For us Döner Kebab is not only a drunk food. Its an easy meal you can get when ever you are hungry. Its the most bought fast food in germany even topping curry wurst.
Döner is the best fast food ever, your favorite Dönerman is your savior on so many accasoins and being on good terms with them is so nice when you come from the the club and they know your order already and put extra meat
I am allergic to potatoes tomatoes and milk so I hope you in germany have currywurst without ketchup or give mayonaise only dressings for kebab as we slovaks
This video shows many specialties from southern Germany. The rest of Germany also has a lot to offer, very different, but also very tasty. You can eat your way across Germany for weeks without eating the same dish twice.
@@HappyBeezerStudios I think it would be great to write the names of the dishes from the rest of germany down if you want people to try. I've seen comments like yours repeatedly, but i have yet to see someone actually name some. I'd love to taste some dishes from northern or east germany.
@@CabinFever52 never 😁😁 also some cranberry jam and fried potatoes and you got yourself the best meal ever 😍😍😍😍😍 just got reminded i need to make vienna schnitzel these days 🤣🤣
It may sound stupid but for me it is always a highlight when I can spread salted butter on a slice of freshly baked farmhouse bread and sprinkle it with parsley. Add fresh spring water and the day is perfect!
Döner Kebab might be International now, but it is said that a turkish guy in germany invented it. It is said that he was the first who did put the sliced meet into the bread. Before the Döner (the sliced meet) was only served as a propper dish (for example with rice). So Döner Kebab could be seen as real german food with turkish roots. ... p.S. In the US you mostly call it Kebab... but Kebab is actually only what the bread is called
Kebab or shishkebab is skewered meat thats cooked with radiant heat..in modern times it spins in front of a gas heating element. The German version is only different because it's served in bread...in Turkey and everywhere else it is served in flatbread...in most cases it is interchangeable with the Greek yiros/giros...only difference is the Greek version uses real meat peices of chicken, pork or lamb...and the flat bread is softer and has yeast in it. I don't like the Turkish versions meat...it's minced beef with too much salt and spices and tastes too much like Spam.
@@gabak1292 Adana Kebap is from Adana. In Germany the "Döner Kebap" is popular and was kinda invented there from turkish migrants in the past. It is a kind of kebap served with different salads and sauces in bread. Pretty dope.
@@jeanjacquesrousseau1955 My husband is from Adana. And I ate it there. It was always a big skewer, thinly cuts of meat, bread, salad, sauce, onions. That was 32 years ago. The only difference is the meat. It's was just brought over to Germany and accustomed to german taste!
Interesting that he didn't mention Mettbrötchen. It's THE German bread dish we use to put fear into Americans 😂 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mett A nice Mettbrötchen with some onions and pepper on top of it, delish 🤤
@@finnx9289 nanananana wir wollen doch nicht gleich toxisch wie unsere englischen Community Brüder werden! Auf Mutter gehen ist immer asozial mein Lieber!
Spent a month in Germany, years ago. Traveled throughout, but stayed mostly in the Westphalen region. The food was indeed, awesome! All of it! The beers, and wines.... This brought back so many good memories. Makes me want to begin cooking German food, adding it to my yearly cookbook. Peace
Problem i had in the US when i was there for visiting a friend was.....the basic components for a meal didn´t taste right. Most of the cheapest stuff you can buy in germany has a better quality than the middle to upper price range in the US. I can buy cuts from our local Aldi Süd here in bavaria, and can make homemade sausage that are the bomb. But with meat from the US....i never had a real german result. And i fell like i gets worse from visit to visit
He forgot about „Maultaschen“!! It’s more popular in southern Germany but you can eat them in so many different ways! With broth, fried in a pan with some „Kartoffelsalat“, with „Semmelbrösel“ (some sort of fried breadcrumbs) and so on! And there are many varieties of them as well. With beef, with salmon, with mushrooms, game and so on!😄
5:45 "Schäufele" (small shovel) is pork shoulder. Fränkisches (Franconian) Schäufele is grilled, Badisches (Badenian) Schäufele is hot-smoked and then cooked (either in Sauerkraut or in a brew from water, white wine and spices). 13:20 "Bubble" or carbonated water is something like an acquired taste in Germany. Originally it was a method to extend the shelf life of bottled water; the jeweler and clockmaker Jacob Schweppe (born in Hesse, but emigrated in 1766 to Geneva) developed the first industrial process to carbonate water; together with the mechanic Nicolas Paul and the pharmacist Henri-Albert Gosse he founded the first factory around 1790 at Geneva and in 1792 a subsidiary in London (producing carbonated water as well as ginger ale), which was not very successful, before Erasmus Darwin (grandfather of Charles Darwin) started talking up the beverage. In 1802 Schweppe sold 3/4 of Schweppe's and returned to Geneva. Other producers of bottled water adopted the process. Before that people only knew about naturally carbonated water (like the original Selters water from the Taunus region in Hesse, which gave its name also to Alka-Seltzer), which came mostly from mineral springs considered to be healthy, so some people believe to the day carbonated water to be more healthy and less prone to infestations. Most however are only accustomed to the taste since childhood. 15:25 The Döner Kebab variety, which is put into a Pide bread as a Kebab with veggies to go, was actually invented in Germany by Turk immigrants. It is now the most popular variety in Germany.
German food. You just can't go wrong!!!! Not only does it taste and look good, it stays with you - lots of energy. Great for travelling. Super video Joel, great reaction. John in Canada p.s. "regular making" = bowels, Joel
Watch out if you order Jägerschnitzel in East Germany. It could be something completely different. There it is a thick big slice of so-called Jagdwurst (literally hunting sausage) which is fried in breadcrumbs and served with tomato sauce.
When I went to America the breakfast was such a culture shock to me. I have a sweet tooth so I mostly eat my Brötchen with jam or Nutella or honey but the breakfast buffet only had two types of jam. So I decided to go the traditional German route and eat savory breakfast. The Brötchen were not terrible (tho all light wheat flour, no whole grain or anything). I’m vegetarian so the cold cuts were out for me. That left me with cheese, but being used to amazing German and Swiss cheeses, the American ones either tasted like nothing or just disgusting to me. Then I tried the American breakfast (sausages and bacon being out because, you know, meat). But the pancakes and waffles and French toast was just so overly sweet, and I say this as someone who loves sweet things. I basically stuck with Joghurt and fruit, bagels with cream cheese and scrambled eggs for the remaining two weeks and was so relieved when I had my German breakfast back.
Curry sauce recipe: Heat oil in pan. Meanwhile, chop 2 onions and 1 garlic and sauté until translucent. Add 100 g tomato paste, 1 tsp sugar, 1 tsp pepper, 2 tsp sweet paprika powder and 3 tsp yellow curry powder and stir in the pan for a few minutes. Deglaze with vinegar and cola and bring to the boil briefly. Put 1 can of tomatoes in the pan and turn the heat down to low. Simmer the Berlin curry sauce gently for 10-15 minutes, puree and simmer for another 5-10 minutes until the sauce thickens. taste. Complete.
Trust me Jägermeister is no only popular among students in the US😂😂 At every German birthday party age 18+ there will be at least one bottle of Jägermeister! We like it to drink with Coke, Fanta or RedBull. If you want to impress some of your friends with German booze try to order one of the following alcohols: -Berliner Luft (A Berlin Original, Taste like mouthwash with alcohol and sweet, sounds crazy but it’s good) -Francelico (Basically tastes like liquid Nutella/Hazelnut with some vodka) -Asbach Uralt (A brandy u mix with coke) -Obstler (Kind of fruit brandy but not sweet and quite strong, u can have lots of different versions) And if u really want to go all in: Stroh 80, got 80%alcohol u take 3 shots and your done. Don’t mix it and enjoy your throat and stomach melting away. Have fun😂
Well, the benefit of carbonated drinking water is actually quite simple to explain. In Germany, the low mountain ranges are often of volcanic origin and there are still numerous thermal springs there today. These were used early on and even in Roman times they built baths here and made use of the healthy water. After the fall of the Roman Empire, the benefits of mineral springs were rediscovered by the High Middle Ages at the latest, and mineral baths and the first spa facilities were established. At the end of the 16th century, drinking cures became popular in addition to bathing, although the same motto was followed. The bathers drank incessantly from the mineral fountains from dawn to dusk. Drinking medicinal water became so popular with the wealthy that in the 17th century the well water began to be filled into jars and shipped. Since the bottled mineral water was not cheap, doctors came up with the idea of producing artificial healing water. The decisive breakthrough came from the German doctor and pharmacist Friedrich Adolph August Struve. He managed to chemically analyze various waters, and also to imitate their smell and taste. In 1820 he opened his own mineral water establishment in Dresden. As far as it was good, this water was considered healthy and a luxury good. This goes hand in hand with the natural displacement of this spring water with carbonic acid. This, too, was finally integrated into industrial production and was ultimately regarded as a sign of quality. That is why the carbonated drinking water has now established itself as particularly desirable over the proverbially centuries.
The food shown is mostly Southern food. Up here in the North there is much more fish on the menu. Also, remember Germany is extremely culturally diverse. Not only our dialects change from city to city or even village to village, but our food does as well.
German here: You pronounced that wrong?! Dude you are one of the few americans who pronounces "Bratwurst" almost perfectly! Also, veal Schnitzel is the austrian version and there is another version of "Jägerschnitzel", the one from the former GDR: breaded Jagdwurst ("hunters sausage") with tomato sauce and noodles . And Sauerbraten is a kind of roasted beef which has been in a marinade that contains a lot of vingegar
@Kartoschka_HD eigentlich weiß das jeder und das sich jemand darüber streitet hab ich auch noch nicht gehört :D Eigentlich sind es hauptsächlich die Wiener, die, wenn es um Schnitzel geht, dicke Backen kriegen ^^
Sauerkraut is alright.. but the Rotkohl - the red cabbage.. so damn good. We usually don't have it that often but it's a common part of the big Christmas meals.
Pokhraj you're in India yeah? Do you have a favourite Indian meal that we might have heard of in Western countries (although understandably ours can't be as authentic as yours)
Great variety actually in german food (just like in most countries). In a german food video there should always be fish i think. Depending on the state you are in there is something different. From all sorts of seafood to steaks or roasts. Some of the best Oysters worldwide from Sylt to mountaingoats in the south :D You find Bohemian, french, italian, swiss and austrian or dutch influences and they all have a german influence as well. So the variety is actually pretty big. German food is mostly local and very seasonal :) Every season and every region has their own food. You wont find white asparagus outside of asparagus season anywhere. And obviously there is a lot of foreign cuisines as well that had a huge impact on the german food culture
you have to try Kutteln! More common in the south. Terms for the rumen (sometimes also the udder) of ruminants, usually cut into strips. I will never put something like that in my mouth and eat it again.
Here in the high north,.. We Don, t eat, Weiss Wurst, Brezel, and this southern stuff..., but Currywurst is a nessesary to Start, go out to a,, Kneipentour(hopping from pub to pub), or drinking beer with nice poeple on a Main Street, at a summer eve. 🍺🍺
Frikadelle and hamburger pattie don't really have much to do with each other. Hamburgers are made of pure beef and are only seasoned with salt and pepper after frying. Frikadellen are made of pork and beef, onion, soaked old buns, egg, mustard and spices.
I'm German and why I like sparkly water / beverages. Imagine yourself after a meal where you just ate too much and you feel soooo full but have the need to drink. when drinking still water it just adds to the "fullness". when drinking sparkly water you feel even more bloated for a moment until you get that massive burp and then you feel fine again.
Greetings from Hannover, Germany - Sausages are great. I really love some good Currywurst, especially the taste combined with the ketchup. But, to say the least, my favorite will stay the Krakauer sausage. The taste simply hits different. Schnitzel is a quite complex matter (ask an austrian about it), there are differences in variety of the meat (chicken, pork, plant-based) but also in the side-dish. Most commonly is the Jäger-Schnitzel (hunter schnitzel) served, as he said with mushrooms and the cream sauce and in best case combined with Kroketten (Mashed fried-up potatoes). Again, my favorite though is the Chili-Hollondaise Schnitzel, where the sauce is a combination of hollondaise combined with a few sprinkles of chili in it. Tastes perfect. Frikadellen are quite common, since they are easy to make. Some try to mix pork with beef, calling them half/half, most of them prefer them only with pork though. Often the meat is mixed with onions and other spices before being roasted. I never really realized that it is so different in other countries about the amount of bread, but yeah, we do have a lot. And they, of course, all taste different. Favorites are Hörnchen (small baked half ciruclar horn, with a light sweet taste) and the Käsebrötchen (small bun with cheese over it). The buffet, how it is displayed, is most commonly in hotels and public places, not that much at home. But all food in form of cheese or meat is definitly sliced up, ready to be put onto something. White asparagus is one of THE MOST AWAITED FOOD SEASONS of the year, probably only close to kale or green cabbage and pumpkin. It is made into literally everything, from soups to fried asparagus, you can find it. There are actually dedicated meet-ups, only to eat asparagus. You book yourself into a restaurant/hotel and only stay there to eat asparagus, of course with a ton of side dishes, which, ironically, normally would be main dishes. For beer, it is not that strict. You can get about all mostly famous beers from each region everywhere in germany. If you are talking about really local stuff, it comes from small breweries, not able to actually put out that much and only selling regional. Some of them are hidden gems, some of them are simply small. In best case, you can always ask a local, they mostly know. But it is always down to personal taste. In Hannover we have two big breweries named Gilde and Herrenhäuser, from which I would prefer the first. Some small local ones like Lindener Bräu and some punctual ones, only sold in their own restaurant, like the ones at Meier's Lebenslust (they are up to now the best I know). Out of region I have to say, nothing beats a Tannenzäpfle :D Also, another take on beer: If you haven't had any experiences with hard alkohol and are only used to american 'beer', I advise to have someone supervise you during the first try of german beer. I actually don't know what it is with America and Jägermeister but I personally have to say it is an awful drink to have, just as it is. As an Absacker or nightcap/digestif, it might work, but compared to the Underberg it just looses out. Also, the kind of drink always depends on the restaurant. We have a lot of other cultural-themed restaurants here, which will serve different alkoholic drinks after the meal, for example Greek = Ouzo. Wondered me a bit, that Döner took so long to pop up. It became THE most dominant street food and probably in some places already overtook the Bratwurst. Tastes great, everyone makes it a bit different, sauces are very important and overall a quite nice experience to eat.
Hi! Joel. Being in the RAF in RAF Germany at two different airbases during my ten years in Germany or North Germany, we were all used to the Bratwurst everywhere in that area. To see what he is talking about it’s seems to be touristy food on the streets of the big cities. You know the type chewed up bits of sausage meat made back into sausage heated in water and sold to the unknowing tourists. The main food sold in the German Schnell Imbis, basically “Quick Fry (the German fish and chip shop)” is the Bratwurst (a rough cut port style sausage with German spices, great taste) and the Schnitzel mainly pork fillet in bread crumbs, usually three sauces, Jaeger (which is a mushroom sauce, a brilliant soft taste), Zigeuner (which is a red pepper sauce, slightly spicy, really nice) and Sahne (a creamy based sauce, brilliant too). My favourite was Sahne. The favourite in the German pubs I found was Shwine haxe or Pork Knuckle, large pork joints which fall off the bone great with the litre of German Larger in the bars this are the Main Street or pub food I found in Germany in the 70s 80s and 90s before the Brits left Germany (and I retired from the Forces) Only my opinion but who knew!
Thank you for being a promoter of German food in Britain. I used to live in Britain for some time and had some lovely food there: Cheddar cheese, Indian curries, lovely floury chips with vinegar and - one of the best dishes ever - Ploughman´s lunch. The food at a farm in Southern England where we stayed for a bit of holiday was so good that it was impossible to do anything in the evenings but put your feet up and digest. Sadly, if I try to tell Germans how good British food can be I get laughed at. Nobody believes me. So, I will go on trying to promote open-mindedness to foreign food and wish you success in doing the same. Thanks again!
In germany we got a LOT of different natural spring water fountains. But they used to be filled with lots of good minerals by nature - that is the reason why we like our water with gas. :) Because it always was like that. (Not as bubbly as we drink it today, but you get the idea.)
Hi Joel, you have to try the large German breakfast buffet with coffee and tea , milk and juice to drink. And to eat is often bread, rolls, sausage , cheese, jam, butter, honey ,fruit , vegetables , boiled eggs , scrambled eggs with bacon sometimes different types of smoked fish or salmon . You can eat and drink as much of it as you want. And it`s so delicious.🥰
We have over 3000 kinds of bread and about 5000-6000 sorts of beer in germany, and honestly... most of it is amazing. Also: Paulaner Spezi is the most perfect drink in existence!
Why we love sparkling water? Well, because water without sparkling water is intended as cleaning water or washing water, lol. The Sauerbraten is made from horse meat in the original Rhenish style. But since it's too expensive and hard to get, it's made from beef. I mean Walter has another video about German food. But I'm not sure.
There is the basic breakfast version missing: rolls, butter and jam (or Nutella or other sweet things) and maybe a boiled egg, coffee and maybe a glass of orange juice. I grew up with just sweet breakfast, I do not know, when the salty things "happened" ^^ You also can have Müsli, and that is a whole other story ^^
I've never heard "Wasser mit Gas". We call it "Sprudelwasser" or simply "Wasser mit Kohlensäure". I prefer "stilles Wasser" though, wich is just water.
Hello Joel. I enjoyed German food. I also enjoyed the Turkish food there. The family I stayed with bought me white sliced bread, but I really loved the Turkish naan. My friend had to point out that the sliced bread was bought specially to make me feel at home. At university in UK I would fill up once a week on a cheap chip shop special of chips curry and rice, with which I used to order a sausage. Not quite like Germany, but you might understand the sentiment of getting as much for your money as possible at university. Other nights I would get chips and gravy cheap on the canteen on campus that opened late, so I could go to the library, back before students had home computers. Still, you cannot taste over the computer (yet).
The video is heavily slanted toward the south. That‘s not bad per se, but it leaves out so much good stuff in the north. Want to see German madness? Come from about the middle of April to 24 June: asparagus season. I know you have probably never seen white asparagus because essentially Germany and France are the only two places that really grow a lot of it. But it is absolutely delicious and is served in hundreds of ways. Traditional is with hollandaise sauce, boiled potatoes, and ham (usually smoked). And yes, the season ends specifically on 24 June. Then there‘s kale (Grünkohl), Labskaus, and fish galore. Come to Hamburg and I‘ll show you around and take you to some fabulous eating places.
Sadly ALMOST ALL videos about Germany is only Bavaria which sucks, as if Bavaria is whole country, but i need to say, Bavaria is completly different from the rest of Germany, Baravia likes to call themsself a own Country. Im not so proud of all these Videos bec its everytime munich Bavaria, bavaria food here and there bavaria stuff there and there and telling viewers thats germany LOL thats totally bullshit lol.
Germany combines the best of different cultures with their own and has a really good and unique style And we don't often have ranch here so watch out for that if you love ranch
Coming from German forbears ( the nke at the end is common here) the Schnitzeel or " Schnitty" is a favourite in pubs and at home. Can't go wrong, chicken , veal, crumbed, lightly fried, winter vegetables and gravy. Also bratwurst ( as in brat kid is good too). Beer is a must and my family and others established wineries in the Barossa Valle north of Adelaide. Also great engineers in my family ( one cousin redesigned the Panama Canal), curryvurst is great. sausages are generally 10" long. Schnitzel is cooked by every mum, Schnitty night is common. Big beers are common, we German's can outdrink anyone on beers. Budwiser maybe made in the US but it's a good beer, pubs have schnitty nights, a beer and a meal for $10. Heineken is Dutch and too strong and bitter, Carlsberg- I won't go there. My staff bought a huge Black Forest Cake for me , which we all shared, for my 40th. birthday. it was divine and I'm not a sweets /cake person ( but I enjouyed it that day- comraderie etc.) Joel you'll love the beers and wines. Jagermeister is a good digestive ( Said yaygermeister as this guy does) . Joel, you look a little slight so a few weeks in Germany and eating German foods would bulk you up. The people are big. The Dutch are tall, lean and blonde. Also very nice.
The traditional German breakfast he shows, is a typical hotel or restaurant breakfast with lots of meat tourists expect. The most people I know, normally don't eat cold cut for breakfast at home. They eat Brötchen (bread rolls) or bread with jam and jelly, honey, Nutella and other spreads, Quark (a kind of "cottage cheese meets yoghurt") with minced herbs or sweetened with jam and fruits, yoghurt with fruits, cereals and Muesli, with milk or juice. Boiled, scrambled or fried eggs we eat only for our weekend breakfast. For the 2nd breakfast at work (which you call lunch) we eat sandwichs or paistries, sweet or harty. E.g. with minced raw pork, cold cut, sliced meat loaf, bacon, cheese, if we don't have a cantine which offers warm meals. Dinner is in my generation mostly a warm cooked meal. Younger people eat mostly cold but harty, with cheese, cold cut, sausages, vegetables, pickled vegetables, salads with lettuce or Fleischsalat, Eiersalat, Wurstsalat (cold cut salad with mayo, egg salad, cold cut salad with another dressing), mostly with water, soda or tea, some with beer or wine.
Iam 62. Never had eaten Brötchen with something sweet on it for breakfast. Sooo unhealthy and without energy for the day. Also my daughters prefer dark good bread. So dont write: all germans do that. Its only your kind of life
I eat bread rolls or bread with butter, cold cut and cheese for breakfast every single day. Like most of the people in my region. So don´t put every German in one drawer 😜😜😜😜.
Cold cuts are absolutely a stabpe breakfast, just that the average german doesn't have a full buffet at home. You have maybe 1-2 cheeses (think a sliced one, and something like brie, maybe some fresh cheese) and meats (usually ham and salami, but lynoer/mortadella are also popular). Differs a bit from household to household obviously. Some eat rolls, some cut bread. Some prefer sweet, some savory. Cereals and muesli are a thing. As is yoghurt. Coffee, tea, milk, juice. Whatever your family likes. Dinner tends to be either what the canteen at the workplace offers (fun fact: the main VW plant in Wolfsburg produces more sausages than cars) or you might bring something from home, or might even get something from a local Imbiss.
He's in the south, but up in the north, there's Grünkohl ("green cabbage", the version the US ruined is called kale, but don't think it's crappy health food^^).
I live on Sprudel Wasser (Sparkling Water) Never got the appeal of Water without gas. This video is great, althoug it sounds like we only live on meat :) But all of this is actually really hearty traditional german food.
Beer brewing in Germany started around 1,000 years ago. Monks needed some kind of decent nourishment during the weeks long fasting time before Easter. Beer was the answer, so most monasteries started the whole thing, and are still best at it. Forget about the brands you can find imported to the US, even if it's brewed according to the German 'Purity Law', it tastes like a chemical concoction. Becks, Warsteiner etc. Although I live on Maui, I still visit my 'beer heaven' Bavaria for all of July every year, stay with friends, and go through all the various beers, all from local monastery breweries, and each of them have 5 to 8 different beers. Ayinger, Tegernseer, Reutberger, Andechser, just to name a few. 😋
i think it was earlyier than 1000 yrs, i can't recall of the top of my head atm, but if i'm not wrong the first signs of brewing where discovered around 500ad
@@liosscip You are correct. my reply was more or less in context with the topic of the video about German foods. The first chemically confirmed barley beer dates back to the 5th millennium BC in modern-day Iran, and was recorded in the written history of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia and spread throughout the world.
In my region of bavaria we have about 50 different brewerys, everyone with a own selection of beer variants. so in many local stores you get 50-100 different beer variants
Fun fact what you get when ordering a Pfannkuchen (pancake) heavily depends the region you are in. We have a war going on because we can't accept other parts of the country calling different things Pfannkuchen
Schnitzel isn't German at all! It's one of Austria's (!!!) national dishes. The Germans just took it, adapted it and made an abomination out of it. By the way: Apfelstrudel is Austrian as well. The other food shown in this video you can find in every Middle European country.
@@Michael_from_EU_Germany and from 700 to 1806? :) austria was from 919 to 1806 part of the first reich, and the most time the austrian kings was also the emperor of the holy romian reich of german nations...so austrians are no more different then bavarians vs. holsteiners vs. saxons...at the end we have many simimiliar roots... so also our food. and sure all the other countries who was part of the reich have similiar food :) Czechia belgium luxembourg etc.
These were actually all dishes from southern Germany. What I can still recommend is "Saumagen" and "Leberknödel". In Northern Germany you have to try "Labskaus". And what you absolutely have to try is the "Mettbrötchen".
I love this Schnitzel-war thing between Germans and Austrians. More fun is, that most Austrians claim the Schnitzel as an austrian invention, while its originally from the Levante :-D The Phoenicia brought it over to Italy and from there, the dish spread over to the rest of Europe....
I could see your eyes going off at the mention of liver dumplings 🙂 I have to say that those are actually quite good 🙂 Of course, being Dutch, I'm biased and I'll eat pretty much anything, except mac & cheese, that's just the most disgusting thing ever invented! Now, instead of going to Germany, which is horribly expensive, I'd advice you to go to the Czech Republic. I went to Prague just 4 years ago and went to a restaurant there. I had duck breast with red cabbage and potato dumplings, 2 huge beers and an irish coffee to top it off. I only paid like $10!!!!!
I'm surprised Jps said it all looked good after seeing Liver dumpling especially as Jps wasn't so keen on Black pudding/ Haggis (I'm presuming anything offal based) haha
Ah, it's missing Mett. What is Mett? Mett is german Sushi. Mett is seasoned minced pork. Raw. Eaten on a bread roll. Usually with chopped onions and salt and maybe pepper. There are a few youtube videos of folks trying it. One of two brits living in Korea or something? One by a youtuber called "Andong", where he had Ethan Chlebowski on his channel and they were going through german snacks etc.
"Re your puzzled expression at 10.36, when he tells us that the cabbage dish is 'so regular -making'. Any expression referring to " keeping you regular' means it makes your bowels move.
Non alcoholic beer exists too. Like Doppelkaramell from Sternburger, which is sweet and kids love it. Also, I m missing the regional special sweets like Dresdner Kind/Christstollen the original ones and Pulsnitzer Spitzen where people come from all over the world to buy and eat it. I recommend not only because its my home!
bubble water,.. water with gas.. is so popular, because it feels more refeshing than plain water.. its the same argument why your coke has bubbles.. it just is/feels more refreshing than drinking coke without bubbles
Ich kann mich so wegschmeißen über den Kerl, großartig. Es ist auch mal schön wenn jemand von ausserhalb unsere guten Sachen erzählt. Er macht das großartig.
Moin! In north Germany we have Fischbrötchen, Grünkohl with sausage, Labskaus and Fischerfrühstück with shrimps ( Krabben/ Granat) All leckerts un best ut Bremerhaven Arne 😁👍
oh man sorry for my bad english but i must write it. Its very funny to see that as a german guy. the react of normal food for me is verry interesting. Thanks for the video ^^
13:32 why do we like bubble water so much. I can‘t speak for others but the bubbles make your taste buds way more sensitive. So I drink still water whenever I just drink. But while eating, I always take sparkling water.
Bretzel with mustard isnt my thing... you slice it open horizontally and spread butter over the cut surface, then put the pieces back together and you have absolute deliciousness ( unsalted butter for a salted bretzel, but salted for unsalted bretzel, if for some reason your bretzel does not have salt crumbs )
7:20 thats what kinda annoyed me when I was in canada. the breakfast we got there was either some warm dish with meatballs or sausages and stuff or too sweet like pancakes , french toast etc. so no matter what we ate there our insulin went through the roof and we had to take a nap right after breakfast... if I eat just the blend boring bread roll with cheese or ham as I do in germany, Im more fit for the day haha.
The "Frikadelle im Brötchen" is pretty much the archetype for the american style hamburger. Minced meat patty in a bun. The difference is that the bun isn't that fluffy soft stuff, the meat usually half-half pork and beef and has more spices, onions and egg in it, and the usual "sauce" is mustard.
You HAVE to try a Westerwaldbräu. It's my absolute fav beer. It's from Hachenburg, from the Hachenburger Brauerei. They also have a beer called Hachenburger, but Westerwaldbräu is where it's at. But yeah there are a lot of regional beers.
I am czech truck driver and as soon as I cross borders I stop for a Bockwurst mit senf und brotchen and its delicious😀🙋🇨🇿and we have all the shnitzels as well but we never put sauce on it, yak! you ruin the crunch from a crust! just a little lemon and its perfect!and that regular cabbage reference means regular bathroom need😂
Schnitzel normally isn't made with pork, it is made with calf meat! Pork Schnitzel is like curry ketchup the very very very cheap variant (traditional Schnitzel with pork isn't made with coating). Traditional Currywurst isn't made with ketchup. And if you want to eat a Bretzel with something, do it with butter and not mustard.
That’s what I thought before I went to live in Austria. During my first week I was taken to the most famous schnitzel restaurant in Vienna. I was expecting to be able to get chicken, beef or veal. However, all that was on the menu was pork…. and I am allergic to pork. Only thing on the menu I could eat was chips (fries).
Calf is just exclusively the 'wiener' schnitzel. And I would say the most normal schnitzel ist the pork one, and with coating it is called schnitzel 'wiener art'
@@valbhion The so called Wiener Schnitzel was the that one in the video and that is what people think of, if they hear or talk about "German" Schnitzel. That is why I said that. Pork Schnitzel or Schnitzel in General is also traditional but internationally not known as typical German, but as such it is typically not coated - that was my point there.
I was craving fresh fruit & veg when I studied in Germany, as am not a sausage, pretzel (too salty), bread or beer fan. I did love Leberkäsein in a bread roll (Semmel) with senf (mustard) now and again, yum.
Currywurst secret from a real german: True and authentic Currywurst sauce is made of Ketchup and Coca Cola that makes it really sweet and thick. Curry powder is just added as topping!
We have so many breads Like you can't even Count them but i really Like that because you have so much different breads so you can eat what you want for breakfast
You should try a "Bananenweizen" (Wheat beer mixed with Bananajuice) when you here. Buy a good bavarian wheat beer (Franziskaner Weizen or Paulaner Weizen) and pour two or three fingers of bananajuice in it. 😀
Who is the older man? He seems to be a brave knight of German cuisine and his enthusiasm is so likeable. Many greetings and here's to always having a fresh Pils in the fridge :)
For us Döner Kebab is not only a drunk food. Its an easy meal you can get when ever you are hungry.
Its the most bought fast food in germany even topping curry wurst.
Döner is the best fast food ever, your favorite Dönerman is your savior on so many accasoins and being on good terms with them is so nice when you come from the the club and they know your order already and put extra meat
lol ja wir lieben unsern döner... ein jahr ohne döner und currywurst fühlt sich einfach falsch an
@@leomessenger2893 Oder a Leberkassemmel.
@@undertakernumberone1 hört sich gut an, ich glaub da muss ich mir doch noch schnell was kochen bevor es in die senkrechte geht
I am allergic to potatoes tomatoes and milk so I hope you in germany have currywurst without ketchup or give mayonaise only dressings for kebab as we slovaks
This video shows many specialties from southern Germany. The rest of Germany also has a lot to offer, very different, but also very tasty. You can eat your way across Germany for weeks without eating the same dish twice.
Was about to say it. The stuff is mostly from the south and there is a whole lot more to german food.
This is typical. 😂 They show them Berchtesgaden and the foreigners think that our country looks completely like that 😂
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@@HappyBeezerStudios I think it would be great to write the names of the dishes from the rest of germany down if you want people to try. I've seen comments like yours repeatedly, but i have yet to see someone actually name some. I'd love to taste some dishes from northern or east germany.
If you were talking about Wiener schnitzel, that's actually from Wien (Vienna), Austria. Have a great day!
and austrians never put sauce on the schnitzel, its a disgrace 😡😡😡
@@raffaelpichler5864 , but don't forget the lemon!
@@CabinFever52 never 😁😁 also some cranberry jam and fried potatoes and you got yourself the best meal ever 😍😍😍😍😍
just got reminded i need to make vienna schnitzel these days 🤣🤣
@@raffaelpichler5864, serioiusly, you really have to try it. ☺ Is so great.
@@raffaelpichler5864 Ich verstehe dass es nicht üblich ist... aber eine geile Rahmsoße überm panierten... geil.
It may sound stupid but for me it is always a highlight when I can spread salted butter on a slice of freshly baked farmhouse bread and sprinkle it with parsley. Add fresh spring water and the day is perfect!
Parsley? Chives are the classic for us. :P Butterbrot mit Schnittlauch.
no Mett Brötchen/bun?
@@nightstorm5914 I love my Mettbrötchen...but I live now in Finland.
Döner Kebab might be International now, but it is said that a turkish guy in germany invented it. It is said that he was the first who did put the sliced meet into the bread. Before the Döner (the sliced meet) was only served as a propper dish (for example with rice).
So Döner Kebab could be seen as real german food with turkish roots.
... p.S. In the US you mostly call it Kebab... but Kebab is actually only what the bread is called
Kebab or shishkebab is skewered meat thats cooked with radiant heat..in modern times it spins in front of a gas heating element.
The German version is only different because it's served in bread...in Turkey and everywhere else it is served in flatbread...in most cases it is interchangeable with the Greek yiros/giros...only difference is the Greek version uses real meat peices of chicken, pork or lamb...and the flat bread is softer and has yeast in it.
I don't like the Turkish versions meat...it's minced beef with too much salt and spices and tastes too much like Spam.
Döner Kebap is a dish originally is from Adana Turkey. There it is made from sheep or mutton.
@@gabak1292 the bread version is German I think
@@gabak1292 Adana Kebap is from Adana. In Germany the "Döner Kebap" is popular and was kinda invented there from turkish migrants in the past. It is a kind of kebap served with different salads and sauces in bread. Pretty dope.
@@jeanjacquesrousseau1955 My husband is from Adana. And I ate it there. It was always a big skewer, thinly cuts of meat, bread, salad, sauce, onions. That was 32 years ago. The only difference is the meat. It's was just brought over to Germany and accustomed to german taste!
Interesting that he didn't mention Mettbrötchen. It's THE German bread dish we use to put fear into Americans 😂
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mett
A nice Mettbrötchen with some onions and pepper on top of it, delish 🤤
Ahh, memories, I had that a few times when I helped someone move from the UK to Hildesheim. 👍👍
True! also where is my Leberkäse
Unpopular opinion: Ich hasse Mettbrötchen. XD
@@madeleink6717 du Sohn einer für Geschlechtsverkehr bezahlbaren Frau
@@finnx9289 nanananana wir wollen doch nicht gleich toxisch wie unsere englischen Community Brüder werden! Auf Mutter gehen ist immer asozial mein Lieber!
Spent a month in Germany, years ago. Traveled throughout, but stayed mostly in the Westphalen region. The food was indeed, awesome! All of it! The beers, and wines.... This brought back so many good memories. Makes me want to begin cooking German food, adding it to my yearly cookbook. Peace
Ahum. Beer and wine are not food.
Problem i had in the US when i was there for visiting a friend was.....the basic components for a meal didn´t taste right. Most of the cheapest stuff you can buy in germany has a better quality than the middle to upper price range in the US. I can buy cuts from our local Aldi Süd here in bavaria, and can make homemade sausage that are the bomb. But with meat from the US....i never had a real german result. And i fell like i gets worse from visit to visit
@@mlambrechts1 Pft. As if you know. Some here even call Beer jokingly "Flüssigbrot" = "Liquid Bread".
He forgot about „Maultaschen“!! It’s more popular in southern Germany but you can eat them in so many different ways! With broth, fried in a pan with some „Kartoffelsalat“, with „Semmelbrösel“ (some sort of fried breadcrumbs) and so on! And there are many varieties of them as well. With beef, with salmon, with mushrooms, game and so on!😄
I only ever eat Maultasche with Apfelmus 😅
@@delanyx2310 noch nie gehört
5:45 "Schäufele" (small shovel) is pork shoulder. Fränkisches (Franconian) Schäufele is grilled, Badisches (Badenian) Schäufele is hot-smoked and then cooked (either in Sauerkraut or in a brew from water, white wine and spices).
13:20 "Bubble" or carbonated water is something like an acquired taste in Germany. Originally it was a method to extend the shelf life of bottled water; the jeweler and clockmaker Jacob Schweppe (born in Hesse, but emigrated in 1766 to Geneva) developed the first industrial process to carbonate water; together with the mechanic Nicolas Paul and the pharmacist Henri-Albert Gosse he founded the first factory around 1790 at Geneva and in 1792 a subsidiary in London (producing carbonated water as well as ginger ale), which was not very successful, before Erasmus Darwin (grandfather of Charles Darwin) started talking up the beverage. In 1802 Schweppe sold 3/4 of Schweppe's and returned to Geneva. Other producers of bottled water adopted the process. Before that people only knew about naturally carbonated water (like the original Selters water from the Taunus region in Hesse, which gave its name also to Alka-Seltzer), which came mostly from mineral springs considered to be healthy, so some people believe to the day carbonated water to be more healthy and less prone to infestations. Most however are only accustomed to the taste since childhood.
15:25 The Döner Kebab variety, which is put into a Pide bread as a Kebab with veggies to go, was actually invented in Germany by Turk immigrants. It is now the most popular variety in Germany.
German food. You just can't go wrong!!!! Not only does it taste and look good, it stays with you - lots of energy. Great for travelling. Super video Joel, great reaction. John in Canada p.s. "regular making" = bowels, Joel
Watch out if you order Jägerschnitzel in East Germany. It could be something completely different. There it is a thick big slice of so-called Jagdwurst (literally hunting sausage) which is fried in breadcrumbs and served with tomato sauce.
When I went to America the breakfast was such a culture shock to me. I have a sweet tooth so I mostly eat my Brötchen with jam or Nutella or honey but the breakfast buffet only had two types of jam. So I decided to go the traditional German route and eat savory breakfast. The Brötchen were not terrible (tho all light wheat flour, no whole grain or anything). I’m vegetarian so the cold cuts were out for me. That left me with cheese, but being used to amazing German and Swiss cheeses, the American ones either tasted like nothing or just disgusting to me.
Then I tried the American breakfast (sausages and bacon being out because, you know, meat). But the pancakes and waffles and French toast was just so overly sweet, and I say this as someone who loves sweet things.
I basically stuck with Joghurt and fruit, bagels with cream cheese and scrambled eggs for the remaining two weeks and was so relieved when I had my German breakfast back.
Curry sauce recipe:
Heat oil in pan. Meanwhile, chop 2 onions and 1 garlic and sauté until translucent.
Add 100 g tomato paste, 1 tsp sugar, 1 tsp pepper, 2 tsp sweet paprika powder and 3 tsp yellow curry powder and stir in the pan for a few minutes. Deglaze with vinegar and cola and bring to the boil briefly.
Put 1 can of tomatoes in the pan and turn the heat down to low. Simmer the Berlin curry sauce gently for 10-15 minutes, puree and simmer for another 5-10 minutes until the sauce thickens. taste. Complete.
This is something of an overload in comfort food I'd say, and all perfectly fine with me. Everything just looks so satisfying and incredibly yummy!
Trust me Jägermeister is no only popular among students in the US😂😂 At every German birthday party age 18+ there will be at least one bottle of Jägermeister!
We like it to drink with Coke, Fanta or RedBull.
If you want to impress some of your friends with German booze try to order one of the following alcohols:
-Berliner Luft (A Berlin Original, Taste like mouthwash with alcohol and sweet, sounds crazy but it’s good)
-Francelico (Basically tastes like liquid Nutella/Hazelnut with some vodka)
-Asbach Uralt (A brandy u mix with coke)
-Obstler (Kind of fruit brandy but not sweet and quite strong, u can have lots of different versions)
And if u really want to go all in: Stroh 80, got 80%alcohol u take 3 shots and your done. Don’t mix it and enjoy your throat and stomach melting away.
Have fun😂
🤣we use Stroh mostly for cooking and baking. It is VERY strong indeed.😝😂
yeah, 18+, of course, not one day before... xD
Kümmel is the way to go!
German food is fantastic. I was there during Christmas season and oh my gosh the food was absolutely sensational.
The food at christmas markets mmhh nice
Best season for food in germany
Ente mit Rotkohl und Klößen 😍 Kartoffelsalat mit Würstchen 😋
Wildbraten mit Preiselbeerengelee 🥳
Schichtfleisch 🥰
Je suis français et je tire mon chapeau aux terroirs et a la gastronomie allemande qui n'a pas à rougir de ses spécialités.
As a german from thuringia (Thüringen) i dont like what some people sell as Original Thüringer Bratwurst.
Well, the benefit of carbonated drinking water is actually quite simple to explain. In Germany, the low mountain ranges are often of volcanic origin and there are still numerous thermal springs there today. These were used early on and even in Roman times they built baths here and made use of the healthy water. After the fall of the Roman Empire, the benefits of mineral springs were rediscovered by the High Middle Ages at the latest, and mineral baths and the first spa facilities were established. At the end of the 16th century, drinking cures became popular in addition to bathing, although the same motto was followed. The bathers drank incessantly from the mineral fountains from dawn to dusk. Drinking medicinal water became so popular with the wealthy that in the 17th century the well water began to be filled into jars and shipped. Since the bottled mineral water was not cheap, doctors came up with the idea of producing artificial healing water. The decisive breakthrough came from the German doctor and pharmacist Friedrich Adolph August Struve. He managed to chemically analyze various waters, and also to imitate their smell and taste. In 1820 he opened his own mineral water establishment in Dresden.
As far as it was good, this water was considered healthy and a luxury good. This goes hand in hand with the natural displacement of this spring water with carbonic acid. This, too, was finally integrated into industrial production and was ultimately regarded as a sign of quality. That is why the carbonated drinking water has now established itself as particularly desirable over the proverbially centuries.
If you are in Eastern Germany dont order Jägerschnitzel and awake a schnitzel u got Wurst with Spirelli Noodles and tomatoe sauce
😂
The food shown is mostly Southern food. Up here in the North there is much more fish on the menu.
Also, remember Germany is extremely culturally diverse. Not only our dialects change from city to city or even village to village, but our food does as well.
German here: You pronounced that wrong?! Dude you are one of the few americans who pronounces "Bratwurst" almost perfectly! Also, veal Schnitzel is the austrian version and there is another version of "Jägerschnitzel", the one from the former GDR: breaded Jagdwurst ("hunters sausage") with tomato sauce and noodles . And Sauerbraten is a kind of roasted beef which has been in a marinade that contains a lot of vingegar
@Kartoschka_HD eigentlich weiß das jeder und das sich jemand darüber streitet hab ich auch noch nicht gehört :D
Eigentlich sind es hauptsächlich die Wiener, die, wenn es um Schnitzel geht, dicke Backen kriegen ^^
Sauerkraut is alright.. but the Rotkohl - the red cabbage.. so damn good. We usually don't have it that often but it's a common part of the big Christmas meals.
Nice to know Joel’s finally found the video on German Food.
Pokhraj you're in India yeah? Do you have a favourite Indian meal that we might have heard of in Western countries
(although understandably ours can't be as authentic as yours)
1:07 In India, we have such food vendors too. They carry all the ingredients in a portable trunk and can set up shop anywhere.
Except for the roulards with Brussels sprouts and gravy, the Indian kitchen is my absolute favorite 🥰😍🥰😍
Great variety actually in german food (just like in most countries). In a german food video there should always be fish i think. Depending on the state you are in there is something different. From all sorts of seafood to steaks or roasts. Some of the best Oysters worldwide from Sylt to mountaingoats in the south :D You find Bohemian, french, italian, swiss and austrian or dutch influences and they all have a german influence as well. So the variety is actually pretty big. German food is mostly local and very seasonal :) Every season and every region has their own food. You wont find white asparagus outside of asparagus season anywhere. And obviously there is a lot of foreign cuisines as well that had a huge impact on the german food culture
"So regular making" - it works through your digestive system pretty well Joel! 😉 So funny watching you try to work that out!! 😂😂
Most people dont know it but hamburgers were invented in Hamburg in Germany, and thats the reason why ist called so and not because of the ham.
you have to try Kutteln! More common in the south. Terms for the rumen (sometimes also the udder) of ruminants, usually cut into strips. I will never put something like that in my mouth and eat it again.
If you ever go to Germany, you should try to eat as many bread types as possible, and judge them :-)
Or go to a all you can eat restaurant if you find one
Here in the high north,.. We Don, t eat, Weiss Wurst, Brezel, and this southern stuff..., but Currywurst is a nessesary to Start, go out to a,, Kneipentour(hopping from pub to pub), or drinking beer with nice poeple on a Main Street, at a summer eve. 🍺🍺
frikadelle is the real oldschool hamburger
Frikadelle and hamburger pattie don't really have much to do with each other. Hamburgers are made of pure beef and are only seasoned with salt and pepper after frying.
Frikadellen are made of pork and beef, onion, soaked old buns, egg, mustard and spices.
@@monin.3381 meat is meat
I'm German and why I like sparkly water / beverages. Imagine yourself after a meal where you just ate too much and you feel soooo full but have the need to drink. when drinking still water it just adds to the "fullness". when drinking sparkly water you feel even more bloated for a moment until you get that massive burp and then you feel fine again.
The trick is drinking the water while you eat, so imagine the relief when the gas comes out.
Greetings from Hannover, Germany - Sausages are great. I really love some good Currywurst, especially the taste combined with the ketchup. But, to say the least, my favorite will stay the Krakauer sausage. The taste simply hits different. Schnitzel is a quite complex matter (ask an austrian about it), there are differences in variety of the meat (chicken, pork, plant-based) but also in the side-dish. Most commonly is the Jäger-Schnitzel (hunter schnitzel) served, as he said with mushrooms and the cream sauce and in best case combined with Kroketten (Mashed fried-up potatoes). Again, my favorite though is the Chili-Hollondaise Schnitzel, where the sauce is a combination of hollondaise combined with a few sprinkles of chili in it. Tastes perfect. Frikadellen are quite common, since they are easy to make. Some try to mix pork with beef, calling them half/half, most of them prefer them only with pork though. Often the meat is mixed with onions and other spices before being roasted.
I never really realized that it is so different in other countries about the amount of bread, but yeah, we do have a lot. And they, of course, all taste different. Favorites are Hörnchen (small baked half ciruclar horn, with a light sweet taste) and the Käsebrötchen (small bun with cheese over it). The buffet, how it is displayed, is most commonly in hotels and public places, not that much at home. But all food in form of cheese or meat is definitly sliced up, ready to be put onto something.
White asparagus is one of THE MOST AWAITED FOOD SEASONS of the year, probably only close to kale or green cabbage and pumpkin. It is made into literally everything, from soups to fried asparagus, you can find it. There are actually dedicated meet-ups, only to eat asparagus. You book yourself into a restaurant/hotel and only stay there to eat asparagus, of course with a ton of side dishes, which, ironically, normally would be main dishes.
For beer, it is not that strict. You can get about all mostly famous beers from each region everywhere in germany. If you are talking about really local stuff, it comes from small breweries, not able to actually put out that much and only selling regional. Some of them are hidden gems, some of them are simply small. In best case, you can always ask a local, they mostly know. But it is always down to personal taste. In Hannover we have two big breweries named Gilde and Herrenhäuser, from which I would prefer the first. Some small local ones like Lindener Bräu and some punctual ones, only sold in their own restaurant, like the ones at Meier's Lebenslust (they are up to now the best I know). Out of region I have to say, nothing beats a Tannenzäpfle :D
Also, another take on beer: If you haven't had any experiences with hard alkohol and are only used to american 'beer', I advise to have someone supervise you during the first try of german beer.
I actually don't know what it is with America and Jägermeister but I personally have to say it is an awful drink to have, just as it is. As an Absacker or nightcap/digestif, it might work, but compared to the Underberg it just looses out. Also, the kind of drink always depends on the restaurant. We have a lot of other cultural-themed restaurants here, which will serve different alkoholic drinks after the meal, for example Greek = Ouzo.
Wondered me a bit, that Döner took so long to pop up. It became THE most dominant street food and probably in some places already overtook the Bratwurst. Tastes great, everyone makes it a bit different, sauces are very important and overall a quite nice experience to eat.
hey, my old home town. Hannover and der Leine.
here in Australia they call them Jaeger bombs. it's Jaegermeister mixed with Red Bull energy drinks.
dont forget, there is a east germany variant of the jaegerschnitzel
12:39 Joel’s face when he hears the word ‘Non-Alcoholic’. Also, that drink is for Ben.
He forgot the "Maultaschen" and "Linseneintopf mit Saitenwürstle" from Baden-Württemberg, also the "Saumagen" from Rheinland-Pfalz.
Hi! Joel. Being in the RAF in RAF Germany at two different airbases during my ten years in Germany or North Germany, we were all used to the Bratwurst everywhere in that area. To see what he is talking about it’s seems to be touristy food on the streets of the big cities. You know the type chewed up bits of sausage meat made back into sausage heated in water and sold to the unknowing tourists. The main food sold in the German Schnell Imbis, basically “Quick Fry (the German fish and chip shop)” is the Bratwurst (a rough cut port style sausage with German spices, great taste) and the Schnitzel mainly pork fillet in bread crumbs, usually three sauces, Jaeger (which is a mushroom sauce, a brilliant soft taste), Zigeuner (which is a red pepper sauce, slightly spicy, really nice) and Sahne (a creamy based sauce, brilliant too). My favourite was Sahne.
The favourite in the German pubs I found was Shwine haxe or Pork Knuckle, large pork joints which fall off the bone great with the litre of German Larger in the bars this are the Main Street or pub food I found in Germany in the 70s 80s and 90s before the Brits left Germany (and I retired from the Forces)
Only my opinion but who knew!
you were in the RAF? :D
@TheTespin Royal Air Force, not Rote Armee Fraktion
Thank you for being a promoter of German food in Britain. I used to live in Britain for some time and had some lovely food there: Cheddar cheese, Indian curries, lovely floury chips with vinegar and - one of the best dishes ever - Ploughman´s lunch. The food at a farm in Southern England where we stayed for a bit of holiday was so good that it was impossible to do anything in the evenings but put your feet up and digest. Sadly, if I try to tell Germans how good British food can be I get laughed at. Nobody believes me. So, I will go on trying to promote open-mindedness to foreign food and wish you success in doing the same. Thanks again!
In germany we got a LOT of different natural spring water fountains. But they used to be filled with lots of good minerals by nature - that is the reason why we like our water with gas. :) Because it always was like that. (Not as bubbly as we drink it today, but you get the idea.)
Schweinhaxn or pork knuckle is my favourite, I order that every time I go to a German restaurant here in Melbourne!
OMG KNODEL!!! Yes I know needs the umlaut over the O)...had those in Austria and one place in Holland, never been to Germany but I bet they are GOOD!!
Nice to see 'Jagermeister' and 'Doner Kebabs' get a worthy mention,at the end!😅
Hi Joel, you have to try the large German breakfast buffet with coffee and tea , milk and juice to drink. And to eat is often bread, rolls, sausage , cheese, jam, butter, honey ,fruit , vegetables , boiled eggs , scrambled eggs with bacon sometimes different types of smoked fish or salmon . You can eat and drink as much of it as you want. And it`s so delicious.🥰
Schnitzel is from austria.
We have over 3000 kinds of bread and about 5000-6000 sorts of beer in germany, and honestly... most of it is amazing.
Also: Paulaner Spezi is the most perfect drink in existence!
I mean, 3200 is over 300. That post is not even wrong.
@@Michael_from_EU_Germany Yeah, my mistake. I changed it. Thank you for reminding me so kind and not rude at all...
Please educate about the history of Spezi and of Paulaner Spezi.
Why we love sparkling water? Well, because water without sparkling water is intended as cleaning water or washing water, lol.
The Sauerbraten is made from horse meat in the original Rhenish style. But since it's too expensive and hard to get, it's made from beef.
I mean Walter has another video about German food. But I'm not sure.
Seems odd: Am over 80 years old but never ate a Brezel nor a Schweinshaxe. White asparagus leaves me cold too.
I don't usually eat breakfast, but I had to go eat after watching this!!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
There is the basic breakfast version missing: rolls, butter and jam (or Nutella or other sweet things) and maybe a boiled egg, coffee and maybe a glass of orange juice. I grew up with just sweet breakfast, I do not know, when the salty things "happened" ^^ You also can have Müsli, and that is a whole other story ^^
I've never heard "Wasser mit Gas". We call it "Sprudelwasser" or simply "Wasser mit Kohlensäure". I prefer "stilles Wasser" though, wich is just water.
i love other people reacting to us germans its so much fun watching your reaction
The Pfannkuchen isn't called Pfannkuchen in all regions especially in Southern Germany its called Krapfen
And the "Schnitzel" is originally from Austria. Called "Wiener Schnitzel"!
The Wiener Schnitzel is from Vienna/Austria but the Schnitzel as a dish, is much much older and derived from the Levante ;-)
How you Americans love your pancake we love our bread here in germany and our cake
Hello Joel. I enjoyed German food. I also enjoyed the Turkish food there. The family I stayed with bought me white sliced bread, but I really loved the Turkish naan. My friend had to point out that the sliced bread was bought specially to make me feel at home.
At university in UK I would fill up once a week on a cheap chip shop special of chips curry and rice, with which I used to order a sausage. Not quite like Germany, but you might understand the sentiment of getting as much for your money as possible at university. Other nights I would get chips and gravy cheap on the canteen on campus that opened late, so I could go to the library, back before students had home computers. Still, you cannot taste over the computer (yet).
Something you missed in northern England was the Parmo (parmesan). It's a chicken schnitzel, but topped with cheese and other pizza toppings.
"Chicken parmigiana" - a chicken parma/ parmi is popular pub food here in Australia
The video is heavily slanted toward the south. That‘s not bad per se, but it leaves out so much good stuff in the north.
Want to see German madness? Come from about the middle of April to 24 June: asparagus season. I know you have probably never seen white asparagus because essentially Germany and France are the only two places that really grow a lot of it. But it is absolutely delicious and is served in hundreds of ways. Traditional is with hollandaise sauce, boiled potatoes, and ham (usually smoked). And yes, the season ends specifically on 24 June.
Then there‘s kale (Grünkohl), Labskaus, and fish galore.
Come to Hamburg and I‘ll show you around and take you to some fabulous eating places.
Sadly ALMOST ALL videos about Germany is only Bavaria which sucks, as if Bavaria is whole country, but i need to say, Bavaria is completly different from the rest of Germany, Baravia likes to call themsself a own Country. Im not so proud of all these Videos bec its everytime munich Bavaria, bavaria food here and there bavaria stuff there and there and telling viewers thats germany LOL thats totally bullshit lol.
@@katsu9582 at least that was some swabia in there this time
Germany combines the best of different cultures with their own and has a really good and unique style
And we don't often have ranch here so watch out for that if you love ranch
Coming from German forbears ( the nke at the end is common here) the Schnitzeel or " Schnitty" is a favourite in pubs and at home. Can't go wrong, chicken , veal, crumbed, lightly fried, winter vegetables and gravy. Also bratwurst ( as in brat kid is good too). Beer is a must and my family and others established wineries in the Barossa Valle north of Adelaide. Also great engineers in my family ( one cousin redesigned the Panama Canal), curryvurst is great. sausages are generally 10" long. Schnitzel is cooked by every mum, Schnitty night is common. Big beers are common, we German's can outdrink anyone on beers. Budwiser maybe made in the US but it's a good beer, pubs have schnitty nights, a beer and a meal for $10.
Heineken is Dutch and too strong and bitter, Carlsberg- I won't go there.
My staff bought a huge Black Forest Cake for me , which we all shared, for my 40th. birthday. it was divine and I'm not a sweets /cake person ( but I enjouyed it that day- comraderie etc.) Joel you'll love the beers and wines. Jagermeister is a good digestive ( Said yaygermeister as this guy does) . Joel, you look a little slight so a few weeks in Germany and eating German foods would bulk you up. The people are big. The Dutch are tall, lean and blonde. Also very nice.
Weisswürste are pretty good. Especially with a nice, salty Brezel. Tho I like to remove the sausage skin first because of the texture
I feel like Joel would be a great protégé of Walters World. Eagerly waiting for you to enter your Travel Vlogger Era.
I'm looking forward to that - hopefully Jps travels the world after college and vlogs
(although I think he wants to try a stable job too)
The traditional German breakfast he shows, is a typical hotel or restaurant breakfast with lots of meat tourists expect.
The most people I know, normally don't eat cold cut for breakfast at home. They eat Brötchen (bread rolls) or bread with jam and jelly, honey, Nutella and other spreads, Quark (a kind of "cottage cheese meets yoghurt") with minced herbs or sweetened with jam and fruits, yoghurt with fruits, cereals and Muesli, with milk or juice. Boiled, scrambled or fried eggs we eat only for our weekend breakfast.
For the 2nd breakfast at work (which you call lunch) we eat sandwichs or paistries, sweet or harty. E.g. with minced raw pork, cold cut, sliced meat loaf, bacon, cheese, if we don't have a cantine which offers warm meals.
Dinner is in my generation mostly a warm cooked meal. Younger people eat mostly cold but harty, with cheese, cold cut, sausages, vegetables, pickled vegetables, salads with lettuce or Fleischsalat, Eiersalat, Wurstsalat (cold cut salad with mayo, egg salad, cold cut salad with another dressing), mostly with water, soda or tea, some with beer or wine.
Iam 62. Never had eaten Brötchen with something sweet on it for breakfast. Sooo unhealthy and without energy for the day. Also my daughters prefer dark good bread. So dont write: all germans do that. Its only your kind of life
The best breakfast ist Brötchen with Mett (raw minced pork) and onions. This ist the best. Greetings from Germany
I eat bread rolls or bread with butter, cold cut and cheese for breakfast every single day. Like most of the people in my region. So don´t put every German in one drawer 😜😜😜😜.
Cold cuts are absolutely a stabpe breakfast, just that the average german doesn't have a full buffet at home.
You have maybe 1-2 cheeses (think a sliced one, and something like brie, maybe some fresh cheese) and meats (usually ham and salami, but lynoer/mortadella are also popular).
Differs a bit from household to household obviously. Some eat rolls, some cut bread. Some prefer sweet, some savory. Cereals and muesli are a thing. As is yoghurt. Coffee, tea, milk, juice. Whatever your family likes.
Dinner tends to be either what the canteen at the workplace offers (fun fact: the main VW plant in Wolfsburg produces more sausages than cars) or you might bring something from home, or might even get something from a local Imbiss.
The Best Meat you will find in Munich .Tust me ( its not called Pfannkuchen in Germany its "Ausgezogene" translated : a word for a naked women)
He's in the south, but up in the north, there's Grünkohl ("green cabbage", the version the US ruined is called kale, but don't think it's crappy health food^^).
I live on Sprudel Wasser (Sparkling Water) Never got the appeal of Water without gas. This video is great, althoug it sounds like we only live on meat :) But all of this is actually really hearty traditional german food.
I understand your face at "liver dumpling" 😂 I hate liver, but I love liver dumplings 😍 give it a try 😉
Beer brewing in Germany started around 1,000 years ago. Monks needed some kind of decent nourishment during the weeks long fasting time before Easter. Beer was the answer, so most monasteries started the whole thing, and are still best at it. Forget about the brands you can find imported to the US, even if it's brewed according to the German 'Purity Law', it tastes like a chemical concoction. Becks, Warsteiner etc. Although I live on Maui, I still visit my 'beer heaven' Bavaria for all of July every year, stay with friends, and go through all the various beers, all from local monastery breweries, and each of them have 5 to 8 different beers. Ayinger, Tegernseer, Reutberger, Andechser, just to name a few. 😋
i think it was earlyier than 1000 yrs, i can't recall of the top of my head atm, but if i'm not wrong the first signs of brewing where discovered around 500ad
@@liosscip You are correct. my reply was more or less in context with the topic of the video about German foods. The first chemically confirmed barley beer dates back to the 5th millennium BC in modern-day Iran, and was recorded in the written history of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia and spread throughout the world.
@@peterpritzl3354 didn't mean the general discovery of beer brewing, i thing the brewing in germany was known ~1500yrs ago
In my region of bavaria we have about 50 different brewerys, everyone with a own selection of beer variants. so in many local stores you get 50-100 different beer variants
He forgot to mention "Sauerbraten" is put at least on day before cocking in a brine (usually vinegar with added spices).
Keeps you regular, number 2's my man.
Fun fact what you get when ordering a Pfannkuchen (pancake) heavily depends the region you are in. We have a war going on because we can't accept other parts of the country calling different things Pfannkuchen
Schnitzel isn't German at all!
It's one of Austria's (!!!) national dishes. The Germans just took it, adapted it and made an abomination out of it.
By the way: Apfelstrudel is Austrian as well.
The other food shown in this video you can find in every Middle European country.
austria was a long time part of the german reich... so sure we have similar food .)
@@Michael_from_EU_Germany and from 700 to 1806? :) austria was from 919 to 1806 part of the first reich, and the most time the austrian kings was also the emperor of the holy romian reich of german nations...so austrians are no more different then bavarians vs. holsteiners vs. saxons...at the end we have many simimiliar roots... so also our food. and sure all the other countries who was part of the reich have similiar food :) Czechia belgium luxembourg etc.
These were actually all dishes from southern Germany.
What I can still recommend is "Saumagen" and "Leberknödel".
In Northern Germany you have to try "Labskaus".
And what you absolutely have to try is the "Mettbrötchen".
I love this Schnitzel-war thing between Germans and Austrians. More fun is, that most Austrians claim the Schnitzel as an austrian invention, while its originally from the Levante :-D
The Phoenicia brought it over to Italy and from there, the dish spread over to the rest of Europe....
By the Currywurst he showed EVEN CURRY36 that restaurant is a most have in BERLIN FOR TOURIS 💯💯💯
I could see your eyes going off at the mention of liver dumplings 🙂 I have to say that those are actually quite good 🙂 Of course, being Dutch, I'm biased and I'll eat pretty much anything, except mac & cheese, that's just the most disgusting thing ever invented!
Now, instead of going to Germany, which is horribly expensive, I'd advice you to go to the Czech Republic. I went to Prague just 4 years ago and went to a restaurant there. I had duck breast with red cabbage and potato dumplings, 2 huge beers and an irish coffee to top it off. I only paid like $10!!!!!
Czech Republic is absolutely gorgeous and the people, culture and food is amazing! I'd honestly pick it over Germany if I had to really really choose.
I'm surprised Jps said it all looked good after seeing Liver dumpling especially as Jps wasn't so keen on Black pudding/ Haggis (I'm presuming anything offal based) haha
Ah, it's missing Mett. What is Mett? Mett is german Sushi. Mett is seasoned minced pork. Raw. Eaten on a bread roll. Usually with chopped onions and salt and maybe pepper. There are a few youtube videos of folks trying it. One of two brits living in Korea or something? One by a youtuber called "Andong", where he had Ethan Chlebowski on his channel and they were going through german snacks etc.
"Re your puzzled expression at 10.36, when he tells us that the cabbage dish is 'so regular -making'. Any expression referring to " keeping you regular' means it makes your bowels move.
One of my favorite foods, after Schnitzel, is Rheinischer Sauerbraten. Whenever I'm in that region I try to eat it.
Non alcoholic beer exists too. Like Doppelkaramell from Sternburger, which is sweet and kids love it. Also, I m missing the regional special sweets like Dresdner Kind/Christstollen the original ones and Pulsnitzer Spitzen where people come from all over the world to buy and eat it. I recommend not only because its my home!
Highly recommended is also "Leipziger Gose" beer spiced with coriander-seeds.
bubble water,.. water with gas.. is so popular, because it feels more refeshing than plain water.. its the same argument why your coke has bubbles.. it just is/feels more refreshing than drinking coke without bubbles
Ich kann mich so wegschmeißen über den Kerl, großartig. Es ist auch mal schön wenn jemand von ausserhalb unsere guten Sachen erzählt. Er macht das großartig.
Moin! In north Germany we have Fischbrötchen, Grünkohl with sausage, Labskaus and Fischerfrühstück with shrimps ( Krabben/ Granat)
All leckerts un best ut Bremerhaven
Arne 😁👍
three reasons not to live in north germany :)
Grünkohl mit Kassler und Kartoffeln einfach pure Liebe
oh man sorry for my bad english but i must write it. Its very funny to see that as a german guy. the react of normal food for me is verry interesting. Thanks for the video ^^
13:32 why do we like bubble water so much. I can‘t speak for others but the bubbles make your taste buds way more sensitive. So I drink still water whenever I just drink. But while eating, I always take sparkling water.
Bretzel with mustard isnt my thing... you slice it open horizontally and spread butter over the cut surface, then put the pieces back together and you have absolute deliciousness ( unsalted butter for a salted bretzel, but salted for unsalted bretzel, if for some reason your bretzel does not have salt crumbs )
He forgot the "Zwiebelrostbraten". Next to "Käsespätzle", this is the most common dish in southern Germany.
7:20 thats what kinda annoyed me when I was in canada. the breakfast we got there was either some warm dish with meatballs or sausages and stuff or too sweet like pancakes , french toast etc. so no matter what we ate there our insulin went through the roof and we had to take a nap right after breakfast... if I eat just the blend boring bread roll with cheese or ham as I do in germany, Im more fit for the day haha.
I was born in Germany. These flavours are my childhood memories😋
The "Frikadelle im Brötchen" is pretty much the archetype for the american style hamburger. Minced meat patty in a bun. The difference is that the bun isn't that fluffy soft stuff, the meat usually half-half pork and beef and has more spices, onions and egg in it, and the usual "sauce" is mustard.
German Currywurst is the best in the world, like it so much!
You HAVE to try a Westerwaldbräu. It's my absolute fav beer. It's from Hachenburg, from the Hachenburger Brauerei. They also have a beer called Hachenburger, but Westerwaldbräu is where it's at.
But yeah there are a lot of regional beers.
When Wolter says it keeps you regular it means it prevents constipation 💩
I am czech truck driver and as soon as I cross borders I stop for a Bockwurst mit senf und brotchen and its delicious😀🙋🇨🇿and we have all the shnitzels as well but we never put sauce on it, yak! you ruin the crunch from a crust! just a little lemon and its perfect!and that regular cabbage reference means regular bathroom need😂
Schnitzel normally isn't made with pork, it is made with calf meat! Pork Schnitzel is like curry ketchup the very very very cheap variant (traditional Schnitzel with pork isn't made with coating). Traditional Currywurst isn't made with ketchup. And if you want to eat a Bretzel with something, do it with butter and not mustard.
That’s what I thought before I went to live in Austria. During my first week I was taken to the most famous schnitzel restaurant in Vienna. I was expecting to be able to get chicken, beef or veal. However, all that was on the menu was pork…. and I am allergic to pork. Only thing on the menu I could eat was chips (fries).
Calf is just exclusively the 'wiener' schnitzel. And I would say the most normal schnitzel ist the pork one, and with coating it is called schnitzel 'wiener art'
@@valbhion The so called Wiener Schnitzel was the that one in the video and that is what people think of, if they hear or talk about "German" Schnitzel. That is why I said that. Pork Schnitzel or Schnitzel in General is also traditional but internationally not known as typical German, but as such it is typically not coated - that was my point there.
@@AbblittAbroad I have no clue about Austria and their food. I wouldn't expect that neither.
@@pakabe8774 could have been schnitzel wiener art, that is every schnitzel not calf but coated
I was craving fresh fruit & veg when I studied in Germany, as am not a sausage, pretzel (too salty), bread or beer fan. I did love Leberkäsein in a bread roll (Semmel) with senf (mustard) now and again, yum.
Mustard seems to be a big thing in America lol, only thing where i add mustard is on Frikadelle or bratwurst lol
Currywurst secret from a real german: True and authentic Currywurst sauce is made of Ketchup and Coca Cola that makes it really sweet and thick. Curry powder is just added as topping!
We have so many breads Like you can't even Count them but i really Like that because you have so much different breads so you can eat what you want for breakfast
You should try a "Bananenweizen" (Wheat beer mixed with Bananajuice) when you here. Buy a good bavarian wheat beer (Franziskaner Weizen or Paulaner Weizen) and pour two or three fingers of bananajuice in it. 😀
Who is the older man? He seems to be a brave knight of German cuisine and his enthusiasm is so likeable. Many greetings and here's to always having a fresh Pils in the fridge :)
6:20 In Bavaria this is standard size