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11:09 oh our fish fingers. Our bestseller from the North Sea coast. And in case you're wondering whether they contain real fish. Yes, they contain real fillet pieces that are delivered in frozen blocks. We store them temporarily. Then they go into production. They are cut to size while frozen, breaded and deep-fried and then flash-frozen. Not all colourings are plant-based. There are also artificial colourings. ÖKO-Test has written this about them. QUOTE: Are food colourings dangerous? While natural colourings are generally harmless, artificial (synthetic) colourings are controversial. Azo dyes are synthetic colourings and can be found in sweets and drinks. Azo colourings include Tartrazine (E 102) Quinoline yellow (E 104) Yellow-orange S (E110) Azorubine (E 122) Cochineal red A (E 124) Allura red AC (E 129) The consumer advice centre warns against these colourings as they are suspected of causing pseudo-allergies. Typical symptoms of these intolerance reactions are asthma, skin oedema and hives.
Actually not, Aldi in the USA imports real German goods into their stores according to original recipes! (usually labeled) Sure, something made in the USA and then called German often doesn't deserve the name, but the same goes in Germany with US items from Germany! (except for peanut butter, which is significantly smaller, but just as good, if not sometimes even a little better!)
@@wallerwolf6930Well, over here they're mostly legally forced to use better ingredients (and by that I mean actual ingredients, not processed fake crap)
It was about pasteurized milk, also "Haltbare Milch" und diese ist immer für Wochen, wenn nicht Monate haltbar. Man sollte schon richtig hinschauen und hinschauen, vor allem aber auch verstehen, worum es geht.
@@Eysenbeiss You should read the text "Eurpeans rely on a completely different milk pasteurization..." which is wrong because we dont rely on it. it's just optional.
@@D2jspOFFICIAL Maybe YOU want to try to understand the context, stupid. It was COMPLETLY about pasteurized Milk and that's why the line was CORRECT, cause we definetly use a different way, since the milk is heated much higher and afterwards "shock-frostet", while in the US, they use lower heat and let it cool down slower too. That's why our milk stands longer. Don't argue, if you are not able to understand the topic, Troll.
@@Eysenbeiss JEDE Vollmilch ist pasteurisiert. Allerdings muss Vollmilch gekühlt werden. H-Milch ist ultrahocherhitzt und muss deswegen nicht gekühlt werden.
To classify things a little more precisely... This Edeka market takes its location at a US base into account. Some things were adapted for the American friends that would not be found in other places in Germany. And foam kisses have nothing to do with marshmallows. This is a type of sugared egg white that is applied to a thin, soft wafer and has a wafer-thin coating of chocolate. It tastes great and has surprisingly few calories for something so sweet...
@@shacks29 Well at first the store itself. We talkin about a place with 6500 inhabitants. I'm in a city with 20.000 people with a big Edeka, too. But it has not half the size of that thing. I'm not into that "Gluten free" stuff, but it seems for me, that there are a lot more products, that I'm used to observe. Than the sauces for barbeque. A lot more stuff, I never heard of. And I never saw that big Dr. Pepper (puke!) bottles. Not even as Walmart was in Germany. The shoping carts as well. Never saw such carts. And I'm sure, there is stuff, I don't even remarked...
@@melchiorvonsternberg844 Absolutly right. Usually, you get Dr. Pepper only canned and with a different recipe than what's in these base Edeka stores. The carts shown at this Edeka are usually yellow and used at Edekas discount store called "Netto". The amount of pre-packed and cut fruits is only typical for us-american supermarkest, you usually don't get those amounts and varities at Edeka or any other german Supermarket. Also, these "cheese sauce" premades aren't a common german thing and the claim, that there is an isle or corner with "foreign" products in EVERY german supermarket is not only a lie, but stupid - products like the ones shown are simply a part of the whole sortiment and only at times, when there are like "promotions" happening, they also reserve an additional space for that occasion. Here in Berlin f.e., all the shown items and products are just part of the regular assorment, nothing special. Puffulet - you won't get them in any regular Edeka or ReWe, only close to army bases.
@@Eysenbeisskurzer Einwurf: Die internationalen Sektionen dürfte man inzwischen in jedem modernisierten REWE und Edeka finden. Bei wahrscheinlich den meisten Supermärkten bieten die zentralen Auslagen ein wöchentlich wechselndes Angebot auch aus internationalen Produkten oder davon inspiriert aus z.B. Spanien, Ungarn, Griechenland, Italien, Asien oder Nord Amerika.
Outstanding Video; i would add that the "Almdudler" is a beverage with alpine herbs and is from Austria, not with applejuice as the Lady mentioned. Greetings from a german Subscriber, stay stoked and keep grinding
The culture shock comment about milk in the EU is somewhat misleading: Only H-Milch (=ultra heated milk) is kept unrefigrerated, Frischmilch (fresh milk, obviously) hast to be refrigerated, just like in the US.
i am a german and just stumbled across your video.. i have some things to add.. German sweets arent as sweet as in the usa, we use way less sugar. Coca cola also is less sweet and made with real sugar, i think you call it the fancy coke ? Its similar to the cocacola in mexico. If you are new in germany, try our bread and cakes at the local bakery.. Also, most german speak a decent english, maybe with a heavy accent but we do speak english. Dont be afraid to ask for help. If you buy bottles, coke, fanta, beer and so on, dont forget to return them! you pay between 8 and 25 Eurocent deposit (Pfand) for one bottle and you get it back when you return it. 25 cent might not be much but it adds up! And to make it a bit more complicated, not every bottle has a deposit on it, for example, hard liqueur never has pfand on it.
@@Marcel_Germann sorry but this isnt correct.. different countries use different sugar. some use sugar beet and some use cane sugar and the usa uses high fructose corn syrup for their coca cola.. this is why it tastes different.
@@Marcel_GermannFalsch. Die Cola in den USA wird mit einem ganz anderen Zucker hergestellt, als die in Deutschland und Mexico und das schmeckt man auch.
FYI- Coke products in the US are corn syrup-based whereas in other parts of the world, sugar-based. That's make the difference in taste and flavor.@@Marcel_Germann
The Coca Cola in Germany does not even come close to the one made in Mexico taste wise. It does say "Origina Flavor" but I tasted both and the one from Mexico reigns supreme!
One thing worth pointing out is that EDEKA is kind of a premium grocery store. - So the prices for food at EDEKA are somewhat higher than in other grocery stores like ALDI / LIDL / PENNY etc. In my personal opinion, it is worth it when shopping for fresh stuff like fruits and vegetables here the price is justified since EDEKA offers a higher quality / fresher products than the a fore mentioned so called discounters. Meat quality is also better at EDEKA, although I'd prefer a local Butcher for buying quality meat, I admit it is more expensive, but quality wise leagues above grocery stores. ... Small correction not every German grocery store offers "ethnic food" usually the larger ones, do not expect to find such a shelf in small grocery store in some village.
Thats not exactly true. EDEKA is the "regular" supermarket just like REWE or Tegut, but Penny, Aldi or Lidl are Discounters so they are cheaper. A premium supermarket is something else.
@@jnwiesmann6787 What would you consider to be a premium supermarket? - EDEKA beeing franchises or not a near the upper end of the price range. Sure you can spend more on individual products in specialised stores. Like a Store specialised in Wine will have more varieties and higher priced Wines than EDEKA or REWE. Same goes for the Buterchy etc. etc. However what kind of Supermarket are we talking about, that offers higher quality than EDEKA / is higher priced an can be found in nearly every larger city in Germany?
Fanta is NOT anything like a carbonated orange juice. It's a soda, still. With 3% juice by law and lots of added sugar. Also coloring, which is not the one used in the USA, because that's illegal in the EU. But it is less sweet, does not contain corn syrup and is fruitier in flavor. The original Fanta recipe was developed by Coca Cola Germany in WW2 because they got cut off due to the embargo and had to get creative. So they took the ingredients they could actually source with no sea trade and war raging. Which was mainly apple cores and orange peels. So no straight pressed juice, but remnants cooked out of fruit waste. Still took off and held them together till after the war. Fun fact on the sugar: Germany, not being precisely tropical, can not grow sugar cane. However, selective breeding of root vegetables produced sugar beets, which can be grown in cold climates and produce lots of sugar locally. This is generally where all refined sugar in Germany comes from. Cane sugar is specifically labeled and generally more expensive as it's an imported product. You often see what may look like molasses on store shelves. That would be a thickened sugar beet juice product sold under various names, the biggest brand being Grafschafter Goldsaft. Tastes and looks a bit like blackstrap molasses, but it's cooked turnip juice and not a byproduct of sugar production, but something Germans make on purpose, as a bread topping.
You are wrong about Fanta. The us-american Fanta has NOTHING to do with the german fanta, that's why it is green overseas and has a completly different taste. It was not developed by coca cola, but they bought the company producing it and when they split the company again, the name could be used for a different Fanta.
"This is generally where all refined sugar in Germany comes from" - Not from sugar canes, but from sugar beet. At least in the South region BW/Bay where i live and i am pretty sure everywhere else in Ger.
@@Eysenbeiss fanta was developed in nazi germany during ww2 because of the trade embargos that didnt allow coca cola to deliver their syrup to germany. it is actually the same product in general, it tastes different because the US uses corn syrup instead of the sugars we use over here. also the coloring is another one which is banned in the european union. thats all there is to it. same product otherwise
But with the fruit juices you have to look for e.g. Apfelsaft - apple juice from 100% apple or Orangensaft - orange juice from 100% oranges - but there is e.g. Orangennektar - what is orange juice watered down and sweetened. "saft" usually means 100% of the fruit - "nektar" is water and sugar added.
@@geneviere199 Stimmt so nicht ganz, vor allem nicht was die Frische angeht, denn "Orangensaft" ist nicht zwingend "Direktsaft", sondern kann aus Konzentrat hergestellt werden, genau wie "Nektar" - beides hat den gleichen Ursprung, es geht nur um die Konzentration, denn der Saft muss am Ende dem Original entsprechen, alles andere kann verdünnt oder gemischt sein. Außerdem kann Saft auch Fruchtfleisch enthalten, was bei Nektar normalerweise nicht der Fall ist.
@@Eysenbeiss Ich sprach nicht von frisch gepresst. Der größte Unterschied für mich ist aber das Zumischen von mehr Wasser in Verbindung zur Frucht - und dem Zuckerzusatz. Was Nektar dann i.R. auch viel billiger macht.
Not EVERY supermarket in Germany has a Bakery attached to it, alot of them do but we have Small Supermarket that dont have any bakery attached, but usually they still have a "bakery section" inside the store with "freshly rebaked frozen things" but they taste really good aswell. Should try Our Bread its really good and not as sweet as u know from the USA
About the milk: You should look better. We also have milk, that must be refrigerated. It's called "Frisch Milch" or "Vollmilch" (pasteurized). That milk you saw, was "H-Milch" (Ultrahocherhitzt).
11:30min It's not always in gram. I'm in my 30s and I order slices of sausage or ham like my mom, grandma and great-grandma did: "Ein Viertel, bitte!" "A quarter, please!" Refering to a quarter pound. Here in Germany a pound (ein Pfund) are exactly 500g (half a kilo), so a quarter of salami are 125g. :) And by the way ... she seems very educated and informed for an American.
Believe me or not but as a German woman, who lives in the US for almost 3 yrs now (married to an American guy) I felt pretty much the same when I went grocery shopping for the first time in the States. I was like.. why is this refrigerated? Why is this not refrigerated? Why do they have cup holders at the shopping carts? Why is this so expensive? What the heck is this? 😂
Sodastream: it seems most Americans don't know about Pfand or things like these . When you buy this container as a new one, they cost more because you pay for the container itself, the metall construction. When you go with an empty one to the EDEKA you only pay for the filling, not for the bottle. Because you gave a bottle and get a bottle. The same when you buy campinggas(propan I think) in big containers here in Germany.
Nice video, thanks for that! Just for your information, because I've heard it many times that chocolate kisses are like marshmallows, which is definitely not true. It is sweetened egg foam with a chocolate coating. However, this filling becomes tougher over time, i.e. when it is no longer fresh. It's a lottery to get fresh ones ;-)) But they only taste really good fresh.
We have different kinds of milk pasteurization too. What you mean is H-Milch that last a few month, than we have haltbare Frischmilch that last one or two weeks and we have Frischmilch that lasts only a few dasy.
No surprise, for me as a German. But the French do mustard , a bit better than we do. For example, there is Dijon mustard (named after a town in northern Burgundy), or things like fig mustard. Everything is a little more in the sweet direction. Dijon mustard is also ideal for salad dressing or for grilling...
@@melchiorvonsternberg844i absolut love your honesty, saying "yes but in france, is mustard the best" as a german myself. *'Löwensenf"* _("Lionmustard")_ Brand is still my fav. for everyday use, but ya for salad or special sauces, i also pick Dijon mustard BUT we germans do make THE best *"sweet mustard"* handsdown, there can France do what they want, at least at this direction we made a Nr.1 point ;) Have a good one & again respect for straight say how it is. Cheers
I'm from Belgium and living since one year in Germany I'm still surprised by all the breads and Danish pastry they have this is more than in Belgium and we have allready a lot of bread and pastry. The food in the EU is definitely healthier, less sugar and no artifical colours in general. In Belgium we also try to use as less as possible artifical colours. It's interesting to see how she compares to the US. Much people speak English in Germany and like somebody said maybe with a thick accent. Most people are keen to help especially the Schwaben, this is in the the South of Germany (Baden-Würtemberg) they are really helpfull.
Not just are you saving money by going to the local grocery store instead of commissary, the stuff at the grocery store is likely better for you as well! Us Europeans have a lot higher food safety standards, and less additives than similar foods from USA. I'm Swedish and honestly even avoid buying items imported from USA because of all the junk used in USA that we don't use here. German grocery store looks more in depth than most Swedish ones though, here it's for example very rare to find a manned butcher counter in stores, at the most you'll find a manned counter for cold cuts and some more special cheeses, but I haven't seen many manned butcher counters here since I was a kid.
@@justarandomgothamite5466 I don't think they have to. If I'm not mistaken Commissaries are stores directly on or nearby US Army bases and access to them is restricted to active duty US military that are stationed in Europe. Retired veterans living here have also access.
@@Tho_Me genau genommen liegen die meisten zwischen Militärbereich und Wohnbarracken, weswegen auch Deutsche, die auf der Base arbeiten, dort einkaufen können und es gibt fast immer Tage, wo Soldaten bzw. deren Angehörige Freunde mitnehmen dürfen. Ob man die dafür anmelden muss weiß ich nicht, könnte aber sein. Lohnt sich inzwischen aber eh nicht, aber ich weiß aus den 80er und 90ern in Berlin, wo es zwei davon außerhalb der Base gegeben hat, dass es sich damals gelohnt hat, auch weil man zu der Zeit halt noch Dinge bekommen hat, die es hier nicht immer oder regulär gegeben hat. Ich hab z.B. mein erstes Baseball-Shirt dort gekauft und auch das erste von Michael Jordan.
@@phillipbanes5484 Since I don't know prices at the Commissary I can't comment on pricing differences. But it totally makes sense to compare European food standards to US food standards. At least when it comes to EU member states. Let me explain: The EU is the regulatory body for a lot of things for all EU member states and Iceland, Norway and Liechtenstein. The latter 3 are participants in the European Economic Area (EEA) where the same rules are applied. That includes minimum food standards as well. A single member state can have higher standards but never can lower them below that minimum. As for what standard is better I don't really know. But I think that politicians and the industry are fucking consumers over no matter if you live in the US or the EU. Also we "Europs" like to look down on "Muricans" a little too often for my taste. Greetings from Germany
I appreciate the video especially for detailing the food quality differences. When I visit my family in N.E. Germany I usually shop at Edeka. I didn’t realize they stocked so much natural food items.
As a german I find the Oktoberfest music in the background so annoying. And Rucola ist actually the italian word although everybody sais that. The german word ist Rauke. Sorry for being a "Klugscheißer".
as an german, i love this kind of videos, but even as an german i dont buy things very often at an EDEKA, cause its much more expensive then an LIDL or an ALDI
Deshalb unterscheiden sich Vollsortimenter und Discounter. Frag dich mal warum du bei REWE und EDEKA an der Kasse beim Einpacken nicht hetzen musst! Ritschditsch,, das bezahlst du mit. Übrigens sind die "Ja"-Produkte bei REWE "aldisiert", haben also genau das Preisniveau von ALDI, Lidl und friends!
Pasteurised Milk ist everywhere the same! The shelfstable milk that is shown here is Haltbarmilch. Its heated to 135 c for a few seconds and immediately cooled down to 5 degrees. This milk is shelfstable for months and needs no cooling
I live in Québec and groceries are outrageously expensive! We live close to Malone N.Y. state and there is an Aldi store! I just spent $234 CDN at our local IGA! 4 bags just for 1 person. Mostly veggies, pasta, cheeses, cat food/ litter and milk products. Before the covid things were half as expensive! My pay did not go up! Healthcare workers are striking next week for more pay etc.
We were stationed in Hanau from 72 to 96 (my father retired there in 81 and worked as an Army civilian as I did) and my Mother was German. We shopped both in the Commissary and on the economy downtown. I remember taking the bus downtown at 15 by myself and spending my baby sitting money or summer hire pay checks. So much fun.
We went to the market every Saturday. Always bought fresh veggies and flowers. I always bought bouquets of lilacs or roses and took them home. So much cheaper and fresher than the commisary.
I came back last week from USA, i noticed that european supermarkets have more groceries in stock, more selection and cheaper 👍 Tony’s chocolonely in USA Walmart 7,80$ in Germany at Rewe 2, 69€ 😳
Those things in the "exotic" aisle are usually in very small packages and horribly overpriced. If you are not just looking to try stuff once, I suggest finding a specialty store. In most bigger cities, there are little corner shops that specialize in authentic products from specific countries or broader areas, i.e. the Turkish grocer, Asian markets or African stores. Stuff there ist most of the times cheaper, in bigger packaging and of better quality than the "authentic" stuff from the German supermarkets and you can find some fresh produce you won't see in the supermarket. And if you are lucky, you get cooking tips and tricks during checkout.
Great tip. You’re 100% right. I’ve got an Asian corner store I get all my products from in bulk and a Turkish market I go to for the best produce and “exotic” goods 👍🏽 I’ll make a note of that in the next supermarket video we’re publishing. Thx
I took German in high school and always got good grades but of course my mom is German. My brother went to German school and took English. Not as easy because it was Englis not American. Lol
For your daughter, you have to look for beverages where "Nektar" is written on it. It is juice with normal water. It is usually not in the packages like soda but in the ones like juice (also located where the juice is), but we usually buy juice and stretch it to nektar of our prefered concentration or make it into a "Schorle" with sparkly water. Saft = Juice Nektar = Juice with water Schorle = Juice with sparkly water
Nektar is juice / puree + water + sugar so for your kids you should also dillute Nektar with water too reduce the sugar content. Nektar has about the same sugar content as juice but because it is mostly water they add regular refined sugar to make it sweet again. That is mostly done for fruits too expensive like passion fruit or too puree like as mango to be sold as 100% fruit juice. Or they do it to rip you off like these drink boxes of orange "drink" for kids are often water + sugar + a little juice
Fun fact. Many packaging in german grossers also have multi-lingual labels. usually on the back or side, It is really easy to find the info you are looking for even without knowing much german.
Thats a great video, very well explained. Btw Almdudler is not Apfelschorle, its an austrian lemonade made of mountainous herbs or something. People really like it. And the fish sticks from Frosta are the best but also the most expensive - Sure Iglo is the marked leader for decades. With the eggs there are some differences. There is like 4 or 5 different kinds. But if you go for the bio eggs anyway these are the best ones. The types indicate how the chickens were bred and how much space they have to roam which also translates into the price.
17:02 The water is particularly calcareous in southern Germany. That's why the dishwasher requires special salt. It only costs €0.80 and only needs to be refilled occasionally. The dishwasher will indicate this.
At the self check out you can only chevk out if you have a bank card ...you only have a card when you are old enough to drink. If you pay at the register they ask you how old you are and wanna see your Personalausweis. And that was not apfelschorle...you pointed at almdudler that s a herb lemonade, super yummy, has only the color in common with apfleschorle 😊
Ooh yes , spent a lot of time at Graf ( gunnery) I was a tank mechanic ( Schwienfurt) we went twice a year , never got off post , but have fond memories😅
For imperials struggling with the metric system in terms of food weight, you can just roughly say for every lbs you want half a kilo. 2 lbs = 1 kilo. 4 lbs = 2 kilo and so on.
Good overview. It should be stressed that the store brands (EDEKA, REWE, ALDI, Kaufland; LIDL, NETTO) offer different varieties. EDEKA and REWE definitely serving a larger variety of 'healthier' products. As alway, you have to know your way around.
Applejuice does not have bubbles. Apfelschorle does, because it's watered with sparkling water. What you are looking at at 21:20 is Almdudler. This is a herb Soda and has got nothing to do with Applejuice.
Later in the year they have Petersilienwurzel (parsley root) Combine that with multicolor carrot, parsnip, mushrooms (champignon) and slow cook that in a cream sauce with onion powder, garlic. (zuricher art) Ad soy sauce, salt, white pepper to taste. I like to ad strips of chicken strips .(innerfilet)
Just a tip on how to pronounce „Gries“. It is pronounced like „grease“. the German „i“ is pronounced like the English „e“. The „e“ after an „i“ in Germany just indicates that the sound longer, it is not pronounced after an „Ii“ and it is silent. However, if you find the order reversed as in „Ei“ (egg) it is pronounced like the English „I“ . Hope that helps. Oh and btw Almdudler is NOT Apfelschorle ! It might look like it, but is is not. It is in fact a soda with herbs and it is from Austria, but Germans like it too. And of course there is PLENTY of apple juice in Germany - in the juice section. Clear apple juice and also natural apple juice which is not clear. I think in America they call it cider. And be aware if you find „Cidre“ in Germany, which is French and it also contains alcohol. Finally I know who buys Pufuletti! I tried them ones, never again - for me. Just horrible. But it’s good so everybody can find something to their taste.
The EU has now banned non-GMO now in foods. No more round up in food. I was in Stuttgart cleaning out my mothers house in October and I noticed a lot of the German foods are graded on the label from A to F.
0:44 not every supermarked, but the most and we were still buying our stuff inside the supermarked, havent visited a bakery in years now 7:38 lol smarties and M&Ms are completely different things except they booth contain chocolate 21:10 good luck if you buy them believing they are "apfelschorle", but they arent bad just insanely far off
Can you pls stop putting this type of music in the background? Its not typical german music and bavarian or the Oktoberfest are not representing germany. Its like everyone in the world would believe, that every us citizens wearing some cowboy hat and listing to country music. The rest of the video is a good explanation to germans grocery stores.
Agreed. And please let me add that most Germans even don't like this sort of Bavarian music. So the far bigger part of Germans will not only not feel represented but offended by it. You probably didn't know, but this is why jensb.5456 and me are telling you and politely asking to not repeat using it as "typical German" in your videos to come. Thank you!
Im surprised about the alcohol at self-checkout. I know that Germany is different in that 16 year olds are allowed to drink and buy beer. But here in Czech Republic anytime you scan an alcoholic item into self-checkout it needs to be approved by the staff. Either directly on your self-checkout machine or I think theyre able to do it from their terminal that controls all of them if they just have a look at you and you are visibly older. Sometimes even if you buy a non-alcoholic beer you still need to be checked .. as even non-alcoholic does contain some alcohol even if its negligible. Anyway thats how its here.
@@arnodobler1096 I am not familiar with the newest versions of such machines but here a card payment doesn't mean anything. I've had my own debit card (the trick is the account is still legally in the name of your legal guardian) since I was 13. However we are starting to use Bank ID as identity and age verification.
Dedicated "foreign food"-sections are only in bigger groceries (not necessarily in small rural shops). And no, bakeries aren’t located by default in German groceries too. HTH Flavoring water - yep, Germans are used to have tap water (using the soda stream device to carbonate it). JFTR
Every food that is pre-packed provides translations on its label (in the EU by law) minimum about the ingredients. Apple/Google/deepL/… are providing popular translation apps.
Buttermilch is almost similar to Kefir, it is like whey. Schaumküsse are like a mixture of whipped sugar and a little bit of cram, usually with a dark chocolate covering, but you can get them in white chocolate too, or any colour, when handmade. The "cheese-gate" is the reason, why there is NO, not a single type of really good us-american cheese, especially not fresh ones. Scharf, when it comes to food, is not spicy, but "hot" - spicy in german would be "würzig", meaning that you get a lot of flavours, but it isn't necessarily "hot", like chilis and stuff. The soda-tanks are not necessarily refilled, that depends on the stores possibilities, but you get a prefilled one in exchange and are only charged for the content, the filling, the soda itself.
7:49 smarties are not m&m's.Smarties were first. m&m's had to put the letter m on them to differentiate them from smarties. in europe, at least in germany you will only find smarties and no chocolate only m&m's, only ones with fillings like peanuts or crispy etc
Very nice video! Your Aldi has so much more than ours in our village. lol. The flat bread is really nice, I like it as a wrap with humus, pickled beetroot, kale, olive oil and balsamico vinegar. Or with cream cheese and Preiselbeeren (cranberries?), very messy, but delicious. It's great that you are vegan too! Aldi should also have vegan ready meals in the fridge, ours does. One thing I find annoying though is that only a few products are labelled vegan/vegetarian, because the companies don't have to. This is so much better in the UK, I wonder if they use these labels in the US too. All the best! :)
8:40 Wrong. Artifical coloring is used everywhere. It just has to be declared on the ingredients list. Look for all the "E" numbers. What manufacturers use is up to them. It is not regulated like "avoid if you can". There might be more people looking to avoid it but from toothpast with titanium dioxide = white to butter with carotine = yellow, food colors are everywhere.