Americans have to refrigerate their eggs, because they wash them before packaging, thus removing the natural layer that protects eggs in nature. If you don't remove that layer, eggs are good for several weeks at room temperature before you have to put them in the fridge. However, also means that our eggs can have some birdshit, feathers and other things on them, which you'd probably find repulsive.
Ohhh, so thats why we put them in the fridge. We have chickens and every morning after taking the eggs out, we wash them and put them in the fridge. And i always wondered why in supermarkets they sold them out of cold. Thank you!
2:02 It's a sink. For draining your bottles if there's still liquid in them. Some bottles get shredded, so you should make sure they're completely empty before you return them.
It gets even crazier. Someone from here describes to a US American 7,500 kilometres away that you can buy great chicken nuggets at Edeka in Germany. Our Ryan will freak out with joy at this information!
Aldi is a discount supermarket. They have less brand products and more of their own store owned brands. REWE is a regular supermarket with usually a bigger variety than Aldi
@@Kivas_Fajo As far as I know, REWE is a franchise thing. The stores are independently owned and run, and owners can set their own prices. In my area, there are two different families running the various REWE stores (some very close to each other), and they also differ in some things.
@@sput42 i'd call it medium sized. the ones i got in my region are all smaller than the one in the video. one of them for example only has a single Leergutautomat, which is quite annoying. and the fresh bread/baked goods aisle is maybe half the length of the one in the video.
@@Twelwanger that is common practice but not enforced by law. Since the prices on the shelf are no direct offerings but a so called "Invitatio ad offerendum", an Invitation to make an offer. But the final step is by letting cashier scan the goods you see price of the product. Then you offer to the cashier to buy the goods for the price displayed. If the product had the wrong price often the store will give it to you anyway for the price you assumed but there is no requirement by law to give it to you for that price because you see the actual price during checkout and are not forced to buy it.
The small watermelons are specially bred to be as small as possible so that you don't always have to take such a huge melon home and store it there. As you know, many people do their shopping here on foot or by bike, and at home we also have smaller kitchens, smaller refrigerators... so sometimes small is better. But of course we also have normal-sized watermelons that you are used to from the USA, and they are also more common here than the small ones. The yellow fruits next to them, which look like big lemons to you, were also melons.
13:50 many people dont understand how nutri score actually works, A does not mean its healthy, nutri score always compares a product to other products of the same kind, so these cornflakes are healthyer compared to other cornflakes but not healthy overall
The whole concept of Nutri-Score is misleading and only exists because the food industry, especially the big producers of unhealthy food, were successful with their lobbying efforts. Consumer protection organisations, nutritionists and physicians have been criticising it for years now.
Although a lot of people would rather call it "Wurst". In southern Germany it's also used in a "Vesper"(a light meal that takes place in the early evening or during a day out/ hike/ road trip etc.). For this meal you might prepare yourself or your family/ friends a "Vesperbrot" (Sandwich) along with some veggies or pickles and maybe a condiment like mustard. A "Wurstbrot" is also a classic snack for a schoolkid - unless your kid is a vegetarian, then it might prefer a "Käsebrot".
@@m.z.2466 No, cantaloupe melons are round. They have a greenish-yellow skin covered with a tight-meshed, white-brown net. The inside is bright orange. And the one in the video is a honeydew melon, they are yellow and oval.
"JA" is the Discounters own brand, every discounter/Supermarkt in germany got an own way cheaper Brand like "JA", "Gut und Günstig" and so on, there pretty decent and most of the time 1/3 of the price of there branded counterpart 😊
I agree, it’s the best part of fresh real bread. Just with butter and maybe some salt… divine. But who wants to eat the end of pre-packed soft toast bread?!?
@@maja-kehn9130 I don't know the problem with toast "Knust". I'ts a little tasty on the outside, while the inner part is just paperboard. So more outside = more taste. Or better buy some real bread instead :)
3:11 If you would do it, the alarm goes of thats shuts down the Machine. The Display in front would say "Help is on the way." You cant see it from the outside, but inside is a small monitor that would say "Attempted theft" ;)
Someone actually opened a small beverage market just for that kind of crime. They had three machines in the shop area and one hidden in the cellar. But even the German police got them. After that the machines were changed so that they now register the bottle only after it has been destroyed.
A woman in a EDEKA tried this years ago by printing fake pfand-labels and trying to get them scanned. She explained herself as "this stupid job at EDEKA is not paying me enough, so I needed to figure out how to make more money"
You have to pay for bags or bring your own. If you want some there, you have to pay for them. They are either strong and made of recycled plastic or paper. Small thin plastic bags (as they are also available in the USA) are only available for vegetables free of charge.
One of the biggest bred producer in germany is located in my home town, "Harry Brot", they are baking like 3m long breds and slicing them down to the normal pack size. That's why there is no cap/end piece
Obviously, the "butt" of the bread is the best part of a bread because it is all crunchy and tastes awesome. It's just that the pre-packaged versions don't have them, because I assume they're not produced as individual loafs but as a long piece, so all the slices are the same size. Those breads are also no crusty at all, they just look like it. At a proper bakery, you always get bread with the butt. Fun language fact: There is no "official" German word for that part of the bread, but a million different dialect ones - Kanten, Kruste, Kniest, Knust, Knäppchen, Knorz, Ranft, Rumpftl, Rumptschn, Feeze, Küppel, Riebele, just to name very few of them. One of the notorious examples where Germans cannot agree on what to name something, and the "butt" of many jokes.
The Nutri-Score only evaluates products within their category, i.e. cornflakes are only compared with other cornflakes. So if the Conrflakes have an “A”, this does not mean that they are healthy, but only that they are the healthiest option of all the cornflakes tested in Nutri-Score because, for example, they contain the least sugar.
The disadvantage of this is that it can be misleading at first glance, the advantage is that it can trigger competition within the category among manufacturers. If, for example, a manufacturer far outperforms its competitor's cornflakes, it is possible that the Nutri-Score of the other manufacturer, which previously had an ‘A’, will now be downgraded to ‘B’ because it performs worse than the new cornflakes.
@@kornar But you can only evaluate a score by comparing products with eacht other, since there is no fixed scale for "healthy", e.g. you cant say, "A banana contains these and those nutritions and therfore it ist 92% healthy". Comparing among all products, not just within categories, would also be odd. At least I can't imagine how to compare a pumkin with a bottle of water.
@kornar That's wrong. Many people get that wrong because the communication is misleading. The Nutriscore is based on a fixed formula depending on the ingredients of product. Using the nutriscore to compare products of the same category is what consumers are supposed to do. So you are supposed to look at different breakfast options and compare their nutriscore. However, the product category is not used to calculate the nutriscore at all (Except that drinks and food have different formulas and some very specific products like butter have a separate formula)
10:44 The issue with eggs is, that they get washed in the US before they come to the store, and so loose a natural protection layer. This process makes it necessary to cool them.
In Germany some stores also refrigerated them, even if they aren't washed (at least not with aggressive chemicals), but once they get refrigerated, you can't put them on a normal shelf either, as the waxy coating protecting the egg gets brittle and loses its function.
We differentiate between supermarkets (REWE, EDEKA etc.) and "discounters" (Lidl, Aldi, Netto) and supermarkets have a larger selection of goods and also more non-food items. The cheap brands in the supermarkets (Jeden Tag, Ja!, Gut & Günstig etc.) are usually just as expensive as the brands in the discounters, there are also consumer programs etc. on television that check this meticulously and that's why it's like that. We like our eggs natural and don't wash them (oh god, that sounds hella funny in German translated, haha)
"Ja" is spelled like "Ya" in German. In this case it´s just REWE´s own brand name für all sorts of goods. REWE stands for "Revisionsverband der Westkauf-Genossenschaften" and owns some 3600 supermarkets in Germany.
19yo german here. Ive worked a year at a drink mart and the "pfandautomat" (deposit machine) we had there was the most trash piece of technology i ever had to deal with. Every 1-2 weeks it would break down and we had to call a mechanic to fix it. Also emptying the bag of crushed bottles is pretty disgusting aswell 😅
There's no "endcap" on the bread because it's made as an endless loaf at the factory. On one end the dough goes in and on the other end the endless bread appears and first get cut into loafs and then into slices before it's packaged.
I work as a cashier at Rewe and we've never taken the covid screens back down. It can get annoying when customers speak very quietly but overall i like it because we have some very rowdy people here and i don't want them to get into my space
Hi Ryan your assumption was right. "Ja!" just means "Yes!" and it's an own label/private brand of REWE-Stores and should be less expensive than big brands. Sometimes the goods are even from the same plant, but different packing. People are often paying more just for the name, than the product itself.
What do you mean, nobody eats the crust ( "butt") of the bread??? That's literally the best part of a fresh, warm loaf of bread😅 (not the Toast stuff you have)
When I was a child I ate the soft part of a slice of bread to have the crust as a form of dessert. 🙂 There are only two butts of a bread. You can enhance it if you slice the bread lengthwise.
13:37 The nutri score doesn't say what's healthy and what not, it only compares similar products and tells you about the nutrition value between them. So among cereals corn flakes may be A, but overall they're not the healthiest food.
@@commander_fu6457 i made a soup with tongue from a cow some weeks ago. my wife loved it, up to the time i told what kind of meat she's eating. there is a difference between knowing and enjoying.
An American friend, who lived in Austria for several years, told me that they have Aldi Premium stores in the US now and that they are kind of comparable to our regular Aldi shops over here. So maybe you find one of these in your area to get the chance to check it out ;)
I also recommended a video to him with a German couple living in the US, raiding the US ALDI to get authentic groceries. One of them Ryan's favourite: half-baked pretzels, which seem quite original - just like the frozen ones, you find here in Germany. So, he actually COULD find them and, finally, cover for his craving. ... still waiting for him to find that hint. 😁
@sylviav6900 i thought about saying sorry for telling him that it seems like the US also get's a downgraded version of Aldi... Especially as I have never heard of Aldi Premium stores before...
@marinarampler8467 Me neither. But they, actually, were at a normal one. So... if you know, which products to pick, it seems to be possible to get, at least, some original produce
Discounters like Aldi or Lidl normally don't have a fresh butcher's or cheese section, but most grocery stores like REWE and Globus have them. The prices on the low end are almost always the same or at least very similar, but REWE has more brand selection and more expensive products available that Aldi doesn't offer. The meat section in the video is a pretty common stand up fridge. They didn't use to have doors, but now most have them to save energy. In general people are a lot less brand sensitive in Germany. So every store has a generic store brand that has almost all available products and then one or two big brands depending on the product, so Kellogg's for cereals, Müller for rice pudding, Wiesenhof for chicken and Kühne for Pickles for example. Bigger grocery stores like REWE sometimes have two store brands, as visible in the preserves section. There are cans and glasses of JA!, which are pretty cheap and some of REWE Beste Wahl which are still cheap, but more expensive. Cigarettes are normally sold directly at the checkout and alcohol is just a part of the drinks section. Bagging as a service the supermarket does is never a thing here. And for some years now bags have to cost a token amount to get people to use less of them, so you only get a bag if you explicitly buy one. Most people just bring their own.
The "giant lemons" are honeydew melons. Mini watermelons are a thing because there are more and more smaller households with 1-3 persons, so a big watermelon would be to much. The red sausage is called Zungenrotwurst, it's made of the blood and tongues of pigs. Most cashiers speak english, but they may need a moment to adjust for the shift from german to english.
What do you call the end of a bread loaf in Germany? Every German:"It's complicated!" There are more than 200 words for it. It's different in every region.
8:27 it is Zungenwurst 🥰 the Red colour comes from the blood, and the pieces of meat are beef tongues. Growing up in a farmer family I still remember the smell of fresh boiled blood for this sausage. Oh - and tongues (boiled as a whole) were one of my favorite dishes when I was young (up to 10 yrs I thing). it doesn't taste as disgusting as it sounds...
"Why are those (watermelons) that tiny?" Because they are bread for flavour and not size. It's the same with apples. Ours are usually closer to (but still bigger than) tennis ball sized.
Hi Ryan - here is some information about the REWE shopping trip: The stainless steel basin in the middle of the deposit stations is for rinsing out the bottles (if there is still content in them) and for cleaning hands, because the bottles are often sticky. The pretzels are usually oven-fresh (baked behind the sales counter) and usually cost 29 euro cents. The various types of baked rolls are also popular - 6-10 pieces between 1.49 and 1.99 euros (very good for the air fryer). The sausage in demand is black pudding in natural casing. The eggs have such a high sales cycle (usually daily) that they do not need to be refrigerated. BTW - "Ja!" - (English "Yes") refers to the own brand, which is much cheaper than the same product as a branded product.
Only one thing would be even more awesome. He switched the language at the Pfand machine to englisch but the receipt was still written in englisch. You got a job to do REWE
2:32 The cards inside were special carts (for parents with infants) and small carts, the regular carts are outside (with REWE it's mostly right next to the entrance, though the carts can also sometimes be stored in separate smaller shelters in the parking lot).
"I don't know how cornflakes get A" Because those specific ones are probably completely unsweetened. Just corn flour, water and salt as base ingredients. WITH milk that would probably be a B or even C.
Rewe also has a meat or cheese counter where you can get fresh things. The sausage you found strange should have been a tongue sausage, that's what we call it The tongue sausage consists of 60% pork tongue, 25% smoked pork bacon, 10% pork blood and 5% pork rind as a binding agent to ensure the sausage's cut resistance.
Rabbit is not a meat you would buy in this meat section however it is a meat that you can get easily in autumn and it is a very common meat in Italian cuisine (they don't really eat chicken in Italy, that's just American Italian restaurants, they eat more seafood and rabbit, maybe beef or veal but no chicken). About the cereal: we don't really eat that a lot, Kellogs is one of the only brands we have. We prefer Müsli or Granola. Müsli is just a mixture of oats, dried fruits and nuts. It usually doesn't contain much sugar and is actually healthy. We eat it with Quark, Joghurt or Milk and some fresh cut (mostly season) fruits.
9:17 With REWE there is 99.9% of the time a butcher section and with their standard store layout it's in the far right corner of the store (when entering the store and turning right at the bread display you look past the vegetables and straight ahead towards the butcher). What's noteworthy is that the butcher is not run by REWE, instead its a local butcher that acts as a contractor for REWE, meaning the produce is always local. (Also, Germany features less supermarkets like REWE and Kaufland, instead discounter stores like Netto, Aldi and LIDL are a lot more common and those do not feature a butcher).
@@tigersilberhannes9153 They also sell organic (bio) meat in bags. I don't think that the tray vs. bag makes a difference in taste. Sure it doesn't replace the butcher which knew the animal before slaughter and can tell you all about it when he cuts you a piece. But I would not say every meat in a bag or tray is bad.
Yeah, Aldi and Rewe are both grocery stores. But there are some differences. The major one is that Aldi is a discounter. So Rewe will have more items and a wider variety while being more expensive. But also while Aldi stores are part of the Aldi company, there are more options for Rewe. Some are part of the company, some are franchise and some are a total run by an owner on their own just stocking certain products from Rewe. So the one Rewe around here is rather small, but the owner does only the minimal franchise, so they stock a lot of different items compared to the other Rewe around here, that is a corporate own. Then again, the bigger store also has more non-food items like bicycle equipment 😃
You get your cart in the parking lot where other people left it in a litte „house“. Not only don’t you need someone to push them around but also you save space inside the building. And people don’t let them all over the place in the parking lot. That’s German efficiency for you.
"Nobody eats the crust" hurts me deeply. I can't have a lot of carbs for getting-fat-again reasons, but the crust of real and good bread is a at least as good as the crumb. Bad bread has bad crust ofc, but bad bread isn't worth eating at all.
18:32 The big walls are, in fact, a Covid thing. Almost every store set up plexy glass walls, at least between cashier and customer, and even busses still have similar things hanging between the driver and the passengers. Those big walls are uncommon, though, but I can see why they put them up with the two registers this close to each other
The best thing about a loaf of bread is that little piece at the end where only crust is! My family will fight about those two pieces just for the fun of it 😂
Major difference in product presentation: In Germany you seldom have more than one facing for each product, other than the US where Walmart has two meters of one variety of just one product.
"JA" is not a manufacturing company, it is a private label of the REWE Group. Rewe buys branded products in very large quantities and uses its own packaging. Due to the huge purchasing volumes, they have a good margin and can offer the products much cheaper than the "original". The role model here is ALDI.
@@alexanderblume5377 Sie sagen also: Tagsüber füllt Jacobs die Kaffebohnen XYZ in Jacobs Tüten und die gleichen Kaffeebohnen nachts in gleicher Qualität in ALDI Tüten? Habe ich das richtig verstanden? Wenn ich das so richtig verstanden haben, gibt es chemische Untersuchungen von Ökotest oder Warentest in Auftrag gegeben, die das belegen?
@@Michael_from_EU_Germany Was glaubst du wo die ganzen Eigenmarken (JA, GutundGünstig, die Aldimarken usw.) hergestellt werden? In geheimen unterirdischen Fabriken?
@@alexanderblume5377 Die Google Recherche ergibt: Jacobs stellt keinen Kaffee für ALDI her! Du erzählst Schwachsinn! Suchwörter Wer steckt hinter dem Discounter-Kaffee?
If you put a string on he bottle and pull it back there will be an alarm ;) They would catch you asap. And normaly the bottles spin inside the tube. So the machine will learn what you do asap ;)
One thing to remember is that we have a more 'decentralized' system with more smaller shops close by than huge far away stadiums. Within 5 mins I have 2 Lidl, 2 Aldi, 2 Edeka, 1 Rossmann, 1DM (drugstores) and some other shops. Larger stores, compared to a small Walmart are like 10-15 mins away. So while the selection might look small, it is rather small in numbers stocked.
4:38 i actually recently had the "butt" of the bread when i purchased some sandwich bread, but even that wasnt a full end piece and seemed like they sliced a thin layer off to be more like an average slice. crust on fresh bread is actually amazing. nothing better than fresh, still warm onion bread and putting a bit of salted butter on the generous first bit you cut off of it. 6:20 watermelon kinda come in all sizes. usually during summer they will stock the regular, large sized ones, which are up to 5 pounds or more. otherwise its easier to keep the smaller ones in stock for the couple people that want them, i guess. in japan they grow square watermelons (by having them grow inside wooden boxes) which are quite expensive and meant as gifts. 8:44 some supermarkets stock small amounts of rarer meats, like rabbit and idk deer and quail, but its not really common, at least in my area. and also its behind plexiglass to use less energy to keep it cool. not all supermarkets do that for refrigerated products. larger supermarkets have cheese and butcher counters, but really depends on where you shop. i think in my hometown, only 2 out of the 7 or 8 supermarkets/discounters have them. 12:20 someone probably already pointed it out, but "ja!" is REWEs own discount brand. its simply pronounced like the german word for "yes". [oh you got it yourself shortly after] Nutri Score for Cookie Crisp is apparently a C, from a quick google search.
3:44 in. I just said our shopping carts where outside. And, yes. Look at the size of those shopping carts. They are for shildren and the red plastic ones are for when you just have a few things to buy (wouldn't be practical to store those little things outside... the big ones take up a lot of space inside tho)
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Rewe is different from Aldi, yes. There is more variety with each food and everything is nicely displayed. At Aldi you have one sort of Camembert cheese, one sort of cream cheese and so on.. Everything just one thing and it's all simply stacked in the shelfs. (Easier to put in and therefor cheaper when you think about the labour that goes into stacking the shelves).
Hi Ryan! Concerning the Nutri-Score you mentioned and liked: It's a double-edged sword and your reaction already shows why. It was a bit of a compromise between what lawmakers and citizen groups wished for (an actual scoring for how healthy something is) and what the industry was willing to accept. The twist is the Nutri-Score only rates a product COMPARED to other products OF THAT CATEGORY. So you basically take some of the worst stuff, as you said maybe from America, somewhere available in Germany and all the other cereals and within the "cereal category" (not sure how far the categories are spread) the product is COMPARATIVELY an A. And you showed why some people/groups already discuss abandoning it again: It can do more harm than good, because you first think "Oh that's an A, so I can eat it, it's healthy". No. It's like saying venom 1 has an A-Nutri-Score since it doesn't kill as fast as venom 24.
The last piece of the Bread is called "Kanten" here in Germany and in some Bakeries they will ask if you want to have it or not when they cut the bread for you. With toast bread like the one you talked about it's usually not included but normal packaged bread usually includes the full loaf.
Actually, that end piece of bread is one of the things that is famously called differently in every region of Germany 😆 If you said "Kanten" where I come from, nobody would know what you are talking about. Knapp/Knäppchen or Knust would be the options here in Westfalia 😊
@@stefantegethoff5523 Right that's actually just the dialect word I most know, as with most different bakery items the name really changes depending on the region in Germany. Actually in the region near Stuttgart where I live in most people would just say "Randstück" haha
I love how he films the ground and the lower shelves 80% of the video. It's called "Bückwaren" (bendover-goods), the cheapest products, since people tend to rather grab products on their eye level and of course the supermarkets want to raise the threshold for you to spend less money there.
The best peace of a good bread is the Strieze or Kanten or Knust or Ränftchen or Endstück or Scherzl or Knäppchen or Bubbel* , the end of the bread with all the crunch in it. *Every Region has its own name for this.
4:50 There are different regional name for this first + last piece: Bugl, Knäusle, Riebele, Rand, Ranft, Kanten, Knorze, Knüstchen, Knäppchen, Knerzla, Knust, Knut, ... - and we do eat it, sometimes it is even especially ordered (like in Vienna: „A Eitrige, an Bugl und a 16er-Blech“ means „a Käsekrainer (a smoked boiled sausage containing up to 20% cheese), an end piece of bread and a can of Ottakringer beer) or the name is also used for a certain kind of big bread rolls, but without the diminutive (Knauzen instead of Knäuzle). But our Knäuzle are rather crispy... 6:30 Some varieties of water melon are bigger than others. And often people prefer the smaller ones because the big ones often spoil before you've eaten all of it or because some smaller ones taste more intensive. 8:10 Yes, interesting: tongue sausage (a boiled blood sausage containing pieces of tongue, cut in thin slices). Mostly eaten as deli meat on bread with mustard. The brighter one right of it is probably "weisser Schwartenmagen" = white brawn or head cheese, pieces of cooked pork in a gelatine-based mass, cut in thicker slices to be eaten e.g. with mustard and bread. 9:05 "Ja!" = "Yes!" is the house brand of REWE (usually cheaper than regular brands). (By the way: REWE was originally an acronym for Revisionsverband der Westkauf-Genossenschaften = Western Buying Co-operatives Auditing Association, founded in 1927 as a purchasing syndicate of retailers in the Rhine region and soon evolving into an early franchising system.) Most bigger grocery shops have also a butcher counter, but those branded packages are usually cheaper. 11:20 Kellogg's is big in Germany regarding American style cereals, which is however a rather dwindling market. Most Germans buy nowadays rather something from the Muesli section. 11:40 Typical size for milk is one liter (bottle or tetra pak or other packaging board).
3:13 if the bottle or can exits the machine not by itself (sometimes the bar code or deposit logo can't be read properly) there will be a alarm that states "bottle thief" and the machine shuts down until a employee comes and sets it back. The alarm is not that loud like in a bank robbery but the machine will play a melody or whistle for a few seconds "ja!" is the brand of "Rewe" like "Kirkland Signature" in Costco or "Great Value" in Walmart
"Rotwurst" is made of blood and lean meat e.g. tongue, spices and a little lard. It's cooked and smoked. Tastes quite nice. Especially with mustard. However, I do only very rarely eat it. It has too many "bad fatty acids". Eggs are fine and safe outside the fridge here.
I've watched many videos now where they say that it's all a big lie with these so called "bad fatty acids". And it really goes with what I already thought about that whole "good" and "bad" fatty acids propaganda. Dr. Eric Berg was one of those channels, if I remember correctly, but there were more.
@@Der_Kleine_Mann Maybe it's a lie, maybe it's true. I do not feel competent to make a reliable judgement. So what I do is: I eat this once in a while. Like other meaty or buttery components of my "diet". Or like chocolate or alcohol. For the main part, I try to consume vegetables and pulses. My parents are both in their mid 90ties and a lot healthier than most "younger oldies" that I know. Thus, I feel, eating roughly like them might be right for me...
You mentioned the piece of the bread that nobody eats. It is called Knäuschen in the part of Germany where i live. As a child i loved eating it because it was so crusty all over.
6:00 the tiny water melons are literally Mini-Wassermelonen/mini water melons. They are selectively bred to be smaller and more flavorful. They are also a lot easier to store in your fridge. One of the typical huge water melons takes multiple large servings to be eaten up, so there's a good chance it will spoil in a small household.
In Europe, there are shopping carts with only 2 wheels turning - they're at the "Baumarkt" or Ikea... I'm glad the grocery store crats have 4 turning wheels... so you can turn them on the spot if you forgot something. You were right when you said Ja! is the store's own brand. It's REWE's "cheap" home brand - like K-Classic for "Kaufland" (which I prefer for grocery shopping because they're great with their selection)
We have carts inside and outside for the most part so you can return them wherever you want. And yea the trick with string at the bottle cap...that was very popular at the beginning with those machines 😂
thats becouse most stores dont want to make room for carts inside they perfer to have wares on most floor space theres a budget store in finland that even have some wares inside the doors and outside checkout as they asume people dont steal in new york especially that would be impossible
The video you reacted to was... I don't even know what to say. I'm sure there are a lot of better videos out there that show the structure and variety of German supermarkets, quality wise 😅
Main difference to discount stores (Aldi, Lidl etc.): Discount stores pack shelves with boxes of product. Mainly the boxes in wich thy are delivered and produced. Rewe and Edeka pack everything stacked and sorted individualy. Rewe/Edeka have a higher range of brands, of course. In addition we have 'superstores' (not equal to US) like Globus and Kaufland that I'd consider a combination of brand and discount stores. Concerning baging: I think I read stories about some shops giving it a try, but the majority of people rejected it. Guess we want to be in control!
Americans have to refrigerate their eggs, because they wash them before packaging, thus removing the natural layer that protects eggs in nature. If you don't remove that layer, eggs are good for several weeks at room temperature before you have to put them in the fridge. However, also means that our eggs can have some birdshit, feathers and other things on them, which you'd probably find repulsive.
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I never ever bought eggs in a supwermarket in Germany with shit on it, maybe a feather from time to time
Someone was faster 🤣
@@SaschaGrebe I haven't bought them, but certainly seen eggs with chicken poop on it. That's why I open every pack of eggs and look at them first.
Ohhh, so thats why we put them in the fridge. We have chickens and every morning after taking the eggs out, we wash them and put them in the fridge. And i always wondered why in supermarkets they sold them out of cold. Thank you!
2:02 It's a sink. For draining your bottles if there's still liquid in them.
Some bottles get shredded, so you should make sure they're completely empty before you return them.
They also get weighed in the machine. If they are too heavy, it's because of liquid inside and the machine doesn't accept the bottle. ;-)
you also see those at airports sometimes.
My childhood memory was of black bread end slice with butter. Simpler times...
It's a sink!? I guess I need to stop using as a urinal, then.
Even I as a German never have seen one of them. :D
me as a german watching the products in rewe for 20 min like i dont have the store right next to my home👁👃👁
true 😅
It gets even crazier. Someone from here describes to a US American 7,500 kilometres away that you can buy great chicken nuggets at Edeka in Germany.
Our Ryan will freak out with joy at this information!
I am watching procrastinating going to REWE...
Me watching on my day off as a rewe employee😅😅😂
@@Nicole-sonii Thats dedication to the job ;-)
Aldi is a discount supermarket. They have less brand products and more of their own store owned brands. REWE is a regular supermarket with usually a bigger variety than Aldi
There are also REWEs in different sizes. This one seemed pretty small and didn't have fresh produce counters for meet, cheese, or fish, for example...
@@sput42 ...and there are REWE and REWE City supermarkets, which strangely are two different companies with different items and prices.
@@Kivas_Fajo As far as I know, REWE is a franchise thing. The stores are independently owned and run, and owners can set their own prices.
In my area, there are two different families running the various REWE stores (some very close to each other), and they also differ in some things.
@@Kivas_Fajo And then there also is "Nahkauf" which is also related to Rewe.
@@sput42 i'd call it medium sized. the ones i got in my region are all smaller than the one in the video. one of them for example only has a single Leergutautomat, which is quite annoying. and the fresh bread/baked goods aisle is maybe half the length of the one in the video.
The best thing in almost all of Europe is, that shelf price means full price. Tax INCLUDED. Shelf says three, you pay three.
Except if they label wrong.
@Wildcard71 that is protected. You only have to pay the lowest shown price. By law.
That's the case in any country in the world, except one.
@Nikioko the country still measuring with thumbs, feet and buckets, yes.
@@Twelwanger that is common practice but not enforced by law. Since the prices on the shelf are no direct offerings but a so called "Invitatio ad offerendum", an Invitation to make an offer. But the final step is by letting cashier scan the goods you see price of the product. Then you offer to the cashier to buy the goods for the price displayed. If the product had the wrong price often the store will give it to you anyway for the price you assumed but there is no requirement by law to give it to you for that price because you see the actual price during checkout and are not forced to buy it.
We dont have gallons of milk because we dont have gallons. We use liter. A liter of milk
or two
@@Wildcard71 Not in Germany, we only have 1 liter bottles.
@@kalinka4125 Maybe today, but they did exist.
@@Wildcard71 Not in the supermarket, maybe fresh milk from the farmer in a milk can.
@kalinka4125
In my local German REWE we also have 1.5 litre milk TetraPaksfrom the brand "Landliebe".
The small watermelons are specially bred to be as small as possible so that you don't always have to take such a huge melon home and store it there.
As you know, many people do their shopping here on foot or by bike, and at home we also have smaller kitchens, smaller refrigerators... so sometimes small is better.
But of course we also have normal-sized watermelons that you are used to from the USA, and they are also more common here than the small ones.
The yellow fruits next to them, which look like big lemons to you, were also melons.
Ich denke das neben der Wassermelone war eine pomelo. Das ist eine Mischung von zitrone und Grapefruit
@@PetraR.-er8dv Ne , das waren Honigmelonen
13:50 many people dont understand how nutri score actually works, A does not mean its healthy, nutri score always compares a product to other products of the same kind, so these cornflakes are healthyer compared to other cornflakes but not healthy overall
i didnt know that ,huh
The whole concept of Nutri-Score is misleading and only exists because the food industry, especially the big producers of unhealthy food, were successful with their lobbying efforts. Consumer protection organisations, nutritionists and physicians have been criticising it for years now.
I don´t know if we have the same amount of sugar as the american version but our Cookie Crisp seem to have an "C". So there must be even worse ones.
it should show a healthy product but the food industrydestroyd the nutriscore label.
It's compared to comparable products. So like Cornflakes to all the other cereals (and what else is in the category), not just other Cornflakes.
this "meat display" is for breakfast... It's what we call "Aufschnitt"
Also Abendbrot
Or cold cuts in English.
@@trinaroach2832 yes thank you :D that's the word👍
it's for Brotzeit
Although a lot of people would rather call it "Wurst". In southern Germany it's also used in a "Vesper"(a light meal that takes place in the early evening or during a day out/ hike/ road trip etc.). For this meal you might prepare yourself or your family/ friends a "Vesperbrot" (Sandwich) along with some veggies or pickles and maybe a condiment like mustard. A "Wurstbrot" is also a classic snack for a schoolkid - unless your kid is a vegetarian, then it might prefer a "Käsebrot".
The yellow fruits are Honigmelonen (Honey melons).
My second favorite type of melons (after ... well ... ) 😅
cantaloupe in Englisch.
@@m.z.2466 No Honeydew Melon in English - English English and I think in the US too.
actually honeyDEW melon. NOT cantaloupe, as that would be "Zuckermelonen". They look and taste very different.
@@m.z.2466 No, cantaloupe melons are round. They have a greenish-yellow skin covered with a tight-meshed, white-brown net. The inside is bright orange. And the one in the video is a honeydew melon, they are yellow and oval.
When he says "rave about it", and gets closer to the actual pronunciation of REWE than with any of his other tries 😂
Genau das dachte ich in dem Moment auch 😂
@@Kloetenhenneme too 😂😂😂
Thought the same 😀
Was ist "it", das REWE baut?
Haha, thought the same 😂😊
"JA" is the Discounters own brand, every discounter/Supermarkt in germany got an own way cheaper Brand like "JA", "Gut und Günstig" and so on, there pretty decent and most of the time 1/3 of the price of there branded counterpart 😊
Rather convoluted explanation for a store brand.
@mick-berry5331 yeah i didnt know if american stores got this kind of stuff, so i tryed to explain it Overall, also english isnt my first language.
@Doc_Rainbow Mine either 😁
@@mick-berry5331 neither*
@@mick-berry5331 Ja! is REWE's own brand and is significantly cheaper than branded products. And that's exactly what @Doc_Rainbow explained😁
I will not tolerate Knust slander
it will be consumed
as it is
the best part
of a loaf of bread
Of proper bread yes, but not of toast.
I agree, it’s the best part of fresh real bread. Just with butter and maybe some salt… divine.
But who wants to eat the end of pre-packed soft toast bread?!?
AGREED.
"Knust" detected, opinion rejected.
@@maja-kehn9130 I don't know the problem with toast "Knust". I'ts a little tasty on the outside, while the inner part is just paperboard. So more outside = more taste. Or better buy some real bread instead :)
3:11 If you would do it, the alarm goes of thats shuts down the Machine. The Display in front would say "Help is on the way." You cant see it from the outside, but inside is a small monitor that would say "Attempted theft" ;)
Someone actually opened a small beverage market just for that kind of crime. They had three machines in the shop area and one hidden in the cellar. But even the German police got them.
After that the machines were changed so that they now register the bottle only after it has been destroyed.
@@HaukeLaging I was gonna say: the barcode should be unique and the bottle only counts well after it's inside the machine.
A woman in a EDEKA tried this years ago by printing fake pfand-labels and trying to get them scanned. She explained herself as "this stupid job at EDEKA is not paying me enough, so I needed to figure out how to make more money"
12:01 The Cheeto things are „Flips“, essentially like Cheetos, but not with cheese, and instead with a salty peanut coating.
👍Exactly
You have to pay for bags or bring your own. If you want some there, you have to pay for them. They are either strong and made of recycled plastic or paper. Small thin plastic bags (as they are also available in the USA) are only available for vegetables free of charge.
Its like that in many US states as well now
For example CA, NJ or CO also dont give out free bags anymore
They're 1 Cent, meanwhile.
One of the biggest bred producer in germany is located in my home town, "Harry Brot", they are baking like 3m long breds and slicing them down to the normal pack size. That's why there is no cap/end piece
They at least produce something that looks like bread. I‘ll never understand why people buy bread in plastic bags.
@@0xShieldthe sliced "Harry Brot" in Rewe is sold in plastic bags.
@@tobyk.4911 I know! 😉 I consider Harry Brot the death of bread.
Obviously, the "butt" of the bread is the best part of a bread because it is all crunchy and tastes awesome. It's just that the pre-packaged versions don't have them, because I assume they're not produced as individual loafs but as a long piece, so all the slices are the same size. Those breads are also no crusty at all, they just look like it. At a proper bakery, you always get bread with the butt.
Fun language fact: There is no "official" German word for that part of the bread, but a million different dialect ones - Kanten, Kruste, Kniest, Knust, Knäppchen, Knorz, Ranft, Rumpftl, Rumptschn, Feeze, Küppel, Riebele, just to name very few of them. One of the notorious examples where Germans cannot agree on what to name something, and the "butt" of many jokes.
That is because of the Roststöffe. Really great taste....
Yes, toastbrot is made in looooong loafs. I have seen video where they said 2m long but I am pretty sure there are longer ones too.
then look for a "vinschgerl". might not be available in germany. you should love it.
Oh ja, bei einem frischen Brot vom Bäcker, gibt es nichts besseres als die Kruste, soooo so lecker 🤤😄
Das "hochdeutsche" Wort dafür wäre wohl sowas wie "Endstück"
And yes, we have a cheese and butcher section. And usually, there's a bakery in front of the Rewe (and Edeka)
The Nutri-Score only evaluates products within their category, i.e. cornflakes are only compared with other cornflakes. So if the Conrflakes have an “A”, this does not mean that they are healthy, but only that they are the healthiest option of all the cornflakes tested in Nutri-Score because, for example, they contain the least sugar.
The disadvantage of this is that it can be misleading at first glance, the advantage is that it can trigger competition within the category among manufacturers. If, for example, a manufacturer far outperforms its competitor's cornflakes, it is possible that the Nutri-Score of the other manufacturer, which previously had an ‘A’, will now be downgraded to ‘B’ because it performs worse than the new cornflakes.
@@kornar But you can only evaluate a score by comparing products with eacht other, since there is no fixed scale for "healthy", e.g. you cant say, "A banana contains these and those nutritions and therfore it ist 92% healthy". Comparing among all products, not just within categories, would also be odd. At least I can't imagine how to compare a pumkin with a bottle of water.
@@snickepie95 I never said anything else.
@kornar That's wrong. Many people get that wrong because the communication is misleading. The Nutriscore is based on a fixed formula depending on the ingredients of product. Using the nutriscore to compare products of the same category is what consumers are supposed to do. So you are supposed to look at different breakfast options and compare their nutriscore. However, the product category is not used to calculate the nutriscore at all (Except that drinks and food have different formulas and some very specific products like butter have a separate formula)
@@NineBerry Why is Nestlè Nesquik, with 75,1g sugar per 100g, graded with a B-NutriScore then?
10:44 The issue with eggs is, that they get washed in the US before they come to the store, and so loose a natural protection layer. This process makes it necessary to cool them.
In Germany some stores also refrigerated them, even if they aren't washed (at least not with aggressive chemicals), but once they get refrigerated, you can't put them on a normal shelf either, as the waxy coating protecting the egg gets brittle and loses its function.
We differentiate between supermarkets (REWE, EDEKA etc.) and "discounters" (Lidl, Aldi, Netto) and supermarkets have a larger selection of goods and also more non-food items. The cheap brands in the supermarkets (Jeden Tag, Ja!, Gut & Günstig etc.) are usually just as expensive as the brands in the discounters, there are also consumer programs etc. on television that check this meticulously and that's why it's like that. We like our eggs natural and don't wash them (oh god, that sounds hella funny in German translated, haha)
🤭🫣🤭I didn't realise until your comment at the end!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
its a sink to drop the leftovers from the bottles and to wash your hands.
We don't have those in my city. Not at k+k, penny, edeka, lidl, aldi or netto. We're missing out big time.
How do you wash your hands without water? Leftover beer?😎
@@desperadox7565 Nah, we bathe in it, have you not heard?
@@IchBinDieLy1 🍻
"Ja" is spelled like "Ya" in German. In this case it´s just REWE´s own brand name für all sorts of goods. REWE stands for "Revisionsverband der Westkauf-Genossenschaften" and owns some 3600 supermarkets in Germany.
19yo german here. Ive worked a year at a drink mart and the "pfandautomat" (deposit machine) we had there was the most trash piece of technology i ever had to deal with. Every 1-2 weeks it would break down and we had to call a mechanic to fix it. Also emptying the bag of crushed bottles is pretty disgusting aswell 😅
There's no "endcap" on the bread because it's made as an endless loaf at the factory. On one end the dough goes in and on the other end the endless bread appears and first get cut into loafs and then into slices before it's packaged.
I work as a cashier at Rewe and we've never taken the covid screens back down. It can get annoying when customers speak very quietly but overall i like it because we have some very rowdy people here and i don't want them to get into my space
Hi Ryan your assumption was right.
"Ja!" just means "Yes!" and it's an own label/private brand of REWE-Stores and should be less expensive than big brands. Sometimes the goods are even from the same plant, but different packing. People are often paying more just for the name, than the product itself.
What do you mean, nobody eats the crust ( "butt") of the bread??? That's literally the best part of a fresh, warm loaf of bread😅 (not the Toast stuff you have)
When I was a child I ate the soft part of a slice of bread to have the crust as a form of dessert. 🙂 There are only two butts of a bread. You can enhance it if you slice the bread lengthwise.
On our german bread, yes. But I don't think on american "bread". 😅😉
@nujetzaberhier ja, hab ich doch extra erwähnt....😊
in that "Urinal" you can empty the bottles, if they have left something inside.
Oh, we do know about the end of the bread. Every dialect has its own word for it 😂
KANTEN! the tastiest part of the bread
Knäuzchen
Knust (North of Germany) - yummy!
Knäppchen, NRW
Kneisle (Schwaben)
13:37 The nutri score doesn't say what's healthy and what not, it only compares similar products and tells you about the nutrition value between them. So among cereals corn flakes may be A, but overall they're not the healthiest food.
08:10 This is "Zungenwurst", or Rotwurst. Has pieces of cow tongue embedded in blood sausage, more or less. Pretty tasty, if you ask me...
And pretty disgusting if you ask me...
@@commander_fu6457 i made a soup with tongue from a cow some weeks ago. my wife loved it, up to the time i told what kind of meat she's eating.
there is a difference between knowing and enjoying.
@@dirty_old_minion5881 Ignorance is bliss, huh?
@@dirty_old_minion5881 After reading this, I can´t stop smiling :D :D
@@sput42 i hate this "wurst" as a German i mean each there own but holy hell it looks disqusting...
An American friend, who lived in Austria for several years, told me that they have Aldi Premium stores in the US now and that they are kind of comparable to our regular Aldi shops over here. So maybe you find one of these in your area to get the chance to check it out ;)
I also recommended a video to him with a German couple living in the US, raiding the US ALDI to get authentic groceries. One of them Ryan's favourite: half-baked pretzels, which seem quite original - just like the frozen ones, you find here in Germany. So, he actually COULD find them and, finally, cover for his craving.
... still waiting for him to find that hint. 😁
On the other hand: he'll be spoilt for life (just like it happened with European soda and German chocolate, now). 😂
@sylviav6900 i thought about saying sorry for telling him that it seems like the US also get's a downgraded version of Aldi... Especially as I have never heard of Aldi Premium stores before...
@marinarampler8467 Me neither. But they, actually, were at a normal one. So... if you know, which products to pick, it seems to be possible to get, at least, some original produce
Discounters like Aldi or Lidl normally don't have a fresh butcher's or cheese section, but most grocery stores like REWE and Globus have them. The prices on the low end are almost always the same or at least very similar, but REWE has more brand selection and more expensive products available that Aldi doesn't offer.
The meat section in the video is a pretty common stand up fridge. They didn't use to have doors, but now most have them to save energy.
In general people are a lot less brand sensitive in Germany. So every store has a generic store brand that has almost all available products and then one or two big brands depending on the product, so Kellogg's for cereals, Müller for rice pudding, Wiesenhof for chicken and Kühne for Pickles for example.
Bigger grocery stores like REWE sometimes have two store brands, as visible in the preserves section. There are cans and glasses of JA!, which are pretty cheap and some of REWE Beste Wahl which are still cheap, but more expensive.
Cigarettes are normally sold directly at the checkout and alcohol is just a part of the drinks section.
Bagging as a service the supermarket does is never a thing here. And for some years now bags have to cost a token amount to get people to use less of them, so you only get a bag if you explicitly buy one. Most people just bring their own.
The "giant lemons" are honeydew melons.
Mini watermelons are a thing because there are more and more smaller households with 1-3 persons, so a big watermelon would be to much.
The red sausage is called Zungenrotwurst, it's made of the blood and tongues of pigs.
Most cashiers speak english, but they may need a moment to adjust for the shift from german to english.
What do you call the end of a bread loaf in Germany?
Every German:"It's complicated!"
There are more than 200 words for it. It's different in every region.
Bei uns Scherzl 😊
Scherzl
knust
Renftl
Kanten
The carts are usually outside. Those carts in the inside are special ones for small children or where can put the seat of your toddler within.
8:27 it is Zungenwurst 🥰 the Red colour comes from the blood, and the pieces of meat are beef tongues. Growing up in a farmer family I still remember the smell of fresh boiled blood for this sausage. Oh - and tongues (boiled as a whole) were one of my favorite dishes when I was young (up to 10 yrs I thing).
it doesn't taste as disgusting as it sounds...
I love that, too!
My husband (Canadian) turns away in disgust!
I love that, too!
My husband (Canadian) turns away in disgust!
"Why are those (watermelons) that tiny?"
Because they are bread for flavour and not size. It's the same with apples. Ours are usually closer to (but still bigger than) tennis ball sized.
The "urinal" is a sink for water/juice rests from the bottles :)))
Hi Ryan - here is some information about the REWE shopping trip:
The stainless steel basin in the middle of the deposit stations is for rinsing out the bottles (if there is still content in them) and for cleaning hands, because the bottles are often sticky.
The pretzels are usually oven-fresh (baked behind the sales counter) and usually cost 29 euro cents. The various types of baked rolls are also popular - 6-10 pieces between 1.49 and 1.99 euros (very good for the air fryer).
The sausage in demand is black pudding in natural casing.
The eggs have such a high sales cycle (usually daily) that they do not need to be refrigerated.
BTW - "Ja!" - (English "Yes") refers to the own brand, which is much cheaper than the same product as a branded product.
Only one thing would be even more awesome. He switched the language at the Pfand machine to englisch but the receipt was still written in englisch. You got a job to do REWE
2:32 The cards inside were special carts (for parents with infants) and small carts, the regular carts are outside (with REWE it's mostly right next to the entrance, though the carts can also sometimes be stored in separate smaller shelters in the parking lot).
"I don't know how cornflakes get A"
Because those specific ones are probably completely unsweetened. Just corn flour, water and salt as base ingredients. WITH milk that would probably be a B or even C.
Rewe also has a meat or cheese counter where you can get fresh things.
The sausage you found strange should have been a tongue sausage, that's what we call it
The tongue sausage consists of 60% pork tongue, 25% smoked pork bacon, 10% pork blood and 5% pork rind as a binding agent to ensure the sausage's cut resistance.
The crust of the bread is the best of everything. When I visit my Mom and we went shopping, there is actually a race at home who gets the crust.😂
Rabbit is not a meat you would buy in this meat section however it is a meat that you can get easily in autumn and it is a very common meat in Italian cuisine (they don't really eat chicken in Italy, that's just American Italian restaurants, they eat more seafood and rabbit, maybe beef or veal but no chicken).
About the cereal: we don't really eat that a lot, Kellogs is one of the only brands we have. We prefer Müsli or Granola. Müsli is just a mixture of oats, dried fruits and nuts. It usually doesn't contain much sugar and is actually healthy. We eat it with Quark, Joghurt or Milk and some fresh cut (mostly season) fruits.
I'm seasick, what is he doing with the Camera 📷 🤔
He let the camera 5 minutes alone in the alcohol area and ... zap ... the camera is drunken.
@Michael_from_EU_Germany So war es also! ; )
Yes, I'm getting nauseous by watching him operate the camera.
9:17 With REWE there is 99.9% of the time a butcher section and with their standard store layout it's in the far right corner of the store (when entering the store and turning right at the bread display you look past the vegetables and straight ahead towards the butcher). What's noteworthy is that the butcher is not run by REWE, instead its a local butcher that acts as a contractor for REWE, meaning the produce is always local. (Also, Germany features less supermarkets like REWE and Kaufland, instead discounter stores like Netto, Aldi and LIDL are a lot more common and those do not feature a butcher).
The 'bag' for ground meat is to reduce packaging and they also take up less space when packing.
And you can taste the difference, never buy those.
@@tigersilberhannes9153 They also sell organic (bio) meat in bags. I don't think that the tray vs. bag makes a difference in taste.
Sure it doesn't replace the butcher which knew the animal before slaughter and can tell you all about it when he cuts you a piece. But I would not say every meat in a bag or tray is bad.
Yeah, Aldi and Rewe are both grocery stores. But there are some differences.
The major one is that Aldi is a discounter.
So Rewe will have more items and a wider variety while being more expensive.
But also while Aldi stores are part of the Aldi company, there are more options for Rewe. Some are part of the company, some are franchise and some are a total run by an owner on their own just stocking certain products from Rewe.
So the one Rewe around here is rather small, but the owner does only the minimal franchise, so they stock a lot of different items compared to the other Rewe around here, that is a corporate own. Then again, the bigger store also has more non-food items like bicycle equipment 😃
You get your cart in the parking lot where other people left it in a litte „house“. Not only don’t you need someone to push them around but also you save space inside the building. And people don’t let them all over the place in the parking lot. That’s German efficiency for you.
doors prevent the cool from leaking out too much so it takes a bit less electricity to keep cool
Those "Giant lemons" Are Melons. Honey Melons to be exact.
"ja!" is the cheap "no-name" store brand from Rewe, that is in a similar price range to Aldi and Lidl, so they can compete with them
First. That big yellow ball is a honey melon! Very sweet!
Yes the shopping carts are always outside. Inside are just carts for children or those that the employ
ées might use for example to sort things :)
Why, why, why do you always add an "s" at the end of Aldi?
Do you think maybe the "i" feels lonely there all alone at the end of the word?
So sad he skipped the alcohol section and specifically the beer aisles ;-)
I was thinking that too. What a waste of a filmed shopping trip if you don't show the beer section 😀
Guess, that's due to TH-cam restrictions.
I like that, cause I hate alcohol
"Nobody eats the crust" hurts me deeply. I can't have a lot of carbs for getting-fat-again reasons, but the crust of real and good bread is a at least as good as the crumb. Bad bread has bad crust ofc, but bad bread isn't worth eating at all.
The cripsy crust of real, freshly baked bread (read: no toast bread) is _divine._ I like it better than the soft inner part.
18:32 The big walls are, in fact, a Covid thing. Almost every store set up plexy glass walls, at least between cashier and customer, and even busses still have similar things hanging between the driver and the passengers. Those big walls are uncommon, though, but I can see why they put them up with the two registers this close to each other
The last piece of bread is called "Knust" and no, it will eaten too.😁😉 And no, we show our prices not in $, we use €.
what do you mean nobody eats the end part of a bread? This is literally the best part of a bread ‼‼‼ 🤣
Best part of real bread, not american bread😄
It depends on the bread.
Americans are not used to real bread, and if you think of that dry end to a loaf of toast... understandable they don't want it.
The best thing about a loaf of bread is that little piece at the end where only crust is! My family will fight about those two pieces just for the fun of it 😂
most bottles have a return price in europe it may not be alot but it gives a reason to return them
The "butts" are cut off and used to make breadcrumbs in the factory. The new refridgeration units all come with doors to save energy.
Major difference in product presentation: In Germany you seldom have more than one facing for each product, other than the US where Walmart has two meters of one variety of just one product.
"JA" is not a manufacturing company, it is a private label of the REWE Group.
Rewe buys branded products in very large quantities and uses its own packaging. Due to the huge purchasing volumes, they have a good margin and can offer the products much cheaper than the "original".
The role model here is ALDI.
"Deutlich günstiger" ??? ist ein dehnbarer Begriff. Sagt eigentlich nichts.
@@Michael_from_EU_Germany Beispiel : "Jacobs Krönung" in original Verpackung ~7,59€, "ALDI GOLD" (gleiches Produkt) 5,89€
@@alexanderblume5377 Sie sagen also: Tagsüber füllt Jacobs die Kaffebohnen XYZ in Jacobs Tüten und die gleichen Kaffeebohnen nachts in gleicher Qualität in ALDI Tüten?
Habe ich das richtig verstanden?
Wenn ich das so richtig verstanden haben, gibt es chemische Untersuchungen von Ökotest oder Warentest in Auftrag gegeben, die das belegen?
@@Michael_from_EU_Germany Was glaubst du wo die ganzen Eigenmarken (JA, GutundGünstig, die Aldimarken usw.) hergestellt werden? In geheimen unterirdischen Fabriken?
@@alexanderblume5377 Die Google Recherche ergibt: Jacobs stellt keinen Kaffee für ALDI her!
Du erzählst Schwachsinn!
Suchwörter
Wer steckt hinter dem Discounter-Kaffee?
If you put a string on he bottle and pull it back there will be an alarm ;) They would catch you asap. And normaly the bottles spin inside the tube. So the machine will learn what you do asap ;)
The „last“ piece of bread is IMO the best part 🤣🤣
I always put a copious amount of Mett on there
03:20 Das mit der Schnur an den Pfandflaschen wurde am Anfang gemacht doch die Supermärkte haben schnell die Automaten verbessert.
Just "Aldi" without the s at the end
One thing to remember is that we have a more 'decentralized' system with more smaller shops close by than huge far away stadiums.
Within 5 mins I have 2 Lidl, 2 Aldi, 2 Edeka, 1 Rossmann, 1DM (drugstores) and some other shops. Larger stores, compared to a small Walmart are like 10-15 mins away.
So while the selection might look small, it is rather small in numbers stocked.
"I love the Nutri-Score"
What a stupid thing to say.
4:38 i actually recently had the "butt" of the bread when i purchased some sandwich bread, but even that wasnt a full end piece and seemed like they sliced a thin layer off to be more like an average slice. crust on fresh bread is actually amazing. nothing better than fresh, still warm onion bread and putting a bit of salted butter on the generous first bit you cut off of it.
6:20 watermelon kinda come in all sizes. usually during summer they will stock the regular, large sized ones, which are up to 5 pounds or more. otherwise its easier to keep the smaller ones in stock for the couple people that want them, i guess. in japan they grow square watermelons (by having them grow inside wooden boxes) which are quite expensive and meant as gifts.
8:44 some supermarkets stock small amounts of rarer meats, like rabbit and idk deer and quail, but its not really common, at least in my area. and also its behind plexiglass to use less energy to keep it cool. not all supermarkets do that for refrigerated products.
larger supermarkets have cheese and butcher counters, but really depends on where you shop. i think in my hometown, only 2 out of the 7 or 8 supermarkets/discounters have them.
12:20 someone probably already pointed it out, but "ja!" is REWEs own discount brand. its simply pronounced like the german word for "yes". [oh you got it yourself shortly after]
Nutri Score for Cookie Crisp is apparently a C, from a quick google search.
3:44 in. I just said our shopping carts where outside. And, yes. Look at the size of those shopping carts.
They are for shildren and the red plastic ones are for when you just have a few things to buy (wouldn't be practical to store those little things outside... the big ones take up a lot of space inside tho)
children*
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You are correct on Ja! being the store brand.
...but it is not pronounced as _cha_ but _ya._
@@McGhinch The German word "ja" literally means "yes".
@@ONITOPIA I didn't dispute that -- I reflected on Ryan's pronunciation.
@@McGhinch I didn't dispute anything either. 🤗
Rewe is different from Aldi, yes. There is more variety with each food and everything is nicely displayed. At Aldi you have one sort of Camembert cheese, one sort of cream cheese and so on.. Everything just one thing and it's all simply stacked in the shelfs. (Easier to put in and therefor cheaper when you think about the labour that goes into stacking the shelves).
Update: ALDI has been remodelling its shops for years. Where this has already happened, there is no longer any visual difference to REWE.
Hi Ryan! Concerning the Nutri-Score you mentioned and liked: It's a double-edged sword and your reaction already shows why. It was a bit of a compromise between what lawmakers and citizen groups wished for (an actual scoring for how healthy something is) and what the industry was willing to accept. The twist is the Nutri-Score only rates a product COMPARED to other products OF THAT CATEGORY. So you basically take some of the worst stuff, as you said maybe from America, somewhere available in Germany and all the other cereals and within the "cereal category" (not sure how far the categories are spread) the product is COMPARATIVELY an A. And you showed why some people/groups already discuss abandoning it again: It can do more harm than good, because you first think "Oh that's an A, so I can eat it, it's healthy". No.
It's like saying venom 1 has an A-Nutri-Score since it doesn't kill as fast as venom 24.
The last piece of the Bread is called "Kanten" here in Germany and in some Bakeries they will ask if you want to have it or not when they cut the bread for you.
With toast bread like the one you talked about it's usually not included but normal packaged bread usually includes the full loaf.
ye and some people swear on it they allways want the kanten if possible
Actually, that end piece of bread is one of the things that is famously called differently in every region of Germany 😆 If you said "Kanten" where I come from, nobody would know what you are talking about. Knapp/Knäppchen or Knust would be the options here in Westfalia 😊
@@stefantegethoff5523 Right that's actually just the dialect word I most know, as with most different bakery items the name really changes depending on the region in Germany. Actually in the region near Stuttgart where I live in most people would just say "Randstück" haha
For us it's called Gnetzla ❤
You meant "Knust" ;) (ok, Knust (bread end) and Griebsch (apple core) are the things with over 100 dialect words in the German language)
I love how he films the ground and the lower shelves 80% of the video. It's called "Bückwaren" (bendover-goods), the cheapest products, since people tend to rather grab products on their eye level and of course the supermarkets want to raise the threshold for you to spend less money there.
The best peace of a good bread is the Strieze or Kanten or Knust or Ränftchen or Endstück or Scherzl or Knäppchen or Bubbel* , the end of the bread with all the crunch in it. *Every Region has its own name for this.
yes, but this is true for proper bread from the bakery only. Not for toast or sandwich bread.
4:50 There are different regional name for this first + last piece: Bugl, Knäusle, Riebele, Rand, Ranft, Kanten, Knorze, Knüstchen, Knäppchen, Knerzla, Knust, Knut, ... - and we do eat it, sometimes it is even especially ordered (like in Vienna: „A Eitrige, an Bugl und a 16er-Blech“ means „a Käsekrainer (a smoked boiled sausage containing up to 20% cheese), an end piece of bread and a can of Ottakringer beer) or the name is also used for a certain kind of big bread rolls, but without the diminutive (Knauzen instead of Knäuzle). But our Knäuzle are rather crispy...
6:30 Some varieties of water melon are bigger than others. And often people prefer the smaller ones because the big ones often spoil before you've eaten all of it or because some smaller ones taste more intensive.
8:10 Yes, interesting: tongue sausage (a boiled blood sausage containing pieces of tongue, cut in thin slices). Mostly eaten as deli meat on bread with mustard. The brighter one right of it is probably "weisser Schwartenmagen" = white brawn or head cheese, pieces of cooked pork in a gelatine-based mass, cut in thicker slices to be eaten e.g. with mustard and bread.
9:05 "Ja!" = "Yes!" is the house brand of REWE (usually cheaper than regular brands). (By the way: REWE was originally an acronym for Revisionsverband der Westkauf-Genossenschaften = Western Buying Co-operatives Auditing Association, founded in 1927 as a purchasing syndicate of retailers in the Rhine region and soon evolving into an early franchising system.) Most bigger grocery shops have also a butcher counter, but those branded packages are usually cheaper.
11:20 Kellogg's is big in Germany regarding American style cereals, which is however a rather dwindling market. Most Germans buy nowadays rather something from the Muesli section.
11:40 Typical size for milk is one liter (bottle or tetra pak or other packaging board).
Ja! is the Rewe store brand, that's why it's everywhere.
If you got a good bread the crust is the best of it I love it!
3:13 if the bottle or can exits the machine not by itself (sometimes the bar code or deposit logo can't be read properly) there will be a alarm that states "bottle thief" and the machine shuts down until a employee comes and sets it back. The alarm is not that loud like in a bank robbery but the machine will play a melody or whistle for a few seconds
"ja!" is the brand of "Rewe" like "Kirkland Signature" in Costco or "Great Value" in Walmart
"Rotwurst" is made of blood and lean meat e.g. tongue, spices and a little lard. It's cooked and smoked. Tastes quite nice. Especially with mustard. However, I do only very rarely eat it. It has too many "bad fatty acids". Eggs are fine and safe outside the fridge here.
I've watched many videos now where they say that it's all a big lie with these so called "bad fatty acids".
And it really goes with what I already thought about that whole "good" and "bad" fatty acids propaganda.
Dr. Eric Berg was one of those channels, if I remember correctly, but there were more.
@@Der_Kleine_Mann Maybe it's a lie, maybe it's true. I do not feel competent to make a reliable judgement. So what I do is: I eat this once in a while. Like other meaty or buttery components of my "diet". Or like chocolate or alcohol. For the main part, I try to consume vegetables and pulses. My parents are both in their mid 90ties and a lot healthier than most "younger oldies" that I know. Thus, I feel, eating roughly like them might be right for me...
the yellow fruit is a honey melone
We have cookie crisp in germany too, it has a nutri score of C
You mentioned the piece of the bread that nobody eats. It is called Knäuschen in the part of Germany where i live. As a child i loved eating it because it was so crusty all over.
Yeah, but only from real bread. What americans call bread is toast for us. And no one likes the end piece of toast ;-)
@@zeero4ever Yes, makes sense 🤔
6:00 the tiny water melons are literally Mini-Wassermelonen/mini water melons. They are selectively bred to be smaller and more flavorful. They are also a lot easier to store in your fridge. One of the typical huge water melons takes multiple large servings to be eaten up, so there's a good chance it will spoil in a small household.
In Europe, there are shopping carts with only 2 wheels turning - they're at the "Baumarkt" or Ikea... I'm glad the grocery store crats have 4 turning wheels... so you can turn them on the spot if you forgot something.
You were right when you said Ja! is the store's own brand. It's REWE's "cheap" home brand - like K-Classic for "Kaufland" (which I prefer for grocery shopping because they're great with their selection)
We have carts inside and outside for the most part so you can return them wherever you want.
And yea the trick with string at the bottle cap...that was very popular at the beginning with those machines 😂
thats becouse most stores dont want to make room for carts inside they perfer to have wares on most floor space theres a budget store in finland that even have some wares inside the doors and outside checkout as they asume people dont steal in new york especially that would be impossible
Oh thank you algorithm for reminding me to go to the rewe grocery store 😀🥰 greetings from Germany
RYAN, WHY THE EFF DO YOU SAY SHIT LIKE ITS A " DOLLAR 79" ? NO, ITS A EURO 79 !
The video you reacted to was... I don't even know what to say. I'm sure there are a lot of better videos out there that show the structure and variety of German supermarkets, quality wise 😅
In Spain you can buy whole rabbits and piglets in the meat section.
Main difference to discount stores (Aldi, Lidl etc.): Discount stores pack shelves with boxes of product. Mainly the boxes in wich thy are delivered and produced. Rewe and Edeka pack everything stacked and sorted individualy. Rewe/Edeka have a higher range of brands, of course. In addition we have 'superstores' (not equal to US) like Globus and Kaufland that I'd consider a combination of brand and discount stores.
Concerning baging: I think I read stories about some shops giving it a try, but the majority of people rejected it. Guess we want to be in control!