Imagine you live in the US, buy a mansion for millions of dollars and you cant even put you windows auf kipp

I am so german that the "unnecessary" flushing of the toilet made me angry. ;)

"Ey, mach mal das Fenster auf Kipp"

The weirdest thing for me in Germany is when it rains (all the time) and I complain about it, every single German would reply like the following : “ but it is good for nature”.

Everyone: "wow weird stuff" Me: "I wonder how often she had to turn the globe and stopped it with her finger till she managed to point on Germany"

The scary thing is, when you put an already "kipped" window on full open without pushing it shut before and suddenly the whole window is hanging from a single hinge

I never knew our windows were such special, that one surprised me.

I have never encountered the concept of "Schorle" in other countries before, at least not in restaurants. I think mixing juice with water is something that might be quite uniquely German, too.

for the window thing: i thought everwhere in the world had this.. so im shocked that you guyz dont know what it is.

as someone who's lived their entire life in germany, i still get excited whenever i'm able to take a doubledecker train!

"Its not canada" The Erzgebirge would like to have a word with you.

Now imagine a serial killer Movie in America where the Killer tries to enter a house which is inspired by houses in Germany, and he cant put up the Window bc its a "Kippfenster", that would be hilarious.

I love looking at my country through foreigners' eyes. Mostly makes me smile.

The only thing that is news to me is... that British girls don't go every year to the gynecologist.😷

Also a fact about Germans: as soon as a video gets released with Germany in the title, the comment section belongs to us.

I'm German and I always thought that "Spaghetti Eis" is an Italian invention...

In Italy, these windows are called "il vasistas". That name is a reference to the German phrase "was ist das?", or "what is that?". The story is that when they were first introduced in Italy, people were so surprised that they asked "what is that?" to the German importer, and the phrase stuck.

Apparently I am so German that I didn't even know these things are typically German. My mind is seriously blown by the fact that Spaghetti ice was invented in Germany and I had no idea that Kippfenster aren't common all around the world... they make so much sense.

its a bid sad to hear that going to the "frauenarzt" is not really common in other countrys...girls please take care of yourself!

Alle Deutschen denen das Video angezeigt wird: DA muss ich was reinschreiben

For people who don't really understand the gynycologists issue. In Germany women go every year because your insurance pays for annual check ups, they start at different ages, but usually they iclude a PAP smear test, and a breast exam. When you get older there are more things included in the check up, because the risk for cervical and kolorectal cancer increases. German health insurances, especially within the last years, have made an effort to pay for measures that would prevent illness.

As you can see, Germans love to react on vids about Germany. Thats so weird but it is getting weirder cause iam also German.

Having winter tires is not only about more grip in snowy weather, but also about the rubber they're made of. Summer tires are made of rubber that loses grip below 7°C. Winter tire rubber on the other hand is built to withstand much lower temperatures. Aside from that, it's also grippier and softer which is useful in winter but only increases fuel consumption in summer.

"It's not Canada" Maybe you haven't experienced it yet but Germany can go full Canada in winter and then you're in trouble without proper tires.

Sure we are “not Canada“... have you ever seen a winter in Germany? You would change your mind. Parts of Germany are covered in snow, while at others it only rains. But there are two things: cold temperatures and high humidity, consequently the streets start to freeze. You need Winter tyres to have enough grip. Plus we drive fast, so we need adequate tyres in winter.

Mixing Coke with orange lemonade (Spezi, Mezzo Mix, Schwipp-Schwapp). It is everywhere in Germany and surrounding countries, but elsewhere people rarely have heard of it it seems. My UK colleagues were horrified when I mixed Coke and lemonade when visiting...

When my Russian wife came first to Germany, she told me she had seen something never before in her life: Sausage in a glass

The best thing about "Spaghetti ice cream" is the frozen whipped cream underneath!!!

I am from germany and omg, i didn't know that all of these things are so “exotic“ for other countries😂

The separating stick at the supermarket. A friend of mine was visiting me and went to the supermarket. Someone put the stick in front of his grocery and he kept on saying he didn't want to buy it.

Fun fact: “Sitzpinkler” is also used as a mildly derogatory term for a person who is considered too delicate. Other synonyms include “Warmduscher” (someone who showers with warm water).

Raclette or Fondue for New Year's Eve and of course the weird "Dinner for one" movie tradition.

For me is the fact that you can flush the toilet “a little” or “a lot”, and that you can stop the flushing.

I’m a German living in Virginia, and you can sometimes find Kohlrabi here. But it’s smaller and not as tasty, so normally I don’t bother with it. Now I want a Spaghetti Eis.

Never heard of Winter tires? Well, when I see some of the video footage from American streets in Winter I already suspected that nobody there had ever heard of Winter tires. It is not only about snow. It is the temperature and the fact that the Summer tires are too hard and have a lot less grip in cold weather - whereas the Winter tires are too soft for Summer and wear down too quickly.

We use Kohlrabi in India too. I live in Pune, a city in western India. I cook Kohlrabi the local way using local spices and I love it. :) Oh btw, its name in my language is 'Navalkol' which is derived from knol kohl (Knollenkohl).

I guess, one of the most German things is "Apfelsaftschorle", perhaps the most popular beverage in Germany, which is a mixture of apple juice and mineral (or sparkling) water. I only know it from German speaking countries, nowhere else... The word "Schorle" by itself doesn't seem to have any resemblance in other languages. A "Schorle" in general is everything you mix with mineral water. This can be all kinds of juices, but also red or white wine.

When I was a small child my parents told me at a restaurant that they were going to order icecream for me... and as I had never seen spaghetti icecream before, I really started to cry when the waiter arrived at our table... I was so disappointed until I understood that it was actually icecream 😂

Me as a German watching this: "Huh. Interesting...."

There is a second reason why changing the tires. The elasticity of the rubber changes with the temperature. The winter tires has rubber with higher elasticity, which helps during the cold time. In the summer it would be worse for the tires, because it would cause higher wear. That's why you need two types of tires in Germany and countries with similar climate.

German here: I thought I broke the window when I accidently opened an already kipped window (with old windows that can happen). I was horrified, so I can understand.

I have found the Germans to be super helpful. I was at a station in Germany and asked for directions to my hotel - the official was at a desk but spoke no English and it was quite dark and quiet and he walked all the way out of the station and pointed to my hotel a short walk away. Another time I was on a train to Frankfurt airport and a German gentleman who was reasonably chatty woke up another man and asked him to set my heavy bags down when the airport came as he was getting down at an earlier station himself. As an Asian woman newly in Europe, this was such an amazing welcome into Europe.

as someone living in germany, hearing these things surprise me as they are the most common things for me

Spaghetti eis will definitely be a big hit in Asian countries.

What struck me about living in Germany was the commonly-enforced propriety - for example: crossing an empty road against the "don't walk" sign. I was shocked when two quite elderly women yelled in my direction from almost a block away. "They couldn't be yelling at me," I thought. But when I kept walking, they continued yelling and began walking in my direction. It was the first time I heard what I came to understand as a common phrase: "Mann macht es nicht so" or "One does not do that" - an odd-sounding phrase that any English-speaker might never utter in his or her entire life. The two elderly ladies spoke perfect english, of course, so when they realized that I was American and had only just arrived in Germany two days previously, they kindly asked, "You understand why we obey the signals even when there are no cars, don't you?" I had no idea. "To set an example for the children." Score one for Germans, this American, zero. Another example: one time and one time only when I stepped into the elevator at my Studentenheim, I pressed the button for the next floor, the one I lived on. I was corrected immediately, "Mann macht es nicht so!" You only use the elevator to go up at least two if not three floors - otherwise, you use the stairs. Why? It wastes electricity, your own body is more efficient for just a floor or two. Score two for Germans, this American, zero. Many many more such examples - from fixing a flat tire instead of walking the bike; bringing your beer bottles to the return or recycling bin every morning on the way to the bus stop - and if you don't, you get asked, "Where are your bottles?" Because EVERYone drinks beer every evening and has bottles to return. It may seem intrusive and offensive to our American sensibility, but German society is far more "rationalized" as Max Weber would say, and Germans are highly socialized - there is a correct way to do just about everything, and everyone should help one another to do their best. Sadly, we Americans suffer from what Emile Durkheim called "Anomie" - literally, "no rules" - which we often confuse with freedom, liberty, and don't tell me what to do! But we also live in confusion and anxiety because...we never really know if we are doing anything right. Without a target, you never get to know when you hit a bullseye. That is what I learned in Germany. Oh yeah, what about Quak (sorta Greek yoghurt-ish dairy product), Gluhwein (spiced warm red wine at Christmans), sales and VAT tax included in the given price for everything, one-page tax forms, established or tax-funded churches, and the more or less honor system of paying for bus fares.

You forgot an essential element in Spaghetti ice: a scoop of whipped cream in the middle which freezes under the ice cream :) A German thing that I enjoy very much (though it is regional and not known everywhere in Germany) is a good "Weinschorle", which is white or rose wine mixed with sparkling water.

I saw that kind of window 0:43 for the first time when I lived in France and back then, I didn't know it could be opened in 2 different ways. I lived nearly 4 months in a room with the window half opened until, one day, I saw a guy opening a similar window in 2 ways in the school I studied at. Then, back home, I decided to try it with my window and found out it could be completely opened. I couldn't believe it hahahaha

Somethings I hadn’t seen before coming to Germany and liked them a lot: Asparagus (they are not so common in India) and Manglod leaves..

The whole trash sorting situation blew my mind, they have a bin for everything

Im always surprised how my foreign friends react when I eat "Mettbrötchen" infront of them. Also many of my asian friends Start screaming in Terror when i Drink Water directly from the tap.

When listening to her idk if she is from Britain and has an exceptional pronunciation of German words or if she is German and speaks perfect English without any accent.

As a German I am geniuenly suprised about the worlds seeming lack of quality Kippfenster.

The best part of spaghetti ice cream is the cooled whipped cream beneath the ice cream

I was very surprised to see in UK and US old-fashioned sliding windows that are not air-tight at all. This is like seeing new Bentley with Euro 1 norm petrol engine. High-tech countries with old tech windows :)

As a German I used to live in the US. One day I saw a guy cooking. He used the green of some cabbage turnip and threw the bulb into the garbage. Well, that was a first one to ME, and I was just flabberghastet, how could someone do THAT?? Some people in Germany do the opposite. It is so nice to be able to teach EACH OTHER some useful things.

I thought women in every country went to the gynaecologist once a year. It’s like that in every country I know- Australia, New Zealand. USA, Italy, Spain. And it snows a lot from November till April so of course you need winter tyres. Maybe it doesn’t snow where you live but it does in Munich.

I didn't know what bureaucracy was until I came to Germany...

I'm Mexican and I just found out I am a "Sitzpinkler"

I was amazed when visiting friends near Nurnberg that they use many candle devices to keep food and beverages warm on the table, like you can see in buffets but much smaller of course, what a brilliant idea for promoting small servings

Kohlrabi used to be quite common in Finland, too (kaalirapi/kyssäkaali in Finnish, kålrabbi in Swedish). It was my grandma's favourite brassica. Perfect for stews or as roasted - or as fries with yoghurt sauce.

Winter tyres are extremely important, there are many crashes in the winter in slippery conditions. If you cause a crash under those circumstances and the police finds out your car was not fitted with proper winter tyres, you will be punishment quite hard because the whole accident might have been easily avoidable.

Ah, the kohlrabi. One of the most underappreciated vegetables!

The window definitely freaked me out when I first came to Germany 🤣🤣

I'm surprised you haven't mentioned "Mett", which is raw ground pork you put on a piece of bread with some onions^^

I grew up in the States but both my parents had emigrated from Germany a year before I was born. They brought over featherbeds from "the Old Country." I was shocked when I learned all my American friends slept on sheets and blankets. My first trip to Germany I saw all my relatives there had, you guessed it, featherbeds.

Surprised to find out that the window thing is not as common - it's also a standard in Russia (as well as most of other mentioned things)

OMG she forgot the most important part about the spaghetti ice cream!!!! the FROZEN WHIPPED CREAM!!! That makes it the best and is why it is so popular!

As a french living in France, I am familiar with most of those things, with the exception of the gynecologist, because I am a man, but it's familiar to every french woman. Winter tires exist in France, but they are not mandatory, and the habit depends of the region. I live in the french alps, and I use them every winter since I am able to drive. Parisians are not use to them but paradoxically are afraid of snow. So if you want to turn the parisian region into a hell, just add one cm of snow on the roads. I would enjoy to try this magnificent spaghetti ice cream.

The first time I went to Berlin, I was fascinated by the different "little green man" at traffic lights. I thought the different pose and the fact that he wears a hat was cool.

During a pandemic and still releasing great videos.

I would venture a guess that the following things are not widely known, especially in the US: - Malzbier (Karamalz), a malted beer-like sweet beverage without alcohol - Radler / Alsterwasser , a pilsener-style beer mixed with lemonade - Erdnuß-Flips , peanut puffs; although there is peanut-everything in the US, somehow that freaked everybody out. They have cheese puffs instead.

I live in Iran, all of the things you showed were new to me except the cabbage, that's pretty common in my country.

Pretty typical is a Radler: a mix 50% beer and 50% lemonade

We eat kholrabi too here in Assam, India. But surprisingly, most people from other Indian states also don't recognise this vegetable.

When I first came to Germany back in ... well, a long time ago, my first impression was how fast the cars drove on the Autobahn. I was initially really scared to have to travel on it. In America, back then the speed limit was 55 mph and I was seeing cars whiz by doing 150-190 mph. They would shake our car when they passed, from two lanes over.

Besides the ice-cream, I think this really shows how LOGICAL the whole Brexit thing was. It's not the Germans who are weird (compared to other Europeans), the British are! I've been in most European countries, and all of these things (again, except the ice-cream) seem to be pretty normal everywhere. I'm surprised to hear that they aren't normal in the UK!

It's very funny to watch this video as german.

Some people really need to chill out in the comments section. She's sharing her experience when she first arrived to Germany. She's not criticising she's simply sharing. Most of you act as if everywhere you have traveled to you knew exactly what everything was and how it functions. So why do you even bother traveling if you already seem to know everything??? Guess what! You most likely don't know everything and probably whilst you were traveling there were things you found different, strange or new which already exists in countries elsewhere. So no , she hasn't been living under a rock as some of you have rudely asked, she simply lived somewhere where the culture is different. I can also guarantee you that if you travel to another region within your own country you will learn about things you weren't aware of whether it's language, food or related to other cultural aspects. The whole idea of traveling is to experience the unknown. (Not relaxation, sightseeing or for food or drink, because we all have that in our countries). Yet some of you are criticising her for that. And okay maybe she may have gotten something wrong like some of you have suggested regarding the peeing term, but damn have you never made an error? If you have haven't you are probably an alien or something, because even scientists who work years on research sometimes make erros. Besides when someone makes a mistake, there's no need to belittle them rather educate them. It's as simple as that :). ANYWAY, the world would be rather boring if we all knew about everything. So really CHILL.😁

Some additionasl: bottle return machines (pfand), a variety of shopping bagas under the checkout counter on the customer side, one euro needed to get luggage carts (and will be returned when you dock it. Nice video!

My Oma made an AMAZING cream kohlrabi soup with fresh kohlrabi from her garden.

quick history to the double-deck trains in Germany: - invented and first use in 1936 - extensive production in East Germany for GDR's Reichsbahn - adaption for modern railway standards in the 1990ies - they can accomodate 30-40% more passengers than conventional wagons

I‘m German and when I was little I always refused to eat Spaghetti Eis because I thought those were real spaghettis 😄

my partner of 26 years is german - so plenty of visits back home. The windows are great but i would say the exterior metal security blinds that double as curtains (sort of!) are even more impressive.

Herrliches Video 😂 ich wusste gar nicht welche Besonderheiten es hier gibt die für mich normal sind. 👍🏻

I thought she'd call out our slow internet-speeds ;-)

As an Brit ex-pat whose lived in Germany for over 35 years I like to say that I agree with everything Rachel says here. And yes I'm a Sitzpinkler..

Their windows are the best! Die Zimmer lüften! I was surprised by the house shoe selection and temporary slippers everywhere I went. Very cozy. That spaghetti ice cream is new to me! 😮

Holy cow I’ve lived one year in Germany and haven’t seen this spaghetti ice cream ! I need it 😂

Here, in Serbia the things that are normal, (and we probably got them from the Germans) are kipp system windows, winter/summer change of tyres, annual visit to the gynecologist, keleraba is a known vegetable ( I don't actually cook it, but some other people do), greetings from Belgrade :)

The bowl of spaghetti ice cream really got me. Hardly understood German when I visited Paderborn and decided to treat myself to pasta. Got ice cream instead. 😂🍧❄️

Other things- 1.you can only park facing the direction that the traffic is moving. 2. On a straight road you must give way for traffic turning onto it from the right ( unless sign posted that you mustn’t). 3. McRib is standard on the mc d menu. 4. The German word meaning „drive around“ and the word meaning „drive over“ is the exact same word „umfahren „

What a lovely accent. I lived in Germany in the late 1990s. laughed out loud at the window section of this video. Other things, were the hot water tanks above kitchen sinks which I also saw in England, that virtually no one will jaywalk: they will wait until the "walk" symbol lights up even if there is no car on either side of the road as far as the eye can see, bicycle paths on the sidewalks that you DO NOT DARE STAND IN, paying to use a public toilet and there is an attendee inside that you tip...I could go on and on.

I'm really impressed. Not just by the content of the video, but by your absolutly perfect pronounciation of the german words

"Many men in Germany prefer to take a seat" Yes, they prefer that over getting into that fight with their wifes AGAIN.

Similar experiences in the US mountain states: Double-decker train (Fairbanks to Anchorage), winter tires (we have them with studs), in Idaho we have ice cream made to look like a potato (Idaho produces many of McD's french fries). Thanks for the fun video.

Thanks for keeping it short and precise, as a german i appreciate that very much :)

if it's any consolation: I moved into an old house with no kipp windows 2 years ago. Or so I thought. There was a weird metal lever on the bathroom window but I never understood what it was for. A short while ago when I wanted to open the bathroom window, it "kipped" and I thought I'd broken it. Until I realized that the metal lever was for a system to transform an old-fashion-style window into a "kipp"-window. I had accidentally moved it and now it worked for the first time in the way it was intended. Makes sense in a bathroom.

Winter tires are much softer. Using them in summer wears them out very quickly.

Very German: "Mach mal das große Licht an!" "Turn the big light on!" Or "Das kleine Licht" "The small light."

i live in the Sauerland, like 2 years ago i was sliding from one side of the road to the other even with winter tires. it really depends on where you live. if you live in the münsterland for example, which is known for being very flat, allwetterreifen (all-season tires) are more than enough.