The German breakfast was a shock to me. I stayed with a family and they gave some crazy dense bread, soft cheese, a slice of cake and brutally dark coffee. It was really good though.
@@iracture I come to think that the British in America and on the Island thinned out their bread and thats how Toast was born. I assume that the English had the same type of bread befrore (similar). If you thin out the dough you make more bread, thus more pounds (Kg's & $'s). In times of inflation or when grain is expensive or when not enough grain is available thinning out the dough could have a counter effect on missing nutrition. I once read a poem (song) of German Americans on the east coast of the USA speaking of this thinned out bread. I keep looking for it but cant find it anymore.
I have a couple of friends with a German mother. Every time we were eating together and their mother would say "today we try something new" they would look at each other and mutter "we are screwed"...😂
I really enjoy this. Being Czech working with both Germans and Brits it makes me laugh hard. Also it is funny how much we have in common with Germans in these little things.
I live in America now, but I am half British and half Norwegian. I feel the same way about all three countries (all are great in their own way), so I get what you mean, mate. :)
I lived in Germany for 5 years in Osnabruck when I was in the British Army. Loved living there it was way more cleaner and organized than England. Just wish I could have spoken German better. Our old base used to be an SS training camp, which seemed kind of odd at first. I had tons of respect for the German people, they were disciplined and some of the hardest working people I ever met. Wonderful country and people that actually respect their country.
I was an English brickie in Osnabruck in the 90's I used to get time off every morning to visit the British barracks to buy PG tips and newspapers. It was also handy that they had a Halifax near to send all my money home without paying any fees. :)
My grandmother was Polish she was held prison at the work camp in Osnabruck during WWII and my dad was born there. They came to England with my grandad as refugees later. My Polish grandparents never spoke badly about Russians or Germans. Maybe because I was young, I was 12 & then 19 when they died, but part of me thinks it was because they'd lived through what hate can do and didn't want to spread anymore hatred. I don't hold anything against either nation, even after discovering the horrors my family/ancestors went through, even with the current Ukraine situation. I know the vast majority of regular people from all countries want peace for themselves and with each other. One Love.
Haha, they did not really won the war. There ist no document that shows that the Allies won the war. We made a suggestion to lay down the weapons and they killed more Germans after the war then during the war against approx. the whole world. Actually the war would have been over for the Britons already in 1940 at Dunkirk, when Hitler decided not to kill the rest of your army and let them flee to help their british wifes in the kitchen ;-) We would have won the war even if our own dishonorable people (our current government, which, by the way, is in office illegally and serves the enemy, is made up of the worst traitors the world has ever seen) had not committed excessive sabotage and treachery against us. Why do so many files still remain closed to the world public? Who benefits from it? Censorship only serves the liar and cheater. And what does it look like today in the multicultural countries of our enemies, who have not yet noticed that we are in the same boat and are being played off against each other by those who control the money and the media worldwide? It is time for the Germans to finally get a peace treaty after more than 100 years so that the old war and trade treaties can be dissolved, which to this day have disastrous consequences for the freedom of the former states, which are now just companies that are easier to get are expropriated.
As a Brit myself I have and the only time we discussed about it was when were at a museum, but I never talk down on someone who wasn’t even alive during such a dark chapter of human history, just because their nation may have been opposed to mine in the past, I have alot of German friends some I consider to be brothers despite not being related 🇬🇧❤🇩🇪
Haha! I had to laugh at all these awkward situations. Some of them made me feel sorry for the English guy, especially complaining in a restaurant. It reminds me of a sentence I heard from a british comedian. She said at a point: "I was so livid, I was considering to complain!". Thanks so much for this video!
I am Italian and get mad when my wife (who is English) does not complain when somebody is rude or inefficient. Watching this video, I realised I am more German than Italian! 😂😂😂
7:38 That's literally the definition of practicing "KEEP CALM, AND CARRY ON", something I admire about the Brits. Instead of venting frustrations (i.e. train being late) just hope everything works out in the end and drink a cuppa to calm the nerves~!
The Brit only drinks FOUR cups of tea per day?!?!??? Most of us Brits get through 8 to 12 cups every day. Two hours without tea and I'm hallucinating! Fun video. Painfully true. Most of us like being a bit weird compared with other Europeans tbh.
The quirkiness of Britain! I LOVE IT! My German fiancé recently saw the national British shield with the lion and the unicorn and he said: that explains a lot 😂
I'm half English half Polish born, raised, and always lived in England. I've always enjoyed herbal teas especially lemon balm/melissa. My English friends and family thought I was weird. When I found out that it is just normal in Poland and lots of people enjoy lemon balm/melissa I felt so vindicated and joyful that my Polish genes have been coming through strong with no training 😅 🤍❤ Pozdrawiam serdecznie!
@hmvollbanane1259 The houses built in the 50s and 60s in the UK are palatial by comparison with new builds. Same number of rooms but bigger rooms so they are multi purpose. Houses built then were similarly sized. I've been down cul-de-sacs with new builds on and the further you get from the main road the bigger the houses so they have four or more bedrooms with two garages. The Victorian villas were the biggest often with three or four floors to house servants as well and stables at the back. Nobody could afford to buy one of those houses so they get turned into flats or used for business purposes with a flat upstairs.
@@hmvollbanane1259But a much higher proportion of people in the UK live in houses or single family homes than in Germany or houses converted into flats. Living in purpose built apartment buildings is less common.
Priorities. I used to have the same load of teas. Fun fact, I am German and moved to the UK in 2018. In the beginning I was really suffering because I was not able to buy my usual herbal teas and flavoured black teas, but now after 5 years I am converted, I cannot stand all of the herbal teas any more and drink Breakfast Tea or sometimes Early Grey pretty much the whole day. When I last visited Germany I couldn't bring myself to drink the calming evening herbal tea I was offered and couldn't wake up the next day without some proper English tea :-)
3:13 Wow, you drink Darjeeling tea! I'm from West Bengal, India. Darjeeling is our nearby hill station. This place is one of the best tea producing area. BTW, I went to Berlin last year for visit when I was in Poland for Erasmus program. I can relate to many of your videos. Love from Kolkata, India. ❤
German here who used to live in the UK for a few years. I relate so hard. The tea situation over there was really disappointing for me at first, but I ended up loving English Breakfast tea (PG tips, I miss you😢). The bread situation, though...it's dire. Had the whole toast isn’t bread argument too many times to count 😂
As a Brit who's lived in Germany, Austria, the Netherlands, Spain and SA I agree about the bread situation here being dire. Even in a gigantic warehouse supermarket the ''fresh'' bread section is pathetic and there is a 20 metre long aisle filled on both sides with Toastbrot. Fortunately Lidl came here and I can buy Broetchen and decent fresh loaves, also Pumpernickel.
When I lived in England I started baking my own focaccia (the easiest Italian bread to make) because to me toast isn't bread. Funnily enough all my English friends loved my home-made focaccia too...demonstrating that taste buds are predisposed in English babies too: the just need to be activated.
can I intervene here? living in Germany for 20 odd years,I still don't know what 90 percent of the bread and Brötchens in der Bäckereiare are called and neither do most Germans ;) Kaisersemmel/brötchen is probably the only one I know when I see it at the Bäckereiare
My husband is British and I'm American. This video was hilarious. However we have many herbal teas in the pantry and he likes them, too.😂 I watch your videos while exercising and they make me laugh. Thanks..
Every time he takes his tea set out no matter where, reminds me of us, Argentines, we carry our mate set everywhere we go and drink mate all the time! 😂
I looove German food and breakfast ! Just visit Germany for a week , but it was more than enough to get the concept of the breakfast . I am Bulgarian and my cupboard is also only different herbal teas, many , many , different herbal teas !
Honestly, I can’t imagine there even being more than three types of tea in my cabinet, and I only usually hold one type as it is. PG tips or Yorkshire tea.😆
Yes! We are PA Dutch and my mom has an entire lazy susan corner cabinet of different tea options. And she watches Midsommar and is absolutely incredulous that they put milk in the cup first and then tea because she drinks her tea plain 😂
@@danielwhyatt3278 A British friend of mine got to me try Yorkshire tea before. I have to add something like sugar or Honey to it cause it's to dry for me.
I loved this 😆 Being English, I relate to lots of this... the apologising when I haven't done anything wrong, not wanting to bother people, enjoy sub-par weather, the PG tips and then the tea generally.. it made me laugh out loud 😆 I went to Leipzig for a week earlier in the year and had to scout out some black/everyday tea and bought some long-life milk so I could have 'proper tea' for the week 😅I went to a hotel in Munich last year too and there was no kettle at all, I was distraught..
@@undeadwerewolves9463 Don't worry, a good variety of black tea is available in all German supermarkets, and all hotels offer some black tea for breakfast. Kettle in the room isn't a thing though. Germany even contains a region where they celebrate their tea more than the British: East Frisia. But the rest of the country isn't like that.
@@xaverlustig3581 I come from a region close to East Frisia and tea is an absolute must throughout the whole day. If you get used to this tea culture and then move to other parts in Germany it is the first thing you will notice. The kettle situation in hotels is a hit and miss. I have found a kettle more often than not in hotel rooms in bigger German cities but it is definitely not the norm.
Damn 😂😂 These types of videos are my favorites! I love the funny aspects of your comparisons when you make a video about "when people from X come to Germany."!
The sausage sandwich had me rolling!!!!😂😂😂😂 I was on the floor when the other guy slapped it outta his hands!!! Don't eat that!!!! I'm dying!!!! 😂😂😂😂😂😅😅
The brit is right. Not every beer needs to be cooled (or just a little lower than room temperature). Take that from a bavarian. If you can't stand "warm" beer at all then that beer isn't really good. It is good beer when it is still kinda ok although warm. But sure, northern-German bitter pisswater is not bearable above +4°C. Cooling kills aroma and if you have to cool it...
I’ve had the TEA situation at my friend’s house once (but apparently she is from Ukraine, not UK) - she had like 15 kinds of tea including a kiwi tea (who the hell even thought that a kiwi flavor in the tea is a good idea?!), and NO regular tea at all!
That sounds like my Czech mom, I am always looking for some normal black tea or earl grey and it's always somewhere hidden that I am looking for it like 10 minutes. I hate it when they offer me a tea which is not made of tea leaves, it's not a tea the hell, don't do that. 😀
@@Pidalin I used to live in Prague and to be honest I don’t think I ever saw any Czech person drink tea lol. Only coffee in the morning and beer after 5pm 😁 I’m pretty sure they have a better selection of beers in comparison with flavored tea options available 😅
I work with British people and I approve of this video - what was missing though was them insisting on watching a rugby/football/cricket match instead of sightseeing or clubbing 🤣 Also, using English expressions you've never heard before because they are e.g. from Yorkshire. An idea for a video: explore my hometown of Poznań/Posen (we also like many different teas 🤣)
@@voyance4elle The joke is that most Brits would go for something with a familiar name like PG Tips, Yorkshire or Breakfast rather than exotic sounding Darjeeling, although their favourite brand my actually use tea from Darjeeling 🤣 (well, PG Tips is actually Kenyan, not Indian). It's as if tea was supposed to grow in the UK. Same thing happens with Jesus, many Christians prefer him white, blonde and... ehm... Christian rather than Jewish.
Love it! And yeah, all this "only one type of tea" thing makes me so confused, hahaha. It's the same in Ireland, and they always laugh at me when I drink other types of tea other than the Irish Breakfast tea 😅
The violin whenever English set is brought out!! 😂😂 As someone who lived in Germany, the tea is accurate. Not even in Mauritius, my natal country, do we have that large collection of tea. 😂
I have family in Germany (Munich though, I know, I know, i didn't chose it either). Whenever we visit them, the supermarket tea isle feels like you've died from a tea overdose and gone to tea heaven. Whenever they visit us, they bring... Interesting kinds of tea 😊
I can't believe I ran across your videos after a whole lot of years. WOW! How exciting!!! I used to watch them religiously, then they just disappeared. I'm so glad to watch them again.
This proves what I had only read about; that the reason the Brits did not achieve their goal of taking Caen on June 6 is that they had to stop for their afternoon tea!!
That's so true. I lived in Germany for 5 months and I have lived in the UK for 10 months already. British habits are strange indeed compared to Germany. No usual bread, instead toast bread everywhere. Pretty strange beer without gas. Only grilled sausages. Meanwhile weather in Germany was about 32 in Cambridge it was like 18. Houses in the UK are just a disaster, cold, thin, cheap, the floor is so cold so nobody takes off street shoes on the ground floor. About 9-10 months per year u have to heat the house. But what I love about the UK is the culture of small talks. Decent tea, variety and quality of milk products and... that's it
But to be fair, i dont think any of those boxes contained teas, they're just (mostly fruit) infusions. Even the darjeeling is a little too weak to drink with milk... but if thats all you have. Btw, its true, its not uncommon for a Brit to travel with a few teabags hidden in his luggage, my uncle even takes a mini kettle for use in hotel rooms 😁
" dont think any of those boxes contained teas, they're just (mostly fruit) infusions."- Precisely. What is going on insidie the British mind when a Brit is looking at such "tea collection" would be "I cannot wait for the moment when we will finally come across any kind of tea among all those herbal infusions of yours..."
We will sneak a kettle into anything. Apparently we even had kettles built into our tanks at one point because the tankers would so often leave the tank for a cuppa and get shot. Now they can make their lovely brew inside the giant hunk of metal. 😁☕️🇬🇧
As an American who once spent two weeks touring the UK, I can tell you that English breakfast tea with milk was a true revelation to me, and I will never again drink any other kind of tea.
For me (a Brit) I find English breakfast tea soothing and relaxing. For me, flavoured tea doesn't feel like much substance, and the smell of warmed unusual flavours make me gag a bit 😅
🤣🤣 You forgot to have the Brit inquire about a side of peas! I'm American (specifically, southern)and my Gran was from England. She would begrudgingly make "iced tea" for my dad. 🤣 Went to Scotland for honeymoon and they gave me the stink eye when I would ask for "a cup'a" along with a glass of ice. 😄 I inquired if they might have something similar to ham steak (thick slice of ham) and had to have someone at a neighboring table translate what I was referring to. 😆
5:00 I'm not British but this gives me existential crisis. I have several mugs of black tea on my table and this is all i drink. I don't know why i don't have other kinds of tea
All true! 😁 After living in Berlin and then moving to London, I realised how much I had adapted to and appreciated German bread and cheese. The English have no idea about such things. I started to regret the move. Mind you, at least in the UK, I could get a decent cup of tea. German black tea is like dish water. 😃
Czech black tea is like gray dish water! Beer is cheap, too, which is great, but "coffee" is ubiquitously Turkish coffee, unless (sometimes) you specify otherwise. I prefer German food to Czech food, but they are not hugely dissimilar. Whenever in Britian--which I love---I tend to go to foreign restaurants, depending on where I am and if they're available. Cheers from the Czech Republic to you all!
@@peterkroupa4124 I did the same in the UK, and sought out speciality suppliers. I had to go to London Bridge Markets to find decent bread, cheese and other continental products.
@@LeoPlaw We are a German family living in Wales and we have finally ought a breadmaker to bake our own as we could no longer stand the soft and squishy sliced bread/toast
But on the other hand I now bring back some PG tips or other breakfast tea when we are visiting family in Germany as I can no longer stand the black tea there, tastes like you said gray dish water ;-)
@@helenebach3440 I feel your desperation. =) But I wonder what happened to British bread. They must have at some point in time shared a similar bread culture with the continent. BTW, French bread is a disaster also. Germans do the best bread and dairy products.
This was so funny. You guys are hysterical. As an American I can appreciate both the German and British perspectives. I had to encounter them in my travels. This was hands down one of your best. 🇬🇧🥇🇩🇪 Well done mates.
I like this channel. This make us aware every country have a culture. That why we all so unique. There is nothing wrong being different. 😁 We need to respect other country and culture so we can appreciate others
So nice to see - two friends talking and discussing the different characters or manners of two related countries. Even if it is not immediately obvious, it is still evident from our similar language and one more thing. I once heard from a good friend from East Germany that there are areas in the north where they understand the English language or parts of it.
you nailed the tea thing. I was in a restaurant in Hungary and a British person wanted tea for breakfast. She was offered all kinds of flavored teas then freaked out because they did not have plain black tea.
It's a "must" to have because it's not the same as hot flavoured water 🤪 English tea with milk is relaxing, soothing and filling. Most flavoured teas smell weird, and just feel like drinking strange flavoured hot water. There's no "substance" to it.
Russians obsessed with tea some-time at the same levels as British people. So I completely understand this British guy. And I also can drink one kind of tea for months. Only one thing shocked me here. Why British guy use tea bags and not actual long-leaf tea
I do not agree about drinking one kind of a tee, but totally agree about tea bags, if you going to drink just plain black tee you should at least make it the right way, and tea bags isn't the right way.
What Russians do to tea in British terms is a sacrilege. Since drinking the same black tea for 2 days or more is completely off putting for any self respecting British tea lover.
@lemsip207 I think that's a joke in the video because British people who need to drink tea outside without buying tea normally drink straight from the flask.
Haha ONE MILLION PERCENT that's us Brits 😀 There's not one thing you got wrong there brother. I love sausage sandwiches just like your friend made - although it would have to have brown sauce on. But, when in Rome and all that I absolutely love love love your Wurst. So tasty and a massive selection. I'll be back again in November for the 7th time and I'm counting the days. Much love
This had me laughing so much. 😂 I’m a Brit, who has lived abroad for most of my life, & discovered the delights of fruit & herbal teas whilst visiting family friends in Austria back in my teens. It was a revelation to me & I was hooked! I ‘m a bit of a British outlier in that I really don’t like normal English tea, I can only really handle earl grey tea, definitely without milk too. I’m the only one in my family that’s like this, (the ubiquitous black sheep). The bread thing is also another area where I much prefer the continental rye breads & I thank god for the current craze on sourdough breads in the uk. I love the German/Austrian/Swiss/Scandinavian style meals, especially the breakfasts. So delicious & generally healthier. It would have been even funnier if the skit had of included the classic British thing of a thermos flask of hot tea whilst picnicking, or when having a pit stop on the side of the road on a long car journey or a day out. 😂
I went from Hungary to England for three weeks in the eighties. I tasted bread in England. I'm sorry, but it was similar to when I chewed the edge of my exercise book as a child. When I was a child, my grandmother baked sourdough bread and other delicacies in the furnace, which was in every yard in a village at that time. I have been living in the city for a long time. Large shopping centers also appeared here e.g. penny, lidl, tesco etc. where you can get all kinds of bread (from toast to German bread and various domestic breads). Domestic bakeries have sourdough breads and pastries (delicious ones are healthier without food additives and technological aids: preservatives, emulsifiers etc. ).
I just finished volunteering at a museum in the UK, where sometimes the line could be up to an hour long. My supervisor once told me that on really busy days, when the line would loop around the square and be almost 4 hours, there’d be people who wait through the whole line only to get to the front and ask, “So what’s this line for?” Apparently British people love cueing so much that sometimes they don’t even need a good reason for it? 😂
@@Dave-r4uExactly. The myth stems from the fact we like to queue NICELY (rather than a mess of people with no idea what's happening). We don't actually like the queuing itself.
I'll never understand how Brits only drink one type of tea 😂
We don't
They forgot to plunder taste buds
@@NamelyGiseamo funny how people always attack the British but ignore what the Scandinavian countries did or Italy
@@michaeldunham3385Don’t most people drink a “builder’s tea” or “builder’s brew”? Well, posh people drink something different… or so I have heard …🤔
Because it's perfect.
The German breakfast was a shock to me. I stayed with a family and they gave some crazy dense bread, soft cheese, a slice of cake and brutally dark coffee. It was really good though.
Initially the German bread was a shock and now after moving to the USA I crave the breakfast plate at Manufactum and its textured brot.
sounds nice
@@iracture I come to think that the British in America and on the Island thinned out their bread and thats how Toast was born. I assume that the English had the same type of bread befrore (similar). If you thin out the dough you make more bread, thus more pounds (Kg's & $'s). In times of inflation or when grain is expensive or when not enough grain is available thinning out the dough could have a counter effect on missing nutrition.
I once read a poem (song) of German Americans on the east coast of the USA speaking of this thinned out bread. I keep looking for it but cant find it anymore.
I love german bread.
I have a couple of friends with a German mother. Every time we were eating together and their mother would say "today we try something new" they would look at each other and mutter "we are screwed"...😂
I really enjoy this. Being Czech working with both Germans and Brits it makes me laugh hard. Also it is funny how much we have in common with Germans in these little things.
1000 years of common history
It's also amazing how much we have in common with Germany here in Bulgaria
so true, but we love Ale :D
@@Desperoro I think Germans call it "Aber" :-D
chechs are slavs not germanic. They are Untermensch and can't judge germanic people
I'll never tire of the "this isn't bread, this is toast!" bit xD
Calling toast bread should be outlawed!
Toast is bread 🍞😂
@@HollowRick "Toast is bread " is almost a declaration of war in worst case; Toast is a failed simulation of bread in best case . :-)
The same in the US 😅
@@HollowRick No toast is boring cake
Grabbing beers in the supermarket and thinking "Oh damn that's so cheap" was literally me hahaha.
I’m half English/ half German… there are lots of things to love about both countries ❤
I live in America now, but I am half British and half Norwegian. I feel the same way about all three countries (all are great in their own way), so I get what you mean, mate. :)
We is brothers.
We are brothers. Same family branch: Germanic language, culture, blood.
Does the left side of your body fight with the right? Just taking the piss ;)
Can I mention the War?
As a British guy who’s been living in Germany for 12 years , I can relate to the truth in this video 😂😂😂
Is it true that when a Brit gets offered a Darjeeling or an Eaerl Grey, they would prefer the PG?? ☕
As an American who has lived in Bamberg the last 30 years, this looks like "Noob" me versus "Eingedeutscht" me.
@@voyance4elle absolutely true!
@@voyance4elle well to be honest I only drink coffee 😇
Brits do put beer in the fridge though.. 😂😂
I lived in Germany for 5 years in Osnabruck when I was in the British Army. Loved living there it was way more cleaner and organized than England. Just wish I could have spoken German better. Our old base used to be an SS training camp, which seemed kind of odd at first. I had tons of respect for the German people, they were disciplined and some of the hardest working people I ever met. Wonderful country and people that actually respect their country.
I was an English brickie in Osnabruck in the 90's I used to get time off every morning to visit the British barracks to buy PG tips and newspapers. It was also handy that they had a Halifax near to send all my money home without paying any fees. :)
My grandmother was Polish she was held prison at the work camp in Osnabruck during WWII and my dad was born there. They came to England with my grandad as refugees later. My Polish grandparents never spoke badly about Russians or Germans. Maybe because I was young, I was 12 & then 19 when they died, but part of me thinks it was because they'd lived through what hate can do and didn't want to spread anymore hatred. I don't hold anything against either nation, even after discovering the horrors my family/ancestors went through, even with the current Ukraine situation. I know the vast majority of regular people from all countries want peace for themselves and with each other. One Love.
There is no way a Brit can spend that much time with a German and NOT mention winning the war.
Wars. 😎
Yeah, that sucks. And Brits really would have enough own wars to talk about....
Haha, they did not really won the war. There ist no document that shows that the Allies won the war. We made a suggestion to lay down the weapons and they killed more Germans after the war then during the war against approx. the whole world. Actually the war would have been over for the Britons already in 1940 at Dunkirk, when Hitler decided not to kill the rest of your army and let them flee to help their british wifes in the kitchen ;-)
We would have won the war even if our own dishonorable people (our current government, which, by the way, is in office illegally and serves the enemy, is made up of the worst traitors the world has ever seen) had not committed excessive sabotage and treachery against us. Why do so many files still remain closed to the world public? Who benefits from it? Censorship only serves the liar and cheater. And what does it look like today in the multicultural countries of our enemies, who have not yet noticed that we are in the same boat and are being played off against each other by those who control the money and the media worldwide?
It is time for the Germans to finally get a peace treaty after more than 100 years so that the old war and trade treaties can be dissolved, which to this day have disastrous consequences for the freedom of the former states, which are now just companies that are easier to get are expropriated.
As a Brit myself I have and the only time we discussed about it was when were at a museum, but I never talk down on someone who wasn’t even alive during such a dark chapter of human history, just because their nation may have been opposed to mine in the past, I have alot of German friends some I consider to be brothers despite not being related 🇬🇧❤🇩🇪
@@ActionfigureGeek As much as I love most of you Germans.
Haha! I had to laugh at all these awkward situations. Some of them made me feel sorry for the English guy, especially complaining in a restaurant. It reminds me of a sentence I heard from a british comedian. She said at a point: "I was so livid, I was considering to complain!".
Thanks so much for this video!
I am Italian and get mad when my wife (who is English) does not complain when somebody is rude or inefficient. Watching this video, I realised I am more German than Italian! 😂😂😂
7:38 That's literally the definition of practicing "KEEP CALM, AND CARRY ON", something I admire about the Brits. Instead of venting frustrations (i.e. train being late) just hope everything works out in the end and drink a cuppa to calm the nerves~!
The Brit only drinks FOUR cups of tea per day?!?!???
Most of us Brits get through 8 to 12 cups every day. Two hours without tea and I'm hallucinating!
Fun video. Painfully true. Most of us like being a bit weird compared with other Europeans tbh.
How You can sleep at night? One cup of black tea and I am sleepless.
Really curious about the tea budget for a month 😂
"Two hours without tea and I'm hallucinating!" Love it.
The quirkiness of Britain! I LOVE IT! My German fiancé recently saw the national British shield with the lion and the unicorn and he said: that explains a lot 😂
It's simply addictive. Tea is a cure for everyhting. Non-Brites will never understand our connection to tea
Enjoyed? As a Polish guy living for 15 years in the UK I'm literally rolling on the floor.
😂😂😂
Me too German family living in the UK for 5 years
as an english person I am LMAO
Dobre tak 😂😂😂😂😂😂
I'm half English half Polish born, raised, and always lived in England. I've always enjoyed herbal teas especially lemon balm/melissa. My English friends and family thought I was weird. When I found out that it is just normal in Poland and lots of people enjoy lemon balm/melissa I felt so vindicated and joyful that my Polish genes have been coming through strong with no training 😅 🤍❤ Pozdrawiam serdecznie!
I'll never understand how Germans have enough kitchen space for 5 cupboards of different teas 😂
I mean if Brighton is any indication for the rest of your country your houses are tiny in comparison to German ones
Meanwhile in Ukraine: 🌝🌚
@hmvollbanane1259 The houses built in the 50s and 60s in the UK are palatial by comparison with new builds. Same number of rooms but bigger rooms so they are multi purpose. Houses built then were similarly sized.
I've been down cul-de-sacs with new builds on and the further you get from the main road the bigger the houses so they have four or more bedrooms with two garages.
The Victorian villas were the biggest often with three or four floors to house servants as well and stables at the back. Nobody could afford to buy one of those houses so they get turned into flats or used for business purposes with a flat upstairs.
@@hmvollbanane1259But a much higher proportion of people in the UK live in houses or single family homes than in Germany or houses converted into flats. Living in purpose built apartment buildings is less common.
Priorities. I used to have the same load of teas. Fun fact, I am German and moved to the UK in 2018. In the beginning I was really suffering because I was not able to buy my usual herbal teas and flavoured black teas, but now after 5 years I am converted, I cannot stand all of the herbal teas any more and drink Breakfast Tea or sometimes Early Grey pretty much the whole day. When I last visited Germany I couldn't bring myself to drink the calming evening herbal tea I was offered and couldn't wake up the next day without some proper English tea :-)
Просто гениальный актёр! Смотрю выпуск за выпуском. Это шикарно😅
3:13 Wow, you drink Darjeeling tea! I'm from West Bengal, India. Darjeeling is our nearby hill station. This place is one of the best tea producing area. BTW, I went to Berlin last year for visit when I was in Poland for Erasmus program. I can relate to many of your videos. Love from Kolkata, India. ❤
ram ram ji
Most British tea like PG Tips has Darjeeling in the blend.
"DON'T EAT THAT!" I felt that at the molecular level ☠☠☠
(((( *D O N ´ T E A T T H A T* ))))
But Salsiccia is so good 🥺
Me too.. and so true
German here who used to live in the UK for a few years. I relate so hard. The tea situation over there was really disappointing for me at first, but I ended up loving English Breakfast tea (PG tips, I miss you😢). The bread situation, though...it's dire. Had the whole toast isn’t bread argument too many times to count 😂
As a Brit who's lived in Germany, Austria, the Netherlands, Spain and SA I agree about the bread situation here being dire. Even in a gigantic warehouse supermarket the ''fresh'' bread section is pathetic and there is a 20 metre long aisle filled on both sides with Toastbrot. Fortunately Lidl came here and I can buy Broetchen and decent fresh loaves, also Pumpernickel.
When I lived in England I started baking my own focaccia (the easiest Italian bread to make) because to me toast isn't bread. Funnily enough all my English friends loved my home-made focaccia too...demonstrating that taste buds are predisposed in English babies too: the just need to be activated.
Only proper bread here is from a bakery. I’m so jealous of the German bread situation. 😂 please send help to Britain we need real bread!
Who doesn't like sliced bread? It's still bread 😂
can I intervene here? living in Germany for 20 odd years,I still don't know what 90 percent of the bread and Brötchens in der Bäckereiare are called and neither do most Germans ;) Kaisersemmel/brötchen is probably the only one I know when I see it at the Bäckereiare
This is the most polite of these format of videos I've seen. Great job!
These two guys are just delightful, I love their banter and chemistry.
TLDR; I wish I had a friend lol
My husband is British and I'm American. This video was hilarious. However we have many herbal teas in the pantry and he likes them, too.😂 I watch your videos while exercising and they make me laugh. Thanks..
Every time he takes his tea set out no matter where, reminds me of us, Argentines, we carry our mate set everywhere we go and drink mate all the time! 😂
He is very funny.
The tea and sausage gags at the end were classic.
How are you guys not cracking up the whole time? This is funny and brilliant! 😂
Certainly there are outtakes.
We need to see the bloopers!
The harpsichord playing whenever the tea equipment appears…too funny!
I looove German food and breakfast ! Just visit Germany for a week , but it was more than enough to get the concept of the breakfast . I am Bulgarian and my cupboard is also only different herbal teas, many , many , different herbal teas !
I'm Half German and the Tea collection hits close to home. XD
My pantry has like 30 kinds of Tea and get odd looks when i start naming them off.
Same 😂
Honestly, I can’t imagine there even being more than three types of tea in my cabinet, and I only usually hold one type as it is. PG tips or Yorkshire tea.😆
Yes! We are PA Dutch and my mom has an entire lazy susan corner cabinet of different tea options. And she watches Midsommar and is absolutely incredulous that they put milk in the cup first and then tea because she drinks her tea plain 😂
Herb tea is rly common in Germany 😂 and there are many herbs or fruits for tea 😂😂 but green tea is the only real one if u ask me 😅
@@danielwhyatt3278 A British friend of mine got to me try Yorkshire tea before.
I have to add something like sugar or Honey to it cause it's to dry for me.
Can confirm about the meal thing, we often are too polite to bother the waiters if we get the wrong dish.
I'm British and if I get the wrong dish I tell them haha but politely because you don't want someone to spit in your food
Canadians are the same. Don't want to bother anyone.
that's not politeness, if I order white and receive yellow, I'm not unpolite to tell the person paid to bring me the white that they made a mistake.
I have a dear British friend and a dear German friend. I am laughing so hard at this! I have acquired many habits from them both LOL
Had a blast watching this video!!! Love this!!! Well done guys!!!!
That was so funny and kind of cute! Thank you! 😄
Love this. Spent most of my young adult life in the U.K. and swear by breakfast tea
I loved this 😆 Being English, I relate to lots of this... the apologising when I haven't done anything wrong, not wanting to bother people, enjoy sub-par weather, the PG tips and then the tea generally.. it made me laugh out loud 😆 I went to Leipzig for a week earlier in the year and had to scout out some black/everyday tea and bought some long-life milk so I could have 'proper tea' for the week 😅I went to a hotel in Munich last year too and there was no kettle at all, I was distraught..
I don’t think I’ll survive a trip to Germany without my own secret stash of black tea. 😂🤫
@@undeadwerewolves9463 Don't worry, a good variety of black tea is available in all German supermarkets, and all hotels offer some black tea for breakfast. Kettle in the room isn't a thing though. Germany even contains a region where they celebrate their tea more than the British: East Frisia. But the rest of the country isn't like that.
@@xaverlustig3581 I come from a region close to East Frisia and tea is an absolute must throughout the whole day. If you get used to this tea culture and then move to other parts in Germany it is the first thing you will notice. The kettle situation in hotels is a hit and miss. I have found a kettle more often than not in hotel rooms in bigger German cities but it is definitely not the norm.
@@xaverlustig3581 They have three main brands, Bünting, Thiele and Onno Behrends.
Here, in Río de la Plata, we miss "mate" .It is an infussion. We travel with it. Like Suaréz n Cavani do.
I loved how the the strings started to play in the background when the tea cup pops into view.. 😃
You are a brilliant actor. Never failed to make me lought. Danke shaun!
I liked the way he pulled out the tea set, that man, that gentleman...
Same ❤
Damn 😂😂 These types of videos are my favorites! I love the funny aspects of your comparisons when you make a video about "when people from X come to Germany."!
Same 😄
As a near-Austria-living citizen I totally feel your shocking expressions, lmao!
i loved living in Germany, the people the places the food, everything
Man, your British friend and the British’s way of lives is funny. Please do a part 2 with him.
I love these different culture series 👍 Great job!
Another great video! Thank you.
The sausage sandwich had me rolling!!!!😂😂😂😂 I was on the floor when the other guy slapped it outta his hands!!! Don't eat that!!!! I'm dying!!!! 😂😂😂😂😂😅😅
That music gets me 😂 every time he takes out the tea from his book bag.
The brit is right. Not every beer needs to be cooled (or just a little lower than room temperature). Take that from a bavarian. If you can't stand "warm" beer at all then that beer isn't really good. It is good beer when it is still kinda ok although warm. But sure, northern-German bitter pisswater is not bearable above +4°C. Cooling kills aroma and if you have to cool it...
I’ve had the TEA situation at my friend’s house once (but apparently she is from Ukraine, not UK) - she had like 15 kinds of tea including a kiwi tea (who the hell even thought that a kiwi flavor in the tea is a good idea?!), and NO regular tea at all!
Why not? A new taste for every day...
That sounds like my Czech mom, I am always looking for some normal black tea or earl grey and it's always somewhere hidden that I am looking for it like 10 minutes. I hate it when they offer me a tea which is not made of tea leaves, it's not a tea the hell, don't do that. 😀
I actually kinda wish I could try that kiwi tea now!
😂
@@Pidalin I used to live in Prague and to be honest I don’t think I ever saw any Czech person drink tea lol. Only coffee in the morning and beer after 5pm 😁 I’m pretty sure they have a better selection of beers in comparison with flavored tea options available 😅
really loved your collab! would appreciate to see more of both of you and same kind of video with people from all over the world :)
Your wish is my command!
@@RadicalLiving did you try making a collab with Uyen Ninh? 😍 I love her so much, she IS sooo funny!!!
I work with British people and I approve of this video - what was missing though was them insisting on watching a rugby/football/cricket match instead of sightseeing or clubbing 🤣 Also, using English expressions you've never heard before because they are e.g. from Yorkshire. An idea for a video: explore my hometown of Poznań/Posen (we also like many different teas 🤣)
Is it true that when a Brit gets offered a Darjeeling or an Eaerl Grey, they would prefer the PG?? ☕
Poznan jest super!
@@voyance4elle The joke is that most Brits would go for something with a familiar name like PG Tips, Yorkshire or Breakfast rather than exotic sounding Darjeeling, although their favourite brand my actually use tea from Darjeeling 🤣 (well, PG Tips is actually Kenyan, not Indian). It's as if tea was supposed to grow in the UK. Same thing happens with Jesus, many Christians prefer him white, blonde and... ehm... Christian rather than Jewish.
@@joannaurban2418I like Assam and Kenyan teas too.
Seeing PG tips tea in the video.. this tea is popular in Yorkshire if I remember correctly
This was my favorite! And the end with the sausage bread "this feels kinda wrong" had me laghing so hard 🤣
Love it! And yeah, all this "only one type of tea" thing makes me so confused, hahaha. It's the same in Ireland, and they always laugh at me when I drink other types of tea other than the Irish Breakfast tea 😅
"You do not have to tell them what to do. It's their choice." So British.
I know. And the Germans are characteristically assertive. They just tell you what to do so you don't have to choose.
True ❤ so sweet I love it 🥰
He would not complain even when he gets different to what he ordered. If I was undecided about what to eat only then I wouldn't complain.
The violin whenever English set is brought out!! 😂😂
As someone who lived in Germany, the tea is accurate. Not even in Mauritius, my natal country, do we have that large collection of tea. 😂
Have you not been to Bois Cherie?
I have family in Germany (Munich though, I know, I know, i didn't chose it either). Whenever we visit them, the supermarket tea isle feels like you've died from a tea overdose and gone to tea heaven. Whenever they visit us, they bring... Interesting kinds of tea 😊
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
I can't believe I ran across your videos after a whole lot of years. WOW! How exciting!!! I used to watch them religiously, then they just disappeared. I'm so glad to watch them again.
This proves what I had only read about; that the reason the Brits did not achieve their goal of taking Caen on June 6 is that they had to stop for their afternoon tea!!
That's so true. I lived in Germany for 5 months and I have lived in the UK for 10 months already.
British habits are strange indeed compared to Germany. No usual bread, instead toast bread everywhere. Pretty strange beer without gas. Only grilled sausages. Meanwhile weather in Germany was about 32 in Cambridge it was like 18. Houses in the UK are just a disaster, cold, thin, cheap, the floor is so cold so nobody takes off street shoes on the ground floor. About 9-10 months per year u have to heat the house.
But what I love about the UK is the culture of small talks. Decent tea, variety and quality of milk products and... that's it
I'm Polish but I would also get a heart attack of someone have this "sandwich"😂 Also my household tea collection looks similar.
But to be fair, i dont think any of those boxes contained teas, they're just (mostly fruit) infusions. Even the darjeeling is a little too weak to drink with milk... but if thats all you have. Btw, its true, its not uncommon for a Brit to travel with a few teabags hidden in his luggage, my uncle even takes a mini kettle for use in hotel rooms 😁
" dont think any of those boxes contained teas, they're just (mostly fruit) infusions."- Precisely. What is going on insidie the British mind when a Brit is looking at such "tea collection" would be "I cannot wait for the moment when we will finally come across any kind of tea among all those herbal infusions of yours..."
exactly.
We will sneak a kettle into anything. Apparently we even had kettles built into our tanks at one point because the tankers would so often leave the tank for a cuppa and get shot. Now they can make their lovely brew inside the giant hunk of metal. 😁☕️🇬🇧
tea bags (Yorkshire Gold in my case) and a kettle are essentials for any journey
😂 And for a german toast isn't a bread at all.
Your guest is the most charming person I have ever seen on the Internet :) Just a lovely human being :)
As an American who once spent two weeks touring the UK, I can tell you that English breakfast tea with milk was a true revelation to me, and I will never again drink any other kind of tea.
Well said, Sir!! 🤩
For me (a Brit) I find English breakfast tea soothing and relaxing. For me, flavoured tea doesn't feel like much substance, and the smell of warmed unusual flavours make me gag a bit 😅
Well then , we have masala chai over here in India ..recipe is 300 years old
Hilarious! Love this channel - fun and educational.
🤣🤣 You forgot to have the Brit inquire about a side of peas!
I'm American (specifically, southern)and my Gran was from England. She would begrudgingly make "iced tea" for my dad. 🤣
Went to Scotland for honeymoon and they gave me the stink eye when I would ask for "a cup'a" along with a glass of ice. 😄 I inquired if they might have something similar to ham steak (thick slice of ham) and had to have someone at a neighboring table translate what I was referring to. 😆
Amazing ! I had so much fun ! Please continue it ! Invite someone from Poland and France :)
There is a French one....
im so curious about a turkish one :D (just cuz im turkish)
You're wonderful actors!!!
It was hilarious and informative at the same time 😃👍
Must be my French side, staring at you two and thinking, quels barbares. 🤣
5:00 I'm not British but this gives me existential crisis. I have several mugs of black tea on my table and this is all i drink. I don't know why i don't have other kinds of tea
I had a guest wanting "just normal tea", after refusing my entire collection of teas any German would be envious of.
Yeah the struggle is real 😅
What are tea consequences on health?
@@carlogambacurta548If you don't drink enough, you are ejected from Britain.
@@steve16384 drink yes but what? tea, water,beer, ...do you have mineral water in the uk?
@@carlogambacurta548 Tea, of course. I don't think we have any other drinks.
😂😂😂 great video again! I like the "small" box of tee he brought. (and the miss marple style music too)
Thank you!! 😁
British people should visit North Friesland. There they share the obsession for black tea.
2:19 Who goes to Germany and gets Italian sausages! ROFL!
Now you MUST make an episod like this with an ITALIAN🇮🇹
This is a must
All true! 😁
After living in Berlin and then moving to London, I realised how much I had adapted to and appreciated German bread and cheese. The English have no idea about such things. I started to regret the move. Mind you, at least in the UK, I could get a decent cup of tea. German black tea is like dish water. 😃
Czech black tea is like gray dish water! Beer is cheap, too, which is great, but "coffee" is ubiquitously Turkish coffee, unless (sometimes) you specify otherwise. I prefer German food to Czech food, but they are not hugely dissimilar. Whenever in Britian--which I love---I tend to go to foreign restaurants, depending on where I am and if they're available. Cheers from the Czech Republic to you all!
@@peterkroupa4124 I did the same in the UK, and sought out speciality suppliers. I had to go to London Bridge Markets to find decent bread, cheese and other continental products.
@@LeoPlaw We are a German family living in Wales and we have finally ought a breadmaker to bake our own as we could no longer stand the soft and squishy sliced bread/toast
But on the other hand I now bring back some PG tips or other breakfast tea when we are visiting family in Germany as I can no longer stand the black tea there, tastes like you said gray dish water ;-)
@@helenebach3440 I feel your desperation. =)
But I wonder what happened to British bread. They must have at some point in time shared a similar bread culture with the continent.
BTW, French bread is a disaster also.
Germans do the best bread and dairy products.
Hahahahaha, you both are AMAZING 🔥😁😆♥️♥️♥️
British people and German people are the best 💕✨💕✨💕
5:31 Not only you Germans are shook about this atrocity the British commit, we Turkish are also shook about this...
Tea with milk >>>
The bread in Germany is pretty impressive.
I just love British people. I can totally relate. 🇬🇧🤝🇩🇪
“Don’t eat that!” AAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA 💀
I really loved it when you slapped the weird bread and sausage sandwich out of his mouth hahahaha “don’t eat that!!” Haha
This was so funny. You guys are hysterical. As an American I can appreciate both the German and British perspectives. I had to encounter them in my travels. This was hands down one of your best. 🇬🇧🥇🇩🇪 Well done mates.
Conclusion: Black english breakfast tea save every situation in life! Thank you GB! 👍🤣 No wonder you were once a world power!
Er English Breakfast Tea was actually invented by Americans
@@ajrwilde14 The English breakfast tea leaves are from Assam and Ceylon. Also from China and Africa.
So, lived in Texas my entire life, but apparently I'm actually a german!😂
I like this channel. This make us aware every country have a culture. That why we all so unique. There is nothing wrong being different. 😁
We need to respect other country and culture so we can appreciate others
You made me Laugh Out Loud again, RL! Long may you reign!!
so glad!^^
So nice to see - two friends talking and discussing the different characters or manners of two related countries. Even if it is not immediately obvious, it is still evident from our similar language and one more thing. I once heard from a good friend from East Germany that there are areas in the north where they understand the English language or parts of it.
you nailed the tea thing. I was in a restaurant in Hungary and a British person wanted tea for breakfast. She was offered all kinds of flavored teas then freaked out because they did not have plain black tea.
Yes a bit sad
I have a huge collection of tea myself and though I only have English breakfast tea in the morning I have to have black
It's a "must" to have because it's not the same as hot flavoured water 🤪 English tea with milk is relaxing, soothing and filling. Most flavoured teas smell weird, and just feel like drinking strange flavoured hot water. There's no "substance" to it.
@@kerryh3833 how about rooibos?
Russians obsessed with tea some-time at the same levels as British people. So I completely understand this British guy. And I also can drink one kind of tea for months. Only one thing shocked me here. Why British guy use tea bags and not actual long-leaf tea
I do not agree about drinking one kind of a tee, but totally agree about tea bags, if you going to drink just plain black tee you should at least make it the right way, and tea bags isn't the right way.
it's convenient
Why didn't he make up a flask of tea in advance? Or bring a metal tea pot with him?
What Russians do to tea in British terms is a sacrilege. Since drinking the same black tea for 2 days or more is completely off putting for any self respecting British tea lover.
@lemsip207 I think that's a joke in the video because British people who need to drink tea outside without buying tea normally drink straight from the flask.
Haha ONE MILLION PERCENT that's us Brits 😀
There's not one thing you got wrong there brother.
I love sausage sandwiches just like your friend made - although it would have to have brown sauce on. But, when in Rome and all that I absolutely love love love your Wurst. So tasty and a massive selection.
I'll be back again in November for the 7th time and I'm counting the days.
Much love
Im hoping to go in November too fingers crossed 😂😁🍻
@@undeadwerewolves9463 You will love it. It's my spiritual home in Europe
That was the first to my mind too - about the brown sauce 😅 And, agree about the tasty wurst. I would love to visit Germany one day.
This was great. Laughed so much my neighbor asked if I was OK. I'm from the US but I think I'm Really British. I relate to this men.
I loved this video: I´m German but I lived in the UK for 7 years, this was really funny.
4:02 - wtf, he wanted to eat bread for the toaster. 😨😨
2:04 - You are exactly like my mom. :-D OMG, people, when it's not made of tea leaves, it's not a TEA!!!! 😀
Probably your funniest episode ever! The tea parts were so good!
oh wow thanks 😄
@@RadicalLiving I really hope there's a part 2, at least!
The brit would feel right at home in Ostfriesland.
As a Brit, I can confirm these are all things we do
keep calm and drink tea
@@RadicalLiving will do
This had me laughing so much. 😂 I’m a Brit, who has lived abroad for most of my life, & discovered the delights of fruit & herbal teas whilst visiting family friends in Austria back in my teens. It was a revelation to me & I was hooked! I ‘m a bit of a British outlier in that I really don’t like normal English tea, I can only really handle earl grey tea, definitely without milk too. I’m the only one in my family that’s like this, (the ubiquitous black sheep). The bread thing is also another area where I much prefer the continental rye breads & I thank god for the current craze on sourdough breads in the uk. I love the German/Austrian/Swiss/Scandinavian style meals, especially the breakfasts. So delicious & generally healthier. It would have been even funnier if the skit had of included the classic British thing of a thermos flask of hot tea whilst picnicking, or when having a pit stop on the side of the road on a long car journey or a day out. 😂
Hey, I'm an American living in Ecuador and I can't live without my rooibos tiramisu tea!!! (with milk and cream). I can't handle caffeine....
I discovered them in health food shops in England in the 80s first with fennel and mint teas and then fruit teas.
I discovered them in health food shops in England in the 80s first with fennel and mint teas and then fruit teas.
I went from Hungary to England for three weeks in the eighties. I tasted bread in England. I'm sorry, but it was similar to when I chewed the edge of my exercise book as a child.
When I was a child, my grandmother baked sourdough bread and other delicacies in the furnace, which was in every yard in a village at that time.
I have been living in the city for a long time. Large shopping centers also appeared here e.g. penny, lidl, tesco etc. where you can get all kinds of bread (from toast to German bread and various domestic breads). Domestic bakeries have sourdough breads and pastries (delicious ones are healthier without food additives and technological aids: preservatives, emulsifiers etc. ).
Te gusta el Earl Grey porque tiene bergamota. Es decir, tiene sabor.
3:20 as an American I would have the exact same reaction who the heck does that
I just finished volunteering at a museum in the UK, where sometimes the line could be up to an hour long. My supervisor once told me that on really busy days, when the line would loop around the square and be almost 4 hours, there’d be people who wait through the whole line only to get to the front and ask, “So what’s this line for?” Apparently British people love cueing so much that sometimes they don’t even need a good reason for it? 😂
Really? When I see a queue like that, I’m off….who wants to spend half their life in a line waiting?!
It's a Myth!!!
@@Dave-r4uExactly. The myth stems from the fact we like to queue NICELY (rather than a mess of people with no idea what's happening). We don't actually like the queuing itself.
Yes. This is us.
This is the funniest Radical Living episode I have seen! They are all good, but this one is my favorite.