Good morning/afternoon everyone :D In today's video I am going over things that are not common in Germany and the USA. I also wanted to tell you guys that in less than 3 weeks I will be back in Germany!!! Eating all the kasespatzle :) I promise to get my TH-cam channel back on track BUT I am enjoying the last little bit of time in Florida! Love you guys and thank you so much for watching! The best way to help me is to give this video a thumbs up!!
Hi Hayley Alexis I watch your videos all the time and I never subscribed haha. I am about to do so now though and you’re going to be like the 3rd TH-cam Channel I subscribe to . All the best
Hi Hayley Alexis I watch your videos all the time and I never subscribed haha. I am about to do so now though and you’re going to be like the 3rd TH-cam Channel I subscribe to . All the best
What´s wrong about sausages on sticks? We did that all the time as kids being at summer-camp being outside in the wilderness respectively being outside in the nature..even with any kind of meat and bread and potatoes..doing that is the origin respectively the pure art of grilling.
Hi Hayley i just started watching you on TH-cam and of course i subscribed after the first video. I love your videos and can't wait to see you and Mike again soon. Your facial expressions on everything makes me laugh.
@Alice Aires It's weird but like we have 3 separate bins, and on them it says what I can put there and what I can't but I still get confused bcs my neighbours that live in a house have like 5 separate bins...
Not just Germany that doesn't have garbage disposal in sinks. Never ever seen one here in Ireland either or any other European country I've lived in or visited.
It's because they are illegal in most Europe cities because they cause problems in the sewage system, and need water to function so a waste of drinking water.
In Germany the eye contact is a way to show respect to the person which is talking to you. By looking in their eyes you show them that you are listening and not ignoring them. When you look around you while someone is talking to you you're rude (in germany).
I wish water fountains were more common in Germany. Some larger stores have „Wasserspender“ but we need more, my thirsty ass always forgets take something to drink with me.
maybe that's reason why europeans almost always carrying bottle of water everywhere, here in Czech Republic fountains with drinkable water are rare too, not too rare but it's luck find one of them without googling where it is :-)
EzioAltair1 A garbage disposal is a device installed under a kitchen sink between the sink's drain and the trap. The disposal unit shreds food waste into pieces small enough to pass through plumbing. I don't think it's good for the pipes and I don't get why they can't just throw their garbage in a trash can
Randy Welsh and where do you think think it goes once it's in the pipes?! Once the water gets treated the goo that's left has to go somewhere as well Edit: upon further research after being transformed it goes to a landfill. But sometimes it might be used as fertilizer
@Randy Welsh Most german "biogarbage" gets collected and will bei used for either of these 2 things: They compost everything, turning into torf/fertilizer. Some people do this at home in their garden. We used to bring certain parts outside and after a while it turns into "groundearth" (dont know the correct english word, sorry! :D ). Or they bring it to a power plant, where they turn it into biogas, making electricity. By doing that, most of the garbage will also be turned into fertilizer. Its genuinly better than mixing it in the sink, where it will end up mixed with all kinds of chemicals etc.
I think not maintaining eye contact when somebody is talking to you is considered very rude in Germany. German culture may not be a powerhouse of politeness and courtesy, but I think it really irks many Germans because it makes you feel like the other person isn't really interested in what you are telling them at that moment. And it's definitely something that salespeople are taught in training, to make a customer feel important and appreciated.
Its rude in the US also. It's just parents think that kind of stuff should be left up to the teachers to teach. Teachers think parents should teach this. Since this is the case kids aren't taught.
@Jean Belmondo I just remembered. Russia you aren't supposed to look at people in the eye (or at least this was the way 15 years ago). During Communist times 3-4 families could be living in one apartment. They took the saying "the eyes are the window to the soul" seriously. Since the only space they had during this time was themselves they didn't make eye contact. Things could have changed since the generation that remembers the time of communism is dying off.
@Jean Belmondo also here's an article where its considered rude on making eye contact. Here's a part of the article "In many cultures, however, including Hispanic, Asian, Middle Eastern, and Native American, eye contact is thought to be disrespectful or rude, and lack of eye contact does not mean that a person is not paying attention." www.forbes.com/sites/emilywillingham/2012/10/16/low-eye-contact-is-not-just-an-autism-thing/
The rule of having eye contact if you talk or listen to someone is so deeply enrooted in some people that they look to you while driving instead of looking at the road. Very scary!
@@urfvgsgame Those movies are the reason we don't have the disposals -- Viel zu gefährlich!
5 ปีที่แล้ว +5
Funnily enough, those things were always a mystery to me, because I saw some movies but I couldn't make sense out of it. It never occurred to me, it was some sort of system to dispose garbage. Until I made a friend from USA who explained to me how the whole thing worked. And my reaction was "Eewww... that's disgusting. Why don't you throw it to the bio bin instead?". He didn't know.
You can grill sausages or bake dough over the fire - or you can wrap potatoes in aluminium foil and put it into the ember. In other words - it's more like a regular dinner and less like a secret meeting for sugar addicts.
came her to say that as well. Traditional bonfire food is sausage on a stick. Also bread dough wrapped around a stick (Stockbrot). Roasting Marshmallows isn't typical at all and just copied from American movies.
We grilled marshmallows in the 90s when I was a kid, so it's not that recent. But mostly Stockbrot. We've never grilled sausages on a bonfire though. We have made pancakes with one.
@@Pidalin as a Pole I feel you, I've been to a ton of bonfires (well, I was a scout so that explains it) and I've seen only ONCE that someone brought marshmallows. And tbh only just few people used it, the rest didn't care, we were all about our kiełbasa & bread.
@Foxxx In Deutschland sind die alten Rohre viel zu eng für sowas... Man hätte ganz schnell den Verantwortlichen, wenn dessen Rohr wegen Verstopfung platzt! 😂 Neue Rohre sind wiederum so groß, dass sie wegen Wasser sparen verstopfen, da alles liegen bleibt. Schwierig ^^'
Erlaubt wären sie sicherlich. Es fragt ja auch keiner nach ob man seine Essensreste in der Toilette herunterspült. Die Rohre verstopfen auch nicht, denn das Zeug wird ja kleingehackt und mit reichlich Wasser heruntergespült. Es ist halt nur nicht üblich so einen Müllschredder im Haus zu haben
Yeah...I have seen them very rarely in Europe... I do believe you can order them on Amazon though BUT they are crazy expensive (in comparison to how much they cost in the USA)
we do have white cups kinda like that (think they are a little smaller), for parties etc., you still can find them in almost every supermarket I think... (but I guess they're going to go away or be replaced by something else that isn't plastic soon)
The red cups are pretty common in Finland (but you don't find them everywhere), the translucent ones that are about the same size are still a lot more popular and can be found in every supermarket though...
It can be acceptable if the water treatment plants are designed to deal with that. The government takes them into account when designing sewage systems and promotes their use. They aren't just popular by themselves. In return it simplifies the general garbage disposal system
Well generally, the most common way of treating the water is by activated sludge and this is pretty energy intensive. Composting is way more effective from this perspective.
@@S_Black Funny thing is the water treatment plants in America aren't that advanced in the rural areas of America. Add to this the groundwater which is contaminated with the feces from the ranches. Yuck!
@Foxxx LoL good Joke. Europe have a lot of different Governments and Countries ar different , too. and the People in Norway, Switzerland and other countries are in average much more richer than the common US citizen
I remember when I came back to the USA and tried to fly to Texas.. I did not take off my shoes and got yelled at... they said "Are you stupid?"... I was like... NO just havent been in the land of the free for so long 🙄
@@1Jasmin yes, they require you to take your shoes off over here and to put them in a bin that goes through an xray machine to make sure nothing is hidden in them. It got really strict after 9/11 happened.
Also they also wear always oversized silly T-shirt’s or too tight Poloshirts with white long saggy socks and jogging shoes (Nike) ... every American in Europe always
The reason electric water kettles are not popular in the US is because they take much longer to boil water than their European counterparts. And the reason for *that* is the lower voltage in the US electrical grid (120 V, compared to 230 V in Europe). Lower voltage means the device cannot use as much electrical power (you'd blow a fuse else), and less power means a longer time to boil the water.
Odd because I am in Canada, I have an electric water kettle and it boils pretty fast. I am a tea drinker so I need a kettle. Thinking about it though, I can't say I recall seeing kettles often in the U.S..
For the past couple years I have seen more electric kettles here in the states. I even recently got one on the occasion I drink tea. But for the most part Americans are mostly coffee drinkers. That could be why.
@@fixit4387 google says american sockets are fused with 15 or 20 ampere breakers so 1800 W max if you want your cooker to work everywhere, rather 1600 W to be on the safe side. 2400 W is what a common Heater in Germany uses, really good ones use 3000W like the WMF Skyline. So yes, there is a significant difference.
I don’t know about Germany but in Austria it’s simply not allowed to have a garbage disposal in the sink as it doesn’t allow garbage separation and adds a lot of waste to the waste water.
Some people already wrote it, that "no eye contact" is considered rude. Well, that is only half the truth. It is considered rude not to pay attention to someone while in a conversation. So it is expected to show the other person that you pay attention. This is normally done through eye contact. It is possible to show attention in some other way, that depends on the situation. But most of the time it is just eye contact.
I've definitely seen a water fountain in Germany before (Trinkbrunnen). But they are rare. I think there's one in the Altstadt in München. I've never heard of anyone having a garbage disposal in Germany. In fact Germans tend to be very confused by the horror movie trope of people's hands getting hurt by a garbage disposal when they stick their hand in the sink.
Garbage disposals in sinks are basically banned in virtually every municipality. Neither the sewers but more importantly the waste water treatment facilities aren't constructed to deal with excessive biomatter beyond human feces.
In der Grundschule unseres Sohnes auch. Es wird allmählich besser. Hat wohl auch was damit zu tun, dass einfaches Leitungswasser trotz generell exzellenter Qualität in den meisten Orten und Häusern nie als Getränk angesehen wurde und Wasser ja generell nur mit Kohlendioxid versetzt verkauft wurde. Bis in die 90er war stilles Wasser eine Seltenheit, in den 70ern praktisch unbekannt. (Ich gehöre zu denen, die das Zeug kaum runterkriegen, musste immer Minutenlang umrühren.)
I've lived in Germany for 12 years, and no there is no root beer equivalent. I remember the first time I let my friends drink it, one said "it smells like toilet"...hahahahahahahahaha. I laughed my ass off. The second one said, it tastes like something you would clean your mouth with. Man I love Germany.
In Germany, looking into each other's eyes while talking is a sign of respect.
5 ปีที่แล้ว +43
"What do you drink with you ice cream". When we eat ice cream, we eat ice cream. We don't float the ice cream in anything. ;-) The shoes thing is *not* 9/11, it was a bit later, a guy by the name of "Richard Reid" (the name I had to google) tried to detonate explosives he had hidden in his shoes.
@densch123 Karamalz isn't "Malzbier", it's "Malztrunk." In order to make proper Malzbier, you mustn't add sugar to the ingrediences, but if you do, you aren't allowed to call the product "Malzbier" but it must be labelled "Malztrunk." Also, Malztrunk is practically alcohol free, whereas Malzbier contains up to 1.5 % alcohol due to differences in the brewing process.
@densch123 You'll have a very hard time finding proper "Malzbier" in Germany. 99.99 % of that stuff sold in the shops, supermarkets etc. is just plain cheap "Malztrunk."
Garbage disposal in a sink is not allowed in The Netherlands and therefore not for sale. It adds a lot of garbage to the wastewater that has to be filtered out.
They are also used in some of the Nordic countries apparently. The thing is that the government has to explicitly allow them because the sewage system needs to be able to deal with the stuff. In most EU countries they are illegal. There are also places in the US that used to ban them
I'm not seeing them much where I live anymore. Heck, we went to look at a house a year ago and they had disconnected it. Too many people just scrape plates of food down the garbage disposal, when it was only meant for any of the small pieces that may be left on the plate after scraping scraps into the trash or eating everything.
I think my grandma had something like a garbage disposal, it wasn't really meant for real garbage but smaller rests on the plate like potato peel, for washing off the soil on potatoes and for pouring out old eatables like ketchup or cream that you wouldn't throw in the normal garbage can because it would start to smell badly. I have never seen it in any newer built houses here in Finland so it is definately something that isn't usual anymore.
tut nicht nötig Klingt, als hättest du Hunger6! Mein Vater hat mir erzählt, daß sie früher Igel gefangen haben. Die wurden dann in Lehm gewickelt und ins noch glühende Lagerfeuer gelegt. Wenn der Lehm hart war konnten sie die kompletten Stacheln mit dem Lehm entfernen. Naja, ist aber auch schon sehr lange her. Und die Geschmäcker sind sehr verschieden. Die einen mögen Weißwurscht und die anderen halt Matjes und Labskaus. Schönen Sonntag
My second cousin lives in Germany and he is such a wonderful dad. When I wen to visit him for the first time last year I was very impressed with his parenting and great affection for his family. Quite honestly the best father to his children, that I have ever met. Nice video as always Hayley!
Never noticed the eye thing but it's true. If someone I was talking to looks away most of the time I get the feeling that they don't want to talk to me at all/ want to get away/ is hiding sth from me etc. Garbage disposals in the sink are completely uncommon in Germany. As many other comments already told you, it's not good for plumbing and the sewer system. We usually do not have red solo cups but we do have plastic cups. They are usually white. ( well most supermarkets banned them or are planning to) We do have drinking fountains but they are VERY few. Mostly in very old cities. Usually you have to buy water or you just get tap water. Before I visited the US for the first time I never heard of S'mores before. We usually eat marshmallows or "Stockbrot" over the campfire. But s'mores are delicious so I hope they'll get more popular here. :) And I do have a question: if Americans don't have an electric kettle. How do you actually make tea or soup? Do you just boil the water on the stove?
We actually do have a couple of these drinking-fountains in my city but because they're located outside a lot of pigeons drink from them too... Sooo pretty unhygienic and except of some of the homeless people, we don't really drink from them. But usually in every "DM" (a pretty common drug store in Germany) they have free water dispensers. :)
I dont know what kind of water fountains for drinking the Americans have but with the ones us Australians have it is not possible for the birds to drink from them as one has to push a button and hold ones finger down for it to work and it goes off as soon as you take your finger off and all the water which is not drnnk goes straight down a drain.
I grew up and still live in Switzerland and we also got a small freezer above/inside the fridge where we keep frequently used food. And then we've got a big freezer in the basement which is even larger than our fridge.
When germans buy red solo cups they buy the best ones and reuse them. At least thats what I and a Lot of people I know do. They are just perfect for drinking games like dünken also knows as Rage Cage
we're an american family living in germany. my grandpa has t h r e e big fridges, one in the kitchen, one in the garden and one downstairs, and two freezers. and he lives only with my grandma. I don't even ask anymore 😂🤣
I always found it to be hilarious because I KNEW no matter which house I would end up in... There would be a hidden fridge or freezer AND there would usually be goodies inside of it 😂
Does he have a big garden and grow his own fruit and vegetables? My mom needs her freezer only for her homegrown food. It's always packed with cherries and peas and straw- and rasberries and different veggies.
This is the first (100%) accurate video of the whole “things that are different in germany (i believe probably most of europe anyway) and the usa” genre I’ve ever seen
Didn't you ever have "Stockbrot" ("Stick Bread") at one of those bonfires? It is tradition to make a special kind of bread dough, wrap it around a stick and then bake it over the open flames. Stockbrot has its own, unique flavor, quite different from regular bread, with a hint of sweetness, almost a bit like a doughnut without the frosting, but of a different consistency. I don't remember how you make the dough, unfortunately. I haven't been at a bonfire since my elementary school days.
Sie meint das Gefrierfach, dass viele Kühlschränke haben... für Singlehaushalte ist das ja oft ausreichend und wenn man nur paar Eiswürfelformen unterbringen möchte. ;) Wenn ich als Amerikaner sowas zum ersten mal sehe, würde ich vielleicht auch schmunzeln. Diese Idee, dass man es rausnehmen könnte für unterwegs ist gar nicht mal so schlecht :D
I've been living in Germany my hole life (bavarian village and big saxonian city). I've never seen a freezer like the one in the video. I only know the small separate compartment in the upper part of the refridgerator or the separate freezers :D Concerning the water fountains: there are "Trinkwasserbrunnen" in Germany, too, but sadly much fewer than in the US. But I think, some schools started having them by now. Also, there are little "pools" with drinking water in small villages or next to hiking trails. Nevertheless, you have to pay for drinking water way too often in Germany. But at least we have water heaters - which is (in my opinion) one of the greatest inventions ever :D
Well, they guy who "gifted" us with this additional safety measure was Pakistani, IIRC, so there...(Yeah, I know it's profiling, and it's really annoying if you're the target. I had the same thing when I was younger bacsue of my long dark locks.
Actually, "The Shoe Bomber," Richard Reid, was NOT Pakistani. He was British, and according to Wikipedia at least, his mother was English and his father was Jamaican. He did spend time in al-Qaeda camps in Afghanistan and Pakistan after converting to Islam - a personal decision - but that does not make him Pakistani. We need to stop making snap judgements about people just because they have medium-dark skin.
5 ปีที่แล้ว
I'm only asked to take my shoes if they are thick, like boots or similar. Otherwise, it's fine. Also, it depends on airports in many they just check the shoes after the passenger passes the scanner without asking for removal, just lifting one foot and another.
I spent two years in the States when I was about 5 or 6 years old and to this day I am utterly horrified by garbage disposals. Maybe it's because they're incredibly noisy and sound like a torture device from hell; or because my parents kept telling me not to put my fingers in there unless I wanted to lose them or because I've seen too many bad horror movies - I don't know. They just freak me out. So thanks for the scare, Hayley! :D :P
Why do you hang out with people who put marshmallows and sausages over the fire? You need to get some friends who can show you the deliciousness that is Stockbrot! Make a dough, put it on a stick, grill it over a fire. It is wonderful! Also, I suspected a lack of Wasserkocher in the US, given how even modern-day TV shows and movies have scenes with an old-fashioned water kettle interrupting important conversations. I do NOT understand how anyone can live that way.
Hmm... The electric kettles.... We have one, but since we got our new induction-stovetop-cooking-whatever installed this thing together with a traditional kettle or a pot with a lid is so much faster.
When you have a gigantic fraternity party you dont want to be cleaning 300+ glasses. Also with these kinds of parties glass is a very very very bad idea. Really really really drunk people and glass doesn't mix.
@@jessicaely2521 in my country on weddings comes 350-450 people but everyone is drinking from glass cups if we finish the drink or shot we throw it on flor and yell Oppa i know we croats are a lil bit crazy 😂 we love happy events and stqy til 8 a.m almost 12-14 hours partying the glass cups pay the parents from the couple but everybody donate a few € thats ok lol i get married un August you can come and visit our wedding it,s completely other than un the us
@@zagrebackazlocinackaorgani9181 weddings are different than fraternity parties. Also after the wedding generally there isn't one person cleaning up after thr wedding. You order people to do that. Fraternity parties you dont do this. 1 person hosts the party and that 1 person is expected to clean up after the party.
@@jessicaely2521 my English isn't that good i dont know what a fraternity party is sorry but we use everywhere glass i am against plastic garbage that ends in the ocean i live in croatia and i dive in my free time through the Adriatic sea and clean with out getting paid ...you can't believe what people threw in to the sea ....but if you cant live without this cups it's ok to meit just show me how lazy some people are but okayü
We actually had, like 2 water fountains at my school (in germany) but close to no one would drink directly from it, but use it to fill up their water bottles 😅
I feel like the eyecontact thingy is more about manners (depending on the situation oc). My parents always taught me that it's very rude to not look into the eyes of the person you are talking to
The word you need is not "Brunnen" (fountain), but "Trinkwasserbrunnen" (dinkingwater-fountain). There are exacly 9 of them here in Bochum. For München, I googled this: www.muenchen.de/aktuell/2018-10/neue-trinkwasser-brunnen-innenstadt.html. ... Und nichts gegen Süßkram, aber beim Lagerfeuer finde ich Stockbrot besser.
haha @ that water fountain. No wonder one of the Germans said in the comments that the birds drink from them and poo in them. They are nothing like what us Australians have (we have ones the birds cant drink from which do not look like a typical fountain like the one in that german photo)
About the freezers, I think it's very different for a household where there are two parents and their children and the small apartment of a single person or a student. One doesn't eat as much as 4, so you don't need the same volume of space for food.
Here in Australia I love the water fountains. So cool if your bottle is empty. Now we are going back to Germany for a holiday and I will really miss them 🤣🤣
Hahaha, loved your video. I lived in the US for one year after I had finished school in the 90s and experienced the same like you but the other way round😂 I am still travelling to the US a lot due to my work. One more thing which is totally different. No matter if someone knows you or not, Americans dont just say hello or good morning. They are asking: How are you? If you would ask a stranger in Germany, hallo wie geht es Dir, he would think: This is none of your business, head off and leave me alone. 😂😂
Not just Munich with the extra fridge/freezer. My fiancee has an extra fridge freezer in the hallway room where his washing machine is, and another freezer down in the basement. He's in Stuttgart.
The freezer thing is probably a space issue too sometimes. In many rented apartments there just isn't that much room. Fridges have that small freezer box for a few items. It's enough for ice cream and a few things you want frozen. Things are different when people own a house. Freezers are very common then. There are also smaller fridge-sized freezers that can fit under a table for example. There may also be some differences between rural areas and cities. When you have a super market in walking distance there is far less need to freeze stuff.
I'm German and when I think about sth I don't look into someone's eyes and it doesn't matter where in Europe I am but they are always like "why don't you look at me" an I'm like tf I thinking abiut how to express myself
Yeah... That has been my assumption. Usually I see random houses that have "American" things in them BUT I have never seen a garbage disposal in my 4+ years in Germany.
Well...My mom used to tell me to keep the toilet seat down because rats or alligators would come up to the top and bite me in the but...Very similar childhoods we had 😂
@@HayleyAlexis These things do not exist, give or take some DIY jobs by Americans, in Germany. Go to an OBI or other home improvement store. It is not being sold there or anywhere. Garbage disposal via sewage lines means feeding the rats. And since in Germany (also in the US?????) sewage is treated at a plant to make (nearly) fresh water it would be harder and more expensive if there was more biological stuff in the sewage water. Some people dump wet food into the toilet. But that should be the exception. You should process (digest) food before dumping it there.
Ideally the water treatment plants take the additional load into account and do some things differently. Otherwise it can cause issues Alligators coming out of toilets sounds like a very credible threat for Florida ;)
The only reason the cups are red in the US is that when the police crashes a party, they can not immediately see what is in those cups (liquor, for instance). Here in Europe, most countries are less strict with their alcohol consumption under age laws. But you can buy white plastic cups here
The garbage disposal in the sink is forbidden in Germany by several directives and laws made by each of the 16 German countries to fight rats. All garbage (especially if food) belonges into the waste bin, yet neither into the sink nor into the toilet.
I have some british friends in bands who sometimes tour the US and always without fail complain about the lack of electric kettles in america I think you can be lucky to have marshmallows at a campfire, I used to go camping with friends all the time and the normal foor to eat at a campfire was bread. Therw wuld beabig bowl of dough and everyone has their sticks and you'd just wrap the dough around the stick, bake it over the fire and eat bread
Lol 😂 the bits of German you add when speaking is hilarious 😂 and yes the eye contact thing freaked me out in Germany 🇩🇪 it’s like I felt like I was talking to the police the way the Germans look at you directing into the eyes 👀
In April I flew Orlando to Toronto to Munich to Cologne and then back later in same airports. I had to take off my shoes at every airport and was patted down at every airport. 🤪
The thing with German and American dads is really true. I did an exchange year in America and I experienced that my dad in America was less involved then my dad in Germany
Even those white marshmallows that you toast over a fire weren't a thing until like 15 years ago. They're purely an American import. We had Mäusespeck, but you wouldn't toast those.
Karamalz and root beer are completely different.Not comparable. Most likely both are an acquired taste and also what you know and are used to. No garbage disposal - as you are used to - in Germany, and I am happy about it :-)
Dear Hayley, the dobble fridge issue is not a Munich issue. You pointed at it very correctly. It is usual to the middle class and upper to have another fridge/freezer in addition to the one in the kitchen. Sincerily, Ylva
Yes, the "Shoe Bomber" was a British man named Richard Reid, and his attempt to blow up a plane using explosives hidden in his shoes happened in December 2001. The fact that it happened so soon after 9/11 is probably why so many people lump them together, but the removal of shoes at security had nothing to do with 9/11 itself. I guess younger folks might not remember that, though. ;-)
I remember very well when I first got to Germany.. my Mom, litle sister and I had to stay with my Oma for the first few months. I was wondering how you can put all your food and frozen goods in this almost "pocket sized" fridge and even smaller freezer. But somehow it actually DOES work. Belongs on a show called "Germany`s Unsolved Mysteries"..lol There is no root beer in Germany, Hayley. I myself can only drink that Karamalz stuff if it`s cold enough. The water fountain thing.. Hayley.. no the German would mix apple juice in the water fountain and THEN charge 50 cents for a drink - you know that.. lol In my 30 years here in Germany.. I have NEVER seen a garbage disposal here. Of course I know what they are, but I don`t think they actually exist in Germany. The last time I went home, they saw me at the Atlanta airport, and I had a wheelchair, because - as you might know that airport in Atlanta.. is so damn HUGE. Don`t get me wrong Hayley, I can walk but it would take me FOREVER to get from point A to point B. So the security personell saw me, and let me keep my shoes on - so no problems there. The German Dad vs American Dad thing.. maybe that might also have to be a cultural thing. I do know that my brother Casey, who lives over there (Carollton, GA) does quite a lot with his little boy, Cannon - so maybe he`s an exception. I use my hot water kettle my self, like more times a day.. because I drink a lot of cappuchino instead of coffee.. it`s a life saver, really. I also use it for hot water when mopping the bathroom and kitchen floors of my apartment, Only use 2 full kettles, and put then in a bucket with the cleaner in the water and mop once a week. I end up saving a bit of water that way. Anyway, that´s how I do it. Smores is a new thing over here in Germany, it will take a while to catch on here, but if you give them time, like the peanut butter thing - it would catch on. You know, the closest thing that tastes LIKE a smore over here to me is one of those Knoppers things ( those little waffle things with the cream and choclate on the bottom).. you know what I mean. I know, you can`t roast them on a bonfire though, but TASTEWISE they`re the closest thing to smores.
I love rootbeer AND I love "Malzbier". And yes, if you ask me, there is nothing like rootsbeer here, but with Malzbier you can get a hint for the direction of taste, not more, not less.
My take on this as a Canadian ... 1. Having an extra fridge/freezer is pretty common, especially a freezer, even though we also have big fridges to begin with! 3. UGH yes the lack of water fountains in Germany annoyed me! (the lack of water in general actually, especially in restaurants. It felt so good when I first came back home and got served a tall glass of cold water in a restaurant!!) 4. I've seen a garbage disposal only once here... are they really that common in the US? 🧐 8. A lot of people I've met in Europe were fascinated when I told them we actually had red Solo cups, like in the movies! Same thing with the yellow school bus. Funny how those everyday normal things almost seem mythical to other people. 9. TH-cam made me discover that electric kettles aren't really common in the US.. this surprised me so much! But genuinely, what do you use instead?? A stovetop kettle? A pot? We use them a lot here, and even if it doesn't heat as fast as in Europe because of the voltage, it's still wayyy more convenient and a bit faster than a stovetop kettle! 10. I've always just grilled marshmallows, or hotdog sausages (but mostly marshmallows) at bonfires. Smores are really an American thing lol, never tried them and in all honesty, I don't really want to. seems way too rich 😖
:) Every house I have EVER been in... in the USA (except for my friends grandmas house which was built in like 1920) has had one :D The yellow school bus thing is actually quite funny. In Munich there are a few places that have yellow school busses and rent them as party busses. It's quite interesting actually. Most of the people i know that need boiling/hot water for anything microwave it or put a pot on the stove. my mother has a separate water dispenser in her house and it gives us the option to have "hot" water be dispensed :D but it's nowhere near the same as a kettle.
@@HayleyAlexis thanks for the info!! I really never thought it would be that common (garbage disposals). And for the kettles, I would have thought, earlier in my life, that is was rather an American thing to have an electric one! idk, I always had this perception that Americans have electric appliances for everything lol.. I've come to realize that Germans are the ones who are like that 🤪
It's mostly in newer houses that you see garbage disposals. We have had them in houses built in the 1980s and 1990s. Older houses won't have them because they weren't in common household use before then. I was born in the '60s, and I never saw one in a residential dwelling until about 1980. Of course, you can have one installed in any house, provided you have the undersink room for it, and the money to pay for it. ;-) I'm sure richer people had them before the '80s. Our condo in Wisconsin (built in the 1990s) has one, but our 1950s/1960s Florida house doesn't. As I intimated above, it's mostly a matter of modernity and affluence. I would guess probably slightly more than half of U.S, homes have them. Wikipedia would seem to support this number. :-) A few other interesting facts about them here too, btw! en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garbage_disposal_unit
The water fountain you point at is called Wasserspender in German and it is rare to find. Usually it is built in Germany without a sink under it and designed to not out your hand or mouth under it. You just have to take a glas or bottle to get the water from the Wasserspender to then drink it. The main reason to the almost none existance of the american designed water fountains in Germany is simple: the water out of almost any crane almost anywhere in Germany, even on public rest rooms, is drinking water. If it is no drinkeng water, it has to be writen in sight of the crane: KEIN TRINKWASSER.
You are so right about the water fountain. when I went running in the US, I didn't even have to bring a water bottle. Our water quality is usually very good, so I don't understand why we don't have any.
Good morning/afternoon everyone :D In today's video I am going over things that are not common in Germany and the USA. I also wanted to tell you guys that in less than 3 weeks I will be back in Germany!!! Eating all the kasespatzle :) I promise to get my TH-cam channel back on track BUT I am enjoying the last little bit of time in Florida! Love you guys and thank you so much for watching! The best way to help me is to give this video a thumbs up!!
Hi Hayley Alexis I watch your videos all the time and I never subscribed haha. I am about to do so now though and you’re going to be like the 3rd TH-cam Channel I subscribe to . All the best
Hi Hayley Alexis I watch your videos all the time and I never subscribed haha. I am about to do so now though and you’re going to be like the 3rd TH-cam Channel I subscribe to . All the best
Enjoy the beaches!
What´s wrong about sausages on sticks? We did that all the time as kids being at summer-camp being outside in the wilderness respectively being outside in the nature..even with any kind of meat and bread and potatoes..doing that is the origin respectively the pure art of grilling.
Hi Hayley i just started watching you on TH-cam and of course i subscribed after the first video. I love your videos and can't wait to see you and Mike again soon. Your facial expressions on everything makes me laugh.
Garbage disposals are illegal in most german cities, and with good reason: they cause problems in the sewage system.
@Hauke Holst ever heard of "El Chupanibre"?
Freedom of trash haha
The "eye contact" is way to show respect. People who can't look in your eyes while talking are mostly not very self confident and mostly low educated
@Randy Welsh Leider gibt es ungebildete Menschen auf der ganzen Welt, wie uns Randy Welsh hier eindeutig beweist! ;-)
@Randy Welsh Eigentlich ist Island doch ein stolzes und freundliches Land?
So Deutsch 😂 “You have to put it IN THE BIOMÜLL!!!” 😂
Zoe 😂😂
😂😂😂😂😂
What's weird is that my building complex I live in doesn't have a separate bio mull :/
Omg yeah lol
@Alice Aires It's weird but like we have 3 separate bins, and on them it says what I can put there and what I can't but I still get confused bcs my neighbours that live in a house have like 5 separate bins...
Not just Germany that doesn't have garbage disposal in sinks. Never ever seen one here in Ireland either or any other European country I've lived in or visited.
I'm Canadian and I've seen that only once!
@@rose-annelebel5112 So maybe it's just in the US then 🤷
I’ve definitely stayed in places in the UK/England that have garbage disposal. But I am actually from Germany and we don’t have them
It's because they are illegal in most Europe cities because they cause problems in the sewage system, and need water to function so a waste of drinking water.
They do exist in England.
In Germany the eye contact is a way to show respect to the person which is talking to you. By looking in their eyes you show them that you are listening and not ignoring them. When you look around you while someone is talking to you you're rude (in germany).
lost girl Ich glaube das ist in jeden Land selbstverständlich xd
@@cherryitzyy8355 Ganz und gar nicht. In manchen asiatischen oder muslimischen Ländern ist das nicht so.
Judith echt? Ok das hätte ich nicht gedacht.
@@cherryitzyy8355 Außer in der USA, wie es aussieht.
- nelejones ja oder? Würde es auch als unhöflich empfinden wenn die person mit der ich rede sich nicht wirklich auf das gespräch konzentriert
When we have a bonfire in Germany, we make "Stockbrot". You spin a selfmade bread-dough around the stick and "bake" it holding it close to the flames.
Im german & i've never done that. I only do marshmallows & sausages on a bonfire😂
Kids love "Stockbrot". You know that "stokbrood" is the Dutch word for "Baguette"?
@@ssksm8919 ok you have missed out. We do it like every year.
The same thing in Denmark. Here it is called Snobrød
Looove Stockbrot! :D
I wish water fountains were more common in Germany. Some larger stores have „Wasserspender“ but we need more, my thirsty ass always forgets take something to drink with me.
my town actually has one in the walking street (Fußgängerzone, not sure about the correct translation), but i don't recall seeing one anywhere else
@@Gamerado15 meinst du den Gehweg? Weil Gehweg heißt sidewalk auf Englisch.
maybe that's reason why europeans almost always carrying bottle of water everywhere, here in Czech Republic fountains with drinkable water are rare too, not too rare but it's luck find one of them without googling where it is :-)
@@Acrylara nein, ich meine schon ne fußgängerzone
@@Gamerado15 tbh hab ich keine ahnung was das ist lol
_how do americans live without kettles_
_do you not make tea_
I heard they use the microwave for it
uhh.. they use these old kettles that you put on your stove to heat water up
We usually use the microwave. Older folks may still use tea kettles heated on the stove.
@@itsjustme4848 oh, okay! thank you! ^^
By throwing it in the harbor
As a European I was so confused when I saw people putting their trash in their sink for the longest time I did to understand why they were doing this!
lol all about perspective
I still don´t understand it xD
EzioAltair1 A garbage disposal is a device installed under a kitchen sink between the sink's drain and the trap. The disposal unit shreds food waste into pieces small enough to pass through plumbing.
I don't think it's good for the pipes and I don't get why they can't just throw their garbage in a trash can
Randy Welsh and where do you think think it goes once it's in the pipes?! Once the water gets treated the goo that's left has to go somewhere as well
Edit: upon further research after being transformed it goes to a landfill. But sometimes it might be used as fertilizer
@Randy Welsh Most german "biogarbage" gets collected and will bei used for either of these 2 things:
They compost everything, turning into torf/fertilizer. Some people do this at home in their garden. We used to bring certain parts outside and after a while it turns into "groundearth" (dont know the correct english word, sorry! :D ).
Or they bring it to a power plant, where they turn it into biogas, making electricity. By doing that, most of the garbage will also be turned into fertilizer.
Its genuinly better than mixing it in the sink, where it will end up mixed with all kinds of chemicals etc.
I think not maintaining eye contact when somebody is talking to you is considered very rude in Germany. German culture may not be a powerhouse of politeness and courtesy, but I think it really irks many Germans because it makes you feel like the other person isn't really interested in what you are telling them at that moment. And it's definitely something that salespeople are taught in training, to make a customer feel important and appreciated.
Its rude in the US also. It's just parents think that kind of stuff should be left up to the teachers to teach. Teachers think parents should teach this. Since this is the case kids aren't taught.
@Jean Belmondo what's your point? This video was just about US and Germany.
@Jean Belmondo I just remembered. Russia you aren't supposed to look at people in the eye (or at least this was the way 15 years ago). During Communist times 3-4 families could be living in one apartment. They took the saying "the eyes are the window to the soul" seriously. Since the only space they had during this time was themselves they didn't make eye contact.
Things could have changed since the generation that remembers the time of communism is dying off.
@Jean Belmondo also here's an article where its considered rude on making eye contact. Here's a part of the article
"In many cultures, however, including Hispanic, Asian, Middle Eastern, and Native American, eye contact is thought to be disrespectful or rude, and lack of eye contact does not mean that a person is not paying attention."
www.forbes.com/sites/emilywillingham/2012/10/16/low-eye-contact-is-not-just-an-autism-thing/
The rule of having eye contact if you talk or listen to someone is so deeply enrooted in some people that they look to you while driving instead of looking at the road. Very scary!
I beg your pardon.. Of course we germans know what garbage disposals are! We watch american horror movies after all, ya know?! 😂👌
@@urfvgsgame Those movies are the reason we don't have the disposals -- Viel zu gefährlich!
Funnily enough, those things were always a mystery to me, because I saw some movies but I couldn't make sense out of it. It never occurred to me, it was some sort of system to dispose garbage. Until I made a friend from USA who explained to me how the whole thing worked. And my reaction was "Eewww... that's disgusting. Why don't you throw it to the bio bin instead?".
He didn't know.
I didnt know that Spaghettieis is generally only available in germany up until a couple of days ago.
not at all. Faloodeh is an orginial Iranian dessert. It's similar to that: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faloodeh
Faloodeh? Oh my god. I love Spaghettieis but I hate Faloodeh... Rose water... urrgh.
You actually get it in Italy too as most ice cream shops in Germany are owned by Italians anyway
@@1000namen thats not the same thing
@@vivienmadlen that's the meaning of "it's similar"
You can grill sausages or bake dough over the fire - or you can wrap potatoes in aluminium foil and put it into the ember. In other words - it's more like a regular dinner and less like a secret meeting for sugar addicts.
This comment... LITERALLY...Made me laugh out loud!! 😂😂😂😂
@@HayleyAlexis
"Jimmy, what is that white powder in your bag?"
@@erdbeerspinat98 "through" or "throw"? ;-)
@@erdbeerspinat98 No probs, just a hint. ;-)
Sausage on a stick is traditional. I think roasting marshmallows is a rather recent thing copied from American TV shows.
came her to say that as well. Traditional bonfire food is sausage on a stick. Also bread dough wrapped around a stick (Stockbrot). Roasting Marshmallows isn't typical at all and just copied from American movies.
We grilled marshmallows in the 90s when I was a kid, so it's not that recent. But mostly Stockbrot. We've never grilled sausages on a bonfire though. We have made pancakes with one.
As a Czech I have no idea why roasting marshmallows, it makes no sense for me, it's sweet, not meal for roasting. :-)
@@Pidalin as a Pole I feel you, I've been to a ton of bonfires (well, I was a scout so that explains it) and I've seen only ONCE that someone brought marshmallows. And tbh only just few people used it, the rest didn't care, we were all about our kiełbasa & bread.
@@annafirnen4815 I saw marshmallows maybe twice in my whole life :-D it's not easy to find it here
dieser Schredder im Abfluss ist bei uns bestimmt nichtmal erlaubt... abgesehen davon verstopfen die rohre so schon andauernd haha
Foxxx bist du verwirrt?! Brauchst du hilfe?
@Foxxx In Deutschland sind die alten Rohre viel zu eng für sowas... Man hätte ganz schnell den Verantwortlichen, wenn dessen Rohr wegen Verstopfung platzt! 😂 Neue Rohre sind wiederum so groß, dass sie wegen Wasser sparen verstopfen, da alles liegen bleibt. Schwierig ^^'
Ich stelle mir ein Schredder im Abfluss einfach nur eklig vor
Foxxx fragwürdige Argumentation...
Die Legalisierung bringt verantwortungsvollen Umgang und das wäre mittlerweile angebracht.
Erlaubt wären sie sicherlich. Es fragt ja auch keiner nach ob man seine Essensreste in der Toilette herunterspült. Die Rohre verstopfen auch nicht, denn das Zeug wird ja kleingehackt und mit reichlich Wasser heruntergespült. Es ist halt nur nicht üblich so einen Müllschredder im Haus zu haben
The red plastic cups are in basically all American college movies :)
But no, not really common in Europe...
Yeah...I have seen them very rarely in Europe... I do believe you can order them on Amazon though BUT they are crazy expensive (in comparison to how much they cost in the USA)
You hab buy These cups here 8n Germany .Kodi,Rewe ,Real p.e.
we do have white cups kinda like that (think they are a little smaller), for parties etc., you still can find them in almost every supermarket I think... (but I guess they're going to go away or be replaced by something else that isn't plastic soon)
You can them now in Dutch bottle shops sometimes
The red cups are pretty common in Finland
(but you don't find them everywhere), the translucent ones that are about the same size are still a lot more popular and can be found in every supermarket though...
Garbage disposals are not that great, because it really adds a huge load to the wastewater treatment plant.
It also causes rat problems. We don´t have that many.
It can be acceptable if the water treatment plants are designed to deal with that. The government takes them into account when designing sewage systems and promotes their use. They aren't just popular by themselves. In return it simplifies the general garbage disposal system
Well generally, the most common way of treating the water is by activated sludge and this is pretty energy intensive. Composting is way more effective from this perspective.
@@S_Black Funny thing is the water treatment plants in America aren't that advanced in the rural areas of America. Add to this the groundwater which is contaminated with the feces from the ranches. Yuck!
Actually they are forbidden in Germany.
Americans.... don't heat up sausages on a bonfire...?
I mean... Hot dogs are sausages, right? 😂
Apparently no... how weird, isn't it?
Bonfires no, grills yes
Ik i didn't realise they didn't have bonfires... also i had no idea what a smore was xD
@@lemonlime2527 It took me half of the video to realise what she was talking about. TBH never heard of smores before, not even in movies or series.
We do have red solo cups in Germany. Go and ask for Bier-Pong-Becher 😉
"Everything in the United States is just huge."
Especially our waistlines. 🤷
The trashproduction, sportfrancaise, weaponlobby, fried food, ...
The basic school education is small. 😉 european thinking. 😉
YOU sir.....are dam right
rude
@Foxxx LoL good Joke. Europe have a lot of different Governments and Countries ar different , too. and the People in Norway, Switzerland and other countries are in average much more richer than the common US citizen
So... their waist and their waste?
How to spot Americans in an airport? They take of their shoes. True story. Works every time ;)
I remember when I came back to the USA and tried to fly to Texas.. I did not take off my shoes and got yelled at... they said "Are you stupid?"... I was like... NO just havent been in the land of the free for so long 🙄
@@HayleyAlexis you are free to take off your shoes ;)
@@HayleyAlexis You got yelled at for not taking of your shoes?
@@1Jasmin yes, they require you to take your shoes off over here and to put them in a bin that goes through an xray machine to make sure nothing is hidden in them. It got really strict after 9/11 happened.
Also they also wear always oversized silly T-shirt’s or too tight Poloshirts with white long saggy socks and jogging shoes (Nike) ... every American in Europe always
The reason electric water kettles are not popular in the US is because they take much longer to boil water than their European counterparts. And the reason for *that* is the lower voltage in the US electrical grid (120 V, compared to 230 V in Europe). Lower voltage means the device cannot use as much electrical power (you'd blow a fuse else), and less power means a longer time to boil the water.
Ist aber nicht der große Unterschied. 120V mal 16A Sicherung = max. 1920 Watt. Unsere guten Wasserkocher haben so 2200-2400 Watt.
Odd because I am in Canada, I have an electric water kettle and it boils pretty fast. I am a tea drinker so I need a kettle. Thinking about it though, I can't say I recall seeing kettles often in the U.S..
For the past couple years I have seen more electric kettles here in the states. I even recently got one on the occasion I drink tea. But for the most part Americans are mostly coffee drinkers. That could be why.
@@fixit4387 google says american sockets are fused with 15 or 20 ampere breakers so 1800 W max if you want your cooker to work everywhere, rather 1600 W to be on the safe side. 2400 W is what a common Heater in Germany uses, really good ones use 3000W like the WMF Skyline. So yes, there is a significant difference.
@CanadianGirl I think that's your relation to the Brits and drinking Tea. Those kettles are a big thing in Britain, you get one in every hotel room.
Uhh THE US DOES NOT HAVE KETTLES? Wtf didn't expect that hahaha
Yes, electric kettles are available in the us. They're pretty common.
yes, they do. You can get them at Walmart like everything else.
No i didn't expect that either!
You can literally get one at almost any store in the US
I don’t know about Germany but in Austria it’s simply not allowed to have a garbage disposal in the sink as it doesn’t allow garbage separation and adds a lot of waste to the waste water.
Some people already wrote it, that "no eye contact" is considered rude. Well, that is only half the truth.
It is considered rude not to pay attention to someone while in a conversation. So it is expected to show the other person that you pay attention. This is normally done through eye contact.
It is possible to show attention in some other way, that depends on the situation. But most of the time it is just eye contact.
I've definitely seen a water fountain in Germany before (Trinkbrunnen). But they are rare. I think there's one in the Altstadt in München.
I've never heard of anyone having a garbage disposal in Germany. In fact Germans tend to be very confused by the horror movie trope of people's hands getting hurt by a garbage disposal when they stick their hand in the sink.
Garbage disposals in sinks are basically banned in virtually every municipality. Neither the sewers but more importantly the waste water treatment facilities aren't constructed to deal with excessive biomatter beyond human feces.
I'm stadtpark von Norderstedt gibt es auch einen trinkbrunnen
In der Grundschule unseres Sohnes auch. Es wird allmählich besser. Hat wohl auch was damit zu tun, dass einfaches Leitungswasser trotz generell exzellenter Qualität in den meisten Orten und Häusern nie als Getränk angesehen wurde und Wasser ja generell nur mit Kohlendioxid versetzt verkauft wurde. Bis in die 90er war stilles Wasser eine Seltenheit, in den 70ern praktisch unbekannt. (Ich gehöre zu denen, die das Zeug kaum runterkriegen, musste immer Minutenlang umrühren.)
@@peterbruells28 oah mein Beileid... Ich hasse die abgestandene Suppe die aus Sprudel entsteht!
I live in a little City and in Kindertagen we Had a water fountain
I've lived in Germany for 12 years, and no there is no root beer equivalent. I remember the first time I let my friends drink it, one said "it smells like toilet"...hahahahahahahahaha. I laughed my ass off. The second one said, it tastes like something you would clean your mouth with.
Man I love Germany.
what's wrong with sausages on sticks though? they are deli!
haha theyre tooo good
In Germany, looking into each other's eyes while talking is a sign of respect.
"What do you drink with you ice cream". When we eat ice cream, we eat ice cream. We don't float the ice cream in anything. ;-)
The shoes thing is *not* 9/11, it was a bit later, a guy by the name of "Richard Reid" (the name I had to google) tried to detonate explosives he had hidden in his shoes.
Ok maybe I’m a little off. I was too young to remember that BUT I remember I flew a few months after 9/11 and had to take my shoes off.
Jürgen Ehrhard : Nicht ganz wahr - wir haben unseren Eiskaffee ! Aber Rootbeer schmeckt wie Rheumasalbe 🤢🤮
@@suzyschulze2414 Ich liebe meinen Eiskaffee! Und auch Eis in kaltem Kakau kann sehr angenehm sein.
@@waschbarins.25 Genau !😁👍💖
I think orange juice with vanilla ice-cream is quite popular.
Karamalz is how we train our new generations to grow into proper, beer-swilling Germans.
🙌🏻😂
Kandimalz (Strong Arm)
@densch123 Karamalz isn't "Malzbier", it's "Malztrunk." In order to make proper Malzbier, you mustn't add sugar to the ingrediences, but if you do, you aren't allowed to call the product "Malzbier" but it must be labelled "Malztrunk." Also, Malztrunk is practically alcohol free, whereas Malzbier contains up to 1.5 % alcohol due to differences in the brewing process.
@densch123 You'll have a very hard time finding proper "Malzbier" in Germany. 99.99 % of that stuff sold in the shops, supermarkets etc. is just plain cheap "Malztrunk."
Honestly, I'm German and I've never even heard of Karamalz. Don't think it's popular where I live^^;
Garbage disposal in a sink is not allowed in The Netherlands and therefore not for sale. It adds a lot of garbage to the wastewater that has to be filtered out.
And we recycle a lot of items.
Okay Iam German and we have big freezers 😂😂😂 just some people dont need a big one so they get a smaller one 🤷♀️
Garbage Disposal is an american thing. Ive lived in apartments in Japan and London and none of those had a disposal.
They are also used in some of the Nordic countries apparently. The thing is that the government has to explicitly allow them because the sewage system needs to be able to deal with the stuff. In most EU countries they are illegal. There are also places in the US that used to ban them
I'm not seeing them much where I live anymore. Heck, we went to look at a house a year ago and they had disconnected it. Too many people just scrape plates of food down the garbage disposal, when it was only meant for any of the small pieces that may be left on the plate after scraping scraps into the trash or eating everything.
I think my grandma had something like a garbage disposal, it wasn't really meant for real garbage but smaller rests on the plate like potato peel, for washing off the soil on potatoes and for pouring out old eatables like ketchup or cream that you wouldn't throw in the normal garbage can because it would start to smell badly. I have never seen it in any newer built houses here in Finland so it is definately something that isn't usual anymore.
8:58 "och du meine Güte!!!" HAHAHA sooo deutsch :D
A german sentence says: liars cant look into your eyes!
Ich kenne nur Stockbrot, ich hab noch nie in einer Gruppe Marshmallows geröstet. Und du kannst Bananen grillen und dann mit Eis essen!
Oder Stockbrot mit Nutella. Oder Stockfisch :-)
Gegrillte Bananen sind soooo gut ! ❤️
Stockbrot ftw
@@ericarofus9768 Mit Honig.
tut nicht nötig Klingt, als hättest du Hunger6!
Mein Vater hat mir erzählt, daß sie früher Igel gefangen haben. Die wurden dann in Lehm gewickelt und ins noch glühende Lagerfeuer gelegt. Wenn der Lehm hart war konnten sie die kompletten Stacheln mit dem Lehm entfernen.
Naja, ist aber auch schon sehr lange her. Und die Geschmäcker sind sehr verschieden. Die einen mögen Weißwurscht und die anderen halt Matjes und Labskaus.
Schönen Sonntag
My second cousin lives in Germany and he is such a wonderful dad. When I wen to visit him for the first time last year I was very impressed with his parenting and great affection for his family. Quite honestly the best father to his children, that I have ever met. Nice video as always Hayley!
Wow you talked about bonfires. In germany. And different kinds of food on a stick. And had the NERVE not to talk about STOCKBROT??!?
jk love you
It honestly just slipped my mind. I love it though ❤️❤️
Never noticed the eye thing but it's true. If someone I was talking to looks away most of the time I get the feeling that they don't want to talk to me at all/ want to get away/ is hiding sth from me etc.
Garbage disposals in the sink are completely uncommon in Germany. As many other comments already told you, it's not good for plumbing and the sewer system.
We usually do not have red solo cups but we do have plastic cups. They are usually white. ( well most supermarkets banned them or are planning to)
We do have drinking fountains but they are VERY few. Mostly in very old cities. Usually you have to buy water or you just get tap water.
Before I visited the US for the first time I never heard of S'mores before. We usually eat marshmallows or "Stockbrot" over the campfire. But s'mores are delicious so I hope they'll get more popular here. :)
And I do have a question: if Americans don't have an electric kettle. How do you actually make tea or soup? Do you just boil the water on the stove?
1. We miss you too...😢 Hayley
Normalerweise kauft man einen
Kühl- gefrier Kombi
Kühlschrank mit gefriererboxen ..Standkühlschrank....
We actually do have a couple of these drinking-fountains in my city but because they're located outside a lot of pigeons drink from them too... Sooo pretty unhygienic and except of some of the homeless people, we don't really drink from them. But usually in every "DM" (a pretty common drug store in Germany) they have free water dispensers. :)
I dont know what kind of water fountains for drinking the Americans have but with the ones us Australians have it is not possible for the birds to drink from them as one has to push a button and hold ones finger down for it to work and it goes off as soon as you take your finger off and all the water which is not drnnk goes straight down a drain.
@@tanyabrown9839 US is the same. We don't have to worry about birds, just little kids who put their mouth on the spout.
I grew up and still live in Switzerland and we also got a small freezer above/inside the fridge where we keep frequently used food. And then we've got a big freezer in the basement which is even larger than our fridge.
Ok I'm german. And when you immitated us.. like "ach du meine Güte" (marshmellow story) . Omg. I bursted out laughing. Phenomal 😂
When germans buy red solo cups they buy the best ones and reuse them. At least thats what I and a Lot of people I know do. They are just perfect for drinking games like dünken also knows as Rage Cage
really hard to find solo cups haha i sware
we're an american family living in germany. my grandpa has t h r e e big fridges, one in the kitchen, one in the garden and one downstairs, and two freezers. and he lives only with my grandma. I don't even ask anymore 😂🤣
I always found it to be hilarious because I KNEW no matter which house I would end up in... There would be a hidden fridge or freezer AND there would usually be goodies inside of it 😂
This is normal, die Russen könnten ja kommen. 😉
We have two large freezers and one small fridge-sized one. And two fridges (one on my grandmother's floor which kind of serves as an overflow)
Does he have a big garden and grow his own fruit and vegetables? My mom needs her freezer only for her homegrown food. It's always packed with cherries and peas and straw- and rasberries and different veggies.
@@tutnichtnotig1297
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😬😬😬😬🤗🤗🤗🤗👍👍👍👍🙌
This is the first (100%) accurate video of the whole “things that are different in germany (i believe probably most of europe anyway) and the usa” genre I’ve ever seen
Didn't you ever have "Stockbrot" ("Stick Bread") at one of those bonfires? It is tradition to make a special kind of bread dough, wrap it around a stick and then bake it over the open flames. Stockbrot has its own, unique flavor, quite different from regular bread, with a hint of sweetness, almost a bit like a doughnut without the frosting, but of a different consistency.
I don't remember how you make the dough, unfortunately. I haven't been at a bonfire since my elementary school days.
...well I'm from Germany and I've never ever in my entire life saw a little box in someone's freezer where ice cubes are in lmao.
Sie meint das Gefrierfach, dass viele Kühlschränke haben... für Singlehaushalte ist das ja oft ausreichend und wenn man nur paar Eiswürfelformen unterbringen möchte. ;) Wenn ich als Amerikaner sowas zum ersten mal sehe, würde ich vielleicht auch schmunzeln. Diese Idee, dass man es rausnehmen könnte für unterwegs ist gar nicht mal so schlecht :D
I've been living in Germany my hole life (bavarian village and big saxonian city). I've never seen a freezer like the one in the video. I only know the small separate compartment in the upper part of the refridgerator or the separate freezers :D
Concerning the water fountains: there are "Trinkwasserbrunnen" in Germany, too, but sadly much fewer than in the US. But I think, some schools started having them by now. Also, there are little "pools" with drinking water in small villages or next to hiking trails. Nevertheless, you have to pay for drinking water way too often in Germany.
But at least we have water heaters - which is (in my opinion) one of the greatest inventions ever :D
I usually have to take my shoes off. But I guess that's because I look extra suspicious ;)
Have you looked at your ID? It says why they think you're suspicious!
Well, they guy who "gifted" us with this additional safety measure was Pakistani, IIRC, so there...(Yeah, I know it's profiling, and it's really annoying if you're the target. I had the same thing when I was younger bacsue of my long dark locks.
Actually, "The Shoe Bomber," Richard Reid, was NOT Pakistani. He was British, and according to Wikipedia at least, his mother was English and his father was Jamaican. He did spend time in al-Qaeda camps in Afghanistan and Pakistan after converting to Islam - a personal decision - but that does not make him Pakistani. We need to stop making snap judgements about people just because they have medium-dark skin.
I'm only asked to take my shoes if they are thick, like boots or similar. Otherwise, it's fine. Also, it depends on airports in many they just check the shoes after the passenger passes the scanner without asking for removal, just lifting one foot and another.
"Ach du meine Güte, dein Marshmallow" hahahah 😂
Garbage Disposals in the sink is only American thing I think. I have never seen that in any other country I have visited.
I spent two years in the States when I was about 5 or 6 years old and to this day I am utterly horrified by garbage disposals. Maybe it's because they're incredibly noisy and sound like a torture device from hell; or because my parents kept telling me not to put my fingers in there unless I wanted to lose them or because I've seen too many bad horror movies - I don't know. They just freak me out. So thanks for the scare, Hayley! :D :P
Why do you hang out with people who put marshmallows and sausages over the fire? You need to get some friends who can show you the deliciousness that is Stockbrot!
Make a dough, put it on a stick, grill it over a fire. It is wonderful!
Also, I suspected a lack of Wasserkocher in the US, given how even modern-day TV shows and movies have scenes with an old-fashioned water kettle interrupting important conversations. I do NOT understand how anyone can live that way.
I LOVE...STOCKBROT!! 😭Don't leave comments like this... I will be so hungry!
Stockbrot (bread) or Knüppelkuchen (as we used to call it) - cake on a stick. Loved that at parties in the summer as a kid!
Hmm... The electric kettles.... We have one, but since we got our new induction-stovetop-cooking-whatever installed this thing together with a traditional kettle or a pot with a lid is so much faster.
Why is it so important to have red cups? Please explain it to me even the Styrofoam cups are littering all over the city
When you have a gigantic fraternity party you dont want to be cleaning 300+ glasses. Also with these kinds of parties glass is a very very very bad idea. Really really really drunk people and glass doesn't mix.
@@jessicaely2521 in my country on weddings comes 350-450 people but everyone is drinking from glass cups if we finish the drink or shot we throw it on flor and yell Oppa i know we croats are a lil bit crazy 😂 we love happy events and stqy til 8 a.m almost 12-14 hours partying the glass cups pay the parents from the couple but everybody donate a few € thats ok lol i get married un August you can come and visit our wedding it,s completely other than un the us
Thanks for the ❤ i love Our cobtent
@@zagrebackazlocinackaorgani9181 weddings are different than fraternity parties. Also after the wedding generally there isn't one person cleaning up after thr wedding. You order people to do that. Fraternity parties you dont do this. 1 person hosts the party and that 1 person is expected to clean up after the party.
@@jessicaely2521 my English isn't that good i dont know what a fraternity party is sorry but we use everywhere glass i am against plastic garbage that ends in the ocean i live in croatia and i dive in my free time through the Adriatic sea and clean with out getting paid ...you can't believe what people threw in to the sea ....but if you cant live without this cups it's ok to meit just show me how lazy some people are but okayü
We actually had, like 2 water fountains at my school (in germany) but close to no one would drink directly from it, but use it to fill up their water bottles 😅
Hey! Don't diss the sausage on a stick! That's the way a bonfire is supposed to be enjoyed!
I feel like the eyecontact thingy is more about manners (depending on the situation oc). My parents always taught me that it's very rude to not look into the eyes of the person you are talking to
The word you need is not "Brunnen" (fountain), but "Trinkwasserbrunnen" (dinkingwater-fountain). There are exacly 9 of them here in Bochum. For München, I googled this: www.muenchen.de/aktuell/2018-10/neue-trinkwasser-brunnen-innenstadt.html. ... Und nichts gegen Süßkram, aber beim Lagerfeuer finde ich Stockbrot besser.
Stockbrot, wie es sich gehört - also außen schwarz und innen roh? :D
haha @ that water fountain. No wonder one of the Germans said in the comments that the birds drink from them and poo in them. They are nothing like what us Australians have (we have ones the birds cant drink from which do not look like a typical fountain like the one in that german photo)
"Ach du meine Güte, dein Marshmallow!" Lmaooo
(We actually put marshmallows between cookies, Leibniz most of the time)
There are actually some water fountains in a drugstore chain called "DM". The water is for free there.
About the freezers, I think it's very different for a household where there are two parents and their children and the small apartment of a single person or a student. One doesn't eat as much as 4, so you don't need the same volume of space for food.
Here in Australia I love the water fountains. So cool if your bottle is empty. Now we are going back to Germany for a holiday and I will really miss them 🤣🤣
Hahaha, loved your video. I lived in the US for one year after I had finished school in the 90s and experienced the same like you but the other way round😂 I am still travelling to the US a lot due to my work. One more thing which is totally different. No matter if someone knows you or not, Americans dont just say hello or good morning. They are asking: How are you? If you would ask a stranger in Germany, hallo wie geht es Dir, he would think: This is none of your business, head off and leave me alone. 😂😂
Not just Munich with the extra fridge/freezer. My fiancee has an extra fridge freezer in the hallway room where his washing machine is, and another freezer down in the basement. He's in Stuttgart.
"That sounds really fattening."
"Heh. 😄 Well yeah." (pats gut)
The freezer thing is probably a space issue too sometimes. In many rented apartments there just isn't that much room. Fridges have that small freezer box for a few items. It's enough for ice cream and a few things you want frozen. Things are different when people own a house. Freezers are very common then. There are also smaller fridge-sized freezers that can fit under a table for example.
There may also be some differences between rural areas and cities. When you have a super market in walking distance there is far less need to freeze stuff.
I'm German and when I think about sth I don't look into someone's eyes and it doesn't matter where in Europe I am but they are always like "why don't you look at me" an I'm like tf I thinking abiut how to express myself
I have never seen a garbage disposal in a sink in my entire 40 years of exsistence ^^. I belive it is not allowed to throw food down there.
Yeah... That has been my assumption. Usually I see random houses that have "American" things in them BUT I have never seen a garbage disposal in my 4+ years in Germany.
@@HayleyAlexis My mum always told me not to throw food in the toilet because of rats.
Well...My mom used to tell me to keep the toilet seat down because rats or alligators would come up to the top and bite me in the but...Very similar childhoods we had 😂
@@HayleyAlexis These things do not exist, give or take some DIY jobs by Americans, in Germany. Go to an OBI or other home improvement store. It is not being sold there or anywhere. Garbage disposal via sewage lines means feeding the rats. And since in Germany (also in the US?????) sewage is treated at a plant to make (nearly) fresh water it would be harder and more expensive if there was more biological stuff in the sewage water. Some people dump wet food into the toilet. But that should be the exception. You should process (digest) food before dumping it there.
Ideally the water treatment plants take the additional load into account and do some things differently. Otherwise it can cause issues
Alligators coming out of toilets sounds like a very credible threat for Florida ;)
The only reason the cups are red in the US is that when the police crashes a party, they can not immediately see what is in those cups (liquor, for instance). Here in Europe, most countries are less strict with their alcohol consumption under age laws. But you can buy white plastic cups here
In finland we all grill sausage on a stick over bonfires too! :D
Same in Norway🇳🇴😊
The garbage disposal in the sink is forbidden in Germany by several directives and laws made by each of the 16 German countries to fight rats. All garbage (especially if food) belonges into the waste bin, yet neither into the sink nor into the toilet.
I have some british friends in bands who sometimes tour the US and always without fail complain about the lack of electric kettles in america
I think you can be lucky to have marshmallows at a campfire, I used to go camping with friends all the time and the normal foor to eat at a campfire was bread. Therw wuld beabig bowl of dough and everyone has their sticks and you'd just wrap the dough around the stick, bake it over the fire and eat bread
ja girl I live also here in Germany for over 18 years and now I'm getting use to everything
I'm German and believe me, German "Dad's" aren't as active and equal as you think 🙄💀
( sry my English isn't the best lol )
In Germany "Stockbrot" is more common for bonfires. It is a simple dough you put on a stick and grill in the fire :)
We got both water fountains and free carbonizers at my university ^^' - but yeah, these things aren't quite so common over here :)
Lol 😂 the bits of German you add when speaking is hilarious 😂 and yes the eye contact thing freaked me out in Germany 🇩🇪 it’s like I felt like I was talking to the police the way the Germans look at you directing into the eyes 👀
In Germany Malzbier is the first pre-stage, Radler and Cola-Bier the second pre-stage in a adolescents life for the consumption of real pure beer.
My parents actually taught me to look into the eyes of my Partner i talk to, because it means you Respect them.
In April I flew Orlando to Toronto to Munich to Cologne and then back later in same airports. I had to take off my shoes at every airport and was patted down at every airport. 🤪
The thing with German and American dads is really true. I did an exchange year in America and I experienced that my dad in America was less involved then my dad in Germany
Even those white marshmallows that you toast over a fire weren't a thing until like 15 years ago. They're purely an American import. We had Mäusespeck, but you wouldn't toast those.
Garbage disposals aren't legal in Germany 😅
Karamalz and root beer are completely different.Not comparable. Most likely both are an acquired taste and also what you know and are used to.
No garbage disposal - as you are used to - in Germany, and I am happy about it :-)
Dear Hayley,
the dobble fridge issue is not a Munich issue. You pointed at it very correctly. It is usual to the middle class and upper to have another fridge/freezer in addition to the one in the kitchen.
Sincerily,
Ylva
"""EQUAL""" lol I love the face you made.
Actually the shoes checking thing came later than 9/11 There was a guy trying to blow up a plane with explosives in his shoes.
Yes, the "Shoe Bomber" was a British man named Richard Reid, and his attempt to blow up a plane using explosives hidden in his shoes happened in December 2001. The fact that it happened so soon after 9/11 is probably why so many people lump them together, but the removal of shoes at security had nothing to do with 9/11 itself. I guess younger folks might not remember that, though. ;-)
Have you ever had “Stockbrot” at a bonfire? You should try it!
''Ach du meine Güte, dein Marshmallow'' Omg i almost peed myself when you said that hahahhaha
I remember very well when I first got to Germany.. my Mom, litle sister and I had to stay with my Oma for the first few months. I was wondering how you can put all your food and frozen goods in this almost "pocket sized" fridge and even smaller freezer. But somehow it actually DOES work. Belongs on a show called "Germany`s Unsolved Mysteries"..lol There is no root beer in Germany, Hayley. I myself can only drink that Karamalz stuff if it`s cold enough. The water fountain thing.. Hayley.. no the German would mix apple juice in the water fountain and THEN charge 50 cents for a drink - you know that.. lol In my 30 years here in Germany.. I have NEVER seen a garbage disposal here. Of course I know what they are, but I don`t think they actually exist in Germany. The last time I went home, they saw me at the Atlanta airport, and I had a wheelchair, because - as you might know that airport in Atlanta.. is so damn HUGE. Don`t get me wrong Hayley, I can walk but it would take me FOREVER to get from point A to point B. So the security personell saw me, and let me keep my shoes on - so no problems there. The German Dad vs American Dad thing.. maybe that might also have to be a cultural thing. I do know that my brother Casey, who lives over there (Carollton, GA) does quite a lot with his little boy, Cannon - so maybe he`s an exception. I use my hot water kettle my self, like more times a day.. because I drink a lot of cappuchino instead of coffee.. it`s a life saver, really. I also use it for hot water when mopping the bathroom and kitchen floors of my apartment, Only use 2 full kettles, and put then in a bucket with the cleaner in the water and mop once a week. I end up saving a bit of water that way. Anyway, that´s how I do it. Smores is a new thing over here in Germany, it will take a while to catch on here, but if you give them time, like the peanut butter thing - it would catch on. You know, the closest thing that tastes LIKE a smore over here to me is one of those Knoppers things ( those little waffle things with the cream and choclate on the bottom).. you know what I mean. I know, you can`t roast them on a bonfire though, but TASTEWISE they`re the closest thing to smores.
I love rootbeer AND I love "Malzbier". And yes, if you ask me, there is nothing like rootsbeer here, but with Malzbier you can get a hint for the direction of taste, not more, not less.
Maybe the Airport Personal in the US have a foot fetish. ;-)
@1:54 An easy way to find out why fridges are so small is a look at the electricity rates.
My take on this as a Canadian ...
1. Having an extra fridge/freezer is pretty common, especially a freezer, even though we also have big fridges to begin with!
3. UGH yes the lack of water fountains in Germany annoyed me! (the lack of water in general actually, especially in restaurants. It felt so good when I first came back home and got served a tall glass of cold water in a restaurant!!)
4. I've seen a garbage disposal only once here... are they really that common in the US? 🧐
8. A lot of people I've met in Europe were fascinated when I told them we actually had red Solo cups, like in the movies! Same thing with the yellow school bus. Funny how those everyday normal things almost seem mythical to other people.
9. TH-cam made me discover that electric kettles aren't really common in the US.. this surprised me so much! But genuinely, what do you use instead?? A stovetop kettle? A pot? We use them a lot here, and even if it doesn't heat as fast as in Europe because of the voltage, it's still wayyy more convenient and a bit faster than a stovetop kettle!
10. I've always just grilled marshmallows, or hotdog sausages (but mostly marshmallows) at bonfires. Smores are really an American thing lol, never tried them and in all honesty, I don't really want to. seems way too rich 😖
:) Every house I have EVER been in... in the USA (except for my friends grandmas house which was built in like 1920) has had one :D
The yellow school bus thing is actually quite funny. In Munich there are a few places that have yellow school busses and rent them as party busses. It's quite interesting actually.
Most of the people i know that need boiling/hot water for anything microwave it or put a pot on the stove. my mother has a separate water dispenser in her house and it gives us the option to have "hot" water be dispensed :D but it's nowhere near the same as a kettle.
@@HayleyAlexis thanks for the info!! I really never thought it would be that common (garbage disposals).
And for the kettles, I would have thought, earlier in my life, that is was rather an American thing to have an electric one! idk, I always had this perception that Americans have electric appliances for everything lol.. I've come to realize that Germans are the ones who are like that 🤪
It's mostly in newer houses that you see garbage disposals. We have had them in houses built in the 1980s and 1990s. Older houses won't have them because they weren't in common household use before then. I was born in the '60s, and I never saw one in a residential dwelling until about 1980. Of course, you can have one installed in any house, provided you have the undersink room for it, and the money to pay for it. ;-) I'm sure richer people had them before the '80s.
Our condo in Wisconsin (built in the 1990s) has one, but our 1950s/1960s Florida house doesn't. As I intimated above, it's mostly a matter of modernity and affluence. I would guess probably slightly more than half of U.S, homes have them. Wikipedia would seem to support this number. :-) A few other interesting facts about them here too, btw!
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garbage_disposal_unit
The water fountain you point at is called Wasserspender in German and it is rare to find. Usually it is built in Germany without a sink under it and designed to not out your hand or mouth under it. You just have to take a glas or bottle to get the water from the Wasserspender to then drink it. The main reason to the almost none existance of the american designed water fountains in Germany is simple: the water out of almost any crane almost anywhere in Germany, even on public rest rooms, is drinking water. If it is no drinkeng water, it has to be writen in sight of the crane: KEIN TRINKWASSER.
hahahaha been laughing so much, amazing video, as always :D thx hayley
You are so right about the water fountain. when I went running in the US, I didn't even have to bring a water bottle. Our water quality is usually very good, so I don't understand why we don't have any.