American reacts to What to do at a German Christmas Market 

I live in Greece and my daughter takes some private lessons to prepare for her exams and her teacher asked, if he could have Glühwein and Plätzchen for Christmas and I felt culturally so valued and recognised 😊

@@helgaioannidis9365 You have no idea how happy that makes me. I hope you could help him out. But where the hell do you get your hands on Glühwein in Greece?

That’s because it’s called „mulled wine“ in English. But yeah, the world should call it Glühwein 😉

@@K__a__M__I I make it myself. I've never bought ready Glühwein. I grew up on homemade Glühwein. And it's easy to find all ingredients here in Greece, especially lemons and dry, red wine. I posted the recipe a bit further up 😊

@@helgaioannidis9365 Oh that's even better. Thank you for your service!

Caramelized, deep fried, authentic™ _Gloovyne_ with added corn-syrup! On a stick! Next to the gun range! Drink 20 gallons and get your next red plastic cup for 25% off! USA! USA! USA!

Especially the drinking in public

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I think at international DW the hosts need to be near a level of native bilinguals. Never saw a DW video and thought "ugh, that accent is cringe"

She's half scottish so her english should - at least in theory - be adequate.

I've never heard of them either and I'm from Berlin ^^"

she is also insanely beautiful

That’s because they’re an invention of Hamburgs red light district initially.

The wine may be cheep, but you should like it's taste 😉 In Düsseldorf, where I am living, some of the Glühwein-Buden are run by winegrowers. We also have white mulled wine and the mulled wine is clearly better when the wine is tasty. But you'd nerver use a really rare or expensive wine for it.

@@TierchenF95 yes of course, cheap, but not bad 😁 But it's important it's not a sweet, but a dry wine 🍷

NEVER use cheap wine. Only good wine makes the "Gluehwine" good. All other is BS!

@@stefanhaler3318 you mean you use wine that costs more than 20€ a bottle?! 😮

@@helgaioannidis9365 no, never. A good german red wine will cost about 4 to 8 €. All others are for to drink pure. And NEVER add sugar.

In the US the children were brought by the storks !

That was a very American reaction 😂.

Here in Hamburg "Santa Pauli" christmas market is fenced and has age control at the entrances. You need to be at least 18 to go in and enjoy your mulled wine while watching striptease on stage :-)

Neither did I, never heard of one 😂

@@kuebbisch Is it on the "Reeperbahn"? That was the first thing that came to my mind when they talked about Hamburgs erotic Christmas market.

Do WE tough ? I also know a Lot of families where hell Breaks lose on them in this time , anualy. I guess its 50:50

@@kg7026 I guess it`s more that we WANT to love it, but it doesn`t always work out, wich makes the entire situation even worse :(

I think we hate it but go along with it because we get a reason to drink unhealthy amounts.

Or "Dinner for Brot" for the added culture shock... 😄

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Danke! Dir auch schöne Weihnachten! ☺️

Du auch! :)

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My reaction was more "of course berlin"

Consider mixing 2 parts of prepacked Glühwein with 1 part of orange juice (smooth). Tends to improve the results

Kinderwunsch is also delicious and also keeps you warm on a cold night

@@scarba kinder_w_unsch KEEPS you warm on a cold night 😂

@@tramper42 haha 🙄

@@scarba Kinderwunsch certainly keeps you warm at night - I agree. 🤣

@@grandmak. omg autocorrect is a menace but sometimes funny 😄

Well I didn’t see it until the next Christmas, but thank you so much and merry Christmas!!!

Definitely

Here in the Black Forest, it's rather busloads of french and swiss. We welcome the swiss, cause they have those cute accents and spend a lot. Not so much the french, cause they are french (that's a very regional love-hate relationship we have here).

High Bayer! Frohes Fest aus dem hohen Norden!

@@winterlinde5395 Wünsche ich dir auch 😊🎄

@israelude6798 Sure why not spricht Du Deutsch?? Hehehe Sorry a littel joke

@@beyonderprime5020 Du solltest solchen Spam-Posts. die noch dazu ,eist betrügerisch sind, nicht antworten, sondern diese konsequent melden. Nur so verschwinden diese vielleicht irgendwann mal wieder. Frohe Weihnachten

So even at our mini Christmas market, which is only half a day long, there are mugs and a corresponding deposit. Have never heard or experienced anything else 🤔

At my local Christmas market they are only 1€ and super pretty.

Have never been to a Christmas market where there is no deposit and the mugs are free. This is a huge business all over Germany, Austria, etc. Collecting mugs is now a hobby. Most places, the Pfand is 3-3.50€.

Unfortunately more and more people don´t value the traditional handmade products from Saxony (Pyramids, Schwippbogen, etc.) and Thuringia (Glas decorations from Lauscha) and buy some Chinese crap that was made using industrialized production methods. In my opinion the traditional handmade christmas decorations look way better and have so much better quality. I would always just buy a little less decorations, so that I can still afford it but go for the better handmade quality.

@@felixklusener5530 I recommend my friend's little shop in Leipzig, then. She's from the Erzgebirge and she can do almost everything. Her signature works are carved ostrich eggs made into a lamp, but she can also make carved wood figurines, sew costumes, paint and draw amazingly, make litlle felt animals, work with leather and plaster ...I somehow have the feeling that these artisan genes are innate to Erzgebirgians, somehow.

Yes of course!

Ugh don't remind me. Every year some music Vereine would parade around my village (Unterkirnach, near Villingen-Schwenningen) at sun rise till whenever, playing "Katzenmusik". Worst way to be forcefully woken up tbh. And they only did that so that they could get a free shot at every bar, restaurant etc. And my parents would drag me and my sister to those parades that happened at different days in every village to catch some of that nasty tasting cheap sweets. They stopped doing that after that one time, when some witches dragged me away and tied me on their waggon and had vulgar dances around me for the whole parade. My mom was shocked to learn that most of those "witches" were men in their mid 20s and THEY were shocked when they learned that i was 11 years old. I still had to participate at the children parades though, where every grade at the local village school had to make costumes themselves.