When we find a cent (we still call it penny😆)on the ground, we spit on it and put it in our purse to be lucky for the rest of our lifes... 😍 Greetings from Germany!

@@birgittkellermann1420 You call ist Penny? I would call it Pfennig.

We do call it Pfennig, but I'd like to "translate it... 😆

First time I saw this kind of coffee pot was in Portugal, absolutely nothing German.

@@frasselainen Actually it is really Italian to make coffee (what the Germans call espresso) and many Germans bring them back from Italy. And btw. the water goes into the bottom and not the top ;)

@@martinohnenamen6147 i was gonna say... . I think its really a european thing, originating from italy though

@@martinohnenamen6147 Once it was difficult to buy this in Germany and you needed to buy it as a souvenir in Italy. And what a mess to get a replacement rubber ring when it has melted down! Today, everyone has electric espresso machines.

I love my Halumni supplier from Cyprus. :-)

I agree, that Italien made coffee tastes much better and the machine is easier to clean. But traditional German coffee machines also last forever if treated well. You can easily find 20 year old machines doing their job without any problem. Another advantage of German machine is that you can make one or twelve cups with the same machine and almost in the same amount of time. However, it is poor replacement if you ever tasted coffee in France or Italy. Even here the old protestant pragmatic, but not s joyful approach shines a bit through.

In Germany we still know this is typically Italian. But yes, they are quite common here, especially in younger households.

@@johaquila Absolutely! For Antoinette to have featured them in this video she must have seen them in a number of households

Where would Germany be without Italian immigrants? Imagine Germany without the many many Italian ice cream parlours, even the smallest towns having at least one Italian restaurant, good Italian coffee, ... Oof, that sounds boring! My brother learnt how to stand as a baby on the counter of my parents' favourite Italian restaurant, I don't think I'd like a Germany without Italians

@@LeyCarnifex I totally agree (though Italians are far from the only nationality I wouldn't want to miss). I even grew up within walking distance of an Italian ice cream parlour where a famously weird ice cream speciality was invented about 50 years ago. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hLWdZ8yXm5PSiH0.html

True. Fun fact: House dust is mostly made up of shed skin flakes, so what you are smelling when a dusty radiator heats up is frying skin. Yum!

All I smell is money that burns :D

That's why I always clean the heaters before it gets cold.

Mit Brille wär das nicht passiert...

That's a classic Otto Waalkes bit, that I remember vividly although it's from the seventies.

@@berulan8463 richtig.

😂👍der war gut.

@@michaelkusica2013 Brille, Fielmann

You got them all😳. 👍🏽😊

@@jorgschimmer8213 There should be one in "Italian" family size: 9 cups!

@@paulsj9245 Yes there are also at least 12 cup ones (my parents had one, for big gatherings like christmas)

Well since you are so pedantic 😉 I must add that the predecessor of the modern design moka was developed by a French guy...

@@Eldoran1989 🤷🏼‍♂️okay

How horrible! But okay, to each his own.

Ich hab mich irgendwie sattgegesse an Curry Ketschup, ich esse momentan nur normalen

Hela is life, Hela is love

@@DokuFREENET Kann man den nicht nur zu Pommes und Bratwurst/Currywurst essen? Ich mach doch an Wiener keinen Curry-Ketchup.

I never has Curry Ketchup in the house, but normal Ketchup either.

Though "espresso" in this case is misleading. Real espresso uses like 7-15 bar of pressure, which is a lot (and requires some active regulation you don't get with the cheap machines). Those moka pots operate at more like 1.5 bar.

@@Ph34rNoB33r Yes, it is misleading because technically coffee from moka (or caffettiera, which is how we call that in Italy) is NOT espresso, is just regular coffee :D . "Espresso", in Italy was a term used for coffee brewed by the coffee machines in bars, which needed to be quick serving customers and could not afford to wait times needed for moka to brew (thus the name "Espresso", which translates something like "express" as in express train). Nowadays no one here makes any difference between a bar espresso or regular coffee, which is why if you ask for a coffee in Italy by default you get served an espresso.

how is the bread in ireland? :-D

@@weisthor0815 Soda bread is amazing, but the huge variations I am used to from Germany is not available in Ireland. I mainly buy a fresh baked „Country loaf“ at Lidl. It’s a kind German grey bread. It does do the trick as I am sure it could be from Germany anyway.

@@bjo_Ern wenn es vom lidl ist liegt die vermutung ja zumindest nahe ;-) aber danke für die info, hätte gedacht die iren hätte vielleicht auch gutes brot.

That's interesting, I never saw it in New Zealand. Maybe it's become popular there recently or maybe it always has been and I didn't notice.

Yep, I've seen it here too in the last few years, although it is really expensive.

Also my friends in Australia eat alot Haloumi.

It did become more popular in the last 10 years. Most restaurants offer salads with Haloumi. It's so yummy!

@@AntoinetteEmily german bbq culture changed significant. 10-15 years ago it was only sausages and schnitzel. now i have ie a smoker for slow cooking and serve spareribs, pulled pork, bacon bombs and so on.^^ slow cooking with a smoker needs much time. ie 5 kg pulled pork needs 16 hours. i have to stand up deep in the night to replace the coal.^^ but its worth it!!!!!

The saying in the UK is "mind the pennies, and the pounds will take care of themselves". None of these things are exclusively German, btw. Coppers, radiators, halloumi cheese, coffee/espresso percolators, are all standard in UK and pretty much all of Europe...I'll grant you there is an issue here with Ketchup though. Some of the "Gewürzketchup" is lovely, some is rank. 21 years here and I'm still not mad about the curry/ketchup combo.

@@jacquiehahn4910 I totally agree..

well she’s a native speaker of english

@@meretj9004 Yes, of course she's a native speaker! There are many native English speakers on youtube. Actually, most of them are the worst! And many seem not to care about quality sound at all. Level too high or too low, Noise, distortion and whatever could be wrong is wrong.

@@meretj9004 never heard a native "english" speaker with welsh, scottish, texan or australian accents and dialects ? :-)

@@Anson_AKB No, it's not a matter of dialects or accents. Its' a matter of careful pronounciation. You do not need to be a professional speaker to be understood. And You still can spoil everything by not recording the sound properly and not setting it the the correct level!

Cypriot, not Greek

She actually said in the video that the grilled cheese originated in the Cyprus / Greece area.

Werden die Heizkörper dafür abmontiert? 🤔 Das hab ich tatsächlich noch nie gehört :D

@@sakurakay Nein? Ich habe den sc4. Man setzt einfach das Handstück auf und pustet mit Dampf alles raus in den Zwischenräumen der Flachheizkörper, nach unten. Erstaunlich, was sich da während der warmen Jahreszeit alles so ansammelt. Geht ruckzuck, allerdings muss ich danach mit dem Staubsauger nachgehen, weil der Staub fliegt. Mache ich immer so und ist am einfachsten. Die Heizkörper werden damit innerhalb von Minuten außen und innen blitzblank. Ich habe sonst nichts womit ich in die Zwischenräume so gut reinkommen würde. Ich mache das immer so, und kenne auch viele, die das genauso machen.

Kärcher ist für mich gleich Hochdruckreiniger. DAS habe ich mir drinnen schwierig vorgestellt 😉

@@sakurakay hahaha, ja, jetzt verstehe ich deine Frage… dieses Gerät ist ein Dampfreiniger für alles mögliche im Haushalt und recht praktisch. Kärcher hat in dem Bereich ein paar geniale Geräte, und die halten ja ewig, und dieses hat eben viele Anwendungsbereiche. Kärcher macht nicht nur Hochdruckreiniger, und für den hätte ich drinnen ja auch keine Verwendung, da kommt doch auch eine Menge Wasser raus, oder?

Ja, das hatte ich jetzt auch verstanden :D dass Kärcher verschiedene Geräte macht, ist mir bewusst. "Kärchern" ist halt nur das weit verbreitete Synonym für Hochdruckreiniger. Also wie Zewa für Küchenpapier 😉 und jap, da kommt ein harter Wasserstrahl raus. Deshalb war ich so verwundert

Yes, in Australia Ketchup was called tomato sauce. The old houses in Perth, WA, were made of "double brick" and had a fireplace in every room, which were not really of great use when it got cold in "winter". My family's "new" house was "single" brick, but it still had a fireplace in all rooms. British tradition, probably. We rarely lit the fire in the fireplace but used a kerosine oven to warm up the rooms. Oh, the meat pies were great at the school canteen. I've only been to the UK twice (I prefer spending my holidays in France, Spain or Italy), I tried some meat pies there, but they weren't as tasty as those in Australia. The same goes for the fish and chips, which were ever so greasy, no matter where I tried them.

"Caffettiera" aber besser gesagt "moka". :-)

@@silviaborghese8568 giusto 😀

4. USA calls it a moka pot

geschmackreicher? du hast wohl noch nie einen richtig gut gemachten Filterkaffee (am besten mit Porzellanfilter) gehabt?

I came here to say this! 😂

From the UK I sympathise. They have been my favourite for 30 years at least.

It's a coffee maker indeed. And Italians don't cry about it. Their knew it.

My brother-in-law in Hamburg has underfloor heating. Very comfortable, especially in the bathroom in the morning when you're standing at the sink to shave!

She didn't say it's unique to Germany, just that she noticed these things in Germany and didn't know them in new Zealand:-)

@@FiveOClockTea And I never said that she said they were unique to Germany!! I was just pointing out , for anyone else who lives in a country that does not have radiators, that they are pretty much a standard heating system throughout Europe and have been for nearly 200 years. Of course they were new to her when she moved to Germany and that's why she mentioned them in her video.

@@SuperLittleTyke We also have under floor heating in our home ( in Germany) but I do miss Radiators. As Antoinette says they are great for drying clothes and give instant heat when you turn them on...unlike under floor heating which is a pain to regulate, but yes nice in the bathroom :)

Und was wäre das Problem, mal 2 Cent mehr und ein anderes mal 2 Cent weniger zu zahlen?

@@thorz7304 lol

@@thorz7304 I don't have too much money, so I'm used to buy what's on sale and keep track of my finances. I, for one, like to know exactly what I'll be paying. Keeping track of finances is a good way to make do with what you have. Besides, it's one of our quirks as Germans... Paying the exact amount.

@@thorz7304 Dann würde vermutlich vieles zB 9,95 statt 9.99 kosten, und zum Ausgleich diverse andere Sachen 11.45 oder 11.95 statt 10.99 (wenn dort der Betrag sowieso schon zweistellig ist). Das Problem mit scheinbar nidrigeren Preisen (weil der Betrag vor dem Komma niedriger ist) würde wohl weiter bestehen, aber dann eben "5 Cent vor der runden Summe" statt 1 Cent. Und was ist mit billigen Sachen, zB Brötchen für 14 oder 18 oder 22 Cent? Da gibt es dann Preiserhöhungen von 10% oder mehr, und alle kleinen Unterschiede zwischen zB 16 und 20 werden "glattgebügelt" ... Sinnvoll wäre es meiner Meinung nach, wenn man ganz auf diese Tricks verzichten und nur noch runde Summen (9, 10, 10.50) benutzen würde, oder sogar zB bei einem Auto 28000 statt 27995 oder 27850 (zu denen dann sowieso noch viele kleine Nebenkosten dazukommen). Aber gesetzlich kann man das nicht vorschreiben, und die Marketingabteilungen finden immer wieder neue Tricks (vielleicht sowas wie Preisschild 9.99 und an der Kasse wird aufgerundet wenn man es nicht passend hat, oder man kauft 5 Stück für passende 49.95). ps: Wenn sich bargeldlose Zahlung (in Deutschland mit Debitkarten und nicht mit Kreditkarten) immer mehr verbreitet, ist das sowieso nicht mehr so wichtig und wir brauchen weniger kleine Münzen. Dann ist nur noch die Werbung mit diesen krummen Preisen lästig.

@@Anson_AKB Dinge würden nur Teurer werden, 1 cent weniger im Verkauf ist für ein Unternehmen was hohe Stückzahlen verkauft tausende Euro , denn bereit 100 Stück ergeben 1 Euro weniger

😃 Saludos desde Figueres! 👋🏻

@@alemandealemania Igualmente desde Barcelona!

Ja, auf Curry Ketchup kann ich auch gerne verzichten. Auf Currywurst ebenso. Wenn ich überhaupt mal meine, eine Wurst essen zu müssen, dann lieber eine Weißwurst mit süßem Senf oder eine Thüringer Bratwurst. Geschmäcker sind halt verschieden und oft regional bedingt.

I find them annoing too. When you pay cash you get them in shops all the time as change, because of the stupid prizes (e.g. 1,99 or 5,78 Euro).

Oh 😶, so I failed epically 🙈. My husband payed for our shoes... But I will always take his change and pay with it in shops (that was before the pandemic, though).

I heard of that tradition only once before in my life and I actually never saw anybody do that. I mean those shoes have to be really cheap or the shop owner is probably going to throw anybody out who pays with only red coins. I was working in a shop and there is nothing more annoying than people trying to get rid of their small money... meanwhile the line is getting longer and longer...

@@teklam.3524 No, this is true. I saved those copper coins in a really huge liquor bottle and my girlfriends did the same. And I know for sure, that in Germany in the 1980s and 1990s bridal shops took them. The one I know sent one of his employees to the nearest bank with a coin machine. The use of a coin machine was free these days. And the shoes weren't cheap...

I (*1983) grew up knowing about the tradition and started saving up coins from my mid-teens onwards. In my early 30s I realized that I (probably) would not be getting married (and even if so would not want to annoy cashiers/other customers with the bulk of 1 ct. coins), so I gave up my "collection", also because speculations spiked up that "small money" is going to be abolished soon a few years back (just like in the Netherlands). Fast forward to today: coins are still around (and I am still unmarried 😆)

NZ is cold especially in the winters. Plus the windows are thin and made of what feels like paper. People usually get electric heaters for their rooms to warm them up, leading to crazy power bills. I've even seen places where they use bed sheets that you can plug into the wall. Those things are dangerous, too. PS Grillkäse is not (only) a Southern Germany thing.

Grillkäse is a staple at both Aldi and Lidle once grill time is starting. And I am not living in South Germany. It's a pretty new trend, though.

Halloumi is an actual type of cheese. Yes you can put it on the barbecue too but that's not necessarily every type of "Grillkäse".

We have Halloumi too. It a bit different. :)

You can buy the Hela Curry ketchup in the Dutch shops.

Yeah, at the pictures in Australia there was always the queen mounted on a horse acompanied by the national anthem at the beginning of a film and everyone stood up - even as an 8-year-old, I never did so because I couldn't see any sense in it. Even at the monday morning assemblies at school, the British and the Australian flags were raised and we had to sing "god save the queen" - most of my friends though prefered to sing "god shave the queen". The Australien national anthem in my childhood was nice though, as it didn't glorify any kind of royal but refered to the beauty of the country: "There is a land where summer skies are gleaming with a thousand eyes ..." Putting vinegar on chips is really strange. I've noticed British tourists in France doing that at restaurants. My French friends and I always had a good laugh about all that ignorance related to good tasty food ist about. And in Australia they drive in the wrong side of the road as well, but I got my driver's licence after having returned to Germany.

Or we could adjust the prizes to 4.90 etc. The 1-5 Cent coins are useless

The long time died comedian Tegtmeier ( Jürgen von Manger) once said: It would be good, to produce 99 Pfennig coins and 9,99 Mark bills.

@@Bennime_Once that might work for reducing 9.99 to 9.90, but most other prices probably will be raised, eg from 4.99 to 5.40 or 5.90, and for costly items like a car it wouldn't help to reduce 27999.99 to 27999.90, but they should be honest and ask for 28k straight (i once saw a new car for something like "42768.98 plus delivery", why not "43k total"?). The problem are not those x.99 amounts to pay if they would be justified, but that for marketing (x-1).99 sounds a lot cheaper than x, and we would have the same problem again with (x-1).95 or (x-1).90, or maybe next year have x.90 or (x+1).90 anyway. ps: even if such a car costs 43k straight and now MWSt/VAT changes eg from 16% to 19%, what should be the new price if they don't want to change the original price "at the factory"? 44112.07? or still 43k, or 44k or 44.5k or 45k ? and the same applies to most cheaper items too, where 1 Cent is more than 0.1% or even 1% of the price ... or should europe start doing as the usa do, pricing something at 9.90 and adding taxes later, maybe even rounding up to the nearest 10 Cent?

The filling vessels are typically not installed anymore. But there is an easy fix: just put a glass of water on top of the radiator.

I LOVE the Aldi Currywurst Sauce!!!!!!

nope not delicious at all 😅 but taste is different 🤷‍♂️

Weder "Abfüllschaufel", "Abwiegeschaufel" noch "Dosier- oder Messlöffel" sind mir ein Begriff. Wenn ich backe benutze ich eine Waage, um die Mehl-, Zuckermengen, etc. genau nach Rezept abzuwiegen. Here in Germany we normally use a scale when baking, not any sort of spoons or cups.

Yeah, I remember the "Heiße Kiste" in Berlin, Neukölln, where they sold Curry Wurst. Having to pass by, it always smelled horrible. So I am not so keen on that stuff.

I got mine from an alien who regretted having abducted me...

No more haypennies, 12 pence = 1 shilling, etc since a long time. The decimal system is much more precise. But when will you drop the awkward imperial system of weights and measures?

@@magmalin exactly. It’s so annoying. I hate having to convert everything so it makes sense.

And than there are people like me (at least I hope there are more of us): a "Mayo"-lover (Luvat) through and through... I remember countless occasions being the only kid who preferred mayo over ketchup. P.S.: On the rare occasions I did eat ketchup I definitely preferred the curry flavoured kind.

You are correct.

Actually the US Dollar was defined as a weight of 371 4/16 grains or 24.1 grams of standard silver by the coinage act from 1792.

@@jan-peterbrodersen3302 It's the linguistic roots of the word Taler the dollar comes from.

Don't get me started. Coinage and their names are a fascinating topic. "Taler" is also just a derivate. The original "Taler" was silver coin minted in Bohemian Joachimsthal. So, a "Joachimsthaler Gulden"... shortened to "Joachimsthaler"... shortened to "Thaler". Aaaaand... it doesn't stop there. Correctly, the original Thaler was a "Guldengroschen". Which denoted the silver equivalent to a Gulden. A rather contradictary term... because "Gulden" of course meant a gold coin. Specifically, a golden Pfennig. A "Groschen" on the other hand is also a variant of the "Pfennig"... a "great" or "großer" Pfennig. Which brings us to the grandfather of all these coins, the Pfennig. The origin of this term is not completely certain; it is most likely derived from the weight unit "pound" or "Pfund". So that's the way it works. It starts out as something descriptive, over time loses its original meaning and becomes a name, which gets modified, changed into a new term... which then goes through the whole cycle again.... until you arrive at the modern "dollars". Fun fact in this line: before the introduction of the unimaginatively named "Euro", the European Union (or European Community before) used a common monetary unit called "Ecu"... which was meant to be an acronym for "European Currency Unit". Just as unimaginative, right? Not quite, because this name was founded on an old French coin, the Ecú... so named after the royal coat of arms shown on it. I wish they would have kept that name, instead of that prosaic "Euro".

@@Groffili I used the terms Taler and Groschen when I grew up in the north of Germany. A Groschen is a 10 Pfennig coin. It disappeard whith the €. The Taler was different. When I was very little I took my little Sparschwein and ran to my grandmother yelling "Omi, Omi Taler" and she put some Pfennige in there. Loved the sound. I think I was a material girl. 😉

This is ever so funny. When I grew up in Australia - Perth, WA - there was no such thing as a ceiling fan in houses, you just had to cope with the heat in summer some way or the other. But we did have a fire place in every room, just as the British tradition demands.

imho, the real problem is to have "marketing prices" of x-0.01, instead of the more honest x. and with fierce competition in german supermarkets it might even make sense to have 1.19 as price for something in one shop, and 1.18 and 1.16 in two others. nobody would be happy when they all have to charge either 1.15 or 1.20 at the cash register, unless you start buying in bulk ...