Are there any lies the other way around that Germans have been told about the US that you’ve found to be false?? BTW, If you want to check out that amazing wine tour and wine pairing class, you can sign up here: bit.ly/3CefzOf
That the USA are „the greatest country on earth“ and that anyone can get rich if only they try (no money or connections needed). Both have been proven wrong to me by my family in the USA.
I went to NY to see cowboys on horses chasing Indians, didn't see a single one of both. But it still is 'the Center of the World' they said, but it smelled after something else, piles of garbage and filthy streets. There are a lot of false images about the US in Europe as well, but with a little bit of reading and a closer view, you can quickly see through the decor. What struck me was the poverty in large cities, homelessness, and addiction. And a lot of 'fake' were tourists come, and exaggeration of 'happiness' as well. The US is an interesting country, with a lot of beautiful landscapes and many nice people, but just as anywhere else in the world it isn't paradise.
The biggest lie Americans are told about Germans is that Germany is all about lederhosen, half-timbered houses, sauerkraut, pretzels, white sausage and beer. Many Americans are also taught that you can drive as fast as you want on every German Autobahn.
This is true...but we had to change it up and not make another video about this stereotype of "all of Germany is just like Bavaria" 😂 To add onto the autobahn lie, most Americans also think the Autobahn is just a single famous road 😅
That's funny. There are about 122 Autobahnen in Germany and on most of them there are so many traffic jams every day that you often stand more than you drive.
c@@VOLTAIRE_DORTMUND You are just using them at the wrong hour of the day - go for nights, between 2 and 4 am .. they are much emptier then. OK, it has been a while since I drove on a Autobahn. It has been a while since I drove period
@@franhunne8929 You're aware that you should only drive at a speed where you can stop within the range of your headlights at night? Agreed, German deer are smaller than moose or American elks, but I wouldn't want to hit one anyway, and they roam at night. There are no fences, and it's not uncommon to see an animal on the autobahn now and then.
Well, there is a difference between owning a gun in Europe/Germany and in the USoA. No 1: No gun can be owned privately unless you prove that you have a clean police sheet and are mentally sane plus have a GOOD reason why you should own one. No 2: You must make sure that NOBODY has access to your gun. We hat one school shooting many years ago and the FATHER of the shooter was prosecuted as he didn't care about its inaccessibility enough ! No 3: Being a hunter in Germany is very EXPENSIVE ! Apart from having to pass a very difficult test where you prove that you can say which hair belongs to which animal or footprint or what the local or regional or federal laws concerning hunting are you also No 4 : have to either OWN your hunting ground or "rent" it. You are then No 5 : RESPONSIBLE for the sustainability of your forest concerning flora and fauna. That said there are illegal gun owners.......
@@seanthiar No, he didn't. Being an active member of a shooting club counts as a good reason under German law. The mere membership isn't enough though, you first have to prove that you actually train there and have decent results (marksmen clubs have loaner weapons that you can use for training under the surveillance of a trusted member there). License administration can also demand licensed gun owners to provide proof that they still have a need for it every once in a while (e.g. still train actively as a sport marksman). Weapon collectors who don't have any other reason to own a gun may only own guns that have first been rendered unusable (which has to be proven by a certificate of a licensed gun store). There are some exceptions for some historical weapons and rebuilds of those, mainly for front loading black powder weapons.
@@seanthiar And you forget the German War Weapons Control Act, which among other things prevents the private ownership of assault rifles. In addition, many guns in shooting clubs are owned by the club and members' private guns are also stored at the club. The rules for storing weapons are very strict in Germany. Among other things, it must be ensured that weapons and ammunition are always stored separately in different, spatially separate safes. This also applies to gun collectors. Speaking of collectors, I've seen videos on YT of an American gun collector owning a German 8.8 anti-aircraft gun and ammo. He also shoots with it at collectors' meetings in the USA. That would be completely impossible in Germany.
Additionally, there is a big difference in who is allowed to actually carry a gun. Sport Marksmen are only allowed to carry their weapon at the ready on a licensed shooting range (no training in your private backyard!). Additionally, they are allowed to transport the weapon from their home to the shooting range or weapon trader and back (duh), but only unloaded and in a locked container. Likewise, hunters are only allowed to carry while in the specific area for which they have the hunting rights (or an area where they have been officially invited as a guest hunter by the rights owner). At home, weapon owners have to store their weapons in locked safes and separate from the ammunition (separate safe or separate locked compartment within the safe). You can take them out on your own property for cleaning, showing or in preparation of a specifically expected self defense situation, but you are not allowed to e.g. keep a weapon in your night stand drawer "just in case". Also, every gun you own has to be registered with the authorities and as a registered gun owner you are obliged to let officers enter your home for a surprise inspection whether you adhere to the regulations for storing them at any time during the day (though it rarely ever happens in practise unless the administration has been tipped off that you violate those rules). Getting a license to actually carry a gun in public for self defense is VERY difficult in Germany. In addition to the hurdles you already have to pass for legally owning the gun, you have to prove that you are under a serious death threat and that other measures of protection (restraining orders, available police protection) are not sufficient for your safety. Even most of private security personell only carry pepper spray or tazers, only high profile body guards might carry guns.
I'm Czech, not German, but in beer consumption that doesn't matter(and in terms of culture, we are much closer to Germans and Austrians cause we shared 1000years of history with them. We are basically Germans with Slavic language). I'm an abstinent but I really like the taste of beer, so I drink only non-alcoholic beer. Also the Czech culture revolves about beer and a lot of Czechs are abstinents now, so you can buy non alcoholic beer even at local pub in your village with 200 inhabitants.
I do the same in Germany. Beer just tastes great, but I don't like alcohol and I feel like it has become more normal to drink non-alcoholic beer at least among younger people.
I'm curious - do many Czechs actually describe themselves as a kind of German with just a different language ? There sure is a lot of shared history and similarities like the beer-brewing, engineering, mining.....
@@theoderich1168 Depends on the generation. Before WWII about third of the Czechoslovakian population was Sudeten German.After the war all Germans were violently deported to Germany (lot of Czechs actually defend this awful action) after that the Communists started massive anti-german Slavic brothers propaganda that lasted 40 years. The relationships between countries are better now, but there are still dumb people (mainly Facebook comments) that still blame Germans for the war and shit. I stand with my claim, that we are culturally Austrian and German (cuisine is also similar, we eat Schnitzel and potato salad and a lot of meat with dumplings) but if you asked Czechs on the street, the majority would disagree with me. Actually there are some people in Czechia that believe in Pan-Slavism and support Serbia and shit
@@matkys Thank you very much for replying, that is very interesting to know; geographically Czechia sure is a part of the central European area, like the German speaking neighbours.... Have a good weekend and greetings from the Teutoburg Forest
I'm German and I have to confess I was never at the Oktoberfest and I dislike beer so much 😂 but yeah, wherever you go in the world and tell others you're German they immediately think of Bavaria 😂
To answer your question: I don't drink alcohol. Never. I don't like it ^^ but I know many people who drink alcohol-free beer, especially when they need to drive later or are around kids
@@patrick6449 Es heißt immer es gäbe keine dummen Fragen, aber deine beweist das Gegenteil. Ich bin erwachsen! Und das Geschlecht hat nichts damit zu tun, ob eine Person Bier mag oder nicht. Ich bin im Freundeskreis die Einzige, die kein Bier trinkt.
hallo lady bundle, ich mache mir sorgen um dein Wohlbefinden. Es ist nun 2 Wochen her seit dem du dich Geoutet hast. Ich hoffe das hatte keinen negativen Einfluss auf dein leben und das all deine freunde noch mit dir befreundet sein wollen. mfg dein besorgter Landesnachbar!
@@ladybundlebrent3562 Ich trinke auch nicht. Meine Schwester trinkt aber. Ich mag Alkohol nicht. Schmeckt nicht. Und Bier stinkt. Rauchen tu ich auch nicht. Aber viele Leute in meinem Umfeld trinken. Ich find das total ok und es stört mich auch nicht, solange niemand versucht mir Alkohol aufzuschwatzen. Es gab mal ein Silvester wo die eine Frau einfach nicht gerafft hat, dass meine Schwester und ich keinen Sekt wollen. Gruppenzwang existiert leider noch etwas. Vor allem bei den alten leuten. Zumindest soweit ich weiß. Aber in meiner Familie bin ich auch die einzige die nicht trinkt. Schöne Grüße aus Köln.
In Germany, only beer is drunk? With a consumption of 6.65 kg of coffee per capita - 8th place on the list of coffee drinkers worldwide - we Germans drink the USA - 18th place - easily under the table with 4.43 kg. Source: Coffee in Numbers - Coffee Report 2017
I think the part was about alcoholic beverages. But there we also don't only drink beer. Wodka, Jägermeister, korn, berliner luft, apfelwein... Germany is more than beer when it comes to alcohol too.
On the topic of yards: If houses in (historic) city centers have yards, they are usually in the back or enclosed by various houses, while the front is dense. This is in part because there is not much space, but in part also because it makes more sense than a front yard: If I want a yard for growing plants and recreation, a busy road is usually not the best place for it. (Also, in many cities there are Kleingartenkolonien, but people owning or renting their parcels are a very own kind)
One big lie that is always forgotten is the christmas pickle where everyone in the US "knows" its a German tradition and no German ever heard about that "tradition". BTW if somebody wants to know more about guns should search for the channel of Joerg Sprave a German weapon nerd. A short add on to the Umlaute ä, ü, ö and ß for non German with a standard keyboard. You can replace ä with ae, ü with ue, ö with oe and ß with ss. For example you can write Muenchen or Duesseldorf if you don't have an ü or Koeln if you don't have an ö. Btw German isn't the only language with additional letters. The Scandinavian countries have additional letters too. Sweden, Norway and Denmark have Æ (sounds like the German Ä) , Ø (sounds like the German Ö) and Å is like a long O. Finland have the same letters Norway has but added the German style ä, ö, and ü.
Christmas pickle is not forgotten about, we just talked about it in a different video that you can find here 😂: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-S6oTmEWOqgo.html
The only sensible replacement for ß that ever existed was :s. Those who worked in telex or typewriters used this because they had learned that replacing ß with sz or ss is a really bad idea. - - - Then suddenly everyone who had access to it started typing their texts into computers and the Internet. Most of them had no idea what mistakes you can make when replacing the ß and how to avoid them. This is why ideas that professionals had long since discarded had made a comeback. - - - ss has never been a suitable substitute for every ß. Since the last spelling reform, it's even completely nonsensical to use ss as a replacement; because in all words in which ss has ever fitted as a substitute, the ß was already officially replaced by ss in 1998. The words that are still spelled with ß today are pronounced completely differently than words with ss. And in surnames, place names and street names, which of course were not affected by the rule change, you should definitely not use ss or sz as a replacement; because the names often also exist in these versions, but they belong to other people, places, streets. It should also be considered that exchanging ß for ss can change the meaning of a word (example: body measurements > body mass).
Joerg doesn't need a gun. His homemade "toy" (yes a toy according to gun law) will go clean trough military grade body armor. and his "safety" t-shirt, can stop sabot tank rounds, but he refuses to admit it ;)
I (a German) have never really liked the taste of beer, however I do enjoy mixed drinks such as Radler or less-sweet, non-alcoholic alternatives such as Fassbrause. So now I can enjoy a trip to the "Biergarten" without having to stick to standard soft drinks.
I´m german too and .. well, same. I don't like the taste of pure beer at all, but Radler and Berliner Weiße Waldmeister ... so, yes - mixed drinks are okay. And I would never choose any drink over another JUST because it has alcohol in it. On the contrary, I'm not a big fan of alcohol.
From my consumer perspektive, alcohol free beer also becomes more popular due to improved quality. Frankly, 30 years ago, alcohol free beer tasted like horsepiss (or how I Imagine it to taste). 15 years ago it was better, but still had an aftertaste that took some getting used to. Today, alcohol free beer is quite good and not too different from traditional beer with alcohol.
Apart from the taste of alcohol-free beer, when it was first introduced I hear a lot of people go "Why the f.. do I want alcohol-free beer. I'm not drinking it for the taste." ;)
Exactly. The only thing in beer that isn't perfect is the alcohol. Back in the days alcohol-free beer tasted awful. Impossible to drink. I only say Jever Fun (which still tastes awful). Nowadays it tastes most of the time okay, some are good or even great. Up to this day my personal favorite is Bitburger 0% or Bitburger Drive as it's named internationally. Unfortunately it's not exported to many/all countries in the world 😮💨
Regarding gardens - we not only have large "Wohngebiete" (living regions) where there's mostly houses for families, in villages and outer spaces of cities. There's also the tradition of "Schrebergarten" - a collection of small gardens where you can rent your back garden - mostly in quiet outer spaces you can walk or bike to. It's popular when you have high density buildings with 4 to 5 story buildings. But we also have large public parks and places for kids to play (Spielplatz) in denser areas - good for meeting other people.
My non-alcohol beer consumption skyrocketed when I stopped seeing it as beer without alcohol - which is somewhat lame - but a soft drink with beer flavor - which is fantastic. I don't have decide any more between a boring sparkling water and some overly sweet, artifically tasting soft drink but I can get a soft drink with low sugar and beer flavor.
Beer & Alcohol: Non-alcoholic beer had an increasing demand as the limits on "driving drunk" were reduced step by step and I would say the Germans accepted that driving drunk is not a sign of strength and manliness any more. Secondly, US beer contains less alcohol, which might be relevant for tourists from the US. With view to consumption habits: You almost never see someone drink alcohol at an work place (except addicts and celebrations) whereas this seems quite common in US TV productions.
A German pils has between 4,8% to 5,3% vol alcohol. Lighter American beers eg. Bud Light has about 4,2% and the normal Budweiser about 5% alcohol. I don’t think this is a big difference.
Being Syrian-German, I don't drink as much alcohol as my mother's side of the family, but I do take a glass in social situations, if Radler isn't available. I really hate that tingly feeling of wine in my throat, so I dilute it with water, unless we're at a restaurant and try a local house wine, e.g. in Spain and Portugal. I prefer the North-German stereotypes much more. Seafood, sailing, swimming, and a rather introverted, reserved mentality over all. About the bananas: After watching one of the food-related shows on the public broadcasting TV, I have learned that monkeys prefer to open it from the bottom because the peeling is much easier with less of it sticking to the pulp. I tried it out, then stuck with it.
You can substitute a Umlaut with the used vowel and an e. Sticking with your example, Küchen can also be written as Kuechen (especially in crossword puzzles), if you don't want to look up the ascii code or are unaware of the keep-pushed-for-variants method.
Why make such a fuss. I usually say there is no way around and that’s the way they have to write it. Weirdly it works perfectly and they always write it with ä, ö or ü
@@Hoschie-ww7io Not intended to make a fuss. Please don't get me wrong. If you teach it that way and it works than good for you. Keep it that way. 👍🏻 All I wanted to say was that there are always exceptions from the rule.
@@Hoschie-ww7io There are exceptions. In IT it is sometimes better to write ae instead of ä, because there are different representations for the letter. Some programs and filesystems may have problems with it. Or if you exchange a document between Linux and Windows or with different browsers or database applications, you might geht in trouble. In coding it is sometimes allowed, but you should never use it. Even in HTML you might see effects.
I absolutely respect having sponsors like local beverage companies for the Spezi-Verkostung or the vineyard tour. That’s really cool and fits into your videos.
The attitude towards guns, I think, also depends on whether you are in a city or in the country side. Where I live, in very rural part of Austria, there's a hunter or two in every other household. No hunting without a gun. And if you have a gun, you should also know how to handle it. So people go to shooting ranges on a regular basis.
The difference to the US is, that we have guns for sport, hunting etc. we generally only take it out to do this activities. We don't run around with guns "for self protection from criminals" or simply to stick the point, that we have a right to carry. Because it's not "a right" we have no problem whatsoever to attach responsibilities to it. or get a permit. It's always funny to see the reaction of tourist, when here in Switzerland a few hundred soldiers board a train, with the guns to go home over weekend.
Alcohol free beer had a real boom, when a new kind of it has been invented. I remember that as a big step forward somewhere in the 90's. I don't like sweet beverage very much, and so do many beer drinkers. The new method was, to get the alcohol out of a fully brewed beer, with nearly no sugar left in it. That made it possible to brew nonalcoholic beer, that tastes as good as real beer. I guess that explains the boom.
We have a Garden.In a Gardener Club .( Gartenverein , Schrebergarten).Many Germany who live in a Apartment have such a garden. Where they can stay with the Family over the Weekend,plant some flowers and vegetables on there own.
There definitely are guns in Germany, but if you want to buy one, you need to have a „Waffenschein“, which means some kind of licence or permission to own one. Everybody who holds a permission is on a file. It is a criminal offence to have a gun without permission. Non alcoholic beer really has become more fashionable during the last 10 years, probably due to the fact that drunk driving is no longer considered as cool. German wine has improved during the last 30 years, too, go to a „Weinprobe“, you‘ll be surprised. We do have yards, but like most things in Europe, they‘re smaller. There are exceptions from this rule, though.
Um eine Waffe kaufen und besitzen zu dürfen benötigt man eine Waffenbesitztkarte. Der Waffenschein berechtigt dich zum tragen der Waffe. Der Jagdschein berechtigt zum Erwerb und Besitzt von Waffen die für die Jagd benutzt werden. Und selbst das ist vereinfacht dargestellt.
We have a large yard, or garden in Germany with an apple tree, a peach tree, a plum tree, black currants, red currants, white currents, gooseberries, three vines, plus raised beds with vegetables, as well as a lawn, and flower beds in front of the house. To the side of the house we have a driveway, and decorative trees. but we live in the country, with a tradition of self sufficiency. Our out building had originally a pigsty.
The key difference between the U.S. and Germany regarding gun ownership is that in the U.S. there is a constitutional right to own them (though if I look at the wording and the historical context I feel like this has been applied overbroad in the past century) and in Germany you have to show a specific need to own and use a (restricted) firearm, like shooting sports or hunting. The discussion about U.S. gun legislation should be much more about solving social problems than about privileges and industry lobbies I think - but I don't want to mingle in another country's affairs too much. Just saying: It's not guns that kill people, it's people that kill people using guns.
A cool video would be to cover those tiny little houses with gardens on the outskirts of cities that people rent the space for gardening. In German I believe they are called Schrebergarten or Kleingarten.
It's true that we Germans drink non-alcoholic versions of beers from time to time. I've never really thought about it, but I think it's strongly related to the after-work culture that we have here and it's just part of it to drink a beer with friends in the evening - may it be with alcohol or not. However, one must also say that the taste also differs. Although both taste good.
I usually drink alcohol-free beer when I have to/or want to drive afterwards, and don't only want to drink Coke the whole time. It is also very refreshing without having the down-effect of the alcohol. Good for sports and work.
Interesting fact on gunownership. In Germany there are approximately 30 guns per 1000 people, in the USA it is 90 guns per 1000 people. But in the USA there are 10 times more people killed by gun violence.
I'm not sure where you got those numbers but according to Wikipedia, there're around 121 guns per 100 people in the US, while in Germany it's around 20 guns per 100 people. I.e.: there are more guns in the US than there are people living there.
The two-dots-above-above-a-vowel diacritics is used for two different things. It can mark an umlaut and thus represent a different vowel sound, or it can be a diaeresis that indicates that two adjacent vowels are pronounced separately. In the latter sense, it is somewhat akin to indicating a stress on a ‘syllable’. In English, both usages essentially only occur in loan words (or ‘fake’ loan words like Mötley Crü). And while in English a loan word with a diaeresis still honours the original purpose of it when pronouncing the word (eg, naïve), it doesn’t do so with umlauts, either because the original sound doesn’t exist in English (ü) or tends to pronounced already like the German umlaut (eg, gang vs Doppelgänger). Since on top in English loan words with an umlaut are less common than loan words with a diaeresis, when an English speaker (particularly an American one, as diaeresis is more common there) comes across one, they associate it with either an indication to somehow put a ‘stress’ on that vowel or seeing it as completely inconsequential for pronunciation and relatedly also for meaning.
I am an older German from Bavaria. We called beer "liquid bread" and it was traditionally part of the "Abendbrot". Drinking beer is an enjoyment like a good glass of wine for the French. In the older days every brewery had a "Wirtshaus/Gasthaus" or maybe the other way around, but while mother prepared the table for the Abendbrot the son, still a boy, was sent with a jug to the Wirtshaus to get it freshly filled. This was custom in the villages. Coming from Bavaria I know little about wine, so thank you for educating me about it.
4:07 I always took Germany as a beer celebratory culture where beer was used to mark special events and to celebrate holidays not "oh look it's 3pm on a Tuesday get the keg"
Ich frage mich, wie viele bei Parties und Volksfesten oder wo auch immer, Alkoholfreies trinken, dies aber den anwesenden Freunden verschweigen. Dazu müsste man iwie vorher dem Kellner flüsstern, dass er das Maß Bier mit Alkoholfreiem befüllt.
I haven't decided if I'll go this year. I'm kind of curious to see how it's bouncing back, but I have to admit, I've mostly found it to be a PITA with all the drunks on the trains.
I would say: Look for real friends ! Whoever tries to peer pressure you is probably not your friend. Whoever tries to peer pressure, when there are good reasons for your decision surely isn't !
I think the difference about owning a gun is in America pretty much everybody could get it easier und in Germany it requires some stuff to be able to get it.
German here. I changed to alcohol free beer, because I love the taste, but didn't want to drink so much alcohol. Given, alcohol free beer does taste very different to alcoholic beer, but it has alot of similarities, which I find refreshing. It has become more and more normalized to drink non-alcoholic beer here, yet a good 15+ years ago it was not as common as nowadays. Alot of people try to live healthier and that includes cutting down on alcohol.
alcohol-free beer used to be horrific, they've cracked it for many years now. I almost enjoy it more now, since I can drink without thinking about the alcohol. for wine though, alcohol-free is a no-go
yeah, alcohol free beer is very common in Germany, even in pubs! And today the quality and taste is much better than several years ago. You can get really tasty ones without the sweetness, which they had at the beginning.
You can write every sign or letter by pressing the Alt-Key and type the specific number for it on the num pad. For example ALT + 156 = £ And there is the windows tool "Zeichentabelle", I think it is called "Character Map" on the English Windows. It is there at least since Windows 95 but maybe longer. Never worked earlier versions. You can choose the font and copy any sign or create a sequence of signs and copy it to the clipboard and paste it from there.
There are different ways to get to additional characters and symbols that are not printed onto your key caps that vary from operating system to operating system (Windows, Mac, Android, etc.). But I wonder why nobody so far has pointed out the most simple one: Switch your keyboard layout to the German one.
Or do the ‘lazy’ way and make ä ae, ü ue, ö oe and the ß as double-s. This is actually the ‘official’ way if your keyboard layout or IT system doesn’t support Umlaute - or in latter case, you want to avoid compatibility issues. One might think this has become obsolete since UTF-8, but especially banks in their transactions and some governmental instances strictly forbid Umlaute (and other ‘special’ characters)
2:18: Actually, sometimes it is better to avoid umlauts. E.g. in file names, because there are different standards and they may get garbled. To maintain readability, they are spelled out ae, oe and ue. This is also how it is done with names in e-mail addresses.
Wow - you've been just around the corner! That's really cool. I am a happy "Moselaner" from Cochem, so I was quite happy to see you waliking through some vineyards in Ellenz. 😉
For the thing, that Americans think, that Germans only drink Beer: I wonder how they would react, if they were told, that Americans only wear Jeans, Cowboyhats and always ride on horses ;)
One of the first successful 0% beers was created in the Netherlands. It is called Bavaria. When the American army was stationed in Saudi Arabia just before the gulf war, the US army was not allowed to import beer (because it contained alcohol). So when the army learned about the 0% beer Bavaria, they tasted it. It was a success both for the US army and of course for the brewers of Bavaria.
Drinking beer in the US because of its taste also wouldn't make much sense... considering the taste of US beer 😅 Actually I drink beer only at rare occasions, no matter if with or without alcohol, but what I sometimes enjoy is a Radler on a hot summer day (a mixture of beer and lemonade, very refreshing) and that can also be made with non-alcoholic beer as it will taste equally good.
@@HomeWorkouts_LS I was obviously joking about industrial produced US beer, which quite often has little in common with beer to begin with if you look at its ingredients, it's just some sparkling, alcoholic beverage that tries to imitate the taste of beer and even that only with limited success. Of course there have always been smaller local breweries in the USA that actually produced real beer but they are little known aside from insiders. No huge brand name, no big marketing, and if it's not the taste you are used to, you may not like it, as taste is also a matter of habit. E.g. root beer (which is no "beer" but makes a great example here) is not sold in Germany at all and as a consequences, the vast majority of Germans don't like it; well, actually they hate it and think it's somewhere between very strange and awful.
@@xcoder1122 I don't like Coors or any AnBev beers but they actually do use hops, barley malt, yeast, BUT they add corn and/or rice unfortunately. Yes tastes terrible haha (And Root beer is just soda like Coca-cola, not related to beer at all.)
@@xcoder1122 Of course Root Beer is sold over here. There is actually a german brand . But it is a soda. Btw, everyone I introduced to root beer so far, liked it.
@@derpapito1391 Why does everyone have to tell me it's a soda? I know it's a soda. I wrote it's not beer! And you won't find it in most supermarkets. Try buying one at Lidl, Aldi, Netto, Rewe... in the USA it's sold everywhere where coke is sold. Here you may be lucky to get it at a bigger Kaufland or maybe a few Edeka. I only mentioned it as an example of "you like what you are used to" and sorry, but nobody I know likes it or can even tolerate it.
In Germany you don't buy a hunting license and then go off and shoot what you see... A hunter, (after training and schooling) rents his hunting area from a farmer. He is now hunter as well as game keeper. This is the reason why you find rehruecken, or wild boar on a menu. The hunter sells what he shoots to pay the rent on his hunting area. He is the one who erects his hunting blind to keep an eye on the health of his deer, and also uses it to do his hunting. As a licensed hunter he also wears his green uniform.
The thing about the umlaut-dots is absolutely hilarious. I have no Idea how Americans got that Idea but I also know that the Umlauts are quite popular in Heavy Metal and there are quite a few Metal Bands who use them for their Band Names because they look so metal but pronouncing them as if the Letters had no dots. This led to a funny scene when the Band Mötley Crüe (pronounced "Motley Crew") came to Germany the first time and Fans where chanting their band name with the German pronunciation of the umlauts. They were definitely somewhat bewildered ;-)
I think the only thing as a European that shocked me about America, was being warned not to go for a walk in the woods, as I may be shot as game. If game shooting happens in Europe, it is in private estates, or there are many warning signs, they are organised. Some deer shooting is late in the evening, or very early morning, but I have never heard of anyone ever being shot. Maybe also a cyclone warning, saying what to do, we rarely have cyclones in the parts of Europe, where I have lived. Also medical costs, I broke my ankle in Arizona, I had to have two pins put in my ankle. It cost around five times the European cost, but I had to combine two insurances to pay for it, and all the time I had threatening letters from America. That just doesn't happen in Europe. Practically everyone has medical insurance.
What you call the bottom of the banana is actually the top when the banana is still on the tree. And yep, that's where I start prepping it, not at the stem.
Hold the stem and peel from the blossom end. The misconception I found is that Germans are rude. I lived in Augsburg for three years, and encountered very few rude people. Learning the language, and about their etiquette probably helped.
When I visited Germany many years ago we were warned by the German family we stayed with not to go to towns near US military bases because the locals would be rude. We asked why and it is because the Americans at the base would behave badly when they went to town. The locals are just tired of that.
The weirdest thing about these video are not the false stereotypes. We all live on ignorance and stereotypes. Rather, it is that literally all Americans feel obliged to excuse for ever going if even living abroad and sense the urge to explain they do not HATE America. That should make you think more than anything else. What does it say about a society if people need to justify their place of living and are accused of hating their own country for nothing else but travelling abroad, broadening their horizon and making new experiences? -- THIS would never happen to a German in Germany.
Hey Donnie! I was just watching your your vid, as I often watch your vids cuz they’re good 😅, and I see you mentioned us! Thank you, that was nice of you!
Side note - on windows and Linux, on a US keyboard - select "US International" as layout and you'll accesss Umlauts easily via the " key: "a will result in a, "o as ö, "u as ü.
Fun video enjoyed it but although I am a Schweizer from the French part of Switzerland I am somehow surprised that you didn’t mention that the “Ü” can be replaced while writing by “UE” and it is the same with the “ä/ae, ö/oe” 😉 So no worries if you can’t find the “umlaut” on your keyboard ! 🙃
As for the gun topic, most Germans have no guns as they don't see any need to have a gun and are well aware of all its dangers. It's not as if most Germans could not legally obtain a gun if they wanted to. Yes, you need a gun ownership license but that isn't harder to get than a drivers license; actually it's even simpler to get as won't have to do a test, you just have to request one, pay the fee and withstand the background check and over 9 out of 10 people would withstand it. I don't think gun laws as we have in Germany would do any US citizen any harm; those who really are into owning guns would still own them and those who don't care right now still don't have to care. But it would go away from "It's normal to own a gun" and "Everyone owns one" and "Guns are harmless" to "Why would you need to own a gun?" and "I don't personally know anyone owning one" and "Guns are dangerous, highly deadly weapons", which would probably shift more people away from pro-gun in only two to three decades and would reduce the total number of guns in private hands and once that happens, you will notice that also the amount of guns in the hands of criminals would dramatically drop as of course, in a country where it's easy to get tuns and so many people own one, most criminals own one as well, whereas in Germany, crimes involving any gun violence are extremely rare.
Wait. That's wrong. You have to pass a test. The small arms licence or "Kleiner Waffenschein" doesn't require you to pass a test. But this licence isn't for real guns and only for gas pistols etc. The normal weapon licence ("Großer Waffenschein" does require you to pass a test.
@@dnocturn84 There is no "großer/kleiner Waffenschein". There is a Waffenbesitzkarte (WBK), that allows you to buy and own firearms (yes, real firearms) and there is a "Waffenschein", which you only require if you want to carry firearms with you publicly (meaning on public ground). I was talking only about the first one, as the later one is not available to everyone as you can only get it if you can name a good reason why you need it; also it requires you to take part in special training and have an issuance that covers if you accidentally hurt someone (or destroy some property - a kind of Haftplichtversicherung, covering up to 1 Millionen). The later one is usually only given to security personal, private investigators, people who are endangered by their job or surroundings, etc. And for SRS-Weapons (gas pistols, bobby pistol) you don't need any license, you only must be 18 years and they must carry a PTB-Zulassungszeichen.
@@xcoder1122 But you still need to pass a test to get the Waffenbesitzkarte. You might get a licence without passing a test, as you described in your original post, but you're not allowed to own a gun without passing the test for the Waffenbesitzkarte.
I am living in a rural place in Germany with no public transport which means I can‘t go anywhere without my car. In Germany it‘s also „ don‘t drink and drive“ so I switched to alcohol free beer years ago. In the beginning, this beer tasted awful but I kept on trying until I found a brand I am now happy with. Also, the breweries worked on the taste meanwhile. Until last year, all my friends were laughing at me because I switched to alcohol free beer and told me I was crazy. This year, oh wonder, the first one of them also changed! We cannot jeopardize our driver‘s licenses, so there you go! Alcohol free wine is still a no go for me that means I drink it at home. Peeling bananas: I use both methods ( not at the same time ! 😁)
Alcohol-free-Beer: The thing is, it is tasty, nutritious and low in (regular) sugar, so it is highly isotonic and helps you recover quickly after sports. 2ndly, there are a bunch of alcohol free radler, e.g. with grapefruit, cactus-fruit or maracuja, that taste like a lemonade-beer mixture and can also be obtained alcohol-free, so with alcohol -> a slight mood lifter (2,5%Alc) -> without alcohol simply a highly refreshing drink. Breweries are even selling their own homemade/breweriemade natural lemonades, for which as far as I know Paulaner's Spezi is the most famous one, bout the breweries are very creative in their products and they do a fantastic job at that!
Bavarian here. I only drink alcohol free beer in the case that I am the driver. And than it is Weißbier because it is put in to a glass, so people around me don't notice that I am the driver. Every time I order some lemonade or water there are bad jokes or comments why I am not drinking "right" stuff. Sometimes it is annoying, but after the years I figured out the glass trick. Alcohol free beer in beer glasses and cola in cocktail glasses with ice and fruits so it locks like a drink.
Regarding wine: Yield restrictions per area are not a Germany specific thing. Those apply at least basically everywhere in the old world. They depend on the particular appellation the wine is released under. For example in Italy, requirements for a Barolo DOCG (maximum yield of 8 tons per hectar or 7.2 in case of single wineyard barolo) will be different when compared to a Langhe nebbiolo (10 tons). In general, rules for wine are much stricter in the old world than in the new world (US, south africa, australia). Both has its advantages. Strict rules in the old world assure quality and typicity for a certain regions (there are plenty of rules for each appelation including the regulation of the permitted grapes and quite a few restrictions on wine making techniques). This has advantages for consumers which know rather easily what they will get based on the appelation on the label. However, the system can often be a bit stubborn and reluctant to change, which can be a problem with changing winemaking techniques and climate. New world rules are way more flexible - which allows faster adaptations to changes and more freedom for winemakers but makes consumer life a bit more difficult.
im drinking alcohol free beer usually in relaxed social situation in the summer, like on the local bagger-see as a refreshing Drink. And its Alcohol Free because, well you can still drive after drinking it!
You have a Mac, you can type all the accents by hitting the option key + U to get Ü, similarly you can got most of other accents with other associated vowels é, à, ï etc or consonants > ñ, ç etc.
How I peel a banana depends upon what I’m going to do with it. If I already have a knife in my hand because I plan on slicing it I will peel from the top because it effectively removes the little seedy bit at the bottom; I can make a small cut at the top to make peeling easy. If I’m going to peel a banana to eat it whole I will peel it from the end because it’s much easier and it doesn’t squish the banana.
If I desired to really get drunk, I'd drink longdrinks and shots, not beer. And many of my peers growing up and now in Germany would agree I think. Beer is also referred to as liquid bread for a reason. {edit: Several reasons actually, but I was mainly referring to how filling beer can be.} In general having / holding a beer is a general situational lubricant, but the actual alcohol content is comparatively trivial in my experience.
Yeah my dad drinks alcohol-free beer almost every day. He just really likes the taste and doesn't want to get drunk. I personally don't like the taste of alcohol at all, but alcohol-free sparkling wine is nice sometimes. It tastes different than the alcohol one but I prefer it. As a teenager, there was a lot of peer pressure to drink alcohol, but now it's relaxing and more and more alcohol-free versions are available which I think is great. It should be about taste and enjoyment, not losing control and vomiting
It’s because in German when you don’t or can’t write the Umlaut as is, for example “ü”, you would write it as "ue" Thus “Küche” would be written as "Kueche"
I think you forgott to mention the "Apfelschorle" ... and for the question ... peeling from the side opposite to the stem is way easier, just squeeze and peal.
Not only do many German houses have substantial yards, the Kleingarten associations even give apartment dwellers the chance for a yard. I find them fascinating.
They became increasingly more popular the last few years. Many German families live in appartements, without access to a garden. In big cities there are now waiting lists for a "Schrebergarten", because many parents love the chance to show their children how vegetables and fruits are grown, have a safe space for playing outside.
The rise of alcohol-free beer might be directly connected to a higher awareness that drunk driving isnt a trivial offence. Growing up in the countryside I was used to see people driving intoxicated and even bragging about it. Since so many people are really depended on their licence, it may helped to boost the trend or at least make people aware that drinking alcohol-free is even an option. And concerning the taste, that is roughly the same as with vegan options. 20/30 years ago you had only a handful of possibilities and their quality was subpar. But after more and more people started consuming it and companies tried to improve the quality it became a well accepted alternative. Same goes with the beer, since more people are drinking it, there is an incentive to improve it.
2 points: 1) The US is unique in the sense that you can get easy access to a gun WITHOUT any good reason. (No, self defense is certainly not a good reason) 2) alcohol free beer is very much still stigmatized. At least in my social circles. Even Radler gets a bad rep. You get a pass though if you're driving.
My body reacts weirdly to alcohol. I don't get relaxed or social, it doesn't loosen my tongue or sth, I just get tired of alcohol, like, literally sleepy. I can drink about 2 to 3 bottles of beer and after that all I want is go to bed to sleep. It's a nightmare at parties when you want to mingle but your eyes keep shutting down. My family knows about that and makes sure to always have some non-alcoholic beers ready when I visit.
@@JK-br1mu Well looking at 99% of countries in the world with heavily restricted gun laws that have much less gun related homicides (or just homicides in general tbh) then yeah, it's a stupid reason.
@@JK-br1mu "Self defence" is a spiral of violence- if one person has a gun the adversary will have too. So no, having a gun to kill other people is not a valid reason.
@@charlesunderwood6334 Criminals in Germany actually have guns and I would prefer the right to carry guns to protect me and my family. If a robber or murderer dies - so what?
Nitpicking about the Küchen/Kuchen example: "Küchen" doesn't mean "kitchen" but "kitchens", it's the plural of "Küche". "Kuchen", on the other hand, is indeed the singular form for cake - *and* the plural as well! (confusing, isn't it?). One Küche, many Küchen; one Kuchen, many Kuchen. And what you surely know by now, there's another way to write umlauts if you don't have them on the keyboard, it was done often in the time of mechanical typewriters, and that is to write them as "ae", "oe", "ue": Kuechen. The ß can be substituted by "ss" and this is actually the way it is always written in Swiss Standard German where ß isn't used at all...
I peel a banana from the stem. I feel it is easier to break the peel in that way without getting your fingertips dirty, since starting from the bottom needs more work for the sections to separate.
he AVUS was, while Berlin was splitted, the start and endpoint of 3 from 4 permitted "Transitstrecken" through the GDR (East-Germany). Nowbody can imasgine the warm feeling we had.every time we came back from holydays and see the old "Funkturm" on the other side of the AVUS:
1st time viewer - so - two things: #1, if you are in the Mosel area you must, make that MUST go to Briedel on the Mosel just down river from Zell and visit the winery of the Kroth family. I was stationed at Hahn AB in the early 70's and had the pleasure of meeting and getting to know Herr Kroth and sampling his excellent product. I understand the next generation has taken over the family business but I have no doubt they still make the best wine in the area. Oh, as to your question about peeling bananas - humans tend to peel using the stem, but the expert banana peelers - apes in general - peel from the stub at what we think of as the end or bottom of the banana. They don't have to deal with those annoying stringy things like we humans do.
To add to the Umlaut criticism, the plural form of Umlaut is “Umlaute,” not “Umlauts.” ;) The non-alcoholic beer thing is a fairly recent trend. Breweries sponsored a few scientific studies - NA beer is isotonic, has lots of phenols and B vitamins, and unlike products like Gatorade, doesn’t have added sugar. As a result, it is sometimes used as a recovery drink for athletes. My doctor in Germany also recommended NA Hefeweizen as a good source of B vitamins. At roughly the same time in the US, my dad was having some issues with low levels of B vitamins when he was on kidney dialysis at the end of his life. His doctor OKed NA Hefeweizen as an extra source of B vitamins after looking at some of the German research, but my dad passed away before we could really try it out. (This was a few years ago. Maybe US doctors have started recommending NA Hefeweizen more often since then.)
About the plural of umlaut: Correct for German, but I'm fairly sure that the English plural is umlauts - Merriam-Webster doesn't note anything specific, for example. And since Donnie is speaking English ...
Peter, there's no need to mansplain English plural forms around here. There's no way for you to know this, but I'm a university lecturer and one of the things I focus on is German-English contrastive grammar. I also indicated my lack of seriousness about my pseudo pedantry with a smiley face. Donnie's videos generally are positive, and the comments are positive, too, but it was my new year's resolution for 2022 to call out any sort of mansplaining that I see. OK? ;)
@@yomintyfresh That's an interesting use of the term "mansplaining". I'd like to see the definition this fits. You are right that there is no way for me to know your qualification - or your gender. What I do see is someone giving misguided grammar advice. And no, the smiley doesn't help here - that could just mean "no offense" or something like that.Now I'm long past my "xkcd 386" phase. but that doesn't mean that I've sworn to never comment on trivialities - nor do I intend to. There is always the chance of learning something new.
@@peterholzer4481 Peter, I'm assuming you are American or prefer American English, because you mentioned Merriam-Webster, but Oxford describes mansplaining as "the explanation of something by a man, typically to a woman, in a manner regarded as condescending or patronizing." Now you've written not just one, but two unnecessarily patronizing and condescending comments, and also seem to be unaware of the fact that a man can act mansplain-y to another man. Based on your language, I also assume that you're probably significantly older than most of the folks around here and likely also not a digital native. For most younger speakers of English, "no offense" comes across as combative and is typically interpreted as "I am about to say something rude to you." I have never heard of a smiley being used in the context of "no offense"; it typically means "I am joking" or "don't take this too seriously" or "I'm smiling when I am writing this." OK? :) I'm not sure how it is "misguided grammar advice" to tell someone fairly new to speaking German the correct plural form of the word "Umlaut" in a video on Umlauts. (By the way, Donnie, if you ever see this, I am impressed by the amount of interest and passion you have shown for German language and culture in a short amount of time!) By the way, when it comes to grammar: As I am sure you and most people on this forum know, -s or -es is used to create the standard plural form of English words. However, don't forget that English has no specific grammar rules regarding the plural form of loanwords and there is no singular organization responsible for the standardization of English. Sometimes loanwords that were once countable in their original language are suddenly considered uncountable in English (example: "spaghetti"). Sometimes loanwords keep their form from the original language (example: "alumni"). Sometimes English speakers use the plural form of loanwords in the singular and then add -s or -es to emphasize plurality in English (example: a singular Italian sandwich is a "panini" in English instead of a "panino" and many English speakers use the word "paninis" when referring to multiple Italian sandwiches). Does "Umlauts" sound terrible to me, as a native speaker of English? No, not really. Is "Umlaute" a tiny bit more accurate? Yes. Many academic texts on diacritics and phonology avoid these sorts of arguments and use the expression "with umlaut"/"with Umlaut" but that's a bit clunky. All the best to you - as you said, "There is always the chance of learning something new." :)
@@yomintyfresh I'm not American, I'm using Merriam-Webster because it was the first online English dictionary I knew of and got used to it. And you're probably right about my age. I am what Gretchen McCulloch refers to as "Old Internet people" - people who have already used the Internet when it was largely confined to universities and (big) IT companies and had discussions on Usenet when that was still transmitted via UUCP (at least in our backwaters). So not "born into the internet", more like "growing up together with the internet". I probably wasn't around when smileys were invented, but I think they were still relatively new. I've seen quite a bit of internet slang spring into existence and change meaning over time, but still found Gretchen's account of different meanings in different subcultures fascinating (since I've mentioned her the second time in as many sentences: I'm referring to her book "Because Internet", which I highly recommend to anyone interested in recent language evolution). Back to "mansplaining"; My original comment was not intended to be "condescending or patronizing", and re-reading it I still don't think it is - unless you regard any correction or even clarification to be so. On the other hand you told a native American speaker talking English how to use his own language. Smiley or not, that seems pretty patronizing to me (there's also a good chance that he knows the German plural, but since he wasn't talking German he had no reason to use it). I could also - were I so inclined - regard your characterization of me as "not a digital native" as at least slightly condescending, but I'm choosing to read that as a neutral reference to age. I'm also attributing your overly long explanation of fairly well-known facts to what I like to refer to as the "teacher's complex", a disease I also occasionally suffer from.
Hi Donnie, yes it`s true alcoholfree beer came up more and more about the past few years in germany. i`m myself drink only alcoholfree beer `cause i had strong problem with alcohol a few years ago but - as you mentioned - im missin`the taste of beer. ok it tastes a bit different (you have to get used to it) but taste better than no beer!😂😂 Lovely Greetings to the nice one and the short one, or the1st and the 3rd Michael/Hannover
I'm also an American who has lived near Stuttgart since 2019 and I have had to tell all my friends back in the States that (1) Not everyone in Germany wear Lederhosen or Dirndls and is from Bavaria. There are some Swabians in my area who could barely speak Hochdeusch and wear fairly normal clothing. (2) The Government is not filled rank and file with pre-1945 jackboots from München...and... (3) using "Du bis haben..." instead of "Haben sie..." towards "die Polizei" is considered disrespectful and can earn someone a civil fine for it. I only have one thing to say at the moment: Prost! 🙂
Alcohol free beer has come a long way and in Germany, so many beer varieties have alcohol free options, it just makes trying it more attractive. Once you have found ones you enjoy, especially if you like e.g. the Franconian style beers, which are maltier and therefore sweeter, which can be more easily represented in alcohol free beer, you find that there really is no need for alcohol in it and they are a fantastic substitute for the sickeningly sweet sodas one would otherwise drink when planning to drive. I live in the UK, where alcohol free beer variety is still a bit in its infancy, but we are getting there 🥳
If you don't have Umlaute on your keyboard, you can also spell "ue" instead of "ü", "ae" for "ä", "oe" for "ö". Or you can google a virtual keyboard and type the text there, then copy/paste... Or you just copy/paste the letter and use it when you need it. I have a German keyboard and I don't have some French characters like "c cédille" for instance. I've lived in and around Trier for about a year in the late 1980s. We used to buy the wine from the small Winzer in the villages directly. I peel bananas from the stem, but I heard that chimps do it the other way round.
Outside Germany Im often missing alcohol free beer. People give me weird looks if I ask for it. "Why would you drink beer if there is no alcohol in it?!?!" "Ehh... Because I dont want to get drunk???"
In Germany, around 12.6 percent of people are considered at risk of alcoholism. That's when you can talk about dependence. They are simply addicts. The rest drink alcohol for various reasons. Some will certainly do it to get drunk, but the majority drinks alcohol only on special occasions and / or with food.
