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The game you're speaking of is "field" handball. The ball game which I've known as "handball" [It's correct name is squash.] is popular in American cities, such as New York, where exercise space is very limited. It is played against a wall where one can play by one's self but it can be quite thrilling when their's an opponent. It can even be played as a four-some with two against two. It is especially popular with business travelers as the required equipment (a ball and a pair of gloves) is easily carried on board an airplane with little, if any, inconvenience or questioning. For men, sitting while urinating is way more common in the US than is realized. You've mistakenly assumed that the sitter is facing away from the water-closet (the tank of water perched on the back of the bowel which is used to flush the bowel). One prepares for urination in the usual fashion but then takes an additional step of sitting on the front rim of the bowel while continuing to face the tank. It's really quite simple. Removal of the pants is not required. [German husbands usually take on the responsibility of policing the family bathroom facilities and don't wish to create any additional work for themselves than is necessary.] [Aside: Does this mean German men are more considerate of their wives than American men?]
When I was a child, in the 70s, handball was a popular sport for girls. Back then, most "Fußballvereine" didn't accept girls. And that was the alternative.
That was exactly my thought!! There for sure has to be some elements to the experience that makes it taste so good. I'm not a huge fan of smoking cigars by myself, but I love to smoke cigars around a fire with a group of friends as we have deep talks. Same with the stick bread! We made some of my left over dough in the oven, and it was pretty bland and boring. Of course, the fire and smoke add some flavor to it, but most of the enjoyment for sure was in the process of making it!
@@PassportTwo I would say the same goes for Marshmellows. Hadn't they a lot of sugar content it would be rather nothing. BTW: You know the feeling when you wake up in the morning after having a dream where you ate the largest marshmellow in the world? And can't find your pillow!
@@PassportTwo Most people add some amount of sugar, so it basically tastes like a crispy smoky hot dog roll. In Slovakia, Czech Republic and Hungary there is something similar called "Trdelnik" (tree striezel, or tree cake), made on wooden cones.
Donnie, do you know the Belgian comic series of Lucky Luke, "the man who shoots faster than his shadow"? It is very popular in Europe, translated into over 20 languages, a parody of the Wild West era, also embedding some historical persons like Calamity Jane, Billy the kid, the Daltons, Sitting Bull and others. We loved to read the funny stories.
@@PassportTwo I think why most Americans never heard of Winnetou is, because Karl May wrote the books in a time, claiming that he himself lived through all of what he wrote in his books, where the era of American colonisation and "Wild West" was almost non existent anymore. There's a recent short documentary by the MDR in German about Karl May, asking the question if he really believed what he wrote was true or if he was just a really talented scammer.
Some hints for baking stick bread: Don't bake it over the flame, it will burn. You need to baje it over the "Glut". If you want to make it more fancy, you can slice cheese like Gauda and roll it with the bread around the stick. I personally prefer the sweet dough, where you just add sugar. You can also roll the dough into sugar, when it's on the stick, so it will be caramelised on the outside. Or you eat it with Nutella or jam, when it's ready. There are so many nice options. 🤩
Winnetou was an awesome part of my childhood. The films, the books, the audio dramas (on vinyl), all so incredibly interesting. Also went to the festival and play at Bad Segeberg several times. Maybe you should give the first Winnetou movie (Winnetou I / Apache Gold) a try, don´t know if the available English dubbing is worth it though.
@AZBYCX Have you read Winnetou? Perhaps some of the traditions and descriptions that Karl May makes in his books are not 100% correct. Maybe even wrong, but what he definitely conveys in his books is a great respect for other cultures. In his books he conveys that one should not only make an effort to learn and study other cultures but also to move appropriately in their culture in order to show them respect. So I think that's a big goal and actually only leads to really getting to know the actual facts. So, yes, to really learn, mistakes are part of it. You only learn from mistakes. The Karl May books are novels, not scientific elaborations. A made-up story doesn't have to be based entirely on fact. It's made up now. Nobody expects this to be based on facts, but it makes you want to find out facts. Is that so wrong?
@AZBYCX I entirely agree with you that it was wrong of him that he pretended to have really experienced these adventures. But it's not true that he didn't know anything at all. His stories are based on research at the time. As far as I know, he even copied some of the texts one-to-one from factual reports (that's also a bit questionable, of course). That's why some people are even amazed at how his descriptions of the environment match real places. I don't understand how you can claim that Karl May taught the Germans to see the Native Americans as a very primitive people. His stories are about the fact that these natives are not primitive, but just as capable as the whites. His books also show that there were not only the natives, but many different tribes, peoples, cultures and languages. He also conveys that not everyone always lived in tents and poor huts, but that they too had a high culture. I think the problem you see is the image that the media portrayed then and now of the indigenous people. You blame Karl May to a certain extent. But it's not his fault. On the contrary, if more weight had been given to his books, they might have been shown more respect sooner.
Random question: As a son of a German mother and an Italian father I don't see really a difference between German ice-cream and Italian gelato, and always believed they are the same because even when I learned Italian in school (had to go once a week to an Italian Catholic school for that), gelato und Eis (here in Hamburg we say "Eis" for ice-cream, which is just short for "Speiseeis") were just seen as the same and translated into each other. Loved Winnetou growing up, played it even with friends. Haven't had Stockbrot for 31 years, but when we did we also threw potatoes wrapped in aluminium foil into the same fire (like a baked potato). Never ever heard anyone refer to making "Stockbrot" as grilling it. It was either "Stockbrot machen" or "Stockbrot rösten".
It's like German wine and Italian wine. IT's the same thing, made the same way, you tell different stories around it, have little different tradition, another amount of sunshine, other varieties. You still pronounce the origin. And people talk like Pinot Grigio would be different from Grauburgunder. But it's not.
My random question: What is the difference between icecream and gelato? Ant to the topic of the video: Until a few years ago I thought Karl May is known everywhere...
I googled it and apparently (American) ice cream contains more far than gelato. What we consider Speiseeis from the Eisdiele in Germany is usually gelato, but some of the Eis you can buy in the supermarket is American ice cream, like Ben& Jerry's.
Winnetou: My father had the complete Karl May collection and I read them all. Technically the stories revolve around a German traveler (Old Shatterhand) as the point of view, not Winnetou. There is also a version of this traveler in the Middle East and Balkans. We also visited Bad Segeberg once and the live actions films were part of my childhood. There was even a board game, but I think that got lost over time with different location changes of our family. And Gelato every time, when I want to enjoy the experience. Ice cream is for cooling down, not as pleasure :)
As a German, I have difficulties defining the difference between ice cream and gelato. For me, gelato is simply the Italian word for ice cream.So: I like both, but unfortunately I shouldn't eat either. I made Stockbrot when I was young, but I never really had the patience. It's good when it's done, but it takes far too long. I grew up with my father's Karl May books that he grew up with, and I read most of them several times back then. A few years ago, when I inherited them, I simply couldn't see why I devoured them as a child. I found the storytelling rather boring, and the representation of countries and cultures other than German(y) embarrassing at best. It seems to me that Schorle has become far more popular in recent years (well I say recent, but I mean the past 25 or 30 years. When I was young, I knew Schorle existed, but to me it was always something you did when you wanted to make your fruit juice last longer (or have enough to go round for a whole family from a single pack or bottle). It might just be my own perception, though. I'm pretty sure though that it wasn't regularly sold pre-mixed back in the day like it is now.
@@SchmulKrieger It's quite common to read and love Karl May growing up, getting the fire started to read other authors, getting the passion to travel and experience other cultures, and when you come back some day to read Karl May again you realize that he isn't such a good story-teller, and didn't experience other cultures himself.
Oh, I can't remember how many times I cried over Winnetou's death. I inherited all the audiobooks on vinyl from my older brothers and Winnetou was quite popular with them. Winnetou's friend Old Shatterhand, portraied by Lex Barker, was Karl May's alter ego. The other one was Kara Ben Nemsi, who rode through the orient. I guess no kid born till the 1980s grew up without knowing any Karl May book. I even was lucky enough to see Pierre Briece, who played Winnetou in the famous movies, in the live action plays in Elspe. And about Schorle... I don't drink juice because it is way too sweet. But I love Schorle, especially with passion fruits juice. It almost tastes like lemonade but as less calories. I mix every juice with carbonated water and it is really good. What is the difference between ice cream and gelato, please?
Another phenomenon besides Winnetou that I had never heard of in the States was Astérix and the village in Gaul that continued to resist the Romans and Caesar. Was that just my corner of the country, are the characters generally unknown in the States, or has it perhaps changed?
You're absolutely right! That is a character we didn't know about it until we moved over to Europe. Maybe some Americans have heard of this comic because there are English versions available, but we certainly hadn't! 😅
Not the only French creation in that regards. Blueberry, a long-running Franco-Belgian comic series, is quite weird in that aspect as it is set in the Wild West (for the most part). Pretty awesome, too.
I live in Germany, but stem from Poland and handball is very popular there as well. My elementary and secondary schools had their own teams and championships. As far as Stockbrot is concerned, I first tried it in Denmark in 1993 and it was also new to me, since in Poland "camp fire potatoes" ( potatoes baked in a piece of tin foil in hot ashes) are more popular.
I'm German and also grew up with multiple versions of potatoes in foil in hot ash or glowing firewood. Very delicious. But I also did know about Stockbrot as well, while potatoes usually were quite a bit more common for me.
Sixty-something years old German here: Never in my life I have seen somebody preparing Stockbrot except on TV or in RU-vid, and only during the recent 20 or 30 years, but never before. But I loved the flavor of potatoes roasted in the embers of the camp fire, without aluminium foil. The blackened outer regions of the potatoes were the most delicious part.
Winnetou was a huge part of my childhood. I watched all the movies, I read all (?) the books _(my grandmother gifted me a collection of 36 of Karl May's books, when I was 10),_ and of course - as kids we played "Cowboy and Indians"...and I always wanted to be the Indian - because of how May portrayed them: brave, nobel, with cool abilities, like sneaking unseen through the grass, using bow and arrows, and of course throwing a tomahawk. Way cooler than the cowboys. What happened recently was one of the worst examples of the so called "woke-culture". These people think they are so progressive, while attempting to rewrite history to make it "nicer looking". "Geschichtsrevisionismus" is the term for that, I believe. And under most other circumstances, the same people would be against it. It's the same what happened to "Pippi Longstocking", etc. Rewriting things that they wish, wouldn't exist. It's a shame, really.
The Winnetou shit storm really, really makes me furious. I never gave much of a F about Winnetou, but when people are trying to police what other people are allowed to fantasize about, or are trying to destroy other people's cultural heritage for the sake of "recreational outrage" and because they think they need something to be pissed about, I get mad, really mad. The one-sidedness of it all doesn't help either. Nobody would care if Native Americans would have stories about a silly, inaccurate and unrealistic fictional pseudo German character. Germans would think that is cute or funny, even if the character would be a negative stereotype, as most German characters in non-German fiction are. The Winnetou stories are pure fantasies by someone who never was to the USA and never met a Native American. Of course they are inaccurate and silly, but that doesn't matter, because they are not really about Native Americans, they are fantasies from a German perspective, reflecting German culture and mentality and nobody, neither Germans nor non-Germans has a right to demand their destruction! Imagine we would meet actual Extraterrestrials and they, or some attention whoring activists claiming to speak on their behalf, would demand that all Science Fiction books and movies get cancelled and burned, because they have inaccurate and stereotypical depictions of Extraterrestrials in them. How dumb would that be? The Aliens in movies are not supposed to be depictions of real Aliens the authors never met. They are stand-ins for stuff and concepts from their own culture and it is the same with Winnetou.
Just have to say, yozu really nailed the pronouciation of the german states. Ane yea, stickbread needs other people to talk about stuff while the bread is baking. Winnetou was a big part of my child hood and i can't understand what that culutural apropriation stuff is about. Winnetou was basically one of my child hood heroes with stable morales and fighting for the good.
@@PassportTwo Bread on a stick is also great fun for kids. Children are generally enthusiastic about fire, so instead of forbidding them everything, it is better to direct their interest towards harmless ones. Giving them a stick and a piece of dough is ideal, and that keeps the little ones busy for a while.
there is actually a american native-cartoon show which I watched much more raising up in Cologne, Germany. - " Yakari " - the serie or charackter of Winnetou is only known from my father´s DVD collection to me :)
That random question caught me rly off guard as a German and I had o google what the difference is hahaha since Gelato is just ITALIAN for ... Ice Cream and here in Germany all of that is just called Ice Cream "so you want to know what's better... Ice cream or .... ICE CREAM?" hahaha
The meant difference is: Gelato is, what you can find in a nice ice caffee here in Germany. Ice cream is what you can buy in the supermarkets. The more densly packed, frozen version instead of the softer gelato. EDIT: typo
"Stockbrot". I wasn't born in Germany, but coming to Germany in 1971 as a 15yo for the first time, I didn't find this unusual. When I was a chlld in the UK back in the 1960s we did this when we went camping with the Scouts or Guides or Boys or Girls Brigades in the summer. We called it campfire bread. But we also used to do this at home in wintertime simply by mixing flour, water and a pinch of salt into a dough and spearing it on a toasting fork (that was an antique even back then!) to cook the dough by holding it over the open coal fire. It had a unique taste, either woodfire smoky in summer or coalfire smoky in winter. In the winter we also roasted chestnuts over the fire as well, wedging a long-handled cast-iron pan into the coals. The chestnuts had to be pierced open first with a pin or a knife tip, though, otherwise the rising pressure inside would cause them to explode. You do not want to be hit by very hot bits of exploding chestnut that burn like hell if they manage to drop down the neck of your shirt or go up your sleeves or trouser legs! From some German friends I heard they did similar things in winter, roasting chestnuts on top of the cast-iron stove in their house. As a Brit, I first encountered Winnetou as a summer exchange student in Germany back in the 1970s when the films were were shown in the local cinemas and on TV. I had also grown up reading books by James Fenimore Cooper in English, and (since my mother was French) I got plenty of input about the French in North America as well. To me, Winnetou was based more on the JFC books and French accounts of trappers, scouts and frontiersmen and - though fiction - was therefore far more believable than any of the Hollywood Westerns I ever saw during my childhood. I can understand the controversy today because Winnetou is an unrealistic Westernised figure, but at least Winnetou was protrayed as a main character and a figure to be admired. The fact that he was played by Pierre Brice (a Frenchman) who certainly grew up with a French view on North America that was characterised perhaps a smidgin more by cooperation with the Native American peoples than the "Trail of Tears" southern view probably helped. Winnetou is definitely perceived as the hero in the Karl May books.
I used to play handball from age 7-10 while in Germany, glad I was able to continue it after moving to Sweden where it's also popular. Kept playing handball for another 20 years or so in Sweden. Don't usually go watch handball matches though
I've been playing handball for almost 22 years. It's such a beautiful dynamic full contact sport. I wouldn't say that handball is more popular in our area than football, but our 1st ladies played in the 2nd Bundesliga and the sports hall was always full. But I also have to admit that this sport is very popular in the north, especially in Schleswig-Holsten. With the top teams like THW Kiel or SG Flensburg, we all have handball in our blood.
I grew up on Karl Mays books - all of them, not just the Wild West stuff - , seen all the movies _and_ been to the open-air plays in Bad Seegeberg...i tried reading one of the books a few years back, and yeah...oof, they did _not_ age well. The underlying theme of "the civilized white man bringing civilisation and Christianity to the noble savage" is absolutely unbearable nowadays. It didn't help that May had no idea what he was writing abaout and all his information was from travel reports from the time. Yeah, big yikes.
I played Handball for around 8 years. And in the area where I grew up Handball was also more popular to play than soccer. So it was also part of our school sport.
Yes, I still really like to watch the games because it's faster, more action and in my opinion more emotions than on soccer games. In a lot of areas there are some sport groups where they play just for fun, maybe you find one for you :)
The stick bread made me so happy! We are living in the North of Germany right at the border to Denmark. And stick bread is so popular here that they even do it with the children in kindergarten. Yes, with kids 4-6 years old. And everybody loves it. To make your stick bread more exciting: you can add grated cheese and bacon in the dough, yumm! Or you fill it after cooking with a chocolate bar like kinderriegel or duplo (in this case make sure, that you close the dough on top of the stick, so that nothing can run out).
German here: I never ate stick bread. What we did when I was young, was to roast potatoes directly in the fire _(could be done either wrapped into tin foil, or "bare naked")._ Since you live in Rhineland-Palatinate, simply watch out for "Kartoffelfeuer" in your region. _(May sometimes be called something like "Grumbeerfeschd", or similar, and usually takes place around the German Thanksgiving (first Sunday of October))._ To give you an idea: using the fire pit in your video, you'd simply put some potatoes directly into the embers and let them become cooked even. And yes: that means the skin gets all black and charred. Doesn't matter - the potatoes underneath taste delicious. A dip with it, made out of curd, seasoned with some herbs, salt and pepper...mmh.
I'm usually almost always on the American side when it comes to food (for example, being on "Team Doughnut", not "Team Berliner"), but the Gelato vs American Ice Cream controversy is a exception. I decisively prefer gelato. Frankly, stuff like Ben & Jerry's or Hagen Dasz tastes like frozen, sugary deep fryer lard to me. I especially don't like the heavy, dense consistency and prefer the more airy, light, melty consistency of gelato.
Fair enough! haha, In the US, I would RARELY pick up a Ben & Jerry's or Hagen Dasz, so it is a little unfortunate that is pretty much all you can get around here, but I still prefer American-style ice cream 😊
@@PassportTwo Not blaming you or saying one side is objectively right. It is just about what one grew up with and has positive childhood associations with. To be fair, when I think of gelato, I don't really think of just the gelato, but I think of elaborate sundaes with whipped cream and chopped fruits and chocolate sauce and a candy cherry on top and the gelato just being part of that bigger thing. I do think that American Ice Cream, due to its dense and harder consistency, lends itself less well to being part of a sundae. You'll surely disagree, but to me the thought of scooping through the whipped cream and hitting this hard, clay-like ball underneath and having to really dig into that with the spoon, crushing the banana pieces or what else is underneath, is weird. 😁
Sitting at a campfire making stick breads is a really precious childhood memory of mine. It was always a social event for every class trip that included a "Jugendherberge". And it is still nice sitting with your friends at nice warm campfire, chatting, drinking beer and trying to be the winner of stickbread making (means it isn't burned). And: Definitely Ice cream!
A good friend at school played handball and I often went to his games to cheer him on. Yes, Winnetou and also Karl May's other stories were definitely part of my childhood, the books as well as the movies. My brother is dyslexic and the desire to read "Winnetou" made him put in the effort to finally learn how to read. So our parents gave him Karl May's books as presents for every Christmas and birthday. The movies were typically shown on Sunday afternoons and it was always a family event to watch them together.
Thank you for trying out „Stockbrot“. I really enjoy when the video has another location. All of your videos are good, but testing something in real life is a nice variety :)
1. Handball: we regularly played at school and I was also in my youth in a club. Whereas the women played Bundesliga we youngsters played Bezirksliga. A classmate of my later husband played as an adult for a Bundesliga club. 2. Never even heard of this, but it sounds fun. 3. Winnetou: read some of the books, listened to radio plays, and watched all the 1960ies movies multiple times. I didn't know about the animated series though. 4. Schorle: it's more refreshing than and not so sickly sweet as plain juice. With wine, you can have a "Saure Schorle" (carbonated water) or a "Süße Schorle" (with "Limonade"). Esp. on hot days a Schorle will quench your thirst way better than the plain beverage. And with a Weinschorle you'll get less drunk. 5. As Germany mostly consumes what Americans call gelato I once follow the trend. Gelato it is.
I think you drink "Apfelschorle" not because you like lsparkling water so much that you would mix it with everything, but rather because it is a very refreshing drink - especially in the summer or doing sports. As for stick bread: If you thing it somewhat boring like I do try mixing some dried tomatoes into the dough and sprinkle it with some salt before putting it onto the fire
I never even heard of stick bread. But I have not been to many camp fires in my life - they are usually not allowed. To Karl May and Winnetou... I guess every German born before 1980 or so knows him. I would say May was the most famous (and most read) German writer of the late 19th and 20th century. Sure we all know our Goethe and Schiller, Thomas Mann and so on, but not that many people have actually read whole books from them. Karl May books were sold by millions, and not just to look pretty on a book shelf. May was a quite colorful character. He wrote all those adventure novels about the USA and also the middle east, without having ever been there. Only after he became famous (and rich) he was able to travel to the place he had written about. All this rambling about racism and cultural appropriation is typical for the woke movement we have nowadays. Meaning, making a lot of noise without actually understanding anything. May was extremely open minded towards foreign cultures, for a man of the 19th century. Perhaps more so than Mark Twain, who also gets accused of being racist lately, for the way he wrote about colored people in "Tom Sawyer". Mark Twain a racist, of all people! Sheesh... By the way, Winnetou is not the protagonist in the books about the West and the Apaches. The leading character is a german trapper and adventurer, known as Old Shatterhand - a early form of super hero, always equitable and honorable, and a top marksman and fist fighter. And it always sounds a little bit as if that person is based on Karl May in his younger years... :)
May certainly had his racist side, and it wasn't hidden. Look at whenever he writes about Jews or Turks, for example. There are occasional exceptions, but they're explicit exceptions. Or even when he writes about Germans as an example of the opposite side of racism. In general, except for a few important characters, he generally saw people through his ideas of their "ethnic character", whatever he had decided it to be. (Just to pick one example, Apache good, Comanche bad.) It's really all over the place in his books. Both May and (early) Perry Rhodan share the characteristic - and make me wonder in how many other stories I just never noticed - of having (at least) two almost diametrically opposed messages, and which one you see depends on what your expectations are. Personally, I most directly noticed that when my mother read the first Perry Rhodan stories, to figure out what I was reading. _She_ saw a story that still carried many of the bad ideas of her childhood: humans good, aliens bad. _I_ saw a story that preached we should get over that kind of thinking: all groups of humans are equally worthy. Turns out, yes, you can do both at the same time.
@@KaiHenningsen Of course people (and writers are also just people) always remain children of their time. Thats something we should always keep in mind. Its no surprise that a person from the 19th century has a different mind set than we have today. That is also true for the writers of Perry Rhodan, who had grown up in WW2, and lived in the hottest phase of the Cold War era when they began to write Perry Rhodan stories. I think we should rather compare such people with their contemporaries, not with our standards today. Another thing is, that adventure stories need heros and villains to be interesting. Nobody wants to read a book in which everybody is nice and nothing happens. And btw., also we are not without prejudice nowadays, and they are carefully cultivated by the media. Today its not the Comanches or the Germans who are the evil people, its the Russians, Iranians and the Chinese. Lets wait and see what people in 100 years think about that.
"stickbread" tastes great to eat plain, but to make it more interesting, many try to get it off the stick whole and fill the resulting hole with nutella (=hazelnut-chocolate spread). Or you can vary the recipe to include herbs, dried tomatoes or olives in the dough!
Stockbrot...yes, definitely. Generally: freshly baked bread is delicious. I heard a baker describe quality bread once: It's "when you eat an entire roll without any toppings..and you want another one"...and Stockbrot does that for me every time.
Karl May is a phenomenon - you should really take a closer look at his stories. Basically, he wrote a lot of stories about places he never was before. His knowledge came from traveller guides, written documentations about those places and so on. He was really imaginative. He also wrote some books about laurence of arabia, a story set in the orient. And he never was there or spoke any kind of language from there.
Actually, I have always thought of him as the German Joseph Smith (author of the Book of Mormon), without most of the malice. A talented scammer who was great in making people believe his made-up stuff that he got from maps and traveller guides.
@@bibliopolist Nah, he was just a romantic with loads of imagination. He actually did travel to America later in life to see for himself what it was like, and he was appalled at how Native Americans were treated. He proceeded to write a couple more books that were closer to reality and tried very hard to get people to read those instead of his more fanciful stuff, but they never caught on. Readers wanted the romantic view of the Wild West. But there is another author, Liselotte Welskopf-Henrich, who was an anthropologist and wrote several novels centred around Native Americans and their fates. When she went to the US to study the Lakota, they honoured her with the title of Lakota-Tashina which roughly translates to "protective blanket of the Lakota". Her books are amazing and were incredibly popular in East Germany, where they sparked their own film franchise.
We had to study handball rules for PE in school. Like, as a written test. In freaking PE. Coupled with the worst teacher i've ever had, it just made me hate the sport.
Oh no! Haha, I honestly still don't understand the rules, but that's probably because this definitely isn't a sport they taught in our school's PE program 😅
As a german, I've never had stick bread either. There were always fellow kids in a handball team, during my time in school. And I didnt't know that gelato was an english word, thought it was italian for ice cream. So I don't know what's the difference.
Might be rural thing where you can actually make fire outside without having it be a big event. Because near the Luxembourg border that was absolutely a thing.
you could explain Schorle to nongerman people with a kind of lemonade/ soda pop, but with actual juice. Stockbrot is more something to keep children entertained, similar to marshmallows, but probably healthier (because less sugar). You can still dip it in ketchup or other dip to add some more flavor. What the woman in that clip did, i would consider a sacrilege. Only way to make a Stockbrot is on open fire/ flames, not a barbecue grill.
"Stockbrot" is a simple grilling strategy and mostly for the cids. When you are on a Grill Party, from a certain age on, there are kids running and playing around. To give them a certain entertainment instead of bugging their parents this is a very good strategy. it take time, is healthy and fire is alöways fascinating for the little ones. Besides the grown ups can drinks a beer and chat. as working in a kindergarten myself once in a while we go out with the kids and make Stockbrot. its always fun. greetings from germany
I’m an adult leader for our local church youth. We have an annual 5 day retreat with the youth. Not being native German, I was like Stock what? Now I’m the master Stockbrotteig maker at our annual retreat. 😂The kids love it! Ice cream AND gelato.
The great period of Karl May movies was from 1962-1968, during which 17 very successful movies were made, starring Pierre Brice and Lex Barker. Pierre Brice is French and Lex Barker is US-American, their voices had to be dubbed. Very famous was the theme song of the films made by film composer Martin Böttcher
German scout leader tips on upping your Stockbrot game: - More embers, less flame!, so that your bread gets less of that grey sooty covering that's bitter and not quite healthy - cover the tip! It's usually where you get most of the heat, so you don't want your stick taking the brunt of it and turning to ash or even burning your bread -spice up the dough with herbs and seeds, linseeds and sesame give a nutty tint and a little oil to the mix - make the best hot dog bun ever! by trusting and sliding the whole baked Stockbrot of your stick filling the whole with a sausage: Wiener, Kabanossi, cheesey Krainer, or grilled Nürnberger/Merguez - there's a lot to choose from in the German 'sausage department' 😉
In some regions of germany Stockbrot (Stick bread) is called Knüppelkuchen (club cake) and it is extremely popular to do as a child during barbeque or in summer camp because you could prepare your own food and add contiments or eat it as it is. I't is really fun to do and tastes great
Having lived both in Denmark and Germany (childhood mostly in Denmark): 1. Handball is extremely popular in Denmark. The league is better in Germany, most Danish top players play in Germany, France and Spain, but the national team is one of the best in the world, which is otherwise rare for such a small country in team sports. I don't like playing it, as it's very easy to be hurt and injured, but listening to the match commentary on the radio is great, because it's always action. I still prefer football (soccer), because I also like some beauty added to it and I like outdoors sports more. 2. I don't like stick bread. I think it can be done well, but most times the dough is too salty and people burn it a bit too much. 3. I know Winnetou. But I have never read a book about him or watched a video about him. I think it is very normal that a fictional character is not known worldwide. 4. I don't like Apfelschorle at all. I don't like sparkling water either, but I can live with it. But I'm in general no fan of juice.
I actually don't like carbonated drinks, so I usually order a "Stille Apfelschorle" which means they usually just mix apple juice with tap water. "Stille Schorle" usually costs less than the juice alone and isn't as sweet as pure juice, which I prefer.
The whole story of Winnetou being a racist story is just ridiculous! ANd pretty farfetched! This whole cancel culture thing is just an abomination that needs to be stopped! Ice Cream or Gelato? We Germans do not differentiate at all! It is all Ice Cream for us.
Stick bread is made from simple yeast dough and can be savoury or sweet. I personally prefer sweet stick bread, but that depends on your preference. Sweet stick bread is usually more popular with children. The experience of making stick bread as a child is of course also very exciting but also very exhausting because you have to wait so long until the bread is ready. It is simply exciting to look for the right sticks (as straight and long as possible), roll up the dough, sit around the campfire with parents, siblings or friends and wait for it to be ready, mostly because children like to poke around in the fire with the sticks and then eat the long-awaited reward for all the waiting. Edit: I forgot to say YES sweet stick bread is definitely authentic and delicious, also yes there are the rotate and one place at a time stick breads (Im on team rotate).
Wait. .....You're now a sitzpinkler? And you admit to this openly! (*shudder*) You get a downthumb just for that! (And, also, I'm pretty sure that Karl May's name is pronounced like it rhymes with "eye", not "ay".)
We used to play handball at the physical education lessons ("Sportunterricht") at school along with football, basketball, hockey and Völkerball. Though I have never watched a professional or even amateur game... 😅 Stockbrot is a really nice thing. Here in Munich at the Alte Utting there is a stand where you can buy freshly made Stockbrot and even a special variant with bretzel dough snaked around parts of Leberkäse 😍 (a kind of sausage in Bavaria) I watched the Winnetou movies as a kid, but other than that I didn't have much contact with that. I might have seen "Der Schuh des Manitu" more 😂 Though at school we did read a book about a fictional Indian boy written by another German author though I don't remember the name right now... 🤔 I love myself some Apfelschorle or Rhabarberschorle or Johannesbeerschorle. Though I prefer it done with still water and interestingly when I order them at restaurants that do them themselves they often are with still water instead of sparkling water 🤔 Ehm... There's a difference between ice cream and gelato?! 😲
I live in Kiel , where THW Kiel plays, and in my twenties when I still lived im Northern Frisia, I played Football im Flensburg. In that year our Winter Training was in the same Gym as Flensburg-Handewitt. Both are better Teams in the HBL (Handball Bundesliga). Stockbrot is awesome. Karl May Spiele are in Bad Segeberg Schleswig-Holstein. There you still see actors as Winnetou and Old Shatterhand
An original "Schorle" or more specific a "Schorle sauer" is exactly the same as a sprizzer - white wine with carbonated water. it's even called Spritzer or Gespritzter in some regions. a "Schorle süß" is white wine with lemonade Red wine with Cola is what we call "Korea". Juices with carbonated water are "Saftschorle". So don't be suprised if you got wine instead of juice if your order just "a Schorle".
Funny, none of these things are popular in the Netherlands either. Though I think most people know those exist. Winnetou isn't popular here. I had only heard of the name, but didn't know who or what it was. I've had stick bread maybe once or twice. It's not really a thing here. Not to be confused with "stokbrood" which is just a regular baguette - a staple at barbecues (as a side). Handball - I've played it at school as a kid, as well as most other sports. I never watched a game though or know anyone who plays/played it. Schorles aren't a thing here either. I prefer gelato over American ice cream. But what about sherbet, sorbet or "waterijs"?
Schorle ist not popular in my region and only know as a 'southern' thing. I don't mind it. It cuts the high amount of sugar in some / most juices. Stockbrot: not known im my region but i've heared about it. Handball was one of the games during school sports that came up regular and we ( the comunity) even had a team in the local turnaments. Karl May in general was all around me when I was in school. The simple paperback version was at a price of 2 DM at that time (as Edgar A. Poe ). In my teens I understood what was so wiered about some of the books but when I did my research about Karl May I learned a lot why they where what they are. The movies made and series and so on are only a fraction of his ficton. Look up when he lived, And what years the films where produced and where.
That's actually not accurate. Handball like games already existed in ancient Greece and predecessors of modern handball developed differently in a couple of European countries in the 19th century. The first ruleset in modern times is actually from Denmark, but is lacking a lot of basic concepts of modern handball. Denmark had the leading role in the development of indoor handball. But the core concepts are the same as in outdoor handball. The basic principles for the modern handball were actually developed in the 1910's in Germany. The first German ruleset was a sport for girls without contact, because things like football were not suited for them. But just a few years later the rules were adapted for boys, contact was allowed, dribbling was inventend (like in basketball but 3 steps instead of 2 are allowed) and the ballsize was reduced (it was like a football before), so throwing became more important. Also the rule of throwing the ball from outside the crease (the zone around the goal) was invented. But the field size and team size was the same as in football and thus it was played outdoors. So saying that Denmark invented it, is definetly not appropriate.
We had handball as a part of our sports curriculum. Won't ever forget it as I got a fast ball right into my face and, I kid you not, afterwards I didn't know wher I was, who I was and what was happening, if only for a second.
My boyfriend is watching every single repetition of a winnetou movie, and there are many. I, as a kid, loved them also and I read some of the books. I was very disappointed knowing that the strory was invented by someone who had never been to the US. In my opinion other books of him are better. I still have his books in the attic, if you'd like to read them ..
You made the stick bread all wrong! For the original childhood Stockbrot experience, it has to be raw on the inside, but burned black on the outside and barely eatable XD
Stick Bread is not really German. Maybe it is the oldest way to make bread in history of menkind. I guess they invented bread this way. May be that is why it has this ancient facinaton, same as camp fire.
yeah, stickbread is one of those things I had as a kid and somehow still craving it. But I dont have a backyard or the possibility for a campfire here so it seems I have to live with that hunger ;)
I don‘t get the point of your random question, since gelato is literally the Italian word for ice-cream. Italians definitely make the best ice-cream in the world, though, if that‘s what you were asking…
You're right that gelato is the Italian word for ice cream! In English, gelato and ice cream are two very different things and you can't use the words interchangeably 😅 I can understand that gets lost in translation, but if you go to the US and order ice cream, your going to get something that is far off from gelato and you would have to go to a specialty shop to be able to get gelato 😊
some advices for a better stick bread experience ;) 1. use a longer and thinner stock (also remove the bark where the dough is) 2. hold the stick bread over the embers and avoid the flames 3. the dough should be a little bit thinner on your stick 4. eat is with something like jam or Nutella (if you use a sweet dough)
As someone living in the city of Kiel I'm pretty shocked you never heard of Handball. Well, I'm totally aware that in other regions of Germany Handball isn't such a thing. Handball is even more a thing in the Scandinavian countries. That's mainly the reason - at least that is my idea - that the most northern part of Germany, Schleswig-Holstein, is so much into Handball... But back to your question: I played Handball in school and I attended lots of Handball matches in the Arena in Kiel. Other cities with a bigger audience for Handball are Magdeburg, Hannover, Berlin and Flensburg... well, just have a look at the Handball Bundesliga ;)
I grew up in Franconia and there it is called "Stockbrot" meaning stick bread. It was made out of an slightly salty dough like pizza dough. Now I live in Saxony and here everybody calls it "Knüppelkuchen" what is more like stick cake. Most people make a sweet dough here. However I prefer to make a dough with roasted onions and spices.
I'm German. I'm 62. I've never even heard of "stickbread" before. Winnetou: Yes, of course. May (almost) always inserted himself in his stories; the Winnetou ones have this famous white man, blood brother of Winnetou of course, known as "Old Shatterhand" because of his strength (even though he's also a German author), running around with his Henry gun with I don't remember how many dozen shots in its _sperical_ magazine. (I should add that Winnetou also visits his friend at home and in North Africa (where the author is "Kara ben Nemsi", German Karl), but gets sick and goes back home.) May's House in Radebeul, Saxony, is known as "Villa Shatterhand". (So, he's actually from East Germany - from long before there was an East Germany.)
1st: yes i played Handball in school! 2nd: of course did i stockbrot, very often it goes together with the first campfire experiences for little boys and girls. 3rd.inmy generation reading karl may was kinda mandatory. very often it became a collection cause a karl mai book was the evry year birthday present fom grandma ( at the end me and my brother had 62 of his 88 books) and 4th: is Donnie 4 crawling now? best wishes to your family Michael/Hannover
Handball: Never played or watched it, but over the years I met many people who played in teams etc. So it's quite popular to many. Stick bread: I really like it. It's warm and so it has another taste. The smoke helps as well for the flavour. A good thing about this, it gets you calming down a bit. Reducing the hurry of everything. It needs time. Gut Ding will Weile haben -> good things take time. Winnetou: Oh yeah, actually, the debate was quite redicilous. The publisher just not wanted to print those books, and some people were crying about cancel culture etc. Actually, from people 30+ most have seen the movies or at least one of them. But over the years less younger people were engaged with this. And the books, wells, I assume most did not red them. Much noice for nothing. It is simply out of time, most people don't watch black white movies neither. Schorle: The carbonated water makes the drink lighter. So you even watering down helps to a lot of beverages but the sparkling is something for the mouthfeel as well
I think the whole Gelato/vs. Ice cream needs to take a whole segment an another video, because Germans will probably have no idea what you are talking about lol. I had to live in the US for over a year until someone pointed out to me that they are different things. And honestly, the whole way of eating ice cream in Germany vs. the US is so different. The most common way here is to get one scoop on a waffle cone for like 1,5€. And you'll be hard pressed to find anything like that in the US. It's usually so much more expensive and fancy with toppings etc. But then again, you won't find any ice cream cafe's, where you can sit down and enjoy an ice cream sundae. I've only ever seen those on dessert menus. I like all of it for the variety. I enjoy being able to just get a single scoop for little money, but something fancy like a Coldstone is pretty great also, and something I was more of a thing here - not instead of our ice cafes, but in addition. Also Frozen Yogurt not a thing here at all, which is another fun variation.
You must live in a smaller city. Munich has several frozen yoghurt places. Regarding prices: 2 Euro per scoop has become the standard for ice cream in Munich.
@@LenaHaussels If something can be found sporadically in a huge city like Munich, I wouldn't necessarily consider that a typical thing for a whole county. My boyfriend didn't even know what that was. Esp. when you compare those few places you have in Munich to what I guess will be hundreds of ice cafes, there is definitely a difference. In the US, Frozen Yogurth is everywhere. Even when I lived in Berlin, I don't remember seeing Frozen Yogurth. I would guess you can find a handful, but you'd have to search for them, just like Cupcake places - becoming more of a thing, but still a rarity.
I think i've read all books about Winnetou. But do german/us readers do know about Tecumseh? And what about Rulaman or Lichtenstein? (Hauff?) - 'Warum rülpsed und furtzed ihr nicht, hat es euch nicht geschmecket?'
I Love Winnetou. Good Films , better books and it teaches us so much about friendship, courage, brotherhood regardless of race or culture. That's why this accusation of racism or cultural appropriation is so absurd
Winnetous best friend is played by American Tarzan actor and Lana Turners husband Lex Barker. The evil guy is played by Mario Adorf who become famous even in the US as the main actor of the Oscar winning movie "The Tin Drum". He also played in the Sam Peckinpah and David Carradine western "Sierra Charriba" and "Try This One for Size". I'm born in 1987, and I really enjoyed my last Croatia holiday, visiting the national park where Winnetou was filmed. I never read the books, but my father owned them all. Learning that Karl May never visited America and wrote all his books in prison demotivated me to read the 30 books my father had in his bookshelf. The funny thing is that Winnetou was such a mayor success in Western Europe that communist East Germany created their own version of a Nobel savage Apache Indian chief and had their own move series with more socialistic values called Ulzana.
@@lyricsmind It sounds a little like a "Ketwurst" (combined word of Ketchup and Wurst). Kind of GDR's answer to the hotdog, where you have a long, hollowed out wheat bread (like this stick bread) and put ketchup and a "Wiener" in the hole after baking - of course you might add further sauces or replace the ketchup with mayonnaise or "Remulade".
So, no never played handball but watched it a couple of times. And real Stockbrot needs sugar and vanilla-sugar or vanilla spices. The bread needs be wrapped around the whole stick, then you pull the whole bread from the stick and fill it with nutella :)
WOAH WOAH WOAH!! WHY WAS YOUR VERSION OF STICK BREAD NOT ANYWHERE I LOOKED ONLINE?? 🤩🤤🤤 That sounds delicious and it would take it up another notch to fulfill my massive sweet tooth's cravings! Next time for sure!
Ah, see, you think “not that hard…” but 1) we are saying there is no good 1 word translation for it and 2) there is a big difference between “a carbonated fruit juice” and “fruit juice that has carbonated water added to it” 😅😂 Not so einfach! 😅
Hello there, could you maybe make a video about the differences between classic home furnishings in the USA and home furnishings in Germany? And maybe also a little about the quality of the home furnishings.
In my area, I don't really know anyone who enjoys stick bread. It was always viewed as that stuff "the alternative group" would use instead of marshmallows.
I've lived (almost) my entire fairly long life in Germany and have never heard of "Stockbrot" until this very moment. Fun fact: Karl May never actually visited the U.S. He literally made up all of his Winnetou stories at his home in Radebeul in Saxony.
He literally did, though. He did travel to the US and was shocked and saddened at how Native Americans were treated. Then he wrote a couple more books that were much less fanciful and tried very hard to get people to read them, but they never caught on. This is, for example, why Winnetou IV is usually omitted from the series; most people don't even know it exists.
Ice cream or gelato? I think that's a differentiation only Americans make. I had to look it up, as we just say Eis(creme) in Germany. Ice cream would be what is sold in the supermarket in 1 or 2 liter boxes. And gelato would be the Italian ice cream sold in Eisdielen. I think we prefer gelato every day of the week, supermarket ice cream is looked down upon as inferior and cheap - at least in my family.
It wasn't until you mentioned winitou that I realised you were pronouncing MAY like the english month and meant the author Karl May pronounced in german like the english MY. Btw the comedic parody movies of winitou are really good.
I will be honest and say I was confused on how to pronounce his name (and I probably should have asked on of my German friends to verify) but I assumed that his name would have been pronounced like the English MY if it would have been spelled like the German month MAI. But, because it ended with "Y" I thought maybe it wasn't pronounced like the German month and instead like the American month 😅 My apologies!
@@PassportTwo The German surnames Maier, Meyer, Meier, Mayr, Mayer and so on are all pronounced like Eier with a "M", so May without "er" should not take you wonder, hehe.
The thing about handball is that when football became professionalised, it very quickly became very expensive to field a top tier team. So if you wanted one, you needed big sponsors. Handball was cheaper (less international competition for the top players, smaller team sizes once they shifted to playing indoors and so on). So a town or region that didn't quite have the industrial power to support a Bundesliga football side could easily support a Bundesliga handball team. Which is why it kind of became the sport of small and medium towns. The regions that are most prominent in german handball are not the classic industrial centres, but regions that have a bunch of medium sized companies (the famous Mittelstand). For example Ostwestfalen-Lippe is full with these kinds of companies, as is Württemberg. And yes, you read that correctly, handball used to be played outside. It was basically football, but played with your hands. It only became this very fast paced game with high scores once they moved it inside.
