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Es ist wirklich schlimm was die Deutschen denken was wir Amerikaner essen o.0 dabei gibts wirklich nette "typische" gerichte die nix mit fast food am hut haben könnt ihr darüber mal ein Video machen?
Deana is right, if you want good Donuts, to get them in "Dunkin' Donuts" (n Hamburg I know 5 or 6 stores) is the best solution. The Donuts you buy in supermarkts are mostly dry and without taste.
So I fund it hilarious that Phil thinks Germans just don't do doughnuts. First recorded recipe for a dough nut was from a German cookbook in the 15th century. The Dutch brought doughnuts to New York. They have morphed quite a bit, used to be straight and twisted, so they would turn themselves over in the oil.
I live in an area of Texas that was founded by Germans. Even the best German food I’ve had here is probably nothing like in Germany. Ps German potato salad beats it’s American counterparts. I hope that gets even better, too.
Fortunately, we live next to Washington DC and are availed many authentic cuisines. I am grateful for this, especially since I was privileged to live in the gorgeous Germany for five years.
BBQ Meatballs is a thing in the midwest, especially during football season. Fill a crockpot with a bag of frozen meatballs, a bottle of sweet baby ray's, and a jar of grape jelly.
When my American husband came to Germany for the very first time, they had American week at Aldi. After he tried a few things he said: That's so NOT American 😂 But the same goes for some "German" products in the US. It may be ok if you feel a little homesick, but it's just not the same. I prefer German food when I visit my folks in Germany and I eat American food when I'm back in the States. But I have to admit that we once went to a Bavarian style Restaurant in the States and the food actually tasted pretty awesome. The chef and owner was born and raised in Bavaria and he tried his best to create the original taste.
It would be so good if there were more options for fried chicken than KFC, Raising Cane's or a Chick-fil-A in western Germany,the one near us is not so good
@@teribendt94 Yeah, Germany is a fast food wasteland. They only know McDonalds, Burger King and KFC. Most KFC stores are pretty bad. But they have Five Guys stores 😁
@@yourpainisagift6171 It's fast food CHAIN Wasteland. You want to grab fast food? Go to a Döner store. Or a Currywurst stall. Or a bakery and grab a sandwich and so on.
I don't know how well Deana speaks German already, but her accent has definitely improved a lot. The way she said "Macaroni with Käsesoße" was almost spot on :)
@@DeanaandPhil A friend I grew up with has lived in Southern France for ~5 years now and his English is definitely getting worse over time (mostly in subtle ways though). I think it just comes with the territory of living between cultures a bit
@@DeanaandPhil "Butcher's Louisiana Spare Ribs" were a great idea, today I bought me a package in the Penny Markt. I rubbed the Ribs with mustard and put it in the electric home grill for 15 minutes- so yummy with a fresh breadroll! 👍
Deana I love that you used to put tuna fish in your Mac and cheese!! I did it when my kids were younger to add protein for them. They are both young adults now and they still make it that way sometimes!
I am German, grew up in the 90s and we always had peanutbutter with apricot jelly. We also ate it with honey or nutella. Not on this white soft bread but with a non whole grain bread. But I remember that peanutbutter wasn't common among my friends and hard to get, so we went to the Netherlands to buy it. And even today it's hard to find a really good one here. Godd one means to me a peanutbutter with roasted peanuts and no added sugar.
15:40 see the 23 on the can? It’s actually 23 flavors combined. The legend says the inventor owned a soda fountain where you could pick the syrups you wanted in your drink and he got sick of waiting for people to make up their mind so for people who took too long he’d give them a shot that was a mixture of a little of every flavor all 23
Once a week is too many times. I would get tired of it. Once in a while it would be good. Sorry, it must have good memories tied to it but I just couldn't eat it so often.
Peanut butter is amazing there's so much you can do with it. Can put it in so many different foods. Peanut oil especially your cooking. you should look up George Washington Carver. *Also since yor kid loves peanut butter there's an Israeli snack called Bama. It's pretty good it's basically a puff like a cheese puff but peanut butter.
The amount of pork that I eat when i'm in Germany, I am always surprised that American style BBQ has not caught on at ALL in Germany. All of my German friends LOVE BBQ when they come to the US.
Fun fact regarding artificial banana flavoring: it is based on a near extinct banana variety known as the Gros Michel, of which the artificial banana flavor is supposed very accurately represent. Gros Michel banana cultivars were devastated by a fungus in the 50s, whereafter the current Cavendish cultivar became the dominant commercial banana.
I was stationed in Germany 1984 -1987 and loved every day of it. Frankfurt. Kaiserslautern. Pirmesans. Fischbach bie Dahn. Thank you for posting your videos 👍👍👍
as someone who has spent a considerable amount of time in st. louis, these are not st. louis style ribs, this is a baby back cut that were likely slowly roasted in an oven and packaged. st. louis style is it's own specific cut, hot smoked low and slow, in a smoker, while glazing with a vinegar/tomato based bbq sauce intermittently the entire time it's cooking
These items aren’t technically American, but it wouldn’t surprise me to find them in the frozen section of a US grocery store. It’s definitely more American inspired than actually American but it’s not as far off as I expected.
Deana: Remember Krispy Kreme ;-) . As someone who grew up in Germany and never understood the appeal of donuts, I have to admit that one has never tasted a real donut before trying a fresh Krispy Kreme. There is a lineup all day round for a reason.
Phil , If you really want Great American Corn Dogs , one has to go to a County or State Fair ! You can also buy a brand named '' State Fair Corn Dogs '' in most U.S. Grocery Stores !
As a south Carolinian, I was also surprised to see something like that show up in Germany. However I saw the noodles and I was like no... This won't be good. Nothing beats home made versions of macaroni salads!
So-called American-style doughnuts and cookies were introduced by the Dutch and Germanic Scandinavian settlers in the Colonies. Many other cultures fried and baked dough, but the Dutch had already begun making extensive use of sucrose leading to that "American" taste. I too was born in South Carolina. When we had a barbecue or a "pig-pickin' party," we still favored the French/American style sauce which had little if any sweeteners. The sauce was mainly butter and herbs, although added sugars grew quickly in popularity. Poorer people used more vinegar in their recipes. With the out-of-control recent fashion of adding hot peppers to everything in Western cuisine, most Americans imagine such to be traditional (it is not). Although digging a pit for the barbecue was most traditional, some folks used a shed or even the kitchen (a separate building in colonial America), and eventually came to use metal oven/smoker receptacles. When I was in Europe, especially in the 1950s, I had little to no luck finding (North) American-style peanut butter, milkshakes, sodas, or truly crispy fried foods. As you may know, George Washington Carver had nothing to do with the invention of peanut butter/cheese. The eastern Asians had been making it in various forms for their cuisines since time immemorial, and Pindarkaas was immensely popular in Dutch colonies. It was actually the Quebecois who, near the end of the 1800s, came up with the idea of making the product smoother and adding rather large amounts of refined sucrose. At about the same time, John Kellogg's sanitarium developed a machine to make the peanut butter ultra-smooth and free of the annoying bits of shell and skin. Outside of health circles, peanut butter was not very popular until the First World War's slightly confusing propaganda telling the U.S. and Canadian citizens they could win the war in Europe by having "meatless Mondays," deriving protein from peanut butter rather than meats. I had hilarious adventures trying to get German-speaking people to understand what a milkshake was. In the early days, milkshakes were health food, originally because they contained eggs, cow milk, sugar (still a health food then), and rather large amounts of whiskey, later, the base was changed to malted milk and the alcohol was omitted. By my time, the fashion was to add flavors and ice cream. I made the mistake of describing it to the German speakers as a sort of frozen "Eierlikör." Clearly, I was already a pedant at heart, although this did lead to very interesting offerings. I was perhaps most surprised by the carbonated soft drinks, considering that the Coca-Cola company had been in Germany for years. Without exception, the canned sodas tasted very much like Alka-Seltzer until the late 1970s. I still do not know why. Crispy foods. Wouldn't you think they would be everywhere? But until the introduction of new methods for making breading (e.g. panko crumbs), even the ubiquitous Schnitzel had a soft, smooth coating. Deep-fried onions and some dishes made with re-fried Griebenschmaltz placated me somewhat. The corndog was never a health food, but Deana is right, the cornmeal batter was always smooth and even. Chicken nuggets were invented in the 1950s in the USA and a refined (?) version was perfected (again, ?) in 1963. The small amount of "meat" that was in the nuggets was mostly fat, processed with bones, nerves, skins, and lots of salt and sugar. The result was a salty rubberband-like product. Absolutely forbidden in the homes of my extended family, I finally gave up and let my son eat them. Whatever the public will allow, I guess. Meatballs are found around the world, but the "barbecue" style is thanks largely to the American addition of "love apples," i.e. tomatoes, in 1812 to the traditional--and very complex ketchup/catsup fish sauce introduced from China. Living in Europe, you all have probably had some dishes (especially Danish)--meatballs, potatoes, and so on that are traditionally served caramelized. Well, I hope you all will excuse an old lady's ramblings. Love your videos!
Branding it as American allows people to enjoy the unhealthy food while simultaneously giving them someone to blame, and the USA often plays that international role.
Love you guys! I have lived all over the US and every potluck I've ever been to someone brings BBQ meatballs. Never from a can, but homemade it's actually pretty good! Best wishes!
I have a bbq meatball recipe that I’ve been making for 30 years & it is the best. My grandma used to make bbq meatballs- it was my favorite meal when we were at her house.
Yessss! I was yelling at the TV, "That's just crockpot meatballs!" A bag of frozen meatballs, a bottle of bbq sauce, and a jar of grape jelly - heat until warmed through. You can also use cocktail weenies instead of meatballs. Delicious.
Deana, I imagine finding pimento cheese spread in Germany is next to impossible. Maybe at a military commisary.....I'd love to see Phi's reaction to that.
You can find Mac&Cheese in Rewe/Hit here in germany. And as i remember it is originaly from the US. In our HIT-Market we have a big Shelf with original food from the US. Maybe you can find it at Rewe, because they work together.
@@DeanaandPhil I`m not sure. Maybe its from Kraft or CMC (I just found out that this is maybe a british company) If you want I can find it out but, my next shopping tour is on friday.
@@danielhermanowski6148 If you remember to! We'll stop by our nearby REWE and see too. Although, we definitely shouldn't be eating that regularly. haha. but we might just have to get a box or two just in case.
@@DeanaandPhil One day I will taste all the US food that you can`t find in germany directly in the Staates. But first I have to persuade my fiancee to travel to the US. 😂
I like tossing in a couple of hot dogs in the water while the mac n cheese boils. The Maine red snapper hot are the best. The casing has a bit of crunch and the meat seems tastier than a regular dog. Howard Johnson's frozen mac n cheese was my favorite growing up. It was before microwaves and took 45 minutes in the oven, but there was a delicious, crunchy crust on top (the best part). Far better than blue box. My aunt used to make the best mac n cheese from scratch. It was a long time ago, but I remember that she used rigatoni pasta IIRC and some very stretchy white cheeses. I wish I had that recipe today :(
It’s always so funny to me to see what other countries think of American food. I love tuna in Mac n cheese! When my husband and I started dating, we would get 19 cent boxed Mac n cheese and mince beef, and mix those together and called it filler since it got ya nice and full 🤣 last time we tried making it, we both felt sick after and realized why we don’t eat what we did 25 years ago 🤣
6:30 min I remember in 1984 (i was still little) my very first visit in the McDonald's Hildesheim with my parents. Exactly in this time McDonald's introduced "Chicken McNuggets" in Germany, everybody wanted them and loved them! There was a TV in the McDonald's with a film, a group of puppets preparing Chicken McNuggets in a kitchen. My good, so long ago... 🥲
LOL I’m American, my husband is British. While in England, we’ve visited several “American” style restaurants. None were actually American. From a Philly Cheesesteak that was just a shaved beef sandwich served with arugula & cherry tomatoes, on a cold roll (no condiments), with no onions, no peppers and not even cheese included-(we argued with with the cook--I told him ‘cheese is in the name of the sandwich” lol- to peanut butter that was literally softened butter blended with chopped nuts, the best one, however: “Buffalo wings” that were baked chicken legs with a ketchup based sauce that was trying hard to be bbq lol…I have learned to bring a few essentials with me when we visit… like a bottle of Franks Red Hot. My husband says I could open an authentic American restaurant & make a fortune. FYI: we do have a BBQ meatballs in the US, usually made for a party as an appetizer. It’s basically whatever type of meatball you choose, mixed with a sauce that’s part grape jelly & part chili sauce or bbq sauce, depending on your preference. It’s not something you’ll find in a restaurant or grocery store. It’s a made-up recipe used at pot-luck parties. They’re ok served with rice or egg noodles if you have leftovers & aneed to use them. Last time I made them was for a baby shower. Sorry for the epic response lol, I could do an hour long video about this topic & the amusing, yet sometimes disappointing experiences we’ve had (like trying to find an authentic American hot dog when I was having unrelenting pregnancy cravings lol). A least McDonald’s is mostly the same--but what’s with KFC not having mashed potatoes?
My girlfriend and I are getting close to taking the next step and becoming engaged. She's been living in the US for about 12 years, but is originally from Germany and is considered a citizen. Can you guys possibly do a video (or point me to one if it already exits) where you describe the process Deana had to take to move to and permanently stay in Germany? We want out of the US as quickly as we can, but it'll be after the wedding for sure, which should happen within the next 2 years. Thanks!
Regarding bacon jam: - If you ever happen to be in Werdau in Sachsen, eat at the Erdbeerschänke and get a glas of their Bacon-Marmelade. They don't claim it to be american and it's delicious, not at all stringy and with a nice Speck flavour. (I usually don't like to advertise anything, but it just fit so well with the video.) - In Austria we have Verhackertes, which is basically Speck thrown into the meat grinder and grounded (as in Hack from Speck). It's then seasoned and you use it as a spread on fresh bread or a bread roll. We would never put it on a steak, but I could imagine myself using it with a lean roast or as a nice addition in meatloaf.
In Canada everybody was raving about this bakery that had homemade donuts so I went there and saw that they were yeast donuts, basically sweet bread. I walked out with nothing, I thought of you Deana haha why can’t anyone make a decent cake donut?
I completely I agree!! My favourite is old fashioned glazed cake donut and it’s impossible to find a good one in Canada :( The last time i had a great donut was a few years ago at Dandee donuts in Miami. Its an old school donut shop.
The same is true in Mexico - in my three years living here, I've never found a cake donut - even a bad one. They're all like the raised donuts described in this video - round dough with a hole in it, but not properly deep fried. Donuts are sold in lots of places here, but they're not proper American donuts.
My husband and I have been binge watching your vlogs!! He is German and I am American. We absolutely love your topics that you have on your channel 💗💗🎉
I’m 63 years old, and the only time I had meatballs in BBQ sauce was in MRE’s (Meal Ready to Eat) when I was in the U S Marine Corps in the early 80’s. ( we called them Meals Rejected by Ethiopia because they were so terrible) but the meatballs in bbq was good! Of course they got rid of those!!!
Love the video! Just a few personal opinions here 🤠 - I love PB&J and love it with bananas; when i do so, I always toast the bread so the bread doesnt get soggy - I also love Mac&Cheese and this was My staple lunch in college; I would always put sausage, tuna and veggies with either tomato sauce or ketchup to make for a decent meal - I love the store brand PB cups because Reeses wasnt sending their products to Chile; thankfully we now have it thanks to Candyland (the store brand PB cups are still my thing if I want to get something to share with family and friends though) Keep it up! 🤗😉
I love peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. They're my weekend breakfast. Reese's are too gritty for me. Don't like the texture. Love it when you do videos like this. Thanks for the entertainment.
Loved the video! Would love a part 2 one day. I always get the bagels simply because they are so hard to find otherwise. Can't imagine the texture comparing well to a freshly baked one but still a bagel
Dass das Toastbrot als amerikanisch bezeichnet wird, liegt nicht daran, dass es Weißbrot ist, sondern daran, dass die Scheiben größer sind als deutscher Toast. Ursprünglich gab es nur Butter- und Vollkorntoast und die sind deutlich kleiner.
Some of us Americans here do do barbecue meatballs, actually, but I don't doubt it's heavily regional, and I've never seen it prepackaged like that. Usually make it from scratch-ish using frozen or homemade meatballs with separate barbecue sauce.
I am from South Carolina and have been living in Germany for 8 years with my German hubby and I was so happy to see Stubb's BBQ for sale here when I first arrived. Deana, I am a huge peanut butter fan and ran across top shelf stuff in Maastricht ,no offense Germany :) I think you can buy it online now. The name is De Pindakaaswinkel and they have made it with coconut oil instead of palm oil,it comes in different flavors, my favorite hands down is the Karamel Zeezout. You guys, the German in Venice , Mike gave a great tip on one of his videos on the Oberhausen Westfield Centro Mall, I go there to buy Kraft mac&cheese,Lucky Charms cereal,etc. Last but not least I buy online from My American Market,they are cheaper than Amazon on their products and have sales often.Here is the link to Mike's video in case you are interested in the mall-ruclips.net/video/OjQLsuXzxRw/видео.html
Dr. Pepper has always tasted like carbonated prune juice to me 🤷♀️ My mom made mac n cheese with tuna when I was a kid, total comfort food. I've never seen bacon jam for sale in a store in the US, just in fancier burger restaurants that is made in house
i used to get those ribs cuz they're quick and easy and not that expensive, made a quick coke and cherry glaze to em, they're actually surprisingly good, would recommend.
Hi guys from Pgh, Pa. My husband and I are in our mid 50's. We're always concerned about the salt intake. Besides the taste test. Hoping the salt isn't too high. We have Aldi here. The Aldi peanut butter cups are amazing. 👍👍🤤😋🤤😋 we just love watching you guys!! So fun!! Xo 💙❤️🌺🌹☺️☺️☺️ Dr pepper is so delicious. It's funny how allot of our parents kept us away from pop/sodas. Nowadays my mom has every pop in her house. The grand kids rate. Lol ☺️☺️☺️
I made peanut butter cups as a ball, with swirls of white and dark chocolate ganache. The customers paid $30-$40 for two of them in the 1980s money! Oh this was at the restaurant at San Moritz Switzerland.
Yeah, I've seen a lot of products in stores in Europe labelled as "American" but, as an American, I've never seen or heard of these items in my life. Some of them are pretty good and some are horrid, but it always gives me a chuckle.
Deana I loved you pronounced Reese's as "ree-sees." I do too! I've found not everyone does! I am from Maryland so I don't know if it is a speech pattern thing or not in the US.
Mac & Cheese and can tuna. Yes. I started mixing that together as a kid too. Deanna when your back in the US you’ve got to try Velveeta shells & Cheese in the box mixed with tuna fish. ❤️❤️❤️
I too associate Dr Pepper with going to the movie theater! As a kid/teenager, it seemed like most fast food places didn't have it, but most all theaters seemed to, so I would always get that.
I remember when I lived in Wiesbaden from 1969-1973 that most of my German friends didn't even know what ribs were,, and corn on the cob was fed to the pigs.
Those little Reese's cups are best if you keep them in the fridge so they stay more firm and crunchy. Don't freeze them, but definitely keep them cold in the fridge.
One of my favourite moments about americanising things was when I ate a burger in Berlin and the menu was like “make your burger in the American way* *which means without salad”
I remember years ago shopping at a Plus in Köln. One week they had chicken wings called "Obama Fingers". Shortly after that I found American BBQ Peanuts. They were in a red, white and blue package. The peanuts were in the shell and came in an aluminum package and implied that you can set it on your grill. Not once have I seen this in America.
bacon jam made properly is really good. At a restaurant we used to work at, we used brown sugar, diced/minced bacon, carm onions, and balsamic vinegar. I would definitely recommend making/trying good bacon jam on a burger
When was stationed in Flensburg I went into a local place and the had a USA Burger on the menu so I was like why not. It had corn on it. Corn. It was not bad but not American in the least lol
the corn made it American :) So did the burger, or would have in the 1970s. When McDonalds first opened here in the Netherlands people were lining up for blocks to get in and buy "real American food". That lasted a few days until everyone had figured out it was just more junk food, just packaged in styrofoam boxes (this was before McD switched to cardboard boxes) rather than plastic trays like Dutch fast food places tend to do.
My German grandfather loved cabbage rolls. Everyone that made them for him tried to get the spices right, but it was never quite like his mom's. She had a spice blend they couldn't find anymore. So if anyone has an idea, we tried several. He has passed, but I'm still curious!
I once had delicous steamed cabbage that was roasted black on the outside first. you don't eat the charred parts, but the roast flavour went trough. it gave it a little twist flavourwise. maybe that had something to do?
Americans do have barbeque meatballs. Usually as an Hors d'oeuvre.. They are little meatballs in BBQ sauce, alternatively you can have smokey's (little smoked sausages)
my wife and I are coming to Germany for the first time in December for the Christmas villages. we're SO excited to come and try all the German foods we've seen on your channel
That sounds like a lot of fun! All those Christmas markets -- bring pants with elastic :-) Never understood those who travel but only want to eat foods from their country -- I could understand one meal just to compare , but everything ! no ! (of course, there is the exception if you have food allergies or issues)
Might have to reconsider that plan. with the war going in ukraine and all the shortages that come with it i doubt we'll be having any christmas markets this year. i hope i'm wrong of course but ehhh seems to likely sadly.
I didn't know peanut butter but I spent my first years growing up in the former GDR. My mom was a teacher and in the early 90s there were some sort of exchange programs for teachers and so we landed in Ulm. And they had all kinds of nut "butters" like almond, hazelnut, cashew and they had it with honey. I'm not a big peanut fan, I don't like them in my food but I like a good peanut butter and honey sandwich.
hot dogs, hamburgers, subs/hoagies/heroes, and mac and cheese are very common American foods where i live here in Philadelphia (not to mention cheesesteaks). potato salad and macaroni salad are also common. the pizza, chicken nuggets, and pb&j's are spot on. i think i might be spoiled in my culture because i didn't realize that bbq style flavors could be seen as an American thing but yeah. we love a good bbq
9:32 That's exactly what makes "American" pizza, American pizza. I think it's more New York style, but the point is, it's not European pizza, or as we call it: pizza. Like in Italy. Where it's from. 11:35 You probably have it because peanutbutter actually is popular in the Netherlands. We make our famous peanutbuttersauce with it. You know, which goes on chicken satay and fries.
Dr Pepper was created in Waco, TX by a pharmacist who enjoyed mixing soda flavours for his patients. It's a little bit of everything, mostly medicinal cherry flavour - which is why it tastes sharp like licorice, or kind of like cough syrup. Root beer has similar origins- the tree bark and herbs in it have been used to treat nausea, and to thin the blood.
Dr Pepper taste like Coke with a cherry almond flavor. Did you know that there are different Dr. Peppers in different countries? In some countries, you see sugar substitutes on the ingredient list. Others use sugar or half sugar or corn syrup. Same as in Germany, in the Netherlands, we have also a lot of American style, the American way,, branded food,like frozen Pizza(Oetker, Wagner) Icecream (Hagendaz) Here in The Netherlands, we like our own peanut butter but we also can buy American peanut butter like M&M peanut butter
for a Corn Dog gotta visit a Weinerschnitzel...... they are a Chili dog Franchise mainly but the do Corn Dogs which is a corn batter dipped and deep fried caseless meat link on a stick, another place thats prolly not seen all over is Hot Dog on a Stick which is a small Franchise that does Various flavors of Lemonade Pizza Pretzels and their main selling item the Corn Dog, texture should be similar to that of a Corn Bread Pancake.... if your in California you will be able to find both.. of course you could hit up a Grocery store and get some frozen corn dogs which are fairly good reheated via microwave or oven but you really cant beat freshly fried corn dogs. Macaroni and Cheese is way easy, Get some Elbow Macaroni, boil till its cooked to your liking, have a Bechamel sauce ready to go OR use some butter, ground white pepper, heavy cream and either roux or arrow root / corn starch and fold in shredded Sharp Cheddar and or another cheese of your liking... I wouldnt use soft cheeses but thats up to you. Dr.Pepper is Prune Soda that Bacon Onion spread.... sounds horrible, Caramelized Onions mixed with chopped cooked bacon is salty sweet on its own without adding sugar
What are your thoughts on these "American" products? Have you seen other products claiming to be from your country?
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Es ist wirklich schlimm was die Deutschen denken was wir Amerikaner essen o.0 dabei gibts wirklich nette "typische" gerichte die nix mit fast food am hut haben könnt ihr darüber mal ein Video machen?
Deana is right, if you want good Donuts, to get them in "Dunkin' Donuts" (n Hamburg I know 5 or 6 stores) is the best solution. The Donuts you buy in supermarkts are mostly dry and without taste.
To be fair we do the same with international stuff.
What do they do with ribs in Germany if they don’t use them like we do?
So I fund it hilarious that Phil thinks Germans just don't do doughnuts. First recorded recipe for a dough nut was from a German cookbook in the 15th century. The Dutch brought doughnuts to New York. They have morphed quite a bit, used to be straight and twisted, so they would turn themselves over in the oil.
American food in Germany is about as American as “German” food in the US is German.
I live in an area of Texas that was founded by Germans. Even the best German food I’ve had here is probably nothing like in Germany.
Ps German potato salad beats it’s American counterparts. I hope that gets even better, too.
@@JessieHTX mabye u have some kinda other potato "strains" (don't know if this is the right word, but u get me)
Fortunately, we live next to Washington DC and are availed many authentic cuisines. I am grateful for this, especially since I was privileged to live in the gorgeous Germany for five years.
@@YESHUAISTWL Please recommend a good German restaurant.
Funny how when people move from another country to the U.S. they fail at making their native foods and somehow are lesser.
BBQ Meatballs is a thing in the midwest, especially during football season. Fill a crockpot with a bag of frozen meatballs, a bottle of sweet baby ray's, and a jar of grape jelly.
When my American husband came to Germany for the very first time, they had American week at Aldi. After he tried a few things he said: That's so NOT American 😂
But the same goes for some "German" products in the US. It may be ok if you feel a little homesick, but it's just not the same.
I prefer German food when I visit my folks in Germany and I eat American food when I'm back in the States. But I have to admit that we once went to a Bavarian style Restaurant in the States and the food actually tasted pretty awesome. The chef and owner was born and raised in Bavaria and he tried his best to create the original taste.
It would be so good if there were more options for fried chicken than KFC, Raising Cane's or a Chick-fil-A in western Germany,the one near us is not so good
@@teribendt94 Yeah, Germany is a fast food wasteland. They only know McDonalds, Burger King and KFC. Most KFC stores are pretty bad. But they have Five Guys stores 😁
@@yourpainisagift6171 ,They are pretty good :)
@@yourpainisagift6171 It's fast food CHAIN Wasteland. You want to grab fast food? Go to a Döner store. Or a Currywurst stall. Or a bakery and grab a sandwich and so on.
@@undertakernumberone1 Yeah, that's what I meant. FF chain wasteland.
I don't know how well Deana speaks German already, but her accent has definitely improved a lot. The way she said "Macaroni with Käsesoße" was almost spot on :)
Danke! Although I think my English is getting worse...
Yeah, I immediately noticed that too!
@@DeanaandPhil A friend I grew up with has lived in Southern France for ~5 years now and his English is definitely getting worse over time (mostly in subtle ways though). I think it just comes with the territory of living between cultures a bit
@@DeanaandPhil Hahhaa can relate!!
@@DeanaandPhil "Butcher's Louisiana Spare Ribs" were a great idea, today I bought me a package in the Penny Markt. I rubbed the Ribs with mustard and put it in the electric home grill for 15 minutes- so yummy with a fresh breadroll! 👍
Deana I love that you used to put tuna fish in your Mac and cheese!! I did it when my kids were younger to add protein for them. They are both young adults now and they still make it that way sometimes!
Idk how it started, but I love it! That's so cool that your kids do the same!
@@DeanaandPhil We did it at Penn State. It's cheap and good!
Tuna Helper!
Tuna fish? Do you eat steak cow also?
@@nickrydar9225 no need to be an ass. I'm quite certain most folks call it tuna fish!
I am German, grew up in the 90s and we always had peanutbutter with apricot jelly. We also ate it with honey or nutella. Not on this white soft bread but with a non whole grain bread. But I remember that peanutbutter wasn't common among my friends and hard to get, so we went to the Netherlands to buy it. And even today it's hard to find a really good one here. Godd one means to me a peanutbutter with roasted peanuts and no added sugar.
15:40 see the 23 on the can? It’s actually 23 flavors combined. The legend says the inventor owned a soda fountain where you could pick the syrups you wanted in your drink and he got sick of waiting for people to make up their mind so for people who took too long he’d give them a shot that was a mixture of a little of every flavor all 23
boxed mac n cheese, can of cream of mushroom, can of peas (mixed in last), and a can of tuna is what we eat once a week
Tuna surprise
@@brucekrygier5842 it aint a surpise anymore ive been eating for 25 years or so lol
Once a week is too many times. I would get tired of it. Once in a while it would be good. Sorry, it must have good memories tied to it but I just couldn't eat it so often.
I'm a German and live in Germany,, my son's (1,5 year, 3,5 year) really LOVE Peanut butter! They eat it EVERY day for breakfast and for dinner!
Peanut butter is amazing there's so much you can do with it. Can put it in so many different foods. Peanut oil especially your cooking. you should look up George Washington Carver.
*Also since yor kid loves peanut butter there's an Israeli snack called Bama. It's pretty good it's basically a puff like a cheese puff but peanut butter.
The amount of pork that I eat when i'm in Germany, I am always surprised that American style BBQ has not caught on at ALL in Germany.
All of my German friends LOVE BBQ when they come to the US.
Fun fact regarding artificial banana flavoring: it is based on a near extinct banana variety known as the Gros Michel, of which the artificial banana flavor is supposed very accurately represent. Gros Michel banana cultivars were devastated by a fungus in the 50s, whereafter the current Cavendish cultivar became the dominant commercial banana.
Here in the Midwest. Meatballs are a very popular potluck/appetizer food, usually mixed with little smokies and cooked in the Crock-Pot
I was stationed in Germany 1984 -1987 and loved every day of it. Frankfurt. Kaiserslautern. Pirmesans. Fischbach bie Dahn. Thank you for posting your videos 👍👍👍
as someone who has spent a considerable amount of time in st. louis, these are not st. louis style ribs, this is a baby back cut that were likely slowly roasted in an oven and packaged. st. louis style is it's own specific cut, hot smoked low and slow, in a smoker, while glazing with a vinegar/tomato based bbq sauce intermittently the entire time it's cooking
These items aren’t technically American, but it wouldn’t surprise me to find them in the frozen section of a US grocery store. It’s definitely more American inspired than actually American but it’s not as far off as I expected.
€0.69 for a Dr Pepper? That's cheaper than in the States.
Ohh, how much does it cost in the US right now?
@@DeanaandPhil Most vending machines are up to 75¢. A 12-pack runs $6-7.
but it‘s not shipped from the US, it‘s been produced under license somewhere in EU.
Deana: Remember Krispy Kreme ;-) . As someone who grew up in Germany and never understood the appeal of donuts, I have to admit that one has never tasted a real donut before trying a fresh Krispy Kreme. There is a lineup all day round for a reason.
Krispy Kreme donuts are sweeter and less substantial than traditional American raised donuts.
I think the most "Butchers" products from REWE and netto are pretty good compared to the price...
i love the fries from the butchers brand
Phil , If you really want Great American Corn Dogs , one has to go to a County or State Fair ! You can also buy a brand named '' State Fair Corn Dogs '' in most U.S. Grocery Stores !
Sonic Drive-Ins have good corn dogs too.
As a south Carolinian, I was also surprised to see something like that show up in Germany. However I saw the noodles and I was like no... This won't be good. Nothing beats home made versions of macaroni salads!
So-called American-style doughnuts and cookies were introduced by the Dutch and Germanic Scandinavian settlers in the Colonies. Many other cultures fried and baked dough, but the Dutch had already begun making extensive use of sucrose leading to that "American" taste.
I too was born in South Carolina. When we had a barbecue or a "pig-pickin' party," we still favored the French/American style sauce which had little if any sweeteners. The sauce was mainly butter and herbs, although added sugars grew quickly in popularity. Poorer people used more vinegar in their recipes. With the out-of-control recent fashion of adding hot peppers to everything in Western cuisine, most Americans imagine such to be traditional (it is not). Although digging a pit for the barbecue was most traditional, some folks used a shed or even the kitchen (a separate building in colonial America), and eventually came to use metal oven/smoker receptacles.
When I was in Europe, especially in the 1950s, I had little to no luck finding (North) American-style peanut butter, milkshakes, sodas, or truly crispy fried foods.
As you may know, George Washington Carver had nothing to do with the invention of peanut butter/cheese. The eastern Asians had been making it in various forms for their cuisines since time immemorial, and Pindarkaas was immensely popular in Dutch colonies. It was actually the Quebecois who, near the end of the 1800s, came up with the idea of making the product smoother and adding rather large amounts of refined sucrose. At about the same time, John Kellogg's sanitarium developed a machine to make the peanut butter ultra-smooth and free of the annoying bits of shell and skin. Outside of health circles, peanut butter was not very popular until the First World War's slightly confusing propaganda telling the U.S. and Canadian citizens they could win the war in Europe by having "meatless Mondays," deriving protein from peanut butter rather than meats.
I had hilarious adventures trying to get German-speaking people to understand what a milkshake was. In the early days, milkshakes were health food, originally because they contained eggs, cow milk, sugar (still a health food then), and rather large amounts of whiskey, later, the base was changed to malted milk and the alcohol was omitted. By my time, the fashion was to add flavors and ice cream. I made the mistake of describing it to the German speakers as a sort of frozen "Eierlikör." Clearly, I was already a pedant at heart, although this did lead to very interesting offerings.
I was perhaps most surprised by the carbonated soft drinks, considering that the Coca-Cola company had been in Germany for years. Without exception, the canned sodas tasted very much like Alka-Seltzer until the late 1970s. I still do not know why.
Crispy foods. Wouldn't you think they would be everywhere? But until the introduction of new methods for making breading (e.g. panko crumbs), even the ubiquitous Schnitzel had a soft, smooth coating. Deep-fried onions and some dishes made with re-fried Griebenschmaltz placated me somewhat.
The corndog was never a health food, but Deana is right, the cornmeal batter was always smooth and even. Chicken nuggets were invented in the 1950s in the USA and a refined (?) version was perfected (again, ?) in 1963. The small amount of "meat" that was in the nuggets was mostly fat, processed with bones, nerves, skins, and lots of salt and sugar. The result was a salty rubberband-like product. Absolutely forbidden in the homes of my extended family, I finally gave up and let my son eat them. Whatever the public will allow, I guess.
Meatballs are found around the world, but the "barbecue" style is thanks largely to the American addition of "love apples," i.e. tomatoes, in 1812 to the traditional--and very complex ketchup/catsup fish sauce introduced from China. Living in Europe, you all have probably had some dishes (especially Danish)--meatballs, potatoes, and so on that are traditionally served caramelized.
Well, I hope you all will excuse an old lady's ramblings. Love your videos!
Artificial banana flavor is what bananas used to taste like before they became extinct and the new banana species replaced it.
Bacon jam, when made right, is great on a hamburger or cheeseburger.
Branding it as American allows people to enjoy the unhealthy food while simultaneously giving them someone to blame, and the USA often plays that international role.
Can't wait for your video exploring japanese food in Tokyo, Kyoto and Osaka! Would love to show you around there even though I'm back in Germany now!
We would love to! We haven't make our way to Japan yet, but it's top of our travel lists!
Love you guys! I have lived all over the US and every potluck I've ever been to someone brings BBQ meatballs. Never from a can, but homemade it's actually pretty good! Best wishes!
I have a bbq meatball recipe that I’ve been making for 30 years & it is the best. My grandma used to make bbq meatballs- it was my favorite meal when we were at her house.
Sausage balls are a distinctly Southern thing.
Yessss! I was yelling at the TV, "That's just crockpot meatballs!" A bag of frozen meatballs, a bottle of bbq sauce, and a jar of grape jelly - heat until warmed through. You can also use cocktail weenies instead of meatballs. Delicious.
Deana, I imagine finding pimento cheese spread in Germany is next to impossible. Maybe at a military commisary.....I'd love to see Phi's reaction to that.
You can find Mac&Cheese in Rewe/Hit here in germany. And as i remember it is originaly from the US.
In our HIT-Market we have a big Shelf with original food from the US. Maybe you can find it at Rewe, because they work together.
Ohhhh do you recall which brand of mac and cheese??
@@DeanaandPhil I`m not sure. Maybe its from Kraft or CMC (I just found out that this is maybe a british company) If you want I can find it out but, my next shopping tour is on friday.
@@danielhermanowski6148 If you remember to! We'll stop by our nearby REWE and see too. Although, we definitely shouldn't be eating that regularly. haha. but we might just have to get a box or two just in case.
@@DeanaandPhil One day I will taste all the US food that you can`t find in germany directly in the Staates. But first I have to persuade my fiancee to travel to the US. 😂
@@DeanaandPhil look for an american candystore in germany they almost allways have cereals and mac and cheese and some pops also
Grew up with German and southern soul food mix, boiled country ham with sweet and sour red cabbage is the best comfort food ever.
I like tossing in a couple of hot dogs in the water while the mac n cheese boils. The Maine red snapper hot are the best. The casing has a bit of crunch and the meat seems tastier than a regular dog. Howard Johnson's frozen mac n cheese was my favorite growing up. It was before microwaves and took 45 minutes in the oven, but there was a delicious, crunchy crust on top (the best part). Far better than blue box.
My aunt used to make the best mac n cheese from scratch. It was a long time ago, but I remember that she used rigatoni pasta IIRC and some very stretchy white cheeses. I wish I had that recipe today :(
It’s always so funny to me to see what other countries think of American food. I love tuna in Mac n cheese! When my husband and I started dating, we would get 19 cent boxed Mac n cheese and mince beef, and mix those together and called it filler since it got ya nice and full 🤣 last time we tried making it, we both felt sick after and realized why we don’t eat what we did 25 years ago 🤣
6:30 min I remember in 1984 (i was still little) my very first visit in the McDonald's Hildesheim with my parents. Exactly in this time McDonald's introduced "Chicken McNuggets" in Germany, everybody wanted them and loved them! There was a TV in the McDonald's with a film, a group of puppets preparing Chicken McNuggets in a kitchen. My good, so long ago... 🥲
LOL I’m American, my husband is British. While in England, we’ve visited several “American” style restaurants. None were actually American. From a Philly Cheesesteak that was just a shaved beef sandwich served with arugula & cherry tomatoes, on a cold roll (no condiments), with no onions, no peppers and not even cheese included-(we argued with with the cook--I told him ‘cheese is in the name of the sandwich” lol- to peanut butter that was literally softened butter blended with chopped nuts, the best one, however: “Buffalo wings” that were baked chicken legs with a ketchup based sauce that was trying hard to be bbq lol…I have learned to bring a few essentials with me when we visit… like a bottle of Franks Red Hot. My husband says I could open an authentic American restaurant & make a fortune. FYI: we do have a BBQ meatballs in the US, usually made for a party as an appetizer. It’s basically whatever type of meatball you choose, mixed with a sauce that’s part grape jelly & part chili sauce or bbq sauce, depending on your preference. It’s not something you’ll find in a restaurant or grocery store. It’s a made-up recipe used at pot-luck parties. They’re ok served with rice or egg noodles if you have leftovers & aneed to use them. Last time I made them was for a baby shower. Sorry for the epic response lol, I could do an hour long video about this topic & the amusing, yet sometimes disappointing experiences we’ve had (like trying to find an authentic American hot dog when I was having unrelenting pregnancy cravings lol). A least McDonald’s is mostly the same--but what’s with KFC not having mashed potatoes?
Corn dogs are typically put in a fryer. And the batter on it is made from cornmeal and other ingredients.
My daughter agrees with you! Mac and cheese with canned tuna is one of her favorites lol!
I love these types of videos from you both, the ones that mix both cultures.
My girlfriend and I are getting close to taking the next step and becoming engaged. She's been living in the US for about 12 years, but is originally from Germany and is considered a citizen. Can you guys possibly do a video (or point me to one if it already exits) where you describe the process Deana had to take to move to and permanently stay in Germany? We want out of the US as quickly as we can, but it'll be after the wedding for sure, which should happen within the next 2 years.
Thanks!
I not sure if all of this is so good for you!!!
haha we definitely don't and wouldn't eat these things every day!
Regarding bacon jam:
- If you ever happen to be in Werdau in Sachsen, eat at the Erdbeerschänke and get a glas of their Bacon-Marmelade. They don't claim it to be american and it's delicious, not at all stringy and with a nice Speck flavour. (I usually don't like to advertise anything, but it just fit so well with the video.)
- In Austria we have Verhackertes, which is basically Speck thrown into the meat grinder and grounded (as in Hack from Speck). It's then seasoned and you use it as a spread on fresh bread or a bread roll. We would never put it on a steak, but I could imagine myself using it with a lean roast or as a nice addition in meatloaf.
In Canada everybody was raving about this bakery that had homemade donuts so I went there and saw that they were yeast donuts, basically sweet bread. I walked out with nothing, I thought of you Deana haha why can’t anyone make a decent cake donut?
Those yeast donuts were likely way better than the current Tim Horton's made-from-frozen donuts though...Fellow Canadian here!
@@MichelleJonesKralka ikr, so sick of that place!
@@MichelleJonesKralka Tims used to be good it is beschissen now. lol
I completely I agree!! My favourite is old fashioned glazed cake donut and it’s impossible to find a good one in Canada :(
The last time i had a great donut was a few years ago at Dandee donuts in Miami. Its an old school donut shop.
The same is true in Mexico - in my three years living here, I've never found a cake donut - even a bad one. They're all like the raised donuts described in this video - round dough with a hole in it, but not properly deep fried. Donuts are sold in lots of places here, but they're not proper American donuts.
My wife is a British citizen and the last time we were in England, we got a “Can” of American Style Hot Dogs! A Can of Hot Dogs!!!
My husband and I have been binge watching your vlogs!! He is German and I am American. We absolutely love your topics that you have on your channel 💗💗🎉
Kraft Mac&Cheese, with a small can of tuna and some (cooked) frozen peas is top-tier easy tuna casserole. Very simple, very cheap, very tasty.
I’m 63 years old, and the only time I had meatballs in BBQ sauce was in MRE’s (Meal Ready to Eat) when I was in the U S Marine Corps in the early 80’s. ( we called them Meals Rejected by Ethiopia because they were so terrible) but the meatballs in bbq was good! Of course they got rid of those!!!
Love the video! Just a few personal opinions here 🤠
- I love PB&J and love it with bananas; when i do so, I always toast the bread so the bread doesnt get soggy
- I also love Mac&Cheese and this was My staple lunch in college; I would always put sausage, tuna and veggies with either tomato sauce or ketchup to make for a decent meal
- I love the store brand PB cups because Reeses wasnt sending their products to Chile; thankfully we now have it thanks to Candyland (the store brand PB cups are still my thing if I want to get something to share with family and friends though)
Keep it up! 🤗😉
I love peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. They're my weekend breakfast. Reese's are too gritty for me. Don't like the texture. Love it when you do videos like this. Thanks for the entertainment.
The grittiness in Reese's is actually the sugar.
Loved the video! Would love a part 2 one day.
I always get the bagels simply because they are so hard to find otherwise. Can't imagine the texture comparing well to a freshly baked one but still a bagel
Stoffer's Makes the BEST Mac 'n Cheese ! Better than Kraft where one adds that powdered Cheese !
My grandmother used to make me PBJ on toasted bread… I don’t know why but toast just makes it a 10
Dass das Toastbrot als amerikanisch bezeichnet wird, liegt nicht daran, dass es Weißbrot ist, sondern daran, dass die Scheiben größer sind als deutscher Toast. Ursprünglich gab es nur Butter- und Vollkorntoast und die sind deutlich kleiner.
Some of us Americans here do do barbecue meatballs, actually, but I don't doubt it's heavily regional, and I've never seen it prepackaged like that. Usually make it from scratch-ish using frozen or homemade meatballs with separate barbecue sauce.
Big ++ on the can of tuna in the mac & cheese! These new flavored tuna pouches come in spicy and goes _great_ with mac & cheese.
American BBQ definitely needs to become more of a thing in Germany! 😁
I am from South Carolina and have been living in Germany for 8 years with my German hubby and I was so happy to see Stubb's BBQ for sale here when I first arrived. Deana, I am a huge peanut butter fan and ran across top shelf stuff in Maastricht ,no offense Germany :) I think you can buy it online now. The name is De Pindakaaswinkel and they have made it with coconut oil instead of palm oil,it comes in different flavors, my favorite hands down is the Karamel Zeezout. You guys, the German in Venice , Mike gave a great tip on one of his videos on the Oberhausen Westfield Centro Mall, I go there to buy Kraft mac&cheese,Lucky Charms cereal,etc. Last but not least I buy online from My American Market,they are cheaper than Amazon on their products and have sales often.Here is the link to Mike's video in case you are interested in the mall-ruclips.net/video/OjQLsuXzxRw/видео.html
Totally agree. If there's a single thing that America did to improve the world then it was developing and spreading their BBQ culture.
Bacon jam is a condiment that you have to heat up and goes really good on hamburgers.
Deana was making her own Tuna Helper. I've tried it and it's not bad.
Dr. Pepper has always tasted like carbonated prune juice to me 🤷♀️
My mom made mac n cheese with tuna when I was a kid, total comfort food. I've never seen bacon jam for sale in a store in the US, just in fancier burger restaurants that is made in house
i used to get those ribs cuz they're quick and easy and not that expensive, made a quick coke and cherry glaze to em, they're actually surprisingly good, would recommend.
Hi guys from Pgh, Pa. My husband and I are in our mid 50's. We're always concerned about the salt intake. Besides the taste test. Hoping the salt isn't too high. We have Aldi here. The Aldi peanut butter cups are amazing. 👍👍🤤😋🤤😋 we just love watching you guys!! So fun!! Xo 💙❤️🌺🌹☺️☺️☺️ Dr pepper is so delicious. It's funny how allot of our parents kept us away from pop/sodas. Nowadays my mom has every pop in her house. The grand kids rate. Lol ☺️☺️☺️
LOL I grew up with my Mom adding tuna to Mac & Cheese, and its actually pretty good!
I made peanut butter cups as a ball, with swirls of white and dark chocolate ganache. The customers paid $30-$40 for two of them in the 1980s money! Oh this was at the restaurant at San Moritz Switzerland.
Yeah, I've seen a lot of products in stores in Europe labelled as "American" but, as an American, I've never seen or heard of these items in my life. Some of them are pretty good and some are horrid, but it always gives me a chuckle.
What are the 23 flavors? The 23 flavors are cola, cherry, licorice, amaretto (almond), vanilla, blackberry, apricot, blackberry, caramel, pepper, anise, sarsaparilla, ginger, molasses, lemon, plum, orange, nutmeg, cardamon, all spice, coriander juniper, birch and prickly ash.
Whereas Mr Pibb is spiced cherry flavor.
Deana I loved you pronounced Reese's as "ree-sees." I do too! I've found not everyone does! I am from Maryland so I don't know if it is a speech pattern thing or not in the US.
I LOVE DR PEPPER so I was thrilled when I found it in my corner Edeka. Definitely a love or hate drink, I think.
Glass of milk and a peanut butter and jelly sandwich is one of the easiest and best quick snacks to make
Mac & Cheese and can tuna. Yes. I started mixing that together as a kid too. Deanna when your back in the US you’ve got to try Velveeta shells & Cheese in the box mixed with tuna fish. ❤️❤️❤️
Tuna Mac and Cheese! Yum! 🥰
I too associate Dr Pepper with going to the movie theater! As a kid/teenager, it seemed like most fast food places didn't have it, but most all theaters seemed to, so I would always get that.
15:49 I love dr. Pepper. I think the best way to describe the taste is coke with a paper aftertaste. It sounds weird but for me it's awesome.
the best ribs i have eaten in germany were salted (conserving salt) and then grilled
I remember when I lived in Wiesbaden from 1969-1973 that most of my German friends didn't even know what ribs were,, and corn on the cob was fed to the pigs.
Those little Reese's cups are best if you keep them in the fridge so they stay more firm and crunchy. Don't freeze them, but definitely keep them cold in the fridge.
We eat BBQ meatballs for an appetizer during the holidays and have done so since I was a little kid. Southern Indiana
One of my favourite moments about americanising things was when I ate a burger in Berlin and the menu was like “make your burger in the American way*
*which means without salad”
I remember years ago shopping at a Plus in Köln. One week they had chicken wings called "Obama Fingers". Shortly after that I found American BBQ Peanuts. They were in a red, white and blue package. The peanuts were in the shell and came in an aluminum package and implied that you can set it on your grill. Not once have I seen this in America.
And, fun video! I love watching with my German husband - so we can relate 🌸
bacon jam made properly is really good. At a restaurant we used to work at, we used brown sugar, diced/minced bacon, carm onions, and balsamic vinegar. I would definitely recommend making/trying good bacon jam on a burger
When was stationed in Flensburg I went into a local place and the had a USA Burger on the menu so I was like why not. It had corn on it. Corn. It was not bad but not American in the least lol
the corn made it American :)
So did the burger, or would have in the 1970s.
When McDonalds first opened here in the Netherlands people were lining up for blocks to get in and buy "real American food". That lasted a few days until everyone had figured out it was just more junk food, just packaged in styrofoam boxes (this was before McD switched to cardboard boxes) rather than plastic trays like Dutch fast food places tend to do.
The bbq meatballs are just the frozen meatballs from Aldi's with about half bbq sauce and half grape jelly cooked in a crockpot.
Really interesting to see. Though as a German I'd like Deana to talk more about the differences to the products in the US
My German grandfather loved cabbage rolls. Everyone that made them for him tried to get the spices right, but it was never quite like his mom's. She had a spice blend they couldn't find anymore. So if anyone has an idea, we tried several. He has passed, but I'm still curious!
I once had delicous steamed cabbage that was roasted black on the outside first. you don't eat the charred parts, but the roast flavour went trough. it gave it a little twist flavourwise. maybe that had something to do?
The pizza you ate had a version with sausage in the crust. I liked that one pretty much. Cheese was as u said too less cheese
On the PB&J, I feel like the classic PB&J is actually with grape jelly, but I like it with better with strawberry jelly too
Americans do have barbeque meatballs. Usually as an Hors d'oeuvre.. They are little meatballs in BBQ sauce, alternatively you can have smokey's (little smoked sausages)
You guys should try Korean corn dogs in Berlin, in the asian markets.
my wife and I are coming to Germany for the first time in December for the Christmas villages. we're SO excited to come and try all the German foods we've seen on your channel
That sounds like a lot of fun! All those Christmas markets -- bring pants with elastic :-) Never understood those who travel but only want to eat foods from their country -- I could understand one meal just to compare , but everything ! no ! (of course, there is the exception if you have food allergies or issues)
I hope you will have a great time over here!
If you need any tips or further information, please ask.
Might have to reconsider that plan. with the war going in ukraine and all the shortages that come with it i doubt we'll be having any christmas markets this year. i hope i'm wrong of course but ehhh seems to likely sadly.
I didn't know peanut butter but I spent my first years growing up in the former GDR. My mom was a teacher and in the early 90s there were some sort of exchange programs for teachers and so we landed in Ulm. And they had all kinds of nut "butters" like almond, hazelnut, cashew and they had it with honey. I'm not a big peanut fan, I don't like them in my food but I like a good peanut butter and honey sandwich.
hot dogs, hamburgers, subs/hoagies/heroes, and mac and cheese are very common American foods where i live here in Philadelphia (not to mention cheesesteaks). potato salad and macaroni salad are also common. the pizza, chicken nuggets, and pb&j's are spot on. i think i might be spoiled in my culture because i didn't realize that bbq style flavors could be seen as an American thing but yeah. we love a good bbq
9:32 That's exactly what makes "American" pizza, American pizza. I think it's more New York style, but the point is, it's not European pizza, or as we call it: pizza. Like in Italy. Where it's from.
11:35 You probably have it because peanutbutter actually is popular in the Netherlands. We make our famous peanutbuttersauce with it. You know, which goes on chicken satay and fries.
Phil with the peanut butter cups was so heartwarming!
Dr Pepper was created in Waco, TX by a pharmacist who enjoyed mixing soda flavours for his patients. It's a little bit of everything, mostly medicinal cherry flavour - which is why it tastes sharp like licorice, or kind of like cough syrup. Root beer has similar origins- the tree bark and herbs in it have been used to treat nausea, and to thin the blood.
Dr Pepper taste like Coke with a cherry almond flavor.
Did you know that there are different Dr. Peppers in different countries?
In some countries, you see sugar substitutes on the ingredient list.
Others use sugar or half sugar or corn syrup.
Same as in Germany, in the Netherlands, we have also a lot of American style, the American way,, branded food,like frozen Pizza(Oetker, Wagner) Icecream (Hagendaz)
Here in The Netherlands, we like our own peanut butter but we also can buy American peanut butter like M&M peanut butter
American style food and actual home made american food is usually much different. But those ribs and the PB&J looked pretty good to me.
Dr pepper is still one of my favorite sodas I actually had a month for a year ago where all I ate for breakfast with Dr pepper and ramen LOL
J.J. McCullough has made a video discussing these faux-American foods. You should check it out if you get the opportunity
(Berliner) Pfannkuchen are basically jelly doughnuts. And they go well for breakfast.
Please, Please , Please! Tell the German people that junk is not American food. I was so grossed out by it!!
I used to get great barbecue ribs at a place just outside Munich in southern Germany 🇩🇪
for a Corn Dog gotta visit a Weinerschnitzel...... they are a Chili dog Franchise mainly but the do Corn Dogs which is a corn batter dipped and deep fried caseless meat link on a stick, another place thats prolly not seen all over is Hot Dog on a Stick which is a small Franchise that does Various flavors of Lemonade Pizza Pretzels and their main selling item the Corn Dog, texture should be similar to that of a Corn Bread Pancake.... if your in California you will be able to find both.. of course you could hit up a Grocery store and get some frozen corn dogs which are fairly good reheated via microwave or oven but you really cant beat freshly fried corn dogs.
Macaroni and Cheese is way easy, Get some Elbow Macaroni, boil till its cooked to your liking, have a Bechamel sauce ready to go OR use some butter, ground white pepper, heavy cream and either roux or arrow root / corn starch and fold in shredded Sharp Cheddar and or another cheese of your liking... I wouldnt use soft cheeses but thats up to you.
Dr.Pepper is Prune Soda
that Bacon Onion spread.... sounds horrible, Caramelized Onions mixed with chopped cooked bacon is salty sweet on its own without adding sugar
I’m from the Midwest and we LOVE our pasta salads here!