Considering to German Beer, yes we.consider it more of a Soda/water quality. If you ever come to Europe try the Czech Budvar, the original Budweiser. Now that is a really really good beer
As an American who lived in Göttingen for two years I would've loved something like this. Best I could do was their Mexican restaurant that served me a burrito with deli turkey and a taco shell completely full of chili. God I miss it.
My roommate used to love that place and was surprised when I told him it was absolute trash. But at least Göttingen has a pretty solid Irish Pub. I love that city.
I’m definitely an immigrant. But in this context the other word made more sense. I have no problems calling myself an immigrant. The vast majority of folks in this country are either immigrants or decedents of immigrants. No issues with that. Of course one can be an expat without being an immigrant. So they’re not synonymous.
As a french guy, I've NEVER ONCE IN MY LIFE heard someone pronouncing croque-monsieur that well. Escpecially with a picture that is definitely not a croque-monsieur.
Usually, if there is such a policy, it would be stated in the commercial. I guess for this particular bar, based on the limited information that is available, confederate flags are fine.
To be honest - it was absolutly delightful, but the "Schpreit" killed me. I also could smell the old owner of my local bar, alone from hearing that strong accent. Pure perfection.
When I think "authentic American diner," who doesn't immediately think "Croque Monsieur with a side salad!" 😂 Or a tasty burger, but only in a nice Vollkornbrötchen, just like they used to make in the good ol' US of A!
@@jhbadger God, yes!! 😂 Or have you ever noticed how German grocery stores have potato chips by two dozen different brands, but *ALL OF THEM* are either chili, "paprika," or sourcream&onion? I thought that was so crazy when I got here, for some reason. 😅
Oh nooooo - ca 600 years ago (+/-), when I was as a teenager, a guy in my friend group (in my small German town) had a little confederate flag sticker somewhere in his room, and another friend got really pissed off. So they get into this fight, she insists that's awful, he insists it's harmless "it's just the flag of Texas" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣and everyone else in the room has no clue and keeps changing who we're siding with, depending on who sounds more certain of their position in this very second... If only we'd had smartphones back then. Or, you know, an actual education.
We are the german Bar Dieters Schrebergarten, we offer you authentic german dishes such as deep fried prezels and butter, german budweiser, Schweinebraten with french fries und Bockbier! All our male waiters wear Lederhosen and our female waiters wear Dirndl. Our jukebox plays 99 Luftballons, Ich war noch niemals in New York, Atemlos durch die Macht und Kordola Grün. And our Kukugsuhr reminds you of the time. We recently removed allmour swastikas as it was brought to our attention that germany is mostly christian and not budistic!
For another persons take on an American bar in Europe: O'Learys Restaurant opened in 1988 as Sweden's first genuine American sports bar after the founder visited Boston and fell in love with Boston bars and the city's sports scene. O'Learys today has more than 120 restaurants in Europe and Asia today.
The Route 66 signs are so true. In every European "American Restaurant". there must be at least 3 huge signs hung on wall. And you definitely needed to add that the pommes/fries come with mayonnaise. Added bonus if the popcorn bowl comes sugar on top.
the german obsession with route 66 is very real. my dad travelled the entire thing when he was younger. recently my uncle came here on his vacation to do the entire route on motorcycle. if germans could marry route 66 they would
probably there was some public tv documentary a few decades ago on motorcyclists on that road or whatever it is, and they all recorded it on VHS.. So the boomer bikers dig that.
I got curious once so I looked on google maps at Mexican restaurants in Germany. On this journey, I discovered a restaurant called "Senor Jalapeno" in Kiel where their mascot is straight up just a stereotypical Mexican dude in the style of south park. I feel like this has similar energy.
We have this "authentic American burger joint" in our town, and everyone is absolutely amazed by their delicious burgers. I've tried their classic cheeseburger, and it was mid at best. The buns weren't toasted, and the condiments were all on top of the burger, which lead to a soggy bottom bun that soaked up all meat juices (it isn't as delicious as it sounds, believe me). The burger meat was okay, but it was fried at way too low temperatures and didn't have a crust at all. The bun was really dense, and resembled German white bread (it was kinda crumbly). The main problem with that was that is messed up the meat to bun ratio. It was just way too much bread. Gemans and their god damn bread. Well, the cold, untoasted, way too heavy buns didn't only soak up the meat juices, but also the heat, causing the burger to cool down to luke-warm within minutes. Everybody loved that burger, because nobody in Germany knows how a good Burger tastes. Well, apart from that other American-themed restaurant half an hour away that has an amazing burger. But that is kind of destroying my narrative here, so let's just ignore it.
Like there is burger science. Like burger is haute cuisine. Like every German should know how a burger is prepared in the USA. Like and for everyone to know the best original American burger. It's very important. Very.
@@caddieohm7059 You know you can be that cynical about basically everything other people care about and you don't. Key to growing up is recognizing that different people have different priorities and learning to respect that. Something you seem to struggle with.
@@caddieohm7059 You are absolutely correct, friend! American burgers are typically pretty simple, although they’re quite flexible and can certainly rise to the level of haute cuisine (see the DB Burger for one example). It’s not hard to make a decent American burger and there are a lot of right ways to do so, but there are _definitely_ some wrong ways, and anyone (German or otherwise) who pays for an American burger deserves to _receive_ an American burger that’s prepared the right way. Thank you for your enthusiastic advocacy! xoxox, -MURKA!🍔💪🦅🇺🇸❤️🤍💙💥
There used to be an Italian restaurant in my city in Oregon that had a fascist flag from WW2 Mussolini era (along with a bunch of other flags from various areas of Italy). They did not take it down but they also did not last more than a couple years.
It is slightly worrying how long it took me to decide whether I believed this video was sponsored by a Route 66 Diner, Bar und Grill in random German town.
I am not sure if I understood the message, does Route 66 American Bar, Diner & Grill in Göttingen still fly a confederate flag? The mentioned the flag so often.
It's definitely very Göttingen to delve into a lengthy explanation on why you've removed all the Lynard Skynyrd (confederate) flags 😂😂 Gö, one of the most awesome towns on earth 💓
The America bar in my island has 10 tables with 4 chairs each... some posters 1 American flag... the bar made out of wood and 1 pool table and 1 jukebox with greek and english songs... we have a small confederate flag.. but no chicken wings 🤗🤗🤗.. still it's close to the sea so it's only available in summer 🤣🤣🤣
I don't know if it's just a thing in the south of Germany but when I visited (Weinheim, Frankfurt, Munich), I was baffled by how many time I heard 🎶Sweet home Alabama🎶 and when I went to the Oktober Fest in Munich (3 days in a row), it reached a laughable point, it was played by every booked artists playing in the beer "tents", at EVERY hour or so and sang with drunken pation by every attendees. From my trips in the North of Germany (Berlin, Hamburg) I don't recall the song played anywhere or not to a memorable extent. 🤔🤔
As an Alabamian, it can be frustrating when traveling that all people will sing that song as soon as they find out. Or reference forest gump. Dad rolls with it and says he knew forest. Someone needs to stop him
Send the link to my sister, she doesn't know you... And she said it took her a while to know if it was a commercial for a real bar or a parody... So spot on guy. Also I think I have been to this exact bar in Siegen...
That's so accurate! I lived in Germany for a year and the town I went to school in had an American bar and grill just like this lol. It was called Coyote Ugly 😂😂😂
I remember a uk show in the late 2000s just had a random confederate flag in a food truck Seen (it was a show about a small village in england not about na Zis) just out of nowhere and never addressed in the show so I think many American style food manufacturers might not have comprehended the flag
Many people outside the US don't know the meaning of the flag. They just saw a cool looking flag in some media. The myths built around the civil war have long also been pervasive throughout various Western countries. Good knowledge about the US Civil War and the Confederate flag wasn't necessarilyconvenient to access in Europe until the last couple decades. Of course there are also certain groups of Europeans that throughout understand what the flag stands for and that it is a good stand-in for a certain flag that they can't legally use.
To be honest, it's confusing why there are so many confederate flags everywhere in the US. I've seen them in NY, PA, WA, CA. It's understandable that some might assume it to be an American thing because unfortunately it is.
@@nox5555 Spain and Belgium didn't exist solely to protect an expand slavery. The Confederacy, as shown by historical facts and as stated by its founders and leaders at the time, did only exist to protect and expand slavery.
I will try the veal burger on a pretzel roll with extra mayo for my fries. Make sure David Hasselhoff posters are on your wall, the greatest American singer of all time.
My friends family owns an American Diner style restaurant.... that's also really "hessisch" at the same time.. it's such a weird concept, but the food is pretty good, so I'm not complaining.
There is a type of people in german society, who are really enthusiastic about anything related to the USA, but they have this really, I don't know, I want to say "innocent" enthusiasm, where they are just so excited about everything USA, that they don't notice, when some symbols have kind of iffy meanings. Now, that's a bit of an exaggeration, but basically, if you showed them a costume of the grand wizard of the KKK, they would recognise it from some american western they probably once watched, but totally missed, that those were like the super racist and evil people and would instead get excited about that costume. The type I am talking about can be really embarassing for other Germans like me.
@@martinbruhn5274 Very much this! The German city of Magdeburg has a neighborhood nicknamed Texas. For decades, the CBF was a sort of unofficial, but very widely used, neighborhood flag. People simply perceived it as a sort of “Western” flag, which would fit perfectly for Texas. (Most Germans think of Texas as a “Western” state and would never think of it being part of the American South.) Why didn’t they use the Texas State flag, you ask? My guess, it looked too similar to the Chilean flag 🇨🇱 and therefore insufficiently American. Anyway, even the residents of Texas, Magdeburg, Germany have caught on. You won’t see any Confederate flags there anymore, either.
I was in Germany as a student in the 90s. Once walked past a bar that had a cafe sign out front advertising "Budweiser! The King of American Beer!" In English. I did not stop to check it out, I just walked on ... unsure if it was some kind of expat bar, or if my countrymen were being mocked.
I was a lot of time in bar in the background. I played a lot of pool instead of doing my highschool stuff. I love it there. Shout out to the "Shovel Road" in Hamburg!
This is probably the only time I will ever say, that fictional bar should bring back the lynard skinnard poster with the confederate flag in the background, they seem to have really liked the artwork with no intent to be racist. Let them have their band decor man.
If it makes you feel any better they're totally lying. Every German child has seen the confederate flag in his Playmobil catalogue and knows that it is a symbol of American imperialism. They choose to display it because they can't display their own flag. They also get bullied on the regular by the US servicemen who still occupy their illegitemate state.
You are being as always right on point. After working several years for an American manager and having the privilege to work a couple of times in the US, I can only confirm the ignorance and lack of understanding we Germans have of US culture and history. 😅 E.g. we severely underestimate how important the Civil War and the other forgotten half of WW2 (Pacific War) was for US Culture. Though sometimes still very alien to me, I love and made parts of it to my own (e.g. the pragmatism, though I still love my proud German over engineering). Keep up the great work guys!
Tbf Americans barely know anything about their history either. For example most you speak with will believe that the Civil War was about slavery, when Lincoln was adamant about how it was not. And it really wasn't originally. It was about the union. It was about states seceeding from the federation contract. And only by not involving slavery he was able to justify the North going to war to protect the federations integrity. The South could have been recognized by the European nations, but France was essentially too chicken shit to do so without British acknowledgment and the British were on the fence since they aligned more with the North. Lincoln then essentially made sure that the Brits would rather support the North by making the war about slavery and proclaim slaves emancipation. This made sure that the, at this point much more progressive British, would not interfere, Ironically, with this they validated the concerns of the South and by all rights should have allowed them to secede, since now the North had broken the federation contract in just the fashion the South had feared the government would do. But since they were at war already, this was moot. This becomes most apparent if you actually look at the law in question, the 13th amendment: slavery isn't abolished in US America. It is still constitutional to enslave citizens who have been found guilty of a crime. But especially the civil war shows us how democracy and "union" crumble in face of a tyrant who has the power to enforce their point of view. It was really a very unclean affair, for all parties involved, no matter how noble their intentions.
@SparkConversation We separated about two centuries ago (largest immigration of Germans was between 1820 and WWI). It is natural that over time knowledge of the other gets lost. Especially when you are separated by a large ocean and several time zones. 😉 Just remember that the US still has a lot of friends in Germany.
@Finsternis.. dude, the southern states wrote in their articles of succession that it was bout slavery and enshrined slavery in their new constitution. For the South, it was about their states rights to slavery.
The real Route 66 runs right by my neighborhood in Tulsa, Oklahoma. If I ever visit Germany I will probably go to a place like this just to see how wrong it is, lol.
