Taste testing German supermarket items! | Curry ketchup, sauerkraut, deli meats, chocolate + more!
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- We explored our local German supermarket called Nahkauf & found German food items that were new & unique to us Americans. This video captures our reactions taste testing each item! We tried to get a variety of items ranging from savory to sweet. It was such a fun video to make & our taste buds loved the new flavors...or did they? ;)
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It's funny that of all of the Ketchup bottles you could have picked you chose that one. Hela Gewürz Ketchup Curry has cult status in Germany. You definitely picked the right one (by mistake). LOL
Also if you'd rather like spicy than sweet you should try the one it the red cap (scharf=spicy)
Really ? I didn't even know ! I prefer ketchup with less sugar and more tomatoes in it ( by Heintz), but that's just for my conscience because I'm overweight ;)
@@grandmak. do you know the ketchup with at least sugar and most tomatoes is Born Ketchup? This is my favorite.
@@spencer020785 I didn't. Thank you. I'll check it out !
I agree 100%. I grew up on curry ketchup 😋
The poor "Ritter Sport" wrapping *LOL* So well-thought-out and always misunderstood.
Yes indeed, they definitively have to exercise on this.
I came to the comments section for this comment only :D Somebody show them how to open a RitterSport bar, please ;)
@@guidoscholz7111 true, there is only one solution to this: eat more chocolate!
You need to know the "slogan" of the brand " Ritter Sport - quadratisch, praktisch, gut! "
Nice to see, that you followed my advice....hope you will find your favourite flavour out of all the different possibilities...
One might add that Ritter Sport has seasonal specials. A lemon chocolate for summer or a white chocolate with red berries in the fall/winter.
With this ketchup you're totally germanized ;-) congrats! :D
You should open the Ritter Sport by breaking it into two halfs. Then it automatically opens :-) that's much easier!
Agreed
Hela ist der beste
I hate it ;D
Get the red or purple hela
The yellowish spread is called „Obatzda“ and it‘s basically just Camembert, butter, cream cheese, onion and paprika:)
And it's very much a Bavarian speciality, not that common elsewhere in Germany.
It also has cumin seeds
@@SofieLKF caraway seeds ;) cumin ist Kreuzkümmel.
@@virathoma9617 And a sip of beer, if it's been made with the original recipe.
And you need to eat it with a pretzel. Best one 👌
There is no cream in the honey. It´s a regular honey that gets stirred until it reaches the creamy consistency, cause some people prefer these over the liquid ones. :)
Tastes the same as regular honey but won't run off the sandwich, so much less of a mess.
That honey is flower honey so it has a flower taste😁
as you said yourself in this video when describing the first "cream" you called it a "creamy texture". and that's what it means, the texture, and not that it contains some dairy products. the same applies to all those "Creme"/"cremig", honey (in contrast to liquid), nuts (instead of still having crunchy bits), and jam (instead of having entire or partial fruits). maybe peanut butter could be called peanut creme instead, containing neither butter nor cream/Sahne. of course there are also creamy milk products which can/will have 'your' cream in them.
afaik, the dairy product that you call "cream" is called "Sahne" in german, and this word in germany is always related to the consistency only, even in "cooking creme" (some company's name for their semiliquid butter or margarine; i never tried that) and in "Buttercremetorte" :-)
always wondered about that for thanks for the information
Honey from a real beekeeper looks like this kind of honey.
The Rittersport chocolate can be opened more easily bi bending/ folding it in half for the small ones, the packaging is designed to open that way at back
I thought so immediately ;o)))
So true 👍 just know how
Hey 👋🏼 buy bread at a bakery, put butter on it and than eat all the meats and cheeses again with it. Maybe top it with sliced tomatoes, that’s sooo good 😍
Hmmm, delicious!
Or even thin slices of cucumber.
Or with saure Gürkchen...
Absolutely, get your bread from a bakery as often as you can. Well worth it.
@@sisuguillam5109 ...oder Radieschen...
I love how open-minded you guys are. Not afraid to try any of the foods. I'm happy for you that you like most of the stuff. You'll get used to it! Greetings from the south-west of Germany. ❤️
on holidays, my father only ate food that he knew (although he complained about the signs "deutsche Küche" in italy, spain, and other countries) while my mother taught me to at least try everything unknown (maybe except for surstromming :-) at least once and then never order it again IF i really didn't like it (we often ordered two different unknown dishes and then later exchanged plates to try twice as many new foods, while my father always had either Schnitzel, spaghetti ragu or a specific pizza :-)
*_it seems like you were raised like by my mother :-)_*
Maybe someone else wrote that already. "Cremig" discribes the consistency of a food. When it is mixed with cream, it would read more like "sahnig" or "mit Sahne". Sahne is the german word for cream. Whipped cream is Schlagsahne (beaten cream) :)
Exept for Eiscreme
Mmhhhh......the HELA Ketchup is my favorite since Kindergarten-days! "Curry Ketchup" is probably the most eaten Ketchup style here. And it's so sweet,because there's a TON OF SUGAR in it......😂 😂 😂
The best xD
Love curry ketchup. Apparently in Berlin, when you buy yummy currywurst (signature street food there), each food stand makes its own special curry sauce (not ketchup, per se). Now I'm getting hungry......
To open the Ritter Sport Chocolate, you break them in the middle ;)
For the minis, yes.
But on tthe fullsize ones breaking off just the first row is much better if you don´t want to eat half the pack at once.
Fully open up the small part and you can use it to wrap the opening.
You have to watch out for „false friends“: the american Peperoni is in german Salami, the german peperoni is what you call Chilli. So whatch out, when you order a Peperoni-Pizza. 😉 See here de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_falscher_Freunde#Englisch or www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/words/false_friends.htm
The „bacon“ you tried was probably boiled ham. Curry Ketchup is made for Currywurst and other grilled meat. If you like it more spicey, add more curry powder on top. 😉
thank you for the false friend list !
@@grandmak. 😁
American here- I would say pepperoni in Germany is more of what we call pepperoncini or maybe banana peppers. My husband accidentally ordered me a pepperoni pizza right after a flight in from the US. Good thing I like banana peppers! 🤣
@@rachaelkramer9746 They will figure out. 😉
@@rachaelkramer9746
I just had a pizza with pepperoni salami and pepperoni peppers. Really great. Especially for a supermarket pizza. The two go together very well
Lindenblüten Honig - honey form linden trees (thats why it smells so flowery)
If you want to know what is in a product, so for example what the base of the pistachio cream is, you can look it up on the backside of the packaging. In Europe ingredient must be listed in order of the amount that it has been used, up from the most used. So you can compare the ingredients and the quality of the products ;)
Funny :D u know how is new in Germany wen u see they open he "Ritter Sport" wrong. The Curry Ketchup is for Fries, Schnitzel and so one. I love a little bit of the Curry Ketchup in the "Nudelsalat". Always use Butter with he Marmelade or Honey and the Meat. And by the way ..... welcome to Germany ;)
I cannot wait for you guys to discover "Quark" - being the ultimate German dairy product IME. In case you need recipes, let me know!
Ah yes we have to try it soon!
@@OurStorytoTell Try it on bread with the "Waldbeeren" (forest berries) spread
Oh yes Quark is so good. 😥😔 I miss Quark here in the US so so much more from anything .
@@sabineenglebright6072 selbstgemachter Kräuterquark mit Kartoffeln (anstatt Sour Cream), Quark mit frischem Obst... Quark mit Marmelade auf einer Scheibe Grau- oder Schwarzbrot..... ich bekomme Hunger und Appetit! 🙂
@@butenbremer1965 Das ist ja Das Problem hier in den USA bekommst du keinen Quark >>> niergendwo 😥😔
Curry Ketchup - the most famous Ketchup in Germany😂 everyone LOVES it
I think it’s more of a you love it or you hate it thing. Nothing in between. 😂
@@Bambi_Bambule Well, not everybody, because I am allergic to it. ;)
@@startwithgudrun8411 quite some artificial flavour enhancers in it.
....not true. I'm German and I hate curry ketchup, tastes disgusting, especially with fries. Never understood the hype.
@@grandmak. Very true.
You either love Obatzen (that orange cheese mashup) or you hate it :D
The pistachio creme constists mostly out of sugar, puréed pistachios, vegetable oils (palm and rapeseed oil), skimmed milk powder, sweet whey powder, lactose, salt and some colourings and vanilla flavour :)
Oh and the easiest way to open up the Ritter Sports is to just break them down the middle, the package is designed to open up on itself :)
Normally Obatzter is a Bavarian stuff and I think when I would work in this shop I would Obatzter not recommend to people from a other country a good potato salad would be a much better choice.
Some honey varietals are naturally creamy, like clover honey. Your honey was from a local apiary and it's definitely just honey. "Cremig" really just refers to the texture, they don't add anything to it to make it like that.
Got it. Thanks!
The flowery taste comes from the flowers, where the bees are kept. It's kind of homogenous. Of cause there is a little bit of mixing, but the bees will naturaly collect what's near by. Cover meadows or canola fields,...
When it comes to cold cuts you should keep in mind the different "sections" of a german Fleischtheke (lit.: meat bar)...
A. Ham:
- depending on the process:
"raw" (called Rohschinken in german): not actual "raw", but "not cooked"... raw ham is cured (salted) and/or smoked (Schwarzwälder, Katenschinken) or "dry aged" (luftgetrocknet) like italian Parma-ham or spanish Serrano-ham.
"cooked": pale, lighter color, can be as well smoked afterwards, seasoned inside (e.g. Rosmarin-Schinken / rosmary ham) or on the outside (e.g. Wacholder- Schinken / juniper ham). Farmer-Schinken, Krusten-Schinken, Gekochter Schinken, Vorderschinken are other types / names of cooked hams.
- depending on the part where the meat comes from:
Mostly the hip/thigh part is used for ham. Within this "region" german butchers divide the outer - more meaty - part (called Oberschale) and the inner part (= Unterschale).Within the Oberschale there are again parts to define: Kernschinken (the inner inner part), Nussschinken (a small, very lean part). Schinkenspeck comes from the outer, more fatty parts.
Attention: "Speck" normally is the name of the pork belly (what you would call bacon). It is as well used as a kind of synonyme for more fatty parts... so the Schinkenspeck doesn't come from the belly, but from the hip as the most types of ham. Speck can be "raw", salted (gepökelt), smoked all these to be eaten in thicker slices or small cubes) or cooked as a cold cut
Other parts: Lachsschinken (Lachs = salmon) is a cured pork loin and very lean (also sometimes called "Lachs", e.g. Lammlachs = lamb loin), the slices are often perfectly round. Karree-Schinken is ham made from the rips.
B. Roasts
Part of cold cuts can be a pre-braised roast, called "Braten" in german. Typical is Schweinebraten (sometimes "moo daeng" style with an orange crust coming from paprika powder), Krustenbraten or Roastbeef (yes medium-rare braised and cut in thin slices) to be eaten with remoulade sauce and in restaurants sometimes served with fried potatoes (Bratkartoffeln).
C. Sausages
In german "Wurst" is a general term for treated meat. It can be "Wiener Style" (mostly called "Würstchen", Hotdog sausages you'll find in cans or glass jars, Wiener/Frankfurter are often called Siedewürstchen), "salami style" (e.g. Salami, Cervelatwurst (very fine cut and mixed), Sommer-Salami (less fat) Pfeffer-Salami), "Mortadella"/baloney-Style (e.g. Fleischwurst, Gelbwurst, Lyoner, Jagdwurst), like a spread (feine/grobe Leberwurst, Teewurst, Zwiebelwurst).
D. Aspics
Very common in Germany are meat (and veggies) in aspic. The german word for these types of cold cuts is "Sülze". It comes from french cuisine (called Balantine) and was a traditional way to use every part of the animal ("nose to tail") AND to preserve ist for a longer time. Nowadays there are quite fancy creations combining meat and veggies. The classic way is kind of a "paté" or "terrine" with only meat cut in thick pieces, served cold with hot Bratkartoffeln and sauce tartare (Remoulade).
Thank you for all this helpful info! 😊
This was wonderful! Thank you for your time on this.
Vielen Dank! This was so helpful. Thank you for taking the time
Try to go to one of the mega EDEKA stores. They usually have a huge section with 100 of different cheeses and sausage.
Or you have a cheese wagon on the farmer market on the weekend. A little bit on the the pricer side.
You'll also find cilantro and other fresh herbs.
You should also visit lokal bakerys and butchers to try different variations of bread/cake and meat. Because on top of trying new things, lokal stores need lots of support and customers nowadays to survive alongside all the big supermarkets
Now try a „Mettbrötchen“ (raw meat spread on a bread roll and onions as topping) 😁
But buy it fresh at a butcher
Right! I dare you to try Mettbrötchen next! It's something EVERY American expat in Germany has to try 😊
Don't do it :D
Yes and don.'t mix up Mett and Tartar.
@@guidoscholz7111 You should tell'm what the difference is...
Mett: raw minced pork, allready seasoned
Tatar: raw minced beef, at the butcher the meat isn't seasoned at all, in a restaurant it's the name of a dish where you get the meat and a variety of seasonings, such as black pepper, salt, paprika powder, capres and a fresh egg yolk to mix it all up by yourself to your own taste. In pre-mixed tartar dishes you may find tomato paste a a kind of binder.
I recommend black forest ham (Schwarzwälder Schinken !) It is smoked raw ham and tastes great !
There is no ham, not tasting great, to be honest.
I love to eat it on bread with eggsalad 😍
How to open a ritter sport:
Turn upside down,
break it in half along the seam til it rips,
peel open from the opening.
We have a lot to learn with the Ritter sport opening! Thanks for teaching us the ways!
There are around 1500 different types of "Wurst", you need to try a lot to find your favorites.
Yes, find what you think is the Best of the Wurst 😂🍴👍♥️
I can never get enough German sausage. I love it.
Yoghurt chocolate and the dust-dry hanuta brownie ...you picked out very special things right away .... lol
Try the original ´hanuta´ or a ´Knoppers´ (please try the originals first and not "special editions" :-)
By the way, at farmers' markets you can often first try a piece of sausage, ham, cheese and so on, before you buy a pig in a poke.
I felt a little offended when they said the Hanuta was SO DRY lol. That's a German classic right there.
Try the normal hanuta (means Haselnusstafel by the way).
Hela Curry Ketchup is a very good brand, very popular. Love your videos
i like the garlic version with the purple cap slightly hot and yummi.
That's what my parents bought when I was a kid so it's one of the flavors of my childhood 😍
i'm not sure whether it is the best brand, but it surely is available, seen and used most often at "Imbiß" stands or at a "german style bbq". i myself mostly cycle through all the different ketchups, sauces and mustards by all the different companies (some more often than some others). but i never saw the purple one that jimbo mentioned, and will lookout for it now ! :-)
You should always put butter on top of the fresh bakery bread and then the toping of your choice. That is the way we mostly do it and I think everything tastes much better then.
a lot of people, myself included, doesn't like butter on bread. I always just put the meat on it
Or mustard spread thin instead of butter.
That's so Nachkriegszeit.
For the meats that you tried: the difference between them is that the first fatty one is a smoked ham, that’s why it’s darker and saltier, mostly referred to as „Black forest ham“. And the second and third were both cooked hams.
"Black forest ham" = "Schwarzwaldschinken" or "schwarzwälder Schinken".
Ich bin mir nicht sicher, aber roher Schinken ist glaube ich bacon, während gekochter ham heißt. Also wäre es eher "Black forest bacon".
@@marrykurie48 hier muss Norddeutschland mal einschreiten : Katenschinken !!!
@@hape3862 wörtlich genommen, korrekt. wobei die Amis unter bacon etwas anderes verstehen und ihn dann vermutlich anbraten würden, wovon ich bei Schwarzwaldschinken eher abraten würde, deshalb habe ich es als "ham" übersetzt ;-)
You need to try definetly Haribo Gummibären all kinds of it, Knoppers, Kinder Schokolade for cheese and meat I recommend larger shops like EDEKA or REWE or the local butcher. A must try is also Mett with raw onions, Döner from the local Turkish Take away.
Try Obazda (the orange spread) with Breze, it will change your world. 😍 That’s typically to get in a Biergarten.
I so much appreciate your adventurous spirit and love for new things. You guys rock O:D.
As far as wafers are concerned, there are two very popular products in Germany: Hanuta and Knoppers. You already tried a Hanuta product in this video, but it seems to be a bit different compared to the original. If you ever go back for a second taste test I would recommend including these two classic snacks.
Also Manner is worth a try, they're a type of wafer too. They're wrapped in light pink colored packaging with handlettered writing on them.
"Manner" is an austrian company, and i always watch to not eat the whole pack once i have opened it. classic standard are the small square foil packages, but you also can get packs/bags with much more contents. there also are several different flavours, but hazelnut is the classic (most well known) flavour.
@@Anson_AKB so? No one said manner was not austrian... Hanuta is Italian
Knusper is a sort of crunchyness, but a light crunchyness, like wirh cornflakes or wafers. The verb is knuspern, for example "Die Maus knuspert" to describe the light sound combined with the action eating something which is knusprig (crunchy).
Curry Ketchup is our whole pride in germany 😂
Howdy guys, it was fun watching you both trying these German treats. Thanks for sharing :). I can't wait to see your Spaghetti Eis taste test lol lol :).
@14:50 You actually open Ritter Sport by holding them at the edge and breaking the whole thing in the middle along the perforated line. Pushing the outer edges up toward the logo side. It is easier with the larger ones though. Smaller ones you can try to hold them in the fist and make them snap in the middle.
Hey, so viele Deutsche hier in den Kommentaren. 👋 Seid gegrüßt! 😊
I was born in Northern Germany and moved abroad 30 years ago. As a kid we used curry ketchup now and then and it was the very same as you have. Of all the things, I never had the pistachio creme.
We distinguish boiled ham ("gekochter Schinken" the pink one) and smoked ham ("geräucherter Schinken", the red one). From Smoked Ham (it is not on the plate), there are four very different flavours popular: "Schwarzwälder" (from Germany), "Südtiroler" (from the northern german-spoken part of Italy in the Alps, delicious with bread and red whine), "Parma-Schinken" (from Italy) and "Serrano" (from Spain). Boild ham is eaten at easter and together with asparagus. A very popular spring meal is cooked white asparagus, cooked potatoes and sliced boiled ham. We eat it with the blue boxed "Sauce Hollondaise" from the "Thomy" brand - you only have to heaten it in the microwave oven. I think everyone knows it in Germany. Asparagus is only sold until June 24 by law. The plants needs the summer to grow. You have now 2 month left to try.
My family and I always shop at EDEKA, they usually have a bigger selection and are more "open" / big. Also fruit and veg tastes great from the local markets which you can usually find at the "Marktplatz" of slightly bigger cities. They will ask you what you want, weigh the fruit / veggie and then give them to you (great way to shop plastic free).
Nutella. It's a chocolate spread. Fleischsalat (you put it on a slice of bread). And for sweets: Knoppers, Duplo and Kinderschokolade. The Hela ketchup is my favorite one! I put it on everything! :)
Ich auch, im Wechsel mit Heinz ketchup.
In den USA gibt es auch nutella
Love Curry Ketchup! I live in Utah and get German brand on post. I have it with my brats and love it with my eggs and hash browns, fries, etc. I'll soon be moving to Stuttgart so can't wait to try all :)
Have you ever tried curd cheese? Quark?
It's something between yogurt and cheese.
On bread, lightly salted with parsley, herbs or radish.
On bread, with sweet jam or honey on top.
For dessert, mix the quark with a little milk and sugar and canned mandarins. Pour off the mandarin juice beforehand. But also with cherries or other fruits.
The curry ketchup is typical here. You are more likely to find something Indian or Arabic than something Mexican.
Ritter chocolate, just break it in the middle, then it's open.
I love quark! I used to eat it for dessert like you described, with canned mandarins and chocolate chips on top 😍
@@kati1664 Yes, a little milk in it makes it nice and creamy.
Rumor has it that liking Obatzda (orange color spread) is a requirement to living in Barvaria 😁
Next you guys need to try Weißwürste!! Yum
With sweet mustard and a Brezel
You picked all the good stuff😋😋😋
As a German I am so very amused to watch you bravely retrieve through all these German goodies...👏👏👏😁😁😁
It reminds me a lot of my own experiences I had when I started to visit the US 50 years ago. I liked the recipes of the local food shops and I disliked - and still do! - the fastfood and pre-cooked food as well as that terrible fluffy bread you have over there. So, go forward and discover all that "funny" food we have here in Germany! Have fun!!! Kind regards, Claudia
Hi, this was well entertaining.
There are a lot of things I could recommend, but let’s focus on these examples here. Regarding the bread you have chosen you may notice how this more strongly tasting bread (most probably rye based) combines with savoury cheese/ham/wurst on one side and with sweet spread like honey/marmalade on the other side. You surely know there are lot of bread types here in Germany, so I recommend to test sweet spreads with brighter bread types (higher wheat content). And don't forget to add butter, which may taste different to what you are used from the US.
To dive deeper into this topic I recommend to experiment with the Waldbeeren marmalade/cream more. It is a kind of classic to do layers in combination with Frischkäse (e.g. Philadelphia) or Quark. So take a slice of bread, add butter, Frischkäse/Quark and at least marmalade. This sequence also promotes the fruite colors.
Have a nice meal!
for the honey, the one you got is from about an hour away from Grafenwoehr. Always look for local honeys. In Germany you should be able to find just about everything local to you, like within an hour or 2 of driving. meats too.
wow wow guys . . . the mustard with the wurst? . . :) lots to get to know and enjoy. Welcome to Germany.
Hi guys, great to see you are courageous enough to simply taste it all! :) The three kinds of meat seem to me what we all call "Schinken". It's all pork, prepared in different ways. The bacon-like meat seems to be just that: raw, fat bacon ("roher Schinken"). The more flavoured one seems to be smoked (of which there are a lot of variations in Germany: "geräucherter Schinken" is the generic one, then there is "Schwarzwälder Schinken", "Lachsschinken" and many more). The last one seems to be cooked ("gekochter Schinken" or "Kochschinken").
Regarding sweets: You can safely disregard all and any products labelled "brownie taste". None of them has ever tasted like brownies to an American palate (or so I am told). Just buy the generic brands of sweets if you want to experience the German taste, and if you want brownies, best make them yourselves. We are good at a lot of food in Germany, but not at immitating American sweets.
Speaking of: Please, please go ahead and taste all the various types of bread, bread rolls and pretzels at your local bakery, preferably at a non-chain one if there is one nearby. You will love it. (What Americans call bread really is not. Sorry to say, but it isn't :) ).
Hela Gewürzketchup is probably one of the food items I could not live without if I lived outside of Germany. Great with cold cuts, fried or barbecued meats, sausages, on fries, on fried eggs.... cult status indeed. It's so popular, most discounter supermarkets have their own off-brand version these days.
We have heard so many people say similar things!
If you want to try a saussage for little Willa, try out the "Wienerle". She can eat them cold or you can make them warm in hot but not boiling water and eat them in different ways, with salad or tomato sauce or with vegetables...normaly at the butchers shop they will offer them to the children for free to have a try... .. in Bavaria they call them "Wienerle", in our swabian dialect we call them "Saitenwürstle" and in other places of Germany they are called "Frankfurter Würstle"....have fun🥰
I ve never saw anyone peeling rittersport chocolate like you did 😂 really fun to watch!
Nochmal herzlich willkommen in der Oberpfalz 💐 Es gibt für Euch noch viel zu entdecken, viel Spaß dabei 👍
Once the Covid situation here in Germany gets better, you can probably visit the Ritter Sport museum/shop/factory near Stuttgart. You can learn a lot about the history of the brand and how the chocolate is made (and also get lots of chocolate)
And learn how to open it easily ;-)
Hi Guys the orange thing you tryed is "Obatzter" its a mix auf Camonbertcheese paprika and Caraway seeds. It´s realy good with Lye rolls.
I love curry catchup! From cheese and mewt I would go to a butcher and a place where they have lokal cheese😊
I would recommend buying stuff that you know from the US and trying them here. When I was in the US I was mesmerized that the same products can taste so different 😅
Stay save and have a beautiful day ❤
yes, the names may be the same, but the contents, taste and quality often are quite different since companies use local ingredients and follow local (european) laws. examples: cola with different sugar and even the local water may give it a different taste between different german regions, and also mcdonalds or burger king. they aren't famous for the best food in germany, but a youtuber called it "the biggest error in his life" when he (being used to the quality of german MD) recently returned to america and went to MD for some quick food :-)
The clock tik tik tik why does it bring me back in my childhood lol
Ritter Sport is produced in Waldenbuch in Baden-Württemberg. There is a store where you can buy lot more than in a normal shop. And there is a museum where you can go through and see the history of the chocolate. I lived in this town for 4 years. It is very beautiful with an old city and castle too. So maybe you can travel one day to Waldenbuch.
I usually brown the cheese sausage in a pan from all sides. The cheese starts melting and you get a crusty outside. Combone it with Curry Ketchup and a slice of bread 🤩 Hanuta is also available with milk chocolate which is the normal one, same for the one from Bahlsen. The sausage slices you tried (the big ones) you can also combine with boiled white asparagus, potatoes and a white „hollandaise“ sauce. Just and the a piece of sausage to every bite of asparagus
so funny watching you while tasting food we are used to. Remember me in Warschau in 2000, trying everything. Making the same face 😂😂😂
You need to try Mett :D
Everyone is scared of it, but it's sooo good!
only every foreigner who doesn't know it.
in germany it is safe because of strict laws and quality control (animals as well as the mett)
@@Anson_AKB I'm German and I'm a bit afraid of raw meat, too. Don't like it either. Maybe it's because I grew up with home slaughtering.
Enjoy your tour guys. I worked on Graf too but returned to states a year ago! I lived in Weiden right on old town in front of the old town hall. Once the pandemic is over, and life is back to normal, check out that town. You'll like it. Viel Spaß! ;-)
To open a Ritter Sport you have to crack it in the middle and it opens by itself😉
Hi, i am a Swabian neighbor from Stuttgart. FYI in Europe we have hundreds of different cheeses, the Gouda, originated in the Netherland in the town of...Gouda, you tried is a "young" mild one, you can buy a middle aged one they are a bit more intense and salty and the old Gouda. the darkern the Gouda is the more it is aged. No worries the darkest is a little bit orange.
As you have noticed already we have a LOT of different bread and buns in Germany. Some of them you can buy in the morning in our bakeries. So you can choose ALWAYS wich bread, or bun you would like with your food. And sausages you will find also a great number of sorts. It has to do with making food durable for times like winter, when you could not bring in fresh food. Thats also the reason for smoked ham and so on.
helps you a bit with your "einkaufen". Suggestion: Go by car to a big "Supermarkt" and buy what you need for the next time. Buy your fresh milk and butter and so on in the smaller market round the corner.
The pink ham is cooked ham wich was before prepared (injected) with curing salt - this gives the rose colour and taste. Ham is eaten on bread usually in different forms: coocked, dryed, and smoked + dryed. The Schwarzwälder ham is usualy strong smoked and the other onyl light.
The "cream" part on the honey and jam and pistachiospread just means that its smooth and doesn't have pieces, seeds or anything not creamy and smooth in it. The curry ketchup is a german staple and a must have for barbecues or for me just on bread as a snack.
For the Ritter sport, you need to brake it in the middle and it will open in the middle on the back side
The way you opened the Ritter Sport hurt me 😂
You normally just crack them in the middle and then you can open it 😅
For salad dressing I would recommend "Sylter Salatfrische" my preferred brand is "Zum Dorfkrug" it is yogurt based and reminds me a little bit of ranch dressing. I just hope you're not to far south, because it is more common in the northern part of Germany. If you are really craving something from home try to get it at the commissary on base. If you can't get it there, try DIY. Lots of recipes on the internet. 25 years ago I went from Germany to the USA (Holloman AFB) for four years an got thrown in at the deep end 😉 My first trip to the supermarket was a nightmare, I just needed some milk for our coffee and there were these huge gallon and half gallon jugs with different fat contents and vitamins in an endless aisle 😂 I learned how to bake bread and cake and cook or bake a lot of other stuff from scratch to get a little taste of home. All the best to you guys and welcome to Germany 😊
I think you will become a sausage person sooner or later, the quality and variety of sausages is really good in Germany. And try to buy bread and other bakery items at a local bakery, it will taste much much better.
Some suggestions:
Anything with Waldmeister (Woodruff; a plant that is kind of unknown outside of german speaking countries). It comes as a syrup to mix with water and get some nice drinks (look for a dark green syrup) or as Brause (powder; famous Brand is Ahoj-Brause) which you can also mix with water or if you're brave enough just pour it right into your mouth.
Mett (ground pork). Don't be afraid, it is supposed to be eaten raw. Just spread it on bread, add some grounded black pepper and some raw onions. Believe me it is delicious.
Anyway, hope you're having a good time in Germany :D
If you enjoyed the Gouda (the ou is pronounced like the ou in ouch) try the Mai Gauda, it is a seasonal specialty from the first milk when the cows go from the stables in winter and hay back to the meadows in spring. It is super mild and creamy.
OMG Curry Cetup BEST ONE LOVE IT
Yoghurt is one of my favourite RitterSport versions, maybe also because my granma always gave Yogurette to me when I was a child (it's a small chocolate bar with strawberry yoghurt filling). Plain yoghurt does indeed taste sour.
The Hela Curry-Ketchup is great for a bbq; when you ad the juice of one Orange/500 ml, and serve it warm.
The pistacia Creme you can eat on the Top for a fruit Bowl with Joghurt and cerials
Tasting without bread!
No way!
The combination with bread is important. :)
Nice taste test. I'm getting hungry.
We are glad you enjoyed it!
We have lots of different kinds of lunch meats (we call it Wurst) in Germany - enjoy! Find a butcher shop (outside of the supermarket) and try all the different versions. If you find a small local butcher the Wurst will usually taste better (each butcher has his/her recipes - the supermarket sells industrially made sausages and meats). If you feel adventurous at the butcher shop or in a German restaurant (if they have take-away or once they open up again), try "Wurstsalat". Depending on the region it is Wurst (similar to bologna), onions and pickles and sometimes cheese in a vinegar dressing - eat with bread.
Also find a locally operated and "family owned" bakery. It will be way better than baked goods from the supermarket or chain bakeries that bake pre-made stuff. You might have to ask around for a good bakery. Then try all the different kinds of bread and rolls! Also buy a "Butterbrezel".
As far as chocolate goes: try Kinderriegel and if the Hanuta (you got a special edition - not the regular one) was too dry for your taste, try Knoppers!
And the Ritter Sport chocolates have a special wrapper and therefore a "right" way to open them: th-cam.com/video/0SaFuKPX03U/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=RitterSport
Thanks for all the info!! We will definitely try the things you said. 😊
Hela Gewürz Ketchup Curry, is also a thing in the Netherlands. We use it on our Frikandel Speciaal for instance.
If Honig is called cremig it basically just refers to the not clear type, for the Marmelade it probably means smooth
This Cheese cream Thing is called "Obatzter". Obatzter, also known as Obatzda or Obazda ("Angedatzter, Angedrückter, Vermischter"), is a piquant Bavarian cheese preparation served as a snack. Traditionally you eat this with a Bretzel. Sauerkraut must be warmed up bevor eating. Try it with Liver dumpling and mashed Potatoes....delicious!
Käsewurst is best when fried in a pan or grilled. The cheese then melts and adds a lot more to the taste.
Its always a pleasure watching your Videos.
Cant wait till you try germans no 1 street food... The Döner =D
You guys are really sweet. I had so much fun watching you to try all this stuff for the first time. The funniest part was, how you pronunciate Knusperflakes 😄👍 Please keep on marking these videos, I subscribed your channel 😊
Great to have your here Brewman! Yes, we are having quite the time learning how to pronounce things, so we are glad you got a kick out of it 😂
The Hela Ketchup is an absolute classic and the taste of my childhood. I love it on fried noodles or sometime sveven on cold noodles to take me back into the 80s. Try other flavours from Hela, there is a lot and I recommend the extra hot with the black cap if you like it spicy.
The hanuta brownie is a special edition which is pretty good but you should try the original with hazelnut creme :)
Sauerkraut whis Bratwurst
and potatos. Yummy.
The last chocolate you tasted is like american corn flakes in the milk chocolate. Glad you are enjoying your new home.
creme honig is stired, gerührt, so the air stired in makes it lighter and changes the texture.
This orange cheese thing is Obazda its an cheese cream with sometimes caraway in it.
This is about the cheese cream.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obatzda
Honey normally gets creamy in time or is creamy depending on what flowers the bees mostly found. Fluid honey is normally processed honey.
Always look for "Imker Honig". Imker Honig is handmade by a beekeeper while other honey is processed an mixed.
In Europe Konfitüre is regulated. Meaning, it is only fruit and sugarand pektin. The sugar is added that it has together with the fruit sugar 60%.
With 60% sugar you do not need preservatives.
The honey tastes like the flowers from which the bees have the necktar. That's naturaly taste! :) I like it when US citizen explore germany. :) Nice videos. Sub goes out.
One hint I would like to tell you: the Hanuta you tried is one of a very large variety of sweets of the international Brand - FERRERO! The headquater of this company is in our twin town ALBA in Piemont/Northern Italy, a lovely region also well known for high class red wines as Barolo and the white truffels. There is also a production centre in Frankfurt - try it!
Butter! The sweet creams /honey / Marmelade you would usualy eat with butter on the bread
I would eat ANY with butter on the bread.
Try quark and marmelade
The berry one was just marmelade/ jam, but without the seeds.
Try Quark and yoghurt, pure or in different flavours!
You did good to ask the employees how to eat this stuff. I've seen some of that youtube videos people testing food and have no clue how something is eaten the "proper" way.
You just scrached the surface though. There are really a lot of cheese and sausage variations in germany, sometimes looking all the same but with very different tastes. THe next thing that is not easy to grasp as foreigner is the many different kind of breads, and which one is good for what (even if it depends on tastes somewhat).
I would recommend not to go for the cheap stuff from the supermarket in the beginning, because when you buy expensive bread at a (good) bakery, you know what it is supposed to taste like. The bread from chain bakeries can be ok-ish, bist from most it isn't very good either. In Bavaria you have Pfisterer though, which is a chain bakery where you actually can buy good bread.
If you want really good bread, you have to search for a bakery that bakes it's own bread, which is sadly getting really rare nowadays. Bread is a really important thing in germany, and usually the thing expatriats from germany miss most in other countries.About the honey, it say "linden blossom honey" (Lindenblütenhonig).
If it is called "Obazda" after the sauerkraut, then it is Camembert with butter, caraway seeds, paprika powder and a little beer. A little tip, warm the sauerkraut together with the cheese sausage and eat it with mustard. yes the honey is honey! You paid a lot for the name of the forest fruit jam. Mövenpik is very expensive compared to others.
Curry ketchup is great on grilled steak and sausages. Definitely a German classic. Keep it handy when you do barbecues in summer 😉