EIERBALS DEEP INSIDE OF GRONINGEN (groningen city guide 2023) 

I never had it but I would try it for my youtube Underdog Eats

Once. And that was, eh, enough. Probably it would work with kolibrie eggs... But I really think the breadcrumbs would the star of the 'dish', whereas the bitterbal has not 'star' parts in it. 😊

Actually no. I am going to make them. Did you check out Scottish eggs?

Almost every week😂lol

Better than any other Dutch snackbar snack, I wish they existed in Amsterdam.

As a born and bred Frisian, I agree. Er gaat niets boven Groningen (stad). Love the place. Also, an eierbal is basically a proper Scotch egg, change my mind!

Je hebt eierballen en jankballen.

..because they ( in the Randstad) live at the end of the world... From Groningen you drive through to Germany, Poland, Massive Russia, Siberia... to Rotterdam it is on and NorthSea...

Wanted to say the same but for the rest thanks for promoting my city❤

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indeed.

we will definitely be back - michelle is dying to go to an italian restaurant that's there 😅 we haven't been to sweden, denmark, OR norway! we want to! we had meant to go to sweden and norway this summer but we ran out of time...

Thanks for your respond. Did you both ever go to Nijmegen. They won a few times for the best shoppingcenter of the Netherlands. By the way the pizza's I tastend in Sweden and Denmark where very good. Greetings to Michelle and looking forward to your next videos. Another recommodation in visiting Landal or Center Parcs. Many dutch families visit these holiday parcs. Greetz and have a great evening. 😁

yeah we have a vlog in nijmegen! thank you for all of the recommendations :)

yes, the second G is like the ending G sound, also found in the Dutch words "ding" (thing), "zing" (sing), and "ving" (caught). and as you can see, there's already 2 in there that share the same ending with their English counterparts i guess the phrase "mensen die dingen zingen in Groningen" (People who sing things in Groningen) is a pretty good one for training too just following up the sounds in short intervals from one another [edit: tangent about pronuncuation from here on] so yeah, English speakers already have that sound in their arsenal, although they may sit on the "nguh" sound of the G in the end more (seems especially true for British English speakers that really sing out the end because of non-rhoticity being the norm and that also having an effect on other letters) Dutch speakers don't really sing out the end of words like most Anglo speakers do anyway, when the word is done, it is done, so it's par for the course we don't really sit on it that one either, usually easier for Yanks to pick up (Americans from the northeast of the USA, because of their rhoticity and rapid-fire way of speaking) our alternating accents every odd syllable works for them too, we speak kind of like a musical rhytmic pulse that has a strong every first and the 2nd is a weaker similarly, as a Dutch speaker, i can sound like an American way more convincingly than i can sound like a British English speaker, certainly more convincing than the average British English speaker even, because they already speak english and their habits are more set in stone speaking the same language, most brits are shit at sounding like an american, the Dutch are more like yankees in their way of speaking english lol now of course i'm speaking as a randstad Dutch speaker where it's fast and rhythmic and we don't sing anything out on the end, you can't even really hear whether something is one or a double vowel by the length of it, but there are subtle differences in pronouncing them differently with tonality (double vowel goes up more in pitch than a single) or rhythmic changes, and we have very strong attacks on our syllables to make the faster speed still distinguishable, very hash sounds that make a V sound like an F and a Z like an S to people that don't really know the subtleties, and ofcourse we have the hard guttural G/CH much like the scots do theirs. not quite all the way Amsterdam accent, where that phenomenon is very exaggerated, but there's some of those markers hidden in there in most randstad accents, the harsh sounds are to support the faster pace of talking and not turning it into slurry it lends itself pretty well for rap music because it's so rat-tat-tat in its phrasing and attack. but your mileage may vary depending on region

i knew it!! 😂 michelle wouldn’t believe me

And it was a very high traffic road too….connecting the north of the city to the centre.

I used to ride through here on my bicycle on my way to school if I am not mistaken. All the way from the 'Indische Buurt' to the 'Willem Lodewijk Gymnasium'.

@@AlexK-yr2th true, that one is better

haha we are doing exactly this :) stay tuned!

@@buncharted Nice i’m looking forward to it.

we've been to delft but we didn't visit that museum - sounds interesting though!

i read your comment and looked up at the menu at bram ladage and there it was! we'll definitely have to check it out sometime :)

wait what 🤔

Translation: On every pot, a lid will fit. @@buncharted loosely translated or reading between the lines, you two make a nice couple, fit nicely together, belong together, and why you'd need to go back to your hotel room....... ... ... ... ;-)) I guess the visited expedition explains that one ;-)

​@@SwirlingSoulah, the p.e.n.i.s museum..😂

ohio gets very, very humid during the summer! athens is a beautiful little town though :)

Pretty sure I'd completely cease to function at 40°C 🥵

@@MLWJ1993 I was really glad the classrooms had AC

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hahah i know to be fair, dutch people are some of the tallest in the world, but ya know...

​​@@buncharted must be something in the water here.... Anyway. I love Groningen, 'small town hospitality but it's not a small town' is a good way to describe it. It sure feels isolated somehow, in a positive way. When you get back you can visit Forum to watch the city from above and have a drink at the top. It has some nice bars and a city festival Noorden Licht once a year

ahh we didn't! just the eierballen! for the drenthe vlog (this saturday!) we basically just stuck around assen, but we definitely want to go back and see more of it... maybe with a car or camper van!

going From Twente Drenthe to Groningen along the German border is interesting. Perhaps walk the Pieterpad from Limburg to Groningen?

@hcjkruse huh - that is very interesting!

our latest video is in assen :) we haven't tried the grunneger worst but that sounds very, very tasty!

@@buncharted ah, i hope you will find my province as tasty as Grunn'n. We speak dialect here. Thats a lot different then the Dutch language. Have you notice that too?

we picked up some nuance but the dialect wasn't quite as challenging as our experience yesterday in antwerpen 😅

To up that one. The province of Groningen has three cities officially. Winschoten is the youngest of those. We will celebrate the fact that it got it's city rights 200 years ago in 2025. But to get back into the matter of church towers. The city of Winschoten has a free standing tower on his main church, which is known as the Marktpleinkerk, or Market Square church. That tower is lower than the Martini tower, but almost shares its nickname. It is called the Olle Witte, or Old White.

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we were there on saturday! we have to go back though. you’ll see why in the next video 😅

If you love music you just have to visit Music Vanderveen in Warenhuis Vanderveen in Assen! Biggest music store in the northern part of The Netherlands.

A second time in Assen?! Great news haha! I’m curious to know why! And can’t wait for the next episode 😃

@@WildGameBoss a second time in drenthe for sure, *maybe* a second time in assen :)

i haven’t but i would definitely try it if i saw it somewhere. i have tried kaliber 0.0 beer from them though and it was pretty good!

@@buncharted I'll keep it in mind, haven't heard of that one before. Was fun to see you guys visit De Koffer, an institution which I personally financially support from time to time;)

what!

not this time - we stuck close to assen for the vlog. what should we do there??

it is pretty close to Assen and it is UNESCO world heritage! It's a giant former prison colony so the main thing is the prison museum but there is a bunch of stuff such as a brewery too.

it looks really cool! added it to our list - definitely have to check that out sometime...

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hahahahaha

How many have you compared? I mean, if it's under 10 it's just a hobby without statistical value.

it was! it’s mentioned in the video (on the screen, not audibly since we did not notice at the time!)

@@buncharted Ow ok whoops, i missed that 😺There are a few cities in the Netherlands you could be walking with family, grandparents, kids and not even knowing you all walking thru some of those streets, like uhhm Alkmaar. Sadly alot was bombed in ww2 in the center of Groningen. Luved ur video!!

that was definitely one of them! it was such an unassuming little side street...

Groningen used to have two red light districts apart from eachother, two streets actually. Luckily the prettiest street is a proper street now (I'm in favour of legalizing prostitution, but still don't like it). I lived next to this one for years, it's quite avoidable. It's right in the middle of the busy centre, but if you don't randomly take a right or left turn you'll walk right past it.

the american version :)

@@buncharted Yeah Coffeeshop in Dutch means weed selling cafes a lot of the time. You should call it Cafe or Bistro. Koffie en Theehuis can also be used. But Coffeeshop is mostly known as weed selling venues. Which can be a little confusing for people.

​@@DJWezzyKI was about to comment the same question 😂

it wasn’t intentional 😅😅😅

They'd likely ask you to stop doing so first before anything... drastic... happens.

it’s from kate spade but from like 10 years ago 😅

it's an OG famicom so it has the japanese cartridge style!

@@buncharted Oh nice! :)

yeah, of course every game will be in japanese, but... that's part of the fun? 😅

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we did walk through pretty early in the day, but you might be right!

@@buncharted It's never closed, but early in the day there is hardly anyone there. A closed curtain either means there is a customer or the room is empty, but at that hour most are empty.

the best japanese food we’ve had in the netherlands continues to be tensai ramen in rotterdam, and we’re heading to the source of japanese food in a couple of months 🇯🇵

we went on a wadlopen adventure about a month ago when we went to friesland! WALKING IN THE MIDDLE OF THE WADDEN SEA (wadlopen in the netherlands) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-AP69vaI8Bg8.html

i believe that is a scotch egg this has a curry ragout around it

@@buncharted well this one sounds even less appealing to me. But I am not a fan of eggs

buzzed by caffeine only :)

now THAT would be an interesting flavor for a fried snack haha

@@buncharted I would say why not try to make it at home and invent your own snack

i got some shots of it but it didn’t end up in the final video, unfortunately

the turkish restaurant wasn't a real restaurant? 🤔

Yeah sorry I didn't get to the end of the video:) Most of the time I see you guys trying snacks in stead of meals served in Dutch restaurants, so that's what I meant@@buncharted