Weird Things in German Supermarkets (BRITISH REACTION)
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- Weird Things in German Supermarkets (BRITISH REACTION)
This is my reaction to Weird Things in German Supermarkets
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Yes, everyone goes to the "Pfand" machines first if they have bottles/cans to return.
Especially little kids love to do that for their parents. Some parents let the kids keep the money for the returned bottles/cans. It's a fun teaching experience.
Mostly to get the bags empty. And the machines are at the entrances. Austria has that system in a small way (mainly some glas bottles) but is implementing it the german way in the next years.
So true that.I give all the pfand geld to my son who is 5.We are doing this for some 2 years and he's rich already 😁🤣
YEEES! my parents did this all the time and we loved it to get some sweets out of it
where i live you also can choose to donate the money to the "Tafel" (a charity food bank), but i'm not sure how common that is in other places.
Quark is an interesting thing - think a very firm yoghurt, but not as sour and with a rather mild, milky taste. Great to put on bread or a Brötchen and then some jam on top!
Also have to correct one point they made: There is fresh milk, which is refrigerated, and then there is long lasting milk, called H-Milch (Haltbare Milch), which has been treated in a specific way to improve shelf-life and doesn't need cooling. Personally not a fan of H-Milch, because it tastes different than normal milk.
Yeah H milk tastes different because of the sugar heated up inside
So it is very slightly caramelized
The main difference between joghurt and quark is that the joghurt is preprocessed using joghurt bacterias, extracting the milk sugar. Quark usually is not, and quark is far more firm than the still somewhat liquid joghurt. That's why quark is a better amino protein donor, although I can't eat much of it pure. I can down a whole jar of joghurt in seconds with no problem. :)
The Paprika flavoured chips aren't so spicy, cause here Paprika is the name of sweet pepper. If you want the spicy one you have to search for pepperoni! 😎
Quark is essentially a very very soft fresh cream cheese. But because it is so fresh, it is neither savory nor sweet. You can use it as a spread on bread, many people use it instead of butter and put jam on top. You can eat it with potatoes (instead of sour cream) or as a dip with fresh vegetables. If you put berries and sugar in, it becomes a quick and easy dessert.
It’s called white cheese at Tesco and is ridiculous expensive
Quark is also used in many pastries. Mostly mixed with other stuff like eggs and sugar.
We have a lot of sweet Soufflee and Cake recepies that require either Philadelphia or Quark…
Quark is basically half-dried milk, sometimes with the fat extracted (ugly, if you want to diet, just don't eat it). You can used it for a lot of things, desserts, also baking, but pricewise I think it's not cheaper to make your own cream cheese of it.
The reason the shop is not removing the package around the single bottles is that sometime people buy 6 bottles at once and with the packaging they can transport it easier. Since most people walk to their grocery store it's a simpler way of carrying it.
Also: gimme a P/O Box and I'll send you some stuff you would like to try :D
be careful when sending foodstuff into different countries. For example Regulation (EU) No 2019/2122 supplemens older regulations in what is exempt when sending small consignments of food to natural persons with no intention to sell it. If I read it correctly, all dairy products may NOT be entered. As is "meat and aedible meat offal" (except frogs' legs), sausages, ...
this channel is one of the most timesaving of this kind of channels: we don't only get the original comparison of germany and the usa, but in addition we also get comments on british and scottish versions, as well as a glimpse of asian versions, "5-in-1" all in a single video. *_thanks!_*
ps: yes, a "asian vs scottish" version of your own would be nice too, and not only on food but also other topics like homes/appartments (i never was in asia, and if i would have been, it would only have been for tourists, eg european style hotels).
I agree to all you say! 😊Except for "asian vs. scottish" - I would prefer "malaysian vs. scottish" since Asia is huge and can't be narrowed down by just one country. I mean even "malaysian" means something different from person to person but it would be less inaccurate and more accurate in regards to "scottish". 😁
When I was a child growing up in Scotland in the 1960s deposit bottles were perfectly normal, whether for milk delivered to your door or for any kind of soft drinks. Glass bottles were always re-used as long as they were re-usable. You took them back to the shop and either got your money back or a discount on the new bottle. You were indeed renting. It was in the 1970s when disposable single-use plastic bottles started to be introduced that the deposit-bottle practice died in the UK. I remember a lot of talk about the "throw-away" society back then from people who had grown up in the Great Depression of the 1930s and who had lived through WW2 rationing, which lasted well into the mid 1950s.
I think the German deposit system is great.
actually you can get deposit versions of those disposable bottles here in germany as well.
@@Irobert1115HD Now, yes. But not when they were first introduced.
Small note. Glass deposits have been in Germany, also for decades and still. This is only about plastic and beverage cans.
@@wallerwolf6930 True, But not on all glass bottles. I've lived in Germany since 1979 and you got deposits on crates of beer, water and juice that you bought from a beverages market. However, as far as I remember that didn't apply to spirits. But the supermarkets never gave you deposits on any glass bottles. That was when I was living in Bavaria. It was the same when I moved to NRW in the early 1990s. Maybe different where you lived? Edit: just remembered that you got deposit 1L bottles from vintners if you bought a box of wine direct from the vineyard (Frankenwein).
i might have to disappoint you there, my friend. paprika chips in germany aren't spicy at all. it's more like a sweet red bell pepper taste. quite bland thb, but there's LOTS of other flavours available, including spicy ones ;)
Peperoni flavor is spicy
@@CavHDeu only on the German level. For someone who is used to spicy food, even most peperoni flavored ones are mild.
@@m.h.6470 indeed, German taste buds in general aint very spice-loving compared to many other cultures ... and even if you order your stuff spicy here in Germany, you will most likely experience a noteable level-up when ordering the same foods in other cultures, even if its the same restaurant franchise as companies hold back the spice for central european markets.
not a big deal tho, you can get your spice in asian shops and just mix it into those sauces off the shelf ... still cheaper then buying the really spicy sauces and fairly unique in taste.
@@m.h.6470 yea but with currywurst you can get very spicy powders or sauces.
I can take only 1.5 mio scoville without getting digestive problems 😅
Still no hedgehog though.
How do you cook eggs? We Germans put the eggs in boiling water. The temperature difference can cause the eggs to crack.
About the plastic around bottles: my local supermarket has a sign on the shelf that reads; "please do not open the "six-packs", individual bottles can be found on the opposite shelf." but you are correct, some people will bulk-buy, especially if an item is on sale.
Most supermarkets here don't have such signs. Only for the small 0,5l bottles which are only sold als pack. It's easier for them if they just put the packs out. If you want one just take it, if you want one bottle, open it. No need to stack something separate.
I think where they were saying people don't have to travel far to buy food, that is more a weird thing about USA than Germany. In USA a lot of places have something called "zoning" which means you can't have retail businesses in residential areas. The recycling of bottles was also the norm in UK years ago milk, pop and beer bottles were all returned for re-use.
Yes, the US destroyed their cities with strict zoning and mandatory parking spaces laws. It made cars a requirement and public transport completely ineffective due to the sprawl.
Germany has zoning too, actually. It's just not common to do huge purely residential areas here.
(Source: I'm a law student and Baurecht is part of the curriculum, which includes zoning laws.)
i walked 3km to a Walmart in the USA and my father in law wondered why would i do that?
10 years later, he walked with me the 200m to the next REWE, he understood it!
The only weird in German supermarkets for me are American tourists. 😂
This is so true I hate how much I had to laugh about it. I can guarantuee you this is the same for any European visiting the US though. Imagine if you didn't have to put the groceries into the bags yourself but the Publix employee does it for you haha! The facial expression when you notice this for the first time is priceless
@@JM18472 You should see the faces of the packers when I don't let them pack my groceries. I also bring my bags/backpack with me and don't use the plastic bags. But you're right, of course, that as a stranger you often look pretty stupid.
special they complain to have to spend a coin to get the shopping cart...because they not understand you get it back after shopping!
Thank you, I totaly agree!!!
I haven't seen one american tourist in the supermarket in 50 years. I'm shocked by the prices I have seen in US supermarkets on some goods that are dirt cheap here.
I would love to see a video about malaysian supermarkets.
FLEISCHSALAT / WURSTSALAT:
the most important ingredient is the "Fleischwurst"
therefore you have to find an adequate replacement if there is no german butcher nearby.
"Fleischwurst" is sometimes called "Lyoner" in Croatia it is called "Parizer" (meaning from Paris) and in the USA "Bologna sausage".
You should have a look online how the original looks like and compare to the local ones.
There are recipes online for Fleischsalat with or without mayonnaise.
BTW: a very refreshing salad for the summer is a "Gurken-Dill-Salat"(cucumber-dill-salad) which is also very complimentary with fried fish.
The main idea behind "Pfand" on bottles is to make people take them to a central take-back station so they don't simply throw them away. It's first and foremost a means of avoiding rubbish.
The best way to shock someone with a supermarket that I know is by showing them the Edeka at the Kö in Düsseldorf
Quark is rather tart. You can use it in salty dips, or sweet in desserts. It is the basic ingredient of a classic German cheese cake. It is very low in calories and very high in protein, so it is a really versatile milk product.
The "Fleischsalat" is easy to make, but very tasty. One portion would be like: 200g of lyon meat sausage (cutted), add 80g of pickles (cutted) mix it with 80g of mayonaise and add some salt and pepper. That's it! Easym right!? :) I prefer to eat it with bread, but you can add it to noodle or potatoe salad as "dressing" as well ... or how ever you like to eat it! :)
I'd replace about 1/5 of the mayo with something lighter to reduce the fat content a bit and make it a bit less sticky. Sour cream, cream, or even just a bit of water would work. Also, a small pinch of sugar, about half of the salt, brings out the flavour.
yes definitely use a bit sour cream......aaaaaand take a little bit of the brine of the pickles, just like 1-2 Tablespoons. (Cornichons are the best pickles) Also use a pinch of Paprika (powder)
Here in Hessen (Rhein-Main-Gebiet) we usually make Fleischsalat with oil, veniger, pickles and onions (of course with "Fleischwurst"), salt and pepper....geil 🙂
@@mikaari2110 But not the Fleischsalat for spreading on bread right?
@@mikaari2110 That's "Wurstsalat" for me. "Fleischsalat" is always with Mayo
"Wurstsalat" (cold cuts) recipe:
400 g Balony or meat sausage (thin slices)
5 pickled cucumbers
1 large vegetable onion (ca. 200 g)
Salt
8 tablespoons of liquid from the pickled cucumber jar
4 tablespoons of vegetable oil
2 tablespoons of vinegar
1 tablespoon Dijon-mustard
Fresh ground pepper
Add some fresh herbs like parsley or chives
Cut the sausage into fine strips and the cucumber into slices. Peel the onion, halve and cut into thin strips. Put the onion rings in bubbling salted water, bring to the boil, pour into a sieve, rinse in cold water and drain well.
Mix the cucumber water poured through a small sieve, oil, vinegar, mustard, pepper and a little salt with a whisk to make a vinaigrette.
Pour the vinaigrette over the prepared ingredients and leave the salad to infuse for 30 minutes. Season again before serving. Enjoy🌼
I first ate curry ketchup in the Netherlands. It is widespread there. I love him. It tastes a little different than currywurst because the sauce for currywurst can vary from snack bar to snack bar. The stores have secret recipes.
Fresh milk can also be found in refrigerated shelves in German supermarkets. The milk shown in the video is so-called UHT milk.
Exactly, there is an air bubble in the egg. Heated air expands and the shell bursts. If you pierce the egg, the air can escape and the egg stays intact.
There are supermarkets in Germany that always put single bottles on the shelves so that you don't have to rip open the six-pack.
You asked for it: I'm German, and my 2 favorite grocery shops are 1. ALDI, where I buy certainly more than 80 % of what I need, and 2. EDEKA for everything that's not available in ALDI. Aldi is usually cheaper but a bit limited in what they sell, and EDEKA offers many more different articles, from many different brands, usually in good quality but also somewhat more expensive. Living in the countryside, we also can (and do) buy fruits and vegetables directly from the farmers. Edit: I forgot to mention that we buy bread in the bakery and meat & sausage at the butcher's. Never buy meat, sausage or bread in any supermarket.
Norma, Edeka and Lidl is my choice.
@The Synergistic Composer You are right. I forgot that. "Our" Edeka also offers potatoes and carrots from local farmers, and probably more. Aldi also does that, if you expand the definition of "local" to an area with radius of say 50 kilometres.
We now buy most of our stuff at Globus and occasionlly at Kaufland.
@@uli1956 I´d say in times of Mangos, Avocados and Coconuts, 50km is local :D
Wouldt say never at least in the east we got a bakers chsin cslled Harry they make decent bread verry good to digest easy on stomach
I once had a not gluten but like a grain intolerance Nd their bread was the only bread i could est😅.
They mKe good burger buns too but i here only kaufland sells them.
And NO Baker sells burger buns 😅
and butcher meat well its e pensive some people csnt efford that pluss sovial anxiety exists
There are reason to buy packed organic or even non organic packed meat 😅
mert, first of all, the appreciation for germany is quite amazing. since you are scottish and living in kl, malaysia, i visited three times so far.
to answer/react on your questions in the video:
- lidl and aldi are so-called discount(er) supermarkets, so low prices, but good quality. there is a numerous supermarkets nearby in the city, walkable. the difference to most other countries; they are smaller, but more frequent. for us germans a wonderful thing. you don't need a car to travel to a massive walmart etc. to pack your car for two weeks groceries, but walk-by any day for small stuff. anything you need, you get, just not huge aisles of chips e.g. just a shelf.
- pfand, mentioned by deana, is not renting a bottle, but paying deposit, which you fully return, when bringing the bottle back.
if not, you can keep it, but what for? 🙂
- where in KL do you live and where does a currywurst-booth will open up?
i would be interested if malays like our sausage with the sauce. btw. and very important for you living in asia. when visiting germany, then try "best woscht in town", this is the best currywurst and you can choose how much scoville you accept.
this might be dangerous, because they ask you before you order. if you like more info, ask me.
- quark is a dairy product, you do not find in the us, is it available in scotland?
- milk is refrigerated in germany, when you like fresh milk, which is not ultra-homogenized, so this doesn't need to be in the fridge.
- six-pack-bottles are usually packed together (and easy to carry), but you can also rip the plastic shell off and grab one bottle if you like.
- fleischsalat: this should be another whole video.
the word fleisch might me misunderstood, because there is no meat, but thin sliced wurst-stripes, some kinda boiled sausage or ham, with pickles cut and mayonnaise sauce, spices. any buther has their own recipe, all is more or like perfect.
any question? ask.
greetings to malaysia. i miss langkawi a lot, kl as well.
Ok, if you haven't tested it yet, here is the best recipe for sausage salad:
500g mortadella, or any other cooked sausage, like wiener, bologna, or similar
1 onion
4 to 5 pickles
salt and pepper
Vinegar and oil
Some mustard
paprika powder (sweet)
First you prepare the dressing:
1 tbsp oil and 3 tbsp vinegar.
1 tsp. mustard
some salt and pepper
2 tsp paprika powder
And a good gulp of cucumber water from the jar with the pickled cucumbers.
Now cut the onion into very thin rings and add them to the dressing.
Next, cut the pickles into thin strips.
Now cut the sausage into thin strips as well.
Mix everything well and let it sit in the fridge for at least 1 hour.
When you serve it, sprinkle some paprika powder over the sausage salad.
As a side dish you can use either fresh bread, chips, or fried potatoes.
Please note, the paprika powder commonly used in Germany is sweet paprika, so also in crisps with paprika flavor. Unfortunately, it is not spicy. But there are also hot crisps, which are then called Peperoni Crisps. In addition, in Germany there are both Salt and Vinegar Crisps (I love those!) and Sour Cream and Onion.
The "Pfand" actually started after WW2 by the breweries.
Germany is low on ressources and after WW2 we couldn't import as much as we needed. So the production of glass bottles was very small. Breweries run out of glass bottles and couldn't sell their beer. They than invented the "Pfand" system, so the customers had a reason to bring back the bottles and the breweries could reuse them.
Over the years more sorts of bottles must be sold with "Pfand" by law.
Oh shit, I've been in that Lidl last week, lol.
The renting bottles thing actually originates (like so many things) from beer, or rather breweries. The beer came in crates of glass bottles and they were always rented, it was later expanded to cans and plastic bottles.
The taste of Quark is probably best described as consistency of cream cheese but tastes more like slightly sweetened yogurt, so a bit tart and very creamy.
My favourite supermarket is one REWE here in my city. I don't know how it is in other countries but here in Germany the supermarket chains don't have the same assortment/collection (?) in all of their branches. I'm not sure whether I got it right and I am sure that I'm desrcibing it very childishly but this is what I understood: The owner of a place makes a contract with a supermarket chain so that they can use their brand products and logo and all but other than that they can offer whatever they want. So each supemarket has their own emphasis on specific things. And that one REWE has most of the things I like. 😊
Curry sauce recipe for currywurst.
1 onion•2 tbsp olive oil
Peel the onion and chop finely. Heat the olive oil in a saucepan over medium heat and sauté the onion in it.
Ingredients
2 tbsp tomato paste•
1 tbsp curry powder•
1 tsp paprika powder (hot)•500 g pureed tomatoes (bottle/Tetra Pak)•
1 tsp vegetable broth powder•
2 tbsp honey•
2 tbsp vinegar
Stir in the tomato paste, curry and paprika powder and roast briefly. Deglaze with 50 ml of water, add the pureed tomatoes, vegetable stock, honey and vinegar and bring everything to the boil while stirring. Reduce the temperature and simmer the mixture over low heat for 15-20 minutes.
1 pinch(s) cayenne pepper•1 pinch(s) cinnamon• salt• pepper
Season the sauce with cayenne pepper, cinnamon, salt and pepper and serve.
4:23 Der gute Hela Gewürz Ketchup Curry delikat!
nice vid, here some tips for sausage-salad
i tend to use lyon-sausage or mortadella (the texture and flavor is similar to lunchables meat, i think it is called bologna in some other countrys)
add a bunch of fine minced pickles
add a teaspoon of mustard
add Mayonaise
Add boiled egg (optional)
Add either liquid of pickles or some vinegar (also optional)
and thats basically it - tastes great on grilled bread!
This is basically also how I usually make mine. But in his case if he can't find any Lyoner I would recommend looking for the Hot Dog style sausages. They tend to be saltier but I think they are the nearest thing to Lyoner one can get in Asia.
There are two different kinds of deposits for bottles in Germany.
1. The Recycle-System, where used bottles and cans are recycled and new beverage containers are produced. The deposit is 25 Cent and they have an official sign that means they can be returned to any shop like supermarkets or beverage shops in the entire country (there are exceptions for tiny shops like kiosks that don't have appropriate storage space.). In this model, you buy both containers and contents, but you get the deposit back on return.
2. The other system is the multi-use bottle. There you only buy the contents but the bottle remains the property of the producer and is cleaned and refilled after return. The deposit is usually 15 cents (beer bottles made of glass without a closing cap mechanism are usually only 8 cents). Those bottles can not be returned in any shop, but if it isn't a rare brand, you won't have a problem with any supermarket or beverage shop. However, the discount-supermarkets like Aldi and Lidl don't sell drinks in multi-use bottles and therefore don't accept returns, and Netto only has a very limited supply of brands with multi-use bottles. The reason is of course the bigger workload for sorting the empty bottles and returning them to the appropriate producer.
And since the video of the bottle return machine was taken in a Lidle shop, of course, the beer bottle made of glass wasn't taken, because glass bottles are usually multi-use bottles (except wine), which means they have to be taken to a normal supermarket, not a discount supermarket.
And to answer the question of whether all people return bottles, no, some are too lazy and put the empty bottles or cans beside a garbage bin, where they are collected by people with low income or homeless people, who return those in order to buy some food.
And about the six-packs in plastic foil: I always buy those because I go to the supermarket with a bike so I'd prefer a six-pack over six separate bottles which are much harder to be transported on a bike.
The best meat for Fleischsalat is Leberkäse which is basically meatloaf mixture without bread UT in a food processor with a bit of crushed ice and blended smooth and then baked. There are plenty of TH-cam videos on how to make Leberkäse. You can substitute any processed lunch meat or mortdella de Bologna but homemade Leberkäse yields the best results. Usually you make a big loaf of Leberkäse use the middle for anything from Herrgottsbescheißerle (slice of Leberkäse wrapped in pasta dough and simmered in a vegetable broth) to sandwiches (thick slice deep fried or pan fried) typically served along side a big glass of beer. Preferred condiments are homemade fermented mustard, pickles, and a light salad. The ends of your Leberkäse are what goes in your Fleischsalat or into soups and things.
Fleischsalat: 10 ounces German bologna, (alternatively mortadella); 1 small onion (optional); 4-5 baby dill pickles; 2 tablespoons pickle juice; 6 tablespoons mayo; 1/4 teaspoon sugar; salt and pepper to taste - Cut the bologna or mortadella into slices (if it isn’t already sliced). Then cut the slices into thin strips. Place the cut meat into a medium-sized bowl.
Finely chop the onion (optional) and the baby dill pickles. Add them to the bowl. Finally, add the pickle juice, mayo, sugar, salt, and pepper. Mix well. Cover the bowl and place it in the fridge for at least one hour to allow the flavors to mingle. You can also prepare the Fleischsalat the night before.Before serving, taste the meat salad again and add more spices to your liking
A video about Malaysian supermarkets would be interesting! I bet the similarities you see are mostly because it's compared to the US and we do different things differently, but don't copy these specific American weirdnesses.
there was a pushback in germany about the Pfand in the first weeks too. But quickly it got normal, like not smoking in restaurants and other things where there is a big outcry at first...
Quark is mostly used as dip or filling for neutral pasteries. In Bavaria "Quark" with chives goes well with "Bretzen".
Added info: German Chips are British crisps.
Quark is fresh cheese, usually mixed with yoghurt in order to make it softer to spread on bread slices.
Fleischsalat is actually not made of meat, but of sausage that contains a portion of small diced meat. The rest of the sausage is finely minced or ground. narrow strips of the sausage are dressed with some mayonnaise based sauce with herbs and spices as you like, often chives and parsley, diced pickles, onions, ... to your taste.
6:22 Don't get to excited about Paprika Crisps. They are rich in flavour for an average European taste, but propably not very spice for someone from the UK and absolutely not when you're used to southeast asian spiciness. Quark is slightly sour with a bitter by-tase. It mixes well with salty stuff, onions, paprika, chives, garden herbs, potatoes, tomatoes (veggies in general) or any kind of jam. It is also a key ingredient for the German style of cheese cake. Quarktaschen is a treat made from dough made with Quark, its texture is similar to that of donuts, but it has a fresh taste to it.
The deposit on bottles keeps the streets cleaner...and the glass bottles are being re-used about 50 times, bevor they are done.
I live in a backwater town in northwest Brandenburg. And we have Lidl, Aldi, Edeka, Rewe, a yellow/red Netto (there are two different Netto markets, a yellow/red one and a yellow/black one).
paprika chips are not spicy. not at all. its very sweet. peperony and chilli chips are spicy (not for malaysian standard) and its labeled "hot" or "scharf"
salt and vinigar are not very popular. You can buy them but its normally just one brand (perhaps not in every store; aldi will not sell them (I think))
about the bottle packaging. yes i sometimes buy a sixpack of pepsi, while its wrapped, there's a little handle on top of it. so that you can easily carry it and don't have to fill up other grocerie container
The supermarkets here in Switzerland is just the same in Germany but we do not have Pfand(deposit) for plastic bottles. In our supermarkets they have separate recycling for plastic bottles, aluminum coffee capsules like Nespresso, and etc. No pfand (deposit) because mostly people here are just do recycling even without a pfand. In copenhagen, denmark i have seen that electronic plastic bottles and tin cans deposits machine too.
I had to stop and rewind twice because I could not believe that she actually walked past my house!! :D
Going to the bottle return machines first is a necessity in most German supermarkets, because the machines tend to be by the entrance. Which has the positive side effect of bottles not taking up space in your cart/basket.
and also noone drinking a new bottle and then claiming they brought it with them ;-)
Discounter Aldi, Lidl, Penny, Netto etc are convenience stores to mid-range stores. Kaufland, Globus, real (they closed many supermarkets) are one-stop shops or in big shopping centers. Edeka and Rewe different stores, from convenience to mid-range. Easier to understand - discounter less products as full sevice supermarkets Kaufland and Globus full services and Lidl, Aldi discounters. Kaufland and Globus have fresh food - fish and butcher counter. Discounter didn´t have counters and Edeka and REWE only butcher counter. Bread and other bakery products in discounter from bakery automats. All other full service supermarkets and REWE/Edeka have a bakery (most regional family owned bakery shops) in the front off the checkout exit. Edeka and REWE have a special thing - familys can franchaise a shop - is REWE or Edeka a family runing shop, is the name then REWE Schmidt or Edeka Müller. This familys have a contract with the companies.
Pfand is a very old thing in Germany - they name returnable deposit and since 1903. First for beer-bottles, many years later water bottles and Coca Cola products. This all was glas bottles and the bottles are cleaned and refilled. For 30 years more and more plastic (PET) bottles for all kind of drinks (soft, water alcohol) and beer cans (Alu). Glas bottles with returnable deposit, was more unpopular and so use many people bottles in only use, without Pfand and threw the bottles and cans anywhere. So the politcs says - we need a Pfandsystem. All this different bottles with different items now are in a Pfandsystem with deposit return money. It´s a little bit difficult (science) and not every Pfandautomat like the bottle or can, really not every bottle is a Pfand-bottle. You see this on the bottle with a sign and all of this bottles not returnable bottle to refill, only one way to use. The other system with returnable deposit are glas and PET from mineral water fillers and brewerys. This bottles are deposit the money on the same automat back, as the one way bottles. Glas bottles and PET bottles go back to refill with water and beer. This is the returnable system with Pfand. So you have the chance to use glas and PET bottles to refill and bottles and cans for only one use. The only use bottles and cans should be recycle - this isn´t optimal and many of this is waste and landing in waste incineration. Only a small part is recycled plastic and not in bottles. Only the cans are in use for new cans.
Subway introduced Lays Crisps when it came to Germany. Nowadays you find salt n vinegar chips in grocery stores
i have a massive collection of deposit cans and bottles right next to my sink. i return them whenever i feel like it or need a small ammount of money.
The traditional flavour for chips would be paprika (made from dried up Hungarian bell peppers), but cheese & onion (or sour cream & onion) is becoming a thing too. Especially smaller companies producing higher quality offer lots of different flavorings (like e.g Swiss alps herbs, sweet chili, grilled bell peppers, rosemary & sea salt, chili & mango, hot tomato & herbs or apple vinegar & alps salt)
I cannot speak for every person n Germany, but yes returning the empty bottles is the first stop i do when i go into a supermarket to buy some groceries.
i love curry ketchup! (as i do Currywurst). Curry ketchup goes for me onto: Wurst (as Currywurst), fries, sometimes if it has to be a quick meal also on Penne or Spaghetti. Or Rice. Chicken Breast with rice and curry ketchup. Yummy, but you get hungry very soon again....
Paprika Chips are also my favorite chips.
Quark i do like. Mostly without anything else and with low fat content. Just as an inbetween meal.
"Stinkekäse" i don't like.
i like milk, as anybody else. "Haltbare" Milk is cheaper as cooled or refrigerated milk, and has a longer shelf life.
Egg poking before cooking them is common in Germany i would say. And yes, our eggs don't need to be stored cold.
I don't like asparagus so i cannot rate how good Pizza with asparagus might taste.
Baking packets makes it so much easier to bake cakes.
Removing the plastic they do for some of the bottles and place them on the shelfs. But some they leave with the plastic around it, so you could take the whole package if you want to.
Yes, you can buy alcohol in the supermarkets. No need to go to another store just to buy alcohol. You can do it while shopping for groceries in the supermarket.
There is one fish in jars they say helps with a hangover. It is called: Rollmops (pickled herring).
Yeah, German sweets are dangerous (for the figure) 😀
Spaghetti ice is Vanilla Ice with strawberry sauce on top of it. I don't like the sauce, but vanilla ice. So i mostly eat plain vanilla ice. Yummy.
I don't know the American tampons, so there's no way to compare them.
3:45 I go first to the deposit maschine, because I do not want to haul the bottles longer than needed. Plain simple it's just more practical that way.
10:30 really simple if a custamer wants all 6 he take it with the package (you can scan it even as hole package) but if you just want a single bottle you take either one who stands alone or you open a new pack and take one out
@13:10 "Fleischsalat" - I can highly recommend that. Imagine, fresh, warm bread from the bakery, a slice of them and real butter with "Fleischsalat" on it. It's good, it's damn tasty. You don't want miss that. My favorite supermarkets are Netto and Rewe. The two complement each other as far as the range is concerned. I can only get some things at Netto and some only at Rewe. I love the "vegetarian dumplings" at Rewe, but I prefer the "Fleischsalat" or "Kartoffelsalat" from Netto. That's one example.
that's so funny! You get excited about German supermarkets, which are 'good' from my point of view. I often shop at Rewe or Edeka. But there are also quite good organic supermarkets, like Ebl or Denns, where you can get good meat or good fruit/vegetables. But when I was in Scotland a few years ago, I was instantly taken with Tesco! Or in the Netherlands, for example, also with Albert Hejn. To me those were much higher standards of service, quality and also progress. In Scotland, we had seen and tried out the first automatic checkouts in 2015, and this trend is only now starting to arrive in Germany.
FYI, in Germany normal ESL milk is obviously chilled in a refrigerator... but there is also UHT milk which has been heated to a really high temperature (about 135-150°C) for a few seconds and this milk is sealed in their containers and does not need to be refrigerated.
Honestly, I don't know a single person who uses UHT milk for everyday use except for adding it to coffee or when going for a longer trip somewhere.
There are about twice as many recipes for Wurstsalat as there's Germans. Take whatever kind of boiled sausage you want (anything from Frankfurter to Mortadella), cut it in strips, some raw onions, vinegar and oil marinade, also cucumber strips, radishes, whatnot. If you use mayonnaise instead of vinegar+oil it's Fleischsalat.
I have 5 different super markets (REWE, Lidl, EDEKA, Penny, Netto) in walking distance and I use them. But for fresh food (vegetables and fruit, eggs and other farmers produce) I prefer our farmers markets, which are held tuesdays, thursdays and saturdays.
I like your videos. (And the remarks of course)).How people live or eat can deliver a lot about and even their history.. we like buy fresh goods at a bakery or butcher’s . I love the freshly picked goods at a farmers store. Not only to to show them how much I appreciate their products. It is a kind of „internet“ but one that’s works mir precise and woven buy nature. 🍎🍐🌽🥕
My father and I like Curryketchup with Fleischpflanzerl, which are meatballs only that you put stale bread and egg into the meat kinda like meatloaf.
Paprika is the most popular chips flavor. In Bavaria, the local beers come in half-liter containers, I think different varieties come in smaller bottles.
The easiest recipe for Fleischsalat I can think of is Bologna sausage cut into thin stripes, mayonnaise and pickles in equal amounts and let it sit for a bit to permeate. I like it on rye bread with some salt sprinkled on top.
not all Fleischsalat is equally good. my favourite is the one one specific butcher makes in the small city where I grew up (and don't live in any more). I tried others.. not as good. so I binge on that Fleischsalat whenever I visit my parents.
actually some supermarkets near where i live sell transparent plastic boxes for up to 8 eggs. the boxes are pretty much a neat way to avoind buying a carton each time.
Well, but avoiding the reuse of recycled paper is kind of little over the top. Especially replacing with plastic is the most silly thing I have heared of. Bring your old paper carton, if you want to save paper.
When I've been to Northern Ireland, in a conversation about "drinking alcohol in public", someone asked me, if we are not afraid of all the empty bottles ending up in our gardens. I thought that was a weird question, but later I realised my answer should have been: "No, we have Pfand in Germany." :D
Ah yes, the Curry Ketchup 😅
During the years i lived in the US, i was ablecto find/buy it with great difficulty and for easily double the price.
Now that i am back in Germany, i catch myself looking for things i am used to from the US, and end up paying double the price for those in Germany... 😅 FFS
The Paprika Chips do not taste as good as i remember, i find it pretty bland now.
I guess i have not yet readjusted my taste palate, as in the US everything is way more sugary and overflavoured.
Yes, i would love for you to show us a few more things/similarities in Malaysia. 👍
Cheers.
Hmmm, boiled potatoes with Quark ... quark with herbs, with chives, cream quark with horseradish - together with potatoes or on a slice of fresh bread ..... Ohhh 🤩😍😋
White asparagus on pizza is one of my favorites...
I go to Rewe or Nahkauf. I get anxiety from the rushing in discounters, so I avoid them, if I can. I like the selection Rewe has and Nahkauf is basically just a teeny tiny Rewe.
My mom usually goes to Aldi over Lidl, because of closeness. My brother was dismayed, when the Penny next door closed one day during university. He'd go there for a single bottle of ice tea.
My mom used to go to Real in a local mall for her every need. Real has more selection than a supermarket. But they closed it after 40 years after rent increased and everyone was shocked. They hilariously couldn't find anyone to take over, because delivery is awkward and the space is huge... It became a test and vaccination center during Covid. I don't think, that they'll find anyone else quite so easily.
It's all just very inconvenient. People complained for months.
It is a great idea, and very interesting, the view of a foreigner (European origin), on German life culture, to adjust here! Especially since national differences are often greater than previously assumed. Thank you very much!
I would still have a little hint of this video. The brothers Albrecht (Aldi) are the inventors of this supermarket concepts, which not only dealt with low prices, but about a "steadily" alternating range, of consumption and use goods that have nothing to do with food. Hardware from all areas, V from electrical engineering to hardware store equipment and other household products.
The soft drinks are mostly packaged with 6 bottles... we have single ones to buy too... but if they´re empty u can rip open a "6er" and grab a single bottle if u just need one ^^
most of the stores don´t restock every day... so u have to rip open a multi pack if the the single bottles are sold already ^^
(same goes for 6 packs of beer and any other drinks ((with and w/o alcohol))
for the explanation on the bottles not being removed from the sixpacks: its so that you can get the entire pack if you desire.
the long-life milk is ceaper. but clearly you can get fresh milk in every supermarket in the fresh-cool area. Meat-salat: you need @best mortadella or a kind like a mortadella. slice it in stripes 3cm 3mm x3mm then use pickels of yor choice. add chopped boild egg, some small chopped onioin and a lot of mayo. every town here has the own recepi here. only two important things 2/3 meat 1/3 other stuff you like and than mayo and pepper/salt. it is no rocket sience^^
Hi, Re the renting the plastic bottles, in the UK, in the 1970's it was normal to rent large glass bottles (3d- 1p deposit), note the drink cost about 1/6d -10p. Containing lemonade, cream soda, cola, even Irn Bru, they needed to be returned to the shop where you bought them.
You could also rent soda syphons.
There were also deposits on Beer Bottles.
Historically (70-80's) UK crisps the most sold were 'plain' (ready salted) , followed by Cheese and Onion then Salt and Vinegar, Ready Salted used to out sell all other flavours combined by a factor of about 2:1.
Re the shrink wrapped bottles, these are much easier to move/stack in shops. They are much more stable and easier to count. If the customer wants 6 bottles they are much easier to carry. So long as people know they can/should open them, I can't see a downside. In UK we don't generally have the option to split these packs, which is a problem.
"quark" is curd cheese, often combined with herbs like parsley or other garden herbs. very fresh and healthy. ;)
The "Stinky Cheese" is also called Handkäse (Hand-Cheese) It's made of Quark. So one company named its one "Quäse".
I like curry ketchup way more than normal one. The normal one is too sweet for my taste. ^^ I don't like chips with salt & vinegar, but I like onion & cream or - if I can get my hands on - chips with wasabi. I love to eat bread with herb quark and slices of cucumber or radish on it. In spring/sommer it's soooo good! Fish rolls from the jar with gherkin on bread roll is very good. I love to put some onions on it, too.
In my area you can buy Asparagus reaped fresh from the fields.
Spaghetti-Eis from a supermarket (factory) is a bummer. Got to an ice cafè and get a real one. I mean it.
Ich habe gerade chatGPT gefragt, was in Schottland ähnlich ist wie Quark: 'Crowdie' ( aus Kuhmilch), 'Cream Cheese' oder 'Greek Yogurt'. Es gibt auch noch 'Skyr', was aber in Schottland nicht so verbreitet sein soll. Auf dem Kanal "Nachhaltig loslassen" findet man unter "Anleitung Quark herstellen" ein entsprechendes Rezept.
Quark gibt es in vielen unterschiedlichen Fettstufen. Sahnequark ist sehr fein und cremig, während ich die extrem mageren schon fast als trocken bis staubig empfinde.
Why are the bottles wrapped in plastic in packs of six? First of all, taking a single bottle is not the only option. You might decide to buy a whole pack and then it's convenient to have them wrapped. But more than that, in German supermarkets, the items often come on euro-pallettes, that's like wooden platforms that hold a stack of items. If the bottles are wrapped into packs of six, they can be stacked like bricks and you don't have to worry about them rolling around in the shop.
The paprika chips here in Germany are not spicy, there are also spicy ones, but that is rather rare. The milk is heated to an ultra-high temperature and can be kept in a hermetically sealed container (Tetra Pack) outside of the refrigerator. If you open this, the milk has to be put in the fridge, otherwise it will go sour after about 2 days.
Supermarket bread is also a product that is bought less often, mostly people from low-income households buy it, most Germans buy bread from the baker.
Fresh eggs from the refrigerator break in most cases. Hence the little gadget.
A Video to a traditional Wurstsalat. =)
South German style:
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North German style:
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However, there are innumerable variants. The Bavarian is made with sweet mustard, the other southern German variants are prepared with medium hot mustard and many other regional variants.
spicy ≠ hot
Quark is similar to cottage cheese. You can either use it natural instead or beside butter on bread with jam in a breakfast. Paprika chips have long time been the only choice. No we also have salt, salt&vinegar, onion&cheese, Mexican style, bolognese style and many more. Actually there are two different Pfand-systems established in Germany which makes it a littler difficult on where to put what bottle. And to make it not too easy some beverages are not in the Pfand system like juices.
A couple of tips.... you can use smoked ham as well. Make sure you use sweet and sour pickles. Also, get whole egg mayonnaise. Some of the other stuff can be gross.
No, it's not renting the bottle. There are two types of rent bottles. One type is the so called "Dosenpfand" for one way bottles and cans, the other one is a real multi way bottle, that can be re-used (after being cleaned industrially) for about 60 times, dependeing on wether it's PET (plastic) or glass.
The one way bottles are normally shredded within the machine itself and send to recycling.
iam german and the weirdest thing i saw in a german supermarket actually was a non german person buying stuff there . like speaks only english, is estonished by the stuff you can buy etc.
Curryketchup with noodles is pretty nice. Unhealthy, but it's good when it has to be fast.
Discounters:
ALDI
LIDL
Penny
Netto (yellow red)
Netto (yellow black)
Norma
Supermarkets:
EDEKA
REWE
Verbrauchermärkte:
Kaufland
Marktkauf
Globus
Warenhäuser:
real
Großmarkt:
METRO
former traditional market chains:
SPAR
allkauf
wertkauf
Deutscher Supermarkt
HL Markt
Safeway
A&O
Bolle
Reichelt
11:00 Yes, especially when Familys shop for the next week they will buy their soft drinks and waters in the bulk packages, while Teens and young adults rather buy single bottles.
If you want to make meat salad (Fleischsalat) you might use a soft and mild sausage. In Germany you use Mortadella or Fleischwurst.
If you can't find them, the vietnamese sausages (Chả lụa, or Moo Yor in Thai) might be a good call. Enjoy it!
In the UK Heinz calls Curry-Ketchup -> Curry-Sauce and has the identical taste.
For the Wurstsalat you take "Lyoner"- Sausage or Schickenwurst.
Not to be weird but I'm really enjoying your accent? It's my first time on this channel and it was the first thing I noticed like "hold on that guy's Scottish", like idk maybe there's just something charming abt anglophones who can do a 'ch' sound rather than turning it into a 'k'
I personally like to go shopping at Edeka , because they have a good fresh meat counter, or at Netto , because they have good offers. Fresh milk and UHT milk have different tastes. Fresh milk must always be chilled . I like to eat fresh bread with Quark and jam or honey for breakfast in the morning.🙂
It depends how you cook eggs.
If you love hard boild eggs, there is no problem at all.
Cold egg, cold water, heat it up and let it boil long enough. The air inside the egg will pressed through the shell but as the temperaure inside the egg rises slowly, the egg will not popp.
But if you love soft eggs, there is a problem.
To reproduce soft eggs alsways with the same softness, water should be boiling and the egg should be more or less always the same size and temperature.
This means, putting a cold egg into boiling water is leading to a much faster growing of air-preasure inside the egg. Now the air can not go through the shell fast enough and the shell cracks.
So, to pin the air bubble inside the egg ensures, that the pressure will not rise to high.
Eggs are not really popping.
As Germans like to generalize, even hard boild eggs are made the same way.
Btw. I think I was around ten(I am 33) I believe when Germany first introduced the deposit for plastic bottles we know today. There was a deposit for some Glasbottles(mostly beer) before already, so Germans were already used to it. But people still complained a lot about the "new" deposit at the time. But after 1-2 years people got simply used to it.
The deposit on glas bottles is definitely older than I am and I'm 54. I think the complaints about the deposit on plastic bottles were mostly about the cost of the much higher deposit on plastic and yeah, people don't like change.
That must have been a little bit later (the introduction of "Einwegflaschenpfand") I was 15 years old then and I'm 35 now. I only know that exactly because I did my school internship in a supermarket right at the time of the introduction and there were no vending machines yet, and I was then the one who took the bottles and create a provisional deposit receipt via an old cash register, which could then be redeemed at the checkout. I was very very busy with that. 😂😂 The early days of the plastic bottle deposit until 2004 were very chaotic.
@@EyMannMachHin : When i was a little boy ( i am Brittas boyfriend) in early 70s, my mother also could give wine bottles back and got five Pfennige Pfand.
@@EyMannMachHinThe most complaints came from the supermarket chains and their lobbyists, because they didn't wanted the extra work. So they played like all of them will go bankrupt.
By the way, I'm not the type who thinks about his deposit bottles before he goes shopping. I'm the annoying customer who collects his deposit in a garbage bag for 1-2 months and then prefers to block the deposit machine in the supermarket for twenty minutes at the end of the month. 😂Afterwards, I swear to myself that it will never happen again and deposit bottles are taken everytime I go shopping, which then works exactly twice and then I'm back in the old behavior pattern. But hey: I always have money at the end of the month! 🤣
If you want to prepare Wurstsalat you need boiled smooth textured sausages as in Hot Dogs, Frankfurters. They sell chicken Frankfurter in Malaysia. This could work really well. Not the same but near. I don’t think you will find our bigger pork based sausages called Fleischwurst (boloney) in Malaysia. Cut into fine strips and toss with Mayonnaise and thinly sliced pickled cucumbers, bit of salt, pepper and a tiny tiny bit of pickling juice. It is really just a ton of Mayonnaise and sausage.
The deposit has a good side effect, because the homeless are collecting the bottles, what makes the streets cleaner. (Party people leave the bottles everywhere before going in a club)
Edeka, because its a pleasant experience to shop there.
when the pfand system was implemented in germany, there also was a lot of push-back. germans like to complain a lot as well (esp. about new things), so it's probably not _that_ different from scotland. :)
tbf in the beginning these machines didn't exist yet and each supermarket only took back _their own_ cans and bottles - not the ones from other stores. that was a pain in the a**, since you usually needed to keep the reciept when buying cans/bottles. but luckily they changed that and nowadays it's pretty convenient (if all machines work that is; some shops are just bad at emptying the machines and then there a huge cues behind the only one working).
you basically _have to_ return the bottles first, because if you don't you would need to stand in the cue at the cash register twice: first to pay your groceries and the second time to get your pfand back.
Ooh I love cheese&onion chips, pretty common in Germany.
I prefer Edeka and Penny, Aldi has good stuff too but the box's are usally to big for a single person. And i have an egg pick thing, even i don't eat eggs regular. For Currywurst i make my own sauce and it has to be warm. For Spaghetti Eis you should visit an Italien Gelato Shop ( Eisdiele).
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The "Pfand" is a neccecery evil. I work as a firedetecting tecnitian and afer every biger constrution site the one who takes on the hustle of returning the botles gets to keep the money (most time apprentices) it can be up to 20€. That can be worth of two meals.
I one ever trys a Corrywurst in Germany, be sure you eat the correct one, as there are two different versions. In Berlin and surrounding area they used to eat a very strange version wich is made with a Boiled thin sausage. Better come to NRW region or "Ruhrgebiet" and eat the real on. Its made with a "Bratwurst" wich is mor like a Grilled sausage wich has totaly tifferent ingrediants. Both Versions tase totaly different.