Genau. Die Packungen Backpulver sind meist in 5er-Packs z.B. beim Discounter deiner Wahl erhältlich. In dieser kleinen Größe ("für einen Kuchen " ) hat übrigens Dr.Oetker angefangen. Zur Hefe: Trockenhefe ist zwar ganz nett. Aber besser ist m.E. die frische Hefe, Würfel zu 42 Gramm. Kostet weniger als trockene und ist effektiver (subjektiv).
The typical German bags of baking powder all have a certain size, the amount is thought to be used for 500 grams of flour, usually 1 cake. This size was first used by Dr. Oetker at the end of the 19th century and, as a business idea, was so successful, that it remained the same ever since and even other brands copied it for their own product.
The red of barns in the US came from Sweden, where the color is called „Falun röd“ and is a byproduct of copper mining. It is good against mold. In Germany it is not used, since we have no copper mining.
Yes, in germany this colour is called "Schwedenrot" (=Sweden red) and I connect this colour mainly with houses from the swedish countryside. (Although I know the red american barns from american movies and tv-shows.)
I only know the traditional German habit to treat the wood of barns with oil, therefore these often apear (dark) brown. Untreated wood turns silvery gray after a while.
During my stays in the US, I noticed that the plugs often don't hold up enough that they accidentally fall out if you pull the cable a little. Personally, I prefer a more solid mount...
German Power plugs are harder to pull out because they are safe to operate, i.e. you can‘t touch the pins while they are still connected to the outlet. That is easily possible with the US style plugs. (But the voltage is only 110 V in the US, so touching it is less dangerous. No! Don‘t try it. 110 V can still be lethal!) The amount of baking powder in one of these little bags is just the right amount for one cake, so it is very easy to handle. Dryed yeast usually comes in these small bags as well, but fresh yeast is more common in Germany. And this comes packaged in little cubes.
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US plugs are basically as dangerous, since given the appliances using the same power, the current is higher.
@ 110 V and 220 V plugs are not the same. The 220 V plugs are much heavier and the wiring is much heavier. The plug on an electric stove is about the size of my fist, and the contacts are heavier and constructed so that they cannot be used in a insufficient outlet.
@@nejdro1 I remember at least some decades ago, electric stoves didn't have plugs, they had fixed connections to three-phase power (approximately 400V). I think I've since seen them with standard 220V plugs.
@@KaiHenningsen Yes, I don't know when it changed, but today's stoves all come with a heavy duty plug, rather than being "hard wired". My first house, which was built in 1970, had the stove hard wired. When I bought a new stove, several years later, I had to install a new outlet 220v to accept the plug.
@@northman1268 Klar, geben tuts alles, ich verwende selbst auch Soda. Aber wenn man im Supermarkt nach Backpulver sucht, findet man am ehesten diese kleinen Beutel.
This is sometimes also done in other stores on certain days, or even in buildings which aren't normally stores on certain days. I think they call it "Outlet-Verkauf" or "Outlet Sale"
Ich glaube das Backpulver in den USA kommt deshalb in so großen Mengen, weil sich MacGyver aus eine kleinen Dr. Oetker Packung keine Tränengasbombe bauen könnte :-)
Yes! I’ve been living here in Germany for a year now (I’m American) and I noticed that adults drink Capri Suns. It was a shocking thing to see since those are typically only a child’s beverage in the states.😅
The most things that are common in Germany are pretty standard in the Netherlands and Belgium too. The 'latin' part of Europe (France, Spain, Italy) has different customs
I noticed this power outlet thing when I was in NYC. As a german it felt really unsecure to plug in some devices because the outlet seemed so 'unsusually' lose and I was afraid the plug might fall out again. Never happend though :D
My US apartment hasn't been updated in a while-only about half will hold a plug without falling out. Certain ones can only take "light" plugs. I can't believe that's not even an issue in Germany!!
Can’t say that I’ve ever had a problem with loose plugs in America. The one thing I can say, is that I can go anywhere in America and find the same plug and the same voltage and hurts cycles. This is not true in Europe
Never seen a real restaurant with bowling. I know some "old-fashioned" restaurants with a "Kegelbahn" (attention: bowling and kegeln are different sports), because that was common in the earlier years (before and after the war), but apart from that I only know bowling with that typical American flair and food (burgers, chicken wings, etc.) which are very popular for children's birthdays in germany too.
I live in Belgium and just around the corner is this huge bowling venue where you can eat spare ribs, hot dogs etc ... Lots of people eat there during/after bowling but it's not really haute cuisine
Barns can be any colour or material in Germany - but there are regional differences: brick with airing holes in the North, timber frame and lime or clay in many areas, just wood in others.
Also here in Germany inline skating was most popular in the 90s. Just like skateboarding. The skate night is a relic from that time that has survived to this day.
Naturtrüber Apfelsaft und der billige "Rum" ausm Lidl schmeckt zusammen wirklich gut. (Rum in Anführungszeichen, weil es glaube ich nicht als Rum verkauft werden kann)
In Germany a barn is called Scheune ( oldfashioned Scheuer), but in swabian dialect of my homeregion Barn means the part of a Scheuer, where hay and straw is really stored.
I was one of the first people in Germany wearing a helmet when bicycling to work. Some youngsters tried to make fun of me ("uncool") - and I answered: "I protect the most important part of my body - that is my brain. I don't know what part of your body you want to protect". :-)
@@vickymc9695 White barns for dairy show that they are clean for milk. Tobacco barns have no paint to keep the smell of the paint from affecting the taste of the tobacco. In US it was common to use a milk wash paint consisting of red clay (red dirt in many places in US) and milk which makes an inexpensive paint. The government owns no barns in US except for research facilities. Red became the defacto standard for painted barns in the 1800s and when farmers could afford "real paint" the kept ghr red color.
In Wisconsin. dairy barns are mainly red, in my rural dairy town where there are more cows than people, we have 4 red dairy barns and only one white barn.
The baking powder packages I'm familiar with are exactly the size of your small yeast package. Also available in these dimensions are other ingredients, for example, vanillin sugar.
Backing powder in Germany was kind of standardized by the company 'Dr Oetker' , the company wanted to create an easy to sell product that the house-wive could use quickly at home. Which is why one small package is the exact amount one would need for an average cake. Before that, backing powder often was sold by the spoon and weighed on a scale before you could take it home wtih you. Also Dr Oetker would make a huge profit off of these, so it sold so much that the packaging size pretty much became standard.
Hey Dana :) I really like your videos and I'm surprised that you can still come up with interesting differences after all these years and hundreds of videos. I love that you are always so positive in them, you smile a lot and just have this really positive energy in general. Sometimes when I feel bad, I watch some of your videos to distract me and it does help and makes me feel at least a little bit better. I also like your book and would recommend it. BUT recently your advertisement for your book was really annoying. I mean does there have to be so much about it in every video? I wouldn't mind a short ad about it in every video or a longer one in just some of them. But the way you do it now is just too much for me. If I hadn't already bought the book this way of advertising it would make me not want to buy it. I hope you can see this as constructive criticism, I still love the rest of your videos.
The colour of barns in Germany depends on the building material used, the area where the barn is situated and the age of the barn. Some are made of wood so would be brown or greyish. Some might be made of metal and also be grey or green. Here up north most barns are made out of red bricks with green wooden sliding doors. I can't believe that all barns in the US are red. The old barns that barnyard builders take apart are wooden and mostly brown and silvery grey. I don't think they've ever been painted red. Most of them go back to German immigrants.
American farmers started painting their barns with a mixture of linseed oil and iron oxide to stop moss and other things from deteriorating the wood. This gave it a rust color. After paintsxeere widely available they kept using red out of tradition.
Schwedenrot/Falunrot: _Die Bezeichnung Falu Rödfärg[2] sowie das Falu Rödfärg Logo[3] sind eingetragene, geschützte Markenzeichen der Stora Kopparbergs Bergslags AB,_ and it's supposed to be approximately RAL 2009 (Oxidrot/Oxide red). No need to bother DIN.
There was a peak in Inline Skating here in Germany around the year 2000 I would say. It was significantly more popular then as it is now. Is it really the right choice not to wear protective gear in a country with such shitty health insurance as the US? ;)
I would've put the peak a little earlier, around 1996-97... But yeah, back then, you would see someone inline-skating every day, now it something you only occasionally see. Instead now everywhere you see people using these e-scooters.
I remember that the peak was in the early-mid 90s. Back then, it was a trend sport among kids who used small wheels and wanted to learn tricks on parking lots or in the half pipe. If you see skaters today, it‘s usually mum and dad at the skate night.
In the USA you have three bolts. One for phase, one for neutral and one for protective earth. You can't reverse the connection of phase and neutral that way. But with AC it is not needed to protect against reverse connection. So with the plugs in Germany it is possible to reverse them. The trick is, that protected earth is not a bolt but it is the clamps on both sides in the middle. These clamps are not only protective earth, they are also there to hold the plug in the outlet, so it can fall of easily. Also, these clamps do still have contact while pulling out while the bolts do not have contact anymore. Also, pluggin it has become more difficult with new types of outlets because of the mandatory child protection inside.
Hard apple cider is considered an a adult beverage in the usa because of the alcohol content, there is non alcoholic apple cider available in the stores in the usa that is drunk by both kids and adults. Apple juice is basically a kids drink in the usa.
I wanted to bake a cake for my friends in america. I needed “real vanilla” for the recipe. They only have liquid vanilla in small gas bottles. Neither my friends nor the employees in the grocery knew real vanilla. Dana, is it different for you?
In Saudi Apfelschorle was served as "Saudi champagne" when the sparkling water was Perrier. Tastes even better when mixed with slices of orange, half a lemon and crushed mint, and ice cubes, strained and served in champagne glasses. I still serve it to alcohol free champagne on parties with great success.
I think baking powder package size might be due to the metric system: baking ingredients have to be weighed mostly, and so you can just dump the whole or half of a package of baking powder into the batter instead of weighing it or measuring "a level teaspoon of baking powder". In the US, you already have these handy cup measures so you can be asked to measure this one ingredient on a teaspoon.
I can remember that whenever I was in the US I mostly put out the plug accidentally, cause i pulled to hard at the cable while running around with e.g. my phone 😂
your observation about restaurants inside sports venues is totally true. in America, everything's a bit more "secluded" or dedicated to a purpose and that's about it. but yes, especially eating, you can go anywhere in Europe with no other purpose than just that. actually, it even became a sport in itself for some people to just go to a sports venues and watch others playing while they'd enjoy their food.
Germany has 2 types of plugs, the big ones for your computer, tumble drier, and other biggee appliances. The pins on those plugs are thicker. Then there are electric toothbrushes, phone chargers, etc. Their pins are slightly thinner. You can often already see which type is which because big appliances often have that big round head the pins stick out of versus the slim flat ends with the pins of small appliances Because of the different sized pins German plug sockets have little flexible braces in the pin holes. That way both pin sizes can be accomodated and held securely. You might notice that mostly the bigger pins are hard to pull out
The Germans use a different baking powder, Hirschhornsalz (ammonium carbonate), for specific baked goods like cookies. It works a bit like double acting baking powder because it requires heat to make it rise. But it does give off an ammonia aroma during baking, and the item has to be relatively small so that all the ammonia flavor can evaporate during baking. My friend's grandmother's Lebkuchen recipe calls for Hirschhornsalz, for example.
@@darrylrichman so. I hope I translated right: 75 g butter 175 g sugar Vanille extract as much as like and/or peel of a lemon as much as you like pinch of salt 1 egg 8g Hirschhornsalz 250 ml of milk 500g flour 75g dark chocolate 75g white chocolate Mix 1-2 tablespoons of milk with the Hirschhornsalz unter its desolved. Put aside for later. Mix well: butter, sugar, vanilla/lemon peel and salt. Then put in the egg and mix again until combined Put in flour and milk alternaly in small amounts each and keep mixing everything together while doing so. Be quick or the dough will get to hard and try. Now add the Hirschhornsalz-milk-mix from the begining and mix for one last time until it becomes a firm dough. Make portions of ca 3-4 cm in size and put them on a tray with baking paper. Make sure to leave space between them as they will run flat while baking. Bake for 15-20min in a preheated oven (air circulation) at 170 Celsius. Let steam out after opening oven (smells a little weird, dont worry that is normal) Let it completly cool off. Melt chocolate in two bowls Now put either dark chocolate on top of one half of your "americans" and white chocolate on top of the other half (you should get about 30 with the recipy, so cover about 15 with dark choc. and 15 with white choc.) Or if you want to get fancy try put on dark chocolate on top of only one half of each american and cover the other half with white chocolate. Some prefer sugar glaze made from powdered sugar and water over white chocolate. But I dont.
@@ApsaraMenaka Sounds great! But I've never seen cookies like that here in the USA. I guess that's like Steak Americain that the French make. You'll almost never find that here, either.
@@darrylrichman According to Wikipedia, the American Version is the Black and White Cookie: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amerikaner_(Geb%C3%A4ck) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_and_white_cookie
Me as a German think it's weird that every barn have the same colour. Why should that be a thing? '^^ You mean "Trockenhefe" that is sold in... packs. Usually in Germany, we also use fresh yeast and that is sold in little cubes. If the food and atmosphere in the restaurant is good, yeah, why not come to eat. Apple juice is just juice like any other juice, what's going on in the US? xD When I was a kid, my dad had a full... uhm... drinks crate (Getränkekiste) full with different juices - apple, cherry, peach, Kiba (Cherry and Banana), sometimes Banana on its own and not to forget "trüber Apfelsaft" (cloudy Apple juice). The last one is a direct juice that means it is completely made from fresh fruit not concentrates.
Every barn isnt the same color. If you are a fairy farmer your barn is white. If you are a tobacco farmer its and ugly gray color. The tobacco barns look like they are going to collapse to the ground.
Sockets in Germany, we have plugs with 5mm round pins (Schuko up to 10 Ampere) and 4mm round pins (Eurostecker 3 Ampere only), both 19m away. In France there are different sockets, but there are plugs that fit both systems. The socket is built so that both variants are held firmly.
Do you also know the regulation about which devices need to have which of these plugs? If the device has a metal casing, it needs to have the Schuko-Stecker. That's so that if something goes wrong and a wire gets loose inside and touches the case, the customer is not electrocuted when touching it. The additional safety contacts on the side will cause the "FI-Schalter" (residual-current device (RCD), residual-current circuit breaker (RCCB), or ground-fault circuit interrupter (GFCI)) in the fuse box to cut power in such an instance.
The best apple juice I had was so-called apple cider, which is a little sweeter than apple juice. It tastes like liquid cooked apples. It‘s available in glass bottles.
@@Herzschreiber no there is NO alcohol in cider. You could add alcohol but usually there isnt any. I drank it and it was sold to me when I was 6. This is what apple cider is en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_cider#:~:text=Apple%20cider%20(also%20called%20sweet,alcoholic%20beverage%20made%20from%20apples.&text=Cider%20is%20typically%20pasteurized%20to,but%20untreated%20cider%20is%20common.
@@Herzschreiber Yes and no. There are two kinds of cider. One is the one you descriped (comparable to the German Apfelwein). The other one is a very intense kind of apple juice without any alcohol.
@@schubser3327 but there is a difference between cider and "Apfelwein" which is also called Viez in some regions. Apfelwein does not sparkle, cider does.
My granny often used to mix Apfelschorle in summer as it is a refreshing drink. And hey speaking of kids, depending on how much you dillute it, you can make it look like champagne, so the kids can also have a "drink" on occasions like new year's eve etc and can feel all big and grown up :-)
Traditionally, barn paint was home made. The colour was Ox Blood red and the paint was made from milk and, you guessed it Ox blood and sometimes some red Iron oxide.
@@markbernier8434 And the latter is why, when I heard about "barn red" for the first time, I thought, "Why is this even a thing?!" As we've seen mentioned in this comment section already, lots of barns elsewhere aren't painted _at all,_ or else with whatever paint is handy, there's very little uniformity. It's not as if barns are high-status items that have to look just right.
Ok so biiig comment with my opinions: - Barns in Germany are barn shaped and do not come in specific colors - The package looks like any Alnatura package. I think based on the size it might be their baking powder, I think vanilla sugar is smaller and pudding is larger. It could be anything though - Inline skating definitely was more common in the 90s and 00s
To me one of the most stunning difference is that the U.S. basically doesn't use blister packaging for pills. I know where it comes from. Pharmaceutical companies in the U.S. are forbidden to directly sell to consumers, and blister packaging is seen as pre-dosing of medicine, which is considered part of direct marketing. The privilege of dosing is reserved to the pharmacy, not the factory making the drugs. Thus you have those small brownish containers with the white pegs and a sticker for the pills in the U.S..
Hi Dana, 6) Yes, plugs are different in Germany and the US (and other countries). The German plugs are "stronger" . Maybe it's safer if you have children and/or pets around. Or the socket is easier to install or remove in a US house (wall). 5) I'm not sure but I think barns in Germany are mostly in "wood colour". If you go to Scandinavia you will find colourful barns. 4) "Backpulver/Hefe", maybe American cakes are bigger. Everything's bigger in the US. 3) Inline-skating. Yes I agree that it was very popular in the 1990s. Not only my children used it, even my wife and I used it. I don't think that it is still very popular today, probably ice-skating is more popular (unfortunately not these days). My grand children (between 4 and 8 years) started inline-skating this fall and they are well equipped with safety materials. 2) I think you answered your question already, the food here is better. Maybe you must have more qualifications to run a restaurant/sportsfaciclity over here. Or in the US the sport in a sports facility is more important than the food. 1) Apple-juice is the favourit drink of my grand-children. There are big differences in quality and price. The cheap ones are containing much more sugar. When we go to a restaurant for dinner very often (mostly) women drinking "Apfelschorle", a mix of applejuice and (sparkling) water. "Lift" you can buy at supermarkets. This is Coca-Cola's "Apfelschorle". You are right, I agree, that apple-juice is more popular in German speaking nations. Can you imagine dinner at a restaurant in Italy and guests having lasagne and apple-juice?
I LOVE Apfelschorle! It's my day-to-day drink. I love the mix of refreshing sparkling water and fruity sweet-sour taste. With water I don't drink enough and sodas are just too sweet for my taste to drink it all day long. I usually order 4-5 crates, which will last me for about 3-4 weeks. The question I have is: WHY are the barns in the US red??? I don't see a good reason for that. So no, there isn't a typical colour for barns in Europe. (Edit: Here is what Google told me: "Rust was plentiful on farms and because it killed fungi and mosses that might grow on barns, and it was very effective as a sealant. It turned the mixture red in color. When paint became more available, many people chose red paint for their barns in honor of tradition.") It is deliberately that you can't pull out the plugs so easy - it's a safety feature! I don't understand, why you would buy baking powder in this huge containers. You usually only need 1-2 teaspoons, which is pretty much exactly what is in one of this small packages. So if you are someone who only bakes once in a blue moon, the smaller packages are much more convenient.
If you want a really big difference: I am a German who moved to Canada as a child and I just found out last year while visiting my grandparents that bowling and kegeln are not the same thing. I went kegeln with my grandparents at a Gaststätte (pretty fancy, white tablecloths and all). Dana goes kegeln is a video that I think could be really cool (post covid of course). Also, I don’t know if it matters but my grandparents live in NRW (I‘m not sure if it is a regional thing)
Kegeln and Kegelclubs are/were more common in NRW because of the coal mining industry and coal miner traditions, I believe. Just like Mail/Racing pigeons, Kleingärten / allotments etc
Baking powders that use both alkaline (soda) and acidic (ascorbic acid) agents will act when in contact with humidity, e.g. like soda and liquid vinegar. Therefore they will keep fresh best when packed air tight and, thus, dry in small containers. If you open a bigger container you expose the content to the humidity in the air. The baking powder should also keep for quite some time, even if stored in a big air-tight container, but I'm quite sure that's the reason why Germans want to package it air-tight in small quantities-just to be on the safe side. Even if you keep it for a year longer than the expiration date, it should still be a-ok.
Ich denke mit steigender Sicherheit der Stecker gehen sie auch schwerer raus. Also gilt natürloch nicht unendlich lange, aber ich bin mir ziemlich sicher, dass das wahrscheinlich ein Feature ist.
In Western Europe,I have mostly seen green and brown barns. Toys for kids also have predominantly green barns,if I remember correctly. Diluting juice with water is so weird to me as a Belgian but yes any kind of juice is normal to drink as an adult since the fruit equivalent is normal to eat.
Germany has lots of strict rules to follow if you have a restaurant. So typically it is not that easy to just offer some food in a sports place. On the other hand, there are restaurants that decide to offer some sports in addition to the food. So you find Bowling, Kegeln, Billiard or Darts together with food in normal restaurants. I also played Tennis in a Hotel where they had food and because they have someone working for the Hotel anyway, they could run the Tennis, Badminton and Squash court without additional personal.
in Deutschland gehören Sportstätten oft Vereinen, die den Gastronomieteil verpachten, das bedeutet für den Verein Einnahmen zum erhalt der Sportstätte und für den Pächter günstige Miete und eine garantierte Anzahl von Gästen, nämlich die Vereinsmitglieder. Es gibt daher häufig günstige Gerichte aber auch Spezialitäten je nach den Vorlieben des Pächters. Daher spricht von Vereinsheim oder Vereinsgaststätte. Beispiel: in meiner Stadt gibt es einen Kleintierzuchtverein, deren Gaststätte ist auf Geflügel spezialisiert deshalb nennen wir sie Gockelrobber. Der Sportpark ist mehr Richtung Leichtathletik und hat einen griechischen Betreiber der überregional für seine Lammgerichte bekannt ist, also kommen viele Besucher wegen dem Essen in die Sportstätte und unterstützen somit auch den Verein.
the girl that has never left USA although she has lived in germany for years .. try to live in germany without noticing the differences .. that would make your life easier and more interesting.
In iceland barns are white. It's supid because there are manny stories about farmers not finding their way in a snow storm in dead of winter when the sun doesn't come up as much and freezing to death (not in modern times) and I think if the barns had been red or yellow then that wouldn't have happened as much.
Why do Barns need a colour? There is no specific one, in no European country as far as I know. In Europe every packaging unit is smaller, partly because bigger is not necessary and partly because it reduces food waste and space. I need maybe 6 little packs of baking powder a year, I don't think I'd ever empty that big box you have there form the US. Bakeries do have bigger ones but normal households just don't need it I guess. Also those little packs usually hold exactly the amount you need for most recipes. Apple juice is delicious :D There is also apple juice with Alcohol (saurer Most). Apples are native to Germany and they have by far the best I have ever eaten, especially around lake constance. Germans love every kind of Schorle. It's just so refreshing and way better than soda. Aplle juice has as much sugar as Coke, which is why people dilute it.
Apfelsaft gibt es naturtrüb, klar, direkt gepresst oder aus Konzentrat, Bio oder nicht. Manchmal auch sortenrein. Ob in Deutschland oder Österreich. Wie ist es in USA, was für Apfelsaft wird dort verkauft? Orangensaft ist dagegen meistens aus Konzentrat, direkt gepresster steht im Kühlregal und ist deutlich teurer. Leider gibt es kein Konzentrat zu kaufen (Sirup besteht hauptsächlich aus Zucker). Wäre praktisch, denn Konzentratsäfte bestehen hauptsächlich aus Leitungswasser, die könnten doch auch zuhause angemischt werden, dann wären sie deutlich leichter zu transportieren.
in Germany the plugs are hard to pull on purpose. it's a security feature to not pull the plug accidentally or to prevent small kids to pull it out. The reason why baking powder is sold in small packages is due to "Dr. Oetker" who began to sell smaller units for "private" households at the end of the 19th century in contrast to larger units intended for bakeries. His Product was called "Bakin" and is still sold today. In the us the appreciation for food is very low compared to Europe. Maybe that's the reason why they eat while doing sports or while driving (on top of that it's unhealthy). In our region eating has a higher status and is generally not meant to be done in passing (not to mention the mess). We have a hectoliter (100l) Applejuice in our cellar from self collected apples. That'll last us one year. To have applejuice or Apfelschorle at home independently from children is very widespread in germany.
In the USA barn color is an indicator of north vs south. Areas settled from Pennsylvania are painted, almost always red. Areas settled from Virginia are unpainted, and thus wood colored. There is actually a “barn line” in Ohio and Indiana and on west, and that is an indicator of n vs s.
Hi Donna, was the single-active baking powder which you bought in Germany possibly cream of tartar? Germans struggle a bit in case of this topic as the market leaders sell double active baking powder, dominating with this double-active product, and producers of cream of tartar might try to link their products to this name as well in order to appeal also to the less seasoned cooks.
I laught so hard at the restaurant-thing cause the Schlitschuhalle in my city had just a random tea-shop and Burgerking in the same building and yikes the tea-place got bankruft 3 years after opening cause only people who went figure skating came there wich was not enough customers and burgerking was allways empty cause they randomly forbite people from outside to come in and only people who went figure skating got allowed to go into there xDDDD it was a mess and someday the while Schlitschuhhalle got Bankrupt and closed. Instead of closing the building and making something new with it they no joke let it stand empty around for over 10 years now and cause the building from the outside looks like if it was build in the past few years and not 20-30 years ago people allways tell me "how is the Schlitschuhalle closed?" when I tell them they can't go there if they want to go there lmao
Also very common in europe is the fresh yeast. Ones I heard you call it yeast cake in America, but in indiana - NOT available. I miss the fresh yeast. It is found,in europe, in the refrigerator!
Maybe barn red comes from Scandinavia, where they used to use Blood from Cows . Later it just remains the colour. Ich kenne die Farbe z.b. für Fußböden als Ochsenblut.
Wait, in what world is baking powder used for cooking Dana? :D Btw. that baking powder package is actually quite large in comparison with other brands here in Germany, and these packages are called "Briefchen", which is pretty cute.
@@Belgarion2601 Well, for once, as Licht Gestalt said, you can consider baking as a part/subset of cooking. But also, baking powder has other uses in cooking outside of baking. (It even has some uses in cleaning, btw)
I have some more weirdness for you : *AC in Germany usually comes out of the ceiling or top of the wall, AC in the states (at least in homes) comes out of the floor or bottom of the wall. *whenever I'm in the states I buy ridiculous amounts of sugar free jello in lots of flavours at the supermarkets. 1. Count jello flavours in Germany. 2. Try to find sugar free, I dare you. *how to open and close doors (and lock them) *clothing sizes. Here I barely fit into a Medium if I'm lucky, it's usually a Large. I'm a Small in the US most of the time. *deodorants: 9 out of 10 are in a spray bottle in Germany, but it's usually those twist-sticks in the US. *snacks to offer guests: chips platters vs veggie stick platters and ranch *Velveta vs Schmierkäse/Streichkäse and their different uses *cookies vs biscuits vs Mehlklöße *what to put on French fries and why everyone looks at me funny in the states when I order Mayonnaise with my fries (add on: brown gravy in CANS)
@Jonathan Parks It depends somewhat on where you live: in the very hot parts of the U.S. where air-conditioning is more important, the vents are placed up high so that the cold air will fall downward naturally. In colder climates, shared heat and air-conditioning ducts are located down low so the heat can rise naturally. The cold a/c air must be pushed upwards by a more powerful blower.
i remember the apple juice part, because as a kid during a vacation in Florida I had to drink orange juice a couple of times, because there was no apfelschorle, I was used to. it was tasty so I didn't care :D
Als gesagt wurde das ist eine so kleine Packung Backpulver. dachte ich mir während dessen ,alter was ist das für eine Riesen Packung Backpulver 😂
Same Hahahaha
We mix apple juice, pear juice, grape juice with sparkling water, not just for children.
We can't drink beer all day.
Challenge accepted
I live in Belgium and I remember my grandma and uncle drank alcoholfree sweet dark beer ('table beer') instead of limonade or cola .
@@wanneske1969 Malzbier?
@@raygoro3446 Stimmt :-)
Lmao hahaha
The small little packet of baking powder is a rather large one in German standards. Normally they are a quarter of that?
exactly, just like the yeast packets, but i rarely bought it, i liked the jars but now i am trying to bake with natural yeast
The small ones are also somewhat of a standard size. Cooking instructions even often only say „one package baking powder“
Genau. Die Packungen Backpulver sind meist in 5er-Packs z.B. beim Discounter deiner Wahl erhältlich. In dieser kleinen Größe ("für einen Kuchen " ) hat übrigens Dr.Oetker angefangen.
Zur Hefe: Trockenhefe ist zwar ganz nett. Aber besser ist m.E. die frische Hefe, Würfel zu 42 Gramm. Kostet weniger als trockene und ist effektiver (subjektiv).
The typical German bags of baking powder all have a certain size, the amount is thought to be used for 500 grams of flour, usually 1 cake. This size was first used by Dr. Oetker at the end of the 19th century and, as a business idea, was so successful, that it remained the same ever since and even other brands copied it for their own product.
The red of barns in the US came from Sweden, where the color is called „Falun röd“ and is a byproduct of copper mining. It is good against mold. In Germany it is not used, since we have no copper mining.
Yes, in germany this colour is called "Schwedenrot" (=Sweden red) and I connect this colour mainly with houses from the swedish countryside. (Although I know the red american barns from american movies and tv-shows.)
I only know the traditional German habit to treat the wood of barns with oil, therefore these often apear (dark) brown.
Untreated wood turns silvery gray after a while.
During my stays in the US, I noticed that the plugs often don't hold up enough that they accidentally fall out if you pull the cable a little. Personally, I prefer a more solid mount...
Unfortunately child proof schuko sucks. In my opinion a replacement should be standardised in the EU
German Power plugs are harder to pull out because they are safe to operate, i.e. you can‘t touch the pins while they are still connected to the outlet. That is easily possible with the US style plugs. (But the voltage is only 110 V in the US, so touching it is less dangerous. No! Don‘t try it. 110 V can still be lethal!)
The amount of baking powder in one of these little bags is just the right amount for one cake, so it is very easy to handle. Dryed yeast usually comes in these small bags as well, but fresh yeast is more common in Germany. And this comes packaged in little cubes.
US plugs are basically as dangerous, since given the appliances using the same power, the current is higher.
@ 110 V and 220 V plugs are not the same. The 220 V plugs are much heavier and the wiring is much heavier. The plug on an electric stove is about the size of my fist, and the contacts are heavier and constructed so that they cannot be used in a insufficient outlet.
@@nejdro1 I remember at least some decades ago, electric stoves didn't have plugs, they had fixed connections to three-phase power (approximately 400V). I think I've since seen them with standard 220V plugs.
@@KaiHenningsen Yes, I don't know when it changed, but today's stoves all come with a heavy duty plug, rather than being "hard wired". My first house, which was built in 1970, had the stove hard wired. When I bought a new stove, several years later, I had to install a new outlet 220v to accept the plug.
@@nejdro1 combos of stoves and hobs are still "hard wired" as they need the higher voltage to operate together.
Das ist aber schon ne relativ große Packung Backpulver. Normalerweise sind die noch kleiner. Gibts dann aber nur als 5er oder 10er Pack, glaube ich.
Ja, so wie ich das kenne, ist das in kleinen Portionen, jeweils für 1 Kuchen. Und die werden in 3er oder 10er Packs verkauft.
8g pro Packung...
Das ist Weinsteinbackpulver, das ist oft in größeren Tütchen
Man kann auch normales Soda nehmen. Gibts in 1000-Gramm und größer...
@@northman1268 Klar, geben tuts alles, ich verwende selbst auch Soda. Aber wenn man im Supermarkt nach Backpulver sucht, findet man am ehesten diese kleinen Beutel.
In German a „Outlet“ is a shop for cheap products - mostly a little bit out of fashion - directly from the producer.
Right
This is sometimes also done in other stores on certain days, or even in buildings which aren't normally stores on certain days. I think they call it "Outlet-Verkauf" or "Outlet Sale"
Also in America; same word, two different meanings.
Generally what you used to call a "Werksverkauf" where second-grade products are sold at an (allegedly, often it is not) cheap price.
Ich glaube das Backpulver in den USA kommt deshalb in so großen Mengen, weil sich MacGyver aus eine kleinen Dr. Oetker Packung keine Tränengasbombe bauen könnte :-)
😂🤣
lustige Idee
Aber Chuck Norris könnte es...
Yes! I’ve been living here in Germany for a year now (I’m American) and I noticed that adults drink Capri Suns. It was a shocking thing to see since those are typically only a child’s beverage in the states.😅
I still drink Capri Suns, just wish we had more of the German varieties.
Since they discontinued my favorite flavor (lemon) I hardly drink it anymore.
The most things that are common in Germany are pretty standard in the Netherlands and Belgium too. The 'latin' part of Europe (France, Spain, Italy) has different customs
I noticed this power outlet thing when I was in NYC. As a german it felt really unsecure to plug in some devices because the outlet seemed so 'unsusually' lose and I was afraid the plug might fall out again. Never happend though :D
Lovely pic of u Anna-Carolina!
My US apartment hasn't been updated in a while-only about half will hold a plug without falling out. Certain ones can only take "light" plugs. I can't believe that's not even an issue in Germany!!
@@zimithria 😦 that sounds unbelievably annoying. Is there a reason why plugs are made that way?
Can’t say that I’ve ever had a problem with loose plugs in America. The one thing I can say, is that I can go anywhere in America and find the same plug and the same voltage and hurts cycles. This is not true in Europe
@@nejdro1 it's not true for some parts of the EU - but most of it:
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europlug
There isn't a specific colour for a barn in Germany. But I think green is a popular colour for the doors of a barn!
And, depending where you are, some are made of wood, others of stone.
Maybe I've watched too many US series (especially Haven) but I immediately thought: The colour of American barns is red!
Never seen a real restaurant with bowling. I know some "old-fashioned" restaurants with a "Kegelbahn" (attention: bowling and kegeln are different sports), because that was common in the earlier years (before and after the war), but apart from that I only know bowling with that typical American flair and food (burgers, chicken wings, etc.) which are very popular for children's birthdays in germany too.
"bowling and kegeln are different sports"
People keep saying this, but meeeeh ... ;P
@@Feyamius Always depends on how you define it. If "throwing a ball at a wooden pin" is a sport, then bowling and kegeln are the same sport :-D
I live in Belgium and just around the corner is this huge bowling venue where you can eat spare ribs, hot dogs etc ... Lots of people eat there during/after bowling but it's not really haute cuisine
Barns can be any colour or material in Germany - but there are regional differences: brick with airing holes in the North, timber frame and lime or clay in many areas, just wood in others.
Also here in Germany inline skating was most popular in the 90s. Just like skateboarding. The skate night is a relic from that time that has survived to this day.
There are times here in the US that the plug will pull out easily even when you do not what it to pull out...
I thought the package was vanilla custard. This is the biggest bag of baking powder I have ever see. Must be for a restaurant kitchen.
No, Alnatura just sells bigger packages. ^^
Apfelschorle aber naturtrüb yummie
Und nicht zu stark. Ich kann das gekaufte nicht mehr trinken. Zuhause mischen wir 15% Apfelsaft zu 85% Wasser (grob geschätzt).
Naturtrüber Apfelsaft und der billige "Rum" ausm Lidl schmeckt zusammen wirklich gut. (Rum in Anführungszeichen, weil es glaube ich nicht als Rum verkauft werden kann)
@@NiklasRi billiger Rum, der nicht mal so genannt werden darf??? 🤣😕
Am besten frisch aus einer regionalen Kelterei (ka ob man das auch außerhalb der Rhein Main Region so nennt.).
@@TASCOLP i live in the Apple Region Bodensee
Stop insulting Swedish houses as "barns" ;)
In Germany a barn is called Scheune ( oldfashioned Scheuer), but in swabian dialect of my homeregion Barn means the part of a Scheuer, where hay and straw is really stored.
I was one of the first people in Germany wearing a helmet when bicycling to work. Some youngsters tried to make fun of me ("uncool") - and I answered: "I protect the most important part of my body - that is my brain. I don't know what part of your body you want to protect". :-)
In US regular barns are red, dairy barns are white, tobacco barns are plain unpauntrd wood (gray).
Why? Are they owned by a company or the government?
@@vickymc9695 White barns for dairy show that they are clean for milk. Tobacco barns have no paint to keep the smell of the paint from affecting the taste of the tobacco. In US it was common to use a milk wash paint consisting of red clay (red dirt in many places in US) and milk which makes an inexpensive paint. The government owns no barns in US except for research facilities. Red became the defacto standard for painted barns in the 1800s and when farmers could afford "real paint" the kept ghr red color.
In Wisconsin. dairy barns are mainly red, in my rural dairy town where there are more cows than people, we have 4 red dairy barns and only one white barn.
The baking powder packages I'm familiar with are exactly the size of your small yeast package. Also available in these dimensions are other ingredients, for example, vanillin sugar.
Backing powder in Germany was kind of standardized by the company 'Dr Oetker' , the company wanted to create an easy to sell product that the house-wive could use quickly at home. Which is why one small package is the exact amount one would need for an average cake. Before that, backing powder often was sold by the spoon and weighed on a scale before you could take it home wtih you. Also Dr Oetker would make a huge profit off of these, so it sold so much that the packaging size pretty much became standard.
i would consider the German baking powder to be on the large side. i know packages 1/4th or 1/5th the size
When I lived in Germany 45 yrs ago, baking powder yeast , und alle gewurze came in little packets. Good ecologically, and easy to store.
Often recipies in Germany also say "Use one packet of baking powder" which is convenient.
Hey Dana :) I really like your videos and I'm surprised that you can still come up with interesting differences after all these years and hundreds of videos. I love that you are always so positive in them, you smile a lot and just have this really positive energy in general. Sometimes when I feel bad, I watch some of your videos to distract me and it does help and makes me feel at least a little bit better. I also like your book and would recommend it. BUT recently your advertisement for your book was really annoying. I mean does there have to be so much about it in every video? I wouldn't mind a short ad about it in every video or a longer one in just some of them. But the way you do it now is just too much for me. If I hadn't already bought the book this way of advertising it would make me not want to buy it. I hope you can see this as constructive criticism, I still love the rest of your videos.
The colour of barns in Germany depends on the building material used, the area where the barn is situated and the age of the barn. Some are made of wood so would be brown or greyish. Some might be made of metal and also be grey or green. Here up north most barns are made out of red bricks with green wooden sliding doors. I can't believe that all barns in the US are red. The old barns that barnyard builders take apart are wooden and mostly brown and silvery grey. I don't think they've ever been painted red. Most of them go back to German immigrants.
American farmers started painting their barns with a mixture of linseed oil and iron oxide to stop moss and other things from deteriorating the wood. This gave it a rust color. After paintsxeere widely available they kept using red out of tradition.
You should get in touch with the DIN. It must not be, that barn color is standardized in the USA but not in Germany.
Schwedenrot/Falunrot: _Die Bezeichnung Falu Rödfärg[2] sowie das Falu Rödfärg Logo[3] sind eingetragene, geschützte Markenzeichen der Stora Kopparbergs Bergslags AB,_ and it's supposed to be approximately RAL 2009 (Oxidrot/Oxide red). No need to bother DIN.
There was a peak in Inline Skating here in Germany around the year 2000 I would say. It was significantly more popular then as it is now. Is it really the right choice not to wear protective gear in a country with such shitty health insurance as the US? ;)
I would've put the peak a little earlier, around 1996-97... But yeah, back then, you would see someone inline-skating every day, now it something you only occasionally see.
Instead now everywhere you see people using these e-scooters.
The two things are probably related, people underestimate the risks so they don't take precautions and they don't think health insurance is important
I remember that the peak was in the early-mid 90s. Back then, it was a trend sport among kids who used small wheels and wanted to learn tricks on parking lots or in the half pipe. If you see skaters today, it‘s usually mum and dad at the skate night.
@@IlluminatedDisplays ...who are those exact kids from ‘96 though 😂
You guys are probably right, I was born in the early 90s so I wouldn't really know if it was bigger in '95 than in '00
In the USA you have three bolts. One for phase, one for neutral and one for protective earth.
You can't reverse the connection of phase and neutral that way.
But with AC it is not needed to protect against reverse connection.
So with the plugs in Germany it is possible to reverse them.
The trick is, that protected earth is not a bolt but it is the clamps on both sides in the middle.
These clamps are not only protective earth, they are also there to hold the plug in the outlet, so it can fall of easily.
Also, these clamps do still have contact while pulling out while the bolts do not have contact anymore.
Also, pluggin it has become more difficult with new types of outlets because of the mandatory child protection inside.
I confirm that my girlfriend (not american) could guess which color barns are in the US. She was very proud of herself and so am I. We are both 29
she had to guess? I would have thought with 29 one would have come across enough pictures of them that you would KNOW and not have to guess...
@@silkwesir1444 so proud of you that you know things. Keep up the good work! ☺️
Childs shall not easily plug or unplug the power plugs. That's why it is quite challenging.
Barn red is actually of Scandinavian origin. I Sweden, it´s called Falun Red.
Whereas there are some bright red barns, the color "Barn Red" is actually more brown than red.
Now I want Apfelschorle!
The (electricity plug) outlet thing! I always thought it was me! That my hands were not strong enough to push in and pull out!😮
Wunderschöne rote Jacke! Sieht toll aus kombiniert mit dem grauen Top.
Hard apple cider is considered an a adult beverage in the usa because of the alcohol content, there is non alcoholic apple cider available in the stores in the usa that is drunk by both kids and adults. Apple juice is basically a kids drink in the usa.
You eat after the sport not while playing
I wanted to bake a cake for my friends in america. I needed “real vanilla” for the recipe. They only have liquid vanilla in small gas bottles. Neither my friends nor the employees in the grocery knew real vanilla. Dana, is it different for you?
In Saudi Apfelschorle was served as "Saudi champagne" when the sparkling water was Perrier. Tastes even better when mixed with slices of orange, half a lemon and crushed mint, and ice cubes, strained and served in champagne glasses. I still serve it to alcohol free champagne on parties with great success.
I think baking powder package size might be due to the metric system: baking ingredients have to be weighed mostly, and so you can just dump the whole or half of a package of baking powder into the batter instead of weighing it or measuring "a level teaspoon of baking powder". In the US, you already have these handy cup measures so you can be asked to measure this one ingredient on a teaspoon.
I can remember that whenever I was in the US I mostly put out the plug accidentally, cause i pulled to hard at the cable while running around with e.g. my phone 😂
your observation about restaurants inside sports venues is totally true. in America, everything's a bit more "secluded" or dedicated to a purpose and that's about it. but yes, especially eating, you can go anywhere in Europe with no other purpose than just that. actually, it even became a sport in itself for some people to just go to a sports venues and watch others playing while they'd enjoy their food.
Arent red barns original from scandinavia?
There are a lot of Scandinavian descendants in the Midwest. So maybe.
In Germany we have "anti corrosion paint" red ;)
Germany has 2 types of plugs, the big ones for your computer, tumble drier, and other biggee appliances. The pins on those plugs are thicker. Then there are electric toothbrushes, phone chargers, etc. Their pins are slightly thinner. You can often already see which type is which because big appliances often have that big round head the pins stick out of versus the slim flat ends with the pins of small appliances
Because of the different sized pins German plug sockets have little flexible braces in the pin holes. That way both pin sizes can be accomodated and held securely. You might notice that mostly the bigger pins are hard to pull out
The Germans use a different baking powder, Hirschhornsalz (ammonium carbonate), for specific baked goods like cookies. It works a bit like double acting baking powder because it requires heat to make it rise. But it does give off an ammonia aroma during baking, and the item has to be relatively small so that all the ammonia flavor can evaporate during baking. My friend's grandmother's Lebkuchen recipe calls for Hirschhornsalz, for example.
We also use Hirschhornsalz for soomething called Amerikaner (=americans)
@@ApsaraMenaka Do tell! How do you make them?
@@darrylrichman so. I hope I translated right:
75 g butter
175 g sugar
Vanille extract as much as like and/or peel of a lemon as much as you like
pinch of salt
1 egg
8g Hirschhornsalz
250 ml of milk
500g flour
75g dark chocolate
75g white chocolate
Mix 1-2 tablespoons of milk with the Hirschhornsalz unter its desolved. Put aside for later.
Mix well: butter, sugar, vanilla/lemon peel and salt.
Then put in the egg and mix again until combined
Put in flour and milk alternaly in small amounts each and keep mixing everything together while doing so. Be quick or the dough will get to hard and try.
Now add the Hirschhornsalz-milk-mix from the begining and mix for one last time until it becomes a firm dough.
Make portions of ca 3-4 cm in size and put them on a tray with baking paper. Make sure to leave space between them as they will run flat while baking.
Bake for 15-20min in a preheated oven (air circulation) at 170 Celsius. Let steam out after opening oven (smells a little weird, dont worry that is normal)
Let it completly cool off.
Melt chocolate in two bowls
Now put either dark chocolate on top of one half of your "americans" and white chocolate on top of the other half (you should get about 30 with the recipy, so cover about 15 with dark choc. and 15 with white choc.)
Or if you want to get fancy try put on dark chocolate on top of only one half of each american and cover the other half with white chocolate.
Some prefer sugar glaze made from powdered sugar and water over white chocolate. But I dont.
@@ApsaraMenaka Sounds great! But I've never seen cookies like that here in the USA. I guess that's like Steak Americain that the French make. You'll almost never find that here, either.
@@darrylrichman According to Wikipedia, the American Version is the Black and White Cookie:
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amerikaner_(Geb%C3%A4ck)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_and_white_cookie
Me as a German think it's weird that every barn have the same colour. Why should that be a thing? '^^
You mean "Trockenhefe" that is sold in... packs. Usually in Germany, we also use fresh yeast and that is sold in little cubes.
If the food and atmosphere in the restaurant is good, yeah, why not come to eat.
Apple juice is just juice like any other juice, what's going on in the US? xD
When I was a kid, my dad had a full... uhm... drinks crate (Getränkekiste) full with different juices - apple, cherry, peach, Kiba (Cherry and Banana), sometimes Banana on its own and not to forget "trüber Apfelsaft" (cloudy Apple juice). The last one is a direct juice that means it is completely made from fresh fruit not concentrates.
Every barn isnt the same color. If you are a fairy farmer your barn is white. If you are a tobacco farmer its and ugly gray color. The tobacco barns look like they are going to collapse to the ground.
Sockets in Germany,
we have plugs with 5mm round pins (Schuko up to 10 Ampere) and 4mm round pins (Eurostecker 3 Ampere only), both 19m away.
In France there are different sockets, but there are plugs that fit both systems.
The socket is built so that both variants are held firmly.
Do you also know the regulation about which devices need to have which of these plugs?
If the device has a metal casing, it needs to have the Schuko-Stecker. That's so that if something goes wrong and a wire gets loose inside and touches the case, the customer is not electrocuted when touching it. The additional safety contacts on the side will cause the "FI-Schalter" (residual-current device (RCD), residual-current circuit breaker (RCCB), or ground-fault circuit interrupter (GFCI)) in the fuse box to cut power in such an instance.
The best apple juice I had was so-called apple cider, which is a little sweeter than apple juice. It tastes like liquid cooked apples. It‘s available in glass bottles.
Ice Tea, soda, lemonade, coffee, hot tea, restaurants specialty drink.
apple juice is non alcoholic, whereas cider (or "cidre" in France) contains alcohol. Not much. Just between 4 and 8 volume percent.
@@Herzschreiber no there is NO alcohol in cider. You could add alcohol but usually there isnt any. I drank it and it was sold to me when I was 6. This is what apple cider is
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_cider#:~:text=Apple%20cider%20(also%20called%20sweet,alcoholic%20beverage%20made%20from%20apples.&text=Cider%20is%20typically%20pasteurized%20to,but%20untreated%20cider%20is%20common.
@@Herzschreiber Yes and no. There are two kinds of cider. One is the one you descriped (comparable to the German Apfelwein). The other one is a very intense kind of apple juice without any alcohol.
@@schubser3327 but there is a difference between cider and "Apfelwein" which is also called Viez in some regions. Apfelwein does not sparkle, cider does.
My granny often used to mix Apfelschorle in summer as it is a refreshing drink. And hey speaking of kids, depending on how much you dillute it, you can make it look like champagne, so the kids can also have a "drink" on occasions like new year's eve etc and can feel all big and grown up :-)
Traditionally, barn paint was home made. The colour was Ox Blood red and the paint was made from milk and, you guessed it Ox blood and sometimes some red Iron oxide.
You do know that the red color of blood is _also_ from iron, yes?
@@KaiHenningsen Of course, however farmers worked with what was handy so tht accounts for regional variation.
@@markbernier8434 And the latter is why, when I heard about "barn red" for the first time, I thought, "Why is this even a thing?!" As we've seen mentioned in this comment section already, lots of barns elsewhere aren't painted _at all,_ or else with whatever paint is handy, there's very little uniformity. It's not as if barns are high-status items that have to look just right.
Ok so biiig comment with my opinions:
- Barns in Germany are barn shaped and do not come in specific colors
- The package looks like any Alnatura package. I think based on the size it might be their baking powder, I think vanilla sugar is smaller and pudding is larger. It could be anything though
- Inline skating definitely was more common in the 90s and 00s
To me one of the most stunning difference is that the U.S. basically doesn't use blister packaging for pills. I know where it comes from. Pharmaceutical companies in the U.S. are forbidden to directly sell to consumers, and blister packaging is seen as pre-dosing of medicine, which is considered part of direct marketing. The privilege of dosing is reserved to the pharmacy, not the factory making the drugs. Thus you have those small brownish containers with the white pegs and a sticker for the pills in the U.S..
In much of Kentucky the majority of barns are unpainted wood, therefore, grey, the color of unpainted wood exposed to outside weather.
I felt in a lot of places I visited that the outlets/plugs were rather loose
I hate loose plugs
@@mohammadabdulfarooqi3068 Dangerous
Things you cannot eat in the US:
Bratwurst
Currywurst
Butterbrot
Grünkohl mit Bregenwurst.
Erm, those little bags of baking powder, dried yeast etc, are called sachets in English. Is that the word you were looking for?
Packet also works
Hi Dana,
6) Yes, plugs are different in Germany and the US (and other countries). The German plugs are "stronger" . Maybe it's safer if you have children and/or pets around. Or the socket is easier to install or remove in a US house (wall).
5) I'm not sure but I think barns in Germany are mostly in "wood colour". If you go to Scandinavia you will find colourful barns.
4) "Backpulver/Hefe", maybe American cakes are bigger. Everything's bigger in the US.
3) Inline-skating. Yes I agree that it was very popular in the 1990s. Not only my children used it, even my wife and I used it. I don't think that it is still very popular today, probably ice-skating is more popular (unfortunately not these days). My grand children (between 4 and 8 years) started inline-skating this fall and they are well equipped with safety materials.
2) I think you answered your question already, the food here is better. Maybe you must have more qualifications to run a restaurant/sportsfaciclity over here. Or in the US the sport in a sports facility is more important than the food.
1) Apple-juice is the favourit drink of my grand-children. There are big differences in quality and price. The cheap ones are containing much more sugar. When we go to a restaurant for dinner very often (mostly) women drinking "Apfelschorle", a mix of applejuice and (sparkling) water.
"Lift" you can buy at supermarkets. This is Coca-Cola's "Apfelschorle". You are right, I agree, that apple-juice is more popular in German speaking nations.
Can you imagine dinner at a restaurant in Italy and guests having lasagne and apple-juice?
With your "barn red", in Denmark we have "postkasserød"(postbox red) because all the postboxes where you can send your mails are red in Denmark :)
I LOVE Apfelschorle! It's my day-to-day drink. I love the mix of refreshing sparkling water and fruity sweet-sour taste. With water I don't drink enough and sodas are just too sweet for my taste to drink it all day long. I usually order 4-5 crates, which will last me for about 3-4 weeks.
The question I have is: WHY are the barns in the US red??? I don't see a good reason for that. So no, there isn't a typical colour for barns in Europe. (Edit: Here is what Google told me: "Rust was plentiful on farms and because it killed fungi and mosses that might grow on barns, and it was very effective as a sealant. It turned the mixture red in color. When paint became more available, many people chose red paint for their barns in honor of tradition.")
It is deliberately that you can't pull out the plugs so easy - it's a safety feature!
I don't understand, why you would buy baking powder in this huge containers. You usually only need 1-2 teaspoons, which is pretty much exactly what is in one of this small packages. So if you are someone who only bakes once in a blue moon, the smaller packages are much more convenient.
She is from Florida,there is more Florida-Boy Orangejuice.
If you want a really big difference: I am a German who moved to Canada as a child and I just found out last year while visiting my grandparents that bowling and kegeln are not the same thing. I went kegeln with my grandparents at a Gaststätte (pretty fancy, white tablecloths and all). Dana goes kegeln is a video that I think could be really cool (post covid of course).
Also, I don’t know if it matters but my grandparents live in NRW (I‘m not sure if it is a regional thing)
Kegeln and Kegelclubs are/were more common in NRW because of the coal mining industry and coal miner traditions, I believe.
Just like Mail/Racing pigeons, Kleingärten / allotments etc
US golf courses often have nice restaurants, but usually only members and guests eat there
Baking powders that use both alkaline (soda) and acidic (ascorbic acid) agents will act when in contact with humidity, e.g. like soda and liquid vinegar. Therefore they will keep fresh best when packed air tight and, thus, dry in small containers. If you open a bigger container you expose the content to the humidity in the air. The baking powder should also keep for quite some time, even if stored in a big air-tight container, but I'm quite sure that's the reason why Germans want to package it air-tight in small quantities-just to be on the safe side. Even if you keep it for a year longer than the expiration date, it should still be a-ok.
Attention.
Backing Powder single acting = "Backpulver"
Backing Powder double acting or Backing Soda = "Natron"
Ich denke mit steigender Sicherheit der Stecker gehen sie auch schwerer raus. Also gilt natürloch nicht unendlich lange, aber ich bin mir ziemlich sicher, dass das wahrscheinlich ein Feature ist.
In Western Europe,I have mostly seen green and brown barns. Toys for kids also have predominantly green barns,if I remember correctly.
Diluting juice with water is so weird to me as a Belgian but yes any kind of juice is normal to drink as an adult since the fruit equivalent is normal to eat.
Germany has lots of strict rules to follow if you have a restaurant. So typically it is not that easy to just offer some food in a sports place. On the other hand, there are restaurants that decide to offer some sports in addition to the food. So you find Bowling, Kegeln, Billiard or Darts together with food in normal restaurants. I also played Tennis in a Hotel where they had food and because they have someone working for the Hotel anyway, they could run the Tennis, Badminton and Squash court without additional personal.
in Deutschland gehören Sportstätten oft Vereinen, die den Gastronomieteil verpachten, das bedeutet für den Verein Einnahmen zum erhalt der Sportstätte und für den Pächter günstige Miete und eine garantierte Anzahl von Gästen, nämlich die Vereinsmitglieder. Es gibt daher häufig günstige Gerichte aber auch Spezialitäten je nach den Vorlieben des Pächters. Daher spricht von Vereinsheim oder Vereinsgaststätte. Beispiel: in meiner Stadt gibt es einen Kleintierzuchtverein, deren Gaststätte ist auf Geflügel spezialisiert deshalb nennen wir sie Gockelrobber. Der Sportpark ist mehr Richtung Leichtathletik und hat einen griechischen Betreiber der überregional für seine Lammgerichte bekannt ist, also kommen viele Besucher wegen dem Essen in die Sportstätte und unterstützen somit auch den Verein.
well i ve never had good quality food at a bowling alley:D i usually dont go to a bowling alley just to eat
the girl that has never left USA although she has lived in germany for years .. try to live in germany without noticing the differences .. that would make your life easier and more interesting.
In iceland barns are white. It's supid because there are manny stories about farmers not finding their way in a snow storm in dead of winter when the sun doesn't come up as much and freezing to death (not in modern times) and I think if the barns had been red or yellow then that wouldn't have happened as much.
Why do Barns need a colour? There is no specific one, in no European country as far as I know.
In Europe every packaging unit is smaller, partly because bigger is not necessary and partly because it reduces food waste and space. I need maybe 6 little packs of baking powder a year, I don't think I'd ever empty that big box you have there form the US. Bakeries do have bigger ones but normal households just don't need it I guess.
Also those little packs usually hold exactly the amount you need for most recipes.
Apple juice is delicious :D There is also apple juice with Alcohol (saurer Most). Apples are native to Germany and they have by far the best I have ever eaten, especially around lake constance. Germans love every kind of Schorle. It's just so refreshing and way better than soda. Aplle juice has as much sugar as Coke, which is why people dilute it.
In Sweden woodhouse are red. ;)
There is no special color of barns. It is just rain protection.
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Apfelsaft gibt es naturtrüb, klar, direkt gepresst oder aus Konzentrat, Bio oder nicht. Manchmal auch sortenrein. Ob in Deutschland oder Österreich. Wie ist es in USA, was für Apfelsaft wird dort verkauft?
Orangensaft ist dagegen meistens aus Konzentrat, direkt gepresster steht im Kühlregal und ist deutlich teurer.
Leider gibt es kein Konzentrat zu kaufen (Sirup besteht hauptsächlich aus Zucker). Wäre praktisch, denn Konzentratsäfte bestehen hauptsächlich aus Leitungswasser, die könnten doch auch zuhause angemischt werden, dann wären sie deutlich leichter zu transportieren.
in Germany the plugs are hard to pull on purpose. it's a security feature to not pull the plug accidentally or to prevent small kids to pull it out.
The reason why baking powder is sold in small packages is due to "Dr. Oetker" who began to sell smaller units for "private" households at the end of the 19th century in contrast to larger units intended for bakeries. His Product was called "Bakin" and is still sold today.
In the us the appreciation for food is very low compared to Europe. Maybe that's the reason why they eat while doing sports or while driving (on top of that it's unhealthy). In our region eating has a higher status and is generally not meant to be done in passing (not to mention the mess).
We have a hectoliter (100l) Applejuice in our cellar from self collected apples. That'll last us one year. To have applejuice or Apfelschorle at home independently from children is very widespread in germany.
i mean, there are Sportgaststätten etc. And yes, there are older Restaurants etc. were a Kegelbahn is part of the Restaurant.
I have pictures of US barns who are white, grey or blueish. So, no US barns are not always red.
In the USA barn color is an indicator of north vs south. Areas settled from Pennsylvania are painted, almost always red. Areas settled from Virginia are unpainted, and thus wood colored. There is actually a “barn line” in Ohio and Indiana and on west, and that is an indicator of n vs s.
Hi Donna, was the single-active baking powder which you bought in Germany possibly cream of tartar? Germans struggle a bit in case of this topic as the market leaders sell double active baking powder, dominating with this double-active product, and producers of cream of tartar might try to link their products to this name as well in order to appeal also to the less seasoned cooks.
I laught so hard at the restaurant-thing cause the Schlitschuhalle in my city had just a random tea-shop and Burgerking in the same building and yikes the tea-place got bankruft 3 years after opening cause only people who went figure skating came there wich was not enough customers and burgerking was allways empty cause they randomly forbite people from outside to come in and only people who went figure skating got allowed to go into there xDDDD it was a mess and someday the while Schlitschuhhalle got Bankrupt and closed. Instead of closing the building and making something new with it they no joke let it stand empty around for over 10 years now and cause the building from the outside looks like if it was build in the past few years and not 20-30 years ago people allways tell me "how is the Schlitschuhalle closed?" when I tell them they can't go there if they want to go there lmao
Frohliche Weihnachten Dana!
Oh, barns in germany are rarely painted at all. So most of them have brick walls and huge wooden doors. 😄
So interesting! Thank you very much! 😃😃 Greetings from Switzerland 🇨🇭
Also very common in europe is the fresh yeast. Ones I heard you call it yeast cake in America, but in indiana - NOT available. I miss the fresh yeast. It is found,in europe, in the refrigerator!
Germans dress for online skating like we have US Healthcare.
We have the packets in the commissary(military grocery store) on base
Really like the baking powder packets; so much more convenient.
Maybe barn red comes from Scandinavia, where they used to use Blood from Cows . Later it just remains the colour. Ich kenne die Farbe z.b. für Fußböden als Ochsenblut.
Wait, in what world is baking powder used for cooking Dana? :D Btw. that baking powder package is actually quite large in comparison with other brands here in Germany, and these packages are called "Briefchen", which is pretty cute.
In our world.
@@silkwesir1444 What's that, a world where baking isn't a thing?
Maybe "baking" is understood as a part of "cooking"? In German, we use these two words strictly separated.
@@lichtgestalt609 For a good reason, baking is as much cooking as restoration is painting
@@Belgarion2601 Well, for once, as Licht Gestalt said, you can consider baking as a part/subset of cooking.
But also, baking powder has other uses in cooking outside of baking.
(It even has some uses in cleaning, btw)
I have some more weirdness for you :
*AC in Germany usually comes out of the ceiling or top of the wall, AC in the states (at least in homes) comes out of the floor or bottom of the wall.
*whenever I'm in the states I buy ridiculous amounts of sugar free jello in lots of flavours at the supermarkets.
1. Count jello flavours in Germany.
2. Try to find sugar free, I dare you.
*how to open and close doors (and lock them)
*clothing sizes. Here I barely fit into a Medium if I'm lucky, it's usually a Large. I'm a Small in the US most of the time.
*deodorants: 9 out of 10 are in a spray bottle in Germany, but it's usually those twist-sticks in the US.
*snacks to offer guests: chips platters vs veggie stick platters and ranch
*Velveta vs Schmierkäse/Streichkäse and their different uses
*cookies vs biscuits vs Mehlklöße
*what to put on French fries and why everyone looks at me funny in the states when I order Mayonnaise with my fries
(add on: brown gravy in CANS)
@Jonathan Parks It depends somewhat on where you live: in the very hot parts of the U.S. where air-conditioning is more important, the vents are placed up high so that the cold air will fall downward naturally. In colder climates, shared heat and air-conditioning ducts are located down low so the heat can rise naturally. The cold a/c air must be pushed upwards by a more powerful blower.
Apfelschorle is really very very German. Unknown in countries around, which are not German speaking of course... 😀
the biggest difference I see is the nightmarish USA light switches, with the 19th century bolt on wiring design...
i remember the apple juice part, because as a kid during a vacation in Florida I had to drink orange juice a couple of times, because there was no apfelschorle, I was used to. it was tasty so I didn't care :D
The outlets are standard for most of Europe, however you can have ground outlets and none ground outlets.