American Ranks the BEST and WORST Things About Germany! (Tier List) 

Kelly: "This is the best thing ever, truly amazing! I give it a B".

It feels as if David Hasselhoff will haunt us Germans until the end of time...🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

Do the same in reverse? Mischa ranking the American best and worst aspects.

Is anyone else having issues with a low volume level on this video? It's very quiet! EDIT: This got much more attention than I thought it would. Kelly, if you see this, love your videos! Just turn the volume up a bit so we can hear you :)

I am not a big fan of raw meat, but the fact the Germany has laws that guarantee that their pork is much healthier than ours is admirable.

I read "Tier list" in the thumbnail and thought it was going to be about animals! ;-)

One mistake: David Hasselhoff isn't famous anymore in Germany. The Knight Rider show was in the 80's, his singing career started with the fall of the wall 1989 (I've been looking for a freedom), Baywatch was in the 90's, that's all. His success is over 20 years old and gone. He was just more famous in Germany than in the USA, not really famous at all.

someone who puts the German Bahn and windows above beer and football has lost control over his/her life. lol

I have now stared at your ranking for minutes but I won't change the most of it (only as I'm an old car buff the two items related to that would get different rankings), as you have ranked the bakeries at the top, one little fun fact to that. The German counter piece to the FBI is the BKA (Bundes Kriminalamt) and they have a special task force that chases criminals around the Globe (Gruppe Zielfahndung). When they are chasing a german and did have an idea in which area he/she could live, they contact all german bakeries in that region at first hand and that strategy has worked out successfully for decades.

"German cities are so clean!" Singapore: *"Finally, a worthy opponent. Our battle will be legendary."* Also, here's something about the topic of Mettbrötchen: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-loIIPHDuHqc.html Don't question it, idk. Btw, I'm German and I agree with your opinion on Oktoberfest. It's nice to look at, but just very expensive and too big. I like to go to quieter, smaller Fests, like the one in my village, and just enjoy a nice day without spending all my savings and having to shove myself through huge crowds.

When I travel for a longer period I always miss my german bread 😂 - Viele Grüße aus Mainz 😊

You put German beer at D? You are a brave lady. I admire that!

I Have been watching your channel for over a year now and love your videos. I am so glad still find the time and energy to keep this channel going!

Kelly is a „Kaffeetante“. 😂😂😂😂😂

I had to chuckle at "glue" wine :D

Schnitzel is actually Austrian - so called "Wiener Schnitzel" (Schnitzel from Vienna).

Schnitzel is an Austrian dish :< The Germans often massacre our poor Schnitzel by pouring sauce over it

That was fun. Nice selection from Mischa. I'm missing the z-tier for the Hoff.

Thanks for giving us this video, another enjoyable way to learn and be entertained.

The comments on David Hasselhoff were spot on and remind me of a story. I'm retired from the U.S. Forest Service with the last 10 years of my career spent on a very heavily visited National Forest in the Sierra Nevada, next to Yosemite National Park. I worked in recreation management and law enforcement and made about 2,000 - 3,000 public contacts per year. The area had heavy foreign tourism. One day a German was asking me the details of the route he planned. He had started his trip in Phoenix and needed to end up in Los Angeles to return his rental car. He presented me with this "I vant to see Yos A Might, I vant to see the big trees, I vant to see Saun Francisco, I vant to see the Monterey Aquarium, I vant to drive the coast on Highway One and I VANT TO SEE BAYWATCH." I don't want to come off as some sort of American snob, but I could not help having to suppress my laughter at the last part of what he said. I had to drive away after helping him and walk in the woods to let out my laughter without any other visitors seeing me do so. I don't understand the German attraction to what was a fairly poorly produced show that required a great deal of suspending reality to watch. I've had a couple of friends who worked as L.A. County lifeguards and they shake their heads when the show is mentioned. Thanks for making your videos, I find cultural differences fascinating.

There's a saying in Germany. That partly explains why we like cash. It reads: "Only cash is true! It just has its advantages. If the technology is bitching or if you have simply lost your credit card, the advantages of cash are always there. ;-) Greetings Bishop

s ago (edited) Kelly, I really enjoyed this video, not for the rankings, but for the explanations. Greetings from Austin!

"German drivers are better than american drivers" Shows someone overtaking on the right.

Yes!! This is the content I really enjoy in your videos! I really like all your videos but I like your descriptions of your experiences in Germany the most! So what if you trigger some people because they may not agree with your assessment of sour kraut! Thank you Kelly

Loved the video!

7:18 In Germany we say "Hard water" as well, and I understand your problem.

German trains overpiriced af that’s why everyone is mad, too

Love the shot of the Drosselgasse. Good to see something of home at times.

Yeah, I'm pretty on board with that. I'm from neighbouring Luxembourg (which, to Americans, probably means that I'm already kinda German) but I've been living in Germany for 6 years now and yeah, most of your assessments I agree with. The water one is weird to me, I've never had a problem with that (chalky residue on your shower, wtf? That really must a Mainz thing) although another water issue I have is that when you simply order "a water" in Germany, you always get sparkly water, which I don't really like, and you mostly can't get like free tap water, which is pretty usual in Luxembourg. The only real problem I have with your list though is Mett, because that is absolutely delicious xD I don't think I'd eaten raw pork before coming to Germany, but, you know, maybe. I really had no issues or preconceptions about that. I was already familiar with things like carpaccio and sushi so it didn't seem that strange to me plus when you eat things like Filet Mignon or other cooked pork dishes, it often isn't cooked all the way through on purpose, so you know, whatever, raw pork, sure. I only know that you should never eat raw chicken because of Salmonella and stuff. But Mett, hell yeah, that's awesome :D EDIT: minor grammatical mistake

Love your video as always. Great sense of humour and interesting. The sound was very low though. Cant do a list..... never been there !

lol... and your pic of Hasselhoff was a promo pic for Knight Rider. TV show from the early 80s, btw. Great vid! Pretty interesting and fun.

I put screens in my German windows and I enjoy opening them more knowing I won’t get flying bugs

I spent 3 years in Germany in the mid 1970's.Though I was stationed in a town named Fulda. A buddy and me traveled all over what at that time was west Germany. In 1977 we even spent 3 weeks hitch-hiking (It was the 1970's and bell bottom era) from town to town staying in small inns/guesthouses along the way. The one food that I most miss is jagerschnitzel and beer = A+!

I had a good laugh! Thx.

Mett is the best! xD Your video, in which you tried Mett, started my wish to get my first Mett-Brötchen since 2 years. Today finally I ate it. I´ve waited for 4 days and it was delicious!! Thank you a lot :D

Aw, i love your speaking so much. If i had the choice to learn professional english, i would chose you to teach me

omg David Hasselhoff on E!? our hero who brought down the berlin wall, defeated the iron curtain and ended the cold war! how could you ...

Nice and honest video. :-)

I can't comment on every list item, because some (Oktoberfest) I haven't experienced, others I don't care about (tab water).However there are three items I feel strongly about. 1. I'm intrigued by your relationship to Mett. Why try it it again if you didn't like it? Is it just the fear of being governed by a bias? I love Mett, but there is nothing wrong with not liking it (obviously). The constitancy won't change a second time and bits of Mett will always get stuck in your teeth. 2. While I'm perfectly happy to accept different preferences, I think you treat German beer unfairly. I don't think you can compare mass produced beer with craft beer. You lived in Mainz. It's the home of Kuehn Kunz Rosen Brewery. They have (pretty good) IPA If you don't like that, okay. Maybe it's the mystique hops. I'm just saying don't compare apples and oranges. 3. I don't want to be offended, but I feel a little sting: David Hasselhoff is NOT German! His fame in Germany is more a product of his own imagination and American Late-night-hosts like Conan o'Brien, who jokingly claimed his face was on German money bills.

mo..moment David hasn't a Night Rider Movie, it was a hole series!!

Kelly you are so personable and your views on Germany are so interesting. 👍🏻

Why does the list starts with the letter S? Makes no sense to me. Can someone please explain?

@Beer I am flabbergasted that you did not manage to get your hands on IPA - every major city seems to have a beer specialty shop nowadays, featuring great craft beers from all over the world. Also, there are quite a few more hoppy German brews. It might be a regional thing, generelly the "harsher" types of beer or more common and popular in the nothern parts of the country.

I’m watching from Japan. I enjoy your videos every time. I have questions. Do you have recommendations places for honeymoon in the U.S and Germany? I’m sorry for my bad English. I’m so happy that you answer it.😍

Great video you are honest butt also balanced and sometimes ery dry humor is shown. Since you mentioned your mothers sauerkraut do you have German roots your self?

"Zwiebelmett" has to be at least on "a" ;)

Your honesty is quite fresh and your thoughts about the topics are rational. Stay true. By the way, after living back in the USA for so long, do you realy come back living in Germany? How about Micha? He seems to build up a new life over there. Do you talk about it?

I agree with your Oktoberfest recomendation to go there once to have a look at it and have a good time, but keep it at that for foreign visitors. But keep in mind that the Oktoberfest is not really planed or designed to be international over regional drinking festival, but actually just is the yearly munich "Volksfest" for the people from in and around the city. About 58% of the visitors are directly from in and around munich, and an additional 17% are from the larger area around in bavaria. When you are from the munich area you will get almost daily invitations or offers to meet up there both from private and work related people, and very often go there several times even in one year. Not necessary to limitles party and get wated, but to get together, chat and have a good time and a beer for a few hours. Often so during the day...

Hi Kelly, the water along the Rhine river is provided and filtered from the river...so in Cologne, Düsseldorf, Mainz etc. the water is indeed very calcareous. In other parts of Germany, for example in the mountains or in Bergisches Land, where I live, is amazing!

HOW DARE YOU! (BEER)

“Still believed in Santa” What are you saying? 😢😢

I really enjoyed watching your video. I am an American who has been living in Germany for 35 years. Your video reminded me of all the nice things about Germany that I take for granted.

Great video. Honest answers. So many videos go on forever and say very little.

I really have to say that I can get your point regarding the water and it's quality, but it varies from region to region. Same with the water pressure. Where I live (not far off Hanover, Lower Saxony) we actually don't have the problem of heavy water and an excellent water pressure. But if you move regions that can change very quickly. Also, David Hasselhoff isn't really popular around here. The only thing we really know him for is that he thinks that it was him who teared down that Berlin Wall (and yeah, the Knight Rider series of course)

since the scandals and the ignorance of the industry towards change, you can actually put the German cars way lower

Of course these are your opinions!! I would add the lack of pressure to order food-pay-and-get-out at Cafes & Restaurants as number one.

O yesss, a good hopy IPA is really difficult to get here ... But there is a craft brewery, called "Vogelbräu", in KArlsruhe, and they have "beers of the season" e.g. the "samba beer" (only from Mai 16. to June 13. this year). This is best IPA i know in our area ...

Thanks, Kelly. Now I'm hungry. Schnitzel and/or Bratwurst, yummy. Just thinking about it and I gained a Kilogram. :)

By your ranking of beer, water and mettt you're on a good way to lose your German followers xD Tbh, the water stuff is pretty different in Germany. The more south you get, the worse it gets. I am Northener but lived a couple of years in various southern regions. Whereas "our" northern water is extremely good, the southern thing is way too "hard". Back here I never decalcify my washing of coffee machines. Down south had to do this on a regular basis. Beer, phew, there are some fancy beers in Belgium, USA and meanwhile even in Germany. Nice for a pretty short time, but nothing but piss in the long term. The real stuff here will ever prevail ;-) Liked your vid btw

That Video is so quiet! The Add startet and i literally fell off my chair!

hahahaha ... there are a lot things germans don´t like about "german stuff" as well ... i think you underrated the water - since you can drink tap water almost anywhere in germany without any problems. that being said, hard water is pretty common, in tap water, because germany has a lot of mountains and hills, hence the calciumcarbonate in it. but, other than tap water, bottled water is extremely cheap in germany and you can get soo so many varieties. germans buy water in boxes, with 9-21bottles - for a couple of bucks. i´m not a fussball person myself, so i´m ok with it, but for most germans having a local or national soccer-team to be fan of, is like probably being a basketball, football or baseball fan in the states - it´s almost tradition. i know a lot of guys who love nothing more than the big cups, national, international or world cups and do anything and everything to watch as many matches as possible, both live and on tv (live of course). met is a thing, i know, i´ve never tried it to be honest, not that i don´t like pork, but it´s a matter of personal taste - i don´t eat "fischsemmel" as well or a "schweinshaxn" (well, occasionally i do). nothing against THE HOFF please - knight rider was a childhood favorite of mine. didn´t help that d. hasselhoff has become a drunk and is a positively cameo-driven actor, as a cheap joke nowadays.

Yes, we do have a lot of calcium in our water, which does leave a good bit of residue. On the positive side, Germany is one of the few countries on this planet, where you will get unchlorinated, safe drinking water straight from the tap in every home, every office, every hotel and even most public bathrooms. I guess that's nice. Our tap water is actually cleaner and more controlled than bottled water.

13:12 Oktoberfest - I take a village Weinfest any day over the Oktoberfest. I can't think of anything worse than mixing with a dense crowd of drunks. Weinfeste offer the same as the Oktoberfest but on a smaller scale, so you have room to walk and while the number of drunks is still fairly high they're less desensitized and have more control over their behavior and you can actually sit down and enjoy new wine and Salzkuchen with friends and hear yourself talking.

If you like Christmas Markets you can try if there is still the one south of National Portrait Gallery in Washington D.C. Was there seven years ago in December. No food, but a lot of nice stuff and a lovely christmas athmosphere. Btw. Have you been to Leopolds on M Street and tried the cake there?

Yes to the hops! I miss a proper biergarten though #Augustiner-Bräu

Knight Rider was a TV show.

Great video again Kelly ;) Two things if I may... David Hasselhoff in a list of 20 German things, really? lol And I believe you meant cowberries or lingonberries (Preiselbeeren). They are closely related to cranberries but definitely not the same thing. Thanks for your honesty and effort not hurt anyones feelings though. The latter made me laugh.

I moved to Cleveland from CT / MA 2 years ago. I had my own well in CT and the water was great and tasted yummy. Here in Cleveland the water either tasted like Diesel or Chlorine, so I bought a water cooler and I fill up my 3 5 gallon water bottles for like 150 a piece at Wally World (Walmart) The water here in Cleveland is also very hard and calcified. Just have to use Lime-a-way to keep that calcium from building up in the shower. I rent a house here, but if I owned the house I would install a whole house water filter / reverse osmosis system, they don't cost all that much and the only downside is you have to replace the filter once and while.

Time for a yummy Mettbrötchen! 😊 Just noticing that I didn't have one for quite some time. I also have this teeth problem, though, after savouring one. 😒

Mett is also known as Feuerwehrmarmelade or firefighter's jelly :)

4:20 - Mischa, casually waiting for Kelly to finish being excited about boring old buildings 😂 Concerning Oktoberfest: I don't think that's the old lady in you at all. Oktoberfest just doesn't make any sense if you're not a tourist or invited - way too expensive, too crowded and once you've been there, well ... it's off the bucket list and there are plenty other Volksfeste in Germany, without the tourists and the exorbitant prices ^^

About the Hoff, there's a recent commercial for a german used car company featuring him as Michael Knight... You might enjoy that: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-iByp3UoloAM.html !

I _completely_ understand your take on the hard water here in Germany. Where I live, the water is considered hard even by German standards; it's really less “hard water” and more “slightly damp chalk”. Getting a water filter and running every drop I use through it has completely changed my life. Everything tastes so much better now. Regarding German beer, I think it's the national pride that Germans have in the historical “Reinheitsgebot” that keeps the industry overly limited to a narrow selection. In the olden times that law may have made German beer superior to less cleanly or carefully brewed variants from other countries, but nowadays it's just an antiquated restriction.

In Germany, you have roads. In US, you have roads with potholes. In Slovakia, you have potholes with roads ;)

I love your show

i was so confused with this tier list till i heard her say Mainz and i was like yup makes sense

You ate Mett in Mainz, but the Mett or Gehacktes in Thuringia is sooo much better than in any other Bundesland

I really like ur videos,it makes me notice things about Germany that i wouldn't notice because its so normal to me. But even if I live here, for me it was always weird that people eat raw pork tbh 🙄

When I was in the eastern part of the U.S. (i.e Kentucky, Pennyslavania) in 1995, it seemed that the poorest states had the best freeways, and the richest states hat the most freeway potholes. I don't know whether this is still accurate or not, but that was the feeling I had. Of course, California is a totally different pair of shoes. The use concrete to build their freeways, back east they use the same material as Germany does, or at least something similare. The capital beltway was a nightmare in 1995, I had the responsibility of driving myself and 2 senior citizens to Silver Spring, Maryland, from Kentucky and it was already dark on this piece of road, and raining cats and dogs - it was really scary..

5:13 The opportunity?! I think you meant to say the chance because it sometimes honestly feels like winning the lottery if your train isn't delayed, canceled it has "technical difficulties". (Also I am from Germany and for foreigners it might not feel as bad as I make it sound but for a German... XD)

sometimes I charge but usually I do like to pay cash in a way that challenges my math skills; instead of handing the cashier a bill that gives me endless change I hand them bills & change that give me back larger denominations be it coins or bills, and I do get a lot of stares or questions like "you gave me too much money" so now I always preface my action with statements "I am trying to strengthen my math" or "I want certain change" but I still get a lot of looks but hey I have accepted my weirdness a long time ago

About the Beer, One can get almost any kind they have in non Alcoholic! Which I do Like!

Kelly, your list really nailed it! But deng, putting the Hoff in the last tier????!!! His concert was the sole reason the Berlin Wall fell!!!

I suspect that the water glass was to represent sparkling water, not tap water. :-)

Just a warning, Kelly, Mettbrötchen are usually prepared from great bread rolls and minced american tourists....

The Mettbrötchen in your video shown would be way too much Mett. But a thin (1/2 to 1/4 of an inch) layer of Mett is fine

I don't understand why Hasselhoff even figures in this ranking, and why much more meaningful aspects of German theater and musical performance culture are left out.

Döner better be at S or imma do some aktive Sterbehilfe around here.

In which City did you livd at? The Platform looks like Würzburg. Greets! PS: Yup German Water is hard..i guess it is the Reason, why we are this much "Stiff" (is that the correct word?). 😊

Damn! I have te learn from an American woman, that the Hungarian Steak tartare has a sister named in Germany, called Mett. :) Same thing just with beef, instead of pork.

Knight Rider is a TV program not a movie. And I have to completely agree with you on your train assessment. One of the other Americans in Germany I'm planning about it and I'm just sitting there going I look pretty far outside of the city of AtlantaAnd I have no access to any public transit of any kind whatsoever. If I were in Munich I would have buses and trains going everywhere. Even a crappy train is better than a train you don't even have

You love Schnitzel ? Then you have to try the "Gasthof zur Zieglhütte" in Idstein (approximatly 35 km from MZ) - after corona ...

the thing with water... it really depends on there you are living. My parents live near the bigger cities and their water is "hard". A bit like the water in Mainz, where the water pipes are really old and you can tast some of the methal and minerals that are in the pipes for a really long time. Now i live away from the bigger cities surroundet by nature, our water quality is SO GOOD, i can not imagne to buy water some time because our water is so refreshing and without any taste. its so beneficial

So far you descriptions are very similar like going to Mexico besides that the Germans dont have beaches and friendly people, and tequila lol, good food and architecture, good transportation system. great video. Love you Kelly

There's twenty-one. Also craving a schnitzel now.

Mett 4 Life

Schnitzel, in fact, is an austrian dish. Its not german. If you really are into food (i know you are), visit Vienna and try an original Viennese Schnitzel and a Kardinalschnitte as a dessert. That might sum up to 10k kcal but you'll love it.

Wow the first thing she said was "I don't like it" and as a german I just thought "we need to talk about that" :D

Something is not quite right with audio in this one - very low volume and sounds distant.

for people who want to visit Munich, I only suggest to stay away from the Central Station. If I said anything about the crime rate, take it with a grain of salt, because Idk, but the central station is pretty stinky and littered with trash. I suggest the Karlsplatz near the Central Station instead. Now I don't like crowded places, but the Karlsplatz Stachus is much cleaner than the Central Station.