I come from India where we have 4 meals in day: 1. Breakfast (8 - 10 am) - warm meals like Poha/Upma/Oats/Idli/Dosa/Bread 2. Lunch (12 - 2 pm) - Rice or Roti (a wheat tortilla like Indian bread) with some lentils & curry 3. Snacks (5 - 6 pm) - Tea & biscuits/small fried items/chaat 4. Dinner (8 - 10 pm) - Rice or Roti with some lentils & curry Breakfasts & Snacks are generally vegetarian. Lunches & Dinners may include a non-vegetarian element. Desserts (a piece of Indian sweet) is occasionally eaten after lunch & dinner.
I got invited to a Christmas dinner by a nice German lady and graciously accepted but was very nervous about making a good impression. I had no idea about German dining timetables or dishes but watching all of your videos helped me get a firm understanding of the underlying principles. Great content as always you guys!
I have no interest in moving to Germany and I’ve never lived in Germany either, but I love watching your videos. You manage to strike the balance between warmth, authenticity, humour and information which is very impressive. It’s easy to watch you, but there’s also another reason: you’re an interracial lesbian couple that’s kind and respectful of each other. You give me hope! Thank you!
Seems to vary by family. We used to have like 5 different types of self made jams, honey, Nutella, maybe cheese, but usually no meat for brekkie. But visiting other families it was exactly the opposite - 10 different types of cold cuts and like maybe 1 sad little jar of jam and rigorous restrictions when and how much Nutella is allowed (for kids) 😩😉 And then there are the cereal and fruit people of course 😁
in the company where I work in Germany, the canteen opens at 11:15. At 11:14 a large number of people already stands in a queue, waiting to be served. Since Germans cannot really enjoy the meal but they want to get finished as soon as possible, basically by 12:00 most of the people has already returned to the office place. However the canteen closes at 2 PM (actually doesn't really close, it just doesn't serve food). Since 90% of the people concetrates in the first hour, many people complain because they need to wait in the line a significant amount of time, like 10min in the line and maybe 15 to 20 min to eat. The direction of the canteen sent a communicate, in order to invite people to distribute more evenly between 11:15 and 14:00. Result: still 90% of people go in the very first hour and keep complaining about the line. I as Italian, just go around 1:30 PM, no line, all food is still there, have a chat with the cashier, enjoy my meal, take a coffee and shorter after 2 PM am back in the office.
At my job there are several companies using the same canteen. The people from one of the bigger companies generally go at 12:00. So our people mostly go at 11:30 even if our official company lunch timeslot (where you don't need to be working) starts at 12:00.
On the weekend we generally don’t have an eating schedule. My weekday schedule is; (06:30 breakfast) Coffee, 2 Eggs, cereal, milk. (Lunchtime; 12:00) Coffee, Salad and a few rye, sauerkraut, cheese and meat. (Supper/Dinner 18:30), pasta, steak or a heavy meat, potatoes, greens.
Ich kenne noch das "2. Frühstück". Dem entspricht wohl die "Brotzeit" in Süddeutschland. Das gibt es wohl immer noch vor allem bei Arbeitern, die bereits sehr früh, um 6 Uhr oder eher, mit der Arbeit beginnen.
Usually lunch is 12 30 to 13 00 due to school ending. Weekend a bit later. Dinner 18 30 to 19 00 that’s how I and many friends grew up in the seventies…
Love this content! Please do more like this one. I love the ending where you explain the cake and coffee and the morning drinking traditions! Thank you for all the wonderful content and for references to other wonderful Germany content creators!
From a Polish perspective: Our family usually had the same mealtime culture as Germans. Exception is a warm extra for Breakfast like eggs or sausages, but I'm not sure if this is still a thing.
Wir handhaben das so. Mein Mann fängt um 6:30 Uhr zum arbeiten an und er isst kein Frühstück. Zu bald, keinen Hunger und keine Zeit. Er geht um 11 Uhr in die Kantine, weil am wenigsten los ist und danach noch Zeit übrig bleibt für einen Spaziergang mit Kollegen. Zu Hause - Kids Frühstück gegen 6 Uhr - lassen sie oft ausfallen, ich selbst gegen 7 Uhr. Die Kinder essen noch in der Schule ihre Jause in der großen Pause gegen 9:20 Uhr. Mittag esse ich mit meinen 2 Kindern gegen 13/14 Uhr warm. Abendessen (Abendbrot) für alle gibt es zw. 17 - 19 Uhr. Am Wochenende wird spät (10 Uhr) und sehr ausführlich gefrühstückt. Mittagessen gibt es dann 15 - 16 Uhr. Abendessen fällt aus. :-)
Ladies, you missed the most important breakfast items. Because, where in Germany is it not totally common to have something sweet, like cake, pie, or pastries, but also Honey, jam/jelly or some kind of chocolate-nut cream for breakfast? That's actually the first thing I think of when it comes to breakfast, and it's actually the only time I would eat those sweet things. I also think, heaving bread for weekdays and buns only on the weekend is probably not very common (edit: except maybe in very, very traditional families). Because when on the way to work it's common to just fetch something at the bakery or the supermarket. And that's usually buns with something on it, or some pastry. Actually, for me, the one thing that makes a weekend breakfast different from weekday's one is: Boiled egg. However, that may also be not a general thing. And maybe another comment for the "Bavarian Frühshoppen", because there may be some misconception. What you refer to, is a Weißwurstfrühstück. But that has nothing to do with a Frühshoppen. Weißwurstfrühstück is a (southern) Bavarian tradition, where you have that Weißbier, Weißwurst, sweet mustard, and soft pretzels. And as you pointed out, it has to happen before noon. But Frühschoppen normally is only an early alcoholic beverage, usually wine, but beer would go as well. It's actually much more common in the north of Bavaria (a.k.a. Franconia). However, it's not usual to eat on your Frühschoppen. It's only drinking and talking, more like a morning Stammtisch. And it's usually after Sunday's breakfast, and probably after church service.
Ich finde Wochenendbrötchen immer noch ziemlich typisch. Frag mal Bäckereifachverkäuferinnen. Und die Bäckereien haben ja gerade deshalb sonntags morgens geöffnet, damit dann seine frischen Brötchen kaufen kann. Klar wird inzwischen auch werktags oft etwas unterwegs gekauft, aber grundsätzlich haben wir hier keine Streetfoodkultur wie etwa in Thailand. Um satt zu werden mit wenig Geld muss man doch noch recht oft selber sein Essen zubereiten. Diese ganzen süßen Brotaufstriche biete ich nur für Besuch an. Ich mag zwar Gelees und Konfitüre, Honig und Pistaziencreme oder Nutella, aber da ich zum Frühstück frisch geschnittenes Obst mit Müsli und Naturjoghurt esse, ist dafür im Magen kein Platz mehr. Schmecken wahrscheinlich am besten auf Rosinenbrötchen oder Croissants. Achja, was typisch deutsche Esskultur ist, erfährt man am besten in Krankenhäusern, Jugendherbergen und Tagungshäusern. Da gibt es oft nur morgens ein Brötchen, abends nur geschnitten Brot. Eier nur sonntags. Freitags meistens Fisch oder vegetarisch, samstags Eintopf. Und die Hauptmahlzeit ist eigentlich immer mittags.
@@beatrixpastoors1104 actually, if it is not typical, why is there such a variety of different buns, even at the discounters, prepared fresh several times a day? And the assortment of jams, honey, etc.? You also say that you will have yoghurt, muesli and fruit for breakfast, which is also not the traditional German breakfast. On the other hand you mention buns to be typical in hostels and alike. And that's what I mean. Maybe a few generations ago, there was something like the typical and traditional German breakfast. And it was for reasons (with cost being one of them). But that has changed a lot, with the cost for all kinds of food decreasing, and all the different cultures mixing in. The only thing that is left are the typical times when to have the meals at. Although I think this is strongly related to work and daylight hours, and the climate.
@@human_isomer yes, you are right. Traditions are dissolving nowadays. If you order a breakfast in a Café you will most certainly get buns whatever day of the week. And a boiled egg, too. Nevertheless, I prefer scrambled egg when I am at a hotel breakfast buffet. There at least you can observe some preferences: Most Germans like cups of coffee with coffee milk. Crispy bread rolls, dark bread, cold cuts and cheese and sth. like butter, honey and jam If there are also French tourists in the hotel you will find bowls to pour the coffee in, fill up with normal milk and to dip a croissant in it. They don't need more. If there are many British tourists you will find baked beans, bacon and eggs and toast bread. And porridge.
Mealtimes for us in the Pacific Northwest of the United States are very similar as those described here, except that lunch is very rarely the main meal. The "main" hot meal is almost always dinner, though the "brunch" (a large meal that substitutes for both breakfast and lunch) tradition on the weekends is pretty strong here too.
Hey, great video! Just to say that I'm Brazilian and having dinner even at 7 PM is too late for me :D But in Brazil, most of restaurants function with a pretty wide range of timelines, so it's not really a thing to have a meal at any specific time! But now, I live in Berlin and I can fit right in with my "early"meals, which is great!
I like a lot for most of your videos, for a foreigner live in Germany, they are informative and interesting. Big big thank you!!!! Please keep delivering high quality videos. You both are impressively in love, I can smell it all the time when I am watching
I've heard some German families skip lunch on Sundays, but that was always regarded as "odd" back in the '80s. For us, and a lot of other families I knew in rural Lower Saxony, Sunday Lunch was the "main meal" of the week - always starting with a soup, then main course (a lot of times a roast, "Sonntagsbraten") and finally dessert. Never heard anybody having their warm meal at 4 pm, that's when you have coffee and cake, after all! :D
@@Chanell32 Hm, probably depends on who you know, but I'm from Germany, and I don't know anyone who eats like that. Like, my Grandparents would have supper at 6 pm, but that was the earliest suppertime I've ever witness from anyone in Germany. And most working people are probably not even home at 5 pm... And everybody will eat something in their breakfast and lunch breaks at work. At least in my experience. 🤔
@@Chanell32 Depends on when you work. Families where both parents work during the day ususally only have breakfast and an early dinner, since that's the only time everyone's at home at the same time.
Sunday lunch was a bit later in my family, about 13:00 but not in the evening, because we would be full with cake then 🙂. We sometimes even skipped Abendbrot. We only had warm dinner if we haven't been at home for lunch (sports, trips...).
Hallo ihr beiden, ich bin ein Immer-Tee-Trinker - egal ob unter der Woche oder am Wochenende ;-) unsere Familie isst jedoch am Abend (irgendwas zwischen 17:00 und 19:00) unsere große (warme) Mahlzeit. Zur Lunchzeit essen wir Kleinigkeiten wie Joghurt oder ein belegtes Brot. Bei uns ist somit das Frühstück und das Abendessen Familienzeit. :-)
I miss one thing in this video. I'm from the Ruhrarea. It might be different in other areas, but where I come from we only have sweet spread like Nutella for breakfast. Cheese, cold sausage plate and savoury spread etc. are for Abendbrot and breakfast, but no sweet spread in the evening. It's a strict rule in my family and also in my friend's families. No idea why, but since I don't like sweet stuff with bread I stick to cheese anyways. Also, when I was a kid I was allowed to play outside until the street lights were switched on in winters (5pm) or until I heared the bells of the churches in summer (6pm). I had to walk home as soon as it happened to make sure I was at home in time for Abendbrot (7pm). Of course it didn't take me more than 10-20 minutes to walk home, but I had to get a shower and change in my pyjamas before we had Abendbrot.
"Dinner" use to be earlier in the day in the past between 12:00 and 16:00. It then moved to the evening. Traditional wisdom says you get fat eating in the evening. In the evening I'd eat a smaller "supper". Kaffe and Kuche is usually directly after dinner, on weekends. At home you can eat anything at any time of the day, or order any fast food on the go. It's only something you need to worry about if guests come. If I went to visit, I could eat anything or nothing, without much thought. If you stuff yourself with a decent adult size meal (OMAD), there is no need to top up every few hours. The heat doesn't go away in summer until 23:00 when the sun sets. The afternoon sun burns like crazy if you need to prep food next to a window. You'd have to "siesta" for the whole day to escape it..
Hi Jen! Hi Yvonne! In the Philippines, our breakfast starts as early as 4am til 8am. We love rice so you will except rice in the morning, lunch and dinner. For snacks, we can have pretty much anything -- bread, pasta etc.. 😅 Love your channel! God bless! ❤❤❤
Ich war mein Leben lang Mittagesserin und musste mich nie umstellen.... außer in Urlauben mit Halbpension. Große Sonntagsfrühstücke mit der Familie kenne ich kaum, da wir um 10 Uhr in die Kirche gingen. Während des Studiums bin ich nach dem Kirchgang mit in die Kneipe zum Frühschoppen gegangen Wenn ich nach einer Party bei Freunden übernachte, gibt es aber immer so ein richtig üppiges Frühstück mit knusprigen Brötchen, gekochten Eiern, Salaten und gaaanz viel, was man aufs Brot legen oder streichen kann. Kaffee und Kuchen kenne ich von früher her als typische Sonntagsnachmittagsmahlzeit. Und natürlich zu Geburtstagen und sonstigen Einladungen oder im Urlaub. Abendessen frühestens um 18.30, spätestens um 20 Uhr. Bei mir ist das meistens ein aufgebackenes Körnerbrötchen mit Käse. Z B. mit Bergkäse und Feigensenf. Und oft garniert mit Gurke und Tomate. Wenn Besuch da ist, gibt es manchmal noch einen kl. Salat dazu und ein Glas Rotwein. Und später am Abend was zu knabbern, aber nur bei Besuch. In der Adventszeit gibt es fast jeden Nachmittag gewürzten Tee und Weihnachtsplätzchen und dazu werden die Kerzen am Adventskranz angezündet.
When I, who grew up in Westphalia (north-western Germany), hear _Frühschoppen_ I think of the village Dads and Grandads going to the village _Schänke_ or _Dorfkneipe_ across from the church for a drink (and a gossip) after church. I think of jests where "Grandpa going to church" implies "Gandpa at the pub with a _Pils_ or knocking back a _Pintchen_ of _Korn._ However when refering to a meal, I think of _Frühschoppen_ as similar to a Brunch but leaning more towards lunch, food wise. Like hot soup and sausages or hot sausages and potato salad, to which a beer suits well, for example. This would be a weekend or holiday event, a meandering get-together of some sort. At its most traditional it might be the after church communal get-together in the village church hall or a celebratory spread to begin a day's festivities, anything from a wedding, to meeting up before going to see football at the stadium afterwards or to begin a _Karnival_ or _Schützen_ festivity weekend. It could also accompany a local sporting event like a kids swim or football tournament, maybe a harvest event and so on. Whichever, it involves a group of people, alcohol is acceptable and the food is cooked and likely served warm. If there is bread it's served as a side and/or _Schnittchen._ And as for _Kaffee und Kuchen,_ I do know it as a common weekend event. Some cake picked up from the bakery on the way home from work on Friday and shared to ring in the weekend maybe or just a sweet treat as a tideover between late breakfast and later dinner on the weekend. This could also be strawberries and _Quark_ or Watermelon instead of cake when in season in the summer. And more special occasions would then mean a _Torte_ rather than a simpler treat or cake.
Living in the Philippines, mealtimes tend to be rather flexible. Breakfast is anywhere between 7 to 9am, lunch tends to be 12 noon to about 2pm, and dinner is anywhere from 6pm to laaaate into the night, like 9pm. Our food culture is intense hahahaha! German food culture sounds awesome, to be sure!
I love all these comments and I learned something new: Frühschoppen! I definitely eat brötchen during the week with marmalade, etc. I have never eaten Brot for breakfast - only for Abendbrot. And Kaffe und Kuchen is something I try to do most days. Growing up, it was the time we had our tea and a snack before Abendbrot. And yes, at family gatherings like weekends at Oma’s.
Portuguese here, living with a German for 3 years, I can’t have dinner at 9 pm anymore 😂 but in Portugal you usually have 4 meals: breakfast, lunch, bread in the afternoon and coffee, and then dinner. But I’ve been germanized, so when my Latino friends want to go for dinner I struggle every time. Sometimes 9:30 pm and I’m dying.
I (German) drink tea only, but most of my German and international friends are coffee junkies. The majority of people I know have dinner around 7 pm +/- 1 hour, I often eat between 8 and 9 pm ... My experience is that most restaurants have the "warm" kitchen open until almost 10 pm. In the Düsseldorf Altstadt, you can get food pretty much around the clock ... at least in the decades I lived there, some 20 years ago, but that is definitely not common in all bigger German cities. I love your content per usual, thanks so much! It helps me to confirm the unique things I grew up with, that I noticed were different vs. eg. the US culture that I am also used to.
Oh! I love this content. Please do more of this kind. I come from a completely different culture where we have warm meals all 4 times of the day. It was my German teacher who told me about this warm meal for lunch. I love breads and am trying out all kinds what I can find here.
When I was a child, we had our warm meal at 13:00 to 14:00. But in the hollydays we switshed to the spanish mealtimes. Since later with the longer distance from school/university/work to home we always eat our warm meals in the evening and not bevor 19:00. And yes, it is sometimes not so easy in Germany, when you love to have your dinner at 21:00!!! But in the Czcheck Republic it is even earlier than in Germany!
In the Netherlands we refer to Fruhshoppen in relation to carnival. As a teenager I would go to the town of Huissen, which had been German in the past and is pronounced almost the same as Duisburg (the ui part) and on Monday and Tuesday morning we would fruhshopping.. Carnival is also big in Dusseldorf, so fruhshoppen will happen there too.
When I was a kid, we had an early Frühstück (bread, toast, jam or nutella ...cerials), then we kids went to school. My dad had many work trips abroad and wasn't always at home an my mom was a stay at home mom. We took lunchboxes with us with a Pausenbrot and maybe an apple. The Mittagessen (the big hot meal) was ready, when we came home from school. Maybe around 14:00. Kaffee & Kuchen wasn't a daily thing, but also not only for birthdays or special occasions. It could have been a hot chocolate and some bisquits or juice and fruits around 15:30 / 16:00. Abendbrot (bread, cheese and cold cuts & co) was always at 19:00. Sometimes our Mittagessen was a very simple one and the Abendbrot changed to the hot meal. Sundays breakfast was a little later and with eggs or Brötchen. So... that was, when I was a kid. And I wasn't happy with all of it. So when I was the mom, I changed a few things. And since the kids moved out, I eat whenever I want and what I want. 😊😜
Back when I was a child and my sister also still lived with my parents I was responsible for cooking a warm lunch which we (my sister, my mum and I) ate at about 3 after school while my dad had warm lunch at work and dinner was just Abendbrot. After she moved out though it seemed kinda over the top to cook for just two people so we changed to having bread, smoothies or something similar for lunch and eating a warm meal for dinner. My dad comes home from work at around 7 so dinner was shortly after 7. On weekends we had late breakfast at about 9 (sometimes coffee and cake at 3) and dinner at 6, we skiped lunch. Living alone now breakfast shortly before I go to uni (somewhere between 7 and 11), no lunch and warm dinner around 8 fits my schedule best.
I come from Singapore. It's common for us having 3 warm meals in a day. When I move to Germany, it is quite suprising seeing most Germans having cold dinner.
In our family Frühschoppen was on sunday, then the family come home from the church , the mother and the little children go home for cooking the lunch an the father, the grandfather and also the great children go in the pub meeting neighbours, friends and drink some bier toghether
Frühschoppen: I am originally from the Ruhr area and am / was Catholic; For us it meant: on the Sunday after mass, the father went to the pub with his sons, there they drank beer and talked about the important things in life, while the mother went home with the daughters, prepared Sunday dinner and then on Men waited, who at some point came home easily dressed! Frühschoppen: ich komme ursprünglich aus dem Ruhrgebiet und bin/war katholisch; bei uns hieß Frühschoppen: am Sonntag nach der Messe ging der Vater mit seinen Söhnen in die Kneipe, dort wurde Bier getrunken und über die wichtigen Dinge des Lebens geredet, während die Mutter mit den Töchtern nach Hause ging, das Sonntagsessen bereiteten und dann auf die Männer warteten, die dann irgendwann leich angeschickert nach Hause kamen! (Deswegen kennst Du - Yvonne - nämlich auch keinen Frühschoppen!)
I've had the Bavaria Weisswurst "Frühsctück" in a Biergarten in Regensburg at night. So yes, you can get it anytime. I guess it would qualify as Breakfast for Dinner.
Regarding breakfast after partying: I assume that having a "Schweinebrötchen" (bread roll with a thick piece of porc from a street vendor) after a Friday night out on Düsselsdorf's famous partymile is still a thing for young people and tourists? There is a local song with the chorus "Wir haben in Düsseldorf die längste Theke der Welt" (In Düsseldorf, we have the longest bar counter in the world).
In Lithuania the times are almost German (as everything else too :D ). Breakfast between 7:30 and 9, Lunch between 11 and 12:30 and dinner between 18 and 20
My favorite is coffee for breakfast. Nothing else... Well, I can't confirm that about the closing of restaurants. My wife (we are not married...) comes from Mettmann. I live in Karlsruhe. And we were able to go out to eat at 9 p.m. in both places without any problems. - Good thing I just listened to your video. I almost forgot to get the venison goulash for tomorrow from the freezer, because I have to prepare it for Christmas dinner! - Edit: "Frühschoppen" kenne ich (aus meiner Jugend zumindest in Bonn-Buschdorf...) meist nur nach dem Gottesdienst am Sonntag Morgen.
Tee zum Frühstück und überhaupt. Und morgens natürlich Honig, Nutella, Marmelade, Rübensirup aufs Brötchen. Alles, was süß ist. Mit Butter. Lachs oder Krabben sehr gerne zu besonderen Anlässen 😃
It was also interesting having pancakes for lunch with savory toppings. In the US pancakes are for breakfast with maple syrup or powdered sugar. Though since moving to the south we have chicken and waffles - which seemed like a strange mix until I tasted it, yum!
"Sonntags-Ei" family over here, including the sometimes annoying discussion whether or not they are perfectly prepared. LOL. We are also early birds, so don't really run into the problem of a too late breakfast. Hence, the Sunday lunch often is our fanciest warm meal during the whole week. If I have late breakfast on my own (here in the US now 😔) I have a light bread and cheese lunch (2pmish) and then have a warm dinner, probably around 6pm. When I meet friends for dinner and it's too late for my German tummy, I'll eat a cheese and bread lunch and have another small portion of that around 5pm. That keeps me happy enough till 8 or 9pm. Also... I am practically a Hobbit and am most comfortable with 5 smallish meals a day. Kaffee und Kuchen is the one concept I miss the most in the US and so, I trick my colleagues into it and bring out the home-baked cakes and cookies around 3pm at work. 😜
@@arnodobler1096 Ich mag es, wenn das Eigelb noch weich ist. Aber wenn ein Vierminutenei etwas zu hart wäre, würde ich mich auch nicht beschweren. Ich bin oft die einzige am Tisch, die am Morgen diese Art „Streit“ wie bei Loriot nicht möchte. Hab oft deshalb gar kein Ei gewünscht. Am Ende ist jemand noch eher als ich aufgestanden und hat mir ein Ei gekocht! Wenn es nicht verdorben ist, hab ich eigentlich keinen Grund zu meckern 😅
I am from South Brazil, and my husband and I usually have dinners around 7 pm. Sometimes even earlier! We could totally go out for dinner at the same time! lol I don't live with my parents anymore, but in my family, the weekdays meal tradition was: - Breakfast around 6:30/7am: bread and jelly or cheese and ham + coffee - Lunch around noon: rice and beans, meat and salad - Dinner around 7pm: bread and jelly or cheese and ham + coffee OR leftovers from lunch We also had the habit of getting snacks between these three big meals, which could be fruit, pastries, sweets or whatever we had in the house, lol
I grew up in the US but in a Japanese family and I would say it’s similar times to what you guys said in the video. Whenever we had family dinners or celebrations we would gather around 4-5pm and be done by 8pm. But when I was in high school my school used to start at 7:20AM so they forced us to take lunch at 10:20AM🤣
American here eyeballing a move to Germany.... looks like I'll fit right in! I like to start work at 7am, eat lunch 11-11:30am and dinner's around 6. Weekends are later for breakfast :)
That thing on skipping lunch on the weekends might depend on what region your living in... I'm from Berlin and it was normal to eat a late breakfast, skip lunch, SOMETIMES on sundays you will have coffee time like eating a slice of cake and sipping on a cup of coffee and in the evening you will get your warm! dinner/Abendbrot in the evening. Well... the family of my ex boyfriend lived in saxony and I would say they were earlybirds. On sundays, you will get up at seven in the morning for breaktfast, early lunch, coffee time AND dinner...Everytime I visited them, I felt so stuffed afterwards. It was a nice family time but honestly, I would never do that every weekend, but they do and I really don't know how they survive. Thanks for the video :) as a german, I never thought about it so it's really interesting to get a new point of view on that topic. And by the way I'm team tea :D
I visited Germany in 1987 and the morning bread I had was fresh rolls. We had dark bread in the evening. I loved the dark breads but they did NOT agree with me. We seemed to get a lot of delicious ice cream during the day while out site-seeing or hanging out with friends.
Skipping lunch and having an early dinner is the norm I'd say, since most families have the children in school and the parents working an 8-4 job, so dinner is usually prepared when everyone's home, and, since there was no family lunch, dinner is the main meal of the day for that reason. On weekends it depends on your family, my grandma serves breakfast around 9-10, then there's a warm lunch, then at 4 there's Kaffee and Kuchen, and at 7-8 there's a typical German cold dinner. After going through that, you won't be wondering why many leave out the lunch. You're absolutely stuffed the entire day lol In my family, it's actually the other way around. During the week we have warm dinner and no lunch (for the reasons mentioned above), and on the weekend we sometimes have lunch and no warm dinner instead. We mostly have warm dinner even then, though.
Brötchen für Früchstück, Brot für Abendessen. Egal ob Wochenende oder Werktags. Rols for Breakfast, Bread for Dinner. No matter wether on Weekend or Workdays. I Love Coffee for Breakfast
We are a family of four. Two boys (twins), my wife and me. And if I prepare breakfast, I have to make three kinds of drinks: My eldest son and me drink tea, my wife drinks coffee and the younger son drinks mostly water at breakfast.
We eat breakfast at 7 so we can eat together befor the children go to school , lunch 12 - 13:30 then they come home from school , dinner in the evening at 19 but most time we have caketime at 16
My usual meals: Frühstück (Breakfast) (now 8:30) - I often eat bread with butter and cheese, and drink coffee. On weekends, I have Brötchen and often a cooked egg, cheese, butter, tomatoes, and coffee. Mittagessen (Lunch) - a warm meal and salad. Kaffee (coffee time, 15:00 Uhr) - often connected with speaking to each other, “Kaffeeklatsch” made it into the English language. Coffee, cake, and conversation. Abendbrot (18:00) - bread, cheese, sausages, vegetables, and apples. An optional and often forgotten tradition is Nachtmahl between 22:00 and 24:00 or later - this tradition is almost lost. --- Frühschoppen is often more than just eating. It’s a cultural event often connected to news, music, and socializing. Look up “Musikalischer Frühschoppen” to see how these gatherings often feature brass bands. This tradition is particularly popular in the southern regions of Germany.
warm weekendinner 17 to 18 hundred with lunch skipped but around 1500 streched with a coffee and cake and started at around 1100 huge breakfast. during the week no BF, warm lunch at noon+ , dinner @1800 cold
I'm a Filipino and this is how we normally have our meals during the day. 1. Breakfast (5-9 am) - The day in the Philippines start really early because the sun rises around 5:30 am and in big cities, the traffic gets really bad during the early morning rush hour because of people going to schools and workplaces. We usually eat our breakfast around this timeframe. We eat a lot of food in the morning, carbs overload! Hot bread called pan de sal, fried rice with eggs and anything you can think of like hotdogs, ham, sausages, dried fish, corned beef, and so on. We can also eat rice porridge (we even have a chocolate rice porridge called champorado), rice cakes, fried noodles, pasta like spaghetti, and cereals (kinda expensive though). We usually drink hot drinks (coffee, hot chocolate, milk). I don't know anyone who drinks cold juice or tea in the morning. 2. Lunch time (11:30-1:00) - Here, you can basically eat anything that you want. It can be rice with anything like soup. You can also eat something without rice. 3. Afternoon snack (3:00-4:00) - We call this "merienda". When I was a kid, there's a strict siesta time too so after lunch, we would fall asleep and as soon as we wake up, we eat this haha! However, even know, some people would also like to grab something to eat during 3-4 pm. Some examples would be bread, caramelized plantain that come in different forms like bananacue, turon, maruya, rice cake like kutchinta, cake. It's usually sweet haha! This one is not too heavy. 4. Dinner (6:00-8:00) - Unlike Germans, dinner, I think is bigger for us than lunch because it's the time the family reunites after a long day. This is also the time we socialize with other people after work, for example. Sometimes we just eat what we had for lunch haha! You can also have whatever you want. Filipino families usually eat nice when it's the weekend especially if it's Sunday because of Christianity and there's more time to prepare and everyone's at home. Sometimes, we would also eat breakfast and lunch a little bit late on weekends (though I wake up still on the same time). I think Germans and Filipinos have our mealtimes almost at the same time so I'm excited to go to Germany this September. In the Philippines, we usually want our meals to be warm especially in the morning and at night because we think having cold food can cause indigestion or something (we wouldn't eat cold fruits in the evening because of this or this is the reason drinking cold juice is not common in the morning too). In our culture, we believe something called "lamig" which translates to "cold" which is like if you have this in your body, it would cause you some sickness (this is something like our folk medicinal tradition haha).
Wow thanks for sharing! So interesting to read the similarities with Spanish eating culture. Except for dinner time, of course. As Spaniards usually dine between 9-11 pm 😝
Coffee all the way (Half and half with milk) I don't like tea at all. I do have tea here, but rather for visitors. That pack of tea is gonna last aaaaaages 😀 Dinner at 4pm sounds like hospitals, who serve their meals painstakingly early. Here in Ireland there is always a reason to go for a beer, the pub is considered somewhat like a second living room to the Irish, however most do not open before 11am. So speaking of coffee and cake - this is directed at Jen: what cakes, did you first try in Germany, which German cakes do you like? cake cultureVery interested to get an outside view on German cake culture. :-) Have a happy Christmas lasdies.
Interestingly, in my family I grew up with fairly similar eating habits to those of Yvonne's family. All of the weekdays and weekend practices do feel familiar to me. Also, I loove having smoked fish for breakfast (a bit of it though, just as an addition. 🙂) Yep, early restaurants and early closing was a thing I learned the hard way. I went to Berlin to attend a concert of my favorite band, and because of emotion and making sure we'd be enough early there, I didn't have a meal since the late morning and... Omg, trying to find something to eat walking the streets after 11:30 pm was an ordeal. 😂 PS. I'm soo happy you mentioned Felicia! Right next to the two of you, she's someone I respect a lot and I'm always glad to hear from her. In recent times it's been pure pleasure to have seen or read on a topic from you, and a while after there's Feli saying exactly the same things, it's really nice and pleasant this consistancy. 🙂 Love you, girls! ☕ 🍰
@@simplegermany Aww thanks for this question. It's Lacrimosa! For over 11 years now I've been a devoted fan. They are a German composer, creator and frontman, and a Finnish singer and keybordist. In Bulgaria I feel like the only person on Earth to love them, but in Germany and other parts of the world they have pretty huge fanbases and a lot of love from people. The music is diverse in nature, but it is my heart and soul. With the years I get to understand more and more of the lyrics, and it's ever as beautiful as it was to me back when I first heard them and didn't understand a word. 🙂 ❤
@@fannychristozova8158🖐🏻 Here is one of his fans. I like the music since my dark ages in the early 90th. There is many great music in this "corner", unfortunately this is not noticed by the public. Grufties are everywhere 😆
@@Mozart4000 @Herr Von Und Zu OMG!! This is so nice! Thank you for showing up and saying this!! I don't feel so alone! 😄 "Ein Hauch von Menschlichkeit" playing right now especially for you!
As an American living in Bavaria, I have been invited to dinner on the weekend at Noon. Small breakfast, coffee and brotchen/butter, then at noon big meal. Favorite time of day is Kafee und Kuchen around 4 pm.
in india it always depends on family to family. but people have breakfast at 7-9 am then lunch at 1-3.30 pm then snack at 5-7 pm with tea then dinner at 9-10.pm
15:17 I’m sure that you can have Frühschoppen in Düsseldorf, but beware of asking for Weißwurst, Maß Bier und Brezen in Düsseldorf. That would be „sehr dünnes Eis.“ 😄
zu 13:36 muss ich euch leider korrigieren. Frühschoppen ist nicht gleichzusetzen mit Weißwurstfrühstück in Bayern. Man kann auch Weißwurstfrühstück ohne Frühschoppen haben und umgekehrt. Der Rest stimmte.
As an American if you are having dinner past 9 on a weekend it's fine, week day then we'll nothing is going right, 7-8 pm works great 6 if you are really hungry, breakfast here is well between bread eggs bacon sausage biscuits with gravy oatmeal cereal maybe the roast you cooked overnight 😂
Comparing Germany to Spain you should be aware, both countries are located in the same time zone CET (Central European Time) for practical reasons, even if there is an almost 2 hours natural gap in sunrise/sunset time between the two countries. A significant proportion of the apparently culturally different meal times can be explained by this fact alone.
No matter if it is weekday or weekend - my first steps after getting up is to the coffee machine to make a cappu or latte. I need this to activate my brain ;-) We also have a (very!) late breakfast - nobody in our family gets up before 11.30/12.00 on Saturdays and Sundays - so we skip lunch an have dinner somewhen between 18-20.00. I also didn't grow up with "Frühschoppen". For me it is a kind of old fashioned - sth that fathers or grandfathers did. I don't now any of our friends who still does this but maybe it is also a matter of where you live in Germany. We live near Leverkusen in NRW and I don't think it is a big deal here? When I was a kid/teenager my parents always insisted on having lunch at 12 or 13 on Sundays and my mom yelled at my sister and me to at least get up for lunch - always very annoying for us ;-) At that time I swore to myself, never to do this to my own children - and it worked ;-)
Here is a thought: what would happen if you just once have dinner at 21:00? just for the sake of trying new things and being more accommodating toward other people? Hmmm... you even do not have to tell about it to your doctor so the insurance wont go up the next years :) A dinner with friends is not about compromising.... but that might ebe just me.
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I come from India where we have 4 meals in day:
1. Breakfast (8 - 10 am) - warm meals like Poha/Upma/Oats/Idli/Dosa/Bread
2. Lunch (12 - 2 pm) - Rice or Roti (a wheat tortilla like Indian bread) with some lentils & curry
3. Snacks (5 - 6 pm) - Tea & biscuits/small fried items/chaat
4. Dinner (8 - 10 pm) - Rice or Roti with some lentils & curry
Breakfasts & Snacks are generally vegetarian. Lunches & Dinners may include a non-vegetarian element. Desserts (a piece of Indian sweet) is occasionally eaten after lunch & dinner.
#3 in Germany is called ‚Kaffee trinken‘ or vesper as a kind of Teatime with cookies and cake...
Breakfast is an invention of the food industry.😂
I got invited to a Christmas dinner by a nice German lady and graciously accepted but was very nervous about making a good impression. I had no idea about German dining timetables or dishes but watching all of your videos helped me get a firm understanding of the underlying principles. Great content as always you guys!
Hope you had a nice dinner experience!
@@simplegermany We will find out soon. That's why I also watched your Christmas video to get informed
I have no interest in moving to Germany and I’ve never lived in Germany either, but I love watching your videos. You manage to strike the balance between warmth, authenticity, humour and information which is very impressive. It’s easy to watch you, but there’s also another reason: you’re an interracial lesbian couple that’s kind and respectful of each other. You give me hope! Thank you!
Watching this video while having dinner @11 in germany
You forgot to mention the sweet spreads for breakfast. It's very common to eat jam or chocolate spread in Germany - but (usually) only for breakfast.
Seems to vary by family. We used to have like 5 different types of self made jams, honey, Nutella, maybe cheese, but usually no meat for brekkie. But visiting other families it was exactly the opposite - 10 different types of cold cuts and like maybe 1 sad little jar of jam and rigorous restrictions when and how much Nutella is allowed (for kids) 😩😉
And then there are the cereal and fruit people of course 😁
in the company where I work in Germany, the canteen opens at 11:15. At 11:14 a large number of people already stands in a queue, waiting to be served. Since Germans cannot really enjoy the meal but they want to get finished as soon as possible, basically by 12:00 most of the people has already returned to the office place. However the canteen closes at 2 PM (actually doesn't really close, it just doesn't serve food). Since 90% of the people concetrates in the first hour, many people complain because they need to wait in the line a significant amount of time, like 10min in the line and maybe 15 to 20 min to eat. The direction of the canteen sent a communicate, in order to invite people to distribute more evenly between 11:15 and 14:00. Result: still 90% of people go in the very first hour and keep complaining about the line. I as Italian, just go around 1:30 PM, no line, all food is still there, have a chat with the cashier, enjoy my meal, take a coffee and shorter after 2 PM am back in the office.
At my job there are several companies using the same canteen. The people from one of the bigger companies generally go at 12:00. So our people mostly go at 11:30 even if our official company lunch timeslot (where you don't need to be working) starts at 12:00.
On the weekend we generally don’t have an eating schedule. My weekday schedule is; (06:30 breakfast) Coffee, 2 Eggs, cereal, milk. (Lunchtime; 12:00) Coffee, Salad and a few rye, sauerkraut, cheese and meat.
(Supper/Dinner 18:30), pasta, steak or a heavy meat, potatoes, greens.
Ich kenne noch das "2. Frühstück". Dem entspricht wohl die "Brotzeit" in Süddeutschland. Das gibt es wohl immer noch vor allem bei Arbeitern, die bereits sehr früh, um 6 Uhr oder eher, mit der Arbeit beginnen.
6:02 Lunch at noon is the only way it makes sense as noon is called "Mittag" and lunch is "Mittagessen" ~ "noon meal".
Usually lunch is 12 30 to 13 00 due to school ending. Weekend a bit later. Dinner 18 30 to 19 00 that’s how I and many friends grew up in the seventies…
My grandparents immigrated to Canada and they were sure to carry on the Kaffee & Kuchen tradition ❤
Love this content! Please do more like this one. I love the ending where you explain the cake and coffee and the morning drinking traditions! Thank you for all the wonderful content and for references to other wonderful Germany content creators!
From a Polish perspective: Our family usually had the same mealtime culture as Germans. Exception is a warm extra for Breakfast like eggs or sausages, but I'm not sure if this is still a thing.
Wir handhaben das so. Mein Mann fängt um 6:30 Uhr zum arbeiten an und er isst kein Frühstück. Zu bald, keinen Hunger und keine Zeit. Er geht um 11 Uhr in die Kantine, weil am wenigsten los ist und danach noch Zeit übrig bleibt für einen Spaziergang mit Kollegen. Zu Hause - Kids Frühstück gegen 6 Uhr - lassen sie oft ausfallen, ich selbst gegen 7 Uhr. Die Kinder essen noch in der Schule ihre Jause in der großen Pause gegen 9:20 Uhr. Mittag esse ich mit meinen 2 Kindern gegen 13/14 Uhr warm. Abendessen (Abendbrot) für alle gibt es zw. 17 - 19 Uhr. Am Wochenende wird spät (10 Uhr) und sehr ausführlich gefrühstückt. Mittagessen gibt es dann 15 - 16 Uhr. Abendessen fällt aus. :-)
Ladies, you missed the most important breakfast items. Because, where in Germany is it not totally common to have something sweet, like cake, pie, or pastries, but also Honey, jam/jelly or some kind of chocolate-nut cream for breakfast? That's actually the first thing I think of when it comes to breakfast, and it's actually the only time I would eat those sweet things.
I also think, heaving bread for weekdays and buns only on the weekend is probably not very common (edit: except maybe in very, very traditional families). Because when on the way to work it's common to just fetch something at the bakery or the supermarket. And that's usually buns with something on it, or some pastry.
Actually, for me, the one thing that makes a weekend breakfast different from weekday's one is: Boiled egg. However, that may also be not a general thing.
And maybe another comment for the "Bavarian Frühshoppen", because there may be some misconception. What you refer to, is a Weißwurstfrühstück. But that has nothing to do with a Frühshoppen. Weißwurstfrühstück is a (southern) Bavarian tradition, where you have that Weißbier, Weißwurst, sweet mustard, and soft pretzels. And as you pointed out, it has to happen before noon. But Frühschoppen normally is only an early alcoholic beverage, usually wine, but beer would go as well. It's actually much more common in the north of Bavaria (a.k.a. Franconia). However, it's not usual to eat on your Frühschoppen. It's only drinking and talking, more like a morning Stammtisch. And it's usually after Sunday's breakfast, and probably after church service.
Ich finde Wochenendbrötchen immer noch ziemlich typisch. Frag mal Bäckereifachverkäuferinnen. Und die Bäckereien haben ja gerade deshalb sonntags morgens geöffnet, damit dann seine frischen Brötchen kaufen kann.
Klar wird inzwischen auch werktags oft etwas unterwegs gekauft, aber grundsätzlich haben wir hier keine Streetfoodkultur wie etwa in Thailand. Um satt zu werden mit wenig Geld muss man doch noch recht oft selber sein Essen zubereiten.
Diese ganzen süßen Brotaufstriche biete ich nur für Besuch an. Ich mag zwar Gelees und Konfitüre, Honig und Pistaziencreme oder Nutella, aber da ich zum Frühstück frisch geschnittenes Obst mit Müsli und Naturjoghurt esse, ist dafür im Magen kein Platz mehr.
Schmecken wahrscheinlich am besten auf Rosinenbrötchen oder Croissants.
Achja, was typisch deutsche Esskultur ist, erfährt man am besten in Krankenhäusern, Jugendherbergen und Tagungshäusern. Da gibt es oft nur morgens ein Brötchen, abends nur geschnitten Brot. Eier nur sonntags. Freitags meistens Fisch oder vegetarisch, samstags Eintopf. Und die Hauptmahlzeit ist eigentlich immer mittags.
@@beatrixpastoors1104 actually, if it is not typical, why is there such a variety of different buns, even at the discounters, prepared fresh several times a day? And the assortment of jams, honey, etc.?
You also say that you will have yoghurt, muesli and fruit for breakfast, which is also not the traditional German breakfast. On the other hand you mention buns to be typical in hostels and alike.
And that's what I mean. Maybe a few generations ago, there was something like the typical and traditional German breakfast. And it was for reasons (with cost being one of them). But that has changed a lot, with the cost for all kinds of food decreasing, and all the different cultures mixing in. The only thing that is left are the typical times when to have the meals at. Although I think this is strongly related to work and daylight hours, and the climate.
@@human_isomer yes, you are right. Traditions are dissolving nowadays. If you order a breakfast in a Café you will most certainly get buns whatever day of the week. And a boiled egg, too. Nevertheless, I prefer scrambled egg when I am at a hotel breakfast buffet.
There at least you can observe some preferences:
Most Germans like cups of coffee with coffee milk. Crispy bread rolls, dark bread, cold cuts and cheese and sth. like butter, honey and jam
If there are also French tourists in the hotel you will find bowls to pour the coffee in, fill up with normal milk and to dip a croissant in it. They don't need more.
If there are many British tourists you will find baked beans, bacon and eggs and toast bread. And porridge.
Mealtimes for us in the Pacific Northwest of the United States are very similar as those described here, except that lunch is very rarely the main meal. The "main" hot meal is almost always dinner, though the "brunch" (a large meal that substitutes for both breakfast and lunch) tradition on the weekends is pretty strong here too.
Hey, great video! Just to say that I'm Brazilian and having dinner even at 7 PM is too late for me :D But in Brazil, most of restaurants function with a pretty wide range of timelines, so it's not really a thing to have a meal at any specific time! But now, I live in Berlin and I can fit right in with my "early"meals, which is great!
I like a lot for most of your videos, for a foreigner live in Germany, they are informative and interesting. Big big thank you!!!! Please keep delivering high quality videos. You both are impressively in love, I can smell it all the time when I am watching
I've heard some German families skip lunch on Sundays, but that was always regarded as "odd" back in the '80s. For us, and a lot of other families I knew in rural Lower Saxony, Sunday Lunch was the "main meal" of the week - always starting with a soup, then main course (a lot of times a roast, "Sonntagsbraten") and finally dessert. Never heard anybody having their warm meal at 4 pm, that's when you have coffee and cake, after all! :D
@@Chanell32 Hm, probably depends on who you know, but I'm from Germany, and I don't know anyone who eats like that. Like, my Grandparents would have supper at 6 pm, but that was the earliest suppertime I've ever witness from anyone in Germany.
And most working people are probably not even home at 5 pm... And everybody will eat something in their breakfast and lunch breaks at work. At least in my experience. 🤔
@@Chanell32 Depends on when you work. Families where both parents work during the day ususally only have breakfast and an early dinner, since that's the only time everyone's at home at the same time.
Sunday lunch was a bit later in my family, about 13:00 but not in the evening, because we would be full with cake then 🙂. We sometimes even skipped Abendbrot. We only had warm dinner if we haven't been at home for lunch (sports, trips...).
exactly!
Hallo ihr beiden, ich bin ein Immer-Tee-Trinker - egal ob unter der Woche oder am Wochenende ;-) unsere Familie isst jedoch am Abend (irgendwas zwischen 17:00 und 19:00) unsere große (warme) Mahlzeit. Zur Lunchzeit essen wir Kleinigkeiten wie Joghurt oder ein belegtes Brot. Bei uns ist somit das Frühstück und das Abendessen Familienzeit. :-)
I miss one thing in this video. I'm from the Ruhrarea. It might be different in other areas, but where I come from we only have sweet spread like Nutella for breakfast. Cheese, cold sausage plate and savoury spread etc. are for Abendbrot and breakfast, but no sweet spread in the evening. It's a strict rule in my family and also in my friend's families. No idea why, but since I don't like sweet stuff with bread I stick to cheese anyways.
Also, when I was a kid I was allowed to play outside until the street lights were switched on in winters (5pm) or until I heared the bells of the churches in summer (6pm). I had to walk home as soon as it happened to make sure I was at home in time for Abendbrot (7pm). Of course it didn't take me more than 10-20 minutes to walk home, but I had to get a shower and change in my pyjamas before we had Abendbrot.
"Dinner" use to be earlier in the day in the past between 12:00 and 16:00. It then moved to the evening. Traditional wisdom says you get fat eating in the evening. In the evening I'd eat a smaller "supper". Kaffe and Kuche is usually directly after dinner, on weekends.
At home you can eat anything at any time of the day, or order any fast food on the go. It's only something you need to worry about if guests come. If I went to visit, I could eat anything or nothing, without much thought. If you stuff yourself with a decent adult size meal (OMAD), there is no need to top up every few hours.
The heat doesn't go away in summer until 23:00 when the sun sets. The afternoon sun burns like crazy if you need to prep food next to a window. You'd have to "siesta" for the whole day to escape it..
Hi Jen! Hi Yvonne!
In the Philippines, our breakfast starts as early as 4am til 8am. We love rice so you will except rice in the morning, lunch and dinner. For snacks, we can have pretty much anything -- bread, pasta etc.. 😅
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Ich war mein Leben lang Mittagesserin und musste mich nie umstellen.... außer in Urlauben mit Halbpension. Große Sonntagsfrühstücke mit der Familie kenne ich kaum, da wir um 10 Uhr in die Kirche gingen. Während des Studiums bin ich nach dem Kirchgang mit in die Kneipe zum Frühschoppen gegangen
Wenn ich nach einer Party bei Freunden übernachte, gibt es aber immer so ein richtig üppiges Frühstück mit knusprigen Brötchen, gekochten Eiern, Salaten und gaaanz viel, was man aufs Brot legen oder streichen kann.
Kaffee und Kuchen kenne ich von früher her als typische Sonntagsnachmittagsmahlzeit. Und natürlich zu Geburtstagen und sonstigen Einladungen oder im Urlaub.
Abendessen frühestens um 18.30, spätestens um 20 Uhr. Bei mir ist das meistens ein aufgebackenes Körnerbrötchen mit Käse. Z B. mit Bergkäse und Feigensenf. Und oft garniert mit Gurke und Tomate. Wenn Besuch da ist, gibt es manchmal noch einen kl. Salat dazu und ein Glas Rotwein. Und später am Abend was zu knabbern, aber nur bei Besuch. In der Adventszeit gibt es fast jeden Nachmittag gewürzten Tee und Weihnachtsplätzchen und dazu werden die Kerzen am Adventskranz angezündet.
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When I, who grew up in Westphalia (north-western Germany), hear _Frühschoppen_ I think of the village Dads and Grandads going to the village _Schänke_ or _Dorfkneipe_ across from the church for a drink (and a gossip) after church. I think of jests where "Grandpa going to church" implies "Gandpa at the pub with a _Pils_ or knocking back a _Pintchen_ of _Korn._
However when refering to a meal, I think of _Frühschoppen_ as similar to a Brunch but leaning more towards lunch, food wise. Like hot soup and sausages or hot sausages and potato salad, to which a beer suits well, for example. This would be a weekend or holiday event, a meandering get-together of some sort.
At its most traditional it might be the after church communal get-together in the village church hall or a celebratory spread to begin a day's festivities, anything from a wedding, to meeting up before going to see football at the stadium afterwards or to begin a _Karnival_ or _Schützen_ festivity weekend. It could also accompany a local sporting event like a kids swim or football tournament, maybe a harvest event and so on.
Whichever, it involves a group of people, alcohol is acceptable and the food is cooked and likely served warm. If there is bread it's served as a side and/or _Schnittchen._
And as for _Kaffee und Kuchen,_ I do know it as a common weekend event. Some cake picked up from the bakery on the way home from work on Friday and shared to ring in the weekend maybe or just a sweet treat as a tideover between late breakfast and later dinner on the weekend. This could also be strawberries and _Quark_ or Watermelon instead of cake when in season in the summer. And more special occasions would then mean a _Torte_ rather than a simpler treat or cake.
Living in the Philippines, mealtimes tend to be rather flexible. Breakfast is anywhere between 7 to 9am, lunch tends to be 12 noon to about 2pm, and dinner is anywhere from 6pm to laaaate into the night, like 9pm. Our food culture is intense hahahaha!
German food culture sounds awesome, to be sure!
Meals on the Weekend in my Family: Breakfast at around 10:00. No Lunch. Warm Dinner between 16:00 and 18:00.
I love all these comments and I learned something new: Frühschoppen! I definitely eat brötchen during the week with marmalade, etc. I have never eaten Brot for breakfast - only for Abendbrot. And Kaffe und Kuchen is something I try to do most days. Growing up, it was the time we had our tea and a snack before Abendbrot. And yes, at family gatherings like weekends at Oma’s.
When I lived in Jever, Mittagessen was at noon. Abendbrot at 18. We also had Kaffe und Kuchen at 16 on the weekend, and Abendbrot later
Portuguese here, living with a German for 3 years, I can’t have dinner at 9 pm anymore 😂 but in Portugal you usually have 4 meals: breakfast, lunch, bread in the afternoon and coffee, and then dinner. But I’ve been germanized, so when my Latino friends want to go for dinner I struggle every time. Sometimes 9:30 pm and I’m dying.
I (German) drink tea only, but most of my German and international friends are coffee junkies.
The majority of people I know have dinner around 7 pm +/- 1 hour, I often eat between 8 and 9 pm ... My experience is that most restaurants have the "warm" kitchen open until almost 10 pm.
In the Düsseldorf Altstadt, you can get food pretty much around the clock ... at least in the decades I lived there, some 20 years ago, but that is definitely not common in all bigger German cities.
I love your content per usual, thanks so much! It helps me to confirm the unique things I grew up with, that I noticed were different vs. eg. the US culture that I am also used to.
In Moscow you can have dinner till 23:00 usually. And sometimes till 01:00. Restaurants never close during a day
Oh! I love this content. Please do more of this kind. I come from a completely different culture where we have warm meals all 4 times of the day. It was my German teacher who told me about this warm meal for lunch. I love breads and am trying out all kinds what I can find here.
When I was a child, we had our warm meal at 13:00 to 14:00. But in the hollydays we switshed to the spanish mealtimes. Since later with the longer distance from school/university/work to home we always eat our warm meals in the evening and not bevor 19:00. And yes, it is sometimes not so easy in Germany, when you love to have your dinner at 21:00!!! But in the Czcheck Republic it is even earlier than in Germany!
My mother and Nana were from Frankfurt. So even tho we lived in the US, I was raised with coffee and cake every afternoon at 4pm.
Same! We moved to the US as a kid and I think we savored that tradition 😆
I remember that my father did have a Frühshoppen with his colleagues after a nightshift from time to time.
In the Netherlands we refer to Fruhshoppen in relation to carnival. As a teenager I would go to the town of Huissen, which had been German in the past and is pronounced almost the same as Duisburg (the ui part) and on Monday and Tuesday morning we would fruhshopping.. Carnival is also big in Dusseldorf, so fruhshoppen will happen there too.
When I was a kid, we had an early Frühstück (bread, toast, jam or nutella ...cerials), then we kids went to school.
My dad had many work trips abroad and wasn't always at home an my mom was a stay at home mom.
We took lunchboxes with us with a Pausenbrot and maybe an apple.
The Mittagessen (the big hot meal) was ready, when we came home from school. Maybe around 14:00.
Kaffee & Kuchen wasn't a daily thing, but also not only for birthdays or special occasions. It could have been a hot chocolate and some bisquits or juice and fruits around 15:30 / 16:00.
Abendbrot (bread, cheese and cold cuts & co) was always at 19:00. Sometimes our Mittagessen was a very simple one and the Abendbrot changed to the hot meal.
Sundays breakfast was a little later and with eggs or Brötchen.
So... that was, when I was a kid. And I wasn't happy with all of it.
So when I was the mom, I changed a few things.
And since the kids moved out, I eat whenever I want and what I want. 😊😜
😅😅 thanks for sharing Ringelsocke!
India is so diverse the dinner and breakfast is generally 7am/pm to 11am/pm, lunch 12 to 2( we like our food a lot)
Back when I was a child and my sister also still lived with my parents I was responsible for cooking a warm lunch which we (my sister, my mum and I) ate at about 3 after school while my dad had warm lunch at work and dinner was just Abendbrot. After she moved out though it seemed kinda over the top to cook for just two people so we changed to having bread, smoothies or something similar for lunch and eating a warm meal for dinner. My dad comes home from work at around 7 so dinner was shortly after 7. On weekends we had late breakfast at about 9 (sometimes coffee and cake at 3) and dinner at 6, we skiped lunch.
Living alone now breakfast shortly before I go to uni (somewhere between 7 and 11), no lunch and warm dinner around 8 fits my schedule best.
I come from Singapore. It's common for us having 3 warm meals in a day. When I move to Germany, it is quite suprising seeing most Germans having cold dinner.
In our family Frühschoppen was on sunday, then the family come home from the church , the mother and the little children go home for cooking the lunch an the father, the grandfather and also the great children go in the pub meeting neighbours, friends and drink some bier toghether
Frühschoppen: I am originally from the Ruhr area and am / was Catholic; For us it meant: on the Sunday after mass, the father went to the pub with his sons, there they drank beer and talked about the important things in life, while the mother went home with the daughters, prepared Sunday dinner and then on Men waited, who at some point came home easily dressed!
Frühschoppen: ich komme ursprünglich aus dem Ruhrgebiet und bin/war katholisch; bei uns hieß Frühschoppen: am Sonntag nach der Messe ging der Vater mit seinen Söhnen in die Kneipe, dort wurde Bier getrunken und über die wichtigen Dinge des Lebens geredet, während die Mutter mit den Töchtern nach Hause ging, das Sonntagsessen bereiteten und dann auf die Männer warteten, die dann irgendwann leich angeschickert nach Hause kamen! (Deswegen kennst Du - Yvonne - nämlich auch keinen Frühschoppen!)
I've had the Bavaria Weisswurst "Frühsctück" in a Biergarten in Regensburg at night. So yes, you can get it anytime. I guess it would qualify as Breakfast for Dinner.
Strong Irish tea for me !
Scrambled eggs, bacon or sausage links and toast and grits (I'm from the South USA).
Regarding breakfast after partying: I assume that having a "Schweinebrötchen" (bread roll with a thick piece of porc from a street vendor) after a Friday night out on Düsselsdorf's famous partymile is still a thing for young people and tourists?
There is a local song with the chorus "Wir haben in Düsseldorf die längste Theke der Welt" (In Düsseldorf, we have the longest bar counter in the world).
We usually eat jam, honey or Nutella for breakfast and drink tea or coffee.
Natürlich Kaffee ! Und Frühschoppen ist super, müsst ihr mal testen. Grüße aus Bayern
In Lithuania the times are almost German (as everything else too :D ). Breakfast between 7:30 and 9, Lunch between 11 and 12:30 and dinner between 18 and 20
My favorite is coffee for breakfast. Nothing else...
Well, I can't confirm that about the closing of restaurants. My wife (we are not married...) comes from Mettmann. I live in Karlsruhe. And we were able to go out to eat at 9 p.m. in both places without any problems.
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Good thing I just listened to your video. I almost forgot to get the venison goulash for tomorrow from the freezer, because I have to prepare it for Christmas dinner!
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Edit: "Frühschoppen" kenne ich (aus meiner Jugend zumindest in Bonn-Buschdorf...) meist nur nach dem Gottesdienst am Sonntag Morgen.
Tee zum Frühstück und überhaupt. Und morgens natürlich Honig, Nutella, Marmelade, Rübensirup aufs Brötchen. Alles, was süß ist. Mit Butter. Lachs oder Krabben sehr gerne zu besonderen Anlässen 😃
It was also interesting having pancakes for lunch with savory toppings. In the US pancakes are for breakfast with maple syrup or powdered sugar. Though since moving to the south we have chicken and waffles - which seemed like a strange mix until I tasted it, yum!
"Sonntags-Ei" family over here, including the sometimes annoying discussion whether or not they are perfectly prepared. LOL.
We are also early birds, so don't really run into the problem of a too late breakfast. Hence, the Sunday lunch often is our fanciest warm meal during the whole week.
If I have late breakfast on my own (here in the US now 😔) I have a light bread and cheese lunch (2pmish) and then have a warm dinner, probably around 6pm.
When I meet friends for dinner and it's too late for my German tummy, I'll eat a cheese and bread lunch and have another small portion of that around 5pm. That keeps me happy enough till 8 or 9pm.
Also... I am practically a Hobbit and am most comfortable with 5 smallish meals a day.
Kaffee und Kuchen is the one concept I miss the most in the US and so, I trick my colleagues into it and bring out the home-baked cakes and cookies around 3pm at work. 😜
4 Minuten? lol
@@arnodobler1096 Ich mag es, wenn das Eigelb noch weich ist. Aber wenn ein Vierminutenei etwas zu hart wäre, würde ich mich auch nicht beschweren. Ich bin oft die einzige am Tisch, die am Morgen diese Art „Streit“ wie bei Loriot nicht möchte. Hab oft deshalb gar kein Ei gewünscht. Am Ende ist jemand noch eher als ich aufgestanden und hat mir ein Ei gekocht! Wenn es nicht verdorben ist, hab ich eigentlich keinen Grund zu meckern 😅
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I am from South Brazil, and my husband and I usually have dinners around 7 pm. Sometimes even earlier!
We could totally go out for dinner at the same time! lol
I don't live with my parents anymore, but in my family, the weekdays meal tradition was:
- Breakfast around 6:30/7am: bread and jelly or cheese and ham + coffee
- Lunch around noon: rice and beans, meat and salad
- Dinner around 7pm: bread and jelly or cheese and ham + coffee OR leftovers from lunch
We also had the habit of getting snacks between these three big meals, which could be fruit, pastries, sweets or whatever we had in the house, lol
It seems you like jelly ☺️ Thanks for sharing!
I grew up in the US but in a Japanese family and I would say it’s similar times to what you guys said in the video. Whenever we had family dinners or celebrations we would gather around 4-5pm and be done by 8pm.
But when I was in high school my school used to start at 7:20AM so they forced us to take lunch at 10:20AM🤣
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American here eyeballing a move to Germany.... looks like I'll fit right in! I like to start work at 7am, eat lunch 11-11:30am and dinner's around 6. Weekends are later for breakfast :)
WE : breakfast at 10 to 11 , skip lunch , at 15 to 16 coffee +cake, 19.30 dinner (warm)
That thing on skipping lunch on the weekends might depend on what region your living in... I'm from Berlin and it was normal to eat a late breakfast, skip lunch, SOMETIMES on sundays you will have coffee time like eating a slice of cake and sipping on a cup of coffee and in the evening you will get your warm! dinner/Abendbrot in the evening. Well... the family of my ex boyfriend lived in saxony and I would say they were earlybirds. On sundays, you will get up at seven in the morning for breaktfast, early lunch, coffee time AND dinner...Everytime I visited them, I felt so stuffed afterwards. It was a nice family time but honestly, I would never do that every weekend, but they do and I really don't know how they survive.
Thanks for the video :) as a german, I never thought about it so it's really interesting to get a new point of view on that topic. And by the way I'm team tea :D
Really enjoying your videos! Danke / GraX !
I visited Germany in 1987 and the morning bread I had was fresh rolls. We had dark bread in the evening. I loved the dark breads but they did NOT agree with me. We seemed to get a lot of delicious ice cream during the day while out site-seeing or hanging out with friends.
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Skipping lunch and having an early dinner is the norm I'd say, since most families have the children in school and the parents working an 8-4 job, so dinner is usually prepared when everyone's home, and, since there was no family lunch, dinner is the main meal of the day for that reason. On weekends it depends on your family, my grandma serves breakfast around 9-10, then there's a warm lunch, then at 4 there's Kaffee and Kuchen, and at 7-8 there's a typical German cold dinner. After going through that, you won't be wondering why many leave out the lunch. You're absolutely stuffed the entire day lol
In my family, it's actually the other way around. During the week we have warm dinner and no lunch (for the reasons mentioned above), and on the weekend we sometimes have lunch and no warm dinner instead. We mostly have warm dinner even then, though.
Brötchen für Früchstück, Brot für Abendessen. Egal ob Wochenende oder Werktags.
Rols for Breakfast, Bread for Dinner. No matter wether on Weekend or Workdays.
I Love Coffee for Breakfast
We are a family of four. Two boys (twins), my wife and me. And if I prepare breakfast, I have to make three kinds of drinks: My eldest son and me drink tea, my wife drinks coffee and the younger son drinks mostly water at breakfast.
Another lovely piece of info.. Thanks as always..
Kaffee und Kuchen! 🥰 Abendbrot... 😒 sorry, I need 2 warm meals a day. 😁
I’m portuguese and could be german! My lunch is 12:00 and dinner time is around 18:00- 19:00
Neither coffee nor tea. 😉 It’s orange juice for me on Sundays and a glass of milk during the week.
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We eat breakfast at 7 so we can eat together befor the children go to school , lunch 12 - 13:30 then they come home from school , dinner in the evening at 19 but most time we have caketime at 16
My usual meals:
Frühstück (Breakfast) (now 8:30) - I often eat bread with butter and cheese, and drink coffee. On weekends, I have Brötchen and often a cooked egg, cheese, butter, tomatoes, and coffee.
Mittagessen (Lunch) - a warm meal and salad.
Kaffee (coffee time, 15:00 Uhr) - often connected with speaking to each other, “Kaffeeklatsch” made it into the English language. Coffee, cake, and conversation.
Abendbrot (18:00) - bread, cheese, sausages, vegetables, and apples.
An optional and often forgotten tradition is Nachtmahl between 22:00 and 24:00 or later - this tradition is almost lost.
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Frühschoppen is often more than just eating. It’s a cultural event often connected to news, music, and socializing. Look up “Musikalischer Frühschoppen” to see how these gatherings often feature brass bands. This tradition is particularly popular in the southern regions of Germany.
warm weekendinner 17 to 18 hundred with lunch skipped but around 1500 streched with a coffee and cake and started at around 1100 huge breakfast. during the week no BF, warm lunch at noon+ , dinner @1800 cold
I'm a Filipino and this is how we normally have our meals during the day.
1. Breakfast (5-9 am) - The day in the Philippines start really early because the sun rises around 5:30 am and in big cities, the traffic gets really bad during the early morning rush hour because of people going to schools and workplaces. We usually eat our breakfast around this timeframe. We eat a lot of food in the morning, carbs overload! Hot bread called pan de sal, fried rice with eggs and anything you can think of like hotdogs, ham, sausages, dried fish, corned beef, and so on. We can also eat rice porridge (we even have a chocolate rice porridge called champorado), rice cakes, fried noodles, pasta like spaghetti, and cereals (kinda expensive though). We usually drink hot drinks (coffee, hot chocolate, milk). I don't know anyone who drinks cold juice or tea in the morning.
2. Lunch time (11:30-1:00) - Here, you can basically eat anything that you want. It can be rice with anything like soup. You can also eat something without rice.
3. Afternoon snack (3:00-4:00) - We call this "merienda". When I was a kid, there's a strict siesta time too so after lunch, we would fall asleep and as soon as we wake up, we eat this haha! However, even know, some people would also like to grab something to eat during 3-4 pm. Some examples would be bread, caramelized plantain that come in different forms like bananacue, turon, maruya, rice cake like kutchinta, cake. It's usually sweet haha! This one is not too heavy.
4. Dinner (6:00-8:00) - Unlike Germans, dinner, I think is bigger for us than lunch because it's the time the family reunites after a long day. This is also the time we socialize with other people after work, for example. Sometimes we just eat what we had for lunch haha! You can also have whatever you want.
Filipino families usually eat nice when it's the weekend especially if it's Sunday because of Christianity and there's more time to prepare and everyone's at home. Sometimes, we would also eat breakfast and lunch a little bit late on weekends (though I wake up still on the same time). I think Germans and Filipinos have our mealtimes almost at the same time so I'm excited to go to Germany this September. In the Philippines, we usually want our meals to be warm especially in the morning and at night because we think having cold food can cause indigestion or something (we wouldn't eat cold fruits in the evening because of this or this is the reason drinking cold juice is not common in the morning too). In our culture, we believe something called "lamig" which translates to "cold" which is like if you have this in your body, it would cause you some sickness (this is something like our folk medicinal tradition haha).
Wow thanks for sharing! So interesting to read the similarities with Spanish eating culture. Except for dinner time, of course. As Spaniards usually dine between 9-11 pm 😝
Coffee all the way (Half and half with milk) I don't like tea at all. I do have tea here, but rather for visitors. That pack of tea is gonna last aaaaaages 😀 Dinner at 4pm sounds like hospitals, who serve their meals painstakingly early.
Here in Ireland there is always a reason to go for a beer, the pub is considered somewhat like a second living room to the Irish, however most do not open before 11am.
So speaking of coffee and cake - this is directed at Jen: what cakes, did you first try in Germany, which German cakes do you like? cake cultureVery interested to get an outside view on German cake culture. :-)
Have a happy Christmas lasdies.
My favorite has been Streuselkuchen😋. Maybe next year we do a cake video 🙂
#TeamCoffeeEverAndAlways
We'd love to have a late breakfast (9~11 a.m.) at the weekend and skip lunch.
In northern Europe these eating times are around the same time
I really enjoyed the White sausage with sweet mustard and Bretzel ( I never know IF that bread is called Bretzel or Pretzel...)
In German it's called Brezel. The English term is pretzel 😉
Interestingly, in my family I grew up with fairly similar eating habits to those of Yvonne's family. All of the weekdays and weekend practices do feel familiar to me. Also, I loove having smoked fish for breakfast (a bit of it though, just as an addition. 🙂)
Yep, early restaurants and early closing was a thing I learned the hard way. I went to Berlin to attend a concert of my favorite band, and because of emotion and making sure we'd be enough early there, I didn't have a meal since the late morning and... Omg, trying to find something to eat walking the streets after 11:30 pm was an ordeal. 😂
PS. I'm soo happy you mentioned Felicia! Right next to the two of you, she's someone I respect a lot and I'm always glad to hear from her. In recent times it's been pure pleasure to have seen or read on a topic from you, and a while after there's Feli saying exactly the same things, it's really nice and pleasant this consistancy. 🙂 Love you, girls! ☕ 🍰
Thanks for your feedback Fanny! Btw, which is the band you went to see in Berlin?
@@simplegermany Aww thanks for this question. It's Lacrimosa! For over 11 years now I've been a devoted fan. They are a German composer, creator and frontman, and a Finnish singer and keybordist. In Bulgaria I feel like the only person on Earth to love them, but in Germany and other parts of the world they have pretty huge fanbases and a lot of love from people. The music is diverse in nature, but it is my heart and soul. With the years I get to understand more and more of the lyrics, and it's ever as beautiful as it was to me back when I first heard them and didn't understand a word. 🙂 ❤
Interesting! Never heard of ‘em 🙈. Thanks for sharing!
@@fannychristozova8158🖐🏻 Here is one of his fans. I like the music since my dark ages in the early 90th. There is many great music in this "corner", unfortunately this is not noticed by the public. Grufties are everywhere 😆
@@Mozart4000 @Herr Von Und Zu OMG!! This is so nice! Thank you for showing up and saying this!! I don't feel so alone! 😄 "Ein Hauch von Menschlichkeit" playing right now especially for you!
As an American living in Bavaria, I have been invited to dinner on the weekend at Noon. Small breakfast, coffee and brotchen/butter, then at noon big meal. Favorite time of day is Kafee und Kuchen around 4 pm.
Ja eine großartige Tradition. Als meine Uroma noch lebte gab es jeden Sonntag um 16 Uhr Kaffee & Kuchen. Beste Kindheitserinnerungen.❤
My parents also did "Abendbrot" for dinner. I personally don't like it. My wife and I usually cook a warm meal for dinner at around 6pm or 7pm.
My family back in the states have dinner at 6 but in Germany dinner is around 8 in our house 😅
Always coffee and sometime a cup of kakao.
in india it always depends on family to family. but people have breakfast at 7-9 am then lunch at 1-3.30 pm then snack at 5-7 pm with tea then dinner at 9-10.pm
15:17 I’m sure that you can have Frühschoppen in Düsseldorf, but beware of asking for Weißwurst, Maß Bier und Brezen in Düsseldorf. That would be „sehr dünnes Eis.“ 😄
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zu 13:36 muss ich euch leider korrigieren.
Frühschoppen ist nicht gleichzusetzen mit Weißwurstfrühstück in Bayern.
Man kann auch Weißwurstfrühstück ohne Frühschoppen haben und umgekehrt.
Der Rest stimmte.
As an American if you are having dinner past 9 on a weekend it's fine, week day then we'll nothing is going right, 7-8 pm works great 6 if you are really hungry, breakfast here is well between bread eggs bacon sausage biscuits with gravy oatmeal cereal maybe the roast you cooked overnight 😂
hm i dring tea but sometimes coffee it depends on my mood
I'm addicted physically and mentally to coffee, so even during weekends I cannot have breakfast without it 😅
Comparing Germany to Spain you should be aware, both countries are located in the same time zone CET (Central European Time) for practical reasons, even if there is an almost 2 hours natural gap in sunrise/sunset time between the two countries.
A significant proportion of the apparently culturally different meal times can be explained by this fact alone.
No matter if it is weekday or weekend - my first steps after getting up is to the coffee machine to make a cappu or latte. I need this to activate my brain ;-) We also have a (very!) late breakfast - nobody in our family gets up before 11.30/12.00 on Saturdays and Sundays - so we skip lunch an have dinner somewhen between 18-20.00.
I also didn't grow up with "Frühschoppen". For me it is a kind of old fashioned - sth that fathers or grandfathers did. I don't now any of our friends who still does this but maybe it is also a matter of where you live in Germany. We live near Leverkusen in NRW and I don't think it is a big deal here?
When I was a kid/teenager my parents always insisted on having lunch at 12 or 13 on Sundays and my mom yelled at my sister and me to at least get up for lunch - always very annoying for us ;-) At that time I swore to myself, never to do this to my own children - and it worked ;-)
Heinz Becker: "Um Zwelf gebbd gess"🙂
Here is a thought: what would happen if you just once have dinner at 21:00? just for the sake of trying new things and being more accommodating toward other people?
Hmmm... you even do not have to tell about it to your doctor so the insurance wont go up the next years :)
A dinner with friends is not about compromising.... but that might ebe just me.
If you go out for dinner at a restaurant, do you still get served a cold dinner?
I drink coffee. But my wife likes both tee and coffee. Depends on the mood.
One for the algorithm.
Mmmmm Weißwurschtfrühstück ... lecker ;-)
wo ist das Mett grins
My Dinner time is 11 PM, man no idea how I am going to adjust
Why eat at 7?
I am not going to get a cultural shock, but a tummy shock as well
Hahaha yes that's how we feel when eating late 😉 You can get used to it slowly 😉
Kaffe und kuchen = ❤️
Ooo I se Salmon you watch in REWE xD