True art. The director introduces another order of observation where the former protagonist watches the new protagonist make the same experiences as the former protagonist. Brilliant!
Actually one of the biggest achivements of my life was to be called "Bruder" bei my local Dönermann. I swear to god, if I ever hold a Nobelprice speech and they ask me about my biggest achivement, I will name the "Bruder" thing. So getting a free drink form you Dönermann is already a big achivement for the first week in Germany. Congratulations and Welcome to Germany.
This. Its just gold how you level up from almost feeling insulted, because you dont understand the Dönermann lingo to being called "Bruder" or "mein Freund" or he just straight out remembers your name after months and you dont even remember having told him your name.
The real apocalypse is shopping at an Aldi at 8 in the morning when they have chidlrens clothes or computers on sale. Best advice push it real good, always...
> The worst are often old grandmas with their rollators aka "The Rollatorgörls". These Ladies mutate into a mixture of Rambo and Terminator and pushing everyone else aside just to be the first to get to the rummage table 🤕
I cackled when you said grocery shopping on a saturday evening in Germany is the apocalypse 😂 pretty much the most accurate thing I have ever heard. Also before holidays of any kind
That's not even true. The apocalypse is grocery shopping in Germany in the evening before a holiday. I once forgot about that and needed something from the supermarket on New Year's Eve. It was not even late in the morning, maybe 10 am. The store closed at 2 pm. The queue before the cheese and meat counter at the back of the store went almost to the front entrance door. Then, the queue for the checkout went from that counter back to the cash registers, so, almost same distance. I stood there in line for 45 mins just to buy that ONE item we had forgotten and needed for dinner.
@@Geggy0815 Let me guess, you're in Bavaria? That's the one German state that comes to mind where shops close at 8. (Edit:) Just looked it up, Saarland has that too.
@@Geggy0815 That sucks. I guess you are living a bit more rural? I am in the Ruhr area. To be sure I made a quick survey of the supermarkets around here - Kaufpark, Netto 24:00; Penny, Real 22:00; Aldi, Edeka, Lidl 21:00.
It's so much fun to see you in big brother mode. To Mikey remember your seatbelt those fines are not cheap. Saturday is the worst day for shopping in Germany!
Strange. I got at about 20:00 or even later and there are very few people in the shop. Some items may be on short supply. But my range of things I regularly buy is also very limited.
In USA the coin thing is not always used at some of the Aldi in USA even though they have the chain mechanism on the cart. But at least most returns the cart. Sadly no German wine and beer sold in most as well. 😪
@@nutrylzone367 most of the Aldi in my area have wine but I dont think its German. It gives me a headache so I dont even bother looking at it. The only true German things I've seen at our stores are chocolate and maybe some cookie/biscuit snacks.
As an American who has been living in Bavaria for the past five years (but who lived here in high-school before), I've been loving your videos of seeing and learning about the country - and now with your brother! One of my younger brothers was here as part of his Army service, but we never managed to meet up then. Viel Spaß euch beiden, die Gebrüder Alfieri :) ps - loved the "servus" , something we use in the southeast of the country as well !
Hehe, Nalf, I'll up that 'absolute chaos in the grocery store' by several factors. Go shopping on the 24th of December, when that 24th is a Thursday, thus Friday AND Saturday AND Sunday the stores will be closed as well. The absolute sheer terror of late Christmas present shoppers, late grocery shoppers, and the terrors of having to survive a FULL four days without buying fresh groceries drives Germans absolutely bonkers. THAT is the ultimate chaos of German grocery shopping. Phaw, shopping on a Saturday at 5 PM... that's child's play... I do that while snoozing through on jet-lagg induced sleep deprivation. 😂😂
The Way in which you form this unique and special relationship with your Kebab/Döner-Shopowner of choice is something really heartwarming. They are almost always immigrants from the near east and have their own lingo and habits. It's as if you increase your friendship level until some day the shopowner calls you by your name, and remembers what you usually eat, so he just asks "like always?". Thats when you've made it. Have gone through that process a few times over the years in different german citys. At some point you are a kind of supreme customer, who gets free stuff and enhanced service. Me and my colleagues from work had such high status with our Dönermann, that once we arrived he even asked (quite insistingly) other guests to move to other tables, so we six could sit together and stuff, was almost a little too much service at times, but man we loved it there. Took us about 2 years of going there almost every Thursday (Donnerstag -> Dönerstag) to cultivate that relationship, almost sad that I dont work there anymore...
For me it was my favaorite pizzeria. Once I forgot my money (there you can't by with Credit Card or Phone). She just waved it away saying "bring it tomorrow"
Worst time is actually 17 o'clock under the week...because that is when everyone who stops at the grocery on the way home is there. Naturally the absolute worst time is before a long weekend, especially the Eastern and the Christmas Weekend.
@@susannabonke8552 Well, who would want to stay for a long time for something as mundane and repitive as grocery shopping? If you are able to go in and out fast, than a store is set up well. I don't care how beautiful it is.
Soo nice to see you together, I find myself having developed a weird mama-goose feeling for my favourite manchild… so nice that you have a playfriend now always…just get him to a hairdresser 💇♂️ 😂😂 Well done shopping💪🏻💪🏻🤣🤣
Absolutely hilarious. As a German who has lived in the UK for 12 years and now back, I feel a similar reverse culture shock and am trying to spread the use of “excuse me” in supermarkets ;-D
a usual day in a new country must be a very nice adventure!! wait until the spring is there, he wouldnt leave germany...esp not schwäbisch hall or southern part of the country! a nice breakfast on a sunny spring sunday morning is a very nice expierience
I'm an old man - well 60, so not that old, I reckon. When I was growing up - in Canada 🇨🇦 - everything was closed on Sundays as well. It's actually a great idea! The idea of a "day of rest"... excellent. Nice to see that the Germans 🇩🇪 haven't abandoned the idea. Just looking in on your channel as a kind of reminiscing... my last time over there was in West Germany in 1988. Things have definitely changed!
So nice to see you two brothers together! And also when you are with the rest of your family. Your parents seem like such lovely people. From your Canadian pretend grandma.
Wait until the holidays and you need to go to the store on Christmas Eve. There was a line out the door at my nearby store, and had never seen anything like it in the US :D
I cannot remember what it's like to have the stores closed on a Sunday. Its been years since the Danish government allowed stores to open on Sundays. It was actually a law they changed, called Lukkeloven (closinglaw - roughly translated). Cody and Speedy now has an "adopted third kid"😉🤣🤣🤣
And love the dynamic around the dutch border where they are open on sundays but I think closed on mondays so people just drive an extra 10 km or so both ways on different days.
Can’t wait for Mikey’s channel when he starts complaining that you’re the behemoth villain, doing many evil deeds to him such as being a Yufka pusher and getting him badly addicted to this yummy food stuff. Thanks for another fun video with Mikey :-)
Es ist total verrückt mein Alltagsleben aus der Perspektive eines Amerikaners zu sehen. Ich bin jedes Mal fasziniert. Alles was für mich normal erscheint, ist ein Magic Rollercoaster Adventure für jemand Fremdes.
Fun, thanks, good to see it working out. Glad to see Mikey survived the grocery store. About as chaotic as it gets. The wallet with the coin purse is a true landmark though you have to just run into one. Lol I don’t know. All the best
Advise... Plan when to go shopping and make a list what you need... Best is e.g. Fridays around midday (if you can) when the old people and mothers are home preparing/eating lunch or waiting for their kids coming home in a place that is not frequented by school children or people spending doing their shopping in the lunch break... Saturdays - early in the morning but before women send their kids or the husbands to get what they have forgotten on their weekly shopping tour - and when the others take their time to have an easy start in their free day with a good breakfast. Germans are world champions in planning - not everybody, the others you see Saturday afternoon in the supermarkets... ;)
The only thing I recall about grocery shopping is if you touch it (fruits and veges) you buy it. I loved the different products especially the baby items. My son loved the kinder tea, biscuits and food. Back then the carts weren't on a coin release, at least those near us.
Nice! Just yesterday I thought, now there should be a lot of new "First Time" videos on this channel with Mikey! And Cody be like: "Oh no, now there are two of them!"
HAHA thats so cool to see, I have been living here in Thuringia for 11 years now and I can relate to your brother in the grocery store getting bumped into so many times and no one saying excuse me lol. Too good :D.
The slowest checkouts in the world can be found in Switzerland or Spain; in the latter cashiers are constantly on the phone or chatting, going to weigh fruit or disappearing for other reasons. In Germany it's super fast, but shopping here is really stressful.
Dude that Grocery Store is like the most comfortable for shopping even on saturday evenings. Big Kauflands in Suburbia are paradise. Try going REWE City or EDEKA in a city like cologne or Stuttgart, where the corridors are just wide enough to let one person comfortably walk. Its like a 10m x 35m area, literally hell
It's called Kundenbindung, because of the free drink on the Yuvka, he will probably show up more often ;-) Do notice that small children get their small Würstchen at the butcher.
How does your brother feel? The first time away from home and then immediately in another country. It's good that his big brother Nalf is here with him :) .
Due to Big Brother's loving care and preparation the newcomer is less shocked by German atrocities. But why on earth does he not pay with his card? Big grocery stores prefer that. Amusing to see how Mikey immediately fell for Yufka, no chance for Nick's beloved Butterbrezel, Nick must be disappointed. Nice that daddy Cody was also involved to keep an eye on the little one. So the "family" is together again. Looking forward for the Biergarten season, no yufka with the beer, but maybe Mikey will like a Leberkässemmel, truly Swabian.
I was thinking the same. I know smaller shops in Germany might not accept cards, but supermarkets should. I don't think that would reduces the queues though. And even if kid brother has just opened a bank account, he won't get a bank card for a few days.
Loved it, as always. (But I still prefer our German shopping closing times to an US supermarket brightly mir at midnight with two people per square kilometer present 😉. )
Dude! I've been in Berlin for 3 years now and my German level is still at like A.05. I can confirm that the jet lag from PDX is one of the worst feelings.
This was no apocalypse. You should visit a grocery store in North Rhine Westfalia. On a fresh market Saturday. We have way more population here 😁😁😁 to fill the stores
Ah yes very used to those carts at Aldi US. But the place you went to was higher need as they bagged your groceries. As for the insane grocery shopping times here that would be Trader Joe's on Saturdays and Sundays until 6pm and there are so few of them that TJs "brought" that apparently German tradition of crazy busy shopping with them. Great video glad your brother is acclimating well!
Sitting in my german Stuhl, I actually have no clou, why I´m watching the 10th of your vidos. I know all this stuff from being a 39 year long, born german, but it still get´s facinated some how.
Samstag Abend Einkaufen ist nicht die Apokalypse. Einkaufen am 23. Dezember, wenn danach die Geschäfte für 3 bis 4 Tage geschlossen haben, DAS ist die Apokalypse. Einkaufen am 24. Dezember, wenn die Läden um 13 Uhr schließen und danach 3 bis 4 Tage geschlossen sind, ist vergleichbar mit The Walking Dead. ( Da sind nur die letzten, verschlafenen und vergesslichen Zombies unterwegs und alles, was man will, ist ausverkauft) Einkaufen an Silvester, wenn der 31. Dezember ein Sonntag ist, und ALLE ihren Schnaps kaufen gehen, ist auch furchtbar.
So many trigger points touched on here. You thought the grocery shopping was chaos. Wait a few minutes and see the real chaos in the comments here. TSGO
Wenn ich ca. alle 2 Wochen (wg. Corona) bei Aldi einkaufe (Kleinstadt) dann fahre ich in der letzten Zeit erst zwischen 19:30 und 20:00 Uhr dorthin, um dann einer der letzten oder sogar der letzte kurz vor 21:00 Uhr an der Kasse zu sein. Das vermindert die Anzahl von Kontakten und somit die Wahrscheinlichkeit "sich was einzufangen"...
just noticed that you are driving a stick and are shifting gears with that unconscious ease of long practice. Another adaptation to European live, well done :-)
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True art. The director introduces another order of observation where the former protagonist watches the new protagonist make the same experiences as the former protagonist. Brilliant!
Breaking the fourth wall, the fifth wall, all the walls
@@joeyalfieri1721 Good bones
I can't remember the last time I went grocery shopping on a saturday. You are two brave men!
Next level: IKEA on a Verkaufsoffener Sonntag 🤣🤣
Ok, lets try this,shopping on Saturday when the 24th of december is a sunday = 3 days of closed stores after that saturday.
Pah. Easy peasy. Fear of Saturday shopping?! Ridonkulous. Ein Genie überschaut das Chaos. Sind sie zu stark, bist du zu schwach ^^
An other level is going to the small supermarkt in the railway station of a larger city on a Sunday.
Level 10 :
New Opening of a polish ALDI
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Actually one of the biggest achivements of my life was to be called "Bruder" bei my local Dönermann. I swear to god, if I ever hold a Nobelprice speech and they ask me about my biggest achivement, I will name the "Bruder" thing. So getting a free drink form you Dönermann is already a big achivement for the first week in Germany. Congratulations and Welcome to Germany.
This. Its just gold how you level up from almost feeling insulted, because you dont understand the Dönermann lingo to being called "Bruder" or "mein Freund" or he just straight out remembers your name after months and you dont even remember having told him your name.
"Chef" is where it's at though
Hallo, bittschön!
@@MarvMetal I was a civilian working with Navy people for six months and one guy called me "shipmate".
That's some kind of Sad, dude.
Need more of these German adventures of Malf and Nalf
Hell ya! 🤣😂
Haha just saw your name, you’ll be lynchpin for the Malf, Nalf and Alf series when you go visit them 😆
@@marlajacques6947 Except he got the name order backwards.
Big brother is watching you 😜
The real apocalypse is shopping at an Aldi at 8 in the morning when they have chidlrens clothes or computers on sale.
Best advice push it real good, always...
My supermarket is ok on most saturdays. The late mornings are a little worse. But a workday between 16:30 and 18:00... you don't wanna be there.
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The worst are often old grandmas with their rollators aka "The Rollatorgörls". These Ladies mutate into a mixture of Rambo and Terminator and pushing everyone else aside just to be the first to get to the rummage table 🤕
@@S-V-E-N-1-9-7-8 push it real good!
@@S-V-E-N-1-9-7-8 oh yeah, they are so annoying. Will you make a film of this?
@@S-V-E-N-1-9-7-8 I should have copyrighted , too. Sigh ©
I cackled when you said grocery shopping on a saturday evening in Germany is the apocalypse 😂 pretty much the most accurate thing I have ever heard. Also before holidays of any kind
Holla, schönes, neues Jahr! 🤩
That's not even true. The apocalypse is grocery shopping in Germany in the evening before a holiday. I once forgot about that and needed something from the supermarket on New Year's Eve. It was not even late in the morning, maybe 10 am. The store closed at 2 pm. The queue before the cheese and meat counter at the back of the store went almost to the front entrance door. Then, the queue for the checkout went from that counter back to the cash registers, so, almost same distance. I stood there in line for 45 mins just to buy that ONE item we had forgotten and needed for dinner.
There's a whole TV series here, Two American Brothers take on Germany, one pretzel or kebab at a time.
Take note of this story board suggestion, Nalf. Oh, wait; you already have.
I see Mikey prepared himself in advance before arriving in Germany by learning some basic vocabulary. Smart!
I always found US dollars to be Monopoly money..
They all look the same and feel like they’re worth nothing
It might as well be the way the Fed keeps running them off the press left and right.
I grew up in the 80´s and 90´s where Stores closed at Saturday 12 o´clock midday. Today its way more relaxed to do groceries at Saturday.
And they closed early on wednesday, too.
I also remember this. Now the Netto around the corner is open until midnight six days a week and has self-checkout. That's what I call progress.
@@Morpheus451 Midnight?? WTF. All stores close at 8 o´clock evening here. 😡
@@Geggy0815 Let me guess, you're in Bavaria? That's the one German state that comes to mind where shops close at 8. (Edit:) Just looked it up, Saarland has that too.
@@Geggy0815 That sucks. I guess you are living a bit more rural? I am in the Ruhr area. To be sure I made a quick survey of the supermarkets around here - Kaufpark, Netto 24:00; Penny, Real 22:00; Aldi, Edeka, Lidl 21:00.
It's so much fun to see you in big brother mode. To Mikey remember your seatbelt those fines are not cheap. Saturday is the worst day for shopping in Germany!
Strange. I got at about 20:00 or even later and there are very few people in the shop. Some items may be on short supply. But my range of things I regularly buy is also very limited.
As a warm up, Americans should shop at Aldi and Lidl in the states before moving to Germany.
Immigration test.
Tutorial level of aldi lidl
In USA the coin thing is not always used at some of the Aldi in USA even though they have the chain mechanism on the cart. But at least most returns the cart. Sadly no German wine and beer sold in most as well. 😪
We only have Aldi not Lidl, Norma or Edeka.
@@nutrylzone367 most of the Aldi in my area have wine but I dont think its German. It gives me a headache so I dont even bother looking at it. The only true German things I've seen at our stores are chocolate and maybe some cookie/biscuit snacks.
I hope you two enjoy yourselves here in Germany! Also the "Tschüssi" was the sign that u have officially have been germanized.
Absolutely.
Ladies and Gentlemen, we got him. :D
@@triblex305 *breakbot - baby I'm yours intensifies
germanized maybe, but not southernized. Tschuessi is for Touris. Servus, Ade, etc. would be appropriate for a proper southerner ;)
@@uliwehner Klugscheißen⁹⁹⁹ lol
As an American who has been living in Bavaria for the past five years (but who lived here in high-school before), I've been loving your videos of seeing and learning about the country - and now with your brother! One of my younger brothers was here as part of his Army service, but we never managed to meet up then. Viel Spaß euch beiden, die Gebrüder Alfieri :) ps - loved the "servus" , something we use in the southeast of the country as well !
I have a big feeling little bro will be fluent in German ever before his big bro. More fearless in using what he knows.
Hehe, Nalf, I'll up that 'absolute chaos in the grocery store' by several factors.
Go shopping on the 24th of December, when that 24th is a Thursday, thus Friday AND Saturday AND Sunday the stores will be closed as well. The absolute sheer terror of late Christmas present shoppers, late grocery shoppers, and the terrors of having to survive a FULL four days without buying fresh groceries drives Germans absolutely bonkers.
THAT is the ultimate chaos of German grocery shopping.
Phaw, shopping on a Saturday at 5 PM... that's child's play... I do that while snoozing through on jet-lagg induced sleep deprivation. 😂😂
The Way in which you form this unique and special relationship with your Kebab/Döner-Shopowner of choice is something really heartwarming. They are almost always immigrants from the near east and have their own lingo and habits. It's as if you increase your friendship level until some day the shopowner calls you by your name, and remembers what you usually eat, so he just asks "like always?". Thats when you've made it. Have gone through that process a few times over the years in different german citys.
At some point you are a kind of supreme customer, who gets free stuff and enhanced service. Me and my colleagues from work had such high status with our Dönermann, that once we arrived he even asked (quite insistingly) other guests to move to other tables, so we six could sit together and stuff, was almost a little too much service at times, but man we loved it there. Took us about 2 years of going there almost every Thursday (Donnerstag -> Dönerstag) to cultivate that relationship, almost sad that I dont work there anymore...
Couldnt be more accurate haha
For me it was my favaorite pizzeria. Once I forgot my money (there you can't by with Credit Card or Phone). She just waved it away saying "bring it tomorrow"
Worst time is actually 17 o'clock under the week...because that is when everyone who stops at the grocery on the way home is there. Naturally the absolute worst time is before a long weekend, especially the Eastern and the Christmas Weekend.
Providing food for the family is an earnest task! Germans are so funny. But then, the stores themselves are ugly so you wanna leave..
@@susannabonke8552 Well, who would want to stay for a long time for something as mundane and repitive as grocery shopping? If you are able to go in and out fast, than a store is set up well. I don't care how beautiful it is.
Try this at the beginning of a month, when most people get their pay.
Would love to see more of his "firsts" in Germany. Keep it up, Guys and have great Time here! :)
Soo nice to see you together, I find myself having developed a weird mama-goose feeling for my favourite manchild… so nice that you have a playfriend now always…just get him to a hairdresser 💇♂️ 😂😂
Well done shopping💪🏻💪🏻🤣🤣
That mullet is dope!
Mullet's are back!
Absolutely hilarious.
As a German who has lived in the UK for 12 years and now back, I feel a similar reverse culture shock and am trying to spread the use of “excuse me” in supermarkets ;-D
1:30...on the topic of butter pretzels; M.A. "That one sucked' met with the mother of all grimaces from N.A. So many hopes and dreams shattered.
a usual day in a new country must be a very nice adventure!!
wait until the spring is there, he wouldnt leave germany...esp not schwäbisch hall or southern part of the country!
a nice breakfast on a sunny spring sunday morning is a very nice expierience
These smiles of excitement are so contagious :)
I love these vlogs of Mikeys first experiences here in Germany. Bitte weiter so, viele mehr ;-)
Geez, your brother speeks German quite well on his first day. How many years did it take you Nalf?
@Der Typ Little brothers try to outdo their siblings.
A few more videos and Mikey's German will be better than Nalf's.
@@BobWitlox But never better than his French.
You have been friendly to your brother, try the aldi/lidl checkout experience next.
Try an Aldi or Lidl in a big city, in a rather shady neighborhood just before a few holidays.
This is next level hardcore.
jup. lightning speed cashiers, a square foot to get your stuff organized for packing and bona fide riots in yout back.
I'm an old man - well 60, so not that old, I reckon. When I was growing up - in Canada 🇨🇦 - everything was closed on Sundays as well. It's actually a great idea! The idea of a "day of rest"... excellent. Nice to see that the Germans 🇩🇪 haven't abandoned the idea.
Just looking in on your channel as a kind of reminiscing... my last time over there was in West Germany in 1988. Things have definitely changed!
saturday 9 am is worse going grocery Shopping 🤣
So nice to see you two brothers together! And also when you are with the rest of your family. Your parents seem like such lovely people.
From your Canadian pretend grandma.
Wait until the holidays and you need to go to the store on Christmas Eve. There was a line out the door at my nearby store, and had never seen anything like it in the US :D
Mikey seems to be a quick learner. Great video.
Going to the grocery store on saturday is the apocalypse... this line almost made me falling of the chair
Boss battle music shopping is next level ^^
LOL, exactly! One of the first things my daughter noticed was that no one says excuse me. They cut you off and bang into you and just keep on going
super nice to see him also experience germany for the first time together with you who already had this feelings :D
I cannot remember what it's like to have the stores closed on a Sunday. Its been years since the Danish government allowed stores to open on Sundays. It was actually a law they changed, called Lukkeloven (closinglaw - roughly translated).
Cody and Speedy now has an "adopted third kid"😉🤣🤣🤣
Always a breath of fresh air when I'm on vacation in Finland. "oh no it's saturday!! wait...they open at 10:00...yay"
And love the dynamic around the dutch border where they are open on sundays but I think closed on mondays so people just drive an extra 10 km or so both ways on different days.
Can’t wait for Mikey’s channel when he starts complaining that you’re the behemoth villain, doing many evil deeds to him such as being a Yufka pusher and getting him badly addicted to this yummy food stuff.
Thanks for another fun video with Mikey :-)
Gotta take a shower after Saturday evening grocery shopping in Germany ;)
So basically this supermarket in Germany looks like every supermarket in New York City or LA at 4 am.
Between 7 and 8 o‘clock in the morning is the perfect time on Saturday 💪🏻😂
Oh my goodness that looks like a Kaufland!! 🤣🤣🤣
i love those videos, they are so relaxing to watch, thx
You guys should have gone shopping in south Germany near the Swiss boarder.
You would enjoy shopping in Schwäbisch Hall on Saturdays 😂😂
Konstanz, "LAGO"-mall, saturday afternoon. "Let´s just pick up some..."- ERROR!
I remember the Jetlag when i flew from Hamburg to Los Angeles, you got my condolences guys!
Es ist total verrückt mein Alltagsleben aus der Perspektive eines Amerikaners zu sehen.
Ich bin jedes Mal fasziniert.
Alles was für mich normal erscheint, ist ein Magic Rollercoaster Adventure für jemand Fremdes.
Fun, thanks, good to see it working out. Glad to see Mikey survived the grocery store. About as chaotic as it gets. The wallet with the coin purse is a true landmark though you have to just run into one. Lol I don’t know. All the best
Nalf and Malf... Sounds like a Sunday Morning Kid's Cartoon 🤣
Nice video. The town architecture is beautiful. Much success.
I played football at Tualatin (Co2015), now living in Frankfurt. It’s cool to see some fellow Oregonians over here! Keep up the good content
'Erbarme, zu spät... die Hesse komme' starts playing in the background!
Mikey always reminds me of a little puppy.
your little brother coming over is mullet content gold!! looking forward to the next season ! :)
Advise... Plan when to go shopping and make a list what you need... Best is e.g. Fridays around midday (if you can) when the old people and mothers are home preparing/eating lunch or waiting for their kids coming home in a place that is not frequented by school children or people spending doing their shopping in the lunch break... Saturdays - early in the morning but before women send their kids or the husbands to get what they have forgotten on their weekly shopping tour - and when the others take their time to have an easy start in their free day with a good breakfast. Germans are world champions in planning - not everybody, the others you see Saturday afternoon in the supermarkets... ;)
saturday evening already is hard but if monday is a holiday even worse
Next level is shopping in Czechia the day before national holiday, only days when the shops are closed.
I always enjoy your videos! Exciting times with your brother!! Enjoy!
The only thing I recall about grocery shopping is if you touch it (fruits and veges) you buy it. I loved the different products especially the baby items. My son loved the kinder tea, biscuits and food. Back then the carts weren't on a coin release, at least those near us.
Need more adventures of MALF and NALF and AALF and JALF and (other) AALF and (other) JALF
Just join your brothers in Germany, you will have a blast
@@hannahanna649 Hanna is right.... Come on over to the dark side.
We have Döner...
A whole new world of content...gotta love it.
Stores are closed on Sunday? That is lovely!!! That grocery store looks like a cross between Aldi and Costco!
Nice! Just yesterday I thought, now there should be a lot of new "First Time" videos on this channel with Mikey!
And Cody be like: "Oh no, now there are two of them!"
HAHA thats so cool to see, I have been living here in Thuringia for 11 years now and I can relate to your brother in the grocery store getting bumped into so many times and no one saying excuse me lol. Too good :D.
Maybe the said „Tschuldigung“ instead of „Excuse me“ 😉 That’s what I usually say 😄
@@nadelison2213 I speak and understand German fluently so I would have hear them say it at least once lol. No big deal :)
Irish? my fiance is from Thuringia and I'm Irish. Thuringia is really beautiful, my favourite state in Germany.
German grocery store chaos XDD
at least you don't have to guess the price with taxes ^^
Mikey still has to develope his complaining skills. Here he can learn most from Grand Master Nick.
The slowest checkouts in the world can be found in Switzerland or Spain; in the latter cashiers are constantly on the phone or chatting, going to weigh fruit or disappearing for other reasons. In Germany it's super fast, but shopping here is really stressful.
Dude that Grocery Store is like the most comfortable for shopping even on saturday evenings. Big Kauflands in Suburbia are paradise. Try going REWE City or EDEKA in a city like cologne or Stuttgart, where the corridors are just wide enough to let one person comfortably walk. Its like a 10m x 35m area, literally hell
It's called Kundenbindung, because of the free drink on the Yuvka, he will probably show up more often ;-) Do notice that small children get their small Würstchen at the butcher.
Mercedes Police? No one's ever gonna scape.. 🤣🤣⚡⚡
How does your brother feel? The first time away from home and then immediately in another country. It's good that his big brother Nalf is here with him :) .
If you go grocery shopping on a Saturday go after 8PM.. Or on any weekday for that regard. I hate grocery shopping when it's busy.
as a german i really enjoyed watching this
Wow ! What feelings of success he must have !
Cart Narcs would love the german cart system 😂
Due to Big Brother's loving care and preparation the newcomer is less shocked by German atrocities. But why on earth does he not pay with his card? Big grocery stores prefer that. Amusing to see how Mikey immediately fell for Yufka, no chance for Nick's beloved Butterbrezel, Nick must be disappointed. Nice that daddy Cody was also involved to keep an eye on the little one. So the "family" is together again. Looking forward for the Biergarten season, no yufka with the beer, but maybe Mikey will like a Leberkässemmel, truly Swabian.
I was thinking the same. I know smaller shops in Germany might not accept cards, but supermarkets should. I don't think that would reduces the queues though. And even if kid brother has just opened a bank account, he won't get a bank card for a few days.
@@rogink Besonders in der Covid-Zeit they prefer Kontaktlos payment.
Probably he didn't receive it yet.
He opened his German bank account just the other day.
@@ericminch Germanglish?
LeberkäsWECKEN , Semmel ist bayrisch 😉
I love this kind of content, I could watch it for hours
To get a free drink from your Dönermann in the first week is a massive achievement!
Loved it, as always. (But I still prefer our German shopping closing times to an US supermarket brightly mir at midnight with two people per square kilometer present 😉. )
This is highly entertaining to watch.
3:00 "feels so fake, like nothing" is exactly my reaction to the American bills :D
Dude! I've been in Berlin for 3 years now and my German level is still at like A.05. I can confirm that the jet lag from PDX is one of the worst feelings.
This was no apocalypse.
You should visit a grocery store in North Rhine Westfalia.
On a fresh market Saturday.
We have way more population here 😁😁😁 to fill the stores
your german's getting better and better
In nyc we had the grocery cart deposit at some stores years ago. I don't think they have anymore.
Diese Videos sind so unterhaltsam/ These Videos are so entertaining
Es ist super interessant zu sehen wie jemand Deutschland entdeckt. Außerdem lernt man noch was Englisch. :)
I hope he's enjoying his first Sunday :D
Ah yes very used to those carts at Aldi US. But the place you went to was higher need as they bagged your groceries. As for the insane grocery shopping times here that would be Trader Joe's on Saturdays and Sundays until 6pm and there are so few of them that TJs "brought" that apparently German tradition of crazy busy shopping with them. Great video glad your brother is acclimating well!
Well Trailer Joe is a subsidiary of Aldi
14k views in four hours? Go off then young king
Sitting in my german Stuhl, I actually have no clou, why I´m watching the 10th of your vidos. I know all this stuff from being a 39 year long, born german, but it still get´s facinated some how.
Yep, the 9 hours eastbound are *killer*, but I found the 8 hours PST to London was the worst! Can take a couple of weeks if you're not used to it...
Samstag Abend Einkaufen ist nicht die Apokalypse.
Einkaufen am 23. Dezember, wenn danach die Geschäfte für 3 bis 4 Tage geschlossen haben, DAS ist die Apokalypse.
Einkaufen am 24. Dezember, wenn die Läden um 13 Uhr schließen und danach 3 bis 4 Tage geschlossen sind, ist vergleichbar mit The Walking Dead. ( Da sind nur die letzten, verschlafenen und vergesslichen Zombies unterwegs und alles, was man will, ist ausverkauft)
Einkaufen an Silvester, wenn der 31. Dezember ein Sonntag ist, und ALLE ihren Schnaps kaufen gehen, ist auch furchtbar.
6:12 Junge, diese Leute laufen auch wie die allerletzten durchs Bild xD
So many trigger points touched on here. You thought the grocery shopping was chaos. Wait a few minutes and see the real chaos in the comments here.
TSGO
Everything will be smooooooooth and orderly…….. 😜
Can you make video about your brother's first expierence with a manual gear shift ?
Or the aftermath of it, when they are bringing their car to the "Autodoktoren" for a new gearbox. ;-P
That looks like a US supermarket on the day before Thanksgiving.
Wenn ich ca. alle 2 Wochen (wg. Corona) bei Aldi einkaufe (Kleinstadt) dann fahre ich in der letzten Zeit erst zwischen 19:30 und 20:00 Uhr dorthin, um dann einer der letzten oder sogar der letzte kurz vor 21:00 Uhr an der Kasse zu sein. Das vermindert die Anzahl von Kontakten und somit die Wahrscheinlichkeit "sich was einzufangen"...
2:49 We call it in Germany "Denkmalschutz" it is very common here.
just noticed that you are driving a stick and are shifting gears with that unconscious ease of long practice. Another adaptation to European live, well done :-)
Sounds like Final Fantasy music in Kaufland - Awesome. Or maybe my ear is broken...
He will lern the proper way to complain very quick! Tx Nalf!