Brit Reacts to CHRISTMAS Shopping in GERMANY!
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- Do Germans really have this much variety when it comes to shopping at Christmas? Let me know in the comments section below.
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We don't just use advent calenders. We invented them 😄
Came here to comment the same 👍
We invented all of them
@@kaiglass4347 I think you meant to say that the Advent calendar has its origins in Germany and that all of today's Advent calendars go back to these first German Advent calendars?
Of course, "we" didn't invent all Advent calendars, but the first documented one was located in Hamburg, in the "Rauhe Haus", and this custom spread from there.
As far as I know "Kalender"is plural ;and for good reason.how could one be enough?!hardly survives the first two days!😂
Kalender is also Singular as also Plural. Other than in English: 1 calendar, 2 calendars.🤓🤓
You cannot compare marzipan 'icing' or cheap bog-standard marzipan (never liked any of this stuff) with marzipan made in Lübeck. It contains far more almonds, is therefore less sweet, with a hint of rosewater, coated with high quality chocolat or flavoured... it is soft, melts in your mouth and it comes in many beautiful shapes and forms. It's really no contest.
The only right way to manufacture marzipan in the traditional sense. Except the chocolate coating.
wanted to say the same: the marzipan on a cake tastes totally different than the normal marzipam to eat :)
Don't worry, the "children friendly" stuff is without alcohol. It's usually spiced apple or grape juice. Heated like the adult version.
not that many german parents had issues with letting their child have a real one back in my days ... christmas glühwein probably is the first alcohol many german people had in their life, usually well before being of age for alcohol.
@@diedampfbrasse98I remember as a young child at parties I always wanted to take a tiny sip from the alcoholic drinks of the adults and usually was allowed (usually rather hesitantly and after being told "aber nur einmal ganz kurz nippen!"). I absolutely LOVED that taste. It also felt so exciting.
My mother got egg liqueur for breakfast from her grandmother. Until my grandma found out.
Now just to think my small nephews and nieces would drink alcohol, even if it's "just a sip"... I absolutely can't imagine that. I absolutely don't want to, either.😅
oh ofc, there is also the egg liqueur in a chocolate cup around eastern ... another alcohol many kids got (propably still get) without anyone being too bothered.
Having a little alcohol under supervision at a young age often took away all the "forbidden fruit" appeal for kids and resulted in fewer kids going off the rails with alcohol behind the back of their parents. typical reverse psychology german parents used, thats the way I see it now.
Also ich bin jetzt über 50 und mir wurde es nicht erlaubt Alkohol zu trinken oder zu probieren, auch habe ich das absolut nicht im Freundeskreis ober Bekanntenkreis erlebt.
@@andreapompea3534 Da gebe ich dir Recht. So etwas kenne ich auch gar nicht.
I´ve never seen adults give kids alcohol, but maybe that's a thing in other states - not in the north.
"Kinderpunsch" is a non-alcoholic alternative to mulled wine. It is made from juice, an infusion from dried fruit, sugar, and spices.
Children friendly mulled wine, Kinderpunsch:
Put 1 liter of juice (cherry, apple or whatever you like) in a pot. Add one stick of cinnamon, 2 staranis and 3 to 5 cloves to it. Bring it to a boil and then let it simmer for 30 minutes. Enjoy 😊
8:30 those places are not build for christmas markets BUT actually for farmers markets. Every city has a “Marktplatz"= market place in the middle of the town 😉 3 days of the week farmers sell their produce at those markets. It is a very long tradition. And sure they are also perfect for christmas 👍
The number of days in the week with a farmer market is different from place to place, tho. I know a marketplace, where you have a farmer market at 6 days per week, and another one with only one day per week.
Well, it depends where you are. At the town hall square in my city where the christmas market is now taking place, there is never a farmer's market. We've got a seperate location for the farmer's market, which is open every day.
Thanks @@mrm7058
Germany is the birthplace of the christmastree, the advent calendar (first one in 1839) und christmas market. The oldest one that still exsist is in the city of Dresden (Striezelmarkt), 600 years old.
To the question on whether mulled wine is from germany:
Mulled wine, as in wine that has been spiced and potentially heated, goes back pretty much as far as wine itself. We have records of spiced wines from as far back as ancient greece, and it is a practice that has been in use ever since, it only changed form in terms of what exactly we put in it and how it is served.
exactly. Not only the ancient Greek, the Romans too loved mulled wine! And they were the ones who brought the wine to us! They missed it so much that they imported their fav different varieties of vines to find out if they would grow well in our climate, so they made vinyards and established it here.
It does not only look like the space was build to have markets in the city centre, they really are build to do so.
Its something that was kept from the middle ages and is now used for fresh markets and christmass.
They're even called market place (Marktplatz in German) 😀
I guess we invented advent calendars☺️
You asked if we use advent calendars. Think about it for a moment: The Advent calendar was first used by German Lutherans in the 19th and 20th centuries and has since spread to other Christian denominations
History:
Initially, the Advent calendar was primarily a counting aid and timepiece. The actual origins can be traced back to the 19th century.
Wichern wreath
Johann Hinrich Wichern (1808-1881)
The first documented Advent calendar was created by the Protestant theologian Johann Hinrich Wichern in 1839 for the children of a children's home (Rauhes Haus in Hamburg) to make the wait until Christmas more manageable. He placed one candle a day on a wagon wheel, and a larger one for each Sunday in Advent. In this way, he created two traditions at the same time: the Advent wreath (which today only counts the Sundays of Advent) and the Advent calendar, which counts all the days until Christmas.
The first homemade Advent calendar in a private household probably dates back to 1851, also in a Protestant environment. Families gradually hung 24 pictures on the wall. A simpler version was a calendar with 24 chalk lines drawn on the wall or door, where the children were allowed to wipe away one line each day. In Catholic households, however, straws were placed in a crib, one for each day until Christmas Eve. Other forms of Advent calendars were the Christmas clock or an Advent candle, which was burned every day until the next marking. This variant was particularly widespread during the National Socialist era as a replacement for the traditional Advent calendar.
Bets regards
Don't forget Gerhard Lang, who is considered the inventor of the first printed Advent calendar, which he published in 1904.
Spekulatius is a thin, crispy biscuit formed in a mold (like shortbread). It usually comes in plain, spicy, or with slivered almonds on the back. Great for dunking in your tea or coffee. 🙂
Also, on the Christmas markets you get mulled wine with shots of various liqueurs or other alcohol -- whisky, brandy, Baileys ....
I'm 67, and I've had advent calendars as far back as I can remember. Back in the early 1960s, the standard was just a piece of cardboard with a Christmas scene, and when you opened a "door", there was a smaller picture painted on semi-transparent paper; you could put a lit candle behind the thing to get a better effect. A slightly fancier version of advent calendars had glitter (gasp!), and the chocolate-filled ones were top of the line. Today, they've pretty much become the norm -- and you can get them for adults, even, filled instead with high-end chocolates, trinkets, cosmetics or beer cans, miniature alcohol bottles, even small tools if you want to spend some serious money. 🙂
And btw, Advent is the 4 Sundays leading up to Christmas Day (that's why this year, the 4th Advent falls on Christmas Eve. Also, Advent marks the beginning of the ecclesiastical year, which ends with a Sunday of Remembrance for the Dead (not just those who died in war, but everybody). People usually bring arrangements of firs, pine cones and the like to the cemeteries and put them on their families' graves, to stay until the season grows warmer again in spring. Advent really builds up the expectations for Christmas; many families have an Advent Wreath in their homes, decorated with 4 candles. You start with lighting just one on the 1st Advent Sunday, 2 on the next and so on until you put up the Christmas Tree -- which usually DOESN'T get set up before Dec. 20 or so at the earliest, and shouldn't be lit until Christmas Eve. In recompense, the tree stays up until January 6, Epiphany, when according to legend the 3 Magi arrived in Bethlehem to pay homage to baby Jesus. (But yeah, many people have adopted the American custom of setting up the tree early in December ... but most of the sellers won't open shop for real firs until Advent.)
I'm only 5 years younger........ and hey...... the glittery ones were the cherry on the tarte, right? How I loved them! *grins and murmurs something about "girls will be girls"... :D
@@Herzschreiber Oh yeah. The best thing EVER were Glanzbilder with glitter -- remember those? -- to collect and swap (and stick into Poesiealben...) god, we're old ...
I actually remember a gas street light in front of my grandfather's house. Until the early 1960s, someone would come along each day at dusk to light it, and return after dawn to switch it off again. The first time I told that to my son, he looked at me as if I'd just confessed to having met Napoleon in person. 😳🙄
I live close to Trier, one of the oldest cities in Germany ....the Market is indeed nice and cosy .... Münster and Cologne are nice too, thought I have not been to many in Germany, but one of the most famous is in Nürnberg.
The moment you said "the area looks like as if the place was build to host the market .... it WAS ... well not a christmas market, but many many city centers in Germany are build around a market place, close to the church, as the church or the marketplace was traditionally the heart of the village/city. the 1. official christmas market war 1296 in Vienna (says Wikipedia) and was called December market .... 1310 did Munich follow with their version and so on ...
She could have just bring it back and tell them it's undercooked.. they make a new one without any questions..
and ofc christmas markets are expensive.. they have to pay a lot of money to get a license to open a booth for this time.. and i mean.. it is once a year.. u dont need to go every single day :'D
but tbh.. what isn't expensive nowadays
wish u and your loved once nice holidays
Watching this as a German... through the eyes of a foreigner - oh maaan, we take way too much for granted. I guess most of us don't even see the beauty of it anymore since this is "just an oridnary thing" to have 😐 Shame on me and all the other Germans who think alike! We all should appreciate this a lot more. Happy holiday season everyone!🎄🎁♥
Spekulatius comes from Dutch speculatie or speculaas and means a figurative cookie, showing some scene or saint. Spekulatius are very popular around the Lower Rhine region (including Belgium and the Netherlands), while in other regions other kinds of figurative Christmas cookies are known like the Swabian Springerle (or Swiss Springerli), also called Anis-Brötli (anise cookie). Spiced Spekulatius contains cardamom, cloves and cinnamon, Almond Spekulations almond flour and almond slivers at the bottom; Butter Spekulatius can be found all year round, e.g. coming with an espresso or cappuccino in a café.
Marzipan was presumably produced first in Iran and came in medieval times to Europe. Both Lübeck and Königsberg (Kaliningrad) claimed to have invented Marzipan in 1407 respectively 1409. The EU recognizes marzipan as traditional speciality of Toledo and Lübeck.
"Kinderpunsch" (children's punch) is an alcohol-free alternative to "Glühwein" using apple and grape juice or fruit tea instead of wine, supplemented by some orang juice and the same spices as in mulled wine.
Advent calendars and Advent wreath were invented in Germany, presumably in the 1830s/1840s. The calendars with doors and treats behind them however were propagated only since the 1920s. Traditionally they count the either 24 days before Christmas or in some rare cases the days between the first Sunday of Advent and Christmas' Eve (which can vary between 21 and 27 days). The Advent wreath holds 4 candles, one for each Sunday of Advent.
The first Christmas tree decorations were apples and nuts which the children were allowed to harvest from the tree during the Christmas days. The apples became later Christmas tree balls, and the decorations were enriched by symbolic toys representing the Christmas presents.
7:15 A choice of classic Christmas cookies.
7:45 Many ice parlors will close during winter and the owners go home to their ice maker villages in Northern Italy. Some parlors will then used temporarily as pop-up shops, some will continue business as cafés and sometimes sell also mulled wine.
8:35 Yes, they were built around the market place, even if it was not planned as place for a Christmas market (which is a relatively new tradition for most cities except Dresden and Nuremberg), but for a regular farmer's market.
9:07 Smaller towns will often have only little "Advent markets" only opening at the weekends, where nearly all stalls are operated by local associations like sports clubs, charity clubs, voluntary fire fighters and so on. The bigger the city, the more commercial the markets will be and the more different markets are to find.
10:15 Trier cathedral is the oldest cathedral in Germany. The first basilica was constructed between 310 and 320 AD. The core of the current cathedral, the so called square building was built around 340 AD and expanded in the 11th century. Actually the complex consists of two churches, the cathedral (northern basilica) a the left and the Liebfrauenkirche (Church of our Lady) at the right, built in the 13th century to replace the dilapidated southern basilica, and a cloister behind the Liebfrauenkirche.
1:50 of course we do/have (adventskalender) ...for children there is a chocolate kalender and for the adults there is (scratchingcard /lottery ) kallender ...in my local supermarket there is even a beer-adventskalender for sale every year (24 small bottles of local brewed beer bottles 😅) greetings from Essen,Germany
Hey, Dwayne. I've been in an LDR (Long Distance Relationship) with a Brit for several years now and we regularly visit one another throughout the year. As a Frankfurter myself (one of the best Christmas Markets in Germany imo), I've had to see a few German Christmas Markets in England. I've been to the one in Leeds and it's nice, the one in Stoke-on-Trent and it's... well, I wouldn't recommend it. But the on that truly took the cake was the one in Birmingham. If you ever have any time around Christmas time, I highly recommend it. Excellent food, wonderful souvenirs, a ferris wheel, an iceskating rink and good mould wine.
It's a bit pricey, but god is it worth it. Also, not surprising given Birmingham is the partner city of Frankfurt.
Godspeed, my man.
Stoke-on-Trent is famous for Darts.. So what do you expect...😂😂
Re marketspace: Yes, normally every "bigger"/older town has a marketspace, often directly in front of the city hall. As, historicly speaking, every city had a kind of "tax" for the vendors it was a little easier to collect them when they had a destinated place to set up their sales stand. For smaller communities it was/is the space where the farmers come into town to sell their produce once a week (in my village it is on Thursday 😃). Only with the Christmas markets it is a longer period of time ...
This was filmed in my hometown (Trier). Was on that Christmas Market earlier this afternoon 😂
oh guck elo! Noch en Trierer! Wenn noch eine kommt sind wir kurz vor "Milliune Leit im selbe Video!" (Leider lebe ich "im Exil", ich vermisse Trier so sehr! Grüß mir die Porta!
@@Herzschreiber Grüße sind ausgerichtet, ich soll zurück grüßen 😅
@@anjakirsten6680 Hach! Danke :)
The problem with the high prices at the Christmas markets: the places belong to the cities. The operators of the stands have to pay rent to the cities. For a stand at a large Christmas market, five-figure euro amounts are sometimes due for 4 weeks. Then there is the wages for the workers. The cities tell the traders how the stands should look. A dealer with a sales tag will not be allowed at all. There is a points system similar to an exam at school. Options such as lighting, decoration, type of goods, etc. are taken into account. The sellers with the most points will be taken.
cheers! Yes, the Advent Calendar came to to UK with Prince Albert like the Christmas Tree;) Nice to hear that this connecting Tradition is still alive
What you saw in the background at timecode 10:11 was the Trier Cathedral, the oldest church in Germany, built around 310, still in the time of the Roman Empire. Trier was one of the capitals of the Roman Empire at the time.
Hi Dwayne - every year my wife gives me a special Advent calendar: 24 "Kurze", i.e. mini bottles of Jägermeister, Bommerlunder, Underberg, clear schnapps, liqueur, etc. hang from a wreath.
I always really enjoy doing this, I tip a small bottle every evening, it's wonderful and I don't like chocolates or similar...
Not everyone likes marzipan, although I don't live far from Lübeck, where the best marzipan in the world comes from Niederegger and they make really good marzipan, but tastes are different. By the way, the Advent calendar was invented by a German bookseller and publisher.
Gerhard Lang brought the first printed Advent calendar onto the market in 1904. It was entitled “In the Land of the Christ Child” and told about the many preparations that the Christ Child has to make before Christmas.
The custom of having a Christmas tree in the house at Christmas also comes from my homeland.
By the way, Trier is one of the oldest cities in Germany, was founded by the Romans and has a great Christmas market.
The High Cathedral of St. Peter in Trier that you saw is the oldest episcopal church in Germany.
Trier was founded 17 years before Christ and is known for its Roman-era buildings such as the Porta Nigra, the Black Gate. It's a great city that you really have to visit.
As a Czech, I very liked marzipan when I was kid, but now you can't find it anymore, it's super rare and when I find some marzipan, it's not that one I remember from my childhood, it's really weird that marzipan is that rare now here, it was everywhere like 20+ years ago.
@@Pidalin I am very sorry for you that marzipan is so rare in your home country. I can hardly believe this. In my area there is a shop that only sells marzipan in all possible variations, summer and winter.
Marzipan for cakes is a whole different ball game compared to some nice Marzipan chocolates like from "Niederegger" or other high quality producers. If you wanna try some "okay-ish" Marzipan try Ritter-Sport Marzipan chocolate... Back in the days marzipan for cakes was mixed with something called "Perzipan" in Germany, which was not made from almonds but from peach pits instread. I really dislike "Cake-Marzipan"
Persipan actually made of peach pits is dangerous in more than usual amounts, because the pits contain substances which can convert to cyanid..
Childrens friendly means it's not wine. Ist's heatet fruitjuice. With some spicestuff.
Adventscalendar, Yes it's a German invention. 100 years ago in Munich.
Origin of the Advent calendar. The Advent calendar story begins in 1838. Johann Heinrich Wichern, head of the Protestant boys' rescue center “Rauhes Haus” near Hamburg, probably had enough of the question of when Christmas would finally be. So he developed an idea to represent the remaining days.
Stores begin to sell X-mas items in August! At least some items like sweets but not the full assortment.
Christmas markets are indeed pricey but not overpriced. As consumer you have that feeling of extortion but in fact their margin is very little and almost no revenue after tax. Many retailers lose money because they can't raise their prices as they may need. Stall rent is high and their business is seasonal that they make money only for a short period to cover the whole year.
I actually spent half a year in that city. It's Trier, near the Luxemburg border. It's quite nice for a visit andsoooopretty. And it has so much history.
I have looked it up: who has Lappland? All of them except for Denmark. Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia, too.
Glad, you had a speedy recovery from the 🦠!
The Christmas tree bauble - a German cultural asset from Lauscha
Legend has it that the idea of making coloured glass baubles for the Christmas tree came from a poor glassblower from Lauscha who could not afford the expensive walnuts and apples in 1847. However, there is no evidence of this. However, the order book of a glassblower from Lauscha has been preserved, in which an order for six dozen "Christmas baubles" in various sizes is noted for the first time in 1848. So they were not made for his own tree.
However, the real triumph of the Christmas baubles did not begin until 1880, when the American Frank Winfield Woolworth, founder of the department stores' chain of the same name, imported the Christmas baubles to the USA. This greatly expanded production. From then on, the production of glass Christmas tree decorations established a very important economic sector for the region. The Christmas baubles from Lauscha remained the only ones in the world until before the First World War.
omg, advent calendars are sooo great, i always have one chocolate one, and i try others too, had a stamp calendar (24 tiny stamps, love that company), had 2 again that were building sets (one a car, the other a motorbike), a puzzle acvent calendar and of course a craft advents calendar... didn't manage to try out all 24 ideas yet 🙈 so i still have advent in January ;)
And the prices on the christmas markets are all right.. and you always find stuff, that you haven't seen before, or you can't easyly get during the year. For example i always plan my christmas market budget with the glass dealer in mind. Since I've been a kid, i bought each and every year some tiny glass animals, or, since i have more then poket money, even a bigger thing like a bird or a dragon to hang into a window. I never see them during the year, always only at the christmas market... and they even recognize me by now, it's really funny, if you know a dealer where you bought stuff several years in a row 😊
And regarding all the food... if the shipping wasn't so expansive, I'd offer to send you something (seriously, you have to win the lottery to pay shipping to and from the UK by now, wth?) it would be really fun to see you open a german food care package 😂
Concerning prices: the fees to set up your booth (for squaremeters occupied, power, trash etc.) and sell your stuff is insanely high! That´s what makes most of the stuff so expensive.
Great video! Love your positive energy and your interest in German traditions - keep up the good work and many greetings from Germany!🇩🇪🇬🇧
For the last seven years,me and my brother have beer advent calendars.... 🍻😄
Honestly I've watched so many of your videos recently and your love for Christmas makes me more excited myself :D I'd love to have you around when going to a market! :D I've been to the English version of a German market when I lived in Birmingham and I do agree it is close but on a smaller scale. ;)
And yes the houses are build to house a market in the middle. It's called a market place. We also have weekly markets outside of Christmas there often selling fresh produce and also having other festivals all year round :) How much it is used is often determined by the size of the town/city it's in
Yes we Germans know what an "Adventskalender" is. A German invented it. Johann Hinrich Wichern 1839
And an other German reinvented it.
In 1904, Gerhard Lang brought the first printed Advent calendar onto the market. It was called "In the Land of the Christ Child" and told about the many preparations that the Christ Child has to do before Christmas.
I also drink the Glühwein with alcohol as a child.
For me personally, the cheap, chocolate advent calendars you find at Aldi e.g. have the best chocolates
oh, yes, in Germany the "Adventskalender" is bigggg, in my fav Getränkemarkt I saw an Adventskalender with beer, every door was another bottle of different beers. 24 sorts of beer, isn´t that a heaven, we have that with wiskey as well, and for the women is something with scents or make up or fancy soaps or perfumes or even with intimate toys, so, forget your chocolade 😎😁🤗
"Do you guys do advent calendars?"
Mate, Germans invented those, lol. You might've also heard of the Christmas tree or Christmas markets. Also originally from Germany.
children drink not alcoholic mulled wine. Thats simply means a children punch without alcohol. But not really healthy. It has more sugar as cola or other softdrinks.
christmas market might be expensive but in my youth we brought our own beer n mulled wine in thermos flask ,so enough money saved for something to eat,
The worst thing about christmas shit in shops is when christmas end, easter starts, there is only few months in the year without this madness.
We don't just do Adventskalender, we invented them! Johann Hinrich Wichern from Hamburg invented them in 1839 for the children of an orphanage.
Since you mean that you don't like marzipan, because you don't like the marzipan coating of cakes either....
Try some from Lübeck. What is often referred to as marzipan on the cake is actually cheap Persipan.
While marzipan consists of almonds and less than 50% sugar. The less sugar it contains, the higher the quality of the marzipan.
Persipan consists of the grated seeds of peaches and apricots and sugar.
While persipan is mainly used for baking and industrial production, marzipan is used for confectionery because it has a finer taste and less bitter almond flavor than persipan.
Just as a funny side note...
I always prefer the non alcoloic 'Kinder Punsch' by taste (but white rum infused). ;D
Because of the Striezel stuff and Eastern Europe... You always have to keep in mind that centuries ago, many Germans were tempted to emigrate because of their high craftsmanship or other outstanding skills, such as e.g. mining and also in agriculture. This means that Germans lived in all parts of the Danube Monarchy, as well as in the Baltics, since the time of the Teutonic Knights, in the region around Odessa, or on the Volga, all of which was in what was then the Russian Empire. That's why, after the end of the Second World War, 12.2 million so-called ethnic Germans were expelled from the Soviet empire to the West. Up to 1.6 million Germans died in these expulsions of families, some of whom had lived in their countries for well over 200 years and who had nothing to do with the Nazis. It is therefore not particularly surprising that this German specialty was also brought far away and spread there. The oldest German Christmas market, the “Striezel Market” in Dresden, is even named after this pastry. And this market has existed for over 600 years...
Are you sure its marzipan you are talking about? Mostly on cakes there is "Fondant" which is a different tasting, but kinda similar from the consistency version of a coating. And much more used on cakes.
RIght, marzipan is totally different from what Brits know as icing.
Fondant = Zuckerguss. I doesn't only taste differently, it is different. In Australia we used to buy icing sugar, which is about the same as Puderzucker hier in Germany. You mix it with water and maybe a bit of lemon juice and spread it on a cake. It can't be compared to Marzipan that is made of totally different main ingredients.
@@magmalin yeah, but what you described is not the same as store bought fondant. store bought fondant has almost the same thick texture as marzipan, and also dissolves as slow in your mouth as marzipan does. The homemade lemon juice , sugar water mix is something completely different, and more comparable to icing. Store bought fondant has a consistency like playdough/plastilin at room temperature, and is normally rolled out, and then as a sheet put over the cake - so it can be mistaken for marzipan.
@@anashiedler6926 I have never bought any fondant, so I had no idea of its consistency and that it resembles Marzipan.
16:20 I just came from the Christmas market here in Münster and I gotta say, you can really tell that us Millennials are earning (and spending) big money now. I saw more odd, weird and funny tree ornaments there than traditional ones. Even ones that look like sex toys. You can even find the pickle ornaments that may have originated as a rumour of sth that we Germans supposedly do but to my knowledge never really did.
the original christmas market glühwein / mulled wine today inveted in germany in 1956 by kunzmann. the original can you buy today in germany😊
but wine with spice and other fruits is older .
Not really. Maybe it was sold in bottles for the first time in the 50s. For both my great grandmothers from Selesia and Bohemia, hot spiced wine was already a christmas tradition long before. I've stil got their old, hand written recipes.
@@magmalin yes,.. glühwein ( hot wine with spice and fruits) gives in 1940th in differents region of germany.
but the original patent glühwein for the german christmas market came 1959 . kunzmann patent his recept .
@@arnebollsen Glühwein gabs schon im Mittelalter in ganz Europa. Und nur weil das Getränk erstmals in Deutschland in den 50er Jahren in Flaschen abgefüllt und patentiert wurde, kann nicht behauptet werden, dass es in Deutschland um 1950 erfunden wurde. Außerdem schmeckt die Plörre am Christkindlesmarkt nur mäßig. Ich trink den net, mach in lieber selber zuhause.
Hop on a plane and go to a Weihnachtsmarkt by yourself 😁 I think Adventkalender are invented in the early 1900 by a German man.
I had a tv sized beer Advent Kalender of a small privat german brewery with 24 different craft beer bottles behind its kalender doors.
In the roman empire,spiced wine was a thing,but I doubt they made it hot.that's more for colder climates,but who knows.
I am sorry, but I think that nice girl choose the wrong things for eating. Maybe better.....Backfisch, Reibekuchen mit Apfelmus, gegrillte Champions und Flammlachs. Now, these are things I like to buy on a christmas market here in Germany. But one thing is realy right! You have to pay a lot for all the good things. That is mostly the reason why some people in Germany goes one or twice to the christmas market with not looking for what it cost. But let us be true: if you want that great christmas feeling, do not look to the price. Enjoy! Lovely greatings from (christmas market) Germany!!
Well, I know that the Siebenbürgen in northern Romania call many of their pastries and cakes "Striezel". But Siebenbürger are kind of an ancient type of German expats, because they emigrated from Germany in the 16th century to Romania and pretty much stayed German there all the time. Even their language is very similar to frozen German from the middle ages. Soooo... dunno. Baumstriezel sounds pretty German, perhaps with an eastern-european twist.
My mother sometimes spoke Siebenbürger Sächsisch. I understood nearly everything, but only could speak some words, because I was born in Swabia...But I liked some food from there...❤️👍
Marzipan! ♥
I love Marzipan - but not the stuff they put on cakes.
nonono, the Germen Marzipan is not like the stuff you put on cakes, it is so much better. I am not the biggest fan of Marzipan myself, but each year I take a boat over Lake Chiemsee to pick up one pack of Marzipan from the nuns in the monastery on Fraueninsel for my christmas baking. The Childrens version of Mulled Wine is usually hot grapejuice with the obligatory Christmas spices like Cinnamon, cloves etc. I prefer the childrens mulled wine, because I'm not a big fan of being drunk on a Saturday afternoon. 7:23 Usually the Icecream palors close at the end of October and the owners rent the places out to Winter vendors who sell gingerbread, mulled wine etc.
9:32 back in 2017 I was in Cardiff around Christmas time and there was a Christmas market there. Let me tell you the prices for mulled Wine (and tbh horrible Mulled Wine) were eye-watering. One glas was 6-7 quid + 3quid deposit. If any vendor in German dared to charge more than 5 Euro there would be riots, especially if it was that UK version of Mulled Wine (more or less red tinted water with some spices).
Dampfnudeln are awesome, if you know how to make them. There once was a series of TGBBO where the contestants had to make Dampfnudeln. It was hilarious to watch the panic.
You realize the Christmas celebrations like we know it today comes from Germany. Queen Victoria started to introduce the Christmas tree and the way Germans celebrate the holidays to the people in the UK.
"Spekulatius" is the latin term for "Wall street broker"
I don't like marzipan... but niederegger is delicious. you have to try it, it's different
Spekulatius is speculoos in English, at least that's what my Canadian friends call it. And no disrespect to your Grandma (I'm sure her cakes are delicious), but I'm guessing you never had the real McCoy. Try getting marzipan from Niederegger. I have many international friends who claimed to not like marzipan and were sold after trying the real stuff! Cheap marzipan, fondant, or marzipan substitutes like persipan are just not the same. Persipan is made from peach and apricot kernels and sugar. The good marzipan is ground almonds with MAX. (!) 30% sugar, the less sugar, the better!
nower days they start in August here in Lidl yes we do Advent calenders
Queen Victorias husband brought the Christmas tree to England,you're welcome.
In my Opinion: the best "Glühweis" is from "IKEA" named "GLÖGG"....
I would like to have a good Craft Advent Calender but in am in love with these "Escape Room" Reading Calenders where you have to solve Riddles. Sherlock Holmes. Since i am a Diabetic..this Adult Adventkalender is not dangerous for me. There are a lot of others..not only sweets. Also..it was once just something with Pics and Sayings ..or whatever to read..but that was long long ago..maybe at my Parents Time. With Christian Slogans for Kids or so.
germany invented the advent calendar, so yes we use them.
It is from Chech...Bohemian Style. Baumkuchen.
Trier (you can see the name on a mall-type building at ~7:47) is one of the oldest German cities, built by the Romans in 16 BC (named Colonia Agrippiensis); small wonder the inner-city streets look similar to the UK. Also, many German companies have opened branches all over Europe, from Aldi, Lidl, C&A, T-Mobile ... the list goes on!
The Roman name for Trier was "Augusta Treverorum". The Roman name for Köln was "Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium".
I hate Marzipan too😂 i can remember a time at the Kindergarten we had a Adventcalendar every kid pulled a number and everyone got something on that day he pulled. I got some Mazipan i didn't knew what it was, so i tasted this crap and had to Puke. Ne ver again😂
Boy. Dont look disgusted cause of Marzipan. yammi yammi 😆❤
The history of mulled wine as we know it today began in Augsburg in 1956. Rudolf Kunzmann produced red wine with added sugar and spices in his small winery for the first time in a commercial bottling and sold it as mulled wine.
I don't think it began in Augsburg. My family from Selesia and Bohemia already had that christmas tradition and made spiced wine before they landed as fugitives in Augsburg after WWII. Nevertheless, the christmas market here is really picturesque with the renaissance town hall and the Perlach tower in the background.
Advent calendars originated in Germany!
Mulled wine is no German invention and has been around since ever (the romans for example drank it). In England in the middle ages people often drank Ypocras or Hypocras a spiced mulled wine to which some health benefits were awarded ... But you can say the first bottled "Glühwein" (mulled wine) was manufactured in Germany in the 1950s.
Exactly. I don't know about the Romans, but I have read that hot spiced wine was quite common all over Europe in medieval times. And I've got hand written family recipes from my ancestors which date back to the 1890s and are from Selesia and Bohemia. I suppose the invention of the bottled stuff is a German thing. But who wants to drink that awful muck from bottles?
@@magmalin yeah can see how a recipe that runs in the family can make it better. I do not know why you are against the bottled mulled wine. I thing the standard ones like "Christkindl Glühwein" are a good base to refine it a bit with some more spices and perhaps some other liqour (like contreau or "Grand Manier"). And the best mulled wines (not homemade) are the so called "Winzerglühweine"/ vinyards mulled wines and when you look for really good ones here are some recomendations for a fabulous Winzerglühwein:
Weingut Mees
Weingut Kirch
Weingut Friedrichshof
Biowein Stefan Kuntz
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and the bad ones are often like with normal wines that really cheap stuff for 1,49 € or in carton boxes.
I have a Whisky-Adventskalender. 24 different little bottles of Single Malt-Whisky...
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What do you mean chrismis in Oktober When i Went to England right after the summer holiday there were adventscalenders on the ferry
Here in Germany supermarkets start to sell Christmas sweets and cookies in late summer. Christmas tv ads start in October or November. Actual Christmas tv programs start by the end of November, fortunately not sooner.
Unfortunately it's pretty hard to find normal wrapping paper (which you actually like) from October/November to the end of December.
I absolutely LOVE marzipan!😀
I love mulled wine, too, and basically all other hot alcoholic drinks. I don't think the alcohol will be good for your immune system when you're ill, though. I didn't drink mulled wine while having a cold last week. I'll probably have some again tomorrow. Of course some people would probably say now that hot alcoholic drinks actually help with a cold. I'd probably be more careful with Covid, either way.
I suggest trying to eat raw onion, this might bring relief.
There are all kinds of advent calendars. Think of any franchise or topic, and there'll probably be an advent calendar for it. It's also great fun to make an advent calendar yourself and give to someone.
I think I would have absolutely loved that undercooked pastry!😀
The same here in Czechia, I absolutely hate that and when christmas end, easter starts. I am mostly watching only our public TV news channel and when I accidentaly switch to some commercial TV in christmas time, it's really shock. The worst thing here is that almost all supermarkets are owned by Germans now and it's super overpriced and they send worse quality to our countries and you have no other option then to go there and support these german cheaters and slavers, better go to little vietnamese shop and give that money to vietnamese than to support this Lidl/Kaufland/Norma mafia.
@@Pidalinwell, I think assessing the quality of food (or other goods) is something that can be relatively subjective, at least if there's nothing obviously wrong with it or it's packing. A Norma opened in my sister's village here in Germany a while ago and she says the quality is bad. She only goes there if she REALLY needs something asap. I personally have never been to a Norma, as they are rare in my area. Discounters like Aldi or Lidl aren't exactly known in Germany for selling high quality food, either, apart from the well known and more expensive brands they also offer. If you want to buy food of good quality in Germany, you need to go to one of the better supermarkets, where everything is more expensive. We also have Turkish and Asian supermarkets. Also Eastern European ones. And ones that sell organic food only. Though Aldi actually got better and you can in fact buy decent food there now, unless you're unlucky, which happens sometimes. During winter time tangerines/clementines are a good example: it's hard to get decent ones in any one of the discounters here. Most of the time they are just awful. You also have to inspect the fruits and veggies in general for mold and rot. What also happened to me was that I bought really hard mangos in discounters - at least twice. I didn't mind, though, they were more comfortable to eat and still tasty.🙃
Aldi used to have a really bad image here in Germany, this seems to have changed a bit in the past years. Although, admittedly I'd personally still be a bit ashamed to walk around with an Aldi bag.
So, I don't know if the German supermarkets/discounters really do what you wrote about them in your country. If they do, you people should do something and demand better quality, or otherwise boycott them. Especially if something is wrong with the stuff they sell in a way that might do harm. But it also might all be a bit relative... maybe we don't actually get better quality from them in Germany than you do in Czechia? I mean, I honestly don't know, as I never bought food in your area.
Also, I for my part might be more ok with food of a not so good quality than other people. So when someone like me says "the food is ok", someone else might find it horrible. But they also might think I got better food than them - which would not be the case. I hope you get my point.
@@Pidalinsorry, I can't edit comments with my smartphone for some reason. About the overpricing: at the moment everything is pretty expensive here, too. Since the war in Ukraine started and as far as I know also for other reasons like problems with the harvest or import in some areas. Regular long-life milk of the cheap Aldi brand now has the same price as their cheapest oat milk. At least now I can buy oat milk regularly without feeling guilty of buying "luxury food".😅
If everything was already overpriced where you live way before everything got really expensive here, too, well, that would be a different story, of course.
Oh, also, these companies aren't always said to be the best employers here, either, since you called them enslavers.
@@stef987 But thing is that German supermarkets do things which are illegal in Germany and they are getting massive fines for that in Germany, like cartel deals with prices etc...a lot of things here cost 2x more here than in Germany in the same shops. And double quality is a serious problem which we talk about for years, but nobody cares, we wanted to push ban of double quality in EU, but they always removed it from the table and nobody cares, they say that "different market needs different products" which literally means "give there less chocolade for those eastern Untermenschs, they are that stupid that they will buy that"
@@stef987 When product for German market has 70% of cacao and the same product for our market has 30%, it's not subjective, it's just food for pigs. The same with meat, milk and all other ingrediences, we are just pigs for them.
Never leave a christmasmarket undrunken...
Not related to the topic of this Video, but have you ever watched german comedy? Some like Michael Mittermeier or Vince Ebert performs in english and there are some german satire like Volker Pispers, 'Heute Show' or 'Die Anstalt' can be watched here on TH-cam with english subtitles. Also, ever watched any german channel like Malternativ, Doktor Froid or whatever?
I don't like marzipan either, only the really expensive one, then it's nice.
Germans invented the Advent Calender
I habe gehört , this year some chrismasmaekets have anithing like chrismasFlatrate prise, what means pay 1x am Eingang (don't knnow 40 € or so), and jou csn eat & drink so mutch you Wand on that day/evening.
Germany invented the advent calender. (Johann Hinrich Wiechern, 1839, Hamburg)
Don't ever buy Gewürzspekulatius. You will eat the entire 600g pack in one go. You have been warned :D
isnt the outside of wedding cakes persipan not marzipan?
8:47 its Not like it is build arround the market and Church it actualy is build somtimes 1000 of jears arround a Marketplace and it was always close to a church. The Spaces often that old and still Farmersmarkets once or twice a week.
Steam Noodles -Dampf Nudeln
Yes indeed those buildings are layed out to have a massive market in the middle. We call it "Marktplatz" engl. market place (😁 "Thx Captain Obvious"). It has been that way for centuries.
Hi Dwayne! I've seen a few of your videos. You're a likeable guy. If you come to Germany, I would like to show you around, for example at a Christmas market. I love food and of course I know the area very well. Well, I saw YOU, but you don't know ME, so I don't think you'll reply. I'm crazy, right?
Finland.
I love Marzipan❤
Of course we are good for Christmas...
We invented it in the 16th century just like the Easter bunny
Children Punch ist without alcohol. It is a Kind of hot fruit juice. We do not give alcohol to kids!
We are more culturally conservative.we absolutely don't like christmas stuff in october.compared to US or UK,it still starts later
As an Englishman, it is better never to ask a German if there is a similar Christmas tradition as in England ... 99.99% of all Christmas traditions in England come from Germany!
If you look at it with a bit of humor, you can say that England was civilized by Germans. 😉
Lapland spans three countries; Sweden, Finland, and Norway.
The Anglo-Saxons came from Germany too 😉
No worries Dwayne this stuff for kids has NO alcohol content!
that's exactly why it's "child-friendly " (and car driver friendly, etc.)
@@tobyk.4911 Exactly no wine just juice + spices.
I regard it as rather an insult calling German Christmas bakery cookies. The term "cookies" is something ever so American which can't be associated with the great German bakery products, especially with the home made ones at christmas.
Heissgetränke für Kinder sind natürlich ohne Alkohol
Glühwein für Kinder ist ohne Alkohol, darum heißt er auch Punsch.