American reacts to 10 things American's DON'T KNOW that Germans DO know
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- Thank you for watching me, a humble american, react to 10 things American's DON'T KNOW that Germans DO know. This was super interesting.
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The washing machine confused me. Ryan said he didnt like the idea of cleaning clothes where people poop.
But, at least here in Germany, you dont poop in the washing machine so your clothes are 100% unaffected by whatever you do in the bathroom.
Underrated comment
True, true…😂
Plus we „lüften“.
I live in an apartment complex in Germany, where there is a washing machine room where all the residents have their washing machine in and it's forbidden to have the washing machine inside the apartment anywhere.
@@APCLZ if what you live in is actually an apartment you rent your landlord can not forbid you from having a washing machine inside your apartment. There are _very_ few things your landlord can require you to do or forbid you from doing inside an apartment you're renting, and this isn't one of them.
@@hannessteffenhagen61 ya, you may be right. But then again we dont mind the current setup. Most residents make use of the washing machine room. It gives you more space in the apartment
It's a profound difference when a German says "let's have dinner together" (means people share time together and mostly pay separately) and "I invite you for dinner" (means the inviting person pays the bill).
Same in Slovakia… 😅❤ ‘Inviting means paying for who ever was invited’.
This 100% its just the phrasing american and german mean different things worth the same literal translation
true, that's a major difference here in GER. I wonder why this seems no big difference in the US? And what is the situation in other English speaking countries?
"let's have dinner together" is “eine Verabredung” a agreement to do something together. The second "invite you for dinner" is “eine Einladung” - be my guest.
Yes. The german "einladen" is closer to what americans would call "to treat somebody (to dinner)".
the fact that americans dont know Asterix and Obelix is amazing to me.
all my latin is from it!
they what? but how? wait, I have two Americans I know in a game I play, I need to ask them about it...
(I'm a Pole and I had no idea that a person from our civilization stretching from Vladivostok through Brussels to Los Angeles could possibly not know this cartoon)
Above all Obelix looks like many Americans! 😂🙈
@@Winona493ayyy dont disrespect Obelix like that!
Well the US does not share a border with Belgium nor France. We know those francophone comics, because we share a border, also because many of us had to learn french in school. edit: and latin, too.
According to European table manners you only start eating when everyone on the table has his food being served.
You also wish the others a good appetite, at least in France and Germany and the host/cook gets to say it and eat first when you’re eating at someone’s home.
Not in Italy I believe. There is no such thing as European table manners.
@@DenUitvreterreally?
@@MiguelBorgesphotography Don't know about fine dining but I have been at (long) dinner tables where it apparently would be impolite to let the food get cold while it was being serverd.
That's not true, here in Italy you have to wait for the food to be served to everyone, and ladies should be always served first, it's part of the rules for good dining manners @@DenUitvreter
Yes in Germany You try to start eating at the same time as a group at the table. Normally the restaurant takes care to serve the meal for all at the table simultaneously. If not, it`s OK to ask the others if it‘s OK to start eating at once - or the others allow that by themselves.
Normally if someone gets their food earlier the others will tell you to start eating anyways. So I dont think it really matters.
As a host I wouldn't want someone to wait if the guest could and wants to start already.
@@pt.is.education5747 Ye most people just start eating slowly in the beginning, like just taste it a bit.
It is considered a rude to start eating without waiting for the others to have their launch served.
yes, exactly
I have to say, people who do this are very rude and I would cancel our friendship.
there is a difference between "hanging out" and "inviting" . if you invite someone, you are "host" and pay etc. but of course you can just ask to hang out with someone, and there is no responsibility attached
Yep. In English it's an invitation to hang out. The offer is to share time and company. In German the meaning is more "my treat". You want to host someone, which of course implies providing for them.
From which perspective do you speak, what country do you live in? 😊
@@Alltagundso The statement is correct.
@@lethfuil What?? 😂
@@lethfuil My question was meant to be absolutely neutral.
maybe its "lost in translation" - of course you meet in germany with friends and everyone pays for himself, but if you "invite" someone - its like "invite to a birthday party". So invitation (Einladung) implys you are coming for free.
Words hardly ever have the exact equivalent in another language and this kind of social stuff is always in a cultural and customs context.
@@DenUitvreter I think he meant to say that the German speaking man wasn't aware of that.
As a Dane I can say thumps up to all he said 😉
Inviting people for diner in Europa, means inviting them to your home where you prepare the meal and buy the drinks.
All paid by you as the host.
Eating together… it really says it all. Everybody awaits that all food is on the table before anyone begin. Pure politenes ☺️
In you invite someone for dinner in Sweden or Finland you are either making the dinner (this the most common way) or paying for the dinner if you are going to a restaurant.
At least the Swedish and Finnish people are normal, too 😂
4:00 If you *invite* someone, you pay for everything. What he described would we call a _Verabredung,_ an *appointment.*
In Germany you wait until everyone has had their food, but in many cases those who haven't had their food yet tell the others that they can start now, otherwise the food will get cold.
And before you start eating, you wish each other bon appétit.
@@tosa2522 I hate that
@@pt.is.education5747same... erst recht wenn man es selbst vergisst und der andere dann das wünscht nachdem man angefangen hat 💀
unangenehm...
@@tosa2522In English there isn't even an accurate expression for "Guten Appetit ", is it?
Yeah and at home you wait for the person who cooked to eat first and wish everyone a good appetite before that.
"Big is Beautiful" is getting pushed by US companies in Germany, at least they tried a few times. They are suprised every time, when the country that invented the modern FKK does not agree wtith that.
Our stance is: Bodies are bodies, don't shame people, but also don't lie about it beeing a good thing. We like fat comedians, because they are funny, not because they are fat.
I do not like lies.
Also big is beautiful is a lie.
Underweight is not beautiful either.
Only beautiful is beautiful like healthy, smart, fit, "golden cut", proportional.
what do you mean? invitation litterally means you pay for it,its an invite or else it would be a meeting
„Invitation“ means in Germany you make a gift or a „thank you“ to someone by paying for the diner….
Saying „thank you for your support“ only by saying „let‘s go out for eating“ seems really poorly to me!
When an American/Canadian intends to pay for you, they will usually tell you that it is their "treat" or "I'll treat you (to dinner)".
@@cloudyh6800good to know.
when you invite some tom a party (such as the famous teen parties when the parents are gone), you are expected to provide drinks and snacks as well, don’t you? Noone comes with a crate of beer or bags of chips to these parties, even if there are 100 teens already…
True @@cloudyh6800
The first one is more of a language barrier thing, Einladung/invitation means in german cultur the expenses are paid by the person who invites you. If germans ask if you want to mitkommen/come along that would be the restaurant split check variant.
This meaning becomes very clear in the case of paying for drinks. "Shall we split the bill?" - "No, you´re invited!", or "I´d love to come along, but i forgot my wallet..." - "No problem, i´ll invite you".
@@c.rolfes7124 This makes no sense in English.
@@LythaWausW May i ask: What exactly doesn´t make sense - my english to any native speaker or the content of my sentences? In the first case, i apologize; i am german, and i´m trying my best. In the second case, well, that´s the point. It makes perfect sense for any german: an invitation means that you are provided for. So we have some phrases that relate to this. "I´ll invite you" or "you´re invited" have this meaning in germany, but obviously not in the USA, where "invitation" means "come along".
(And, by the way: I am 46 years old and haven´t ever heard of "kütze mit". It is a very regional phrase in the cologne area, and i´d bet that 90% of germans have never heard this...)
The thing that fascinates me the most about American Football, is that the Americans are calling the NFL Champion, not only the winner of Superbowl, but also "World Champion", although, there are only american teams competing in the NFL.
That’s because for US Americans “the world” means USA.
That was especially noticeable in 1970/1980 US Army troops stationed in Germany.
In the German pubs and discos the GIs always said “back in the world” whenever they meant “back home” in the USA.
I’ve asked several GIs where the heck they thought they were in Germany, perhaps on the moon ???
Usually I just got a dumbstruck or sheepish look in response.
I really enjoyed watching this. If I knew you are going to react to this, I would have provided proper subtitles :)
Thank you! It was a lot of fun to react to, great video. The autogenerated subtitles provide a fun challenge 😂👍
Or you just speak in proper sentences.
Hey, dein Punkt 6 mit dem ausgewiesenen Preis und dem viel höheren Endpreis "das würde so im deutschsprachigen Raum net funktionieren" mit lauter zusätzlichen Gebühren, Abgaben, Zwangstrinkgeld etc, stimmt zwar im wesentlichen, dabei unterschlägst du aber u.a. Flugtickets online kaufen, da hör Ich auch ständig so Storys wie du sie aus dem Hotel in Vegas erzählst...!
Another example for germany's different cultures, i live 200km north of cologne (he said this word is "kölsch" or cologne dialect) and i never heard of küzdemit
Es wird "Küss de met" geschrieben. Er spricht halt nicht wirklich kölsch...
I live like 50 km away from cologne and I've never heard of it either.
Jesus the automatic translation of the AI ruined the meaning. I live in AC and i understood it at once but the subtitles are totally wrong 😂
200km north? That's beyond Düsseldorf and as such beyond the a** of the world... 😜
(note for people outside of the rhineland: Cologne and Düsseldorf carefully cultivate their old rivalry. Don't question it, just go along... brings up treasures like
Pilot during approach to DUS airport: "Ladies and gentlemen, if you look out of the windows to the right, you'll see the prettiest building in whole Düsseldorf - the highway to Cologne!" )
@@ChristianBeckerKapraun Hinger Kölle fängk der Dschungel an.
Behind Cologne the jungle begins
Düsseldorf die größte Orgel der Welt über 600.000 pfeifen.
Düsseldorf the largest organ in the world over 600,000 pipes
In German culture having a meal with friends, especially at a restaurant, is as much about community as it is about the eating itself. It's a social event for everyone to enjoy not a race to win. Most restaurants try to prepare a group's orders in a way that they are all served at the same time, so you can start and finish your meal at the same time and decide if you want desert, expresso or something similar afterwards.
Once food is getting served, either at a restaurant or at a friends place you wait until everybody is served and wish everybody "einen guten Appetit" - "Enjoy your meal" literally "a good appetite" - and then start eating. Exeptions are made for younger kids, because you cannot expect them to restrain themselves in a way that is expected from adults and teenagers. So when Americans start eating once their food arrives at that table and not waiting they are behaving in a way that Germans associate with table manners of young kids.
Sometimes the food isn't served at the same time. In that case those who are waiting will encourage those who already got their food to start eating, because they don't want to ruin their friends dinner by forcing them to wait until the other orders are served and their food gets cold. The last one illustrates the idea behind (German) table manners, you want the people you're having dinner with to enjoy it.
"Big is beautiful" specially in europe has a different meaning and backround! Many girls and young women were always told to be slim ( and I mean slim in an unhealthy way). For decades media, advertising and fashion people implemented that you are only pretty and sucessful if you are very slim. The number of young women, who put their health on risk by loosing too much weight, get eating disorders or having unnecessary surgery (including getting addicted to those) increased steadily.
"Big is beautiful" means accept yourself as who you are, don´t reduce yourself to your figure by media fashion and so on. Just be you! That does include selfcare and does not mean "just get fat, and don´t care"
Never hear of the "known german word" "Kützte mit". It sounds like some obscure rhinelandian dialect.
He said that it's Kölsch. ("Kommste mit" in verständlich)
"Everyone should know it"
Sure 😂😂 have never heard of that
I think he tried to make (extremely cumbersome) joke.
@@nommh but we all know Germans don't know humour and sarcasm ;-)
Where "Kölsch" equals "Cologne Dialect" (spoken only in a relativity small area in western Germany).
The thing with the table manners is: You should wait for everyone to have their food before starting to eat and then wish an 'good appetite', something like saying 'enjoy'.
Also in Germany you often also bump your glasses together and wish cheers, if there is something to celebrate.
Just starting to eat, as soon as the plate has touched the table and devouring your food just seems really impolite to me.
There’s one small (unofficial) rule to add:
When there are six or more people getting food it’s okay to start eating even if not everyone has their food yet. But that’s just because you don’t want people to have their food get cold.
31:24 Some of our eggs come with dirt and sometimes some feathers stuck on the shell.
If I "invite" someone for dinner or to a restaurant, in German it is totally clear that I'm going to cook or pay. If I don't want to cook, I can still invite someone and ask that person to please bring some salad or beverages. If I just want to spend an evening with someone, I'd ask if they would like to go out for dinner to a certain restaurant. This means, everyone pays their own bills. The word invitation in German means that whatever is going to happen is totally free for the invited one.
To understand, everywhere in the world (except the USA) an invitation means that the invitee does not have to pay for their food or drinks. If someone invites you over, the meal or party will take place there and not somewhere else. In Europe people usually eat with a knife and fork. Food that is eaten with your finger is called finger food and is such that you cannot get dirty, it is very small pieces without sauce. Burgers are taboo when invited, if guests mess up their $600 suit with burger sauce, the party would be a flop. There is also the formal invitation (in writing), where the expected dress code is defined. A formal cocktail party means, for example, men's dark suit and women's cocktail dress.
And in my opinion the quest should bring a propiate gift!
Let's say at least 10%.
So if you eat and drink what would cost you 100€ in a restaurant the wine or flowers or book or whatever fits the host should not be under 10€.
Or you seem to be a digger, theft and not been invited again.
Only when you are good friends and both have invated eachvother several times the gifts are dropped because it is the next counter- invatation.
@@MiaMerkur An invitation to dinner is an invitation, if you only meet for dinner everyone pays their own bill.
When you visit someone's home because you are invited there, you usually bring a gift with you, typicaly flowers and or a bottle of good wine or spirits.
If you take turns inviting each other to dinner as a group of friends, then everyone takes turns paying the costs.
It is very common among poor students to offer the host a share of the costs, but such an offer can also be viewed as a serious insult in many cultures. In Arab or Asian countries, for example, this would be a serious faux pas.
@@Rick2010100
We talk about Germany not arab ir asian countries. I do not know them, so I do not talk about them.
For the rest: You were just repeating what I said. Beside you only mention flowers and wine, but a lot of people here do not like cut flowers and do not drink wine. So if you really like them and know them, you can do better.
Hi Ryan, Bill is living in San Diego. He left Germany years ago and makes videos about the diffrences between Germans and Americans.
Ja und manchmal kennt er D.besser als wir .😂
@@susannehailer4606und die amis besser als die amerikaner wohl auch. Naja schätze wer freiwillig von D nach USA zieht kann garnicht mehr alle tassen im schrank haben :P
Mittlerweile besitzt er auch die amerikanische Staatsbürgerschaft.
It’s not only in Germany but in all European countries that an invitation means to cook or to pay😂
„kützte mit!“ ist nur Kölner Platt-Deutsch und heisst auf Hoch-Deutsch „kommst du mit?!“ Bei uns im Upland heisst das „küm mide“, das dann „komm mit!“ heisst.
In deutschland gab es über 200 verschiede „Platt-Deutsch“ Sprachen, die hat der letzte deutsche Kaiser aber abgeschafft und es wurden in den Schulen nur noch Hochdeutsch gelehrt.
Danke für die Erklärung. Ich dachte schon ich bin blöd, über 30 Jahre in Deutschland und das hab ich noch nie gehört. 😂 Ich konnte mir denken es heißt "kommst du mit", ich finde es ein bisschen komisch das er denkt jeder Deutsche versteht Kölsch. 😅 Edit: Ups, hatte wohl keine Geduld, er erklärt es ja selber. 🤣
ich bin baujahr 97, leben die ganze zeit aufm dorf und hab das noch nie gehört xD und ja ich spreche auch platt, bin Pfälzer und hab sehr viele worte von meiner oma aufgenommen aber das war nicht dabei
Danke für die Erklärung als Berliner hab ich diesen Satz noch nie gehört.
11:21 For you fancy , for us BASIC table manners.
If you aren´t raised by wolves (in the EU) , you know to wait.
If you are interested, there was a guy named Knigge, he wrote the book on etiquette and table manners.
In Spain, if a restaurant treats you 'on the house' it says 'INVITAD(A/O)' on the bill ... if that helps 🤷♀️
Yes when you invite someone you have to pay... You could ask do you wanna go to a restaurant? That doesn't mean that you have to pay. But when you say i invite you to a restaurant that means in Germany that you have to pay.
We also use a very specific language. That means in 98% of the time ther is no space for interpretation. So we have a expectation when you say something cause we use a language and words that are so precise that you exactly know what's happening. Also some Philosophers back in time learnd German to write there lyrics cause the language has for everything you wanna describe a specific word. There our mentality is coming from
About point 1, your reaction shows perfectly, that he is totally right! Yes, in Germany if you say you invite someone to your home, you are offering the food, you cook. If you say you invite someone into a restaurant, you are the one who pays for it. Einladung means, you take of your guests! 😉
The first example is just a matter of wording, and what certain words imply. "Einladen/to invite" in German means you are going to pay/provide for them. Either at home or at a Restaurant. "Du bist eingeladen" ("You are invited") means the host pays/provided. If not they would specify "Since it's a big party and I am a poor student, please, everyone being your favorite drinks and/or a snack".
Of course we can also meet people amd everyone pays for themselves. In which case we would just word it differently "Lets go have lunch/dinner together" ("Komm, wir gehen zusammen was essen") would indicate, that you want to enjoy each others company, but each party pays for themselves. We just wouldn't call that an invitation. If s.o. says "einladen", it means, they are paying, unless specified differently. And you would culturally be justified to be nonplussed or even mad, if at the end they only pay for themselves. You would feel fooled.
You wait until everybody has food,and then you wish a good appetite. Guten Appetit,or bon appetit
Ryan, Ryan, Ryan, if someone in Germany invites you to their place, for example on Saturday at 3.30 p.m., that means that you have to be there five minutes earlier, i.e. at 3.25 p.m. Gifts are not brought except on special occasions such as birthdays, children's birthdays, weddings, etc. The person inviting you will treat you to food and drinks, including beer, of course.
But as a thing of good manners the guest should bring along a botte of wine or some flowers or anything else as a little gift for showing his gratitude for the invitation.
18:05 I worked a year in Vegas... the staircases are raw cement and look like service area.
NOBODY, uses stairs even if the escalator or elevators are full.
When you are in a restaurant and having a meal you wait until everybody has their food before starting to eat.
Nr. 2: table manners: you waiting until everyone has something to eat and then start eating at the same time (saying "Mahlzeit" or "Guten Appetit" first). You should only start eating ahead if people without a plate say "eat before it's getting cold" or something similar.
you don't know Lucky Luke? I always thought you came up with it 😵
I learned quite late that Lucky Luke is of belgian origin like "Tim und Struppi" und "Schlümpfe" und "Marsupilami", therefore the new belgian passports have comic scenes on their stamp sides😊
usually restaurants pace the cooking to make it so everyone at the table receives their food at the same time and can begin at the same time. We consider it rather impolite to start while not everybody has a plate in front of them already, at least a starter salad etc. Sometimes, at pizzerias etc. when you are a very large group of - say ten or more people and you can assume that they do not have the room in the oven to make as many pizzas simultaneously, most people will ask the ones who have theirs already to start as we all know that cold pizza is not as good as one when it comes fresh out of the oven…
The Banner ads around the pitch in the stadium might even differ, depending on what country you are watching from.
For example: Germany plays against the US.
You see banner ads for american beer, while on German TV you see ads for sport betting.
What? This is new. Do they really use cgi for that stuff now?
@@user-cx6kt3ku2fYeah that surprised me as well. But they really do
Dat heisst op kölsch ävver net kützemit sondern küss de met.
In Cologne dialect that is not kützemit but küss de mit.
With that background story I would consider that very bad manners in Germany... inviting someone as a thank you and then having them pay on top of everything they did for you...
This was an especially insightful video of you, it really deserved a react
I regret I didn't send it to Ryan, but fortunately someone else did.
what he meant was not invitations in general but just that specific word EINLADUNG that expects u to pay / make the food
Wtf :D. Of course I pay or make a meal, when I INVITE somebody. Thats so funny that not a thing in the USA. When you say, come by let meet us, thats ok. You dont have to provide food or drink. But a Invitation implies something to eat.
I think it is because americans are lying all the time.
They say "how do you do" and do not mean it, are not interested in you.
They say "let us meet" when they never intend to meet him, ever.
If they say " I love you" they mean I like you.
And so instead of "I like you" they say I invite you.
That is why they seem to be artifical, faking in german eyes.
10:50 Wait until everyone got their meal in front of them.
Unless waiter says your takes 10 minutes more, then you should say: please eat, do not wait for me.
5 eating cold meals because the sixth person ordered s.o. special is not fair.
Exception: If the invitor, who is paying for all, does not have her food you should wait.
But in good restaurants it does not happen.
@@MiaMerkur Sure, but what kind of cook messes up so bad that he needs extra 10min for a dish that was ordered with the other meals?
It is a hugh part of being a pro chef to make sure that does not happen.
If you can´t plan that you are a hobby cook not a chef.
@@jancleve9635
You are right, but unfortunately I saw this happing several times in my live.
And I guess the chef did not learn in suisse. ...
And maybe he is not used to cook special dishes on the card.
Also I saw the gordon ramsey show some years ago and so I know it happens in America, too quite often.
I guess no chef with a star would make that happen. 😊
I've learned that once you start refrigerating eggs, you should keep them refrigerated. I think, it's because of the air bubble inside the eggs and the pressure exchange by relative heat and cold and therefore some bacteria that might slip inside or so or fresh air/oxygen that existing bacteria might feed on.
In my supermarket I never find them refrigerated so I always just store them outside, ironically in the space ON my free-standing fridge.
It's not super rare to find a few brown spots and sometimes a tiny down feather on the egg in Austria. But since every meal I use eggs in are cooked or baked, I'm not concerned at all and use them as I get them. I'd probably give them an extra wash before I used them to make egg nog for example.
Yes, after seeing how many European - and especially UK - bands and singers who have become household names in the US, it suprised me that no American seems to know of Robbie Williams. With 80 million album sales worldwide, and having over 350,000 just at his Knebworth concerts, and sharing the headline bill with Taylor Swift, it amazes me he never made it in the US.
It's similar in France where if someone formally invites you you are not supposed to pay anything.
If the invitation is to the home, the custom among well-bred adults is to bring flowers or a bottle of wine as a thank you.
Also there are festive evenings where everyone brings food and drinks to the host. This is typical of student parties.
And of course you can also meet up with friends at the restaurant and everyone pays their share but this is not in itself an invitation and is normally explicit. Often the wealthiest offer a bottle of wine to others, but this is not systematic.
A weird way to say "Thank you for covering my ass" by "inviting" you to follow along and pay for yourself. That is an awkward behaviour to show your appreciation for saving your family.
Yeaaahh i did it! 😇 Thank you for your amazing reaction. First channel i check out after work haha.
My favourite American right here. Keep it up you are awesome!
30:00 Clean clothes coming out, where you come clean out as-well after taking a shower or a bath.
And it is not like the poop is flying around in masses everywhere.
Normally you clean your bathroom every week or 2 weeks or sth.
And definetively better than a cellar or garage, that you probably don't clean often and where all that dust and spiders are, lol
Wrong!
The urine, especially for standing men because it hits the ceramic from a greater height, splashes so high when it hits the ceramic that it not only wets the edge of the toilet seat but also, for example, the trousers. This is not visible to our eyes but can be recognised under UV light.
So if you touch the lid of the toilet seat to close it before flushing, you will have urine on your fingers.
To be hygienic, you have to touch the seat with a sheet of toilet paper when closing it.
The washing machine does not belong in the room where the toilet is located.
Just teach the people using your bathroom to follow some basic rules of hygiene (if they haven't learned them yet): sit down to pee, close the lid when flushing. Problem solved.
@ichbinbluna3504
Well, just sit down while peeing and hang a sign in bathroom that makes it clear for everyone else, too.
@@ichbinbluna3504And what does that have to do with a shower or a washing machine standing in the same room being used at a different time? The stuff doesn’t magically stay in the air for hours and days and find your way directly onto your freshly washed clothes.
Also, cleaning your house exists in most households?
Yes, of course you pay if you invite somebody! Otherwise, it wouldn't be an invitation, just an appointment. Invitation means you pay the bill.
You have to look more of his videos. He left Germany a few years ago and lives in California. He has a lot videos where he discribes the little differents he noticed.
10:30 In Germany and apparently in many other cultures it is considered normal and polite to wait until everyone has their meals and to start eating then.
Once I was at a restaurant with three friends. It took so long between when the second and third meals were served that the first two were already finished eating before the third could even start. And when the third was done with his portion, finaly mine came along. And it was something really simple like french fries. Imagine waiting another half hour, letting your food grow cold, hoping the last one will finally get theirs too D:
Yes, that’s exactly what he’s saying.
An invitation means the person inviting is paying.
I regularly MEET some acquaintances/friends for an extended breakfast, a Saturday brunch or afternoon coffee & cake - we all agree on place & date beforehand (make the appointment), usually through our WhatsApp or other social media chat group - and everyone pays for their own meal.
That’s not an invitation.
The first one is quite shocking for me (Estonian). If someone invited me over for dinner, especially as a thank you for a favor I did for them, I would 100% expect them to make the dinner or at least pay for it. If it’s just to hang out and we get hungry, or if it’s “let’s try that new restaurant” then there would (probably) be separate bills. Even then with closer friends or family we might take turns paying for everyone.
10:46 He said it wait till everyone the food and the start together
it's seen as a good sign that the eggs are fresh when there are feathers or a bit dirt on the eggshell, it is seen as more natural and not industrialised
There is a difference between being plus sized and being obese. Most Europeans understand that the second one isn't healthy, while the first is more than acceptable.
Very well pointed out.
But to be clear the plus size should be numbered.
Imho a size that can be bought in a normal store, also xxxl is plus sized about 48 german size (which is in france 50, in italy and spain 52) if you have normal height of 175cm.
If BMI (weight to height ratio) says obese you are obese not plus sized any more.
Great Video...your reactions were very interesting
As German I don't know the expression "Kütze mit" as well, because as he said it is a dialect from cologne and mostly only spoken in one city or area.
But basically in Germany there is a difference between inviting someone (then the inviting person should provide the food, drinks, paying entrance fees or whatever you are doing.
That happens for example if you having a birthday party or invite people to a restaurant.
Next time the other person invites you, so you are even normally.)
and just meeting with someone.
Then you normally just hang out and if you order Pizza or something mostly pay separate.
(Of course your friend can still say, 'oh yes, I invite you to the pizza, you don't have to pay' or something, if he wants)
I don't have anything about the American mindset in particular about this, but there are cases where it is just a matter of courtesy to pay for something.
Like in the story here in the video, where the person was helped with the bank and his jobs.
To show gracefulness it would be a think in Germany to invite someone and pay.
Also has to do with caring and respect or something.
I just can't understand how you can say in a situation like this: 'Oh, I invited you to thank you for everything you have done for me, but you still have to pay by yourself'.
This just sound like it would be an honor and thanks enough to be allowed to meet with the other person, although it should be a normal thing for friends or people who know each other good enough.
Or are you Americans just so unsocial, that allowing someone to hang out with you, is considered an incredibly honor or sth?
Same goes for parties and stuff, if you are the host, then pay for your guest goddamn.
But I guess that also has to do with financial differences.
3:52 exactly, unless you agree to do it differently. Friend groups often pay individually. But if you meet to celebrate a birthday, the invited are guests and usually don't pay. That's how we do in Germany. The recent increase in costs changed that, because it can be tough to pay for 10 people.
It can actually be quite satisfying to invite someone over, cook them a nice dinner and see them enjoy it. We don't think so much of "I have to pay" ... but " I am the host, and I can create a nice evening for my friends and myself". That's what 'friend' means to us.
The more you go south in europe the heavier this mentality is. Like they will fight you over the bill. Because THEY are the ones who want to pay. Quite lovely actually.
"I invite you" I think all over the world (except in the US) means "I take care, be my guest (literally)".
The invitation thing is kinda true. We do differentiate between "inviting someone" and "asking someone if they might join" - inviting someone clearly indicates that theres a big potential of them paying :D Especially when someone is thanking you and invites you. When an invitation comes as a "thank you" - at which point should u expect to pay? wheres the thank you then? :D
On the sideboard in the background of the video is a Sinclair Spectrum 48k that is the first computer that I owned back in 1983. CPU was 4.7Mhz and 48 kbyte ram compared to the 3.5Ghz and 16GB ram in the computer I have now. We've come a long way since 1983.
I love your sense of humor 👍
30:28 about eggs outside the refrigerator:
eggs you buy in stores in germany sometimes have feathers attached to them still. thats completely normal.
you dont eat the shell anyway.
eggs arent sold in cooled parts of the store aswell so basically everything thats out in the store at normal temperature doesnt need cooling.
whats also good to know: you dont need to throw eggs away after the expiration date immediately. if you take a glass of water, put the egg in and it stays at the bottom its safe to eat.
egg laying flat down: good
egg standing up but still on the bottom of the glass: still good but needs to be heated properly
egg swimming at surface: bad. swimming due to gasses formed inside
Being invited to dinner usually means to be treated for dinner in Germany. Most people I know will cook at home for their guests, some also go to restaurants. But with the rececnt price increases because of inflation and raised taxes this seems to be getting rarer.
Usually families in Germany sit at the table and only start eating once everyone has food and is seated.
Meaning they wait until everyone is there, so they can eat together. I really like it better that way, when I was little that sometimes was the only time of the day the whole family was in the same room for more than a few seconds.
In the UK we tend to make our invitations more specific by nature. We say: do you want to come over for dinner? (expect a cooked dinner unless specified as a 'bring and share'), do you want to go *out* for dinner? (expect to split the bill unless otherwise specified as their treat), do you want to come over for a takeaway (again, expect to split bill unless specified as the host's treat). Invitations to a party, you expect basic food and drink to be provided by the host but it's good manners to bring a contribution such as a dessert, bottle of something, or a gift
When you are eating out with friends, you wait until everyone has gotten their food. Its incredebly rude to start eating while the others are still waiting. Unless the ones waiting are telling you to go ahead - than its fine to starte eating.
When you buy eggs here in germany they are not refrigerated - so of cause you can keep them outside .... but most people put them in the refrigirator anyway. I for myself only put them in during summer when my apartment is getting really hot.
Yes, we do wait until everybody has got the food and then we say "Guten Appetit. " And then we start eating. This is what we call table manners. Every child learns this at a very early age. I was shocked to bear how Americans do it....
Hey Ryan, yeah at 2 it's exactly what he mean. Here in Germany the people wait till everyone on the table has his food in front of them
Sorry, but perhaps you'll know: what is the difference between "till" and "until"? There must be one, "or"? 😂
@@Winona493till ist umgangssprachlich. Until förmlicher. Mehr nicht 😂
@@Kloetenhenne Danke😘
@@Winona493 kein Problem 😅
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Thank you for asking. I almost forgot the word until. 😊
Yeah, if I invite someone over for dinner at my house, in Germany, IT IS IMPLIED that I will cook dinner not order in or take them to a restaurant.
American Football IS a sport we germans like and we also watch NFL and superbowl more and more. We also have the GFL German Football League and the European Football League. And we have now one game of the NFL here in germany. There are clips on TH-cam....
An American invitation is someting like a voucher to view a grilled chicken for free -- but you're not allowed to eat it.🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I am a 54 year old German and I have never heared of splitting bills in a restaurant if you are invited. In my world this is more like: Let's meet in a reastaurant. If I invite someone then I will pay or cook for someone. I have never heared something other. So I would say, this guy is wrong. Also I have never heared of kütze mit but I am not from cologne xD This is dialect and means like what I said before. Let's meet there or come along
„I invite you“ means in Germany either „I’m doing the cooking“ (at my home) or „I’m paying for you in the restaurant“. If that’s not the plan you want to choose a different wording like „let’s meet in this or that restaurant“ or „why don’t you join us?“ or „let’s hang out together“ or „ let’s go out together“. But when you are in a restaurant with friends and one of them says:“by the way: you are invited“ that definitely means this guy is picking up the tab.
4:10 Yes, if you invite someone, using the wording "ich lade dich ein" ("I invite you"), the word "einladen" has the same meaning saying "my treat". No, suggesting to go do something together does not automaticly mean the person who suggested it will pay, unless the use the word "einladen" in any way, shape or form.
For example, "Hey, how about we go to the cinema to watch that new movie and maybe grab a bite to eat after?" means everybody pays seperatly, but "May I invite you to go watch a movie and grab some dinner afterwards?" means the person asking is going to pay for tickets, drinks, pop corn and dinner, and also this is probably a date (unless they invited a whole group, that's probably a birthday party FOR THE ONE ASKING, not any of their guests).
10:45 In Austria, Germany and many other cultures, you don't start eating until everybody has their food in front of them. At a restaurant, that means waiting until the server has brought out everybody's meals, at home it means waiting until everybody is sitting at the dinner table with food on their plates (unless, of course, someone gets home much later than everyone else, or decides that two minutes before dinner is served is the correct time to take the dog out for a walk.....)
11:35 16:59"Most Americans think..... Most americans don't know.... Only a small number of educated people know...." Now that's just racist.
19:40 Ok, yeah, that's a normal ammount of racism against Americans for an European to have.
31:22 A smear of dried chicken poo, a piece of straw and a feather are how you know the eggs were layed in a nest or a brooding box, and not in a cage with a wire floor, meaning the hen who layed them is a healthy, happy chicken living a good life
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if you're "inviting" someone you pay for him/her ( in France, Germany and i think in Europe in general )
If you invite somebody (in Germany or other countries) it means you are the host and they have not to pay for anything. If you are meeting with someone at a restaurant without explicitly inviting, each pay for themself. (Or if you say to someone "Let's go to that place together" - that is not an invitation.) "Küzte mit" is Rhenish dialect for "Kommst Du mit?" (Do you come with (us)?) and means roughly "Let's visit that place together" - which is not an invitation, only a suggestion.
To Europeans (and many other cultures) the polite thing to do is to wait until all people at the table are served, before starting to eat. If you are with family or close friends, that rule is often waved on, but with business partners or your boss you should never simply start to shovel your food in your mouth if they are still waiting. In good restaurants they will try to serve all people at the table the main course at the same time, so if you ordered some starter and the others not, you should eat your starter without much waiting, so the others can get their main course.
Some healthy foods taste good, some unhealthy do not. Taste says nothing about healthy-ness.
Imho no European would describe a marketing campaign saying "fat is beautiful" as political correct - especially if the same company sells things making people fat or selling medicine. Political correct would be not to discriminate people for being "big" (maybe it is even a medical condition causing it). Political correct would be also e.g. offering fashion in oversize in at least the same quality as mainstream fashion. But that's it. By the way: In most countries obesity is (partly) linked to poverty or at least lower than average income.
American football presumably derived from Rugby. Calling it football seems weird to the rest of the world, even if there are now professional leagues for "American Football" around the world (and even a well-known TH-camr who came as professional player to Schwäbisch Hall in Germany and now decided to stay even after ending his active sports career).
Hey great videos that you make
Greetings from Germany
It is a good habit to wait that all have their plates and then usually wish ”bon appetit!”
WAIT!? YOU DON'T KNOW LUCKY LUKE??? He is a cowboy, the coolest cowboy... how is that even possible? 😂
Because he was invented in Belgium...
13:25 I think we are generally a bit more "body positive" in Europe, which means that we are more confident in a bikini or even naked than many US Americans. A body is just that: a body. It doesn‘t need to be flawless and we all know that bodies come in many shapes. We don’t care so much I guess.
But: As with so many things, some Americans took this whole body positivity thing a bit too far. Obesity is unhealthy. How can something unhealthy be sexy?!
Body shaming is not okay, of course! And if I am attracted to the rest of you, I might well be attracted to your obese body. In fact I once was soooo in love with an obese man. He was (and still is) one of the sexiest men I ever met.
But an obese body itself is not sexy.
To me, body positivity means to be confident in your body no matter what, because your body does not define who you are. And at the same time it means to take good care of your body.
Have a nice Father's Day / Lord's (Men's) Day / Ascension Day. Beer consumption in Germany is at record levels today.
Father‘s day in the US is on the third Sunday in June, this year June 16th.😉
I‘m here in Germany currently waiting for all the drunken, bicycling Dads to try to pee in our hedges.🤣
@@MaryRaine929ich wohne an einem See.. vor allem bei dem Wetter isses nur eine Frage der Zeit, bis hier Bollerwagen mit Männern vorbeidackeln 😂
@@MaryRaine929 Even here in Austria, Father's Day is on a different date :D
adding costs to a fixed price ?
â french hotel tried this once on me , so i got angry and asked them to call the police.
They offered me the original deal in the end.
You are supposed to wait until everybody gets their food and then start eating together.
10:47 you schould wait for the other guys to get their meal
1. In the first scenario, in Germany if you invite someone over for dinner to your house, this would mean you would be cooking or otherwise providing food (e.g. barbecue or ordering and paying). Anything else would have to be specified - asking for money without everyone being aware of that beforehand will cause trouble, you being talked about and people not showing up next time....
If you invite someone to a restaurant, you are expected to pay as well. It has to be clear in advance who is paying normally. You wouldn't call it an invitation without actually paying or simply asking everyone in advance to contribute something (normally one item of food, perhaps some drinks as well, to be shared among all, e.g. a big bowl of homemade nacho salad and a six-pack or a bottle of sparkling wine)
There's always that one guy though, throws the party, buys way more stuff than needed and then suddenly wants to collect 20 or 30 bucks from everyone - true story, still being talked about 10 or 15 years later, that didn't go down well.
2. You are supposed to wait for the others to get their food as well. They'll offer you to start eating for it not to get cold but normally you would refuse as it's polite to do so. Only if the restaurant messes up, you would start eating if there is real danger of the food getting cold. But by then everyone else will start emphasizing that you should really start eating. If they offer it again, you can accept.
The restaurant is messing up if they don't manage to bring the food out at the same time. I've had restaurants where we got complimentary drinks or some of the meals free because they didn't manage to bring it out in an appropriate time and someone had to eat alone. It's about the experience of eating together. It rarely happens that they actually mess up that badly though as it is considered a big no-no here.
We even do this at home for all meals. My boyfriend and I sit down with our kid and we start eating together. You normally finish together as well (as in get up from the table when everyone is done) but this doesn't always work as our kid is only 2.
Funny how different and tricky these unwritten social rules can be. I actually learnt something in this video.
4:57 Many things got lost in translation as I understood he meant that is the American way to think and not the german way😂
YES !! In western Europe, not only in Germany, if you INVITE people for Lunch or Dinner at home, it means that YOU are going to provide drinks and food ! People you invite could be friendly and bring something, like a bottle of wine or pastries. But they could also bring only flowers for your wife ... If you choose not to cook at your home and go to a restaurant instead, it's YOUR decision : It doesn't mean that you are not going to pay for all people you invited ! It's different if you don't INVITE people, but only propose from the beginning to MEET for Lunch or Dinner in a restaurant. In this case only, people do not expect you to pay the bill. But they could disagree with your choice of the restaurant, and propose another one, since they expect to pay for their own lunch/dinner ...
I was caught out (as a Brit) 40 years ago when I first came to Germany when someone said "Ich lade dich ein". They had to explain to me that it meant that they were paying. So it's not all of Western Europe.
4:00 It's not about the act of suggesting to someone to come along somewhere, it's specifically about using the German word for inviting. And not an invitation but literally saying "I'll invite you" means "I'll treat you (to it?)", basically.
Sure you can hang out, and everybody pays for themself.
But here in G or Europe, an "invitation" is something when they want to pay for you as a kind gesture, to say "thank you" for your friendship.
Wait until everyone is ready to actually eat (so has filled up their plate etc.)
oh andno shoveling .
for number 2:
here in central europe you are supposed to wait till everyone has their food in front of them. its a form of respect here
If you invite someone to something, you implicitly declare yourself ready to take on the bill. That is kinda a common understanding of an invitation in germany. In that regards, the word "einladung" (invitation) does infact have a different meaning, because its not just covering the situation that (for example) 2 guys meet eachother.
"küttstemit" - its not exactly a common german word. Its more like a local slang for come along... an abbreviation for "kommst du mit" (come along)
in germany if you are eating with somebody you are supposed to wait until everyone has taken their seats and then everyone starts eating together ^^ so lets say mom cooks dinner and isnt quite ready yet with the food but parts of it are and they are already at the table you just wait until she is finished completely and sits down and after that everybody starts eating together :)