American reacts to Eastern Germany: Meet the Germans Road Trip Part 3/4
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The kebab spins because there's a grill on one of the sides that keeps grilling the meat as it spins around.
When you slice off some meat it exposes ungrilled meat, which then gets grilled as it spins around the heating element.
It even goes so far as: "döner" is the Turkisch word for "spin/rotate/revolve" and refers to the rotisserie (Drehspieß) that the meat is on. But for several reasons the rotisserie is facing up. And "kebab" means "(roasted) meat" so "döner kebab" means "(roasted) rotisserie meat".
@@ReisskIaue And of course no pork.
@@ReisskIaue And funnily enough, "gyros" has pretty much the same meaning.😅
@@faultier1158 it has exactly the same meaning and so has Schawarma
It's made of beef pieces which are held together with the spear.
"Germany is still divided?" - it has been less than 35 years. IIRC that counts as a generation, but it's shorter than the GDR existed and things need time. I am reminded of the saying "Europeans think 100 kilometers are a long way, Americans think 100 years are a long time"
This is absurd and really pisses me. There are allmost two generations and still those differences. Follow the money and you know why.
@@puckpovier1559exactly
as long as media speakl 90% of the time about east west berlin and gdr in a video about east germany in gernerell...it will be spilt forever.
I very much believe that these West/East views are more suited to older generations, I was a year and a half old when the Iron Curtain disappeared and so I am relatively indifferent to whether someone is from the East or the West. The biggest separation is in the minds of previous generations. I think it's a shame that in many cases salaries are still not at the same level. Speaking of which, many of my fellow students here from the northwest now live in Leipzig, Dresden, Magdeburg in very well-paid jobs (thanks to a shortage of skilled workers) and wouldn't want to leave.
Even if things certainly didn't go optimally with reunification, we as the German people can be damn proud that we made it. In a simplified way, the protesting inhabitants of the GDR made sure that the Soviet bloc collapsed.
One thing that is seldom talked about is, that after the war East Germany had actually to pay a lot of reparation costs to russia while West Germany was more or less sponsored by the US. So that alone was a big difference in how they could develop.
I am German, and even I didn't know that! How interesting.
@@solokom Yeah because we have here also our capitalist propaganda, and it was way more convieniant to just blame all their problems on socialism beeing bad, and thats it.
They even ripped out the toilets and sinks from the bathrooms my grandparents told me.
@@beldin2987 nah, it is common knowledge that the russians ripped out all infrastructure they could get their hands on in east germany and took it home since russia at that time was not industrialised but rather an agricultural state. Also the war in russia had caused much more destruction and death than in france, which was taken over by blitzkrieg within six weeks while the russian front stood still and war raged on. So Russia was much more eager to destroy and really take revenge than the allied forces coming from the west. But France and England were actually planning on forming Germany into an agricultural state, a european bread basket so to speak, and it took the USA some effort to convince the french and british that it would make sense to industrialize and rebuilt Germany as a bumper/cushion against the communist soviet empire which did not do much to rebuilt the eastern part of Germany, apparently rather drained it from the infrastructure and industry that survived shelling and forced it to pay reparations, because well ... socialism as carried out by the soviet union had some major flaws that caused some real problems. so yes in this very context, socialism was bad and major reason for why the east of Germany is what it is.
@@Moechtegernpilot1 and west german businesses bought bulk machinery and equipment for stupidly low, not really helping in repairing the east
Haha, as a born Görlitzer I'm REALLY surprised Görlitz was even mentioned. Most people stop at around Dresden when talking about East-Germany. It's such a lovely old city, complete conserved during WWII, with very strict conservation-regulations. That's why it's been used a lot for filming. Some of the movies shot there: "Grand Budapest Hotel", "The Reader", parts of "Inglourious Basterds".
If you ever come here, it's absolutely worth a visit. It's also Germany's most eastern town, split in the middle by the river Neiße. The other half is Polish and you can just walk across a bridge into another country ❤
Like Straßburg
I (an American) now live in Magdeburg (Saxony-Anhalt) after having lived in Northwest Germany and Bavaria for close to 25 years. I find the people here much more relaxed and friendly than I ever did in the western part of Germany. True, poverty and unemployment are worse here, but the people are simply more cordial and the city is less hectic. It's also very green.
I dont think poverty is worse in eastern Germany. Unemployment or general income yeah, but not poverty.
The cost of living is so much lower than in Bavaria, Berlin or the big western cities, while the social system is in general even better than western Germany (one of the only things East Germany got right). Poverty in Germany is mostly are problem in the Ruhr-Area with their high rate of immigrants who aren't really included in German culture yet.
@@wcheng2795 You may be right about the poverty level. I have to admit that my comment was based on what the older people tell me, not on statistical data. I am impressed here by how the people treat each other, both personally and when it comes to interactions with the authorities.
Do you know Halle (Saale)??
@@pommel1196 Only the Bahnhof area. One day I hope to see the city. People tell me it is worth the time.
@@josephjanitorius797 well I live there, but the city isnt really giften with many nice sights but Its very green (greenest city in germany with several islands in the Saale river and many parks, even Halle-Neustadt with the socalist "Platten" buildings is also green) with lots of nature and threre ist the longest "Straßenbahnlinie" (5) in Germany, the most railway roads for Güterzüge next to each other in europe (like 60 at the biggest point) and there are many lost places to explore around the city. Also, there is like a love-hate relationship between Halle and Magdeburg as Halle is a little bigger in population than Magdeburg, but Magdeburg is the capital of the state. So Halle is the one big city in east germany (the 5th biggest), that everybody ignores, because its not soo interesting for tourists and Leipzig as the second biggest city of east germany is soo close to it and it takes all of the attention (like nobody knows Bochum even though it has 350000 inhabitants because its between Dortmund and Düsseldorf, and they are much more known).
I was born in east Germany, in Thuringia, where we speak a strong dialect, a bit similiar to "Sächsisch" what people in Saxony speak. I moved into a western German city, actually close to the dutch border, and a LOT of people ( Germans actually) ask where I am from because of how i speak. But always just curious and with respect and noone ever said anything negative about it. They were rather interested in my story and glad that I try not to "fit in" with how I speak.
Maybe some people think bad about eastern Germany because its true that a lot people rather belong to the politically right spectrum. But Ive never encountered that negativity at all!
So Germany IS united and supportive :)
It's mustard on top of the sausage. Döner Kebap is usually either veal or chicken (many have both so people can choose), sometimes lamb, but it's rare.
And sometimes Gammelfleisch.
Looked like mayo
@@bjrnarbjrnarsson5845 actually not nowadays, Döner Snack booths get very frequently visited by the food inspectors, and the problem was a Provider of the Kebab skewer wich has been closed.
@@akteno2796 You're dreaming of naked white sausages
@@bjrnarbjrnarsson5845 'Gammelfleisch' was also found in the freezers of big supermarket chains and in Michelin ranked restaurants, so ... Well, it's a calculated risk everywhere, isn't it?
The sorbs are a slavic people that moved into the Lausitz/Lusatia area after the majority of germanic people left after 600AD. There was a dramatic wet period that let to starvation. They moved in small groups into the area and over time assimilated the population that was left in the region. Later the area was conquered/subjugated by the franks/later eastern Francia/early germany. The local lords hired german settlers to develop the land and found towns and villages. Monasteries also played a role there. The region switched hands a lot between Bohemia, Brandenburg and Saxony. Later they slowly became a minority because many of them assimilated into the german population. The ones who are still around are bascially the remains of unassimilated Sorbs.
Archeologist say that ancestors of those Slavs (Wendisch) arrived 1200BC...
while Germans (Longobards/Lombardians, Burgundians and Goths) arrived c.a. 1AD, lived in separate towns among local, Venetic population and c.a. 280 - 470 AD left that land moving South-West into the falling Roman Empire.
@@Northerner-NotADoctor sources? I doubt any serious archeologist would say that. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavs
this is a good rough overview. Your narrative seems deeply influenced by some strange nationalist BS
the archeological culture associated with early slaves in the region appeared in the time frame i decribed.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prague-Korchak_culture
A relevant term here is "Ostsiedlung" (settlement towards the east). 1,000 years ago, Germans settled west of river Elbe, and Slavs east of it (very roughly, the dividing line wasn't necessary the river in all places, it diverged considerably). Broadly speaking those Slavs spoke languages close to Polish or Czech. Through the middle ages Germans started to move eastwards into what is today East Germany, Austria, and further into Eastern Europe. Some of the process was violent, some of it was peaceful. As a result the populations mingled, with German culture and language mostly coming out on top. But some pockets of the Slavic population held out, and they are the Sorbs of today. Place names in the area where both cultures mixed are from both languages, depending on who founded a given town or village.
@@xaverlustig3581 Vey good comment, props!
Indeed Slavic (Venetic) placenames from VI - XIIIc streach from Lubeck in the North to Lindau in the South.
1. First the Germanic dominance came over Slavs (Suavs) in Suabia, Bavaria and Austria (130 - 380 AD). Tribal slave raids.
2. Secondly it came into Turingen in 480 - 700 AD. Tribal slave raids.
3. Third on Elbe Slavs (Sorbs) 900 - 1100 AD. Joint German-Polish crusade.
4. Fourth on Pommeranians (from Lubeck to Danzig) 1200 - 1400 AD. Joint German-Polish crusade.
5. Fifth on Silesians and on Poles in Greater Poland / Wartenland 1760 - 1812 AD. Duke of Prussia taking over parts of Polish Kingdom, of which he was a part.
@@Northerner-NotADoctor there were no slavs in austria, bavaria, they were basically romanized celts and later the germanic people came and population mixed. The slavs came in the 7th century from the steepes and moved northwards after the huns depopulated the germanic people living in the east and slavs took those areas. Then the rest is history as we know it.
This episode is quite personal, because my family moved from the west to the east just in the year 1991, whe the reunification of germany had just happened. I was four years old whe we moved from Aachen, which is literally the most western part of Germany, at the border to both, the Netherlands and Belgium, to a village near Berlin. I grew up in east Germany, but I was born in west Germany. As I was the youngest child in my family, I became the most eastern kid in the family and associate myself more to Brandenburg and all of eastern part of Germany than anyone else from my family. So I am not a complete "Wessi" (a nickname for people from west Germany within the east, it is NOT a compliment) nor an "Ossi" (Nickname for people from east germany within all of those parts of Germany which never had been part of the "DDR"/GDR, also NOT a compliment). I am kind of a hybrid, a "Wendekind"(child of the reunification) - sometimes I say I am a "Wossi" 😉
Verrätst du uns in welchem Dorf?
Me and my Sister are Wossis too. I was born in saxony, grew up in bavaria and now I am back in saxony. My much mor younger Sister was born in bavaria and grew up in Saxony. My mother take it very seriously with the west and ost reunion😂. Kind regards from Meißen
The Spreewald in Brandenburg is very beautiful with its various river branches. You should definitely take a boot tour, but from personal experience please don`t forget the mosquito spray , because there a lot of mosquitoes in the waters.
Döner comes from the Turkish word dönmek which means "spinning". Same goes for the Greek dish Gyros, which is also cooked upright on a rotating spit.
Never crossed my mind that gyros comes from the greek word for rotation. (I don't speak greek but I know the word gyro).
Moin as they say here in Northern Germany. Well, I really like the Saxons and their dialect. He sounds funny and the Saxons are great people. Greetings from Schleswig-Holstein
I live in Kiel 3 years 😁 Greetings from Bulgaria 🙂🇧🇬
"You don't hear about the Sorbs here in America."
You don't hear about them in Germany either unless you look them up. They are not part of the general German mindset outside of the Areas they live in.
It's sad isn't it?
@@onlyfoes Have you ever heard about the Mennonites and Hutterites in the US?... they get all possible exceptions to keep their culture alive but are simply too less to be that relevant. Those areas even had today a bank holiday (catholic one) while it was none in the respective states of Saxony & Brandenburg they're part of.
& also quite a big part of this video while alot was left out (it's like making a video of USAs north east & not mentioning Boston or Philadelphia but covering the Amish).
I can't believe Senftenberg and its lake is mentioned in this video o.O . Nobody who's not from around the region would know the place. Woohoo, shout out to my hometown.
Same here xD I was today at the lake having delicious ice cream and collecting stones to paint on them later :D :D
Yes, Germany is still divided. Germany isn't united untill we get rid of Aldi Nord and Aldi Süd
One Aldi One Nation
It's a simple solution to a complex problem!
But some of the products from aldi süd were better 😢😭😭😭😭😭😭
Now I get a rash using their body products. It sucks.
Facts. Haha
I think you need a Medium for that
So the Aldi brothers can make peace in the afterlife
😂
I feel like the "Erzgebirge" (literal translation: Ore Mountains) as a region almost never gets attention. So I'm here to recommend a short video with impressions: czcams.com/video/8qgtCLvkgHo/video.html
Who wants to invite a "foreigner " to Sachsen, where 35 % vote for a party, which is deeply rascist and hateful against foreigners?
Also DW isnt just a CZcams channel, it's a tv broadcaster. So it has way more views than the ones you see on CZcams.
at 8:59 you can see the "Frauenkirche" in the background. Did you know that the black bricks were original bricks from the church before WW2? They're re-used at their original position. The whole church (and other buildings in Dresden) are built with "Elbsandstein" (Elbe sandstone)
I think sometimes our dialekt is close to english, "This is my car" you can say here in West-Vogtland (and somewhere else) "Dess is mei karrn"... 😂
oh, noch jemand vom gleichen arsch der welt wie ich :)
The kebab isn't really an animal part, like "Schweinshaxe", it's strips of meat from different cuts (traditionally) or ground meat (cheap, new and lower quality) stacked around a large skewer, which then rotates, always being grilled from one side.
Leipzig was in New York Times 52 places to visit & nicknamed the better Berlin, is the 2nd biggest city in whole east Germany (after Berlin), started the Monday demonstrations that lead to the fall of the Berlin wall, has lots of history & culture,... (I could go on for hours) but is not even mentioned.🤨☹🥺😥
My thoughts exactly! Even though I think some of the interview parts where filmed there. At least it looked like it for me.
Yeah, you are right but that could be said for other parts, too. In the video about the north they really talked about the north while there are other interesting areas more southern of the northern states as well, e.g. the Lüneburger Heide. I think they just cannot have everything inside. Although I'd have liked to see Leipzig. Greetings from a North German, living in the East.
12:45 If you ever have the chance to see the Elbe Sandstone Mountains, go for it. I looks so unreal that you think you are in a fantasy movie! At 12:45: This is the Bastei and it is just incredible.
your most interesting video series so far! im german and still learning a lot along side of you.
I live in Germany and I’ve never heard of the Sorbs, either.
That “icing” on the sausage is mustard 😂
I think Ryan should pick some german places he wants to visit, do a crowdfunding to pay for the trip, and then make a couple of videos in Germany 🙂
As an American that's been living in Germany for three decades I find Ryan's interest and curiosity fascinating. He should visit and enjoy in 3D.
Oh wow I've never heard of the sorbian heritage in Germany. Thanks for educating me Ryan and DW
I visited the Spreewald once and it was very beautyfull and unique. It was mentioned in this video, but not shown in detail. You should watch a video about it. It's a very cool place in east germany. 🥰
I was born in the 90s and when my grandparents told me they were on a trip to visit relatives in "Dunkel Deutschland" (dark Germany) I had no idea where they even had been to. Only years later I found out they had visited a cousin of my grandpa who lived in Brandenburg
@ 12:15 I think it's mustard (one unsually eats with Thüringer Rostbratwurst). It just looks weird on this pic.
Döner Kebap literally means "rotating roast". Just as the Greek version "Gyros" tells you that it is gyrating.
yes, the invention in berlin was to put that stuff into a bun, making it some sort of sandwich (everything between two pieces of bread is a sandwich).
gyros is the greek version and since they are not muslim, they have no problem with using pork meat, wheras the kebap is restricted to calf and lamb (and chicken to a certain extent).
oh, and from what I've seen in greece, greeks rotate the gyros horizontally whereas döner is rotated vertically. no idea if that actually changes anything.
@@robertheinrich2994 in Turkey you also see plenty of vertical Kebap. I think the horizontal one might even a German invention
@@robertheinrich2994 Back in the seventies in Cyprus it was on a horizontal spit roast and was either pork, mutton or goat if we were lucky, depending on whether they were Greek or Turkish? However one of the best I had was back in the eighties in my wife's Mining village over near the Ruhr, and was made with lamb. As an Englishman I loved it, as did the Turks there, most local Germans wouldn't touch it back then?
@@johnp8131 yes, and I was in greece in the 80ties and 90ties, and they had the horizontal rotating ones.
but I doubt that this is a cultural choice. maybe it is just different companies making these machines.
@@robertheinrich2994 It has some inpact. The "juice" of the meat will run over the whole meat and stay longer on it before it finally falls down. Another aspect is it takes less space if facing vertical.
The Sanssouci Palace in Potsdam is one of the most beautiful palaces in Berlin and Brandenburg. King Frederick the Great is buried here with his dog. Fun fact: People put potatoes on the grave slab in memory of this king. The reason is that Frederick the Great introduced the potato as a foodstuff in Brandenburg during his lifetime and thus prevented a great famine. Since then, the potato has been part of the typical Brandenburg cuisine in many different variations alongside freshwater fish.
Otherwise, as already mentioned, Brandenburg is known for its thousands of lakes. These lakes are remnants of several ice ages when the huge ice sheet stretched from Scandinavia to Brandenburg. However, new lakes in the south-east of Brandenburg are not natural lakes, but opencast mines that have been flooded with water. The Senftenberg Lake shown is one such artificial lake.
Ahhh it's so cool to see my anchestors culture and my home represented!
The thing about the sorbian culture is that in fact, they almost didn't survive NS times. My grand grandma (who was fully sorbian) for example didn't teach my granny any sorbian because she was scared her kids would use that language in school. That's why the sorbian language ended there in our family line. I only know a bunch of words because I was lucky enough to learn it in school.
And that's a problem with almost all of the Lausitz region. By the 60s almost everyone from the older generation at least was still able to speak sorbian in my village, but today I maybe know 5 people in General who can speak sorbian.
What WAS kept alive is the sorbian folklore! We have a really rich folklore and feasts that nobody else out of our region knows.
We have myths and tales about magical creatures and beasts, strongly inspired by old slavic folklore, because (to answer your question) that's where the sorbians come from.
Sadly our culture was hated and forbidden over centuries! Even in medival times sorbians (who had a huge population then) were killed for their "savageness".
Talking about Freikörperkultur: Some work colleagues and I were on a canoeing trip in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern on the Warnow river. When one of the boats capsized some 65+ kayak paddlers that were just eating their lunch at the river bank came to help - completely nude.
Here in Hamburg I also know a few public places where you can go swimming or sunbathing "barefoot up to the neck" and most people just accept it. Those are not official nudist beaches or some private land but just a small sunny stretch of beach or lawn here and there with some hedges that cover most of the views from the nearby street or hiking trail.
I visited Sanssouci last year. it is not huge, but intricate and beautiful. A perfect site to visit if you want to see something amazing but don't want to spend your whole day inside.
One day, a german slide from beside to your window and will say: "Hello! Welcome in Germany." 🙃
Well we have FKK areas (free body culture), and its mostly seperated from "normal" areas. And its more common in the eastern part of Germany because of GDR history / culture. Some FKK areas are included within a camping area.
Ahh my favorite react channel. Dont ask me why (im not even german, im dutch lmao), but for some reason its just relaxing to watch videos with you lol.
I am from the Erzgebirge, where the old-fashioned train in the snow was shown.
@Ryan Wass: This wasn't tofu in the soup, it was egg and served in this form it is even more delicious (my opinion). We call it 'Eierstich' and it is 2:1 parts egg to parts egg yolk mixed with milk and or beef broth and than backed in square forms in the oven with hot air until it starts becoming hard and you can cut it in slices or tiny cubes. cheers
My boyfriend is from Thüringen, i am from hessen and lived over 25 years in Bavaria. After nearly 12 years with my boyfriend, sometimes i don't understand him because of the dialect 😂 oochen spelled sounds for me like augen (eyes) but he means Ohren (Ears) 😂
We also make jokes about east and west. In east they drove the Trabbi. Its like a paper car. Everytime we need a new car: please no paperbag car 😅 but reality is: its a good car
And he thinks the west kids are fed with a golden spoon because of the us 😅
No. Sorry. Just metal. All the time and my parents are at work the whole day. So i spend the most time as a kid alone or at my grandma. While he lived in a housecomplex with lots of kids and a playground in front of it ;)
You never heard of the "Döner-Animal"? Its wide spread across Germany. We catch it, put it on a skewer and roast it while it spins...😂😂😂😂
Sorbs didn´t "become" Sorbian. They were in the area before the Germans came along. Most of eastern Germany was Slavic territory for a long time. Only about 800 years ago, Germans pushed east. Many Slavic tribes moved further east to modern day Poland, Czechia, etc. Of course, not all did. Many stayed where they were and arranged themselves with the new situation. Often, one sees two villages of the same name: the older one with the prefix "Wendisch" (Wendish = of the Wends, another Slavic people like the Sorbs) and a short distance away, the younger village with the prefix "Deutsch".
There were Germanic peoples there before, though, for several hundred years, at least, and in varying distribution. They left some time before the Slavs came.
Btw, please mind that I don't intend to be apologetic in any way ☺️
My dad and i used to go on weeklong canoe tours through the Spreewald, sometimes paddling from the Baltic Sea through Meck.-Pom. down to the Spreewald. Camping on the river banks and all that .. its probably one of the best father-son activities out there.
Hi Ryan, I recomend to make a video about the 'Kieler Woche', the biggest sailing event in the world and a folk festival in june with nearly as many daily visitors as the Oktober Fest but a lot more international. Kiel is capital city of the most northern Bundesland at the baltic sea. The city is much smaller than Munich so the whole city is in a party mood. The festival stands for international music, art, food, encounters and sailing of course. Have fun.
Of course, no traditional Sorbian wedding soup without tofu
😂 great
😂😂😂
But the wedding soup is also known in nothern germany, i was wondering after moving from the Oberlausitz (Löbau) to Scheeßel to get wedding soup here.
yeah in Germany the Protestant church even runs their own boat to rescue Refugees in the mediterranean sea. so we concentrat more on the "nächstenliebe" (Charity) ( and thats why we think most christians in the USA are not really christian because they have such a diffrent view on Social and Charity stuff.
Many churches also sheltered refugees ("church asylum") to protect from them from deportation. And this all applies to both the protestant and the catholic mainstream here.
Now I'm patiently waiting for the 4th part. A good reaction as usual.
For a long time there was and in many cases still is a difference between East and West Germany when it comes to wages, pensions and cost of living. While in West Germany most employees for a long time payed an additional 5% tax called „Solidaritätszuschlag“ to help the six new states, wages and pensions were and for many people still are considerably lower than in the old states. I believe everybody will agree that this has end as soon as possible.
Der Solidaritätszuschlag wurde in ganz Deutschland erhoben und durchgesetzt. Ab seiner Einführung bis heute zahle ich als Ostdeutscher, wie alle Deutschen,, Soli ".
All of Germany paid the Soli, not just the West.
And most of Germany got money from it, not just the east.
@@GilbMLRS Thanks for the clarification. I remembered this wrong. But since the wages were higher in the West and there were three times more people living in the West, the absolute contribution overall was higher. But for the individual it was relatively the same. And that‘s still simplified, because contribution and purpose changed over time.
@@SD-ed8is That changed over time and actually it‘s not committed to any special purpose. That‘s probably why it‘s problematic and on it‘s way to disappear.
Sanssouci is just the garden palace in the palace ensemble, which stretches over several kilometers. The main palace there is the “Neues Palais”, which even has its own theater built into it. And even the palace ensemble in Potsdam is only the secondary residence or summer palace of the Prussian royal family. The main palace was in Berlin and was unfortunately destroyed in the Second World War. Today the outer shell is being renovated, and even this cost almost a billion euros. The palace ensemble in Potsdam was built by King Frederick the Great and he later lived mainly in the garden palace. He had many greyhounds and often spent time outside with them.
a nice sidetone about the frauenkirche in Dresden (seen @8:59 of the video) is that the dark bricks in the church are original ones reused from the ruin of the original church that was destroyed. the light ones are new bricks. (a very smal part never tumbled down, that part is entirely dark)
nice roadtrip production :-)
Greetings from the Senftenberger See (seen at the and)
On top of the sausage is mustard, typical mustard in germany is not fake chemical yellow but mure a muted yellow brown
@2:10 it spins because it's constantly roasted by a low intensity gas flame. you can make out the cherry red metal behind it. you only cut of the roasted crust. it's made of slabs of cow meat stacked on top of each other and then the gaps are filled with ground meat to give it the final form.
@12:05 that's mustard.
11:07 EXPLAINATION:
In Central-Eastern Europe word "nationality" equals to "ethnicity", not to "citizenship".
Sorbs (Veneti/Wendisch) are Slavs living in their place for last 3200 years, conquered by Germany just after formal establishing of the Polish state in 960's... 1000years ago.
Sorbs = Serben
Lausitzer Serben
Lusatian Serbs
@@Lily.1115du kannst doch nicht deutsche Sorben mit heutigen Serben vergleichen. Das ist zu lange her.
Berliner Weisse is not for girls, its more of a summer version of the beer.
there is a similiar thing going on with Gose in Leipzig
I have never seen anyone drink this other than women
The only people I know who actually like it are my mother and my grandmother.
beer is the summer version of beer 😉
@@vomm We were introduced to it by some Berlin Police Officers when we were on a Rugby tour, over there in the eighties. They were our tour guides back then, a real eye opener! Must admit, although I enjoy a standard Weissbier, I'm not keen on Berliner Weisse, mit Schuss.
Great reaction again. I'd have done the tour a bit differently but it was fine. That Döner Kebab is what we think is a Turkish meal but as it seems it's mostly eaten in Germany haha. We even call the restaurants selling kebab "Türkische Riviera" or similar which means the same in English. The best places to visit must be Dresden, The "Harz" region where they filmed the Unesco World heritage City of Quedlinburg as well as the Brocken, the highest mountain in central Germany. The sauce on the sausage was just mustard. Berlin has far better sights than what they featured, as well as Magdeburg and similar-sized cities
Der Kebab ist natürlich eine türkische Erfindung . Allerdings wird er auf einem Teller serviert. Ein türkischer Einwanderer in Berlin hat die Fastfood Version erfunden, wo alle Zutaten in ein gevierteltes Fladenbrot gesteckt wird. Dieses Konzept war so erfolgreich, daß es sich in ganz Deutschland durchgesetzt hat , weshalb immer wieder behauptet wird Döner Kebab ist eine deutsche Erfindung. 😂
I feel soooo offended as Leipziger😉... even mentioning Magdeburg but not Leipzig??? I knew people from Magdeburg that said it's a boring city.
@@n_other_1604 Leipzig is great as well! The Zoo and the remaining parts of old town are great to visit
I can't wait seeing the 4th part tho! well done
The 'condiment' on the Thuringer RostBRATWURST is called mustard. :D
When are you finally coming to Germany?
I think he comes when his little baby-child is older!
Sorry Ryan, but i have to mention it. As originated from thuringia i was literally falling of the chair as you did struggle to identify the mustard on top of the sausage.
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Well the mustard looked almost white like mayonnaise, I only know yellow mustard.
I loved the idea of icing on top of that delicious sausage xD
But defenitely better with mustard. Or without any mustard or anything else,as I prefer.
You should watch "how germany is still divided today" by general knowledge
I donated 5,000 DM in 1995 for the reconstruction of the Frauenkirche. My grandfather died in 1994 and left me some money. On the night of February 13th to 14th, 1945, he celebrated his 30th birthday in a cellar bar right next to the Frauenkirche with some comrades from the anti-aircraft department that was supposed to protect the Leuna Works (oil refining). The entrances to the pub were buried, but a large chunk of the Frauenkirche protected the vault so that no one was killed. He told me this story often, so I thought it would be in his interest to use the money like that.
Greetings from Germany.
6:45... similar the the north- south divide in the States. (and that's been going on for over 150 years)
With the German spoken in the East of the country, I've generally found the German spoken over there not that difficult to understand compared to some of the German in the South? As an Englishman, I learnt all my German close to the Dutch border with the dialect that involves. Even my wife, who is German from the Ruhr, didn't know about the Sorbs, however she was bought up before Germany was re-united.
The bavarian dialect is particularly strong and even for me a a south western german sometimes hard to understand
@@hans471 I agree with you. I had plenty of experience of it when we used to stay in the local villages in Franken, on our beer tours.
Strangely enough, I went with the RAF down to Lahr, whilst the Canadians were there, when we went into the town for a beer or two the locals thought my accent was hilarious? An Englishman speaking German with a partial Gladbach dialect!
I think that in our parents' generation, the division of Germany is still very present. People often still make a distinction between "Wessis" and "Ossis" and have opposing reservations. In my generation, the division was either experienced as a small child or not at all. That is, the former division is no longer seen as so important. Whereby one certainly cannot deny the influence of the parents' generation on their offspring. However, I see it positively. I think in the future also the mental separation will be overcome. Whereby one must mention that the takeover of the GDR by the FRG did not go completely fairly. It could be seen as a shopping spree on the part of the West Germans. Which, in retrospect, caused a lot of disagreement. One could also speak of the fact that there was a certain attempt to erase the history of the GDR and that the existence of the state is seen as a historical slip. However, from my point of view, a lot is now being done against this attempt at erasure. So I think, there is a certain return to things that are considered good in the GDR. This goes from nudism, to car culture, to special food to many social issues. However, what is currently fueling a new division is the extreme rightward shift of some East German states. Although there is also a strong right-wing shift in the other federal states, this is much stronger in many eastern German states, so that one must worry about a resurgence of national socialist ideologies. Fortunately, there are many people who courageously fight and oppose this change. However, this fact still extremely harms the reputation of many eastern states. I had seen a documentary which tried to explain this. One possibility was, I think, that the denazification after the war in the GDR was less consistent than in the FRG. The ideologies were not fought well enough. Likewise, I think it had something to do with the economy. Despite the so-called solidarity surcharge, a kind of economic "development aid," there is still a strong economic gap between East and West. This also led to a lack of perspective, the feeling of being cut off and thus to extreme thought. As mentioned, this development is extremely worrying.
Hello Ryan, the topping on the Sausage in the video is mustard
2:21 What there spins in the background is a 'kebab spieß' (kebab skewer). Usually tere is veal or chicken available.
Look out for James Bray here on youtube. He is, after reacting to german content for years, finally on a trip in germany, right now..
His first video about that trip has a lot to do with Döner Kebab as he finally tries a original "german döner kebab" in cologne. ;)
12:17 sometimes I can't with this guy...
You have mustard in the US too
Yeah, but most of their mustard is usually bright yellow (by using a lot of turmeric or, more rarely, artificial food coloring) presumably as a more popping contrast to the red of ketchup. Hence why he probably couldn't immediately identify it as an American.
@@berlindude75 Yeah, and it looked very desaturated on that photo. If you don't already know that mustard on Bratwurst is the default thing to do, it's probably not obvious.
8:29 Its not really a palace. more a bungalow for the summer. But in and near by Potsdam you can find about 20 palaces.
The squeeze of icing is mustard 😂
The condiment on the Thüringer Bratwurst is mustard. Try it. You'll (probably) like it!
2:11 Döner is a stack of patties made from minced (ground) lamb with spices and flour. It rotates so the outside is always freshly cooked, hot and chewy.
It's more a summer thing in Berlin than just a girly thing.
Woodruff is one those things I only learned a couple years ago were almost unknown outside Germany, or at least the continent. I always thought it's one of the most basic known flavours. It's what you get in green jello, if your jello is any good. To prepare woodruff however you need special knowledge, as the herb is poisonous and needs to be cooked twice, and even then you can only take off the top layer of the sud, for beneath that is the poison. It's one of our blowfish-level foodstuffs - the other is Mettbrötchen. The German name for woodruff is "Waldmeister" (Forest-Master)
12:20 The condiment is mustard
The "icing" on the "bratwurst" was mustard.
Condiment on the Bratwurst is usually mustard (as in the picture) or ketchup.
Ketchup on the Roster is frowned upon. You can get shot for this. Or at least severely beaten. Sometimes both.
And regarding the type of mustard: Bautzener is top level. Using Bavarian sweet mustard will get you thrown into the next river.
1:30 What a beautiful street. It was Hitler's work that demolished whole rows of houses to build wide streets.
But rents are also lower in East Germany. There are more pensioners and more unemployed.
But the east also has the most beautiful cities and the best new roads.
The meat on the kebab is from a special animal the germans call Eierlegendewollmilchsau. it's an animal on the verge of extinction from which you get milk, meat, eggs and also wool. In Bavaria they use a Wolpertinger instead.
You definitely have to come to Germany and make a round trip across the country!
That "icing" on the Bratwurst is actually mustard!
Germans love to eat it.
it‘s not tofu in the soup, it‘s stocked egg. and the paste on the Bratwurst is mustard.
English teacher in germany :" Kann mir jemand sagen was Neun auf englisch heißt?"
Students :"Nein!"
Kebab is not a single piece, it’s a stack of slices on a steel spit and is a vertical roast method. The meat is shaved off the whole and it falls in thin strips that can be added to wraps and bowls.
Up to today you can see the difference in east and west Berlin through to architecture.
4 millions isnt too correct for Berlin...its 3.5 mils! (rounded) - But a MUST-SEE city of Germany!!! History and Berlin Lifestyle has its own!!!
The Döner meets is different (nowadays I must admit), originally its turkish sheep/lamb/beef mix but in germany its mostly pork or chicken/turkey meat.
Woodruff - or also known as Waldmeister - a word you will see and meet often all over Germany. Its a natural herb tasting slight minty
Until the 1950's the saxonian dialect was one of the most kind of like royal dialect in Germany. But when Germany splitted up into 2 countries it has changed. And nowadays the saxonian dialect is considered as the fun and lazy talking.
I would disagree that die Friesen is a minority (also danish), but the Sorbians are a minority in very east. Very kind folks. Very handsome and pretty ppl. lol They keep their traditions but are fully integrated into Germany.(it is attached to to the chzech/bohemian)
that topic on the bratwurst you were guessing is mustard...thats what mustard looks like for real (not that yellow as you guys are used to know - it is naturally looking beige)
Now you have seen all 4 varieties of Germany, clash of cultures in a small country! Welcome to the middle of europe!
You're right when you say the landscape doesn't get enough credit.
The intense green is not seen by ppermanent city dwellers who make up the majority... And I even only came to appreciate it after spending 6 weeks in the near east during my youth (working in the out side)....
Seeing all the lush green on the roadside seemed almost "frivolous" or "obscene" on my first day back....
Damn i searched 4/4 and realized, that this was the neweset Video! I need a time Machine! Greetings from Nuremberg from a proud Franconian (I was so laughing as you called us "like Texas people" xD xD xD)
2:21 What piece of meat - Normal veal and beef or lamb or turkey or chicken or a mixture of these. We once had a lamb doner kebab, the packaging said "contains 95% beef". You don't have to take it that seriously and everything tastes the same.
6:11 Looks like Quedlinburg am Harz. I still know it as a run-down town, but they did a great job. Is now one of the most beautiful inner cities in the region, with a castle, churches, pedestrian zone, restaurants, cafes, pubs, ice cream parlors. In a church there are still pictures of what it looked like there before.
8:31 When I was in Magdeburg for the first time, there were still bullet holes and bomb damage to houses in the city center. And that was in the late 80's. Here in the early 60s we didn't see a war taking place here at all and Braunschweig was completely destroyed. There was a whole city there with mass apartment blocks, if chickens had been kept like this, there would have been problems with animal protection association.
I want to try Dresden again. Was also completely destroyed, but is said to have been restored very nicely. I want to give the east zone another chance.
12:34 That must be an older take, there aren't that many trees in the Harz mountains anymore. Three years of drought and the bark beetle killed them.
And dialect voting is done for quite some time now. Also there is a dialect sexiness voting that you can find if you look for it. By the way, Saxon looses that one by a mile.
The condiment on the sausage is mustard.
Ich war mal Polizist in Sachsen. Und wir standen öfters am amerikanischen Konsulat in Leipzig. Das war so 2002. Der Konsul erwähnte mal in einem Gespräch mit mir, dass der Dialekt in Sachsen für die Deutschen, wohl das Pendant ist zum Dialekt der Texaner für die Amerikaner. 😂
Döner meat can be a lot of different mixes. Usually it is a mix of beef and minced beef, nowadays also chicken and sometimes lamb but then labeled as such.
Talking about Bauhaus without mention Dessau 🙃
As a German from Baden-Württemberg I have to say I did like all people that i met from the fromer east german part. Not different from us down here in the south, just nice people who do work as hard as we do :)
Great video and I would just like to add the following on the subject of East / West.
I myself am a child of 1965 and was therefore born and raised in the GDR and grew up in the 2nd socialist residential town :-). To this day, I'm happy about the reunification and that it happened without bloodshed. The conflict that prevails today between East and West is based on various facts.
Many East Germans don't realize that the people in the old federal states never lived through a reunification and therefore nothing has changed for them personally. You can never really convey the experience of a change of system to someone in West Germany. In addition, the Kohl government failed to involve the people in the east more in legislation and, for example, did not pass a law to equalize wages, such as in the case of pensions. However, it must always be borne in mind that the former GDR joined the Federal Republic and there was no reunification in purely legal terms. There would never have been a real reunification, because then around 50 states would have knocked on the door of a reunified Germany and demanded war reparations for the Second World War.
As you can see, it's quite complex.
I myself worked in the old federal states for over 20 years and had nothing but good experiences. I benefited from the higher pay and also from the 30 days' annual leave. In the new federal states, you often only get 21 days' annual leave for the same work and around 20-25% less pay. Many problems result from this prosperity gap and, of course, the fact that 40 years of socialism have left their mark not only on people's minds plays a major role. Everything that has to do with building wealth and starting a business, for example, was missing and you can still feel and see that today.
In general, it's still a good thing that we have pulled through the change and come this far. I really enjoy living in Germany and I am thrilled that we are an inspiration to so many people around the world.
Oh la la … I just watched the north part which where I am living now but now we‘re doing east germany which is where I grew up xD mentally prepping myself 😆 and low key scared xD
As a Berliner.... no Berliner Weisse is not a girly drink... it's an old people drink... it used to be popular with Berliner... but actual Berliner are pretty rare these days so few people drink it... but it's delicious especially on a hot summer day!
12:07 Mustard
if you want to know a quick comparison, a western household median wealth sits around 152.000 €, whereas the median eastern household sits at 48.000 €