My mother used to make another kind-of hedgehog: She sticked toothpicks into a cucumber and then small sausages or small tomatoes on top of the toothpicks. Looks pretty funny and it's a lot less disgusting to be honest. :D
a fave! was on a road trip with Church friends in Texas hill country. we stopped for lunch at a German place. pork with Spätzle was on the menu so, i ordered that. others were intrigued & ordered it, too. several happy diners!
That's only, if you have statutory health coverage. If you have privat health insurance, you get a bill and have to pay first, but you will get payed back by the insurance company later, upon handing in the bill. We'll, that's how it is most of the times. This type of health coverage is also quite popular here.
Germany can afford to give their people the gift of health insurance because they don't have to maintain a standing army, which by peace treaty of WW2 they are not allowed to have. Should we let them have their military might again? They been living so well off our dime, they don't even want a big army. Should we reduce our military like Obama wanted and have billions to spend on health insurance? Very risky, and no easy answer in the offings.
@@Kellydoesherthing Egal wie dicht du bist, Goethe war dichter (no matter how stoned you are, Goethe was a poet (in this case the pun is... even more stoned ;D )
@@petrameyer1121 yeah, I know.. The point was, it's not just on Sundays because of some quiet law that you're only allowed to wash your car in a designated area. You're always only allowed to wash your car in a designated area.
tonTeufel nicht wirklich, wenn du der Besitzer des Grundstückes bist darfst du auf seinem Grundstück auch dein Auto Ganz normal waschen du darfst auch Pestizide etc verwenden solange du es auf deinem eigenen Grundstück machst kann dir da keiner was
@@lhuniverse8997 ADAC: www.adac.de/rund-ums-fahrzeug/reparatur-pflege-wartung/pflege/auto-selbst-waschen/ Focus: praxistipps.focus.de/auto-zuhause-waschen-verboten-stimmt-das_40908 Kurz zusammengefasst: Im Allgmeinen darfst du dein Auto nicht einfach auf deinem Grundstück waschen und in den allermeisten Fällen sind die Einschränkungen zu groß, dass du außer kurz etwas hochgespritzen Matsch mit nem Schwamm wegwischen nicht viel machen darfst. Ich wollte so Details eigentlich nicht eingehen, weil die halt für die meisten Zuschauer von so nem Video irrelevant sind.
@@lhuniverse8997 Nö, Umweltschutzvorschriften gelten natürlich auch auf Deinem privaten Grundstück. Wenn Du da eine entsprechende Aufbereitungsanlage hast, kannst Du's machen.
Sashimi, actually. Sushi is a dish with specially prepared rice, raw fish is optional. Sashimi on the other hand is raw fish or other raw animal product.
The National ID is the Personalausweis. It is not the Pasport in the EU is a Agrement called Schengenabkommen. This agrement alowes you to travel in most States in the EU (Germany, Austria, Poland, Spain, Portugal, Italy and Swizerland ...) even Swizerland is not in the EU. For al other States we have a Reisepas. The Reisepas is for States you nedes a Visa like India the US, Mexiko, Turky, Canada ... . Actualy you only nedes a Reisepass because itis equal by law with the Personalausweis. But theReisepass is more like the Pasport.
As a German, I only need a passport if I want to leave the European Union. Within the EU, the identity card is sufficient. By the way: How can the Aericans survive without Mett and Spezi? A real puzzle.
As another German, I can say that the identity card is not actually compulsory. If you prefer, you can use a passport instead, which is the reason I never had an identity card in about half a century. When the red EU passports were new (and, IIRC, the Perso was first in the form of a card), there was a combination offer, get both for a reduced price. I scratched my head, then asked what situation there was where I couldn't just use the passport instead of the card. Turns out, there's pretty much no such situation (some private places might want more than the passport because your address isn't in there, but you can just show them, say, a letter addressed to you). So I only got the passport. As to Mett, it is indeed not without health risk. Make very sure that it is fresh and has been kept cool! And you can also get it in sausage form, essentially just Mett in a sausage casing. For a while, I had a daily Mettbrötchen during my time in the air force (around 1980), but not before or since, I think.
kinda weird hearing it from someone living in bavaria... i moved from nrw to bavaria like 7 years ago and the only thing similar to the mett im used to in nrw is the prepackaged one. not the delicious kind fresh from the butcher
Au JA! Zum 9 Uhr-Frühstück oder Abendbrot geht nix über 1-2 Semmeln mit "Mauermarmelade" und Zwiebeln. 😍 Oh Yeah! For a late breakfest or dinner, there is nothing better than one or two rolls with "mason jam" and onion.
A lot of Germans hate the Rundfunkbeitrag (= tv tax). But when I look at American tv stations, I'm pretty glad that we have our public channels. You can at least get reliable information there that isn't overdramatized like they love to do in the US. They also do a lot of good documentations and investigative journalism.
Bullshit... Almost all of that money is spent on entertainment shows and not on documentations or investigative journalism. Tatort. Lindenstraße. Fußball WM/EM Rechte. Olympia. Public Radio. and so on... usw. All just entertainment and nothing else. And everyone who likes other entertainment better is screwed because he has to pay the one he like and the one he doesnt like. Cut the cost down to 1/5 and spent that money only on news, documentation and so on and im fine with it. Still not a fan but alright. But at the moment i pay more than 200€ a year for other peoples entertainment.
You can't really get reliable information at the public channels, it`s governemnt propaganda. If they are your only source of information you are pretty much clueless!
okayy now i know why the americans walk and talk very loudly in a hotel (where i was) in the middel of the nigth.... they don't know a quiet law.. that's odd.
@@Mirjen97 I was in Amsterdam for my last school trip. It was a lot of fun! And to the German tourists. Germans are just known for being bad tourists. Like I would take any tourist besides a German tourist. I'm speaking from experience since a lot of Germans just don't care what they are doing in their vacations.^^
You should not eat mett outside of germany..the reason you can eat it with no danger is germany high quality food regulations..thats also btw the reason why mcdonalds taste better cause the meat and everything need to pass the high quality test.
To schock you a bit ...german food testers did test the meat from taco bell...don't be mad at me..but it just matched the quality of german caned dog food.
i don't think anyone would be surprised to hear that the meat at taco bell is the same grade as dog food haha well, maybe some people but not anyone who knows anything about our FDA lol i'm going to do a video about my experience in trying Mett in Germany and talk about the regulations about it.
Hi Alexander, you may be surprised, but the german Hackfleisch Verordnung is not valid anymore. In fact, it has been withdrawn in 2007, Instead, we now have a european regulation. The content is still the same: Mett may only be sold the day it was produced and a lot of further hygenic regulations. So, you can eat Mett EU-wide without problem.
Was mich erstaunt, ich dachte Mezzo Mix gibt es auch in den USA, da es von Coca Cola ist. Von Pepsi gibt es in Deutschland Schwip Schwap. Ob es das in den USA gibt ist mir unbekannt. Im einen ColaMix ist eben Fanta mit drin und im anderen Mirinda. Dachte Spezi ist im Grunde dasselbe, nur eben von einem anderen Hersteller. Eben vergleichbar wie Afri Cola und Bluna. Als Gattungsbegriff ähnlich wie Tempo, kann man daher beim bestellen von Spezi durchaus auch Mezzo Mix oder Schwip Schwap bekommen.
Spezi wurde auf jeden Fall in Deutschland von der Brauerei Riegele erfunden, die auch die Namensrechte an Spezi haben. Demnach sind alle cola-mix sorten und auch schwip schwap und mezzo mix Spezi nachahmer
@@KaiUnger Danke für die Info., das war mir nicht bekannt. Gestern sah ich in einem Laden auch ein Sinalco Mix, was mich überraschte, da mir das bisher noch unbekannt war. Ist dir zufällig bekannt, seit wann Spezi von Paulaner kommt?
Paulaner Spezi 👌🏻 Aber ernsthaft. Als ich vor 2 Jahren in den USA war, war ich total perplex als der Kellner nicht wusste was eine Spezi/ mezzo mix war.
Pronounce it "Matt Eagle" and you're fine. If some unlucky bastard with that name ever happens to visit Germany, I guarantee you, people will burst out in laughter when he introduces himself :-D
@@leDespicable Where "in the South" isn't Mett very common??? I come frome Augsburg, which is practically in Bavaria but is also the government for Swabia (Regierungssitz von Schwaben) - and people here do eat Mett!
The great thing about Parkscheiben / Parking Disks: If you intend to park longer than the allowed time, just don't use the disk. Failure to have the disk on display is usually cheaper than failing to leave on time
@@Kellydoesherthing Actually, there are several loopholes in our (German) laws. For example: if you drive on the Autobahn, you are generally not allowed to pass another car on it's right side. You have to pass on the left. But it happens a lot that someone is driving rather slowly on the left side of the Autobahn, so you can't pass him. A lot of drivers then decide to drive up really close from behind and even use their lights to make the slow driver get out of their way. If the slow driver feels threatened by you, he might call the police and you might get into some serious trouble, especially if he got scared and caused an accident because of you sitting on his back. You may even go to jail for this. Passing him on the right side is much cheaper. If police catches you doing this, you have to pay 100€ and receive a penalty point on your driver's register, but that's it.
@@Dornavver You could even just put a flashing blue light on your car's roof to make them pull over so you can pass. The fine for using a flashing blue light without permission is only 20€, no penalty points ;) Also, always remember the eleventh commandment: Thou shalt not get caught :D
@@kpanic23 unfortunately, that's not accurate. If your car could be an unmarked police car because it might look like a very random car, you could pay a huge fine and even go to jail for it. Standstreifen might be cheaper
Mett / Hackepeter is made of HQ meat from pork and MUST be produced, sold and eaten in one day (cooled) or on spot at the butcher. They often offer Mettbrötchen as a take-away.
No, BEFORE Mett can be sold, it has to be checked for the most common pig diseases. Only AFTER the check is successful it can be sold or eaten. When I was younger my family sometime let a friendly butcher slaughter a pig. In no uncertain words he told us: "I take a sample, test it for disease and if I have not called in an hour, it is OK to eat, not earlier."
@@torstenwinkel2183 like all other meat as well. And it's also quite easy to make Mett yourself (if you want to serve it on certain occasions, there's literally no other way, as it HAS to be fresh) if you've got yourself a grinder (a surprising high number of germans have something like that at home. They do also work wonderfully for certain christmas cookies - Spritzgebäck).
Sie hat viele andere Dinge nicht mit in Anbetracht bezogen weil sie ja auch. Nur ein paar Tage in D war. Ich lebe seit 2010 in den US und hier gibt es fast gar nichts was wir so in D kennen. Brötchen- nein, Quark - nein und vieles mehr. Was ich allerdings nicht nachvollziehen kann da ja im 16/17 und 18 Jahrhundert viele deutsche in die USA rübergekommen sind.
@@Dispatern Well you can actually make MezzoMix yourself by mixing Cola and Fanta 50/50. This kind of drink is actually referred to as Spezi, in Germany. A lot of restaurants actually just mix Cola and Fanta 50/50 if you order a Spezi.
What you call a TV "tax" is actually a (compulsory) radio and TV *fee* - some people recently argued that it _is_ in fact a tax and that the German states, who introduced it in a treaty (Rundfunkstaatsvertrag), were not allowed to do this. They lost in court IIRC. And you don't pay this fee directly to the "government", not even to the state, but to some body set up by the public broadcasters (the "Beitragsservice", formerly "Gebühreinzugszentrale" or "GEZ").
@@DrKlausTrophobie You should put some research into this, because the public broadcasters are controlled my mostly politicians who are loyal to their respective parties.
Other things common in Germany you don't have in the US: 1.) H-Milch - packaged milk which doesn't require refrigeration before opening 2.) chocolate with alcohol (Rumkugeln, Mon Cheri, Ritter Sport Rum-Traube-Nuss, Weinbrandbohnen and so on) 3.) Quark 4.) Tempo Taschentücher (paper handkerchiefs in small packages, you use kleenex boxes instead, but those are kind of difficult to carry around in a purse or pocket)
For Americans who want to try Spezi/Mezzo Mix - it is available from the fountain in the Coca Cola museum in Atlanta where they have the world selection of drinks.
We can mix sodas at every movie theater and most McDonalds in the US. People love mixing sodas. We also have a number of flavored cokes and other colas. It's actually pretty common.
some of those things are actually quite common in not only Germany but Europe. Like the parking disc u mentioned, but also the kinderwurst for example in Belgium (like from a children show called Samson & Gert and is named Samsonworst :D and it is also quite common that children get a free slice in the store) and some other countries also have that cola mix and also the Identity card
"TV-Tax" - first it's not a tax, this money directly goes to the stations (government can't grab on it). Second the two main channels that receive this money are controlled by a serious control boards so they have to work at excellent quality and neutral.Third, the first channel has beside the main channel also local channels all over Germany. They are also producing school videos and other educational sessions. Last but not least, these official channels are not allowed advertising except a small time from 6 to 8 PM.
The fashion of shaping Kinderwurst into faces and bears is rather recent (like 10-15 years or so). When I was a kid, there was also Kinderwurst, but it was basically just mortadella. However, it was and still is fashionable to roll up a slice of that Kinderwurst and hand it over the bucher's counter to kids who go shopping with their parents, both as a favor to customers and a good training of manners for the kid ("say thank you!").
Mett is also know as Hackepeter in Berlin and north eastern Germany. It's not bad if you get get past the texture of raw pork burger. You spread it on bread. It has to be eaten the same day it is purchased.
;) You don´t neccesary need to by "Spezi" as it is. When i was younger the "Spezi" was just "Fanta"+"Coke" ... even in restaurants ;) ... great now i have to go shopping :) another nice video, greetings from Vienna :)
Realy love mezomix i'm a truck driver and go a lot to germanie and owlways buy it guz in Holland we don't have it Love your video's Kelly keep it up😁👍👍👍
About the parking disc. It HAS to be blue, like yours is, Kelly. A woman once used a pink one that was in a women's magazine, and she had to pay a fine for unlawful parking.
Insurance is now even less affordable than before.....through the fucking roof. Obama only cared for the voters wanting a free handout. He pissed on the rest of us that actually do the damn work in this country.
@@Lex5576 funny thing, I know a lot of poor folks in rural areas that happily took the subsidies and then voted for Trump. And because they were told they must complain? Now they #%# constantly about it, even while ON it.
Hmmm ... sounds good. But "Mett" is raw pork or beef with pepper, salt, onions, and two eggs for a pound meat of it. The best is half pork and beef, for muslim without pork and for indian or buddhist without beef. We make it in north with lamp or sheep too. We talk it "english style". (Here on the cost many sheeps around!) So it Mett not same raw pork or beef. The "Mettigel" we do it for parties normally, my mom make it then. But mostly she make Brötchen with Mett self, more easy for the guests.
Regarding the parking disks... If you think, "Oh I can come back after 2 hours and just set the time to 10 o´clock", that´s not how it works. If you are being checked, they write down the position of the valves of your wheels. Next time they will check your parking time, they will also check the valves again and see if your car has moved or not.
hahaha....had to laugh so loud about that "I don't know" after the Spezi :D (and it is pronounced Shpehhtsi ;) also the mett-bit and the kinderwurst were super funny.
We have tax credits for children in Germany too but you can only get one or the other, the tax departement will check automatically what is better for you. Btw. in my opinion this is highly unsocial because the more you earn the more you save. The money goes to those who already have a lot, not to those who need it.
Kindergeld is meant for people who don't pay enough for the children tax credit to make a difference. In Germany government support for having children was introduced because even at the beginning of the Bundesrepublik politicians knew that Germany didn't really have much in the way of natural resources. A well educated next generation was going to be the most important thing to keep Germany afloat.
Fun fact: In Germany, you only need either an ID or a passport, so having one of the two is enough. Also, you don't have to carry your ID/passport with you. Mine is just somewhere in my drawer and I practically never need it.
The city where I grew up in CA has at least a version of a quiet law for Sundays and of course after a certain time at night. In fact there was a bit of an incident when one of our neighbor's gardener decided he wanted to work on their lawn on a Sunday. I was shocked when it happened because I had never heard anyone do lawn work on a Sunday before, and my family discussed among ourselves if that was allowed. Just one of those things where we didn't know if it was against the law, but had never encountered it before. He stopped after a couple of weeks and I later found out it was because a couple of neighbors complained and brought the city ordinance to the owner saying it's not allowed. However, we've had bbq's with music in our backyard on Sundays and in the nearly 30 years since my parents lived there, no one had a problem with that.
@@Kellydoesherthing thank you for your videos all the time. I'm sure I can speak not only for myself when I say that ur videos are always great and make my day better. Keep the good work up ! ♡ Greetings from Germany!
Well, we do not have a personal ID in Denmark either. Only passports and drivers license but the latter is not really a substitute for a personal ID card.
Fun, lol. I got another one for you: An "Eierpicker", a little device you find in German kitchens that allows you to poke a little hole into an egg before you boil it. With the hole, the air can escape and your egg will not pop in the hot water. I never saw any of these things sold in the US.
To avoid a few misunderstandings: The quiet hours are determined by the commune in which you live. These are usually at lunchtime (noon) and Sunday afternoon. You can still spend your free time as you like and of course, you can go to sports, hiking, cycling, ... But you should avoid noisy activities at home like mowing the lawn out of respect for your neighbors who might want to sleep at these times. Especially with children, it is normal that they are louder when they play on the street. Some (mostly older and single) people are less tolerant and call the police immediately but in a children-friendly neighborhood, you have almost no restrictions. Outside the city, you can't disturb anyone, so just go for a hike on Sundays ;) Is better than wasting your time on the couch watching terrible shows and series by our public or private (financed by advertisements) tv channels. The reporting in both cases and in the newspapers leaves to be desired and is not free of opinion e. g. in general pro-America, but right now against Trump, contra Turkey/Russia - independent from facts. I mean, I don't want to start a political discussion here, because there are many facts why you should think critically, there are many pros and cons and not everything about the US (sorry for that) is awesome, for example, if you think about privacy, but it is a fact, that the news in Germany measures with two different measures and most Germans get outraged easily about something happened and heared in the news without thinking fair about it. Good news should only inform people and should not add their opinion. No wonder that people made more out of the Dieselgate than it actually was - by the way, the debate about it in Germany was way harder than in the US.
"Mettigel" are sooooooo out of time..... we do "Mettbrötchen" many times.... but it has to be very fresh ground meat. But the "Mettigel" is something from the 70s.
In the US we do have 1 hour, 2 hour, ect. parking spaces. City employees known as meter maids will mark your tire with chalk and if you park too long you will get a ticket.
In case you do not know. I found it when I studied in Bavaria. Spezi is a mix of Coca Cola and orange Fanta. Not sure on the percentage of each, but if you miss it and not in germany, just get a bottle of each and mix it.
I think the driver's license in the US is more popular as a passport because it is much cheaper than the German driver's license. You can also do it much earlier and at school. If you are stopped by the police during the car drive, usually only the driver's license and the registration certificate are checked. The pass is only required for foot controls. But you can identify yourself with both in Germany.
Schwipp Schwapp! You forgot Schwipp Schwapp omg!!! 😱 It's the Pepsi version of Spezi and also just sold in Germany and German (some) speaking countries. 😎
Hey how did you learn the language? I wanna learn it by myself so I could pick up the basics and be able to interact with people in public. I live in Germany btw
The monthly office potluck with my colleagues is Mett. The potluck always take place at Friday because then we have a whole weekend to let the smell of onion and spice out.
Mett is also known as German Sushi! That explains it perfectly. Also in some areas of Germany if you move houses and do this with the help of your friends they expect to be fed with Mettbrötchen, as a thank you for helping. Also certain "extras" like mustard, raw onions and salt & pepper are expected. Hope you enjoy it, I can't wait for that video to be released here. ;-)
it is pretty nice :) unless you forget it's Sunday like i did all the time hahaha this didn't apply so much to noisy yard work but running errands like grocery shopping because the stores are (generally) all closed.
it especially affects night time. generally from 10pm to 5-6am you are not allowed to raise noise above normal talking volume. this is especially relevant, as most germans live in rented flats in the cities and often the houses are modernised buildings from the 60s with bad sound insulation. this law guarantees you a quiet night for weekdays, as normaly you have to go to work around 6-7am and want to sleep calmly at night. if this law is violated, it can go even as far as the police getting called and you have to pay a fine and sometimes even have to stand infront of a court for it and get sentenced, loosing your flat etc
@@Kellydoesherthing Most people don't immediately complain, so a bit of noise isn't a problem. But a loud party until late in the night might test people's tolerance a bit too much. They will usually ask you to be quiet first, but calling the police to make the noise stop isn't unheard of. :) I have literally never seen it happen though.
After 11 years, my top thing to adjust to - what you cannot do on a Sunday. For instance it rained all Saturday and I only have the chance to mow my lawn on Sunday, cuz I work all week. And in NRW you don't let your grass get long. What about when you're sick and need medicine but it's Sunday. It happened to us and now that I know better, I would have called an ambulance. So hard for me: the opening hours of doctors' offices and post offices and WTH with the midday break and irregular hours? I've driven to both my post office, pharmacy, feed store, and Hausarzt during the day only to turn around cuz they were closed. During the day. Aldi is open at noon, and not during the "hours of rest", how? After 11 years, I have begun to adjust, but I think there are people who would be willing to work off hours if given the choice, despite the Germans who say we should stay home and rest on that day.
@@LythaWausW ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-SUXU4_QB-a4.html maybe something like that could help u. and if u need medicine outside of normal opening times google for " Apotheken-Notdienst " I hope they will allow car wash on Sundays ... on Week days i have no time and on Saturdays washing Stadions are overrun ....
it is a thing...but it's really not popular, especially compared to Mett. I've never had Tartar either...i've had really, really rare steak but not Tartar
@@Kellydoesherthing You really missed something not trying Mett. I know a few people that aren't from Germany and there were also a little bit disgusted by the imagination of eating rare pork in forehand. But they liked it afterwards. You should definitely try Mett and Tartar when you are back. Tartar is a little bit harder to get but a good butcher will grind you the beef fresh for Tartar. This is important. The other minced beef is usually for cooking. I won't eat this either. I am not a fan of a rare steak. This isn't right. It is raw but warm and when you cut it all the meaty juice is running out. Tartar is much better in my opinion.
@@dutchgamer842 He meant in preparation. Mett is very similar to Tartar. One is pork, the other is beef. And if it is safer it depends on the food regulations. As a kid I learnt that you should not eat the raw beef. Reason was that the inspection for pork was more strict. You can have trichina worms in pork or beef as well and in other animals that are eaten. But all meat is checked today because of the Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2015/1375 which gives specific rules on official controls for Trichinella in meat. I don't exactly how it was before in the EU but I know that there were similar regulations for Germany. So worms aren't a big danger when you eat raw meat. You could also get it from air dryed or cold smoked ham. The danger are bacteria. And this is the same for pork and beef. It is the immense surface of grinded meat that leads to massive growing of bacteria. So you have to cool it. There are different regulations for grinded meat that is supposed to be eaten raw than to the one that is supposed to be cooked. Grinded meat you get in the supermarkets in Germany is for cooking and frying. And there is a warning on it. "Vor dem Verzehr gut durchbraten" (Cook it through before eating). On pork or beef that you can eat raw is no warning. Beef for tartar you can only get at the butcher's or the butcher's counter, not in self-service. Mett you can get in self-service because it is processed a little bit. And much more people buy Mett than Tartar. So it would be a bad deal for the supermarkets to store it. To much would go to the bin because they have to sell it the same day. There is also bacon that is specifically sold for frying as a breakfast bacon. It is also labelled with "Nicht roh verzehren" (Don't eat it raw). So it is all about meat inspection, hygiene regulations and the cooling chain if a grinded meat is allowed to be sold for eating raw or not. This is the situation here in Germany.
The national ID is quite useful, as it is an ID all European Union countries plus some others (Morocco, Tunisia, Switzerland, Iceland, Norway, Liechtenstein, Egypt) accept as ID to enter the country, so you do not need to carry a passport which is much more cumbersome to replace in case it gets stolen or lost (imagine visas et.al.). The closest ID in the US for this would be the Passport Card, for entry to Canada. And for Kindergeld: That is just more or less a pre-pay of a tax relief you get because you have kids. In the US this is done at the tax return (Children and dependents). The Kindergeld is the portion of the untaxable so called "existence minimum". You can select between Kindergeld or to file a tax dependant/children form at your tax return date. Kindergeld is "pauschalisiert", a term often found in German tax law, it means the amount you can withhold or substract when not filing proofs/receipts (like a generic allowance in the US). The US version of Kindergeld would be to add your kids in the W-4 form for your employer and getting more net pay at every paycheck this way. I did the way round, I moved to the US and I am excited to still find much stuff I am used to from Germany: - yeast (fresh cultures in cubes and powdered dry in small bags) to make my own little breakfast breads ("Brötchen") - Ginger - good beer (even better beer, as Germans do not have any good IPA, but Belgium still wins the game!) - coffee filters (thanks Melitta USA) Thinks I like better in the US: - Gasoline: Pay at the pump - so easy and hassle-free - Gold status for Airline alliances are easier to get than in Europe, the bars are lower. And upgrades to business class domestic are really upgrades, not only the same seats with a marking "business class". - Better beef, much better beef! - My neighboorhood in Far Rockaway. Things I do miss from Germany: - Good Bratwurst to put on the barbecue grill. No, please, there is none. - People knowing that you do put lemon ONLY in crystal clear wheat beer (Kristallweizen) and not in the one containing still its yeast (Hefeweizen) - People willing to pay taxes to have the public transit systems maintained - but this is falling already, so Germany takes the US route in this aspect. The only remaining example in Europe for planning and having good national public transit is Switzerland. - Social security which means much less homeless people. - *why the heck are you correctly burying fresh tap water, waste water tubes/lines and natural gas delivery under the street for invisible, storm-unaffected service - but still using wooden poles to hang electrical, phone/TV and fiber cables????*
I liked hearing all those interesting facts about Deutschland, vielen dank! Fun fact, your neighbour to the north (notice the spelling of neighbour) uses licenses as ID as you say in the US, however we do have provincial (not state) ID cards for those that do not drive (how else would you get beer? :). Also the province of Ontario has a "baby bonus" that is paid to parents for every child under 18. The amount received is on a sliding scale depending on household income. We also do mixed drinks (unofficially) called swamp water, but not in cans. Auf Wiedersehen, eh!
Without Mettbrötchen life is meaningless and dull. Mett also is called Hackepeter and some people even refer to it as Quetschschwein (have fun with the pronounciation;)
@@Kellydoesherthing Be carefull with this! breakfast is not the best time for "Mettbrötchen". The reason is simple: Real "mett" is very fresh pork - you have to eat it the same day it was made. So, if you can not go to the butcher bevor breakfast .... :o)
@@Kellydoesherthing It's indeed a treat. You will be surprised how 'not gross at all' it is :) Can we make ungross a word? Make sure you get it from a respectable vendor though, preferably a real butchers shop ^^
As a Czech I have always assumed that being quiet after 7pm is a common sense. That was until I moved to England. Also not having ID seems insane to me. I was very shocked when I found out that it isn't compulsary to have your ID with you at all times in the UK because you do have to have it with you in Czech republic (I still take it with me everywhere).
It gives Turkey Mett too! The "Quiet Law" doesnt work in the City. Except you want to party through the night. At 10pm its nice to be quiet. When the party takes a bit longer or its going to be loud, put a notice that everybody can see or invite them. About barbecue and etc. Thats just neighbours... When you got bad luck, they are gonna complain. Open fire is on the balcony, in your house, on your garden, not aloud! You have to ask the police or firestation first! Kindergeld is NOT a allowance for the children! It is for the children (till they reach the age of 18. It can be paid to the age of 25, if the child studies.), its a help for the children. And it will be paid to the parents so that they buy clothing and etc for them till they grow up. Some parents give their children the Kindergeld, up age 16, so that they buy their own stuff (no time), but that rather goes for the better earning people. Other parents say "hey we keep your Kindergeld and so you dont have to pay rent, food and etc" - when the child is already grown up and can work. Children can only get the Kindergeld for themself when they are Orphans or when the parents leaved the child alone and nobody knows where they are. I hate to say this, but back then in WW2, the National Socialism brought the Kindergeld out. Hope i can explain a bit :)
oh yeah, the quiet law. Friends of mine got into a serious fight with neighbours when they had a barbeque on their balcony. The put up a sign some days prior, however the neighbour's main argument was 'You should have asked if anyone had something against it, which you did not!' Half of Germany's population consists of nitpickers XD
Technical correction: the GEZ-Gebühr isn't classified as a tax, but as a fee. This is because it used to be opt-in, you had to only pay it if you owned a connected TV. These days however it's compulsory for everyone and standardized to a set amount. People still call it a "Gebühr" though.
well kelly MettIgel are a thing in the U.S Too they are called "Pork Hedgehog" or "Party Hedgehog" but if this bewildered you wait till you see the Cheese HedgeHog :P and the "TV Tax" is not a Tax its a "Fee" and is collected by the "Beitragsservice" whis is not the Goverment but more are division(subsidiary) of the Federal TV Stations in Germany there are also some Privately funded or as you would say "commercialized" TV Stations.. e.g RTL / Pro7 or ProSieben (they also own / are the Studio71 MCN on YT) / Sat.1 those will not get their share from the "TV Fee " Fund
I am new to your channel, and as a travelling german (been to the US twice thanks to an old school friend who emigrated to Colorado and I have also been to Australia and several other europena countries) I have to thank you for your views on my country. It is amazing how much we can learn of ourselves from people who visit us (as well as visiting other countries ourselves). But regarding the "Rundfunkbeitrag": It is not a "Tax". Taxes (at least according to the German definition) are just put into the general money the gouvernment can spend. A "Beitrag" (Contribution) is exclusively limited to the cause it is raised for. So in this case the public TV stations. They are (in theory) independent of gouvernment and politics, but (due to how representatives are elected, e.g. politicians in many cases) not entirely so. The educational and informational programms are doing quite a good job though, but sports coverage (essentially football, or soccer as you americans call it as well as Olympia) is unneccesary. Anyway: Thanks for your views and keep up the good work! Had a lot of "a-ha" moments already :). (Both for the US as well as Germany :D)
Spezi and MezzoMix can be found at World Market. Not all world markets have them but checking online helps. They charge out the butt for it though. It’s goooood
Aleksandar Petrović exactly. I did with it when I was 24. went to civil office and paid 20 DM for an „Kirchenaustrittserklärung“. Saved me a lot of money since then. The churches charge 8-9% of income tax.
@@CheefCoach You don't have to declare yourself atheist to do that. Church tax is basically a subscription fee for the churches that is collected by the state. Children of christians usually are church members since early childhood (baptism comes with church membership). Even if they turn atheist as adults/teens, they often don't leave the church out of laziness until they finally quit (statistics show that the number of christians in Germany is lower than the number of church members). But there are also quite a few christians who quit the churches, because they didn't agree with them on certain points.
You are not allowed to wash your car at home on any day of the week. Although most people ignore this, there is a law prohibiting this outside of designated areas because the oil and the detergent could seep into the groundwater.
well I just want to give you a overall general thanks for your clips! - as a german- ;) it´s so nice to see our faults and pluses through different eyes! thank you very much! I realy like youre bits! they are fun! greetings and keep on beeing so positive ! christian becker (southern bavaria;) )
@@kalipali6426 No, I do mean North Germany, as in "anything north of the middle of Hesse". Because people in the North of Hesse eat it too, as well as people in Hamburg.
Mett is either rather common in Franconia, even availlable freshly at the butcher. But for the rest of Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg you are right as I think. There you've only got the prepacked version.
By the way, we get 200€ per child, that doesn't vary and has no limit. For every child in Germany you get this 200€. But except for a small tax reduction we have to pay everything for the children themselves, clothes, school books, pens, excursions etc. Even the kindergarten has to be paid monthly, but the school does not.
Having a national ID card isn't compulsory. We have to have either a national ID card or a passport, but the ID card in credit card size is so much easier to carry around if you want to identify yourself or for example prove your age. (By the way on German territory German citizens aren't required to carry a document of identification all the time, but are only required to own one.)
did i misunderstand reading the law? i read that it's compulsory and i didn't know the passport could count as an ID instead. i think i even read that when you're pulled over while driving, you have to present your national ID alongside your driver's license...i didn't see about using a passport.
@@Kellydoesherthing I'm sorry to tell you, but maybe you didn't read the whole law. The Personalausweisgesetz § 1 (2) 3rd September says (shortened) that the Ausweispflicht is also fulfilled by those who own a passport. The (German) driving license has a photo, so it is also an "amtlicher Lichtbildausweis" and valid without the national ID. I worked at a polling station for the last two elections and we were told if somebody doesn't carry national ID or passport we may also except driving license, foreign ID (especially for non german EU citizens in Kommunalwahl), expired national IDs and I think the military ID card is also an amtlicher Lichtbildausweis. But one photo document to vote in your polling station if the volunteer there doesn't know you in person like if you live in a small village. If you want to vote at a different polling station within you district you also have to bring your Wahlbenachrichtigung besides a Lichtbildausweis
@@mahuhude Careful here. You are giving one piece of false information. A driver’s licence is not an "Ausweis“ in Germany because it is considered a certificate rather than a form of ID. It only allows you to drive a car, not to ascertain your identity. Many people in Germany get that wrong, but that is what the law is. Additionally, you do not normally need your Wahlberechtigung to a polling station a "Personalausweis" or a "Reisepass" do suffice, Führerschein does not. There are rare cases when you do need the Wahlberechtigung as well. Most of them are related to moving into the polling district before the list of voters was compiled and therefore having to be added to the list.
@@MrOpacor you are right, but in my cases of working as a volunteer at a polling station we were told that e.g. a driver's license would be valid to prove a voter's identity. (And yes, when voting at your "home" polling station the Wahlbenachrichtigung isn't required)
@@mahuhude I live in a small village. When I enter the polling station they greet me by name, cross my name off in the registry and hand me my ballot card(s) and I vote without showing any ID, which is also legal because my identity is not in question. The full force of the law is only ever required if there is a substantial ammount of doubt.
Well you have your birth certificate and social security number to “register” you. The social security number is very important. Beyond that, like I said in the video, there are other forms of ID you can get in your state...but none of this is compulsory.
@@Kellydoesherthing and they are easyly stolen, faked and god knows what else because they don't have pictures..That is how people stole many ideneties of soilders, because soilders were forced to write dow name and social security number on all their belongings and scamers came to ports and airports to write down the info, so when they came back they were in debt and no one helped them to fix it. That is how many ex melatary realy ended on the street. Guess what year did they force soilders write this info on belongings instead of their Meletary ID number?... Most of the world use MID number system. so did the USA untill not too many years ago. Sad.
Met: Ok, some explanation: This kind of meat is usable only very short time. Down below somebody wrote about "workers marmalade" - that's god explanation: Since long time you could not only buy meat at the butchers, but also Brötchen (comparable to a bagel) - peace of bread and already arranged with topping. Workers like it very much to have such a piece with fresh minced meat on top. Traditional the meat is already prepared with seasoning, and on top of such a "Mettbrötchen" there has to be some rings of fresh onion. The "Mettigel" - I think, that's absolutely not so common (also due to the short time of consuming it). During the 50th when the Germans got enough to eat, they began to arrange parties. Then there arised the first shows in TV with cooking. So there developed a habit of decoration the buffet. In this habit you have to see the "Mettigel" - sometimes there should be served Mett - you absolutely could serve it in a lumb - it had to be decorated. This was the birth of the Mettigel.
Kindergeld (børnepenge) in Danmark is about 860 euro pr gear average pr child. It is paid ones every 3 months. Most families depend on it and work in into their annual budget :)
7:55min So, when you buying alcohol or about to enter a 21+ party and you happen to not have a driving license or passport. How ... how do you proof your age?
@@mojojim6458 Haha! Funny racism! ... No, that's not what I meant. If you aren't allowed to enter the club below the age of 21 and don't have a national ID you wouldn't even be able to enter the club before being able to order alcohol would even be a possibility. So: No driving license and no traveling passport means you can't proof your age/identity in USA?
@@hurtigheinz3790 That's only a problem in situations where you need to prove your age, such as trying to drink alcohol or smoke cigarettes, etc. So lack of a national ID proving age is a good thing. It prevents people from engaging in bad habits.
@@mojojim6458 Don't you have clubs in America where people just go to dance and have fun but it's still age restricted so IF someone wants to drink alcohol the bartenders inside the club don't need to check everyone again? P.S.: Having fun with friends in a club and drinking some alcohol while doing so is not considered a bad habit anywhere I ever went.
@@hurtigheinz3790 As you're probably aware, going to night clubs in America involves the risk of being shot en masse. If someone wants to experience a frisson of fear and attends a night club anyway, they will have to show ID to prove their age. That means a driver's license. If they don't have a driver's license, they can stay home and be safe.
Tried Kibee? (Raw lamb) at a Greek restaurant in U.S., owner came to table to explain only available when fresh on Tuesday Wednesday and Friday Saturday
Where I am from in Mississippi,USA, it is a little bit taboo--in other words, not encouraged--to do lawn work or other such heavy work on Sunday, unless it is an emergency. Sometimes, I have to do schoolwork--or other such related work--because it almost feels like a necessity. But, when I don't have school or something like that, I generally prefer to rest on Sundays and to be a little quieter. I would not like to mow a lawn on a Sunday unless it was an extreme emergency, because in a way, it is a bit loud--personally, it seems a bit disrespectful of Sundays. Sundays are good days to include some quiet, respectful, and religious things in them and things with family, if possible...at least, it seems like Sundays work best this way unless there are emergencies. But, I do sometimes see or hear people mowing lawns or using weedeaters or having loud, "drunk-sounding" parties, but it always seems a bit disturbing of the calm, to me...and somewhat disrespectful. So, I am glad that the people in Germany value the quietness.
Another thing that might be kinda interesting is that in Germany almost every person drives manual cars. Of course some people also drive automatic, but if I had to guess probably 70% drives manual. And if you learned driving in an automatic car you'll get a special drivers license that allows you only to drive automatic cars.
It's not just Kindergeld (that's ~200€ per child). There's also Elterngeld, where you can stay home for 14 Months for each child and still get paid about 65% of your income. There's Elternzeit which enables you to take a break from your job for up to 3 years and be able to continue after that, while your employer basically has no way of objecting.
While personal ID is compulsory, it is NOT compulsory to have ID in that particular card format. You only need that card if you either don't have a passport or don't want to carry your passport with you.
