Kelly: "This is the best thing ever, truly amazing! I give it a B".

It feels as if David Hasselhoff will haunt us Germans until the end of time...🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

Do the same in reverse? Mischa ranking the American best and worst aspects.

I am not a big fan of raw meat, but the fact the Germany has laws that guarantee that their pork is much healthier than ours is admirable.

Is anyone else having issues with a low volume level on this video? It's very quiet! EDIT: This got much more attention than I thought it would. Kelly, if you see this, love your videos! Just turn the volume up a bit so we can hear you :)

I read "Tier list" in the thumbnail and thought it was going to be about animals! ;-)

One mistake: David Hasselhoff isn't famous anymore in Germany. The Knight Rider show was in the 80's, his singing career started with the fall of the wall 1989 (I've been looking for a freedom), Baywatch was in the 90's, that's all. His success is over 20 years old and gone. He was just more famous in Germany than in the USA, not really famous at all.

someone who puts the German Bahn and windows above beer and football has lost control over his/her life. lol

I Have been watching your channel for over a year now and love your videos. I am so glad still find the time and energy to keep this channel going!

Kelly is a „Kaffeetante“. 😂😂😂😂😂

"German cities are so clean!" Singapore: *"Finally, a worthy opponent. Our battle will be legendary."* Also, here's something about the topic of Mettbrötchen: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/otV5fLN5qdusoZc.html Don't question it, idk. Btw, I'm German and I agree with your opinion on Oktoberfest. It's nice to look at, but just very expensive and too big. I like to go to quieter, smaller Fests, like the one in my village, and just enjoy a nice day without spending all my savings and having to shove myself through huge crowds.

Thanks for giving us this video, another enjoyable way to learn and be entertained.

I have now stared at your ranking for minutes but I won't change the most of it (only as I'm an old car buff the two items related to that would get different rankings), as you have ranked the bakeries at the top, one little fun fact to that. The German counter piece to the FBI is the BKA (Bundes Kriminalamt) and they have a special task force that chases criminals around the Globe (Gruppe Zielfahndung). When they are chasing a german and did have an idea in which area he/she could live, they contact all german bakeries in that region at first hand and that strategy has worked out successfully for decades.

That was fun. Nice selection from Mischa. I'm missing the z-tier for the Hoff.

s ago (edited) Kelly, I really enjoyed this video, not for the rankings, but for the explanations. Greetings from Austin!

Love the shot of the Drosselgasse. Good to see something of home at times.

lol... and your pic of Hasselhoff was a promo pic for Knight Rider. TV show from the early 80s, btw. Great vid! Pretty interesting and fun.

Love your video as always. Great sense of humour and interesting. The sound was very low though. Cant do a list..... never been there !

Yes!! This is the content I really enjoy in your videos! I really like all your videos but I like your descriptions of your experiences in Germany the most! So what if you trigger some people because they may not agree with your assessment of sour kraut! Thank you Kelly

When I travel for a longer period I always miss my german bread 😂 - Viele Grüße aus Mainz 😊

Loved the video!

I had to chuckle at "glue" wine :D

You put German beer at D? You are a brave lady. I admire that!

The comments on David Hasselhoff were spot on and remind me of a story. I'm retired from the U.S. Forest Service with the last 10 years of my career spent on a very heavily visited National Forest in the Sierra Nevada, next to Yosemite National Park. I worked in recreation management and law enforcement and made about 2,000 - 3,000 public contacts per year. The area had heavy foreign tourism. One day a German was asking me the details of the route he planned. He had started his trip in Phoenix and needed to end up in Los Angeles to return his rental car. He presented me with this "I vant to see Yos A Might, I vant to see the big trees, I vant to see Saun Francisco, I vant to see the Monterey Aquarium, I vant to drive the coast on Highway One and I VANT TO SEE BAYWATCH." I don't want to come off as some sort of American snob, but I could not help having to suppress my laughter at the last part of what he said. I had to drive away after helping him and walk in the woods to let out my laughter without any other visitors seeing me do so. I don't understand the German attraction to what was a fairly poorly produced show that required a great deal of suspending reality to watch. I've had a couple of friends who worked as L.A. County lifeguards and they shake their heads when the show is mentioned. Thanks for making your videos, I find cultural differences fascinating.

I had a good laugh! Thx.

Mett is the best! xD Your video, in which you tried Mett, started my wish to get my first Mett-Brötchen since 2 years. Today finally I ate it. I´ve waited for 4 days and it was delicious!! Thank you a lot :D

I put screens in my German windows and I enjoy opening them more knowing I won’t get flying bugs

Schnitzel is actually Austrian - so called "Wiener Schnitzel" (Schnitzel from Vienna).

Nice and honest video. :-)

7:18 In Germany we say "Hard water" as well, and I understand your problem.

Aw, i love your speaking so much. If i had the choice to learn professional english, i would chose you to teach me

O yesss, a good hopy IPA is really difficult to get here ... But there is a craft brewery, called "Vogelbräu", in KArlsruhe, and they have "beers of the season" e.g. the "samba beer" (only from Mai 16. to June 13. this year). This is best IPA i know in our area ...

Hi Kelly, the water along the Rhine river is provided and filtered from the river...so in Cologne, Düsseldorf, Mainz etc. the water is indeed very calcareous. In other parts of Germany, for example in the mountains or in Bergisches Land, where I live, is amazing!

Great video. Honest answers. So many videos go on forever and say very little.

I agree with your Oktoberfest recomendation to go there once to have a look at it and have a good time, but keep it at that for foreign visitors. But keep in mind that the Oktoberfest is not really planed or designed to be international over regional drinking festival, but actually just is the yearly munich "Volksfest" for the people from in and around the city. About 58% of the visitors are directly from in and around munich, and an additional 17% are from the larger area around in bavaria. When you are from the munich area you will get almost daily invitations or offers to meet up there both from private and work related people, and very often go there several times even in one year. Not necessary to limitles party and get wated, but to get together, chat and have a good time and a beer for a few hours. Often so during the day...

Kelly you are so personable and your views on Germany are so interesting. 👍🏻

There's a saying in Germany. That partly explains why we like cash. It reads: "Only cash is true! It just has its advantages. If the technology is bitching or if you have simply lost your credit card, the advantages of cash are always there. ;-) Greetings Bishop

I spent 3 years in Germany in the mid 1970's.Though I was stationed in a town named Fulda. A buddy and me traveled all over what at that time was west Germany. In 1977 we even spent 3 weeks hitch-hiking (It was the 1970's and bell bottom era) from town to town staying in small inns/guesthouses along the way. The one food that I most miss is jagerschnitzel and beer = A+!

If you like Christmas Markets you can try if there is still the one south of National Portrait Gallery in Washington D.C. Was there seven years ago in December. No food, but a lot of nice stuff and a lovely christmas athmosphere. Btw. Have you been to Leopolds on M Street and tried the cake there?

Great video you are honest butt also balanced and sometimes ery dry humor is shown. Since you mentioned your mothers sauerkraut do you have German roots your self?

Your honesty is quite fresh and your thoughts about the topics are rational. Stay true. By the way, after living back in the USA for so long, do you realy come back living in Germany? How about Micha? He seems to build up a new life over there. Do you talk about it?

I really enjoyed watching your video. I am an American who has been living in Germany for 35 years. Your video reminded me of all the nice things about Germany that I take for granted.

Yeah, I'm pretty on board with that. I'm from neighbouring Luxembourg (which, to Americans, probably means that I'm already kinda German) but I've been living in Germany for 6 years now and yeah, most of your assessments I agree with. The water one is weird to me, I've never had a problem with that (chalky residue on your shower, wtf? That really must a Mainz thing) although another water issue I have is that when you simply order "a water" in Germany, you always get sparkly water, which I don't really like, and you mostly can't get like free tap water, which is pretty usual in Luxembourg. The only real problem I have with your list though is Mett, because that is absolutely delicious xD I don't think I'd eaten raw pork before coming to Germany, but, you know, maybe. I really had no issues or preconceptions about that. I was already familiar with things like carpaccio and sushi so it didn't seem that strange to me plus when you eat things like Filet Mignon or other cooked pork dishes, it often isn't cooked all the way through on purpose, so you know, whatever, raw pork, sure. I only know that you should never eat raw chicken because of Salmonella and stuff. But Mett, hell yeah, that's awesome :D EDIT: minor grammatical mistake

I really have to say that I can get your point regarding the water and it's quality, but it varies from region to region. Same with the water pressure. Where I live (not far off Hanover, Lower Saxony) we actually don't have the problem of heavy water and an excellent water pressure. But if you move regions that can change very quickly. Also, David Hasselhoff isn't really popular around here. The only thing we really know him for is that he thinks that it was him who teared down that Berlin Wall (and yeah, the Knight Rider series of course)

Of course these are your opinions!! I would add the lack of pressure to order food-pay-and-get-out at Cafes & Restaurants as number one.

mo..moment David hasn't a Night Rider Movie, it was a hole series!!

Time for a yummy Mettbrötchen! 😊 Just noticing that I didn't have one for quite some time. I also have this teeth problem, though, after savouring one. 😒

I’m watching from Japan. I enjoy your videos every time. I have questions. Do you have recommendations places for honeymoon in the U.S and Germany? I’m sorry for my bad English. I’m so happy that you answer it.😍

Mett is also known as Feuerwehrmarmelade or firefighter's jelly :)

Schnitzel is an Austrian dish :< The Germans often massacre our poor Schnitzel by pouring sauce over it

That Video is so quiet! The Add startet and i literally fell off my chair!

You love Schnitzel ? Then you have to try the "Gasthof zur Zieglhütte" in Idstein (approximatly 35 km from MZ) - after corona ...

Why does the list starts with the letter S? Makes no sense to me. Can someone please explain?

@Beer I am flabbergasted that you did not manage to get your hands on IPA - every major city seems to have a beer specialty shop nowadays, featuring great craft beers from all over the world. Also, there are quite a few more hoppy German brews. It might be a regional thing, generelly the "harsher" types of beer or more common and popular in the nothern parts of the country.

German trains overpiriced af that’s why everyone is mad, too

I moved to Cleveland from CT / MA 2 years ago. I had my own well in CT and the water was great and tasted yummy. Here in Cleveland the water either tasted like Diesel or Chlorine, so I bought a water cooler and I fill up my 3 5 gallon water bottles for like 150 a piece at Wally World (Walmart) The water here in Cleveland is also very hard and calcified. Just have to use Lime-a-way to keep that calcium from building up in the shower. I rent a house here, but if I owned the house I would install a whole house water filter / reverse osmosis system, they don't cost all that much and the only downside is you have to replace the filter once and while.

Thanks, Kelly. Now I'm hungry. Schnitzel and/or Bratwurst, yummy. Just thinking about it and I gained a Kilogram. :)

Yes to the hops! I miss a proper biergarten though #Augustiner-Bräu

i was so confused with this tier list till i heard her say Mainz and i was like yup makes sense

About the Beer, One can get almost any kind they have in non Alcoholic! Which I do Like!

Great video again Kelly ;) Two things if I may... David Hasselhoff in a list of 20 German things, really? lol And I believe you meant cowberries or lingonberries (Preiselbeeren). They are closely related to cranberries but definitely not the same thing. Thanks for your honesty and effort not hurt anyones feelings though. The latter made me laugh.

5:13 The opportunity?! I think you meant to say the chance because it sometimes honestly feels like winning the lottery if your train isn't delayed, canceled it has "technical difficulties". (Also I am from Germany and for foreigners it might not feel as bad as I make it sound but for a German... XD)

The Mettbrötchen in your video shown would be way too much Mett. But a thin (1/2 to 1/4 of an inch) layer of Mett is fine

I suspect that the water glass was to represent sparkling water, not tap water. :-)

the thing with water... it really depends on there you are living. My parents live near the bigger cities and their water is "hard". A bit like the water in Mainz, where the water pipes are really old and you can tast some of the methal and minerals that are in the pipes for a really long time. Now i live away from the bigger cities surroundet by nature, our water quality is SO GOOD, i can not imagne to buy water some time because our water is so refreshing and without any taste. its so beneficial

omg David Hasselhoff on E!? our hero who brought down the berlin wall, defeated the iron curtain and ended the cold war! how could you ...

On windows, where are the screens? There are no flies to worry about right?

I love your show

I really like ur videos,it makes me notice things about Germany that i wouldn't notice because its so normal to me. But even if I live here, for me it was always weird that people eat raw pork tbh 🙄

Something is not quite right with audio in this one - very low volume and sounds distant.

4:20 - Mischa, casually waiting for Kelly to finish being excited about boring old buildings 😂 Concerning Oktoberfest: I don't think that's the old lady in you at all. Oktoberfest just doesn't make any sense if you're not a tourist or invited - way too expensive, too crowded and once you've been there, well ... it's off the bucket list and there are plenty other Volksfeste in Germany, without the tourists and the exorbitant prices ^^

13:12 Oktoberfest - I take a village Weinfest any day over the Oktoberfest. I can't think of anything worse than mixing with a dense crowd of drunks. Weinfeste offer the same as the Oktoberfest but on a smaller scale, so you have room to walk and while the number of drunks is still fairly high they're less desensitized and have more control over their behavior and you can actually sit down and enjoy new wine and Salzkuchen with friends and hear yourself talking.

sometimes I charge but usually I do like to pay cash in a way that challenges my math skills; instead of handing the cashier a bill that gives me endless change I hand them bills & change that give me back larger denominations be it coins or bills, and I do get a lot of stares or questions like "you gave me too much money" so now I always preface my action with statements "I am trying to strengthen my math" or "I want certain change" but I still get a lot of looks but hey I have accepted my weirdness a long time ago

So far you descriptions are very similar like going to Mexico besides that the Germans dont have beaches and friendly people, and tequila lol, good food and architecture, good transportation system. great video. Love you Kelly

Lately you can pay in pretty much every grocery store with your phone😂 apple pay is spreading pretty fast

"German drivers are better than american drivers" Shows someone overtaking on the right.

“Still believed in Santa” What are you saying? 😢😢

I can't comment on every list item, because some (Oktoberfest) I haven't experienced, others I don't care about (tab water).However there are three items I feel strongly about. 1. I'm intrigued by your relationship to Mett. Why try it it again if you didn't like it? Is it just the fear of being governed by a bias? I love Mett, but there is nothing wrong with not liking it (obviously). The constitancy won't change a second time and bits of Mett will always get stuck in your teeth. 2. While I'm perfectly happy to accept different preferences, I think you treat German beer unfairly. I don't think you can compare mass produced beer with craft beer. You lived in Mainz. It's the home of Kuehn Kunz Rosen Brewery. They have (pretty good) IPA If you don't like that, okay. Maybe it's the mystique hops. I'm just saying don't compare apples and oranges. 3. I don't want to be offended, but I feel a little sting: David Hasselhoff is NOT German! His fame in Germany is more a product of his own imagination and American Late-night-hosts like Conan o'Brien, who jokingly claimed his face was on German money bills.

About beer: im Germany, you can choose from many types of beer, with various amounts of hop. In the North, you get more, in Bavaria, you get less. About water: the content of lime is very different at different locations. I am living in Bavaria with hard water, but I come from a region with soft water. And chlorine has almost no effect on the taste if it is applied as ClO2 (chlorine dioxide).

Knight Rider is a TV program not a movie. And I have to completely agree with you on your train assessment. One of the other Americans in Germany I'm planning about it and I'm just sitting there going I look pretty far outside of the city of AtlantaAnd I have no access to any public transit of any kind whatsoever. If I were in Munich I would have buses and trains going everywhere. Even a crappy train is better than a train you don't even have

When I was in the eastern part of the U.S. (i.e Kentucky, Pennyslavania) in 1995, it seemed that the poorest states had the best freeways, and the richest states hat the most freeway potholes. I don't know whether this is still accurate or not, but that was the feeling I had. Of course, California is a totally different pair of shoes. The use concrete to build their freeways, back east they use the same material as Germany does, or at least something similare. The capital beltway was a nightmare in 1995, I had the responsibility of driving myself and 2 senior citizens to Silver Spring, Maryland, from Kentucky and it was already dark on this piece of road, and raining cats and dogs - it was really scary..

3:43 More like too much variety - it can take years for you to find your favorite one ^^

You have to try water in oder region of Germany .we have a lot of limestone here. Regions with sandstone have softerwater .its nearly every where local. Or Mixed with Bodensee water.you can buy with phone,watch or your bankcard nearly every where only small Stores or you have to buy min.10euro worth and normally you have to ask lol.the Thermen are left in Germany by Roman Empire

Therme are special for thermal ( naturaly hot) water with minerals, not just pools

Kelly, your list really nailed it! But deng, putting the Hoff in the last tier????!!! His concert was the sole reason the Berlin Wall fell!!!

you know, i live in augsburg next to munich and i was on october fest like two times in my life. waaay to crowdy and expensive for my taste.

Knight Rider was a TV show.

German water does not have the high LEAD contents like flint for example and calcium does not poison you just might improve your bones/ teeth.

In which City did you livd at? The Platform looks like Würzburg. Greets! PS: Yup German Water is hard..i guess it is the Reason, why we are this much "Stiff" (is that the correct word?). 😊

With regard to cars, it is an educating experience to see the list of brands and types that sell best in the USA. You won't find any American brands there. I was stunned.

Very bold putting Deutschland in D tier for beer. I wouldn't personally have done the same. I think I'd put it in A tier for its quality. But I am like you. I love a hoppy beer and only quite trendy and expensive places have proper IPAa/DIPAs or other divengent genres of beer like sours/lambics.

Damn! I have te learn from an American woman, that the Hungarian Steak tartare has a sister named in Germany, called Mett. :) Same thing just with beef, instead of pork.

HOW DARE YOU! (BEER)

Sorry if this comes across as rather strange, but what are the things you really dislike (and perhaps even like) about German cash culture, when compared to that in America? Perhaps this might be a good video for you and Mischa, especially if he has gripes about American cash culture, or the lack thereof

"Zwiebelmett" has to be at least on "a" ;)

what more people should do is visit bad durkheim wurstmarkt ... its well the biggest wine festival in the world and usually the wines sold there have to be price wining wines ....

About the Hoff, there's a recent commercial for a german used car company featuring him as Michael Knight... You might enjoy that: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/n6ipo5aG1NLTcYE.html !

How did you make that program?

I _completely_ understand your take on the hard water here in Germany. Where I live, the water is considered hard even by German standards; it's really less “hard water” and more “slightly damp chalk”. Getting a water filter and running every drop I use through it has completely changed my life. Everything tastes so much better now. Regarding German beer, I think it's the national pride that Germans have in the historical “Reinheitsgebot” that keeps the industry overly limited to a narrow selection. In the olden times that law may have made German beer superior to less cleanly or carefully brewed variants from other countries, but nowadays it's just an antiquated restriction.

There's twenty-one. Also craving a schnitzel now.