5 FOOD DIFFERENCES BETWEEN GERMANY AND THE USA
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In today's video I am going over some differences between the USA and Germany when it comes to food, going to restaurant, cooking at home, and so much more.
00:00 Food differences between the USA and Germany
00:47 How does each country deal with laziness, high costs, and no time when making meals?
01:59 What is HelloFresh?
04:27 Brotzeit vs warm meals
06:06 What do Germans eat for dinner? story time
07:18 American status symbol vs German social event
09:09 Costs for dining out and dining in- in the USA
09:32 Dead horse of the channel: Plastic water bottles, plastic utensils, paper plates in the USA- STOP USING THEM
10:32 "Foreign" food names can be drastically different than their "origin"
12:04 Why do Americans do this?
12:36 Germany vs USA | Noodles & Pasta
13:30 Reading complicated menus in the USA since living in Germany
14:09 Food red flag in the USA: breaking spaghetti
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Hey hayley. I recently read up what is allowed as ingredience in the US as part of an article I wrote and it was... searching for euphemisms 😅 maybe something nice to add why hersheys tastes like cardboard and what dogs have to do with it
very nice that Hello Fresh, but it is unaffordable for single people with a small budget. It is unaffordable for a family of four on welfare.
my mom always broke the spaghetti in half and than cooked them, its just easier when they can fit into the pot all at once. even if she learned in a big profecianal kitchen in her youth its something else when you cook for your children i guess. and as a german i have to say "es ändert doch nix am geschmack"
@Danny Cohen
That might be true Danny. I will not argue with you about that at all. The box isn't made for every person but I do have to say that I think they are trying very hard to make it as inclusive as possible. I do think the ability to customize the meal plans based on days and people allows for flexibility... So if you can not afford 5 days for 4 people... Maybe a 2 day 4 people box for 18€ would be a fun treat for the month? I think it is an awesome way to keep people away from fast food because I unfortunately have to admit- I eat more fastfood than I would like to and with the box I look at it as my "fast food" alternative. The meals are 100000% better, they taste amazing, and they are cheaper than eating at a fast food restaurant.
I personally think that the box is decently priced, especially since you have to consider they have to make a profit as well. I was only using my general grocery shopping as a comparison (which I know is probably very different than the average persons).
Mike and I spend a decent amount of money on food so the box for us is almost identical to what we spend a month on groceries and it is a lot easier, efficient, and cleaner to have the box (I am the one that cooks and I spend a lot of time in the kitchen).
I hope this gives a little more insight into my personal reason for liking the box.
I know Hello Fresh. They are good, but I am better with less waste.
I once went to an italian restaurant in Germany with some co-workers including a guy from the US. He ordered ketchup for his pizza and I'll never forget how the italian waiter looked at him with a mixture of disgust and contempt.😂
Sounds like something 45 would have done! 🤔🤯😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂
Culinary hate crime.
He probably also added sugar to his beer because it was too bitter.
I wonder that US guy made it alive out of the restaurant. I expected to hear the waiter instantly calling La Familia and let the guy vanish, with his newly fitted concrete shoes, in the nearest lake or in the trunk of the company car at a junk yard... "You know, we needed a new car anyways..."
After watching one of your videos I had a talk with my wife and she agreed to stop buying paper plates. It was definitely a win for Earth at that moment.
It is a big "investment" actually to switch to normal plates because you have to buy a whole set so I understand why people don't purchase normal plates at first but after about 3 years you get your money back... I believe Mike and I are using plates his mother gave us that are older than our relationship :)
Thanks for the 1st effort, alas paper plates might be ecologically okay. Very problematic is the plethora of plastic knives and forks, end up in landfills or oceans.
@@Mayagick they have turned to having recyclable knives, spoons, and forks. My throw away utensils is actually made from plants. It's 100% biodegradable. The grocery store I work for throw away utensils is 100% biodegradable.
@@jessicaely2521 but it still needs ressources and energy to make. As someone who never held a paper plate in their hand since the last childrens birthday I'm slightly confused as to why you would use them?
@@HayleyAlexis If you do not buy new, you can get real plates cheap from charity shops or flea markets - the older generation dies away and the younger generations usually have their household complete by then and are happy to give it away or sell cheaply. See also Haushaltsauflösungen. Also - IKEA ... not expensive and sometimes they have quite pretty things.
I always hold my breath when I get to see people from the US putting their food on paper or plastic plates. Adults! Also not understanding how kids still use plastic sippy cups at the age of three or four (or, at times, even above that age). I work in a German Kita, and only those under three use plastic cups (normal ones, no sippy). All the older children drink from - yes, y'all can gasp in shock! - real glasses! And guess what? Rarely anything happens, like smashing or breaking a glass. They also learn to eat their lunch with stainless steel cutlery right away (meaning from the age of one year!), just adjusted in size. And we do use normal bone china plates and bowls for them as well. Nothing unusual ever happens.
Bone China? Really? The super thin China that feels like it breaks, if you carry it with anything on it?
Our kindergarten uses regular china for all children.
@@jennyh4025 Just china then. Not the highest quality of it, of course.
@@dorisschneider-coutandin9965 😮💨 I really afraid, that I was worse than small children when it comes to China. 😉
It's a different culture. Kids are expected to have water with them almost all the time in the US (you kind of need this I'm areas where its 38 C-40 C). This summer my daughter was at summer camp and they were outside from 8 am to 7 pm (it was generally 38C to 40 C). Kids drank from their plastic water when ever they were thirsty. For the kids who needed prompting to drink they would take breaks every 30 minutes. You aren't going to carry around a real glass with no lid all day.
@@jessicaely2521 in a German kindergarten they usually have the real glasses, when they are inside. When they go out for trips, they either have a handcart with water bottles and reusable cups or every child has a stainless steel bottle.
Hi Hayley, the key point in your comparison between US and German dinners was unfortunately not mentioned. Dinner is NOT the main meal in Germany. Of course, there are now families in Germany that have made a warm dinner their main meal because both parents work. However, the classic main meal in Germany is lunch and it is usually warm. That's why there are so many canteens in Germany that offer a warm lunch close to where you work. Since you don't want to eat warm food twice a day for various reasons, there is often only a cold snack in the evening. Based on your description, one might have thought that Germans almost never eat warm.
For you, maybe. In my family, lunch was never a thing. Three kids coming tired from school, dad or mom working, depending on the day, we had just a snack or bread for lunch. The big meal, nobody was allowed to miss, was dinner. Hasn't changed until this day.
Dinner can also be understood as the mein meal of the day Independent of the time.
@@dan_kay Same here.
@@maxbarko8717
I don't even see how lunch could be the main meal of the day (with every family member present) nowadays. Most people are working during the day and don't get the luxury of having lunch at home.
I can see what you are coming from @Palmyra especially since working in a kindergarten and seeing children receive very warm meals (I mean sometimes we did have brotzeit at the kindergarten) but generally speaking the big meals would be served at daycare :)
Hayley, I understand why Americans don't eat "Brotzeit"... the spongy, tasteless things they call bread is aweful...
awful, you are not full of awe, which would mean you are full of admiration, you think that that bread is the worst that could ever happen to flour and yeast, if I read your comment correctly. Not trying to be mean - but the distinction is important.
@@franhunne8929 american bread is indeed one of the worst thing you can do to flour and yeast... ;)
When I lived in New York, I only ate bagels and Jewish rye bread. You are talking about Wonder bread, which is meant to be toasted.
I was confused about this when I first moved to Germany. In Germany, "dinner" means a formal meal, usually at a restaurant, and in the US, it means the evening meal, even a crappy meal at home. Germans usually have lunch as the big "hot meal" of the day. I like the German way better, because I sleep better after a light meal of cheese sandwiches and some herb tea or beer.
There's a German saying. In the morning like a king, at noon like a noble man and in the evening like a beggar. That refers to what one is supposed to eat. So, big meal in the mornings to get energy for the day, somewhat smaller meal at lunch-time, and something small and light in the evening to not tax the body too much.
I'm German and I've grown up to this meal routine: one warm meal a day + one "Brotzeit ". So lunch a warm meal and dinner a cold Brotzeit. Or the other way round.
I raised as a bavarian with this routine *breakfast = Frühstück (cold) then midday meal = Mittagessen (hot) and then evening meal = Abendbrot (cold)* , but this is also common *breakfast = Frühstück (cold) then midday meal = Mittagessen (cold) and then evening meal = Abendessen (hot)* .
@@weibrot8324 Never even remotely Bavarian (born in Flensburg, lived in Kiel, Hannover, Essen, Braunschweig, and Münster), and Frühstück - Mittagessen - Abendbrot just as you describe was the norm except for vacations in Austria, where midday was out in nature, so the hot meal had to be evening.
Same here...👍😁
The problem is that this structure is no longer really compatible to todays life as the parents often work both.
This is quite usual.
when i was a small kid, we used to break spaghetti for two reasons: we didn't know any better (many decades ago) and my grand parents (and my father) couldn't or would't learn to eat them properly. after we went to italy on holidays for the second time, we were taught by some waiter, and even when i was barely six, i succeeded in eating them with fork and spoon without making a mess, and over some years also with only the fork and the plate's edge, and finally with only a fork.
*_you just have to be willing to learn, ask to be told and/or taught, and then try and practise._*
i still cut them with a knife, but not in public xD
I love to slurp them from a fork, but only when I`m alone 😅
That's exactly the reason why I've never ordered spaghetti from an Italian restaurant or in Italy
Well, I can actually do it, but I refuse to do it
yeah, really nice one.
That's what I want to do on holiday in an other country ... get in touch with there culture and learn something.
That's why I miss the "pre euro" time .. when every country has there own money. Shopping was so much more in this time.
My grandma used to break the Spaghetti, too. And for the first 11 years of my life we put oil in the pasta water and often poured cold water about it after cooking them. And that was just 20 years ago...with television and cooking shows we learned so much more about cooking and ingredients. I avoided to order or cook spaghetti in fear of making a mess with the tomato sauce for some time, but the last two years I made it often for myself and it's a heavenly dish to eat spaghetti!!😁 I just love them, and I don't care anymore of a mess.😅
Abendsbrot is an interesting term like it's so typical to have a sandwich or bread they don't call it the evening meal, they call it bread. In Japanese it's the same with meals, you call it morning rice, noon rice and evening rice. Those are very casual terms and in a menu you'd see morning noon and evening meal instead.
I just had a whole Pineapple for dinner.
I know that's weird even for German standards but I had it here and before it's going bad...
And the next morning you will ask yourself, if that was a REALLY good idea.😂😉
I'm not a medical expert - but I'd advise you to peel it next time.
@@matthiaswiegand1654 🤣🤣
I found that food names is very much dependent on the mix of the population. I moved recently back from Australia to Germany. Because of the relatively high population of Asian people in Australia, Asian food was fantastic, varied and authentic. In Germany, people from Mediterranean countries are more common, therefore the food from these countries is more authentic. And I would guess that the quality of Mexican food in the US is better than here.
I wouldn’t necessarily agree on the better Mexican food in the USA. It probably depends on the region. The one Mexican restaurant I tried was… not good (compared to the food a colleague, who lived about ten years in Mexico, makes).
@@jennyh4025
Exactly! That depends much on where you are. In Texas, Arizona or New Mexico, you get absolutely authentic Mexican food. Sometimes, the places are a little hidden, but every town has its Mexican kitchen, be it a restaurant or a taco truck, with fantastic and not Americanized Mexican food.
The further north you go, the more difficult it gets, though...
@@jennyh4025 All the Mexican food I tried in the US was absolutely fantastic! Fresh herbs, fresh vegetables, crispy corn crackers...
@@aglaiacassata8675 I guess it really depends on where you are in the USA.
I'm Australian, totally agree on our Asian food being delicious! When I was in Mexico I realized I didn't really know what authentic Mexican food was about, what I thought was Mexican was Tex-Mex, and Tex-Mex wasn't really on offer in Mexico.
to phrase it a little bit mean - with American bread, I wouldn't want to have a brotzeit as well. Or nicely spoken the other way round - a fresh, well made loaf of bread with a nice crust, butter and some good smoked ham is one of the best meals I know.
for the interested - a short video on the differences between US and European bread: czcams.com/video/FovIyqov1uA/video.html. It's basically due to (most) Americans not having bakeries close by (which is due to differences in zoning as explained by the Schwarzwald Family)
yeah, we do eat hot meals, i m German, and i cook a hot meal daily - from scratch! 🙂
Me too.
Swiss here with the same cooking and eating routine. However, this might be different in the French and Italian speaking parts of the country.
Germany has a bread culture that is unique worldwide. In most countries bread is just something to put your toppings on while in Germany bread is a real part of the meal and is expected to add some taste to the meal. In other countries bread is simply bland and at best adds some texture. On the other side I find the "German" cuisine rather uninspired where other countries offer way more options. Even as a German I never choose a German restaurant if I have other options but I sorely miss bread after 2 weeks of vacation.
It depends in where in Germany you are, Bavaria and Franconia have a very distinct and excellent cuisine, while the North doesn't have this rich "Gasthaus" culture. I eat local specialities when I dine out.
I watch this while having a cold dinner as a German - bread, tomatoes and cheese. Yummi!
Yes, or hard boiled eggs with mustard, a bread roll and a piece of smoked ham. Good food can be so easy. 👍
Heya, Hayley!
I have been watching some of your videos already. As a German I have this feeling that Americans have a very strong importance to convenience, so everything that is unknown, hard to learn or not that easy to handle is avoided. This goes with learning the names, using one way plastic utensils and americanizing most of foreign things or, as you said, watering and dumbing it down, because the taste is too special or different.
Thanks for the video, very interesting! I have a recommendation for people who use paper plates because they don't have time: Buy a dishwasher.
without a dishwasher, there are sometimes interesting traditions (started by the younger men) -> it was common for my parents that the majority of the men suddenly disappeared into the kitchen to do the dishes and put away the dishes and cutlery. The children also helped with the latter activity.
Well, usually in Germany we try to eat one warm meal a day as well. It just depends when. When you have a Kantine at work where you can eat a warm meal for just a few Euros you eat a warm meal for lunch and then eat bread and cold cuts for dinner. If you only have time and/or money for sandwiches, Brötchen or a salad for lunch, you have a warm meal for dinner. In the last months prices for groceries, gas, oil and electricity increased a lot so lot of people have to really calculate on what to spend their money.
Nach dem Abendbrot ein Video von Hayley übers Abendbrot anschauen, macht Spaß.🥰
Ich finde die Essenszeit ist genau umgekehrt wie in den USA… Viele Essen zu Mittag warmes (Schule, Kantine) und dann am Abend Brotzeit und Amerikaner eher umgekehrt…. Bin immer ein bisschen überrascht wenn ich auf CZcams Amerikaner PBJ Sandwiches essen sehe zu Mittag…. 🙈😅 Für mich wär das die Vormitttagsjause🙈
But it's chaning towards the American way more and more. You just have to check Restaurants at night.
Kommt dann wiederum oft drauf an was die Eltern arbeiten, und auf welche Schule die Kinder gehen. Bei uns gabs immer warmes Abendessen, weil das die einzige Mahlzeit am Tag war, wo alle daheim waren. Mittags waren mein Bruder und ich in der Schule und unsere Eltern in der Arbeit. In der Schule habe ich nie Mittag gegessen, weil es an der Realschule in Bayern keinen Nachmittagsunterricht gibt, bin also jeden Tag um 13 Uhr heimgefahren. Mein Bruder war anfangs noch auf dem Gymnasium, hatte also manchmal Nachmittagsunterricht, aber selbst er hat nicht Mittag gegessen. Es gab auch nur eine Mensa für alle drei Schulen des Schulzentrums, die viel zu klein dafür war, obwohl sie damals recht neu war.
In Denmark it’s bread and butter in the middle of the day and the hot meals in the evening. It has been so for a long time, but I find it hard to believe that it’s in any way because of the americans.
@@kasperkjrsgaard1447 in Denmark I have cooked food for frokost (lunch) every single day. Everyone I know around here eats like this.
@@kasperkjrsgaard1447 right, but also the danish culture has almost no influence to germany. Restaurants serving bread exist in denmark, but are almost unknown in germany.
It is eating out, the impossible lunch in some Industries, and french and italien Lifestyle what had an influence.
In Europe, as a German with great passion for the cuisine of my dear Italian neighbors I would like to say that the use of so many different pasta shapes, in fact many dozens of shapes, all made from the same dough, is not an exaggeration. The classic tomato sauce and all other variations, actually tastes different depending on what shape of pasta you choose to go with it. A note: it was a high artisan skill to shape a very thin pasta, called spaghetti. Even if today there are machines for it, to break it before cooking it to fit in a pot is a painfully ignorant behavior.
I agree, I only know one group of people, who eat them cut into pieces: small children, that still need to work a lot on their fine motor skills.
I always break them. Easier to have them in the pot all at the same time, easier to mix them with other stuff afterwards, easier to eat them. Italians can cook their stuff however they like, I am not an Italian chef, let me cook my damn spaghetti how I want! :O
@@jennyh4025 Why cut, when you can break them before cooking? Less hassle.
@@Thorenhard why break them, when you can just keep them long and eat them with just a fork? My five year old is currently learning how to eat spaghetti without cutting or breaking, just rolling up on a fork.
@@jennyh4025 cause so theyre all done at the same time, you can mix them with other stuff easier, and you can still roll them up - just easier.
I'm.a British expat learning my new culture here in the Netherlands over the last 6 of 16 years living here . Finally decided to get with the Dutch way and I love it. . Soon to give up my UK citizenship
nice to have you on the continent
@@whattheflyingfuck... if you want check out the content I tried to give to the world just visit my channel.
Mate, if you are not in the Netherlands because your company or the government send you, you are a plain old immigrant. ;)
@@50043211 who says I'm not .. I'm a former military brat. The British Government sent us all over
I too wouldn't want a Brotzeit, if I didn't have a proper bread 😉
My experience from my trip to Chicago: US restaurants have huge portions and hefty prices (after getting lost in the maze of the basic price plus tax plus tip and whatnot). I was there with a friend, we stayed in a "hotel" in Chinatown, but not one with any kind of meals, just rooms ... so for breakfast we went to a bakery across the street, then went to a restaurant in the afternoon meeting friends and with those two meals the day was covered quite well.
When I'm at home I cook once a day and in the evening I eat my self-baked bread with a variety of different things on it.
In the Netherlands, we also have/had avondbrood aka abentbrot, similar but not exactly the same thing - but a bread meal at dinner time, abents. Probably more European countries do so, it is also part of our ancient history of agriculture countries. Look at the bread cultures European countries, all the different types of breads, etc. Like in Germany, German bread, French bread, Italian bread, Dutch bread, etc.
Growing up for me:
Friday was Fry day, we had fries, and snacks like bitterballen, kroketten, frikandellen, etc.
Saturday often was the (avondbrood) day, we had bread the entire day, breakfast - lunch - dinner.
Sunday was the day the hot meal had 3 courses, but was served in the afternoon/lunch time. In the evening we had abentbrot.
Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays it was breakfast, often bread with hagelslag or Nutella spread, things like that. Lunches where packed breads for school, could be a diversity of things one could have on it. Peanut-butter was a thing one would grow out of - one could get teased because of the smell, also that lingered. Dutch peanut butter is not the same like US Skippy, non of the variants that I know are like Calve pindakaas, "wie is er niet groot mee geworden".
Dinners were hot meals, traditionally potatoes
(cooked or mashed, skinned potatoes was not a thing in my youth - in my view an American thingy that got hold with things like McD potato wedges) with vegetables and meat. Vegetables and meat would differ almost every day, some days were left over days, but that was more a ones in the month thingy. For me things now days are different from my youth.
Traditions older generations had with foods, my generation did not always have anymore. Like rabbit for Christmas dinner. My father had it, my mother would make it for him. But she would hardly ever eat it. It reminded her of how their "pet" bunnies always disappeared before Christmas.
People can change and make their own traditions.
Traditional "zuurvlees" is horse meat & sour. And took you at least a few days of "prep". It was not a thing one could eat the same day you made it.
Things like that.
Oh I love hagelslag, it's different from our german chocolate sprinkles. Agree with you about habits changing. When I was a child we got a piece of meat, vegetables and a kind of "Sättigungsbeilage" (noodles, potatoes). Since my daughter starts eating vegan 3 years ago our meals changed and the rest of us is eating vegetarian.
The last one sounds a lot like „Sauerbraten“, which is originally made with horsemeat. You put it in a vinegar, spice marinade for several days, then slowly cook it in the oven and make a sweet-sour sauce with the marinade, and some other ingredients I can’t remember (and that change by region).
@@Rapunzel197 Lass dein haar herunter.
Knödel is also very German, if you ask me, not sure if this is also a Sättigungsbeilage, think it probably is.
I like hagelslag with smeerkaas, also with pindakaas. To skip the butter but it still sticking to the bread.
I used to be vegetarian, for a while, a couple of times in my life.
I've always had a love hate relation with eating/foods.
But at the age of 3 I asked my mother while eating chicken if they killed the chicken for me. She said yes, and I refused to eat meat for years. But at that time [1983] Dutch culture was not so much into vegan, and I got ill from not eating meat, or "replacements".
I had to "learn" how to eat meat again but then it had to be boneless stuff like that not just a dead body on my plate.
This goes to this day.
Thing is I also didn't like many vegetables, HSP, plenty of them tasted bitter to me and gave me a gag reflex. Which makes it hard to eat it. My body can have lesser average reactions to foods.
With school I studied/sales-business, first in the field foods, but after receiving the books and having the lessons for two weeks I had to switch. Knowing what is in foods, and how they are made like that, was not very conductive for me personally.
Later in life I tried the vegetarian lifestyle again, now days there is so much options.
Flexitarian and omnivore is what I am, but with less meat than on average. Stuff like that.
@@jennyh4025 Sound very similar/the same... of course not knowing all the ingredients, it is hard to say if the dish is the same.
But also with the translation it should be the same, or similar. Sauer = Zuur, Braten can be translated with Vlees.
Dutch and German cultures have similar/intersecting roots and histories.
But it also is more a thing in the south, if not mistaken of the Netherlands. Limburgs zuurvlees aka Zoervleis/Zoervleesj in dialect.
Isn't braten a specific way of the prepping of meat, or better making it (like roasting) not all meats are called a braten in German, true? Or am I mistaken?
@@schiffelers3944 I think you’re pretty good with your assumptions. I only know Sauerbraten from Nordrhein-Westfalen, so pretty close to the German-Dutch-border. It’s quite possible, that it’s a variation of the same thing.
Braten is usually a piece of meat, that is cooked slowly (several hours) to make it nice and soft.
Growing up in Austria with cold dinner, it was a revelation for me the first time I talked to an American about it and they thought I was making it up. I still like to eat bread and Weckerl for dinner because I hate cooking. Thanks for another great video, I just recently discovered your channel but I really enjoy your enthusiasm and learning new things. 🙂
I do have to say though, I also break my spaghetti noodles at home because it makes it easier to eat. 😀
I love your paper plate and plastic utensils meme! Fortunately single-use plastics is being outlawed in Germany. And regarding the names of foreign food: When I was in the army our weekly menu was absolutely hilarious, when the chef tried to write down French or Italian names of dishes.
Another great video Hayley! We sometimes need to ask the waiter what a certain meal is because we don't know what's behind the name. On the other hand you're constantly learnin more and more from other countries and their traditions.
German here!
When I was young we often had warm luch when granny watched us after school.
Later on it switched to dinner being warm, cause we stayed alone after school and dad wanted a warm meal too (his work sucks,his luchbreak is a joke).
Now that I live alone I don't always make a hot meal,especially in summer I'm happy with a slad as a main dish. But also in winter,because I'm lazy.
But on average we quite definetly have a warm meal per day.
I'm part german and I live in Baden-Württemberg. My aunt lives in North Carolina she always used paper plates and plastic forks. After a long discussion she stopped using it.
The funny thing is. I remember seeing an old travel newsreel (50s or 60s) for germans to visit italy. In it you saw the father of the family, unable to eat spaghetti, so he tried to cut it with sciccors. So europeans outside of italy knowing how to eat spaghetti properly, pretty much took a few generations to learn.
Hahahahahahaha, that's hilarious!
Eating spaghetti properly didn't last a generation, it was more due to availability in the country, it's the same as eating with chopsticks
Greetings Hayley..its been a while since I commented but this video is great..I have a garden so I love using the things I grow in it..I recently came across a German cucumber recipe..it was awesome..I like just making a great big salad after I'm out on a hot day..I love love cheese too😁..a lot of times I'll have like grapes and cheese..I like all different types of food and I appreciate when they make it the way they would in their actual countries instead of making it different just for Americans..I do the same thing with my noodles..I don't break them..I will cut the spaghetti up for my littlest granddaughter but the rest of us eat them whole..as always blessings to you and Mike 😇
I'm very American in that regard, I grew up always having warm dinner. We never really had warm lunches in my family due to the fact that both my parents work full time and come home in the early afternoon at the earliest.
My grandma however is your typical German Rentner, whenever we visit her there's breakfast at 8 or 9, lunch at noon, Kaffee und Kuchen at 4pm and Brotzeit at 7pm...I absolutely hated having Brotzeit for dinner as a kid, and still don't like it to this day lol
The only way I accept Brotzeit is when there's Antipasti :P
I'd say that generally most Germans that live in households where nobody's home at noon eat warm dinner, since that's the only time of the day they actually get the chance to have a warm meal together.
yes, that has changed in the last decades, in the old days it was different I guess, when Mom would stay home and cook, then she would warm up lunch for Daddy or else, he would eat "Brotzeit" too, like bread, butter, cheese, sausage, tea, lemonade (water was tap water), cucumbers, boiled eggs, radish, that all was our standard dinner for years
In Germany people have "Dinner" at lunch time and the canteen/cafeteria provided very often freshly cooked warm meals at lunch what you call dinner in the evening in America. The food in Germany tastes good and mostly they take pride in cooking it in those Canteens. Quality is mostly good and satisfying. And in the evening the meal is lighter and its practically sandwiches , bread, cheese, cold cut meats, tee warm or other warm beverages. Dinner is Lunch and Lunch is Dinner, simply said for understanding. One warm meals and two cold meals per day in general.
Greetings from a fellow American real plate, glass, and utensil person!! I can't stand disposable plates and utensils. (And you must sit down at the table - no standing, eating in front of the tv, walking, etc.) May we change the U.S. one plate at a time!
And no breaking noddles! That is more middle America in my opinion. I can't imagine my peers in the foodcentric SF Bay Area doing that.
I do have to say that was the hardest thing for me to change about myself (eating and standing)... I sometimes do it when I am rushing or alone in the house and my legs are uncomfortable from sitting but I always try to force myself to SIT and eat.
I like you. And I like that you talk about whatever you want, even if you get critisized a lot. You observe really well and research things. Your development is stunning.
Grüße an dich und Mike aus Berlin ♡
If I were in USA I wouldn't be eating bread and cheese either...
LMAO!
Hallo Hayley, vielen Dank für deine Videos. Very interesting and funny to hear what an American think about us😄 and what kind of differences there are between our countries, our cultures and habits. Mach weiter so. 👍🏻
Liebe Grüße aus dem schönen Saarland, Christine.
Definition of „dinner: the principal meal of the day“ (Merriam-Webster)
...loved your rant on plastic 🙂
Very well made video :)
Hi Hailey 😊 As a German I also know the tradition of having a cold meal in the evening. As a grown up I don't follow any rules considering meals. Just eating when hungry and whatever I want at any time.
I used to get the Hello fresh boxes a few years ago and they were always very much fun to cook and the food came out very delicious. So I can totally recommend them👍🏻
You mentioned that Americans tend to give names to food instead of using the original ones so selling rates are higher.
This instantly reminded me of a 'Saarlännischa Spruch'
"Wat da Bauer nid kennt, frissta nid."
Ever heard of that one?
I am the same, now that I live on my own I eat whatever I want whenever I want and usually it's warm 😅
Funnily enough we have the same saying up north "Watt de Bur ne kennt, fret he ne" 🤘
The concept of Abendbrot is something I wasn't really excited about when i first heard about it but I am used to having what would be considered dinner sometimes pretty early in the day anyway. Like between 2-5 on some days. When dinner is made early I prefer to have cereal or eggs first and then have dinner later in the day unless stock is low. But I never liked how early my mom usually cooks dinner, though it varies a lot. Sometimes I have cereal for "dinner" and fresh/leftover dinner for breakfast lol. I guess I don't care as much since my sleep schedule can vary a lot sometimes. And yes we break spaghetti in my house lol.
I liked the video, when you pointed out to not use plastic and paper plates and cutlery :3 ty!
I never had a hot dinner in my whole life. I am 58 years old, Hayley and all I've had, growin up and in this 58 years is bread an cheese sclices for dinner, EVERY SINGLE NIGHT! 😘
Good that you have a sponsor.
In the hot summers when I was a kid we often had „Kaltschale“ as a cold evening meal. Most of the time made with water but sometimes also with milk. When this wasn‘t enough we also put some cereals in it. I don‘t know if there is something similar in the US but in Germany it is a premixed powder you put into water while you stir up the whole thing until everything is dissolved. Then you get a sweet cold fruit soup you can serve right out of the fridge. And a Kaltschale made with milk is also a nice dessert.
"Nestlé Flair, das besondere Dessert!" I loved it!
I remember my grandmother and mother making Kaltschale on hot summer days. It was delicious, unfortunately I have never seen anyone like it in the US.
We sometimes had „Buttermilchkaltschale“, so buttermilk with raisins and oatmeal (Haferflocken) in it. We normally ate it when it was very hot and we didn’t want to eat anything else.
The "Hello Fresh Box" gave a nice inspiration on how self-prepared & cooked fast meals. The box comes with a menu you prepare in 15 min. But you can also buy the ingredients and make it yourself another day. I had some boxes a few years ago and it had really nice vegi's and meat or fish in the box. I saved up the menu's that I can still use today.
I am keeping the menus for the future because there were a few recipes that I would LOVE to memorize!!
Yes the menu cards can be collected, and it seems soo simple to make.. but thinking to make it by yourselfs seems too difficult😂
In
Netherlands, every box came with discount coupons and other free coupons for other stuff .. In Germany too?
@@powerpommy Yes you get other coupons as well :)
I live a bit to the North-East of Germany. It's August, and it's hot, thus after work we eat "aukstā zupa" (cold soup), just taken out of a fridge. It's mostly made of kefir (a fermented milk product, but not exactly like yogurt) and beets, thus it has nice pink colour.
now you have made me hungry and i started an early Nachtmahl, as we say in Austria: Bauchspeck with pepper and dark bread, yummy
in Italy you don't get a spoon to eat noodles or pasta, that is more a German thing
Mate all yous said was totally on point .. Greetings from the 🇳🇱 Netherlands
My (american) boyfriend learned cooking AND German with Hello Fresh recipes! :D Double win!
I am going to order a few more boxes and keep all the recipes I love in a folder :) I was pleasantly surprised at how simple yet delicious the recipes were.
Brilliant!!!
Abendbrot is not what Germans eat because they don't have time or are lazy. It's the traditional meal in the evening. Fresh bread with butter, cheese, cold cuts, radishes, Tomatoes etc.
It's simply, that the warm meal in Germany is traditionally eaten for lunch.
I don't necessarily agree.... It may be a tradition but many people only eat bread at night because it is easy- especially people with children. They don't really care about keeping tradition they just care that their children have decent food without too much hassle/money.
A great sponsor indeed. One of my co-workers recommended Hello Fresh to me because he knows I love to cook. At first sight, it looked really intriguing. Yet, then, I decided not to get it because I prefer cooking the recipes that I love already. I still might try it out later, though.
The "keeping the original names" of food is true in a way, we tend to do that. But a lot of people are butchering the pronunciation because they don't really know the language (in food, that's mostly Italian). So you will hear a plethora of different butchered pronunciations of dishes like gnocchi, , espresso etc. It always makes me cringe so hard 😅
So, everything has two sides
That is true 🤣🤣🤣 I’m usually a mixture of both the USA and Germany with pronunciations. When I am back in the USA and I say Bruschetta like brew sket uh - I get a lot of looks but that is normal here in Bavaria.
At least in Asian restaurants you can just give up and tell the waiter the number next to the item lol
"Gnotschi" mit "Pasta Schutta" bitte XD
@@rhokesh4391 Mir fehlt gerade die Fähigkeit zu Entschlüsseln was "Pasta Schutta" sein sollen. Nur das es im Südwesten vermutlich als "Paschda Schudta" ausgesprochen würde.
@@Andreas_42 kennt man normalerweise unter Pasta asciutta ;)
The only time where I cut my spaghetti in little bits was when I was at my gradma's and she seved "Spaghetti mit Tomatensoße". I could eat them without cutting but when I was a kid I loved to eat the spaghetti bits with a spoon. So it stuck with me :)
Usually there is a description on the menu what's in the dish you order, very handy..but yes you have to read it. Just like here in Netherlands it's comon to cook at home even after a busy day at work. I can imagine in other continents it's easier to order or go out for dinner. A culture difference that is not easy to change. I guess: Comfort vs. Comfort luxury.
I love Hello Fresh! Ich erhalte diese Box alle zwei Wochen und auch meine gesamte Familie ist begeistert.
Pasta and Spätzle are types of noodle.
Also and apropos of nothing what defines a Strudel is that it is made from a noodle dough rolled out very thinly, it can be sweet or savoury.
I'd love to have different breads, cheeses and cold cuts for dinner every night! Those are my favorite foods and in the summer I'll treat myself and make a little tray up with a bit of everything for dinner. Unfortunately they're not the healthiest options for me so not something I can enjoy all the time. Actually whenever I get to go away for a few days and don't want to cook I'll stop by a Deli and pick a few meats and cheeses so I can have a tray while away! So yum, easy and feels like a treat!
I had this issue with the paper plates and plastics at a work event in Germany in the past, when it came to the summer barbecue at our workplace without the chance for hot water for the clean up afterwards the first time. In the next year everyone already had their fitting set of camping gear or picnic equipment made out of melamine (nearly unbreakable) with them. For the clean up we filled the sink with hot water from the kettle and did our cleaning like after every bigger mealbreak / birthdaycoffee. Not a big deal, but so much better for the environment and much cheaper.
How was it better for the environment? Did you use brine to wash the dishes., or do you use gray water .if not you used fresh water and that everyone is just as bad. As a paper plate.
@@josephbee4325 Germany has muncipal water cleaning for every household. The water we used was less the amount of water of one time flushing the toilet would have needed in comparison. It all went back to the cycle. Here you can see how this is done, please use the subtitles: czcams.com/video/OnwgGI7wHRs/video.html
There is a proverb in Germany . "Breakfast like an emperor, lunch like a nobleman, dinner like a beggar". Why ! You need energy in the morning to start your work. Then comes lunch. And after that you don't need so much energy, because at 4 o'clock the work rests. In the evening, you should not eat so much because you go to sleep afterwards! And you can't burn as many calories while you sleep. Otherwise you will get fat and your sleep will be restless.! 😉
Wieder ein tolles Video: Während in den USA vieles einfach nur easy sein soll, so verpasst man doch Eines: Bildung und Verständnis für etwas Neues.
Es macht doch Spaß sich etwas von der großen weiten Welt anzueigenen, oder?
Diese Kennerschaft ist ein Zugewinn und die Achtung anderer Traditionen und Kulturen ist Vorraussetzung für Toleranz!
Babys allerdings kaut man das Essen vor und macht alles möglichst einfach.
Andere Länder, andere Kulturen: Was für manche Menschen verlockend klingt, ist für andere Bedrohung und Zumutung.
Eine offene Welt sollte für alle Menschen nur von Vorteil sein...
Up until at least the mid 90s, it was extremely common for Dutch people to eat spaghetti with a fork and knife! My parents tried to teach me the fork-and-spoon method, but I just couldn't get the hang of it, so I was still cutting it to small bits up until the age of 13 (around 1990). Then I visited Italy for the first time and saw people just using forks to eat spaghetti and I was like, "HANG ON, I CAN DO THAT!" and haven't eaten spaghetti any other way since. But for a long time after that, I still met people who cut up their spaghetti.
We also order HelloFresh here in the Netherlands :) Hugs and much love to you!
It is hot in Greece from May to October but I still cooked a hot meal for dinner. OK we did have air con & it was on 18 when it was 38 outside.
Hey Hayley,
nice one again!
Just a friendly tip: if you do ad for your sponsor, as far as i know, you have to put up "Werbung", to show to everyone, that it is.
Could cause big trouble if you don't.
I may be wrong but i don't think so.
Greetz and thanks for your work
Of course they do, just not always in the evening. Mostly noon to be compared with the earlier "supper"
Regarding the foreign names for food, I remember one evening in Houston, Tx, when I was cooking for friends. One lady, already way in her 50s, came into the kitchen and was asking what I was doing. So, I told her that I was about to gratinate the chicken breast. She was just staring at me with a blank expression in her eyes. So, I explained that it means to put cheese on top of food and let it melt in the oven.
"Oh, you mean o grot'n." - "O what?" - "O grot'n, that's how it's called."
Took me a while to understand that she meant "au gratin".
LOL that is a funny story... I have had a few instances where I tell someone in the USA what I am doing (or lets say ordering a particular cheese at the grocery store) and them looking so perplexed when I say the "real" name. I remember I was trying to purchase Appenzeller cheese and it turned into a 30 minute discussion with the guy cutting the cheese asking where I was from and how I knew the name...
@@HayleyAlexis
Appenzeller in Florida? Good luck with that.
But it also goes the other way. I was asked in the supermarket which toothpaste I would prefer, and I pronounced "Colgate" like a true German "Kollgahteh". Didn't even occur to me that it could be an American brand...
One of my Favorite foods is Klafunz. It is written Something like clafoutis but my Mom can't pronounce french.
@@FranziskaNagel445
What is that?
@@dan_kay A french dessert en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clafoutis
That was very interesting! There are also people in Germany who "do not cook", but it is still different. Usually these are single men who don't feel like working and then eat "cold" at home - Brotzeit. I have never heard that someone goes out to eat three times a day, that must be incredibly expensive.
With us it is usual to eat once a day warm (cooked) and once a day cold (Brotzeit), otherwise it is just quite a lot. With cooked food, you usually eat more calories and feel fuller. Twice a day would be too much for me.
Favourite Spaghetti dishes: 1. Spaghetti Bologneses Speciale (w/ Chorizo), 2. Spaghetti Carbonara Tyrolean style (w/ Tyrolean bacon), 3. Schnitzelpfanne (Spaghetti w/ Schnitzel and mushroom cream gravy) 😁
I have a nice word for "words and phrases...": Verschlimmbessert.
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Ich war wirklich begeistert... muss ich sagen...
10:33 Woulda have loved to hear some examples of this. I was waiting for some for the entire segment ^^
Edit: okay, you did go into the noodle differences, didn't watch that before commenting.
Quite often when I cook, I prepare large portions and freeze what we don't eat right away. That way we can eat home cooked meals, even when everyone is strapped for time or we just don't feel like cooking. We have a microwave (American invention, thank you!) for reheating meals. I only eat a warm meal at lunch time, for dinner /Abendbrot in the evening it's indeed bread with cheese or cold cuts but also lots of salads.
I always eat long spaghetti after cutting it up. Though I never buy long spaghetti. Always fusilli, conchigle, or any pasta that is for eating with Bolognese. It's to do with the pasta taking more of sauce when eating Bolognese. Long pasta is normally eaten by wrapping around a fork, but I can't cope with with so messing about with food so I cut it up instead. I am sure Italians would be tutting if they saw me, but its the eating and taste that's most important for me.
Im from Slovenia and there is a heated debate whether you should break pasta and eat with a fork or leave it whole and eat with a fork and spoon. My friends and I will never agree on this so we just let it lie.
Also, americans really like asking for ketchup to go with straight up meals that arent meant to be served with ketchup or any type of sweet sauce. Explaining that we didnt have ranch as a server was also a weekly routine.
10:33 In most cases the menu lists the name of the dish and the description below that. It takes a little time to read in the beginning but if you keep visiting the same kind of restaurant, you will learn the names of dishes in passing. Most menus are easy to navigate, once you know some key phrases.
I still like it if foreign restaurants add numbers even if it does not look pretty. Just recently some colleagues visited a nearby African restaurant for the first time. The waitress was new. We did not know how to pronounce the dishes and she did not know the names on the menu at all. So we had to read the descriptions to her while she had some trouble understanding German. which was just one of the many problems that evening. We took it with humor but it was by far the worst service I have ever seen in any restaurant. Some numbers in the menu would really have helped all of us.
I don't break the spaghetti into half before cooking, but still eat them with fork and knife because it's so much easier :D
the funny thing with broken spaghetties is, they are harder to eat, than the longer ones. To short to wrap it around a fork, to long to lay it on the fork. I really dont know how to eat broken ones in an elegant way...
And to dislike "Abendbrot" in America is easy, because you dont have real (affordable) bread there. It simply doesnt taste.
I remember spending my holidays at my grandmothers house and Oma (grandma) getting up before sunrise starting to prepare the cooking and dare you not be at the table at 12:00 sharp! Better be early. Good old childhood days. Abendbrot was a given. The more guests the fancier the bread, cold cuts and additional servings. Boiled eggs, special cheese ect. And some traditional black Ostfriesentee.
Now today everything is different and warm meals are up to everyone’s possibilities I think.
Spaghetti with fork and knife? Ok I’m out of here…
Hi Heley, i like your Videos 😉
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I’ve been around Italians, been invited to their homes, they never used a spoon to eat pasta (though I’ve been offered one as non-Italian). And while the fork is the main utensil, it is my recollection that a knife is used to move stuff around, help with getting a cherry tomato onto your fork, etc..
I can eat Spaghetti just with a fork, but it's much more comfortable and easier for the hand to also use a spoon. Maybe the muscles just need the "Italian" training.
eating just with the fork is the "usual or normal" way. Using an additional spoon is the mor distinguished one, so you dont make a mess and the portion on the fork is smaller to prevent tomato sauce around your mouth or on your chin ;)
I Hayley! First, I like your hair! When we purchased this house, our home, my husband said to me: I know you want a new kitchen. Well, I did and still do a decade later. Why the wait? All the appliances were working. I suspected they wouldn't last much longer because the people who sold the house didn't cook. So they put in starter-level appliances. Et voila! everything has been repaired and then broken again. The cooktop now has only 2 working burners, and both only cook low to medium. That's been for the past 18 months. At about the same time, I began using Hello Fresh! I love it! My hubby loves it! As you stated, it nearly eliminates the need to go to the store. The post delivers it to the door. The food is easily stored and prepared. I simply order the dishes we like that do not involve the oven or the steamer and can be prepared over a relatively low temp. When will we get a new kitchen? Probably when my hubby returns from this current business trip. Will I still use Hello Fresh? Yes, but my needs to have a huge pantry are no longer needed. I found I need only 1/3 of the storage for all the cooking battery I had. What a relief! I would not have realized that without becoming a HelloFresh fan. However, the first food I am going to prepare in our all new kitchen are going to be some chicken enchiladas. We haven't had them in the past 6 years now. Craving is hard.
We just went grocery shopping today and spent 120€ on probably a weeks worth of food... We were shocked... and could not believe how expensive everything has gotten. We have not been to the grocery store in a good 2ish weeks.. My butter that used to be on sale for 1.50 is now "sale" price 2.50... The beer we usually purchase for 1€ is 1.30€ which granted aren't huge increases but they are pretty high for people that like cooking at home...
Our kitchen is spacious but it is still limited and we don't have enough space to store all of the little items needed to create the delicious meals that HelloFresh provides!
I am glad you have been enjoying HelloFresh! I have been enjoying it as well!!! We won't be using it forever but it does help tremendously in our home :)
I like the German cold stuff for breakfast or lunch but for dinner I like warm dishes or a delicious Frenchy style salad. Although we are in August, I made stew last night: chicken+veg+quinoa.
Hi Haley, Hello Fresh is quite an interesting concept, downside is that you produce a lot of waste but maybe not more than normal and I suppose less than for an average to go or delivered meal.
Someone sent me this video: czcams.com/video/c0zUoTmIKBU/video.html and it is quite interesting... I personally think there are pros and cons for HelloFresh but for me the pros outweigh the cons in my life....I will explain why because everyone is different but it works for me because:
1) my closest grocery store is a 20 minute walk one way from my house (half on a dirt back road which is horrible if I purchased a little wagon to carry everything in). A simple grocery store run usually takes me 1 hour and it is extremely heavy to carry everything home.
2) I spend a lot of money grocery shopping. Mike and I just went grocery shopping today and we spent together: 120€. We only got enough food for 2-3 whole meals that would be of similar quality/size as HelloFresh (of course we got our typical snacks but still 120€ is a lot of money). Purchasing the smaller ingredients (that I will most likely only use 1-2 times a month) becomes very expensive.
3) Our stores don't sell a lot of the items we need so we would have to travel to 3+ different stores to get all of the ingredients which if I was walking would easily take over an hour where I live (and if we use Mike's car it is not an efficient option)
4) We don't have space. Our kitchen is relatively BIG for what it is and looks a lot bigger on camera but space is limited. It is a very old house with a very "old" storage system so having the "normal" size ingredients to create every meal that HelloFresh provides in "single serving" size would not fit in our fridge.
The waste in my opinion could probably be reduced in the HelloFresh box but I personally do not believe I produce more waste with the box than I do with my normal grocery shopping... When I purchase the items at the grocery store they are usually larger sizes, wrapped in more plastic, in heavier containers, and and and... Which HelloFresh it is only the stuff you REALLY need wrapped in minimal waste which is also lighter for transporting.
The transparency for the delivery/packaging could be a little better but when it comes to most grocery stores- it could be better.
I tell people that are skeptical to just try it out once because it is no different than if you order multiple packages from a store and get them delivered to your home and also analyze to see if it is less wasteful for you and if it is something you could really see yourself finding use for...It does not have to be a weekly thing.. Mike and I plan on using it for the weeks where you have a lot of time crunch :)
In Germany Dinner is served at noon, in the evening its more like lunch meals. It used to be that if you work you bring the dinner to work and warm it up
actually what do eat on day if you eat warm dinner in the evening? for many families with children coming from school, there is warm food on the table. And most people in germany won't cook warm food 2 times per day. Therefore in the evening a bread is easier to make.
Else some families where everybody is at work on day, you might find families to cook only in the evening and maybe eat something cold at work that was prepared at home.
I like to eat together with my wife if possible so as we are both busy on day we eat warm dinner sometimes very late.
Spaghetti -> Fork and Spoon allways...
I find these videos about Germany from an "outside perspective" very interesting and entertaining. The number one thing I've realised watching these is how big the differences between different parts of Germany are (or how much things have changed in recent years?). For example just eating bread for dinner seems so boring to me and I don't think I know anyone who does that. Maybe some baguette or ciabatta and some salad but not just bread. I assume for most families with children lunch is the big meal during the day while for couples and singles it's dinner. I don't know a lot of families with kids so I assume the cold dinner/bread thing is more common among those. I don't actually remember what we did for dinner when I was a kid and I really want to know now - I'll ask my mum next time I see her. ☺
Showing De Cecco pasta in the thumbnail shows sense for quality - their spaghetti are very good. Of course, I use only a fork for eating them.
High Hayley,
as you said people go out to eat fancy in Germany (or elsewhere in Europe) too. On the other hand we have lots of not that fancy places where you simply get good food for a reasonable price (Restaurant vs. Gaststätte doesn't completely cover it but I guess you get the drift).
So going to your neighborhood Chinese place or Italian place or Turkish place or German place (Gaststätte) etc. to just have a nice meal with friends (or with the immideate family or maybe even alone) without shelling out lots of money is far more common. (Unlike my parents in law who. when going out to eat, only went to fancy places and that not as often due to the price. The reason was that my mother in law always said "Why should I go out to eat something that I could cook better". She was right, because she was a very good cook but that does not necessarily apply to most people.)
I don't know how the proportion of fancy places to normal places in the US is. Maybe that has something to do with it.
And as far as the "Bread Dinner" goes. That is simply tradition. As a "geezer" of 62 I remember that in my youth for the majority of people the main meal of the day was lunch and that was of course a warm meal. Evening meals (the way I learned it at school in Germany it is more supper than dinner) usually were bread based as was breakfast.
Getting home from school around noon (well, often half past one) I had a warm lunch that my mother cooked. For the men working (back then the majority of the women did not) there were different possibilities. In some industrial jobs men had some kind of thermos with soup or Eintopf in it. In larger companies there also often was a cafeteria offering warm lunches (for reasonable prices often subsidised by the employing company) and my father (doing field work for an insurance company) was out with his car and ate lunch in rural Gaststätten during the week.
So most people had their main (and thus warm) meal at noon.
On top of that, you probably know by now that there isn't another country in the world with such a variety of different breads, bread rolls and other stuff to put spreads or cheese or saussage on.
And sitting in the center of Europe, getting cheeses from France, The Netherlands or Italy was pretty normal even decades ago, so, along with our own German cheeses, the selection of what to put on a braed is a rather wide one too. And that goes for saussages as well. Many parts of Germany have a rich saussage culture.
So having a "Bread Dinner" on most days does by no means result in eating the same or even similar stuff every day.
Being faced with the more limited selection in the US (bread especially. Several german Bakers have emigrated to the US in recent decades and their shops are often overrun with customers because the people there can hardly believe how tasty (and with what a variety of tastes) bread can be) I would probably opt for a warm supper too. So with that background I completely understand your American friends ;-)
Sorry for another rather lengthy post. ;-)
Yes, I don't get the obsession of some people needing hot food every day in summer. It's way more convinient to eat salads, bread with whatever you like or something along that lines.
A hot summer day without a barbecue in the evening? That is not even legal in many regions...
No BBQ? That's illegal (I'm not being serious). Summer is the only time that it isn't absolutely miserably cold with OMG amount if snow in some parts of the US. This is a time to get together with friends and family also. Block parties were a blast. My neighborhood would do block parties (everyone brings their grill out on the end of the driveway and BBQ's. You eat as a group in someone's driveway. I know some not all Germans tend to be antisocial). The block parties during the summer was THE BEST memories of my childhood.
Germany doesn't have the swimming pools in the backyard like a lot of people in the US has. Some people in areas where it snows have a swimming pool in the backyard also. Others could have a lake, pond, or river in their backyard. The only food that goes together with these activities is a BBQ.
@@jessicaely2521 BBQs are nice, but it takes a lot of efforts to prepair them. So, when I want something quick to eat, I don't take the time for that
Up until the 1950's a lot of homes, especially in the American South, would have a summer house (basically a frame with a roof and mosquito screens around it) or porch where they'd move the stove in the summer so the main house wouldn't get overheated. Since the food they had at the time didn't come pre-prepared and fresh vegetables for salads were only available for a few months out of the year, cooking wasn't really optional.
zum Thema Spaghetti essen; Darum kommt die Scene bei dem Disney Film "Luca" so detailliert vor. Fande ich super unterhaltsamen 😄
last month it was my birthday and i told my family that i would serve a charcuterie board. everyone was like "omg wos isn des?". and when i told them "it´s a brettljausn" they were relieved. but they still don´t understand why it´s called charcuterie board and not just simply brettljausn 😄
I still don't know what the heck a charcuterie board is.
@@HayleyAlexis Käse- und Wurstplatte
@@HayleyAlexis it´s just the french version for brettljausn. and i guess for americans charcuterie board is easier to pronounce than brettljausn. but there are rules for a brettljausn, for a charcuterie board not so much 😄
dear Hayley there is an idiom that tells anything about German habit how to eat and its related to the
...times: Morgens wie ein König, mittags wie ein Edelmann und abends wie ein Bettelmann.
That means: abends sollst du dir nicht die Plautze vollhauen, dass du nur noch ins Bett gerollt werden kannst. Du schläfst dann mit diesem vollen Pansen auch relativ schlecht. Aber jeder soll das halten wie er es mag und damit klar kommen. ... have a nice dinner! Keep on rolling.
Omg so much truth! I went to only few restaurants when I was there. I loved seeing how there were almost no chain restaurants. The first time the big item was white asparagus. Still don’t understand why it’s such a big thing but it was delicious. Then went to McDonalds before a movie…where we actually reserved seats in the theater when getting tickets online! That McDonalds looked and tasted like nothing I’ve experienced before or after, a bit posh and delicious. Not once whether it was the hospital, going out, or going to a festival was there anything but glass. Can you imagine beer in real glasses at an event in the US? I didn’t see a single bottle of water in plastic either. I miss you so much Gerolsteiner! We have brotzeit so often here at home now it’s just become everyday life for breakfast and dinner with bigger meal midday.
white asparagus is a thing in germany because its just a seasonal product.. its just available in the spring/early summer time.. and of course its healthy and tastes good. thats why we go crazy about it :)
That's so interesting, because to me and a lot of people i know Mc Donalds is the trashiest fast-food chain in Germany and you would just go there for some very hangover-midnight-snack-almost-breakfast-kind-of-meal, when your tastebuds are already completely destroyed 😂
@@seiltanzer8167 I was curious if it would be different compared to the US, and was only 15 at the time. I had been living on a feeding tube for a year so after my surgery there and being able to eat again after so long I wanted to experience everything. The McDonalds we went to in Essen was so clean and had real chairs that had fabric, unlike here where everything is plastic and greasy. The quality of food was much higher there. But I think this can be said about pretty much everything compared to the US. I learned so much and tried so many new things that I would love to live in Germany! McDonalds does hold a special place in my heart because the Ronald McDonald Haus was our home for three months and we made amazing friends from all over Europe there we are still in touch with. My only regret is not being well enough to see your entire country! 🇩🇪❤️
@@ClaudiaG.1979 it was a really good experience and I wish I knew what the sauce was because there whole meal was so good! The biggest surprise was at the end of the meal we were brought a cordial in a glass that looks like a tiny vase! I can truly say that while I may not have always known what I was eating it was always delicious. It’s so nice to see a country go crazy for a healthy food! I’ve never had such good asparagus since then ❤️
as a german I can't confirm the first part. only bread for dinner is super rare for me and everyone I know. usually it's more the other way around, eating bread or something quick for lunch and then have something warm for dinner, because lunch usually is more like a late breakfast for me, since most of the time i skip breakfast.
if i'm too tired to cook, I just do some instant stuff, a frozen pizza or order something.
For all my life I had lunch as the main meal in Germany, but not Granny style at Noon but around 2pm when I got home from school.
My mom usually prepared it, because she only worked in the morning, when I was little. My dad worked in shifts, so he either ate with us a bit later or earlier.
So obviously, I had a cool dinner. I still kind of like this approach, but it's totally fine to flip it. But I still really don't like very late dinners, later than 7 and I starve to death, but I'd rather have it at 6. Some people don't really eat dinner before 9 and I'm like "NO!"
The only times that I use disposable paper plates, plastic cups, knives, forks and spoons is when I'm having a large party or there's a power outage, otherwuse, I'll use regular dishes and silverware.