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People not knowing what Glühwein is makes me genuinely upset. Everybody in the world knows about our _stupid_ cars but not Glühwein? We failed humanity...
I live in Greece and my daughter takes some private lessons to prepare for her exams and her teacher asked, if he could have Glühwein and Plätzchen for Christmas and I felt culturally so valued and recognised 😊
@@helgaioannidis9365 You have no idea how happy that makes me. I hope you could help him out. But where the hell do you get your hands on Glühwein in Greece?
That’s because it’s called „mulled wine“ in English. But yeah, the world should call it Glühwein 😉
@@K__a__M__I I make it myself. I've never bought ready Glühwein. I grew up on homemade Glühwein. And it's easy to find all ingredients here in Greece, especially lemons and dry, red wine. I posted the recipe a bit further up 😊
@@helgaioannidis9365 Oh that's even better. Thank you for your service!
"Why isn't that a thing over here?"
Because you guys can't fucking chill 😂
You'll try to put it over the top with stands outperforming each other in Xmas-ness thereby killing it. The magic of the Christmas market comes from the cosyness, the calmness, the simplicity of wood and warm lights.
Oh, and drinking in public.
Caramelized, deep fried, authentic™ _Gloovyne_ with added corn-syrup! On a stick! Next to the gun range! Drink 20 gallons and get your next red plastic cup for 25% off!
USA! USA! USA!
Especially the drinking in public
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You can make Glühwein yourself, it's easy. 1L of cheap, dry, red wine, a piece of lemon cest, 10-12 tablespoons of sugar, about 1 spoon of cinnamon and 3-4 cloves. You heat everything up but make sure it won't boil (boiling makes it go bitter).
This is the recipe from my great grandmother's cookbook written in 1895.
Advice about the sugar: add slowly and keep trying until you have the sweetness you like, because not everyone likes it the same. You can also add more cinnamon if you like it.
The wine may be cheep, but you should like it's taste 😉
In Düsseldorf, where I am living, some of the Glühwein-Buden are run by winegrowers. We also have white mulled wine and the mulled wine is clearly better when the wine is tasty. But you'd nerver use a really rare or expensive wine for it.
@@TierchenF95 yes of course, cheap, but not bad 😁
But it's important it's not a sweet, but a dry wine 🍷
NEVER use cheap wine. Only good wine makes the "Gluehwine" good. All other is BS!
@@stefanhaler3318 you mean you use wine that costs more than 20€ a bottle?! 😮
@@helgaioannidis9365 no, never. A good german red wine will cost about 4 to 8 €. All others are for to drink pure. And NEVER add sugar.
I've never heard about erotic christmas markets and I'm glad I haven't, but the first thing that came to mind was: "of course it's in Berlin." :'D
Edit: Also, her English is insanely good, I was surprised when she spoke perfect German as well. :D
Merry Christmas Ryan and everyone else! 🎄
I think at international DW the hosts need to be near a level of native bilinguals. Never saw a DW video and thought "ugh, that accent is cringe"
She's half scottish so her english should - at least in theory - be adequate.
I've never heard of them either and I'm from Berlin ^^"
she is also insanely beautiful
That’s because they’re an invention of Hamburgs red light district initially.
People usually don't know that Germans LOVE Christmas. We celebrate Christmas for up to 5 weeks.
Do WE tough ? I also know a Lot of families where hell Breaks lose on them in this time , anualy.
I guess its 50:50
@@kg7026 I guess it`s more that we WANT to love it, but it doesn`t always work out, wich makes the entire situation even worse :(
I think we hate it but go along with it because we get a reason to drink unhealthy amounts.
When you were blushing about the erotic Christmas market and talking about "right when i'm done talking about the family friendly atmosphere" i got the image in my head of a tourist family trying to experience the classic Christmas market and landing in one of those. I can't imagine the culture shock.🤣😂 But honestly til i watched your video i never hear of an erotic Christmas market either. So they seem to be a really rare event.
In the US the children were brought by the storks !
That was a very American reaction 😂.
Here in Hamburg "Santa Pauli" christmas market is fenced and has age control at the entrances. You need to be at least 18 to go in and enjoy your mulled wine while watching striptease on stage :-)
Neither did I, never heard of one 😂
@@kuebbisch Is it on the "Reeperbahn"? That was the first thing that came to my mind when they talked about Hamburgs erotic Christmas market.
Christmas Markets are of course overpriced. But you pay for the experience and you don't really need to shop. It is mostly handcraft and tinsel, but why not? They also are good for some last-minute complementary gift shopping. You can even haggle a bit, which is something very un-german. Most people get double salary November or December by default so they got a bit more to spend than usual.
Well, Christmas for me is not only time of Christmas markets. I was a firefighter for 25 years and thought about how I could help people in need after that time. That's when I came to the decision to join the German Federal Agency for Technical Relief. That way I can continue to help people in need. Don't forget, Christmas should also be a time for charity.
In Siegburg, but also in some other towns, there is a medieval styled Christmas market which is quite awesome
And I also think it is very funny, that it is 10:31 a.m. in germany
Korrekt
That "Stollen girl" is comparable to the tradition of the "wine queen" (look it up in Wikipedia). In both cases, one person is selected as an ambassador for the product and its tradition for one season, until the next person takes over. It's a really big deal in the corresponding regions, and the rest of the country basically just shrugs their shoulders.
Fröhliche Weihnachten, Digga. Wir wünschen dir und deiner Familie ein frohes Fest und bedanken uns für diesen so angenehm charmanten Kanal.
Next week, a reaction to Dinner For One, maybe? :D German New Year's Eve tradition?
Or "Dinner for Brot" for the added culture shock... 😄
Ryan I seriously LOVE your reaction Videos about Germany! YOU Sir are AMAZING
You can get Glühwein at Aldi. I bought it when I was living in NC. It comes in a bottle, just heat it up in a pot. Make sure not to cook it, just heading. Enjoy!
Consider mixing 2 parts of prepacked Glühwein with 1 part of orange juice (smooth). Tends to improve the results
Habt schöne Weihnachten!
Danke dir auch
Dir auch
Danke! Dir auch schöne Weihnachten! ☺️
Du auch! :)
Oh well Christmas markets are so wonderful
Now i cant forget that "sus"candle
WARUM BERLIN?
My reaction was more "of course berlin"
I usually keep the mug! 😏🥰
Do not worry, in most cities, you have traditional normal Christmas markets which are very family friendly. I go to the one in my town every year, and the children are always amazed about it.
I’m from Dresden, we have quite a few here and the one in the video is the oldest Christmas market worldwide. I always sing there with my children’s choir and visit at least twice a year with family or friends.
Many Mens in Germany hates Christmas Shopping, - me too ;)
Today is the 24th which is cristmas eve for us in Germany. In a couple of hours we will be sitting in the living room next to our cristmas tree and exchange presents. The next 2 days are holidays as well and I will be visiting the rest of my family doing the same. With that being said, a merry cristmas to you and your family. I hope you have a great time together!
Dresden ♥️ I live there, just been on that Christmas market the last 3 days 😭 you should really finally visit Germany. Omg I’d love to see THAT kind of comment Videos of yours.
The food differs so freakin much of the area you re at. It’s still always an adventure for me as a German.
And the drinks too, they re different everywhere 😭♥️ I love it so much
Merry Christmas Ryan! To you and your family. Thank you for your videos!
Glühwein ( in Scandinavia known as 'Glögg' ) comes with either red wine or white whine today, spices like cinnamon, cloves,anis and orange or lemon peel as well as sugar added. The non alcoholic version ('Kinderpunsch' ) is made from apple or berry juice with the same kind of spices and sugar. In Scandinavia they also put raisins and chopped almonds into the mugs before filling them with the mulled wine. Merry Christmas to you, too !
Kinderwunsch is also delicious and also keeps you warm on a cold night
@@scarba kinder_w_unsch KEEPS you warm on a cold night 😂
@@tramper42 haha 🙄
@@scarba Kinderwunsch certainly keeps you warm at night - I agree. 🤣
@@grandmak. omg autocorrect is a menace but sometimes funny 😄
Continue to be so nice and likeable in your videos, people like to watch them. I wish you and your family a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.🌲🎁🎀🎇🎅 Greetings from northern Germany.
I wish you and your family a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 2023.
Busloads of Dutchies go off to visit the German Christmas markets every year. We have been to the one in Köln a few years ago and brought our mugs back home as a souvenir (as many do). Now more and more cities in the Netherlands are organising their own Christmas markets as well, although none as huge or grand as the original German ones.
Here in the Black Forest, it's rather busloads of french and swiss. We welcome the swiss, cause they have those cute accents and spend a lot. Not so much the french, cause they are french (that's a very regional love-hate relationship we have here).
Merry Christmas everybody 🎄✨
„Stampeded through the mall..“ 😂😂😂
Thanks from Germany 🤗
Merry Christmas to you and your family. I hope you're going to have a wonderful time. Thanks for all your videos this year. Greetings from Germany.
no mulled wine? no problem...you need 700ml red wine, 300ml water, half an orange, 6 cloves, 1 cinnamon stick, 9 tablespoons sugar.
preparation
Slice the oranges and stud with the cloves.
Then put the red wine, water, cinnamon sticks and sugar in a large saucepan and heat it up slowly (do not let it boil - just simmer) and stir regularly.
After about 10 minutes, the mulled wine can be served hot.
I drink it with a shot of rum, have fun
My Christmas tradition is to watch the movie "National Lampoon's" just before Christmas. It is and remains simply unmatched funny. 👍🏻😁
Fact about the mugs: In Dresden, they are usually limited to the market's year and therefore quite popular as a souvenir. The Pfand is about 4-5€. At other or inofficial markets, they may be free.
So even at our mini Christmas market, which is only half a day long, there are mugs and a corresponding deposit. Have never heard or experienced anything else 🤔
At my local Christmas market they are only 1€ and super pretty.
Have never been to a Christmas market where there is no deposit and the mugs are free. This is a huge business all over Germany, Austria, etc. Collecting mugs is now a hobby. Most places, the Pfand is 3-3.50€.
Frohe Weihnachten - merry Christmas, mate! Maybe some day we alle have to invite you here to visit several German Christmas Markets!
Definitely
3:21 oh year mit Schuss!!! I love this reaction :D
Ich liebe den Weihnachtsmarkt :D Freu' mich jedes Jahr drauf! Der schönste natürlich in Trier ;)
The stands (huts) are usually build by the city and rented out to (mostly) local shops and craftsmen. So that's how they stay pretty clean.
I am working on a Christmasmarket since 2010 and trust me… there are also crazy people. A LOT! You definitely need to grab your wife and Kids one day and come to Germany. I have never seen an american guy who has not been in Germany for a visit dedicating so much time to our Country, the Traditions and the little crazy things about germany and the germans! I really enjoy your channel! :-) KOMM NACH DEUTSCHLAND! :-)
9:20 That's exactly what he does. There are a few villages in the Ore Mountains not far away from Dresden, like Seiffen and Olbernhau, where those small wooden toys are made, most of them with the lathe. The church of Seiffen, unique because of its octagonal layout, can be found in hundreds of models. They also have open workshops (Schauwerkstätten), where you can watch the craftsmen and -women carving, lathing and gluing everything from the nutcracker to the pyramid and the Schwippbogen (a special type of candle holder. The candles sit on a bow, which encloses a wooden Christmas or Living in the mountains related panorama).
Unfortunately more and more people don´t value the traditional handmade products from Saxony (Pyramids, Schwippbogen, etc.) and Thuringia (Glas decorations from Lauscha) and buy some Chinese crap that was made using industrialized production methods. In my opinion the traditional handmade christmas decorations look way better and have so much better quality. I would always just buy a little less decorations, so that I can still afford it but go for the better handmade quality.
@@felixklusener5530 I recommend my friend's little shop in Leipzig, then. She's from the Erzgebirge and she can do almost everything. Her signature works are carved ostrich eggs made into a lamp, but she can also make carved wood figurines, sew costumes, paint and draw amazingly, make litlle felt animals, work with leather and plaster ...I somehow have the feeling that these artisan genes are innate to Erzgebirgians, somehow.
Regarding the deposit: the mugs are usually year-specific and a nice souvenier. If you come on a not so busy day in Dresden and ask friendly they might even exchange your used mug to a clean one if you want to take it home and not get your jacket pocket dirty.
It looks clean because we have stuff like “Stadtreinigung” cleaning the area each day
Merry Christmas Ryan and thanks a lot for all your contents.
Well I didn’t see it until the next Christmas, but thank you so much and merry Christmas!!!
Merry Christmas and a happy new year to you and your family! Thank you for your wonderful videos, they really brighten up my day!!
Merry Christmas to you and your loved ones. (Dir und deinen Lieben ein schönes und besinnliches Weihnachten) In Germany, the gift giving takes place on the evening of December 24th, after a good meal.
@@israelude6798 Sure why not spricht Du Deutsch?? Hehehe Sorry a littel joke
@@beyonderprime5020 Du solltest solchen Spam-Posts. die noch dazu ,eist betrügerisch sind, nicht antworten, sondern diese konsequent melden. Nur so verschwinden diese vielleicht irgendwann mal wieder.
Frohe Weihnachten
Wish you and your family a merry christmas Ryan 👋🎄
High Bayer! Frohes Fest aus dem hohen Norden!
@@winterlinde5395 Wünsche ich dir auch 😊🎄
you have to fight your way through grocery store in germany too during christmas time but the christmas market is there to be the opposite. just chill with your friends and family and enjoy the gathering in wonderful christmas vibe.
Merry Christmas to you too Ryan. Love your Videos.
Glühwein is the best. Until you weak up the next morning with the worst headache
Danke!
I found your channel a few weeks before and I just love the content keep it up
Frohe Weihnachten vom Süden Deutschlands./Merry Christmas from the south of Germany:)
"why is this not a thing over here?"
- maybe
1) It contains alcohol (-> restrictions for drinking in public)
2) It doesn't contain crushed ice
Merry Christmas to you too!
Merry christmas, for you Ryan, your wife and your son⭐🎄⭐
A very happy Christmas to you and your little family, too, Ryan
5:24 I think you are looking for the words „civilized“ and „culture“ or maybe „style“ which is rare in the US.
In Vancouver, Canada is a German Christmas Market :)
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you too. Greetings from Germany.
Hi Rayn, merry Christmas to you and your family.Greetings from germany.
Another tip: On January 6th, 2023, the season of the "Swabian Almanian Fasnacht" begins in Southwest Germany and ends on February 22nd, 2023. In the Black Forest, Upper Swabia, Swabian Alb, Upper Rhine, Lake Constance and also in Switzerland and parts of Austria there are many "Carnival parades" on the often very beautiful medieval towns. For example in the city of Rottweil (yes the dog breed comes from there). Just look on the internet at ....there you will find out the dates and the background of this tradition.
Ugh don't remind me. Every year some music Vereine would parade around my village (Unterkirnach, near Villingen-Schwenningen) at sun rise till whenever, playing "Katzenmusik". Worst way to be forcefully woken up tbh. And they only did that so that they could get a free shot at every bar, restaurant etc. And my parents would drag me and my sister to those parades that happened at different days in every village to catch some of that nasty tasting cheap sweets. They stopped doing that after that one time, when some witches dragged me away and tied me on their waggon and had vulgar dances around me for the whole parade. My mom was shocked to learn that most of those "witches" were men in their mid 20s and THEY were shocked when they learned that i was 11 years old. I still had to participate at the children parades though, where every grade at the local village school had to make costumes themselves.
Here in Germany, wie have a lot of carnies as well. In my hometown the Christmas market is divided between the mellow part and the carny part.
Merry Christmas Ryan, to you and your beautiful family!☃️☃️☃️🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🎄🎄🎄
In my City we also have concerts in the front like yk what i mean? There is a stage and at day kids from school do showw and music is being played from there etc, + our school also sells stuff at the Christmas market so my class did that do and my school always sells „crep“ and we also bake them and sell them , its rlly fun - its just all so nice and when its dark it’s just so cozy
Merry Christmas and a happy new year to you and your family from austria...
Merry Christmas to you and your family! 🎁
...and a happy new year too!🥂
Das Wölfchen
That was a good Video to watch.
Merry Christmas to you and your family. Frohes Fest.
Dear Ryan, Mrs. Wass and little Baby Wass, Have a merry Chistmas, too! Stay safe and warm during this horrible Blizzard you got over there!
Hi Ryan, I've been watching your videos for a while now and I'm especially excited about this one. I live in a small village, not far from Dresden and therefore the Christmas market we are talking about here. We have Christmas from the beginning of October and during Advent the whole village becomes one Christmas market. The streets are closed to cars, everything is lit, it smells wonderful mulled wine, sugar roasted almonds and bratwurst. There are parades and we sell the wooden items that you have also seen in the video. My family makes angels themselves. It's been a tradition for many years and it's great when this culture spreads all the way to the USA. So thank you for your videos and your interest in our tradition.
Merry Christmas Ryan. Have a wonderfull time 🎄
Here in Dortmund we have the biggest Christmas Tree in the world
The mother of one of our employees was a master toy maker from the Ore Mountains. In the GDR she supplied a state-owned company with wooden decorations, but after German Reunification she struggled, so we for a few years organized a "Stand" on our local Weihnachtsmarkt, where we sold coffee specialties (amongst them coffee with chicory from New Orleans) and she sold original Ore Mountains decorations.
All the decorations from the Ore Mountains are hand-crafted and painted, which makes every piece unique. That and the high quality is why they are more expensive than cheap Chinese decorations.
You cant Beat child Labor.... True
@@kg7026 What the heck are you talking about?
So the Christmas markets are just really wow and Happy holiday✨
regarding the mugs: i talked to a vendor 2 days ago. he pays 60cent for one mug when he orders them and takes 1.50€ deposit, so its a win-win when you decide to forget bringing it back :D
(i may or may not have forgotten it a few times when the mug is pretty)
As long as he orders enough. Someone dove into the juristical depths in some video and said, that it legally is not allowed to take them. But it is expected to happen, nobody cares about that and everybody is happy. If you buy them there would be a sales tax.
Merry Christmas, to you and your Family
Merry Christmas! Frohe Weihnachten! Vesely Vanoce! Thank you for all your videos and enjoy the holiday!
For Christmas a little present:
Ich wünsche dir und deiner Familie ein frohes und gesegnetes Weihnachtsfest.
Viel Spaß beim Lesen 😁
Merry Christmas for you and your Family.Best wishes from🇩🇪
🌲✨✨🎁
Merry Christmas to you and your family!
1:34 „and do ALL of your Christmas shopping“ … well, NO … this is like saying „you can do all of your shopping in the airplane shop“ … we you can , but the offered goods are limited…😂
E.g. to Christmas related stuff, is a broadest way… decoration’s , candles, bading additions, handcrafted things, …
A pxnxs honey candle 😉 All these candles smells like honey 😁 Honigkerzen (honey candles) are typical for Christmas time.
US traditions: Socks by the fireplace, decorated wreath on the door, crazy Christmas sweaters (we Germans have been copying them for a few years), unpacking presents in pajamas ... Frohe Weihnachten🎄
Merry Christmas to you and your Family ♥
Fröhliche Weihnachten Ryan!
Wir wünschen euch viel Glück und Gesundheit. 🫂
Frohe Weihnachten/ Merry Christmas!
Been there in Dresden 3 years ago, still looks the same from photos i have seen. Half of the city centre traffic was blocked due to the christmas market .. which resulted in looooong traffic jams throughout the whole city, the department stores were incredibly full (basically everywhere you moved you were never more than 1 meter from another person ) .. and the market itself was one long queue .. you just choose in which way you wanna go and walk in that queue .. if you actually buy some food, its not exactly easy to find a place to enjoy it with queues of people moving right past you.
Visit them early in the season. Like in the first week or so (which started late November this year - the Dresden Striezelmarkt for example starts on 23.11. and goes all the way to 24.12.). This is when they're least visited and it ramps up the closer it's getting to Christmas. Go early before it gets dark and prepare to leave when masses of visitors appear when it's getting dark. And avoid visits on the weekend and go there during the week. On the weekend is where most visitors show up. I hate Christmas Markets, when you're not able to move around feely anymore.
The density of visitors in the video is pretty acceptable for me, I guess it was filmed in November or early December. I've been there myself this year and managed to avoid the masses as well.
Ryan, The biggest German Christmas Market in the US is in Chicago. German traders come with their stall over to Chicago, So you CAN enjoy jthe Christmas Market. Elmar from Germany.
Pleasant and joyful holidays to you and yours.
Fun fact: In Germany we celebrate on the 24th December and the kids geht their Gifts on the evening of the 24th
I lived in Downtown Chicago, IL for awhile and they have a German Christmas market every year in Daley Plaza. The food in delicious and the atmosphere is very festive and beautiful. The prices at the markets are very expensive so I don't think it would be an economical place to Christmas shop.
Wish you a Merry Christmas 🎄 and warm greetings from Berlin ❤
Frohe Weihnachten!🎅🎄
Mery Xmas to you and your families dear Friends.
Where I come from I would say " Frohe Weihnachte euch Säggl" and I think this is beautiful ❤️
Schöne Weinachten aus Sachsen 🇩🇪 nach Amerika 🇺🇸 besinlige Tage euch allen und viel liebe ❤❤❤
MERRY CHRISTMAS to you and your family 🎄
I really enjoy your videos. As a german it really is fun to watch your "german adventures" :D
To the mug topic: You can give them back, of course. But some weird germans - like me - love collecting these kinds of mugs. In every city where I've been to the Christmas Market, I keep a mug. They are always taken out at Christmas to drink mulled wine or Feuerzangenbowle and reminisce with family and friends.
Because christmas is already over so I wish you a great year 2023 instead :D
I talked to that man who spoke about his wooden nutcrackers this year! I bought one of those little penguin figurines from the round turning table 🙂. I love the Dresden Christmas markets, but it can be overwhelming at the weekends.
Merry Christmas 🎅🤶
Merry Chrismas for you and your family!
Have a wonderful Christmas!
Yes of course!
Merry Christmas from Germany 🌲🎁🎄