I'm from Germany and nearly 60 years old. An orange mouse, a blue elephant and a man who lives in a construction trailer explained the world to me when I was young. ;)
The hosts of "Die Sendung mit der Maus", Armin Maiwald und Christoph Biemann are childrens heroes here in Germany. Everybody knows them, because they hosted the show for decades, so the parents of todays generation know them from their childhood as well.
even though they are still not as good as the real thing, if you are a gelato fan, you have to visit Florence at one point and give the real thing a try. 😉
When I look at the artificial colouring (and flavouring, too, I suppose) used there I get sick already. Looks disgusting to me. There's a whole universe between real homemade (however, some ice cream parlours use modern technology, of course) italian ice cream (or gelato) and that weird U.S. stuff.
I travel to Italy multiple times a year (well its only a 5 hour trip) for a few days of food, wine, and gelato. The best ice cream I had in my life I had at La Gelatoteca in Negrar. Its a tiny shop on a busy street, but its handmade from organic ingredients. Even my beloved german-italian gelateria only comes second. And I would never eat ice cream from the grocery store, never ever. Better nothing than this processed „ice cream“.
@@raistormrs There is this one Gelatteria in Zadar, Croatia that can rival the Italians. Zadar is a pretty small city. If you ever go there, you will find the Gelatteria located on a corner at a smaller town square. There are many gelatterias, but this specific one is well known and theyve been there since forever. It's incredible. Croatian kitchen is so underrated. Probably because Italy is so well known and its almost a neighbor. If you do ever visit Croatia, also take a drive through the Istria region. Its where truffles naturally grow and man, these people are *generous* with their truffles lol. Last time I went, we drove to this little mountain village overlooking the olive fields, and we had Chantarelle mushrooms off the grill (freshly picked that same day), a plate of fresh vegetables, and an omelet just covered with truffles, and a fresh salad with locally farmed olive oil and hint of citrus freshness to it to balance out that earthy taste of the mushrooms and the truffle. So simple. So fresh. So natural. Just perfect. lol I still remember that dinner to this day, you really must go :D
That is technically wrong though. You're allowed to use it, you are just not allowed to pick it up or hold it in your hand. Using it via voice commands or just using it for a split second to, for example, accept a call while it's in a cell phone holder, is fine.
The best episode of the "Sendung mit der Maus" is the one they produced after the Tschernobyl incident. Here in Germany children weren´t allowed to go to the playgrounds and forests for nearly a year because of the nuclear fallout. This Maus-episode was 30 min of education without the cartoon and music parts. They explained in this episode what happended (with a perfect real life simulation of a nuclear chain reaction by using table tennis balls and mous-traps), why it happened and what the consequences were.
How should they now when some us citizens believe the us is the only country in the world 🤣 They still believe they constructed the rocket that went to the moon (spoiler alert: it was Wernher von Braun) or they built the first plane (spoiler alert: it was Gustav Weißkopf) or they invented the car … I love the us, I have a lot of friends there, and I spent quite some time there, but sometimes you need to nag them ;)
@@dirkschittkoor, to continue, built the first computer ever. There were some dudes in France in I think in 1680 and 1830 who invented mechanical computers, and the first electric one was built by Zuse in 1941.
The Chinese were the first to make ice cream. Marco Polo then brought the Chinese recipes to Italy in the 13th Century, and the Italians then went on to create the Italian ice cream we know today. :)
"Die Sendung mit der Maus" and "Löwenzahn" taught me SO MUCH in my childhood... I think EVERY country needs something like this. It was interesting, funny, informative and EVERY kid watched it. It explained so much: What the sun is... How do you build a house... Why is the sky blue... How does a nuclear plant work (i am not kidding)... I am proud of it and it helped me to get the person i am!
As I understand it, the Maus was created as a german counterpart of the original Sesame Street. In the beginning it was only the mouse, later on they added a blue elephant which cooperated with the mouse, or played little pranks, and even later on a yellow duck. I remember how in one November, they made a show that dealt with a topic you usually don't talk about: what happens when a person dies. (November is a traditional time for germans to remember their deceased) One of the most beloved parts were the episodes of Käpt'n Blaubär, with the acting characters being puppets, depicting an adult blue bear and three grandchildren. The kids would fool around, the Captain would react and start to spin a yarn about his time out on the sea, which always was totally unbelievable but funny and thrilling. While the bears were physical, the stories were made as cartoons. Unfortunately, there are no new episodes of the show any more. "Löwenzahn" (Dandelion) isn't addressing toddlers but an audience that is older, and this show often discusses topics that reach into technological, scientific, ecological, sociological, and historical areas, encouraging the viewers to think for themselves by explaining where things or rules are coming from, and why they are there.
Hio Aaahhh i think i remember that one (the nuclear reaction one), didn´t they have a "big" glasroom with a lot moustraps and 3 pimgpong balls each and at the end throw a singel ball in it to caurse the chaireaction?
@@gameboy-nq7je The KinderUni were university lessons for kids as well, i went to some of them in Münster when i was 12 or 14. They explained relatively complex stuff, but understandable for kids iirc. Was so cool to feel like a real university student in that age. :D
Mainzelmännchen - named after the German city of Mainz where the ZDF, the second large public TV station is situated. They're in small cartoons which are spaced out between the ads on TV at the ZDF. It's always fun for kids to watch them - when I was a kid, I was ignoring the ads for the Mainzelmännchen. Die Sendung mit der Maus (the Mouse Show - not affiliated with Mickey Mouse) - a mixture of cartoons and educational parts. There's short cartoons about a mouse and a very small elephant, but there's also short clips about everyday stuff like 'how is milk ending up in the carton' or 'where do eggs come from' or 'how is a bike assembled,' so kids also learn something.
Yes the mouse is an intregal part of german childhood and it basically explains how things are made, how things work, and show different professions, and all very easily explained so that even very small children can understand (from 3yo). Would love for you to react to an episode! And they always ask questions how kids would ask them, like: where do the holes in the cheese come from? ...etc. Everyday stuff like that. And they also have a section where you can send in your questions and they answer a real kids question every episode. There are hundreds if not thousands of episodes already because the mouse has been around for so long! The favorite episode of my kids is about the "Gleisschotterbettungsreinigungsmaschine" 😂 the love it because they thing the incredibly long name of the machine is hilarious. It's a machine that cleans the little stones that railways are laying on top of. 😊
My favorite one was always "Dauerwelle" I watched it over and over (this thats also a bit bias because we only had a few episodes on VHS and we were only very rarely allowed to watch anything live on TV)
They made several clips about how an airliner is built (Airbus). These clips are even shown to new workers at the factory to give them an overview about what's going on in what part of the production.
Since the Romans " invented" ice cream by getting blocks of ice from the Alpine mountains and flavour it it is no wonder the GELATO = Italian ice cream is the best in the world ! They use NATURAL ingredients and please, never compare that to McDonald's stuff !!!
Soweit ich weiß, nutzten die Römer tatsächlich schon Eis und Eisschränke. Aber das Speiseeis kam über Marco Polo und seine Reise aus China nach Italien. Die Chinesen haben das Eis mit Früchten und Säften gemischt.
Our family's biggest achievement is that my father was in the Sendung mit der Maus twice. Once in a segment about what different animals do in the winter. He demonstrated birds flying to the south as the pilot of an aeroplane. And once in a music video together with Joy Gruttmann in the same aeroplane for the spin off "Frag doch mal die Maus". Unfortunately I can't find this one on TH-cam anymore.
"Die Sendung mit der Maus" is really good and educational. It translates literally to "the program with the mouse". Its good to watch for children but also there are interesting pieces for adults. Not as stupid as some kids programs which you really cannot watch as an adult. First of is the trailer which gives an overview of todays episode, then the trailer is repeated in another language (a different one each time) and after that it says which language that was ("This was french" for example). The program consists of several small pieces, some cartoons and some short film (no cartoon, with real people) which explains something (like she said, the bicycle factory). There is really interesting stuff, for example how the stripes come to be in toothpaste or so many things, kids (and adults) might wonder. The mouse, the elephant and the duck appear between each short section and do funny stuff - I think that is that kids do not loose interest. The whole program is about 30 minutes long. Using the phone while driving- if you get caught you must pay a fine. You may be right about the manual cars though. But still people DO use their phones, but maybe not as much.
It's said that Germans don't do revolutions because it's forbidden to go on the grass. But if anyone ever suggest that the "Sendung mit der Maus" will be stopped, there won't be any grass surviving!
You are never too old for the "Sendung mit der Maus". The older I got (48 now), the more respect I have how they are able to explain complicated stuff so a kid is able to understand it. Even if it is simplified, it is accurate. Just a great show for kids (and anybody else)
MY favorite Sendung mit der Maus clip is when they explained how the stripes get onto the toothpaste. But they also do a lot of clips on how things are made in factories, they show sped-up constructions of bridges and such, they show certain professional‘s workdays, they recently even had a wonderful clip explaining why someone is trans and what their life is like. All is done very child-appropriate, yet also enough tongue in cheek that parents will actually have a great time watching it with their kids as well. Then they have children‘s songs that are always really cure. Such as “Die Astronautin Erika Klose“ (Astronaut Erika Klose) who starts her journey into space and then really needs to pee and is advised to simply go in her pants/suit (German: Hose)….
If you want to try some easy bread that is common in Germany here’s an easy recipe (not the only one just one example) - 950g / 33.5 oz rye flour (Type 1150) - 750 ml / 3.1 cups of lukewarm water - 47g / 1.65 oz fresh/active yeast - 150g / 5.3 oz of liquid sour dough - 1 sp salt - 1 sp sugar Mix it to a smooth dough and let it rest for about 45 minutes to an hour with a towel on top in a warm place (35-45 degrees C / 95-115 degrees F) then form your bread loafs and let them rest for about 20-30 minutes. Make sure the top is kept a bit moist. Put them on the oven at 270 degrees C / 520 degrees F for about 10-15 minutes. Reduce the temperature to 200 degrees C / 400 degrees F and finish baking for 45-60 minutes. Temperatures in top and bottom heating - put it on the bottom rails when baking. If you want you could add 50g / 1.8 oz of sunflower seeds or use full grain flour (you might need to add a bit more water and sugar then). The amounts are given for 2 loafs (based on 1kg packages of flour which are common in Germany) - you could half the amounts for a single loaf. You should get a passable pure rye bread which is quite common in Germany. It should have a hard-ish shell and be soft inside.
@@Auvas_Damask If you want to be fancy you could replace the liquid sour dough, sugar and yeast with active sour dough - but you normally can't buy that (you might get it at a baker if they are nice and have one near you though) and would need to make it yourself which is a bit much work for baking one bread ;)
@@Auvas_Damask Forming a bread loaf is kind of an art too - but that's a bit complicated to describe in a youtube comment. Maybe the CC is okay here - otherwise just have a look at what the baker explaining it is doing: th-cam.com/video/d1X_ZDrfn2U/w-d-xo.html
A pure rye bread is not that simple to bake at home. It is not very forgiving if you make mistakes, not easy to handle as dough, needs a hot oven at the beginning, that you do not have at home. Your yeast is double the amount you better take, sugar is not needed and salt you need either 20g per kg flour or 30g per kg/liter water.
Gelato is the common word in Italian for all kinds of ice cream. In English, it specifically refers to a frozen dessert of Italian origin. Artisanal gelato in Italy generally contains 6-9% butterfat, which is lower than other styles of frozen dessert.
Döner was an invention by a Turkish immigrant who wanted to sell normal Turkish food but found that the hurried Germans in the area would be more likely to get food to go, so he stuffed what should have been on a plate into a sliced-open bread. Well, we call it Döner, but insofar as I know, "Döner Kebap" means "rotated meat", so we kind of adopted the word "turned/rotated" for the food. 😅 (That refers to the large pillar turning in front of the grill, of course, where you shave off the crust.)
Funnily, we historically had rotating meat on spit but it fell out of favour until Greeks and Turks brought their versions. Both Gyros and Döner mean rotating
The Mainzelmännchen is used only by the public tv channel called ZDF and is NOT a cartoon. It is a gimmick being used for their coorporate identity. The clips are usually not longer than 2 - 3 seconds, are mostly shown at the start and the end of an add block and have a classic german humor. Regarding "Die Sendung mit der Maus", this is actually a pretty good education show for kids. They use a mouse and an elephant in short cartoons to lighten up the show and entertain the kids (to keep then hoocked).
you honestly can’t compare your artificial Italian ice cream or Ben & Jerry’s or McDonald’s ice cream to the ice cream stores in Germany run by Italians where you get like really authentic, delicious and freshly made ice cream🥲🥲🥲
Ryan, your question why US-citizens are more obese than Germans is a valid question. Although obesity in Germany is rising, it is still not close to US-levels. I think two factors play an important role here. One is simply the prevalence of high fructose corn syrup in many US products. Example: Subway (the sandwich food chain) makes sandwiches using bread that has so much sugar in it, that the Irish supreme court deemed that Subway bread may not be called bread. This is a classic example of a so-called "healthy" "fast-food alternative" in the USA that in fact serves cake under the guise of healthy sandwiches. There is sugar in many of US food products which in the EU simply do not have any sugar in them at all. That brings us to the second point, which is that these products are being marketed as "healthy" in the USA. So the public is being misinformed about what they consume. The high prevalence of sugar in your diets on the one hand, as well as the purposeful misinformation campaigns by corporations and lobbies on the other both play a significant part in the US obesity rates. So in part its about the ingredients, but on the other hand its tied to a lack regulatory oversight and customer protection. PS: the first European style ice creams were likely invented in Italy somewhere in 1600, and they are the masters of ice cream. Believe me, it is nothing like what you can buy anywhere else. The main credit for inventing ice cream probably goes to China who invented it somewhere in the 7th century, and Marco Polo is thought to have brought over Chinese recipes to Italy somewhere in the 13th century.
Italy is actually known for ice cream (gelato) next to pasta and pizza. Also I once was country side in Austria and there was a mill where they baked bread the oldschool way. I literally didnt even need a topping or spread. The bread was so good, you could eat it without anything on top.
I know a bakery like that from the 1970s in East Germany. People from a very large area (perhaps up to 50 km) came to this bakery! When people got on a bus with this delicious bread, the whole bus smelled of fresh bread!
The show 'Die Sendung mit der Mous' is even informative for adults and often also watched by them because of the little documentaries about how things are done, designed, manufactured or function.
"Die Sendung mit der Maus" is the real deal! A wide variety of things / principles described in a way that a kid can process it, but you also can use most of it forhigher grades, because they manage to make it simple without leaving out important stuff or bending the facts (to make it simpler) There is even a special full episode on the workings of a nuclear power plant. (Normally, an episode consits of several topics)
My half-Italian friend's family owns an ice cream parlor. Every winter, they close up and visit fairs in Italy where they learn about gelato (Italian ice cream) innovations. When they're open during summer, a lot of people from nearby smaller towns drive 20 minutes or so just to get some scoops or a parfait. It's really delicious.
I think since decades every german kid has seen the following 3 tv shows: "Die Sendung mit der Maus" since 1971, Sesamstraße (german version of Sesame Street) since 1973 and Löwenzahn since 1981. Like the Maus, Löwenzahn is a show, that explains the world for kids. It often connects the subjects with their impact on the environment. I really like about Löwenzahn, that it always connected the subjects with every day life. It starts always with a real life problem for the main character, who then makes a deepdive on this subject. The main character i grew up with (Peter Lustig) is a German meme. But the new main character (Fritz Fuchs) is also great.
In germany (and I think almost everywhere in europe) we actually distingish between shops selling bread or cake. If you read bakery ("Bäckerei") on a shop, the product range will mostly consist of different kinds of bread and buns. They will have some tray-baked cakes. If you read pastry shop ("Konditorei"), the product range will monstly consist of different (cream) cakes, tarts and pies. They will have some bread too. And then there is café/ coffeehouse ("Café/ Kaffeehaus"), which will have a variety of both. You can go there in the morning to eat freshly prepared breakfast (most served until lunchtime), buy sandwiches and coffee to take away. Or just come during opening hours to enjoy a slice of cake with your coffee, tea or glass of juice. Think Starbucks, but without anything that makes it suck. Served in real cups and on real plates (i think it's called chinaware in the US, right?) with real cutlery made from stainless steel.
I send you a video recommendation for the Mainzelmännchen So in Europe in general you usually have a bakery= mainly bread with ot without a Konditorei/confiserie= cake/Torten/desserts/chocolates Chocolaterie= only chocolates Gelato= Italian word for Ice Cream, so can be used interchangeably, usually though Gelato is creamier than what you may know as ice cream. Frozen Yogurt should not taste like ice cream at all, it should be a bit sour and much colder than ice cream, it's actually quite healthy ( maybe Americans add sugar and cream to it, it that case it would really be like ice cream) Gelato is handmade and looks nothing like whatever that is you showed
In Switzerland, texting on a cell phone has been a gross traffic offense since 2009, which can be punished with a prison sentence of up to 3 years or a high fine, usually 4 figures
I think in Europe you will get a pretty expensive fine if you use your phone while driving. The only way you can use it is to mount it and control it with handsfree. Newer smarter cars may have buttons on the steering wheel to control some basics on your phone, so for Europeans voice recognition can be very practical, but you often need a button to activate it.
Wiki about Gelato; Gelato is the common word in Italian for all kinds of ice cream. In English, it specifically refers to a frozen dessert of Italian origin. (Ready-made ice cream is fluffier, slowly stirred gelato has a firmer consistency. The optimal temperature for ice cream is around -17 degrees Celsius, whereas gelato tastes best at around -9 degrees Celsius. Italian Gelato contains also usually more milk and cream) US ice cream contains dozens of chemicals mainly: water, whey powder, the cheapest vegetable fat and sugar. It is designed for optimal profit and not optimal taste.
In the Netherlands we have a lion named "Loeki" doing random things for 5 seconds inbetween adds. Bakery's are all over Europe and we love them. Walking into a bakery in the morning is an experience in itself because of the smells of freshly baked bread and all the other goodies. Gelato is Italian and is turned slowly, so much less air is beaten under it. This gives the velvety fine structure to the ice cream. Ice cream is turned much faster, which means that there is sometimes up to 60% air in ice cream. Due to the amount of air in ice cream, it melts away faster without you really tasting the flavour. Italian Ice-Cream (Gelato) Salons are all over Europe. In the Netherlands it is also mandatory to have a "warning triangle" in your trunk in case of incidents. You place it at a considerable distance behind the car to warn other road users that you are standing still. And you can only get a driver's license after your 18th birthday and an average of 40 professional lessons. And not before you have passed an exam. Practical exam and theory.I think in most European countries it is not allowed to use your phone while behind the wheel. Certainly not here in the Netherlands. Oops, I'm typing too much again....I'll stop now.
In scotland we have amazing ice cream parlors because so meny Italians moved there around the turne of the last centurie. Even in my tiny village we had wonderful ice cream.
The subtitle for "Die Sendung mit der Maus" is "Lach- und Sachgeschichten", literally "stories that make you laugh and stories about topics". In earlier times, children often were a part of the workforce and production. They learned from a young age what work was. They saw their father use tools on a regular basis. With the introduction of mandatory schooling (2 centuries ago), the shift from an agricultural society (app. 90% of people 200 years ago, compared to app. 2% nowadays) to an industrial society, and the introduction of laws prohibiting child labor, children lost their connection to "work". The Sachgeschichten try to bridge that gap and they satisfy the curiosity all children inherently have. They are made for children but I have learned a lot while watching the show with my children.
There surely are some German bakerys in the US, which are making autentic bread and buns. Especially in communities, which are descendents from German immigrants, you will surely find those, especially because Germans love their bread and cant deal without it. You could look around to find one of those, maybe have to drive a little for that. But be warned, it may addict you and make you hate american bread, so you always have to drive to that German bakery again to get that fresh bread.
We'd have to drive a very long way. I'm sure there are real bakeries but how would I differentiate between those and normal american ones? Call each one and ask if they bake German bread?
@@pilotlars I would guess, that those bakerys advertising for German style bread, because its much different from american style bread and they want to lure in people who crave for just that. So you may can differentiate with that in Google. Another option could be, I heard that Aldi and Lidl in the US also have prepackaded German like bread in their selection, as well as those little bakery-sections for freshly baked bread and buns? Its not the same like REAL bakery ones, but it should come close enough.
As a Belgian, been driving 1+ hour to work a couple of times a week for like 9 or 10 months now. I've not seen an accident happen, but I have seen cars on the side of the road because of an accident twice I've lived here my life, I didn't drive much before this job, but I can pretty much count the amount of accidents I've seen or passed by in my entire life on my hands Seeing an accident every month sounds insanely frequent to me if you're not driving like 5 hours a day. I thought people here were bad drivers, but maybe I've been too harsh on my people. Wtf are y'all doing over there? Edit: definitely try a kebab if you ever find it. the meat in it just makes the thing. They could slap that shit on a dollar menu burger and it'd still become one of the best burgers I've eaten just like that.
She is so sweet i love how excited and happy she talks about all this stuff and as a german its extra sweet seeing her this excited, she definitely has a very nice personality :)
I totally agree. Don’t know how many times I really want to watch and give up after a couple of minutes because I still don’t know what the other person is saying. And because of his often totally stupid break in guesses for not listening to the end.
Duude... sometimes u drive me crazy.. 😂 Having thousands of questions in middle of her sentence.. LISTEN then😅 She will tell... *gg But else, it was fun to watch.. TNX 😊
I (German) did a road trip through the States in the early 90s, from the East Coast to the West Coast. I can't count how many accidents I saw. Twice someone crashed into me with his car and once I was pulled over by the cops because they thought it was suspicious that I was the only one driving strictly within the speed limit. 😀
"Die Sendung mit der Maus" (The Program with the Mouse) is a quite iconic program for children which many adults like to watch too. Between purely entertaining parts it's explaining things a child would wonder about like: - how a bicycle, a computer, a trumpet is made - how cheese is made - where milk comes from, explaining it starting with a cow on a meadow via a stable with a milking apparatus, a lorry loading its tank with it, a diary company and a shop to, finally, a bottle in the fridge; - what's in the different kinds of fire engines - how a train station is working - what a pilot is doing or how someone will become a pilot - how gummy bears are made - why we are washing our hands - what happens when we are sleeping and why we need to sleep Quite often those explanations a made so well that even adults are curious to watch it. The main character is an orange mouse. Her friends are a blue elefant and a yellow duck. The program must be around at least 50 years.
The Maus is a very versatile show. There exist several special Maus-shows like the "Nachkriegsmaus" the Post WW2 maus were Armin Maiwald talks about the reality of being a kid in post WW2 Germany or the "Atom-Maus" that was made after Tschernobyl that explained in a kid-friendly manner about atoms, chain-reactions (They used mousetraps to demonstrate it) and about what went wrong. And one that is special to my heart is the "Flugzeug-Maus" the airplane-mouse. A long show about how airplanes are made. The company where they filmed that mouse shows it to all their new apprentices and interns and they did not cut out the the mouse-cartoons. It is adorable.
It´s in fact the law to have one high visibility vest in your car all the time (recommended are one vest for each passenger also). Also the breakdown triangle and of course a first aid box which has to contain: 1 x adhesive plaster DIN 13019, A 500 x 2.5 4 x quick wound dressings DIN 13019-E, 10 cm x 6 cm 2 x bandage packs DIN 13151-M 1 x bandage pack DIN 13151-G 2 x face masks, at least type 1 according to DIN EN 14683 1 x bandage cloth DIN 13152-A, 60 cm x 80 cm 6 x compresses 10cm x 10cm 2 x fixing bandages DIN 61634-FB-6 3 x fixing bandages DIN 61634-FB-8 1 x triangular cloth DIN 13 168-D 1 x rescue blanket 210 cm x 160 cm 1 x first aid scissors DIN 58279-A 145 4 x disposable gloves DIN EN 455 1 x First Aid Booklet 2 x wet wipes for skin cleansing 1 x 14 piece ready-made plaster set 1 x bandage pack K Also your tires MUST HAVE a minimum tire tread of 0,063 inches (1,6mm) and your car BY LAW has to be checked every 2 years at the "HU (Hauptuntersuchung aka general inspection) for any technical problems. They do examine: Brakes Lighting Chassis and suspension Steering Wheels and tires Windows and mirrors Exhaust and noise behavior as well as exhaust. If your car fails the test, you have a month (exactly one german month 😁) to fix it and to come back again to the TÜV (Technischer ÜberwachungsVerein aka Association for Technical Inspection) or DEKRA (DEutscher KRAftfahrzeug-Überwachungs-Verein aka German Motor Vehicle Monitoring Association). If you fail twice, you can try it again but if your car has imperiling deficiencies you´ll not be allowed to drive your car even one more inch till it´s fixed. If you drive your car without an auto-insurance: a crime which can get you losing your driving licence, a fine (up to 180 x daily net-income) & even up to 6 months jail time. Oh, and "Die Sendung mit der Maus" is really high educational for kids but with not leaving out a lot of fun and always easy to understand. Even adults love it. ☺
Die Sendung mit der Maus (The Broadcast with the Mouse) is really something you should react to. It's somewhere at the core of German culture and childhood. 😅
First things first: Hi Ryan, i like your videos, i think it´s cool to see an american react to/show the different things between America and Germany or other places. You have a very open minded style in your vids, very sympatic 🙂 I press my thumbs that you can visit Germany at some time and enjoy a good german Prezel with a "Mass" Beer or a delicious "Sauerbraten" after going to a fun waterpark ^^ Wish you and your Family all the best in live!!!! Oh yeah... "Sendung mit der Maus"... i grew up with that show, it´s very educational. Even in my "continuing Professional Education" my Teacher/Tutor was a big fan and showed us clips from that show how metal is made in the industry and such stuff. 20 people form 26 years to 50 years old sitting in a room and watching a kid´s show about Metals. It was funny ^^ For the Bakery, yes the "bread-culture" in Germany is unique! Just going in, smelling the bread and looking at dozends of different bread-types, Brezeln, Semmeln... it´s just awsome. I just know of one german baker went to New York City and opened a german bakery. Sad that America is missing on that one... And for the confusion about "Gelato": Gelato is the italian translation for ice-cream.... it´s made a little bit different (less fat in it, a slower production-process). So Gelato is just the original italian Ice-Cream, yes. And it´s just great... chocolate, walnut, strawberry... so many different ones.... wish it was summer :-) And the classic "Döner Kebab" was inventet in Hamburg, so it was a german idea ^^ ... the "Kebab" is mostly the meat, and that origins from Turky/Greece... but the combination form, bread, meat, veggies and garlic-sauce was an idea from Hamburg. Just a little fun fact... Sorry in advance for my maybe "not so good" English-Skills... i dont have much opportunerty to write in English :-) Greetings from Bawaria, wish you a wounderful day and keep up the great content!
example for German tv commercials framed by cartoons: th-cam.com/video/1DC9deFLvHo/w-d-xo.htmlsi=DgJdy1NB4526QmkL In the old days commercials were separated by small (and silly) cartoons. The public tv channel ZDF is located in Mainz. They "relocated" the "Heinzelmännchen" (helpful leprechauns, sort of) from Cologne and implemented them as "Mainzelmännchen" into their commercial tv (Initially ads were limited to two hours (6 p.m. - 8 p.m.) and presented in 5 minute blocks . Each ad was followed by a cartoon. These blocks were implemented in TV-Series with intermissions after 15 (undisturbed) minutes.)
Ich antworte ausnahmsweise in deutsch (Google kann das ja übersetzen xD). Es stimmt, die meisten Eisdielen haben im Winter geschlossen. Aber hier in Niedersachsen gibt es einige, die auch jetzt geöffnet haben. Du musst also nicht auf den Sommer warten. Ich esse auch im Winter sehr gerne Eis.
@@Onkel_Wuschel Stimmt. Bei uns verkaufen manche Eisdielen im Winter sogar Weihnachtsgebäck. (Stollen, Lebkuchen, Plätzchen ect.) Oder sie wandeln ihr Hauptgeschäft weg vom Eis hin zu Kaffee/Glühwein und Kuchen für die kalte Jahreszeit. Aber bei vielen ist´s wirklich so dass das Geschäft wohl nicht rentiert und die über den Winter schließen...
In Germany we have a fairytale about little gnomes who helped the people. They are called Heinzelmännchen. Die Mainzelmännchen are the mascots of the tv channel ZDF and the inventor of the Mainzelmännchen were inspired by this story and mixed it with the city name Mainz, where the ZDF is located. And there it is Mainzelmännchen!
I'm 62 and remember the Mainzelmännchen from when I was a lad in Germany [it started when I was 2] in the 60/70's when my father was stationed there [British Army], though I was born in Germany and had a German mother, I was able to understand it too. Those were the days! lol
I'm 50 and in my childhood I used to watch Die Sendung mit der Maus every Sunday. Best of all: Armin Maiwald, the inventor and host from back then still presents the show today. They had a nice mix of cartoons, real life storys and kind of mythbusters for kids. I remember once they tried to find out how many kids baloons you need to lift a man.
"Die Sendung mit der Maus" is legendary! I love it! Fun fact: "Die Sendung mit der Maus" can be seen in almost 100 countries.. I know a lot of adults like myself, even pensioners, who still sit down in front of the TV on Sundays to watch the show. Children simply have different questions to adults, such as "how do the stripes get into the toothpaste?". They can send these questions to the broadcaster and get answers in the form of very well produced clips that are also interesting and fascinating for adults. Greetings from Germany!
@@avr7120a pattisserie basically is a third thing that only does small cakes, pasteries and praliné. The Konditorei is more typically making big cakes and "Torte" and "Gebäck" and the Bäckerei does everything and especially bread. But I think all of these have an overlap and can be sometimes used interchangably
The show with the mouse always plays briefly at the beginning, at the end and in between a few funny clips with the mouse, the blue elephant and the chick and then they teach us something about pretty much everything.
Italian ice cream makers from northern Italy came to Germany during the summer from the late 1950s and opened ice cream parlors. later some also moved entirely to Germany.
Driving in the States … when my car was in the shop for a longer time, I got rides with a co-worker - and it scared the living daylights out of me - because that woman applied her make-up during the drive, complete with mascara, eyeliner, eye shadow … often had only 1 or no eye on the street. Some accidents were avoided only because i yelled stop just in time.
20.05 the „warning vest“ is mandatory at day and night, basically any time your car breaks down or you have an accident you have to put it on once you leave your car and step on the street
First I had to check how old the original video was (3 years) The average prices for Döner Kebab are now more like 5-6 Euros. Edit: I take back the 5-6 Euros. These were last year's numbers. It's more around 7€ now and over 9 in Munich.
Inflation... there is actually a word for the fact that the price of this dish is very dependent on how much the materials for it will cost. The Döner Index.
Another suggestion for a reaction is watching the original kidsTV show „Löwenzahn“ with Peter Lustig. It’s also a very educational show and everyone of our generation grew up with learning how the world functions from „Löwenzahn“ and „Die Sendung mit der Maus“. Some of my favorite Löwenzahn episodes are Peter sucht das „Wattenmeer“, „Peter steht im Bach“, „Peter schäumt“, „Hinkelgockelgackelei“, „Peters süßes Geheimnis“ - honestly, all of them are great. Peter Lustig was the main figure and later also author of Löwenzahn. He wanted to teach kids that adults don’t know everything, can be curious like a kid but without seeming ingenuous. The Wikipedia page gives you a bit of background information if you are interested. It really has cult status like Sesame Street. I also liked the show „Siebenstein“ with a raven puppet called Rudi (and a suitcase puppet just called Koffer) who lived with Siebenstein, she owned a second hand shop and was basically like a mom. But Löwenzahn is much cooler.
Döner has become so popular in Germany, because we have the biggest turkish population outside of Turky. They came in the 50-70 for work and stayed here. Great addition to the culinary options. Since Döner is helal and pork is haram the Greek Pita is quiet rare in Germany, the market spoke here and the more popular option was Döner. Afaik Americans don't really care for middeleastern food, so the Greek Pita prospered more. What kind of sucks is, that the quality of Döner has declined sooo much compared to what was offered in the 80s and 90s. The bad ones taste like I would imagine cat food would taste. That's my perspective as a Berliner for my whole life.
To be a Baker is an apprenticeship of 3 years includung schooling and that's only for bread and rolls and some basic cake, there is another trade with an apprenticeship of 3 years called "Konditor" and that people are supposed to bake and make cake with icing and all other desert stuff including pralines. Most of the bakerie owners have learned both and have spent 6 years of learning to do their trade. It should taste better than the industrial stuff produced in USA that you call "bread".
If you really want to react to some cartoons then there is another epic one you just have to see. It’s not German but Italian: La Linea And it‘s hysterical 😂😂 Its about a cartoon figure (made of a continuous line that merges with the ground) that gets teased by it’s creator (you sometimes see his hand drawing obstacles). The figure always shows excessive emotion - laughing hysterically or getting angry and shouting. The language is gibberish with some Italian or English words thrown in. Everyone understands what is meant. 😊
Everytime I see you getting enthusiastic about pretzles, I have to smile. Because pretzles are not a thing around here, where I live in Western Germany (near Dortmund). Bread, rolls, and everything, yes. But pretzles are more a Southern Germany thing (as "Krabbenbrötchen" =shrimp rolls, are more a Northern speciality) . You won't even get pretzles like in the south here in a normal bakery (not the typical big, soft ones) But now to the topic. Kids TV: When I was a kid in the late 70ies/early 80ies, we only had 3 TV stations available. All public-law stations (influenced and run by the state). So they had some official rules for the programming, that required educational kids show slots next to pure kids entertainment/cartoons (BTW, there was also educational program for adults like 'Telekolleg' or "eff-eff"). I remember "Die Sendung mit der Maus" on Sundays (just before 'The Muppet Show') and on Saturdays I liked "Pusteblume" (Dandelion), which was renamed a few years later to "Löwenzahn" (like calling 'Dandelion' "Hawkbit"). The host was Peter Lustig and sometimes it was like Tim Taylor (Home Improvement) would explain science. Another favorite kids quiz was "1, 2 oder 3" with the host Michael Schanze. Of course we had "Sesame Street" and "Hallo Spencer" (puppets, too) in the early evenings. When I look into the kids program of today, there is so much Anime on all stations... (Our 'Anime' have been "Maya the bee" (Biene Maja), "Heidi", "Arabian Night Sindbad no Booken" (Sindbad) and my favorite: "The adventures of Captain Future" (Captain Future). When I grew older in the later 80ies, I watched the two daily changing US TV shows (at 6:10pm on ZDF and 7:00pm on ARD). Star Trek:TOS, Scarecrow and Mrs. King (Agentin mit Herz), The Fall Guy (Ein Colt für alle Fälle), Riptide (Trio mit vier Fäusten), Crazy like a Fox (Die Fälle des Harry Fox), Hart to Hart (Hart aber herzlich), Matlock, Falcon Crest, Simon & Simon, and some others I don't remember right now. Sometimes I was allowed to watch the News at 8pm. (The most famous German News show, "Die Tagesschau" (=by meaning: "The Day in Review") still runs at 8pm every day, since the beginning of TV broadcasting in Germany)
Mainzelmännchen literally means little men from Mainz which is the town in Germany they are reminiscence of the little Wichtelmännchen who are there to help you as a human being. It's folklore. You should Google mainzelmännchen
A bakery where you can buy cakes only would be called a „Konditorei“ (Confectionery) in Germany. In a bakery (Bäckerei) you’ll find breads, rolls and cakes.
Where I live, the nearest ice cream shop is run by this turkish family. Istg, their straciatella ice cream is better than anything you can get in Italy Edit: IN. MY. OPINION.
@@AverageReader._. So what... Ich war schon 4 mal in Portugal und habe dort den leckersten Tintenfisch aller Zeiten serviert bekommen. Deswegen käme ich niemals auf die Schnapsidee zu sagen, dass die Jungs auf z.B. Kreta, schlechteren Lulas machen. Das ist, um es mal nett zu sagen, äußerst vermessen...
Everyone recognises that wild generalisations are stock in trade for reaction videos. So we should forgive Ryan's more extreme oversimplifications. Nevertheless, it is right to point out that the US has 80,359 bakeries, according to the most recent industry survey. Of these, almost 7,000 are independent bakeries and 9,000 are cafe bakeries.
You can name it bakery. But I guarantee you: A European person would not agree. In Europe you have several bread-cultures and I bet they would agree that American "bakeries" are no real bakeries. 🤷🏼♂️
Well, the main difference is that german bakeries offer an extremely wide range of products that are _not_ sweet, buns often have seeds on top, breads my contain such unusual ingredients as carrots or potatos; and even the sweet items are much more varied than just muffins and pies. If I started naming them, half of the screen would be filled with descriptions.
well, germany used to have 55,000 bakeries, now that is down to 35k. big chains, etc, you get the trend. still the US is 27 times larger than germany and has more than 4 times the population, so having double the "bakeries" in the US means half as many per population. and the quality is definitely different. Cupcakes, donuts, and sliced white bread do not make a real bakery..... i think the north east of the US, say, NY, NJ, Massachusetts, area, they have real bakeries, and butcher shops, too. the rest does not. If it wasn't for LIDL there would be no affordable, real, bread and pretzels, and broetchen.
What you call a bakery in the US in Germany is called a Konditorei, you will still get some bread there but it is mostly for face cakes pies etc. A Bäckerei (what Germans refer to as a bakery) it is mostly bread, buns, croissants etc. (you still get some sweet stuff there,but it is usually more standard, easy to make and not that fancy.
Die Sendung mit der Maus (=the show with the mouse) is a show that explains things (usually how stuff is produced or how technology works) to kids, with these funny a few seconds cartoons interspersed. The actual (original?) name is/was "Sach- und Lachgeschichten" (non-fiction and laughing stories?). It is as great as it is because of the narrator. He has a really pleasant voice and tells it all in a pleasant down to earth and a bit funny way. You never feel spoken down to or something, not even when watching as an adult. It's aimed at kids, but adults can learn just as much from it.
The american bakery you explain at 10:04 with all the many sugar "things" is called "Konditorei" in germany and is seeling mostly the sweet things. A "Bäckerei" mostly sells buns and bread and a few sugar things...
"Die Sendung mit der Maus" is legendary. I listened to a podcast with Armin Maiwald, one of the producers. He told a story, where they wanted to cover how something with steel is produced, so he called the company they want to film in and said that he is from that TV channel and want to film a documentary. The company replied "No, filming is strictly forbidden in our company." And he mentioned "die Maus" and and they said: "Oh, for that show, when are you coming?" and they not just showed him everything, but they even build some contraptions so he could better explain how it's working internally. Of course all the workers know the show and watched it as children. So everyone was very happy to be part of it. Even adults watch it sometimes, because it explains stuff so good.
yes thats very common here that in a family or a relationship, for example the man wakes up and goes to the bacery and buy fresh buns they are warm sometimes even still almost hot, and all she said is true, we put them in a basket maybe a glass milk, kids like that or cacao milk adults drink coffee or a nice ornagejuice. and the buns smelling so good. with jam or nutella yea its usually on the table some boiled eggs, fresh cheese salami all that stuff. so you really smell the fresh bread. if they are still hot if not they prolly not smell that much anymore but u get the idea. its crazy for me as german, how excited and how they talk so in love with this and as if its special for them,and so good and for me its normal . you can really tell by her smiling she really loved it and she is like smiling so happy about it. its really nice to see she had such a nice experience with it. makes me proud to be german.
The emotional stuff is in "Sendung mit der Maus" as well. The cartoons are there for it. There are often tell little stories, like, the Elefant is very sad, because he got wet in rain and freeze - and than the mouse show up, recognize it and find a way to help, like it share her raincoat. Something like that. Its a important, but short, part of it. On the other hand, its to teach children in an easy way things.
I actually worked for “Die Sendung mit der Maus” and can tell you, we didn’t do drugs 🤣 But the kids TV shows like Die Sendung mit der Maus, Die Sendung mit dem Elefanten and Wissen macht Ah! Would be very cool reaction videos because they are so unique and educational and entertaining at the same time! Would love to see that!
Holding a phone and being on the phone without using a handsfree/headset is illegal in much of Europe. It's a law similar to the seatbelt law and the drinking-under-the-influence law. You can literally be pulled over and fined for holding your phone to your ear, reading or texting while driving. And no, manual cars don't normally require a lot of work, unless you keep stopping and accelerating to where you need to change gear repeatedly. If you just drive down a road at an even speed, you don't need to change gears. We also don't need to look at the gearstick to change gear -- we know where the gears are by touch. So yeah, we used to have a lot of people being on their phone here as well, until they made it illegal.
Mainzelmännchen are the station mascots of the ZDF, the second public broadcasting institution. They are funded by the public and they had restrictions on airing commercials. They used the Mainzelmännchen as seperator.
Mainzelmännchen is the name of the funny little men doing things in shorts. The name is derived from mixing the german name for "Gnome/Heinzelmännchen" and the german city "Mainz" which is where the ZDF, the german TV broadcaster they appear on is situated at.
Die Sendung mit der Maus was already a top children's program when I was young way back when (must have been the late 1970s?). I'm from the Netherlands, but always watched this on the German TV (ZDF I think).
Mainzelmännchen are on the ZDF channel, which is brodcast from Mainz (hence the name), and they are vaguely reminiscent of Heinzelmännchen (friendly dwarf-like fairy tale characters). The 3-5 second clips of them are intermissions between advertisements. Die Sendung mit der Maus (The show with the mouse) is an edutainment program for kids, in which cartoons alternate with short films that explain all sorts of things, like how the stripes get into the toothpaste or how gummy bears are made. Like the Mainzelmännchen, the mouse clips serve as intermissions between the various segments.
Even Teachers use "Die Sendung mit der Maus" to teach. Another iconic tv show is "Löwenzahn" with "Peter Lustig". I also liked " Wissen macht Ah!" and "Willi wills wissen" when I was young. There are a lot of informative kids tv shows in Germany.
The broadcast with the mouse shows how different functions. I learned so much there, even today I watch it sometimes. Every now and then they show really interesting things.
I love that she likes "Die Sendung mit der Maus" and "Mainzelmännchen". I grew up watching "Die Sendung mit der Maus" every Sunday and now my daughters do
I'm from Germany and germans are using their phones while driving too (of course you shouldn't) but I think we drive saver because of our driving rules. "Rechts vor links" for example or the "rechtsfahrgebot". It makes it so much saver. We can drive manuel cars AND make things while driving. 😊
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I'm from Germany and nearly 60 years old. An orange mouse, a blue elephant and a man who lives in a construction trailer explained the world to me when I was young. ;)
I'm 35 and these guys were big part of my childhood, too :)
Do not forget the yellow duck! All 3 (mouse, elephant, duck) are sitting on my drawer ;)
The trailer man is another children's show tho.
@@Salzuihe did work on the Maus. Also was the sound technician for JFK's Berlin speech
@@SalzuiHow I miss Peter Lustig
The hosts of "Die Sendung mit der Maus", Armin Maiwald und Christoph Biemann are childrens heroes here in Germany. Everybody knows them, because they hosted the show for decades, so the parents of todays generation know them from their childhood as well.
But KEEP AWAY FROM MAINZELMÄNNCHEN!!
@@lukaskonig7026 lol.. I loved Mainzelmaennchen!
'Die Maus' were always a highligt! Between the funny mouse and elefant animations, we f.ex. learned how the stripes come in to the toothpaste!
@@fliplefrog8843true every Sunday the best
Loved it when i was a child .now we watch it with our Kids 😂❤
Anyone else shouted out ‚WHAT?!‘ when Ryan said he didn’t know Italians where good at making Ice cream - or am I the only one 😂??
italians are as proud about their ice cream as they are about their pizza and pasta xD for good reasons though!
and then shows some fucking slushi ice and they call it italian?`:D
Me too.
I literally shouted what! 😂😂
@@MssErika 😂🤝
You do not want to compare the artificial "us-italian ice cream" with the real stuff you get in Gelatterias run by Italians in Germany...
... and most certainly not with Mc Donalds!
even though they are still not as good as the real thing, if you are a gelato fan, you have to visit Florence at one point and give the real thing a try. 😉
When I look at the artificial colouring (and flavouring, too, I suppose) used there I get sick already. Looks disgusting to me. There's a whole universe between real homemade (however, some ice cream parlours use modern technology, of course) italian ice cream (or gelato) and that weird U.S. stuff.
I travel to Italy multiple times a year (well its only a 5 hour trip) for a few days of food, wine, and gelato. The best ice cream I had in my life I had at La Gelatoteca in Negrar. Its a tiny shop on a busy street, but its handmade from organic ingredients. Even my beloved german-italian gelateria only comes second.
And I would never eat ice cream from the grocery store, never ever. Better nothing than this processed „ice cream“.
@@raistormrs There is this one Gelatteria in Zadar, Croatia that can rival the Italians. Zadar is a pretty small city. If you ever go there, you will find the Gelatteria located on a corner at a smaller town square. There are many gelatterias, but this specific one is well known and theyve been there since forever. It's incredible. Croatian kitchen is so underrated. Probably because Italy is so well known and its almost a neighbor. If you do ever visit Croatia, also take a drive through the Istria region. Its where truffles naturally grow and man, these people are *generous* with their truffles lol. Last time I went, we drove to this little mountain village overlooking the olive fields, and we had Chantarelle mushrooms off the grill (freshly picked that same day), a plate of fresh vegetables, and an omelet just covered with truffles, and a fresh salad with locally farmed olive oil and hint of citrus freshness to it to balance out that earthy taste of the mushrooms and the truffle. So simple. So fresh. So natural. Just perfect. lol I still remember that dinner to this day, you really must go :D
In Germany its forbidden to use your phone while you driving. To do it can have hefty fines or even losing your drivers licence as concequnce
And definitely points in Flensburg
Same in Canada. Using your phone while driving is the same as driving drunk or on drugs.
That is technically wrong though. You're allowed to use it, you are just not allowed to pick it up or hold it in your hand. Using it via voice commands or just using it for a split second to, for example, accept a call while it's in a cell phone holder, is fine.
You can use a speakerphone and everything is fine...
It’s less dangerous going 200mph on autobahn 😅
The best episode of the "Sendung mit der Maus" is the one they produced after the Tschernobyl incident. Here in Germany children weren´t allowed to go to the playgrounds and forests for nearly a year because of the nuclear fallout. This Maus-episode was 30 min of education without the cartoon and music parts. They explained in this episode what happended (with a perfect real life simulation of a nuclear chain reaction by using table tennis balls and mous-traps), why it happened and what the consequences were.
I will check that out :) thx!
That episode was essential for explaining tschernobyl and nuclear power to ALL germans, no only children but also adults.
But that is significantly older. Back in the 1960s, the television scientist Prof. Heinz Haber used this to illustrate a chain reaction...
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...and explained it to how many children?
@@BernieUndErt This was done for the adults back then. And there is no problem, to use it for kids too. I only said, this wasn't not that much new...
"I didn't know Italians were big into making ice cream." Ryan, why? They were the ones who invented it!
How should they now when some us citizens believe the us is the only country in the world 🤣 They still believe they constructed the rocket that went to the moon (spoiler alert: it was Wernher von Braun) or they built the first plane (spoiler alert: it was Gustav Weißkopf) or they invented the car …
I love the us, I have a lot of friends there, and I spent quite some time there, but sometimes you need to nag them ;)
Not totally true, Persia and China did it earlier.
@@dirkschittkoor, to continue, built the first computer ever. There were some dudes in France in I think in 1680 and 1830 who invented mechanical computers, and the first electric one was built by Zuse in 1941.
The Chinese were the first to make ice cream. Marco Polo then brought the Chinese recipes to Italy in the 13th Century, and the Italians then went on to create the Italian ice cream we know today. :)
@@squarecircle1473They had already Ice (sorbet) in the Roman Empire.
"Die Sendung mit der Maus" and "Löwenzahn" taught me SO MUCH in my childhood... I think EVERY country needs something like this. It was interesting, funny, informative and EVERY kid watched it. It explained so much: What the sun is... How do you build a house... Why is the sky blue... How does a nuclear plant work (i am not kidding)...
I am proud of it and it helped me to get the person i am!
Man Löwenzahn was the best. But only the og one with Peter Lustig rip.
Also "Willi wills wissen" and "wissen macht Ah"
And (not a series but an audiobook) "die kinder uni" I listened to them every night before bed
As I understand it, the Maus was created as a german counterpart of the original Sesame Street. In the beginning it was only the mouse, later on they
added a blue elephant which cooperated with the mouse, or played little pranks, and even later on a yellow duck.
I remember how in one November, they made a show that dealt with a topic you usually don't talk about: what happens when a person dies. (November is a traditional time for germans to remember their deceased)
One of the most beloved parts were the episodes of Käpt'n Blaubär, with the acting characters being puppets, depicting an adult blue bear and three grandchildren. The kids would fool around, the Captain would react and start to spin a yarn about his time out on the sea, which always was totally unbelievable but funny and thrilling. While the bears were physical, the stories were made as cartoons. Unfortunately, there are no new episodes of the show any more.
"Löwenzahn" (Dandelion) isn't addressing toddlers but an audience that is older, and this show often discusses topics that reach into technological, scientific, ecological, sociological, and historical areas, encouraging the viewers to think for themselves by explaining where things or rules are coming from, and why they are there.
Hio Aaahhh i think i remember that one (the nuclear reaction one), didn´t they have a "big" glasroom with a lot moustraps and 3 pimgpong balls each and at the end throw a singel ball in it to caurse the chaireaction?
@@gameboy-nq7je The KinderUni were university lessons for kids as well, i went to some of them in Münster when i was 12 or 14. They explained relatively complex stuff, but understandable for kids iirc. Was so cool to feel like a real university student in that age. :D
Mainzelmännchen - named after the German city of Mainz where the ZDF, the second large public TV station is situated. They're in small cartoons which are spaced out between the ads on TV at the ZDF. It's always fun for kids to watch them - when I was a kid, I was ignoring the ads for the Mainzelmännchen.
Die Sendung mit der Maus (the Mouse Show - not affiliated with Mickey Mouse) - a mixture of cartoons and educational parts. There's short cartoons about a mouse and a very small elephant, but there's also short clips about everyday stuff like 'how is milk ending up in the carton' or 'where do eggs come from' or 'how is a bike assembled,' so kids also learn something.
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i always thought mainzelmännchen are for watching the advertisements instead of ignoring them 😅
and a yellow duck, die hast du vergessen
The Mainzelmännchen are also the mascots of the ZDF. There were several mascots for TV stations, I can remember Antje, the walrus, from the NDR.
Guten Abend...der pawlosche reflex wenn ich Mainzelmänchen höre
Yes the mouse is an intregal part of german childhood and it basically explains how things are made, how things work, and show different professions, and all very easily explained so that even very small children can understand (from 3yo). Would love for you to react to an episode! And they always ask questions how kids would ask them, like: where do the holes in the cheese come from? ...etc. Everyday stuff like that. And they also have a section where you can send in your questions and they answer a real kids question every episode. There are hundreds if not thousands of episodes already because the mouse has been around for so long!
The favorite episode of my kids is about the "Gleisschotterbettungsreinigungsmaschine" 😂 the love it because they thing the incredibly long name of the machine is hilarious. It's a machine that cleans the little stones that railways are laying on top of. 😊
My favorite one was always "Dauerwelle" I watched it over and over (this thats also a bit bias because we only had a few episodes on VHS and we were only very rarely allowed to watch anything live on TV)
There's also die Sendung mit dem Elefanten targeted at preschool kids, since die Sendung mit der Maus is directed more towards children 6+
@@gameboy-nq7jeis that the one where they use Spagetti as hair?
Notably they also showed how a foucault pendulum prooves the earths rotation which was amazing
They made several clips about how an airliner is built (Airbus). These clips are even shown to new workers at the factory to give them an overview about what's going on in what part of the production.
Since the Romans " invented" ice cream by getting blocks of ice from the Alpine mountains and flavour it it is no wonder the GELATO = Italian ice cream is the best in the world ! They use NATURAL ingredients and please, never compare that to McDonald's stuff !!!
Soweit ich weiß, nutzten die Römer tatsächlich schon Eis und Eisschränke. Aber das Speiseeis kam über Marco Polo und seine Reise aus China nach Italien. Die Chinesen haben das Eis mit Früchten und Säften gemischt.
Our family's biggest achievement is that my father was in the Sendung mit der Maus twice.
Once in a segment about what different animals do in the winter. He demonstrated birds flying to the south as the pilot of an aeroplane.
And once in a music video together with Joy Gruttmann in the same aeroplane for the spin off "Frag doch mal die Maus". Unfortunately I can't find this one on TH-cam anymore.
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"Die Sendung mit der Maus" is really good and educational.
It translates literally to "the program with the mouse". Its good to watch for children but also there are interesting pieces for adults.
Not as stupid as some kids programs which you really cannot watch as an adult.
First of is the trailer which gives an overview of todays episode, then the trailer is repeated in another language (a different one each time) and after that it says which language that was ("This was french" for example). The program consists of several small pieces, some cartoons and some short film (no cartoon, with real people) which explains something (like she said, the bicycle factory).
There is really interesting stuff, for example how the stripes come to be in toothpaste or so many things, kids (and adults) might wonder.
The mouse, the elephant and the duck appear between each short section and do funny stuff - I think that is that kids do not loose interest.
The whole program is about 30 minutes long.
Using the phone while driving- if you get caught you must pay a fine.
You may be right about the manual cars though. But still people DO use their phones, but maybe not as much.
Average viewer age his 40+, by the way because the (grand)parents also watch it.
It's said that Germans don't do revolutions because it's forbidden to go on the grass.
But if anyone ever suggest that the "Sendung mit der Maus" will be stopped, there won't be any grass surviving!
Montana should use your explaintion of the show. You hit the nail on the head.
You are never too old for the "Sendung mit der Maus". The older I got (48 now), the more respect I have how they are able to explain complicated stuff so a kid is able to understand it. Even if it is simplified, it is accurate. Just a great show for kids (and anybody else)
The Mainzelmännchen only appear on the ZDF.
MY favorite Sendung mit der Maus clip is when they explained how the stripes get onto the toothpaste. But they also do a lot of clips on how things are made in factories, they show sped-up constructions of bridges and such, they show certain professional‘s workdays, they recently even had a wonderful clip explaining why someone is trans and what their life is like. All is done very child-appropriate, yet also enough tongue in cheek that parents will actually have a great time watching it with their kids as well. Then they have children‘s songs that are always really cure. Such as “Die Astronautin Erika Klose“ (Astronaut Erika Klose) who starts her journey into space and then really needs to pee and is advised to simply go in her pants/suit (German: Hose)….
If you want to try some easy bread that is common in Germany here’s an easy recipe (not the only one just one example)
- 950g / 33.5 oz rye flour (Type 1150)
- 750 ml / 3.1 cups of lukewarm water
- 47g / 1.65 oz fresh/active yeast
- 150g / 5.3 oz of liquid sour dough
- 1 sp salt
- 1 sp sugar
Mix it to a smooth dough and let it rest for about 45 minutes to an hour with a towel on top in a warm place (35-45 degrees C / 95-115 degrees F) then form your bread loafs and let them rest for about 20-30 minutes. Make sure the top is kept a bit moist.
Put them on the oven at 270 degrees C / 520 degrees F for about 10-15 minutes. Reduce the temperature to 200 degrees C / 400 degrees F and finish baking for 45-60 minutes.
Temperatures in top and bottom heating - put it on the bottom rails when baking.
If you want you could add 50g / 1.8 oz of sunflower seeds or use full grain flour (you might need to add a bit more water and sugar then).
The amounts are given for 2 loafs (based on 1kg packages of flour which are common in Germany) - you could half the amounts for a single loaf.
You should get a passable pure rye bread which is quite common in Germany. It should have a hard-ish shell and be soft inside.
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@@Auvas_Damask If you want to be fancy you could replace the liquid sour dough, sugar and yeast with active sour dough - but you normally can't buy that (you might get it at a baker if they are nice and have one near you though) and would need to make it yourself which is a bit much work for baking one bread ;)
@@Auvas_Damask Forming a bread loaf is kind of an art too - but that's a bit complicated to describe in a youtube comment. Maybe the CC is okay here - otherwise just have a look at what the baker explaining it is doing: th-cam.com/video/d1X_ZDrfn2U/w-d-xo.html
A pure rye bread is not that simple to bake at home. It is not very forgiving if you make mistakes, not easy to handle as dough, needs a hot oven at the beginning, that you do not have at home. Your yeast is double the amount you better take, sugar is not needed and salt you need either 20g per kg flour or 30g per kg/liter water.
@@schattensand I'm pretty sure we did something like that as kids. It is easy.
Gelato is the common word in Italian for all kinds of ice cream. In English, it specifically refers to a frozen dessert of Italian origin. Artisanal gelato in Italy generally contains 6-9% butterfat, which is lower than other styles of frozen dessert.
Döner was an invention by a Turkish immigrant who wanted to sell normal Turkish food but found that the hurried Germans in the area would be more likely to get food to go, so he stuffed what should have been on a plate into a sliced-open bread.
Well, we call it Döner, but insofar as I know, "Döner Kebap" means "rotated meat", so we kind of adopted the word "turned/rotated" for the food. 😅
(That refers to the large pillar turning in front of the grill, of course, where you shave off the crust.)
Pssssst. Guess what the word 'Gyros' means? ;)
Funnily, we historically had rotating meat on spit but it fell out of favour until Greeks and Turks brought their versions. Both Gyros and Döner mean rotating
The Mainzelmännchen is used only by the public tv channel called ZDF and is NOT a cartoon. It is a gimmick being used for their coorporate identity. The clips are usually not longer than 2 - 3 seconds, are mostly shown at the start and the end of an add block and have a classic german humor.
Regarding "Die Sendung mit der Maus", this is actually a pretty good education show for kids. They use a mouse and an elephant in short cartoons to lighten up the show and entertain the kids (to keep then hoocked).
you honestly can’t compare your artificial Italian ice cream or Ben & Jerry’s or McDonald’s ice cream to the ice cream stores in Germany run by Italians where you get like really authentic, delicious and freshly made ice cream🥲🥲🥲
This is so true. Like with bier, you just can't compare the US version to the real thing.
Pro Tip, if the ice cream rises above the tub it has more air incorporated into it. Go to the place where the fresh tubs don’t overflow
@@philip2.2.12 not merely air, also a lot of preservatives
Ryan, your question why US-citizens are more obese than Germans is a valid question. Although obesity in Germany is rising, it is still not close to US-levels. I think two factors play an important role here. One is simply the prevalence of high fructose corn syrup in many US products. Example: Subway (the sandwich food chain) makes sandwiches using bread that has so much sugar in it, that the Irish supreme court deemed that Subway bread may not be called bread. This is a classic example of a so-called "healthy" "fast-food alternative" in the USA that in fact serves cake under the guise of healthy sandwiches. There is sugar in many of US food products which in the EU simply do not have any sugar in them at all. That brings us to the second point, which is that these products are being marketed as "healthy" in the USA. So the public is being misinformed about what they consume.
The high prevalence of sugar in your diets on the one hand, as well as the purposeful misinformation campaigns by corporations and lobbies on the other both play a significant part in the US obesity rates. So in part its about the ingredients, but on the other hand its tied to a lack regulatory oversight and customer protection.
PS: the first European style ice creams were likely invented in Italy somewhere in 1600, and they are the masters of ice cream. Believe me, it is nothing like what you can buy anywhere else. The main credit for inventing ice cream probably goes to China who invented it somewhere in the 7th century, and Marco Polo is thought to have brought over Chinese recipes to Italy somewhere in the 13th century.
You can easily eat bread, if you don’t moisture it with a gallon of sugar water.
Italy is actually known for ice cream (gelato) next to pasta and pizza. Also I once was country side in Austria and there was a mill where they baked bread the oldschool way. I literally didnt even need a topping or spread. The bread was so good, you could eat it without anything on top.
I know a bakery like that from the 1970s in East Germany. People from a very large area (perhaps up to 50 km) came to this bakery!
When people got on a bus with this delicious bread, the whole bus smelled of fresh bread!
The show 'Die Sendung mit der Mous' is even informative for adults and often also watched by them because of the little documentaries about how things are done, designed, manufactured or function.
"Die Sendung mit der Maus" is the real deal!
A wide variety of things / principles described in a way that a kid can process it, but you also can use most of it forhigher grades, because they manage to make it simple without leaving out important stuff or bending the facts (to make it simpler)
There is even a special full episode on the workings of a nuclear power plant. (Normally, an episode consits of several topics)
My half-Italian friend's family owns an ice cream parlor. Every winter, they close up and visit fairs in Italy where they learn about gelato (Italian ice cream) innovations. When they're open during summer, a lot of people from nearby smaller towns drive 20 minutes or so just to get some scoops or a parfait. It's really delicious.
I think since decades every german kid has seen the following 3 tv shows: "Die Sendung mit der Maus" since 1971, Sesamstraße (german version of Sesame Street) since 1973 and Löwenzahn since 1981.
Like the Maus, Löwenzahn is a show, that explains the world for kids. It often connects the subjects with their impact on the environment. I really like about Löwenzahn, that it always connected the subjects with every day life. It starts always with a real life problem for the main character, who then makes a deepdive on this subject. The main character i grew up with (Peter Lustig) is a German meme. But the new main character (Fritz Fuchs) is also great.
My generation also watched hallo spencer
In germany (and I think almost everywhere in europe) we actually distingish between shops selling bread or cake.
If you read bakery ("Bäckerei") on a shop, the product range will mostly consist of different kinds of bread and buns. They will have some tray-baked cakes.
If you read pastry shop ("Konditorei"), the product range will monstly consist of different (cream) cakes, tarts and pies. They will have some bread too.
And then there is café/ coffeehouse ("Café/ Kaffeehaus"), which will have a variety of both. You can go there in the morning to eat freshly prepared breakfast (most served until lunchtime), buy sandwiches and coffee to take away. Or just come during opening hours to enjoy a slice of cake with your coffee, tea or glass of juice. Think Starbucks, but without anything that makes it suck. Served in real cups and on real plates (i think it's called chinaware in the US, right?) with real cutlery made from stainless steel.
I send you a video recommendation for the Mainzelmännchen
So in Europe in general you usually have a
bakery= mainly bread
with ot without
a Konditorei/confiserie= cake/Torten/desserts/chocolates
Chocolaterie= only chocolates
Gelato= Italian word for Ice Cream, so can be used interchangeably, usually though Gelato is creamier than what you may know as ice cream.
Frozen Yogurt should not taste like ice cream at all, it should be a bit sour and much colder than ice cream, it's actually quite healthy ( maybe Americans add sugar and cream to it, it that case it would really be like ice cream)
Gelato is handmade and looks nothing like whatever that is you showed
The „Mainzelmännchen“ are not ads, they are from ZDF, a TV station which is funded by every household in Germany by a mandatory fee.
In Switzerland, texting on a cell phone has been a gross traffic offense since 2009, which can be punished with a prison sentence of up to 3 years or a high fine, usually 4 figures
I think in Europe you will get a pretty expensive fine if you use your phone while driving. The only way you can use it is to mount it and control it with handsfree. Newer smarter cars may have buttons on the steering wheel to control some basics on your phone, so for Europeans voice recognition can be very practical, but you often need a button to activate it.
The other way is to slow down, look for a good place to park your car in, and _then_ use your phone.
Wiki about Gelato; Gelato is the common word in Italian for all kinds of ice cream. In English, it specifically refers to a frozen dessert of Italian origin.
(Ready-made ice cream is fluffier, slowly stirred gelato has a firmer consistency. The optimal temperature for ice cream is around -17 degrees Celsius, whereas gelato tastes best at around -9 degrees Celsius. Italian Gelato contains also usually more milk and cream)
US ice cream contains dozens of chemicals mainly: water, whey powder, the cheapest vegetable fat and sugar. It is designed for optimal profit and not optimal taste.
In the Netherlands we have a lion named "Loeki" doing random things for 5 seconds inbetween adds. Bakery's are all over Europe and we love them. Walking into a bakery in the morning is an experience in itself because of the smells of freshly baked bread and all the other goodies. Gelato is Italian and is turned slowly, so much less air is beaten under it. This gives the velvety fine structure to the ice cream. Ice cream is turned much faster, which means that there is sometimes up to 60% air in ice cream. Due to the amount of air in ice cream, it melts away faster without you really tasting the flavour. Italian Ice-Cream (Gelato) Salons are all over Europe. In the Netherlands it is also mandatory to have a "warning triangle" in your trunk in case of incidents. You place it at a considerable distance behind the car to warn other road users that you are standing still. And you can only get a driver's license after your 18th birthday and an average of 40 professional lessons. And not before you have passed an exam. Practical exam and theory.I think in most European countries it is not allowed to use your phone while behind the wheel. Certainly not here in the Netherlands. Oops, I'm typing too much again....I'll stop now.
"Asjemenou"...
@@gerhard6105 Precies 😂
@@megamusictuber6017 " Nou moe".
In scotland we have amazing ice cream parlors because so meny Italians moved there around the turne of the last centurie. Even in my tiny village we had wonderful ice cream.
The subtitle for "Die Sendung mit der Maus" is "Lach- und Sachgeschichten", literally "stories that make you laugh and stories about topics".
In earlier times, children often were a part of the workforce and production. They learned from a young age what work was. They saw their father use tools on a regular basis. With the introduction of mandatory schooling (2 centuries ago), the shift from an agricultural society (app. 90% of people 200 years ago, compared to app. 2% nowadays) to an industrial society, and the introduction of laws prohibiting child labor, children lost their connection to "work". The Sachgeschichten try to bridge that gap and they satisfy the curiosity all children inherently have. They are made for children but I have learned a lot while watching the show with my children.
There surely are some German bakerys in the US, which are making autentic bread and buns. Especially in communities, which are descendents from German immigrants, you will surely find those, especially because Germans love their bread and cant deal without it. You could look around to find one of those, maybe have to drive a little for that. But be warned, it may addict you and make you hate american bread, so you always have to drive to that German bakery again to get that fresh bread.
We'd have to drive a very long way. I'm sure there are real bakeries but how would I differentiate between those and normal american ones? Call each one and ask if they bake German bread?
@@pilotlars I would guess, that those bakerys advertising for German style bread, because its much different from american style bread and they want to lure in people who crave for just that. So you may can differentiate with that in Google. Another option could be, I heard that Aldi and Lidl in the US also have prepackaded German like bread in their selection, as well as those little bakery-sections for freshly baked bread and buns? Its not the same like REAL bakery ones, but it should come close enough.
I hoped Aldi had some but all I've seen is the brick shaped Schwarzbrot. I'd love to find a decent bakery!
@@pilotlars Maybe there is also a online delivery option available at your location, if there is no bakery at a reachable perimeter.
As a Belgian, been driving 1+ hour to work a couple of times a week for like 9 or 10 months now.
I've not seen an accident happen, but I have seen cars on the side of the road because of an accident twice
I've lived here my life, I didn't drive much before this job, but I can pretty much count the amount of accidents I've seen or passed by in my entire life on my hands
Seeing an accident every month sounds insanely frequent to me if you're not driving like 5 hours a day. I thought people here were bad drivers, but maybe I've been too harsh on my people. Wtf are y'all doing over there?
Edit: definitely try a kebab if you ever find it. the meat in it just makes the thing. They could slap that shit on a dollar menu burger and it'd still become one of the best burgers I've eaten just like that.
She is so sweet i love how excited and happy she talks about all this stuff and as a german its extra sweet seeing her this excited, she definitely has a very nice personality :)
Ryaaaaaaan! Pleeeeease! Do not Interrupt every 3 secs!!
I totally agree. Don’t know how many times I really want to watch and give up after a couple of minutes because I still don’t know what the other person is saying. And because of his often totally stupid break in guesses for not listening to the end.
"Gelato" means literally "ice cream" in Italian though and it's so much better than regular ice cream 😊
'Gelato' is actually the italian word for 'icecream'
Duude... sometimes u drive me crazy.. 😂
Having thousands of questions in middle of her sentence.. LISTEN then😅 She will tell... *gg
But else, it was fun to watch.. TNX 😊
I (German) did a road trip through the States in the early 90s, from the East Coast to the West Coast.
I can't count how many accidents I saw.
Twice someone crashed into me with his car and once I was pulled over by the cops because they thought it was suspicious that I was the only one driving strictly within the speed limit. 😀
Recently in Ireland, The bread Subway uses was officially classified as "cake" due to the amount of sugar they add to it.
"Die Sendung mit der Maus" (The Program with the Mouse) is a quite iconic program for children which many adults like to watch too. Between purely entertaining parts it's explaining things a child would wonder about like:
- how a bicycle, a computer, a trumpet is made
- how cheese is made
- where milk comes from, explaining it starting with a cow on a meadow via a stable with a milking apparatus, a lorry loading its tank with it, a diary company and a shop to, finally, a bottle in the fridge;
- what's in the different kinds of fire engines
- how a train station is working
- what a pilot is doing or how someone will become a pilot
- how gummy bears are made
- why we are washing our hands
- what happens when we are sleeping and why we need to sleep
Quite often those explanations a made so well that even adults are curious to watch it.
The main character is an orange mouse. Her friends are a blue elefant and a yellow duck.
The program must be around at least 50 years.
52...
„Date of birth“ of „Die Sendung mit der Maus“: 07. March 1971
The Maus is a very versatile show. There exist several special Maus-shows like the "Nachkriegsmaus" the Post WW2 maus were Armin Maiwald talks about the reality of being a kid in post WW2 Germany or the "Atom-Maus" that was made after Tschernobyl that explained in a kid-friendly manner about atoms, chain-reactions (They used mousetraps to demonstrate it) and about what went wrong. And one that is special to my heart is the "Flugzeug-Maus" the airplane-mouse. A long show about how airplanes are made. The company where they filmed that mouse shows it to all their new apprentices and interns and they did not cut out the the mouse-cartoons. It is adorable.
There was a law in germany that you HAVE to disclose ads on social media! 😅
It´s in fact the law to have one high visibility vest in your car all the time (recommended are one vest for each passenger also). Also the breakdown triangle and of course a first aid box which has to contain:
1 x adhesive plaster DIN 13019, A 500 x 2.5
4 x quick wound dressings DIN 13019-E, 10 cm x 6 cm
2 x bandage packs DIN 13151-M
1 x bandage pack DIN 13151-G
2 x face masks, at least type 1 according to DIN EN 14683
1 x bandage cloth DIN 13152-A, 60 cm x 80 cm
6 x compresses 10cm x 10cm
2 x fixing bandages DIN 61634-FB-6
3 x fixing bandages DIN 61634-FB-8
1 x triangular cloth DIN 13 168-D
1 x rescue blanket 210 cm x 160 cm
1 x first aid scissors DIN 58279-A 145
4 x disposable gloves DIN EN 455
1 x First Aid Booklet
2 x wet wipes for skin cleansing
1 x 14 piece ready-made plaster set
1 x bandage pack K
Also your tires MUST HAVE a minimum tire tread of 0,063 inches (1,6mm) and your car BY LAW has to be checked every 2 years at the "HU (Hauptuntersuchung aka general inspection) for any technical problems. They do examine:
Brakes
Lighting
Chassis and suspension
Steering
Wheels and tires
Windows and mirrors
Exhaust and noise behavior as well as exhaust.
If your car fails the test, you have a month (exactly one german month 😁) to fix it and to come back again to the TÜV (Technischer ÜberwachungsVerein aka Association for Technical Inspection) or DEKRA (DEutscher KRAftfahrzeug-Überwachungs-Verein aka German Motor Vehicle Monitoring Association). If you fail twice, you can try it again but if your car has imperiling deficiencies you´ll not be allowed to drive your car even one more inch till it´s fixed.
If you drive your car without an auto-insurance: a crime which can get you losing your driving licence, a fine (up to 180 x daily net-income) & even up to 6 months jail time.
Oh, and "Die Sendung mit der Maus" is really high educational for kids but with not leaving out a lot of fun and always easy to understand. Even adults love it. ☺
I’m waiting for the Italians outraging because of the ice cream 🙈 he needs to visit Italy
Die Sendung mit der Maus (The Broadcast with the Mouse) is really something you should react to. It's somewhere at the core of German culture and childhood. 😅
First things first: Hi Ryan, i like your videos, i think it´s cool to see an american react to/show the different things between America and Germany or other places. You have a very open minded style in your vids, very sympatic 🙂 I press my thumbs that you can visit Germany at some time and enjoy a good german Prezel with a "Mass" Beer or a delicious "Sauerbraten" after going to a fun waterpark ^^
Wish you and your Family all the best in live!!!!
Oh yeah... "Sendung mit der Maus"... i grew up with that show, it´s very educational. Even in my "continuing Professional Education" my Teacher/Tutor was a big fan and showed us clips from that show how metal is made in the industry and such stuff. 20 people form 26 years to 50 years old sitting in a room and watching a kid´s show about Metals. It was funny ^^
For the Bakery, yes the "bread-culture" in Germany is unique! Just going in, smelling the bread and looking at dozends of different bread-types, Brezeln, Semmeln... it´s just awsome. I just know of one german baker went to New York City and opened a german bakery. Sad that America is missing on that one...
And for the confusion about "Gelato": Gelato is the italian translation for ice-cream.... it´s made a little bit different (less fat in it, a slower production-process). So Gelato is just the original italian Ice-Cream, yes. And it´s just great... chocolate, walnut, strawberry... so many different ones.... wish it was summer :-)
And the classic "Döner Kebab" was inventet in Hamburg, so it was a german idea ^^ ... the "Kebab" is mostly the meat, and that origins from Turky/Greece... but the combination form, bread, meat, veggies and garlic-sauce was an idea from Hamburg. Just a little fun fact...
Sorry in advance for my maybe "not so good" English-Skills... i dont have much opportunerty to write in English :-)
Greetings from Bawaria, wish you a wounderful day and keep up the great content!
example for German tv commercials framed by cartoons:
th-cam.com/video/1DC9deFLvHo/w-d-xo.htmlsi=DgJdy1NB4526QmkL
In the old days commercials were separated by small (and silly) cartoons. The public tv channel ZDF is located in Mainz. They "relocated" the "Heinzelmännchen" (helpful leprechauns, sort of) from Cologne and implemented them as "Mainzelmännchen" into their commercial tv (Initially ads were limited to two hours (6 p.m. - 8 p.m.) and presented in 5 minute blocks . Each ad was followed by a cartoon. These blocks were implemented in TV-Series with intermissions after 15 (undisturbed) minutes.)
Ich antworte ausnahmsweise in deutsch (Google kann das ja übersetzen xD). Es stimmt, die meisten Eisdielen haben im Winter geschlossen. Aber hier in Niedersachsen gibt es einige, die auch jetzt geöffnet haben. Du musst also nicht auf den Sommer warten. Ich esse auch im Winter sehr gerne Eis.
@@Onkel_Wuschel Stimmt. Bei uns verkaufen manche Eisdielen im Winter sogar Weihnachtsgebäck. (Stollen, Lebkuchen, Plätzchen ect.) Oder sie wandeln ihr Hauptgeschäft weg vom Eis hin zu Kaffee/Glühwein und Kuchen für die kalte Jahreszeit. Aber bei vielen ist´s wirklich so dass das Geschäft wohl nicht rentiert und die über den Winter schließen...
In Germany we have a fairytale about little gnomes who helped the people. They are called Heinzelmännchen. Die Mainzelmännchen are the mascots of the tv channel ZDF and the inventor of the Mainzelmännchen were inspired by this story and mixed it with the city name Mainz, where the ZDF is located. And there it is Mainzelmännchen!
I'm 62 and remember the Mainzelmännchen from when I was a lad in Germany [it started when I was 2] in the 60/70's when my father was stationed there [British Army], though I was born in Germany and had a German mother, I was able to understand it too. Those were the days! lol
@@Auvas_Damask Hey STUPID! That's when they first started. READ [if you can]. It says I was there in the 60's/70's [up to when I was 13].
I'm 50 and in my childhood I used to watch Die Sendung mit der Maus every Sunday. Best of all: Armin Maiwald, the inventor and host from back then still presents the show today. They had a nice mix of cartoons, real life storys and kind of mythbusters for kids. I remember once they tried to find out how many kids baloons you need to lift a man.
"Die Sendung mit der Maus" is legendary! I love it! Fun fact: "Die Sendung mit der Maus" can be seen in almost 100 countries.. I know a lot of adults like myself, even pensioners, who still sit down in front of the TV on Sundays to watch the show. Children simply have different questions to adults, such as "how do the stripes get into the toothpaste?". They can send these questions to the broadcaster and get answers in the form of very well produced clips that are also interesting and fascinating for adults. Greetings from Germany!
"I didn't know, italians are big into Ice cream" - you are really funny! :D
wait for him to learn also about Italians making Pasta ... and Pizza ... and coffee ;-)
You forgot the whine and cheese ;)
In Germany we also have "bakeries" only selling sweet stuff like cake and gingerbread but we call them "Konditorei".
I thought Konditorei is patisserie in english but maybe its used interchangably with bakery idk
@@avr7120 Thought so as well, but Rian said something like "Our bakeries in the US only sell cakes and cookies". (Starting at 09:40)
@@avr7120 I see the (french) word patisserie as a special case of bakery, and konditori (as we say here) too.
@@avr7120a pattisserie basically is a third thing that only does small cakes, pasteries and praliné.
The Konditorei is more typically making big cakes and "Torte" and "Gebäck" and the Bäckerei does everything and especially bread.
But I think all of these have an overlap and can be sometimes used interchangably
@@herrbonk3635French "pâtisserie" = German Konditorei, French boulangerie= Bäckerei !
Good morning from germany. always good to wake up to a ryan wass video ♡
The show with the mouse always plays briefly at the beginning, at the end and in between a few funny clips with the mouse, the blue elephant and the chick and then they teach us something about pretty much everything.
Italian ice cream makers from northern Italy came to Germany during the summer from the late 1950s and opened ice cream parlors. later some also moved entirely to Germany.
Driving in the States … when my car was in the shop for a longer time, I got rides with a co-worker - and it scared the living daylights out of me - because that woman applied her make-up during the drive, complete with mascara, eyeliner, eye shadow … often had only 1 or no eye on the street. Some accidents were avoided only because i yelled stop just in time.
American bread is basically cake 🎂.
20.05 the „warning vest“ is mandatory at day and night, basically any time your car breaks down or you have an accident you have to put it on once you leave your car and step on the street
First I had to check how old the original video was (3 years)
The average prices for Döner Kebab are now more like 5-6 Euros.
Edit: I take back the 5-6 Euros. These were last year's numbers. It's more around 7€ now and over 9 in Munich.
Inflation... there is actually a word for the fact that the price of this dish is very dependent on how much the materials for it will cost. The Döner Index.
Ryan thanks for providing an US view on Germany. Good comments. Greetings from Germany
Another suggestion for a reaction is watching the original kidsTV show „Löwenzahn“ with Peter Lustig. It’s also a very educational show and everyone of our generation grew up with learning how the world functions from „Löwenzahn“ and „Die Sendung mit der Maus“.
Some of my favorite Löwenzahn episodes are Peter sucht das „Wattenmeer“, „Peter steht im Bach“, „Peter schäumt“, „Hinkelgockelgackelei“, „Peters süßes Geheimnis“ - honestly, all of them are great.
Peter Lustig was the main figure and later also author of Löwenzahn. He wanted to teach kids that adults don’t know everything, can be curious like a kid but without seeming ingenuous. The Wikipedia page gives you a bit of background information if you are interested.
It really has cult status like Sesame Street.
I also liked the show „Siebenstein“ with a raven puppet called Rudi (and a suitcase puppet just called Koffer) who lived with Siebenstein, she owned a second hand shop and was basically like a mom. But Löwenzahn is much cooler.
Döner has become so popular in Germany, because we have the biggest turkish population outside of Turky. They came in the 50-70 for work and stayed here. Great addition to the culinary options. Since Döner is helal and pork is haram the Greek Pita is quiet rare in Germany, the market spoke here and the more popular option was Döner. Afaik Americans don't really care for middeleastern food, so the Greek Pita prospered more. What kind of sucks is, that the quality of Döner has declined sooo much compared to what was offered in the 80s and 90s. The bad ones taste like I would imagine cat food would taste. That's my perspective as a Berliner for my whole life.
As a German I'm really shocked by the thumbnail
As a Brit, so am I
Why?
@@HartAmAbgehn Because a normal bakerie was in every country I've ever been in
that's 10 countries
(Not America)
@@HartAmAbgehn and America is not the type of country where I expect no bakeries
@@Aleas10301 Du Bauer 😂 Gerade Amerika ist das Land, in dem ich keine ordentliche Bäckerei erwarte. Aber dafür muss man, denke ich, da gewesen sein 😄
To be a Baker is an apprenticeship of 3 years includung schooling and that's only for bread and rolls and some basic cake, there is another trade with an apprenticeship of 3 years called "Konditor" and that people are supposed to bake and make cake with icing and all other desert stuff including pralines. Most of the bakerie owners have learned both and have spent 6 years of learning to do their trade. It should taste better than the industrial stuff produced in USA that you call "bread".
If you really want to react to some cartoons then there is another epic one you just have to see. It’s not German but Italian: La Linea
And it‘s hysterical 😂😂
Its about a cartoon figure (made of a continuous line that merges with the ground) that gets teased by it’s creator (you sometimes see his hand drawing obstacles).
The figure always shows excessive emotion - laughing hysterically or getting angry and shouting. The language is gibberish with some Italian or English words thrown in. Everyone understands what is meant. 😊
La Linea is iconic! Love it!
Everytime I see you getting enthusiastic about pretzles, I have to smile. Because pretzles are not a thing around here, where I live in Western Germany (near Dortmund). Bread, rolls, and everything, yes. But pretzles are more a Southern Germany thing (as "Krabbenbrötchen" =shrimp rolls, are more a Northern speciality) . You won't even get pretzles like in the south here in a normal bakery (not the typical big, soft ones)
But now to the topic.
Kids TV: When I was a kid in the late 70ies/early 80ies, we only had 3 TV stations available. All public-law stations (influenced and run by the state). So they had some official rules for the programming, that required educational kids show slots next to pure kids entertainment/cartoons (BTW, there was also educational program for adults like 'Telekolleg' or "eff-eff").
I remember "Die Sendung mit der Maus" on Sundays (just before 'The Muppet Show') and on Saturdays I liked "Pusteblume" (Dandelion), which was renamed a few years later to "Löwenzahn" (like calling 'Dandelion' "Hawkbit"). The host was Peter Lustig and sometimes it was like Tim Taylor (Home Improvement) would explain science. Another favorite kids quiz was "1, 2 oder 3" with the host Michael Schanze. Of course we had "Sesame Street" and "Hallo Spencer" (puppets, too) in the early evenings.
When I look into the kids program of today, there is so much Anime on all stations... (Our 'Anime' have been "Maya the bee" (Biene Maja), "Heidi", "Arabian Night Sindbad no Booken" (Sindbad) and my favorite: "The adventures of Captain Future" (Captain Future).
When I grew older in the later 80ies, I watched the two daily changing US TV shows (at 6:10pm on ZDF and 7:00pm on ARD). Star Trek:TOS, Scarecrow and Mrs. King (Agentin mit Herz), The Fall Guy (Ein Colt für alle Fälle), Riptide (Trio mit vier Fäusten), Crazy like a Fox (Die Fälle des Harry Fox), Hart to Hart (Hart aber herzlich), Matlock, Falcon Crest, Simon & Simon, and some others I don't remember right now. Sometimes I was allowed to watch the News at 8pm.
(The most famous German News show, "Die Tagesschau" (=by meaning: "The Day in Review") still runs at 8pm every day, since the beginning of TV broadcasting in Germany)
Mainzelmännchen literally means little men from Mainz which is the town in Germany they are reminiscence of the little Wichtelmännchen who are there to help you as a human being. It's folklore. You should Google mainzelmännchen
And Heinzelmännchen von Köln (a fairy tale about helpful gnomes in Cologne) on which the word Maizelmännchen is based as a pun.
A bakery where you can buy cakes only would be called a „Konditorei“ (Confectionery) in Germany. In a bakery (Bäckerei) you’ll find breads, rolls and cakes.
We have two italian Icecream parlors here in my small town.
The Italians are famously good at making ice cream.
Where I live, the nearest ice cream shop is run by this turkish family. Istg, their straciatella ice cream is better than anything you can get in Italy
Edit: IN. MY. OPINION.
@@AverageReader._. Wirklich...? Du hast schon jede Eisdiele in Italien ausprobiert?
@@melchiorvonsternberg844 ich war schon dreimal in Italien und bisher hat mich nichts vom Gegenteil überzeugt. Nennt sich Gewohnheitssache 😉
@@AverageReader._. So what... Ich war schon 4 mal in Portugal und habe dort den leckersten Tintenfisch aller Zeiten serviert bekommen. Deswegen käme ich niemals auf die Schnapsidee zu sagen, dass die Jungs auf z.B. Kreta, schlechteren Lulas machen. Das ist, um es mal nett zu sagen, äußerst vermessen...
@@melchiorvonsternberg844 junge was hatest du auf einmal wenn ich normal meine Meinung sage
2:12 mainzelmännchen don’t do advertising. They’re more interrupting the advertising and make comedy clips.
Everyone recognises that wild generalisations are stock in trade for reaction videos. So we should forgive Ryan's more extreme oversimplifications. Nevertheless, it is right to point out that the US has 80,359 bakeries, according to the most recent industry survey. Of these, almost 7,000 are independent bakeries and 9,000 are cafe bakeries.
You can name it bakery. But I guarantee you: A European person would not agree. In Europe you have several bread-cultures and I bet they would agree that American "bakeries" are no real bakeries. 🤷🏼♂️
Well, the main difference is that german bakeries offer an extremely wide range of products that are _not_ sweet, buns often have seeds on top, breads my contain such unusual ingredients as carrots or potatos; and even the sweet items are much more varied than just muffins and pies. If I started naming them, half of the screen would be filled with descriptions.
well, germany used to have 55,000 bakeries, now that is down to 35k. big chains, etc, you get the trend. still the US is 27 times larger than germany and has more than 4 times the population, so having double the "bakeries" in the US means half as many per population. and the quality is definitely different. Cupcakes, donuts, and sliced white bread do not make a real bakery..... i think the north east of the US, say, NY, NJ, Massachusetts, area, they have real bakeries, and butcher shops, too. the rest does not. If it wasn't for LIDL there would be no affordable, real, bread and pretzels, and broetchen.
It sounds to me like someone saying: "We have more than 80,000 cars here..." And in the end it's a junkyard where the cars are...
What you call a bakery in the US in Germany is called a Konditorei, you will still get some bread there but it is mostly for face cakes pies etc. A Bäckerei (what Germans refer to as a bakery) it is mostly bread, buns, croissants etc. (you still get some sweet stuff there,but it is usually more standard, easy to make and not that fancy.
Why tf doesnt have america a Bakerie?!?!?! They are wonderful in Germany! And as german it's really annoying...
Die Sendung mit der Maus (=the show with the mouse) is a show that explains things (usually how stuff is produced or how technology works) to kids, with these funny a few seconds cartoons interspersed. The actual (original?) name is/was "Sach- und Lachgeschichten" (non-fiction and laughing stories?). It is as great as it is because of the narrator. He has a really pleasant voice and tells it all in a pleasant down to earth and a bit funny way. You never feel spoken down to or something, not even when watching as an adult. It's aimed at kids, but adults can learn just as much from it.
How can a nation survive without Döner and Gelato…?
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The american bakery you explain at 10:04 with all the many sugar "things" is called "Konditorei" in germany and is seeling mostly the sweet things. A "Bäckerei" mostly sells buns and bread and a few sugar things...
How can you not know that the inventors of ice cream are in the ice cream business? That's a bit sad. Thank you italians
"Die Sendung mit der Maus" is legendary. I listened to a podcast with Armin Maiwald, one of the producers. He told a story, where they wanted to cover how something with steel is produced, so he called the company they want to film in and said that he is from that TV channel and want to film a documentary. The company replied "No, filming is strictly forbidden in our company." And he mentioned "die Maus" and and they said: "Oh, for that show, when are you coming?" and they not just showed him everything, but they even build some contraptions so he could better explain how it's working internally. Of course all the workers know the show and watched it as children. So everyone was very happy to be part of it. Even adults watch it sometimes, because it explains stuff so good.
Germany, it's forbidden by law to have a Smartphone in your hand while driving
yes thats very common here that in a family or a relationship, for example the man wakes up and goes to the bacery and buy fresh buns they are warm sometimes even still almost hot, and all she said is true, we put them in a basket maybe a glass milk, kids like that or cacao milk adults drink coffee or a nice ornagejuice. and the buns smelling so good. with jam or nutella yea its usually on the table some boiled eggs, fresh cheese salami all that stuff. so you really smell the fresh bread. if they are still hot if not they prolly not smell that much anymore but u get the idea.
its crazy for me as german, how excited and how they talk so in love with this and as if its special for them,and so good and for me its normal . you can really tell by her smiling she really loved it and she is like smiling so happy about it. its really nice to see she had such a nice experience with it. makes me proud to be german.
I think in the UK, there's a rule saying you have to declare ads on social media, including on TH-cam
It is definitely the case for social media
The emotional stuff is in "Sendung mit der Maus" as well. The cartoons are there for it. There are often tell little stories, like, the Elefant is very sad, because he got wet in rain and freeze - and than the mouse show up, recognize it and find a way to help, like it share her raincoat. Something like that. Its a important, but short, part of it. On the other hand, its to teach children in an easy way things.
I actually worked for “Die Sendung mit der Maus” and can tell you, we didn’t do drugs 🤣 But the kids TV shows like Die Sendung mit der Maus, Die Sendung mit dem Elefanten and Wissen macht Ah! Would be very cool reaction videos because they are so unique and educational and entertaining at the same time! Would love to see that!
Holding a phone and being on the phone without using a handsfree/headset is illegal in much of Europe. It's a law similar to the seatbelt law and the drinking-under-the-influence law. You can literally be pulled over and fined for holding your phone to your ear, reading or texting while driving.
And no, manual cars don't normally require a lot of work, unless you keep stopping and accelerating to where you need to change gear repeatedly. If you just drive down a road at an even speed, you don't need to change gears. We also don't need to look at the gearstick to change gear -- we know where the gears are by touch. So yeah, we used to have a lot of people being on their phone here as well, until they made it illegal.
Mainzelmännchen are the station mascots of the ZDF, the second public broadcasting institution. They are funded by the public and they had restrictions on airing commercials. They used the Mainzelmännchen as seperator.
Dutch public tv had Loekie the lion in between commercials - animated puppet.
Mainzelmännchen is the name of the funny little men doing things in shorts.
The name is derived from mixing the german name for "Gnome/Heinzelmännchen" and the german city "Mainz" which is where the ZDF, the german TV broadcaster they appear on is situated at.
Die Sendung mit der Maus was already a top children's program when I was young way back when (must have been the late 1970s?). I'm from the Netherlands, but always watched this on the German TV (ZDF I think).
Not ZDF, it's WDR a part of ARD.
@@jochengaidetzka5060 Thanks. It's a long time ago ;o).
just a suggetion: if your bread sucks, make your own! it's not like its rocketscience. and it needs only very few ingredients!
In The Netherlands we had that program too. Here it was called "Programma met de muis". The mouse was only present in a small cartoon between items.
Mainzelmännchen are on the ZDF channel, which is brodcast from Mainz (hence the name), and they are vaguely reminiscent of Heinzelmännchen (friendly dwarf-like fairy tale characters). The 3-5 second clips of them are intermissions between advertisements.
Die Sendung mit der Maus (The show with the mouse) is an edutainment program for kids, in which cartoons alternate with short films that explain all sorts of things, like how the stripes get into the toothpaste or how gummy bears are made. Like the Mainzelmännchen, the mouse clips serve as intermissions between the various segments.
I think the english word for the ad intermissions is bumpers
Even Teachers use "Die Sendung mit der Maus" to teach. Another iconic tv show is "Löwenzahn" with "Peter Lustig". I also liked " Wissen macht Ah!" and "Willi wills wissen" when I was young. There are a lot of informative kids tv shows in Germany.
The broadcast with the mouse shows how different functions. I learned so much there, even today I watch it sometimes. Every now and then they show really interesting things.
I love that she likes "Die Sendung mit der Maus" and "Mainzelmännchen". I grew up watching "Die Sendung mit der Maus" every Sunday and now my daughters do
I'm from Germany and germans are using their phones while driving too (of course you shouldn't) but I think we drive saver because of our driving rules. "Rechts vor links" for example or the "rechtsfahrgebot". It makes it so much saver. We can drive manuel cars AND make things while driving. 😊