But why are eggs not required to be refrigerated in the supermarket? In Germany, eggs sold end up on the shelf unwashed. This may not sound particularly appetizing, but it has a decisive advantage: the protective skin of the egg, the so-called cuticle, remains undamaged and protects it from invading germs. In the US, this protective layer is washed away, so these eggs need to be refrigerated.
Usually you shouldn't keep eggs in the fridge...the egg holders are from the time as chicken got kept with a male to make them leg eggs & back in the day you often found baby chicken inside the eggs...thats why in those days we kept eggs in the fridge so they would grow to a baby-chicken But these days they get hormones & all kind of antibiotics & so on & female chicken lay eggs without need of a rooster...even if the eggs are kept outside of a fridge the chance of a baby growing inside is limited- it's basicly unfertilized eggs we eat today - don't know if that's a good thing
I have laying hens, my eggs sit on the counter until ready to use. Leave the bloom and they can sit for months. And exactly like you said, wash means you have to refrigerate. Personally, I wouldn’t buy a hard boiled egg(I’d boil my own), nor would I buy one that is dyed, nor would I buy one that is non-refrigerated or non-pickled. That part doesn’t make sense.
@@username_1985 I do not know it, I am Danish. I prefer a Danish beer called "Keine Hexeri" that holds 19.5% or one called "Black Monster Kilamanjaro" a Coffee Stout that holds 10% They taste so excellent. For lighter beer I go for a "Cold Hawai" with amber and sea buckthorn.
I drive on the truck from Holland to Germany and i always do my groceries in Germany .....it is my second homeland. Love the punctuality and kindness in Germany . Keep it up girls greets from Holland
@@HappyBeezerStudiosYeah there's two Aldis Aldi South, which I think they are at in this video, goes by Aldi in USA. Aldi North is Trader Joe's. Aldi South is better, definitely not biased there. Definitely didn't shop at one for years
Could have explained that asparagus growing below the surface is always white. It only turns green when it sees daylight. So the color depends on when the asparagus is harvested.
The US is only place that refrigerated eggs bc they are washed which takes off the micro thin protective layer. Overseas eggs aren’t washed and they can be kept on countertop for weeks.
Japan and Canada also wash and refrigerate eggs. You can buy unwashed eggs in the U.S. just not commercially. There are a lot of people who sell eggs at roadside stands. U.S. poultry is not vaccinated for salmonella and this is why the U.S.D.A. requires them to be washed and refrigerated. Eggs can also be shipped across the country through various climates. A climate controlled enviroment(refrigeration)reduces food spoilage. The U.S. produces more eggs than any country in Europe. China, the U.S. and India produce the most eggs. Refrigerated eggs last longer in the fridge then unwashed eggs stored at room temperature.
And still the US is wasting so much food and energy. The shelf life of an unwashed egg is like. A month how much longer do you want to have „fresh“ eggs. Also bc of the missing salmonella vaccine you wash your chicken meat with chlorine. That sounds discussing
I don't think this Woman has ever been in the USA at all... 😂😂😂 Everything she's pointing out is no different in the USA. The eggs are the only exception. But yes, we have sausages, ham, bacon that are salted so they don't need to be refrigerated. We do roll our own cigarettes - and the bags of loose tobacco are alot bigger than those cannisters. We get stuff out of larger plastics all the time - sometimes the stock boy hasn't had time to stock the shelves. We have off-brand Crocs everywhere. We have White Asparagus. I'm sorry but I don't like this "I'm just a kid and know very little of the World so I assume it doesn't exist if no one ever pointed it out before."
As an American, who used to roll their own cigarettes, we do have rolling machines and we do have tobacco we can buy. You just can’t go to a regular grocery store to buy those things you have to go to a tobacco store that has everything you will need. They even have zigzags in any flavor
@@DavidZ4-gg3dmYeah, if water is packaged like that here, you have to buy all of it. And if you do open up the packaging to buy a few, the retail workers will hate you.
@@joeyshadeslayer9792 Nope, it's pretty normal to tear those out if you don't want (or can't carry) a full pack. Of course you shouldn't tear a second pack open while there's already a torn package. It always depends on the packaging. For example a sixpack of beer is sold only as a pack, but those bottles are also sold individually.
I think the difference is that usually individual bottles of water are displayed like that and it's not expected that you open the package and take it out
Dankje wel! But in The Nederlands you have also amazing supermarkets, like Hoogvliet, Jumbo and Albert Heijn. I‘m German, my beloved wife is a beautiful dutch lady, and i love it much to go for shopping with her in these „winkels“! Tot ziens en hartelijk groeten van 🇩🇪😂
German consumers are among the highest demanding in the world, there is a reason why in economics there is the saying „if you can make it in Germany you can make it anywhere“, sort of like with New York only that it‘s true. The German consumer demands high quality at the lowest possible price, which is why German companies are extremely efficient. We have streamlined trade and production to a really high level and provide subsidies on top of that.
Ironischerweise (er)kennen viele Leute in Deutschland allerdings keine gute Qualität und verallgemeinern aufgrund oberflächlicher Erscheinung. In der Folge dann die Mentalität.... Warum das teure kaufen, das billige wäre doch genauso gut. Es fehlt das Interesse sich tiefer mit Dingen zu beschäftigen, der Preis regiert die Mentalität der meisten Leute. Ganz besonders auch eben bei Lebensmitteln. Wir haben mittlerweile einen Teufelskreis geschaffen, wodurch ein großer Teil der Bevölkerung aufgrund geringer Gehälter, insbesondere als Allein lebende, auf maximal billige Lebensmittel angewiesen sind , was wiederum nur durch maximale Ausbeutung ermöglicht werden kann. Die Qualität und Nachhaltigkeit bleibt auf der Strecke, wie auch die Gesundheit.
And also Germans has milions of slaves behind their east borders. Just example, same German brand stores. One on German side of border, one on Czech side of border, can be just 5 kilometers. In Czech one, there are less employees to save money (so every of them are more busy). In Czech one store, there is only 30% amount of wages of the German one. In Czech one, products are about 20% more expensive. Most of products are made in same factory, very same building in Germany, but there is producing quality for Übermensch and underhuman.
Uhhhhm... Yes the quality surely is fine. But it doesn't reach ours from Switzerland. Never. If I wanted good product's in Germany, my family always said "No don't buy that! It's too expensive! Buy this one, is cheaper!" 😂
Yes, but you haven't experienced the true Aldi experience if you haven't been to Germany or Austria. They have a bakery. Everything is fresh. Pastries are around 50 cents. Iced coffee is like 60 cents. They even have fresh sushi. Totally different than the American Aldi.
Considering how expensive groceries are in the US, I can imagine how appealing this is. Everything was literally double the price last year compared to Germany. I don't recall it being that much of a difference ten years ago. It always puts into perspective you guys salaries when I see that.
while in switzerland aldi is the last place you wanna go buy your stuff. its not aldis fault but compared to the others it looks like a storage hall with cheep products
@@cyanlama2163That's how the "discounters" started, Aldi was the first of these, in the 90s, they all looked like that. Tbh, I kind of miss the trashy flavour they used to have. Nowadays, they all try to appear upper class and fancy 😅
In Romania it's the same, you buy a bottle of juice or water or beer, not the whole package if you don't want to. I'm a Balkan from Romania but I'm also Polish but in Romania you buy what you want from the store
This has become one of my favorite shorts channels. It has introduced me to a few things I've never experienced and wish I spent more time overseas in my youth. Aldi is one of my favorite small stores and I stop at one any time I am in the city.
I am a army Brat I was born in Frankfurt and came back to the states when I was one. We went back when I was 12 and stayed for the best 3 years ever. I got to go back in 2007 for a vacation.
@@Laurasophiesmithin Mannheim and Heidelberg lived lots of americans back in the 90s they even had their own villages small towns. Benjamin Franklin Village, Patrick Henry Village etc.
When i was in Germany the sales tax (18%) was included in the display price, unlike the states. Some of their food is inexpensive. Pork and chicken were priced similar to America, beef was a lot higher. And that ketchup is awesome....
Regular stores all have the prices including tax, but the whole sale stores didn’t have them. I always thought this was so stupid, why would I not want to know what I have to pay in the end? Now they have both for people like me who can’t calculate that quickly in their head 😂
@@vadym8713different chains with different owner. ASDA is owned by mostly owned by the Issa brothers and TDR Capital with Walmart also having a share. Aldi is owned by the Albrecht brothers (one owns Aldi Nord, the other Aldi Süd) Aldi in the UK is Aldi Süd, so it is owned by the Siepman foundation, owned by Karl Albrecht's family
@@HappyBeezerStudios, die Albrecht-Brüder leben seit ein paar Jahren nicht mehr. Die Nachkommen haben Nord und Süd mittlerweile wieder zusammengeschlossen, daher werden insbesondere bezüglich der Lebensmittel die gleichen Waren angeboten. Lediglich bei den Angeboten außerhalb der Lebensmittel gibt's unterschiedliche Angebote bzgl Nord und Süd. (Und der Hauptsitz ist seit ein paar Jahren sowieso aus steuerrechtlichen Gründen in Österreich, wo sich Aldi zugleich "Hofer" nennt.)
@@Falcodevienna The best curry ketchup is not from Hela period. That stuff is way to sweet and has almost not taste besides that. Way better are those from "Werder" or "Curry 36" for example.
Ive shopped in Aldi and Lidle in UK, Germany Netherlands, and Cyprus, and they're all slightly different . Some of the products aren't available in some countries. The randomness of the middle isle appeals to me too.
If the eggs are straight from the chickens ass they dont need refrigated. Only refrigerate if they have 1) been washed or 2) already been in the fridge. When theyre layed the eggs come with a coating to keep them fresh. Washing them removes this coat hence why theyll need to be refrigerated. In the US they come pre washed so that's why they can only be purchased refrigerated from grocery stores.
I WANT AN ALDI LIKE GERMANY!!! STILL LOVE MY AMERICAN ALDI THOUGH!!! Funny... the sausage aisle in a German Aldi is like the cheese aisle in a grocery store here in Wisconsin!❤🧀
The only thing that would be different in a UK Aldi is the tobacco (it's not allowed to be on the shelf here... Has to be in a cupboard with opaque doors behind a staffed counter) And not quite as good a selection of sausage based products (but you will find German, Spanish and Italian salami)
Even in Germany tobacco isn't sold openly anymore. The front of the board is closed and it is placed directly besides the cashdesk. So if you want tobacco, you ask the cashier and he pushes a button which will roll down the doors and you can pick whatever you like and place it on the cash desk.
If you only want one bottle of water, you just take it out of the six-pack. Sometimes you have single bottles on the shelf above the six-packs. This shop seems to be Aldi-Süd (South), like in the US. We also have "Aldi-Nord land" in Germany (and Aldi Nord can be found in the Netherlands and Belgium). Besides the Aldi bakery products (like the rolls for 19 cents), Aldi Süd also has products from regional bakeries (baking factories), depending on the area you're in.
Yes, meine Deutscher Mutter und Schwester(sister) only eat white asparagus in jars..Here in Schottland it's sold in other supermarkets apart from Aldi and Lidl.. I like it but also like early seasonal English green asparagus..😂😊
To be fair, the selection of Aldi when it come to sausages (and overall stuff) is pretty small compared to proper supermarkets here. This is the way the keep prices low. Just a few items of each type, but sell them in huge numbers (better contracts with the producers, easier logistics, smaller shops etc. etc.). I think where it is the most obvious is the drinks. Every proper supermarket has probably like 50 kinds of water from different brands, in glas, plastic, crates what ever, Aldi got like... 1 brand with gas or without. Also kinda sad to see how expensive beer became. Just a few years ago when I was a student and money was a topic we would often choose the cheap stuff and the cheapest was for years 29 Cent for half a liter (thanks to competition literally every shop had a beer at that price point). Not the best beer, but drinkable. 55 Cent means like +90% in just a few years...
Hela is the best! My mother went to Germany (from Holland) 2 hours drive to get the Hela ketchup (orange cap) before we could buy it here (35 years ago) 😊
Aldi is a great thing in Australia, providing competition. Before Aldi arrived about 20 years ago the mainstream supermarkets were becoming super expensive.
I'm an American that's been living in Germany for almost 35 years now. Eggs are not washed in Germany to help preserve their freshness. Only a few people buy canned beer here in Germany most that do are not German. Most would be ashamed to serve it to a guest. Bottled beer is just as cheap. Both cans and bottle have a deposit on them. Although you can buy white asparagus in a jar, I don't know anybody that eats it. We all wait till "Spargel" season and eat it fresh. Curry ketchup is good, but I still prefer Heinz. Made in America by a German migrant, but loved world wide.
Interesting thing about the pictures on cigarettes is that it’s been shown that the ones with bad pictures often sell more cigarettes. This is thought to be because people think that one will be healthier because at least they’re honest about how bad it is for you
They should make the Aldi in America the same as the one in Germany, we already got Trader Joe’s to be western 😭😭 I know they probably aren’t allowed the same rules and regulations
@@andujo211 Trader Joe's belongs to Aldi North by now; the other Aldi in US is Aldi South. Aldi = _Albrecht Discount_ and the Albrecht brothers split the business some decades ago into a north and a south branch.
Americans do roll their own cigarettes. This old corner store when I was a kid used to sell the rolling machines, tobacco and filters. I sold a lot of loose tobacco and filters working at a liquor store. Not as popular as just buying a pack of Marlboro’s, but people still do it. Mostly popular among older people, but it is a hell of a lot cheaper buying by the pack. Where I am a pack of Marlboro reds is $14 and change, almost $15, and a huge bag of tobacco and a box of 100 filters is no more than $25
In the Netherlands a lot of people roll their own sigarets, but the difference is they don't use filters, just rollingpaper and tabbaco, rolled by hand.
Tobacco is taxed significantly less than cigarettes in Germany. 200 Marlboro cigarettes cost 84€, while the equivalent 140g tobacco is sold for 19€. So with filters and paper you are below 25€ for 200 rolled cigarettes. If you want to smoke really cheap, you can buy dried tobacco leafs and ferment them yourself. You then pay 20€ for a full kilogram, enough for around 1400 cigarettes.
So German Aldi is exactly like American Aldi. She lives in a rich area. All grocery stores in America charge rich people more money for the same products. If you shop in a poor neighborhood, the prices for many things are lower. Tons of people roll their own cigarettes in America. My tobacco is $19 per pound which is $41.80 /kg. This is about 30 packs of cigarettes which would cost $450 Tobacco tax has been rising quickly for 20+ years. It's cheaper to make cigarettes than to vape so the percentage of smokers who roll cigarettes has been rising (considering vaping as non-smokers). So she shops in the rich neighborhoods and she only knows rich people 😂 Little known fact, sausage was invented long before refrigeration. Eggs have also been eaten for tens of thousands of years before refrigeration. Eggs only require refrigeration if they are old or cracked. Eggs come out of the chicken perfectly sealed for freshness.
@@cacao82 In America, price is adjusted by the location. It's dictated by demand without concern for supply and great amounts of research are used to determine the maximum price possible in area A, area C and area C respectively. If you compare larger chain stores such as Aldi, Target, Walgreens etc. You'll see that prices which aren't advertised as a sale may be different at each location. Food prices also vary by demographic. Foods of different ethnic groups may be considered rare or common based on the demographic of the area. I live in Chicago and I have mostly lived in or near Latino areas. I have even noticed at Aldi, prices for ethnic food will vary. If I go to a Latino market, the prices for "American" or European food is slightly higher. The staple foods are the easiest to compare. Rice vs pasta. Tortillas vs bread. Rice is slightly cheaper in the Asian and Latino areas, but the pasta may be slightly more expensive. Pickles, ketchup and mustard will be more expensive in the Latino market. When I worked at Walgreens they explained that these prices for staple foods must be kept lower even though the demand is higer because it attracts more customers who will purchase more than 1 item. I imagine for an economics student, American capitalism would be the most complicated structure to study. One way that research is done to determine the prices is through Customer Loyalty programs. These stores track the spending of every customer and orgize it by home location as well as store location. The loyalty program is usually set up with a card. A credit card or discount card which can also be linked to a phone number. This way stores in certain areas can reflect the pricing of other areas. If a customer from area A works in area B and passes through area C, they might shop in 3 different stores from the same company. Advertising will be based on A,B and C but pricing for unadvertised products will be slightly different, depending on the area as well as the people from different areas who also shop there because of the location convenience. Overall, prices are determined by the amount of money people are willing to spend, not how much the product costs to make and transport. This is the biggest problem for clothing cost increases. On the plus side, the expansion of Aldi stores in America has lead to decreased sales of other stores. Dominic's is one grocery store that went out of business, even in wealthy areas because people chose to go to Aldi instead. So the price of Aldi will be cheaper for most products but you may find some prices are equal to the more expensive retailers in areas where people are willing to spend more money overall. The price of food is something people are more concerned with since food is required every day.
@@brookelord3448 wow thats very complicated.... and Im sorry for people in the US. I just told how its in germany. And I think they are Shopping in an Aldi in Germany? Or in the US?
She isn’t a good representation, many things in this video are blown out of proportion. Every store in America you can either buy a pack of water or one. Your statement just shows ignorance
We do have all the stuff in this video, just because one American is surprised doesn’t mean crap. There are 350 million of us. Your comment is just showing jealousy.
In the US they have shelfs and refrigerators full of meat, tons of meat and million types. We have sausages outside the refrigerator because they are dry or durable enough to wait until someone will buy it. With small amount of meat on shelfs they will be selled before expiration date with great certainty
I lived in Germany for years and loved it. Shopping for anything, including groceries, was an experience. Meanwhile, a friend came from Germany to visit me. She could not believe my claim that Walmart Superstores (and competitors!) were open 24/7. So I took her shopping for anything she might want at 11:30 p.m. Try THAT in Germany!!
Reminds me of an old joke! Ein Mantafahrer hält neben einem Türken; "Hey, wo geht's n' nach Aldi?" - "Zu Aldi!", verbessert ihn der Türke. "Ach Scheiße, hat schon zu!" antwortet der Mantafahrer. Für die Jüngeren: Der Opel Manta war der bezahlbare Porsche und Sportwagen für die Unterschicht, neudeutsch das Prekariat und er schleppte, anders als der Ford Capri oder VW Schirokko in seiner direkten Konkurenz, sehr viele Stereotype oder neudeutsch Memes mit sich herum. Man kann sagen, dass die 'Dei Mudder' Witze oder Chuck Norris Facts in den Mantawitzen ihren legitimen Vorläufer hatten.
I wasn't aware that tobacco products were on public display in German stores. In Ireland they're locked away in a cabinet where they can't be seen, and you have to ask for them. Strangely, even though tobacco was banned from all workplaces in 2004, you can still buy cigarettes from vending machines in licensed bars/clubs, although that's die to be banned next year.
As an American: I get why some places don't refrigerate eggs. We have white asparagus in grocery stores as well. I dong understand why she thinks unrefrigerated meats are that bad because they probably have ways of being preserved. And lastly some people that I know do roll their own cigarettes in America.
If the eggs are refrigerated in the store and you then take them home in a shopping bag, condensation will occur due to the temperature difference. And after that, they have a shorter shelf life.
So much sausages… true. I have never seen these tobacco boxes (or what it is) here in Czechia in a supermarket. Only in small shops specialized on tobacco. You can buy ciggarettes at the counter in a supermarket and you have to tell the cashier which brand you want.
So a misnomer here... we DO have jared white asparagus here in the U.S. AND some Americans DO still roll their own cigarettes. We have loose tobacco, papers, filters (if wanted) & rolling machines.
