In Deutschland sind Restaurants relativ günstig was das Essen betrifft, weil sie an den Getränken mehr verdienen (müssen). Daher manchmal der Blick vom Kellner (verdient meist am Umsatz mit). Deshalb kann man auch in deutschen Restaurants sitzen bleiben und noch weiter trinken, was in den USA meist nicht möglich ist, oder? Also ich genieße das. War 20 Jahre in Gastronomie tätig. Außerdem wenn alles ist wie zuhause warum dann weg fahren? Apfelschorle richtig gemischt (viel Sprudel) ist auf jeden Fall besser als Cola etc. ich liebe Apfelschorle (naturtrüb). Hab weiterhin viel Spaß hier! 👍
In bars ist die küche sogar minusgeschäft, alle einnahmen kommen von den getränken. Der gewinn vom essen reicht bei weitem nicht um das gehalt des kochs zu bezahlen, der ehh nur ein-zwei bestellungen pro stunde erhält. Und die zutaten kosten ja auch. Wer leitungswasser bestellt nimmt also nur einen sitzplatz weg, selbst, wenn er was zu essen bestellt.
@@inka87871 vermutlich, weil es fast überall ausser in deutschland so ist (meine erfahrung) Tischreservierungen sind meist nur eine-1.5 stunden gültig damit man fertig essen kann. Und ohne essen wird man bei den meisten bars auch wieder des tisches verwiesen, da die tische nur für leute sind, die essen bestellen. Meine erfahrung ist aber aus spanien (ich wohne da), Italien, frankreich nicht usa. Wobei man schon mitbekommt, das in den usa sich freunde zum essen gehen treffen, anders als gewöhnlich in deutschland. Deutschland hat einfach eine trinkkultur, keine essenskultur. In deutschland waren immer alle böse, wenn jemand vor dem ausgehen nichts gegessen hat und alle anderen auf ihn warten müssen, damit er erstmal etwas isst, wohingegen in spanien die leute essen gehen und wenn sie fertig sind nach 2 -3 std gerade mal 3 bier getrunken haben und dann nach hause gehen. Die deutsche gastronomie ist einfach darauf ausgelegt, das man im biergarten eben bier trinkt, und keine tapas bestellt 😉.
Bubbly water in bottle is more hygienic. The CO2 in the water suppresses the growth of bacteria very effective. In Germany glass bottles are used many times. Hard plastic bottles also. Soft plastic bottles are recycled mostly.
In the past, it was much more common to drink tab water and even offer it to guests ( some people call it „Kranburger“). However advertisements and marketing had success and people wanted to show, that you can afford the „better“ bottled water. Funfact: companys such as Coca Cola company or Nestlé are taking normal tab water and sell it in bottles with 9000% of the original price. I am very picky on my choice of drinks , but I will always prefer water before Soda or Juice.
Ok....es gibt hier viel Wasser in Flaschen ob Plastk oder Glas, du musst aber auch erklären das es sich um Pfandflaschen oder Recycelbare Flaschen handelt da sind wir hier in Europa nämlich auch vorne,gut wird auch viel weggeworfen......😉
Ja, ganz vorne. Leider bei dem schlecht oder nicht verwertbaren Kunststoffen. Nur weil eine Flasche im Recyclingautomaten verschwindet, ist sie noch lange nicht recycelt.
Ausser den billig supermarkt eigenmarken sind alle mineralwasser in glas "normbrunnenflasche" abgefüllt, oder hab ich da was verpasst in den letzten 7 jahren?
Gefühlt sind die meisten Flaschen Mehrweg-Kunsstoffflaschen. S. Pellegrino, Volvic und Apolinaris sind für meinen Geldbeutel keine Billigmarken.Besser als Einweg, aber nicht viel. Ich bin allerdings auf Leitungswasser plus Sprudelgerät umgestiegen.
@@wora1111 & @kilse war das nicht irgendwie gesetzlich verboten worden und nur die discounter konnten eine ausnahmegenehmigung bekommen? Oder sind das alles tafel anstatt mineralwasser? Bin vor 7 jahren zum studieren ins ausland, bis dahin gab es immer die normbrunnenflasche mit ca 20-30 verschiedenen mineralwässern im getränkemarkt, von 9 cent balduinquelle im angebot bis ca 1 € apolinaris pro 0, 7 liter.
Are you from the PNW? Your intro to your Birkenstock’s video and your tasty drinking water make it sound like it😂 I’m from East if Seattle! Small world if you are too Love your videos btw! I’ve been considering moving to Germany for years and even learned the language in high school. Your info is helping me get serious about it so thank you!
About the tap water situation in restaurants: My best friend works in a small restaurant as a waiter and she told me that waiters most of the time aren't allowed to serve their guests tap water. Not because they want to sell overprized water (although that may be the case for some owners), but because if something's up with the water quality, they can't be blamed or even sued. The tap water in Germany is generally very clean and tasty, but sometimes the pipes can be old and dirty.
When it comes to Germany and drinking water, one thing has to be mentioned: medical water. From Wikipedia: "In Deutschland und in Österreich unterliegen Heilwässer rechtlich der Regulierung als Arzneimittel und benötigen eine amtliche Arzneimittelzulassung. Dadurch unterscheidet Heilwasser sich vom Mineralwasser, das dem Lebensmittelrecht unterliegt." de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heilwasser
I've never encountered someone who hates water in general, just a lot of people who prefer it carbonated. People also have different preferences about the amount of Calcium carbonate and Sodium/Potassium chloride in their water (slightly different tastes).
Restaurants don’t make as much money from food compared to drinks. Selling drinks enables restaurants to pay their waiters enough money so they don’t depend on tips. So usually Germans don’t tip as much as Americans. And also usually bottles are not “waste” as returning them gives you a refund of up to 0.25€. About Apfelschorle: yes it’s not healthy compared to water but it’s also not comparable to soda. I visit the states a lot and it’s merely impossible to find 100% fruit juice. A lot of the times artificial stuff is added. So whenever I try to make Apfelschorle over there I might as well drink a coke.
technically (by the laws and regulations) bottled water is the same as tap water in germany and often enough it is actually the same. and technically seen tap water has higher regulation standards compared to mineralized water (water from deep sources which is not allowed to be altered in any way except for carbonation). so from this point of view i fully understand you, but i think drinking tap water is seen as something only the poorest people would do. the equivalent would probably be washing clothes in the USA and let them air dry in front of your house. (as far as i understand that seems to be uncommon). and about free water in restaurants i think the issue is that there is often a philosophy of "affordable and good food lures in people, drinks make the profit" so expecting free drinks does not work.
Interesting video. I too grew up drinking tap water and I drink gallons of it to this day. The tap water all over Germany is excellent. I see no reason to drink anything from bottles. I totally get you there! There are maybe two points or cultural differences you missed. You mentioned people opting to buy water in crates. The impact on the environment of this consumer behaviour is much less critical than comes across when you address it in your video, so forgive me if I'm saying something you're familiar with ... Bottles sold in crates - even if made of plastic - are always part of the multiple-use recycling system ("Mehrwegpfandsystem"). They are sold with a deposit, returned, washed and re-used directly for the same purpose. These are to be confused with the single-use deposit bottles which are invariably made of lower quality plastic and, although "recycled" (usually incinerated), they are not re-used like the "Mehrwegpfandflaschen". As far as drinking water goes when eating out, I think there is an important cultural difference between the US and Europe. In the US it is standard to offer free tap water and free refills. This is made possible by the relatively high cost of the meal itself. In Europe though, restaurants generally offer food at lower prices and drinks are acknowledged in the industry as "high-mark-up" items with which restaurants generate a lot of profit. In Germany I tend to compromise and order a Schorle or a bottled water (you can, of course, ask for still water). The water in sit-down restaurants tends to be from multiple-use deposit bottles at least but I often would welcome a pitcher of tap water, and I'd be happy to pay a service fee too.
To your (hidden) criticism of the fact that a lot of juice is drunk in Germany, I would just like to point out that real fruit juices are healthy. I don't know anything about what is normal for fruit juices in the USA, but from other countries I know that juices there are often a strange mixture of all kinds of ingredients with lots of added sugar. I didn't look up any statistics on German juice consumption, but I can say from my surroundings that juices with a high fruit content are generally used. Even the cheap juice from Aldi has 50% fruit juice content. Why do people buy and drink certain types of mineral water? Often probably for the same reason why they wear branded clothing. Water is also a lifestyle product. There are several types of water on the market that are simply bottled tap water (e.g. Bonaqua). However, the advertising suggests that "mineral water" is somehow of higher quality. That's why people may offer bottled mineral water to guests. I only buy bottled water for guests, although I only drink tap water myself.
I like to drink water. But there is a lot of choice of waters. I prefer glass bottle for water instead of plastic bottle. About tap water; be sure that the installation has no lead pipes.
Calling Apfelschorle “juice” is a BIG stretch. In fact, anything that’s not fresh or maybe frozen fruit pressed with some part water cant be called juice at all period.
Yes, I agree with you. I dispise carbonated water as well and never understood why people like it. I grew up at lake Constance. The water quality in our house was really good so I hardly drank anything else but tab water when I was thirsty. Soda and juice was for special occasions. I still like tab water but the water doesn't taste as good where I live now. But still, when I need water to mix it with some juice powder, I still use it, because you won't taste the difference anyway. But when I want to drink water, at least here, I use the big water bottles and return them to the store when they are empty. It is always good to have some bottled water in the house in case there is something wrong with the plumming one day. Yes, plastic bottles are surely not ideal, but at least they get resicled here.
Hallo Neeva, ich kann die Vorliebe vieler Deutscher für kohlensäurehaltiges Wasser auch nicht verstehen. Warum.sollte ich viel Geld ausgeben und viele Kilos schleppen ( nämlich Wasserkästen), wenn ich doch das Leitungswasser umsonst haben kann? Ich füge gerne einen Schuss (5%) Obstsaft oder Rotwein oder Aofelessig hinzu. In Restaurants ärgere ich mich oft, dass die Getränke oft fast genauso viel wie das Essen kosten.
Where i am from in germany almost every village has spring water (not at the tab, somewhere in the village there is a spring fountain) that is what we drink from since generations and it is natural sparkling water. Plain water came from the well, good enough for cooking, or it came from the river, barely good enough to wash your cloth in it. I guess that is the origin why we don t consider plain water as a drink. I for myself cannot drink plain water, it is disgusting but since i emigrated and here sparkling water is harder to get i mix ca. 5% of juices to it so it gets a taste and is drinkable. Might have something to do that the tab water is alkaline here, it tastes like soap. In germany i could drink tabwater, often did, but without the co2 and thus a little acidity is tastes wrong, but a shot of lemon helps.
Another regional name for 'carbonated water' is 'Selters' named after the a small community in Hesse. The first mentioning of said spring is from the 8th century producing 'bubbly water' (given the right geology naturally carbonated water does occur). Given Rome's presence in that area of Germany it's not too unlikely that the spring was a cultural center for far longer (compare to the English town of Bath). Starting in the 16th century the water was exported all over as a health tonic. For example bottles were found in the 19th century refuse heap of the Mexican Emperor.
You’re totally right; we only drink water when we’re totally thirsty or to add to the whisky 😉. The irony is that it’s the US GI’s that introduced us to soda’s after WWII.
Restaurants don't want to serve water because they want to sell drinks. It is just very convenient that Germans don't want to drink it so the restaurants just run with it. The restaurant water thing is prevalent everywhere but the U.S.
Tbh honest I watched a few of your videos and I’m wondering if we are moving in wildly different circles in Germany, because I seldomly can second your observations. I’m used to either tap water, mostly at home maybe using a Britta filter of some sort. Or carbonated bottles if you want to have the spark ;) but those bottles are reused, either out of glass or durable plastic, not those stuff which get shredded after returning it. Juice or Schorle is usually a treat you choose for breakfast or dining out. But everybody I can think of is „running“ on water during the normal day. You have an point with these tiny non reusable plastic bottles, which are horrible. Not offending anyone but you usually find those with families which are either not environmental conscious/ educated and/ or financial unstable („HartzV“). Those are quite cheap, cheaper than the glass ones, but the best option would still be simple the tap.
First - when you order something in a restaurant you pay not only for the product but for all the costs that a restaurant has so why should anything be free there even if it is tap water? You can rest assured that money US restaurents don't get from you for water they will get some other way. Second - the plastic of water bottles in Germany isn't wasted but rather recycled and used again. That is why these bottles come with a (legally required) deposit. Personaaly, I love to drink carbonated water and buy it in plastic bottles, which are much lighter than glass bottles. To my mind, those water carbonators are a pain the the neck with their carbon dioxide flasks and all.
Growing up in the 1960s/70s in the Southwest German countryside, we had water from a fresh source in the mountains. But no one ever thought about drinking it from the tab. Instead, crates of carbonated water bottles were delivered by a truck every week. With hindsight, this is really strange. I didn't like carbonated water as a child. I hardly remember, but I think we mostly got water with juice or lemon soda. Later, I became a tea drinker, and 20 years ago I bought a soda machine, and I love it.
With the water pipe quality in Germany everyone could drink tap water. This is the most controlled food in the country. But still so many prefer to haul water home by the liter ...
Water from bottle is not fresh, so we drink from tap or from fridge with water dispenser. It taste good and it healthy. Free tap water in restaurant would be great
We drink lots of mineral water. My wife with a lot of carbon dioxide, I with less (medium). With pleasure from glass bottles. The plastic bottles are also subject to a deposit system in Germany. From Florida we know plastic bottles only once (WalMart, Publix etc.), we have never seen glass. Apple spritzer is delicious, originally from Baden-Württemberg and Bavaria.
Drinking tab water was a common thing for me in my childhood. Sometimes my mother put some sirup in it and it was a sensation. I remember that about once a year we visited friends of my parents who lived in lovely Bergstrasse in midsd of castles, appletrees and winyards. BUT... they had kids about my age and they had always a well filled crate of yello and white Frischa. Bubbling orange or lemon flavoured lemonade. Heaven on earth.
If you go out and dine in a different country you most likely want to try their local dishes and their local wines or beers but certainly not to their local tap water, which in fact you would most likely get anyway in any middle or high end glass restaurants in Germany on the side just to neutralize your palette when changing courses.OR you can just blow up your belly with tap water at home before you go out and "dine" if you still feel like it afterwards .LOL
No Restaurant in the world can exist from serving only food...free water in your countrys means... rush with your dinner because we need the place to make turnover.. In Germany in general you can stay as long you want..but you have to pay for water..hope you u derstand nowWHY 5 ..
You seem to miss two mportant differences between tap water and bottled still water. First, tap water contains chlorine-based chemicals for disinfection as well as small amounts of other, sometimes harmful chemicals filtering into the water base of large scale wells of city water companies from surface pollution such as agricultural pesticides and fertilizers. Of course those can be removed by some special devices at home, but only partially. On the other hand, good quality bottled water comes from nature conservation areas with very small amount of pollution filtering into their water base. Second, tap water has low mineral content, usually less than 300 mg/l, whereas most mineral waters have high mineral content, often above 800 mg/l, sometimes even above 1500 mg/l. It is a good dietary source of many essential salts like magnesium salts and trace elemens like manganese. So it is quite understandable that people prefer bottled mineral water for health reasons. And the negative environmental impact of plastic bottles can be significantly lessened by recycling those bottles. So choosing bottled mineral water is pretty justified in my opinion.
You're looking for this single word: marketing. Just like Americans have been talked into always wanting a bigger car, insanely large houses and Caribbean holiday cruises, Europeans are talked into bottled mineral water, biking and Mediterranean holidays.
First things first, 95% of plastic bottles for Soda or water with bubbles is going to be recyled. Second why should Tap water be free? The restaurant has to pay for it(twice ) it hast to pay the personal, aaaand you are basicly getting the same service as any other customer.
I've been living in Germany for 30 years. Most of the people I know drink water or coffee. The reason Germans drink water from bottles has to do with the water quality here in the past.
As you said, it varies. In my family: - never were allowed soda at home - in restaurants 90% of adults drink mineral water (kids mostly juice or soda), at special occasions supplemented with wine, in fact, whenever we are together with maybe 4+ people at restaurants, there will always be (large, glass) sparkling mineral water bottles on the table for everybody to use that the waitstaff will replace automatically when empty, much like in some type of restaurants there will always be a basket with bread on the table - some in my larger family do have Sodastreams at home And sure, tap water basically doesn’t cost restaurants anything, but whatever you get at a restaurant, you’ll pay more for than you would in a supermarket. A small bottle of soda at a restaurant might cost 3 Euro more than if you bought it yourself (or what the restaurant itself pays for it). It would thus only make sense that a glass of tap water would also cost 3 Euro more than what it costs the restaurant. Why restaurants don’t have a glass of tap water for 3 Euro on their menu is a longer discussion. As in regard to using something we don’t need, everybody does that. Some people might dye their hair (I thought that might be the case for you), some people wash their car a lot.
Well,... the plastic bottles are under heavy recycling regime. The have become common because the glas bottles are so much heavier, and easier to be damaged. Regarding brands of bottled water over tap water... See, the different brands taste different, depending on the mineralization of the water and the carbonization of the brand, and will be different from your sink and own carbonizers. This been said, I do drink self-carbonized water. Why you have to buy water in restaurants is said in other comments and originate from the typical calculation of food prize vs. drinks. Also: I have been to restaurants that make even ordering water a big thing. The top was a luxury... well... steakhouse + international cuisine with own slaughter house... and a facility to do whatever you can be done to a piece of meat... and they had also 120 brands of water from all over the world and a specialized waiter only to support a good choice for your taste (princes between 2 and 50 Euros per 0.5l) Last thing - In no restaurant I order a water, ever anyone is wondering - never occured to me.
good video. I always drink water from the tap, it's good. But I also love sparkling water, for quick drinks, just a preference. But in restaurants in Switzerland I really have to be very specific about only having tap water (for free, I ask) it takes a lot of juggling with words so they won't show up with non- sparkling water with a price tag that makes me leave the place.
Keine Ahnung wo du lebst oder welche Leute du kennst, aber ich kenne viele Leute, die Wasser trinken(auch Leitungswasser). Ich persänlich trinke Sprudelwasser zum Genuss und Leitungwasser wenn ich Durst habe. Für Restaurants macht es Sinn Wasser zu verkaufen(mehr Geld für wenig Leistung). Unsitte, wenn man mich fragt. Zu den Plastikflaschen: zumindest die Wasserflaschen sind immer recyclebar und man bringt sie einfach zum Pfandautomaten. Was leider häufiger ist: Saft wird in Flaschen verkauft, welche man nicht zum Automaten bringen kann, sondern in den Müll schmeißen muss. Traurig. Saft wird übrigens oft als Schorle getrunken, da er sonst zu süß ist. Ich weiß nicht ob du es schonmal gekostet hast aber es schmeckt echt gut. Ich habe in anderen Ländern die Erfahrung gemacht, dass Saft dort sehr süß ist, vielleicht hat dich das ja ein wenig irritiert. ☺️
I grew up on juices and schorle in Germany. But when I moved to the states at 13, I didnt have the same drink options as in Germany. I've NEVER liked still water 🤢 if I drank it, then I seriously didnt have another option and was super thirsty. We all know sparkling water isn't so popular in the states, so as I grew up, I continued on juice, lemonade, and occasionally soda. Now that I'm back in Germany, I'm back to my different types of schorles 😅 I do like sparkling water, but I just prefer something with a taste.
First I'm Austrian and live in Germany so I can speak for both, and for this discussion I can say both countries are pretty much the same. The normal is I drink tap water, and almost no bottled water. However water with gas, if I buy, then because I want to have a special mineral water with natural minerals of a well-known mineral spring. So it is not the artificial carbon added what matters. And I think the majority are like me. The restaurant is a different thing. Yes the usual is, if it is to be alcohol-free, not to order tap water, instead of it a whatever drink such as mineral water, a branded soda, schorle (what is "Apfelsaft gespritzt" in Austria), or pure juice. And I think even doing so it is not so strange as long this is not your only order. But: In Austria when you order any kind of espresso-based coffee in a professional cafe, you do expect a glass of fresh tap water as a supplement even without saying. I however have not seen many countries where tap water in a restaurant is "the normal". Also in the US but I agree it was only in big cities and not countryside.
Hier noch ein kurzer Nachtrag. Leitungswasser ist das am stärksten kontrollierte Lebensmittel in Deutschland. Die Grenzwerte sind viel niedriger als bei Mineralwasser. Außerdem wenn man Mal rechnet, 0,13€/l Mineralwasser (Lidl)= 130€\m³ im Verhältnis zu 5€/m³ Leitungswasser. Zzgl weniger Plastik und keine Transportkosten. Na dann guten Appetit / Durst beim Flaschenwasser.
I wonder, that you take your own drink into a restaurant. Normally it is not allowed to eat or drink other thinks than offered from the restaurant. Second - all plasticbottles are recycle and you get part of your money back. Third, I drink in my office a lot of water. But at home just Apfelschorle. Sometimes at home I drink tapwater.
I think your perception is (as you said) quite generalized. And I think it's fair to differentiate between consumption at home and in the restaurant. When we eat out, we Germans also drink water. Usually you have the choice between still, medium and sparkling water. You just have to tell the waiter. At home: Many do have a soda maker and I personally only drink water from the tap. In Germany this water is the most strictly controlled food and therefore of excellent quality. Apart from that, it is about 100 times cheaper than bottled discounter water.
Wenn man ins Restaurant geht, hat man was besonderes vor, da gönnt man sich auch mal ne Cola. Ansonsten trink ich persönlich immer Wasser, still oder mit Kohlensäure, maximal noch nen Schuss Saft dazu. Also die Behauptung, dass Eltern in Deutschland ihre Kinder nur süßen Sprudel zu trinken, kann ich nicht nachvollziehen.
Like you I really do not like sparkly water. I always drink from the tap (after pouring it into a glass, of course). I'm Dutch, not German, but also here it's very common to buy water in a bottle, but usually sparkly water, I think. Regular water we just drink from the tap.
Water is the most important commodity that exists on earth. Fresh water is limited. You have to save it and it is expensive. Drinking water is treated and it is transported to the tap. All this costs money. The water in the restaurant is mostly from drinking bottles, which also costs money. It is therefore only right that you have to pay for water and that it is not free. Contrary to what one might think, drinking water is now scarce in Europe. In parts of Spain, villages have to be supplied with water because the groundwater has sunk too far. Of course, if you grew up getting water for free, it's hard to understand that. But in North America, too, drinking water has been scarce up to now. Unlike there, however, we try to avoid wasting it here. An interesting video about this can be found here: (unfortunately in German) th-cam.com/video/eayjQLWBLpI/w-d-xo.html
As a child I started with Schorle with much more water because I don‘t like too much suggary drinks. And now I drink almost always tap water. I hate plastic bottles and I avoid it at all cost. I find it strange hearing that Germans love plastic bottles of water. That is not true in my experience. My grandparents love water but they order glass bottles. Tap water should be free at all restaurants.
I love ur video.. unfortunately living in Kuwait so the water not good enough 😢 so bad water and tons of plastic waste makes me sad .. but thanks God finally we have recycling factory so Much better than nothing 😢
I don't like plain water or tap water. I was raised with mineral water and juice, 4-5 parts water and 1 part apple juice. Sometimes even orange, multivitamin, grape or cherry in it. Soda, coke or "Vitamalz" only on special occasions. Recently I often drink coffee, tee, mineral water, Schorle or soda. I hate self-carbonated tapwater like SodaStream. It's never carbonated enough and it has a "dusty" and metallic taste. Even if I don't like it either, I always prefer plain tapwater over carbonated tapwater! Mineral water is different from tap water and even from each other. At least the sparkling mineral waters! Mineral water is considered natural source water and is used to be filled in glass bottles from the source to keep the carbonation in and the bacteria out of the bottle. You can bring it to places where you have no water taps and store it there for months. It will still be drinkable without preheating or sterilisation. It's a quick and easy to go. You can have it at work in the woods, at a picnic or wile driving a car. You never need to clean up the bottles before. You just use them, give back to refill afterwards and buy a new filing in the same bottle again. A crate of bottles in the kitchen or near to your car makes it quick and easy! Some mineral waters have a higher carbonation than others and the amount of calcium or magnesium and even the saltiness can be very different from each to others. Old people often don't like it too salty and hard workers or sporty people usually prefer a high mineral amount. So most people try their brands and stick to one they can afford and wich fits their taste and what they have cravings for.
I prefer water and only occasionally drink a Schorle. However I always carry a plastic bottle for my sparkling water around as the glass version is to heavy for everyday carry for me. I also drink 95% of my water sparkling, something I cannot get from the tap. The sparkling systems are also more an annoyance to me than a solution. Additionally the result from those sparkling systems doesn't taste the same to me and it looses the sparkling more easy from my experience. We actually invested in one of the fancy sparklers with glass bottles only to gift it to my sister 4 months later because of those aforementioned reasons. Overall I don't believe Germans drink more sugar on average. Saftschorle is far more prone than sugary softdrinks. Statista tells us that 123.1l softdrinks are consumed per capita in Germany whereas in the US it's 147.1l (converted from gallons) according to the same source.
Huhu 👋🏼 Wenn du ins Restaurant gehst und Wasser bestellst bekommst du entweder Wasser mit Kohlensäure (Selters, Wasser mir Sprudel etc.) oder Stilles Wasser. Stilles Wasser ist nicht das gleiche wie Leitungswasser. Es kommt aus einer Quelle die das Wasser filtert, wie zum Beispiel Evian, Volvic etc. Es hat einen anderen Nährstoffgehalt als Wasser aus dem Hahn. In Restaurants ist es eigentlich unhöflich Leitungswasser zu bestellen. Die Preise in den Restaurants sind so kalkuliert, dass sie daran am meisten verdienen. Unterstütze das doch, die Restaurantbesitzer werden es dir danken. Anders als in den USA gehen die meisten Leute in DE nicht ständig ins Restaurant und trinken da natürlich auch anderes als zu Hause. Die meisten Deutschen trinken viel Wasser. Ob nun mit Sprudel. Still oder aus der Leitung. Wir haben eine Pfandsystem hier in DE und auch Mehrwegflaschen und Glasflaschen die wiederverwendbar sind. Ich kaufe auch das stille Wasser in Plastikflaschen, einfach für unterwegs. Zuhause gibt es Leitungswasser. Ich kenne nur Mütter die ihren Kindern Wasser oder Tee geben, deine Beobachtung kann ich leider nicht teilen....
you should make a research about "why is water free available in the USA by law". When you know the fact then you know why its not free anywhere else on the world in Restaurants (perhaps in Australia, don't know). When this wouldn't be a law in the USA then you can be sure it wouldn't be for free. Also... its not allowed to bring your own water into a Restaurant. Next would be you bring your own meals to it, too.. just kidding.. You can't get tap water in most Restaurants because they can't give any Guaranty about the quality of the water... if you get sick from this glas of water the owner of the Restaurant could get in big trouble for this.
Das ist überhaupt nicht crazy, das ist eine sehr gesunde und wirtschaftliche Einstellung. 1000l Wasser kosten um die 3 Euro und man muss nichts schleppen. =)
Think the best option is a water filter, I've seen the situation about asking for simple tap water in restaurants and bars being met with distain a number of times, think it's down to profit at the end of the day. And yes there's far too much plastic being used! Good video again 😊
First of all, at home I always drink tap water. But in Germany going to a restaurant is an event and I think that's why everyone orders at least a coke zero in a restaurant to enjoy themselves. I think that is why u are given strange looks while ordering water!
I lie in an area of Bavaria, Germany, where the tap water is really good, and I drink it much at home, but I also like to mix it with juice, that's a Schorle then, as you mentioned. I hate the taste of apples, so it's usually orange juice, but pear juice is also an option. However, when I go to restaurant, I'd like a tastier drink that fits to the food, and it mostly is alcoholic. Like, for example, to Schweinebraten and Knödel, what would you drink? Beer, of course. Trout or any other sweetwater fish? White wine. Deer or boar? Red wine. With pizza, it depends. When I eat at a good Italian restaurant, I order some Italian wine with my pizza (or lasagna, or tagliatelle .... you know what I mean), but also a glass of water. Just to show respect. There is this Barbarian habit here in Germany to mix sparkling water with wine and call it a Weinschorle. You can enjoy the taste of both, but not when you mix it together. At the start of our video, you mentioned that sugary drinks are detrimental to kids, with the parent giving Apfelschorle to their kids as an example. I don't think you are right there. First, there is Apfelschorle that is not carbonated, and second, all our ancestors ate fruit since thousands of years ago, and natural sugar cannot be detrimental to the human body, if not taken in in excess quantities. Your body must learn how to process sugar, otherwise you will have a diabetes problem later in your life. So what worries me more is the artificial sweeteners nowadays mostly added to soft drinks and other things mostly aimed at kids. Because, for these things, we have no enzymes in our bodies to use them for a purpose. So this is what is really detrimental. Water in plastic bottles: Yes, that's a shame. And households shouldn't buy it. But what about, for example, workers at construction sites? There is no tap water, but they need water. Especially in summer. The water they take from a hydrant to make their cement with is officially unsafe to drink (although it often would be), but who knows, rather be safe than sorry. I think I have answered all of your questions by now, except one: Why don't you get free tap water here at restaurants? There are two reasons. One is, restaurants want to make money. Even with water. Second, and more important, is: Insurance. Insurance for a restaurant costs a lot of money, and now imagine, you own a small restaurant, or pub, and someone sues you because he got a belly ache from, allegedly, your tap water. That's also why we don't offer free refills. You get a clean glass every time. (edit: Forgive my typos and grammar errors, I will not go back and correct them.)
Some say water is life. Plastic in the Oceans, in your food and in everything around you. Where does this end? It never ends. Plastic everywhere. Inside you at least. There is nothing purer than water. This will be the past. Sad but true.
plastic pollution: alone the coca cola company has an plastic bottle output of 200.000 per minute(105.120.000.000 bottles per year) and they are used only one time.
I don't drink tap water? That is news to me. Not in restaurants but at home. BUT this does totally depend on the quality of the tap water. It tastes different in different regions. So in cities its often worse. I do not agree with you. The region you moved to is weird. Usually in restaurants the waiter asks if you like "Still" or sparkly water. Indeed they hate offering tap water in restaurant and people do not order it. But iirc by law they have to give you tap water if you want it - for free even. People - including restaurants - rarely know this and since often Germans prefer sparkly water, tap water is just not getting ordered. The culture around plastic waters is changing, luckily. You can buy it in glass bottles. At restaurants it also usually is in glass bottles. I assume you live in a big big city. The tap quality is usually less tasty. City people are weird.
I live in Berlin, but I came from Brazil and there... well... don't drink tap water in Brazil... never. Anyway, I always heard that people drink tap water in cold countries. Crazy people, right? I got used to odorless-colorless-tasteless-water from deep aquifers that we have all over the Brazil. I don't know about US, but in Brazil, bottled water is not tap water in a bottle. It is either natural mineral still water or natural mineral water with carbonic gas (it is not water that someone dissolved carbonic gas inside but it comes out of the rock with gas. Well... mostly... thanks coca-cola for your crappy carbonated water) ... so at least in Brazil you either have bottled mineral water or you have to filter with carbon and treat it with ozone to make it safe. No wonder for a country with so many water mines, it is incredibly cheap to buy mineral water (about 1.5 USD for a bottle of 20 liters although we pay about the same for 1000 litters of tap water), beside the plastic bottles are returnable (or you have to pay about 6 USD for a new bottle). Anyway, I arrived in Germany last year and I found myself having to pay 3 EUR for a 0.3ml bottle of water (plus Pfand) or having to drink the tap water that tasted like I soap! I never drunk a water so heavy and rancid like this Berlin tap water... not saying it is not safe but.... argh. It is like licking a river stone. Not sure how you handle it... perhaps US tap water is similar to the German water and you got used to it (you said you like the taste... but water is not "supposed" to have a taste, imo). I personally bought a carbonic gas injector, put some lime drops or mint leaves and drink it cold freezing to displace the taste of leather shoe from it...
Hey,you I live in Berlin top... And I must say that If your Water tastes filthy Just Take a Sample and Take it to a test ! It should be free of Charge & the Owner of House you taped it will BE obliged to Check the Water Pipes in your House with the Tab... Berliner Wasserwerk Servers top Waterquality to your house~if it gets polluted,it Happens in your House and the Landlord hast 2 Change the Pipes Leading to your Tap Check in with the Public waterfauntans that are installed Downtown in Public places...they are free Just bring your own, Clean glasbottle and fill it up... Check it Out,Greets, Thomas
@@thomashandschuh8476 Oh, thanks for the info but I didn`t want to imply that the water is improper to drink, just that it is heavy. It is a characteristic of the local water reservoir, I presume. It is just a matter of taste as I didn`t grew with water having a taste or leaving a talc sensation in my mouth. It is probably fine as far as health standards go.
Hey Neeva Water ist a Tricky topic ...in the constitutual Rights in Germany Water ist a Public good and actually Not vendable it's a Thing you get for free! If your local Watersupplyer Charles you, it's Not the Water you have 2 pay for, Just the supply...therefor the qubicmeter (1000liter) costs about € 0.09 on the Tap. If you warnt 2 sell it ,AS Beveridge companys do , they have to pimp it in a way ...easyest add CO2, next add flavour & sugar... This way These Companys make a 6000 Times Profit & Profit...Out of a Thing that ist free By Constitution...sad but true....Greets, t.Glove
I'm German and I've met some other Germans that also hate sparkling water, but it's rare. I hate it and don't get the hype at all. I agree- Tastes like angry water. I really love drinking tap water here and always have my reusable water bottle next to me. I've lived abroad in Boston and also in Trondheim, Norway and I loved that they just give you water for free. But because you have to pay for it in restaurants here (or they look at you weird when you ask for tap water) I always order Apfelschorle or some soda because it costs almost the same and I do like that too. I bring my water bottle to the restaurant too and then sometimes if my soda is already empty I just drink that haha.
Yepp, and electricity should also be free, because, it just comes out of the socket-outlet in the wall. It is not as if anyone works in the background so we can get it. And even if, why should they earn money. So, when you were a kid and got a bottle of water … it always was a glass bottle? And when you take a bottle of water everywhere, it is always a glass bottle? Take the irony with a bit of humor ;) Regarding humor … there is a german saying "We don't drink water because fish fuck in it". Even statistics claim that Germans drink more water than Cola, Cola-mixed drinks and lemonades combined. And more than beer. Ofcourse you partially kinda have a point. Wouldn't it be nice if the world would be perfect? And sure, Germany should, no, has to be the leader in making the world become perfect. But, seriously, people who buy water in bottles with no Pfand often either can't effort it (or think they can't because they don't do the math) or they think they can save some money. And glass bottles are heavier to carry. Yes, maybe the carbonater machines could be a solution. They should be ordered to be used by law. No freedom of choice. Where would we end up if everyone does what she/he wants. So, let's criticize and punish comsumer for the systematic failures - as we always do, kinda. Then there is the difference in tubes tap water runs through, especially in buildings (and maybe partially - depending on the region - how "hard" it is; even still it is good quality). Some might taste a bit more like metal/copper because of old tubes it runs through in older houses/buildings. And lastly, and maybe more "importantly", I guess it is often seen as stingy to order or offer just plain tap water. Which seem to be more common/acceptable in the states with it's pseudo-free tap water and drink refills (where nobody even can imagine that in reality they pay for, like people do for health insurance in communist .. I mean social democratic countries because the money is paid by all the other stuff, mostly in the price for food in restaurants - so, if you don't take a refill, you pay for that of others or just did throw extra money to the business ;). By the way, what kind of laundry detergent do you use? Surely not liquid ones in plastic bottles (which are not part of the Pfand system). Sometimes one could think you are German when they see and hear how often you criticize, complain and tell that something bothers you. That might not be good for your health in the long run. Have a nice day and take care of yourself.
Do Germans drink water? No of course not. Fishes do f**k in the water. Germans drink beer. Only beer. German beer of course. Just kidding, of course we drink water. Without bubbles, directly from the tap. 2-3 liters daily. Plus coffee, juice or even a beer. Honestly, I just don't understand this cliché. My mother, over 70 years old, drinks bottled carbonated water. Otherwise I literally know no one who does it. Tap water tastes so much better and is also better controlled. Apparently you just know strange people - or I do ;)
You change a fly into an Elephant. That's the first coming in my Mind. The Reasons you said are true yes it's everything right but.... You came from the States from a Society that really don't care about the Environment for centuries. Now you live here in a Land who cares about her own Environment and plastic is the Problem? We recycle everything also Plastic so the bottles you see are mostly recycled bottles so we began our dicussion. Second there are Workers in the Companys also for normal Water they will loose their Jobs. There are many Companys producing Water So many Employees will loose their Job if everyone think like you. The next thing is that the Water out of the Tab is in some Regions not so good yes you can buy a Filter but most of the people don't trust these Filters. At last I will tell you that Trust is a typicall Problem without Nationality a human Problem I think but it is so. The Video like all the others were good but I can't go confirm with you in this special Video in most of them yes but in a few not.
We return the bottles. -> Pfandsystem
We need the water to make BEER 🤪🍻
In Deutschland sind Restaurants relativ günstig was das Essen betrifft, weil sie an den Getränken mehr verdienen (müssen). Daher manchmal der Blick vom Kellner (verdient meist am Umsatz mit). Deshalb kann man auch in deutschen Restaurants sitzen bleiben und noch weiter trinken, was in den USA meist nicht möglich ist, oder? Also ich genieße das. War 20 Jahre in Gastronomie tätig. Außerdem wenn alles ist wie zuhause warum dann weg fahren? Apfelschorle richtig gemischt (viel Sprudel) ist auf jeden Fall besser als Cola etc. ich liebe Apfelschorle (naturtrüb). Hab weiterhin viel Spaß hier! 👍
In bars ist die küche sogar minusgeschäft, alle einnahmen kommen von den getränken. Der gewinn vom essen reicht bei weitem nicht um das gehalt des kochs zu bezahlen, der ehh nur ein-zwei bestellungen pro stunde erhält. Und die zutaten kosten ja auch. Wer leitungswasser bestellt nimmt also nur einen sitzplatz weg, selbst, wenn er was zu essen bestellt.
keine ahnung warum deutsche annehmen das man in amerikanischen restaurants nicht lange sitzen und sich unterhalten kann ! total quatsch !
@@inka87871 vermutlich, weil es fast überall ausser in deutschland so ist (meine erfahrung) Tischreservierungen sind meist nur eine-1.5 stunden gültig damit man fertig essen kann. Und ohne essen wird man bei den meisten bars auch wieder des tisches verwiesen, da die tische nur für leute sind, die essen bestellen. Meine erfahrung ist aber aus spanien (ich wohne da), Italien, frankreich nicht usa. Wobei man schon mitbekommt, das in den usa sich freunde zum essen gehen treffen, anders als gewöhnlich in deutschland. Deutschland hat einfach eine trinkkultur, keine essenskultur. In deutschland waren immer alle böse, wenn jemand vor dem ausgehen nichts gegessen hat und alle anderen auf ihn warten müssen, damit er erstmal etwas isst, wohingegen in spanien die leute essen gehen und wenn sie fertig sind nach 2 -3 std gerade mal 3 bier getrunken haben und dann nach hause gehen. Die deutsche gastronomie ist einfach darauf ausgelegt, das man im biergarten eben bier trinkt, und keine tapas bestellt 😉.
@@inka87871 Setz dich nicht mit dem Rücken zur Tür, dann siehst du die 35 Leute, die dich anstarren weil sie auf deinen Platz warten.
Bubbly water in bottle is more hygienic. The CO2 in the water suppresses the growth of bacteria very effective.
In Germany glass bottles are used many times. Hard plastic bottles also. Soft plastic bottles are recycled mostly.
In the past, it was much more common to drink tab water and even offer it to guests ( some people call it „Kranburger“). However advertisements and marketing had success and people wanted to show, that you can afford the „better“ bottled water. Funfact: companys such as Coca Cola company or Nestlé are taking normal tab water and sell it in bottles with 9000% of the original price.
I am very picky on my choice of drinks , but I will always prefer water before Soda or Juice.
We used to drink "Leitungsheimer Weisswein"
Ok....es gibt hier viel Wasser in Flaschen ob Plastk oder Glas, du musst aber auch erklären das es sich um Pfandflaschen oder Recycelbare Flaschen handelt da sind wir hier in Europa nämlich auch vorne,gut wird auch viel weggeworfen......😉
Ja, ganz vorne. Leider bei dem schlecht oder nicht verwertbaren Kunststoffen. Nur weil eine Flasche im Recyclingautomaten verschwindet, ist sie noch lange nicht recycelt.
Ausser den billig supermarkt eigenmarken sind alle mineralwasser in glas "normbrunnenflasche" abgefüllt, oder hab ich da was verpasst in den letzten 7 jahren?
Gefühlt sind die meisten Flaschen Mehrweg-Kunsstoffflaschen. S. Pellegrino, Volvic und Apolinaris sind für meinen Geldbeutel keine Billigmarken.Besser als Einweg, aber nicht viel. Ich bin allerdings auf Leitungswasser plus Sprudelgerät umgestiegen.
@@claudiussmith8798 ja, Du hast etwas verpasst. Viele Wassermarken, die etwas Besseres sein wollen, haben Ihre eigenen speziellen Flaschenformen.
@@wora1111 & @kilse war das nicht irgendwie gesetzlich verboten worden und nur die discounter konnten eine ausnahmegenehmigung bekommen? Oder sind das alles tafel anstatt mineralwasser? Bin vor 7 jahren zum studieren ins ausland, bis dahin gab es immer die normbrunnenflasche mit ca 20-30 verschiedenen mineralwässern im getränkemarkt, von 9 cent balduinquelle im angebot bis ca 1 € apolinaris pro 0, 7 liter.
Are you from the PNW? Your intro to your Birkenstock’s video and your tasty drinking water make it sound like it😂 I’m from East if Seattle! Small world if you are too
Love your videos btw! I’ve been considering moving to Germany for years and even learned the language in high school. Your info is helping me get serious about it so thank you!
Yes! I grew up in California and in Oregon :) water and Birkenstocks forever 😂
About the tap water situation in restaurants:
My best friend works in a small restaurant as a waiter and she told me that waiters most of the time aren't allowed to serve their guests tap water. Not because they want to sell overprized water (although that may be the case for some owners), but because if something's up with the water quality, they can't be blamed or even sued. The tap water in Germany is generally very clean and tasty, but sometimes the pipes can be old and dirty.
Thanks for showing concern over the plastic water bottles and staying environment concioussness. Loved your explanation on this undiscovered topic. ❤
No, we drink beer instead of water and food.
Cheers
Beer is bread in liquid Form... cheers 🍻
When it comes to Germany and drinking water, one thing has to be mentioned: medical water.
From Wikipedia:
"In Deutschland und in Österreich unterliegen Heilwässer rechtlich der Regulierung als Arzneimittel und benötigen eine amtliche Arzneimittelzulassung. Dadurch unterscheidet Heilwasser sich vom Mineralwasser, das dem Lebensmittelrecht unterliegt."
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heilwasser
I've never encountered someone who hates water in general, just a lot of people who prefer it carbonated. People also have different preferences about the amount of Calcium carbonate and Sodium/Potassium chloride in their water (slightly different tastes).
Restaurants don’t make as much money from food compared to drinks. Selling drinks enables restaurants to pay their waiters enough money so they don’t depend on tips. So usually Germans don’t tip as much as Americans.
And also usually bottles are not “waste” as returning them gives you a refund of up to 0.25€.
About Apfelschorle: yes it’s not healthy compared to water but it’s also not comparable to soda. I visit the states a lot and it’s merely impossible to find 100% fruit juice. A lot of the times artificial stuff is added. So whenever I try to make Apfelschorle over there I might as well drink a coke.
technically (by the laws and regulations) bottled water is the same as tap water in germany and often enough it is actually the same. and technically seen tap water has higher regulation standards compared to mineralized water (water from deep sources which is not allowed to be altered in any way except for carbonation).
so from this point of view i fully understand you, but i think drinking tap water is seen as something only the poorest people would do. the equivalent would probably be washing clothes in the USA and let them air dry in front of your house. (as far as i understand that seems to be uncommon).
and about free water in restaurants i think the issue is that there is often a philosophy of "affordable and good food lures in people, drinks make the profit" so expecting free drinks does not work.
Basically ordering tapwater in arestaurant in Germany would be equivalent to not tipping in a restaurant in the US.
Interesting video.
I too grew up drinking tap water and I drink gallons of it to this day. The tap water all over Germany is excellent. I see no reason to drink anything from bottles. I totally get you there!
There are maybe two points or cultural differences you missed.
You mentioned people opting to buy water in crates. The impact on the environment of this consumer behaviour is much less critical than comes across when you address it in your video, so forgive me if I'm saying something you're familiar with ...
Bottles sold in crates - even if made of plastic - are always part of the multiple-use recycling system ("Mehrwegpfandsystem"). They are sold with a deposit, returned, washed and re-used directly for the same purpose. These are to be confused with the single-use deposit bottles which are invariably made of lower quality plastic and, although "recycled" (usually incinerated), they are not re-used like the "Mehrwegpfandflaschen".
As far as drinking water goes when eating out, I think there is an important cultural difference between the US and Europe. In the US it is standard to offer free tap water and free refills. This is made possible by the relatively high cost of the meal itself. In Europe though, restaurants generally offer food at lower prices and drinks are acknowledged in the industry as "high-mark-up" items with which restaurants generate a lot of profit.
In Germany I tend to compromise and order a Schorle or a bottled water (you can, of course, ask for still water). The water in sit-down restaurants tends to be from multiple-use deposit bottles at least but I often would welcome a pitcher of tap water, and I'd be happy to pay a service fee too.
To your (hidden) criticism of the fact that a lot of juice is drunk in Germany, I would just like to point out that real fruit juices are healthy. I don't know anything about what is normal for fruit juices in the USA, but from other countries I know that juices there are often a strange mixture of all kinds of ingredients with lots of added sugar. I didn't look up any statistics on German juice consumption, but I can say from my surroundings that juices with a high fruit content are generally used. Even the cheap juice from Aldi has 50% fruit juice content.
Why do people buy and drink certain types of mineral water?
Often probably for the same reason why they wear branded clothing. Water is also a lifestyle product.
There are several types of water on the market that are simply bottled tap water (e.g. Bonaqua). However, the advertising suggests that "mineral water" is somehow of higher quality.
That's why people may offer bottled mineral water to guests. I only buy bottled water for guests, although I only drink tap water myself.
I like to drink water. But there is a lot of choice of waters. I prefer glass bottle for water instead of plastic bottle. About tap water; be sure that the installation has no lead pipes.
Calling Apfelschorle “juice” is a BIG stretch.
In fact, anything that’s not fresh or maybe frozen fruit pressed with some part water cant be called juice at all period.
Yes, I agree with you. I dispise carbonated water as well and never understood why people like it. I grew up at lake Constance. The water quality in our house was really good so I hardly drank anything else but tab water when I was thirsty. Soda and juice was for special occasions. I still like tab water but the water doesn't taste as good where I live now. But still, when I need water to mix it with some juice powder, I still use it, because you won't taste the difference anyway. But when I want to drink water, at least here, I use the big water bottles and return them to the store when they are empty. It is always good to have some bottled water in the house in case there is something wrong with the plumming one day. Yes, plastic bottles are surely not ideal, but at least they get resicled here.
In Germany we use plasticbottel, they are recylebel. Germany has good recyling system.
Hallo Neeva, ich kann die Vorliebe vieler Deutscher für kohlensäurehaltiges Wasser auch nicht verstehen. Warum.sollte ich viel Geld ausgeben und viele Kilos schleppen ( nämlich Wasserkästen), wenn ich doch das Leitungswasser umsonst haben kann? Ich füge gerne einen Schuss (5%) Obstsaft oder Rotwein oder Aofelessig hinzu. In Restaurants ärgere ich mich oft, dass die Getränke oft fast genauso viel wie das Essen kosten.
A water filter does not make tab water a good mineral water and the bottles are recycled
Where i am from in germany almost every village has spring water (not at the tab, somewhere in the village there is a spring fountain) that is what we drink from since generations and it is natural sparkling water. Plain water came from the well, good enough for cooking, or it came from the river, barely good enough to wash your cloth in it. I guess that is the origin why we don t consider plain water as a drink. I for myself cannot drink plain water, it is disgusting but since i emigrated and here sparkling water is harder to get i mix ca. 5% of juices to it so it gets a taste and is drinkable. Might have something to do that the tab water is alkaline here, it tastes like soap. In germany i could drink tabwater, often did, but without the co2 and thus a little acidity is tastes wrong, but a shot of lemon helps.
Another regional name for 'carbonated water' is 'Selters' named after the a small community in Hesse. The first mentioning of said spring is from the 8th century producing 'bubbly water' (given the right geology naturally carbonated water does occur). Given Rome's presence in that area of Germany it's not too unlikely that the spring was a cultural center for far longer (compare to the English town of Bath). Starting in the 16th century the water was exported all over as a health tonic. For example bottles were found in the 19th century refuse heap of the Mexican Emperor.
You’re totally right; we only drink water when we’re totally thirsty or to add to the whisky 😉. The irony is that it’s the US GI’s that introduced us to soda’s after WWII.
Restaurants don't want to serve water because they want to sell drinks. It is just very convenient that Germans don't want to drink it so the restaurants just run with it. The restaurant water thing is prevalent everywhere but the U.S.
you are very much on spot. we drink carbonated tap water prepared by well advertised equipment, no plastics, much less transportation
Tbh honest I watched a few of your videos and I’m wondering if we are moving in wildly different circles in Germany, because I seldomly can second your observations.
I’m used to either tap water, mostly at home maybe using a Britta filter of some sort. Or carbonated bottles if you want to have the spark ;) but those bottles are reused, either out of glass or durable plastic, not those stuff which get shredded after returning it.
Juice or Schorle is usually a treat you choose for breakfast or dining out. But everybody I can think of is „running“ on water during the normal day.
You have an point with these tiny non reusable plastic bottles, which are horrible. Not offending anyone but you usually find those with families which are either not environmental conscious/ educated and/ or financial unstable („HartzV“). Those are quite cheap, cheaper than the glass ones, but the best option would still be simple the tap.
First - when you order something in a restaurant you pay not only for the product but for all the costs that a restaurant has so why should anything be free there even if it is tap water? You can rest assured that money US restaurents don't get from you for water they will get some other way. Second - the plastic of water bottles in Germany isn't wasted but rather recycled and used again. That is why these bottles come with a (legally required) deposit. Personaaly, I love to drink carbonated water and buy it in plastic bottles, which are much lighter than glass bottles. To my mind, those water carbonators are a pain the the neck with their carbon dioxide flasks and all.
Growing up in the 1960s/70s in the Southwest German countryside, we had water from a fresh source in the mountains. But no one ever thought about drinking it from the tab. Instead, crates of carbonated water bottles were delivered by a truck every week. With hindsight, this is really strange. I didn't like carbonated water as a child. I hardly remember, but I think we mostly got water with juice or lemon soda. Later, I became a tea drinker, and 20 years ago I bought a soda machine, and I love it.
With the water pipe quality in Germany everyone could drink tap water. This is the most controlled food in the country. But still so many prefer to haul water home by the liter ...
I always drink water from the tap, carbonated with my soda stream...
Water from bottle is not fresh, so we drink from tap or from fridge with water dispenser. It taste good and it healthy. Free tap water in restaurant would be great
We drink lots of mineral water. My wife with a lot of carbon dioxide, I with less (medium). With pleasure from glass bottles. The plastic bottles are also subject to a deposit system in Germany. From Florida we know plastic bottles only once (WalMart, Publix etc.), we have never seen glass.
Apple spritzer is delicious, originally from Baden-Württemberg and Bavaria.
Drinking tab water was a common thing for me in my childhood. Sometimes my mother put some sirup in it and it was a sensation. I remember that about once a year we visited friends of my parents who lived in lovely Bergstrasse in midsd of castles, appletrees and winyards. BUT... they had kids about my age and they had always a well filled crate of yello and white Frischa. Bubbling orange or lemon flavoured lemonade.
Heaven on earth.
If you go out and dine in a different country you most likely want to try their local dishes and their local wines or beers but certainly not to their local tap water, which in fact you would most likely get anyway in any middle or high end glass restaurants in Germany on the side just to neutralize your palette when changing courses.OR you can just blow up your belly with tap water at home before you go out and "dine" if you still feel like it afterwards .LOL
No Restaurant in the world can exist from serving only food...free water in your countrys means...
rush with your dinner because we need the place to make turnover..
In Germany in general
you can stay as long you want..but you have to pay for water..hope you u derstand nowWHY
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You seem to miss two mportant differences between tap water and bottled still water. First, tap water contains chlorine-based chemicals for disinfection as well as small amounts of other, sometimes harmful chemicals filtering into the water base of large scale wells of city water companies from surface pollution such as agricultural pesticides and fertilizers. Of course those can be removed by some special devices at home, but only partially. On the other hand, good quality bottled water comes from nature conservation areas with very small amount of pollution filtering into their water base. Second, tap water has low mineral content, usually less than 300 mg/l, whereas most mineral waters have high mineral content, often above 800 mg/l, sometimes even above 1500 mg/l. It is a good dietary source of many essential salts like magnesium salts and trace elemens like manganese. So it is quite understandable that people prefer bottled mineral water for health reasons. And the negative environmental impact of plastic bottles can be significantly lessened by recycling those bottles. So choosing bottled mineral water is pretty justified in my opinion.
You're looking for this single word: marketing. Just like Americans have been talked into always wanting a bigger car, insanely large houses and Caribbean holiday cruises, Europeans are talked into bottled mineral water, biking and Mediterranean holidays.
I have noticed in the USA that the serving person will sometimes (rarely really) show disappointment when we all order water.
Vor allem : Du als Amerikanerin erzählst von " plastic bottles " ok, water is a common good but so is education and healthcare but not free refills
First things first, 95% of plastic bottles for Soda or water with bubbles is going to be recyled. Second why should Tap water be free? The restaurant has to pay for it(twice ) it hast to pay the personal, aaaand you are basicly getting the same service as any other customer.
I've been living in Germany for 30 years. Most of the people I know drink water or coffee.
The reason Germans drink water from bottles has to do with the water quality here in the past.
As you said, it varies. In my family:
- never were allowed soda at home
- in restaurants 90% of adults drink mineral water (kids mostly juice or soda), at special occasions supplemented with wine, in fact, whenever we are together with maybe 4+ people at restaurants, there will always be (large, glass) sparkling mineral water bottles on the table for everybody to use that the waitstaff will replace automatically when empty, much like in some type of restaurants there will always be a basket with bread on the table
- some in my larger family do have Sodastreams at home
And sure, tap water basically doesn’t cost restaurants anything, but whatever you get at a restaurant, you’ll pay more for than you would in a supermarket. A small bottle of soda at a restaurant might cost 3 Euro more than if you bought it yourself (or what the restaurant itself pays for it). It would thus only make sense that a glass of tap water would also cost 3 Euro more than what it costs the restaurant. Why restaurants don’t have a glass of tap water for 3 Euro on their menu is a longer discussion.
As in regard to using something we don’t need, everybody does that. Some people might dye their hair (I thought that might be the case for you), some people wash their car a lot.
Well,... the plastic bottles are under heavy recycling regime. The have become common because the glas bottles are so much heavier, and easier to be damaged. Regarding brands of bottled water over tap water... See, the different brands taste different, depending on the mineralization of the water and the carbonization of the brand, and will be different from your sink and own carbonizers. This been said, I do drink self-carbonized water.
Why you have to buy water in restaurants is said in other comments and originate from the typical calculation of food prize vs. drinks.
Also: I have been to restaurants that make even ordering water a big thing. The top was a luxury... well... steakhouse + international cuisine with own slaughter house... and a facility to do whatever you can be done to a piece of meat... and they had also 120 brands of water from all over the world and a specialized waiter only to support a good choice for your taste (princes between 2 and 50 Euros per 0.5l)
Last thing - In no restaurant I order a water, ever anyone is wondering - never occured to me.
good video. I always drink water from the tap, it's good. But I also love sparkling water, for quick drinks, just a preference. But in restaurants in Switzerland I really have to be very specific about only having tap water (for free, I ask) it takes a lot of juggling with words so they won't show up with non- sparkling water with a price tag that makes me leave the place.
5:17 By that logic, why would you pay for a coffee when you could just make it at home? Same for all the drinks, and even the food.
I like sparkling water.
I think it gives you a similar sensation to the American tradition of using lots of ice.
Keine Ahnung wo du lebst oder welche Leute du kennst, aber ich kenne viele Leute, die Wasser trinken(auch Leitungswasser). Ich persänlich trinke Sprudelwasser zum Genuss und Leitungwasser wenn ich Durst habe.
Für Restaurants macht es Sinn Wasser zu verkaufen(mehr Geld für wenig Leistung). Unsitte, wenn man mich fragt.
Zu den Plastikflaschen: zumindest die Wasserflaschen sind immer recyclebar und man bringt sie einfach zum Pfandautomaten. Was leider häufiger ist: Saft wird in Flaschen verkauft, welche man nicht zum Automaten bringen kann, sondern in den Müll schmeißen muss. Traurig.
Saft wird übrigens oft als Schorle getrunken, da er sonst zu süß ist. Ich weiß nicht ob du es schonmal gekostet hast aber es schmeckt echt gut. Ich habe in anderen Ländern die Erfahrung gemacht, dass Saft dort sehr süß ist, vielleicht hat dich das ja ein wenig irritiert. ☺️
I grew up on juices and schorle in Germany. But when I moved to the states at 13, I didnt have the same drink options as in Germany. I've NEVER liked still water 🤢 if I drank it, then I seriously didnt have another option and was super thirsty. We all know sparkling water isn't so popular in the states, so as I grew up, I continued on juice, lemonade, and occasionally soda. Now that I'm back in Germany, I'm back to my different types of schorles 😅 I do like sparkling water, but I just prefer something with a taste.
First I'm Austrian and live in Germany so I can speak for both, and for this discussion I can say both countries are pretty much the same. The normal is I drink tap water, and almost no bottled water. However water with gas, if I buy, then because I want to have a special mineral water with natural minerals of a well-known mineral spring. So it is not the artificial carbon added what matters. And I think the majority are like me. The restaurant is a different thing. Yes the usual is, if it is to be alcohol-free, not to order tap water, instead of it a whatever drink such as mineral water, a branded soda, schorle (what is "Apfelsaft gespritzt" in Austria), or pure juice. And I think even doing so it is not so strange as long this is not your only order. But: In Austria when you order any kind of espresso-based coffee in a professional cafe, you do expect a glass of fresh tap water as a supplement even without saying. I however have not seen many countries where tap water in a restaurant is "the normal". Also in the US but I agree it was only in big cities and not countryside.
Hier noch ein kurzer Nachtrag.
Leitungswasser ist das am stärksten kontrollierte Lebensmittel in Deutschland. Die Grenzwerte sind viel niedriger als bei Mineralwasser. Außerdem wenn man Mal rechnet, 0,13€/l Mineralwasser (Lidl)= 130€\m³ im Verhältnis zu 5€/m³ Leitungswasser. Zzgl weniger Plastik und keine Transportkosten.
Na dann guten Appetit / Durst beim Flaschenwasser.
I wonder, that you take your own drink into a restaurant. Normally it is not allowed to eat or drink other thinks than offered from the restaurant. Second - all plasticbottles are recycle and you get part of your money back. Third, I drink in my office a lot of water. But at home just Apfelschorle. Sometimes at home I drink tapwater.
I think your perception is (as you said) quite generalized. And I think it's fair to differentiate between consumption at home and in the restaurant. When we eat out, we Germans also drink water. Usually you have the choice between still, medium and sparkling water. You just have to tell the waiter. At home: Many do have a soda maker and I personally only drink water from the tap. In Germany this water is the most strictly controlled food and therefore of excellent quality. Apart from that, it is about 100 times cheaper than bottled discounter water.
Wenn man ins Restaurant geht, hat man was besonderes vor, da gönnt man sich auch mal ne Cola. Ansonsten trink ich persönlich immer Wasser, still oder mit Kohlensäure, maximal noch nen Schuss Saft dazu. Also die Behauptung, dass Eltern in Deutschland ihre Kinder nur süßen Sprudel zu trinken, kann ich nicht nachvollziehen.
Like you I really do not like sparkly water. I always drink from the tap (after pouring it into a glass, of course). I'm Dutch, not German, but also here it's very common to buy water in a bottle, but usually sparkly water, I think. Regular water we just drink from the tap.
Water is the most important commodity that exists on earth.
Fresh water is limited. You have to save it and it is expensive.
Drinking water is treated and it is transported to the tap.
All this costs money.
The water in the restaurant is mostly from drinking bottles, which also costs money.
It is therefore only right that you have to pay for water and that it is not free.
Contrary to what one might think, drinking water is now scarce in Europe.
In parts of Spain, villages have to be supplied with water because the groundwater has sunk too far.
Of course, if you grew up getting water for free, it's hard to understand that.
But in North America, too, drinking water has been scarce up to now.
Unlike there, however, we try to avoid wasting it here.
An interesting video about this can be found here: (unfortunately in German) th-cam.com/video/eayjQLWBLpI/w-d-xo.html
As a child I started with Schorle with much more water because I don‘t like too much suggary drinks. And now I drink almost always tap water. I hate plastic bottles and I avoid it at all cost. I find it strange hearing that Germans love plastic bottles of water. That is not true in my experience. My grandparents love water but they order glass bottles. Tap water should be free at all restaurants.
I love ur video.. unfortunately living in Kuwait so the water not good enough 😢 so bad water and tons of plastic waste makes me sad .. but thanks God finally we have recycling factory so Much better than nothing 😢
I don't like plain water or tap water.
I was raised with mineral water and juice, 4-5 parts water and 1 part apple juice. Sometimes even orange, multivitamin, grape or cherry in it.
Soda, coke or "Vitamalz" only on special occasions.
Recently I often drink coffee, tee, mineral water, Schorle or soda.
I hate self-carbonated tapwater like SodaStream. It's never carbonated enough and it has a "dusty" and metallic taste. Even if I don't like it either, I always prefer plain tapwater over carbonated tapwater!
Mineral water is different from tap water and even from each other.
At least the sparkling mineral waters!
Mineral water is considered natural source water and is used to be filled in glass bottles from the source to keep the carbonation in and the bacteria out of the bottle. You can bring it to places where you have no water taps and store it there for months. It will still be drinkable without preheating or sterilisation. It's a quick and easy to go. You can have it at work in the woods, at a picnic or wile driving a car.
You never need to clean up the bottles before. You just use them, give back to refill afterwards and buy a new filing in the same bottle again. A crate of bottles in the kitchen or near to your car makes it quick and easy!
Some mineral waters have a higher carbonation than others and the amount of calcium or magnesium and even the saltiness can be very different from each to others.
Old people often don't like it too salty and hard workers or sporty people usually prefer a high mineral amount.
So most people try their brands and stick to one they can afford and wich fits their taste and what they have cravings for.
I prefer water and only occasionally drink a Schorle. However I always carry a plastic bottle for my sparkling water around as the glass version is to heavy for everyday carry for me. I also drink 95% of my water sparkling, something I cannot get from the tap. The sparkling systems are also more an annoyance to me than a solution. Additionally the result from those sparkling systems doesn't taste the same to me and it looses the sparkling more easy from my experience. We actually invested in one of the fancy sparklers with glass bottles only to gift it to my sister 4 months later because of those aforementioned reasons. Overall I don't believe Germans drink more sugar on average. Saftschorle is far more prone than sugary softdrinks. Statista tells us that 123.1l softdrinks are consumed per capita in Germany whereas in the US it's 147.1l (converted from gallons) according to the same source.
Huhu 👋🏼 Wenn du ins Restaurant gehst und Wasser bestellst bekommst du entweder Wasser mit Kohlensäure (Selters, Wasser mir Sprudel etc.) oder Stilles Wasser. Stilles Wasser ist nicht das gleiche wie Leitungswasser. Es kommt aus einer Quelle die das Wasser filtert, wie zum Beispiel Evian, Volvic etc. Es hat einen anderen Nährstoffgehalt als Wasser aus dem Hahn. In Restaurants ist es eigentlich unhöflich Leitungswasser zu bestellen. Die Preise in den Restaurants sind so kalkuliert, dass sie daran am meisten verdienen. Unterstütze das doch, die Restaurantbesitzer werden es dir danken.
Anders als in den USA gehen die meisten Leute in DE nicht ständig ins Restaurant und trinken da natürlich auch anderes als zu Hause. Die meisten Deutschen trinken viel Wasser. Ob nun mit Sprudel. Still oder aus der Leitung. Wir haben eine Pfandsystem hier in DE und auch Mehrwegflaschen und Glasflaschen die wiederverwendbar sind. Ich kaufe auch das stille Wasser in Plastikflaschen, einfach für unterwegs. Zuhause gibt es Leitungswasser. Ich kenne nur Mütter die ihren Kindern Wasser oder Tee geben, deine Beobachtung kann ich leider nicht teilen....
Surprise Surprise, in Germany you have to pay for water in the Restaurant.
you should make a research about "why is water free available in the USA by law". When you know the fact then you know why its not free anywhere else on the world in Restaurants (perhaps in Australia, don't know). When this wouldn't be a law in the USA then you can be sure it wouldn't be for free.
Also... its not allowed to bring your own water into a Restaurant. Next would be you bring your own meals to it, too.. just kidding..
You can't get tap water in most Restaurants because they can't give any Guaranty about the quality of the water... if you get sick from this glas of water the owner of the Restaurant could get in big trouble for this.
It's been free in most European countries I've been to.
Das ist überhaupt nicht crazy, das ist eine sehr gesunde und wirtschaftliche Einstellung. 1000l Wasser kosten um die 3 Euro und man muss nichts schleppen. =)
Just ask for tap water in the restaurant... They will stare but in the end serve it..
We drink the blood of our enemies.
I think everyone needs water, especially mineral water...
I don't wanna upset anybody
Upsets everybody...lol
You know we pay Pfand on bottles.
Think the best option is a water filter, I've seen the situation about asking for simple tap water in restaurants and bars being met with distain a number of times, think it's down to profit at the end of the day. And yes there's far too much plastic being used! Good video again 😊
Restaurants pay their water bill & not the customer... i think it don't makes sense in addition to the fact that they wan't to make money...
First of all, at home I always drink tap water. But in Germany going to a restaurant is an event and I think that's why everyone orders at least a coke zero in a restaurant to enjoy themselves. I think that is why u are given strange looks while ordering water!
I lie in an area of Bavaria, Germany, where the tap water is really good, and I drink it much at home, but I also like to mix it with juice, that's a Schorle then, as you mentioned. I hate the taste of apples, so it's usually orange juice, but pear juice is also an option.
However, when I go to restaurant, I'd like a tastier drink that fits to the food, and it mostly is alcoholic.
Like, for example, to Schweinebraten and Knödel, what would you drink? Beer, of course. Trout or any other sweetwater fish? White wine. Deer or boar? Red wine.
With pizza, it depends. When I eat at a good Italian restaurant, I order some Italian wine with my pizza (or lasagna, or tagliatelle .... you know what I mean), but also a glass of water. Just to show respect. There is this Barbarian habit here in Germany to mix sparkling water with wine and call it a Weinschorle. You can enjoy the taste of both, but not when you mix it together.
At the start of our video, you mentioned that sugary drinks are detrimental to kids, with the parent giving Apfelschorle to their kids as an example. I don't think you are right there. First, there is Apfelschorle that is not carbonated, and second, all our ancestors ate fruit since thousands of years ago, and natural sugar cannot be detrimental to the human body, if not taken in in excess quantities. Your body must learn how to process sugar, otherwise you will have a diabetes problem later in your life. So what worries me more is the artificial sweeteners nowadays mostly added to soft drinks and other things mostly aimed at kids. Because, for these things, we have no enzymes in our bodies to use them for a purpose. So this is what is really detrimental.
Water in plastic bottles: Yes, that's a shame. And households shouldn't buy it. But what about, for example, workers at construction sites? There is no tap water, but they need water. Especially in summer. The water they take from a hydrant to make their cement with is officially unsafe to drink (although it often would be), but who knows, rather be safe than sorry.
I think I have answered all of your questions by now, except one: Why don't you get free tap water here at restaurants?
There are two reasons. One is, restaurants want to make money. Even with water. Second, and more important, is: Insurance. Insurance for a restaurant costs a lot of money, and now imagine, you own a small restaurant, or pub, and someone sues you because he got a belly ache from, allegedly, your tap water. That's also why we don't offer free refills. You get a clean glass every time.
(edit: Forgive my typos and grammar errors, I will not go back and correct them.)
Some say water is life. Plastic in the Oceans, in your food and in everything around you. Where does this end? It never ends. Plastic everywhere. Inside you at least. There is nothing purer than water. This will be the past. Sad but true.
Ich liebe dieser überaus hübsche, kluge, ulkige und doch überaus natürliche und im besten Sinne naive junge Frau!
I'am german and i drink tap water all day long :)
Carbonation is the same pleasure as eating very hot.
plastic pollution: alone the coca cola company has an plastic bottle output of 200.000 per minute(105.120.000.000 bottles per year) and they are used only one time.
carbonated water makes a person to age more and its not totally healthy for me ..I will choose to drink normal water than carbonated
I don't drink tap water? That is news to me. Not in restaurants but at home. BUT this does totally depend on the quality of the tap water. It tastes different in different regions. So in cities its often worse. I do not agree with you. The region you moved to is weird. Usually in restaurants the waiter asks if you like "Still" or sparkly water. Indeed they hate offering tap water in restaurant and people do not order it. But iirc by law they have to give you tap water if you want it - for free even. People - including restaurants - rarely know this and since often Germans prefer sparkly water, tap water is just not getting ordered.
The culture around plastic waters is changing, luckily. You can buy it in glass bottles. At restaurants it also usually is in glass bottles.
I assume you live in a big big city. The tap quality is usually less tasty. City people are weird.
I'm german and I drink only water ;)
Umm i thought americans are only drinking XXL coca cola and wasting tons of plastic
I live in Berlin, but I came from Brazil and there... well... don't drink tap water in Brazil... never. Anyway, I always heard that people drink tap water in cold countries. Crazy people, right?
I got used to odorless-colorless-tasteless-water from deep aquifers that we have all over the Brazil. I don't know about US, but in Brazil, bottled water is not tap water in a bottle. It is either natural mineral still water or natural mineral water with carbonic gas (it is not water that someone dissolved carbonic gas inside but it comes out of the rock with gas. Well... mostly... thanks coca-cola for your crappy carbonated water) ... so at least in Brazil you either have bottled mineral water or you have to filter with carbon and treat it with ozone to make it safe. No wonder for a country with so many water mines, it is incredibly cheap to buy mineral water (about 1.5 USD for a bottle of 20 liters although we pay about the same for 1000 litters of tap water), beside the plastic bottles are returnable (or you have to pay about 6 USD for a new bottle).
Anyway, I arrived in Germany last year and I found myself having to pay 3 EUR for a 0.3ml bottle of water (plus Pfand) or having to drink the tap water that tasted like I soap! I never drunk a water so heavy and rancid like this Berlin tap water... not saying it is not safe but.... argh. It is like licking a river stone. Not sure how you handle it... perhaps US tap water is similar to the German water and you got used to it (you said you like the taste... but water is not "supposed" to have a taste, imo). I personally bought a carbonic gas injector, put some lime drops or mint leaves and drink it cold freezing to displace the taste of leather shoe from it...
Hey,you I live in Berlin top...
And I must say that If your Water tastes filthy Just Take a Sample and Take it to a test !
It should be free of Charge & the Owner of House you taped it will BE obliged to Check the Water Pipes in your House with the Tab...
Berliner Wasserwerk Servers top Waterquality to your house~if it gets polluted,it Happens in your House and the Landlord hast 2 Change the Pipes Leading to your Tap
Check in with the Public waterfauntans that are installed Downtown in Public places...they are free Just bring your own, Clean glasbottle and fill it up... Check it Out,Greets, Thomas
@@thomashandschuh8476 Oh, thanks for the info but I didn`t want to imply that the water is improper to drink, just that it is heavy. It is a characteristic of the local water reservoir, I presume. It is just a matter of taste as I didn`t grew with water having a taste or leaving a talc sensation in my mouth. It is probably fine as far as health standards go.
Ich hatte mal einen Kollegen, der trank im Büro gerne Cola-Schorle... war ihm sonst zu süß.
better than drinking chlor water
Hey Neeva Water ist a Tricky topic ...in the constitutual Rights in Germany Water ist a Public good and actually Not vendable it's a Thing you get for free! If your local Watersupplyer Charles you, it's Not the Water you have 2 pay for, Just the supply...therefor the qubicmeter (1000liter) costs about € 0.09 on the Tap. If you warnt 2 sell it ,AS Beveridge companys do , they have to pimp it in a way ...easyest add CO2, next add flavour & sugar... This way These Companys make a 6000 Times Profit & Profit...Out of a Thing that ist free By Constitution...sad but true....Greets, t.Glove
I'm German and I've met some other Germans that also hate sparkling water, but it's rare. I hate it and don't get the hype at all. I agree- Tastes like angry water. I really love drinking tap water here and always have my reusable water bottle next to me. I've lived abroad in Boston and also in Trondheim, Norway and I loved that they just give you water for free. But because you have to pay for it in restaurants here (or they look at you weird when you ask for tap water) I always order Apfelschorle or some soda because it costs almost the same and I do like that too. I bring my water bottle to the restaurant too and then sometimes if my soda is already empty I just drink that haha.
The carbonated water as standard is typical German
you need to check recycling in germany or europe in general, before you say such things. all plastik will be recyclet
Yepp, and electricity should also be free, because, it just comes out of the socket-outlet in the wall.
It is not as if anyone works in the background so we can get it. And even if, why should they earn money.
So, when you were a kid and got a bottle of water … it always was a glass bottle?
And when you take a bottle of water everywhere, it is always a glass bottle?
Take the irony with a bit of humor ;)
Regarding humor … there is a german saying "We don't drink water because fish fuck in it".
Even statistics claim that Germans drink more water than Cola, Cola-mixed drinks and lemonades combined.
And more than beer.
Ofcourse you partially kinda have a point. Wouldn't it be nice if the world would be perfect? And sure, Germany should, no, has to be the leader in making the world become perfect.
But, seriously, people who buy water in bottles with no Pfand often either can't effort it (or think they can't because they don't do the math) or they think they can save some money. And glass bottles are heavier to carry. Yes, maybe the carbonater machines could be a solution. They should be ordered to be used by law. No freedom of choice. Where would we end up if everyone does what she/he wants. So, let's criticize and punish comsumer for the systematic failures - as we always do, kinda.
Then there is the difference in tubes tap water runs through, especially in buildings (and maybe partially - depending on the region - how "hard" it is; even still it is good quality). Some might taste a bit more like metal/copper because of old tubes it runs through in older houses/buildings.
And lastly, and maybe more "importantly", I guess it is often seen as stingy to order or offer just plain tap water. Which seem to be more common/acceptable in the states with it's pseudo-free tap water and drink refills (where nobody even can imagine that in reality they pay for, like people do for health insurance in communist .. I mean social democratic countries because the money is paid by all the other stuff, mostly in the price for food in restaurants - so, if you don't take a refill, you pay for that of others or just did throw extra money to the business ;).
By the way, what kind of laundry detergent do you use? Surely not liquid ones in plastic bottles (which are not part of the Pfand system).
Sometimes one could think you are German when they see and hear how often you criticize, complain and tell that something bothers you. That might not be good for your health in the long run.
Have a nice day and take care of yourself.
Do Germans drink water? No of course not. Fishes do f**k in the water. Germans drink beer. Only beer. German beer of course.
Just kidding, of course we drink water. Without bubbles, directly from the tap. 2-3 liters daily. Plus coffee, juice or even a beer.
Honestly, I just don't understand this cliché. My mother, over 70 years old, drinks bottled carbonated water. Otherwise I literally know no one who does it. Tap water tastes so much better and is also better controlled. Apparently you just know strange people - or I do ;)
Water? That beverage with no color and taste? Brrr. 😂😊
Normal water is boring sprudelwasser is better.
Buy a carbonator and make it yourself... ;-)
Hi, wenn you or any American people Cam in ouer Cafe an Order normal water ,then i make it,and its four free! Gruß Hans 👍🎉👍
Water sucks in germany
There are difrant flavours of waters, so yeah you talk bullshit😂😂😂
You change a fly into an Elephant. That's the first coming in my Mind. The Reasons you said are true yes it's everything right but.... You came from the States from a Society that really don't care about the Environment for centuries. Now you live here in a Land who cares about her own Environment and plastic is the Problem? We recycle everything also Plastic so the bottles you see are mostly recycled bottles so we began our dicussion. Second there are Workers in the Companys also for normal Water they will loose their Jobs. There are many Companys producing Water So many Employees will loose their Job if everyone think like you. The next thing is that the Water out of the Tab is in some Regions not so good yes you can buy a Filter but most of the people don't trust these Filters. At last I will tell you that Trust is a typicall Problem without Nationality a human Problem I think but it is so. The Video like all the others were good but I can't go confirm with you in this special Video in most of them yes but in a few not.