10 GERMAN FOODS YOU MIGHT NOT LIKE 😝 

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Ich liebe Mettbrötchen schön mit Salz Pfeffer und Zwiebeln

The best thing about the Spaghettieis is the wiped cream below the ice cream which gets this thin frozen layer.

If there is ketchup on a sausage, it's not Currywurst. Good Currywurst comes swimming in sauce, not topped with ketchup.

I am German and I agree with you on many things. Some things though you might like better when you make them yourself instead of buying. Homemade Glühwein is so much better than the extra-sweet stuff that gives me heartburn. And store-bought herring salad really is disgusting, but the herring isn't really raw, it's pickled. I make my own using only herring, yoghurt, onions, gherkins, apples and juniper berries. So much depends on the quality of the ingredients.

Greetings from the Marzipan City of Germany and the World LÜBECK :D

I am a 43-yo German hating and successfully ignoring Marzipan for 43 years. You are not alone!

Mettbrötchen is also known as german Sushi. 😂 I prefer the variant with minced beef with pepper and salt, it's not so fat and tastes better in my opinion.

Ohh mein Gott, Mettbrötchen.... könnt ich mich reinlegen und für sterben!!! Hab mal in Essen gearbeitet, 16 Leute in der Abteilung und bei 80% der Geburtstage gabs n Mettfrühstück. Das hieß 30 bis 40 Brötchen, 3 bis 4kg Mett und 1,5kg Zwiebeln. War alles immer um halb 1 weg :)

I have just eaten a Mettbrötchen (mett on a fresh pumpkin seed Brötchen with onion and much pepper) for supper. Btw. they smell neutral, but taste gorgeos wit the right mett, wich should be not to coarse and lean. Good Mett needs a ideal texture and mixture, it has to be a bit creamy. Chicken Mett or low calory Mett is disgusting and just a bad marketing trick. German Mett is also always fresh produced under the most strict conditions (by law) and can only be served for max. 6 hours + cooled below a certain degree. Not sold Mettbrötchen have to be disposed after 6 hours by shops. Mett packages from the supermarket should also be eaten within 6 hours after the opening. Thats why they often pack them in small sealed rations - more fresh than the most oysters or sushi. But i agree with the Glühwein - a good vine did not need extra spice. Glühwein and Punsch reminds me of the first German sitcom from for 50 years. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-IIMUHsxyzGk.html

Jenna don’t worry about what you like and what you don’t as even the German have different tastes..😉

Ohhh noooo marzipan is great. The first time I tried the Marzipankartoffel at the Christmas Market I fell in love with it! And the Glühwein is mandatory to keep the cold away... although you’re Canadian so Düsseldorf is probably quite warm for you haha. The rest of the stuff I haven’t tried either

Yum yum I love Mett-Brötchen. I've tried it few months ago. I live in Germany from an year.

Hey Jenna. Ich fand deine Videos sooo gut bis jetzt. Das hast du jetzt verspielt. Nein Quatsch :))) Jeder hat seinen eigenen Geschmack. Und das ist auch gut so. Jeder der mir kein Mett weg isst, ist mir sympathisch;) Ich mag deine Videos. Du hast ne positive und sympathische Art

Mett is in Germany also known as contruction workers jam 😀

Glühwein: Everything depends on the quality of the wine.

A lot of the food you mentioned can be very delicious if homemade or freshly made from specialists shops and not bought of the supermarkets freezer or shelf like I saw in one of your screen shots. Worth to try homemade Kaiserschmarrn . It takes canadian pancakes to another level and you can enjoy it with real canadian maple sirup too. Still luv ya👍

Hey, if you do not like every kind of food, you are like 100% of the Germans. Our former chancler Kohl was famous for eating Saumagen (pig stomack), and here in Northern Germany we have "Labskaus". My friends from the southern parts of Germany often ask me: "Do you want to eat that, or did you already eat it?." So, no need to beat around the bush: Tastes are different. That's okay,

What's wrong with Marzipan? It's mostly almonds, powdered sugar and maybe a little rosewater. The ingredients are supposed to be a big sekret I am writig about fron Luebeck. Try Apfelschmalz. We made it ourselves of greaves and apples after the war and I like it still.

We can't argue about taste. I suppose. But it's worth to try everything even if we are blocked by our education. As in one comment said, it's good not to know the ingredients or typ of the offered or served food..... Once I have been invited in Kenya to an "eunoto" [big Maassai ceremony]. I expected I would have to drink these "disgusting" mixture from sour cow milk, blood and same ash out of a "smelly" calabash [like your Heringssalat].I ran away and missed the ceremony. Later I regretted.. .. Just the other day my neighbor here in France [I'm in holidays in Normandy] invited me and offered me a slice of a paté. I know the French like offals and giblets. So I was suspicious but suddenly I remembered that Maassai-trauma and started half-happily to eat. It was delicious! As my neighbor said [casual and a bit proud]: "I have prepared it from fresh pork's brain, isn't it delicious!" it hit me heavily. I nodded, smiled somehow... Will never buy it [like you a Mettbrötchen], but could also eat it any time without shivering when offered.

It is not good to know before tasting a food what might be on your plate. If you do not know and try food without any influence it is much easier to find your personal favorits and nogoes. Once I was in China and tried all food mostly without knowing what it was. The only one exeption were chicken feet. They looked disgusting for me and I did not try them. Now I am angry about myself to not having tried there taste. Maybe I had liked it as I all the other food liked. Some things I ate had a texture anywhere beetween mushrooms, meat and algees and tasted like nothing I have eaten before. I still do not know what it was but it all was great. Btw I like Mettbrötchen with lots of onions on top. It is fresh and absolutely delicious. Also Spagettieis and Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte is superb. And finally marzipan I love it especially the marzipan bread with dark choclate around. Great video I liked it 😘

Hi, I was born in Budapest, spent lot of years in NYC now live in Regensburg, Germany. My husband is German. Totally relate to the fresh air thing..we watched that video yesterday I was cracking up. I sometimes tell him..oh my god don't be so German😃

Using Mett cosmetical as a face mask could be the first step to a new passion.😂 Cause it's rückfettend.

Glühwein: Come to the Frankfurt Area and try Hot Applewine. Also, I personally don't really like the standard red Glühwein anymore, but discovered that good sellers also have white Glühwein (at least in Frankfurt)..... lot better.

Mett is love Mett is life! But I get the Marzipan part. I like it on its own but on a cake its the worst part. All the sugar in the cake ruins your taste buds for anything else. When I have Marzipan decorations on my slice, I try to eat them firt, because I know they will taste horrible after the first bite of the cake.

Toastbrot is not sandwich. Toastbrot is bread that is meant to be toasted. Better, it is designed to be really good after(!) it is toasted. That's why it is Toastbrot an not sandwich (breadl In fact toast is a false friend as in English it is short for *toasted bread" and in German it is short for "Toastbrot" (and that is as mentioned above "bread meant to be toasted" )

Bis zum Spaghettieis warst du mir sehr sympathisch 😂 Wie kann man das nicht mögen 😳 Von den Schneebällen habe ich noch nie was gehört, aber die sehen schon sehr staubig aus 😂 Mettbrötchen habe ich früher geliebt, ordentlich Zwiebeln drauf, einfach geil. Marzipan und Glühwein brauche ich auch nicht.

Well, being German I hate Currywurst and Marzipan. Haven't ever had a Schneeball. Mettbrötchen is something I don't really need and I only would eat it with a lot of onions. But I do like curry ketchup. For pan cakes I mix flour, eggs etc myself and I do add sugar to the dough, not onlu on top. Spaghettieis is not on my diet which is because vanilla and strawberry are not my favourite flavours in ice cream, but I like how it looks. Sahneheringe is something my mom served with Pellkartoffeln which is the only way I would consume them

I think you are in very good company, even among native Germans. I never could bring myself to try raw Mett, I don't much care for Glühwein or Heringssalat (although the latter is better when made fresh by someone with skill, I'd never eat the supermarket stuff) The Rotenburg pastry seems a very special local thing I had never heard of before. I like marzipan if the quality is good (I don't like it much as cake covering) but there are also many people who don't (almost like liquorice/Lakritz which is even more an acquired taste). It is a question of the quality as the lesser/cheaper ones are too dry and/or too sweet. The good one is sweet, soft and slightly moist and like the essence of almonds. You are a bit unfair in case of pancakes because there are so many varietes both in Germany and the whole world and they are also easy to cook, so the lack of the north american variety is neither surprising nor a problem. Black Forest/Schwarzwälder is also best made by oneself, then one can go easy on the Kirschwasser although it does belong there for the real thing. As with all pastry and cake the quality offered from convenience products or bakeries differs wildly and while some are delicious, some are substandard and merely sweet and artificial. However, I regret to inform you that it is a capital offense to use flabby Sandwichbread instead of real German bakery bread in public videos!

There's no need to apologise... there's a lot of food that I don't like either... I wouldn't even know where to start...🥞

01) Mett-Brötchen 02) Glühwein (Xmas punch) 03) Pfannkuchen (with Apfelmus, Marmelade or Nutella, yam yam)(Pancake House MUC) 04) Schneebällchen 05) Spaghetti-Eis (white choc or Coco flakes) 06) Currywurst 07) Heringsalat 08) Marzipan 09) Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte 10) Brotzeit for breakfast

What you know as “Marzipan” in Canada (used to cover cakes) is actually called “Fondant” here in Germany :)

First 5 seconds and I knew exactly that you were talking about "Schneebälle". They're so fucking dry😅

Ich hasse diese Schneebälle auch! Die schmecken nie nachdem was drauf steht und sind furztrocken.

Mettbrötchen 😋 / Glühwein 😝 / Pancakes😋 both German and North American / Spaghetti-Eis 😝 / Currywurst😋 but only the NRW-way / Heringssalat only the self made one😋 / Marzipan😋

As being born and raised in Germany, I absolutely love Mettbrötchen. But I do understand, that if you're not familiar with it since childhood, the bare concept of eating raw, spiced meat may be desgusting. So, no blame from my side. Also, you're absolutely right, that the cuisine in this country is very diverse. Each federal state, some areas and sometimes even a city can have it's local cuisine, you find nowhere else. If you're not accustomed to this since childhood, you may or may not find a local specialty delicious or not. Also, sometime the naming of a local specialty might be misleading. I'll give you a few examples. Some of them you may want to try, others probably not. Cologne: "Halve Hahn" - From the name you might expect some chicken, but in reality it's a breadroll with cheese and - very important - mustard. Hamburg/northern Germany: "Labskaus" - a dish from potatoes, beef and beetroot; I think there are a lot of germany, who do not like this because of the beetroot Bavaria: "Weißwurst" - as you've visited the Oktoberfest, you probably know, there's a thing called "Weißwurst" and also you probably didn't try it. Well, I don't like it either. Not only is the Weißwurst itself far from delicious, you usually eat it with sweet mustard, which is absolutely no favourite of mine. There are a lot of more local specialties here in Germany and a lot of explore for you. A many dishes have meat it in and therefore you might not try or like a lot of those. But considering your sweet tooth, an absolute must try - if you didn't try yet - is the Original Nürnberger Lebkuchen. (www.lebkuchen-nuernberg.com/ or www.lebkuchen-schmidt.com/ have the best.)

Ich hoffe du kaufst nicht alle Fertigprodukte die du in deinen Videos zeigst ??? Am besten schmeckt es wenn du es frisch kaufst, oder es selbst zubereitest. Guten Appetit !!!

Mett..... in Saxony we call it Hackepeter. Instead of Glühwein, go for Met (in english it is called mead, when i am not wrong) And i hate Marzipan as well. In Saxony and Thuringia it is generally called Klöße as the word Knödel does not exist. Unfortuately though this word got imported.... :( I wish it stayed away......

I'm German and I've never tried Mettbrötchen. It is disgusting even looking at it. Love Glühwein, though.

Dont be worried😂 As an German I know many people who hate Marzipan, Schwarzwälderkirschtorte, Mettbröchten and Bread for Breakfast, same ove here😅🙈

Even here in Freiburg christmas market on every both the Glühwein tastes different.

I love Mettbrötchen BUT i am pretty careful where i get them or where i get the Mett to prepare them myself (which comes from my experience of 14 years working with butchers, listening to them and knowing that there is an individual difference in the amount of salt, pepper and onions that people like). Same goes for cheese, if someone tells me in general what he/she likes to eat i nearly always know the perfect cheese for them. Oh and I never heard of Glühwein with white wine before but this could be a Hamburg thing.

I as a German love my Mettbrötchen with a big pile of onions as well as I love pancakes with apples or blueberries. The pancakes will be drowned in maple syrup for sure.🤤

You forgot: Rollmops! Similar to Heringsalat. I can relate, I don't like like slimey, jelly textured food. On the other hand geräucherte Makrele, yam yam ;)

I don't know Canada, but here my list of my top 10 worst US foods: 1. Sweet bacon with syrup 2. Marshmallows with sweet potatoes (not a dessert, eaten with actual food) 3. Anything with BBQ sauce and honey chicken wings 4. Peanut butter and jelly sandwich 5. American cake (pure sugar) 6. Mac & cheese 7. American salad dressing 8. American beer (sweetened bubbly water with alcohol) 9. American water (dirty water) 10. American donut And extra 11. American hotdog (super soft and sweet and salty) 12. American hamburger (soft, sweet and salty) 13. French fries (salty, greasy)

That was very funny Jenna. Hope you 'll do a part two of this.

Heringssalat? Das mögen sie nicht? Nach Skandinavien sollten Sie wirklich nicht ziehen!

Mettbrötchen ! mit Zwiebeln!😊wenn Mettbrötchen nicht gut riecht würde ich es auch nicht essen! LG aus Lindau

So you find Heringssalat disgusting. Then you should stay away from Labskaus or "Tote Oma" EDIT: Fun Fact: The Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte was not invented in the Black Forest. Actually the first cakes of that kind came from the Rhineland. They are called that way because they use Schwarzwälder Kirschwasser in it, a booze made from cherries.

Schwarzwälder Kirsch is booze and it s typically a main part of this cake !

Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte wird in der Tat mit Alkohol gebacken, aber nicht mit Likör, sondern in aller Regel mit Kirschwasser, was ein Obstbrand, von Kirschen, ist.

Hey Jenna, I just stumbled over your channel and like the way you are presenting our habits. Keep your open- minded characteristic! There is one small mistake in this video: Heringssalat is NOT what your afterwards showed in this little box. Heringssalat is much more stiff, mostly it has potatoes in, sometimes also beetroot. The taste is much milder than the Heringsstipp (speak: Herings-stipp). Please give Heringssalat a new try! Dont buy it at any grocery store. It always has to much mayo in it. Check out any recipe on the internet and prepare it for yourself. It is a very popular meal on the silvester evening. greetings from the coast!

Never bite into a Schneeball you have to eat it broken in small pieces so that you can sip some coffee or tea while it is still in your mouth.

WHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAATTTTTTTT Mettbrötchen oder Hackepeterbrötchen we eat almost every week at work. I love it

Oh...I would give you a pass on most things except the Curry Ketchup. Honestly, we pay a ton for the imported German stuff...and it's so worth it! :-)

Wenn die Restaurants wieder offen haben versuch doch mal das Frühstücks Buffet vom Extrablatt. Ich liebe die deutschen Pfannkuchen und beim Extrablatt sind mir die immer viel zu süß und zu dick also ist das vielleicht etwas für dich

Ich stimme dir teilweise zu, teilweise natürlich nicht ;-) Es ist eine Frage des persönlichen Geschmacks. Kurz zum Mett: ein Leben ohne Mett ist möglich, es ist aber nicht erstrebenswert. Interessieren würde mich, wie du zu folgenden deutschen Spezialitäten stehst. Teilweise enthalten sie Fleisch, ich kennzeichne das, muß keiner essen: Labskaus (enthält Fleisch), Pickert (Pancake, der auf Kartoffel (!) basiert), Wurstebrei (enthält Fleisch, westfälisches Haggis). Ich mag deinen Kanal sehr gerne, es ist immer interessant, einen Blick von außen zu bekommen. Ich hoffe, du machst noch viele Videos.

This was quite funny. Heringsalat and Mettbrötchen I loved as a kid, so fresh and yummy. Have you tried Pfannkuchen Mühle in Neunkirchen-Seelscheid. Really cool place when I was growing up in Germany. Now we are residing in Canada, since 14 years. We miss a lot of German food yes, Brötchen und Marzipan. Deutsches Marzipan is fantastish and we love it. Sometime, around Christmas, they have it in Freshco or Food Basics. Or the Christmas package from Oma. The marzipan on Canadian cake isn't the same. lol I was shocked when I saw the prices for food here in Canada (mind boggeling) and again when we visited Germany last time, how cheap it is to get good food there. Ach ja und Schwarzwälderkirschtorte, I wasn't ever a big fan of it but the Canadian version is just a chocolate cake with cherry on top, nothing in comparison. Lol that is all mostly depending on what and how we grew up I guess. Nice & funny video, great job Jenna!

Good News: there is soooo much (good) food out there - still enough to like! So: you don‘t like meat that much? You grow without too much alcohol but with an „overload“ of sugar? Than your „likes & don‘t likes“ sound logical to me.

👍Neun Dingen stimme ich zu. So, genug geschwätzt. Muss dringend los: Mett kaufen..😃

It's normal that tastes are different. Don't Canadians also smear Marmite on their "bread"?

I love Marzipan, Spagetti Eis and Pancakes. In all other points I agree with you. I never tried Mettbrötchen in more than half a century.

Hi Jenna! Well, I'm living in Germany since 1982 (coming from Romania), and imagine, I never tried the Mettbrotchen! Moreover, I don't really miss it, there are so many other tasty foods - like for ex the thin crêpes, AKA Palatschinken :-)) Just try to make them yourself, with sugar. Best would be to find a real hungarian (or austrian) recipe. About the hering and similar salads (wurst or seafood or some such): I never ever buy the ready mades from the supermarket, I make them myself. I don't like the sauce from supermarket either, there is stuff in them it doesn't belong there.

I cracked up laughing - can totally relate, except for the Mettbrötchen. I am vegan for 6 years now and still craving it sometimes...My cousin from LA was so disgusted when she saw it the first time visiting me in Germany. She also took several photos from different angles, she couldn't believe it.

Hahaha, the schneebäll thing is awful, I had the exact same experience as you. I'm from Ireland, living in Berlin. I actually really like mett, I mean, I've only had it three times and don't seek it out, it kinda melts in your mouth, you probably would have to like pork to begin with though (can only be eaten on the first day, so my husbands family tells me) herringsalat ..same,I can't even try it, rollmops are even more off-putting. I have however, been convinced to try a fischbrötchen in Hamburg (the one that looks like raw fish with the skin still on, not the inoffensive looking smoked salmon one,haha) it was actually surprisingly nice!..I actually like mulled wine, but the same as you prefer the white version, surprised that hasn't been such a popular export..I can't remember all the things you mentioned now but very entertaining and I related a lot as an Ausländer, thanks 😁 Edit: I feel the same about marzipan, everyone seems to love it here, I guess it's what you're brought up with 🤷

you are actually the ONLY person in whole Germany who don´t like Spaghettieis, mmmmhhh.... but I do like your channel, so, 👍

being German I tend to understand. This attitude you hear a lot from people that "stayed regional". I moved several times from north to south and back, first as a kid, then with the military. So each time I learned something new. And in each region you'll find interesting food you've never heard of before (and like it) as well as you find things you'll try once and then ignore it for the rest of your life. When in Bavaria (where I live now), and I mean real south bavaria, try some "Kaiserschmarrn", a kind of torn apart pancake. You'll love it.

Ich hab als Deutsche auch noch nie ein Mettbrötchen probiert. Allein der Geruch lässt mich abschrecken. Manche essen das aber tatsächlich sehr gerne, meine meisten Freunde fast gar nicht 😅 Ich kann mich auch nicht mit Heringssalat anfreunden, oder Curry Ketchup. Und bei Marzipan mag ich nur teure Sorten, aber nach spätestens zwei Kartoffeln (sp heißen die Bällchen) ist Schluss 😬 Aber Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte liebe ich! Besonders als Eis (also Schoko- und Vanilleeis mit Kirschsoße) 🥰

I don't like Glühwein either! If I had to, I'd drink the weißer Glühwein, but otherwise nah. (And my ONLY experience with Glühwein is at Christmas markets in Germany, so... I'd say that my experience with it is authentic). (Though there is a market in Schadowplatz in Düsseldorf that has a cherry Glühwein that I really enjoy!) That said... Feuerzangenbowle. I'll drink that all night. (at the markets.) (I haven't yet tried mett yet, but my German friends have told me that I need to try it next time I'm there)

I think I am a typical German, but I don't eat Mettbrötchen, Heringssalat or Marzipan - so don't worry, there are always things that are not made to be loved by everyone :-)

that what you show is not heringssalat. its hering in Sahne mit Apfel und Zwiebel. this is eaten to hot Pellkartoffeln as a dish. Heringssalat is eaten on bread for example Vollkornbrot.

Eisdielen with real good spaghetti 🍨 I miss it so much in Sweden. I agree with you about the Mettbrötchen!

Mett is in Germany also known as contruction workers jam 😀

SO triggered by pancakes and Spaghettieis, lol! I eat pancakes all the time and find ours far superior to American pancakes smothered in WAY too much syrup. Yuck. Imo you really don't need sugar in the batter at all. My favorite pancake dish doesn't have ANY sugar in it. Just homemade apple sauce (again, no sugar in it) and hazelnuts and cinnamon. Then I roll it. It's a family tradition. I also discovered how yummy cheese pancakes are. It's a Germanized quesadilla. Grated gouda cheese and onions and maybe tomato pieces and guacamole. Sooo good. Spaghettieis is great. Minus the whipped cream for me. I rarely eat it because it has a crazy amount of calories. And my favorite flavor is actually hazelnut. I like the Spaghettieis in my home town the best. In the city (Frankfurt) they often use coconut flakes instead of white chocolate which is cheap ass and disgusting. I also hate it when it's not proper strawberry sauce but some kind of artificial red goo. There are many ways to mess it up somehow. Which is why I stopped ordering it elsewhere.

Hey Jenna, love your videos! If you really wanna creep yourself out with German food, try "Ochsenmaulsalat" or "Kutteln" :-D

Hihi - it's interesting to see what of our typical german food doesn't comply with your taste buds 😁. But "Mettbrötchen mit Zwiebeln"? Ok, you're a chickentarian (funny word btw) and don't eat meat but just typing this makes my mouth water uncontrollably, sorry. And don't mention your dislike of it to the comedian Carolin Kebekus or she might be tempted to hate you for the rest of eternity...😉 One of the things I totally despise and get sick to my stomach from is "Grießpudding" ( i.e. semolina pudding, I guess), because (and now it's getting disgusting, I'm sorry) the feeling of it in my mouth always reminds me of having just thrown up and some of that vomit is still in my mouth, bah.

I totally agree on the Schwarzwälder Torte 🧁 Its not my „cup of tea“ either.

You could try "Kinderglühwein" - mulled wine without alcohol. The easiest way is to heat up apple juice + cherry juice + gingerbread spices. Around christmas you can also buy them premade in shops or on the christmas market.

Bis auf die Schneeballen hast du in diesem Video alle meine Lieblingsspeisen aufgezählt 😅. Aber Schneeballen sind wirklich furchtbar trocken.

Wow you have been to the Monschau Weihnachtsmarkt. I moved Here 4 years ago and it is such a lovely small town

10:07 This is not Heringssalat. Its Herings Filets in Sahne or "Sahnehering". Traditional herring salad is finely diced and prepared with beetroot, which gives it a purple sauce.

Mettbrötchen are really yummy 😋 . Definitely worth trying. But every non German hesitates 😅.

Jenna just try Matjeshering;-)

AHHH, loved this :) :) I loveeeeeeee "Spaghetti Eis" BTW lol lol :).

Lustig .....dafür sind wir als Touristen in Toronto fast verhungert 😅 kein richtiges Frühstück im Hotel. Nur eine Sorte Toast und 2 Sorten Marmelade sonst nichts .Eier und Pfannkuchen musste man mit 8 Dollar extra bezahle, .haben fast jeden Tag in Tim Hortons Käsesandwich gegessen. Sonst gab es Mittags und Abends meist Sushi, fried Chicken und das berühmte Poutin ( was nicht gut schmeckt ) mehr zu essen haben wir nicht gefunden außer sehr viel Fast Food 👍

Have you tried making pancakes from scratch? Can you get bisquick there, Krusteaz. I would often bring a 5 pound bag to a friend in Germany. Good luck on your quest! And as for Mett, nit for me. Schönes Wochenende und Gruß von Kalifornien.

I grew up in Germany with Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck comics and I always was so confused about those huge towers of pancakes which no one could eat. Given the size of a german pancake these towers could not be eaten by a single family and I always blamed the comic for the wrong dimensions. I had to grow old to learn how small american pancakes are when my daughter came back from her au pair time in the US and made some "original" american pancakes.

Mettbrötchen.... der einzige Grund, in Germany zu bleiben 😂🤣 Das was in den Geschäften, sowie in Keksen, Kuchen und Co in der Regel so als Marzipan angeboten wird, ist für mich kein ordentlicher Marzipan, bzw. handelt es sich eh meistens um Persipan, bzw ein Gepansche aus Beidem, wobei der Marzipan dann auch möglichst billig, hergestellt wurde. Ungeniessbar! Das ist so süss, klumpig und pappig, dass es mir den Gaumen zusammen zieht. Guter Marzipan ist sehr aromatisch, soft, zergeht auf der Zunge und hat eine angenehme Süsse. Muss man aber ein paar €€ mehr für auf den Tisch legen. Lohnt sich jedoch. Spaghettieis ist lecker, wenn man es in einer wirklich guten Eisdiele bestellt. Mir sind die Portionen aber immer zu gross. Heringssalat schmeckt nur selbstgemacht gut. Dieses übersäuerte und mit chemischen Kunstzuckern angereicherte Zeug aus den Supermärkten kann man in die Tonne kloppen! Kein Wunder, dass Du es nicht mochtest. Wenn Du mal Gelegenheit bekommst, selbstgemachten Heringssalat zu probieren, dann wirst Du einen RIESENUNTERSCHIED feststellen. Ebenso bei Heringsstip, den man zu Pellkartoffeln isst. Viele Grüsse

and please don t compare what is served on your continent as so called "marzipan" and original Marzipan !

Hi Jenna, just stumbled into your videos and it's so interesting to me what you like and dislike about our food . I'm from the north of Germany and OF COURSE love Mett - especially with salt, black pepper and a lot of raw onions or chive on it ! If you don't like Glühwein, have you tried hot apple juice with cinnamon and cloves ? That tastes quite christmassy and might be a good alternative. As far as pancakes I naturally like the German kind (with apple sauce and cinnamon sugar on top ( reminds me of the good old days when my grandmother made them for me) but since I stayed in the US for a year as an exchange student way back in 1969 I grew very fond of the American kind ( with salted butter and lots of maple sirup on top )- yummy !

I am Canadian but I live in Germany since 1965. I will never drink "Glühwein" again.

It's funny to watch you talking about food.. Although I love lots of the stuff you dislike, I completely understand your feelings, and with heringssalat I go along with you. Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte is only good, when there is not too much Kirsch in it. It's just to give the flavour but if you feel drunk after a single bite, you definitely picked the wrong piece of cake. Unfortunately you find this kind of stuff more often than the good ones. So I only eat my own homemade cake.

Christmas is from the German tripe.

Brötchen geht immer Jenna nicht das trockene Toastbrot .

I'm German and I don't like Mett. I tried it some times but I found it tastes mostly boring, and I can't understand the hype. And since it is raw you could yourself infect with toxoplasmosis (see www.quarks.de/gesundheit/ernaehrung/darum-solltest-du-mit-mett-vorsichtig-sein/). Glühwein at Christmas markets is most times of low quality. Most stands don't brew it themselves but buying it as finished product which they only heat up. To get a good Glühwein you should not use the cheapest wine. A good receipt would be : 0,75 l Italian or French wine, about 0.3 - 0.5 l (undiluted) grape juice or orange juice, some orange peel, one cinnamon stick, a dash aniseed, 2-3 cloves, perhaps some other "Christmas spices" and 1-3 spoons of honey depending on how sweet you like it (you can always later add some more). Bring it to boil, but only once. Remove the spices and enjoy. I love pancakes, but the neutral variety - no sugar in the dough, no topping or something. They are delicious either with jelly or with black salsify (scorzonera, Schwarzwurzel) or simply with endive salad. As student I did often eat herring salad in the evening, but only the red variant which is made with beetroot. I hate dill, especially in the combination with any kind of fish - but that is one of the German defaults since the 19th century.

I can only speak for myself, born and raised in the Ruhr district but living most of my life near the North Sea coast: American style pancakes I cannot eat. I tried them - but even less sweetened they are way too sweet and I need old savoury cheece (or something like that) to get my mouth and stomach back to function again.

Mettbrötchen is really good actually- BUT, I get you about simply not being able to put something in your mouth. Personally- I would never try Sülze or Blutwurst! Basically gun to my head- I don't think I could eat a slice of either! (But, glady eat raw oysters or snails...) ANY chopped up fish in mayo and spread on bread is disgusting! Glühwein is awful! It is fun to stand around with friends and as a Canadian too, I like girls in toques... but ya- Glühwein is NOT good. I almost think people 'pretend' that it is good, because you are kinda supposed to...

The correct title of your post should be 10 GERMAN FOODS I DO NOT LIKE (even though I've never had half of them and I'll mention some of the foods I don't like even if I ate them in Canada). Spaghetti Eis is just vanilla ice cream with strawberry sauce made to look like spaghetti and sauce. If you don't like vanilla ice cream with strawberry sauce in the first place, it's kind of unfair of you to single it out as a "German food" and then say how you don't like it. 🙄

Who could hate you?! You are very nice, fun and personable (is it the right translation for being "sympathisch"??) By the way I absolutely know what you mean! ;-) I am from Austria, but in some things we are very similiar to our german neighbours and soo different too at the same time :). As native I had quite the same issues as you, particularly as very young girl (hating marcipan, schwarzwäler kirsch was not my favorite, and I was disgusted by beef tartar (it's like Mett). So maybe age helps to like some food in the future ;-). Very kind regards from Vienna/Austria! What a pity, that you are not living here :)

Ever tried "Tatar" = "Schabefleisch"? Much better then "Met". Ever tried pancakes made of "Einkorn"? You will find it at a "Bio-Laden". Ever tried "Matjes"? You should buy it in a fish shop, not in a supermarket. Ever tried "Pumpernickel"? (Please look at german Wikipedia for explanation.)