Dwayne, I'm a 55 year old German and I've probably been to the UK 50 times and I also love your country and the people! I really, really enjoy watching your channel! Not just because everything is very interesting, but also because you're just a really cool guy. Your humor! ... every time you start to laugh, it's so contagious, and I like your very understandable English! Keep it up!!!
There are also special markets where you can sometimes buy even cheaper than in discount stores. These are often chains such as Krümet, Jawoll. You can also buy groceries there, but also decorations, car and bicycle accessories, clothing and shoes. And there is also Tedi, Euro-Shop and Action. There is everything there - except food and everything is cheap. And don't forget Famila. Similar to Kaufland, just a little smaller. Metro btw is only for the self-employed. You have to have a store or restaurant to shop there. The prices are shown net. Of course, you pay the 19% or 7% VAT at the checkout. Greetings from Northern Germany❤
Ferrero, the company behind products such as Nutella, Kinder, Milk Slice, Hanuta and Duplo is actually an Italian company that focuses much of its branding toward the German market.
and ferrero has been now "shunned" in germany, for not producing according to energy laws and using chemicals and other additives only allowed in italy. EU struck against that, and ordered ferrero to obey.. they did, after germany complained, since without Germany, Ferrero would not sell shit. ^^ we love your stuff ^^
Yes, most supermarket cashiers are rather fast here in Germany, but most of them will slow down for elderly persons etc. Speed's not much of an issue, though, if you put everything back in the cart first, and bag it after checkout.
Well, I am an "elderly person", and Aldi is not too fast for me. There are 2 reasons: First and foremost I am used to it all my life. Secondly - the easy way is not to pack your bags at the cashier. Just put the stuff to your cart as fast as they push it, then go to the "customer packing desk" which is usually behind the cashiers and take as much time as you need to put your stuff into your bags! It is easy and not stressful at all :)
Exactly. I'm only 45, but I do it the same way, especially because I don't have a car and need to pack my backpack carefully, so everything fits and is comfortable to carry. Like, no bumps in the back.
Yes, the cashiers are fast, especially on ALDI. But the crazy thing is that the cashiers were not really slower in the times before they used manual cash registers without a scanner. Every product had a 3-number code and the cashiers must learn all the codes. But in this times the range of goods was much smaller.
@@Moleman0815 didn´t Aldi ´invent´ the barode on every side of the packaging so the cashier loses no time by turning the product around in searching for the barcode?
The reason baking soda is called "Natron" or "Backnatron" (baking natron) in Germany -- and called "Speise-Soda" in Austria -- , is that the chemical molecule in baking soda is _sodium bicarbonate_ (which releases CO2 during baking to get the dough to rise) . The German name for sodium bicarbonate is "Natriumbikarbonat" aka. "Natriumhydrogenkarbonat" which in our grandmothers' times was known as "doppeltkohlensaures Natron" (bicarbonate of soda).
Metro is a wholesale company, and the membercards are only given to companies or private persons who are officialy registered as entrepreneur. Their customers are mostly restaurateurs and their prices are also without VAT, as retailers always calculate without VAT when purchasing. They also offer mainly XXXL packs like cream in 1l packs, cooking oil in 10l packs, mayonaise in 10l buckets, etc..
I totally agree that being an environmental friendly consumer should be affordable for everyone, but I guess producing things in an environmental friendly way simply comes with some costs which accordingly then makes these products more expensive. Otherwise they'd probably also sell all the good stuff in the cheap discounters, as well.
There are several layers. Like, in more expensive stores, you get a lot of produce that's not in season, so it's both more expensive AND less environmentally friendly. But the most important difference is that discounters focus on food that's high in demand, like, you don't get 15 different kinds of olives, but only the 2 or 3 most popular variations. Or only 40 instead of 300 different kinds of chocolate. This way, they can offer cheaper prices, because not only do they need less space to store and present the items, but there's also less stuff to throw away or send back.
moin!...i missed the german getränkemarkt ( beer, softdrink, wine and alcohol store). we have over 10000 getränkemärkte . a paradise of beer drinkers😊. and over 10000 wochenmärkte nutella invented un italy by ferreo. it gives to factorys , one in italy and one in germany. the überaschungsei and yogurette invented by german in the ferrero factory in germany😊 the most consumers of nutella are german😊, second france and italy😊 in north germany we have 100 of differrents fischbrötchen and fish snacks to go😊. check fischbrötchen😊 allerbest ut noorddüütschland vun de waterkant bremerhaven😊 un hool di wuchtig👍
@@beatles_forever7560 Best breweries in Bavaria, are up in the north. So... If a want a wheat beer, I go for the south. Mostly... But if I wanna some other stuff, I take ours. You have to be clear about one thing. The "good beer" belt starts in northern Hesse, stretches to southern Hesse, then swings east, into Franconia and then goes along the Bohemian border and then goes over to the Czechs. Of course there is also some really good beer elsewhere. For example in Baden. There are also one or two breweries in the Ruhr area and such unique items as Berliner Weisse are absolutely not to be despised. I've already said something about Old Bavaria. But that's what it looks like. The stuff from the north is usually too bitter even for a pilsner, to put it nicely...
Thank you for your recommendations. I like Fiege beer from the Ruhrgebiet (Bochum) a lot. And I love Weltenburger beer which comes from the oldest abbey brewery in the world
@@cayreet5992 I am older than the " unification" of Baden and Württemberg so I understand your wish to express that Badener ( note me being polite ) and Schwaben are not "related" to each other. 😁
History. Pietro Ferrero owned a bakery in Alba, an Italian town known for the production of hazelnuts. In 1946, he sold the initial 300-kilogram (660 lb) batch of Pasta Gianduja, derived from Gianduja. Originally sold as a solid block, Ferrero started to sell a creamy version in 1951 as Supercrema gianduja.
Aldi in the UK isn't as fast as Aldi in Germany. 😂 The older people are fine with it. They put their groceries into the shopping cart and you can find space at the side to pack your things
@@MondfischliThat's probably because you think of this canned ravioli crap. Ravioli is an amazing Italian food. I guess Maultaschen from a can would be equally disgusting.
-MAOAM is German and was bought by HARIBO some time ago - Chocolate: she forgot to mention Kinderschokolade, actually German taken over from the Italian Ferrero group.
I went shopping at my local Aldi last year, I've known the cashier for seven years, a Lady around in her end 50s, always charming and I relly love her humour. That particulary day she was really fast, she just went *beepbeepbeepbeepbeep* and I couldn't compete, gave up pretty quickly on putting the goods in the bags and just pushed everything into the cart, sweaty and resigned. After this horrible show she said " Hehe ... And I got in trouble from my boss today for being too slow at the checkout, can you imagine that? The central warehouse records the speed and I'm too slow” and a little quieter, I was the only one at the checkout ‘Next time I'll pull that sucker over the scanner, nose down!’ " and grinned .... It took me five seconds before I could answer, because I was knocked out 😂 My favourite is Edeka tho
The "Gustavo Gusto" pizza is really a treasure! They are hand made with best incredients! Looking for a tuna pizza? The tuna is fished by hand! Looking for a salami pizza? They use beef-salami and not cheap pork. They use real cheese and so on! It's "expensive" for a frozen pizza, but worth it! I was never a fan of frozen pizza until this pizza came up in store just quite a few years ago. The price depends on the toppings, of course, but it's less than 5€ ... so like 4.69€ or 4.95€. They also have restaurants in our area, as they started as a pizza place near the university in our town in 2003 - founded by a student. In 2014 they started to sell frozen pizza at stores like Edeka in Germany as well. Really worth trying it! :) As she mentionend "Müller" - if I am not mistaken - ...
I totally agree with the Pizza. It’s the most delicious frozen Pizza you can get and tastes almost like a fresh pizza at an Italien restaurant. Now it’s also available at Lidl.
They are extremely tasty. But I only buy them when they are on special offer. But they are the best brand by far here in Germany for deep-frozen pizza.
And now imagine the time we didn't use scanners and Aldi cashiers had to put the prices in manually. They were so fast sometimes as if their lives depended on it 😅
Metro (and Handelshof) are B2B chains and only allowed to sell to Companies and not to end-costumers (e.g. Restaurants, Hotels, food Trucks, ...). Therefore to shop there you have first to register and show them that you own a "Company" (beeing self employed at your "own Company" is enough). After Registration you get a Metro Card which you need to get entry to the shops.
The most important thing you need on your trip through Germany is a bathroom scale. Otherwise you start in Hamburg and need a heavy transporter in Munich for the journey home because planes can no longer transport you.
some checkoutsd over here have dividers at the end so that the cashier can flip it over so that a 2nd person can be served while the first one is still packing up their stuff and is usually done by the time the 2nd person starts packing - the bigger chains tend to have those over here~
Currywurst isn't really a "national dish", it's a popular fast food though. In some regions and cities it is more popular than others. It's for example very popular and typical for Berlin, but in Munich they also opt for other kind of wurst/sausage). And in some cities like Nuremberg they rather opt for their own local wurst/sausage speciality.
@@SheratanLP I actually thought about including Thuringian bratwurst, which is my personal favorite too, but I wanted to mention cities and not states. ;)
When an item isn´t in stock anymore, it usually means, that Aldi is "negotiating" the purchase price with the supplier. The item will be back on the shelf as soon as the supplier meets Aldi´s requirements. If they don´t agree, the item or even the whole brand will be cut. This is how they keep the prices low. The moment the customer knows that the reason is to keep the prices low, they usually do not complain any longer about ´missing´ brands or items. And btw: many store brand items are produced by big known brands for Aldi and others. Sometime there is a little change in the recipe, but often it´s not.
Here's a fun fact: You know Aldi, Lidl, Norma, Netto and other discount supermarkets make their stores look plain and simple on purpose. And they don't play music in their stores either. The reason is psychological: When the store looks and sounds cheap, people tend to buy more because it feels cheaper. It doesn't cost a penny to play music through the speakers but they purposely don't.
Aldi was founded by the brothers Albrecht, who did fall out with one another and split the chain between them back in 1961. The Aldi in UK (and Australia) is Aldi Süd (South), which is also in business in China, Ireland, Italy, Switzerland and Hungary; Aldi Nord has the Benelux countries, France, Poland, Portugal and Spain. Aldi in the US is also Aldi Süd, while Aldi Nord owns there Trader Joe's. In Austria and Slovenia Aldi Süd uses the brand "Hofer". Lidl was originally Lidl & Schwarz and was founded by Dieter Schwarz (who also inherited the Kaufland chain from his father). Since "Schwarz-Markt" means black market he avoided to use his own name for the discount market chain and bought instead the right to the name Lidl (who was a former companion of his father).
In principle, every standard beer crate in Germany is an Advent calendar because it contains 24 bottles, like the number of compartments in a real Advent calendar. So it's also a kind of running gag that is also used by breweries as advertising.
The fast pace is only due to the discounters like Aldi or Lidl. In the higher-end supermarkets like Edeka or Rewe, the pace is more normal and you can have a quick chat with the cashier. And as far as bakeries are concerned: almost all owner-managed bakeries and small local chains are actually good, the really big chains and the bake-off departments of discounters are usually not so good, but ok. Sadly, there are only a few small independent bakeries left, price pressure, corona and high energy prices have unfortunately caused many to disappear. And you have to try a good currywurst, but stay away from pre-packaged currywurst, it's disgusting. Currywurst with fries really is the German fast-food equivalent of fish and chips, and we love it. Just like the other German national dish: doner kebab. Nutella (from Italy) is very popular, but there are much better creams, such as Nudossi from East Germany or the incredibly tasty hazelnut creams that you can buy in Turkish supermarkets.
i have to agree the currywurst pre packaged is not good, if you are cheap on money and if its on discount you may get it with some brötchen and have a decent meal at least other wise no way.i think the discount bakeries are pretty good, i cant see a different between a 39 cent pretzel vs a 5 bucks one, thats just scam, some things might differ but if you get it when they bake it fresh, its really no different from a bakery that get their goods frozen too, there is almost no bakery that makes stuff from the ground up anymore, so bakery stuff is almost equally good anywhere you go, mostly,of course there are bakeries that for example use scam methods like bake something twice and sell it at the same price, ect. but those are rare and can be left alone.
Ja, schon... Allerdings wird das Zeug, in Deutschland hergestellt. Die Leute in der Gegend und sogar die Angestellten dort in Hessen, nennen die Bude "Schoko- Michel"...
The place to go to in Germany if in the early morning you're on route to your job or university and want a freshly brewed coffee and a "belegtes Brötchen" (a fresh bread roll, halved, with butter, a slice of cheese or ham, sliced egg and some salad leaf on top, or sandwich-style with the toppings between the two halves) is a bakery. They will offer the coffee and maked goods either "to go" or (depending on space) they might offer standing tables to eat at or even a whole "lounge" section of the room where you can sit comfortably at coffee tables and eat while looking out at the pedestrians outside. Ther'S also an increasing number of "bake shops" that work at a cafeteria, where you queue up to take your baked goods and coffee from a coffee machine and pay at the checkout. In grocery stores you can find premade milk cocoa and premade coffee in sealed containers in the freezers in the dairy aisle, but most Germans prefer their coffee hot.
Hi! Yes, MAOAM is german. 😀 Everybody thinks, Nutella is german. But for real it is from the company Ferrero. That is italian so far as I know..... But never mind: IT IS VERY GERMAN! 🤣😂
Haha the Balzen cookies. My sister used to date the guy who now runs Balzen when we lived in Ehlershausen, Germany. Can't even eat them anymore due to overeating them.
Metro, like Selgros, Handelshof and others, is a wholesale company that targets commercial customers (resellers and retailers). The range of wholesale (super) markets is aimed at the catering industry, the hotel industry, public catering, retail, independent entrepreneurs and freelancers. This means that the batches and product quantities are often different than for private households. You must present appropriate evidence in order to receive an ID card for shopping in the markets.
There are two Nettos, what you mean is the Netto from Denmark, which has withdrawn from the UK. There is confusion, especially in northern Germany, because the Danish NETTO exists parallel to the German Netto (=EDEKA GROUP). In the rest of Germany there are no Danish NETTOs.
I live in Austria and ALDI (south) here is named "Hofer" - The new Aldi south headquarter is now built in Salzburg, Austria. We don't have Kaufland here, but that's not a problem because there's one right behind the border. Kaufland is my favourite for years now. My local Kaufland has a self-scan service, where you unlock a handscanner by using your customer's card. In the end you take this scanner to a self-checkout desk and pay your stuff. Also the scanner shows how much you have to pay.
The currywurst's origins are attributed specifically to the German capital. In 1949, a resourceful German housewife, Herta Heuwer, traded some spirits with British soldiers for ketchup. The trade created the dish - composed of German sausage, or wurst, sliced and doused in ketchup and sprinkled with curry powder.
You can buy "bio/organic/fair trade" coffee and groceries and fresh imported or seasonal fruit and vegetables at supermarket chains like EDEKA, too, not just in "bio markets". EDEKA even partners with local farmers (here in Niedersachsen at least, where there's a lot of "bio farmers"), so you can buy fresh meat, eggs and fresh milk or seasonal fruit like strawberries with short routes of transport. (The strawberry fields are in fact just outside the suburb (a former small town swallowed by the city) where I live, basically a stone's throw away from the EDEKA at the edge of the suburb and they deliver fresh to the EDEKA. Those fields offer the option to pick your own strawberries if you want, as long as you follow the instructions and don't trample any plants, which means you can get delicious strawberries at a great price... if you don't mind having an aching back afterwards.)
Currywurst is a traditional. Street food , it's so popular a ND cultural integrated that the German singer /songwriter wrote a song about it:he called Herbert Grönemeyer 😀
Metro and Handelshof are not retailers intended for end consumers; they are not a retailer but a wholesaler. These are stores for retailers to buy products that they then sell themselves in the store. That's why you can only shop there if you have a business card and all prices are exclusive of VAT, which is then added at the checkout at the end. As a business owner, you can then deduct the tax again.
Edeka is an acronym for Einkaufsgenossenschaften deutscher Kolonialwaren- und Lebensmittel-Einzelhändler. It used to be a conglomerate of German food and colonial wares back in the day when they sold cocoa, coffee, spices etc. sourced from colonies…
The German Netto is a other Netto than the one the UK had. The Netto (logo with dog) in the UK was a Danish company (Salling Group). The German Netto (logo without dog) is a company from Bavaria wich is today mainyl owned by the EDEKA Group.
Nutella is actually Italian, and the young lady said that correctly. And what you need to know is that the selection of products in Aldi and Lidl differs a little in the Uk and in Germany. But the culture of the stores and how it feels to shop there is the same.
Organic food usually is more expensive because you harvest less compared to if you would use artificial fertilizer. Also, if organic would be taken literally, only local things would get sewn out and you lonly could get some kind of food while they are in season. I also would count regional food into this, as it is better not to have it transported such a long distance - both for the taste/freshness as well as for the environment.
Mate, to compare Cadbury to any German, Belgium, French or Swiss chocolate is nothing but a cry for WWIII....All of these 4 countries are deeply offended by the comparison😂❤
Metro is a wholesale company, in order to shop there you need a trade license, which means you have to be self-employed and run your own business. It doesn’t matter what industry the business is in.
Most of this is filmed in my hometown "Trier" . A city you should put on your list , if you ever come to visit germany. Oldest city in germany. you find world´s history on every corner here! 👍
I had Cadbury chocolate in the UK. I would rank it the same like Milka. I eat it when you give it to me but I won't buy it. Both belong to Mondelez, they are brown fat and sugar masses with a brand name. It used to better when it was owned by Succhard.
Yes, METRO is for discount bulk buying hence they sell stuff in large containers or by the palette, and that's the reason it's "membership only", because its customers are meant to be other smaller supermarkets, restaurants, hospitals, university canteen kitchens, companies and corporations (catering and company stores), potentially the army (idk). You're not supposed to shop there as the individual citizen (lest you buy stuff in bulk for low price and then resell it on i.e. Amazon). Although some family companies and corporations allow their employees a METRO card to shop there esp if they have a large family (or what counts as large family in Germany) with children or elderly relatives at home.
In deed for Nutella you have to thank Pietro Ferrero from Italy... but all Ferror products are very common in Germany and has production facilities here.
Just don't buy currywurst in plastic bowls that you warm up in the microwave. Yuck, that doesn't taste like good currywurst at all. By the way, there's no bratwurst in these bowls!
When you think Nutella are good. Then you must trie "Nudossi" . Nudossi has 36% hazelnut , (Nutella only 13% hazelnut), and no palm fet. It is very delicious.
FunFact about MÜLLER: they were the only supermarket chain that also had DVD and Blurays and not only that, they even had those that are on the "index" like they are so brutal and violent that they are banned (not fully banned) from public advertising, meaning stores etc were not allowed to tell you they sold them, publishers cant do commercials for them etc. MÜLLER always had those movie under the counter and if you are 18 and are legally allowed to buy those, you just asked the person working the desk to see the Indexed movie and they pulled out that box or dvds and blurays with all the gruesome gory shit :D i loved it haha
METRO "Membership Only" is because METRO is a chain for retailers and business. So you can only shop there if you have a busines of your own, like a café, a restaurant, a store or whatever. you dont pay a certain tax on the items there so they are cheaper and also the units are much bigger. Its not for consumers like regular supermarkets
In Norway we have a chain, when you are a member , you can gett a little scanner and be your own cashier as you go and you can bag the items as you go as well. They do have controls but you usually need just to unpack 4items and then you're done. It's great.😀
Nutella is German and not. It is invented by an Italien guy but is produced for Germany and the North European market in Germany. Ferrero has its biggest plant and product reserach in Germany but it is hard to trell which product was developed in Germany and which in Italy as Ferrero likes building legends around its products. Kinder chocolate very likely and also Hanuta because the name is an acronym for a German word.
Thanks for clearing that up. There's always a fierce debate online about certain Ferrero brands being German or Italian. While Ferrero is an Italian company, their German branch has invented and produces in Germany quite a lot of very well known Ferrero brands. So you could say they are an Italo-German joint venture. Saying they are just Italian or just German isn't right.
@@mimamo There is no "joint venture" between Italy and Germany on Ferrero products. In 1968 they used the term "Kinder" for their children’s product line simply because the term "Kinder" sounded much more international than "Child", pure marketing, and there was no Ferrero factory on German soil in 1968, in fact the production was made in Belgium, where, if you will allow me, about chocolate understand much more.
@@GiuseppeLeopizzi Realy...? Best confectionery products have always come from the German-speaking area. Anyone who wants to compare their stuff with the Swiss stuff will come up short. Especially the Belgians, who suffer from a massive inferiority complex when it comes to beer. They should rather show off what they're really good at: Fries and waffles...
If you are ever in Germany, you should definitely try a currywurst and yes, its a traditional dish like fish and chips in th UK. The best currywurst can be found at "Die Currywurst" in Herne in North Rhine-Westphalia. Wherever you are in Germany, it's worth the trip. And you absolutely must try Kirsch-Cola(cherry-cola) or Smurfs at Haribo.
Fact: The Ritter Sport, can be from the skiing sports area. The square shape, fits in the sports jacket pocket. I hope you open the chocolate in German. Do not tease, but bend on the back on the dash line. Is patented. Very easy to open and your fingers stay clean.
When ALDI started in Germany in the 70ths there were -of course - not scanners at that time. So the till girls got special trainings to enter the price handish and they had to have all (!) prices on their mind. How comfortable it is nowadays for them ...
yes, the fast past is a German thing and not just at sppermarkets, but at all stores. But then , I think, if it's not changed, You queue up at one counter and one counter only and wait until it's your turn. In Norway they have a better system:you pull a number and when the number comes up, it's your turn, at whatever counter is free. They use it at the pharmacy, postoffice or some cafés, where you collect your food at the counter,
EDEKA is an abbreviation: Wikipedia: The cooperative was founded in 1907 as the E.d.K. (Einkaufsgenossenschaft der Kolonialwarenhändler im Halleschen Torbezirk zu Berlin, Purchasing Cooperative of Colonial Goods Retailers in the Hallesches Tor district of Berlin). It is not like ALDI or Lidl owned by one person. And that is the main difference. I believe a cooperative is better this way.
Aldi has always been very quick at the checkout! Aldi introduced scanner checkouts very late; everyone else had them for years. The products used to have no price stamp at ALDI, only on the shelves. The cashiers therefore had to have 600 prices in mind, and yet they were faster than many scanner checkouts.
Edika and biosupermarkets are often slower at the checkout but everyone else is pretty quick. Nutella comes from Italy, from the Ferrero company. But it is very big here and is mixed in many things. Weird that no german company has been bought it yet. Maoam is german, from Düsseldorf.
I think that your Cadbury’s chocolate is better than the german Ritter Sport. Nutella is made by an italian Company. I’m in Copenhagen, Denmark. Aldi closed all their stores in Denmark during 2023. Netto is where we have to pack our groceries quickly if we don’t want them mixed with those of the next costumer.
22:55 no, Nutella is not German. it's made by the Italian company _Ferrero_ and was invented by its founder and ultimately his son in the form we know it today. that was back in 1964. there is nothing German about it other than perhaps Ferrero sells more of it in Germany than anywhere else.
@@melchiorvonsternberg844 easy, Pietro Ferrero started the whole thing in 1946 and the first creamy version in 1951. alas, it was not the Nutella we know today and it certainly wasn't invented in Germany.
This fast scanning at Aldi comes from Aldi in Germany. A friend of mine used to work at Aldi and he said you have a certain amount of time to scan goods for a customer. Aldi wants it that way. And maoam is Part of Haribo and also German.
The Discounters here in Germany are always very fast at the counter but others, like EDEKA, REWE, Kaufland... are on the slower, moderate side. If an olderly person shops at Aldi, Lidl, netto, Penny I am sure they get some help and the cashier will slow down. And yap, Maoam is also German. 😁
A little detail she is saying is not correct: Maultaschen are from Swabia, first mentioned in the Kloster Maulbronn (Württemberg) which lies at the Border to Baden, not from Bavaria. However, it seems plausible that a monk copied the principle idea for making Maultaschen (corrupted form of "Maulbronner Teigtaschen") from any type of Ravioli he has learned in Italy or from an Italian.
Important to mention that the competition between LIDL and ALDI is so tight, they can't go any risk of doing mistakes. So their product quality became insanely good compared to their price. When you buy cheap pasta from EDEKA for example, you'll buy crap. While EDEKA's cheap Pasta (G&G) is contaminated with machine oil & pesticides, ALDI's cheap pasta (D'Antelli) is one of the best you can get here. It's completely free of the stuff I mentioned. It's a phenomenon caused by the competition between these discounter giants. Same price as EDEKA pasta but much better in quality. Expensive brands like Barilla btw. also sucked a**. Their organic brands are also super cheap.
The currywurst was invented in Berlin, the original currywurst is only available in Berlin. There is currywurst everywhere in Germany, the original is now also sold in other parts of Germany, but is rare. I've eaten currywurst everywhere, but it tastes best in Berlin!
About 40 years ago I got Cadbury chocolate. It tasted like there was sand inside. I thought it was horrible since I was used to smooth German chocolate.
let me correct one thing: Metro can not to be compared to Cosco. Metro is a special store which aimed to retailers and shop owners. After paying, you do not receive a simple receipt, but an invoice on which the taxes are separately shown so that you can later deduct them from the tax office. To become a Metro customer, you have to prove that you are a retailer. If that is the case, you will receive a so-called Metrocard, which allows you then to enter the store.
Edeka = "Einkaufsgenossenschaft der Kolonialwarenhändler" (abbreviated E.d.K., and "Edeka" is the spelling of the letters, as if in English you would write "Edeekay"). This translates to "Purchase cooperative of colonial goods traders". The proper pronunciation of "Lidl" is like "Leedal" (with long i), not like "Little". However, it seems as if everyone in the English world prefers the second.
Oreos are definitely availabe here in Germany, from time to time Aldi also offers them for a lower price. I absolutely love them. As far as I know cashiers need to be fast, basically to hold their job. But I also heard cashiers tell especially older people "no need to hurry, we'll take our time". A cashier once told me there's no need to hurry, too. I guess I seemed a little too stressed.😅 It was not at Aldi, though. Honestly, I also don't care people behind me could get annoyed, as most of the time I for my part am also not annoyed with people needing some more time (as long as it doesn't take forever). I think if I need to be somewhere else in the moment I wait for it to be my turn at checkout, then it's basically my own fault for not taking into account the whole ordeal might not go as quickly as I had hoped. People just aren't machines. I think we're just used to cashiers being rather fast, that's why we expect checkout to be quick. But they are not fast because of us, but because of the quota they have to meet (which actually seems rather consumer-unfriendly, if you think about it).
German supermarkets all tend to be fast at scanning groceries, but Aldi is definitely the fastest amongst them. Back in the day when there weren't codes on all the items, Aldi employees had to know all the different codes for each item by heart and manually enter them into the checkout panel. But still they had to be fast because time is money. Also, there are the discount store "diska" (similar to Netto) and the hypermarket "Marktkauf" (similar to Kaufland or Tesco in the UK) which both belong to Edeka. Btw, "real" went bankrupt several years ago, but this was also similar to Kaufland or Marktkauf. Another "hypermarket" chain would be "Globus", which is like a German cousin of Walmart, but with more German efficiency and less American smalltalk. Although we don't have Tesco here, I've been shopping several times in their plants in Czech Republic, which isn't far away from where I live in Germany.
Currywurst: Get a good German Bratwurst , throw it on a grill or in a pan, chop it and put it on a plate. Take your favourite ketchup (e.g. Heinz) and put a large amount of your favourite curryspice-mix. Mix the two together and put a lot on your Bratwurst. To be served with `Pommes rot-weiß´. Bon appetit! Pommes rot-weiß = chips served with mayonnaise and ketchup as a dip.
Dwayne, I'm a 55 year old German and I've probably been to the UK 50 times and I also love your country and the people! I really, really enjoy watching your channel! Not just because everything is very interesting, but also because you're just a really cool guy. Your humor! ... every time you start to laugh, it's so contagious, and I like your very understandable English! Keep it up!!!
Well, Nutella is actually Italian but it's very popular here in Germany since we are close to them and we love their food
The most bought pizza brand in ita is from ger. Italians sight is limited. Even the predecessor of nutella is barely comparable.
@@HeroInTheSunwhy in the world should we buy or produce frozen pizza?
There are also special markets where you can sometimes buy even cheaper than in discount stores. These are often chains such as Krümet, Jawoll. You can also buy groceries there, but also decorations, car and bicycle accessories, clothing and shoes. And there is also Tedi, Euro-Shop and Action. There is everything there - except food and everything is cheap. And don't forget Famila. Similar to Kaufland, just a little smaller. Metro btw is only for the self-employed. You have to have a store or restaurant to shop there. The prices are shown net. Of course, you pay the 19% or 7% VAT at the checkout. Greetings from Northern Germany❤
Yeah, especially Baveria. Its common to say "ciao" as farewell.
Ferrero, the company behind products such as Nutella, Kinder, Milk Slice, Hanuta and Duplo is actually an Italian company that focuses much of its branding toward the German market.
and ferrero has been now "shunned" in germany, for not producing according to energy laws and using chemicals and other additives only allowed in italy. EU struck against that, and ordered ferrero to obey.. they did, after germany complained, since without Germany, Ferrero would not sell shit. ^^ we love your stuff ^^
@@jameyspieltJa, du Deutscher
Yes, most supermarket cashiers are rather fast here in Germany, but most of them will slow down for elderly persons etc. Speed's not much of an issue, though, if you put everything back in the cart first, and bag it after checkout.
That's cowardly. You have to enter the race and endure the angry glares of your fellow shoppers if you fail to keep up.😉
@@gnommg Maybe you do, but the rest of us don't.
Thats bcs they have a rate of items per hour to fulfill, in Discounters its normal
Well, I am an "elderly person", and Aldi is not too fast for me. There are 2 reasons: First and foremost I am used to it all my life. Secondly - the easy way is not to pack your bags at the cashier. Just put the stuff to your cart as fast as they push it, then go to the "customer packing desk" which is usually behind the cashiers and take as much time as you need to put your stuff into your bags! It is easy and not stressful at all :)
Exactly. I'm only 45, but I do it the same way, especially because I don't have a car and need to pack my backpack carefully, so everything fits and is comfortable to carry. Like, no bumps in the back.
Yes, the cashiers are fast, especially on ALDI. But the crazy thing is that the cashiers were not really slower in the times before they used manual cash registers without a scanner. Every product had a 3-number code and the cashiers must learn all the codes. But in this times the range of goods was much smaller.
Back in the days, when they had to type in the numbers they where faster then nowadays with the scanners. That was a crazy time. Oo
@@Moleman0815 didn´t Aldi ´invent´ the barode on every side of the packaging so the cashier loses no time by turning the product around in searching for the barcode?
The reason baking soda is called "Natron" or "Backnatron" (baking natron) in Germany -- and called "Speise-Soda" in Austria -- , is that the chemical molecule in baking soda is _sodium bicarbonate_ (which releases CO2 during baking to get the dough to rise) . The German name for sodium bicarbonate is "Natriumbikarbonat" aka. "Natriumhydrogenkarbonat" which in our grandmothers' times was known as "doppeltkohlensaures Natron" (bicarbonate of soda).
Metro is a wholesale company, and the membercards are only given to companies or private persons who are officialy registered as entrepreneur. Their customers are mostly restaurateurs and their prices are also without VAT, as retailers always calculate without VAT when purchasing. They also offer mainly XXXL packs like cream in 1l packs, cooking oil in 10l packs, mayonaise in 10l buckets, etc..
I totally agree that being an environmental friendly consumer should be affordable for everyone, but I guess producing things in an environmental friendly way simply comes with some costs which accordingly then makes these products more expensive. Otherwise they'd probably also sell all the good stuff in the cheap discounters, as well.
There are several layers. Like, in more expensive stores, you get a lot of produce that's not in season, so it's both more expensive AND less environmentally friendly. But the most important difference is that discounters focus on food that's high in demand, like, you don't get 15 different kinds of olives, but only the 2 or 3 most popular variations. Or only 40 instead of 300 different kinds of chocolate. This way, they can offer cheaper prices, because not only do they need less space to store and present the items, but there's also less stuff to throw away or send back.
moin!...i missed the german getränkemarkt ( beer, softdrink, wine and alcohol store).
we have over 10000 getränkemärkte .
a paradise of beer drinkers😊.
and over 10000 wochenmärkte
nutella invented un italy by ferreo. it gives to factorys , one in italy and one in germany.
the überaschungsei and yogurette invented by german in the ferrero factory in germany😊
the most consumers of nutella are german😊, second france and italy😊
in north germany we have 100 of differrents fischbrötchen and fish snacks to go😊.
check fischbrötchen😊
allerbest ut noorddüütschland vun de waterkant bremerhaven😊
un hool di wuchtig👍
so rewe has actually expanded with it's selection of fresh quality premade food. amazing fresh sandwiches, bagels and a lot of other healthy stuff.
Hi Dwayne, MAOAM is actually owned by HARIBO - there you go 😁
I have a beer advent calendar the whole year. It's called fridge 🇩🇪🍺
If there is German stuff in it, the whole year is "Weihnachts- Bock Bier", in a German invention...
@@melchiorvonsternberg844in Bavaria it would be an Erdinger or Schneider Weißbier. But Weihnachtsbockbier is absolutely fine, too
@@beatles_forever7560 Best breweries in Bavaria, are up in the north. So... If a want a wheat beer, I go for the south. Mostly... But if I wanna some other stuff, I take ours. You have to be clear about one thing. The "good beer" belt starts in northern Hesse, stretches to southern Hesse, then swings east, into Franconia and then goes along the Bohemian border and then goes over to the Czechs. Of course there is also some really good beer elsewhere. For example in Baden. There are also one or two breweries in the Ruhr area and such unique items as Berliner Weisse are absolutely not to be despised. I've already said something about Old Bavaria. But that's what it looks like. The stuff from the north is usually too bitter even for a pilsner, to put it nicely...
Thank you for your recommendations. I like Fiege beer from the Ruhrgebiet (Bochum) a lot. And I love Weltenburger beer which comes from the oldest abbey brewery in the world
Maoam is German and Maultaschen are from Baden-Württemberg, the neighbouring state of Bavaria !
As a resident of Baden, I feel the need to point out that Maultaschen are Swabian (so from the area of Stuttgart, not from the area by the Rhine).
Und die Maultaschen sind auf keinen Fall Klösse, so wie die Kleine dass erzählt hat...
@@cayreet5992 I am older than the " unification" of Baden and Württemberg so I understand your wish to express that Badener ( note me being polite ) and Schwaben are not "related" to each other. 😁
@@melchiorvonsternberg844 dumplings sind nicht nur klöße sondern auch teigtaschen.
@@shadowday24 Ich bin nicht verantwortlich von sinnlosen Verallgemeinerungen innerhalb der englischen Sprache...
History. Pietro Ferrero owned a bakery in Alba, an Italian town known for the production of hazelnuts. In 1946, he sold the initial 300-kilogram (660 lb) batch of Pasta Gianduja, derived from Gianduja. Originally sold as a solid block, Ferrero started to sell a creamy version in 1951 as Supercrema gianduja.
Aldi in the UK isn't as fast as Aldi in Germany. 😂 The older people are fine with it. They put their groceries into the shopping cart and you can find space at the side to pack your things
Maultaschen are from Svabia, not Bavaria, and more like ravioli than dumplings.
... technically correct but I guess Grandma will kill me if I compare her Maultaschen to Ravioli 😂
Thanks , I was as offended as you !
@@MondfischliThat's probably because you think of this canned ravioli crap. Ravioli is an amazing Italian food. I guess Maultaschen from a can would be equally disgusting.
@@Mondfischli Wie wäre es mit Tortellini...? Maahlzäit...
@@bastyaya Genau aus diesem kühlen Grund, komme die net in de Büchs...
-MAOAM is German and was bought by HARIBO some time ago
- Chocolate: she forgot to mention Kinderschokolade, actually German taken over from the Italian Ferrero group.
I went shopping at my local Aldi last year, I've known the cashier for seven years, a Lady around in her end 50s, always charming and I relly love her humour. That particulary day she was really fast, she just went *beepbeepbeepbeepbeep* and I couldn't compete, gave up pretty quickly on putting the goods in the bags and just pushed everything into the cart, sweaty and resigned. After this horrible show she said " Hehe ... And I got in trouble from my boss today for being too slow at the checkout, can you imagine that? The central warehouse records the speed and I'm too slow” and a little quieter, I was the only one at the checkout ‘Next time I'll pull that sucker over the scanner, nose down!’ " and grinned .... It took me five seconds before I could answer, because I was knocked out 😂 My favourite is Edeka tho
The "Gustavo Gusto" pizza is really a treasure! They are hand made with best incredients! Looking for a tuna pizza? The tuna is fished by hand! Looking for a salami pizza? They use beef-salami and not cheap pork. They use real cheese and so on! It's "expensive" for a frozen pizza, but worth it! I was never a fan of frozen pizza until this pizza came up in store just quite a few years ago.
The price depends on the toppings, of course, but it's less than 5€ ... so like 4.69€ or 4.95€.
They also have restaurants in our area, as they started as a pizza place near the university in our town in 2003 - founded by a student.
In 2014 they started to sell frozen pizza at stores like Edeka in Germany as well. Really worth trying it! :)
As she mentionend "Müller" - if I am not mistaken - ...
I totally agree with the Pizza. It’s the most delicious frozen Pizza you can get and tastes almost like a fresh pizza at an Italien restaurant. Now it’s also available at Lidl.
They are extremely tasty. But I only buy them when they are on special offer. But they are the best brand by far here in Germany for deep-frozen pizza.
And now imagine the time we didn't use scanners and Aldi cashiers had to put the prices in manually. They were so fast sometimes as if their lives depended on it 😅
Metro (and Handelshof) are B2B chains and only allowed to sell to Companies and not to end-costumers (e.g. Restaurants, Hotels, food Trucks, ...). Therefore to shop there you have first to register and show them that you own a "Company" (beeing self employed at your "own Company" is enough). After Registration you get a Metro Card which you need to get entry to the shops.
We Germans pronounce LIDL as "LEE-dell" though, not "liddle". XD
Kein Mensch mag Klugscheisser.....
The most important thing you need on your trip through Germany is a bathroom scale. Otherwise you start in Hamburg and need a heavy transporter in Munich for the journey home because planes can no longer transport you.
EDEKA is not really a supermarket chain. The Edeka Group is a cooperatively organized group of companies in the German retail sector.
some checkoutsd over here have dividers at the end so that the cashier can flip it over so that a 2nd person can be served while the first one is still packing up their stuff and is usually done by the time the 2nd person starts packing - the bigger chains tend to have those over here~
Currywurst isn't really a "national dish", it's a popular fast food though. In some regions and cities it is more popular than others. It's for example very popular and typical for Berlin, but in Munich they also opt for other kind of wurst/sausage). And in some cities like Nuremberg they rather opt for their own local wurst/sausage speciality.
I feel neglected because you have forgotten the best of all sausages. The Thuringian bratwurst.
@@SheratanLP I actually thought about including Thuringian bratwurst, which is my personal favorite too, but I wanted to mention cities and not states. ;)
When an item isn´t in stock anymore, it usually means, that Aldi is "negotiating" the purchase price with the supplier. The item will be back on the shelf as soon as the supplier meets Aldi´s requirements. If they don´t agree, the item or even the whole brand will be cut. This is how they keep the prices low.
The moment the customer knows that the reason is to keep the prices low, they usually do not complain any longer about ´missing´ brands or items.
And btw: many store brand items are produced by big known brands for Aldi and others. Sometime there is a little change in the recipe, but often it´s not.
Here's a fun fact: You know Aldi, Lidl, Norma, Netto and other discount supermarkets make their stores look plain and simple on purpose. And they don't play music in their stores either. The reason is psychological: When the store looks and sounds cheap, people tend to buy more because it feels cheaper. It doesn't cost a penny to play music through the speakers but they purposely don't.
Aldi was founded by the brothers Albrecht, who did fall out with one another and split the chain between them back in 1961. The Aldi in UK (and Australia) is Aldi Süd (South), which is also in business in China, Ireland, Italy, Switzerland and Hungary; Aldi Nord has the Benelux countries, France, Poland, Portugal and Spain. Aldi in the US is also Aldi Süd, while Aldi Nord owns there Trader Joe's. In Austria and Slovenia Aldi Süd uses the brand "Hofer". Lidl was originally Lidl & Schwarz and was founded by Dieter Schwarz (who also inherited the Kaufland chain from his father). Since "Schwarz-Markt" means black market he avoided to use his own name for the discount market chain and bought instead the right to the name Lidl (who was a former companion of his father).
In principle, every standard beer crate in Germany is an Advent calendar because it contains 24 bottles, like the number of compartments in a real Advent calendar.
So it's also a kind of running gag that is also used by breweries as advertising.
The fast pace is only due to the discounters like Aldi or Lidl. In the higher-end supermarkets like Edeka or Rewe, the pace is more normal and you can have a quick chat with the cashier.
And as far as bakeries are concerned: almost all owner-managed bakeries and small local chains are actually good, the really big chains and the bake-off departments of discounters are usually not so good, but ok.
Sadly, there are only a few small independent bakeries left, price pressure, corona and high energy prices have unfortunately caused many to disappear.
And you have to try a good currywurst, but stay away from pre-packaged currywurst, it's disgusting.
Currywurst with fries really is the German fast-food equivalent of fish and chips, and we love it. Just like the other German national dish: doner kebab.
Nutella (from Italy) is very popular, but there are much better creams, such as Nudossi from East Germany or the incredibly tasty hazelnut creams that you can buy in Turkish supermarkets.
i have to agree the currywurst pre packaged is not good, if you are cheap on money and if its on discount you may get it with some brötchen and have a decent meal at least other wise no way.i think the discount bakeries are pretty good, i cant see a different between a 39 cent pretzel vs a 5 bucks one, thats just scam, some things might differ but if you get it when they bake it fresh, its really no different from a bakery that get their goods frozen too, there is almost no bakery that makes stuff from the ground up anymore, so bakery stuff is almost equally good anywhere you go, mostly,of course there are bakeries that for example use scam methods like bake something twice and sell it at the same price, ect. but those are rare and can be left alone.
Ja, schon... Allerdings wird das Zeug, in Deutschland hergestellt. Die Leute in der Gegend und sogar die Angestellten dort in Hessen, nennen die Bude "Schoko- Michel"...
The place to go to in Germany if in the early morning you're on route to your job or university and want a freshly brewed coffee and a "belegtes Brötchen" (a fresh bread roll, halved, with butter, a slice of cheese or ham, sliced egg and some salad leaf on top, or sandwich-style with the toppings between the two halves) is a bakery. They will offer the coffee and maked goods either "to go" or (depending on space) they might offer standing tables to eat at or even a whole "lounge" section of the room where you can sit comfortably at coffee tables and eat while looking out at the pedestrians outside.
Ther'S also an increasing number of "bake shops" that work at a cafeteria, where you queue up to take your baked goods and coffee from a coffee machine and pay at the checkout.
In grocery stores you can find premade milk cocoa and premade coffee in sealed containers in the freezers in the dairy aisle, but most Germans prefer their coffee hot.
Hi! Yes, MAOAM is german. 😀 Everybody thinks, Nutella is german. But for real it is from the company Ferrero. That is italian so far as I know..... But never mind: IT IS VERY GERMAN! 🤣😂
I cried when she said Maultaschen are from Bavaria
My heart was breaking 💔
Maultaschen are schwäbisch (a part of Baden-Württemberg and Bayern)!
Haha the Balzen cookies. My sister used to date the guy who now runs Balzen when we lived in Ehlershausen, Germany. Can't even eat them anymore due to overeating them.
Metro, like Selgros, Handelshof and others, is a wholesale company that targets commercial customers (resellers and retailers). The range of wholesale (super) markets is aimed at the catering industry, the hotel industry, public catering, retail, independent entrepreneurs and freelancers. This means that the batches and product quantities are often different than for private households. You must present appropriate evidence in order to receive an ID card for shopping in the markets.
Its amazing to see how you react to totally normal food , but i love your reaction in general. Best greetings from south west germany
There are two Nettos, what you mean is the Netto from Denmark, which has withdrawn from the UK. There is confusion, especially in northern Germany, because the Danish NETTO exists parallel to the German Netto (=EDEKA GROUP). In the rest of Germany there are no Danish NETTOs.
-„I go to Netto“
-„the dog Netto or the yellow one?“
10:47 that's "Winter chocolate" in baked apple flavour. I've also seen something like that at Aldi here in Germany.
I live in Austria and ALDI (south) here is named "Hofer" - The new Aldi south headquarter is now built in Salzburg, Austria. We don't have Kaufland here, but that's not a problem because there's one right behind the border. Kaufland is my favourite for years now. My local Kaufland has a self-scan service, where you unlock a handscanner by using your customer's card. In the end you take this scanner to a self-checkout desk and pay your stuff. Also the scanner shows how much you have to pay.
I love Asian markets and went to small Turkish supermarkets 40 years ago, because they had and still have by far the best fruit and vegetables.
The currywurst's origins are attributed specifically to the German capital. In 1949, a resourceful German housewife, Herta Heuwer, traded some spirits with British soldiers for ketchup. The trade created the dish - composed of German sausage, or wurst, sliced and doused in ketchup and sprinkled with curry powder.
You can buy "bio/organic/fair trade" coffee and groceries and fresh imported or seasonal fruit and vegetables at supermarket chains like EDEKA, too, not just in "bio markets". EDEKA even partners with local farmers (here in Niedersachsen at least, where there's a lot of "bio farmers"), so you can buy fresh meat, eggs and fresh milk or seasonal fruit like strawberries with short routes of transport.
(The strawberry fields are in fact just outside the suburb (a former small town swallowed by the city) where I live, basically a stone's throw away from the EDEKA at the edge of the suburb and they deliver fresh to the EDEKA. Those fields offer the option to pick your own strawberries if you want, as long as you follow the instructions and don't trample any plants, which means you can get delicious strawberries at a great price... if you don't mind having an aching back afterwards.)
The metro is a professional supermarket. Only for corporate customers. With the focus on catering restaurants. My favourite shop for upscale food.
Currywurst is a traditional. Street food , it's so popular a ND cultural integrated that the German singer /songwriter wrote a song about it:he called Herbert Grönemeyer 😀
The Payback Card is not limited to one specific store, its a very flexible system that works in a lot of different kinds of stores.
Metro and Handelshof are not retailers intended for end consumers; they are not a retailer but a wholesaler.
These are stores for retailers to buy products that they then sell themselves in the store.
That's why you can only shop there if you have a business card and all prices are exclusive of VAT, which is then added at the checkout at the end.
As a business owner, you can then deduct the tax again.
Edeka is an acronym for Einkaufsgenossenschaften deutscher Kolonialwaren- und Lebensmittel-Einzelhändler. It used to be a conglomerate of German food and colonial wares back in the day when they sold cocoa, coffee, spices etc. sourced from colonies…
Maultaschen are swabian so they are from Baden-Württemberg and not bavarian.
The German Netto is a other Netto than the one the UK had. The Netto (logo with dog) in the UK was a Danish company (Salling Group). The German Netto (logo without dog) is a company from Bavaria wich is today mainyl owned by the EDEKA Group.
Nutella is actually Italian, and the young lady said that correctly. And what you need to know is that the selection of products in Aldi and Lidl differs a little in the Uk and in Germany. But the culture of the stores and how it feels to shop there is the same.
Organic food usually is more expensive because you harvest less compared to if you would use artificial fertilizer.
Also, if organic would be taken literally, only local things would get sewn out and you lonly could get some kind of food while they are in season.
I also would count regional food into this, as it is better not to have it transported such a long distance - both for the taste/freshness as well as for the environment.
Mate, to compare Cadbury to any German, Belgium, French or Swiss chocolate is nothing but a cry for WWIII....All of these 4 countries are deeply offended by the comparison😂❤
Metro is a wholesale company, in order to shop there you need a trade license, which means you have to be self-employed and run your own business. It doesn’t matter what industry the business is in.
Most of this is filmed in my hometown "Trier" . A city you should put on your list , if you ever come to visit germany. Oldest city in germany. you find world´s history on every corner here! 👍
I had Cadbury chocolate in the UK.
I would rank it the same like Milka.
I eat it when you give it to me but I won't buy it.
Both belong to Mondelez, they are brown fat and sugar masses with a brand name.
It used to better when it was owned by Succhard.
So, I'm out of trouble. I didn't like Milka very much, durin my whole life...
Schogetten y3
RitterSport Knusperflakes (the yellow package) with Cornflakes in the chocolate... thats my favorite
Yes, METRO is for discount bulk buying hence they sell stuff in large containers or by the palette, and that's the reason it's "membership only", because its customers are meant to be other smaller supermarkets, restaurants, hospitals, university canteen kitchens, companies and corporations (catering and company stores), potentially the army (idk). You're not supposed to shop there as the individual citizen (lest you buy stuff in bulk for low price and then resell it on i.e. Amazon). Although some family companies and corporations allow their employees a METRO card to shop there esp if they have a large family (or what counts as large family in Germany) with children or elderly relatives at home.
In deed for Nutella you have to thank Pietro Ferrero from Italy... but all Ferror products are very common in Germany and has production facilities here.
Just don't buy currywurst in plastic bowls that you warm up in the microwave. Yuck, that doesn't taste like good currywurst at all. By the way, there's no bratwurst in these bowls!
When you think Nutella are good. Then you must trie "Nudossi" . Nudossi has 36% hazelnut , (Nutella only 13% hazelnut), and no palm fet. It is very delicious.
FunFact about MÜLLER: they were the only supermarket chain that also had DVD and Blurays and not only that, they even had those that are on the "index" like they are so brutal and violent that they are banned (not fully banned) from public advertising, meaning stores etc were not allowed to tell you they sold them, publishers cant do commercials for them etc. MÜLLER always had those movie under the counter and if you are 18 and are legally allowed to buy those, you just asked the person working the desk to see the Indexed movie and they pulled out that box or dvds and blurays with all the gruesome gory shit :D i loved it haha
METRO "Membership Only" is because METRO is a chain for retailers and business. So you can only shop there if you have a busines of your own, like a café, a restaurant, a store or whatever. you dont pay a certain tax on the items there so they are cheaper and also the units are much bigger. Its not for consumers like regular supermarkets
In Norway we have a chain, when you are a member , you can gett a little scanner and be your own cashier as you go and you can bag the items as you go as well. They do have controls but you usually need just to unpack 4items and then you're done. It's great.😀
Nutella is German and not.
It is invented by an Italien guy but is produced for Germany and the North European market in Germany.
Ferrero has its biggest plant and product reserach in Germany but it is hard to trell which product was developed in Germany and which in Italy as Ferrero likes building legends around its products.
Kinder chocolate very likely and also Hanuta because the name is an acronym for a German word.
Thanks for clearing that up. There's always a fierce debate online about certain Ferrero brands being German or Italian. While Ferrero is an Italian company, their German branch has invented and produces in Germany quite a lot of very well known Ferrero brands. So you could say they are an Italo-German joint venture. Saying they are just Italian or just German isn't right.
@@mimamo There is no "joint venture" between Italy and Germany on Ferrero products. In 1968 they used the term "Kinder" for their children’s product line simply because the term "Kinder" sounded much more international than "Child", pure marketing, and there was no Ferrero factory on German soil in 1968, in fact the production was made in Belgium, where, if you will allow me, about chocolate understand much more.
@@GiuseppeLeopizzi Ferrero opened its first factory outside of Italy in Stadtallendorf in 1956.
@@MrTuxracer for "Kinder" line.
@@GiuseppeLeopizzi Realy...? Best confectionery products have always come from the German-speaking area. Anyone who wants to compare their stuff with the Swiss stuff will come up short. Especially the Belgians, who suffer from a massive inferiority complex when it comes to beer. They should rather show off what they're really good at: Fries and waffles...
The fast paced checkout is a thing in every supermarket, discounter, bob's your uncle.
If you are ever in Germany, you should definitely try a currywurst and yes, its a traditional dish like fish and chips in th UK. The best currywurst can be found at "Die Currywurst" in Herne in North Rhine-Westphalia.
Wherever you are in Germany, it's worth the trip.
And you absolutely must try Kirsch-Cola(cherry-cola) or Smurfs at Haribo.
Fact: The Ritter Sport, can be from the skiing sports area. The square shape, fits in the sports jacket pocket. I hope you open the chocolate in German. Do not tease, but bend on the back on the dash line. Is patented. Very easy to open and your fingers stay clean.
When ALDI started in Germany in the 70ths there were -of course - not scanners at that time. So the till girls got special trainings to enter the price handish and they had to have all (!) prices on their mind. How comfortable it is nowadays for them ...
Maoam is a haribo Product so yes maoam is german because it belongs to haribo
yes, the fast past is a German thing and not just at sppermarkets, but at all stores. But then , I think, if it's not changed, You queue up at one counter and one counter only and wait until it's your turn. In Norway they have a better system:you pull a number and when the number comes up, it's your turn, at whatever counter is free. They use it at the pharmacy, postoffice or some cafés, where you collect your food at the counter,
Spezi is a mix between Coke and Orange Limonade (Pepsi and Coke-Cola have their own kind of "Spezi")
EDEKA is an abbreviation: Wikipedia: The cooperative was founded in 1907 as the E.d.K. (Einkaufsgenossenschaft der Kolonialwarenhändler im Halleschen Torbezirk zu Berlin, Purchasing Cooperative of Colonial Goods Retailers in the Hallesches Tor district of Berlin).
It is not like ALDI or Lidl owned by one person. And that is the main difference. I believe a cooperative is better this way.
Aldi has always been very quick at the checkout! Aldi introduced scanner checkouts very late; everyone else had them for years. The products used to have no price stamp at ALDI, only on the shelves. The cashiers therefore had to have 600 prices in mind, and yet they were faster than many scanner checkouts.
I love Currywurst, but only with "Pommes - Schranke" (It's only available at the Pommesbude). This is the best meal ever.
Edika and biosupermarkets are often slower at the checkout but everyone else is pretty quick.
Nutella comes from Italy, from the Ferrero company.
But it is very big here and is mixed in many things.
Weird that no german company has been bought it yet.
Maoam is german, from Düsseldorf.
The nut nougat cream was invented in the town of Piedmont in Italy.
I think that your Cadbury’s chocolate is better than the german Ritter Sport. Nutella is made by an italian Company. I’m in Copenhagen, Denmark. Aldi closed all their stores in Denmark during 2023. Netto is where we have to pack our groceries quickly if we don’t want them mixed with those of the next costumer.
22:55 no, Nutella is not German. it's made by the Italian company _Ferrero_ and was invented by its founder and ultimately his son in the form we know it today. that was back in 1964. there is nothing German about it other than perhaps Ferrero sells more of it in Germany than anywhere else.
Äh, nope! How ist it possible, that the first Ferrero factory opend in 1956 in Hesse, if it was invented in 1964. A kind of time travel...?
@@melchiorvonsternberg844 easy, Pietro Ferrero started the whole thing in 1946 and the first creamy version in 1951. alas, it was not the Nutella we know today and it certainly wasn't invented in Germany.
@@embreis2257 Ähm, ja... Did I say that with even one word?
This fast scanning at Aldi comes from Aldi in Germany. A friend of mine used to work at Aldi and he said you have a certain amount of time to scan goods for a customer. Aldi wants it that way. And maoam is Part of Haribo and also German.
The Discounters here in Germany are always very fast at the counter but others, like EDEKA, REWE, Kaufland... are on the slower, moderate side. If an olderly person shops at Aldi, Lidl, netto, Penny I am sure they get some help and the cashier will slow down. And yap, Maoam is also German. 😁
A little detail she is saying is not correct: Maultaschen are from Swabia, first mentioned in the Kloster Maulbronn (Württemberg) which lies at the Border to Baden, not from Bavaria.
However, it seems plausible that a monk copied the principle idea for making Maultaschen (corrupted form of "Maulbronner Teigtaschen") from any type of Ravioli he has learned in Italy or from an Italian.
Important to mention that the competition between LIDL and ALDI is so tight, they can't go any risk of doing mistakes. So their product quality became insanely good compared to their price. When you buy cheap pasta from EDEKA for example, you'll buy crap. While EDEKA's cheap Pasta (G&G) is contaminated with machine oil & pesticides, ALDI's cheap pasta (D'Antelli) is one of the best you can get here. It's completely free of the stuff I mentioned. It's a phenomenon caused by the competition between these discounter giants. Same price as EDEKA pasta but much better in quality. Expensive brands like Barilla btw. also sucked a**. Their organic brands are also super cheap.
The currywurst was invented in Berlin, the original currywurst is only available in Berlin. There is currywurst everywhere in Germany, the original is now also sold in other parts of Germany, but is rare. I've eaten currywurst everywhere, but it tastes best in Berlin!
12:25 Super Drug and The Body Shop sound like store chains from Cyberpunk 2077
METRO is a wholesale company where retailers, restaurants, caterers, company owners and other self-employed people etc. can buy
Don't know if you have it in UK, but my most favorite from Lidl is a square Tiramisu Cake, they only have once in a while.
About 40 years ago I got Cadbury chocolate. It tasted like there was sand inside. I thought it was horrible since I was used to smooth German chocolate.
Ill try to send you a Beer Advent Calendar this year! 😂 Its… interesting. 👍🏼
I think Austria has shorter opening times: 8-20 or 7-19 is more usual. And on saturday everything is closed at 18:00.
Inventions from Germany ...teabag , helicopter, motorcycle and and and it's fun to research some more inventions from Germany
EDEKA is no name, it's the former abbreviation for: Einkaufsgenossenschaft der Kolonialwarenhändler im Halleschen Torbezirk zu Berlin
let me correct one thing: Metro can not to be compared to Cosco. Metro is a special store which aimed to retailers and shop owners. After paying, you do not receive a simple receipt, but an invoice on which the taxes are separately shown so that you can later deduct them from the tax office. To become a Metro customer, you have to prove that you are a retailer. If that is the case, you will receive a so-called Metrocard, which allows you then to enter the store.
Edeka = "Einkaufsgenossenschaft der Kolonialwarenhändler" (abbreviated E.d.K., and "Edeka" is the spelling of the letters, as if in English you would write "Edeekay"). This translates to "Purchase cooperative of colonial goods traders".
The proper pronunciation of "Lidl" is like "Leedal" (with long i), not like "Little". However, it seems as if everyone in the English world prefers the second.
Aldi, Lidl and Even Spar made it to the UK. But Spar doesnt exist anymore here, but in the UK and Spain.
Oreos are definitely availabe here in Germany, from time to time Aldi also offers them for a lower price. I absolutely love them.
As far as I know cashiers need to be fast, basically to hold their job. But I also heard cashiers tell especially older people "no need to hurry, we'll take our time". A cashier once told me there's no need to hurry, too. I guess I seemed a little too stressed.😅 It was not at Aldi, though.
Honestly, I also don't care people behind me could get annoyed, as most of the time I for my part am also not annoyed with people needing some more time (as long as it doesn't take forever). I think if I need to be somewhere else in the moment I wait for it to be my turn at checkout, then it's basically my own fault for not taking into account the whole ordeal might not go as quickly as I had hoped. People just aren't machines. I think we're just used to cashiers being rather fast, that's why we expect checkout to be quick. But they are not fast because of us, but because of the quota they have to meet (which actually seems rather consumer-unfriendly, if you think about it).
German supermarkets all tend to be fast at scanning groceries, but Aldi is definitely the fastest amongst them. Back in the day when there weren't codes on all the items, Aldi employees had to know all the different codes for each item by heart and manually enter them into the checkout panel. But still they had to be fast because time is money.
Also, there are the discount store "diska" (similar to Netto) and the hypermarket "Marktkauf" (similar to Kaufland or Tesco in the UK) which both belong to Edeka.
Btw, "real" went bankrupt several years ago, but this was also similar to Kaufland or Marktkauf. Another "hypermarket" chain would be "Globus", which is like a German cousin of Walmart, but with more German efficiency and less American smalltalk.
Although we don't have Tesco here, I've been shopping several times in their plants in Czech Republic, which isn't far away from where I live in Germany.
Maoam belongs to the Haribo brand. And Haribo of course is German (HAns RIegel, BOnn - founded in the 1920s)
Currywurst: Get a good German Bratwurst , throw it on a grill or in a pan, chop it and put it on a plate. Take your favourite ketchup (e.g. Heinz) and put a large amount of your favourite curryspice-mix. Mix the two together and put a lot on your Bratwurst. To be served with `Pommes rot-weiß´. Bon appetit!
Pommes rot-weiß = chips served with mayonnaise and ketchup as a dip.