Tchibo is the perfect place for you when you need coffee, underwear, an inflatable boat and an electronic jump rope you will use once or twice. The stores are also incredible small.
I’m American and haven’t been to Germany, but this sounds like what we Americans would call a sundries store, or a drug store. Up to the 1970s these stores would have a lunch counter or a snack bar, and would sell many kinds of items. In the US, drug stores not only have pharmacies (although not always), but sell non-prescription drugs, cosmetics, food, books and magazines, toys, seasonal items, and more.
@@TypoKnig Tchibo is a coffee brand and coffee retail store but they started to sell other items as well to make some extra money. They change the products weekly. They find something that they think might sell well whatever kind of product it is and a week later they move on to other products to make a quick few bugs, or million bugs. I think it is one of a kind and an interesting business strategy
I remember that even in Guildwars 2, actually and american Online Roleplay Game, there was a quest where we had to hunt a Wolpertinger. However i played it in german, so i don't know how they named it in the english version.
Dana, you make me proud of Germany. As a German I was very sceptical about Germany and any kind of national pride. By your videos I learned to see my country from a different point of view, and bit by bit I found things to be proud of. I‘m proud of people like you loving the Germans and their county.
To write down ideas you get in the shower, get a grease pencil. You can write the idea on the wall of the shower, then transfer it to paper when you dry off, then clean off the grease marks.
@@Diddmaster jede Menge Vergangenheitsbewältigung! Mehr davon, als die restliche Welt, die genau so viel Anlass dazu hätte, zusammen. Problem ist nur, dass Arendt´s Schlussfolgerung u.a. aus dem Eichmann-Prozess, dass eine menschenverachtende Gesinnung durch Bildung modifiziert oder gar aufgelöst werden könnte, offensichtlich BS ist - die Erfahrung mit der ganzen Vergangenheitsbewältigung ist vielmehr: Alles was Bildung aus einem Arschloch macht, ist ein gebildetes Arschloch.
@@Diddmaster Hätte ich früher auch gefragt, aber mittlerweile, gerade wenn man diese ganzen Amerikaner in Deutschland Videos sieht, dann denkt man irgendwann doch das in Sachen Rasissmus es her im Vergleich zur USA verdammt gut aussieht, genaus beim Thema Gleichberechtigung. Was nicht heissen soll das alles super ist, schliesslich gibts immer noch Nazis, die AFD und jede Menge anderer Probleme, aber verglichen mit anderen Ländern hat sich hier schon einiges getan. Auch wenn so Theman wie die Amerikanisch Flagge aufkommen die in den USA überall rumhängt, sowas will hier wohl kaum noch wer sehen, und allgemein habe ich das Gefühl das hier nicht mehr viele dazu zu bewegen wären für das "Vaterland" in irgendnen Krieg zu ziehen.
Fall begins on the autumnal equinox, some time between September 21 and September 24. Season changes are not mysterious, they are marked by the longest day, the shortest day and the two equinoxes. If you note the position of the sun at noon every day for a year it will form a sort of figure 8 in the sky. Spring and fall begin where the line of the figure 8 crosses itself and summer and winter begin at the far side of each loop.
You described the astronomical autumn, to be precise you should add the hours. There are also the colloquial or calendar autumn from sept 21 to dec 20 and the meteorological autumn from sept 1 to nov 30.
I think Dana was probably thinking of the change in the weather, which at least where I live, is quite unpredictable as to exactly when it will happen.
bread / Brötchen + 6:25 : local beer, soccer team, the level of acceptance and understanding towards others, their region, well-travelledness: the places they have been to. P.S.: I adore Katzenzungen, even though I am not German.
The 'Saying any German words' video could be that you ask your viewers to come up with the hardest to pronounce german words and you have to try and pronounce them in a video- maybe Stefan could score you. I think it would be a great video idea!
5 things... 1) bread - as you said 2) Wurst / Aufschnitt 3) German cars (most of us still think, they are the best) 4) our forests (don't know wether there are many other countries with as many songs and poems about their forests, although most of them --> origin 19th century and before) 5) that finally we have learned to be proud without being chauvinistic.
The thing with "W" is the Wolpertinger. Since you are living in Munich right now, when the mueseums open up again, you should visit the "Jagd- und Fischereimuseum", they have some info about them there. When standing on the Marienplatz, walk along the Kaufingerstraße in the direction of the Karlsplatz, and halfway it becomes the Neuhauser Straße. At exactly that point is the museum. Have fun.
Hier noch ein paar Essens-Tips: Falscher Hase, Schlotengel, Saure Zipfel, Verlorene Eier, Arme Ritter, Bienenstich, Granatsplitter, Donauwellen, Scheiterhaufen
There's this story about Billy Wilder. He often had dreams about great stories for movies, that he couldn't remember the next morning. Finally, he put pen and paper on his nightstand and promptly had a dream about what he knew to be the greatest story ever told. He woke up in the middle of the night, wrote it down and went back to sleep. The next morning he read what he had written: "Boy loves girl, girl loves boy."
Tchibo was originally just a coffee importer, but in 1955, well before starbucks, it opened branches where you could try and drink the coffee. Much later, other non-coffee products were added. Tchibo is now one of the largest German consumer goods and retail companies. There are e.g. also Tchibo Reisen and green electricity.
Grund Gezetz = literally Basic Law. Germany’s constitution wasn’t called verfassung because the framers didn’t want a situation of permanence attached to it during the Cold War but it became permanent anyway upon reunification in 1990 because there was little time to replace it and since it worked, why get rid of it. Turned out to be a good house for all Germans.
Many people do have difficulties to explain the concept of Tchibo. In fact I doubt that Tchibo's board members would be able to. It's kind of a marketing idea gone wild: It started as an one-brand one-product chain selling coffee. Then they added coffee-making accessories and equipment, then the same for tea, then random merchandising articles and cheap watches and ... they never stopped.
"Katzenzungen" is just milk chocolate like any other. As a child I loved "cat tongues". However, I always had to share one with my sister (it was cut exactly in the middle with a knife). Unfortunately there was only one cat face on one half, so my father "carved" a cat face with a knife on the other half. So I have only fond memories of "cat tongues".
cat tongues here in Italy too, but are not made of chocolate, more like sugar&butter I think. the name comes from the shape I believe not from the taste I hope
Actually, to write down ideas I use a Moleskine booklet, with blanc pages and musiclines. But since ideas always come unpredicted, the house is filled with newspapers, envelopes, beercoasters and little pieces of paper with scribblings on them. Sometimes I transfer them all to the Moleskine, but sometimes I just hold on to the scribblings. And yes, it doesn't happen often, but sometimes I forget what the idea is about. But mostly it just turns out to be a not so good idea.
Tschibo was originally a coffee brand like Eduscho or Jacobs, you name it. At one point in time some higher up of the Tschibo company thought it was a good idea to expand their product line. It's pretty much the same as with gas stations here in Germany. Believe it or not but there was a time when the only things you could get at a German gas station was gasoline, air for the tires, cooling water, motor oil and a car wash.
Maybe the beer garden one is because in bavaria as far as I know in some beer gardens you can bring your own food you just have to buy the drinks there
@@irian42 Autobahn and Exports, yes. But Cars ? We passed the chance to pushing forward new technology and the way we design and produce with traditional car company is outdated. I fear that we will lost the trademarks.
@@Alex-eu6kn In a way you are not wrong. However this "E-" boom to me, personally, reflects only a riift between big cities and - everyone else - including all the working people coming from.. all the smaller towns along a 50km or even larger range. For a normal person such a car only makes sense, if they can charge that overnight in front of their home, so it's always ready to go.... And for longer distances, it should not require 30 minutes or more at an effin Rasthof, that you just want to get away from, to charge even enough for the rest of the one way trip. Not even mentioning the issues with it's components overall.... But you are not wrong: It would seem sad, to say the least, that we did not come up/promoted more alternative/ kombi solutions.
Tchibo - no "s" please. Mahlzeit - what people wish themselves when going to a noon break, supper, or when meeting around noon (opposite to "Guten Morgen/Abend")
Tchibo: that their shops sell other stuff than coffeee according to weekly "themes" and that you can maybe find these items in the shops for 2 weeks usually and not longer, but there is also an online shop you may be lucky for longer. And that the themes are sometimes seasonal and sometimes aren't. That some supermarkets have a Tchibo corner, and that most sell their coffee brand. Love their pj's btw 😂
But it is interesting that you can get to Tchibo in the internet even with the wrong spelling "Tschibo". The guys from Tchibo must have foreseen this mistake! - - - "Na Mahlzeit" or "Prost Mahlzeit" you can say when something bad happend! :-)
@@samiraansari5686 lolz. They may also be trying to avoid outing themselves in terms of conservative/non-conservative by choosing this third greeting over the culturally loaded Grüß Gott vs. Guten Tag/Morgen. Everyone needs to eat after all. 😘
I choose the following two (after all, this was a menu, right?) - Please tell us more about your shower thoughts - Please do the video about the fountains in Munich Your "Wuppertaler" was definitely a (pronounceably challenged) Wolpertinger . I strongly recommend to visit the "Valentin Musäum" at the Isartor. They have a few samples of this very rare species :-) and many more interesting insights into our Bavarian culture.
I think I know the origin of the Katzenzunge name. It was an elongated biscuit made with coarse sugar. The surface of it very much felt like the tongue of a cat. The French called it therefore langue-de-chat, which means Katzenzunge, cat's tongue. It seems that only in Germany and Austria is it covered with chocolate, or even made only of chocolate.
As a bavarian living in Wuppertal I know, that Wuppertal is no fake thing. Wuppertal is a city with 300.000 inhabitants. I think you meant the famous Wolpertinger. A creature you can see in the Deutsches Jagd- und Fischereimuseum at Neuhauser Strasse in Munich.
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I guess the special thing about Tchibo can be explained by their slogan "jede woche eine neue welt" - they do have new products or "themenwelten" pretty regularly. And of course the coffee which is pretty good id say
After the shops close ...the sidewalks are folded up. I don't know if this holds true in Munich's city center, but definitely so in my small hometown. After the shops close, you see hardly anyone in the streets, it's like the sideways were folded up. "Um sechs werden hier die Bürgersteige hochgeklappt."
Dana double spacing her lines like I did trying to hit a word count at University. I've had so many good ideas, really good ideas, that have come to me. I bought a notebook once just so I could write them down and whenever I have a good idea I always think there's no point writing it down because it's such a good one I'll remember it. Then I forget entirely. Again.
My wife's grandparents had a textile factory in Wuppertal. I'll have to break the news to her that neither the factory nor her grandparents actually existed. :-D
You are weird - love you ever more! Tchibo is a coffee brand turned into coffee stores selling byproducts. Wuppertal is NOT the fictive town, that's Bielefeld. I even have a fictive cousin there ;) Others pointed to the Wolpertinger. "The List": - bread - beer - tribal belonging - cars / engineering - Wirtschaftswunder
Compared to the us - sure. But I’ve never heard a German saying “our health system is so amazing ” rather “these stupid Privatversicheten ALWAYS get straight to the doctor and also get better/single rooms [in a hospital]”
@@maxw1567 Amazing? Maybe not but for sure a lot of people think the health system is realy good. There are people with a look outside of germany and see what we have.
you've meant the "Wolpertinger". A nonexistent fantasy creature. In Wuppertal once was an incident with an elephant falling out of the "Schwebebahn" - the floating train -wich is a train that hangs from its tracks. :-D
As a german I really dislike when someone answers with "I dont care" when I ask there opinion. I asked because I wanted you to think about it. But maybe Im just a very weird person xD
But what if you ask about something I honestly have no knowledge of or interest in? Though my response would usually be more like "I have nothing to base an opinion on."
Be careful. This is a mistake that too many of us make in the United States, so don't be mislead. In the English language, there are three different types of "there" and you just used the wrong one. The word "there" points in a direction. It is the opposite of "here." If, on the other hand, you are talking about something that belongs to someone, like an opinion, for example, then you want the word "their." Things that belong to me are _my_ things. Things that belong to you are _your_ things. Things that belong to us are _our_ things. Things that belong to them are _their_ things.
Sometimes there are things I really don't care about. If you asked me what city the Musikantenstadl should play next, I litaraly don't care and no matter how much I think of it I wouldn't gain an opinion
@@lemonjuice1988 I mean, that‘s fair, but I feel like I’m some cases you should still say something. My father always makes the mistake of saying „I don‘t care“ when my mum is buying jewelry or something and asks him „Which earrings do you like better?“ or „Should I get this?“. I mean, it‘s probably true that he doesn‘t care and doesn‘t have an opinion, but you would think that after 25 years of marriage he would have learned that saying „I don‘t care“ only leads to her sulking for the rest of the day. So sometimes, even if you genuinely don‘t care, you should still come up with an answer when asked.
@@samiraansari5686 on the other hand: after so many years, she should know by now that he really doesn´t care and quit asking this same useless question over and over again. or maybe next time he should tell her that if she don´t stop wasting money on this useless crap he will search custody over her for her shopping compulsion.
Your "Wuppertal"-Word might be the Wolpertinger (especially "popular" in Bavaria but also known in other places). Tchibo is also a brand for differnt kinds of products offered in different other stores. Additional Creepy German Foods: Schweineohren (pig ears) Kalter Hund (cold dog) Pfauenaugen (peackock eyes)
Katzenzungen arent even Germna (only), I thought so too, but they have them in France as well (I assume they might even come from there, as food things do often), and I think Italy too
I always find those weird attitude videos funny .. because you come from a very different culture. When I look at Germany, i do not see all those differences, because Germany .. at its core - really isnt that different from the Nordic countries. We share a much more common denominator - also mostly the same consumer goods. Also, i loved your note about "your German husband.. " =P As for Croissants .. maybe you dislike the German type (i think they call them Hornchen - glad i only need to write it, because i cannot pronounce it). When i was in Germany, they sell those in bakeries. They are the same shape .. but use a very different dough. They are sweeter and more dense, while the real French croissant is fluffy and very buttery. I guess one is meant to be a sweet/biscuit - the other a breakfast item.
I never cared about soccer, i like beer but for some reasons haven't drunk any beer since maybe 10-15 years already. Crossaints ? Why is that even a thing here, as far as i know they are french.
@@uweneudecker5078 Croissants might be most popular in France, but they were actually invented in Austria--to celebrate the defeat of the Turks in battle in the 1600's.
3:42 Dazu fällt mir ein lustiges Bild ein: Autofahrer-Reaktionen, wenn die erste Schneeflocke fällt. twitter.com/alpenheinrich/status/1064447180281389056
Creature: Wolpertinger (its a big, bad, scary chicken that turns you into stone ifu look at it, works like the medusa, way to defeat it is also the same)
No, in most regions it is rather a carnivorous rabbit with wings and feathers and antlers and long fangs. Very creepy even if already dead and stuffed and not longer able to turn you completely into stone.
Okay, so I‘m currently working on a book (ya fantasy) and I do not write down ideas often enough but my notes app is filled with really weird stuff anyways. Also, I like to comment my ideas and I always thought that‘s really stupid until I went through my commented ideas and had a really really good laugh
Fall begins officially (calendar date) on on September 22nd in the northern hemisphere, by calendar. Meteorologically it starts on September 1st and ends on November 30th.
1. Dana's mind isn't weird--that's how my mind works too! 2. Dana has quite a backlog of videos I haven't watched! What I find weird is that I first learned of RUclips in 2010, but I didn't watch it very much until about two years ago because about all it ever suggested to me was funny cat videos--even though I was searching for things like "language" and "inguistics." (Did RUclips upgrade their search function significantly two years ago? That's when I suddenly started getting an avalanche of suggestions of things I was interested in.) Curiously, I used to get suggestions for lots of different users' versions of something called "the dialect challenge," and now I can't even find a single one of those any more. 3. How Germany crushed my pizza dreams--it was when I figured out that Germany (and most of Europe, really) viewed pizza as a way to get rid of leftovers rather than as a treat. 4. What are Germans more proud of than their beer?!?! 5. Dana doesn't like beer? I don't drink beer because I was raised in a church which forbids alcohol consumption. I thought Germans would respect my religious beliefs, but no, all I ever got was ridicule. Actually, it wasn't just that--it was more like Germans ridiculed me for taking my religious beliefs seriously at all.
Tchibo has the best thermal leggins. And they have good coffe to drink (a bit cheaper than most cafés) but no toilet. And it always annoys the heck out of me if people spell it with an "s"
Ich glaube, die bayrischen Wolpertinger und der norddeutsche Klabautermann haben gemeinsame Großeltern. Nicht zu vergessen die kölner Heinzelmännchen. :-) Five Things? What about bread, beer (deutsches Reinheitsgebot), german efficiency, health care, goethe, schiller, beethoven, bach..., engineering, cars, inventions, general "made in germany" products...
You often hear or read that Germans are very proud that the whole world thinks that German bread is the best. Interesting! The French are often convinced, that it is French Bread that has the best reputation all over the world. A good topic for a video!
Sausages, Döner kebab, Christmas markets, cars, beer, ... And since croissants are french, everyone is fine with you don‘t like them. But if you don‘t like them, you should give „Kipferl“ a try. And I don‘t mean the Christmas cookies names Vanille Kipferl. 😉
Each German regional country (Bundesland) and within, partly in between two or several of these, hast their own tribal culture. This is similar to the US or other countries. Bread i.e. means different. In the North it's often dark and more healthy than in the other parts of our country (Schwarzbrot, Vollkornbrot) but we have less breweries here than in Bavaria. Social Security as a topic is endless and yes, there is a sort of proudness. Having secure streets is a standard not so often mentioned. State authorities tend to be more just and less to be bribed than in many other countries. Downside for foreigners: there is nearly no option to "talk down" If you get caught by police or traffic wardens, best example is wrong or no parking spot at all. Either one pays or will get into real trouble. Generally law and obedience hereto / within is a topic discussed. To me these things are important to defend or being defended. Sometimes it is awkward to live in Germany. So much for now.
@@Alex-eu6kn Yes that's true... 😉 and I do admit that Bavarian culture often differs a lot from the rest of Germany, so it's not really that typical. After all, we're a multi-ethnic (multi-tribe?) nation from the beginnings on. 🙂
I would call it a misconception rather than a prejudice, but you are right. I think the misconception comes from the fact that a lot of Bavarian cultural things are more "over the top" than in the rest of Germany, so when an artist or a filmmaker wants to suggest Germanness without a lot of effort, they show a Bavarian.
A suggestion weird food combinations that most Germans take for granted Like for instance in America our peanut butter and jelly sandwich is a oddity to Europeans how we drink most of our drinks with a lot of ice ,what are some German foods we might have a hard time wrapping our palates around like the European habit of putting mayonnaise on fries or drinking room temperature beer! But be specific to Germany 🇩🇪.
Tchibo (no s in there) is a concept that we ourselves do not get but cherish lol but es, originally it was a pure coffee store (not the Dutch version btw) Pizza is meant to be like it is in Italy, thus the American thick, cheese filled crust, kind of thing is not a real thing here ... though there are Pizza Hut stores around ... btw I am usually a Pizza fundamentalist, but still allow "Hawaii Pizza" with pineapples ... sorrryyyyy Cleaning products in Germany are often way less effective to environmental and health concerns ... you w´might have noticed how long detergents still smell in the clothes when washed in the US while here it fades rather quickly and chlorine based cleaning products are less intense very often here "Mahlzeit" is basically translated to "meal" as in "3 meals a day", however it is used as a greeting formular, too. Here it has two different meanings depending on the reagions ... in the more northern regions like NRW or further north, we used it as a rather inexplicit greeting, a bit like "Hello", however it originally is rather a "Guten Appetit" kind of greeting in the south and I think it deriits from that Yes you meant the Wolpertinger which is a southern thing from Bavaria and Austria, they did not spread further north ... in Texas the Jack-A-Lope is pretty much a relative to it though things Germans are proud of ... bread, cars, beer (Reinheitsgebot!!!), ... did I mention cars and bread?? lol we are not that much into the "Germany is best" kind of patriotism, of course due to the not so distant history, but I think also kind of due to the way Germany developed as a loose combination of different kingdoms that did not directly like each other too much Katzenzungen, Lakritzschnecken, Schulkreide, ... there are some of those ... regarding your unpopular opinions, well Croissants are French, which makes your opinion less unpopular bei definition (I love them though), soccer (FOOTBALL why are you calling a sport that is played mainly using the hands on the ball even football??) is a weird thing ... it can be like watching paint dry, but then it is more a cultural thing like Baseball or in England even worse Cricket, so I can relate that it is even harder to watch, if you did not grew up with it ... last the beer thingy ... I do not drink beer and IF I drink beer, I am worse than you, I then would rather have a Guiness than German beers ... Questions regarding your opinion are usually questions that expect your opinion as an answer, not so much a soft washed, sweetened filtered political answer (but they too might afterwards start a full blown argument about well arguments pro and contra over it) The borderline between being a bit too honest or a bit of an arse us pretty thin in Germany I fear ... do not stop loving him over it ;) Last one about Munich (or any other city with pedestrian zone) will likely be related to urban people (used and likely still do) have the habit of going for a walk and do a "Schaufensterbummel" where you just walk around town, admire the exhibits in the shop windows, enjoy the architecture and atmosphere (and maybe stop by in one of the dozends of cafes, restaurants and bars, rather than just wlak through the recreational parks ... good luck with retrieving the reasons behind your other ideas, sounds like you have a lot of projects to do still ;)
Tell the people from USA about the difference regarding quantity of day offs in comparison to Germany and what happens if you getting ill during your day off. Our economic is stable enough to carry this regulation. This is completely different. I recognized it during conversions with my american colleagues. I am proud of this, too.
Hey Dana, ich habe dich gestern im Radio gehört bei SWR 3.You talking about HOMOFFICE.Deinen Namen habe ich nicht gehört, aber deine Stimme habe ich sofort erkannt,So nice L.Y
10:30 Basically my University Diploma thesis. Or any important document. Those damned text editor programs (I used LaTex, but MS Word seems to be no different) change the content, and orthography on saving your files. :-/
Ich habe 2 Ideen: 1. Wuppertal! Ich hatte mal eine amerikanische Freundin und wir fuhren mal mit meinem Auto auf der A3 über die Autobahnbrücke "Neandertal"; es war mir fast unmöglich, ihr zu erklären, daß Neandertal " the valley of the river Neander" ist, sie kriegte das nicht in ihren Kopf rein: Neandertal war für sie ein komisch klingender Begriff für komisch aussehende Vormenschen! Kann es sein, daß das Wort Wuppertal bei Dir so was ähnliches ausgelöst hat: irgendein komisches deutsches Wort für irgendeine komische Kreatur? 2. wieviel Bier kann man kaufen: ich war vor einigen Jahren in Cincinnati, da gab es mal auf dem Zentralplatz so eine Art Kirmes, eingezäunt mit Stacheldraht, wo u.a. Leute mit Lederhosen und Schwarzwaldhüten "Krautburger" verkauften und meinten, das seien deutsche Spezialitäten; da konnte man auch Bier trinken (deswegen der Stacheldraht!); wir standen da in einer größeren Gruppe und einige wenige wollten für alle Bier holen, damit nicht alle sich anstellen mußten (so ist das hier selbstverständlich, man holt soviel Bier, wie man tragen kann): die Amis waren entsetzt über diesen Versuch und man machte uns schon ein bischen aggressiv klar, daß natürlich jeder nur ein Bier am Bierstand kaufen kann! Kann es sein, daß sich Deine Frage auf soetwas bezog?
Tchibo is the perfect place for you when you need coffee, underwear, an inflatable boat and an electronic jump rope you will use once or twice. The stores are also incredible small.
I’m American and haven’t been to Germany, but this sounds like what we Americans would call a sundries store, or a drug store. Up to the 1970s these stores would have a lunch counter or a snack bar, and would sell many kinds of items. In the US, drug stores not only have pharmacies (although not always), but sell non-prescription drugs, cosmetics, food, books and magazines, toys, seasonal items, and more.
Also the most common way you will come across them is not actual shops, but these little Tchibo shelfs in normal supermarkets/grocery stores...
Tchibo kind of sounds like Cracker Barrel! They have food , but also a gift shop with clothes, home decor, candy, and other miscellaneous items.
@@TypoKnig Tchibo is a coffee brand and coffee retail store but they started to sell other items as well to make some extra money. They change the products weekly. They find something that they think might sell well whatever kind of product it is and a week later they move on to other products to make a quick few bugs, or million bugs. I think it is one of a kind and an interesting business strategy
@@dakotarose8207 sounds about right
Wolpertinger. You mean Wolpertinger. Very Bavarian, but also known in parts of Austria.
Something similar, but bird-based "exists" in the Pfalz region: The Elwetrittsch!
I remember that even in Guildwars 2, actually and american Online Roleplay Game, there was a quest where we had to hunt a Wolpertinger.
However i played it in german, so i don't know how they named it in the english version.
4:56
Here in Baden-Württemberg also known
Parts of Austria? All over Austria we know this special creature! ;-))
I wanna see, “Is my German husband an asshole or just honest?” 😂
Dana, you make me proud of Germany. As a German I was very sceptical about Germany and any kind of national pride. By your videos I learned to see my country from a different point of view, and bit by bit I found things to be proud of.
I‘m proud of people like you loving the Germans and their county.
To write down ideas you get in the shower, get a grease pencil.
You can write the idea on the wall of the shower, then transfer it to paper when you dry off, then clean off the grease marks.
Kholpencil, Kajal works
Anyone else thought immediately of Bielefeld when she talked about Wuppertal as an existing place? Such a great chance missed for a very german joke 😄
Yep, wanted to write that comment like right now. 🤣
You're not kidding when you say it's a very German joke--I don't get it.
@@bigscarysteve en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bielefeld_Conspiracy
@@MoDKoP Thanks!
5 things Germans are super proud of:
- bread
- beer
- social system
- Vergangenheitsbewältigung
- economy
I would add in cake as well but that might be too many baked goods still :D
Hahaha, welche Vergangenheitsbewältigung, guter Witz, hahaha!
@@Diddmaster jede Menge Vergangenheitsbewältigung! Mehr davon, als die restliche Welt, die genau so viel Anlass dazu hätte, zusammen.
Problem ist nur, dass Arendt´s Schlussfolgerung u.a. aus dem Eichmann-Prozess, dass eine menschenverachtende Gesinnung durch Bildung modifiziert oder gar aufgelöst werden könnte, offensichtlich BS ist - die Erfahrung mit der ganzen Vergangenheitsbewältigung ist vielmehr: Alles was Bildung aus einem Arschloch macht, ist ein gebildetes Arschloch.
I would add: proud of cars/car brands and probably sausages
@@Diddmaster Hätte ich früher auch gefragt, aber mittlerweile, gerade wenn man diese ganzen Amerikaner in Deutschland Videos sieht, dann denkt man irgendwann doch das in Sachen Rasissmus es her im Vergleich zur USA verdammt gut aussieht, genaus beim Thema Gleichberechtigung.
Was nicht heissen soll das alles super ist, schliesslich gibts immer noch Nazis, die AFD und jede Menge anderer Probleme, aber verglichen mit anderen Ländern hat sich hier schon einiges getan.
Auch wenn so Theman wie die Amerikanisch Flagge aufkommen die in den USA überall rumhängt, sowas will hier wohl kaum noch wer sehen, und allgemein habe ich das Gefühl das hier nicht mehr viele dazu zu bewegen wären für das "Vaterland" in irgendnen Krieg zu ziehen.
Fall begins on the autumnal equinox, some time between September 21 and September 24.
Season changes are not mysterious, they are marked by the longest day, the shortest day and the two equinoxes.
If you note the position of the sun at noon every day for a year it will form a sort of figure 8 in the sky. Spring and fall begin where the line of the figure 8 crosses itself and summer and winter begin at the far side of each loop.
You described the astronomical autumn, to be precise you should add the hours. There are also the colloquial or calendar autumn from sept 21 to dec 20 and the meteorological autumn from sept 1 to nov 30.
I think Dana was probably thinking of the change in the weather, which at least where I live, is quite unpredictable as to exactly when it will happen.
bread / Brötchen + 6:25 : local beer, soccer team, the level of acceptance and understanding towards others, their region, well-travelledness: the places they have been to. P.S.: I adore Katzenzungen, even though I am not German.
The 'Saying any German words' video could be that you ask your viewers to come up with the hardest to pronounce german words and you have to try and pronounce them in a video- maybe Stefan could score you. I think it would be a great video idea!
5 things...
1) bread - as you said
2) Wurst / Aufschnitt
3) German cars (most of us still think, they are the best)
4) our forests (don't know wether there are many other countries with as many songs and poems about their forests, although most of them --> origin 19th century and before)
5) that finally we have learned to be proud without being chauvinistic.
The thing with "W" is the Wolpertinger. Since you are living in Munich right now, when the mueseums open up again, you should visit the "Jagd- und Fischereimuseum", they have some info about them there. When standing on the Marienplatz, walk along the Kaufingerstraße in the direction of the Karlsplatz, and halfway it becomes the Neuhauser Straße. At exactly that point is the museum. Have fun.
Hier noch ein paar Essens-Tips: Falscher Hase, Schlotengel, Saure Zipfel, Verlorene Eier, Arme Ritter, Bienenstich, Granatsplitter, Donauwellen, Scheiterhaufen
Lecker!
There's this story about Billy Wilder. He often had dreams about great stories for movies, that he couldn't remember the next morning. Finally, he put pen and paper on his nightstand and promptly had a dream about what he knew to be the greatest story ever told. He woke up in the middle of the night, wrote it down and went back to sleep. The next morning he read what he had written: "Boy loves girl, girl loves boy."
Tchibo was originally just a coffee importer, but in 1955, well before starbucks, it opened branches where you could try and drink the coffee. Much later, other non-coffee products were added. Tchibo is now one of the largest German consumer goods and retail companies. There are e.g. also Tchibo Reisen and green electricity.
Grund Gezetz = literally Basic Law. Germany’s constitution wasn’t called verfassung because the framers didn’t want a situation of permanence attached to it during the Cold War but it became permanent anyway upon reunification in 1990 because there was little time to replace it and since it worked, why get rid of it. Turned out to be a good house for all Germans.
Many people do have difficulties to explain the concept of Tchibo. In fact I doubt that Tchibo's board members would be able to. It's kind of a marketing idea gone wild: It started as an one-brand one-product chain selling coffee. Then they added coffee-making accessories and equipment, then the same for tea, then random merchandising articles and cheap watches and ... they never stopped.
"Katzenzungen" is just milk chocolate like any other. As a child I loved "cat tongues". However, I always had to share one with my sister (it was cut exactly in the middle with a knife). Unfortunately there was only one cat face on one half, so my father "carved" a cat face with a knife on the other half. So I have only fond memories of "cat tongues".
cat tongues here in Italy too, but are not made of chocolate, more like sugar&butter I think.
the name comes from the shape I believe
not from the taste I hope
Actually, to write down ideas I use a Moleskine booklet, with blanc pages and musiclines. But since ideas always come unpredicted, the house is filled with newspapers, envelopes, beercoasters and little pieces of paper with scribblings on them. Sometimes I transfer them all to the Moleskine, but sometimes I just hold on to the scribblings. And yes, it doesn't happen often, but sometimes I forget what the idea is about. But mostly it just turns out to be a not so good idea.
Tschibo was originally a coffee brand like Eduscho or Jacobs, you name it. At one point in time some higher up of the Tschibo company thought it was a good idea to expand their product line. It's pretty much the same as with gas stations here in Germany. Believe it or not but there was a time when the only things you could get at a German gas station was gasoline, air for the tires, cooling water, motor oil and a car wash.
"Obazda" = Bavarian for "Angebatzter"
Biergarten - allowed: Bring your own food, like "Obazda".
Forbidden: Bring your own beverages, like beer.
nicht an- sondern abgepatzter: wäre es angepatzter, dann wäre das offene "o" am Anfang nasal!
Maybe the beer garden one is because in bavaria as far as I know in some beer gardens you can bring your own food you just have to buy the drinks there
Proud of beer, health Insurance and health system, german standards
Cars! The Autobahn! Exportweltmeister?
@@irian42 Autobahn and Exports, yes. But Cars ? We passed the chance to pushing forward new technology and the way we design and produce with traditional car company is outdated. I fear that we will lost the trademarks.
@@Alex-eu6kn In a way you are not wrong. However this "E-" boom to me, personally, reflects only a riift between big cities and - everyone else - including all the working people coming from.. all the smaller towns along a 50km or even larger range.
For a normal person such a car only makes sense, if they can charge that overnight in front of their home, so it's always ready to go....
And for longer distances, it should not require 30 minutes or more at an effin Rasthof, that you just want to get away from, to charge even enough for the rest of the one way trip. Not even mentioning the issues with it's components overall....
But you are not wrong: It would seem sad, to say the least, that we did not come up/promoted more alternative/ kombi solutions.
free education
Tchibo - no "s" please.
Mahlzeit - what people wish themselves when going to a noon break, supper, or when meeting around noon (opposite to "Guten Morgen/Abend")
Tchibo: that their shops sell other stuff than coffeee according to weekly "themes" and that you can maybe find these items in the shops for 2 weeks usually and not longer, but there is also an online shop you may be lucky for longer. And that the themes are sometimes seasonal and sometimes aren't. That some supermarkets have a Tchibo corner, and that most sell their coffee brand. Love their pj's btw 😂
But it is interesting that you can get to Tchibo in the internet even with the wrong spelling "Tschibo". The guys from Tchibo must have foreseen this mistake! - - - "Na Mahlzeit" or "Prost Mahlzeit" you can say when something bad happend! :-)
Yeah, except some people greet your with „Mahlzeit“ at work at 7am, because they‘re annoying.
@@samiraansari5686 lolz. They may also be trying to avoid outing themselves in terms of conservative/non-conservative by choosing this third greeting over the culturally loaded Grüß Gott vs. Guten Tag/Morgen. Everyone needs to eat after all. 😘
"Mahlzeit" is short for "gesegnete Mahlzeit", by the way.
I choose the following two (after all, this was a menu, right?)
- Please tell us more about your shower thoughts
- Please do the video about the fountains in Munich
Your "Wuppertaler" was definitely a (pronounceably challenged) Wolpertinger . I strongly recommend to visit the "Valentin Musäum" at the Isartor. They have a few samples of this very rare species :-) and many more interesting insights into our Bavarian culture.
I think I know the origin of the Katzenzunge name. It was an elongated biscuit made with coarse sugar. The surface of it very much felt like the tongue of a cat. The French called it therefore langue-de-chat, which means Katzenzunge, cat's tongue. It seems that only in Germany and Austria is it covered with chocolate, or even made only of chocolate.
I cracked up about the Tupperware “hat.”🤣🤣🤣
3:31 I think even Tchibo has trouble explaining the concept of Tchibo.
As a bavarian living in Wuppertal I know, that Wuppertal is no fake thing. Wuppertal is a city with 300.000 inhabitants. I think you meant the famous Wolpertinger. A creature you can see in the Deutsches Jagd- und Fischereimuseum at Neuhauser Strasse in Munich.
Tschibo started out as a coffee brand. Now they mostly sell everything but coffee. ☺
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haven't laughed so much for a long time, because I also write down very often ideas and thoughts on random notes that I later don't understand anymore and I know all this weird "hä?", "what?" and "????" that goes through the brain then. "Hello me, remember, this must have been a really cool idea, considering the words there, but somehow I feel it was just a dumb idea, or what now???".
05:23 - The _"Wupper-Tang-Clan"!_ 😂
I guess the special thing about Tchibo can be explained by their slogan "jede woche eine neue welt" - they do have new products or "themenwelten" pretty regularly. And of course the coffee which is pretty good id say
After the shops close ...the sidewalks are folded up.
I don't know if this holds true in Munich's city center, but definitely so in my small hometown. After the shops close, you see hardly anyone in the streets, it's like the sideways were folded up.
"Um sechs werden hier die Bürgersteige hochgeklappt."
In America, we joke that "they roll up the sidewalks" as a way of saying that a town is dead after the shops close.
Dana double spacing her lines like I did trying to hit a word count at University.
I've had so many good ideas, really good ideas, that have come to me. I bought a notebook once just so I could write them down and whenever I have a good idea I always think there's no point writing it down because it's such a good one I'll remember it. Then I forget entirely. Again.
My wife's grandparents had a textile factory in Wuppertal. I'll have to break the news to her that neither the factory nor her grandparents actually existed. :-D
I want videos about each of the topics NOW!!!
When Autumn geginns (or any other season for that matter) definitely deserves a video.
1. Bread
2. Kehrwoche
3. Reinheitsgebot
4. German Engineering
5. complaining about EVERYTHING
You are weird - love you ever more!
Tchibo is a coffee brand turned into coffee stores selling byproducts.
Wuppertal is NOT the fictive town, that's Bielefeld. I even have a fictive cousin there ;)
Others pointed to the Wolpertinger.
"The List":
- bread
- beer
- tribal belonging
- cars / engineering
- Wirtschaftswunder
health care system
Compared to the us - sure. But I’ve never heard a German saying “our health system is so amazing ” rather “these stupid Privatversicheten ALWAYS get straight to the doctor and also get better/single rooms [in a hospital]”
@@maxw1567 Amazing? Maybe not but for sure a lot of people think the health system is realy good. There are people with a look outside of germany and see what we have.
I tried to explain Tschibo to my husband (from the US) the other day... it was MUCH harder than I expected, hahaa...
There’s a hat store called Lids if that makes you feel any better about blanking that one time!
I am really bad with writing down ideas, but I recently started a word document to write down story ideas, so I hope I'll keep that up
you've meant the "Wolpertinger". A nonexistent fantasy creature. In Wuppertal once was an incident with an elephant falling out of the "Schwebebahn" - the floating train -wich is a train that hangs from its tracks. :-D
Germans are proud of:
- Their bread
- Angie
- Zuse Z3
- Their kissing skills
- synthetic neutron stars & black holes (soon!)
Bread, Aldi, beer, Wurst (which is more than only sausages), cars, cars, cars. That's seven, right?
Germans got only one, never seen mystical animal: die "Eierlegende Wollmichsau" ... hard to translate :-)
Tchibo is a coffee brand with individual shops selling special offers too
How about "kalter Hund" for "creepy German sweets"?
And you might also talk about "creepy German dishes" like "Tote Oma". :-)
The creepiest German dish I ever encountered was Haferflockensuppe. I thought it looked like bird droppings! (And it tasted terrible, too!)
@@bigscarysteve However, it's just porridge and as such, more Scottish/English than German.
@@roesi1985 Not that I'd ever had porridge before or since, or am familiar with English or Scottish cuisine.
As a german I really dislike when someone answers with "I dont care" when I ask there opinion. I asked because I wanted you to think about it. But maybe Im just a very weird person xD
But what if you ask about something I honestly have no knowledge of or interest in? Though my response would usually be more like "I have nothing to base an opinion on."
Be careful. This is a mistake that too many of us make in the United States, so don't be mislead. In the English language, there are three different types of "there" and you just used the wrong one. The word "there" points in a direction. It is the opposite of "here." If, on the other hand, you are talking about something that belongs to someone, like an opinion, for example, then you want the word "their."
Things that belong to me are _my_ things.
Things that belong to you are _your_ things.
Things that belong to us are _our_ things.
Things that belong to them are _their_ things.
Sometimes there are things I really don't care about. If you asked me what city the Musikantenstadl should play next, I litaraly don't care and no matter how much I think of it I wouldn't gain an opinion
@@lemonjuice1988 I mean, that‘s fair, but I feel like I’m some cases you should still say something. My father always makes the mistake of saying „I don‘t care“ when my mum is buying jewelry or something and asks him „Which earrings do you like better?“ or „Should I get this?“.
I mean, it‘s probably true that he doesn‘t care and doesn‘t have an opinion, but you would think that after 25 years of marriage he would have learned that saying „I don‘t care“ only leads to her sulking for the rest of the day.
So sometimes, even if you genuinely don‘t care, you should still come up with an answer when asked.
@@samiraansari5686 on the other hand: after so many years, she should know by now that he really doesn´t care and quit asking this same useless question over and over again.
or maybe next time he should tell her that if she don´t stop wasting money on this useless crap he will search custody over her for her shopping compulsion.
"weird" = skilled in witchcraft! (lock into an old dictionary of the 19th century, or older)
True, but moribund.
I write my ideas on my phone, because I have like 515283 journals, and I know I won’t remember which one it’s in.
Your "Wuppertal"-Word might be the Wolpertinger (especially "popular" in Bavaria but also known in other places).
Tchibo is also a brand for differnt kinds of products offered in different other stores.
Additional Creepy German Foods:
Schweineohren (pig ears)
Kalter Hund (cold dog)
Pfauenaugen (peackock eyes)
Katzenzungen arent even Germna (only), I thought so too, but they have them in France as well (I assume they might even come from there, as food things do often), and I think Italy too
5 Dinge (oder mehr), auf die wir stolz sind:
-Schwarzbrot
-Graubrot
-Bauernbrot
-Vollkornbrot
-Mehrkornbrot
-Roggenbrot
-Dinkelbrot
-Steinofenbrot
-Krustenbrot
-Semmeln/Brötchen
-Brezen
-Pumpernickel
😉 wir lieben einfach unsere Brotvielfalt
Obatzda or other variants. Basically, spell it how you want. There is no fixed spelling for dialect words.
I have written in my notes app, "departing compassion from kindness..." what does that even MEAN
I always find those weird attitude videos funny .. because you come from a very different culture. When I look at Germany, i do not see all those differences, because Germany .. at its core - really isnt that different from the Nordic countries. We share a much more common denominator - also mostly the same consumer goods.
Also, i loved your note about "your German husband.. " =P
As for Croissants .. maybe you dislike the German type (i think they call them Hornchen - glad i only need to write it, because i cannot pronounce it). When i was in Germany, they sell those in bakeries. They are the same shape .. but use a very different dough. They are sweeter and more dense, while the real French croissant is fluffy and very buttery. I guess one is meant to be a sweet/biscuit - the other a breakfast item.
I do this all the time! 😂 I have notes on my phone, and scraps of paper (LOTS) that sometimes I really have to think about what I meant!
I m first 🙋🏼♀️ I think we are proud of bread, beer, cars (washing every saturday 🤦🏼♀️) and engineering.
You dont like beer and soccer? Thats OK. But how can you not like croissants? Thats really weird!!!!
I never cared about soccer, i like beer but for some reasons haven't drunk any beer since maybe 10-15 years already.
Crossaints ? Why is that even a thing here, as far as i know they are french.
I totally agree with Dana here.
I don't like soccer (anymore), beer tastes bad (and all alike).
Croissants are okay-ish. Not bad, but not really good.
@@beldin2987 Germans love their pastries!!! The origins are french, but we have the best bakeries in the world :D
@@uweneudecker5078 Croissants might be most popular in France, but they were actually invented in Austria--to celebrate the defeat of the Turks in battle in the 1600's.
@@beldin2987 The French think so, but we know better.
3:42 Dazu fällt mir ein lustiges Bild ein: Autofahrer-Reaktionen, wenn die erste Schneeflocke fällt. twitter.com/alpenheinrich/status/1064447180281389056
"Five things Germans are super proud of:"
"-Bread"
🤔 Well now, they _have_ five different types of bread in Germany, don't they?
over 3000, actually...
Haha! Obviously your system of taking down notes for video ideas needs some improvement! 😀 anyways, it‘s good to see you laugh!
I can only think of the Wolpertinger as a mythical creature.
Pretty much any Halloween candy. Eyeballs for example.
Creature: Wolpertinger (its a big, bad, scary chicken that turns you into stone ifu look at it, works like the medusa, way to defeat it is also the same)
No, in most regions it is rather a carnivorous rabbit with wings and feathers and antlers and long fangs. Very creepy even if already dead and stuffed and not longer able to turn you completely into stone.
Check out the old packaging of Maoam for creepy (or at least weird) German sweets
Germans Very Proud of:
- Bread
- Beer
- Following the rules
- Being Punctual
- Christmas Markets
Okay, so I‘m currently working on a book (ya fantasy) and I do not write down ideas often enough but my notes app is filled with really weird stuff anyways. Also, I like to comment my ideas and I always thought that‘s really stupid until I went through my commented ideas and had a really really good laugh
Fall/Autumn begins with the first leaf falling.
Mostly my ideas are melodies, so I end up audio recording on my phone and start recording melodies even in the middle of the night.
Fall begins officially (calendar date) on on September 22nd in the northern hemisphere, by calendar. Meteorologically it starts on September 1st and ends on November 30th.
I'd say meteorolgically, it depends on the weather.
1. Dana's mind isn't weird--that's how my mind works too! 2. Dana has quite a backlog of videos I haven't watched! What I find weird is that I first learned of RUclips in 2010, but I didn't watch it very much until about two years ago because about all it ever suggested to me was funny cat videos--even though I was searching for things like "language" and "inguistics." (Did RUclips upgrade their search function significantly two years ago? That's when I suddenly started getting an avalanche of suggestions of things I was interested in.) Curiously, I used to get suggestions for lots of different users' versions of something called "the dialect challenge," and now I can't even find a single one of those any more. 3. How Germany crushed my pizza dreams--it was when I figured out that Germany (and most of Europe, really) viewed pizza as a way to get rid of leftovers rather than as a treat. 4. What are Germans more proud of than their beer?!?! 5. Dana doesn't like beer? I don't drink beer because I was raised in a church which forbids alcohol consumption. I thought Germans would respect my religious beliefs, but no, all I ever got was ridicule. Actually, it wasn't just that--it was more like Germans ridiculed me for taking my religious beliefs seriously at all.
Weird is beautiful 😇
Chibo is like Corte Ingles in Spain it's like an upscale Target with a food court and grocery store in one
Where is that?
Fall officially begins 21.09., three months before the shortest day, 21.12., which is official begin of winter.
Tchibo has the best thermal leggins. And they have good coffe to drink (a bit cheaper than most cafés) but no toilet. And it always annoys the heck out of me if people spell it with an "s"
Ich glaube, die bayrischen Wolpertinger und der norddeutsche Klabautermann haben gemeinsame Großeltern. Nicht zu vergessen die kölner Heinzelmännchen. :-)
Five Things? What about bread, beer (deutsches Reinheitsgebot), german efficiency, health care, goethe, schiller, beethoven, bach..., engineering, cars, inventions, general "made in germany" products...
Wolpertinger.... Or maybe you meant Bielefeld? 😂
You often hear or read that Germans are very proud that the whole world thinks that German bread is the best. Interesting! The French are often convinced, that it is French Bread that has the best reputation all over the world. A good topic for a video!
Ich glaube, du meintest den Wolpertinger! ;-) Dazu würde auch noch die 'eierlegende Wollmilchsau' passen! :-D
How do you translate American bad words into German
Pizza is NOT the same from America to Germany at all.
Sausages, Döner kebab, Christmas markets, cars, beer, ...
And since croissants are french, everyone is fine with you don‘t like them. But if you don‘t like them, you should give „Kipferl“ a try. And I don‘t mean the Christmas cookies names Vanille Kipferl. 😉
Croissants were invented in Austria, not France.
Please attack the prejudice that we all Germans are bavarians. People in the USA only know something about the small region Bavaria. :-)
Would you please refrain from calling our region "short"!
Thank you.
🤣
Each German regional country (Bundesland) and within, partly in between two or several of these, hast their own tribal culture. This is similar to the US or other countries. Bread i.e. means different. In the North it's often dark and more healthy than in the other parts of our country (Schwarzbrot, Vollkornbrot) but we have less breweries here than in Bavaria. Social Security as a topic is endless and yes, there is a sort of proudness. Having secure streets is a standard not so often mentioned. State authorities tend to be more just and less to be bribed than in many other countries. Downside for foreigners: there is nearly no option to "talk down" If you get caught by police or traffic wardens, best example is wrong or no parking spot at all. Either one pays or will get into real trouble. Generally law and obedience hereto / within is a topic discussed. To me these things are important to defend or being defended. Sometimes it is awkward to live in Germany. So much for now.
@@AndersGehtsdochauch short is wrong . i actually meant small. Hahaha sorry ... no it is not really small but just only 1 of 16 federal states.
@@Alex-eu6kn Yes that's true... 😉 and I do admit that Bavarian culture often differs a lot from the rest of Germany, so it's not really that typical. After all, we're a multi-ethnic (multi-tribe?) nation from the beginnings on. 🙂
I would call it a misconception rather than a prejudice, but you are right. I think the misconception comes from the fact that a lot of Bavarian cultural things are more "over the top" than in the rest of Germany, so when an artist or a filmmaker wants to suggest Germanness without a lot of effort, they show a Bavarian.
Interjections like "him", "aha", "oha!" Etc?
A suggestion weird food combinations that most Germans take for granted
Like for instance in America our peanut butter and jelly sandwich is a oddity to Europeans how we drink most of our drinks with a lot of ice ,what are some German foods we might have a hard time wrapping our palates around like the European habit of putting mayonnaise on fries or drinking room temperature beer! But be specific to Germany 🇩🇪.
Tchibo (no s in there) is a concept that we ourselves do not get but cherish lol but es, originally it was a pure coffee store (not the Dutch version btw)
Pizza is meant to be like it is in Italy, thus the American thick, cheese filled crust, kind of thing is not a real thing here ... though there are Pizza Hut stores around ... btw I am usually a Pizza fundamentalist, but still allow "Hawaii Pizza" with pineapples ... sorrryyyyy
Cleaning products in Germany are often way less effective to environmental and health concerns ... you w´might have noticed how long detergents still smell in the clothes when washed in the US while here it fades rather quickly and chlorine based cleaning products are less intense very often here
"Mahlzeit" is basically translated to "meal" as in "3 meals a day", however it is used as a greeting formular, too. Here it has two different meanings depending on the reagions ... in the more northern regions like NRW or further north, we used it as a rather inexplicit greeting, a bit like "Hello", however it originally is rather a "Guten Appetit" kind of greeting in the south and I think it deriits from that
Yes you meant the Wolpertinger which is a southern thing from Bavaria and Austria, they did not spread further north ... in Texas the Jack-A-Lope is pretty much a relative to it though
things Germans are proud of ... bread, cars, beer (Reinheitsgebot!!!), ... did I mention cars and bread?? lol we are not that much into the "Germany is best" kind of patriotism, of course due to the not so distant history, but I think also kind of due to the way Germany developed as a loose combination of different kingdoms that did not directly like each other too much
Katzenzungen, Lakritzschnecken, Schulkreide, ... there are some of those ...
regarding your unpopular opinions, well Croissants are French, which makes your opinion less unpopular bei definition (I love them though), soccer (FOOTBALL why are you calling a sport that is played mainly using the hands on the ball even football??) is a weird thing ... it can be like watching paint dry, but then it is more a cultural thing like Baseball or in England even worse Cricket, so I can relate that it is even harder to watch, if you did not grew up with it ... last the beer thingy ... I do not drink beer and IF I drink beer, I am worse than you, I then would rather have a Guiness than German beers ...
Questions regarding your opinion are usually questions that expect your opinion as an answer, not so much a soft washed, sweetened filtered political answer (but they too might afterwards start a full blown argument about well arguments pro and contra over it)
The borderline between being a bit too honest or a bit of an arse us pretty thin in Germany I fear ... do not stop loving him over it ;)
Last one about Munich (or any other city with pedestrian zone) will likely be related to urban people (used and likely still do) have the habit of going for a walk and do a "Schaufensterbummel" where you just walk around town, admire the exhibits in the shop windows, enjoy the architecture and atmosphere (and maybe stop by in one of the dozends of cafes, restaurants and bars, rather than just wlak through the recreational parks ...
good luck with retrieving the reasons behind your other ideas, sounds like you have a lot of projects to do still ;)
Tell the people from USA about the difference regarding quantity of day offs in comparison to Germany and what happens if you getting ill during your day off. Our economic is stable enough to carry this regulation. This is completely different. I recognized it during conversions with my american colleagues. I am proud of this, too.
I have three books full of app ideas.
Have you ever tried Laugencroissants?
I love Laugencroissants, when in the mood for somthing salty. And French croissants for something buttery and slightly sweet.
@@marmotarchivist I am also a big cheese fan. Might not be for everyone but a laugencroissant with some blue cheese on it... 😋
Hey Dana, ich habe dich gestern im Radio gehört bei SWR 3.You talking about HOMOFFICE.Deinen Namen habe ich nicht gehört, aber deine Stimme habe ich sofort erkannt,So nice L.Y
10:30 Basically my University Diploma thesis. Or any important document.
Those damned text editor programs (I used LaTex, but MS Word seems to be no different) change the content, and orthography on saving your files. :-/
So, you have a dust bucket list ...
Ich habe 2 Ideen: 1. Wuppertal! Ich hatte mal eine amerikanische Freundin und wir fuhren mal mit meinem Auto auf der A3 über die Autobahnbrücke "Neandertal"; es war mir fast unmöglich, ihr zu erklären, daß Neandertal " the valley of the river Neander" ist, sie kriegte das nicht in ihren Kopf rein: Neandertal war für sie ein komisch klingender Begriff für komisch aussehende Vormenschen! Kann es sein, daß das Wort Wuppertal bei Dir so was ähnliches ausgelöst hat: irgendein komisches deutsches Wort für irgendeine komische Kreatur?
2. wieviel Bier kann man kaufen: ich war vor einigen Jahren in Cincinnati, da gab es mal auf dem Zentralplatz so eine Art Kirmes, eingezäunt mit Stacheldraht, wo u.a. Leute mit Lederhosen und Schwarzwaldhüten "Krautburger" verkauften und meinten, das seien deutsche Spezialitäten; da konnte man auch Bier trinken (deswegen der Stacheldraht!); wir standen da in einer größeren Gruppe und einige wenige wollten für alle Bier holen, damit nicht alle sich anstellen mußten (so ist das hier selbstverständlich, man holt soviel Bier, wie man tragen kann): die Amis waren entsetzt über diesen Versuch und man machte uns schon ein bischen aggressiv klar, daß natürlich jeder nur ein Bier am Bierstand kaufen kann! Kann es sein, daß sich Deine Frage auf soetwas bezog?
The trains run on time in Germany..........and they are very proud of that.
I would say most Germans are proud of German beer.
That seemed to me like the obvious #1 choice.
@@bigscarysteve I dont drink beer so it is just what I observe.
@@folkehoffmann1198 Me too.
I do really think you should have made a video about the interjections though!
Creepy german sweets? Those gummy eyeballs for halloween. But I wouldn't guess those don't exist in America.
The fake animal is called Wolpertinger!