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I'm pretty sure gelato came to Germany the other way around. The German economy saw a massive boom in the 1950s leading to a significant labour shortage in the 60s in 70s which the German government battled through visa agreements with several southern European states, among them Italy. This led to hundred of thousands of Italian to migrate into Germany, bringing their ice cream with them.
You're definitely correct! When I was doing my research, I read about how post-war, many Germans traveled to Italy for vacation and fell in love with gelato and, exactly like you explained, many Italians came to Germany in the same period bringing gelato with them. I talked about this much more in depth in a different video and this video I was trying to just quickly mention the connection with Italy. Maybe I should have worded it differently and highlighted the Italians bringing it with them more than the aspect of Germans traveling to Italy.
Actually, there were Italian ice cream places in Germany even before the war. The father of the inventor of "spaghetti ice", Dario Fontanella, came to Hannover in 1931, where an uncle already had such a place, and then in 1933 moved to Mannheim and opened his own place there which Dario later took over (and recently closed/is about to close in favor of other locations...)
It could also have helped that the Italian migration to Germany is significantly more recent, and given the nearness between the two countries, Italian migrants could easily come and go for holidays and visits home.
@@ohauss@PassportTwo 1932 Eissalon am Dom opened Regensburg and it's running till today. In Winter you can purchase Nürnberger Lebkuchen. In spring the family is coming back from Italy
And that's exactly what we do in the US when we go to a restaurant. We get a coffee or a drink, sit around and talk, and I'm telling you in my 60 years, I've never felt rushed. This mans experience seems to be limited to McDonalds.
Another reason we're allowed to take our time eating in restaurant is that wait staff don't rely on quick turn around and thus more tips for their income as they are paid hourly living wages. Tipping is just a bonus so their income doesn't depend on the number of guests they service a night.
And they make more money from selling drinks than from the food - as opposed to the US where you have free refills. So the restaurants are fine with people staying longer after their meal, as long as they order drinks from time to time.
@@hannesh.3024 Except it's a generalization and often wrong. This man must only go to McDonalds. As for free refills, that's only in convenience stores and gas stations, not decent restaurants. It's very hard to believe this guy is an actual American. Radiators and towel warmers? Very common. gelato places are all over. It's just off a bit....
I actually never met a German who uses the towel heater the intended way. It's nearly always turned off and we simply hang our towels over it to dry. Only if it's a really cold winter I sometimes use it to warm my pajamas before bed😅
Because of the cost tower heaters are not turned on in the summer. Some ran on electricity, but most on the heating System. So the sre a additional Header for the winter to the floor heating. Petting a tower on it..heats up the tower, but not the room. Putting your night wear on it...Shows , that you wear night wear....hopefully sexy
In Slovakia, they are always on in winter when the heating is on. People hate cold bathrooms/toilets. My parents would even keep it on in spring/autumn when it's warm outside 🤣
The "towel warmer" is not a luxury but German pragmatism. (Old) German houses use radiators for heating the rooms. Often this radiators are ugly and need a lot of space. However, in the bathroom there is a need to hang towels. And to dry them if possible fast. Bathrooms are usually small, so why not switch from an ugly old fashioned radiator to a new towel hanging radiator? And it will dry the towel after you took your shower. A warm towels is just a nice 'colaferal profit'.
Long meals are obviously a result of how eating out is seen. It'ts not just going somewhere to eat. It's meeting somewhere to spend an evening together. And the fact that italians, french and spaniards take even more time shows that they also embrace the idea of a friendly meetup that just happens to also involves food. Like spending a late summer evening in a restaurant, on a table in front of the building, chatting, having fun, enjoying the blue hour with a couple beers or glasses of wine.
Weeeeeell try looking for an italian icecream place in France. You‘d be surprised. If you find an icecream place, chances are it‘ll be either a French brand (Carte d‘Or) or american (Häagen-Dasz), both pretty expensive and no high probability of getting one of those fancy Eisbecher creations…
Things Considered A LUXURY in the USA But NORMAL In Germany: - A full covered affordable and working health insurance. - No school shootings - Education. (Sorry, couldn't resist! =D)
The only thing German education apparently consistently fails at is teaching Germans how to use adverbs and commas in English. Sorry, couldn't resist! ;-) (A fellow German)
Where does the health insurance thing comes from? If an American would choose to pay a german salary portion into health insurance, they'd have a great insurance. In Germany you're forced to pay for "free" stuff and still not everything is covered and you will still get a bill for many things. I'm rarely sick, thankfully but I still have to pay on top for every single medicine I need. And since this wasn't enough already we had a few years where we paid 10€ for a doctor's visit directly at the reception 😅 (once per quarter of the year).
@@borstenpinsel, that 10 Euro thing is over like many years ago. =) Interestingly the education thing doesn't bother you lol. Anyway don't take these things too serious. ;-) It causes needless arguing. =)
The luxury you SSHOULD have mentioned is maternal or parental leave with job security, or unlimited paid sick-leave, minimum four weeks of paid holidays PLUS bank-holidays, lol.
3:48 I have lived in germany for 19 years now and literally never heard someone use the term "amarican ice". Besides some marketing on for example Ben&Jerry this isn't really a thing here.
Yeah, "American Ice Cream" usually means off-brand B&J's or Häagen Dasz, usually with chunks of whatnot in it (dough, cookies or other sweets), or food items typically associated with US culture, like pecans.
In Germany the term "Eiscreme" 🍦is used specifically for the much softer version of "Eis" or "Speiseeis" (almost fluent). The rest and vast majority is simply called "Eis" and comes mostly in "Kugeln" (scoops). 🍨
Towel radiators are "bog standard" in the UK, too. You can get ones that are stand-alone, filled with oil and heated electrically, and do not have to be plumbed in to the usual central heating. So you can have your heated towel radiator in any bathroom, regardless of the household heating system. While on secondment in Germany in 1996, I was stunned that the local Italian pizzeria in the tiny local village was run by an Italian, and offered pizzas 50% larger, sumptuously and deliciously topped, at about half the price of the tasteless crap offered at the pizza chains in the UK. Those pizzas remain my lasting impression of "cultural difference" between UK and Germany. It seemed like German pricing in general was always "good value" (fair price with a decent minimum quality), whereas the UK was about "charge as much as we can get away with" - selling absolute cheapskate rubbish at as high a price as possible, often driven by a lack of choice or competition. But that was in 1996. Perhaps mileage thse days may vary. The UK has not improved, but Germany might not have maintained those "fair value" and "quality" standards. Having said that, I now reside in the Republic of Ireland, and am rediscovering standards of food excellence at reasonable prices. Grass fed beef, real milk and butter, and so on. It is a bit more expensive, but paying 10 to 20% more for something twice as good, is worth it. Then again, the German budget supermarket chains (Aldi and Lidl) remain (sometimes BY FAR) a cheaper option than the local UK supermarket chains. While still offering "genuine" products from all over Europe. Parma ham from Parma, brie cheese from France, bratwurst from Germany, etc. They even run "specialities" of limited duration, where you can get Greek delicacies (baklava and moussaka and gyros, for example), sometimes French, sometimes Swedish or Danish or Spanish... And they all taste far better than the stuff pushed by UK supermarkets. I don't understand how they can sell grissini (breadsticks), made in Italy, at half the price of the product sold in the regular supermarkets. As one example. But yeah, HALF the price. And at least as good for taste and quality. Then I see the problems in most of the rest of the world, and have to remind myself just how fortunate I am to have these "luxuries" to pick and choose from.
As a German in Germany, I often actively avoid name brand food products and go for store brand instead (mostly in Aldi), as they often are better quality and the manufacturers have not jumped on the shrinkflation and skimpflation bandwagon as much as the big brands have.
Come to us in the Franconian countryside. Here you can sit in the beer garden. In our area it is called a beer cellar and is often in the forest or on a hill in the middle of nature. Here you can sit all day until the sun goes down, you can eat and drink and your children can use the playground next door. No waiter would dare to tell you that you have to leave because you have finished eating. In the villages you can still get real ice cream made from milk and at a reasonable price. The people here are very relaxed and even Germans from other parts of the country come here for vacation. My employer gives me 31 days vacation and vacation pay and Christmas bonus. :)
3:30 Correction: Officially they is even more differentiation than just "Gelato" (not a legal term in Germany) and Ice Cream. - Cremeeis: ≥50 % Milk + ≥270 g Egg (or ≥90g egg yolk) per litre - Milcheis: ≥70 % Milk - Rahm-/Sahneeis: ≥18 % Milk fat - Eiscreme: ≥10 % Milk fat - Eis: Contains vegetable fats - Sorbet: ≥25 % fruit (≥15 % for high-acid fruits like a lemon sorbet) A good "Eisdiele" usually offers Milcheis, Rahmeis or Eiscreme. If it only indicates something like "Vanilleeis": Run as fast as you can.
Pro-Tip, perhaps really a bit posh: There is a device called "Elektrische Heizpatrone" you can add to the towel warmer radiator. You can program a schedule to it so it starts heating at the time you usually take a shower/bath so you have warmed towels all over the year, not only when the normal heating is on. Second benefit: The towels dry faster and don't start to smell.
As a two time survivor of skin cancer who happens to also be a nudist/FKKler, I am *definitely* Team Sunscreen! Remember: your skin never forgets what you do to it.
Yup. And go to your check-ups regularly without hesitation, particularly if you or someone close to you notices some changes on your skin. Delaying for 2 weeks can make all the difference between an "uncomfortable" day at clinic getting minor surgery and years of stressful treatment with always having to think of the "odds" of things going good or bad... Speaking of experience.
@@bejoscha at the age of 15 i lived in "la herradura" near Coquimbo/Chile, at the spring beginn i started with sunbathing...at the summer my skin was almost as dark as a black guy...i myself am 180 m tall and blond, now at the age of 77 never had any skin problems. It was a wonderful time there, nice people and beautyful girls/ladys. I´m back in Germany since 1966 and using the I-net to talk to some of them.
Absolutely team sunscreen here. Especially when I intend to stay in the sun for a while. For the quick walk to the store? Not neccesary. For an afternoon in the cafes at the riverbank? Absolutely!
As a Finn, I found it strange that you came up with sauna culture in Germany. It is a small thing compared to Finland. And yes, I know how it is in Germany (been there like 15 times) and US (have lived there for a year + several shorter visits).
We don’t have a sauna culture in Germany. Very few go to a public sauna and some have a sauna in the basement, but you never invite friends unless you are swingers. Americans make a big thing of „german sauna culture“ because their sick brains can’t comprehend being naked in public
As a German, I totally get your perpective.. ;) For us (whilst I can only speak from my experience..) Sauna is just a normal thing in Gyms (my parents had a well used one in their house) and Spas (and we get naked). With regards to a cultural thing the point certainly goes to you and other nothern countries. Hi from Berlin.
As student (lower price) I was nearly every week in a fancy sauna (45, 60, 8, 90, 120 C finnish, roman steam, biological, swimming inside amd outside, big slide, whirl streams, whirl pools, restaurant, café, ping pong, cinema. So luxury was a day ticket instead of 2 or 4 hours ticket once in a while.
Gelato is nice, but also try Sorbet, it's quite delicious. Meanwhile there is some kind of trend in Germany, where waiters in restaurants also constantly ask "Is everything alright?" or "Do you need something?" and it is so annoying. Sauna rocks. Sit in 194 Fahrenheit for 20 minutes, then jump into a pool of ice cold water, get out, have a beer and a shot, then go back into the sauna. You get fucked up almost free. If you want it a lillte nicer, you go to a "Thermalbad".
Considering *German* eat-out experiences to be long is funny to me. My Belgian relatives had a lunch celebration for the christening of a baby that lasted for roughly five hours. Ok, it was a celebration, so yeah, it was expected to last well into the afternoon. It began around 11.30 AM and ended after 4.00 PM. But it wasn't even considered exceptionally long for Belgian standards. Similar applies to the French and Italian celebratory meals. Three to four hours is absolute normalcy for them even for non-celebrations, just a family-get-together for no particular reason. Sure, not during weekdays, but on weekends where they have the time. Dinners are often very long affairs in any of these countries, even during the week nights. Being ushered out by the wait-staff in Europe for any of these occurences would be the height of rudeness. Edit: RQotW: definitely sunscreen. Not the ultra-high SPF cause that stuff competes with the sun for detrimental effects on your skin biome, but 100% betweeen 15 and 25. After my time is up I retreat into the shade for safety.
Stammtisch is another thing that I had to "figure out" in Germany. Well, its a group of friends that meetup in a restaurant every week, say on the Thursday evening at 19:00. To talk and exchange what´s new in their lives. The sauna-culture in Germany was quite a surprize to me. Naked? I. Have. To. Go. In. Naked?!
Klug - ich bin schon lange hier, konnte nichtaber nie mehr zurueck, Es ist finanziell, sondern die schreckliche Einsamkeit (Ich war lange Lehrerin dort - Englisch un Deutsch, und kann Englisch besser als die meisten Amis - man gehoert einfach nie dazu. Lieber trockenes Btot in der Heimat, als das Fleischgericht in USA.
@@weissblau Ich denke, es wird immer mehr Menschen bewußt, wie wichtig die eigenen Wurzeln sind…Es wird uns vorgegaukelt, daß mehr Geld zu haben wichtiger ist, als soziale Kontakte und Familie. Am Ende wollen wir alle zu Hause sein. ❤️
Before the pandemic, I sometimes took a budget airline, EasyJet, for one-day shopping trips to London -- leave from my hometown airport at 7.30am, arrive at 8.15 (different time zone), have breakfast at the airport and be in the city by 10, just when the shops open. Go back to the airport by 4pm, lift-off at 7.15pm local time and be back home by 9 -- all for ~€40 (plane tickets and bus service). They were actually used as commuter flights for work by some people, and you could book several flights in advance. How's that for luxury? 🙂 (Sadly, EasyJet no longer serves my local airport, and the alternates have less advantageous flight times even from nearby places. *le sigh*)
The US has the distinction between restaurants and bars where in Germany it's common to go to a restaurant for dinner and then just stay there for a few (too many?) drinks. And it's not so uncommon to leave past midnight.
I experienced Sprint when flying from Austin to Baltimore for 80 bucks in 2019. It was a funny experience and I may not repeat that. Bur who knows, things change over the years.
hmmm the more I tink about it, the more confusing it is, us icecream , well it's in the word itself, cream, but the us version is more like an ice block unless you let it melt for a while, and gelato is cream 🤔
The one-hand tap is actually still missing under thing 1. In America, you always have to turn on hot and cold for hot water. We solve this in a faucet, without turning.
Actually here right now visiting my in-laws in the Pfalz. I lived in N. Texas for 13 years so I know you're part of the US pretty well. Most everyone in the US thinks that all the spa and bath places in Germany are all nude but there are the everyday places that you are good with swim trunks or bathing suits. The Freibad that just about every town or village has is on par with or usually better than the swimming facilities you get in an HOA community where you pay up to a few thousand $ a year for "luxuries". I've become a huge fan of the Thermalbaden where they have the huge pool with the swim up bar. They also have various soaking pools steam and sauna availability will vary but for about $50 you get a $350-400 experience. Sinsheim and Euskirchen have my faves so far.
The "table reservation time duration" is a policy which has changed in some places in large cities like Frankfurt here, too. Yes, in the past you were able to say "once sit down, nobody pushes you to hurry up to drink, eat, pay and go" but in the last few years some restaurants here started the common use of "2 hours reserved" or whatever you may call it. Yes, you're reading it correctly. In some places you are politely but directly urged to make your table cleared up for the next guests. Luckily I have not seen it in smaller towns yet.
In some of the more popular neighborhoods in Berlin where I live, when you make a reservation, they’ll tell you it’s for two hours. As an American, it’s usually not a problem, unless the service is particularly slow. But even then, as long as I’m not sitting without food or drinks, that two hours is pretty flexible. I will admit, I can’t stand eating out in the US when I go back to visit. When an American server gives me the check when they deliver my food, they have guaranteed that I will eat and drink as slowly as I can.
Would be interessting to see how many Germans have a Handtuchheizkörper in their Bathrooms. I live here since almost 50 years Munich, Stuttgart, Cologne, Dortmund, Hamburg and Munich again and all i ever saw was regular radiators or heaters.
Just came back from beautiful and friendly US, what you mention is right, let me add 4 more things. 1. No espresso after dinner, most restaurants just offer coffee - if any at all. 2. No "going for a walk-culture". When I wanted to take a stroll like after dinner, my American friend used to say 'You don't go for a walk, you gonna get killed'. We went on a walk anyway and passed many homeless people on our way. I tried to keep a bit of a distance to them (after that horrible incident the German tourist had in Santa Monica). 3. No vegetarian options on the menu (except in huge cities like NYC). Trued to stuck to salad, potato and corn add ons. 4. Well, tipping culture, but sure you covered that before. Thanks a lot for your uploads!
even the french with their 2hours and 13mins do Rookie Numbers compared to us Turks, visit a Turkish Restaurant and try to leave before 4 hours they gonna look at you confused hell our breakfast alone can take like 3 hours
Maybe it's just me, but I love putting my socks on the radiator when I take a shower. And when I'm finished, I can put on fresh, warm socks. It's really nice during winter time.
1. I would mention the 28 paid working days of vacation, which means taking 3 weeks in summer and 2 weeks in winter. 2. Also healthcare. 'Nuf said. 3. American icecream is mostly made of vegetable fat. In Germany it's animal fat i.e. cream from milk. Compare margarine with real butter. 4. We normally don't eat beef but pork, chicken or fish.
1. Yes and no. Depends how long you have been in the company (over 25 years in the same company there are 6 weeks or 36 work days). Also it depends a lot of the Collective agreement. It also depends where you work. In health care system there can be a holiday stop OR limited vacation time. Some companies also allows you to take holiday one go. What you describe is the 0815 office job. 3. Ice cream as we know (Milkcream) is mostly cream, and/or mixed with egg yolk. Gelato is whole milk and no egg yolk. (and since there are many other vegan milk options too, gelato can be vegan too) 4. Austria on the other hand it A LOT of beef. Usually: 1) Pork 2) Beef 3) Chicken 4) Lamb and mutton 5) Fish In Germany it's a bit different yes: 1) Pork 2) Chicken 3) Beef 4) Fish (depends on where you are; in north towards the sea people eat a lot more fish whereas in Bavaria)
@@Moonchild0 A small correction to 1: It is 20 days (5-day week) or 24 days (6-day week). This is what the law guarantees. 28 days PTO is an average based on current data, not a legal requirement that employers must meet. Currently, we're starting to see 32 or even 35 days of PTO as companies compete to hire qualified professionals. They also need to offer at least two consecutive weeks of vacation per year to ensure that people can actually relax and aren't pressured to take a day here, a day there. A vacation block can happen, but employers must give detailed reasons for it. Regularly, one particular reason doesn't pass legal reviews by labor courts: too few employees and too much work. This is not a legal reason for a block because it is the employer's responsibility.
@@marcmathes From what standpoint do you write this? From Austria or from Germany law? 'cuz mine is from Austria. Different countries, different laws. Because you didn't specify it, it could be confusing. You sounds and stated like that's everywhere. Well, it is NOT. Btw it's actually 25 days for 5 day-week or 30 days for 6 day-week. After 25-years in same company it would be 30 days for 5 day-week or 36 days for 6 day-week. And you also get 3 days off for anniversery (like 10 years/20 years and so on in the same company). To the holiday block: It's usually for a certain time period. So not the whole year - that would be illigal. Like the two weeks from Christmas to New Years (which I mean the whole week wether both days are Monday or Sunday). Or like summer, there might be an intern regulation like "no-more-than-two-weeks-in-a-row-or-less". So that everyone can take holiday in summer. This actually happens quite often in healthcare :/ As you said: Too much work, too less personal. Sadly it won't be any better soon.
Damn, I reckon that recording and editing that video must have been really hard. Reading that script in the leisure activity clothes and the other half in the business suit and then cutting both halfs together. I apprechiate the effort. Also, I am team "stay out of the sun as much as possible".
#5: Air travel fees have to rise! The land masses of America and Eurasia drift apart more than 1mm each and every year! (To our imperial minds: 1mm is 7/19 of one Delawarian Bushel at 100°F at noon (11.15 in winter.)
Recomandation. Visit eastern Germany an look for Softeis. But not the danish/western Version. You need the one relatated to the DDR version. I think it is one of the best Version of icecream
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Great video! Loved the explanation on the luxurious feeling of flying… one must add that gas prices are also higher in Germany compared to the US. I think that‘s also part of the reason we‘re avoiding cars as a mean of transportation for holidays… it‘s just cheaper to pay (even for say a nicer airline) 250€ for a return flight with extra baggage than to take your car and lose two vacation days plus well over 500€ on gas, tolls, etc. to fly out from Germany to say the Spanish south coast or Turkey
Hey, great video, though I think you spoke about most of the things in other videos shortly (at least I feel, like I heard it before). Anyway, to the question of the week: It's the first time I am kinda perplexed by a qotw, since there is absolutely no debate about this in my social circles... Of course everyone uses Sun screen when going out for any length of time in the summer. The health risk of sun exposure is just way more impactful than any annoyance of rubbing on sunscreen...
Eating Ice Cream is also special in Germany - the kids love it (and I do, too). But yes, it’s normal to treat yourself this luxury; actually part of culture, I’d say.
I have never seen or heard somebody saying gelato over here, but.... Its interesting You picked ice. In general over here about every food you can get is done in the style it is in their country of origin (if it is a country next to us). We have very much turks, italians and greeks over here and they are bringing their own food. Not like in the US where people are calling themselves italian, even if they are ten generations americans and have never been in Italy. Now the gelato thing, which puzzles me. I guess every german would have picked pizza. What is sold in the US has more or less nothing to do with italian pizza. Beginning with the butchering of the name calling is peeeehhza, its spoken fast, pizza. Most people refer to american style pizza as american salty cake, or something like this. What we have taken from the US, and every Italian has on its menue, is pineapple pizza, which makes every italian restaurant hate its customers. As far as I know one of the biggest differences must be housebuilding and windows in particular. Over here every house is built out of at least brick stones. A house built out of wood would go under hut, but it doesn't matter how big it is, no stone, no house. If it is true the windows in the US must be very different and built in a style which doesn't exist over here for at least 50 years? My favorite thing in the US is holydays and festivities. Those seem to have extra, but fun rules. Over here we have mostly biblical church holydays, most people don't have a clue what and why it is. We shrug and say, at least its a day of, but no clue why and what for. Over here Easter and Christmas are celebrated and nothing else, of it isn't on a personal basis.
Nah...if Europeans perceive that as American ice cream, they are very wrong! (Also, even with McDonald's being an American "classic," their burgers do not represent a true "American burger") What they serve at McDonald's is yet another type of ice cream called "soft serve ice cream" which is COMPLETELY different from "American-style ice cream."
Very funny. Never thought of this. Well, my last trip to the US was around 30 years ago. And Springfiled, IL., is not particularly fancy, e.g. they were "proud" not to have an Chinese Restaurant in town. Italian, with no italian speaking personnel, was the most exotic they had to offer.
@@PassportTwo You know what another big difference is in dining out in the US vs. Germany/Europe? The waitress/waiter explains to the guest in a lengthy and elaborated way what the food consists of. The full recipe, with all ingredients and even the spices. Here, and I´m not talking about fine dining with nouvelle cuisine dishes, normally you know and you can recognize what´s in your plate. Nobody tells you "the sauerkraut was prepared with a glas of Mosel wine, broth, then seasoned with bay leaves, juniper berries, salt and pepper and a spoon of sugar".
@@benlee6158 Not in Munich; we have famous restaurants which opened in the 50s. One even opened in 1890 and was the little man´s with moustache favorite restaurant in Munich. I´m not talking about slices of pizza around the corner. And you can talk with the waiters in italian.
I'm at a restaurant to eat, not too constantly say that everything is fine or something. It's so annoying.. You can ask once - OK - but everything above that will lower the chance of me coming back...
Gelato noch nie gehört hier bei mir im odewald gibts nur 3 Sorten Wassereis Milcheis und softeis viele fruchteissorten sind auf wasser basis es gibt milcheis auch in verschiedenen Sorten und auch Joghurteis und softeis meist nur in vanille oder schokolade
Not sure if you mentioned it but being naked in the sauna in Germany is mandatory because of hygiene. And: Another reason for plane tickets being that cheap is the fact that distances in Europe are much shorter than in the US. An airline can easily turn around a plane several times a day which means more paying passengers.
behold... saunaclub is not about sauna at all (18+ only, primary s*xual "activities")... A real sauna is not age restricted, but for very small children sauna may be to hot. A very beautifull Sauna/Spa you spend ~ 40€-45€ per day. They would be "tropical" themed with a 24°C Air temperature, offer cold and warm pools (specially cold one to cool of after sauna) and they have strict rules like shower before going into any pool. You may walk in most areas FKK but as they often offer Restaurant and Bar the rules usually state you need to wear a bathrobe there. Thongs are worn everywhere exept of inside the Sauna itself to avoid to spread fungus infections (also don't go if you know to have an infection). s*xual behavior is prohibited - if it's difficuilt for men keep it relaxed hanging maybe don't go.
No one says "gelato" in Germany. That's just a written word to show that the ice-cream is Italian because that's considered the best ice-cream in Europe. We say "Eis" (can mean both ice-cream or ice as the frozen water)
Regarding the, what we as Germans may consider annoying, service at restaurants in the US: I only found that to be true for "regular" restaurants and fastfood chains. If you go for fine dining in the US, they are pretty much the same as when you go for fine dining anywhere in Europe. I've been living and working all across the US for a while and when we went out to fancier places they were much calmer and stayed in the background. The only "US" thing that seemed to always stay was the ice cold water that was filled up immediately. Why USA, why ice cold water? :D
flat platter shelf toilets are common in germany. whats traumic is public toilets with gaps in the cabin doors that you can easily look through... I mean why???
i understand that sunscreen is the right choice, but i would have to say im probably team no sunscreen, since i don't really get sun burned and therefore usually just don't even think about it... if others around me use it, i do too, but it just slips my mind otherwise, and since i don't get punished immediately by a sunburn, i will probably not learn in time before i get punished big by damaged skin at best or well, u know... at worst...
Concerning icecream: American style icecream brands like Hägen Dasz or Tom and Jerry's suck majorly. Give me "gelato" any time! (Living in Vienna, I know every "gelato" parlor in my area and can lead erudite discussions about their respective qualities; they are closed during wintertime, we can get pretty impatient waiting for them to re-open in late spring.)
They’re common all over Europe and they’re called a heated towel rail in English. They warm fresh towels and if you want to dry a towel, they do that as well. I suppose it’s up to the user what they do with it.
@@Dreyno I just never thought about warming my fresh towel... just make it dry after use... 🤷🏻♂️ And not all bathrooms have heating, just to add that one.
@@manmad9038 It depends on where you live. Heated towel rails have been used in Europe for many decades. In old buildings with poor heating and no insulation, a warm towel was welcome after a shower/bath. You don’t find them as often in hotter climates.
If a gelato shop has more than 8 different flavours it isn't a true gelato shop according to an Italian lady. 8 Flavours you can make homemade are they are more they will buy the icecream from other places.
@@stueyphone Yes. But also no. I have an allergy but I also like the benefit of avoiding the skin aging effect of the UV radiation. UV radiation is bad and there’s no “healthy tan”. If you lack vitamin D, just supplement. I’m also a night owl, so I combine what’s best for me with my natural way of living.
NOWHERE in Germany, or the rest of Europe for that matter, have I seen anyone referring to American ice cream. What did they ever bring to the table...? Italian ice cream, AND Italian gelato is readily available everywhere. Any southern German town or city will have a number of outlets relative to their size, only to stop trading when Christmas season sets in.
I live in Berlin and yup, I do have a towel heater. Never had it on! But yes, it is rather nice. Here in Berlin there is a deplorable lack of Italians. Having grown up in West Germany, I never figured ice cream could actually be made by Germans. Like we also don't make pizza, right? Though we never ever call it "gelato", just ice cream.
Really? That’s insane! Sorry, but I can’t imagine being jailed for that. Do Americans have naked beaches (German: Freikörperkultur or FKK, meaning free body culture) or would they get jailed for that, too?
@@patriciamillin1977 If you go to a public beach in speedos, you will get nasty looks from dads because they don´t want their children to get the wrong ideas. At the same time mom is showing her new b**bs in the tiniest bikini she could possibly find.
Team Keep out of the sun all the way here. I wear long sleeves and a hat. I hate sunscreen because it makes me feel all sticky and sweaty and a mess. AND it causes spots on my clothes where sunscreen meets cloth.
I do not get the difference between german ice cream and gelato because there is none in germany. maybe there is a difference in other countries. just the name is different and depends on the person that runs the shop because most people that sell ice cream/gelato in germany are of Italian descen. nobody says "gelato" in germany except people from italy =) The dinner thing depends on the city/location. If you visit a steak house downtown they want you to leave after 90 mins because the tabe is booked by another group. if you visit an italian pizzaria you can stay as long as you order. "sauna club" does not mean sauna. this is a code word for adult entertaiment.
Never had ice cream in the US, but the Ben & Jerry's in Germany looks just like normal ice cream to me? We only distinguish between watery ice and creamy ice, the latter being variable in fat and so on, but that's rather a price thing.
Ben & Jerry´s is the horrible mishmash that Americans seem to love. A bit of milk and cream and a lot of even more fattening ingredients like cookies, caramel swirl and so on.
#4 not to mention naked kids at the beaches/pools. I've heard from other RUclipsrs that it'snot really okay in the US, but here is Europe toddlers are often naked even in a city center fountain. Not as common as it was before the smartphones and internet tho (for obvious reasons) #5 I can confirm, I worked for Ryanair as a CS, you could get flights for as low as 2$, BUT that's at least 6 months before the date and on less popular routes, like the one I specifically remember, Bordeaux to London(?) for 1.7$
No sunscreen because I never go out in the sun. I hate sun, always have (even as a child). Summer is the worst. I'm out only very early in the morning or late evening. I have severe vitamin D deficiency (treated of course) because of that but I just can't bring myself to change my habits. Being out in the sun makes my grumpy at best but sometimes even aggressive. The bright light gives me headaches and I can't stand the heat on my skin. Sometimes I wonder if I am part vampire 😆 Strangely I have no problems with sunburns when I sometimes can't avoid the sun. I just get tanned. My dad is the same... seems to run in the family.
A lot of modern German homes don't have poop shelf toilets. Towel heater are also in the US, they sell them on Amazon. Many US homes use radiators for heating. It's very common in older homes. Gelato is sold everywhere in the US. This guys experience at restaurants in the US seems limited to McDonalds, but there are countless fine dining options that are very relaxed and you take as long as you want. Germany is a terrible comparison to the US, Germany being so small, it fits inside a US state. Different culture, different language, different history. But here we are comparing the two.
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I'm pretty sure gelato came to Germany the other way around. The German economy saw a massive boom in the 1950s leading to a significant labour shortage in the 60s in 70s which the German government battled through visa agreements with several southern European states, among them Italy. This led to hundred of thousands of Italian to migrate into Germany, bringing their ice cream with them.
You're definitely correct! When I was doing my research, I read about how post-war, many Germans traveled to Italy for vacation and fell in love with gelato and, exactly like you explained, many Italians came to Germany in the same period bringing gelato with them. I talked about this much more in depth in a different video and this video I was trying to just quickly mention the connection with Italy. Maybe I should have worded it differently and highlighted the Italians bringing it with them more than the aspect of Germans traveling to Italy.
Actually, there were Italian ice cream places in Germany even before the war. The father of the inventor of "spaghetti ice", Dario Fontanella, came to Hannover in 1931, where an uncle already had such a place, and then in 1933 moved to Mannheim and opened his own place there which Dario later took over (and recently closed/is about to close in favor of other locations...)
It could also have helped that the Italian migration to Germany is significantly more recent, and given the nearness between the two countries, Italian migrants could easily come and go for holidays and visits home.
No, there were already italians selling ice cream in Germany before the war.
@@ohauss@PassportTwo 1932 Eissalon am Dom opened Regensburg and it's running till today. In Winter you can purchase Nürnberger Lebkuchen. In spring the family is coming back from Italy
Germans in restaurants just remain seated after eating and have another drink and a coffee. This "having a drink at the bar" is weird for us.
In Dutch this is called "natafelen" - literally "after tabling"
And that's exactly what we do in the US when we go to a restaurant. We get a coffee or a drink, sit around and talk, and I'm telling you in my 60 years, I've never felt rushed. This mans experience seems to be limited to McDonalds.
Most Germans do not use the word "Gelato". The most say simply "Eis", that means ice. But there are some sorts of ice, like soft ice and more.
the gelato thing is a 'trend' to charge more for your standard Waffeleis
I'm German and I've never heard people talking about "Gelato". They say "Eis" or, more and more, "Eiscrème".
Another reason we're allowed to take our time eating in restaurant is that wait staff don't rely on quick turn around and thus more tips for their income as they are paid hourly living wages. Tipping is just a bonus so their income doesn't depend on the number of guests they service a night.
And they make more money from selling drinks than from the food - as opposed to the US where you have free refills. So the restaurants are fine with people staying longer after their meal, as long as they order drinks from time to time.
Nailed it spot on. Good explanation.
@@hannesh.3024 Except it's a generalization and often wrong. This man must only go to McDonalds. As for free refills, that's only in convenience stores and gas stations, not decent restaurants. It's very hard to believe this guy is an actual American. Radiators and towel warmers? Very common. gelato places are all over. It's just off a bit....
I actually never met a German who uses the towel heater the intended way. It's nearly always turned off and we simply hang our towels over it to dry. Only if it's a really cold winter I sometimes use it to warm my pajamas before bed😅
Because of the cost tower heaters are not turned on in the summer. Some ran on electricity, but most on the heating System. So the sre a additional Header for the winter to the floor heating. Petting a tower on it..heats up the tower, but not the room. Putting your night wear on it...Shows , that you wear night wear....hopefully sexy
Mir hat man vor 6 Jahren son Ding eingebaut, ich hab das original noch nie angemacht
Was, ich kann mit meiner Heizung im Bad Klamotten erwärmen, wenn ich sie einschalte? Life hack!
In Slovakia, they are always on in winter when the heating is on. People hate cold bathrooms/toilets. My parents would even keep it on in spring/autumn when it's warm outside 🤣
I use it all the time. It's just nice to have warm towels
The "towel warmer" is not a luxury but German pragmatism. (Old) German houses use radiators for heating the rooms. Often this radiators are ugly and need a lot of space.
However, in the bathroom there is a need to hang towels. And to dry them if possible fast. Bathrooms are usually small, so why not switch from an ugly old fashioned radiator to a new towel hanging radiator?
And it will dry the towel after you took your shower.
A warm towels is just a nice 'colaferal profit'.
Floor heating is usually what most modern Germans would go for 🤷♀️
@@annwyche5471 my bathroom has neither floor heating nor a towel radiator. But the pipe to the radiator goes across the floor, so it gets warm anyway.
Long meals are obviously a result of how eating out is seen. It'ts not just going somewhere to eat. It's meeting somewhere to spend an evening together.
And the fact that italians, french and spaniards take even more time shows that they also embrace the idea of a friendly meetup that just happens to also involves food.
Like spending a late summer evening in a restaurant, on a table in front of the building, chatting, having fun, enjoying the blue hour with a couple beers or glasses of wine.
All those things you mention are not specifically German. They are common in almost every European country 😊
Weeeeeell try looking for an italian icecream place in France. You‘d be surprised. If you find an icecream place, chances are it‘ll be either a French brand (Carte d‘Or) or american (Häagen-Dasz), both pretty expensive and no high probability of getting one of those fancy Eisbecher creations…
Things Considered A LUXURY in the USA But NORMAL In Germany:
- A full covered affordable and working health insurance.
- No school shootings
- Education. (Sorry, couldn't resist! =D)
The only thing German education apparently consistently fails at is teaching Germans how to use adverbs and commas in English. Sorry, couldn't resist! ;-) (A fellow German)
Where does the health insurance thing comes from? If an American would choose to pay a german salary portion into health insurance, they'd have a great insurance. In Germany you're forced to pay for "free" stuff and still not everything is covered and you will still get a bill for many things.
I'm rarely sick, thankfully but I still have to pay on top for every single medicine I need. And since this wasn't enough already we had a few years where we paid 10€ for a doctor's visit directly at the reception 😅 (once per quarter of the year).
@@borstenpinsel
10€ 😂
@@borstenpinsel, that 10 Euro thing is over like many years ago. =) Interestingly the education thing doesn't bother you lol. Anyway don't take these things too serious. ;-) It causes needless arguing. =)
some more different political parties to vote, not a bunch of mass shootings per week...
The luxury you SSHOULD have mentioned is maternal or parental leave with job security, or unlimited paid sick-leave, minimum four weeks of paid holidays PLUS bank-holidays, lol.
Those are to painful to be mentioned to his US audience. Again these applies to all EU countries. Some even better is African countries.
Überall ist es besser als in den USA. Machen wir uns doch nichts vor. 🤣
3:48 I have lived in germany for 19 years now and literally never heard someone use the term "amarican ice". Besides some marketing on for example Ben&Jerry this isn't really a thing here.
Yeah, "American Ice Cream" usually means off-brand B&J's or Häagen Dasz, usually with chunks of whatnot in it (dough, cookies or other sweets), or food items typically associated with US culture, like pecans.
Agree.
In Germany the term "Eiscreme" 🍦is used specifically for the much softer version of "Eis" or "Speiseeis" (almost fluent). The rest and vast majority is simply called "Eis" and comes mostly in "Kugeln" (scoops). 🍨
Towel radiators are "bog standard" in the UK, too. You can get ones that are stand-alone, filled with oil and heated electrically, and do not have to be plumbed in to the usual central heating. So you can have your heated towel radiator in any bathroom, regardless of the household heating system.
While on secondment in Germany in 1996, I was stunned that the local Italian pizzeria in the tiny local village was run by an Italian, and offered pizzas 50% larger, sumptuously and deliciously topped, at about half the price of the tasteless crap offered at the pizza chains in the UK. Those pizzas remain my lasting impression of "cultural difference" between UK and Germany.
It seemed like German pricing in general was always "good value" (fair price with a decent minimum quality), whereas the UK was about "charge as much as we can get away with" - selling absolute cheapskate rubbish at as high a price as possible, often driven by a lack of choice or competition.
But that was in 1996. Perhaps mileage thse days may vary. The UK has not improved, but Germany might not have maintained those "fair value" and "quality" standards. Having said that, I now reside in the Republic of Ireland, and am rediscovering standards of food excellence at reasonable prices. Grass fed beef, real milk and butter, and so on. It is a bit more expensive, but paying 10 to 20% more for something twice as good, is worth it.
Then again, the German budget supermarket chains (Aldi and Lidl) remain (sometimes BY FAR) a cheaper option than the local UK supermarket chains. While still offering "genuine" products from all over Europe. Parma ham from Parma, brie cheese from France, bratwurst from Germany, etc.
They even run "specialities" of limited duration, where you can get Greek delicacies (baklava and moussaka and gyros, for example), sometimes French, sometimes Swedish or Danish or Spanish...
And they all taste far better than the stuff pushed by UK supermarkets.
I don't understand how they can sell grissini (breadsticks), made in Italy, at half the price of the product sold in the regular supermarkets. As one example. But yeah, HALF the price. And at least as good for taste and quality.
Then I see the problems in most of the rest of the world, and have to remind myself just how fortunate I am to have these "luxuries" to pick and choose from.
As a German in Germany, I often actively avoid name brand food products and go for store brand instead (mostly in Aldi), as they often are better quality and the manufacturers have not jumped on the shrinkflation and skimpflation bandwagon as much as the big brands have.
Come to us in the Franconian countryside. Here you can sit in the beer garden. In our area it is called a beer cellar and is often in the forest or on a hill in the middle of nature. Here you can sit all day until the sun goes down, you can eat and drink and your children can use the playground next door. No waiter would dare to tell you that you have to leave because you have finished eating. In the villages you can still get real ice cream made from milk and at a reasonable price. The people here are very relaxed and even Germans from other parts of the country come here for vacation. My employer gives me 31 days vacation and vacation pay and Christmas bonus. :)
There's no need for 'holiday airlines' in the US bc of the lac of holidays🤷
They would basically serve two routes: Vegas and Honolulu.
3:30 Correction: Officially they is even more differentiation than just "Gelato" (not a legal term in Germany) and Ice Cream.
- Cremeeis: ≥50 % Milk + ≥270 g Egg (or ≥90g egg yolk) per litre
- Milcheis: ≥70 % Milk
- Rahm-/Sahneeis: ≥18 % Milk fat
- Eiscreme: ≥10 % Milk fat
- Eis: Contains vegetable fats
- Sorbet: ≥25 % fruit (≥15 % for high-acid fruits like a lemon sorbet)
A good "Eisdiele" usually offers Milcheis, Rahmeis or Eiscreme. If it only indicates something like "Vanilleeis": Run as fast as you can.
And then there is Mövenpick and Cremissimo: Milchpulver, Zucker und Schaum 😬
Team "as little sun as possible" in the summer.
Pro-Tip, perhaps really a bit posh: There is a device called "Elektrische Heizpatrone" you can add to the towel warmer radiator. You can program a schedule to it so it starts heating at the time you usually take a shower/bath so you have warmed towels all over the year, not only when the normal heating is on. Second benefit: The towels dry faster and don't start to smell.
As a two time survivor of skin cancer who happens to also be a nudist/FKKler, I am *definitely* Team Sunscreen!
Remember: your skin never forgets what you do to it.
True. I lived in Cyprus for many years as a kid to teenager, sunscreen was definitely an important “luxury” item.
Yup. And go to your check-ups regularly without hesitation, particularly if you or someone close to you notices some changes on your skin. Delaying for 2 weeks can make all the difference between an "uncomfortable" day at clinic getting minor surgery and years of stressful treatment with always having to think of the "odds" of things going good or bad...
Speaking of experience.
@@bejoscha at the age of 15 i lived in "la herradura" near Coquimbo/Chile, at the spring beginn i started with sunbathing...at the summer my skin was almost as dark as a black guy...i myself am 180 m tall and blond, now at the age of 77 never had any skin problems. It was a wonderful time there, nice people and beautyful girls/ladys. I´m back in Germany since 1966 and using the I-net to talk to some of them.
Absolutely team sunscreen here. Especially when I intend to stay in the sun for a while.
For the quick walk to the store? Not neccesary.
For an afternoon in the cafes at the riverbank? Absolutely!
Recent studies however, show a correlation between sunscreen usage and incidence of skin cancer.
As a Finn, I found it strange that you came up with sauna culture in Germany. It is a small thing compared to Finland. And yes, I know how it is in Germany (been there like 15 times) and US (have lived there for a year + several shorter visits).
We don’t have a sauna culture in Germany. Very few go to a public sauna and some have a sauna in the basement, but you never invite friends unless you are swingers. Americans make a big thing of „german sauna culture“ because their sick brains can’t comprehend being naked in public
As a German, I totally get your perpective.. ;) For us (whilst I can only speak from my experience..) Sauna is just a normal thing in Gyms (my parents had a well used one in their house) and Spas (and we get naked). With regards to a cultural thing the point certainly goes to you and other nothern countries. Hi from Berlin.
Well this video compares Germany and USA not Finland 😅
I hear you, I like the finnish way of sauna without the strict german rules where you are not allowed to enter during "Aufguss".
As student (lower price) I was nearly every week in a fancy sauna (45, 60, 8, 90, 120 C finnish, roman steam, biological, swimming inside amd outside, big slide, whirl streams, whirl pools, restaurant, café, ping pong, cinema. So luxury was a day ticket instead of 2 or 4 hours ticket once in a while.
Eating slow is more healthy
Only if you eat healthy quality food, which explains why Americans try eat there " food" so fast.😋
@@c.b.4270 🤣🤣🤣
Gelato is nice, but also try Sorbet, it's quite delicious.
Meanwhile there is some kind of trend in Germany, where waiters in restaurants also constantly ask "Is everything alright?" or "Do you need something?" and it is so annoying.
Sauna rocks. Sit in 194 Fahrenheit for 20 minutes, then jump into a pool of ice cold water, get out, have a beer and a shot, then go back into the sauna. You get fucked up almost free. If you want it a lillte nicer, you go to a "Thermalbad".
Considering *German* eat-out experiences to be long is funny to me. My Belgian relatives had a lunch celebration for the christening of a baby that lasted for roughly five hours. Ok, it was a celebration, so yeah, it was expected to last well into the afternoon. It began around 11.30 AM and ended after 4.00 PM. But it wasn't even considered exceptionally long for Belgian standards. Similar applies to the French and Italian celebratory meals. Three to four hours is absolute normalcy for them even for non-celebrations, just a family-get-together for no particular reason. Sure, not during weekdays, but on weekends where they have the time.
Dinners are often very long affairs in any of these countries, even during the week nights.
Being ushered out by the wait-staff in Europe for any of these occurences would be the height of rudeness.
Edit: RQotW: definitely sunscreen. Not the ultra-high SPF cause that stuff competes with the sun for detrimental effects on your skin biome, but 100% betweeen 15 and 25. After my time is up I retreat into the shade for safety.
Stammtisch is another thing that I had to "figure out" in Germany. Well, its a group of friends that meetup in a restaurant every week, say on the Thursday evening at 19:00. To talk and exchange what´s new in their lives.
The sauna-culture in Germany was quite a surprize to me. Naked? I. Have. To. Go. In. Naked?!
As a German, i would never ever think about living in USA. Nevvvver. 😂😂
Same!
Same here my German neighbour. Grtz from the Netherlands 🇳🇱
Klug - ich bin schon lange hier, konnte nichtaber nie mehr zurueck, Es ist finanziell, sondern die schreckliche Einsamkeit (Ich war lange Lehrerin dort - Englisch un Deutsch, und kann Englisch besser als die meisten Amis - man gehoert einfach nie dazu. Lieber trockenes Btot in der Heimat, als das Fleischgericht in USA.
@@weissblau Ich denke, es wird immer mehr Menschen bewußt, wie wichtig die eigenen Wurzeln sind…Es wird uns vorgegaukelt, daß mehr Geld zu haben wichtiger ist, als soziale Kontakte und Familie. Am Ende wollen wir alle zu Hause sein. ❤️
4:14 More likely the ice cream culture in germany is that good because there were quite a lot of italian immigrants to germany in the 60s.
Handtuchheizkörper has to be something relativly new. i've been in many houses of my family and none had one.
Before the pandemic, I sometimes took a budget airline, EasyJet, for one-day shopping trips to London -- leave from my hometown airport at 7.30am, arrive at 8.15 (different time zone), have breakfast at the airport and be in the city by 10, just when the shops open. Go back to the airport by 4pm, lift-off at 7.15pm local time and be back home by 9 -- all for ~€40 (plane tickets and bus service). They were actually used as commuter flights for work by some people, and you could book several flights in advance. How's that for luxury? 🙂
(Sadly, EasyJet no longer serves my local airport, and the alternates have less advantageous flight times even from nearby places. *le sigh*)
The US has the distinction between restaurants and bars where in Germany it's common to go to a restaurant for dinner and then just stay there for a few (too many?) drinks. And it's not so uncommon to leave past midnight.
I experienced Sprint when flying from Austin to Baltimore for 80 bucks in 2019. It was a funny experience and I may not repeat that. Bur who knows, things change over the years.
hmmm the more I tink about it, the more confusing it is, us icecream , well it's in the word itself, cream, but the us version is more like an ice block unless you let it melt for a while, and gelato is cream 🤔
The one-hand tap is actually still missing under thing 1.
In America, you always have to turn on hot and cold for hot water.
We solve this in a faucet, without turning.
None of that is true at all, if what I'm guessing you mean by that confusing comment is correct.
Three out of five ice cream parlors of my town in Hesse are carrying the name "Venetia".
Actually here right now visiting my in-laws in the Pfalz. I lived in N. Texas for 13 years so I know you're part of the US pretty well.
Most everyone in the US thinks that all the spa and bath places in Germany are all nude but there are the everyday places that you are good with swim trunks or bathing suits. The Freibad that just about every town or village has is on par with or usually better than the swimming facilities you get in an HOA community where you pay up to a few thousand $ a year for "luxuries". I've become a huge fan of the Thermalbaden where they have the huge pool with the swim up bar. They also have various soaking pools steam and sauna availability will vary but for about $50 you get a $350-400 experience. Sinsheim and Euskirchen have my faves so far.
The "table reservation time duration" is a policy which has changed in some places in large cities like Frankfurt here, too. Yes, in the past you were able to say "once sit down, nobody pushes you to hurry up to drink, eat, pay and go" but in the last few years some restaurants here started the common use of "2 hours reserved" or whatever you may call it. Yes, you're reading it correctly. In some places you are politely but directly urged to make your table cleared up for the next guests. Luckily I have not seen it in smaller towns yet.
In some of the more popular neighborhoods in Berlin where I live, when you make a reservation, they’ll tell you it’s for two hours. As an American, it’s usually not a problem, unless the service is particularly slow. But even then, as long as I’m not sitting without food or drinks, that two hours is pretty flexible. I will admit, I can’t stand eating out in the US when I go back to visit. When an American server gives me the check when they deliver my food, they have guaranteed that I will eat and drink as slowly as I can.
Eis: Guys, there was a life in Germany before 1950, believe it or not. The first ice-caffe was called "Alsterpavillon", founded in Hamburg n 1799.
Would be interessting to see how many Germans have a Handtuchheizkörper in their Bathrooms. I live here since almost 50 years Munich, Stuttgart, Cologne, Dortmund, Hamburg and Munich again and all i ever saw was regular radiators or heaters.
I have one. And never use it because I have an underfloor heating.
the first thing is a luxury for us too... I saw and used one only once in my life - in a hotel..
A towel warmer is a luxury, on both sides of the Big Pond. Never had one whereever I've lived.
Just came back from beautiful and friendly US, what you mention is right, let me add 4 more things.
1. No espresso after dinner, most restaurants just offer coffee - if any at all.
2. No "going for a walk-culture". When I wanted to take a stroll like after dinner, my American friend used to say 'You don't go for a walk, you gonna get killed'. We went on a walk anyway and passed many homeless people on our way. I tried to keep a bit of a distance to them (after that horrible incident the German tourist had in Santa Monica).
3. No vegetarian options on the menu (except in huge cities like NYC). Trued to stuck to salad, potato and corn add ons.
4. Well, tipping culture, but sure you covered that before.
Thanks a lot for your uploads!
(2) your friends live in Watts? South Central, perhaps?
even the french with their 2hours and 13mins do Rookie Numbers compared to us Turks, visit a Turkish Restaurant and try to leave before 4 hours they gonna look at you confused hell our breakfast alone can take like 3 hours
Well, looking at most Turks, I think you should eat less, maybe. No offense 🤣
Maybe it's just me, but I love putting my socks on the radiator when I take a shower. And when I'm finished, I can put on fresh, warm socks. It's really nice during winter time.
Na, na. Ein wohlhabendermanager wechselt die Socken nach dem Duschen!
as long you use NEW/ FRESH socks!.....
@@vonpfrentsch Dass man nicht die Socken vom Vortag anzieht dürfte irgendwie klar sein, oder?
@@sarahmichael270244 Why would I wear yesterday's socks? Doesn't make sense.
@@wohlhabendermanager Just kidding.
When in Europe, I hang washed clothes on the towel radiator, that I cant put in the dryer. They dry incredibly quickly.
1. I would mention the 28 paid working days of vacation, which means taking 3 weeks in summer and 2 weeks in winter. 2. Also healthcare. 'Nuf said. 3. American icecream is mostly made of vegetable fat. In Germany it's animal fat i.e. cream from milk. Compare margarine with real butter. 4. We normally don't eat beef but pork, chicken or fish.
1. Yes and no. Depends how long you have been in the company (over 25 years in the same company there are 6 weeks or 36 work days). Also it depends a lot of the Collective agreement. It also depends where you work. In health care system there can be a holiday stop OR limited vacation time. Some companies also allows you to take holiday one go. What you describe is the 0815 office job.
3. Ice cream as we know (Milkcream) is mostly cream, and/or mixed with egg yolk. Gelato is whole milk and no egg yolk. (and since there are many other vegan milk options too, gelato can be vegan too)
4. Austria on the other hand it A LOT of beef.
Usually:
1) Pork
2) Beef
3) Chicken
4) Lamb and mutton
5) Fish
In Germany it's a bit different yes:
1) Pork
2) Chicken
3) Beef
4) Fish (depends on where you are; in north towards the sea people eat a lot more fish whereas in Bavaria)
@@Moonchild0 A small correction to 1: It is 20 days (5-day week) or 24 days (6-day week). This is what the law guarantees. 28 days PTO is an average based on current data, not a legal requirement that employers must meet. Currently, we're starting to see 32 or even 35 days of PTO as companies compete to hire qualified professionals. They also need to offer at least two consecutive weeks of vacation per year to ensure that people can actually relax and aren't pressured to take a day here, a day there. A vacation block can happen, but employers must give detailed reasons for it. Regularly, one particular reason doesn't pass legal reviews by labor courts: too few employees and too much work. This is not a legal reason for a block because it is the employer's responsibility.
@@marcmathes From what standpoint do you write this? From Austria or from Germany law? 'cuz mine is from Austria. Different countries, different laws. Because you didn't specify it, it could be confusing. You sounds and stated like that's everywhere. Well, it is NOT.
Btw it's actually 25 days for 5 day-week or 30 days for 6 day-week.
After 25-years in same company it would be 30 days for 5 day-week or 36 days for 6 day-week.
And you also get 3 days off for anniversery (like 10 years/20 years and so on in the same company).
To the holiday block: It's usually for a certain time period. So not the whole year - that would be illigal.
Like the two weeks from Christmas to New Years (which I mean the whole week wether both days are Monday or Sunday). Or like summer, there might be an intern regulation like "no-more-than-two-weeks-in-a-row-or-less". So that everyone can take holiday in summer.
This actually happens quite often in healthcare :/
As you said: Too much work, too less personal. Sadly it won't be any better soon.
Kacketeller are epic. So much pride to be harvested for seeing the mountain you just made. 💪🏻😂
I used to live in Cyprus. When there were family get togethers for dinner, especially BBQs, eating could easily last all afternoon!
Damn, I reckon that recording and editing that video must have been really hard. Reading that script in the leisure activity clothes and the other half in the business suit and then cutting both halfs together. I apprechiate the effort. Also, I am team "stay out of the sun as much as possible".
My thought!
I'm German and I'm not familiar with any of these things. Except, perhaps, the thing about restaurant times.
#5: Air travel fees have to rise! The land masses of America and Eurasia drift apart more than 1mm each and every year!
(To our imperial minds: 1mm is 7/19 of one Delawarian Bushel at 100°F at noon (11.15 in winter.)
Or even simpler, 1 millimeter is 457.2 minimum shotgun length.
@@marcromain64 Not an Yankee, have no clue what you're talking about.
@@rosshart9514 Your "confession" is in no way defamatory. Quite the opposite, in fact.
Radiators are part of a central heating system. It's just a hot water system, not a forced air one.
*Team NO SUN!*
[Having your brain cooked in the heat is stupid.]
Heard of vitamin d3?
I am pretty sure, nobody in Germany has ever heart of Gelado!😂
It is written gelato and of course we heard of it
@@mncsrhjkkligvYes, in Italy.
Recomandation.
Visit eastern Germany an look for Softeis.
But not the danish/western Version.
You need the one relatated to the DDR version.
I think it is one of the best Version of icecream
Berlin - Frankfurter Allee just look for softeis on Google Maps
"US Ice Cream" is only used for Ben & Jerry copies. Paperbuckect with chunks of stuff.
Something strange is going on with RUclips. I have been subscribed to this channel a long time and still am and I refresh my "subscriptions" page several times a day and normally don't miss any videos uploaded by the channels I am subscribed to, with the one exception of this channel. It happened several times now that I did not see a video on this channel pop up in my feed, but had to stumble over it randomly in my recommendations to become aware of its existence, as if I would not be subscribed to this channel.
Actually, just a month or so ago, I wondered whether this channel stopped uploading videos, because it has been such a long time that I last saw one.
Today I see this 3 day old video in my recommendations, as if it would be a unknown channel suggested to me to check out and when I then go into my subscription video feed and scroll down 3 days, I don't see it among the 3 day old videos of other channels I am subscribed to.
Really weird.
We was in a restaurant today, and were sitting there for 3,5 hours. No Problem. Yes i am from germany.
You mean 3,5 hours before the waiter showed up for the first time, right?
Great video! Loved the explanation on the luxurious feeling of flying… one must add that gas prices are also higher in Germany compared to the US. I think that‘s also part of the reason we‘re avoiding cars as a mean of transportation for holidays… it‘s just cheaper to pay (even for say a nicer airline) 250€ for a return flight with extra baggage than to take your car and lose two vacation days plus well over 500€ on gas, tolls, etc. to fly out from Germany to say the Spanish south coast or Turkey
Hey, great video, though I think you spoke about most of the things in other videos shortly (at least I feel, like I heard it before).
Anyway, to the question of the week: It's the first time I am kinda perplexed by a qotw, since there is absolutely no debate about this in my social circles... Of course everyone uses Sun screen when going out for any length of time in the summer. The health risk of sun exposure is just way more impactful than any annoyance of rubbing on sunscreen...
Eating Ice Cream is also special in Germany - the kids love it (and I do, too). But yes, it’s normal to treat yourself this luxury; actually part of culture, I’d say.
I have never seen or heard somebody saying gelato over here, but.... Its interesting You picked ice. In general over here about every food you can get is done in the style it is in their country of origin (if it is a country next to us). We have very much turks, italians and greeks over here and they are bringing their own food. Not like in the US where people are calling themselves italian, even if they are ten generations americans and have never been in Italy.
Now the gelato thing, which puzzles me. I guess every german would have picked pizza. What is sold in the US has more or less nothing to do with italian pizza. Beginning with the butchering of the name calling is peeeehhza, its spoken fast, pizza. Most people refer to american style pizza as american salty cake, or something like this.
What we have taken from the US, and every Italian has on its menue, is pineapple pizza, which makes every italian restaurant hate its customers.
As far as I know one of the biggest differences must be housebuilding and windows in particular.
Over here every house is built out of at least brick stones. A house built out of wood would go under hut, but it doesn't matter how big it is, no stone, no house. If it is true the windows in the US must be very different and built in a style which doesn't exist over here for at least 50 years?
My favorite thing in the US is holydays and festivities. Those seem to have extra, but fun rules. Over here we have mostly biblical church holydays, most people don't have a clue what and why it is. We shrug and say, at least its a day of, but no clue why and what for.
Over here Easter and Christmas are celebrated and nothing else, of it isn't on a personal basis.
RQOTW: No sun, if possible. Sunscreen when necessary.
I don't like towel heaters and decided against it when we renovated our bathroom. I'm HOT after showering, I don't want warm towels on top of that 😂😅
In most part of europe "american ice cream" is the type like they sell at MacDonalds - milkpowder mix and water, called soft ice.
Nah...if Europeans perceive that as American ice cream, they are very wrong! (Also, even with McDonald's being an American "classic," their burgers do not represent a true "American burger") What they serve at McDonald's is yet another type of ice cream called "soft serve ice cream" which is COMPLETELY different from "American-style ice cream."
Very funny. Never thought of this. Well, my last trip to the US was around 30 years ago. And Springfiled, IL., is not particularly fancy, e.g. they were "proud" not to have an Chinese Restaurant in town. Italian, with no italian speaking personnel, was the most exotic they had to offer.
I think Italian with no Italian speaking personnel is quite common in the U.S. haha
@@PassportTwo You know what another big difference is in dining out in the US vs. Germany/Europe? The waitress/waiter explains to the guest in a lengthy and elaborated way what the food consists of. The full recipe, with all ingredients and even the spices. Here, and
I´m not talking about fine dining with nouvelle cuisine dishes, normally you know and you can recognize what´s in your plate. Nobody tells you "the sauerkraut was prepared with a glas of Mosel wine, broth, then seasoned with bay leaves, juniper berries, salt and pepper and a spoon of sugar".
Well, most "Italiener" in Germany are in fact from the Balkan or Turkey.
@@benlee6158 Not in Munich; we have famous restaurants which opened in the 50s. One even opened in 1890 and was the little man´s with moustache favorite restaurant in Munich. I´m not talking about slices of pizza around the corner. And you can talk with the waiters in italian.
@@benlee6158No, ours (: are all from Italy!
I'm at a restaurant to eat, not too constantly say that everything is fine or something. It's so annoying..
You can ask once - OK - but everything above that will lower the chance of me coming back...
You forgot cake forks. I would not want to eat without it.
Gelato noch nie gehört hier bei mir im odewald gibts nur 3 Sorten Wassereis Milcheis und softeis viele fruchteissorten sind auf wasser basis es gibt milcheis auch in verschiedenen Sorten und auch Joghurteis und softeis meist nur in vanille oder schokolade
Not sure if you mentioned it but being naked in the sauna in Germany is mandatory because of hygiene. And: Another reason for plane tickets being that cheap is the fact that distances in Europe are much shorter than in the US. An airline can easily turn around a plane several times a day which means more paying passengers.
behold... saunaclub is not about sauna at all (18+ only, primary s*xual "activities")... A real sauna is not age restricted, but for very small children sauna may be to hot. A very beautifull Sauna/Spa you spend ~ 40€-45€ per day. They would be "tropical" themed with a 24°C Air temperature, offer cold and warm pools (specially cold one to cool of after sauna) and they have strict rules like shower before going into any pool. You may walk in most areas FKK but as they often offer Restaurant and Bar the rules usually state you need to wear a bathrobe there. Thongs are worn everywhere exept of inside the Sauna itself to avoid to spread fungus infections (also don't go if you know to have an infection). s*xual behavior is prohibited - if it's difficuilt for men keep it relaxed hanging maybe don't go.
Saunaclub is either a Gay Sex sauna or a Swinger Club
When it comes to FKK - a visit to the German Baltic coast can shock many an American too
@@LarsSchönfeld-m8k Bonus points for staying at a FKK or clothing-optional(quite useful if you have teenage kids with body image problems) campground.
lmao ...relaxed hanging...u made my day! Use a towel when UNrelaxed
No one says "gelato" in Germany. That's just a written word to show that the ice-cream is Italian because that's considered the best ice-cream in Europe. We say "Eis" (can mean both ice-cream or ice as the frozen water)
He left off the number one thing
Healthcare
In most European countries healthcare is free. I can go see a doctor at short notice for free
OMG I really thought you meant the BRAIN 😂
To stay at home can be more expensive in Switzerland than going abroad and have a nice vacation in an all inclusive resort.
I like the fixed shower 🚿 because it’s hands free and i need my hands everywhere literally 😂😂
I got one: affordable health care!
Joke aside nice video!
Regarding the, what we as Germans may consider annoying, service at restaurants in the US:
I only found that to be true for "regular" restaurants and fastfood chains. If you go for fine dining in the US, they are pretty much the same as when you go for fine dining anywhere in Europe.
I've been living and working all across the US for a while and when we went out to fancier places they were much calmer and stayed in the background. The only "US" thing that seemed to always stay was the ice cold water that was filled up immediately.
Why USA, why ice cold water? :D
flat platter shelf toilets are common in germany.
whats traumic is public toilets with gaps in the cabin doors that you can easily look through... I mean why???
You mean like in America where the stall door is a 20" wide strip of wood?
I’m on team sunscreen. Usually, if I’m doing more than walking into or out of a vehicle, I want to put effort to protect my skin.
i understand that sunscreen is the right choice, but i would have to say im probably team no sunscreen, since i don't really get sun burned and therefore usually just don't even think about it... if others around me use it, i do too, but it just slips my mind otherwise, and since i don't get punished immediately by a sunburn, i will probably not learn in time before i get punished big by damaged skin at best or well, u know... at worst...
Concerning icecream: American style icecream brands like Hägen Dasz or Tom and Jerry's suck majorly. Give me "gelato" any time! (Living in Vienna, I know every "gelato" parlor in my area and can lead erudite discussions about their respective qualities; they are closed during wintertime, we can get pretty impatient waiting for them to re-open in late spring.)
No argument concerning Ben & Jerry’s and Häagen-Dazs. What I am wondering though is have you tried bluebell? It puts them to shame.
@@Hun_Uinaq Not available where I live. I suppose it's still industrially produced - so it won't be up to the standard of artisanal gelato.
Are you sure it is a towel heater? I always considered it as towel "dryer"...
They’re common all over Europe and they’re called a heated towel rail in English. They warm fresh towels and if you want to dry a towel, they do that as well. I suppose it’s up to the user what they do with it.
@@Dreyno I just never thought about warming my fresh towel... just make it dry after use... 🤷🏻♂️ And not all bathrooms have heating, just to add that one.
@@manmad9038 It depends on where you live. Heated towel rails have been used in Europe for many decades. In old buildings with poor heating and no insulation, a warm towel was welcome after a shower/bath. You don’t find them as often in hotter climates.
If a gelato shop has more than 8 different flavours it isn't a true gelato shop according to an Italian lady. 8 Flavours you can make homemade are they are more they will buy the icecream from other places.
That depends on how much space and how many employees you have, lol. You can roughly calculate 8 flavours per person
@@sakkikoyumikishi You mean that da Palma in Rome with their 150 different flavors is fake? Tastes damn good, though.
@@Altonahh10 who are you replying to? 😂
I’m team “no sun”. I either avoid the sun altogether or I wear protective clothing and sometimes even use an umbrella.
Why? Is it for a medical reason?
@@stueyphone Yes. But also no. I have an allergy but I also like the benefit of avoiding the skin aging effect of the UV radiation. UV radiation is bad and there’s no “healthy tan”. If you lack vitamin D, just supplement. I’m also a night owl, so I combine what’s best for me with my natural way of living.
1:51 wait these things are not there to help get your towles dry? Also they can be tuned on?
Yeah well. The ice cream (and pizza) here is not only Italian style, but usually made by Italians who decided to live in Germany.
NOWHERE in Germany, or the rest of Europe for that matter, have I seen anyone referring to American ice cream. What did they ever bring to the table...? Italian ice cream, AND Italian gelato is readily available everywhere. Any southern German town or city will have a number of outlets relative to their size, only to stop trading when Christmas season sets in.
I live in Berlin and yup, I do have a towel heater. Never had it on! But yes, it is rather nice. Here in Berlin there is a deplorable lack of Italians. Having grown up in West Germany, I never figured ice cream could actually be made by Germans. Like we also don't make pizza, right? Though we never ever call it "gelato", just ice cream.
You should count Saunaclubs as a luxury, too. In the USA opening such a club or visiting one can get you jail time - except maybe for LasVegas.....
Really? That’s insane! Sorry, but I can’t imagine being jailed for that. Do Americans have naked beaches (German: Freikörperkultur or FKK, meaning free body culture) or would they get jailed for that, too?
@@patriciamillin1977 A "Saunaclub" isn't a regular sauna. It's a brothel.
@@theKiwii Oh, ha ha. That was a new one on me 😄
@@patriciamillin1977 If you go to a public beach in speedos, you will get nasty looks from dads because they don´t want their children to get the wrong ideas. At the same time mom is showing her new b**bs in the tiniest bikini she could possibly find.
Team Keep out of the sun all the way here. I wear long sleeves and a hat. I hate sunscreen because it makes me feel all sticky and sweaty and a mess. AND it causes spots on my clothes where sunscreen meets cloth.
To get into a very fancy Sauna with Spa inklusive you pay 50-65€.
60-75 US is what you pay for half an hour on a banana boat in Florida.
I do not get the difference between german ice cream and gelato because there is none in germany. maybe there is a difference in other countries. just the name is different and depends on the person that runs the shop because most people that sell ice cream/gelato in germany are of Italian descen. nobody says "gelato" in germany except people from italy =)
The dinner thing depends on the city/location. If you visit a steak house downtown they want you to leave after 90 mins because the tabe is booked by another group. if you visit an italian pizzaria you can stay as long as you order.
"sauna club" does not mean sauna. this is a code word for adult entertaiment.
Never had ice cream in the US, but the Ben & Jerry's in Germany looks just like normal ice cream to me? We only distinguish between watery ice and creamy ice, the latter being variable in fat and so on, but that's rather a price thing.
Ben & Jerry´s is the horrible mishmash that Americans seem to love. A bit of milk and cream and a lot of even more fattening ingredients like cookies, caramel swirl and so on.
I wish RUclipsrs could rely on their own natural facial positions and not try to look like cartoons in their thumbnails. Are we children?
Wat do you think about German washing machines/ dryers?
#4 not to mention naked kids at the beaches/pools. I've heard from other RUclipsrs that it'snot really okay in the US, but here is Europe toddlers are often naked even in a city center fountain. Not as common as it was before the smartphones and internet tho (for obvious reasons)
#5 I can confirm, I worked for Ryanair as a CS, you could get flights for as low as 2$, BUT that's at least 6 months before the date and on less popular routes, like the one I specifically remember, Bordeaux to London(?) for 1.7$
No sunscreen because I never go out in the sun. I hate sun, always have (even as a child). Summer is the worst. I'm out only very early in the morning or late evening. I have severe vitamin D deficiency (treated of course) because of that but I just can't bring myself to change my habits. Being out in the sun makes my grumpy at best but sometimes even aggressive. The bright light gives me headaches and I can't stand the heat on my skin. Sometimes I wonder if I am part vampire 😆
Strangely I have no problems with sunburns when I sometimes can't avoid the sun. I just get tanned. My dad is the same... seems to run in the family.
6) Insulin
In America "gelato" not only SEEMS to be from a land far away it IS from a land far away! 😆Italy is much closer to Germany! 😉
A lot of modern German homes don't have poop shelf toilets. Towel heater are also in the US, they sell them on Amazon. Many US homes use radiators for heating. It's very common in older homes. Gelato is sold everywhere in the US. This guys experience at restaurants in the US seems limited to McDonalds, but there are countless fine dining options that are very relaxed and you take as long as you want. Germany is a terrible comparison to the US, Germany being so small, it fits inside a US state. Different culture, different language, different history. But here we are comparing the two.