Why? They're completely different dishes. They don't even have cheese in common as Mac & Cheese is with seasoned cheese sauce, not pure cheese. It's like saying "Get authentic pizza and you'll never eat Käsespätzle again". Makes no sense. Different dishes. It's not "one or the other". I like both (if homemade).
The one in the picture looks like the boring canned version. It's a whole different dish when it has bacon cubes, chopped plum tomatoes and onions, baked in a casserole dish with a layer of cheddar over the top until parts of the cheese go a bit crispy.
@@vomm Completely different? Yes, the one is instant noodles with processed cheese on top. The other one is freshly shaved noodles, scalloped with real cheese. It is like comparing a deep-frozen mass-produced burger from McDonald's with a freshly made smash burger in a fresh brioche bun.
„Basically you just took Mac‘n Cheese and added caramelised onions“… how dare you 😂😂😂 First of all, we already ate Käsespätzle in Germany when the USA and your cheap copy of our Käsespätzle didn‘t even exist. Secondly, Spätzle (the noodles) themselves are already on a whole different level than what you call maccaroni in the USA. Mac‘n Cheese are delicious too, but try Käsespätzle (in Germany) once and you‘ll never look back, I promise 😉 PS: Slamming a door in the USA sounds really cute 😄
for the record, Mac and Cheese was invented in England not in the US. And it, too, is older than the United States of America. The rest of what you say is of course correct.
Mac & Cheese: low-quality pasta, plasticy cheese with a whole list of artificial yellow colouring agents Käsespätzle: thick homemade doughy noodles, naturally matured hard cheese, homemade caramelized onions they are not the same
Coming from Baden Württemberg, Stuttgart Area , i d dare to say a good load of handmade Kässpätzle any old way is better then all of this American Junkfood. Ich wurde stark und gross durch Spätzle mit Sosse. Amen to that.
Käsepätzle is one of the cheaper meals in every company or school kitchen. And I think while Germans think of the cheap Kraft food dish when they hear Mac & Cheese, you can of course also make them yourself with a good cheddar, and that's how you get them in many American restaurants.
@@halvarf it's the cheaper meal in companies and school kitchens because it's without meat. In fact for the longest time of my life it used to be one of the few vegetarian options available in office and school canteenes in Germany (besides Kaiserschmarrn and Dampfnudeln). Comparing price-optimized canteen Käsespätzle to restaurant Mac&Cheese is also a bit of a dishonest comparison don't you think? ;) Compare restaurant Mac&Cheese with restaurant Käsespätzle, the Käsepätzle easily win in my books with flying colours. Compare canteen Mac&Cheese with canteen Käsepspätzle, I'm absolutely picking the Käsespätzle. Compare box Mac&Cheese with prepacked supermarket Käsespätzle... I'm still picking the Käsespätzle. Btw. I'm not saying the US doesn't have great food. It does. There is a reason I return a good 10lbs heavier from every trip to the US. There is amazing regional food to be had which you can't find at the same quality anywhere else. But Mac&Cheese, even the best restaurant-made one, is a joke both compared to Käsespätzle and proper Italian pasta-cheese dishes (which American Mac&Cheese derived from). It's absolutely incomparable. And it's certainly not Germany's 'answer' to Mac&Cheese
In Germany, severe storms known as "Orkan" (hurricane-force winds) occur primarily during the fall and winter months, typically between October and March. While not an annual event, major orkan storms strike every few years. Northern regions and coastal areas are more prone to these storms, whereas they are less frequent in the southern parts of the country. An orkan is defined by wind speeds of at least 73 mph (118 km/h), equivalent to Category 1 hurricane-force winds. During particularly strong storms, such as Kyrill (2007) or Lothar (1999), wind speeds can often range between 75 to 93 mph (120-150 km/h). In extreme cases, gusts can even reach up to 125 mph (200 km/h), especially in exposed high-altitude areas or coastal regions. Overall, while Germany experiences several storms each year, true orkan events are less common, but when they do occur, they bring dangerous winds that can cause significant damage across large areas.
Fun fact is, that here where i live in southern Baden-Württemberg at the french border, we get real 'hurricane' warnings several times per year. They usually aproach us from France, often starting in Spain or Portugal. But for some reason they totally quiet down to a low level Orkan or just a strong storm by the time they cross the border. Happened with the hurricane 'Kirk' just this week - caused havoc as a hurricane in Spain, Portugal and France, but when it hit Freiburg it was already a 'former hurricane' cause it was just a storm. Still uprooted many trees, had some power outages and even a few human casualties. We didn't have a power outage in my village, but a neighbors half dead tree smashed their garden shed (which was there before her grandfather was even born) into pieces, and she said it literally scratched her bedroom window when falling. They had an apointment with a company coming monday to get this tree torn down lol.
@@olgahein4384Hurricane Kirk lost its classification as a hurricane far out in the Atlantic, and even when it reached the Azores, it did so only as a post-tropical storm and no longer as a hurricane. There has never been an official hurricane warning in Germany. A hurricane cannot reach Germany because it needs very warm water to maintain its structure. Any hurricane that makes landfall weakens immediately, so only coastal regions can be hit by a hurricane.
@@olgahein4384 I suspect he doesn't want to fill out an entry protocol and thinks: before I have to deal with German customs and have to list everything I'm taking with me... I'd rather go home
I just looked it up and in the 1990s there were two storms with wind speeds over 270 km/h (so both in hurricane category 5) and Kyrill in 2007 had wind speeds of up to 225 km/h (category 4) in Europe (not Germany, here it was only just around 200 km/h - category 3).
Keep in mind Spätzle are different from "normal" noodles to start with. The preparation of the dough is different, resulting in a slightly different taste and consistency to begin with.
es ist schwierig eine gute Cheddar Käse Sauce zu machen und dann machst du sie eher als Nudelauflauf..... das ich Kässpatzen im halbschlaf ohne Licht machen kann bedeutet entweder das die leichter sind.... oder Genetik 😂
@@patrickkaleja9581 Es ist generell schwerer eine Käse Soße zu machen, wenn du echten Käse benutzt und, wenn sieht es nicht so gelblich aus. In den USA ist das, was als Käse verkauft wird teilweise auch kein echter Käse. Mac'n'cheese sieht halt optisch auch schon so aus als ob du das aus der Kühltruhe neben den Fertig Burgern ausm Supermarkt bekommst.
@@CornedBee I am only stuck in traffic at 6:30 because I am requierd to be at work. So i am angry because work forces me into traffic (jams)... its 100% accurate
We do get storms >200km/h. Uprooted trees, streets and trains defunct for the next few days until things are cleaned up etc. but there's no specialised shelters houses and windows can take the force. Roof shingles, not always, another reason to not go outside.
9:00 "halb sieben" is *not* "half past seven" - but instead half an hour *before seven* , i.e. "half past six" Popular point of misunderstanding between German speakers and English speakers.
@@mibbio2148 German here and living in an area where that is used a lot. It still confuses me, even after twenty years. To me "viertel sieben" sounds like the lazy version of "viertel vor sieben". By now I know to just clarify.
@@HenryLoenwind It's not really missing that, it's pretty hard to translate. Imagine the last sentence with nonsensical gramatticial additions like stuffing a useless "The" in front of Peter or something the like.
There are also hurricanes and tornadoes in Germany. I had to giggle a bit (sry) during RTL News when they interviewed the former anchorman Peter Kloeppel, who lives with his family in Florida. He was asked why he didn't flee with his family, his answer was that his house is made of sturdy materials and he wasn't worried about it.
Hurricane is the name for a tropical storm that is formed in the atlantic and has speeds over 110km/h. Florida lies in the middle of the ocean and is more often struck by cat 5 hurricanes than most other places in this earth. There are still examples of european storms being just as strong as those.
@@melchiorvonsternberg844 yep, but have you ever checked the translation? Orkan = Hurricane/Winter Gale/Winter Storm/Cyclonic Windstorm. I used the term hurricane because I didn't want to throw around too many terms here^^ A hurricane normaly refers to tropical storms in a certain area. We call extreme storms Orkan, but they have the same wind speed classification as hurricanes (anything from 118km/h upwards).
@@segacedi1 In Germany we usually call them "Orkan" (but there is no specific translation for this word, just hurricane/cyclone/cyclonic windstorm/winter storm etc.). We also have extreme strong "Orkane" with 200 km/h+. The difference is that we don't have that many of them. Most annual "Orkane" are below 200km/h.
Hahaha, what would you call them ad a typ of food instead? Tiny misshaped pancakes? Spätzle are noodles, just a very different style then most italian pasta or american bastardisation of it
Can I just say. I love how you go out of your way to Google things you're unsure of and especially using the AI overlord... Rather than people on other channels who remain clueless never try to answer the question themselves and just throw it out to the viewers to leave a comment with what so and so is or means. It's refreshing.
Manchmal wünschte ich mir aber, er wieder die Memes überspringen die Wortspiele sind. Wie das mit dem "In Essen essen", da er sie einfach nicht verstehen kann, da die Sprachkompetenz dafür einfach nicht vorhanden ist. Er bräuchte jemandem der ihm das Live erklärt. Oder dafür auch Chat GPT nutzen.
Results of most tornados in Germany usually: - a few houses and cars damaged - a few trees knocked over - a few people injured In USA: - hundreds of houses completely destroyed - many dead/injured - infrastructure at its limits - total devastation
@@Gnaaaarrrr Yeah, but we learned from that. A few years ago we had an Orkan (don't remember which one sorry) and the flood that hit in the aftermath was higher than 1962. But the dikes have long since adjusted, made higher and sturdier, there are floodgates at the piers and guess what : nothing happened. Sure some stupid tourist that parked at the fishmarket found their cars flooded, but that happens every high flood. People were a bit miffed that the warnings were way too much, that the flood danger was overhyped until the data was released an some level-headed people realised that the flood was higher than the one of 1962, we were just better prepared.
that's the trap with those popups. you hit accept because you want to accept the proposed minimal tracking, but it's actually an accept all button and need to dig deeper to accept minimal tracking.
11:00 a quick explanation: In Germany, you either have a signed work contract or you are an illegal worker. There is barely any situation where work isn't connected to some sort of written documentation. We Germans thrive on bureaucracy.
Actually, you can work for someone without a signed contract. It's even legal if your employer takes all the necessary steps. However, he is required to provide you with a written and signed contract if you ask for it.
4:22 "being treated like a king in France" can sound a bit scary, since the French revolution (when they cut off the heads of the king and other powerful people)
We had the storm Eunice in northern Germany in 2022 with wind speeds exceeding 120 mph (190 kph). Our house luckily took no damage (see what brick houses can do? 😅) but no less than 26 very old and large trees were blown over from the forest next to our property, crashing into our garden and smashing our tool shed, a pavillon as well as the stage that my parents (musicians) use for open air festivals. We had just finished reconstructing the stage during the CoViD break after it had already been hit by a tree from the same forest two years earlier 😢
@ninjaunicorn575 True, but we had a friendly chat with the family who owns the land where the forest is on. They agreed to remove all the trees near our stage since the ones left standing after the storm were equally old and now lacked support. So the next storm would just knock down even more of them. Since the trees were removed, the area is now a thicket of bushes with lots of animals of all kinds living in them. And no more danger to our "stage v3.0". The daughter of the family also told us that eventually, once her aging parents will no longer be around, she's willing to sell the land to us for a bargain. She doesn't want it, and we had the idea of using it to build solar panels on it since the open space is facing almost directly south and there are no more trees to cast any shadows now.
Haltungsform describes how the animals are keeped 1 is stallhaltung (keeped in verry small cages), 2 has bigger cages, 3 is indoors in a barn kind of structure but with free mpvement eithin it, 4 is with access to a pasture and 5 is the grass fed, free range (with shelter access how the animals like) type. Price increases accordingly, with 5 being really expensive.
Well it kind of missed that "writing your name on the paper" is also a joke on how education gets worse and labour expectations supposedly lessen, because of technology. So kinda like adding "even though their life is actually not that hard"
Oh btw. since you asked about the last time when Germany was hit by a hurricane. You could react to the aftermath of the storm "Lothar" which came through Germany in 1999. The forest are stil recovering and when you know where to look you can still see the aftermath.
That wouldn't be the last big storm (and anyway, it wasn't a hurricane). For example, storm "Kyrill" in January 2007 destroyed about 40 million trees in the region of southern Westphalia alone.
That was a scary one. We were standing at the window and watching the big tree in our neighbor's yard just slowly fall over. Luckily it missed the neighbor's house and our garage by falling into the space between them.
@@tobyk.4911oh ja! Kyrill hat in meiner Heimatstadt im Thüringer Wald die Berge zum Teil vollkommen kahl gefegt. Das ganze Stadtbild hat sich dadurch ziemlich verändert. Auf dem Hausberg hat nur eine einzige Birke überlebt, die sogar eine Gedanktafel usw bekommen hat. xD
4:45 this logo is supposed to give info about how good/bad the animals were treated thrughout their lifes. 1 is the worst, 5 is the best for the animal. Yes we eat Rabbits, no not very often, no regular supermarket offers rabbit meat. You either go to your local Hunter or some Breed them in their garden in more rural areas. To be honest most people think they're too cute to eat ... That's why the Rabbit was on the opposite side than the cow an pig in that picture.
sorry but i saw a whole rabbit just last week at edeka XD what do you mean "no regular supermarkets". sure its uncommon but some still ofer them. especially when it gets cold outside
My paternal grandparents, who fled from Poland in WW2 were used to self-sufficiency and besides their vegetable patches also had a barn full of rabbits... I am going to say, as a kid, it made me sad what happened to the rabbits in the end, but they were so delicious... all my grandparents are dead 20 years+x now, but damn... I miss eating at "Oma Mariechen" whenever there was rabbit on the menu!
@@Ossey1976 When I was a kid I had pet rabbits and we ate all the babies. Just two rabbits can fill up a freezer with meat. I was sad about it too but we were poor and it was practical. We lived in the city and kept the rabbits in a shed.
I love that you try to figure out what it means and do research. Thats not something I typically see in videos of this nature. (German here btw, very fun to watch)
You said: "maybe thats why we make our houses out of sticks, because they're gonna get blown over anyways", I am no expert but I'd its the opposite, your houses get blown over, because you build it out of sticks, in Europe we don't have any hurricanes, but we do have quite heavy storms aswell (which I cant compare to hurricanes) but since our houses are mainly made from bricks, they dont get completly destroyed every time there is a storm...)
I follow you for several time now and it is amazing seeing your progress. Your knowledge about German culture and even the pronounceation of words is increasing. I remember meme-reaction in which you didn't get a vast majority of the gags, but now you can laugh with full heart at some. That developement is so inspirational!
Well... just over the last week we got news about the rest of hurricane Kirk hitting Germany😅 But... we get tornados relatively regularly (mostly not as big as US though) and as some other commenter said: There were some pretty bad hurricanes here as well.
First pronunciation of Käsespätzle was almost perfect! Godfathers of Spätzle live in Southwest Germany. The word itself represents their dialect very well.
in baden würtemberg it is also very normal too say just Kässpätzl, maybee in bavaria too i don`t know i life in BW. edit : the best käsespätzle i ever eaten was in an small restaurant on an mountain in ishgl, i never could duplicate that taste and in no restaurant they ever tasted so perfect like there. it was 26 years ago. don`t know what they did there with it but damn was it tasty.
Hey Ryan, just a quick remark: at 5:02 you selected to 'Accept All' cookies, incl. Marketing and Statistics. If you would've wanted to accept only functional ones you would've had to select either the middle option (decline all) or the right one (accept selected. In this case just the functional ones)
Sorry, but Mac ‘n’ Cheese vs. Käsespätzle… Mac ‘n’ Cheese has not the slightest chance. Its not even Fair. It’s on a whole other level… It’s like Kuririn vs. Freeza ....and It`s not even his final Form. Im sure you have Burgers we have not even seen in Europe ...But what you call cheese is just sad...I refuse to even consider that thing you call Cheese , to be cheese! Spätzle are way superior noodles VS your american macaroni. So - calling Käsespätzle to be Mac ‘n’ Cheese is an Insult! 😜
and most importantly, they are not noodles, they´re Spätzle... don´t call Spätzle the N word in front of swabians, if you value your ccontinued existence....
9:10 it could mean anything from your ID (because being part of a society needs you to work) to your job (work contract) or just because you scribbled in for the early shift.
ChatGPT has to become your best friend for german memes. I think you would get so many more, if you send the AI the text from the meme and describe the image. ChatGPT actually knows a lot about cultural related jokes. It was so satisfying seeing you get the joke!
6:09 The car from peter (using preposition is okay but more like cheating) Peter's car (actual form, using "Genitiv"; shows high education) The Peter his car (dialectical/unformal; shows low education) As a german language teacher, i agree with this meme 100% 😂
Käsespätzle are a type of egg pasta made especially in South Germany, with a cream sauce (Cream plus actual cheese), and the traditional recipe, yes, adds the caramelised onions - but variants can add Speck/Bacon/Ham too.
äähmm no sauce is needed for käsespätzle. you can`t call it käsespätzle if you use a sauce with it. edit : if you use a sauce with it, it is called spätzle mit käsesoße ( spätzle with an cheese sauce ). or in your case spätzle with a cheese creme sauce. both are very different from käsespätzle.
There are different qualities to every dish, but no matter how well prepared, i dont get the appeal of mac n cheese either. To be fair, I do not like creamy sauces or pasta... ButbI love käsespätzle 😅
2:16 Essen is a city in Germany, in (or close to, I'm not good at geography) the area commonly called "Ruhrpott". And together with two other cities in the same area it makes maps of the area funny, "Essen, Dortmund, Hamm" (sounding as if someone said "Food, there mouth", followed by an onomatopoeia of biting).
6:50 Germany doesn't get hit by real hurricanes (tropical cyclones) - we are too far in the north for that, and also not directly at the Atlantic Ocean (hiding behind Portugal, Spain, France, the British Isles, Belgium and the Netherlands). Sometimes a "former Hurricane" hits Europe - but only after weakening in the few days before, and therefore being downgraded from "Hurricane" to "Tropical storm", and until it reaches Germany its "just a deep pressure zone" - quite windy, but not comparable to Hurricanes near the Caribbean or the Gulf of Mexico.
Yes, Germans won't fear that a storm will blow away their house. Some roof tiles maybe and a tree might crash down in the garden, but loosing the whole home - it happens very rarely. Their biggest fear, when a big storm is predicted, might be how to get home from work or go to work the next day, if they normally take the train...
we do get the occasional cyclone, but those are the ones that form further north and have a direct path towards us. Kyrill back in 2007 was one of them and it formed near Newfoundland, so an extratropical storm from the very start. those are actually dangerous. maybe not for regions more inland, but for a baltic Fischkopp like myself it is. Kyrill did quite the damage where I grew up with down powerlines, damaged roofs and uprooted trees. the latter was fun to climb on, but the storm itself was quite scary. but yeah, actual hurricanes or the remnants of them usually don't do much. nordic cyclones, tho rare, are the real danger. instead of flooding they usually bring snowstorms. which are another type of dangerous in the slippery and heavy weight sense. even w/o intense wind. oh forgot to add, we're actually at the beginning of our cyclone/windstorm season that is between october and march and peaks around january
About 3:55. First of all it is specifically a female teacher the meme is referencing and the german grammer implies that the students are talking to each other. Presumably without the teacher overhearing.
Spätzle are made in another way than maccaroni. Take 3 eggs, add a little bit of salt and so much flour, that the dough does not get solid, but still can flow slowly on a steep surface. Then you need a pot with boiling water (with salt like for noodles). You need a small cutting board, and a hard dough scraper or a big knife (a dough scraping card is best). You put some of the Spätzle dough on the cutting board, by the help of the scraper you form it into a rectangle of 2-3 inches width. Put one end of the board with the dough into the water, cut thin noodles from the dough and scrape them right into the boiling water. How you get them out? Find a solution, I don't know which kitchen tools you have. I'm using a big flat spoon with holes in it. Go on until all the dough is done. As a newbie, you'll work quite slowly. With Käsespätzle, it does not matter, melting the cheese you'll warm the Spätzle up, anyways. With some fried onions and maybe some fine squares of ham or bacon, it's delicious. But Spätzle you can also serve to any roasted meat with a fine selfmade sauce. In this case, you just put the freshly made Spätzle in a pan with some butter and just warm them up. Spätzle are also delicious being served together with lentils. Hint: Spätzle translates to "little sparrows". They were invented in Ulm. The sparrow was the heraldic animal of Ulm. Have fun trying out. I promise you, You'll prefer it even to mac'n cheese. Maccaroni mostly are made without egg or only with a little bit of egg. So the taste of the Spätzle is more intensive than that of cheap noodles. And - the different structure makes a different eating experience. Bavarians have a different way of making Spätzle, but you need a specific tool for it which I guess you won't get in USA. All this being said - as making Spätzle needs some time, my kids also get Käsnudeln i.e. Mac'n Cheese sometimes. We like both, but we prefer Spätzle.
Yes it's similar to mac & cheese, but the noodles are different, the cheese is different and these differences make it hit a different spot. Sure, if you look at both from a distance, in the big picture of all existing foods the belong in a similar category: some type of pasta/noodle with some cheese.
Love the effort you spent to understand the memes in this one! Sometimes half of them go unexplained and I’m gnashing at the bit to jump through the screen and explain them. Maybe start streaming, so that people can live explain, lol.
2:55 essen = eating bden = bathing bergen = to recover smth./someone from somewhere rügen = to admonish someone for misbhaviour (old) Those words capitalise are all city names. Also, "Bergen" is a multiple of mountain as in "I went to the Mountains" = "Ich bin zu den Bergen gegangen"
"rescue" would also fit for "bergen" here. So while the first two are translated correctly, the thord is "to rescue/recover someone in Bergen", and the last one is "To admonish someone on Rügen".
Even the US Macaroni are not real Macaroni. Found a US Page from Barilla (Elbow Macaroni Pasta) and their Macaronis have following incredients: SEMOLINA (WHEAT), DURUM WHEAT FLOUR. VITAMINS/MINERALS: VITAMIN B3 (NIACIN), IRON (FERROUS SULFATE), VITAMIN B1 (THIAMINE MONONITRATE), VITAMIN B2 (RIBOFLAVIN), FOLIC ACID. Real Macaroni (Italian Pasta) only contains Durum Wheat Flour mixed with a little bit of Water pressed (high Pressure) through a Form and dried afterwards.
We do have heavy storms in Germany too. The Orkan Lothar in 1999 ripped out several forests completely, and we do get the same weather scenario every 4-5 years. But rotating storms like hurricans and tornados are very rare and small here. Floods happen quite often here. But we usually have areas where riveres can flow into without doing any real harm.
Mac 'n Cheese and German **Käsespätzle** are both beloved comfort foods featuring cheese and pasta or dumplings, but they differ significantly in ingredients, texture, preparation, and flavor profiles. Here's a breakdown of the key differences: ### 1. **Base Ingredients:** - **Mac 'n Cheese:** - **Pasta:** Typically made with macaroni or other small pasta shapes like shells or elbow macaroni. - **Cheese:** Cheddar is most common, but it can also include blends like Gruyère, mozzarella, or Parmesan. The cheese is melted into a creamy sauce. - **Käsespätzle:** - **Spätzle:** A type of egg-based noodle or dumpling made by pressing dough through a sieve or special tool into boiling water. The dough is made from flour, eggs, salt, and water (or milk). - **Cheese:** Commonly uses strong cheeses such as Emmental, Gruyère, or Bergkäse. The cheese is melted over the Spätzle rather than incorporated into a sauce. ### 2. **Texture:** - **Mac 'n Cheese:** - Creamy and saucy, with the pasta enveloped in a rich cheese sauce. - Depending on the recipe, it may be topped with breadcrumbs and baked for a crunchy crust. - **Käsespätzle:** - Hearty and chewy, as the Spätzle noodles have a denser, more substantial bite compared to typical pasta. - The cheese forms a melted layer over the Spätzle, rather than a sauce. It’s often baked with a crispy, golden top. ### 3. **Preparation:** - **Mac 'n Cheese:** - The pasta is boiled separately, and the cheese sauce is made by combining melted butter, flour (for a roux), milk, and cheese, which is then mixed with the pasta. - It can be served as stovetop mac 'n cheese or baked in the oven for a firmer texture. - **Käsespätzle:** - The Spätzle dough is made fresh, then boiled in water and drained. - The cooked Spätzle is layered with cheese, typically in a skillet, and baked or sautéed until the cheese melts and browns. - Often topped with fried onions for extra flavor and texture. ### 4. **Flavor Profile:** - **Mac 'n Cheese:** - Creamy and mild, with a smooth cheese flavor. The cheese sauce can be enhanced with spices like mustard, paprika, or even garlic. - **Käsespätzle:** - Rich, buttery, and more rustic, with a deeper, nuttier cheese flavor from the Emmental or Gruyère. - The addition of caramelized or fried onions gives it a savory, slightly sweet note that contrasts with the cheese. ### 5. **Cultural Context:** - **Mac 'n Cheese:** - A popular comfort food in the United States and many Western countries, often associated with home cooking or quick meals. - **Käsespätzle:** - A traditional dish from Southern Germany (especially the Swabian region), Austria, and Switzerland, often served as a main dish in Alpine regions. ### 6. **Typical Additions or Variations:** - **Mac 'n Cheese:** - Can include additions like bacon, ham, lobster, or vegetables like broccoli. - **Käsespätzle:** - Often served with crispy fried onions on top and may be accompanied by salads or sauerkraut. In summary, while both dishes are cheesy and comforting, **Mac 'n Cheese** is creamy and pasta-based, while **Käsespätzle** is a heartier, more rustic dish made with chewy, egg-based dumplings and melted cheese. Käsespätzle also tends to have a more intense cheese flavor and the additional complexity of fried onions.
Germany doesn't get hurricanes (for geographical reasons) but we do get European Windstorms which can reach comparable windspeeds. However, German buildings are usually made from bricks and concrete rather than drywall and wood, which means it takes much stronger winds to really tear into one. In most storms, the damage is caused by knocked-over trees, flying branches or roof shingles that have come loose.
Your first pronunciation of Käsespätzle was impressively perfect, the second one not so much 😂 If I'm honest Mac n Cheese are nice. My ex was from Florida and she made them very good but we both preferred Käsespätzle big time. It's something special because it's only the true thing if you do the Spätzle (traditional central Europe edition of noodles) by yourself and this is a lot of work that not many are willing to do these days.
We eat all kinds of animals not just standard pork, berf, chicken, lamb and turkey but also all kinds of fish, rabbit, boar, deer or even sometimes goat, horse or donkey. We had a scandal a few years ago where they found horse meat in cheap pre made lasagna. Huge uproar tho personally i didnt care as long as it tastes good 😂
Never ever heard of anyone eating boar or donkey, also never saw this for sale anywhere. Goatmeat is usually used for pet food, not for human consumption. But you're right about rabbit, deer, horse, although you don't find that in most supermarkets most of the time and it's more of a specialty (like eating rabbit for easter or deer and venison in the wintertime).
@SunshineRiot boar isnt as uncommon. Wild meat in general is more rare but available at some markets. In my family we do eat boar more then deer, like in a Goulash or sausage. As for goat and donkey. I personally dont like it but its definitely also sometimes available at the market. Edit: in my region we have a specific butcher that comes to the weekly market and sells all kinds of wild meat. Especially horse salami is a hit
Well, the problem was that the horse meat was not fit for human consumption due to the meds the horses were given while alive. Otherwise nope, no problem with eating horse. Sometimes the poultryman on my local farmers market takes reservation for ostrich, which is a very lean, very beefy tasting meat. Not often, because the farm he has an in with doesn't butcher very often, but it is a feast every time. And at least in my region, lots of people breed rabbits after WWII as a meat supply but that phased out with later generations. There are still 145000 plus registered rabbit breeders in Germany.
7:20 so true. With the right timings on the lights it is possible here to coast almost half a km (1540 ft) from the bridge down into the residential areas over multiple crossings. If not, well, you'll stop after about 110m (360 ft)
For germans writing (schreiben) and signing (unterschreiben, literaly means below-writing because you write your name below whatever you just read), are way closer connected since both words have the same base. So it was way easier to understand for us.. Also we are behind in digital transformation, we still actually "unterschreiben" everything on a piece of paper 😄 And to the topic of "Why do you guys always shoot against America?": I see at least two reasons: - Germany have been rebuild by America after ww2 - Mashallplan (still debatable how much money actually reached, anyways), we recovered quicker than france or britain and america wanted a wall against Russia, cold war. Also our own history and culture was not cool anymore, no one wanted to sing the same songs like the nazis did -> sooo we took over a lot of American culture in the process. Even today I know many Germans that dislike all german songs. I belief we are closer connected to America then most other european countries. And to close that loop: That's why we hear and compare a lot to you guys, every day. - America is still the most important country in the world, at least one of them. Standing proud, stating "America first, we are the best" without blushing. One simply wants to challenge such a statement. Your boss at work also gets a harder judgment, the people who are leading should act as role-models and get harsher criticism. And if the group of people that leads the world starts a lot of wars, that are not in the best interest of all humans... People will start to hate that enforced leadership. Well enough of politics and history, love your content, greatings from Bielefeld
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Get authetic Käsespätzel and you'll never look at m&c again.
Why? They're completely different dishes. They don't even have cheese in common as Mac & Cheese is with seasoned cheese sauce, not pure cheese. It's like saying "Get authentic pizza and you'll never eat Käsespätzle again". Makes no sense. Different dishes. It's not "one or the other". I like both (if homemade).
As a German that ate both, I can say that ours is better😂
The one in the picture looks like the boring canned version. It's a whole different dish when it has bacon cubes, chopped plum tomatoes and onions, baked in a casserole dish with a layer of cheddar over the top until parts of the cheese go a bit crispy.
@@vomm Completely different? Yes, the one is instant noodles with processed cheese on top. The other one is freshly shaved noodles, scalloped with real cheese. It is like comparing a deep-frozen mass-produced burger from McDonald's with a freshly made smash burger in a fresh brioche bun.
@@lazrseagull54 Cheddar on Käsespätzle?
When you prefer Mac n'Cheese over Kässpätzle , then it's really really time for you to visit us 😁
Käsespätlze you have to cook, Mac n'Cheese is American "cooking" in the microwave :D
I am not the hugest Fan of Käsespätzle... Maybe i am an Europe Mac n Cheese Team😂
@@la_engineer hahaha, like they make their tea😂
In "Schwabenländle" we call them "Kässpatzen".
@@la_engineer Exists for Käsespätzle, too. And you also are capable to COOK Max & Cheese 😂
It's basically Mac and Cheese with caramelized onions on top.
You just made yourself a couple million enemies.
83 million to be exact
@@CraftingCat_IX add the austrians and swiss and liechtenstein populations, dont be ignorant
The one last thing all Germans agree on 😂
@@stefanadolfspies Yep
@@CraftingCat_IX Wasn't sure how strong people from the north feel about Kässpätzle so i stayed vague
„Basically you just took Mac‘n Cheese and added caramelised onions“… how dare you 😂😂😂
First of all, we already ate Käsespätzle in Germany when the USA and your cheap copy of our Käsespätzle didn‘t even exist.
Secondly, Spätzle (the noodles) themselves are already on a whole different level than what you call maccaroni in the USA.
Mac‘n Cheese are delicious too, but try Käsespätzle (in Germany) once and you‘ll never look back, I promise 😉
PS: Slamming a door in the USA sounds really cute 😄
And even in Spätzle, there is a massive difference between string extruded shop ones, and actual scraped ones made fresh.
Besides, the correct word is not macaroni, but maccheroni. And what the Americans use, are cornetti.
Als Deutscher esse ich lieber Pasta als Spätzle..
Mac and cheese is definitely better.
for the record, Mac and Cheese was invented in England not in the US. And it, too, is older than the United States of America.
The rest of what you say is of course correct.
12:40 the joke is, if you don't have a forklift, you have to unload by hand. and if you don't have a girlfriend you also have to "unload" by hand
Hat mich gekillt😂
Ryan: figures out the „Halteform“ bit
me: *proud*
Diese Halteformen taugen auch nur zur meme.
He totally needs a better translation software, though.
.... but he didn't get the joke. 😂
Halteform 5 is more expansiv than other. Only bought from fanatics and Rich people.
Hat jemand eigentlich diese Formen gesehen, wahrlich, eben gekauft? So eine... mythische Aura... Nur bis 2 oder 3 erfahren.
Mac & Cheese: low-quality pasta, plasticy cheese with a whole list of artificial yellow colouring agents
Käsespätzle: thick homemade doughy noodles, naturally matured hard cheese, homemade caramelized onions
they are not the same
Käsespätzle : 5⭐️ Gourmet meal
Mac & Cheese : Fastfood Burger (out of a dumpster)
Coming from Baden Württemberg, Stuttgart Area , i d dare to say a good load of handmade Kässpätzle any old way is better then all of this American Junkfood. Ich wurde stark und gross durch Spätzle mit Sosse. Amen to that.
Käsepätzle is one of the cheaper meals in every company or school kitchen.
And I think while Germans think of the cheap Kraft food dish when they hear Mac & Cheese, you can of course also make them yourself with a good cheddar, and that's how you get them in many American restaurants.
@@halvarf it's the cheaper meal in companies and school kitchens because it's without meat. In fact for the longest time of my life it used to be one of the few vegetarian options available in office and school canteenes in Germany (besides Kaiserschmarrn and Dampfnudeln). Comparing price-optimized canteen Käsespätzle to restaurant Mac&Cheese is also a bit of a dishonest comparison don't you think? ;)
Compare restaurant Mac&Cheese with restaurant Käsespätzle, the Käsepätzle easily win in my books with flying colours.
Compare canteen Mac&Cheese with canteen Käsepspätzle, I'm absolutely picking the Käsespätzle.
Compare box Mac&Cheese with prepacked supermarket Käsespätzle... I'm still picking the Käsespätzle.
Btw. I'm not saying the US doesn't have great food. It does. There is a reason I return a good 10lbs heavier from every trip to the US. There is amazing regional food to be had which you can't find at the same quality anywhere else. But Mac&Cheese, even the best restaurant-made one, is a joke both compared to Käsespätzle and proper Italian pasta-cheese dishes (which American Mac&Cheese derived from). It's absolutely incomparable. And it's certainly not Germany's 'answer' to Mac&Cheese
@@1983simi Ok, I agree with everything you wrote tbh.
In Germany, severe storms known as "Orkan" (hurricane-force winds) occur primarily during the fall and winter months, typically between October and March. While not an annual event, major orkan storms strike every few years. Northern regions and coastal areas are more prone to these storms, whereas they are less frequent in the southern parts of the country.
An orkan is defined by wind speeds of at least 73 mph (118 km/h), equivalent to Category 1 hurricane-force winds. During particularly strong storms, such as Kyrill (2007) or Lothar (1999), wind speeds can often range between 75 to 93 mph (120-150 km/h). In extreme cases, gusts can even reach up to 125 mph (200 km/h), especially in exposed high-altitude areas or coastal regions.
Overall, while Germany experiences several storms each year, true orkan events are less common, but when they do occur, they bring dangerous winds that can cause significant damage across large areas.
Fun fact is, that here where i live in southern Baden-Württemberg at the french border, we get real 'hurricane' warnings several times per year. They usually aproach us from France, often starting in Spain or Portugal. But for some reason they totally quiet down to a low level Orkan or just a strong storm by the time they cross the border. Happened with the hurricane 'Kirk' just this week - caused havoc as a hurricane in Spain, Portugal and France, but when it hit Freiburg it was already a 'former hurricane' cause it was just a storm. Still uprooted many trees, had some power outages and even a few human casualties. We didn't have a power outage in my village, but a neighbors half dead tree smashed their garden shed (which was there before her grandfather was even born) into pieces, and she said it literally scratched her bedroom window when falling. They had an apointment with a company coming monday to get this tree torn down lol.
@@olgahein4384Hurricane Kirk lost its classification as a hurricane far out in the Atlantic, and even when it reached the Azores, it did so only as a post-tropical storm and no longer as a hurricane. There has never been an official hurricane warning in Germany. A hurricane cannot reach Germany because it needs very warm water to maintain its structure. Any hurricane that makes landfall weakens immediately, so only coastal regions can be hit by a hurricane.
@@olgahein4384 I suspect he doesn't want to fill out an entry protocol and thinks: before I have to deal with German customs and have to list everything I'm taking with me... I'd rather go home
I just looked it up and in the 1990s there were two storms with wind speeds over 270 km/h (so both in hurricane category 5) and Kyrill in 2007 had wind speeds of up to 225 km/h (category 4) in Europe (not Germany, here it was only just around 200 km/h - category 3).
This is so funny. I live at the northern coast. If we get severe storms, they literally tell us to close the windows as only precaution 😂
4:25 for context, in the French Revolution they gave their Kings and higher nobles a new haircut with a Guilliotine.
i think he got that
@@mats7492
But not me. ^^
@CrazyManuel94
Thanks for the enlightenment
it actually took me a while to get that 😅
One time always is the last one.
Keep in mind Spätzle are different from "normal" noodles to start with. The preparation of the dough is different, resulting in a slightly different taste and consistency to begin with.
slightly?!?
0:35 Spätzle are lit af and we use real cheese here. Sooo.
es ist schwierig eine gute Cheddar Käse Sauce zu machen und dann machst du sie eher als Nudelauflauf..... das ich Kässpatzen im halbschlaf ohne Licht machen kann bedeutet entweder das die leichter sind.... oder Genetik 😂
@@patrickkaleja9581 Es ist generell schwerer eine Käse Soße zu machen, wenn du echten Käse benutzt und, wenn sieht es nicht so gelblich aus. In den USA ist das, was als Käse verkauft wird teilweise auch kein echter Käse. Mac'n'cheese sieht halt optisch auch schon so aus als ob du das aus der Kühltruhe neben den Fertig Burgern ausm Supermarkt bekommst.
That AI answer is really impressive.
I'm impressed that it did that well
Yes. The only thing it got wrong was the reason why the man is angry.
@@CornedBee I am only stuck in traffic at 6:30 because I am requierd to be at work. So i am angry because work forces me into traffic (jams)... its 100% accurate
We do get storms >200km/h. Uprooted trees, streets and trains defunct for the next few days until things are cleaned up etc. but there's no specialised shelters houses and windows can take the force. Roof shingles, not always, another reason to not go outside.
And we dont have power outages after every strong gust of wind.
our homes are our shelters :D
They are not made out of hopes and dreams, but stones and bricks.
Du bist so dumm, kauf dir neues Google
@@FlashFoxBox sehr gute Antwort, sowas gefällt mir 🙂
It's the three-piglets-problem 😄
9:00 "halb sieben" is *not* "half past seven" - but instead half an hour *before seven* , i.e. "half past six"
Popular point of misunderstanding between German speakers and English speakers.
Atleast it wasn't "viertel sieben" (6:15) or "dreiviertel sieben" (6:45) which even some germans don't understand.
Also he said 10% when it clearly said 70%. As in TEN and SEVENTY😅
Confusingly, when Brits say "half seven" they DO mean 7:30.
@@mibbio2148 German here and living in an area where that is used a lot. It still confuses me, even after twenty years. To me "viertel sieben" sounds like the lazy version of "viertel vor sieben".
By now I know to just clarify.
@@shadowfox009x Dabei sind "viertel sieben" und "dreiviertel sieben" doch eigentlich das gleiche Prinzip wie "halb sieben".
6:14
It would be something like:
"The car that belongs to Peter"
"Peters car"
"Peter his car"
It's a joke about proper grammatics and flow of speech.
This meme misses the uberbrain case:
Realising that we originally got the possessive S from shortening the "Peter his" form...
@@HenryLoenwind It's not really missing that, it's pretty hard to translate. Imagine the last sentence with nonsensical gramatticial additions like stuffing a useless "The" in front of Peter or something the like.
And it misses the one proper way to say it: "Das Auto des Peter".
Der letzte ist doch nur Lateiner, also hoch eloquent. 🧐
Der Dativ ist dem Genitiv sein Tod...
There are also hurricanes and tornadoes in Germany.
I had to giggle a bit (sry) during RTL News when they interviewed the former anchorman Peter Kloeppel, who lives with his family in Florida. He was asked why he didn't flee with his family, his answer was that his house is made of sturdy materials and he wasn't worried about it.
Ähm... Our hurricanes, called Orkan, right?
There are tornades but I have never heard of a hurricane here. Definitly not one comparable to the ones in Florida.
Hurricane is the name for a tropical storm that is formed in the atlantic and has speeds over 110km/h.
Florida lies in the middle of the ocean and is more often struck by cat 5 hurricanes than most other places in this earth. There are still examples of european storms being just as strong as those.
@@melchiorvonsternberg844 yep, but have you ever checked the translation? Orkan = Hurricane/Winter Gale/Winter Storm/Cyclonic Windstorm. I used the term hurricane because I didn't want to throw around too many terms here^^ A hurricane normaly refers to tropical storms in a certain area.
We call extreme storms Orkan, but they have the same wind speed classification as hurricanes (anything from 118km/h upwards).
@@segacedi1 In Germany we usually call them "Orkan" (but there is no specific translation for this word, just hurricane/cyclone/cyclonic windstorm/winter storm etc.). We also have extreme strong "Orkane" with 200 km/h+. The difference is that we don't have that many of them. Most annual "Orkane" are below 200km/h.
Dieser Kommentarbereich ist nun Eigentum der Bundesrepuplik Deutschland🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪
SPRICH DEUTSCH DU...
Ne, das Video war angenehm, heute nicht ^^
🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪
Spätzle are not NOODLES. Say it to a schwab and try to survive whats coming next. :D
Even angry Italians are tame in comparison
it's not any different in Baden btw 🙂
Hahaha, what would you call them ad a typ of food instead? Tiny misshaped pancakes? Spätzle are noodles, just a very different style then most italian pasta or american bastardisation of it
Say the website name „Yahoo“ but replace the „a“ with another „oo“. That’s how you say „Juhu!“
It's hilarious how an American bedroom door still shakes five seconds after slamming. 1:45 😂
😂😂😂😂
Can I just say. I love how you go out of your way to Google things you're unsure of and especially using the AI overlord... Rather than people on other channels who remain clueless never try to answer the question themselves and just throw it out to the viewers to leave a comment with what so and so is or means. It's refreshing.
Manchmal wünschte ich mir aber, er wieder die Memes überspringen die Wortspiele sind. Wie das mit dem "In Essen essen", da er sie einfach nicht verstehen kann, da die Sprachkompetenz dafür einfach nicht vorhanden ist. Er bräuchte jemandem der ihm das Live erklärt. Oder dafür auch Chat GPT nutzen.
I love how every single comment is about Käsespätzle, good job Ryan lol
The Käsespätzle incident. US ambassodor in Berlin is summoned into the chancelor's office. :)
Käsespätzle aren't similar to Mac n' cheese at all except for having cheese
Edit: Cheese that isn't cheese.
and the cheese is so much better xD
Even the cheese is better, the cheese in Mac and cheese isn't even considered cheese here.
Especially the cheese part isn’t similar.
For those commenting about the cheese part: I was only talking about having cheese in general and not about having similar cheese
And the Spätzle are homemade
Results of most tornados in Germany usually:
- a few houses and cars damaged - a few trees knocked over - a few people injured
In USA:
- hundreds of houses completely destroyed - many dead/injured - infrastructure at its limits - total devastation
Discussed that with my hubby recently, most German houses whould not be completely ruined if a tree fell on it.
Sturmflut 1962 enters the chat.
@@Gnaaaarrrr The commenter said MOST
To be fair our tornado are baby level compared to what the US gets 😅
@@Gnaaaarrrr Yeah, but we learned from that. A few years ago we had an Orkan (don't remember which one sorry) and the flood that hit in the aftermath was higher than 1962. But the dikes have long since adjusted, made higher and sturdier, there are floodgates at the piers and guess what : nothing happened. Sure some stupid tourist that parked at the fishmarket found their cars flooded, but that happens every high flood. People were a bit miffed that the warnings were way too much, that the flood danger was overhyped until the data was released an some level-headed people realised that the flood was higher than the one of 1962, we were just better prepared.
1:20 I hate to break to you, but Käsespätzle is older than the US so it's not Germany who copied this dish 😜
actually, Mac and Cheese is older than the US, too. And was invented in England, not America.
lol, I thought the same.
@@arthur_p_dent Yeah but Brits don't get point, they prefer their horrid culinary inventions so point deduced here.
Planned to write the same comment, thanks. ❤
No, in the us you have Mac and „cheese“. In germany we have Mac and CHEESE! What you call cheese is an insult…
The fact that the door "slam" shook the camera on the other side of the room says a lot about American houses xd
05:00 "Functional, that sounds good." - Clicks on accept all...
that's the trap with those popups.
you hit accept because you want to accept the proposed minimal tracking, but it's actually an accept all button and need to dig deeper to accept minimal tracking.
Tip: Never call Spätzle "noodles" in company of a Swabian if you want to see another day! 🤣
What else woukd they be though, tiny misshapen pancakes?! They are a tyoe of noodle, just a very different type compared to most italian pasta
11:00 a quick explanation: In Germany, you either have a signed work contract or you are an illegal worker. There is barely any situation where work isn't connected to some sort of written documentation. We Germans thrive on bureaucracy.
Actually, you can work for someone without a signed contract. It's even legal if your employer takes all the necessary steps.
However, he is required to provide you with a written and signed contract if you ask for it.
> Calls Käsespätzle “basically Mac&Cheese with caramelized onions on top”
So you have chosen death.
🤣
or worse
Now we know Ryan is wearing pants in his videos 😂
What did you expect him to wear? A skirt?
Don't jump to conclusions. We only know he wore pants in *this* video.😆
4:22 "being treated like a king in France" can sound a bit scary, since the French revolution (when they cut off the heads of the king and other powerful people)
We had the storm Eunice in northern Germany in 2022 with wind speeds exceeding 120 mph (190 kph). Our house luckily took no damage (see what brick houses can do? 😅) but no less than 26 very old and large trees were blown over from the forest next to our property, crashing into our garden and smashing our tool shed, a pavillon as well as the stage that my parents (musicians) use for open air festivals. We had just finished reconstructing the stage during the CoViD break after it had already been hit by a tree from the same forest two years earlier 😢
Sounds like the trees have a personal beef with that stage...
@ninjaunicorn575 True, but we had a friendly chat with the family who owns the land where the forest is on. They agreed to remove all the trees near our stage since the ones left standing after the storm were equally old and now lacked support. So the next storm would just knock down even more of them. Since the trees were removed, the area is now a thicket of bushes with lots of animals of all kinds living in them. And no more danger to our "stage v3.0".
The daughter of the family also told us that eventually, once her aging parents will no longer be around, she's willing to sell the land to us for a bargain. She doesn't want it, and we had the idea of using it to build solar panels on it since the open space is facing almost directly south and there are no more trees to cast any shadows now.
German Orkan has the same origin in the Taino language as Hurrican - up to 285 km/h in 1990 (Orkan Wiebke).
There'snothing like seeing your rare name somewhere, but it's in the context of a hurricane having your name -_-
The Haltungsform probably was because Bio is expensive in germany
I think you are on the right way.
Haltungsform describes how the animals are keeped
1 is stallhaltung (keeped in verry small cages), 2 has bigger cages,
3 is indoors in a barn kind of structure but with free mpvement eithin it, 4 is with access to a pasture and 5 is the grass fed, free range (with shelter access how the animals like) type. Price increases accordingly, with 5 being really expensive.
@@clockworkvanhellsing372 yeah ik i did my internship as a butcher in germany
@@peggygawel7244 neat
Fun part: The website is showing 5 levels, while printed onto food, there are only 4 (with 4 being a mix of 4 (free range) and 5 (organic))
1:09 the difference is, it is real cheese in Käsespätzle 😂
I'm from Germany and it's so fun to watch your videos.
Also viele Grüße aus Deutschland 😂
It's pretty creepy how the AI correctly explained the joke.
to be fair, it wasn't that complex of a joke, but it was impressive to see,
Well it kind of missed that "writing your name on the paper" is also a joke on how education gets worse and labour expectations supposedly lessen, because of technology. So kinda like adding "even though their life is actually not that hard"
You really need to do this in a co-op format with a German guy that immediately clears up all questions and confusions.
It would be more efficient.
Oh btw. since you asked about the last time when Germany was hit by a hurricane.
You could react to the aftermath of the storm "Lothar" which came through Germany in 1999. The forest are stil recovering and when you know where to look you can still see the aftermath.
That wouldn't be the last big storm (and anyway, it wasn't a hurricane). For example, storm "Kyrill" in January 2007 destroyed about 40 million trees in the region of southern Westphalia alone.
That was a scary one. We were standing at the window and watching the big tree in our neighbor's yard just slowly fall over. Luckily it missed the neighbor's house and our garage by falling into the space between them.
@@tobyk.4911oh ja! Kyrill hat in meiner Heimatstadt im Thüringer Wald die Berge zum Teil vollkommen kahl gefegt. Das ganze Stadtbild hat sich dadurch ziemlich verändert.
Auf dem Hausberg hat nur eine einzige Birke überlebt, die sogar eine Gedanktafel usw bekommen hat. xD
4:45 this logo is supposed to give info about how good/bad the animals were treated thrughout their lifes. 1 is the worst, 5 is the best for the animal.
Yes we eat Rabbits, no not very often, no regular supermarket offers rabbit meat. You either go to your local Hunter or some Breed them in their garden in more rural areas. To be honest most people think they're too cute to eat ... That's why the Rabbit was on the opposite side than the cow an pig in that picture.
"no regular supermarket"? I can get rabbit around the holidays in any not-too-tiny supermarket around here. Might be a regional thing, though.
sorry but i saw a whole rabbit just last week at edeka XD what do you mean "no regular supermarkets". sure its uncommon but some still ofer them. especially when it gets cold outside
My paternal grandparents, who fled from Poland in WW2 were used to self-sufficiency and besides their vegetable patches also had a barn full of rabbits... I am going to say, as a kid, it made me sad what happened to the rabbits in the end, but they were so delicious... all my grandparents are dead 20 years+x now, but damn... I miss eating at "Oma Mariechen" whenever there was rabbit on the menu!
@@Ossey1976 When I was a kid I had pet rabbits and we ate all the babies. Just two rabbits can fill up a freezer with meat. I was sad about it too but we were poor and it was practical. We lived in the city and kept the rabbits in a shed.
Try living in the Eifel, everyone eats rabbits here 😢easy to buy too
I love that you try to figure out what it means and do research. Thats not something I typically see in videos of this nature. (German here btw, very fun to watch)
You said: "maybe thats why we make our houses out of sticks, because they're gonna get blown over anyways", I am no expert but I'd its the opposite, your houses get blown over, because you build it out of sticks, in Europe we don't have any hurricanes, but we do have quite heavy storms aswell (which I cant compare to hurricanes) but since our houses are mainly made from bricks, they dont get completly destroyed every time there is a storm...)
Technically the Hurricane crossed the atlantik and made it to Germany, it has calmed down to a regular storm by then though.
I follow you for several time now and it is amazing seeing your progress. Your knowledge about German culture and even the pronounceation of words is increasing. I remember meme-reaction in which you didn't get a vast majority of the gags, but now you can laugh with full heart at some. That developement is so inspirational!
Well... just over the last week we got news about the rest of hurricane Kirk hitting Germany😅
But... we get tornados relatively regularly (mostly not as big as US though) and as some other commenter said: There were some pretty bad hurricanes here as well.
At most sometimes remnants of Hurricanes reach Europe with the gorce of a category 1 Hurricane, but not really Germany.
"Functional sounds good". Clicks on "accept all". Classic Ryan. Love it.
First pronunciation of Käsespätzle was almost perfect! Godfathers of Spätzle live in Southwest Germany. The word itself represents their dialect very well.
in baden würtemberg it is also very normal too say just Kässpätzl, maybee in bavaria too i don`t know i life in BW.
edit : the best käsespätzle i ever eaten was in an small restaurant on an mountain in ishgl, i never could duplicate that taste and in no restaurant they ever tasted so perfect like there. it was 26 years ago. don`t know what they did there with it but damn was it tasty.
Hey Ryan,
just a quick remark: at 5:02 you selected to 'Accept All' cookies, incl. Marketing and Statistics.
If you would've wanted to accept only functional ones you would've had to select either the middle option (decline all) or the right one (accept selected. In this case just the functional ones)
Käsespätzle>Mac and Cheese
I tried both, mac and cheese does not even taste like real cheese and you put milk in it its disgusting imo😂
Sorry, but Mac ‘n’ Cheese vs. Käsespätzle… Mac ‘n’ Cheese has not the slightest chance. Its not even Fair.
It’s on a whole other level… It’s like Kuririn vs. Freeza ....and It`s not even his final Form.
Im sure you have Burgers we have not even seen in Europe ...But what you call cheese is just sad...I refuse to even consider that thing you call Cheese , to be cheese!
Spätzle are way superior noodles VS your american macaroni. So - calling Käsespätzle to be Mac ‘n’ Cheese is an Insult! 😜
and most importantly, they are not noodles, they´re Spätzle...
don´t call Spätzle the N word in front of swabians, if you value your ccontinued existence....
There probably isnt a single bit of actual cheese in Mac n cheese!
Let's check:
ENRICHED MACARONI (WHEAT FLOUR, DURUM FLOUR, NIACIN, FERROUS SULFATE [IRON], THIAMIN MONONITRATE [VITAMIN B1], RIBOFLAVIN [VITAMIN B2], FOLIC ACID), CHEESE SAUCE MIX (WHEY, MILKFAT, SALT, MILK PROTEIN CONCENTRATE, SODIUM TRIPHOSPHATE, CONTAINS LESS THAN 2% OF TAPIOCA FLOUR, CITRIC ACID, LACTIC ACID, SODIUM PHOSPHATE, CALCIUM PHOSPHATE, WITH PAPRIKA, TURMERIC, AND ANNATTO ADDED FOR COLOR, ENZYMES, CHEESE CULTURE).
Nope, no cheese in there. You're right.
5:07 „functional that sounds good“ (continued to accept all cookies)
9:10 it could mean anything from your ID (because being part of a society needs you to work) to your job (work contract) or just because you scribbled in for the early shift.
ChatGPT has to become your best friend for german memes. I think you would get so many more, if you send the AI the text from the meme and describe the image. ChatGPT actually knows a lot about cultural related jokes. It was so satisfying seeing you get the joke!
What you called Mac and Cheese is called Käsespätzle and it existed before the US itself 😂
Supposedly the „dish“ is around 400 y o and was created by Suabians
and before Germany
@@bananenmusli2769it is a southern german, austrian and Liechtensteinian dish, more about the region then one countries borders and identity
Danke! This one was realy funny, thanks
6:09
The car from peter (using preposition is okay but more like cheating)
Peter's car (actual form, using "Genitiv"; shows high education)
The Peter his car (dialectical/unformal; shows low education)
As a german language teacher, i agree with this meme 100% 😂
wie war das noch?
das dativ ist dem genitiv sein tot...
@@Metzwerg74 ja, weil kein Mensch das Genetiv benutzt weil es zum einen zu lange ist und zum anderen sich ohne Ausnahme immer scheiße anhört
5:02
Him: "Functional, that sounds good"!
Also him clicking on "agree all"
Käsespätzle are a type of egg pasta made especially in South Germany, with a cream sauce (Cream plus actual cheese), and the traditional recipe, yes, adds the caramelised onions - but variants can add Speck/Bacon/Ham too.
äähmm no sauce is needed for käsespätzle. you can`t call it käsespätzle if you use a sauce with it.
edit : if you use a sauce with it, it is called spätzle mit käsesoße ( spätzle with an cheese sauce ).
or in your case spätzle with a cheese creme sauce. both are very different from käsespätzle.
0:10 I've ate your mac and cheese and well, I don't know how to tell you politely, but that's not great. 😅
There are different qualities to every dish, but no matter how well prepared, i dont get the appeal of mac n cheese either. To be fair, I do not like creamy sauces or pasta... ButbI love käsespätzle 😅
@SingingSealRiana yeah same here. But I do love peanut sauce on fried nuddles from my Chinese take away restaurant 🥹
My grandpa had rabbits and we had rabbit stew every few weeks. I don't really see it nowadays, but I'm sure you can still get rabbit meat.
Our local edeka regulary has rabbit for sale.
2:16 Essen is a city in Germany, in (or close to, I'm not good at geography) the area commonly called "Ruhrpott". And together with two other cities in the same area it makes maps of the area funny, "Essen, Dortmund, Hamm" (sounding as if someone said "Food, there mouth", followed by an onomatopoeia of biting).
6:50 Germany doesn't get hit by real hurricanes (tropical cyclones) - we are too far in the north for that, and also not directly at the Atlantic Ocean (hiding behind Portugal, Spain, France, the British Isles, Belgium and the Netherlands). Sometimes a "former Hurricane" hits Europe - but only after weakening in the few days before, and therefore being downgraded from "Hurricane" to "Tropical storm", and until it reaches Germany its "just a deep pressure zone" - quite windy, but not comparable to Hurricanes near the Caribbean or the Gulf of Mexico.
Yes. We got one a few days ago
Yes, Germans won't fear that a storm will blow away their house. Some roof tiles maybe and a tree might crash down in the garden, but loosing the whole home - it happens very rarely.
Their biggest fear, when a big storm is predicted, might be how to get home from work or go to work the next day, if they normally take the train...
Also at least tornado alley is a manmade poblem, shouldnt have cut down all dem forests 😂. Or at least try to restore the og ecosystem.
@@tomw4955 How does this make sense? Are there no tornadoes over forests?
we do get the occasional cyclone, but those are the ones that form further north and have a direct path towards us. Kyrill back in 2007 was one of them and it formed near Newfoundland, so an extratropical storm from the very start. those are actually dangerous. maybe not for regions more inland, but for a baltic Fischkopp like myself it is. Kyrill did quite the damage where I grew up with down powerlines, damaged roofs and uprooted trees. the latter was fun to climb on, but the storm itself was quite scary.
but yeah, actual hurricanes or the remnants of them usually don't do much. nordic cyclones, tho rare, are the real danger. instead of flooding they usually bring snowstorms. which are another type of dangerous in the slippery and heavy weight sense. even w/o intense wind.
oh forgot to add, we're actually at the beginning of our cyclone/windstorm season that is between october and march and peaks around january
0:23 We say: Kaasspatzen
About 3:55. First of all it is specifically a female teacher the meme is referencing and the german grammer implies that the students are talking to each other. Presumably without the teacher overhearing.
it is meant as an saracastic joke, not meant too be seen seriously.
Spätzle are made in another way than maccaroni.
Take 3 eggs, add a little bit of salt and so much flour, that the dough does not get solid, but still can flow slowly on a steep surface.
Then you need a pot with boiling water (with salt like for noodles). You need a small cutting board, and a hard dough scraper or a big knife (a dough scraping card is best).
You put some of the Spätzle dough on the cutting board, by the help of the scraper you form it into a rectangle of 2-3 inches width. Put one end of the board with the dough into the water, cut thin noodles from the dough and scrape them right into the boiling water. How you get them out? Find a solution, I don't know which kitchen tools you have. I'm using a big flat spoon with holes in it.
Go on until all the dough is done.
As a newbie, you'll work quite slowly.
With Käsespätzle, it does not matter, melting the cheese you'll warm the Spätzle up, anyways.
With some fried onions and maybe some fine squares of ham or bacon, it's delicious.
But Spätzle you can also serve to any roasted meat with a fine selfmade sauce. In this case, you just put the freshly made Spätzle in a pan with some butter and just warm them up.
Spätzle are also delicious being served together with lentils.
Hint: Spätzle translates to "little sparrows". They were invented in Ulm. The sparrow was the heraldic animal of Ulm.
Have fun trying out. I promise you, You'll prefer it even to mac'n cheese.
Maccaroni mostly are made without egg or only with a little bit of egg. So the taste of the Spätzle is more intensive than that of cheap noodles. And - the different structure makes a different eating experience.
Bavarians have a different way of making Spätzle, but you need a specific tool for it which I guess you won't get in USA.
All this being said - as making Spätzle needs some time, my kids also get Käsnudeln i.e. Mac'n Cheese sometimes. We like both, but we prefer Spätzle.
Yes it's similar to mac & cheese, but the noodles are different, the cheese is different and these differences make it hit a different spot. Sure, if you look at both from a distance, in the big picture of all existing foods the belong in a similar category: some type of pasta/noodle with some cheese.
Love the effort you spent to understand the memes in this one! Sometimes half of them go unexplained and I’m gnashing at the bit to jump through the screen and explain them. Maybe start streaming, so that people can live explain, lol.
Actually, germany got hit by (the remains of) a hurricane like yesterday or something. So still like 50% of the wind speeds and such
You, Sir, are a comedian. Timing and delivery are standup-worthy. Well, you stood up after all. 😄
6:00 honestly surprised the "Bio" didn't make you realise the context, or does Biological food not exist in America?
It is labled as organic in the US
Hey Ryan love to see that u get rly confident. Good job
The USA didn't even exist when the first Käsespätzle were cooked.
Discovered your channel a few hours ago and I am thrilled 😃😂🤣
Love and peace from Germany 🍀🌻💛
2:55
essen = eating
bden = bathing
bergen = to recover smth./someone from somewhere
rügen = to admonish someone for misbhaviour (old)
Those words capitalise are all city names.
Also, "Bergen" is a multiple of mountain as in "I went to the Mountains" = "Ich bin zu den Bergen gegangen"
"rescue" would also fit for "bergen" here. So while the first two are translated correctly, the thord is "to rescue/recover someone in Bergen", and the last one is "To admonish someone on Rügen".
Awesome cookie handling! :D
"Functional sounds good" - instantly clicks "accept all"
spätzle are not Mac and cheese!
Even the US Macaroni are not real Macaroni.
Found a US Page from Barilla (Elbow Macaroni Pasta) and their Macaronis have following incredients: SEMOLINA (WHEAT), DURUM WHEAT FLOUR. VITAMINS/MINERALS: VITAMIN B3 (NIACIN), IRON (FERROUS SULFATE), VITAMIN B1 (THIAMINE MONONITRATE), VITAMIN B2 (RIBOFLAVIN), FOLIC ACID.
Real Macaroni (Italian Pasta) only contains Durum Wheat Flour mixed with a little bit of Water pressed (high Pressure) through a Form and dried afterwards.
Proud of my german companions defending the Käsespätzle. This guy never had some otherwise he would know
The last Hurricane was EX-KIRK on 10.10.2024, some trees fell down but all the houses were fine.
We do have heavy storms in Germany too. The Orkan Lothar in 1999 ripped out several forests completely, and we do get the same weather scenario every 4-5 years. But rotating storms like hurricans and tornados are very rare and small here. Floods happen quite often here. But we usually have areas where riveres can flow into without doing any real harm.
"why firing shots at america?" ..... by this time we expect you to be used to shots being fired LOL
I mean, they get used to it in school
easiest target...
@@Metzwerg74 german dark humor; for other that don`t know it
@@Super-Godzilla99 sagt er einem deutschen.....
8:35 "halb 7" = half past six
piece of paper = employment contract
"You just took m&c and added caramelized onions" It's the other way around, you took Käsespätzle and made it cheaper and removed the onions
Mac 'n Cheese and German **Käsespätzle** are both beloved comfort foods featuring cheese and pasta or dumplings, but they differ significantly in ingredients, texture, preparation, and flavor profiles. Here's a breakdown of the key differences:
### 1. **Base Ingredients:**
- **Mac 'n Cheese:**
- **Pasta:** Typically made with macaroni or other small pasta shapes like shells or elbow macaroni.
- **Cheese:** Cheddar is most common, but it can also include blends like Gruyère, mozzarella, or Parmesan. The cheese is melted into a creamy sauce.
- **Käsespätzle:**
- **Spätzle:** A type of egg-based noodle or dumpling made by pressing dough through a sieve or special tool into boiling water. The dough is made from flour, eggs, salt, and water (or milk).
- **Cheese:** Commonly uses strong cheeses such as Emmental, Gruyère, or Bergkäse. The cheese is melted over the Spätzle rather than incorporated into a sauce.
### 2. **Texture:**
- **Mac 'n Cheese:**
- Creamy and saucy, with the pasta enveloped in a rich cheese sauce.
- Depending on the recipe, it may be topped with breadcrumbs and baked for a crunchy crust.
- **Käsespätzle:**
- Hearty and chewy, as the Spätzle noodles have a denser, more substantial bite compared to typical pasta.
- The cheese forms a melted layer over the Spätzle, rather than a sauce. It’s often baked with a crispy, golden top.
### 3. **Preparation:**
- **Mac 'n Cheese:**
- The pasta is boiled separately, and the cheese sauce is made by combining melted butter, flour (for a roux), milk, and cheese, which is then mixed with the pasta.
- It can be served as stovetop mac 'n cheese or baked in the oven for a firmer texture.
- **Käsespätzle:**
- The Spätzle dough is made fresh, then boiled in water and drained.
- The cooked Spätzle is layered with cheese, typically in a skillet, and baked or sautéed until the cheese melts and browns.
- Often topped with fried onions for extra flavor and texture.
### 4. **Flavor Profile:**
- **Mac 'n Cheese:**
- Creamy and mild, with a smooth cheese flavor. The cheese sauce can be enhanced with spices like mustard, paprika, or even garlic.
- **Käsespätzle:**
- Rich, buttery, and more rustic, with a deeper, nuttier cheese flavor from the Emmental or Gruyère.
- The addition of caramelized or fried onions gives it a savory, slightly sweet note that contrasts with the cheese.
### 5. **Cultural Context:**
- **Mac 'n Cheese:**
- A popular comfort food in the United States and many Western countries, often associated with home cooking or quick meals.
- **Käsespätzle:**
- A traditional dish from Southern Germany (especially the Swabian region), Austria, and Switzerland, often served as a main dish in Alpine regions.
### 6. **Typical Additions or Variations:**
- **Mac 'n Cheese:**
- Can include additions like bacon, ham, lobster, or vegetables like broccoli.
- **Käsespätzle:**
- Often served with crispy fried onions on top and may be accompanied by salads or sauerkraut.
In summary, while both dishes are cheesy and comforting, **Mac 'n Cheese** is creamy and pasta-based, while **Käsespätzle** is a heartier, more rustic dish made with chewy, egg-based dumplings and melted cheese. Käsespätzle also tends to have a more intense cheese flavor and the additional complexity of fried onions.
2:09 cuz yall have guns?
Germany doesn't get hurricanes (for geographical reasons) but we do get European Windstorms which can reach comparable windspeeds.
However, German buildings are usually made from bricks and concrete rather than drywall and wood, which means it takes much stronger winds to really tear into one. In most storms, the damage is caused by knocked-over trees, flying branches or roof shingles that have come loose.
Käsespätzle vs. Mac 'n Cheese:
1. Spätzle is totally different than Mac.
2. The cheese is totally different than the "cheese".
you mean the "Chemical yellow goo" ?
I'm getting Mr Rock'n Roll vibes, when you leave the room
Your first pronunciation of Käsespätzle was impressively perfect, the second one not so much 😂
If I'm honest Mac n Cheese are nice. My ex was from Florida and she made them very good but we both preferred Käsespätzle big time. It's something special because it's only the true thing if you do the Spätzle (traditional central Europe edition of noodles) by yourself and this is a lot of work that not many are willing to do these days.
You was honored in a german meme video of jules. You are officially a legend.
Käsespätzle are like a Bugatti ,when mac and cheese is a Fiat.or a bike.
Bugattis are ugly!
I'll take the bike, but not the mac and cheese. Thank you ;o)!
2:11 that’s just how German show love. We have a saying “Was sich liebt, das neckt sich“ meaning: “those who love each other, tease each other”
We eat all kinds of animals not just standard pork, berf, chicken, lamb and turkey but also all kinds of fish, rabbit, boar, deer or even sometimes goat, horse or donkey. We had a scandal a few years ago where they found horse meat in cheap pre made lasagna. Huge uproar tho personally i didnt care as long as it tastes good 😂
I still think if they marketed it as horse lasagnia they could've sold it as a premium product for a few euros more. 😂
Never ever heard of anyone eating boar or donkey, also never saw this for sale anywhere. Goatmeat is usually used for pet food, not for human consumption. But you're right about rabbit, deer, horse, although you don't find that in most supermarkets most of the time and it's more of a specialty (like eating rabbit for easter or deer and venison in the wintertime).
@SunshineRiot boar isnt as uncommon. Wild meat in general is more rare but available at some markets. In my family we do eat boar more then deer, like in a Goulash or sausage. As for goat and donkey. I personally dont like it but its definitely also sometimes available at the market.
Edit: in my region we have a specific butcher that comes to the weekly market and sells all kinds of wild meat. Especially horse salami is a hit
Well, the problem was that the horse meat was not fit for human consumption due to the meds the horses were given while alive. Otherwise nope, no problem with eating horse. Sometimes the poultryman on my local farmers market takes reservation for ostrich, which is a very lean, very beefy tasting meat. Not often, because the farm he has an in with doesn't butcher very often, but it is a feast every time. And at least in my region, lots of people breed rabbits after WWII as a meat supply but that phased out with later generations. There are still 145000 plus registered rabbit breeders in Germany.
@@SunshineRiot I'm German and I eat boar every Christmas. It's rather expensive but tastes pretty good
7:20 so true. With the right timings on the lights it is possible here to coast almost half a km (1540 ft) from the bridge down into the residential areas over multiple crossings. If not, well, you'll stop after about 110m (360 ft)
When our dog misbehaved my mom used to say that: If he continu like that we will make him into our great grandma's WW2 fake rabbit stew
The Hurrican one was dark af!!! 🤣
But all my blessings to all US victims from Germany🙏🙏🙏
Juhuu as in Juhuu, ich kann Fortnite spielen und Cola trinken
For germans writing (schreiben) and signing (unterschreiben, literaly means below-writing because you write your name below whatever you just read), are way closer connected since both words have the same base. So it was way easier to understand for us.. Also we are behind in digital transformation, we still actually "unterschreiben" everything on a piece of paper 😄
And to the topic of "Why do you guys always shoot against America?": I see at least two reasons:
- Germany have been rebuild by America after ww2 - Mashallplan (still debatable how much money actually reached, anyways), we recovered quicker than france or britain and america wanted a wall against Russia, cold war. Also our own history and culture was not cool anymore, no one wanted to sing the same songs like the nazis did -> sooo we took over a lot of American culture in the process. Even today I know many Germans that dislike all german songs. I belief we are closer connected to America then most other european countries. And to close that loop: That's why we hear and compare a lot to you guys, every day.
- America is still the most important country in the world, at least one of them. Standing proud, stating "America first, we are the best" without blushing. One simply wants to challenge such a statement. Your boss at work also gets a harder judgment, the people who are leading should act as role-models and get harsher criticism. And if the group of people that leads the world starts a lot of wars, that are not in the best interest of all humans... People will start to hate that enforced leadership.
Well enough of politics and history, love your content, greatings from Bielefeld