3 parts filtered coffee (not machine-made) and 1 part milk. Always reaches a perfect drinking temperature, and it isn't bitter, so you need no added sugar.
Tchibo originally was a coffee roaster based in Hamburg. One of its founders was Carl Tchiling and to my knowledge the "bo" stands for "Bohne", bean. In contrast to their competitors like Jacobs in Bremen, Arko or Melitta they sold coffee per mail order and soon discovered that selling items in their shops that are not necessarily related to coffee like chinaware, cutlery or other promotional items attracted more customers. The less those things had to do with coffee, the better.
From a marketing perspective it is the same idea followed by groceries and discount stores to add time limited offers of hardware. Or like gas stations have also branched out to non car related items. They take advantage of cheap mass produced items they offer for a limited time. That attracts customers, just like any sale item, who might also buy the original product. Or put the other way around, in the case of single commodities like gas or coffee, broaden the customer base and help to bear the costs by more sales. The strangest development is in my view is the existence of Tchibo sections in groceries and drugstores which offer their coffee and their non-food items. Which is in groceries done parallel (competition?) to the grocery's products (food and non-food). I still remember the time when Tchibo was a pure coffee outlet/shop. And we as students went their during breaks to have a cheap coffee (0.20DM). Which would be 0.11 Euros in today's currency. Even roughly quadrupled to adjust for inflation (≈ 0.50 Euro) this would be a phantastic price today.
According to Wikipedia, the name was originally Tchilinghiryan, because Carl Tchiling's father was Armenian by birth. I find it fascinating that such an established brand name allows us to take a glimpse into German migration history.
@@haukenot3345 Well, Hamburg is Hamburg.Think of Albert Ballin (Danish Jewish origin) or Godeffroy (French Hugenots) who shaped Hamburg's shipping. I had children from Iranian, Afghan and Lebanese merchants in my classes.
And don't forget Eduscho ... Both competing against each other started them expanding in other areas to get an edge over the other.. Eduscho didn't survive this, which left Tchibo in this bloated state
Americans highlighting our "Coffee & Cake" breaks has really made me appreciate it as a tradition and cultural institution. Before - as with so many things that you grow up with - it was nothing special to me. Now I really cherish it everytime. Especially the smell and the fancy cups we usually whip out for it. So cute.
Yeah, Tchibo is surely something weird for any non-German, even neighbouring Frenchmen. Which is why the Franco-German TV channel ARTE made this short little explanation video for how Tchibo was made and what the concept is behind the chain at all. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-jkXrd8dIOoc.html&ab_channel=IrgendwasmitARTEundKultur
I actually saw some Coffeemate in Rewe the other day (in the international aisle) and almost bought it, because I have seen so many people use it on RU-vid! I didn't, because what I was actually looking for was powdered milk, the price was outrageous, the ingredients strange and lastly, it is owned by Nestle.
🤣 Great summary of why Coffee Creamers aren't really missed here! Tchibo has weekly changing offers of medium quality, low priced goods to encourage people to come in and also buy coffee. They are one of the largest (if not the largest) seller of bed linens and clothes. You can also buy the stuff online. If you need stuff for your household (also baby stuff), a good place to look. No pineapple on Pizza, which is basicaly then a round Hawaii toast.
Pineapple on pizza and coffee creamer - two things to really piss off Italians. 🤣 So, if anyone from Italy says that Americans have no culture - those are just two of many reasons.
@@Nikioko Just came back from Italy yesterday and saw there a pizza topped with french fries and hot dog sausage. If Italians eat that, they should shut up about pineapple...
Tchibo really is the weirdest store... The concept doesn't make sense. Coffee, but also pyjamas and technical gimmicks? But for some reason, it works. All their products share a certain Tchibo vibe. A vibe of "We're home, in our comfortable blanket, sipping some tea, happy with our weird nic-nacs".
Like with other food it seems Americans are not satisfied with the taste of it on its own. They need to change it or add it up. Similar to their cookie tasting where everything was immediately dipped in coffee.
When I was a child in the 1950s, my parents regularly ordered their coffee from Tchibo. The pound of coffee always came in the mail, wrapped in a tea towel and a coloured tin can. The cloths accumulated in such a way that some even came into my possession as quasi dowries and are still used today.
Finland here again. Like many Germans here have already commented, here people would add a coffee syrup to a coffee to make it taste different. But what is even more common here is that the coffee itself is flavored in the first place. I regularly buy chocolate coffee, vanilla coffee, hazelnut coffee, tiramisu coffee, and my personal favorites, banana nut toffee coffee and chocolate chili coffee. Chili and coffee sounds like a crazy combination but it actually works really, really well. It is coffee that has the same bite as strong chili peppers. Very difficult to describe. It sort of first tastes like normal coffee with a chocolate flavor but then the aftertaste burns your mouth like chili. I've never heard of that mucke coffee here though, not during my lifetime. People made a coffee replacement from birch bark during the second world war, but got rid of it as soon as real coffee became available again.
you cant buy ammo at tchibo, so the transformation isnt complete, but on the other hand we dont have 27 schoolshootings a week so no need to reload so often
as you might know, we have a great community of greek people here. whenever you ask for ice coffee, they will serve you a frappe´which is a cold double espresso with ice, mixed, no vanilla ice cream on top, as the german version.
I had a culture shock the other way around: I wanted a german icecoffee and ordered one at a american cafe. I was sooo disappointed when I only got ice cubes in coffee...
We do have a kind of sugar syrup with a variaty of flavors in some more prominent grocery stores, which are sold here in Germany. So while we do not have the actual liquid coffee creamer many may be looking for, by using either form of coffee cream'ish product available here *and* the flavored syrups, you may be able to achive a quite similar result in the process. The syrup I mentioned is a brand called "Monin", which has its uses not only in coffee, but tea, ice cream, flavored water - sparkling or not, cocktails, etc...
I don't drink coffee often. But when I do, I take it as black as my soul. 😉 The tradition of "Kaffee und Kuchen" is in my family as well, but we call it only "Kaffee trinken". The cake or something simlar still is included. With the logo of Tchibo: It is a coffee bean with the steam from heating or the nice smell. Tchibo started as a pure coffee-shop. But then it added some extra thing for a limited time. Now it seems to be permanent. @Pineapple on pizza: Normally not. But my mother eats it and I get the rest from it.
How about the Germans that drink coffee at home, that come buy the coffee over here in the Netherlands, in bulk. Like shopping carts full. Do you know about that?
Donnie, how do you take your coffee in Germany? Have you tried making your own American creamer using Italian syrups and whatever German cream you can manage to eat?
Pineapple on Pizza is a YES from me! Since I don't drink coffee at all and never had even a small cup (I think I had some bad experience with Muckefuck when I was 5 or 6...) it's not my strong part, but IMO people in germany want to taste coffe if they drink coffee. Some want it a little bit sweeter or not so bitter, they put milk or cream in it. But why should someone drink coffee and put pumpkin or vanilla in it? I don't get it.
Tchibo is one of the largest coffee roasters. Not buying your coffee there is a mistake. You can buy full beans and grind them freshly at home. But why do they sell all these other items? Basically, the price for coffee hugely fluctuates at the international market. Coffee roasters cannot pass on these price fluctuations to consumers. The price for coffee is a "core price" that supermarkets will keep stable at all costs as the price of coffee is one of the prices every German knows by heart and determines market perceptions and shopping choices. Coffee roasters must therefore sell to supermarkets at stable prices or otherwise will be "de-shelved" (i.e. thrown out). The items Tchibo sells allows to offseet the price fluctuations buy having another stable source of revenues. The advantages are obvious: 1. Collections are changed every 14 days. Many people will come to the shop whilst strolling through the city and have a look at the new collection. These short-term collections ("Aktionsware") can also be found at supermarkets (Lidl, Aldi), and German shoppers are used to them. The fact that it is short-term draws customers to the shops. When it's gone, it's gone. 2. There is a double-win as people willl either come for the items and then buy coffee, too, or the other way round. Most of the items centre around kitchen, sports, underwear, and children, focus on women and attract impulse-buyers. 3. Sales and revenue for coffee are non-scalable as people will not drink more and prices are stable. In order to increase revenues, as a company you need to sell something else. Revenues for clothing are much higher than for coffee, and extra sales stabilise profitability. 4. The quality of Tchibo items is good, particularly price-quality-wise. Not that you actually need it, but you rarely regret it. Most Germans enjoy these items.
Time for another culture shock - I ate pineapple on pizza, but haven't for a long time. But I eat - here comes the culture shock: Toast Hawaii. What is Toast Hawaii? First: the only reason why it was named Toast Hawaii is that there is pineapple on it. Not stemming from Hawaii. The inventor of this 50s party classic snack (in Germany) is highly disputed, some say so, others say so. But what is it? Toasted bread, with a bit of butter, a thin slice of ham on it, a slice of canned pineapple, a processed cheese slice (Chester variety from Scheibletten is the most common used) - and a cherry on top. That goes into the oven for about 5 - 10 minutes at 180 degrees Celsius. And there you have my childhood fingerfood which I like till today. It is not a gourmet thing. It is a thing that was invented when the Germans just wanted something colourful and exotic and different after all those years of cabbage soup and Steckrübeneintopf (turnips casserole) or even mouldy bread they had during the war years. It was a sign of ease, of "affluence" (canned pineapple was more expensive than other goods), telling the people "the worst is over".
I can see now why the usa has such a huge problem with obesity when even simple coffee drinks contain hydrogenated oil in it. And i mean it's not about the amout of oil and fat (i do eat quite fatty sometimes), it's about the fact that saturated fat is used so common.
Makes sense that we dont have that stuff here in germany. The ingrediance would not fly here in europe i guess :/. Since it is banned in denmark, it would make sense if we germans wouldnt have it either. Nowaday i like my coffee with milk and xucker (x+zucker= no sugar). Which is a supstitute for sugar made of birch-starch i think. For the Pineapple on Pizza bs--> Samurai Pizza Cats - Pizza Homicide (feat. Nico Sallach of Electric Callboy) !!!!Pineapple makes me Cry!!!!!
I don't eat pineapple, period. My palette has grown over the years though. Now in my 20s, I can eat cherries, corn, brusselsprouts, and cauliflower, food that made me gag as a child. Just not pineapple. I believe that Starbucks's slow growth in Europe has to do with our interconnectedness and influence from the centuries old Italian coffee culture.
I'm sorry but you DO list the content of American creamer and than you honestly ask why you can't buy that in Germany? Really? Just repeat the list, it speaks for itself.
Of course I eat pineapple on the pizza! The Pizza Hawaii (the common name in Germany for a pizza with pineapple and cooked ham) is extremely delicious! Ok, I admit that this probably only applies to a small group of complete maniacs with taste disorders, but hey! I belong to a group with it! I came across the difference between German and American iced coffee when I wanted to upload "my" recipe for iced coffee on a friend's website and was looking for a picture for it.... I only found the American version and was very surprised, as I had never associated it with iced coffee like that.
I do not understand why American citizens drink coffee with flavored "Coffee Creamer". Then you can drink the "Coffee Creamer" or syrup pure. This has nothing to do with coffee, in my personal opinion. The coffee taste is totally falsified and covered. I drink coffee basically only black, without syrup, sugar, etc.. Just pure coffee. If you buy good quality coffee that has been gently roasted, it tastes really good pure. The cheap supermarket coffee, on the other hand, often tastes only burnt and bitter, then I understand if you mix something into it. Pure coffee can also have different flavors. There are some that taste classically nutty or chocolaty, but also fruity or quite unusual. I recently had a coffee that tasted like port wine. The flavors are natural and depend, among other things, on the growing area, soil composition, etc.. Can't you get "coffee creamers" imported? Often there are US stores where you can buy American products online, maybe you can find it there. In Rhineland-Palatinate there are also American bases, maybe you can get something there or you can ask politely if someone who has access can smuggle something in front of the barracks gate ;)
When you said the ingrediance for the creamer I´ve heard "industrial garbage, industrial garbage and industrial garbage", neither of those substances belong inside the human body.
The main difference is, how we meassure, if a coffee is strong enough. In the US, the classic way to test this, is the horseshoe test. You put a horseshoe into the coffee and if it sinks, the coffee is to weak. In our modern times, car tires can be used as a substitute (It fits, because US drinks are bigger). Both methods can be problematic, because the meassurement can influence the taste of the coffee, especially if the horseshoe is taken freshly from the horse or the tire from the car. In Europe we have the metric system. Therefore we generally do not need spoons as a device to meassure stuff. And therefore the spoon is free to be used on the coffee. For the test, you stick the spoon in the middle of the coffee. If it stays upright, the coffee is in line with the respective DIN- norm for minumum coffee strength.
Your coffee creamers are basically chemically created products with lots of artificial flavors. As you might have realized already, most Germans are very wary of ingesting such stuff. The logo of Tchibo is either an attempt of depicting a roasted coffee bean which is still fuming after freshly leaving the roaster, or a combination of a coffee bean with the the steam of hot, steaming coffee.
@@ChristianKurzke same, but something people do, that would probably be the most comparable to it, is adding flavored Sirup Like a simple syrup mixes with concentrates. Tho personally I only ever saw it used in Eiskaffee, or in a different take on Irish coffee
@@gameboy-nq7je I have never put syrup into my coffee, and I personally don't know anybody who does that at home. I think, that this syrup fad also came to Germany (Europe?) only with (American) Starbucks. But I'm a country bumpkin, not a city hipster.
Another type of coffee that you probably never had in America is "Blümchenkaffee". That word is from a time when cups made from chinese porcelain were rather common. These cups have blue floral motifs in the inside of the cups and if the coffee is so thin that you can see the flowers on the bottom of the cup then we say that its "Blümchenkaffee" xD
Try looking for "Kaffee Sirup" as a surrogate for Coffee Creamer. It's practically sugary syrup flavoured in many different ways and seems to meet what you described.
@@gamergamer5345 Not my cup of coffee, either, but some people like it. Not that I'm an avid coffee drinker at all. I always get nauseated by coffee, and the caffeine doesn't work on me.
Right before I read your comment I thought what about Italian syrups, the kind they use at American espresso bars? OK so he won't get his non-dairy cream but he can still get vanilla, almond, and all the rest. I haven't seen them in German groery stores but it must be possible to get them.
Tchibo is a coffee roaster and originally only sold coffee. The other stuff was originally a free giveaway for their customers, but then a court decided that it is forbidden to give away these extras for free, so Tchibo decided to sell them for a low price. And this became widely appreciated, so that the kept selling it.
I think Tchibo is something even we Germans ourselves don't get. To quote Felix Lobrecht (a fairly popular German stand-up comedian): "Was genau ist eigentlich das Geschäftskonzept von Tchibo?".
I second this. Many people are puzzled by the concept. I personally have never had a coffee on one of their stores. About the random assortments of weekly (or so) changing offers... I think it is bringing the Aldi-Offer principle to other stores offering a good chance to get once-in-a-while non-food products at stores, including seasonal stuff. Speaking in my own experience, I like the specialty of checking the offers and the anticipation of finding something cool, unexpected, extraordinary or really good price-for-value in there.
The team of Karambolage by arte (Franco-German TV channel) uploaded a very short but fun and informative video on Tchibo and its history. Including the history of its concept.
The closest thing to American 'Iced coffee' you can find in Germany is 'Café frappé', originating from Greece. No idea why Germans in your comments never suggest that, it may not be as common here as it is in Greece but should still be a known coffee beverage.
Cold brew coffee is starting to become popular too, in Germany. Wait for it Tchibo and other online coffee equipment vendors start to sell the pots etc.
Tchibo is what happens when someone owns a shop selling coffee beans and then decides to take the "weird stuff" middle aisles from Aldi and put them into his shop. BTW they also sell all the weird stuff online on their website, too.
Tchibo did the weird stuff isle first. That's where Aldi got the idea. Tchibo Was not making enough profit with Coffee so they bought up restposten very cheaply and then sold them cheap in a kind of weekly sale, thereby subsidizing the coffee sale.
Tchibo! That’s brought back great memories. Working in Greifswald in 1992 when supermarket opened next to building site. One of our gang who spoke no German whatsoever saw the sign for the in store cafe and assumed Tchibo was German for coffee. 10am every morning he would shout “Titchy Bow time” it was easier to just go along with it than explain
There is one difference missing between US and Germany - You can't get a normal sized coffee in the USA. Everything is to big. I got an Espresso (small!!!!) in a coffee shop that was 0.4l - that's more than ten times the size of a normal sized cup (25-35ml) of Espresso. And getting an unflavored unsweetened coffee was a chore. In the end I stopped buying coffee on the way to work and just drunk water. American don't enjoy coffee. They just chug it down.
In europe 0.4l of espresso would have about 1g of caffeine - more than twice of what the european food safety authority consideres safe for an adult to drink per day :D
I was born and lived in the US until I was about 27….to Italian immigrant parents. We never had a drip coffee maker in the house and I was drinking a Kid’s latte from about 5 years old -warm frothy milk in an espresso cup with a splash of espresso. I always hated flavored and/or sweet coffee. I do admit, in summer I would make an iced coffee….from coffee from my Italian Bialetti Moka espresso machine. I have been to Starbucks only twice in my life when I was traveling and had no other option and only got a small cappuccino. I think Tchibo is more a shop to buy coffee ( beans or ground) or Tchibo products and get a quick coffee before continuing on your errands. It is not a spend my afternoon relaxing with friends for Kaffee und Kuchen. Personally I think typical American coffee creamer ( flavored or not) it gross.
I think that the rise of Starbucks changed the coffee culture in the USA from one that was mostly about drip coffee that's typically found in diners to more variety based on espresso brewed varieties in addition to drip. Starbucks was also likely a big driver of flavored coffee drinks (mocha, vanilla, pumpkin spice, etc.) and the advent of iced coffee drinks (along with Dunkin Donuts). Here in Miami, the coffee culture is completely different from most of the USA. It's based on Cuban Coffee, often heavily sugared, and ranges from shots of cafecito to versions with milk like cafe con leche. I do enjoy a good Hawaiian pizza from time to time. Thanks Canada!
While I was watching the video, the excitement grew as to what coffee creamer actually is, until the explanation finally came - in Mickey Mouse language I would say: "kotz. würg - puke, gag!"
as a kid my mother made me drink caro coffee, which is a different kind of "kinderkaffee". and I HATED it. after years of forcing it down my throat I asked her why I needed to drink it and she told me it was healthier than coco and I said "can't I simply drink water?" and then my suffering was over. and to be clear, I never asked for coco.
RQOTW: YES - Pizza Hawaii is delicious. I used to drink Muckefuck as a child, later I would sip the decaffeinated instant coffee my mother used to drink. Between 12 and 14 (I don't remember the exact date) I switched to real coffee with sugar and a little bit of milk. But when I was 17 my Russian language class made a 10 days trip to the USSR including Baku in Azerbaijan where they served us Turkish coffee - black as the night, strong like Hercules, hot like hell, and sweet as honey. Since then I have never drank a drop of milk in my coffee. Btw. on our other stop in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia - the country, not the state) we visited a tea manufacture where I drank the best tea in my life. I'm not the type for black tea (sorry, Frisians and British people) so I tried a "yellow tea" which is a half-fermented tea and this was delicious.
muckefuck - never thought about it. how would you americans think about a coffee which has a naughty word at the end? well, when i was in the us the first time, 1988, i almost spit out the coffee. too hot, and too weak. muckefuck, i thought. in germany, it has to be strong, dark black. i am a coffeedrinker and i know the difference between good and bad coffee. muckefuck is no coffee at all. as you said. but we germans call american coffee also as muckefuck. just a no-worthy-hot-black-not-so-tasty-coffee-substitute. which is filles up immediatedly when in a coffee shop. you wait until the coffee cooled down to drink, the waitress filled it up so you are not so happy to burn your tounge again. great topic.
I am old enough to remember that at the beginning of the 60's my parents could not afford real coffee every day, and therefore mostly drank "Muckefuck" (brand name: Linde's). But once in a while, a parcel arrived with fresh Tchibo coffee, they probably ordered it by mail. In these parcels, a pound of coffee was sewn into a man's handkerchief, and half a pound into a woman's handkerchief. However I do not remember if this was the standard at that time, or if it was just a temporary special offer. The Tchibo shops came later, and they started as shops mainly for coffee with small assortment of other items for the household. When I was a student I liked them because in the big cities they also sold freshly brewed coffee - an inexpensive place in the city to drink a cup of good coffee - significantly cheaper than a Cafe.
"it contains corn syrup..." - is there ANY food in the US that does not contain corn syrup? It's really not surprising why there's such a huge obesity problem in the US if they have those concentrated sugars in everything..
You are right assuming that (most) Germans would prefer to have coffee taste like coffee and not like any of the artificial flavors that are available in the USA ... one BIG reason being that all those flavors contain heeps of sugar totally covering up the pure coffee taste. Then again: Who would have added fresh, hot coffee to a cup half filled with already cooling coffee from the last serving, as is common, too, in the USA. It's a lack of 'coffee culture', as coffee is just a substitute for sweetened soft drinks that are considered more like a drink for kids & teens]
From movies etc. I'm always wondered why people buy their coffee always on the street or in shops. Don't they have machines at home or in their offices ? There are full automated espresso machines affordable today.
Iced Coffee? Why put ice cubes in a hot drink that you order precisely because it's HOT? Are Americans so obsessed with ice cubes that they put them everywhere? CoffeeCreamers are banned in some EU countries because of the high sugar content - as in many other US foods. In Europe, much more emphasis is placed on the health aspects of food and, for example, attempts are made to reduce, if not eliminate, the sugar content in many foods.
American coffee must be really bad, if they add flavours to it. Do they the same with wine and beer ? Put some additional aromes in it to make it better ?
"...that Germans probably wouldn't want to drink anyways." Nailed it. While the whole business concept of Tchibo looks weird at first sight it's been so succesful that there were once even two competing coffee chains doing the exact same thing: Tchibo and Eduscho, the latter based in Bremen. It was swallowed by (of course!) Tchibo in 1997. Still a coffee brand today. Pineapple on pizza? Yeah, it's alright. The supersweet taste of the pineapple is a nice contrast to salty ham, same on the infamous Toast Hawaii.
I thought about how long it took to find this snippet in Nalf‘s videos. Or do you (Donnie) watch videos and collect snippets for later, if they inspired you somehow?🙃
"Tschibo" 🤣 in old times in Germany there were mostly specialized shops. You go to the butcher to buy meat, you got to the milk shop, to get milk and chese, hardly find a "supermarket". In those times (I remember some 1960) there was also a "koffee shop" - that also roasted coffee. There you could buy different coffee types but nothing else. Then Tschibo arrived. They worked as a franchise chain and sold coffee. They had to differentiate - so they offered a cup of coffee as a tasting - originally pretty cheap. This 'tasting' quickly got frequent and everybody liked to have a quick cup there during the day. In Cologne there were one Tschibo shop that was surrounded by yellow cars at 9:00 am. That were all the Telekom technicians at their brake and gossiping. Well some time they thought about new income. They started some 'special offers' - not coffee related. This got a HUGE market. Selling coffee beans becomes a minority.
Random thought about Kaffee & Kuchen: Do you know the song "Hätt' ich dich heut' erwartet, hätt' ich Kuchen da" as sung by Sesame Streets Ernie & Bert? 😊 And yes, Pizza Hawaii all the way. 😃
I love pineapple pizza! 🇨🇦 I almost always drink my coffee (espresso) either black, or with a little bit of cardamom powder or pure chocolate powder. I can only say that your description of American non-dairy creamers is deeply unappetizing.
pineapple on pizza? sure, if it is hawaiin pizza with ham and mozzarrella?!. we germans have no longer the right to call it hawaii-pizza. like hawaii-toast. another stupid law. hawaii-toast was introduced in germany, in the 50s, but everybody loves it it, still nowadays i do! 🙂 but the name, also used so many years with no background - was eliminated from now to then. discriminating people, harsh to be - well, in my view it is absolutely not the truth. i like my hawaii-pizza, with mozzarrella, and ham, and fresh tomatoes.
Ok I think I finally think I get the concept of what coffee creamer is. But for me it sounds disgusting :). Way to sweet and artificial. But you do you.
THe difference is germans, europeans and italians in particular want to drink coffee and enjoy the flavour of the coffee, whereas most americans prefer a overly sweetend hyper flavoured drink that tastes more of vanilla, pumpkin spices or cookies or peanut butter chocolate than actual coffee. I believe this is not only the case for coffee, when you look at other dishes in the german cuisine that americans often consider bland, but germans prefer less spices and seasoning so you can taste the actual vegetable. Salt, pepper and a little butter at max and cooked only as long as necessary is what i personally like meals and i like to taste simply the pure broccoli, carrots or tomatoes without adding 10 more extra flavours. Dont want to discredit the american way, it is just the way i prefer it and i think it actually is like it is for many food related things in US vs Germany, maybe there is a pattern.
Having grown up in Germany, I never questioned the concept of Tschibo, but looking at it from an outside perspective really made me realise how odd it is. Still love it XD Also, having so many people who come to Germany from abroad talk and enjoy "Kaffee und Kuchen" has really made me appreciate it more as a tradition. Now I finally understand what coffee creamer is. Thank you! I always thought it's flavoured heavy cream and I was a little jealous that we don't have it here. Now that I know what it actually is, I'm totally ok with not having it. As for the questions, I take my coffee with a dash of milk. No sugar. And no thanks to pineapple on pizza. I don't like the taste and texture when it gets warm, so also no "Toast Hawai" for me.
Muckef*** is a colloquial term for the Ersatzkaffee-Varieties. Typical brand names are 'Caro Landkaffee' and 'Linde's (sic!)' in the west (both now Nestle) and 'Im Nu' in the east. If you put lots in the water, im Nu actually is quite ok.
"Fake coffee", grain based, seems to be some kind of niche but fan favourite in Austria. Certainly nothing for the people drinking it for the coffeine.
Du hast einen wichtigen Punkt vergessen: "Kalter Kaffee"! Kalter Kaffee hat in manchen Gegegenden bis zu 3 Bedeutungen: Kalter Kaffee bezeichnet überall "kalten Kaffee" also abgekühlten Kaffee. Daraus entstand die eher abwertend gebrauchte Redewendung "Kalter Kaffee", für bereits seit langem bekannte "Neuigkeiten". Die letzte Bedeutung ist eine lokale Bezeichnung für das Getränk Spezi oder ColaMix!
The equivalent to US americans using creamer would probably be syrup here in Germany. The most popular brand is Monin and it also has a wide variety of flavors to choose from. I personally like hazelnut and caramel syrup, however I usually only drink my coffee with syrup when I go to a café at home it's either black, black with milk or sometimes black with milk and Ovomaltine and Kardamon.
There is no flavored coffee creamer in Germany, and maybe Europe in general, is because we don’t drink our coffee in such way as Americans do. We enjoy the coffee and not the artificial flavors that can be added to them. Yes, you can find some coffee mixes in the store with flavor, but I personally don’t like them as much as the pure coffee with milk. Milchkaffee is my all time favorite coffee drink. 😊
There are of course many Americans that also very much enjoy the flavor of coffee and would drink coffee black, we don't exclusively drink our coffee with creamer 😅😊 I definitely appreciate your comment and love to hear different ideas! I would wonder though if the reason you don't have flavored coffee creamers in Germany is less because Germans "just enjoy the coffee" and more because of the ingredients in creamer isn't allowed? 🤔 My reasoning for this is, like you said, you can still find some coffee mixes in the store with flavor, but also because Germany sells lots of flavored syrups that are used in coffees, and because in cafes you can still by things such as caramel macchiatos and other flavored coffee drinks. 🤔😊
Hell no. Sacrilege! My Mom is Sicilian. Pineapple on pizza would have escalated from getting slapped with a spoon to a cast iron frying pan. You can put pineapple on pizza dough, but then its not pizza, it's something else. Italians put a lot of sweet things on dough used for pizza, but it's not called pizza
Who really wants to put too much artifical stuff into coffee. Actually that is what coffee creamer is. Look on the list of the incredients. No pineapple on my pizza. If I want hot pineapple in a dish I make myself a Toast Hawai or some asian food.
