American reacts to Food you'll find ALL OVER Germany 

I guess this girl is swedish or danish or something, you can hear it in the accent but then, if you weren't sure, she fries her Bratwurst for too short and eats it in a bun with. fucking. MAYONNAISE! The Bratwurst....with mayo.... Insanity

Haribo chips? She's calling Pommbär Haribo Chips? 😂

I think the girl in the video dont know the north of Germany where tea is very popular and they have a tea ceremony in East Frisia/ Ostfriesland.

I honestly hate peanut butter, but that might be, because ours sucks. People don't really eat that here, at least the way Americans do. Nutella is Germany's peanut butter.

White asparagus and green asparagus, while they are the same plant, are worlds apart. Basically the green asparagus is the asparagus that breached the ground and was exposed to light, while white asparagus was harvested BEFORE that happened. It is less woody and can therefore be thicker (green asparagus beyond a certain width is basically inedible). Traditionally in Germany, white asparagus is cooked in water and then served with boiled potatoes, smoked ham and then either sauce hollandaise or a browned breadcrumb-butter-sauce (very yummy).

About Pizza: First there is no special german style pizza. Italy isn't that far from Germany and luckily many Italians decided to enrich our menu with original italian pizza. This also saves us from eating american style pizza like at Pizza Hut. I'm still wondering who eats there but there can't be that many because there are only 85 shops all over Germany.

So maybe it's time to tell you, Brezel (or "pretzel" for some reason) is just the shape, the bread itself is Lye-bread. There are many different types of baked goods made out of "pretzel", things that are much more conducive and practical for eating than the Brezel-shape. Like buns. My favourite is the Laugenecke as seen at 4:24. Imagine a "pretzel" with the consistency of a Croissant shaped like a triangular breadroll. Pro tip: using these to make hamburgers should require some kind of license. Best burgers in my _life._

The Croissant is not French, while it was adopted and popularized by the French, it was "Invented" by Austrian Bakers to celebrate their Victory over the Ottoman Empire when they attacked and the Bakers were the first to notice the Ottomans digging tunnels under the City, since they were awake and working Long before the other citizen. From a German Baker.

In Germany most people don’t see McDonald or anything similar as „real food“ or a full meal. Is more like of an alternative fast option if there is nothing else to eat at the moment, not making you satisfied and full.

Lindt-Spruengli is originally Swiss and manufactured now in Aachen (Germany) with Trumpf.

Whatever looks like parmesan? It's white chocolate. Btw. the white asparagus is the same plant as green asparagus. The difference is in the way it's planted, the white asparagus is kept underneath the soil and then harvested, if it grows out it becomes green and changes it's texture a little to what you're familiar with. And yeah, as you know Asparagus season is a huge deal.

"This feels very german.... probably cause it is" - Ryan Wass 2024 Love your humor ❤

Apple juice is great, but adults tend to drink it with sparkling water, which we then call Apfelschorle. It is really refreshing and a somewhat more healthy drink than a normal soda. You can also do it with other fruit juices.

this is why americans are the undisputed kings of reaction channels: "applejuice is considered unhealthy"....now where is my burger.

As a German, i can assure you, I'm fat. All those carbs are just too delicious.

"... you guys arent fat?" - I am fat. The difference is your mix. If you eat one or two sandwiches from the bakery, you'll be full until dinner. If I eat 4 hamburgers from McDonald's I'll get hungry. Your fast food is designed to sell a lot. The most expensive thing about a milkshake at McDonalds is the cup. That's why they only sell these XXXL cups. They have scientists who put the products together in such a way that they have exactly the optimal fat/carbohydrate ratio, which stimulates the appetite and doesn't weigh heavily on the stomach so that you eat more. Starts with white flour. You can also add wholemeal and grain so that it is more sustainable and the stomach has to work a bit. But that's not what they want, people should buy more after an hour.

4:19 the way she ate that pretzel upside down made me furious xD it's cut in half because, as you have learnt in a previous video, we put butter on our bread and pretzels. NOT mustard, NOT mayo :P 8:25 Germans, for some reason, love to put lots of stuff on a pizza. that one there was probably ham, mushrooms and onions

@Subway fun fact: Actually, Subway is not allowed to call its bread "bread" in Germany since it is made of too much sugar.

Where was the FRANZBRÖTCHEN?????😂 Oki, I guess they are more a thing in the north.

"you guys drink apple juice??" Lmao you got me on the floor😂😂

I never thought that it could be so fascinating watching an american guy looking at german stuff. Very entertaining. Thank you! You really should visit germany and finally eat some REAL pretzels! I would love to show you around my hometown. About the peanut butter: Peanut butter isn't common in germany. It got more popular over time, but it's still a niche product.

@Spaghetti ice cream: was the favorite ice cream of my six years older brother. As a small kid I indeed thought: "How disgusting that he eats frozen Spaghetti!!" until he once told me: "You are so stupid! They are no real Spaghetti! It's vanilla ice cream!" I clearly can remember me thinking: "Vanilla ice cream with tomato sauce and Parmesan cheese! Still so disgusting!!!"😂🙈

american which is drinking colas and soda and milkshakes and over sugar everything they eat/drink talking about apple juice that has many calories :D

We do not eat this food daily. That's why many people are not fat. Many families eat cake and pastries only on the weekend and on special occassions. Most days the meals are: breakfast- one or two slices of bread with butter, cold cuts or a slice of cheese (maybe a joghurt or a glass of milk), lunch - a warm meal, mostly home cooked (think of stews, soups, protein with potatoes and veggies) (optional dessert like one popcicle, some pudding or a piece of chocolate), dinner - bread with butter and cheese, cold slices, jam, etc. Sometimes you can have something warm like a light soup. If we have Snacks through the day it is mostly fruit, joghurt, a slice of bread , nuts. Some people eat out more often or have fast food and Snacks, but a big breakfast is mostly for the week end. Eating out gets expensive very quickly. It is a treat. When I was very stressed at work I ate out a lot and went to a bakery every morning, had Döner for lunch and Pizza in the evening. I got fat really fast. You need to stick to the traditional food to keep in shape.

Some difference might be, that many germans only eat 3 meals a day and skip snacks. Also we dont use as much sugar

White asparagus grows underground. Farmers prepare their fields with rows of small hills where the asparagus plants grow inside. When cracks appear on top of these hills, experienced workers use a very long push-knife styled tool to cut the asparagii very close to the root so the whole length is harvested. Green asparagus grows above the ground. Asparagii only become green when sunlight can reach them.

Nobody knows whats inside the Döner meat, thats part of the fun eating it 😂😂 You can find peanut butter but if you want a good one you buy it from the Netherlands.

Lindt is a Swiss company, but they have bought up some German manufacturers, such as "Stollwerck" which was founded in my hometown (Cologne) in 1839

I find Ryan's obsession with pretzels funny. Probably because I live in Germany and because I could have pretzels any time, they just aren't that special to me.

I suppose what really makes Americans fat is not so much the calories in the food, but more the many chemicals that are banned in the rest of the world

Apple juice is awesome. We have an 100+ years old apple tree in our garden. When ripe we pick them, bring them to a little factory and they make juice out of it. You can bring your apples and buy fresh juice in the shop at a discount or you wait a few days and get the juice from your very own apples. This juice tastes like heaven and has not much in common with apple juice from the shelf.

We do have Pizza Hut, but I don't know how it holds up in Germany since nobody eats there. Because of the prices. Pizza Hut is way overpriced and you can get better pizza at half the price at a restaurant around the corner, and it doesn't necessarily have to be an Italian pizzeria. The best pizza in my town is at Shahba Spießhaus (a Turkish kebab shop) and at American Food Service.

You don't eat a cake or go to a restaurant every day. If anything, I only go to a restaurant once a month. Furthermore, once a week I have a so-called “I don’t care” day where I eat something sweet or savory or drink two beers. I don't know, but here in northern Germany we drink a lot of tea. I assume the lady is at home in the south and that's why she thinks Germans drink less tea. All in all, less is more.😊😉

"Why are you not fat" because we walt, everywhere, even for grocery shopping, we walk a lot.

Jiffy Peanut Butter dont come here, we dont like peanut butter, the hazelnut is our fave. You are gonna crash like walmart!

Wow, she really likes German junk food. The Isles with that food I definitely avoid in the supermarket.

My inner (inherited) swabian is refusing to allow that packaged not self made stuff to be called "Spätzle"

7:00 Alsace used to belong to Germany. Tarte flambée is a traditional specialty from the southern German-French border region. The origin of the tarte flambée can be found in great-grandmother's times, when bread was baked in a wood-fired oven on every farm in Baden and Alsace.

The bakery stuff here in Germany is made fresh every day. it is not a processed product, all packed up in plastic, with a shelf life of six months like you get in the states.

I wonder that after so many videos about German food Ryan is still surprised seeing white asparagus :) :)

I live in western Germany and don't understand the hype about pretzels. Yes, they exist here too, but they have a niche existence. Here we eat real bread ;-)

Schnitzels.... it's not fried but baked in a pan with butter.

Believe me, germans are getting more and more overweight. The health problems associated with being overweight, especially considering kids, have been on the rise for decades now. I think its not as big as a problem as in the US yet because theres still more of a "I know what I'm eating" cilture here and also the industry is heavily regulated in the use of sugar but the numbers are still definitely rising. Also people are pretty lazy. I mean most people around here consider going to the gym once a week and pumping up the muscles as being "a fit person". And why wouldnt they? Being overweight is getting more and more normalized and the prooven health risks are just "fatshaming".

The original Wiener schnitzel is from Vienna, made from calf meat. The German version is usually made from pork, it is tastier in my opinion.

Besides the bakery items, this is more a collection of fast food items, mostly made to avoid German types of food in bigger cities for foreign people or tourists. The most terrible one is that "meat"toast. That would be the most ugly industrial kind of "food", we even have a hard time to name that "food", and as you saw, all was selected by a non German foreign person. Also, in the supermarket she chose most industrial made "ready made" meals, which are terrible, but we get flooded with them more and more. People and foremost children "dislearn" real food tastes, and the habit and ability to make original healthy meals, and even how to keep food items at home. Every supermarket ha big fresh meat and meat products, the same thing does the fresh cheese counter with hundreds of different cheeses, and then there always is a big fresh bakery counter , and sometimes a fresh seafood counter, and of course always the first thing is the fresh fruit and vegetable section. All of them have hundreds of different choices, and there is no need for and industrial made and packed "ready" meal. So sad, seeing how the industry takes down culture.

8:50 Lindt is a Swiss chocolate brand. Rodolphe Lindt, the son of a pharmacist, opened a small pastry shop in Bern in 1879. Shortly thereafter, in 1879, the Rod chocolate company produced. Lindt & Söhne only hard, bitter chocolate. But Lindt was undeterred and continued to experiment until one Friday evening, after months of testing, he left his factory without switching off the conching machine. The machine continued to stir throughout the night and weekend. The chocolate that Lindt finally found on Monday was deliciously tender and tasted like never before. The chocolate was forever changed, marking the beginning of an incomparably creamy, world-famous Lindt chocolate.

As a german from swabia, who invented the Swabian Brezel, I've never heard the arms folded in prayer story.... The story behind the swabian brezel, goes as follow" A baker was incarcerated, and begged for his freedom, so the king told him,that he had 3 days to come up with a bread, where the sun could shine through 3 times.... and thats how he came up with the Pretzel ( Brezel) Their are also Bavarian Pretzels, which their is a big difference between the two of them.... Typical Swabian pretzels, for example, have very thin "arms" and a "fat belly" with a split, and a higher fat content. The thicker part makes it easier to slice them for the use of sandwiches. In Bavarian pretzels, the arms are left thicker so they do not bake to a crisp and contain very little fat.

11:42 The kebab was first mentioned in Anatolia in 1936. At that time, the so-called “Sis Kebab” was still grilled on a horizontal spit over charcoal. Only mutton was used. It happened in Berlin: Legend has it that Kadir Nurman was the first to put meat in a flatbread in 1972 and invented the kebab version that was so popular in Germany. A “doner kebab” or “döner” consists of thin pieces of beef/veal and/or mutton/lamb threaded onto a rotisserie. Minced meat can also be used to make a kebab skewer, but up to a maximum of 60 percent.

A German saying goes, "You are what you eat." Means - eat good food and you'll feel good too.

Regarding some of your questions: Tillmans Toasty: Its either pig or chicken meat Baseball: We do have baseball teams and leagues in germany (I myself am a licensed umpire, former youth coach and used to play LF or 1st base). More widely spread in the parts of germany that'd been occupied by the United States after WW2. Döner Kebab meat: Usually beef / veal or lamb. Some places offer chicken as well. Bifi is like a small salami Too good too go is in my opinion really underrated and not used enough. You can get a lot of really good stuff (especially from bakeries) for a few euro. Hope I could help you, enjoyed your video

6:26 Looks like a "Ratskeller" (I believe someone else already commented it is one). They´re usually close to a Rathaus (like city council?) in older cities, often right across the street. Traditionally it´s the place where local government officials went to eat/ drink after work.

Lindt is a Swiss company, actually the company that invented the conche machine that makes all the delicious chocolate bars even possible. Germany is a peanut butter novice, because peanuts are not really grown here and we like to eat them roasted with a bit of salt. But while we don't have good peanut butter, there are tons of good hazelnut spreads. Asparagus is serious business here and as we are Germans, there are rules for that. White asparagus is the same plant as green asparagus, but the plant is kept from photosynthesising by keeping it covered in soil. Sometimes there is even purple asparagus, which is white asparagus that managed to get a tiny bit of sunlight before being harvested. There is also the thing that the season ends on the 24 of June. Every year.

This is in my hometown Trier😊. I literally walk this streets every day😅. She's wrong about the Berliner though: you can get them all year round. 6:40: this Restaurant is called "Ratskeller" and the building is from the 1480's.....(it's the white building shown at 9:39) PS: i hate peanut butter. When i was in the US for the first time (more than 20 years ago) i wanted to try the peanut butter so desperately and was absolutly disappointed. So disgusting...

Most people drink Apfelschorle which is Applejuice with sparkling water. But normal juice is also marketed for adult people not only for kids. Hohes-C for example is a brand that advertises a lot with how many vitamins are in there juice and its mostly bought by adults.

Peanutbutter i only use for cooking indian or indonesian meals. But never on bread😂

For many things it still depends where in Germany you are. I live in Schleswig-Holstein (furthest north, next to Denmark) and tea is extremly common here, also tea houses, like shops only selling hundrets of tea varients often with a small cafe attached. We have a bakery car coming to our house once a week with fresh buns, bread, cake, cookies - I live in the middle of nowhere (well, there is a town 10 min away with 3 bakeries and a vet, a döner, pharmacy, small grocery store, mail office and a butcher. :)... Also like 5 restaurants because we get many tourists here near the baltic sea). Goods in every bakery in Germany look so fresh because they are, many bakers get up as early as 2-3 am in the morning to get all the bread and buns ready for the day! SOme bakerys open as early as 6am, even though 7am is the most common time to open. The "late" ones open around 8am. Dönermeat is normally a tower made from stacked thin meat slices, minced meat, herbs, spices, onions, eggs, oil, milk and joghurt - depending on the type of Döner and place. Many server lamb and chicken as the most common variety, but also bull/calf is pretty common. Apple juice is very common in Germany, also because nearly everyone living in the countyside has a couple of apple trees and produces their own juice or applecause even. Around 33 liters of fruit juice is consumed per head in Germany each year - making us the world record holders. Alone 630.000.000 liters of apple juice were produced in Germany 2022. Our family alone has 7 apple trees, 2 sweet and 2 sour cherry trees, 2 pear trees, 3 plum trees, 1 peach tree and a huge amount of various berry bushes in our garden. :) The typical Fast Food chains like McDonals and stuff taste very different, even compared from a northern more countryside Mc Donalds to a southern big city one. 93%+ of the meat and above 60% of all other produce is bought from German farms/producers. Only in off seasons they buy fresh produce from outside of Germany. Everything is prepared fresh as soon as you order and isn't just sitting in a "heating bay" waiting to be sold like in some other countries. Also the ingredients are extremly reduced and simplified compared to the US - many things would even considered non food safe here that are normal overseas.

I don't know anyone who drinks pure apple juice. You usually mix it with sparkling water. You can also buy it already mixed.

We have subway but I've never in my life seen more than 3 poeple at once inside of one. I don't know why you would ever go there if the most basic Sandwich from a bakery tastes 5 times as good :)

Being German I never understood the idea behind bagels and donuts. So, you take a roll and a Berliner/Krampfen and then just leave out the best part in the middle?😉

The real Schnitzel ist made from veal and it's called "Wiener Schnitzel" = "Viennan Schnitzel". If a Schnitzel in a restaurant is for example made of pork it has to be marked "Schnitzel Wiener Art" = Schnitzel in the style of "Wiener Schnitzel".

1:35 to 2:14 This is "Frittenwelt" in the beautiful city of Trier. It's literally a two-minute walk away from the school I went to. We used to go there during lunch break all the time. Edit: Most of this footage seems to have been recorded in Trier.

The peanut butter thing: the most popular "food item" in Slovakia is a wafer called Horalky. We love it. It contains peanut filling, 160 million of Horalky are produced and sold in a year (in a nation of 5.4 million people) and still, in general as a nation, we don't like peanut butter. As someone from Germany commented, Nutella is the number one here. A few months ago my family bought one jar of peanut butter and nobody liked it, so we gave it to some friends. Maybe it also wasn't a good one.

Burgerking has a much better plant based offering than McDonalds and just frankly tastes better for me :)

Maultaschen are an invention of Swabian monks during the medieval. If you are catholic, you are not allowed to eat meat on Fridays (because Jesus died on a friday) but Swabian monks wanted to eat meat on fridays, too. So they decided to hide the meat in dough, that the Lord can't see the meat. The dough is a simple pasta dough that is rolled out thinly, and the filling is well seasoned minced meat. Maybe you know chinese wan tan or italian ravioli, it's the same system. On the first day, Maultaschen are cooked in broth and traditionally eaten with potato salad, with the potato salad on the plate in the broth, because they are eaten with Swabian potato salad. It is not made with mayonnaise, but with meat broth. On the second day, they are taken out of the broth, cut into small pieces and fried crispy in a pan. The stuff that was in the bretzel is very simple butter. Butter pretzel is a very simple, cheap and extremely delicious snack in Germany. Butter and pretzel are a perfect combination. Schnitzel: the real traditional Wiener Sch ituel comes from Austria and is a very, very thin slice of Veal In a crispy breading that must detach from the meat when frying in the pan in air bubbles. In Germany we call nearly every slice of meat fried in a pan as Schnitzel. There are different varieties. We have the Wiener type Schnitzel, which is chicken or porc In a crispy breading. We also have Jägerschnitzel (hunters schnitzel) which is usually a unbreaded slice of meat with a mushroom cream sauce. And also very popular: Zigeunerschnitzel (gipsy schnitzel) which is also an unbreaded slice of meat in a pepper cream sauce. What is Döner made of? It can be made of lamb, beef or chicken. To do this, the meat is put on the skewer in very thin slices and each layer is seasoned with marinade. Then the skewer comes into the vertical grill and when grilled is peeled in thin strips from top to bottom. There is also a cheaper kebab version with less expensive meat in slices. In this kebab, minced meat is packed between the layers of sliced meat. This kebab may then not be sold as a döner kebab, but only as a "meat skewer doner style" We have white and green asparagus, but the white one is much more popular, simply because it has the better taste.

I don't know where the myth came from that Germans aren't fat. Half of our population is obese. It's just that America has it even worse than we do.

Banana juice is very thick, almost like a shake, so it doesn't mix properly with the cherry juice. That makes it look amazing (but it also tastes very good)

Tea is extremely popular and widespread in northwest Germany. In fact, people drink more tea per capita than any other person in the world! ☝️ This area called "Ostfriesland" ♥️🍵

Apple juice has too much sugar but coke don’t? Haha 😂 Germans are less fat because our hole system is healthier: we walk around, don’t eat fast food every day and even our products are healthier (even US brands), because some ‚bad‘ ingredients are forbidden in Germany / EU

What about LKW? You'll find it all across Germany at the butchers. It is a white bun with kind of meat loaf (yummy) There are variations with cheese, pizzastyle or onion and bavarian style. I am hungry now

Germans are not fat because the pastries are made from natural ingredients not full of additives and preservatives like most foods in America are processed.

We don't like Peanutbutter!

peanut butter has a tough time as people are used to either used to jam/honey or chocolate hazelnut cream, if they like sweat on their bread. A lot of people would try to convince you how lovely and sweat nutella (the most sold and famous chocolate hazelnut cream here) is and i would even put it on the lower end of available chocolate cream.

When will you come over to Germany?

Somebody probably already said it, but one possible answer to "What food will you find in every German city?" is indeed "Big Mac".

The high protein peanut butter jar she bought, is the one type of peanut butter I like the most. It mostly just contains peanuts and nothing else. I think many people don't like it, because when you buy it, the oil from the peanuts is mostly seperated and you have to mix it because there is no "Bindemittel" in it

Too good to go is awesome! It's also getting really popular here in Austria. I was at a mall in Vienna about 20 minutes before closing time and while I was checking my phone, I saw that both Dunkin Donuts and the Sushi place nearby were offering "surprise bags" because they noticed they weren't going to sell all their stuff in the few minutes remaining. I clicked "buy" immediately and 2 minutes later I picked up my super cheap box of Donuts as more and more people were walking towards the store with their phones in their hands and the shelves were being emptied out. Perfect win win situation.

hello, Ryan...This IS a Pretzel with chives! They Cut IT in half, Butter on IT and then chives on IT..We call IT Schnittlauchbrezel..and you get IT in everey Bakery for 1.70 Euro..there are delicious..Also there are Cheesebrezels, baked over with cheese..also delicious;)

The Zebra Crossing sign is an old version. The new sign actually has a stick figure instead.

16:54 The mettwurst in a glass jar probably tastes pretty good! :D The jelly stuff you see in there is just congealed meat juice. :D But it might be an indicator that it's a little on the fattier side, and is best suited for open sandwiches topped with onions and/or pickles / pickle slices and accompanied by beer or a light white wine.

Regarding asparagus: white asparagus is kept in the dark before harvest, green asparagus has been exposed to sunlight. Regarding TooGoodToGo: it is amazing!

How we arent fat...well first we are just not as much as the US. Second, we put way less sugar and oil in our food greatly decreasing its caloric content. Third, we move a lot more as in we walk instead of driving for short distances, bike for medium distances and just use the car if we are in a hurry or for long travel Also germans tend to be, on average more active in their spare time being in various sport clubs. And since government and insurance incetivises joining sport clubs, some germans are even in multiple. As example families pay one single fee a year for joining sport clubs. Doesnt matter if one person in the family or 5 join in (they have to live in the same house though) and it doesnt matter if you join 1 sport club or 5. In my families case my wife does badminton, my son does karate and judo, my daughter does volleyball, handball and dancing, i do medieval swordfighting and my other son plays soccer - all included in one package. Oh and if we were to hurt ourselves during sport - insurance covers that 100% also for accuacy....elsas used to be german before a certain war so....id count Flammkuchen as german anyway To peanut butter - its just my guess but i think the reason why german made peantu butter sucks is because original good american peanut butter has stuff in it that is banned in europe - very strict food laws - and that makes the american one taste a lot better or give it better texture but you aint allowed to put that in peanut butter here which is again my guess why american brands didnt make it here

7:10 SCHNITZEL are ... pieces of meat that are a) WHACKED WITH A HAMMER to become TENDER and THIN ... then b) the crust is added ... and c) it is NOT "fried" in a bath of oil [just mentioning it, because you americans love your fries] ... just a frying pan WITH a little oil.

In Germany Burger King is waaaaay better than McDonalds.

Interestingly enough, peanut butter is VERY popular in The Netherlands (where it is called peanut cheese). THE go to brand is Calvé.

imagine drinking 1L cola at mcdonalds judging apple juice for calories :D

🥙Döner Kebab meat was originally lamb, but then changed to veal, because lamb was too expensive. You can also choose chicken as an alternative. In my hometown there is a special Döner restaurant, selling steak Döner with beef and it‘s absolutely delicious! 😋

The yellow thing in the pretzel that she called "pudding" is called remonce in Danish/Denmark. It's a sweet cake cream made of creamed butter, sugar and sometimes cinnamon and other ingredients. Used in a lot of traditional Danish pastries :) Also Too Good To Go is Danish, and has expanded to other countries.

Just went for a jog along some of the shown places. Crazy 😮 Finally we see some TRIER on this channel. (Some say it's the oldest town of Germany)

18:40 I had Jiffy peanut butter before but still hate peanut butter. I love creamy hazelnuts (nutella), creamy almonds (marzipan) or creamy pine nuts (pesto) but creamy peanuts give me goosebumps. I don't know why.

13:02 We drink the apple juice in different versions. The most popular are 50% and 100% apple juice. Apple juice mixed with sparkling water (apple spritzer) is also popular to drink; it is very refreshing, very popular in summer and a real thirst quencher.

I guess the whole "Then why are we fat and you guys aren‘t?" comes from american food containing a lot of chemicals to make it tastier or just taste like something more. My girlfriend is from Canada and i remember her first time visiting me in Germany she said that even our mayo tastes 100 times better and not like a bunch of taste enhancers thrown together and to be honest … i agree.

TooGoodToGo: The stores can put together "bags". If it is selling vegetables and fruit, you might get a bag that contains those. Or a restaurant putting a to-go-box together They usually put the "normal" price (though I doubt it adds up) and the discounted price there. I've used it a few times and usually got WAY more value than was put there. I've also gotten halved veggies (which were either going bad or for display?) and some smushed things There's lots of variety (I know there is a small shop selling beers that sometimes puts up a "bag" with 6-8 bottles of beer for way cheaper - but you won't know what you get. So if you're allergic or have food intolerances, you might not be able to use what you get All in all: it is a great way to try and help prevent throwing out good stuff that - for whatever reason - couldn't be usually sold in stores. Every time I've used them I got like 2-5kg of veggies and fruit for 3-4 EUR instead of the proclaimed 10-12 EUR (as stated: I doubt the value put as "normal" actually reflects "normal" ;-) ) Regarding peanut butter: The only use I see for it is in Asian-cuisine-sauces XD

About bakeries: Just to deepen the information about bread, cakes and bakeries. In Germany there are two types of bakeries. The first, normal bakery specializes mainly in bread and buns but also simple pastries. Here you will find, for example, the "Berliner", "Rosinenschnecken", marzipan croissants, simple cakes such as "Bienenstich" and strawberry or other fruit cakes you can see in this vid. The ones shown here are delicious and there are many regional specialties, but I would still describe these baked goods as “everyday” foods. We'll get to some much more special, small works of art in a moment. These bakeries are run by a master baker. However, there are also "Konditoreien" which are specialized pastry shops that have special education for cakes, tarts and other fine confectionery. They can also sell bread and buns/rolls, but this is more of a side business here. These shops are managed by a master confectioner. Here you will find the best high quality cakes, tarts based on their training. Are these the best cakes in the world? A matter of opinion, there are very good tarts, cakes and sweets in Austria, France and also Italy, but the latter are often very sweet. This countries also have the profession of master confectioner and overall, there has been an intensive exchange of craftsmanship between these countries for decades. Konditoreien or pastry shops also often have a fine café attached just to enjoy the delicacies on the spot. Just the right place for "Kaffee und Kuchen" (coffee and cake), the German way of heaving "tea time". 🍰☕

Since you asked what a Döner Spieß is made out of: AFAIK they're just a tall stack of thin slabs of meat. Some producers apparently use minced meat as "filler" for gaps and to smooth the outside.

We have lots of juices in Germany. They are made mostly without adding sugar. The general calories are 21cls to 48cls per 100 ml, depending in the fruit. Personally, juices are to sweet for me, so I water them down. And I never drink sodas or bottled teas, because they have much more calories and added sugar than the average juice.

Good peanut butter in Germany can be found in Asian (Thai!!!) supermarkets especially in bigger cities because it's essential to many recipes.

There are some studies hinting to heavy processed food as the main reason for weight gain. It's still unclear why, but it seems that the body does process food reconstituted from their components, as heavy processed food is, is consumed faster.

The Ketchup Style Pombären (Chips) are tasting so good. And it totally makes sense -> potatoes + Ketchup is the perfect fit.

"Whatever looks like parmesan" ist actually white chocolate 😀

You can cut the pretzel in half and put something on it. Usually butter. Buttered pretzels are the German PB&J. That favorite kid dish that always works.