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- I’m going back and forth between the US and Germany quite a lot and these 5 things are totally common for me whenever I’m here in the US but don’t exist in Germany!
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Have you tried eating olives in USA?
I am not sure how common it is in the USA...
What hidden message
I don’t have good eyesight
Hallo, Servus! On shirt
would love to see a video looking at the differences between Aldi Nord and Sud.
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Thanks 😊
I wouldn’t have thought that was a secret message if I had noticed it because she starts every video saying that and shirts with commonly used phrases is common in the USA
I myself am from Europe (Romania). Just want to mention something about the air conditioning thing. I noticed that in some US states the weather can be quite extreme. As a truck driver I traveled all over the US in New England and the northeast states Summers might be more bearable without an AC. But then you try to live a summer in Texas without AC that is more challenging
In some places like northern Minnesota or the UP of Michigan (that little part above Wisconsin), people typically will not have A/C units because summers hit above 70F/20C only for a week or two.
Here in Georgia, if you didn’t have AC you’d have to leave your windows open 24/7 or your house would mold
In 2013 my wife and I were traveling through Germany. I got pulled over in Potsdam, ironically, for going too slow! The police (two of them) were very polite and spoke perfect English but complained I was holding up traffic. I didn't get a ticket but I got the message!
Then you were probably also in the middle or even left lane. If you're going slow, stay as far right as possible. Of course, if you're driving like 100km/h you can still overtake the trucks in the middle lane, but after that please get back to the right.
Every German behind you: FAHR DOCH, MAN!
You HAVE to keep right at all times, unless you pass - please, americans - check the rules when you venture outside USA, you are a guest in a foreign nation where YOU are the foreigner :D
It's funny to me to hear you say, "There's even ranch flavored seasoning in powder form." Historically, that came first and you added milk and mayonnaise to it to make the dressing, and only later could you buy ranch dressing in a bottle already made.
Or buttermilk... It's still better than the bottle... Take care.
@@david5544g I'm tickled by your phrasing here, "take care" as if knowledge of the deliciousness of ranch made with buttermilk could pose danger- which, to our arteries, maybe! 😂
No historically ranch dressing was made with buttermilk and wasn't in a mix.
@@garycamara9955 For the last 50 years the second most prominent ingredient in the mix is powdered buttermilk... The bottle even has a buttermilk version... Two things... One you're wrong and two the fact that you even care so much is a bit disturbing. I'm going to go make some wings...
@@david5544gAgreed! much better than sour bottled ranch.
... A man by the name of Steve Henson, who was from the state of Nebraska, and got a job as a plumber in Alaska in 1949 and was also in charge of feeding the crew he worked with... He came up with the concept of ranch dressing by experimenting with some ingredients and the crew loved it... Years later him and his wife moved to California and had a motel that they called Hidden Valley Ranch even though it really wasn't a ranch. He served the salad dressing He had developed in Alaska years ago at the motel and the people at his motel raved about it
....and the rest is history
My German friends didn't believe that Americans live in wooden houses. Lets not even talk about trailers. Lol
"Tiny houses" meanwhile appear in Germany also!
trailer parks, aka vacation places, aka homeless people living in their cars.
I was in advertising in 1970 when I was asked to take on a new client, Hidden Valley Ranch.
They were producing a package of herbs & spices which you bought and mixed with buttermilk. You had to find the buttermilk sparately in the store which was sometimes iffy.
It was tasty when mixed and it was also good on meats. They called it Hidden Valley Ranch Dressing, and it sold well (probably due to the great advertising I did).
It was interesting to watch it go from a boutique food item to completely mixed and bottled dressing. The new stuff is OK, but the original was much better.
I'm still trying to figure out what the stuff is supposed to taste like. There is nothing like that here. The closest are maybe remoulade or cesar's dressing, but those don't come really close either.
@@HappyBeezerStudiosbuy it? Kaufland or real
you can still buy the packets and mix it with mayo and buttermilk, and it still tastes the same, much better than the pre-made stuff.
t9833 Or mix plus premade.
As an American, I have framed my speeding ticket photo from Germany.
I guess it was expensive enough to get a frame for it. 😉
I’m American and have lived here all my life, but I have never seen a screen that slides out of the way like the one on your window. Believe it or not Ranch wasn’t a thing here either until sometime in the 1980’s, but when it started it took over, because it’s awesome! I love Ranch!
Same for me. I can remember when Ranch dressing started becoming popular. I remember wait staff in restaurants recommending it. My parents had heard about it somewhere and bought it to try. If not for that, I wouldn't have gambled on trying it in a restaurant and stuck to my favorite blue cheese dressing, or French dressing if they didn't have blue cheese. I remember the special sauce in Big Macs, long before hearing about Ranch dressing..
American in Stuttgart here. The most baffling thing to most of us are tiny German washers and dryers that are supposed to be “greener” but run for hours. With our American family of 4, the laundry machines almost never stop in our flat, where as it was a twice a week thing with our big bougie American HE machines.
They are greener because they run longer but at lower temperatures, so in the end the final result is the same but total energy consumption is lower.
@@Tarrasque73and you don't need that agressive detergent - which is also greener because it reduces the chemicals in the water
Yup, you can wash most stuff at 40°C just fine. Except underwear and socks, those can go at 60 °C, and if stuff is really, really dirty, 95°C is still an option.
@@HappyBeezerStudios A lot of Americans wash in cold water to save energy, but usually bedding is recommended to be washed hot, to kill mites, as cold water doesn't them or their eggs.
Please dont teach us germans how to be greener. We mastered that already compared to the US 🇩🇪
In the Midwest, ranch dressing should be considered its own food group. 😂
Just like Dukes Mayo in the South!!!
Dinosaur BQ sauce in up state New York.
I'm old enough to remember when ranch dressing wasn't ubiquitous in the US. When I was a kid in the 1960s, the only way to get it was by mail-order from the original Hidden Valley (dude) Ranch in California. It came as a seasoning packet that you mixed with your own buttermilk and mayonnaise. My grandmother used to make it, I think she found out about it from an ad in the Good Housekeeping magazine or something like that.
It didn't really become ubiquitous until the valley girl / surfer dude culture took over teen life everywhere. At that time, pre-internet, it took time for trends to diffuse across the country. In Minnesota it was by the mid 90s at the latest.
Yes. Growing up in the '60's the common salad dressings in restaurants were 1000 Island (my mother would never buy that for us; we only had it a grandma's!), French, Italian and Roquefort. I never heard of Ranch until years after I had moved out of my parents house.
Mayonnaise 🤢
One of the downsides to having a garbage disposal (garbeurator) is the fun and interesting challenge of keeping the cutlery out of the sink...
My husband who is from Japan and didn’t grow up with a garbage disposal got hit right below the eye with a cherry pit! He heard a noise and looked straight down into the running garbage disposal and the cherry pit shot out like a bullet and hit him. He was so ticked off on the unsafe nature of that machine. He won’t use it anymore. He was attacked and that’s that. lol
@@trishayamada807 Would you laugh, if he had lost an eye to that incident?
@@Eysenbeiss yeah totally. We’d celebrate it every year.
- beans, rice, flour, sugar in a bag bigger than 1 kg (~2 lb). Everything looked so tiny when I first moved to Europe but now I'm used to it and have my cupboards set up for the small bags and just buy them more frequently.
- graham crackers. I use butter cookies, one with chocolate and one without, to make a smore. Also American marshmallows have a coating on the outside to keep it from turning into napalm when you toast it. If Americans have noticed that after removing the crust and retoasting the marshmallow, the inside is different...that's what the entire marshmallow is like with the kind you can buy in Europe (which is probably a recent phenomenon).
- Tapatío hot sauce (but you can get Cholula)
- chocolate chips...you can find chocolate squares, and I've actually found that taking the extra time to break up chocolate bars for chocolate "chip" cookies is tastier than chips, since the chips need extra stabilizers to hold that shape.
- macaroni and cheese powder. That's something a lot of Americans bring back to Switzerland. Fortunately for me, I don't miss it.
- hose on the sink. You can buy one that fits the faucet, but it isn't retractable.
- Mint candy canes. Almost every candy cane you see in Switzerland is strawberry flavor. I never thought I'd miss that, because I took it for granted in the US and am not a huge candy-cane fan, but I bought some at a Christmas market that were supposedly mint flavor and turned out to be bubble gum flavor and that ended up being the reason I made an order from a website specializing in American foods I mostly don't miss.
- Dill pickles.
Dill pickles are fairly easy to make yourself, though. :) As for chocolate, most U.S. chocolate is vasty inferior. Super waxy and full of emulsifiers and artificial additives. The best place to get cheap and decent chocolate in the U.S. is at Trader Joes if you have one near you. They are owned by Aldi (North) and so have a lot of European goods that are re-branded and shipped over under their label. Also Aldi if you have one near you. :)
@@plektosgaming Dill pickles are 100% not easy to make for yourself. I live in Portugal, and finding the smaller cucumbers used for pickles isn't possible, and I've never seen dill in the store, either. Then, you'd need to source the jars, and finally wait 4-6 weeks for the result. How is that easy? Maybe if one had space for a garden to grow the right type of cucumbers and dill? Nothing about that is easy.
@@grizfan93throughout Germany, Poland, Hungary, Serbia it’s quite easy to find these cucumbers as well as dill. Also on room temp. it usually doesn’t take 4-6 weeks.
@@agnesmeszaros-matwiejuk8783 You can easily make "refrigerator pickles" in a few days. Canning to make ones like you see in the store is indeed another issue as sterilizing the jars requires more steps, but I do recommend getting a good setup if you can as it will pay for itself fairly quickly. Especially if you like homemade preserves. :)
@@plektosgaming sterilizing the jars is not that complicated, I just boil water and add the jars for a short time together with it’s caps. :)
As a foreigner in the US, I can say that cops are generally friendlier and more lenient to us because they understand that we may not fully understand everything in the American road system.
I wish I could agree with you.
That wasn't my experience. But my first American cop was a Texan.
yeah maybe if you’re a male white-passing/caucasian cis dude they’ll be nice to you:) sure there are lots of cool and open-minded cops out there :) but also from my experience here in southern germany I have to say there’s a valid reason why people don’t have trust in authorities anymore
Based on my experience with border control, I'm a little sceptical but of course they're not the same as cops. One time I was in the passenger seat though and this was before I ever had an American driver's license or ID and they weren't particularly friendly.
I wish I had met a US Cop as Friendly as us in the UK
What is called a "garbage disposal unit" in the US is called a "garburator" in Canada.
I like that word a lot better! I also much prefer “wash room” to “bath room” or the German word “Toiletten”. 😀
Im in the US. We call it the disposal or the garbage disposal. At least where im at. Not sure about other states.
I have one but I don't use it lol
A lot of older people in the US call it a “Disposall” (as in “all”), which is actually a brand name of garbage disposal that’s still made by General Electric.
Great video, Feli, as always. Since you asked for it: here’s a few more items that are common in the US, but unusual in Germany:
(1) having an ice dispenser and a chilled water dispenser in the fridge;
(2) Hershey’s style, high-sugar/low-cream chocolate (the “US vs. German chocolate” topic might be worth it’s own video);
(3) roasting marshmallows on the open fire (in Germany they all roast sausages);
(4) kids driving a car at age 16 (or even 15);
(5) ubiquitous free coffee in offices;
(6) houses with exterior Christmas decoration;
(7) getting and decorating your Christmas tree right after Thanksgiving (my German family typically got theirs’ right around Christmas Eve);
(8) extensive coupon sections in the local newspaper;
(9) “employment at will”, or working (even in very well paid managerial positions) without an employment contract;
(10) drywall covered wood-framed housing (Germany knows wood framed houses as well (“Fachwerkshaeuser”), but other than the fact that there’s a wooden frame, these are totally different styles of construction);
(11) suburbs and subdivisions - Germany has “Vorstaedte”, but this is not the same thing;
(12) the ubiquity of home ownership in the US (most Germans rent);
(13) the commonality of flying as a means of transportation (no surprise really, given the size of the country);
(14) the willingness to change living arrangements, move into larger/smaller housing as your needs change, move across the country for a better job (many Germans live in the same house almost all their life);
(15) electoral politics: a two party system here, vs. a multi-party system there that requires coalitions and, hence, compromise;
(16) the pride many Americans take in their diverse ethnic heritage (as in statements like “I am mostly Irish, but my great-grandmother was half Cherokee, half Polish”);
(17) the fact that many Americans have never left the US (not many Germans have never left their country);
(18) most US holidays where you get a day off are secular in nature (MLK Birthday; President’s Day; Independence Day, Thanksgiving; Memorial Day), while most German holidays are religious in origin (2 days off for Easter and Pentecost; “Buss und Bettag”; Corpus Christy Day). To be clear, there are religious holidays in the U.S. (although you get off work really only for Christmas), and there are secular holidays in Germany (Unification Day), but the majorities are completely opposite
How long do Christmas trees stay after Christmas in the US? Ours usually disappears in the week after January 6th, but never before. Some say February 2nd is the date. There are people in Germany who leave it until Easter.
@@stephanpopp6210 They are supposed to come down on Twelfth Night, Epiphany, January 6th. It's supposed to bring back luck to take them down earlier. A grumpy accountant ("bah, humbug") told his office staff to take them down on January 2nd, and they had trouble balancing the books for 6 months afterwards.
pink-eye ... never saw it in Germany
Are outside Christmas decorations really that rare in Germany? I'm from Switzerland and it's not uncommon here. Some people put a ton of effort, time and money into it, others don't have any, but it's definitely not uncommon. (Western Switzerland)
@@Arjn17my data is admittedly old - i haven’t lived in Germany since 1987. However, I’ve been back on business (and visiting friends) every year at least once. In my experience, you’ll occasionally find people stringing lights on a fir tree in their yard, but it’s rare and typically doesn’t go beyond that. While some of my fellow Americans here really go nuts with their outdoor decorations (and I’m including my own family in the “nuts” category).
I laughed out loud when I saw that overhead projector. I haven’t seen one of those in over 20 years.
I left my school about 7 years ago, but I would bet they still use them to this day!
Overhead projectors were still very common when I was in middle school (late 00s - early 10s)
@@stalkingtoastrangerI've seen them until I finished school in 2007. That and the TV on a cart.
I probably last saw them used in a continuing education seminar around 2005/2006, along with transparencies! Computer projectors were quite expensive back then.
I dont know if you've done a video about the wine regions of Germany but I'd like to see it. Germany is not as famous for its wines as France is but German wines are excellent and they have a different way that they are classified and produced than in any other country that I've heard about.
I don't drink much, but I greatly prefer German wines to any other.
It should be....best White Wine in the world!!!..And virtual unknown in US except for the garbage Liefermilch and Black Kat that is the cheap garbage mixed together. Best German Wine if from Rheingau...Johannesburg or Rudesheim Eltville etc
My father is a wine connoisseur, he attends seminars, etc. He is open to all wine regions in Europe or worldwide, but also really appreciates German wine. I prefer to drink good sparkling wine. But it doesn't have to be champagne. Sparkling wines from small wineries in Germany in champagne quality are one of my favorites.
I disagree about german wine being less famous. German white wines are very famous. Germany also has the oldest continuously operating winery in the world, Schloss Vollrads.
It is absolutely amazing! The different varieties of wines that are created from the Riesling grape, which by the way, we had to resupply to them from California after the great grape blight!
The Eastern US is very humid as well as the Southeast and Mid Atlantic, or even the Midwest being hot, especially in the summer. This means that the heat can get intolerable very quickly. The Eastern US is famous for being humid as well as hot in the summer.
In the Netherlands, I’ve seen cool ranch labeled “cool American.” Maybe it’s changed, but that’s what it was at one time
When I worked for a week in Germany, we went to an Italian restaurant for lunch. When I wanted garlic on my personal pizza, the several Germans that were with me did not know that word. I had to describe garlic and they new what I wanted. That was the only word I ever used that was not understood. And finally, when I need to go to the bathroom on my 1st day in the German office I was working in, I asked where the bathroom was located. They seemed perplexed that I would need to take a bath at the office. I then asked for the toilet and that was the term to use in Germany, but we often refer to it here in the U.S. by bathroom, even though there is no bath in the toilet in office buildings. It's just considered a more polite term for that location.
Exactly, and the same could likely be applied to the term "restroom", which of course we also use over here in the U.S. I must admit it would take some getting used to having to ask for the "toilet" because of just what you mentioned. But either way, I think that terminology/phrasing is used in the UK also, but I could be wrong.
Well it's a language barrier thing, not really a cultural difference. At least they do have toilets there!
Yeah, garlic is called Knoblauch over here. It's normal to have that added to your pizza so not sure what the confusion was. Personal pizza is more confusing if you don't know the term because in Germany we usually have a personal pizza and rather rarely a shared one (family or party pizza). So when we say pizza we mean personal pizza.
Yup, I also think they just didn’t know the English word for garlic because it’s so different to the German word Knoblauch. Many people here probably also don’t know the word “Onion” because ist so different to the German word “Zwiebel”, though it’s used more frequently for snacks with “sour cream and onion”-flavoring. The picture on the packaging obviously shows an onion which might help 😂
Ha ha! I warn U.S. exchange students that if they go to a rural pub in Australia and ask for the "bathroom", the pub staff will likely know what they mean but might play a trick on them and lead them to a real bathroom, with a shower and bathtub! Some students report that that has actually happened!
Why do Americans call toilets "bathrooms" anyway? Maybe part of the puritanical streak in U.S. culture. Reminds me of Feli's other video "WHAT'S UP WITH AMERICANS AND NUDITY" th-cam.com/video/B5_1eiLzXDY/w-d-xo.html
On your next trip to Germany, how are grade/elemetary school classrooms decorated? Seating arrangements. Discipline. Whatever you can point out that is different than here in America. I know our education is different. I'm interested in the environment.
As a non fluent German speaker who lived in Germany, number of regions for a number of years , I found asking for umleitung wasser or water from the tap was not an issue but always was happy to pay for sparkling.
Some US food that I did not know from Germany:
1) Spray cheese (yes, cheese in a can!) that came in 2 varieties: Regular and "de luxe", the latter was "made with *real cheese*" (!)
2) Beef Jerky. Dried slices of beef, like 10 year old bacon, I never knew how to eat it, it reminded me of a shoe sole. Recently also available in Germany in some stores, never bought some.
3) TV dinner, is this even still a thing in the US?
4) Milk and orange juice in gallon bottles. Our european fridges don't even have doors deep enough to put those containers in.
Hey, I'm from Poland and I remember when I was a kid and we were doing shopping in Lidl in Germany we always bought a dressing similar to ranch and it wasn't available in Poland at all. It was in early 2000s
I only remember dressings from Aldi in the 2000s. They were in small orange, green or blue plastic containers.
Little fun fact: It is more and more common for traffic stops to have cameras that look for violations and mail tickets to you when you do so, but in the state of Kentucky, traffic cameras are illegal for the purpose of tracking violations. I am not sure if other states do this but I know KY does.
Oklahoma does as well.
I work for a Germany company that regularly sends employees back and forth. Everytime they come to the US during the summer months they complain about the AC. While I was in Germany I was complaining about the lack of AC. I also remember to take a bottle of ranch to a good friend as he loves the stuff and cannot get it there.
My "problem" with countries where ACs are common is not so much the ACs themself. ACs can be great when it's real hot, and I would like to see more ACs here in Germany, as we can have some pretty hot summer month too.
I just don't get why ACs almost always set to temperatures way lower than what's normal during the colder month. Like, in summer you have 14-15 degrees C (~58 F) inside buildings, but in the winter, you have 20-22 C (~ 70 F). I literally had to carry a jacket with me in the US or Hong Kong during summer to put on when I go inside a shop or restaurant with ACs running. That never made any sense to me. 😅
@@mrtveye6682It's better than sweating over my food.
In Germany, grocery stores are equipped with air conditioning (not just the refrigerated shelves).
Have you ever gone shopping on a very hot summer day?
Cool inside, super hot outside. Aldi, Lidl, Edeka, Rewe and all the others have air conditioning.
Otherwise it would be unbearable and offer the customer a good shopping experience.
Yes, that’s right, you go in sweating and come out freezing XD.
Kann doch gar nicht sein, hast doch gehört, sie sagt, dass es das nicht gibt, also ist das auch so.
Yes, common aspects of German culture vs the US would be great! I’m of German descent and visited Germany while stationed in the UK with the Air Force. Loved Germany and felt very natural to be there! 😊
I mean... Check out my whole channel haha I've been talking about that topic for almost 6 years on here! 😁
@@FelifromGermany well Feli, You finally admitted it. Saying that Germany is the only place a human should want to live. Yes , you have been trying to tell every American that Germany is heaven...sounds like Russian propaganda to me
@@DavidZinselmeieryou sound like a trumper
The insect screens could also be introduced as standard here in Germany. Technically it would also be possible with our windows, as there are also external roller blinds. I don't necessarily need a garbage chute or air conditioning.
@@DavidZinselmeier Thing is, your complaint sounded even more like that of a russian troll.
Some things that weren’t common in Germany when I lived there in 1986-95 were free public toilets, doorknobs (instead of handles), plastic disposable tampons, tips in restaurants, ice in drinks, free refills, free condiments at places like McDonald’s, sales tax on top of the price already on the tag, stores open on Sundays, and it wasn’t common to hear loud vehicles, music blaring from cars, or people honking their car horns. I’m sure there are many more. 😂
Tips in German restaurants are expected, but not to the ridiculous amount that s common in the US.
Spent a week in Germany last month -- my first visit there since I was stationed in Germany 1989-91. My recollection is that public toilets cost 10 pfennigs back then. They cost one euro now! Quite the price inflation.
Germany has always had their sales Tax already added on top of the price tag, as do most nations on earth. It‘s Americans who are being the weirdos on that one.
Also I‘m not sure what ‚plastic disposable Tampons‘ are even supposed to be? Tampons here tend to come wrapped in plastic individually, are made of cotton and have always been disposable, there aren‘t non-disposable tampons (the closest equivalent would be a period cup I guess, but there aren’t reusable Tampons). Tampons have been wildly common in Gremany since the 40s, so I‘m not sure if you have some other wierd tampon Product in the US that still hasn‘t made it‘s way over here, or if you‘re just talking about regular tampons, in wich case you must not have looked for them very hard, cause they were definitely widely available in the 80s/90s in Germany..
@@sweetasbloodredjamThe tampons I typically found were disposable (use once) cotton with a cardboard applicator, not a plastic applicator to contain the cotton. There were some with plastic applicators around the cotton, but they were far less common at that time where I lived. 🤷♀️
@@brianpigott9950It must’ve been a very nice experience to return to Germany, especially after being stationed there during such an historic time. That’s quite a price increase, but I’d gladly pay it to use a cleaned bathroom. 😊
Probably the main reason I’d never move to Europe is no hidden valley ranch. Like it makes so many foods edible.
The worst thing is no AC in hospitals in Germany! I miss fly screens when I am in Germany but do love the built-in shades. And good luck finding a Bloody Mary at any German pub or bar!
I've lived in the U.S. my entire life and I've never seen a sliding window screen. I've only ever seen press-fit ones that you push outward and have to go outside and press it back in. I need to get me some of these sliding screens. Haha
They’re pretty common here in New England.
I suspect that the floor grate Feli pointed out in the first segment was originally part of a gravity flow heating system.
Gravity systems used the fact that cold air is more dense than warm air to move heat from a coal fired stove in the basement to the living spaces.
Cool air would drop through grates in the floor through ductwork to the outer part of the furnace (the inner part being where a coal fire was burning.) Hot air already in the furnace would rise through its own ducts to grates in the walls and into the rooms.
Retrofit forced air furnaces would often reuse the same ductwork.
NyQuil - I definitely miss NyQuil here in Sweden!
And yes, while serving on the Technical Committee in my city here, I actually raised the question of garbage disposals and why we weren’t embracing them. The answer - IF there is a clogged pipe, it ends up being unclear whose responsibility it is to fix, the Water and Energy department or the Garbage and Sanitation department? 😮😅
About the Ranch dressing-My maternal grandparents were good friends with the inventors of the salad dressing.Steve and Gayle Henson of Reno Nevada were serving this at dinner parties to thier friends long before they sold the recipe commercially. When I was 10 years old (Im 56 now) my grandfather flew my sister and I up from Vacaville California to Reno. We met Mr and Mrs Henson who entertained us at The Hidden Valley Ranch for the day.My sister and I were in awe of the legend of the Ranch which is a story of facination in its own right. So I can understand why its not really a thing overseas as its about as Americana as it gets.
In most EU countries food leftovers are disposed in the 'organics' container to be turned into compost.
In NL for example every household will typically have 4 containers: Compostable/Biodegradable, paper, PMD (plastics, metals and drinkcartons) and 'other'.
I have what we call a garden goodies bin I take off my kitchen counter daily and dump in my garden. I am an American born and raised.
Seems annoying
Same for Belgium. We personally don't pay to have the compostables picked up (others do). But that's because we have a compost heap in our back garden. If the compost bin is full, we simply empty it on the heap
In Nova Scotia, Canada, we have paper, recyclables, refundables, landfill and compost. Some people also separate their compost to have some go out for roadside pickup and then process other food scraps for personal use. It's been this way since the mid 90's so it's second nature to us now but some travelers and immigrants have a difficult time with the system.
I throw my food scrap out for the Raccoons and Opossums.
The Ranch dressing was funny. I went out to eat with a German friend who lives here and her mother who was visiting from Germany. They both ordered ranch dressing because they said same thing you did. I’m leaving for Cologne next Wednesday.
We built a home in Southern Europe and all windows have screens that can raise out of the way when they are not needed. Even several doors are equipped with them. Also for only a few windows, most every window also has a roll down shutter that can be used to block out light for those who want to sleep in or have odd work hours. The shutters can be lifted a little bit so as to provide ventilation while preserving one’s privacy and security but you still need the window screens. I can see the use of a garbage disposal set up the get rid of food waste (only vegetable matter, no meats or fats, oils) and piping it into a composting drum. The water can be filtered out and used to water garden plants and the compost, that will be available later in a year, can be placed in the garden.
Water is free at restaurants in the U.S (tap) and still water is the common type, you have to ask for sparkling (which usually had a cost) vs in Germany you pay for water! Some places have it free but most, I had to pay
& on the water subject the U.S has 40ct water bottles packaged or Jugs of water vs in Germany, i didn’t often find that many in one package. It was usually tall singular litter bottles of water in the grocery stores
Also, you pay for plastic bags at grocery stores in Germany vs the U.S you can mainly get them for free
Necessity is the mother of invention. As you said, Germany doesn't get as hot as many places in the USA. Even going back thousands of years, the invention of homes with fireplaces allowed humans to live farther north.
Eh, as someone living in the Upper Rhine valley, summers tend to become more hot and humid, especially in recent years. While not comparable to most US places, in extreme cases there can be highs of up to 40°C/104°F and lows of up to 26°C/79°F (also last year there was an unprecedented dew point maximum of 24°C/75°F). While those are single day extremes which could be buffered with thick stone wall insulation, there's still sometimes 35+ heatwaves lasting several days, making the inside air eventually become very muggy and uncomfortable. So hereabouts, most newly constructed (upper middle class) homes during the last ~10 years actually do have AC now, and I seriously consider installing one in our older house too, if only for the bedroom
In the USA, it's common to find Mexican food. In Germany, at least in Langen, Hessen (not to be confused with Langenhessen), I had a hard time finding Maisfladen, but Turkish food is common.
I don't eat ranch. If I make a salad, I put olive oil and vinegar (at home, apple cider vinegar) and dulse flakes and maybe some spices.
I don't have a garbage disposal here, but my apartment in Charlotte had one.
The most common "non german" cuisine in Germany is indeed turkish, followed by italian. Mostly because of guest workers, many of which stayed in the country long-term. Asian cusine (mostly chinese and indian) is also decently common. And american cusine, or rather the fast food version of it.
I agree with the video on that a garbage disposal is something as a vacuum cleaner in a way
hehehe.... my grandmother and grand father had central air (another name for the HVAC system) but for the largest chunk of my life it was window units for AC and electric heaters for heating.
it's not just that places in the US experiences extreme summers but teh fact that many palces experience the extremes of both kind of weathers , that's why cenral or HVAC's exist. here in texas we been as hot as 110 degrees on summer and as cold as 10 degrees in the winter before. on the average we get high 90's in the summer and 20-30's in winter. it's a location that requires both cooling and heating.
As a Brit (although now in the USA), I must mention Marmite. Its Australian cousin Vegemite is better know, because of the song "The Land Down Under".
Ranch dressing is easily found in grocery shops in the UK 🇬🇧
And what does that mean in case of germany? Exactly, nothing ...
@Eysenbeiss Why such an aggressive reply? My comment was in reply to a comment Feli made that ranch dressing wasn't available in the UK.
6:55 - My sink looks just like yours Feli
In the seven states I’ve lived in, I’ve never seen a bug screen that you can also move, they have always been permanently stapled to the frame
Drum rolls and liking ranch dressing! You are officially American, Feli, whether you intended it or not! ;)
Wait... Drum rolls are American? 😅
Ranch Flavor Doritos are available in much of Europe as American Flavor.
@@FelifromGermany nooop drums rolls were invented in Germany also. Germany invented everything
🤣you're dreaming ! @@DavidZinselmeier
@@DavidZinselmeier They're not an exclusively American thing, though
As a Dane, I really enjoy these videos because I also spend time in the US 🙂
I’ve always hated Ranch, lol. With traffic stops you should always 1) turn on your blinkers/hazard lights. 2) always pull over some place safe. If you need to go to the next interstate exit do so, but drive slow so the cop doesn’t think you’re evading them. When pulled over explain why you kept going and apologize. 3) turn music off, fully roll down the window and put both hands at 10 o clock on the wheel so the cop can see them. 4) be polite and respectful. 5) you must show ID and your car registration, but if you can’t find it let the cop know and they will usually look it up themselves. 6) if you have a concealed carry permit tell the cop “I feel obligated to show you a 2nd form of ID”. Never say the word “gun”. 7) remember the cop just wants to go home to his/her family at the end of his/her shift so be mindful of their safety, and be polite. 8) remember you do have rights. If the cop wants to search your car say “respectfully, I do not consent to a search”. 9) limit what you say. You have the right to remain silent and not answer questions, but if the questions are basic like “what’s your name?” it’s fine. If they ask “do you know why I pulled you over?” Always always always say that you don’t know. Always say “I don’t know” for any question that inquires about a crime. Most cops aren’t interested in railroading anyone into prison, and if they have a sense that you don’t like crime like they do then they will typically leave you alone.
I wonder if the garbage disposal issues come from differences in how Germany deals with sewage treatment vs many US communities. In my Ohio community waste water is piped to a treatment facility where it goes through straining screens to catch all the objects people flush and then to a tank where microbes break down stuff. In the town I grew up in about 25 miles away from my current place they used septic systems (a treatment tank that is in the ground where waste water is treated and then leeches back into the water table) and street drains send run off to the towns treatment plant. Adding food waste via a disposal might create issues...
As an American living in Germany for 5 years, I really miss having a crockpot! I have never seen one here and my German friends don’t know what I’m talking about when I try to describe it. I’m surprised that’s not a thing here. Thermomix on the other hand is super common in Germany, but I’ve never seen it in the US.
I have one making butter chicken right now 😂 .I know quite a few people who have a slowcooker/ crockpot ( sometimes referred to as "Schongarer) but you are right the Thermomix is very popular in Germany.
Ask for slow cookers or pressure cookers. It would be hard to use a brand name that has become a generic term in one language to describe it in another.
But I bet you don't have Zewas in your kitchen, Tempos in your coat or Inbusschlüssel in your garage either.
(Zewa = a producer of kitchen rolls, Tempo = a producer of paper tissues, Inbus = a brand of hexhead screwdriver, analogue to allen keys)
😅I have had the great pleasure of traveling to Germany several times and really love it. My most recent trip was to your hometown Munich. I was wandering the Englisher garden and stumbled upon SURFERS walking along in wetsuits and carrying boards. I followed them to their surf spot on the Eisbach (?) and watched with fascination for hours! A real local curiosity!
It doesn't get cold everywhere in the winter but it gets really hot everywhere in the summer. Even in the "colder" northern states like Minnesota, it still reaches 90°+ in the summer. AC is almost a necessity everywhere. Heatwaves can be almost as dangerous as blizzards
Homemade Ranch dressing/dip: 1/4c mayo & sour cream. 1/8c milk. 1/4 tea. dry dill (2-3x this), parsley + garlic & onion powder. S&P to taste. 1-2 tea. lemon juice. Whisk, taste, adjust. This makes enough for 2 healthy salad toppings. If left overnight, add milk & whisk, if required, to thin. I don't buy ranch in shops anymore- I find this is much nicer.
I can speak for American schools up to the early 2010's. We had overhead projectors that steadily became smart screens. That allowed the use of a digital pen to interface with it, the screen is connected to the teachers laptop.
This is something that varies greatly in Germany. I attended a Realschule in Bavaria, and there overhead projectors were phased out and replaced by PCs at every teacher's desk and projectors in every classroom around 2013/2014. Meanwhile, friends of mine that attended Gymnasium in Northrhine-Westphalia were still using overhead projectors over 5 years later.
@@leDespicable Du hast den Unterschied nicht verstanden und kennst auch nur eine Art von Overhead-Projektoren.
Er sprach aber von solchen, an die man auch einen PC anschließen kann/konnte, der also auch eine Funktion hat, wie es heute Beamer bieten, plus der Möglichkeit, das Gerät über einen Stift zu steuern, oder über den Touchscreen des Laptops, falls der einen haben sollte.
@@Eysenbeiss Ich bin mir der Unterschiede sehr wohl bewusst, ich wollte nur darstellen, dass die Situation nicht in ganz Deutschland gleich ist
@@leDespicabledas ist unter anderem eine Sache der Bundesländer bzw. des Haushaltsplans 😂 ich lebe auch in NRW, bin mittlerweile aber auch schon 28. Ich studiere aktuell und mein Kurs arbeitet komplett digital. Ich weiß auch, dass die Tochter von meiner Cousine dieses Jahr in die 5. Klasse gekommen ist und die Eltern alle ein Tablet für die Kinder kaufen sollten. Aber ich bin mir absolut sicher, dass das von Schule zu Schule schwankt
@@leDespicable Gut, darin stimme ich zu, aber das ist ja auch nichts Neues ;-)
Hi Fili! Garbage disposals actually chop up the scraps rather than shred them. You are only supposed to put small amounts of uneaten food, no meat, and maybe potato peels and the like in them. Generally, I put most of my scrap in the bin.
I grew up in Texas and Louisiana and since the school year was from September through May we didn't really need air-conditioning. Generally one wall of the classroom had rows of windows which you opened when it was hot. I didn't go to an air-conditioned school until I was 14.
I didn't live in an air conditioned house until I was 12, it was also the first one with central heat. The houses we lived in had gas heaters in each room, and the older houses had lots and lots of windows and high ceilings, which allowed the heat to rise. We also had window fans, and in one house an attic fan. Attic fans, sometimes called whole house fans, consist of a large, maybe 4 foot diameter fan mounted centrally in the ceiling parallel to the floor. They pull air in through the windows and up through the attic.
In Louisiana in particular, especially without a/c, you NEED window screens. Otherwise the mosquitoes will eat you alive!
We have a lot of radar cameras that snap your picture and mail you a ticket. I hate them! It's easier to spot the cops on the side of the road, especially if you know where the "speed traps" are. One place to look out for is on I-35 near Kileen, Texas, another is on highway 195 heading west over the bridge coming into Krotz Springs, Louisiana. The speed limit changes from 60mph at the base of the bridge, to 35mph at the bottom of the bridge, and there's always a cop waiting.
I live in Portland, OR, and we only got AC this year! (Thanks, climate change!). We still have a much lower rate of AC here in the PNW, more like 30%. And definitely not in schools!
I hardly use my garbage disposal and my brother who lives in a mansion never uses his garbage disposal because its clogged the drain too many times. Its nice to grind up a few stray bits of fruits and veggies when I'm preparing celery or strawberries.
American here, who has lived in Munich for 30+ years. You are spot on! I was assuming at the end when you mived to the car at the end, that you were going to say right turn on red! Very rare here, but oh, so welcome when I drive back in the US.
When my son and I visited Iow last summer we passed a lot of farms with large silos outside and we came up with a theory that they contained the ranch dressing that were enten by the family in the coming weekend. The friends we visited in Iowa ate ranch on everything.
Same in ND..they'll drink it if they could
Of course. It’s nature’s perfect food…😁
@@Ryarios II never eati it because of the buttermilk.
Haha! That might also explain why ranch dressing is such a midwest thing! Not as ubiquitous here in the NW!
@@barbaras5550 I don't like it and I live in the midwest. I don't get why people like it so much.
Sadly, two of the older buildings at the community college I went to for my first years in college in the US didn't have AC. Nor did they have windows that could open. In summer it was absolutely unbearably hot.
In India, we do get Ranch Dressing Sauce in Supermarkets! Also, we have Air Conditioning and Window Screen as well. Plus, our cops remain hidden as well checking traffic.
It's so strange about the garbage disposals - we do not currently have one because we are on a septic system, but we have lived a number of different places and the attitudes towards them were so different depending on where we were. In one area we lived in, they said don't use the garbage disposal hardly at all--be judicious, use it very little, try not to use it! And another area we were in, they said, use that garbage disposal! Put stuff in it, we want to burn that garbage for energy! I only miss it a little; I hate clearing out the little strainer in the drain several times a day, but I don't miss having to worry about what can and can't go into the disposal.
Kudos to whoever put the sponsorblock segment at the beginning in such a way that the music still perfectly transitions!
I _love_ those bug screens that raise up like windows. I grew up in the US and have never seen that, but I'm in my sixties, maybe it's common with newer windows?
No. I’m living in a brand new house and have the same screens my 40 year old house had. I’ve never seen those before… would love to have them!
My old house had screens (along with storm windows) added to it in the 1980’s by the previous owner, that slide up and down in aluminum frames. It was done mainly to get storm windows that insulate better than whatever the house had before. I expect that in a really modern house with double-pane or triple-pane windows, they don’t need separate storm windows, so there’s no need for the screens to slide up/down in a track.
I've seen them in tons of old houses here in Cincinnati (rather run down ones too) so I don't think that's the reason for it 🤔
I'm from Montreal in Canada where air conditionning is very common. It is climate related. Cold winter means our buildings are well insulated and airtight, therefore they get hot during summers. Even here, our summers are warmer and more humid than in Germany. Comparing Munich in southern Germany to Montreal, Montreal's summers are 4 to 5 degree C warmer and significantly more humid, quite a few hot and sticky days....
So interesting to see how different things are between these 2 countries! I live a little bit outside of Columbus, Ohio and was hoping to go to Germany this year to see my friend who's stationed there with the Air Force.
I will say that, as someone who regularly carries a firearm, getting pulled over by police is just something you have to rehearse and be mentally prepared for in case it does happen. Being respectful and calmly informing them right away that I'm armed and where the firearm is located within the vehicle tends to be much appreciated by them.
US cities and regions where garbage disposals are illegal have a higher rate of toilet disposal of kitchen waste according to studies. The municipalites don't want bioactive material and especially grease in city sewers but...humans always find a way.
You might discuss the federalist system in a video, in which only some laws are national, and most are set by states or smaller jurisdictions. The connection to this video is that the radar traps that you mention do exist in some states, like Colorado. In another recent video, you mentioned refundable deposits on bottles and cans, which has been the law in your next state to the north, Michigan, for over 30 years--10 cents per container. If you go back 50 years, this was practiced nationally, I think, not because of law, but because bottlers of soda, etc. found it financially advantageous.
Back in the day, the bottle deposits were in place because the bottlers wanted the bottles back. They would reuse them the bottles were washed, sanitized, and refiled. The bottle cases were either wood or super strong cardboard that got reused as well. Plastic bottles and thin cheap glass put an end to this practice. You can find some boutique bottlers that still use the old type bottles.
I agree. I am an American who lived in Esslingen am Neckar twice, when I was 18 and 50 years later, when I was 68. How would you describe the difference between Bavaria and Swabia?
Nope and PJAlpha explained that in one of his reaction videos. It was always a local thing and I doubt that it was state-wide in Michigan back then too
On that topic it would probably be even more interesting to compare the federal systems in the US and in Germany. Both are federal countries, both have things done on federal and things done on state level, but the balance of power and what exactly is delegated to states is different.
This discussion prompted me to look up information about Michigan's bottle law. I already knew that it had been in effect at least since I moved to Michigan in 1992, but learned that it has been since 1976. This would be about the same time that the bottlers were phasing out handling the bottle deposits themselves. Both the old and new style of pop vending machines are basically a refrigerator, but instead of dropping a can into a slot in the bottom, the old kind had a small glass door through which you could see the top of one bottle of each type of pop they had available. You could open the door without putting in money, but the proper amount of money would unlock the collars that held the bottles inside. Then there was a wooden crate on a stand next to it, and you were on the honor system to put your empty bottle in there. Many of these machines were outdoors, too, just on the sidewalk in a business district--different from today. A movie that springs to mind that shows one of these old-style machines for a comic gag is "Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned...", although I seriously doubt that one of these would squirt a heavy stream of pop out of it if you were to shoot a bullet into it. A major reason for the change, I think, was the development of technology to make aluminum cans practical. Before that, beer and pop were available in steel cans that were perhaps prone to burst if dropped even a small distance, but both were much more commonly in glass bottles. I think that Olympia Beer was the first beverage available in aluminum cans. Being a native of Minnesota and a transplant to Michigan, I almost always call that other beverage "pop", not "soda". During the few years that I lived in New Jersey, I mostly avoided this linguistic quandary by rarely drinking it.
You put out a short asking about window screens. I grew up in northern MN in a house that was built in the 1950s. On that house, we had window screens that covered the entire window, but in the fall, they were removed and replaced by a window for the winter time. There was no double pane glass at that time. In fact, they were numbered, so they would go on a specific window.
Sometimes you HAVE to stick your hand into the disposal...to clear something that wasn't shredded. But, do so carefully and make sure "Lily" isn't near the switch.
It's funny you bring up ranch! I had some German friends stay with me over the summer, and one of them ended up *loving* ranch, and of course, ended up taking home a bunch of those powder packs to make it with yogurt back in Germany. It's always one of those really obscure things that nobody thinks of.
When I first travelled to America - my honeymoon trip in 1995 took me to Florida - I switched my mind on two topics that I immediately fell in love with when being there, and missed out when getting back to Germany - twin-door fridges with ice cube dispensers and cars that were fully loaded (e.g., electric seats, mirrors, power steering, a/c, the whole lot). Whilst the latter is now quite common on German cars, too, I think that only very few German households have these type of fridges. Luckily, since having renovated my kitchen four years ago, I am one of the happy few who enjoys ice cubes any time of day.
I don't have one of those two-door refrigerators, but I have ice cubes at all times
Ice cubes are nice. :) While I was staying in a little hotel in Boppard with some family, we asked the hostess for some ice to have with our drinks. The hostess gave us a confused look, and then ended up bringing us the frost scraped out from the freezer. Had a good laugh with her after explaining more clearly what we meant, and then asked the bartender for some drinking ice, and he was happy to oblige.
Pro tip: If you want to ice for your beverage while in Germany, ask the bartender. They usually keep some on hand for drinks that are "on the rocks."
I haven't been to US but every time I see someone inside car in US, It always seems fully loaded. I remember when I was a kid (25 now), I saw bunch of American cars with leather seats and big screen and I was amazed. I live in Finland and cars are expensive here. So it's always special tier car with the lowest options that not some countries even get. So that it would be as cheap as possible. But we now import cars from across EU especially GER and SWE because they are cheaper and have better packages.
Why do you need so many ice cubes
@@manuel0578 Gin Tonic in Winter, Lillet Wild Berry in spring, Caipirinha in Summer and Aperol Spritz in autumn. Oh, and for our party guests every now and then.
Plus, besides ice cubes, our fridge serves iced & filtered tap water, which is delicious all year long.
Public schools in germany are still pretty stuck in time thats for sure but all vocational schools I went to afterwards were very advanced.
So Feli do you know about Evaporative cooler or also known as a swamp cooler? It uses water to cool the air instead of refrigeration. You won't see them in the Midwest & East cost due to high humidity. They are common to the dry parts of the USA like the Rocky Mountain states & the SW area.
In the East in the US. I've never heard of evaporative coolers. I'll have to look them up.
Sounds like a useful solution in the dry summers in the south of Germany. But that moisture has to go somewhere or you'd end up with moldy walls.
The drink flavor "Waldmeister" definitely does not exist in the U.S. Even though I've tried it a few times, I still don't have a good frame of reference for the taste. I think it would compare well to the flavor of birch beer/root beer with which Germans are typically unfamiliar.
I can remember being in Chile in 1980 and getting a bag of Hidden Valley ranch dressing mix. It made Chilean lettuce edible and thus was much appreciated.
Me, an American, marveling at your window screen that slides. I have never seen one slide before!
I am a first time viewer. I am amazed that you have been coming to America on and off for 7 years and speaks perfect American English. If I had met you and not seen this video, I would've had no idea you weren't an American.
Most older home have semi-permanent screens installed separate from the main windows. As for windows that work like in Germany, Andersen and several others make multi-pane casement windows (2 or 3 layers with a vacuum inside) that swing open, usually to the outside. In that case, the screen is on the inside. You typically see these in the better homes, but they do save a huge amount on energy costs. The issue is that most of the U.S. still has old sliding windows with single panes as they were the cheapest option at the time. My parents old house had windows that swung inwards like in Germany, though, as this was common about a hundred years ago. :)
Our roof window in Germany has a screen, but it's purpose is reflect sunlight away, to prevent the room becoming too hot, rather than stop insects, though it largely it serves that purpose too. The screen can be rolled up, but because of the bath and roof angle, it is awkward, so generally the screen is always over the window. (We do have a shower too.)
"The issue is that most of the U.S. still has old sliding windows with single panes" There's nothing inherently less efficient about 'sliding windows' vs casement windows, and there aren't many homes in the U.S. old enough to still have original single-pane windows (most old houses have had replacement windows installed). And even when single-pane windows are still around, these houses usually had/have storm windows that provide better insulation during winter and are replaced with screens during summer (or the screens and storms are integrated into a single unit). The only place single pane windows might be common is in a few temperate places (e.g. you probably don't need dual panes in San Diego).
@@markweaver1012 The difference is that almost everything in Germany is now double-pane or well insulated while I've lived in one place in the last 30 years that had anything other than a single pane of glass and leaked cold air. When my parents bought a home a couple on years ago in Illinois, their house was the only one they looked at that had modern windows in it.
@@plektosgaming Single-pane windows are intended to have a second pane provided by storm windows (which combination is nearly as energy efficient as dual pane windows). A single pane window with no storm will actually ice-up during an Illinois winter -- are you sure these houses had single pane windows with no storm windows? As for houses with leaky old windows--it sounds like you haven't been living in anything new or on the higher end of the market.
@@markweaver1012 Yep. Miles and miles of housing built mostly between 1920 and 1960 in Peoria. And all of the surrounding towns and farm houses are similar construction. Same down in Missouri with my other relatives. Unless they spent the money to replace them with modern windows, nothing is multi-pane or has storm windows. So about 50% have been retrofitted, though all of the businesses aside from a few very old buildings have been. My grandmother's home was in Quincy, IL, and most of that town also is similar older construction that never got updated or retrofitted because nobody ever had the money, at least in the older half of the town. Gets chilly in the winter for sure. Also it's why none of my relatives now live in those older homes. All nice and modern and warm :)
I'm really enjoying your videos, Feli! I'm going to Germany for the first time in a couple weeks so it's been fun learning about it before my trip! :)
I’m from Sydney NSW in Oz 🦘and we have express ways & toll roads. So when you enter and leave them your car is registered. Thus if you get to an exit before your allotted time, they post you out a ticket to the policeman’s ball! 😊
I was in Wiesbaden inb the 70's and they had cameras behing speed limit sirns above your lane on the Autobahn. They also took Volkwagen vans and put fold out cameras in the left front headlight that were parked with the other cars on the side of the road to get your speed and picture as you sped by. Fines were all given by mail.
I love your openness, clarity, and non judgemental approach you take when explaining cultures. I understand that prostitution is legal in Germany. Could you please explain this and provide some insights to your American audience in a future video. I have learned so much from you. And you are so nice and wonderful. Thanks so much!
Concerning speeding tickets in Germany: You can rise an objection, and then they have to prove that the picture was properly taken with the radar trap correctly set up. This is interesting when it comes to points or licence suspension.
BS!They don't have to proof;you have to proof,they made a "substantial"mistake!
Throwing rubbish into the sewers also occurs in the UK.
We separate our waste. The yellow bin is for plastic, the blue one is for paper, the brown bin is for organic waste, and the green one is for everything else. Stores purchase glass and aluminum cans from beer, and that's how the waste is disposed of.
For electronic waste, we contact a special service that recycles such waste. As for "bulk waste" like furniture, there is a schedule; I'm not sure, but I think it's every two months, although they can also be called earlier.
Wrecked cars, old ovens, refrigerators, and other large metal waste are bought by individuals who recycle metals.
This is how everything is organized in small Croatia, which is not as well-organized as Germany.
We were in Germany on a really hot (99F) day in July. Of course the hotel had no A/C or window screens. We spent the night sharing the room with a large variety of flying bugs.
Fliegengitter anbringen. Fly screens (insect screens ) are common in privat houses, flats
I love the content of your videos! Thankfully, I got to stay in Germany for six weeks during the 90s and can't wait to get back there. I enjoy seeing you explain the differences in our cultures and lifestyles as it reminds me of the wonderful experiences I had in your home country. I hope that you are enjoying your time here and creating many fond memoreis yourself!
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Central air systems in the United States use the blower fan in the furnace to circulate the Cooler air in the summer time for the air conditioning system.
I made ranch dip for my German friends and they loved it!
As a Belgian carpenter we always sold (fixed but removable) bugscreens along with the windows, at least 1 per room.
Also all new houses seem to get Airco now because new houses cool less during nights due to the high insulation requirements and to use the excess power generated from solar panels in the summer.
Can't people sell electricity back to the power provider? That's common in the US and summer months many people will be owed money by their electric companies.
@@harveythepooka Yes but its only a little amount of money and we also have to pay for the use of the power net up and downstrem now based on its highest peak in a month (wattpeak) so its better to use the generated power as much as possible.
Keep up the good work, I wish to learn German.
When I visited Cologne earlier this year, it was scorching hot. I looked around for a place that was air conditioned. Only place I found was a chocolate shop where I chilled by the freezer. Lol
There is cheap alternative to Windowscreens in Germany called "Fliegengitter" a fly-net and its a sheet of a curtain like plastic that you have to cut yourself to the Windows size. It comes with a velcro band thats glued into the windrow-frame and the fly-net is velcroed on it.
I don't know about other states, but here in Texas they outlawed those radar traffic cameras, stating that they're unconstitutional. I believe the story was that some politician sped through one of those, had his vehicle photographed, the letter arrived at the house where his wife opened it and saw a photo of another woman in the car with her husband... well, politicians can actually get some work done when they feel motivated.
That is why in Germany all passengers except the driver are blacked out on the picture that are send out. Showing the passenger in a car on a speeding ticket picture is seen an invasion of personal privacy by law. But the ticket office is allowed to have the picture with all passengers visible to be able to identify and ask them in a court case.
NH also does not allow radar cameras or plate readers. We also don't require adults to wear seat belts or adult motorcyclists to wear helmets. Live free or die.
The are commonly outlawed because the company running the cameras does illegal things to increase revenue. For example, the cameras in San Diego were removed because the company shortened the yellow light timing to catch more red light violations. This also increased rear end collisions. the company had to refund all the ticket fines.
Actually most likely, the vent your showed at 1:21 is a return air vent. It returns air to what used to be an old, octopus type furnace for reheating. Now, it return air to the unit below to heat or cool. FYI. Cheers!
I was headed to Switzerland way back in the 80s and stopped in Weil am Rhein to take care of business. As I was leaving town, I evidently sped up too early, and the Polizei pulled me over into a parking lot and made me pay DM 20,- right there. I don't know if they still do that or not.
Hey Girl! In Texas (Houston), we have window screens to keep the flies and mosquitos out. They are removable, but we keep them in. We do not have screens that open and close though. Love your videos! Take care!