks for the video Dana!
you didn't mention "Hawaii Pizza"?
A German invented Toast Hawaii - the granddaddy of all things Hawaii
Hawaii Pizza is of canadian origin though...
undertakernumberone1 is it really?
A German TV cook first combined pineapple and ham in the 1950s calling the result "x Hawaii" (in this case Toast Hawaii).
The claimed date for the first Canadian Pizza Hawaii is a decade later.
I have been told that what we can buy as peanut butter in Germany isn't really comparable to "real" American peanut butter. So I'd really love to know how real American peanut butter tastes like!
You can order real american peanut butter online in Germany but it is really expensive. Creamy peanut butter usgroceries.de/?s=creamy+Peanut+Butter&product_cat=0&post_type=product and crunchy peanut butter usgroceries.de/?s=crunchy+Peanut+Butter&product_cat=0&post_type=product here are some more online shops: www.worldofsweets.de/Marke+Jif/Marke+Peter-Pan/Marke+Skippy/?listorderby=relevance&listorder=desc&searchparam=brotaufstrich&adword=Google%2FTHEMEN%2FErdnuss+Creme%2F+peanutbutter& and www.starbridge.de/catalogsearch/result/?q=peanut+butter and www.amazon.de/JIF-051500255162-Erdnu%C3%9Fbutter-Creamy-454g/dp/B00DX53P4M
Seegal Galguntijak You can buy American peanut butter in Rewe. To be honest, the "normal" American peanut butter, like Jiffy, is pure crap. It has partially hydrogenated oils and high fructose corn syrup. I prefer the peanut butter here in Germany - just peanuts and salt.
Yes, many brands of peanut butter here in Germany write "American" on their labels, but that doesn't mean anything - I'd just like to know the difference in taste, like how does real American peanut butter taste compared to "German peanut butter". Then I can decide what I like better (and yes, I'll decide that only by taste, not by ingredients).
Seegal Galguntijak No, in Rewe they actually sell Jif (as pictured in the link above) in the American section. It is one type of popular American peanut butter. But we also have normal/natural peanut butter in America like what you find in Germany.
OK, then I'll have to take a look at my Rewe. I haven't actually looked for an "American section", nor did I notice it by myself. Maybe my market doesn't have one, I'll see.
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I find the popcorn thing really strange. From my experience, salty popcorn is the norm in Austria, while in Germany sweet popcorn seems to be it.
Does anyone know where that difference comes from? And have you experienced the same thing?
Yes, I have. I was very surprised (and not pleasantly) by the salty popcorn in Austria. Judging by the comments salty seems to be the norm in most countries though. Looks like we wanted to be different ;)
Well I'm from Germany and for me salty is the norm since I only ever had that when I was a kid. No idea if that's a regional thing or just my family... I don't remember when I found out you could get it sweet, probably at the movies sometime, but I remember that I really didn't like it for years (now I do, but I still prefer salty).
In Salzburg at the cinema you can get sweet popcorn too. I guess that's because it's not far from Germany. But if you buy "normal" popcorn in Germany they give you sweet popcorn, whereas in Austria (Salzburg) you get salty popcorn, if you buy "normal" popcorn.
Same in Switzerland! Normal popcorn is salty but you can have sweet popcorn
i dont think its realy "salty" - its just popcorn without adding sugar -> caramelized popcorn.
In Mexico they have containers filled up with hot sauce (salsa), ketchup, pico de gallo, butter and various dressings to add to your popcorn, it's something I've never seen in Europe.
+EndlessDream23 Wow!! Very cool. No, I've never seen that in Europe, and in the U.S. I've seen butter and flavors for the popcorn but not pico de gallo or salsa. Thanks for the info :)
Die gute alte Gewohnheit. Ich kann mit gesalzenem Popcorn nichts anfangen. Brrrr 😝😄
I love the comments on your videos. So many opinions from everyone about what is "normal" and what is "weird" for everywhere.
Lol, I love your channel. I'm planing on moving to Germany as soon as I turn 18 . Your video is informative. Thank you!
Not too sure what other foods are the same yet different but the one you have listed for sure are. Also we can now get sweet or salty popcorn in some movie theaters here in California. As for the ice cream I think it has to deal with the milk and egg ratios and plus I think our freezers are just set colder by default.
Love your videos. I am in the process of getting ready to move to Germany for graduate school and I find your videos very interesting and helpful.
Just a little caveat with Bourbon Vanilla. I think this refers to the region in France. So "French Vanilla" is less specific but still in the same general direction.
Kristoff Kiefer I believe bourbon vanilla is mostly harvested on Madagascar, in contrast to Tahiti vanilla harvested - you guessed right - in Tahiti.
Actually it is named after the former name of en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Réunion
which was the french "Bourbon" and not the english "Bourbon whiskey"
Actually bourbon whiskey got it's name from a county in Kentucky. That county got it's name from the french "house of bourbon" which was France's royal dynasty when the county was named (at the time it was part of French Louisianna).
The name "Bourbon-vanilla" (which is the name of the plant vanilla pods come from) has a similar history: It was named after an island that at the time was named "Bourbon" after the French dynasty.
I suppose Bourbon-vanilla became "French vanilla" because bourbon-vanilla got confusing for people who associated bourbon with whiskey. "Bourbon-vanilla ice cream" would sound and read like an ice cream made of bourbon and vanilla instead of ice cream made with bourbon-vanilla. Especially during the prohibition era that might have caused problems that switching to the name "French vanilla" would avoid.
„Bourbon Vanille“ comes from the „Île de Bourbon“ named after a French prince, the brother of King Louis XIV. The name of the island today is Réunion.
in Mexico you can get at least 3 different kinds of popcorn (salty, caramel, chili) and some even offer a fourth flavour, cheddar
+Laura Gonzalez oooh! Cheddar popcorn I've heard of, although I'm not sure I've ever seen fresh made popcorn with cheese, just in the bag at the store. But chili is totally new to me!
Haha, your observations are really interesting, especially the one about imagining people in movies eating a certain flavour of popcorn! That had never occurred to me.
Paprika = Paprika.
The spice Paprika comes from ground, dried bell pepper.
paprika spice is made of red bell peppers
Nachhilfe Lehrer I found the word "paprika" also exists in english and also means Paprika. What's the difference to red bell peppers?
nothing Red Bell Peppers are called "Rote Paprika" in German, so a Bell Pepper is a Paprika
ah. so they have just two words for them ... okay. Thanks
not exactly red ist just the color there are also, yellow bell peppers = Gelbe Paprika or green bell peppers = Grüne Paprika. In general a bell pepper is a Paprika in german :) and the spice paprika that you guys have is made from bell peppers ;)
yeah. I figured that. My question was, if the ENGLISH word "paprika" has a different meaning then "bell pepper". Because they where both in my word list (dict.leo.org/englisch-deutsch/paprika)
I love the air quotes around “soften up”.
I like cheese flavor myself ..great video ..a also seen you on don't trust rabbit also very good!!
Sour Cream Onion Chips for the win!!!!!
In Germany you can also get the icecream that needs to sit on the counter. But it gets more rare. Mostly you get the creamy nowadays, which never really freezes through. I don't enjoy this one.
Yeah. this is a bad trend in Germany which I really don't get. Twenty years ago ice cream used to go with cream *on top*. Nowerdays you almost always get this awful mix of cream cream and vanilla ice cream. Fortunately there is still one ice cream shop left in town that sells it the original way.
it depents on your fridge. our fridge is f***king cold even liquor freezes.
I accidentally left out a langnese one for two days and since that they I never ate one ice cream of their company again. It was disolved into fat athat was clearly not from milk or cream and the rest. No thanks. I rather pay a little more to get ice cream out of dairy and not mixed with some other stuff which I think do not belong their.
convinient food ;). It does not just affect ice cream. Lazy people and instant gratification societies are created by the internet and demand instant access to food as well.
It is clearly written on the package, that Langnese ice creams (and many other ice creams at the supermarket, too) contain lots of vegetable fat.
This is also the reason, why it is so soft, coming right out of the freezer: the huge amount of vegetable fat doesn't harden that much.
That popcorn fact blew my mind! :o
We are german, but when we went to Italy last year my son got a Fanta orange soda....and thought it tasted extra good. Looking at the ingredients I was shocked to find out that in Italy Fanta has real orange juice in it! The percentage of orange juice was told on the bottle, but unfortunately I forgot. I thought it was awesome :)
This was quite interesting :) Here is what it's like in Sweden (at least in my experience)
Pizza: Does not arrive pre-sliced. Which I appreciate, because I want to choose my own slice size! As opposed to Germany we do eat the slices with our hands though, you are not expected to use a knife and fork. Oh, and "peperoni" (or feferoni) on pizza are hot chili peppers, peperoncino in English/Italian according to Wikipedia.
Ice cream: I think it just varies depending on the brand how soft or hard it is, but overall I'd say ice cream tends to be hard. Vanilla ice cream is generally while, though you can get "old-fashioned" or "real" vanilla ice cream which is slightly more yellow-toned and has little black speckles of grinded vanilla. That also tends to be more creamy in consistency and feels more luxurious.
Chips: Honestly, I have no idea what the most popular flavor of chips is here. In my personal experience I tend to mostly see either grill chips (not barbecue, "grill chips" are onion flavored) or sourcream and onion when visiting people. If any Swede happens to know what is most popular, please let me know! Bell peppers are called paprika in Swedish too, by the way, and it is indeed a fairly common flavor of chips.
Soda: Can't remember trying any soda that tastes significantly different while abroad. We do not get all of the experimental and weird American flavors though - you guys have some REALLY weird stuff sometimes! We do, however, have a few Swedish flavors/brands which are really lovely! I personally really like to mix soda myself like a little kid too, so whenever I'm out at McDonald's or something and I'm allowed to pour my own drink, I'll mix all available kinds, which will usually be 4 or 5 different flavors.
Popcorn: Salty is the default, and to my knowledge it's the only kind available at the cinema. I've never seen sweet popcorn, but then again I don't live near any big cities and my local grocery stores don't carry very wide ranges of, well, anything.
+KreeZafi Really interesting to get your take on how these things are done in Sweden!! Thank you 😊 Cool to hear that grill chips are onion flavored and that that is a popular chip flavor in Sweden. I don't know if I've ever had onion flavored potato chips! But sour cream and onion is also a popular chip flavor in the U.S.
In the netherlands the most common is sweet popcorn, but you also can get salty too. Paprika chips is very populair over here. And I like spezi/ mezzo but I always buy it in Germany. I also really like Bionade, it's really hard to get it here in the Netherlands. The pizza is not pre-sliced in the netherlands. The Brezels of Pretzels are they the same in the US and Germany? They are not common in the netherlands.
Most german do not eat their pizza with fork and knife... only older people. The only people I know who eat their pizza like that are my parents and it's embarrassing because no one else does it :D
You think US pop (soda is for the uneducated outside the Midwest) flavors are weird? If you ever find yourself in Atlanta, Georgia, go to the "World of Coca-Cola". They have a room were you can grab a cup and sample every soft drink flavor they make in the world for different markets. Wander over to the area where the Asian products are. US flavors won't seem weird at all anymore.
It sounds strange but sweet popcorn and nacho cheese dip is heaven!
SanaraHikari oh yes! I LOVE this combo so much 😂❤ all my friends are like ew the whole Time 😂
I have to try it!
I have eaten this combo with salted popcorn many many times ;) (because I don't like sweet popcorn)
About the Popcorn:
There is a north-south-gradient in german-speaking countries. In Northern-Germany you get nearly only slaty popcorn, in South-Germany (like her in Munich) you get them both and they are about equally popular and in Austria an Switzerland you get only salty popcorn.
some years ago i enjoyed a german deli here in the states where she served what was called "spezi" but it was made with coca-cola and lemonade, i loved it and now i still make it for myself
When I went to the states, we went to see a basketball game and decided to get us some popcorn. Since we all preferred sweet popcorn over salty we asked for caramel popcorn, assuming that it would resemble our German popcorn 😂😂😂 we paid 7 or 8 $$ and when we tried it we were sooooo shocked to taste SALTY CARAMEL POPCORN!!! None of us liked that 😂😂😂
I am so confused with chips, fries and crisps. Maybe I'll understand it someday...
J. H. J. H. That might be because that differs in Britain and America.
The kind you get with ketchup and mayonnaise: America/Canada:(french) fries
Britain: chips
The kind like Pringles:
America: chips
Britain: crisps
I hoped that helped ;)
All over the world are chips chips, except for the UK where they are called crisps. That's because the pomes frites or fries are there the chips (although nowadays there are fries in UK too).
Well, in Germany we also call the so called crisps (Britain) chips, like the US seems to do. French Fries are called Pommes frites or most likely just the short versions Pommes ([ˈpɔməs]) or Fritten.
UK Chips ~ US Fries
UK Crisps ~ US Chips
What Britain calls "chips" are not like American "fries" or "french fries". They are closer to what we Americans call "steak fries".
You are so passionate about salty popcorn, I loved that
I'm also an expat in Munich. I lived in Canada before. Thanks for your vlog.
I went to an American movie theatre (San Francisco) for the first time in my life last year and I was given a bag of popcorn with some "sprinkle on"-seasoning of my choice (and there were several sweet and savoury options) and they told me to just put it in after the butter. I was so confused until I found a machine which literally serves HOT BUTTER TO POUR OVER YOUR POPCORN. It's such a sticky, greasy mess. I found it was too "rich" and it soaks the popcorn! There are so many awesome things to eat in America but I definitely prefer my crunchy German popcorn. I loved the variety of sodas at American movie theaters though. Why can't we have diet Sprite with grape flavouring here? *cries in German*
+Jeshoel Yeah, if you get buttered popcorn, you better grab a bunch of napkins too!! As for Sprite with grape flavoring -- this is my first time hearing of that! Sounds tasty 😄
It's amazing. Have you ever noticed how there are so many "grape flavoured" things in America and literally none in Germany? It doesn't even really taste of real grapes (as I guess none of the artificial flavours taste of the fruit they represent) but it's so yummie :D. My sister used to have a school friend, whose mother was stationed here in Germany as a member of the American military and she always had American snacks for us to try. It was like a little sneak-peak into a faraway world and we loved it so much. Mispronounced all the names, though. Me and my sisters always loved the grape flavour and we could never find it here. So it's always on my sister's wishlist if any of her friends go to the U.S. to bring "grape flavoured stuff".
Jeshoel American grape flavors are supposed to simulate Concord grapes. Maybe just an American variety. Not so good for wine as they are very sweet.
Ah, thank you. I believe I read that om some syrup bottle or something.
Concord grapes (originating in Concord, Massachusetts and now grown New York State and vicinity) make a VERY sweet wine, which is -- perhaps quite rightly -- looked upon with disdain by wine connoisseurs.
It is, however, favored for religious observances by a good many American Jews and Christians. With Passover coming up, Manischewitz will be selling it by the bucketload for the next few weeks.
It is also, of course, the grape used to make the canonical flavor of jelly in the American peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwich.
Blackcurrant cultivation was banned during most of the 20th century in the USA (and still is in some states), so grape flavor has occupied most of the niches that blackcurrant does in Europe.
www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2014/04/14/what_is_manischewitz_a_history_of_holy_wines_from_ancient_rome_to_modern.html
For me the biggest letdown in US are Bretzels. In US they usually come deep fried and crisp often even with some sugary coating.
Having grown up in Bavaria when I crave a Bretzel I am thinking of outside crisp but inside soft plain salty Bavarian version that you eat either plain, with butter or with O'bazda cheese.
a gscheite Laugnbrezn
1983simi There are several Bretzel stores nation wide that have traditional style. Never heard of sugar or other sweet toppings in Bretzels. Fresh ones are always soft and bagged ones are hard bar food. You will find different flavors... senft, honig senft, peanut butter...etc. Also many shapes of bagged hard bretzels.
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brezel#S.C3.BC.C3.9Fe_Varianten
upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b4/Pfannkuchenbrezeln_1.JPG
but this is more or less how a true Brezn should look like:
upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d2/Muenchner_Brezn.jpg
undertakernumberone1 Exactly and one can buy these in most malls along with several variations big and small, hard and soft.
will be looking out for them next time I go. So far I've only been to
Georgia and TX and bretzelwise was completely out of luck. Going to
CA in some weeks. Let's see ;)
Paprika chips flavor is also called "ungarisch" (Hungarian). And as others already pointed out the spice paprika is made from red bell peppers.
If you have never tried it before you should try smoked paprika powder. It's awesome and has a rich flavor that always reminds me of barbecue bacon bits. And just a little bit of it goes a long way.
Come in France we have sweet AND «sweet-salty» popcorn. It's called « popcorn au caramel beurre salé» (salty butter caramel) !
and sometimes you can find salty popcorn, but not everywhere...
Hi Dana
Even though it's probably rather unlikely to get an answer considering the 700+ comments, there's something I've always wanted to know about you. It's about your name or more precisely about its pronounciation.
Most of the time when there is an American called Dana it's pronounced something like Day-na and not like your name Dah-na.
Is there any specific reason for that? Does your "version" of this name have a different origin or is it simply the parent's discretion how they want it to be pronounced? It would be really interesting to find out.
+Willzyx Hello! :) There is a specific reason for this, it's because of my Czech heritage. For a few more details, I mentioned it in two of my Q&A videos, you can check out the first one here: ruclips.net/video/lG2FuUbBcYY/видео.html and the more recent one here: ruclips.net/video/9KL8hDXQG1g/видео.html. Hope that answers your question! :)
+Wanted Adventure That's interesting, thanks for the links!
Do you have some distant relatives there? Does your family still have any Czech customs or did you become completely Americanized throughout the two generations? :P
Paprika powder is made of from the paprika fruit..... that is also why it has the same name
Yup, but in the US we don't call them paprika fruit. We call them bell peppers. We only use "paprika" to refer to the spice.
no, no it isn't
so paprika is the spice, and it gets it name from the hungro-latin meaning pepper,
now, this is important to note, it gets that name from the already processed capsicum, as it was the traded, already processed spice that was traded at the time
the fruit is a capsicum, the use of the word "pepper" was back named, the spice was called pepper first, then some of the fruits started to get called peppers, not because they were (at the time) but that was the end product was.
kinda like calling cattle "beef" cows, beef is what they are being grown for,
(history, spice trade, interesting times)
The Capsicum is the bell-pepper - or, Paprika - as we call it in German
capsicum is the family of the fruit,
capsicums as in the shop, are often the "bell peppers" that yanks, call them, the yellow green or red, (where I am from, they are called capsicums too, thats a very english term)
you then have the peppers as part of the capsicum family, (this is where people get confused alot, as it all depends on where you are in the world, the terms are all mixed)
but capsicums ("bell peppers", caps' red green yellow blue or purple) as a family is what is processed to make paprika.
when people in different cultures and places started to call the unprocessed fruit "paprika" was well after the spice had become well known, and was a back naming, an easy way to see the difference between that and say a chilli fruit
Love the Bielefeld clock!
You can now get kettle style sweet popcorn now in some west coast movie theaters.
You don't have Mezzo Mix in the US? It's the same like Spezi. No sweet Popcorn in the movie theaters😲 Well if I ever get the chance to watch a movie in the US, I won't eat Popcorn in the movie theater😂 I hate salted Popcorn 😕
Paprika and bell peppers are synonyms. Paprika is not something different, when bought as a spice.
Also did I understand you correctly, Americans call salami pepperoni? Or is pepperoni pizza an extra spicy salami pizza? Because in that case you should look for something usually called pizza diavola, diavolo, or some other hell/satan reference in Germany.
At my local restaurant, pizza diavolo is called "flaming inferno". It burns twice.
I work in a movie theater in the US. I was so shocked one day when a group of South African guys came in and asked if we sold sweet popcorn. I told them that we have kettle corn seasoning, but that seemed to confuse them. They asked me if our popcorn is pre-salted, and I showed them the orange seasoning salt we put in when we pop it. They were very disappointed.
I live in a small town and we have a movie theater here which only sells sweet popcorn.
Judging from your examples there seems to be more variety in the German versions of food that you just can't get so easily in the U.S. - interesting, because my experience is that it's quite difficult to get the American versions in Germany. Popcorn for example: I'm pretty sure you can get salty popcorn in Munich theaters only because it used to be the "American sector" of the country, with many soldiers still be stationed there. Go to different parts of Germany, and you'll traditionally find sweet popcorn only. "Novel" German copies of "American" food, such as beef jerky, pastrami, and pulled pork, usually taste different. And simple things like plain old salted chips aren't as easy to come by. By the way, one thing that's better in Germany is Fanta. It belongs to Coca-Cola, yes, but it was invented in Germany. And it's a brighter yellow there, much less sweet and more acidic (read: more refreshing) than in States. And I _HATE_ American chocolate. It doesn't matter which brand. The big "H" brand (you know which), for instance, is disgusting if you're used to German or Swiss chocolate, just coarse and rough and very, very cheaply made in comparison.
Please, why don't you read thoroughly before commenting, will you? :) I wrote "traditionally". You may be able to find salty popcorn as a "novel" feature at some cinemas, because it's new and American and cool, but definitely not in the majority of German cities. I dare you to find salty popcorn at major theaters in Bochum, Düsseldorf, Hannover, Osnabrück, Oldenburg, Trier, Flensburg, Kiel, Rostock, etc.
SensationalFailure you'll actually find salty popcorn in every german cinema. Some smaller probably took it off the menu, because noone was buying it, but normally you can get it everywhere, not only in "U.S. sector" regions or as a novel. In fact sweet and salty popcorn do exist in german cinemas since the 70's :)
I've seen hundreds (literally) of movies at German theaters since the 1980s, in all the cities I mentioned above, at standalone theaters, CineMaxx, Cinedom Köln, various Ufa ones - salty popcorn has _never_ been available at any of them. Actually, my German apartment is right across the street from one of the major theaters in that city: no salty popcorn.
... and do you know how many "Kitkat"-versions Japan has?!
I did not know anything about it until I started postcrossing and found out that a lot of people wanted to swap Japanese Kitkats. Some of them seem to be savory in taste, such as wasabi kitkat etc. A small sample is available on amazon. There is a list on wikipedia. A few gems for people who only know the "garden variety kitkat": Flavors Baked Potato, European Cheese, sake, soy sauce, ginger ale and green bean.😳
OK hang on, I only ever eat salted popcorn, because the sweet stuff is disgusting and so I can swear I've eaten salted popcorn for many, many years at many movie theatres (in varying theatre sizes) around Germany, e.g. Darmstadt and Mannheim. And whenever I buy popcorn in movie theatres they ALWAYS ask me whether I want sweet or salty.
when I told my American hostfamily that my favorite drink is a mix of coke and fanta they were like "whoa, what? that sounds disgusting" 😂😂
And I had my trouble with Pizza in the US too. I love chickennuggets pizza and Holondaise sauce on top of Brokkoli. but they don't have that in the US 😭
Larissa Luna Mezzo Mix is auch nicht so gut. Außerdem glaube ich, dass Fanta auch aus Deutschland kommt, bin mir aber nicht sicher
Fabian Reusch Das es nicht besonders gesund ist weiß ich auch, ich trinke es ja auch nicht jeden Tag 😂 und fanta gibt es in Amerika, schmeckt nur total anders und daher ist die Kombination mit Cola auch nicht gerade lecker 😊
Larissa Luna oke...meiner Meinung nach ist Coke auch das beste von denen ( Coca Cola Company)
Nicht nur die Fanta schmeckt da anders, sondern auch die Cola, weil sie da nicht wie bei uns Zucker zum Süßen verwenden sondern ihren komischen Syrup. Die Coca Cola in den US schmeckt viel süßer als unsere.
Jepp, Aufgrund der verknappung von Rohstoffen zur Colaherstellung im Krieg wurde in Deutschland die Fanta erfunden. Allerdings zuerst auf Molke/Apfelfruchtfleisch Basis. Die eigendliche Fanta aus Orangen kam 1959 aus Italia
Australia is like the US - only salty in cinemas, but supermarkets sometimes sell sweet popcorn that's also coloured. I had an Irish friend come here and he was surprised we only had one flavour in our cinemas. He said in Ireland they have a variety of flavours. I was confused.
haha I always ran the hot water while getting ice cream and just put my spoon back under the faucet when it started getting hard to scoop my ice cream again..hahaha
You... you mean, the popcorn they eat im american sitcoms are salty? :( My life was a lie...
as rule of thumb (for germany) i'd say: the fancier the restaurant, the more unlikely it gets that your pizza is pre-cut. that's because in fancier restaurants you eat your pizza with knife and fork, whereas in fast-food-restaurants you take the pizza-slices with your hand.
My go-to movie theater here in Germany is an international/US movie theater and it only serves salted popcorn. As a kid, I used to go to my local, "normal", movie theater and they only had sweetened popcorn, so when I "discovered" the US movie theater I was shocked to find their popcorn was salty, but I immediately fell in love with it and now I can't imagine popcorn to be anything other than salty. :D
The default for popcorn here in Austria is salty, but you can get sweet at the cinemas.
American ice cream is in most cases made with corn syrup, xanthan gum, guar gum or carrageenan (and other crap) and those chemicals make the ice cream harder. There are not many brands that use only natural ingredients left in the US. If you find an all natural ice cream, it will be as soft as the German ice cream. German food regulations are just much stricter than in the US.
xanthan gum, guar gum, and carrageenan are not "chemicals", as in artificial. They are natural extracts that are derived from bacterial fermentation, guar seeds, and seaweed, respectively. The "gums" are gelling agents, and the carrageenan is an emulsifier.
The difference between softer and harder ice cream has to do with fat and air content. Ice cream that has less fat/more air is softer than ice cream with a higher fat content/less air. That tells me that ordinary German ice cream is of a lower quality than typical American "ordinary" ice cream.
Markle2k LOL! Not true! These additives are Thickening, Stabilizing and Emulsifying Agents! They are produced and added to food to do exactly that! And no! They are NOT natural, but maybe derived natural- Carrageenan for example is very dangerous: Although derived from a natural source, it appears to be particularly destructive to the digestive system, triggering an immune response similar to that your body has when invaded by pathogens like Salmonella. It can cause inflammation, which can lead to ulcerations and bleedings and even cancer. An all natural ice cream contains only: milk, cream, sugar and flavors. Funny that you think an ice cream is better if it contains crap. To each their own.
Na, she is probably talking about that langneese stuff. i am pretty sure they are adding stuff to make it less hard and more convinient.
non premium icecream is hard as a brick if ure buing it at aldi.
(ps: thats the reason why there are reinforced icecream scoops or "ball makers" in every kitchen ulitiy set)
No, you can find 5 ingredient ice creams at American stores and they are just as hard (cream, milk, sugar, egg yolks, flavor (vanilla, cocoa powder, strawberries, whatever).
I'm confused. First you laugh and tell me I'm wrong and then you repeat what I just told you.
They are just as natural as arrowroot or cornstarch. Carrageenan is literally made from boiled seaweed. The name is derived from the specific variety of seaweed used. You could make it in your kitchen like so many Irish housewives used to do. Stop getting your information from BS "health food" websites.
i will never get that salted popcorn thing... who would willingly eat so much salt and why? its not like salt is some kind of awesome tasty spice... salt is something you mostly use to round up the taste of dishes, but nothing that should be tasted as the "central" taste.. cook your meal, use too much salt and you can throw it away.. and yet on popcorn people decide to eat something that tastes purely like salt.... srsly not my cup of tea.. hope no one drinks tea with salt too....
And I would never willingly eat so much pure sugar
+x3kiwiix3 .. if we talk about health you are right.. both might be just as unhealthy.. but if you talk about taste i dont agree.. most humans - and even animals - are drawn to sweet things, because sweet equals sugar and sugar equals energy... thats why most people on this planet love candy.. chocolate, all kind of gummies and other sugary sweets.. and thats without mentioning the biochemical effect that sugar has on our system ..
its not like i dont eat anything salty, like nuts for example, but there the nuts also have their own taste and mix together with the salt... popcorn on the other hand tastes like nothing on its own, and so you only taste salt, if you eat salted popcorn..
+William Lucas - lol you make me laugh so hard.. for someone your age you shouldnt be so triggered, because someone said he doesnt understand someone elses behaviour.. its not like i insulted someone or said that everyone has to do it like i do it... i really hope your avatar isnt really a picture of you otherwise it would be pathetic.. but hey as a good american i guess you have to be offended about everything in 2017.. hush back to your safe space
you are ridiculous.. i would appologize, if i werent laughing so hard now.. (nah, i wouldnt)
btw: you did not only listen to so much "drivel" you also felt the need to reply to it.. FUCKING TWICE xD
+William Lucas - yeah and you are really pathetic.. going to delete your whiny posts and all the insults now
Chips are also salty though, as are pretzels. It's just another variety of salty snack.
but most chips dont taste purly like salt.. the problem with popcorn isnt the salt, the problem is that the popcorn itself tastes like nothing and so all you taste is salt.. even salted chips dont taste as salty as salted popcorn does.. so its not the salt thats the problem, but the intensity of the salty taste...
i mean i also eat salt on my breakfast egg, or tomatoes + salt and pepper, but there is always something else that reduces the salty taste
Interessant, vor Allem das mit dem Popcorn :) ich liebe es Deutschland durch deine Augen zusehen! 😊
Actually it just depends on the temperature in your freezer. The ones in America are usually just on a too cold temperature. If the freezer is too cold a lot of ice grows inside the freezer too.
Gesalzenes Popcorn schmeckt nicht!
Bavaria must be weird. Where I live (Saxony) Pizza is nearly always cut. I remember just one time when the Pizza wasn't cut.
Yeah I know why the don't cut it but when I go to an Italian restaurant the Pizza is cut.
not just Bavaria... Everytime I ordered Pizza in Italy it doesn't come cut, that's just how it is if you want it cut you cut it yourself, but in Restaurants when you order a pizza with lots of toppings usually you eat it with knife and fork and net in slices, if its just a margaritha or salami pizza then you usually cut it in slices with your knife and fork or sometimes they give you a pizza roller so you can decide for yourself how you want it cut. because some people make 8 slices others only 4 etc.
I live in Mecklenburg-West Pomerania (MV) and pizzas are never cut if you order them from a delivery service, but in restaurants they're normally cut.
Also, if anyone has time, I'd love if you can check my channel out, I'm a new youtuber :)
Maybe it's an East-West thing? In Lower Saxony I never got my pizza cut, but here in Thuringia it is :-D
Konstantin Reuther Maybe cause Pizza is new (er) to Sachsen? 😉
You can now get kettle corn in theaters here in some US theaters.
Hey Dana, what do you think of the difference between soda sweetened with sugar and corn syrup?
I did not even know that salty popcorn exists xD
Tech Stuff and you did miss NOTHING. It's like eating a Kümmelbrötchen. You can do it, but you will live more happily, if you don't do it.
EVER!
Ok that's nice to hear 😂😂. Because when I heard about salty popcorn today my first thought was that this couldn't taste good 😆
salty popcorn best popcorn way better than the over sweet popcorn where you always have at least one popcorn that catched to much sugar and is hard as fuck and you almost bite out a tooth
And you NEVER have that with salt?
I find that suspicious.
... ugh ... just imagined to bite on a salt pebble.
Salt is for nuts!
+D3g0nGirl If it's as salty as a salt pebble, something is wrong. :)
Pizza in Deutschland von Italienern ist viel besser als von Italienern in Italien😂
I've had an artichoke pizza, in a restaurant, here in Munich. I have since, made it at home quite a few times. Lecker
Love the scarf!!! Is it cold today??? XD Have a blessed day Dana and friends XP
I hate salty popcorn and I even had no idea this disgusting stuff even exists until I was in a cinema in NY a fews years ago and was so excited about how cheap so big menues costs. So I ordered a 1 lt box full with popcorn and thought I made the deal of my life. So I turned around with a big grin on my face and was heading to my screen when I tried a popcorn... and spitted it out immediately. I almost let fall down the whole box. I was so disgusted and I felt so ill afterwards I couldn't even enjoy the movie. Boah, never again. And American sodas tastes like too much chemicals and other forbidden flavours. There's a reason why they are not allowed in Germany/Europe bc of that shit inside. I prefer our EU regulated drinks. Muuuuahahaha. Ehrg, now I'll have nightmares about salty popcorn...
Salted popcorn disgusts me 😅🙆🙈 it's just not meant to be - like savory pancakes..
actually it is even more so than sweet popcorn because most of the world eats popcorn salty only we germans need a "extrawurscht" as always ;) so if all sweet popcorn was probably never meant to be until popcorn arrived in germany because before that there was only salty popcorn ;)
Sweet popcorn is the only thing Germans eat that's more sweet than the Americans. ;)
Trifler500 not even that because we have kettle corn which is sweet and a bit salty.
+William Lucas Hmm yeah kettle corn is good too. We have that here as well, but you have to look for it (or already know who sells it).
Nika's Words savory pancakes are deffo a thing. They're really good too. Have you ever had a savory crêpe? Like scrambled eggs, Swiss, mushrooms? Or with ratatouille? Savory pancakes are similar
In Switzerland pizza comes uncut if you go to an Italian restaurant.
And you can buy sweet (chocolate, caramel) popcorn in stores but in movie theatres you only get the salty ones.
Born and bred in Munich and I love both sweet and salty popcorn whatever I fancy.
sweet popcorns!?! really? I like the caramel or the chocolate ones though, but just popcorn with sugar seems disgusting.
sweet does mean caramel. if you order popcorn without further specifications in germany, you get sweet caramelized popcorn.
What do you think caramel is made of?
+x3kiwiix3 here you get salty caramel pop- corn, btw caramel is burned sugar so it's kinda bitter-sweet. if you say sweet pop-corn I assume it's plane ones with sugar instaed of salt, am I wrong?
Wù W not really. caramel is only bitter if you messed up the process and it's Otten too dark. and like they said. "sweet Popcorn " in germany is caramelised Popcorn.
It is actually glazed with molten, lightly caramelized sugar, so it is not the strong caramel kind but actually has a mild caramel taste. If you buy microwave popcorn it is usually just sweetened.
spezi was invented by cocacola now its called mezzomix by cocacola not spezi anymore
Nope. Spezi was invented and trademarked by the Brauhaus Riegele in Augsburg. It's a general trademark. PepsiCo has a version of it called SchwipSchwap and Coca Cola has one called Mezzo Mix. The original Spezi is still produced by the Brauhaus Riegele and can be bought in most stores, at least in Bavaria.
IK have to go to bavaria I need one original :-)
In Berlin (an probably Hamburg) we have Spezi too
in austria it as gone when mezzomix was here.
there is the Original Spezi like Zeis said, it was not invented bei Coca Cola and MezzoMix as well as SchwipSchwap do not even taste close to real Spezi. Original Spezi and Paulaner Spezi are the best Spezis
i know in the coke freestyle machines they often have orange coke, which is coke with orange flavored syrup added in. ive had it a few times and enjoyed it
I was so shocked to only find salty popcorn in Australian movie theaters (being used to the German sweet popcorn). Took me almost 4 years to get used to the salty one 😂 but I enjoy it now.
Was to the USA last year. Apparently I happend to go to a very atypical strange pizza place. It was uncut and more like a Langos than a pizza.
I live in Brazil and we have both sweet and salty popcorn at the movies and I have always ordered mixed. They put sweet at the bottom and salty on top and my favourite part is the surprise when I think Im getting one and I get the other
In the 80s at the malls in the US, there were very popular popcorn stores that had bins of popped popcorn in every flavor (and color) you could imagine lining the walls... just like bulk bins. Loved those stores! Also, try this: when you get your salted popcorn at the theatre, dump in a box of Milk Duds, mix them in, and let them soften for a bit. Your popcorn will taste like caramel corn.
+Sorilea A hahaha I remember seeing those stores when I was a kid! Also stores with lots and lots of colorful jelly beans...I always liked the blue ones 😃
Recently my friend went to New York and brought me back some chocolate. One of the chocolate bars was dark chocolate and I tried it, expecting a slightly bitterish taste, like the German dark chocolate. But no, it tasted exactly like white chocolate in Germany, which I HATE! xD I guess they just put a lot more sugar in the American chocolate than they do in the German chocolate.
I'm in Spain right now and the normal popcorn here is salty, too. You can also get sweet popcorn in the cinemas but it's more expensive...
About the harder ice cream: It helps to put the spoon in hot water before, when the spoon touches the ice cream, it may melt at this points and is more willing to be taken, without any spoon deformation.
+Rob F Good tip!
The best is to ask for a mix of sweet and salty popcorn! Like a surprise every time :)
I like how one of her clocks has Mos Eiesly time. I guess it is a good thing to know the time when the space ships are leaving, I guess ;)
In Austria I bought frozen American brand pizza that had corn on it.
Where I live, you can't even get salty popcorn at the movie theatre. :D
The default setting of popcorn here is salty but we can have butter popcorn or sweet popcorn at the movies as well.
about the popcorn: in Brazil anywhere that sells "fresh" popcorn (the movies or street car vendors) you can get either variety, sweet (chocolate coated) or salted. The industrial ones also have both options but the sweet one is more sugary flavored (no chocolate) in this case.
When you said "bell peppers" I was confused for a bit until I saw the packet and realised you meant capsicums. Yet another vocabulary difference between US and Australian English.
+Roxor128 Oh wow!! I had no idea they're called capsicums in Australia!!! haha great to know, thanks 😃
I have been to one theater in the US where they also had kettle corn (sweet) available.
How you've described the U.S. is also how Canada's food is, one of those cases where living on the same continent has made us very similar.
I visited France a few years ago, and although I don't remember whether the pizza was cooked or not - and if it was cut maybe it's because the servers recognized us as North American tourists - but I did think it was interesting that rather than dipping sauces or pepper flakes like we have here, that the generic condiment found on the table were flavoured olive oils and balsamics. Even rather than have pepper flakes they had flavorless (olive?) oil that was purely spicy.
Lovely videos, I look forward to them. Keep up the good work. :)
love your look! ;)