American reacts to Traditional German Meals / Food 

German chocolate cake is unknown in Germany. It‘s a cake from the US invented by Samuel German an English-American chocolate maker. The cake‘s named after him. :)

There's a German saying that my grandmother always used. "Morgens wie ein König, Mittags wie ein Kaiser und Abends wie ein Bettler." (In the morning like a king, at midday like an emperor and in the evening like a beggar) It refers to the three meals an how they should be regarding quantity and quality. (In case of Breakfast that often only applies on weekends and holidays, cause there's simply no time when you have to go to work/school.) Many people hold the opinion that eating a lot in the evening is unhealthy, so dinner is often just a slice of bread with wurst, cheese,... and some vegetables. On some days it may even be left out completely. (for example when you had cake or something in the afternoon)

When I was working in a nursing home we had this guy who went around the whole place delivering the food carts to the stations. And all he would do when entering or approaching was bellow a hearty "MAHLZEIT!" and everybody replied "MAHLZEIT!". So I gave him the nickname Mahlzeit because i had no idea what his actual name was...the funny thing is that _everybody_ across the whole facility knew instantly who I was talking about when i referred to him as 'Der Mahlzeit'.

there are actually 10% vegetarians and 3% vegans in Germany, our traditional dishes have a lot of meat but for most people traditional dishes are not a daily thing or even a big thing at all (maybe less so on the country sides) especially the younger generation has a lot of vegetarians & vegans. I’m learning to be a baker at the moment and almost 50% of my classmates are vegan or vegetarian including myself.

As a german I never heard about the combination of pasta and potatoes 😄 sounds pretty wild

We typically only eat ONE warm meal per day. We either have a big lunch, with proper cooked food and then just something like very simply sandwiches. OR we have a small lunch, like salads, or again sandwiches or maybe a thin soup and THEN a proper diner, with hot food, prepared on a stove or oven etc. No matter what we do, the ratio is more of less allways, 2 small meals, one big one.

"Himmel und ÄÄd" = Heaven and Earth = Rhenish specialty made from apples, potatoes and black pudding or liver sausage. Potatoes are also known as "earth apples".

Schnitzel basically comes down to the way how you cut the meat. If you cut it across the muscle fibres, then you get Steak. But if it is cut along the muscle fibres, it is called Schnitzel. If it has breading, then it is called Wiener Schnitzel, but only if it is calf meat. If you use other meats like pork it is called Schnitzel Wiener Art (Vienna style).

"Kaffee und Kuchen" is basically like Dessert, disconnected from the main meal, and turned into a family event all of its own. "Schnitzel" comes from "Schnitt", which simply means "cut". And about things that look like someone already ate them; take a look at "Labskaus" if you dare. It actually tastes quite good!

I‘m a German vegan. It’s actually mostly easy to be vegan in Germany (unless you live in the countryside) but I gotta admit: I rarely go to German restaurants anyway, it’s just too bland for me. There’s plenty of international restaurants everywhere. But in more traditional restaurants, you find vegan options sometimes too! Some offer Sellerie-Schnitzel or Kohlrabi-Schnitzel, and often you will also find vegan Thai Curry as the vegan option as well 😂

Eating out in Germany is a lot different to doing it in America, while there are some more casual sit down places, which are becoming more popular in larger cities, usually your choice is between fast food and a real restaurant, so you have to plan in at least 2-3 hours, often reserve a table and spend a lot of money, min 15-20€ per person, for drinks and a main course, more if you want appetizers or desert's

You nailed the vibe of "Mahlzeit". Thats perfectly how its supposed to be understood.

I just got myself a Mittagstisch from the local butcher: Roulade mit Spätzle und Rotkohl. Now I need a nap to recover. 😂

I am German and 60 years old. I have never eaten or even seen pasta with fried potatoes anywhere in Germany. That seems to be a pure family dish of the photographer. Sounds pretty weird to me. Porridge is the classic Irish breakfast and has found more and more fans in Germany in recent years. It is oatmeal boiled in water (or milk) and eaten warm. Fruit is often added as a topping. It's healthy and the warmth makes you feel good. At least me.

The "Abendbrot" (evening bread) stems from the times after WW II. It is a cultural thing. Women also started to work and hence didn't have time to cook. At the same time the working population could go into very often into a factory canteen or received, from their employers, a coupon to reduce the price of the lunch meal in a restaurant. Restaurants offered, and still do, a shorter menu with smaller portions and reduced prices. In many there is even only one three or two course menu with soup, main course and dessert. To profit from the cheaper meals look for "Mittagstisch" (literally: noon table) [If you need more information about "Tisch" in combination with a meal, please use the search engine of your trust.]

Schnitzel is not just meat, it must be covered in flower, egg and ground bread (as he did in the video) and then fried, preferably in a pan and lots of oil or even better lard.

As a vegetarian German who tries to live mostly vegan (who also loves the taste and texture of meat, but decided not to consume it anymore for moral reasons) I can tell you that sausages (or any form of blended/minced meat) is actually the easiest to substitute. Vegan sausages and minced meat have actually gotten so good in the past few years that I like a vegetarian burger, lasagna or hotdog just as much as the version with meat. The kinds of taste that can't really be replaced are cheese (which I still eat) or something like a really high quality beef steak.

im not german, im polish, but we have pretty similar culture. we eat breakfast, then a nice dinner around 1/3PM but some people eat it around 5/6PM, after dinner we have "podwieczorek" which is pretty much a lunch but after the dinner, and supper late in the day

schnitzel meat is a very specific part of the pig and also it gets usually beaten thin (to tender the meat) before you bread it. but yeah, it is a very simple dish, like all good soul foods :”) fun fact about the schnitzel- it often will be served with a slice of lemon because for some reason many eat their schnitzel with fresh lemon juice on top of it.

about the warm/cold meals, it's about the amount of food you eat, our warm meals tend to be very filling which means you'll prefer a smaller meal later. So if you ate a big warm meal at the canteen you won't be hungry for something big again in the evening, hence the "cold" meal that's a salad or sandwich. I would also add that soup is common in the evening and eaten with pfannkuchen the german pancake equivalent, super yummy

You get that absolutely right, about the Bratwurst + roll! It's just a "handle", right in the middle. 😅 Also people often break the sausage in half and put the two halves next to each other in the roll. 😁👍

Hi, Ryan! The story behind "Pumpernickel" is that Napoleon"s favourite horse was called "Nicole", and he always wanted some bread for Nicole to feed her. So he needed "bread for Nicole", what is called "pain pour Nicole" in french. The simple/ common folk in occupied germany coudn`t speak french, so they said something that sounds similar to what they have heard. In addition to the dialekt in the area around the river Rhine it became "Pum per nickel" and at last "Pumpernickel". (It`s a very special sort of dark bread by the way). Funny, isn`t it? Greetings! 🍞😊

Yes, dessert is really not big here. Maybe some ice cream here and there or some pudding or fruit. It's not "necessary", bc. lunch is already big/filling, and in the morning or evening, you can have jelly or sth. sweet with your bread anyway. Instead we have "Kaffee & Kuchen" at around 16:00 (4 pm). Like english tea time!! 😂

Schnitzel is often pork, BUT Schnitzel Vienna-style, i.e. the original version is ONLY beef from a young cow, a calf.

For us eating out is a special occasion, not a regular way of just consuming food (at least not for most Germans). So it happens a lot less often than in the US, but it also means that we value it higher. We go to a restaurant with friends or family to have a good time or to celebrate a birthday, etc. And they don't rush you trough the restaurant like on a conveyor belt, you can sit there for hours, talk and drink alcohol, just have a good time.

Yes, the main meal is in the afternoon. I don't know if everyone still does this. Back in 1978 I spent a month in Germany. The morning meal was as described. Bread, lunch type meats and cheese. The midday meal was when we ate the major hot meal of the day. We had cake and coffee in the late afternoon. And at about 6:30 pm I think, just bread and cheese, and maybe fruit. It is really a much healthier way of eating. Your body has a good amount of time to burn off the calories of the primary meal. I don't eat German food today, but I still try to have my major meal in the early afternoon. Great video. Thanks, Ryan. Peace

As a German, I think it makes more sense for the bigger mean to be at lunch time, and a small meal for supper, because you're not gonna be doing much more after supper, and soon go to bed. So why pump up full of calories for that then? If you eat the mail meal for lunch, you have a lot more time to burn it off, and then have a sandwich or two for dinner, when you're gonna, just sit and watch a movie or something and go sleep soon anyway.

The reason why we usually eat warm lunch and bread with sausage and cheese in the evening is that large companies had canteens very early after WWII where employees could have a warm meal at lunchtime. Therefore, it was not necessary to have a second warm meal in the evening.

Originally lunch used to be the biggest meal of the day. However during work hours this meal is usually reduced considerably so you don't get so tired. Currently dinner gets more and more important... this might depend on the region of Germany as well.

Germany is also known as the land of poets and thinkers

My boyfriend is from the UK and it is still weird to me to eat big/ warm on evenings. My dinner is usually some bread rolls and thats it. I was not aware that Germany is the odd one in that regard until I met him

Hi Ryan I can tell you you really have to try the schnitzel it's just an absolute delicacy. .A schnitzel is basically made like this: you take a piece of good quality meat (usually pig) that is pounded with a meat mallet (to make the meat tender), seasoned with pepper, salt and paprika, then breaded with flour, egg and breadcrumbs and fried in the pan fried. (as an attachmentthere are usually fries or mashed potatoes) I can only recommend it to everyone, it's just indescribably good 👍

Particularly juicy schnitzel can be prepared from pork if it comes from the hip. It is interspersed with fine fat vein. But the meat from the leg is also well suited for preparing uniform schnitzel from it.

I found the question of whether people eat their warm meal for lunch or dinner in Germany really depends on their job/family situation. When I was growing up all the kids whose moms were housewives or only working part-time were used to having their warm meal for lunch and only a cold meal for dinner, while kids like me whose parents were both working full-time would have to make do with some cold snack for lunch after letting ourselves in at home with our key after school and our parents would try to make sure we'd get at least a warm meal in the evening. When I was growing up schools in my part of Germany didn't have the option for a warm lunch at school (now they do because the schoolsystem changed a little), so really dinner was my only chance for a full warm meal until I learned how to cook some simple things for myself because I would basically be alone at home from 2 to 5.30pm. Then later for adults it also really depends on your job situation. If your job has a canteen or at least gets a good discount with some nearby restaurant, many people will indeed have their warm meal for lunch and not really bother cooking something warm after work for dinner. But if food options at your workplace are limited or too heavy/unhealthy/expensive on the daily many people opt for taking a sandwich or salad they prepared at home with them in a lunchbox and prepare something warm and simple in the night or just go out for food. So the question if you can have your warm meal for lunch really depends on your work situation / on whether there's someone at home to prepare a warm lunch for you. It's true, however, that very few people will go through the trouble of having a warm meal twice a day, so either it's for lunch or for dinner.

When I grew up my family and I ate our warm meal in the evening, because my dad was working till afternoon. Since his working place did not had a cantine or a proper "Teeküche" to reheat something, he had to eat sandwiches at work. That lead us to eating our warm meals in the evening. When my brothers and I came home from school, we just ate the typical sandwiches than.

I guess I'm a little late for it but.... @Ryan: Schnitzel is any thin cut of meat. Its basically when you no longer are allowed to call it a steak thin... What makes them speciall are the suffix used. Here are a few examples: "Wiener schnitzel": The Classic - its from vienna (Wien) and has to be prepared from Veal. The preparation has to follow proper way to ensure the famous airy structure and right crisp is present. "Schwein/Huhn/Puten - Schnitzel": Some times also refered in old Restaurants in Vienna as "Alt wiener Schnitzel" meaning in old viennese style, usually followed by a "vom xxx" which ever animal was used. Thats the Everyday Mans Schnitzel you see every where from Austria to German to even America, they may call it different but that's the most eaten way, just because of simplicity. Varities are usually then with panco or cornflakes. All goes. "Jägerschnitzel": Or Huntsman Schnitzel as you would say in english. Thats were oppinions differ... The Germans make it in the breading and top it with sauce, as an Austrian I can tell you, its no oppinion, the german are wrong! Just do a thin slice of Meat beat it thin as usually and fry it after a short flour dusting. When the Color is right take it out, make your classic pan sauces usually with Mushrooms fried too before adding liquid to get a classic middle European Huntsmansauce. Put the Schnitzel back to let it adjust in the Sauce and bring it back up to temperature. I probably have forgotten a lot of variants like Sur-Schnitzel and the like. But those are just like the second enumeration a variant of meat. Gordon Blue's are no Schnitzel but thear own Dish, we have to thank the French for that genious Dish, Honor to whom honor is due. (PS Snails are originaly from Austria, so are Croissants! HA!) PS: Love your reactions! Maybe do a reaction on some comments that "enlighten" you and clear up stuff you were confused at first in the video ^^ Could be fun, cya.

"...it can't look like someone already ate it..." NEVER order Labskaus! 😅

"Why do i have the perception that theres a lot of like creative people in germany" Well the last time we rejected someone at an art school it didnt go to well so now everything is art.

"German Chocolate Cake" isn't from Germany, it was invented by a baker named "Samuel German" in the US, hence the name.

The family is eating the sunday roast traditionally at 12:00 or 12:30, if you invite guests for dinner in the evening, the dinner time usually 20:00. A invitation for coffee and cake is usually for 15:00-17:00. The evening meal is traditionally more or less cold and smaller than the lunch, because a full stomach makes you sleep restlessly.

I'm from Germany. When I work the early shift, I usually eat a little something in the morning, a warm main meal at lunchtime and a mostly cold and smaller meal in the evening. When I work the late shift, I have a hearty breakfast, with bread or rolls, croissants, or whatever, at lunchtime there is nothing (at most a little something) and in the evening there is a warm main meal. When I was a child, we usually had breakfast with bread, rolls, jam, Nutella, ... (in any case only sweet toppings in the morning) or cornflakes. After school there was a warm main meal at home (school ended at 12 noon to 2 p.m.). And in the evening there was again a cold meal with bread (covered with hearty things like sausage or cheese), and in between (mostly on weekends) between 4 and 5 o'clock in the afternoon there was coffee and cake. And here in Saarland, in the summer months, people "swivel" especially in the evening (we Saarlanders don't grill, we swivel (in german: Schwenken), because we use a so-called "swivel grill" or tripod grill). We have a saying: The swivel (the one who stands at the grill) swivels the swivel (that's what we also call the special grilled meat) at the swivel (the special grill). In German: "Der Schwenker schwenkt den Schwenker am Schwenker." There are also various side dishes such as potato salad, pasta salad and baguettes. By the way: Saarland is the most French-inspired part of Germany.ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-RZ3vhPYex90.html

I think that the hot main meal in Germany is often at noon, also has to do with the fact that there used to be no all- day schools in Germany .Instead school only ran from morning to noon and when the children came home from school , they were always hungry and it a warm meal was usually prepared by the mothers.🙂

Indeed many Germans do a lot more home cooking than in the US. Personally I'd say I eat out maybe once per month -- plus maybe one or two home orders per month when I'm absolutely not in the mood for cooking. ;-)

I feel like the popularity of pork is decreasing, i see chicken more and more. Also for millenials and GenZ being vegeterian or vegan is more common, i see it more and more here

Nearly no one eats (ate) warm in the evening! The word for dinner even _contains_ bread: "Abendbrot" (evening bread) is a synonyme for Abendessen (which translates to dinner)! It's from the time where men ate their warm lunch at work and women (housewives) and kids after school. Now more women work professionally than traditionally and more and more people eat cold for lunch. So they cook (together) in the evening. I myself still eat bread in the evening. Btw. that's a reason why a bed is more important/significant then a kitchen. You can eat for weeks or month without a stove, as a German. But you can hardly sleep on the floor (except it's maybe june till august), bc. it's cold..

Always watching your videos during my lunch break, so ... Mahlzeit!

In Poland we eat warm lunch and a smaller, usually cold dinner. I guess when somebody can't eat something warm while at work, then eats bigger warm dinner in the afternoon

imo it makes a lot of sense to have the biggest meal either in the morning or around noon, when you actually need the energy and have enough time to digest.

Edit: I didn't know the term "carbs on carbs". I still stay to what I said before, that it is atypical for German meals to have multiple carbohydrates components. But in this case, there is no translation error. He was talking about "pasta with home fried potatoes". But I thought he was summarizing a few typical carbohydrates components like pasta or home fried potatoes. Here is my original post: 3:05 There is a translation error here. (rather severe actually because of the topic) The subtitles says "pasta with fried potatoes", but he actually says "[Klassisches Gericht] aus meiner Kindheit waren Nudeln *und* Bratkartoffeln". The meaningful translation would be: Typical meal components from my childhood were pasta or home fried potatoes. The point is that typical German meals always include at least one carbohydrates component like pasta, rice, potatoes or bread. And it's almost never more than one of them, just one. (Like for example Indian food, which can have rice with potatoes as part of the sauce) So we would never have a typical German dish with "pasta and fried potatoes". It's always just one of these.

Pumpernickel is a german word. It describes a very dark baked bread. But it is freshly soft and at the same time firm to the bite. You will love Schmitzel and also Mettwurst with Grünkohl.

Schnitzel is whole boneless low-fat tenderized veal meat with breadcrump coating using egg yolk cooked in oil. It is traditionally served with a lemon slice, some usually brown sauce and a side dish made from (somewhat) salted potato products, traditionally french fries, and a small bowl of salad from tomatos, cucumber and a lettuce leaf with one of various types of light ( vinegar ) dressings. The best known Schnitzel are the "Wiener Schnitzel" which traditionally is just simple, the "Schweine Schnitzel" which is the same using pork but also used as the base for an increasing number of other "Schnitzel", the "Jägerschnitzel" wich adds mushrooms to the brown sauce, the "Paprikaschnitzel" which comes with a red slightly spicy sweet pepper sauce, the "Putenschnitzel" which again usually is the simple variant but uses turkey meat, and the "Rahmschnitzel" using a cream based heavy yellow sauce. "Schnitzel" however also is a whole family of tenderized breadcrump coated oil cooked slaps of meat allowing for great variety, including exotic options without even "Schnitzel" in the name, such as "Cordon bleu".

"Himmel un Ääd" is from the Rhineland region and literally means "Heaven and Earth". It consists of Blutwurst (Blood Sausage) and Kartoffelbrei (Mashed potatoes)

The ingredients must be natural and not genetically modified. In Germany, it is not important how cheap ingredients are, but how genuine. Bon appétit. 😋

hahaha your reaction to "Mahlzeit" is so funny :D I laughed hard!

Of course I eat the warm meal in the evening, I work from morning too afternoon. There is no Canteen or something here so I can only eat what my Wife cooks at evening

No, schnitzel is not JUST a thin slice of meat, it's 99% beaten, flattened and breaded pork (but there are chicken alternatives sometimes)

The best cake is cheesecake ("Käsekuchen"). I've eaten several versions of that. Bienenstich follows after that as is delicious, too.

These typical German dishes are very traditional, that is, brought here from the past. Modern, young German cuisine is international. Recipes from Italy, Greece, France and Spain play an important role here. But the cuisine of America and Asia is also widespread. Steakhouses and Asian restaurants can be found in almost every city.

a friends girlfriend is vegetarian 🤣. lets just say she gets forgotten when ordering food or we are at a grill party. It isn't with malice or intent. It's just so unusual that nobody thinks of it. She or her boyfriend tell us tho, so we accommodate accordingly :). Traditionally (my parents tradition), you eat breakfast around 6-7 AM, cold cuts and the like. then at 11AM - 1PM you eat a big hearty lunch meal. and at around 6-8PM you eat a light brotzeit (light meal, like slice of bread with some cold cut and veggy. like the morning).

I LITERALLY am a German graphic designer eating schnitzel while watching you video! :O (no joke)

It is normal to eat one warm meal per day. Eating it in the evening is becoming more popular as lots of people don't have time to cook at lunchtime.

As a german living in Norway since a few years ago I get weird looks from my colleagues all the time for eating warm lunch cause all they eat for breakfast and lunch is knekkebrød (crispy flat bread) with cheese and jam or mayonaise. It seems like it's a very german thing to have your main meal at "lunchtime".

the original Schnitzel from Vienna is made from veal. however in Germany all kinds of meat are used, usually pork, beef or chicken

In the city where I studied there was a restaurant specialized on Schnitzel. They had 38 different Schnitzel dishes. It was so good!

In my family, when I was a kid, we had the hot meal at noon on weekdays (school was over by 1:30pm at the latest), at least for my mom and us kids. I always took 1-2 slices of bread with cold cuts, cheese or jam to school - I couldn't eat anything before the first break, otherwise I got terribly sick with all the consequences. Some of the hot food was set aside and we ate supper around 5-5:30pm, when my dad came home from work, then the set aside portion from lunch was warmed up for my dad and my mom and us kids ate bread or cereal. I always thought the dinner routine was weird - but I have a hunch that my stepmom wanted to watch her shows weekdays in the early afternoon and in the evening after 6pm in peace without cooking. 😂 Since my parents retired, they eat hot for lunch and bread in the evening and morning. And the regional aspect is totally true, because in Northwest Germany and the Netherlands there are a lot of similarities in traditional food (in winter a lot of stews, sausage specialties are quite similar etc.).

In Romania we also eat soups plus main dish for lunch like : mashed potatoes with stake or stews or pasta etc and dessert if given and for dinner we would eat the leftovers or some potato salad with egg, sandwiches and during the summer, a lot of mayo veggie salads: zucchini salad, eggplant salad, calliflower salad etc. We also fry zucchini in egg and flour and it is amazing during the summer with fresh tomatoes from your own garden...yum yum. The Romanian grandmas force you to have soup, because they would say: if you don't eat soup, you won't have a good digestion😂😂

11:30 We are from France in part that was German and people eat cold things for dinner, maybe some salty cheesy bread spread, maybe cheese and bread, some cold salad. Rarely in oven, usually at weekends. My origin is Serbian and it is same there, you eat what you find in fridge or remains from lunch since Serbs make big meals for lunch and there is always leftovers...

Finally someone thanks me for existing! You're welcome! :D love your videos man^^

Is usually one warm meal in the day in Germany if you eat up to 3 times, 4 times is rare but usually invaves 2 warm meals. It's not set in stone by any means but what you'd find most people custom to. And the schnitzel is a thin slice of meet mostly hammered flat, breaded and than (fried ?!?) cooked with oil (not deep fried).

to blow your mind even more, at somedays i don't even eat a warm meal at all

Abendbrot , or the evening meal is more like sandwiches. In germany its normal to have a good meal in the morning, consist mostly of Sandiwch style stuff or cereals, to have the energy to work for the day , at lunch its a warm meal and in the evening its sandwiches. Maybe in the Afternoon its some Coffee and cake too.

On the Sausages on the kale most common is called "Pinkel" as its ofen even called Kohl und Pinkel. Kale while to a degree eaten all over germany is something very popular in northern Germany and is a big social event "celebrated" by a so called Kohltour were you and your friends go for a long walk (in january/feburary) playing various traditional games and consuming quiet the high amount of alcohol after reaching the resturant you get served the afromentiond "kohl und pinkel" the pinkelwurst itself is kinda special in that its technicaly a meat and spice mix cooked in sausage form and consists mainly of beacon,onions,grains and various spices giving it a somewhat gritty texture. On the note of schnitzel while its mainly just a thin slice of meat its also quiet important to tenderize it by beating it even thiner with a pan or hammer.

11:00 What it means traditional we had cold Breakfast warm Lunch and cold Dinner. We switched that to cold Breakfast Cold Lunch and Warm Dinner since its hard to make warm food at work so we eat the warm food after work in the evening.

I just make Spätzle for my son just while ago. There are more than 1 meal, so I will pack it later and put it in the freezer for the future use.

You are right. There is A LOT of creative people in Germany. Especially where I live, in Berlin.

A Schnitzel is a thin (beat) slice of meat that is breaded (coated in flour, eggyoke and breadcrumbs) and fried. That's the definition. Kaffee und Kuchen, "coffee and cake" is our traditional afternoon ritual, similar to the british tea time, just with coffee instead of tea. We drink our afternoon coffee and enjoy some nice cake along with it. It can be very fancy, with a nice tablecloth, silverware and porcelain, especially on weekends or if you have guests.

The thing about warm meal around midday is that then your body has enough time to digest it before falling asleep. You drink enough water to move everything along and at the evening you eat something that won't overstrain your digestion system. If you have a filling, heavy meal before bedtime, your digestion suffers bc you are lieing down, so the stomach acid isn't digesting the food properly, you get heartburn and the feeling of "weight" in your belly, you get very thirsty and your sleep pattern gets interrupted so you would drink and replace the fluids that were needed for the food to get digested. You allso have to go to the bathroom.... It's usually not something you have to do if you eat a good lunch and a light dinner.

Abendbrot is really really good! Our favourite food time, because we can eat together and have fun conversations at home. No job, no school interference. And you can add so much more to your Abendbrot (evening bread) than what you had for breakfast. For breakfast we have/oftentimes eat more white wheat bread like Brötchen or Semmeln (bread rolls) with sweet things like marmelade, honey and Nutella, and in the evening you won't eat sweet things. The bread we use for the evening bread time is often more on the high protein and full grain side, darker and it'll fill your stomach more naturally because of its indigriences that should make you 'satt' (not hungry anymore). Add a salad, tomato&cucumber, special meat like Mett, grapes and cheese, or melon and ham, fried eggs and pickles... And you'll have the perfect Abendbrot! 😊❤

11:15 You understood it correctly. Most Germans (At least from my experience) eat their warm meal at lunchtime, and for dinner they eat something quick and easy, like a slice of bread or something

In my area it is actually uncommon to eat warm dinner at home in a normal day. We usually eat "Vesper": Bread with different sausuages, cheese, eggs, maybe fresh or pickled vegetables, spreads and so on. Rarely jam and alike. It is a different thing if you go out for dinner (what is not that common as she says). A Vesper btw also could be your lunch box at work or school weather it is warm or cold. Warm food in the evening is mostly the rest from our lunch or only for that person who has been working in the midday and did not have warm food yet that day. So that happens 2-3 times a week I guess.

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I heard that napoleon had a horse who got a treat of dense brown bread. The horses name was Nickel. So he had Pain pour Nickel.

Eating your main meal at lunchtime can actually help to maintain a healthy weight or even lose weight: If you eat a big (and healthy) meal at midday and skip the evening meal, the body goes into intermittent fasting mode for 16 hours until the next morning. Or instead of Abendbrot, some people only eat meat, eggs or joghurt to avoid carbs at night - also a way to lose some weight.

German chocolate cake has actually nothing to do with Germany 😃 The inventors last name is just 'German'

changing is a little too hard lets say we swap "Abendbrot" with Mittagessen.. so we eat cold in the morning, cold for lunch and then warm in the evening. The typical German eats 1 warm meal and 2 cold dishes through the day 😀

Ever wondered why Brits call their midday meal "dinner"? It's just something i now figured and I may be wrong, but it may be that the main warm meal used to be eaten in the midday, but in the US it was shifted to the evening. So they eat the same type of meal called dinner, but at different times of the day. It kinda makes sense to me, since in the old days people used to do a lot more physical work, so they needed a big meal and lots of calories before and during work, not after.

For the Schnitzel, the meat is once again cut in the middle and folded apart. This makes it thin and twice as big. We call this a butterfly cut. The meat is veal or pork. 🙂

Haha, I didn't think that cured sausage on the cale looked like a weenie, I thought it looked like a radish. Btw, of course she pronounced the 'h' in herbs, she's sounds British and therefore she knows how English words are pronounced ; ) And that constant "Mahlzeit" around noon can sometimes get a bit annoying at the workplace.

Our main (and warm) meal also strongly depends on age and workplace. When I was in school (and my brothers/sister) we mostly ate around 2PM Mittag (translates to "Midday", or Mittagessen "Middayfood/eating"). The kids were out of school, mother at home and there was still a lot of time to do dishes etc. My father was also mostly at home around the time or my mum brough him his meal to his workplace with a bike. :) He was working nearby. Many years later, living alone or married, many people and singles either a) eat with collegues their warm meals on break in the work canteen or go out to eat for a small bite (for real dining out we need our 2 hours roughly ;) No workbreak is that long, but in my old workplace we had 3/4 hour for lunch) or b) in the evening when they come home from work - hence also the split in the main meal time. For the vegans and vegetarian topic: I am not a vegetarian, but I mostly eat meat only 1, maybe twice a week and only from local animals who were allowed to live on grass and enjoy the lifetime they had and were also locally butchered without long transports. It is pricey, but the least we can do if we really want to eat meat. Except once a month for a steak, I only eat chicken meat, and maybe one small package of Mettwurst a month for a few days of something else than jam, butter and salads on bread. :D I know a lot of people that do not consume lots of meat, but here and there still enjoy a good sausage on the grill in summer or a steak when they dine out on birthdays and such.

Schnitzel is probably the most popular food in Germany. I've been a vegetarian for over 24 years, but I remember that my little brother always wanted only one thing when we went to restaurants to eat Italian, Indian or Chinese, even in these international restaurants: Schnitzel 😂

it's not just „a thin slice of meat“. 😉 For a Wiener Schnitzel it is best to use 0.5 cm thick schnitzel from the veal shell or the loin of veal. The veal nut is also suitable.

12:48 "Can't we eat out this week dad?" "Son... is our last name Croesus??"

When I grew up as a child, I came home from school, had lunch with my Mum, then took a 20-30 minutes nap and then we had coffee and cake together everyday! It was wondeful :D We had a chat, had something sweet and after that I was happy and refreshed to do my homework... I love these memories!

Wow, was watching your videos and I was sad because I watched all the new ones. Then there popped this new one up, perfect timing! ^^

11:20 I believe this comes from the late Working Class tradition. -Little quick breakfast, few slizes of bread with toppings -Lunch: When the Working Household Members and school children come home and have a prepared warm Lunch together (Often followed by a siesta) -Smaller Dinner, with bread and cold topping That way, the mother only had to cook one hot meal a day besides also having to manage the household. This of course is different to Weekend Meals. For example, in my family, at weekends, we had a late Breakfast / Brunch, skipped the Lunch and had a warm dinner. And in traditional Families, there would be a bigger, longer prepared Lunch on Sundays (from the time when people all still went regulary to church and then had a hot meals all together)

My friend ate 3 times outside last week and he said „Wow I am living such a decadent life at the moment.“ Now he wants to stop eating outside for this month completely. In germany, eating outside is often considered not only expensive but also „luxurious“ in a way. We usually eat at home or bring prepared meals when we have a long day ahead. So healthy!

Sometimes I eat pancake in the morning, sometimes fried potatoes with egg, when it isn't sure that I have a good lunch.

Schnitzel is NOT just a thin slice of meat. It's either veal or pork, it gets thinly pounded and breaded before being fried to a light golden brown perfection. Best served with some lemon (Vienna style) or different sauces (Hunters' style with mushroom sauce for example).

Schnitzel, or escalope in English, is meat that has been hammered flat. In Germany usually served breaded even if there's also a sauce, but in Austria it is only breaded by default if there is no sauce.

I think it is more the older generation who still eat only little in the evenings...or have the classical Abendbrot. My parents were born in die 50s, they still do it, unless i come visit😅. When us kids were younger, we also used to do it, but i guess we rebelled long enough, so we got our main meal in the evenings. And only on sunday evenings we ate Abendbrot. On Sunday we had the usual "Sonntagsbraten" etc for lunch. Also, i guess it is a matter of money. Students etc probably need to save more money and can't afford to have several big meals a day.😊