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I don't know if you think it's weird but in the UK eggs in supermarkets are always brown. In the rest of Europe you normally see white ones, as you show here.
rolmops weird? Don't like them myself but they've been around for decades. Pickling herring is an age old way to preserve them for months past the herring season. The main weirdness about German supermarkets for me as a Dutch person (and why I won't shop at Aldi or Lidl here) is the single minded focus on outcompeting each other when it comes to who's the cheapest rather than focusing on quality. Though sadly that's becoming ever more a thing in the Netherlands as well and quality suffers as a result.
It is, but for eg, in the UK, there are so many other flavours that it’s not as common (and not necessarily the first flavour to be found… if there is a limited range of flavours on offer, it probably won’t be there).
@@caroleberreur9585 I saw in a video about Japan that you can get Pringles in an incredible number of different flavors there. Even more than here in Germany.
I thought the same, but paprika (the best!) seems to be a flavour, you find in continental Europe only. Only found it in some Polish shops over here in Ireland.
I'm from Ukraine, and we also have paprika chips. I love them! Never thought it would be weird for someone. I always assumed it was a "default" flavor.
As an American, I hate to admit it, but most Americans dont realize other forms of measurements exist. Few even realize other countries exist. It wouldn't surprise me to find Americans who can't understand how the Germans buy things without measurements.
I think what the message was about package size, in germany milk is sold in packages of 1 liter, while in the US milk is sold in 1 gallon jugs wich is a little less than 3,80 liters.
If anybody's worried, paprika chips are usually not spicy at all even though they have a big pepper on the package. Unless labeled otherwise, it's just a mild flavor to liven up plain potato chips.
I Think it's paprika flavour because as they started to copy American/English chips/crisps in the 50ties. We had a currency control management and high custom fees., So they use the home made paprika powder.
@@HomeWorkouts_LS When you process the entire bell pepper including seeds and the white, pithy parts you get Paprika rosenscharf (hot paprika), which is mildly spicy.
yup, it's typically used as a desert in the Netherlands. Or instead of yogurt when combined with muesli for breakfast. And of course as an ingredient for sauces or even making pie.
Yeah, some of the German product is popular also in Poland. Paprika chips, quark, blood sausage etc. However in Poland we use standard ketchup, not a curry one. However Poles love mayonnaise and Polish mayo is much different than American one. Fun fact: when Hellmann's entered Polish market with their standard recipe that was a big failure. Simply Poles had a lot of high quality mayonnaise brands on the market. So, Hellmann's had to develope a new recipe and introduced it under the brand "Majonez Babuni" (Grandma's Mayo). Even today Hellmann's may have high market position, but it is not a top position.
I lived in Germany from 2011 to 2012, and it was one of the happiest times in my life. I miss those plastic bottle recyclers! I just said the other day how people would recycle like crazy if they could do it in stores, they way we did it there. I just loved it! Among many other things! Thanks for bringing up that great memory!
Norwegians recycle 90% of our plastic bottles. The rest ? Well, I use a couple (large and small), to water indoor flowers. I make bird feeders out of some, and reuse 0.5 liter water bottles for travelling...
Re eggs, if they washed they _must_ be refrigerated. Egg shell is permeable. An unwashed egg has a protective layer that prevents the ingress of bacteria and viruses. With that removed by washing, the egg has to be refrigerated to protect it. (I live in a country with both washed and unwashed eggs. The former are found at supermarkets and the latter at small grocers, generally.)
and in the US the FDA mandates eggs being washed before they can be sold to consumers, while in the EU this practice is outlawed. So in the US eggs MUST be refrigerated, in the EU they don't have to be so why go to the expense of putting in another fridge in the store?
Love your vlogs! I lived in Germany for a few years as a US citizen and miss it so much. 😢 I learned the language so quickly and traveled all the time. My husband and I are planning a trip very soon. He is of German descent but has never been to Deutschland. Will be a fun time! Thank you for sharing. 💗
I would love to learn German language my Grand fathers family spoke German to their kids. I have Angell family on my mom side. Have done DNA on Ancestry and myheritage.
I went to Paris for the first time in 6/22. I was surprised at how many small markets there were everywhere. They were small, about the size of a US convenience store, but they had a much larger selection of different products. I was impressed and answered my own question about how so many parisians didn’t need a car.
The Germans eat to live, the French live to eat, that's the difference. That is why there are many more grocery stores in France where you can buy specialties. By the way, driving a car in Paris is almost impossible (lol).
Love the paprika chips, the erdnuss flips, the Ritter Sport bars, curry wurst...it's a wonder I didn't gain a thousand pounds in Germany. Got hooked on salami instead of pepperoni on my pizza there as well.
We hit the bakeries more times than I care to admit a day but somehow didn’t gain any weight? Then back home to pesticide gmo flavourless food ugh letdown
@@irushiro2119 Spicy Salami, i know 🙂. I meant i saw a video about ingrediences in foods and the bread for example, damned over 15 ingrediences (including most of them are chemicals and a lot of sugar) in one of the more healthy brands in the US. We have Toast too here in Germany (we refuse to call this stuff bread) but... Wheat flour, water, wheat flour sourdough, salt, yeast, rapeseed oil... is what i read on our packaging and it's required to list up every single ingredient. These Toast packs are the cheapest ,,kind of bread,, stuff you can get here but no sugar or chems at all. Real bread from the baker like Marla said doesn't make you gain weight that much. That's what i meant 😉🙂
Having lived in Germany as a kid I can confirm that curry ketchup is sooooo much better than the tomato ketchup sauce you may find in the USA uk or Canada. It’s that delicious 😋
I used to live in Germany, now in California. No ALDI around yet. I want the egg poker (I use a cork and a needle instead), egg cups and I want Erdnussflips. Proper Bratwurst and mustard, Curry ketchup, Paprika Chips. Bread, cold cut sausage.
Lived in Germany here as well (British Sector) I agree with the sentiments for the curry ketchup (Currywurst, the British gift as occupation forces) I can get the curry ketchup here, but also lived in North Rhein West-Westphalia near the Dutch-Belgian where they have mayo on chips (fries), but it has to be proper chip mayo,
At children's birthday parties, it was also popular back then to have a Dickmann's eating contest. You would put a Dickmann's on your plate, put your hands behind your back, and whoever ate theirs first was the winner. It was always a huge mess, but we loved it as kids!
I’m from the Netherlands. When my wife and I saw a Rewe supermarket in Frankfurt, we were so jealous. We want those awesome supermarkets at home as well!
I would like to have more shopping centers like in the Netherlands. E.g. the two brothers from Venlo. Also there are so many sweet spreads or hagelslag in the Netherlands. Everything so colourful. I also like your fluffy buns.
As a German who loves NL and aspires a lot of things about the country, I always hated your supermarkets. You have a lot of them spread throughout cities which is cool, but almost everyone of them seems to lack in products. Even the Jumbos and such.
I went to the Rewe in Munich and had some waffles that I wish I would have brought more home. The waffles are divided into four heart shaped parts and they have powdered suger. Yum
There are a number of American metros that have both Lidl and Aldi, and it's interesting how many of the German quirks have made it to this side of the pond, and how many didn't. At both Lidl and Aldi, you have to bag your own groceries, and at Aldi you have to coin-release your shopping cart. At Aldi the cashier puts your groceries into a cart as they scan, but we are given a bagging counter at which we can leisurely assemble our groceries before leaving the store while not holding up the line. Lidl in the USA has two chutes post cashier where we have some time to bag our groceries while the cashier uses the other chute for the next customer.
Yes. Lidl US does also have a bagging area which when we're super busy I usually ask the customers to bag there. Our lidl does not require the quarters for the carts. I would love to have the paprika chips carried here. Will have to go on employee suggestion part and submit that😁
we in belgium have so many cold sauces (like your german curry ketchup) to put on everything. 🍟 usually for fries & processed meat. we also put them on things like sandwiches. 🍞🥖 my favorites are andalouse 🍅 and brasil sauce🍍 (brasil is great on a sandwich or a dürüm kebab 🌯🥙 with chicken and pineapple)
You in Belgium also have sliced cheeses as if there's no tomorrow. Never saw so many different sorts of sliced cheeses. Of course we also have sliced cheeses were I do my groceries (i.e. France, Luxembourg and Germany) but when I go to Belgium I'm always amazed at the size and the varieties of sliced cheeses there is (and the beer section with its shelf of glasses matching all the brands of beers).
In Austria the selection is not that large. What I really miss are pepper sauces (green or brown and NO smoke flavour). Several years ago they were common but unfortunately (for me) they disapeared.
German here! As a child, me and my parents often visited my aunt and grandma in Belgium (Wallonia). I'll never forget the joy I had in the Delhaize supermarket discovering pre-baked rice pudding cake, super soft white bread + bread slicing option, peppermint syrup and La Vache Qui Rit cream cheese mini cubes with flavours like green pepper, tomato or ham. Good times!
I think 90% of German grocery shopping is equal to the Netherlands, except in Germany there is always more. More bakery products, more chocolate, more Haribo, more yoghurt etc. 'Paprika chips' and curry sauce are extremely common here, same with the 1 bottle instead of 6 and spargel in a jar :)
It’s actually quite common to be able to find a full alcohol selection in the supermarket here in Illinois. Our 3 major grocery chains here in the city I live on are Kroger, Walmart and Aldi. All 3 of them sell wine, beer and spirits!
Oh my goodness!!! So many memories! My mother is German and growing up we would always get packages from family over there and I remember a lot of those things! My mom still sends me a lot of them! My husbands favorite is the Knopper, but I didn't know they had it in peanut butter too! And I also remember when I was a child we went to Germany for a visit and we went to an ice cream shop and I got the spaghetti ice cream! Mine had the vanilla noodles, the strawberry sauce, and chocolate meat balls, with a couple of sweet cookie sticks to look like bread sticks! I thought it was the coolest things!!! I also remember I was walking through a meadow type area to get to a park and there were all these little white flowers on the ground and a bee flew by and stung me on my toe! I didn't even see it until it stung me and tried to fly away. Wow, I can't believe how seeing the products you have shown on here has brought back so many memories for me, so Thank You!!! 🤓 I hope you two have a fabulous weekend, take care, and stay safe!!!!
I’m about to go grocery shopping…by foot. And I’m bringing my own bag. I remember my last time in the US, in Florida. That shopping experience was very different
It's always interesting how other people see the things which are normal for us like the H-milk (durable milk) outside the refrigerator (sure you will find fresgmilk inside the ref) yes our eggs are eatable but they are not prewashed like in the USA. And everyone fights with our depositmaschines xD (smal hint: open the beerbottle before you try to put it inside)
I remember that 15 years ago Penny and other discounters forced the costumers to buy whole packages of bottles and forbid the purchase of single bottles. It did not work and everyone tried to buy single bottles that they gave up on it. The sales of drinks crashed in that period.
Egg refrigeration is only necessary in the US because they remove the outer coating from powerful washing to get rid of Salmonella instead of leaving the protective coating on which can also prevent Salmonella but since it is impossible to tell if it is infected or not they want to do the powerful washing instead and just have us refrigerate. Also, in Europe they might mandate vaccines of hens.
I miss Germany so much! I spent the best time of my life there in the Army, 1989-1992. There was a grocery store right behind my Kaserne (Army base for us Americans). They were still using Marks then, but it was a great time.
That store reminded me of Aldi's and yes I know Aldi's is from Germany,that's why I shop at Aldi's because I can get allot of food products from Germany that taste better than the food from here to the State's. Good video Deanna and Phil 👍😊👍
I'm sorry, not trying to be a hater here, but having things expressed in metric system and not gallons is the rule everywhere except by you guys. I come from Ecuador and the only wired stuff in Germany was the possibility of taking bottles out of their sixpack and returning them for the Pfand. The rest looks like a normal supermarket in any other place in the world....having fish on a jar or eggs not being refrigerated is not weird... The weird thing is wasting energy on cooling stuff that don't need to be cooled.
I remember the bags of milk at the grocery stores in Germany in the early 70s. You had a plastic frame with a handle that held the bag of milk so you could pour it out.
My mother was Ashkenazi Jewish and my grandparents were from Austria-Poland and Ukraine. I grew up eating things like kielbasa and sauerkraut and pierogies. My grandfather used to make chicken cutlet schnitzel in olive oil. I'm used to a lot of German Austrian food. An ex boyfriend of mine used to make my kosher franks with goulash and homemade big soft pretzels. I love the paprika chips, I get them in the European store. They remind me of chicken paprikash. My husband is Scottish and they don't refrigerate eggs over there. We get our eggs at a free range farm right outside the city, so they don't have to be refrigerated. We also milk a cow and goat for fresh milk.
We have Lidl here in the UK... and we're slowly getting some of these things over here. I like the Duff Radler (beer with lemon) on a hot day, but they're super hard to find here unless Lidl has them. We're also a big fan of Knoppers. They're our favourites too. Just wish they'd sell Currywurst here!
@@TheWalonja Yes, it is very common in Germany to mix normal beer and lemon soda by yourself 50/50. The name "Radler" means a person who rides a bike. It has been invented 100 years ago at an excursion restaurant 10 miles south of Munich, where a lot of cyclists went through a beutiful forest at the south of Munich (Kugler Alm). Up to today, it is a very popular and very big "Biergarten", especially to cyclists.
At home I am nearly daily at a Lidl. When I'm in another country with a Lidl it's quite interesting to see the differences. Some things are identical. But in Scotland you will find haggis, in Italy some of their specialities and even from Germany to Austria there are some differences.
@@reinhard8053 Lidl in different regions in Germany have always local products that are sometimes only available in the village where the Lidl is because its from an small businesses
Thanks for yet another great video! Peanut butter puffs: Trader Joe's actually carry a similar product which tastes more or less like the Germany version. I've lived in Germany for a while now, and one thing I really miss is popcorn. Not the usual salted kind but white cheddar popcorn - especially the one from Trader Joes. We have relocated permanently and are not planning to move back to the US, so I know the popcorn will be something I'll GORGE on whenever we visit the States.
@@Xerlash I don't have any US-stores in my area. I think that people who live near a US Base may have a better chance. But I consider ordering some US-sweets online. I also always wanted to try some Wonka candy 😊 after watching Charlie and the chocolate factory
@@ramona146 You could also try to find somebody interested in a snack exchange: you send them German snacks, they send you US snacks. I don't know if shipping is any more or less expensive than ordering from online shops selling imported goods, but it's definitely an option to consider for any niche products they don't carry.
@@ramona146 im sorry for you then, i guess im kida spoiled living in ruhr metropolis. Sadly most of the manufacurers wont ship directly to EU. For the Popcorn you might wanna try Pottkorn, they gotta lot of exclusive flavours and "Aufreisser"-Pottkorn seems to be the nearest to cheddar, although its parmesan, honey and oregano.
We do have bulk items that say that. Especially things that are sold individually as well (like candy bars or icecream bars/cones/popsicles). If you buy those in bulk, obvs it's usually cheaper. (For example I bought a packet of 3 Magnum ice cream bars yesterday for 3.49, where a single bar at the register would cost me almost 2 Euros. The 3 pack icecreams do say "not for individual sale). But bottles are designed to be bought in bulk or individually, and they don't come cheaper or at a different price if you buy them on their own or not.
6:30 min "Flönz" is a sausage you only find in the Rhineland-region, I guess? I have never seen it in any supermarkt in Niedersachsen (Lower Saxony) oder Hamburg.
Blutwurst (called "Flönz" in the Rhineland) is sold also in Bavaria, Hessen, and probably most of the other states. In the supermarket: Yes. That is not so common. The problem being: They (the non-Rhinelanders) tend to do awful things to it, like adding innards), so outside of the Rhineland you have to search a bit longer for a butcher who prepares the good stuff.
I remember the first time our family went to a local grocery store in Germany in the late 70's and we looked for hours for milk. My parents finally were able to go get to the nearest commissary that was 4 hours North of the base we were stationed at back then and my Mom asked a German National who worked at the base commissary where the milk was, He brought us a liter of that Vollmilch we never got used to difference. First thing we did in 1981 when we came back to the US was have a glass of Ice Cold Milk !!! I do miss the Spaghetti Eis though !!!! Another thing I noticed is the locals didn't eat corn on the cob like we do in the US I remember a local saying it was Schweinefutter
So many items I miss buying! Never a fan of spargle/asparagus. We did have the PX/Commissary to shop at also, but we weren't afraid to shop on "the economy" as it was called. We had a German friend who lived above a great butcher's shop. Also went to the farmer's market on Saturdays.
Swiss supermarkets are very similar; things like the cart system with coins, non-refrigerated eggs or taking individual bottles from packages are all customary here, too; but typically, you will find a smaller selection of packaged meat, sausages etc. (still quite a lot, but not as much as in Germany) and a much larger selection of cheese. Not very surprising, I guess ;-)
In the Netherlands when I lived in a more populated area, there was a mobile grocery store. It's pricer than the supermarket or the shops but since many of those closed by early evening and on Sundays, the mobile store was a quick way to get an item or two you might have forgotten to get earlier. In Florida, Publix carries some of the same items in their international section. Have visited a German shop in Florida with a deli and grocery with the baking and cooking mixes, German ketchups and mustards, sweets, beer and more offerings. In the U.S. in the South, have eaten alligator, crawfish, grits, and so much more except chitlins and I avoid veggies cooked in fatback and most fried foods which are greasy. Have had Barqs root beer. Offered grits and another brand of root beer to friends in Europe. They didn't like either.
@@eagle1de227 thanks, I did a few of these already, but thank you! I love the different perspective these two offer! its the only other American in Germany that I watch! lol
Thank you Deana and Phil! I am a subscriber and a big fan of your channel! My father was German, but I'm first generation Canadian. I have visited Germany twice and fell in love with the country. Perhaps one day i will return and try to enjoy more of the country of my father and his father. I can relate to your culture shock and Phil's when he is stateside. Please keep up these wonderful videos. I'm a serious fan always!!
You make it seem like milk in Germany is never refrigerated. Of course we have fresh milk that needs to be refrigerated, and we also have milk (and even some more dairy products) that got a heat treatment and therefore don't have to be stored in a fridge. The eggs, on the other hand, are not refrigerated, that's right. That's because in Germany eggs don't get washed and this keeps some protective layer.
We have Aldi and Lidl now in New York so some of these are familiar. The peanut puffs are quite good and German snacks like those biscuits are delicious.
@@DeanaandPhil I grew up with it and I'm from the US. I think it's partially due to my grandparents. My grandmother (father's side) loved picked herring and we ate quite a bit of it. When I moved from state to state here, I ended up in Minnesota and ended up learning how to do my own picking. I ended up with a lot of picked Northern Pike. Good food. I miss fresh water fish now that I'm in the desert again!
I have a jar of sprats in my fridge right now! Add a lil lemon juice and dill and it becomes the perfect late night beer companion. I'll be right back... 😂🤗
When I was in the British army. I was stationed in west Germany, before the wall came down. I loved the stuff in the German shops. We also had the NAAFI shops which sold British goods
The tampons at least are widely available in the US these days - from Target to Walmart the classic O.B. (little fun fact here: O.B. stands for "No Liner" in German) is easy to find. Costco frequently carries a US brand of pickled herring in glass jars. Whole Foods carries them too, but at a much higher price. They're pieces in a white wine pickle, but taste-wise as close to the rolled ones from Germany as it gets. Trader Joe's just started carrying something close to the Peanut Flips and Quark is often available on Farmer's Markets if there's local dairy/cheese production where you live. Quark is actually a kind of fresh cheese and if you have a recipe that calls for Quark as ingredient you can use Ricotta instead. The texture of Ricotta is "crumblier" so it's a no-go as a spread, but in cakes and other cooked recipes it works well.
Thanks for the video. My husband and I are coming to Germany in September 2023 and we are renting a small motor home to tour in. Now we have a better idea of what grocery shopping will be like. I am very excited for our trip, I lived in Germany for 3 years as a child on an Air Force base and will be seeing some of the same places as an adult.
The bottles are not always free to take out of the package. If the price tag says 1,99 per bottle you can open it. If it says for 6 bottles or for one "gebinde" it is illegal to open the packagr
So correct on the paprika chips, the other thing I noticed as a Australian visiting Germany, when I first visited a German supermarket, was all of the varieties of bread available, I was used to only one or two varieties.
I lived in Nederland for 5 years! I remember the Lidl and Aldi all too well!! And got there by bicycle also! Wow! This video is taking me back! This is common in Nederland too obviously cause it's next door to Germany! Thanks for this video!!✌🐢
I grew up in Pennsylvania where liquor/beer was sold in "state stores," run by the government. Not sure if it's still that way. We moved to Texas in 1996, where they sell beer/wine in grocery stores.
Some states in the US have bottle deposit on plastic bottles, glass bottles, and soda or beer cans, but it's only 5 or 10 cents. Same kind of machines. Wine and liquor sales also vary by state - for example, in California and Massachusetts supermarkets have everything. In New York, only beer and maybe some kind of fake wine. For wine and liquor you have to go to a different store.
yup. Sterilised milk needs no refrigeration (until opened, obviously), pasteurised milk does. Lidl, being a discount store, tries to reduce the floor space reserved for fridges to cut down on expenses (while of course claiming it's "for the environment", at least the Lidl here does that) and thus carries more sterilised dairy as a result.
@@jwenting There's not a single Lidl I've been to in Germany that had more sterilised dairy than fresh ones in their fridges. I think it's a matter of preference really.
@@christoph2862 Lidl has slightly different formulas in different countries. The ones I've been to in the Netherlands have almost exclusively sterilised stuff. In fact I was surprised when going to a newly opened one some distance away from where I live because they had refrigerated stuff at all. The one closest to me had NONE when they opened several years ago (and I never went back there because the quality of the goods was horrible, as was the presentation. Soaking wet boxes with dented and rusted cans, many without labels, thrown on the floor was pretty much the entirety of what they had on offer).
@@jwenting Wow, well I can say that this is not the case here in Germany. However, when I'm in the Netherlands I love to go grocery shopping at Albert Heijn's😍
Remember that Joghurt glasses (Almighurt, Ehrmann) sometimes also have 15 cts of Pfand. What's the difference between a Discounter and a Super Market? I'm pretty sure Lidl counts as a discounter btw. I like the wide arranged product range of our stores. Have been looking for a pack of Mac'n'Cheese for a while now :) . The best german product will always be the Eiersollbruchstellenverursacher xD
the difference between a discounter and a supermarket would be the discounter will usually have non brand products and a reduced assortment of the same product. Therefore you'll have a slight price advantage. Other commenters may correct me if i'm wrong.
A discounter is merely a store focusing on price rather than quality, doesn't have to be a supermarket either. Clothing discounters are very common as well. Often they do this by carrying hardly any goods that aren't their store brand, and often (Lidl does that very much) by having that store brand have packaging and product names that look so much like those of the A brands that it's hard to tell the difference (but just different enough to not fall foul of trademark laws).
An important difference between a discounter (most famous: Aldi and LIDL, and also e.g. Netto, Norma and Penny) and a "Vollsortimenter" supermarket (e.g. Rewe and Edeka) is that they have less different articles. They provide each type of product in maybe two or three different versions, but rather not 5 or 10. The discounter concept is cutting costs wherever possible in order to achieve relative low prices, and an important concept for this is the concentration to a limited choice of different brands / alternatives within the same product group. So you can get everything you need (in terms of basic groceries) in a discounted, but in a limited choice, while Rewe or Edeka (for example) have a larger variety of different brands for the same type of product.
On are supermarktet. Another big difference is the fresh food counter with service for sausages and meat as well as cheese and fish. Often there is also a bakery and everything is served and not packed in plastic. So you buy exactly the amount you want.
As a german I crave the bread, Harzer, Tilsiter, Limburger, and the Fleischsalat. I love Quark with a little flax seed oil, chives and new potatoes. The best food when Spring starts. I am not so much into chocolate but love “Dickmann’s “. Watching this vlog was a bit torturous for me ;).
Erdnuss Puffs are actually in the US. They're just called Bambas there. I had to check with my friend after purchasing some. Thanks for explaining the asparagus! I should have watched this before walking to Lidl this morning because now I'm interested in trying it. You mentioned the baking packets but there are also the salat packets with seasonings. I love those! In the deli meats area, I still have no clue what the pressed veggies in the gelatin (?) are and they're always found in the meat section which confuses me even more.
Dass man sich einzelne Flaschen aus einem Sechserpack nimmt, ist für mich so selbstverständlich, dass ich dachte, im Rest der Welt wird das auch so gehandhabt. Ich war komplett geschockt, als ich das in einem Lidl in Schottland dann natürlich auch so gemacht habe und von einem Mitarbeiter dort angesprochen wurde, der mir sagte, dass das nicht gehe. Und dann hat er mir einen Bereich gezeigt, wo einzelne Flaschen standen, die man sich nehmen konnte. Ich verstehe bis heute nicht den Sinn dahinter.
@@003General Hier wird das aber anders gehandhabt. Da gibt es im Discounter kein Regal mit einzelnen Flaschen, sondern nur die Sechserpacks. Also war das in Schottland ein 'Mini-Kulturschock' für mich. 🙂
@@Christina-Maria_von_Gusinski Es gibt diverse Edeka in denen es Regale mit einzelnen Flaschen gibt, damit man keine Sechserpacks öffnet. Wenn man es allerdings trotzdem macht sagen die auch nichts dazu , aber sie möchte es nicht gerne
@@SrKobold Ich habe von Mineralwasser und Brause der Discounter-Handelsmarken gesprochen. Und ich habe so den Verdacht, dass Du gerade von Bier redest. 🙂Kommt ja beides im Sechserpack daher. Bin aber auch eher selten bei Edeka.
Well about the liquor, in most supermarkets it's in a locked glass thingy. Though this is mostly to prevent theft, not anything to do with restrictions about whom you can sell alcohol to.
I just went to Berlin last week and went into Aldi to grab some bottled water and came out with nothing because I thought they only sold them in bulk....I didn't think to rip open the packaging and take one!!
just a quick few points: - you're shopping at discounter markets only - they generally offer limited product selection, often only a variety of knock-off brands (as shown with beer/liquor, chips, sodas), haphazardly stocked shelves, whole pallets or boxes right on the floor, no chilled drinks, etc. in order to keep their prices low. it's great if you're living on a tight budget, but you usually won't find higher quality fare there. (a regular supermarket "experience" is something quite different) - only the Haltbarmilch (extended heat treatment) you're showing in the video doesn't need to be refridgerated. once you open the carton though, it'll have to go into the fridge and only stays good for a couple of days. - unwashed eggs, if well treated and not yet chilled, are safe to be kept at room temperature. once you chill them once though, you'll have to keep them in the fridge or they'll go bad quickly as chilling diminishes the natural protective coating (which is completely removed by washing eggs, therefor requiring ongoing refrigeration).
Paprika flavored chips are common around the world. In the US, they're called BBQ flavor chips. While living in Germany, I bought ketchup-flavored potato chips. They were better than the paprika chips.
Great video as always..! I can find some of those things in my grocery stores and local corner stores here in Panama. Love the Lorenz brand German Paprika Chips so tasty. I tried them for the 1st time in Croatia over 20 years ago. Now I can find some varieties of Lorenz brand chips in my local stores and they are not expensive. Much cheaper than imported chips from the United States.
Stroopwafels, poffertjes, we also have paprika chips, very popular here in the Netherlands as well, and also the Bolognese flavor. Drop aka Licorice. It's mega popular here, and almost nowhere else 😉
To refund beer bottles, in case they are refundable, do it not at Aldi or Lidl, do it at Getränkemarkt or Rewe or Penny. The preprocessed milk is long term without cooling, but there is fresh milk of course. Better is herring with apple and sour cream in a small plastic oval box. Super on fresh bread
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EDEKA also usually accepts the beer bottles. Basically most stores that sell them.
As a Dutch person I need to do a couple of things now: - Go to my local Lidl and check out if we also have our own slicing machine (for customers, not for staff). Does our Lidl trust us bwhahah - Need to buy asparagus in jars, because I can put them on pizza. Genious! I just learned today that Dr. Oetker isn't Dutch. Just assumed this because of the Oe. Feel stupid for not checking this earlyer. Also, my favourite chips flavour is paprika as well, our stink cheese is always dried, so I have to try the German version and Curry (with Mayonnaise on fries) is life ❤
The snacks you have shown me are the ones I got in my snack crate. And here in NJ we can get a lot of fresh eggs that are not required to be refrigerated.
All these exciting things - even three sorts of Worcester Sauce - but you really have to look hard if you want Marmite :) (which this Englishman in Potsdam loves!) The thing that baffles me is the amount of things in tiny packages, like cheese sliced and each slice individually wrapped.
Love the chips! The tampons are pretty normal. We have the same in the US. Young girls here, I assume because just like my mother, you were told to use a tampon with an applicator. I never liked them. So maybe I'm the odd ball. I like the food regulation in Europe. If rather have my eggs not always have to take up so much space in the fridge. I'm beginning to think I just need to move. Better quality of life perhaps? In all facets and aspects? Who knows...
Hallo ihr beiden, der Lidl kommt mir ziemlich bekannt vor. Gestern war ich genau da drin gewesen. Er ist am Hbf, darüber ist die neue Stadtbücherei. Liebe Grüße aus Düsseldorf
I live in England now but grew up in Germany and loved the familiarity of the German supermarkets you showed. Haven’t been back since the pandemic but hoping to visit family in Berlin come December 💕
As a dual national (British and German) who spends about half my time between the two countries (in fact I’m in Hannover at the moment) there is literally NOTHING ‘Weird’ in this video at al. Most of what is shown is completely normal in every other European country. Yes, surprise surprise, in different countries people do have some different things that people eat. Even that’s not radically different here to any other European country….and hardly “weird”. For example, if I put you inside a LIDL in Germany, France or the UK without any language or currency clues, you might be hard pressed to tell which country you were in e.g. Alcohol availability, eggs, milk, the fact that you can actually walk to the supermarket (“weird” really?!). Perhaps the only slight noticeable cultural (not “weird”!) supermarket difference that people coming from the UK or France might notice is how impatient people can sometimes be here, by comparison with those countries, when waiting to pay at the checkout or that Cigarettes and Tobacco products are still openly displayed at checkouts and you can help yourself to them. But, that’s not “weird”…those are just a very slight cultural difference.
I love this. I lived in Germany for three years and I really miss curry ketchup, paprika Crisps and the spaghetti ice-cream. I've found paprika Crisps and my brother orders me ketchup from The German Deli so all is not lost. 😃
From a Swedish perspective, most things looked familiar and normal. We also have the recycle machines ("pant") where you return the bottles and cans and gets a refund. We used to have the coin in the cart system in Sweden earlier, but no one carries coins anymore so they had to stop with that system. You can find curryketchup here too, it's not a popular or common item. Also the Paprika flavor chips. It exist, but there are many more popular flavors, like sourcream&onion or dill. There is a lot of quark here, but they are usually fruit flavored or neutral and is eaten like a yoghurt. Our milk is in those tetras, but they are refridgerated. We also have a lot of plant based "milk". We also have the bread slicing machines. Eggs are refridgearated here, but you don't have to, and the best-before-date is set based on room temperature. If you keep them in the fridge they will last several weeks more though. We also have white asparagus in jars. Sweden has a lot of different pizza toppings, but this is the first time I saw asparagus on a pizza. We don't have those small packats of baking ingrediences, you usually have to buy a whole jar of baking powder for instance. I think you can take single bottles from the packages, but I think that the stores doesn't like it, sometimes there is a little signs that says that you shouldn't do that. Rhubard is a popular summer drink here too. We can't get alcohol in supermarkets (just very low alcohol beer and cider). Sweden is the country of fish in jars! We have so many different flavors of pickled herring, more than you can imagine. And every year it's like some new flavor of the year like "chili aioli", "ginger and lime", or "mandarine pepper". Never seen spaghetti ice cream, but it could perhaps be found at Lidl. We have a lot of packaged meat too, but not as much as in Germany. We don't have applicators for the tampons here either.
Paprika, salt and pickles are like the basic standard flavors of Chips here in Belgium 🙂 we have many different flavors but them 3 are the standard ones.
I've actually spotted Hela's Currywurst sauce in a few random markets in the US. No discernable pattern of where I see it and when, so if I ever spot it, I stock UP. And Spaghetti-Eis is doable at home, you just need a potato ricer and vanilla ice cream with just the right consistency. Puree some strawberries, grate some white chocolate for the "cheese," and that's a pretty good approximation. If you really want to get authentic, there's a way to do a frozen whipped cream core that the "noodles" go over, but that's kinda advanced... 😨
I love going and food shopping to all supermarkets in Germany! My favorite are Aldi and Lidl!!!!Everything that I need I buy them here! Am proud as a German National 🇩🇪❤❤❤
We like weird!! What are some weird items from your country?
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I don't know if you think it's weird but in the UK eggs in supermarkets are always brown.
In the rest of Europe you normally see white ones, as you show here.
We actually do have kangaroo meat in our Supermarkets in Australia....
rolmops weird? Don't like them myself but they've been around for decades.
Pickling herring is an age old way to preserve them for months past the herring season.
The main weirdness about German supermarkets for me as a Dutch person (and why I won't shop at Aldi or Lidl here) is the single minded focus on outcompeting each other when it comes to who's the cheapest rather than focusing on quality. Though sadly that's becoming ever more a thing in the Netherlands as well and quality suffers as a result.
As a in Germany living dude I always though, that paprika chips is a world wide standard type like "salted", but okay :D
It is, but for eg, in the UK, there are so many other flavours that it’s not as common (and not necessarily the first flavour to be found… if there is a limited range of flavours on offer, it probably won’t be there).
I found paprica or bacon chips everywhere in Europe, it's hard to imagine that they don't have them in US. 🙂
@@caroleberreur9585 I saw in a video about Japan that you can get Pringles in an incredible number of different flavors there. Even more than here in Germany.
I thought the same, but paprika (the best!) seems to be a flavour, you find in continental Europe only. Only found it in some Polish shops over here in Ireland.
@@caroleberreur9585 in the UK i think most Popular is Salt and Vinegar
Only the long-life milk (Haltbarmilch) is not refrigerated. Fresh milk is always refrigerated. 😘 nice vid as always
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I'm from Ukraine, and we also have paprika chips. I love them! Never thought it would be weird for someone. I always assumed it was a "default" flavor.
for me as Czech, default is bacon flavor, paprika is second 🙂
I think BBQ is the preferred flavor in the US.
That doesnt exist in Mexico
Same, so weird. How does America of all countries not have Paprika Chips? I also consider them the absolute default and normal flavor
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Selling items by metric measurements isn't really a weird thing. It's like saying the prices are not in dollars.
As an American, I hate to admit it, but most Americans dont realize other forms of
measurements exist. Few even realize other countries exist.
It wouldn't surprise me to find Americans who can't understand how the Germans buy things without measurements.
I think what the message was about package size,
in germany milk is sold in packages of 1 liter,
while in the US milk is sold in 1 gallon jugs wich is a little less than 3,80 liters.
The whole world uses metric measurements. Only the US does not.
Only 2 nations don't use the metric system. The USA and one unknown country in Africa/South America 😂
@@orangefiltersky9387Most in the US use both.
If anybody's worried, paprika chips are usually not spicy at all even though they have a big pepper on the package. Unless labeled otherwise, it's just a mild flavor to liven up plain potato chips.
I Think it's paprika flavour because as they started to copy American/English chips/crisps in the 50ties. We had a currency control management and high custom fees., So they use the home made paprika powder.
Paprika itself & powder is not spicy either so it's not surprising.
@@HomeWorkouts_LS When you process the entire bell pepper including seeds and the white, pithy parts you get Paprika rosenscharf (hot paprika), which is mildly spicy.
@@HomeWorkouts_LS as someone from Paprikaland (Hungary) I can assure you that paprika can be very hot.
Well paprika flavour taste mostly for non germans like BBQ flavour around the world.
Never thought any of those would be strange to other people. :D
Quark is also *very* common in eastern European cuisine. It's only weird to North Americans
yup, it's typically used as a desert in the Netherlands.
Or instead of yogurt when combined with muesli for breakfast.
And of course as an ingredient for sauces or even making pie.
You can get it really easily in the UK too, though it's used as more of a healthy replacement for yogurt or cream cheese, still very yummy!
Yeah, some of the German product is popular also in Poland.
Paprika chips, quark, blood sausage etc.
However in Poland we use standard ketchup, not a curry one. However Poles love mayonnaise and Polish mayo is much different than American one.
Fun fact: when Hellmann's entered Polish market with their standard recipe that was a big failure. Simply Poles had a lot of high quality mayonnaise brands on the market.
So, Hellmann's had to develope a new recipe and introduced it under the brand "Majonez Babuni" (Grandma's Mayo). Even today Hellmann's may have high market position, but it is not a top position.
There wouldn't be cheesecake without Quark cheese
I live in semi-rural western Washington state, my grocery store carries quark.
I lived in Germany from 2011 to 2012, and it was one of the happiest times in my life. I miss those plastic bottle recyclers! I just said the other day how people would recycle like crazy if they could do it in stores, they way we did it there. I just loved it! Among many other things! Thanks for bringing up that great memory!
Norwegians recycle 90%
of our plastic bottles.
The rest ?
Well, I use a couple (large and small), to water indoor flowers.
I make bird feeders out of some, and reuse 0.5 liter water bottles for travelling...
Re eggs, if they washed they _must_ be refrigerated. Egg shell is permeable. An unwashed egg has a protective layer that prevents the ingress of bacteria and viruses. With that removed by washing, the egg has to be refrigerated to protect it. (I live in a country with both washed and unwashed eggs. The former are found at supermarkets and the latter at small grocers, generally.)
and in the US the FDA mandates eggs being washed before they can be sold to consumers, while in the EU this practice is outlawed.
So in the US eggs MUST be refrigerated, in the EU they don't have to be so why go to the expense of putting in another fridge in the store?
Love your vlogs! I lived in Germany for a few years as a US citizen and miss it so much. 😢 I learned the language so quickly and traveled all the time. My husband and I are planning a trip very soon. He is of German descent but has never been to Deutschland. Will be a fun time! Thank you for sharing. 💗
which part will you visit ?
I would love to learn German language my Grand fathers family spoke German to their kids. I have Angell family on my mom side. Have done DNA on Ancestry and myheritage.
I went to Paris for the first time in 6/22. I was surprised at how many small markets there were everywhere. They were small, about the size of a US convenience store, but they had a much larger selection of different products. I was impressed and answered my own question about how so many parisians didn’t need a car.
yeah and also in Europe good public transportation
The Germans eat to live, the French live to eat, that's the difference. That is why there are many more grocery stores in France where you can buy specialties. By the way, driving a car in Paris is almost impossible (lol).
Love the paprika chips, the erdnuss flips, the Ritter Sport bars, curry wurst...it's a wonder I didn't gain a thousand pounds in Germany. Got hooked on salami instead of pepperoni on my pizza there as well.
We hit the bakeries more times than I care to admit a day but somehow didn’t gain any weight? Then back home to pesticide gmo flavourless food ugh letdown
Less sugar and chemicals maybe.
the pepperoni pizza is mostly just pepperoni flavored salami. and not a pizza with whole pepperonis.
@@irushiro2119 Spicy Salami, i know 🙂. I meant i saw a video about ingrediences in foods and the bread for example, damned over 15 ingrediences (including most of them are chemicals and a lot of sugar) in one of the more healthy brands in the US. We have Toast too here in Germany (we refuse to call this stuff bread) but...
Wheat flour, water, wheat flour sourdough, salt, yeast, rapeseed oil... is what i read on our packaging and it's required to list up every single ingredient. These Toast packs are the cheapest ,,kind of bread,, stuff you can get here but no sugar or chems at all. Real bread from the baker like Marla said doesn't make you gain weight that much. That's what i meant 😉🙂
Having lived in Germany as a kid I can confirm that curry ketchup is sooooo much better than the tomato ketchup sauce you may find in the USA uk or Canada. It’s that delicious 😋
I used to live in Germany, now in California. No ALDI around yet.
I want the egg poker (I use a cork and a needle instead), egg cups and I want Erdnussflips.
Proper Bratwurst and mustard, Curry ketchup, Paprika Chips.
Bread, cold cut sausage.
@@MBrieger there are plenty of Aldi stores in California! In San Diego they had 5 locations!
Lived in Germany here as well (British Sector) I agree with the sentiments for the curry ketchup (Currywurst, the British gift as occupation forces) I can get the curry ketchup here, but also lived in North Rhein West-Westphalia near the Dutch-Belgian where they have mayo on chips (fries), but it has to be proper chip mayo,
Definitely different and not for everyone. I didn't like it and neither did my brother. Sadly o well at least we tried
@@breannajohnson1318 Yeah, but nothing north of the SF Bay Area. I am writing a complaint. Therefore we have Ikea 🤪
At children's birthday parties, it was also popular back then to have a Dickmann's eating contest. You would put a Dickmann's on your plate, put your hands behind your back, and whoever ate theirs first was the winner. It was always a huge mess, but we loved it as kids!
I’m from the Netherlands. When my wife and I saw a Rewe supermarket in Frankfurt, we were so jealous. We want those awesome supermarkets at home as well!
I would like to have more shopping centers like in the Netherlands. E.g. the two brothers from Venlo. Also there are so many sweet spreads or hagelslag in the Netherlands. Everything so colourful. I also like your fluffy buns.
As a German who loves NL and aspires a lot of things about the country, I always hated your supermarkets. You have a lot of them spread throughout cities which is cool, but almost everyone of them seems to lack in products. Even the Jumbos and such.
I went to the Rewe in Munich and had some waffles that I wish I would have brought more home. The waffles are divided into four heart shaped parts and they have powdered suger. Yum
There are a number of American metros that have both Lidl and Aldi, and it's interesting how many of the German quirks have made it to this side of the pond, and how many didn't. At both Lidl and Aldi, you have to bag your own groceries, and at Aldi you have to coin-release your shopping cart. At Aldi the cashier puts your groceries into a cart as they scan, but we are given a bagging counter at which we can leisurely assemble our groceries before leaving the store while not holding up the line. Lidl in the USA has two chutes post cashier where we have some time to bag our groceries while the cashier uses the other chute for the next customer.
Yes. Lidl US does also have a bagging area which when we're super busy I usually ask the customers to bag there. Our lidl does not require the quarters for the carts. I would love to have the paprika chips carried here. Will have to go on employee suggestion part and submit that😁
we in belgium have so many cold sauces
(like your german curry ketchup) to put on everything. 🍟 usually for fries & processed meat. we also put them on things like sandwiches. 🍞🥖 my favorites are andalouse 🍅 and brasil sauce🍍
(brasil is great on a sandwich or a dürüm kebab 🌯🥙 with chicken and pineapple)
You in Belgium also have sliced cheeses as if there's no tomorrow. Never saw so many different sorts of sliced cheeses. Of course we also have sliced cheeses were I do my groceries (i.e. France, Luxembourg and Germany) but when I go to Belgium I'm always amazed at the size and the varieties of sliced cheeses there is (and the beer section with its shelf of glasses matching all the brands of beers).
I like belgian supermarkets more than german ones.
In Austria the selection is not that large. What I really miss are pepper sauces (green or brown and NO smoke flavour). Several years ago they were common but unfortunately (for me) they disapeared.
German here! As a child, me and my parents often visited my aunt and grandma in Belgium (Wallonia). I'll never forget the joy I had in the Delhaize supermarket discovering pre-baked rice pudding cake, super soft white bread + bread slicing option, peppermint syrup and La Vache Qui Rit cream cheese mini cubes with flavours like green pepper, tomato or ham. Good times!
I think 90% of German grocery shopping is equal to the Netherlands, except in Germany there is always more. More bakery products, more chocolate, more Haribo, more yoghurt etc. 'Paprika chips' and curry sauce are extremely common here, same with the 1 bottle instead of 6 and spargel in a jar :)
You don't have chipsfrisch Chips.
Whenever i come Back from Germany to my University in the netherlands i Bring Back those Chips.
They are the best.
It’s actually quite common to be able to find a full alcohol selection in the supermarket here in Illinois. Our 3 major grocery chains here in the city I live on are Kroger, Walmart and Aldi. All 3 of them sell wine, beer and spirits!
We have Aldi in the UK. 👍.
I think most states have alcohol in supermarkets. We don't here in my town because it's a dry county.
Oh my goodness!!! So many memories! My mother is German and growing up we would always get packages from family over there and I remember a lot of those things! My mom still sends me a lot of them! My husbands favorite is the Knopper, but I didn't know they had it in peanut butter too! And I also remember when I was a child we went to Germany for a visit and we went to an ice cream shop and I got the spaghetti ice cream! Mine had the vanilla noodles, the strawberry sauce, and chocolate meat balls, with a couple of sweet cookie sticks to look like bread sticks! I thought it was the coolest things!!! I also remember I was walking through a meadow type area to get to a park and there were all these little white flowers on the ground and a bee flew by and stung me on my toe! I didn't even see it until it stung me and tried to fly away. Wow, I can't believe how seeing the products you have shown on here has brought back so many memories for me, so Thank You!!! 🤓 I hope you two have a fabulous weekend, take care, and stay safe!!!!
The peanut butter version of Knoppers is rather new.
Where are you living now ?
"not be measures in gallons"! Germany is an international country that uses the metric system, like the rest of the developed world.
I’m about to go grocery shopping…by foot. And I’m bringing my own bag. I remember my last time in the US, in Florida. That shopping experience was very different
I love this kind of videos! They always give a cool outside perspective on things that are taken for granted. 👍
It's always interesting how other people see the things which are normal for us like the H-milk (durable milk) outside the refrigerator (sure you will find fresgmilk inside the ref) yes our eggs are eatable but they are not prewashed like in the USA. And everyone fights with our depositmaschines xD (smal hint: open the beerbottle before you try to put it inside)
I remember that 15 years ago Penny and other discounters forced the costumers to buy whole packages of bottles and forbid the purchase of single bottles. It did not work and everyone tried to buy single bottles that they gave up on it. The sales of drinks crashed in that period.
It's not just German thing, it's all over the Europe
Egg refrigeration is only necessary in the US because they remove the outer coating from powerful washing to get rid of Salmonella instead of leaving the protective coating on which can also prevent Salmonella but since it is impossible to tell if it is infected or not they want to do the powerful washing instead and just have us refrigerate. Also, in Europe they might mandate vaccines of hens.
I miss Germany so much! I spent the best time of my life there in the Army, 1989-1992. There was a grocery store right behind my Kaserne (Army base for us Americans). They were still using Marks then, but it was a great time.
That store reminded me of Aldi's and yes I know Aldi's is from Germany,that's why I shop at Aldi's because I can get allot of food products from Germany that taste better than the food from here to the State's. Good video Deanna and Phil 👍😊👍
I'm sorry, not trying to be a hater here, but having things expressed in metric system and not gallons is the rule everywhere except by you guys. I come from Ecuador and the only wired stuff in Germany was the possibility of taking bottles out of their sixpack and returning them for the Pfand. The rest looks like a normal supermarket in any other place in the world....having fish on a jar or eggs not being refrigerated is not weird... The weird thing is wasting energy on cooling stuff that don't need to be cooled.
I remember the bags of milk at the grocery stores in Germany in the early 70s. You had a plastic frame with a handle that held the bag of milk so you could pour it out.
My mother was Ashkenazi Jewish and my grandparents were from Austria-Poland and Ukraine. I grew up eating things like kielbasa and sauerkraut and pierogies. My grandfather used to make chicken cutlet schnitzel in olive oil. I'm used to a lot of German Austrian food. An ex boyfriend of mine used to make my kosher franks with goulash and homemade big soft pretzels. I love the paprika chips, I get them in the European store. They remind me of chicken paprikash.
My husband is Scottish and they don't refrigerate eggs over there. We get our eggs at a free range farm right outside the city, so they don't have to be refrigerated. We also milk a cow and goat for fresh milk.
We have Lidl here in the UK... and we're slowly getting some of these things over here. I like the Duff Radler (beer with lemon) on a hot day, but they're super hard to find here unless Lidl has them. We're also a big fan of Knoppers. They're our favourites too. Just wish they'd sell Currywurst here!
Try your fav beer with Sprite and mint :) 50/50
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@@TheWalonja Yes, it is very common in Germany to mix normal beer and lemon soda by yourself 50/50. The name "Radler" means a person who rides a bike. It has been invented 100 years ago at an excursion restaurant 10 miles south of Munich, where a lot of cyclists went through a beutiful forest at the south of Munich (Kugler Alm). Up to today, it is a very popular and very big "Biergarten", especially to cyclists.
At home I am nearly daily at a Lidl. When I'm in another country with a Lidl it's quite interesting to see the differences. Some things are identical. But in Scotland you will find haggis, in Italy some of their specialities and even from Germany to Austria there are some differences.
@@reinhard8053 Lidl in different regions in Germany have always local products that are sometimes only available in the village where the Lidl is because its from an small businesses
Thanks for yet another great video! Peanut butter puffs: Trader Joe's actually carry a similar product which tastes more or less like the Germany version. I've lived in Germany for a while now, and one thing I really miss is popcorn. Not the usual salted kind but white cheddar popcorn - especially the one from Trader Joes. We have relocated permanently and are not planning to move back to the US, so I know the popcorn will be something I'll GORGE on whenever we visit the States.
SAMEEEE!! Ughh white cheddar is so good! We just got some sweetened popcorn from a fair today.
That sounds really interesting, I'd really like to try it
@@Xerlash I don't have any US-stores in my area. I think that people who live near a US Base may have a better chance. But I consider ordering some US-sweets online. I also always wanted to try some Wonka candy 😊 after watching Charlie and the chocolate factory
@@ramona146 You could also try to find somebody interested in a snack exchange: you send them German snacks, they send you US snacks. I don't know if shipping is any more or less expensive than ordering from online shops selling imported goods, but it's definitely an option to consider for any niche products they don't carry.
@@ramona146 im sorry for you then, i guess im kida spoiled living in ruhr metropolis. Sadly most of the manufacurers wont ship directly to EU. For the Popcorn you might wanna try Pottkorn, they gotta lot of exclusive flavours and "Aufreisser"-Pottkorn seems to be the nearest to cheddar, although its parmesan, honey and oregano.
Those bread slicing machines are awesome!! But wow @4:15 I think a lot of US bulk say "not for individual sale" so that's surprising!
We do have bulk items that say that. Especially things that are sold individually as well (like candy bars or icecream bars/cones/popsicles). If you buy those in bulk, obvs it's usually cheaper. (For example I bought a packet of 3 Magnum ice cream bars yesterday for 3.49, where a single bar at the register would cost me almost 2 Euros. The 3 pack icecreams do say "not for individual sale). But bottles are designed to be bought in bulk or individually, and they don't come cheaper or at a different price if you buy them on their own or not.
@@bloodyironist Some small bottles with 0.5l or less are sometimes just sold in bulk.
I was told that Spargel refers to white asparagus, and that the green asparagus that's common here in the states is called Gruene Spargel
6:30 min "Flönz" is a sausage you only find in the Rhineland-region, I guess? I have never seen it in any supermarkt in Niedersachsen (Lower Saxony) oder Hamburg.
Blutwurst (called "Flönz" in the Rhineland) is sold also in Bavaria, Hessen, and probably most of the other states.
In the supermarket: Yes. That is not so common.
The problem being: They (the non-Rhinelanders) tend to do awful things to it, like adding innards), so outside of the Rhineland you have to search a bit longer for a butcher who prepares the good stuff.
I remember the first time our family went to a local grocery store in Germany in the late 70's and we looked for hours for milk. My parents finally were able to go get to the nearest commissary that was 4 hours North of the base we were stationed at back then and my Mom asked a German National who worked at the base commissary where the milk was, He brought us a liter of that Vollmilch we never got used to difference. First thing we did in 1981 when we came back to the US was have a glass of Ice Cold Milk !!! I do miss the Spaghetti Eis though !!!! Another thing I noticed is the locals didn't eat corn on the cob like we do in the US I remember a local saying it was Schweinefutter
They still refer to corn on the cob as food for the pigs.
most americans think these "small" milk packes etc. are weird. But imo this only shows what a consumer country the U.S is...
So many items I miss buying! Never a fan of spargle/asparagus. We did have the PX/Commissary to shop at also, but we weren't afraid to shop on "the economy" as it was called. We had a German friend who lived above a great butcher's shop. Also went to the farmer's market on Saturdays.
Swiss supermarkets are very similar; things like the cart system with coins, non-refrigerated eggs or taking individual bottles from packages are all customary here, too; but typically, you will find a smaller selection of packaged meat, sausages etc. (still quite a lot, but not as much as in Germany) and a much larger selection of cheese. Not very surprising, I guess ;-)
Just everything is double the price. And the cheese department is double the size.
the quark on bread is often combined with jam, strawberry or cherry are most common but also apricot
In the Netherlands when I lived in a more populated area, there was a mobile grocery store. It's pricer than the supermarket or the shops but since many of those closed by early evening and on Sundays, the mobile store was a quick way to get an item or two you might have forgotten to get earlier.
In Florida, Publix carries some of the same items in their international section. Have visited a German shop in Florida with a deli and grocery with the baking and cooking mixes, German ketchups and mustards, sweets, beer and more offerings.
In the U.S. in the South, have eaten alligator, crawfish, grits, and so much more except chitlins and I avoid veggies cooked in fatback and most fried foods which are greasy. Have had Barqs root beer. Offered grits and another brand of root beer to friends in Europe. They didn't like either.
OMG!! I love the redness flips! crazy good!! redness!? autocorrect is weird ... I have a rash. 🤣 ERDNUSS mein Ich! lol
Well, maybe a topic for one of your next videos?
@@eagle1de227 thanks, I did a few of these already, but thank you! I love the different perspective these two offer! its the only other American in Germany that I watch! lol
Thank you Deana and Phil! I am a subscriber and a big fan of your channel! My father was German, but I'm first generation Canadian. I have visited Germany twice and fell in love with the country. Perhaps one day i will return and try to enjoy more of the country of my father and his father. I can relate to your culture shock and Phil's when he is stateside. Please keep up these wonderful videos. I'm a serious fan always!!
You make it seem like milk in Germany is never refrigerated. Of course we have fresh milk that needs to be refrigerated, and we also have milk (and even some more dairy products) that got a heat treatment and therefore don't have to be stored in a fridge.
The eggs, on the other hand, are not refrigerated, that's right. That's because in Germany eggs don't get washed and this keeps some protective layer.
We have Aldi and Lidl now in New York so some of these are familiar. The peanut puffs are quite good and German snacks like those biscuits are delicious.
Great video, once again! Those peanut butter puffs and paprika chips sound yummy, but you can keep the fish in the jar!
Not even a little bite of the fish in a jar??
@@DeanaandPhil I grew up with it and I'm from the US. I think it's partially due to my grandparents. My grandmother (father's side) loved picked herring and we ate quite a bit of it. When I moved from state to state here, I ended up in Minnesota and ended up learning how to do my own picking. I ended up with a lot of picked Northern Pike. Good food. I miss fresh water fish now that I'm in the desert again!
@@DeanaandPhil Not a fan of fish but I suppose a bite wouldn't kill me 😂
It’s really good though and refreshing. 😆
I have a jar of sprats in my fridge right now! Add a lil lemon juice and dill and it becomes the perfect late night beer companion. I'll be right back... 😂🤗
When I was in the British army. I was stationed in west Germany, before the wall came down. I loved the stuff in the German shops. We also had the NAAFI shops which sold British goods
Really miss some of those things. Erdnuss Flips were my thing growing up.
If you have a Kosher store near you, see if they have Bamba Peanut Butter Puffa, they are very similar to Erdnuss Flips
I think every country has an alternative to this. 🤗 And it's damn delicious.
This pickelt Fish: You love it or you hate it. Nothing between!
The tampons at least are widely available in the US these days - from Target to Walmart the classic O.B. (little fun fact here: O.B. stands for "No Liner" in German) is easy to find. Costco frequently carries a US brand of pickled herring in glass jars. Whole Foods carries them too, but at a much higher price. They're pieces in a white wine pickle, but taste-wise as close to the rolled ones from Germany as it gets. Trader Joe's just started carrying something close to the Peanut Flips and Quark is often available on Farmer's Markets if there's local dairy/cheese production where you live. Quark is actually a kind of fresh cheese and if you have a recipe that calls for Quark as ingredient you can use Ricotta instead. The texture of Ricotta is "crumblier" so it's a no-go as a spread, but in cakes and other cooked recipes it works well.
Thanks for the video. My husband and I are coming to Germany in September 2023 and we are renting a small motor home to tour in. Now we have a better idea of what grocery shopping will be like. I am very excited for our trip, I lived in Germany for 3 years as a child on an Air Force base and will be seeing some of the same places as an adult.
The reason why milk at Aldi,Lidl etc is outside the refrigerator is that it is long-life milk
Me as a German, from Germany: "Well thats interesting"
The bottles are not always free to take out of the package. If the price tag says 1,99 per bottle you can open it. If it says for 6 bottles or for one "gebinde" it is illegal to open the packagr
So correct on the paprika chips, the other thing I noticed as a Australian visiting Germany, when I first visited a German supermarket, was all of the varieties of bread available, I was used to only one or two varieties.
I lived in Nederland for 5 years! I remember the Lidl and Aldi all too well!! And got there by bicycle also! Wow! This video is taking me back! This is common in Nederland too obviously cause it's next door to Germany! Thanks for this video!!✌🐢
I grew up in Pennsylvania where liquor/beer was sold in "state stores," run by the government. Not sure if it's still that way. We moved to Texas in 1996, where they sell beer/wine in grocery stores.
Some states in the US have bottle deposit on plastic bottles, glass bottles, and soda or beer cans, but it's only 5 or 10 cents. Same kind of machines. Wine and liquor sales also vary by state - for example, in California and Massachusetts supermarkets have everything. In New York, only beer and maybe some kind of fake wine. For wine and liquor you have to go to a different store.
Milk must be refrigerated, if it's "fresh Milk". The Milk in the Vid is H-Milk (H = Haltbar = durable)... no cooling needed.
yup. Sterilised milk needs no refrigeration (until opened, obviously), pasteurised milk does.
Lidl, being a discount store, tries to reduce the floor space reserved for fridges to cut down on expenses (while of course claiming it's "for the environment", at least the Lidl here does that) and thus carries more sterilised dairy as a result.
@@jwenting There's not a single Lidl I've been to in Germany that had more sterilised dairy than fresh ones in their fridges. I think it's a matter of preference really.
@@christoph2862 Lidl has slightly different formulas in different countries. The ones I've been to in the Netherlands have almost exclusively sterilised stuff. In fact I was surprised when going to a newly opened one some distance away from where I live because they had refrigerated stuff at all. The one closest to me had NONE when they opened several years ago (and I never went back there because the quality of the goods was horrible, as was the presentation. Soaking wet boxes with dented and rusted cans, many without labels, thrown on the floor was pretty much the entirety of what they had on offer).
@@jwenting Wow, well I can say that this is not the case here in Germany. However, when I'm in the Netherlands I love to go grocery shopping at Albert Heijn's😍
BRINGS BACK MEMORIES OF GOING TO A GERMAN MARKET! MY FAMILY IS FROM GERMANY AND WE WOULD VISIT THERE WHILE I WAS GROWING UP IN THE US
Remember that Joghurt glasses (Almighurt, Ehrmann) sometimes also have 15 cts of Pfand.
What's the difference between a Discounter and a Super Market? I'm pretty sure Lidl counts as a discounter btw.
I like the wide arranged product range of our stores. Have been looking for a pack of Mac'n'Cheese for a while now :) .
The best german product will always be the Eiersollbruchstellenverursacher xD
the difference between a discounter and a supermarket would be the discounter will usually have non brand products and a reduced assortment of the same product. Therefore you'll have a slight price advantage. Other commenters may correct me if i'm wrong.
A discounter is merely a store focusing on price rather than quality, doesn't have to be a supermarket either. Clothing discounters are very common as well.
Often they do this by carrying hardly any goods that aren't their store brand, and often (Lidl does that very much) by having that store brand have packaging and product names that look so much like those of the A brands that it's hard to tell the difference (but just different enough to not fall foul of trademark laws).
An important difference between a discounter (most famous: Aldi and LIDL, and also e.g. Netto, Norma and Penny) and a "Vollsortimenter" supermarket (e.g. Rewe and Edeka) is that they have less different articles. They provide each type of product in maybe two or three different versions, but rather not 5 or 10. The discounter concept is cutting costs wherever possible in order to achieve relative low prices, and an important concept for this is the concentration to a limited choice of different brands / alternatives within the same product group. So you can get everything you need (in terms of basic groceries) in a discounted, but in a limited choice, while Rewe or Edeka (for example) have a larger variety of different brands for the same type of product.
On are supermarktet. Another big difference is the fresh food counter with service for sausages and meat as well as cheese and fish. Often there is also a bakery and everything is served and not packed in plastic. So you buy exactly the amount you want.
“Weird”… it’s actually cool stuff and they make sense
As a german I crave the bread, Harzer, Tilsiter, Limburger, and the Fleischsalat. I love Quark with a little flax seed oil, chives and new potatoes. The best food when Spring starts. I am not so much into chocolate but love “Dickmann’s “. Watching this vlog was a bit torturous for me ;).
versuch mal Quark mit Nesquik/Kaba - Kakaoquark!! richtig lecker!!!
Erdnuss Puffs are actually in the US. They're just called Bambas there. I had to check with my friend after purchasing some. Thanks for explaining the asparagus! I should have watched this before walking to Lidl this morning because now I'm interested in trying it.
You mentioned the baking packets but there are also the salat packets with seasonings. I love those!
In the deli meats area, I still have no clue what the pressed veggies in the gelatin (?) are and they're always found in the meat section which confuses me even more.
It's called Sülze, or Aspic. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspic
During my time in Darmstadt-Eberstadt in 1993, all my grocery shopping was done at bodega-sized stores. Loved what I got from them.
Dass man sich einzelne Flaschen aus einem Sechserpack nimmt, ist für mich so selbstverständlich, dass ich dachte, im Rest der Welt wird das auch so gehandhabt. Ich war komplett geschockt, als ich das in einem Lidl in Schottland dann natürlich auch so gemacht habe und von einem Mitarbeiter dort angesprochen wurde, der mir sagte, dass das nicht gehe. Und dann hat er mir einen Bereich gezeigt, wo einzelne Flaschen standen, die man sich nehmen konnte. Ich verstehe bis heute nicht den Sinn dahinter.
Das hat schon einen Grund, warum die Flaschen in 6er Packs zusammen sind.
@@003General Hier wird das aber anders gehandhabt. Da gibt es im Discounter kein Regal mit einzelnen Flaschen, sondern nur die Sechserpacks. Also war das in Schottland ein 'Mini-Kulturschock' für mich. 🙂
@@Christina-Maria_von_Gusinski Es gibt diverse Edeka in denen es Regale mit einzelnen Flaschen gibt, damit man keine Sechserpacks öffnet. Wenn man es allerdings trotzdem macht sagen die auch nichts dazu , aber sie möchte es nicht gerne
@@SrKobold Ich habe von Mineralwasser und Brause der Discounter-Handelsmarken gesprochen. Und ich habe so den Verdacht, dass Du gerade von Bier redest. 🙂Kommt ja beides im Sechserpack daher.
Bin aber auch eher selten bei Edeka.
@@Christina-Maria_von_Gusinski Bionade gibt es auch in Glasflaschen und in PET
Well about the liquor, in most supermarkets it's in a locked glass thingy. Though this is mostly to prevent theft, not anything to do with restrictions about whom you can sell alcohol to.
No one's ever locked alcohol in Bulgaria, even the expensive bottles. Where you from?
I just went to Berlin last week and went into Aldi to grab some bottled water and came out with nothing because I thought they only sold them in bulk....I didn't think to rip open the packaging and take one!!
just a quick few points:
- you're shopping at discounter markets only - they generally offer limited product selection, often only a variety of knock-off brands (as shown with beer/liquor, chips, sodas), haphazardly stocked shelves, whole pallets or boxes right on the floor, no chilled drinks, etc. in order to keep their prices low. it's great if you're living on a tight budget, but you usually won't find higher quality fare there. (a regular supermarket "experience" is something quite different)
- only the Haltbarmilch (extended heat treatment) you're showing in the video doesn't need to be refridgerated. once you open the carton though, it'll have to go into the fridge and only stays good for a couple of days.
- unwashed eggs, if well treated and not yet chilled, are safe to be kept at room temperature. once you chill them once though, you'll have to keep them in the fridge or they'll go bad quickly as chilling diminishes the natural protective coating (which is completely removed by washing eggs, therefor requiring ongoing refrigeration).
Paprika flavored chips are common around the world. In the US, they're called BBQ flavor chips.
While living in Germany, I bought ketchup-flavored potato chips. They were better than the paprika chips.
Great video as always..! I can find some of those things in my grocery stores and local corner stores here in Panama. Love the Lorenz brand German Paprika Chips so tasty. I tried them for the 1st time in Croatia over 20 years ago. Now I can find some varieties of Lorenz brand chips in my local stores and they are not expensive. Much cheaper than imported chips from the United States.
Stroopwafels, poffertjes, we also have paprika chips, very popular here in the Netherlands as well, and also the Bolognese flavor. Drop aka Licorice. It's mega popular here, and almost nowhere else 😉
Wodka cost double that in USA for the cheap stuff in a Plastic bottle. It’s potato juice for Gods sake. Lmao 🤣
trueeeeeee
True 🤣But the cheap vodka here tastes just awful in my opinion and you get a terrible hangover from this snot as well. 😂
@@eastfrisianguy it smells like rubbing alcohol.
To refund beer bottles, in case they are refundable, do it not at Aldi or Lidl, do it at Getränkemarkt or Rewe or Penny. The preprocessed milk is long term without cooling, but there is fresh milk of course. Better is herring with apple and sour cream in a small plastic oval box. Super on fresh bread
EDEKA also usually accepts the beer bottles. Basically most stores that sell them.
As a Dutch person I need to do a couple of things now:
- Go to my local Lidl and check out if we also have our own slicing machine (for customers, not for staff). Does our Lidl trust us bwhahah
- Need to buy asparagus in jars, because I can put them on pizza. Genious!
I just learned today that Dr. Oetker isn't Dutch. Just assumed this because of the Oe. Feel stupid for not checking this earlyer. Also, my favourite chips flavour is paprika as well, our stink cheese is always dried, so I have to try the German version and Curry (with Mayonnaise on fries) is life ❤
Having lived in several countries America is the weird one with eggs refrigerated , milk refrigerated and no hard alcohol in supermarket
The snacks you have shown me are the ones I got in my snack crate. And here in NJ we can get a lot of fresh eggs that are not required to be refrigerated.
All these exciting things - even three sorts of Worcester Sauce - but you really have to look hard if you want Marmite :) (which this Englishman in Potsdam loves!)
The thing that baffles me is the amount of things in tiny packages, like cheese sliced and each slice individually wrapped.
Love the chips! The tampons are pretty normal. We have the same in the US. Young girls here, I assume because just like my mother, you were told to use a tampon with an applicator. I never liked them. So maybe I'm the odd ball. I like the food regulation in Europe. If rather have my eggs not always have to take up so much space in the fridge. I'm beginning to think I just need to move. Better quality of life perhaps? In all facets and aspects? Who knows...
give germany a visit, im sure u will love it. :D
@@MrDunnwall I'm sure I will at some point. I want to find if I have any family left there.
Come on over, you're very welcome !
@@eagle1de227 Danke
Also: Unusual amounts of potatoes! :D
What I find unusual is that there are only two types of potato at Aldi. And not based on size, but rather intended use.
I am from Poland, nothing weird for me ;)
I think many things grew together the last year since the EU. I could imagine in many things are no differences anymore.
Hallo ihr beiden, der Lidl kommt mir ziemlich bekannt vor. Gestern war ich genau da drin gewesen. Er ist am Hbf, darüber ist die neue Stadtbücherei. Liebe Grüße aus Düsseldorf
I live in England now but grew up in Germany and loved the familiarity of the German supermarkets you showed. Haven’t been back since the pandemic but hoping to visit family in Berlin come December 💕
Im from bamberg but live in the USA, i miss Deutschland and the shopping. Thanks for the upload.👍 I also miss the lebkuchen hearts 😢
'Milk is measured in liters, not gallons' - like in 90% of the world?
Many things are "different" in other countries which doesn't mean they're weird!!!
As a dual national (British and German) who spends about half my time between the two countries (in fact I’m in Hannover at the moment) there is literally NOTHING ‘Weird’ in this video at al. Most of what is shown is completely normal in every other European country.
Yes, surprise surprise, in different countries people do have some different things that people eat. Even that’s not radically different here to any other European country….and hardly “weird”.
For example, if I put you inside a LIDL in Germany, France or the UK without any language or currency clues, you might be hard pressed to tell which country you were in e.g. Alcohol availability, eggs, milk, the fact that you can actually walk to the supermarket (“weird” really?!).
Perhaps the only slight noticeable cultural (not “weird”!) supermarket difference that people coming from the UK or France might notice is how impatient people can sometimes be here, by comparison with those countries, when waiting to pay at the checkout or that Cigarettes and Tobacco products are still openly displayed at checkouts and you can help yourself to them. But, that’s not “weird”…those are just a very slight cultural difference.
Glad I had the opportunity to shop, I was born there and lived there due to being in the military love the peanut puffs
I love this. I lived in Germany for three years and I really miss curry ketchup, paprika Crisps and the spaghetti ice-cream.
I've found paprika Crisps and my brother orders me ketchup from The German Deli so all is not lost. 😃
LOL showing Lidl - one of the “hard discounters” that chased “soft discounter” WalMart out of Germany - gives an extremely grim impression…
From a Swedish perspective, most things looked familiar and normal.
We also have the recycle machines ("pant") where you return the bottles and cans and gets a refund.
We used to have the coin in the cart system in Sweden earlier, but no one carries coins anymore so they had to stop with that system.
You can find curryketchup here too, it's not a popular or common item. Also the Paprika flavor chips. It exist, but there are many more popular flavors, like sourcream&onion or dill. There is a lot of quark here, but they are usually fruit flavored or neutral and is eaten like a yoghurt. Our milk is in those tetras, but they are refridgerated. We also have a lot of plant based "milk". We also have the bread slicing machines.
Eggs are refridgearated here, but you don't have to, and the best-before-date is set based on room temperature. If you keep them in the fridge they will last several weeks more though.
We also have white asparagus in jars. Sweden has a lot of different pizza toppings, but this is the first time I saw asparagus on a pizza.
We don't have those small packats of baking ingrediences, you usually have to buy a whole jar of baking powder for instance.
I think you can take single bottles from the packages, but I think that the stores doesn't like it, sometimes there is a little signs that says that you shouldn't do that.
Rhubard is a popular summer drink here too. We can't get alcohol in supermarkets (just very low alcohol beer and cider).
Sweden is the country of fish in jars! We have so many different flavors of pickled herring, more than you can imagine. And every year it's like some new flavor of the year like "chili aioli", "ginger and lime", or "mandarine pepper".
Never seen spaghetti ice cream, but it could perhaps be found at Lidl. We have a lot of packaged meat too, but not as much as in Germany.
We don't have applicators for the tampons here either.
i wouldnt buy spaghetti ice from the supermarket, its just not that good, rather when in germany buy one from the ice cream shop
I know one weird swede who loves banana pizza
Mandarine pepper herring actually sounds amazing. I'd love to try that😁
In Canada we've had the coin carts for some time - but, as you said, coins are less and less used, so we'll see what happens in the future.
Paprika, salt and pickles are like the basic standard flavors of Chips here in Belgium 🙂 we have many different flavors but them 3 are the standard ones.
Most of this things are in polish supermarkets too. So title of this video may be like "20 weird things in european supermarkets" 😅
In Italy the milk comes in 3-day expiry, 5-day-expiry etc due to different pasteurisation technique.
I've actually spotted Hela's Currywurst sauce in a few random markets in the US. No discernable pattern of where I see it and when, so if I ever spot it, I stock UP.
And Spaghetti-Eis is doable at home, you just need a potato ricer and vanilla ice cream with just the right consistency. Puree some strawberries, grate some white chocolate for the "cheese," and that's a pretty good approximation. If you really want to get authentic, there's a way to do a frozen whipped cream core that the "noodles" go over, but that's kinda advanced... 😨
I love going and food shopping to all supermarkets in Germany! My favorite are Aldi and Lidl!!!!Everything that I need I buy them here! Am proud as a German National 🇩🇪❤❤❤