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As an American I find the German way of selling drinks much better . The crates are easy to stack and make for much less waste. When I first came to Germany back in thee early 80's you would almost never find soda that was packed in plastic . I find it better to bring the empties back to the store and not just throwing everything in the trash.

Never heard anyone using calendar weeks other than in a business setting. Maybe there are people who know which calendar week is when, but I only know people who'd have to look that up. My reply to anyone asking me for an appointment in a specific CW is always "when is this" ? And I think, that's the most common response from mostly anyone.

At my parents home we always bought every drink in "Kästen". They are easier to handle. You can store them easier, return them easier, carry them easier. For Cola, Fanta etc. it´s easier to change some bottles in the boxes than ripping the plastic appart and carrying the bottles individually.

The plastic crates protect the glass bottles. This is also relevant for logistics, enabling quick and safe stacking, loading on or off trucks and eventually road transport.

2:34 weird, the ice cream shops near me are called Esicafe Dolomiti, Eiscafe Simonetti, Eiscafe Vinizzi, I AM LOVE, Kuhbar, Eis de Lorenzo, Eisdiele San Remo, Kuki's, Eiscafe Tiziani, Eiscafe Rizzuti, Eisbotique Romano, ... but not a single Eiscafe Venezia

The use of calendar weeks is common in business in which planning is done in different time scales. The first is a rough-cut capacity planning, how many products will be used in a certain week or how many shipments hat to be made. When it comes close to the particular week you take all the orders (production, transportation) and schedule these (detailed planning / scheduling). If you have a pool of orders for a week then you can optimize the production, procurement and delivery. Because of this, many businesses plan in weeks instead of months (which also vary in number of days) or days. It is also easier to compute delivery weeks if when you plan with fixed leadtimes - e.g., the furnitire will be produced in delivered in 10 weeks, i.e. week 38. If you to translate this to the first, second, third, forth or even fith week of month X than you need to check in week of which month the week 38 is. So it is just another way to subdive the year.

Eiscafe Venezia: Italians brought ice cream to Germany in the 1950s. Most of these early immigrant families came from the Dolomites, a part of the Italian alps near Venice. So in Germany, they did not name their cafes after the mountain villages they came from, but after the largest city in the area that everyone in Germany knew: Venice. Thus "Eiscafé Venezia".

The crates for drinks where here decades before the shrink wrap came to be. I think I saw my first shrink wrapped plastic bottle package in the 90s. When I was a child there were no plastic bottles available, well some children's drinks, but everything else was in glass bottles, beer, Coca Cola (which was a rare treat back then) water, juices, lemonade, everything came in 0.5 liter bottles and in crates. The crates protected the bottles and they were stackable. Back then you did not buy your drinks in the supermarket, because those also only existed in bigger cities. When you lived in a small village or a small town, there was no big supermarket, only a small grocery store, a bakery, a butcher and that was it. Drinks would be delivered every week or bi-weekly, depending on how you scheduled your order. Our order usually came bi-weekly and since we were a family of 7 living in a house with one set of grandparents we needed a lot of different drinks. My mother wanted sparkling water, we children would get one crate of Lemonade ( lemon), my dad loved his Spezi, so that would be two crates, and one crate of beer for my grand dad. There was also not that big of a variety available as it is today, They had a small leaflet handed out with every delivery where you could cross off everything you wanted to have for the next delivery and how much of each. This leaflet was usually just as big as a normal German envelope. You did not have to worry about where to bring the crates or the bottles, everything would be picked up when your new order arrived. We had one room in the basement right beside the entrance for all of our drinks and we would go donw and get what we needed every day. The delivery company would provide you with a small carry-on crate which had space for 6 bottles. Those were the ones you used to carry the bottles from the basement into the kitchen. it was an easy system and very convenient.

For the Crate i would say, why would i want to buy the shrink wrapped bottles? its harder to carry them with the grip digging into your hands, aswell as collecting them in some giant bag for the deposit. And usually buying bulk for drinks with one or two crates is more convinient, since i wouldn't wanna shop for drinks every week and instead just have enough at home for like 1-3 weeks

Most people in germany don't count the weeks, too. But if you're into transport buisness or you work in a store you might have to deal with it. A lot of times your delivery isn't suppost to come on a exact date, but in the span of this week. In the same way you can make plans for projects in the near future , like when to start some sales, advertizing and so on.

About the drink crates: those are usually for reusable bottles (glass and plastic ones) which are sent back to a bottling plant, washed, and filled again (several times over), while shrink wrap is for one-time-use bottles, which are copacted, shredded and then (hopefully, at least that what is claimed) made into new plastic things. And there is definitely an element of "that's how it has always been done", because the deposit system for reusable bottles has been around for quite a while (the one for non-reusable bottles has only been around for just over 20 years), and as Germans hate to run out of something drink ( ;-) ), they tend to buy larger quantities. And crates are actually quite a handy way of transporting larger quantities and have been since before shrinkwrap existed. The crates used to be mostly wooden, and that's why ocassionally (beer) crates are made up to to look like wood (not very convincingly, though). Personally, I don't see why you need such large quantities of drink at home, either, but when I was young, there were usually several crates of mineral water (sparkling, naturally) and a crate of beer at our house. Nowadays, I hardly ever drink sparkling water and might buy a crate of beer every once in a blue moon (when I'm having a party at home).

When it comes to these shows you have to differentiate between live shows and pre-recorded shows. It is easy to mash only the highlights into a two hour window if its all pre-recorded, but the dynamics of a live show do lead to it requiring extra time as segments may take longer than initially expected. Wetten Dass being a live show for example is notoriously known to always go past the allotted time window.

The week numbers are basically just another layer of abstraction and are used as an initial pointer while finding a date and time for an appointment. In practice, we mostly use it for doctors appointments and for work. However, it only works if all the participants trying to schedule an appointment have their calendar open. Also, at least in my work environment, we don’t use absolute numbers, but rather something relative like “are you free in the second week of august?”. Then everybody can scroll to that work week in their calendar app and play the minesweeper game. But honestly, if someone approaches me out of the blue and asks me “bro, what are you doing in week 23?” I’ve got no bloody idea when this is gonna be. I mean sure, the year has 52 weeks, so I roughly know it’s gonna be late spring/summer, bit that’s about it.

As a single I still buy all my drinks in crates. Usually every two weeks I get 4 crates of Mineralwasser in glass, 2 crates of juice, 1 small crate of Coke and a crate of beer. All in glass bottles. Makes storage easier, keeps the drinks fresh, preserves the carbonation and tastes better then anything sold in PET bottles. Crates can be used virtually until they brake and bottles can be refilled up to 50 times. So much better for the environment.

Bei uns heißen die alles mögliche, nicht nur Venezia (Eisdiele Vaniglia, Cellino, Domeisdiele, Eisiglu, Serentissima, Eiscafe Pino, etc) Aber die Wahrscheinlichkeit, dass eine Eisdiele so heißt, ist in der Tat sehr hoch 😅

Do you understand the difference between the Einwegsystem and the Mehrwegsystem - so both work with deposit (Pfand)? The bottles in the shrinking foils are one-way-bottles. The collector machines often even shredder them to save space. Whereas the Mehrwegbottles usually are made with harder plastics or from glass and get washed and filled again.

I find the bottle crates incredibly useful. Try carrying 10-12 bottles of soda, cola, etc. at a time. That works in crates. There are also extra luggage racks for bicycles, where they can be hung, or they can be attached to the trailer and lashed down. 🤷‍♀

The crates are the easiest way to handle glass bottles. Imagine shrink-wrapped glass bottles, and how easily these would break during shipping and storage. The crates however can be handled in huge piles without too much damage - from the manufacturer to the wholesaler and retailer until they reach the consumer. And the empty bottles take the same way back. Of course you can also buy individual bottles, but in most cases it's easier to buy the drinks by the crate and store them in the basement.

I'd say "gelato" is what Europeans understand by ice cream. American ice cream might be something specifically American. And I don't even know if there's an Eiscafé Venezia in Vienna, so this might be a specifically German thing... The week numbers seem to be a business thing, that somehow jumped to everyday life.

About the TV shows: In the early days of television in Germany, there was only one, later two national TV stations and some regional stations, all of them were public, with a focus on information and education. Entertainment formats (like sports, movies, game shows, etc.) was, for the most part, broadcast on the weekends. That's when families would gather in front of the TV and watch TV together. There were many different live shows on Saturdays, mostly variety shows with talk and entertainment elements, as well as game show elements. These shows were big events and people would look forward to these shows. So when more TV stations became part of the German TV landscape, they tried to emulate the event character and more and more live shows were created that lasted for two or more hours. Today, even taped shows like The Voice are trying to do that, even though I don't think they have the same event feel to them and I also think many shows do run too long. WIth long format shows being on every day nowadays, the special event feeling that existed until the 90s has been lost. Schlag den Raab (or the currently still running Schlag den Star) is something of a special case: It also tried to get that Saturday evening event feeling back, but in this show people could win extremely high prizes (with the biggest prize money being 3.5 million Euro), so it was a battle of endurance by design, in which you had to earn that prize money by getting through a series of very exhausting (but incredibly entertaining) games, which could take anywhere between 3 hours and 46 minutes and 6 hours and 11 minutes.

The only time I've encountered ppl using the week system is in academics or business settings. In my experience it is quite common to refer to certain weeks rather than dates in settings which don't require an exact date or in the case of academics are already counted in weeks (i.e. a semester is 14 weeks so assignments often mention week number and date) As for the crates, a lot of people prefer buying glass bottles or reusable plastic bottles rather than one time use PET bottles. Also, the crates are stackable so they are great for storage. I never thought of this as a German thing but now that you've mentioned it I haven't really seen it in any other country I've lived in. I have around 10 types of insurances + 2 types of retirement plans.

I live in a city with about 150000 inhabitants and we have 12 ice cream parlors. none of them are called Venezia. Here they are all called San Remo, la luna, Calabrese or Ciprian. To be honest I've never heard of an ice cream parlor called Venezia and I was born here. I think it's more of a regional thing. Many Greetings from NRW

Italian gelato was long before the 1950s in Germany. But let's start in the beginning: Sorbet took also the route over Italia to the rest of Europe. "Granita" had become an Italian speciality even before the 16th century; some assume it was brought then to Paris by Caterina de Medici. In 1597 Anna Wecker published a German cookbook with a receipt for iced cream (not real gelato, but a step to it). The first French café offering also ice cream was established in Paris in 1686 by Italian Francesco Procopio di Cultelli, a chef at the court of Louis XIV. In 1770 opened the first gelateria in New York, in 1799 the first in Hamburg. Most of the Italian "Gelatieri" in Germany come from the Val di Zoldo and Val di Cadore in the Dolomites. Those valleys were never very wealthy, and since the end of the 19th century farmers from the province of Belluno started to migrate to northern European countries to open there ice parlors during the summer, starting with Vienna in 1865. The gelateria Venezia in my home town sorrily closed a few years ago - they had the best ice cream in town and also the lowest prices. Now we have "only" a Café Firenze, a Café Clamore, a Gelatomania, a Gelateria Dolce Vita, a Café Gelateria L'Arte, the Alfonso and the non-Italian ones ("I love Leo", yoghurt ice specialities; "Clausgemacht"; "Schokoladenmanufaktur")...

2:30 Hairdressers have already used all the creativity that was available for finding a name for their shop that stays in people’s mind.

I worked in a job where week numbers were sometimes used for project planning and the only numbers I ever memorized were 22 (middle of the year) and 52 (end of the year). Never had to deal with week numbers outside of that job in Germany.

The other name for Italian ice-cream shops in Germany is "Cortina", because that it the valley where so many ice-cream makers come from.

3 hour shows? In my childhood my parents would have said „Americans have only an attention span of kindergarten kids.“ today I think too that German directors don’t know the art of cutting.

Using week numbers you can count continously without the complexity of the different amount of days of the months. We usually plan our vacation with week numbers. Reasons are companies like to plan full weeks and they need to be sure, anyone is left for working, except the whole company is on vacation and closed.

How many weeks are between the first week of August and the second week of October? And what actually would be the first week of June (June 1 falling on a Thursday this year)? Or even how many weeks would be between the week starting 30 July and the week starting on 8 October 2023? And then ask yourself how many weeks are between week 31 and week 41? Or what is shorter to say: “the week starting 8 October” or “week 41”? One reason to use week numbers is to make it easy to calculate the length of the time period between A and B and vice versa to turn a time estimate (“It’s gonna take us five weeks to do this”) into a date when something will be done. This shows that week numbers are useful when you need to calculate output of a somewhat continuous production process. Weeks have always the same length, months don’t. Weeks have always the same number of working days, months don’t (before holidays, that adds complications whether you think in months or weeks). If a business closes down at some point in the year for more than a few days, it’ll mostly like be for a full week or multiples thereof. In other words, week numbers are mainly used in business. A good percentage of all businesses interfaces with consumers and this is where week numbers bleed into personal lives (and also via the relationship with employees).

German here- the KW thing (KalenderWoche) is driving me nuts too! I always have to ask back when this would be and continue.

Living in Germany for 39 years now, I have never ever been or seen a place called Venezia (and remember it). The Cafes I remember are called Paolo, Cremoso, Roma, Dolce Vita, etc. So I was quite confised about this part of the video 😅

I think the crates explain themselves. A system where nearly every bottle and crate gets returned to the cycle is environmentally better than buying the bottles and their packaging as throw-away products. Also people just like to buy in bulk, which I guess Americans also like to do. However: Not everybody has the space to store crates or the capacity to transport them from the supermarket(by car is fine but how about by foot, bike, public transit etc.). Therefore you can buy cans, shrink-wrapped four or six-packs of soda, six-packs of beer and basically everything else.

The bottles in a crate makes sense, when one usually goes grocery shopping by foot and carry vegetables, bread etc home and go to a supermarkert once a month and drive many bottles home at once.

The KW (Kalender Woche) are used in same Jobs an schools. It is often just in a way where you have different subjects or working hours in an even week then in an uneven week. So only by hearing the number of the Week, same people will directly know if they need to work there. It is also often just in companies because it's easier to think in weeks than in months, where the end doesn't mean the end of the week and working time is also different. So in many companies the KW is often used for planning and orgenasing, so many people are used to it. It is so normal, that it is on nearly all Kalenders.

The Getränkekisten were invented in Sweden in 1885 and used for beer bottles. In 1903, a similar system was introduced by a german Brewery, followed by other producers shortly after. In 1929 Coca Cola introduced such a system in Germany. While the first Getränkekisten were made of wood or metal, since the 1950s they were made of plastic. Several producers of mineral water agreed to use the same type of bottle and the same type of grate. Also Beerbottles became standardized. The advantage was, that if several producers of mineral water use the same bottle and grates, the empty bottles could be brought to the nearest producer and not being transported through all of the land, minimizing costs and waste. The glass bottles were washed before used again, which is much cheaper, also from environmental point of view, than making new glass bottles and throwing them away. Plastic bottles weren't very widespread in Germany until 2006. Aside from reusable glass bottles, there were one-way glass bottle (e.g. for wine) which are collected and then remade into new bottles, and cans, mostly used for soft drinks. The cans became a problem in the 1990s and early 2000s, since they produce a lot of waste. So, in 2006, a deposit system for one-way bottles was introduced. If you buy a one-way bottle, that is not made of glass, you have to pay a deposit of 0,25 €. You get the deposit back when you return the bottles to one of the machines in the supermarket. That also applies to the tin cans, which you can still buy. The system was meant to reduce waste because, who would throw away a bottle when it's worth money, right? The shrinkwrapped bottles you show in your video are such one-way refunable bottles. The new system kinda backfired: The old deposit system for glass bottles was meant to save resources, since these bottles could be reused until they broke, which could a dozens of cycles. All you needed was water, washing agent and energy to clean them, which had a much lower impact on the environment than making new glass bottles. So, Germany were conditioned to use this system. With the introduction of the deposit system for one-way bottles (and cans) the Germans though: The deposit system for glass bottles is good for the environment, so we should use it. The new system is a deposit system too, so it must also be good for the environment. And the bottles are much easier to carry than the heavy glass bottles. What they didn't understand was, that these were one-way-bottles, which produce a lot of plastic waste. And use a lot of resources to produce new one-way bottles.

Beverage crates are a very old reusable system for beverage bottles. If you want to transport a lot of glass beer bottles, the crates are really a very practical solution. The only trash with this system are broken stuff and the bottle caps. And most of the sixpacks of beer, beer mix and soda drinks come in the same box to the shop - usually 4x6x0,33l.

The containers for for example water are very easy to carry around. Many Germans have a cellar, something that is almost a foreign concept to US houses. Yo can store your water in the cellar to keep it cold. But very often, there is no lift to get you to the cellar - you have to take the stairs. The containers come in very handy then.

You raise so many good points. Also you annoy the desk outta my husband with your jingle. Please stop. TV. What about commercials? Timed in America at the acts. And short. I've got used to getting up and doing chores in Germany during commercials. I can read two chapters of proverbs during a commercial break. Now I'm in America and my husband has to call me... Show is on..short commercial! You make a good point about shrink wrap vs crates. Why both??? But to answer the question my husband buys several crates of mio mio once monthly cuz they're on sale. We buy all our water in shrink wrap. Thank you for a great video that we enjoyed while touring the Great West in America. It's hot here.

buying drinks in crates is not german only. croatia for example has the same deposit system like the germans. crates are easy to stack and the drinks last long so you dont have to worry that one is going bad. you can also mix up the crates with different drinks if you dont like only one variety. maybe that most ice cream shops comes with the same name has also to do with german efficiency?

That's weird. Around the town (german, of course) where I live, not a single ice cream parlor is called "Eiscafe Venezia".

In office work we usually have calendars on the wall, where you can see the current month and the next two with large indications of the calendar week. So when planning a project it is extremely useful to refer to the weeks. "We need to publish in KW 40, so we should be done by KW 38. That means we need final meetings in KW 37 and the bulk of the work will be done during KW 33 and 36. Specific tasks will be distributed latest in KW 31. Done." This allows people to schedule the individual tasks as they need within their week as long as it's done by the end. It gives people more freedom in distributing their various tasks and projects and meetings during the work-week and saves silly detail-planning for dates, when it really isn't that relevant: ("Should we hand it in by 25th or 27th of July?.. oh no, on 27th is my free day.. What do I dooo??????" - Doesn't matter. Just do it sometime that week.) In my job we use this several times per day and that way we know by heart which week is which.

In office we used the week number A LOT. It's just shorter than saying the "week of ...." We used it a lot for project planning. You immediately know how many weeks there are left to finish a task. If you use the date you have to calculate more. As we used it on a daily basis we always knew which week we were in. In private I've never used it.

Drinks in plastic crates are Mehrweg, often glas bottles but it can also be plastic bottles. You have the Mehrwegpfand on it. Bottles in shrink wrapper are Einweg, there is Einwegpfand on it. And they get smashed in the Pfandautomat.

I have just googled it, we have 66 ice cafe‘s in Düsseldorf, and one of them is actually called „Venezia“. I wasn’t aware of that, have never been there. In my life I have so far only been to maybe less than 10 different Ice Cafes in my city and none of them was named Venezia or similar.

In Germany all the naming creativity for non-chain stores is used up by hairdressers and barber shops ;D

Together with "Eiscafé Venezia" the other name most often used is "Eiscafé Rialto"

I dont know what date range correlates with a week number. But every time someone asks if I have time in week x I have a calendar either open on my phone or there is one in a room. Those tend to always have the week number. It is faster to ask if you have time in week 30 than it is to specify the start and end date.

as a person without a car i don't buy drinks in crates, actually much of what I buy are juices in tetrapak or similar lightweight packaging that can be easily moved on the bike.

About the long shows: it’s something that is supposed to be enjoyed in community. We’d often all meet up with my friends and while the voice or some show was on, we’d make dinner, chat, exchange gossip, even do some crafts project sometimes. I think it’s just generally the expectation that people will prefer to spend time with each other in the evening so tv has to accommodate for that. It’s supposed to kind of run in the background while you talk or comment about the show. I have some of the fondest memories and funniest stories just watching tv together with friends. For example there was a casting show where people had to learn dances. Because the whole thing took so long, you basically had time to learn the dances as well, which we tried and fell and laughed our asses of. Some channels would show multiple episodes of American shows back to back to create that feeling. During noon, the shows are usually a lot shorter and straight to the point, topping at an hour.

Hey Donnie, I was in Freiburg yesterday and found an Eiscafé „La Gondola“ ;-)

My mother once met the mother of a friend of mine at the super market and had her trolley full of crates of drinks... The other mother asked "did you stack up for the month?" and my mum laughed and replied "this will last a week at most"... So - we were a big family and we drank water and juice like crazy. The bundled bottles in plastic started appearing at some point of my life I guess and the Discounters don't sell any drinks in crates, probably because it would mean they would need a lot more space to display them.

If you want to drink water in good quality and taste you need to have glasbottles. The crates are to protecting them. In our Village lives a few Americans. When we meet us, one of them Is always drinking Beer out of Plasticbottles. Thats Something a German would never understand.

Our ice cream shops have Italian names, like Dolomiti, Giotto, Santin, Tutti Frutti, Riviera, but no Venezia in this area 😅😅 And I don't use numbered weeks in private life, but at work (in a pharmacy) when talking to pharmaceutical companies it gets used. Our calenders at work have mostly the week number written somewhere 😇 It's a bit practical when using week calenders, the number is usually written on the edge so you can flip through faster (dates are written at the top where the pages are connected). 🤷‍♀️ The drinks in the crate are practical if you don't buy drinks regullarly. We used to go drink shopping when my dad was home from work every 3-4 weeks probably

I know, that bottles of plastic or glass in crates are reusable. They are brought back to the producer, cleaned and refilled, and sold again. It's a circulatory system, that lasts till the bottle is broken. So you don't put them to the waste (Pfandautomat), where single usable Pfand-bottles are shredded and used for plastic products of minor quality or burnt in cogeneration plants. We have an global environmental problem with plastic and reusable bottles (prefer glass) in crates are one way to solve it. In the US, you buy products for one-time-use and throw them away. Not the best way to save the planet...

TV-Shows: When "Wetten dass" was introduced, it was on Public Televisions, private channels were no alternative. I think private channels stuck to this habit because it is a cheap way to create screen-time: Make an existent show last longer.

There are plenty more Italian names for ice cream parlours in Germany: Venezia, Milano, Roma, Rialto, etc, and very often the name of the family running it. BTW, if in Europe, you should pronounce these names in Italian, NOT in English (valid for German words, too, please pronounce them in German, not as if they were English words). Week numbers are quite commonly used in large companies, not just in Germany or Denmark. In non-commercial situations we don't use week numbers either, except if we have an actual calendar with the numbers at hand. The solid crates are reusable, making transportation more environment friendly, and are stackable quite high. It makes logistics far easier. This exists since a very long time, I have always seen those crates since childhood and I am over 60 now. Shrink wrap is a relatively new addition in the last 30 years, causing a lot of waste. Insurance: Health and accident, liability, house insurance, pet insurance for my cats and pension.

Venice used to be part of Austria for the longest time. And through Austria, this Italian sweets became known as Venezia, just as Pilsner comes from the Sudenten city of Pilsen, now in Czechia, or Wiener Schnitzel, or Franks for Frankfurters (even if produced anywhere else in the world) or Hamburgers etc. Venezia is the reference to that type of dairy based chocolatier or vanilla frozen sweet etc

I think the crate system acually quite good as it helps with storage and helps enabling the use of glass bottles. That is actually a real benefit as your dinking water does not only taste better, but also will not be contaminated with plasticizers. Yes of course there are permitted limits for those, but even so when testing my blood my doctor could tell when we once switched from glass bottles to plastic ones.... As for the insurances: -health insurance -special health insurance for teeth -"Haftpflichtversicherung" - legal insurance - car insurance - hunting insurance ( you have to have this one if you want to go hunting) - for each house: Gebäuseversicherung (insurance for damage to the building by f.e. fire), Elementarversicherung ("elemmental insurance" - for special damage to the house by high water, storm or breaking waterpipes in the building as far as not covered by your "Gebäudevresicherung") and Hausratversicherung (insurance for everything inside of the house that does not belnog fo the house itself)

Regarding length of TV shows, in Germany stuff like "The Voice" is not seen as just an episode of an ongoing show, but as "evening filling entertainment", especially on saturday at prime time.

I know an icecream shop named Eiscafe Veneto 😄 they were a little bit more creative.

CW is just an easy time planing "tool". In production, logistics and whatever needs planing ahead. Also vacation. It's a really simple way to let others know when to expect something without going into unnecessary detail especially if the details are yet unknown. AR the same time, it's much more precise than the next larger unit "Month". But in general that's for business, not private.

Fun fact: 6 x 1,5 plastic shrunken water bottles contain the same amount of liquid as 12 x 0,75 glass bottles in crates. So the quantity might be the same when you buy the plastic bottles. Crates have been here way longer, that's why there are both. You need to take into considertion, that when I grew up (I'm 56 now) most families went grocery shopping only once in a week (besides some fresh things you might have needed), so the crates were practical and the first re-usable system. Recycling plastic is actually easier and does not cost so much energy. If it is more eco friendly for that, I do not know.

Tbh using week numbers also feels really weird to me as a German. Maybe it's because I don't have that many doctor's appointments or because I'm young or maybe it's also somewhat regional but I don't recall ever getting asked whether I have time in a given week and I have no idea whatsoever what week we are in right now. I'd always have to check in a calendar.

As a German I have no idea about the calendar week thing. Yes, I've heard them being used here or there, but it is extremely rare. Generally I hear "the week starting on the 12th" or something like that.

At my company, we are repairing all kind of devices incl the logistics of that, we use the "week numbers" for when the repair of a device needs to be finished. To not give a specific day, more like a range of days. Doesnt matter if its finish on wednesday or thursday, but in this specific week. Also when we need to ship the devices or when we receive the next repairs. The times can vary due to parts shortage, sick workers or other reasons. For that we use the week number to give a wider range, but still needs to be done during this time. I hope I could expain it well. :D

I don‘t know one single „Eiscafe Venezia“ or similar in the place i live. But here is a) „Martino“ and b) „Martini“ not only in the same town but only a few steps away. I hate the endless-long shows too. But same counts for movies, which get longer and longer. The „week“-term isn‘t used that often. It applies mostly for production dates, like for example „2823“ on tires for week 28 of the year (20)23. And to the forth part… I can‘t understand why there are two ways of bottles and packages too. It doesn‘t make sense. But there is a rethink at the moment. Until the late 1980s or early 90s there were only glass bottles. But they were heavy. A full crate weighs a lot. Then there came plastic bottles. A lot lighter. An empty crate can be carried by a child. Now most people think more ecologically and the taste of the beverage seems better out of glass. But the manufacturers doesn‘t do all the products in all sizes or returnable. So i have to buy some things like water in crates full of glass, on the other hand things like some cola or juice in plastic, cardboard or can.

In our small town not so far away from Ramstein we currently have 3 Eiscafes: Venezia (of course) and Dolomiti both owned by a family business founded in 1957 (they even had a 3rd one named Cortina quite nearby but closed it some years ago). There is also another one named Rialto founded in the early 60ies by Mr. Nicolo which was passed over in the early eighties to a German when Mr. Nicolo retired (fortunately only after we had finished school bc it was just across the street😛). So each of them has or had a clear connection to the "Regione del Veneto" and there is only one "Venezia".

Loved the Under the Tuscone Sundae 🤣🤣

The crates have the great combination of medium sized bottles and a comfortable way to carry a lot of them. A 1L or half liter bottle will be empty way before all the fizz goes out. And then you can open a new one.

In Oregon, we have return stations in some stores, and dedicated bottle return locations as we get 0,10$ back on most can and glass/plastic bottles. There are a few brands of beverage that stores will mot take, and some wine and hard alcohol bottles have no deposit. Some people buy beverages in Washington, California, Nevada, or Idaho, and bring the bags of bottles to Oregon to receive the deposit/pfand for each bottle. QoTW: Health, Home Owners, Car, Handy Protection, Life/Disability, Mortgage insurance; used to have Renters insurance.

The bottles you buy in crates are "Mehrweg" so they don't go into the trash. They are cleaned and used several times. You can buy them as single bottles or in the crate. The crate just makes it easier to handle for everyone.

The plastic crate „Pfand“ is also a system in Austria, it‘s already been there when I was a child and all bottles were glas-bottles. The plastic bottles have been around only since 20 years or so, but some people prefer the glass bottles, as they believe recycling is more sustainable. (which you can question as the higher weight increases transport costs and the moon asking if the bottles also uses energy…)

The amount of drinks is easy to explain. We don't want to go every day to the Supermarket to by 2 Bottles for Drinking. Therefore we buy 1-2 "Kästen" and have a Stock for using for 1-2 weeks.

I bet except for full time project managers, no one here in Germany can connect a week number to actual dates. And even telling which month requires a bit of math. But you usually don’t find them used in everyday life, but almost exclusively in business and especially industry. It‘s a quite nice way to do long forecast planning. As when it’s week 25 and something will be going on sometime in week 32, there is no use in knowing the exact date yet, but only a rough overview for how many weeks you have left to get preparations done etc. Also some larger industrial companies have departments that only ship out by the end of the week or Monday. So the actual workers just need to know in which week they have to have their parts ready for shipping and can flexibly work their batches as long as they are done within the named week. In construction projects, it’s a convenient overview as well, as barely any handyman will finish on the exact deadline day. Usually things take longer than expected. So you plan in weeks, also to give the following team a good prognosis. And once getting closer to the named week, then eventually you switch to weekdays.

on: Why week numbers? Because they don't change over the course of multiple years. Usually week numbers are used in contexts that occur yearly. The difference comes due to leap years. For example week #10 started at March 6th in 2023 but on March 4th in 2024.

Thank you! Numbering the weeks is a pain in the ass! Just gimme the f-ing date!

I just got two crates of mineral water today 😃 Before that I used to buy the shrink-wrapped plastic bottles. I decided to go back to glass bottles because plastic is bad for the environment and microplastic is bad for your body. If I wouldn't have been as lazy as today, I usually would have bought more than two crates. Larger quantity just means, I don't have to be bothered with it any time soon. And the crates are great for stacking without having the risk of them falling down. Also means, it barely takes up place on the floor.

Well, Tap water IS undeniably delicious, but it still is NOT sparkling water. And there's no "Bierleitungen" so you'd have to find a way to safely transport a large number of glass bottles safely. And crates are just that practical.

Totally cofusing, the week numbers! I have to google every time!

Buying drinks in a crate is usually much cheaper than buying the same amount of bottles individually. So many families buy crates when they are on discount and it will last for a while (hopefully until it's on discount the next time).

You forgot "Rialto" (like the famous bridge in Venedig. They are surely on place two for boring names 😄😄

Berlin here. My favourite ice cream parlour, the best in the whole city by the way, is not called "Venezia" but "Hokey Pokey". Incidentally, there are only 3 ice cream parlours in Berlin with the name "Venezia" . Incidentally, I always had the impression that most ice cream parlours in Germany were called "Rialto". Well, which in turn is also a neighbourhood and a bridge in Venezia 😂

The week numbers are useful for long term regular meetings. Many clubs or courses (like at the volkshochschule) will say something like: We have our meetings on thursdays in every even week. That is the only reason i ever used week numbers. but in this case they are very useful. When a meeting was canceled or you could not make it to a meeting, it is easy to mix the meeting weeks up. Than it is nice to just look in the calender and see if we have an even week or not. The alternative would be something like: We always meet at the first and third thursday in the month. But then you have some month with a two weeks break and it is just more confusing.

Okay, about Venetia: In my place there is not a single Eisdiele with this name. My own small town has got "Dolce Vita" and "San Marco", then within 25 km around there are: "Calabria", "Cortina", "Lena's Eiscafé", "Eiscafé am Berliner Platz", "Eiscafé Sofia", Eiscafé Jesolo", sowie mehrere Niederlassungen des "Lido Eiscafé" und last not least "Gelateria da Olly". Das Letztere ist soweit ich weiss eine Kette. And I guess most Germans regard icecream as something Italian because when we started to call "Gastarbeiter" from Italy during the 50ies, they were the first to open up a lot of gelaterias after a few years. Some Italian families became really rich by doing so. (btw. same with pizzerias! I remember the first Pizzeria opening in Trier when I was a child (60ies) was "La Gondola", and having a pizza was something very new and somehow "exotic" thing for Germans. About "Kalenderwochen"...... well no, I do not know the range of a week by knowing its number. But I know one of the benefits: Most print media like weekly magazines or the small weekly printed "Lokal Blätter" published by the "Gemeinde" to tell news about what is going on in the district/county have them at the title: "Ausgabe: 48" in that sense means it is the edition of week 48. So it remains easy to sort them orderly if someone keeps them. Getränke Kisten existed already when I was a child. Which means, long before we were thinking about recycling plastic. In my humble opinion it is the most efficient way to keep your beverages on stock at home. Since my Mum did not have a car, she used to order "Two crates of mineral water, one crate of Pilsener, one crate of orange lemonade and one crate of "Maracuja Saft"" at the beginning of the month. The Getränkemarkt delivered it to our home where she put it in the garage and the issue was done for about a month. And nothing was messed up because the empty bottles were placed back to the crate. And why having so much in stock? Well - keep in mind that lots of people do their weekly grocery hauls after work, some do not even use a car for it. Just by walking home from work or alike. Those wouldn't be able to carry a lot of heavy bottles home. And in the past, tap water was regarded as "unsgesund". Still today some people believe it is unhealthy to drink it, even though everyone should know that it is the best controlled food product ever.

Ich zähle jetzt nur die freiwilligen Versicherungen: Zahnzusatzversicherung, Unfallversicherung, Berufsunfähigkeitsversicherung, Lebensversicherung, Private Rentenversicherung, Rechtsschutzversicherung, Hausratsversicherung - also mindestens sieben. Ich hab aber bestimmt noch was vergessen.

I miss Braum's so much. Made an internship in Tulsa, OK in 2015 and I'd love to get a milkshake at Braum's. Unfortunately it is only in OK an TX area, so all the other times beeing in the States (CA, AZ, UT, NV, WI) I had no chance to go there again 😢

Hush, don’t tell Donnie that once his kid starts school, he’ll also have to deal with school weeks, which have a different number than calendar weeks.

As a Belgian living in Germany i also don't understand why tv shows go on for soooooo long, i like a show called kitchen impossible, but who the hell watches a show that goes almost 3h until 23u on a weekday??? Second thing I don't understand about German tv shows, they run for decades!! In Belgium, some shows repeat maybe 3... Max 4 years, and then people want something new... But here, some shows still survive since the 70s, like Tatort... Or germanys next topmodel... That runs for... I don't know... 20 years? I will never understand... Weeknumbers I've not really come into contact with, I've always just used a date, when I make appointment with a dr or anywhere else... Nobody ever asked me for appointment in week 34...

The prevalence of Eiscafe Venezia must be local to you. The one in our village is called "Eiscafe Mediterraneo". I did a search of the ones in our area and the first one called Venezia is 10 miles away.

13:00 crates are stackable and super stable.

And you are right, the weeks for saying a special date are not used everywhere or by everyone. I, personally, do not get along wit that week system and say concrete dates and I have lived in Germany most of my life.

At worke we use the week numbers, but i always have to look them up oh and i think i have 5 insurances, 6 when i count apple care

Look, you're welcome to open a ice cream shop in Germany, named "Anything but Venetia".

I still dont understand why carts of bottles water would be weird. I drick about 5050 tap and sparkling and i usualy buy 3-4 crates, so 36 bottles at once, once per month. And the bottles themselves: Ive had several people now that questioned why we still bought glassbottles in crates vs the easily handled sixpack. The moment they tasted the glassbottle water they went back to it. The plastik bottles just simply impart a strange flavor into the content.

Selling drinks in crates, at least beer, is common in the Netherlands too.

I'm German and I find week numbers very confusing. Also, I can't say I've ever had a doctor's office etc. use week numbers instead of dates, and I've lived in four different states. I've noticed week dates on some fresh produce, such as mushrooms and herbs.

The crates are better to stack. We would put it in the basement and store it there. Also, glass bottles in shrink wrap would be a mess.

The “Kästen” thing is quite German if I think about it. But to make it short: efficiency. Better for transportation, better for storage, better for carrying large amount of bottles, better for organization within the supermarkets.

Wait the ice cream one I never noticed myself. I’ve been born here, living here for 26 years and I never thought much about it. 😂