In Italy it is called "fare merenda" (have a snack) and it's usually a kids' thing, but adults indulge too. It happens around 4/4.30 pm as well as in Germany. When it's meant for kids they don't have coffee but a choice between juice, tea or chocolate milk or hot chocolate.
I like that. Typically here in the US, we try not to spoil our dinner, but usually end up ravenous and snack anyway. Having a set time to sit and enjoy a cup of tea and a biscuit seems to me like the perfect end to the day and a nice, relaxing hunger reliever. @@oldasyouromens
Only inaccuracy I see is using a regular sized fork instead of a itty bitty Kuchengabel Edit: I have been corrected. My sense of visual scale was thrown off for some reason. Maybe forced perspective. Perhaps Uyen is small and therefore by comparison the fork looks larger than it otherwise would, but that is indeed a Kuchengabel.
My mom lived in Germany for 7 years because her husband (not my dad) was in the military. She still misses the tea/coffee time around 4, and also the cobbled streets and cheeses. She brought the practice back when she moved, divorced, and had us. My friends loved coming over after school because we’d have a lil slice of cake with juice or tea after finishing homework.
@@nickorange4881 Yeah generally speaking. My dad was a mean man but my mom did everything to make up for that. She was your basic sahm, she was always cooking and cleaning, always showing up to our sport events and clubs and volunteering for after school activities, our friends said she felt like their second mom. If we ever got in trouble she knew Dad would come down on us like hellfire, but she’d find us afterwards and be so gentle about the whole thing. She’s the kind of mom to stay up with you all night when you’re sick and never seem tired. Even now, she has 16 grandkids and 3 great grandkids but she’s still involved in everyone’s lives. She never misses a birthday, somehow never forgets a Christmas gift, and every holiday we spend it at her house that we grew up in.
*cries in American* 4pm in America: Push to work until 5pm so rush hour during your two-hour drive home maybe won’t be so bad and tomorrow morning’s workload won’t be so overwhelming I wish we worked to live instead of living to work in the States!
We have those Bible-thumping Puritan ancestors to "thank" for that. Y'know, Great-great-great-to-the-infinite-power Aunt Esther Puckerbutt saying "Idle hands are the Devil's playground" etc. Ugh, spare me! 🙄 Oh, and then we have the keto fanatics finger-wagging at every carb we nibble. I know, because unfortunately, I know one of those in person -- much too well. This whole damn country needs a freaking chill pill.
@@jesusm.pereztriana9319didn't even know its a spanish thing. I thought all along mirienda is a filipino word. I caught up in the internet and learned mirienda is actually a spanish word.
Agree, but apparently this differs from region to region (of which I've just learned recently). I'm also Team 3pm since it's the perfect distance between lunch and dinner, and especially good when you don't have lunch but a late breakfast and dinner. :D
@@myrillya that entirely depends on when you eat lunch and dinner. If you're a 12:00 lunch, 18:00 dinner type of person, then 15:00 is good for coffee and cake, but if you eat dinner at 13:00 and dinner at 19:00, then 16:00 is better for cake (times are just examples, other lunch and dinner times are possible, of course)
In The Netherlands we have this too, but most people ignore it and continue their work 😭 I’m raised with a 4-5 PM moment though, with soup and bread mostly! It’s so fun and cool to read lots of countries do this too and have their own variations 😮 And that you have followers from all over the world, too 🤗
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In Spain this is called Merienda. We do it everyday and hours differ among families ans schedules. In Andalusia we normally have toasted bread with olive oil and a sprinkle of sugar
Do you toast bread and then add olive oil and sugar? Or do you add olive oil first and then toast it? Also what kind of bread? I love trying new things!
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@@zaram131 We toast the bread first and then add olive oil and sugar ☺️ we normally use pan serrano or rustic bread. I love your question and that you showed interest in my culture. Thank you for being open to new things! ❤️
Aaaah, bread with sugar and oil is a thing even in Italy. One of my favourite snack as a kid. And we call that special time Merenda, so the same as you but minus a I
Don't forget about "sobremesa" hahaha. At home we have like having a tea or coffee after lunch, maybe at 3:30 or 4... and of course merienda later haha (around 6).
I love "Aristocats". And you do the goose-dance so well!!!!!!!! So cute!!!!!!😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 Thank you for make me laugh everytime with your videos. Big hug!!!
The blanket walk was cute. I'm in the US and husband and I have coffee around 3-4pm while kid has a snack. My grandmother was from Germany, she started me on the afternoon coffee I love it.
My German neighbor would come over around 4pm and chain smoke with my Mom in the kitchen. lol the neighbor, Mrs Rehm, used to say it's what women needed to do. I laugh about that sometimes if i ever think about her.
Same in Brazil! Around 4pm-5pm we have "lanche da tarde" or "cafezinho". Usually we eat sponge cake, bread, pão de queijo, cheese, ham and drink coffe or juice, while watching the afternoon telenovela with our family ❤
Same here in Germany nowadays. But our family gatherings are still holy coffee and cake time. When I, a fulltime worker, visit my retired parents in vacation or the weekend, we first take lunch, then a nice midday nap and then we meet again for "Kaffee und Kuchen". The coziness of it! Cafés, Konditoreien (Pastry Shops) and Bakeries are our national thing.
I wish the US had a “tradition” of STOPPING everything, for just a few moments a day, & gathering & appreciating a good chat & coffee. I suppose we could always just do it… I’m going to do it today! I have 3 hours to prepare, I just need to make a cake. And I have a quick bread that needs a baking too. Ok I guess we’re doing it.😅😂❤
we're germans. the tradition is explicitly not to stop everything, but to reward yourself for having done all your work. we dont have 9-5, we work 8-4. (and also, 4pm kaffe&kuchen is pretty much a weekend/special thing by now)
We too!! I think we got the word from you. I always thought where " marenda" comes drom. In Austria a little country called Tirol is where i live snd where we also have " marenda". So fun
Finland does this as well. Honestly as I’ve gotten older I’ve understood the importance of coffee at 4. Without it I pass out till 8 pm and wake up wondering whether the apocalypse just passed or if I really just slept a third of the day away.
Yeah it feels like afternoon pullakahvi/fika is earlier up here in the North (at least in Sweden & Finland). Like 2-3 pm generally. 4-5 pm is like... the brunch version of fika. 😹
Yes I am the same way. I am from the US and all my friends think I won't get to sleep until late if I have coffee after noon. But I can still get to sleep at 10 no problem!
Somewhat agree, somewhat disagree with you. You can have a fika at any time (I've had a fika at 2 am, but also at 9 am, 3 pm etc.) What you're describing sounds more like a "mellanmål" (don't know if you're Swedish - but it literally means "between meals")
Yeah, oftentimes people have a fika for mellanmål though. ^^ Depends on if you have coffee (or tea) & whether you're eating a pastry or similar, or just having some yoghurt/a smaller sandwich/something more akin to a small inbetween-meal. I would say mellanmål is more equivalent to an afternoon snack here. And if we actually call it "snacks" here, then we're often talking about crisps, salted nuts, etc... 😹
@@FreyasArts When I was working in Ireland, we had an inofficial tea break at 3 pm. It was illegal, but if management had tried to stop it, all workers would have walked out.
@@garunagopi tbh, I often don't have lunch but have a late breakfast (10-11am). But if you had lunch like "it's supposed to be", it would be 12pm (breakfast between 8-9am, dinner at around 6pm). :) In reality, I usually skip lunch and have a warm dinner instead :D
@@garunagopi It's not a fixed rule. But usually lunch starts between 12pm and 1pm and Coffee & Cake between 3pm and 4pm. Especially on family festivities this often means that the dessert from lunch almost merges seamlessly into Coffee & Cake and Coffee & Cake almost merges into dinner. So it's all about eating the whole day. 😂
I remember "Kaffee Trinken" at 3pm every afternoon at meine Oma's in Deutschland, during Sommer Urlaub (-holidays)..Erdbeeren Kuchen mit Schlag(whipped) Sanne (cream). Meine Deutsch ist heutzutag nicht so gut.😂 Greetings aus Schottland 😊🏴
Not quite. I work from home most of the days, but when I am at the office, inevitably we'll all meet in the cafeteria for a snack and a coffee at 3pm. Best time to discuss things.
I'm German in the UK and have always kept this tradition. Usually I'd take home made cake or something from the store with me to work and have it with tea/coffee at my desk. Stops random snacking or overeating at dinner.
We have siesta (in our fam, it is mostly at 1 pm, I dunno for the other regions) in Philippines especially back in the day, then at 3pm, we have what we call merienda time. There're cold fruit juices and several traditional snacks we ate often as kids, or bread with spread. Good ole times!
My Oma brought the Kaffee und Kuchen tradition with her to Australia and she kept it up until the end. I have many a fond memory of going to see her in the afternoon and we’d sit at her table with her hand embroidered table cloth and chat over drinks and cakes or pudding 😅🖤
@@juliekennedy9891 we visited a cousins fiancé’s house in the states sometime during the afternoon. They had tea, coffee and pastries ready for us. Safe to say they instantly considered him apart of the family!
Do you also drink coffee or tea with it, or just the food? ( Serious question. My German mother loves her 4 o'clock (black) tea and some bites. This is way too late for me to have caffeine. It messes up my sleep. Coffeine-free coffee is my saviour to have "tea hour" with mum🥰.
@@dresden_slowjog a goûter can include tea or coffee along with your food, it’s honestly up to you - though it is generally seen as more important for kids to have a goûter so we end up drinking milk :)
The body gets used to it. I have lived both extremes. During prolonged phases in my life where I didn't drink coffee, my body couldn't handle it either, and I would stay up all night after even a sip of coffee, but I also have had times when I drank coffee all day every day and still could sleep like a baby after drinking coffee very late at night or even shortly before bed. As an aside: Coffee can support the liver to do its detox work, according to some doctors, but too much of it isn't of course the best thing that you can do for your adrenals. 😂 Sounds like you are doing everything right.
In Austria, coffee and cake is usually reserved for weekends and when people come for a visit. But on regular days, it's herbal tea and cookies or cake.
In Winter the Sun Sets at 16pm - even if you have your Coffee then, by 20 o clock youll be tired again because of All the fucking darkness for 18 hours a day Ugh!
@@princesseville6889😂❤😊 I previously felt that way. However, I don't mind it, now. Since , I know the days will lengthen incrementally. So, I look for the longer days as we move towards spring.
in England we just call it teatime, usually at 4pm but can be anywhere between 3 and 5. Tea and biscuits, a very old tradition and very precious all over the world. Btw my family is originally from India so we do it both ways as well, some days chai and cake rusk, other days tea and cake/biscuits
I remember one day i didn't have my evening tea, i thought it wouldn't matter much but i was so much craving for it that i ended up making it at 12am, and didn't get a wink of sleep afterward
The books are great if you like extra descriptive writing styles, if not then you'll probably still enjoy The Hobbit book since it was originally a bedtime story and is easy to keep your attention on. I loved it when I was a kid, but could only get through the first one and a half LOTR books before giving up when he spent over a page describing a brick in the wall when the Ents and hobbits were headed to the tower. It was too much for me in grade two with undiagnosed ADHD, too slow paced. I need to try again as an adult with ADHD meds
