The washing machine confused me. Ryan said he didnt like the idea of cleaning clothes where people poop. But, at least here in Germany, you dont poop in the washing machine so your clothes are 100% unaffected by whatever you do in the bathroom.

It's a profound difference when a German says "let's have dinner together" (means people share time together and mostly pay separately) and "I invite you for dinner" (means the inviting person pays the bill).

the fact that americans dont know Asterix and Obelix is amazing to me.

According to European table manners you only start eating when everyone on the table has his food being served.

Yes in Germany You try to start eating at the same time as a group at the table. Normally the restaurant takes care to serve the meal for all at the table simultaneously. If not, it`s OK to ask the others if it‘s OK to start eating at once - or the others allow that by themselves.

there is a difference between "hanging out" and "inviting" . if you invite someone, you are "host" and pay etc. but of course you can just ask to hang out with someone, and there is no responsibility attached

maybe its "lost in translation" - of course you meet in germany with friends and everyone pays for himself, but if you "invite" someone - its like "invite to a birthday party". So invitation (Einladung) implys you are coming for free.

In you invite someone for dinner in Sweden or Finland you are either making the dinner (this the most common way) or paying for the dinner if you are going to a restaurant.

As a Dane I can say thumps up to all he said 😉 Inviting people for diner in Europa, means inviting them to your home where you prepare the meal and buy the drinks. All paid by you as the host. Eating together… it really says it all. Everybody awaits that all food is on the table before anyone begin. Pure politenes ☺️

4:00 If you *invite* someone, you pay for everything. What he described would we call a _Verabredung,_ an *appointment.*

The first one is more of a language barrier thing, Einladung/invitation means in german cultur the expenses are paid by the person who invites you. If germans ask if you want to mitkommen/come along that would be the restaurant split check variant.

In Germany you wait until everyone has had their food, but in many cases those who haven't had their food yet tell the others that they can start now, otherwise the food will get cold.

what do you mean? invitation litterally means you pay for it,its an invite or else it would be a meeting

Another example for germany's different cultures, i live 200km north of cologne (he said this word is "kölsch" or cologne dialect) and i never heard of küzdemit

The thing that fascinates me the most about American Football, is that the Americans are calling the NFL Champion, not only the winner of Superbowl, but also "World Champion", although, there are only american teams competing in the NFL.

In German culture having a meal with friends, especially at a restaurant, is as much about community as it is about the eating itself. It's a social event for everyone to enjoy not a race to win. Most restaurants try to prepare a group's orders in a way that they are all served at the same time, so you can start and finish your meal at the same time and decide if you want desert, expresso or something similar afterwards. Once food is getting served, either at a restaurant or at a friends place you wait until everybody is served and wish everybody "einen guten Appetit" - "Enjoy your meal" literally "a good appetite" - and then start eating. Exeptions are made for younger kids, because you cannot expect them to restrain themselves in a way that is expected from adults and teenagers. So when Americans start eating once their food arrives at that table and not waiting they are behaving in a way that Germans associate with table manners of young kids. Sometimes the food isn't served at the same time. In that case those who are waiting will encourage those who already got their food to start eating, because they don't want to ruin their friends dinner by forcing them to wait until the other orders are served and their food gets cold. The last one illustrates the idea behind (German) table manners, you want the people you're having dinner with to enjoy it.

"Big is Beautiful" is getting pushed by US companies in Germany, at least they tried a few times. They are suprised every time, when the country that invented the modern FKK does not agree wtith that. Our stance is: Bodies are bodies, don't shame people, but also don't lie about it beeing a good thing. We like fat comedians, because they are funny, not because they are fat.

I really enjoyed watching this. If I knew you are going to react to this, I would have provided proper subtitles :)

The thing with the table manners is: You should wait for everyone to have their food before starting to eat and then wish an 'good appetite', something like saying 'enjoy'. Also in Germany you often also bump your glasses together and wish cheers, if there is something to celebrate. Just starting to eat, as soon as the plate has touched the table and devouring your food just seems really impolite to me.

"Big is beautiful" specially in europe has a different meaning and backround! Many girls and young women were always told to be slim ( and I mean slim in an unhealthy way). For decades media, advertising and fashion people implemented that you are only pretty and sucessful if you are very slim. The number of young women, who put their health on risk by loosing too much weight, get eating disorders or having unnecessary surgery (including getting addicted to those) increased steadily. "Big is beautiful" means accept yourself as who you are, don´t reduce yourself to your figure by media fashion and so on. Just be you! That does include selfcare and does not mean "just get fat, and don´t care"

Never hear of the "known german word" "Kützte mit". It sounds like some obscure rhinelandian dialect.

Yes when you invite someone you have to pay... You could ask do you wanna go to a restaurant? That doesn't mean that you have to pay. But when you say i invite you to a restaurant that means in Germany that you have to pay. We also use a very specific language. That means in 98% of the time ther is no space for interpretation. So we have a expectation when you say something cause we use a language and words that are so precise that you exactly know what's happening. Also some Philosophers back in time learnd German to write there lyrics cause the language has for everything you wanna describe a specific word. There our mentality is coming from

„kützte mit!“ ist nur Kölner Platt-Deutsch und heisst auf Hoch-Deutsch „kommst du mit?!“ Bei uns im Upland heisst das „küm mide“, das dann „komm mit!“ heisst. In deutschland gab es über 200 verschiede „Platt-Deutsch“ Sprachen, die hat der letzte deutsche Kaiser aber abgeschafft und es wurden in den Schulen nur noch Hochdeutsch gelehrt.

31:24 Some of our eggs come with dirt and sometimes some feathers stuck on the shell.

Hi Ryan, Bill is living in San Diego. He left Germany years ago and makes videos about the diffrences between Germans and Americans.

To understand, everywhere in the world (except the USA) an invitation means that the invitee does not have to pay for their food or drinks. If someone invites you over, the meal or party will take place there and not somewhere else. In Europe people usually eat with a knife and fork. Food that is eaten with your finger is called finger food and is such that you cannot get dirty, it is very small pieces without sauce. Burgers are taboo when invited, if guests mess up their $600 suit with burger sauce, the party would be a flop. There is also the formal invitation (in writing), where the expected dress code is defined. A formal cocktail party means, for example, men's dark suit and women's cocktail dress.

11:21 For you fancy , for us BASIC table manners. If you aren´t raised by wolves (in the EU) , you know to wait. If you are interested, there was a guy named Knigge, he wrote the book on etiquette and table manners.

About point 1, your reaction shows perfectly, that he is totally right! Yes, in Germany if you say you invite someone to your home, you are offering the food, you cook. If you say you invite someone into a restaurant, you are the one who pays for it. Einladung means, you take of your guests! 😉

In Spain, if a restaurant treats you 'on the house' it says 'INVITAD(A/O)' on the bill ... if that helps 🤷‍♀️

It’s not only in Germany but in all European countries that an invitation means to cook or to pay😂

The first example is just a matter of wording, and what certain words imply. "Einladen/to invite" in German means you are going to pay/provide for them. Either at home or at a Restaurant. "Du bist eingeladen" ("You are invited") means the host pays/provided. If not they would specify "Since it's a big party and I am a poor student, please, everyone being your favorite drinks and/or a snack". Of course we can also meet people amd everyone pays for themselves. In which case we would just word it differently "Lets go have lunch/dinner together" ("Komm, wir gehen zusammen was essen") would indicate, that you want to enjoy each others company, but each party pays for themselves. We just wouldn't call that an invitation. If s.o. says "einladen", it means, they are paying, unless specified differently. And you would culturally be justified to be nonplussed or even mad, if at the end they only pay for themselves. You would feel fooled.

18:05 I worked a year in Vegas... the staircases are raw cement and look like service area. NOBODY, uses stairs even if the escalator or elevators are full.

If I "invite" someone for dinner or to a restaurant, in German it is totally clear that I'm going to cook or pay. If I don't want to cook, I can still invite someone and ask that person to please bring some salad or beverages. If I just want to spend an evening with someone, I'd ask if they would like to go out for dinner to a certain restaurant. This means, everyone pays their own bills. The word invitation in German means that whatever is going to happen is totally free for the invited one.

Nr. 2: table manners: you waiting until everyone has something to eat and then start eating at the same time (saying "Mahlzeit" or "Guten Appetit" first). You should only start eating ahead if people without a plate say "eat before it's getting cold" or something similar.

Yes, after seeing how many European - and especially UK - bands and singers who have become household names in the US, it suprised me that no American seems to know of Robbie Williams. With 80 million album sales worldwide, and having over 350,000 just at his Knebworth concerts, and sharing the headline bill with Taylor Swift, it amazes me he never made it in the US.

You wait until everybody has food,and then you wish a good appetite. Guten Appetit,or bon appetit

When you are in a restaurant and having a meal you wait until everybody has their food before starting to eat.

Ryan, Ryan, Ryan, if someone in Germany invites you to their place, for example on Saturday at 3.30 p.m., that means that you have to be there five minutes earlier, i.e. at 3.25 p.m. Gifts are not brought except on special occasions such as birthdays, children's birthdays, weddings, etc. The person inviting you will treat you to food and drinks, including beer, of course.

what he meant was not invitations in general but just that specific word EINLADUNG that expects u to pay / make the food

10:30 In Germany and apparently in many other cultures it is considered normal and polite to wait until everyone has their meals and to start eating then.

This was an especially insightful video of you, it really deserved a react

you don't know Lucky Luke? I always thought you came up with it 😵

Wtf :D. Of course I pay or make a meal, when I INVITE somebody. Thats so funny that not a thing in the USA. When you say, come by let meet us, thats ok. You dont have to provide food or drink. But a Invitation implies something to eat.

10:46 He said it wait till everyone the food and the start together

Yeaaahh i did it! 😇 Thank you for your amazing reaction. First channel i check out after work haha. My favourite American right here. Keep it up you are awesome!

Yes, that’s exactly what he’s saying. An invitation means the person inviting is paying. I regularly MEET some acquaintances/friends for an extended breakfast, a Saturday brunch or afternoon coffee & cake - we all agree on place & date beforehand (make the appointment), usually through our WhatsApp or other social media chat group - and everyone pays for their own meal. That’s not an invitation.

Once I was at a restaurant with three friends. It took so long between when the second and third meals were served that the first two were already finished eating before the third could even start. And when the third was done with his portion, finaly mine came along. And it was something really simple like french fries. Imagine waiting another half hour, letting your food grow cold, hoping the last one will finally get theirs too D:

30:00 Clean clothes coming out, where you come clean out as-well after taking a shower or a bath. And it is not like the poop is flying around in masses everywhere. Normally you clean your bathroom every week or 2 weeks or sth. And definetively better than a cellar or garage, that you probably don't clean often and where all that dust and spiders are, lol

The Banner ads around the pitch in the stadium might even differ, depending on what country you are watching from. For example: Germany plays against the US. You see banner ads for american beer, while on German TV you see ads for sport betting.

Great Video...your reactions were very interesting

On the sideboard in the background of the video is a Sinclair Spectrum 48k that is the first computer that I owned back in 1983. CPU was 4.7Mhz and 48 kbyte ram compared to the 3.5Ghz and 16GB ram in the computer I have now. We've come a long way since 1983.

usually restaurants pace the cooking to make it so everyone at the table receives their food at the same time and can begin at the same time. We consider it rather impolite to start while not everybody has a plate in front of them already, at least a starter salad etc. Sometimes, at pizzerias etc. when you are a very large group of - say ten or more people and you can assume that they do not have the room in the oven to make as many pizzas simultaneously, most people will ask the ones who have theirs already to start as we all know that cold pizza is not as good as one when it comes fresh out of the oven…

As German I don't know the expression "Kütze mit" as well, because as he said it is a dialect from cologne and mostly only spoken in one city or area. But basically in Germany there is a difference between inviting someone (then the inviting person should provide the food, drinks, paying entrance fees or whatever you are doing. That happens for example if you having a birthday party or invite people to a restaurant. Next time the other person invites you, so you are even normally.) and just meeting with someone. Then you normally just hang out and if you order Pizza or something mostly pay separate. (Of course your friend can still say, 'oh yes, I invite you to the pizza, you don't have to pay' or something, if he wants) I don't have anything about the American mindset in particular about this, but there are cases where it is just a matter of courtesy to pay for something. Like in the story here in the video, where the person was helped with the bank and his jobs. To show gracefulness it would be a think in Germany to invite someone and pay. Also has to do with caring and respect or something. I just can't understand how you can say in a situation like this: 'Oh, I invited you to thank you for everything you have done for me, but you still have to pay by yourself'. This just sound like it would be an honor and thanks enough to be allowed to meet with the other person, although it should be a normal thing for friends or people who know each other good enough. Or are you Americans just so unsocial, that allowing someone to hang out with you, is considered an incredibly honor or sth? Same goes for parties and stuff, if you are the host, then pay for your guest goddamn. But I guess that also has to do with financial differences.

I love your sense of humor 👍

You have to look more of his videos. He left Germany a few years ago and lives in California. He has a lot videos where he discribes the little differents he noticed.

Dat heisst op kölsch ävver net kützemit sondern küss de met. In Cologne dialect that is not kützemit but küss de mit.

There is a difference between being plus sized and being obese. Most Europeans understand that the second one isn't healthy, while the first is more than acceptable.

In the UK we tend to make our invitations more specific by nature. We say: do you want to come over for dinner? (expect a cooked dinner unless specified as a 'bring and share'), do you want to go *out* for dinner? (expect to split the bill unless otherwise specified as their treat), do you want to come over for a takeaway (again, expect to split bill unless specified as the host's treat). Invitations to a party, you expect basic food and drink to be provided by the host but it's good manners to bring a contribution such as a dessert, bottle of something, or a gift

I am a 54 year old German and I have never heared of splitting bills in a restaurant if you are invited. In my world this is more like: Let's meet in a reastaurant. If I invite someone then I will pay or cook for someone. I have never heared something other. So I would say, this guy is wrong. Also I have never heared of kütze mit but I am not from cologne xD This is dialect and means like what I said before. Let's meet there or come along

American Football IS a sport we germans like and we also watch NFL and superbowl more and more. We also have the GFL German Football League and the European Football League. And we have now one game of the NFL here in germany. There are clips on KZfaq....

Yes, of course you pay if you invite somebody! Otherwise, it wouldn't be an invitation, just an appointment. Invitation means you pay the bill.

Hey Ryan, yeah at 2 it's exactly what he mean. Here in Germany the people wait till everyone on the table has his food in front of them

30:28 about eggs outside the refrigerator: eggs you buy in stores in germany sometimes have feathers attached to them still. thats completely normal. you dont eat the shell anyway. eggs arent sold in cooled parts of the store aswell so basically everything thats out in the store at normal temperature doesnt need cooling. whats also good to know: you dont need to throw eggs away after the expiration date immediately. if you take a glass of water, put the egg in and it stays at the bottom its safe to eat. egg laying flat down: good egg standing up but still on the bottom of the glass: still good but needs to be heated properly egg swimming at surface: bad. swimming due to gasses formed inside

10:50 Wait until everyone got their meal in front of them.

With that background story I would consider that very bad manners in Germany... inviting someone as a thank you and then having them pay on top of everything they did for you...

Have a nice Father's Day / Lord's (Men's) Day / Ascension Day. Beer consumption in Germany is at record levels today.

Top 🔝 2 Videos. 👌. Danke . All the best - Greeting from Germany

Hey great videos that you make Greetings from Germany

4:10 Yes, if you invite someone, using the wording "ich lade dich ein" ("I invite you"), the word "einladen" has the same meaning saying "my treat". No, suggesting to go do something together does not automaticly mean the person who suggested it will pay, unless the use the word "einladen" in any way, shape or form. For example, "Hey, how about we go to the cinema to watch that new movie and maybe grab a bite to eat after?" means everybody pays seperatly, but "May I invite you to go watch a movie and grab some dinner afterwards?" means the person asking is going to pay for tickets, drinks, pop corn and dinner, and also this is probably a date (unless they invited a whole group, that's probably a birthday party FOR THE ONE ASKING, not any of their guests). 10:45 In Austria, Germany and many other cultures, you don't start eating until everybody has their food in front of them. At a restaurant, that means waiting until the server has brought out everybody's meals, at home it means waiting until everybody is sitting at the dinner table with food on their plates (unless, of course, someone gets home much later than everyone else, or decides that two minutes before dinner is served is the correct time to take the dog out for a walk.....) 11:35 16:59"Most Americans think..... Most americans don't know.... Only a small number of educated people know...." Now that's just racist. 19:40 Ok, yeah, that's a normal ammount of racism against Americans for an European to have. 31:22 A smear of dried chicken poo, a piece of straw and a feather are how you know the eggs were layed in a nest or a brooding box, and not in a cage with a wire floor, meaning the hen who layed them is a healthy, happy chicken living a good life

1. In the first scenario, in Germany if you invite someone over for dinner to your house, this would mean you would be cooking or otherwise providing food (e.g. barbecue or ordering and paying). Anything else would have to be specified - asking for money without everyone being aware of that beforehand will cause trouble, you being talked about and people not showing up next time.... If you invite someone to a restaurant, you are expected to pay as well. It has to be clear in advance who is paying normally. You wouldn't call it an invitation without actually paying or simply asking everyone in advance to contribute something (normally one item of food, perhaps some drinks as well, to be shared among all, e.g. a big bowl of homemade nacho salad and a six-pack or a bottle of sparkling wine) There's always that one guy though, throws the party, buys way more stuff than needed and then suddenly wants to collect 20 or 30 bucks from everyone - true story, still being talked about 10 or 15 years later, that didn't go down well. 2. You are supposed to wait for the others to get their food as well. They'll offer you to start eating for it not to get cold but normally you would refuse as it's polite to do so. Only if the restaurant messes up, you would start eating if there is real danger of the food getting cold. But by then everyone else will start emphasizing that you should really start eating. If they offer it again, you can accept. The restaurant is messing up if they don't manage to bring the food out at the same time. I've had restaurants where we got complimentary drinks or some of the meals free because they didn't manage to bring it out in an appropriate time and someone had to eat alone. It's about the experience of eating together. It rarely happens that they actually mess up that badly though as it is considered a big no-no here. We even do this at home for all meals. My boyfriend and I sit down with our kid and we start eating together. You normally finish together as well (as in get up from the table when everyone is done) but this doesn't always work as our kid is only 2. Funny how different and tricky these unwritten social rules can be. I actually learnt something in this video.

1) Invitation - if you explicitly use the word "invite" you imply that you are going to pay. If you just say "Hey, wanna meet up at a restaurant" you pretty much imply split checks 2) Eating - generally you are supposed to wait until everybody has their food. It is considered to be rude to start eating, while other people are still waiting for their food. However, it is also common for the people who are still waiting to say "Go ahead and eat, no sense in letting it get cold" (Or to ask if it is ok if you start eating, while they are waiting, if it looks like their food will still take some time) 3) Body acceptance - that must be a relatively recent thing, when I lived in the States (until '07) there was a trend to get away from fat-shaming (which is good), but no glorification of obesity. Problem in a lot of ways is that too much of the cheap food is extremely unhealthy (high fructose corn syrup anyone?), so poorer people are disproportionately obese. Which leads to a whole slew of other problems because the US "health care system" - so they actually have decreasing life expectancy now 4) Walking - well, you need a car to get around most of the US, but this really is quite ridiculous. However, he should not throw rocks in a glass house, and just look at the proliferation of e-scooters in Germany for example... you can rent them at fixed locations, and then just drop them wherever (usually in a river or canal, or the middle of the sidewalk)... at the end of the day the eco-friendly e-scooters are then picked up with a diesel truck and taken to a charging station... the ones not in the rivers or canals at least 5) Forget about football / soccer, I find it so much more funny to look at the baseball "World Series" - with almost only US teams (There are one or two Canadian teams in there, aren't there?) 6) VAT - yeah, that totally threw me at first... I loved living in Delaware, no sales tax there 7) Left lane - meh, just look at the German term "Mittelspurschleicher" 8) Situational - if you have a small apartment, then yes, you usually have your washer either in the bathroom or the kitchen (rarely though). However, if you have a basement, you usually put it down there, often in a room with some clotheslines, in case you don't have a washer... a lot of houses with backyards also offer some way to hang out clothes to air dry 9) Eggs - some Germans still put eggs in the fridge, but usually you buy them unrefrigerated 10) Legit - the whole concept of suburbia is very American - although I think this whole "downtown is bad" thing is more for bigger cities, rather than the smaller towns All in all I agree with some of what he says, but I would not go so far as to say "Americans don't know this" - it would be like saying "Germans don't know that you should not eat durian in a hotel room" or "Germans don't know that you can mix ginger with soy sauce when you eat sushi"

„I invite you“ means in Germany either „I’m doing the cooking“ (at my home) or „I’m paying for you in the restaurant“. If that’s not the plan you want to choose a different wording like „let’s meet in this or that restaurant“ or „why don’t you join us?“ or „let’s hang out together“ or „ let’s go out together“. But when you are in a restaurant with friends and one of them says:“by the way: you are invited“ that definitely means this guy is picking up the tab.

You are supposed to wait until everybody gets their food and then start eating together.

I've learned that once you start refrigerating eggs, you should keep them refrigerated. I think, it's because of the air bubble inside the eggs and the pressure exchange by relative heat and cold and therefore some bacteria that might slip inside or so or fresh air/oxygen that existing bacteria might feed on. In my supermarket I never find them refrigerated so I always just store them outside, ironically in the space ON my free-standing fridge. It's not super rare to find a few brown spots and sometimes a tiny down feather on the egg in Austria. But since every meal I use eggs in are cooked or baked, I'm not concerned at all and use them as I get them. I'd probably give them an extra wash before I used them to make egg nog for example.

I used to live in the USA, I wholeheartedly agree with this German gentleman.

I almost start shouting at my screen every time Ryan pauses a video for thinking around and asks a question of which he's already found the right answer, that would be explained in the video right after anyway. Press play!!! 🤪😵‍💫🥴😬😬🤣

You remind me SO MUCH of a german doctor who's on youtube, too. His channel is called "doc felix". Every video I watch from you, I'm thinking of that. 😄

#2 10:58 you nailed it @ryan ... wait till everybody sits at the table and then start eating. this! (though theres a common exception to this, when eating outside: imagine (for kitchen reasons) some food already arrived at the table and its obvious that the rest (for a few other persons) might come with kinda delay, then the ones still waiting (to be served) might propose to the others (who already are served) to begin eating.🤣🤣 but however in most cases, the "may-i-start eating" or "you-might-start eating" issue will be communicated amongst the "being-served" and the "being-served-nots" 🤣

If you invite someone to something, you implicitly declare yourself ready to take on the bill. That is kinda a common understanding of an invitation in germany. In that regards, the word "einladung" (invitation) does infact have a different meaning, because its not just covering the situation that (for example) 2 guys meet eachother. "küttstemit" - its not exactly a common german word. Its more like a local slang for come along... an abbreviation for "kommst du mit" (come along)

in Germany we are waiting till everyone gets his food.

It's similar in France where if someone formally invites you you are not supposed to pay anything. If the invitation is to the home, the custom among well-bred adults is to bring flowers or a bottle of wine as a thank you. Also there are festive evenings where everyone brings food and drinks to the host. This is typical of student parties. And of course you can also meet up with friends at the restaurant and everyone pays their share but this is not in itself an invitation and is normally explicit. Often the wealthiest offer a bottle of wine to others, but this is not systematic.

In Germany, if someone invites you, you expect them to pay for the meal. That would be extremely rude if you have to pay for your meal yourself after being invited. If that happen to me, I would no longer accept the invitations. An invitation that you pay for yourself is more commonly called accompanying (Begleiten). So you ask "do you want to accompany me?" (Willst du mich begleiten?.) In Germany you wait until everyone is there, also to wish you a good appetite (guten Appetit). (Saying that you say before eating, many countries have this. I don't know if the USA says anything before eating except the table prayers) Simply going for a meal is rude in many countries in Asia and Europe. I can sometimes see that some americans are proud of being obese, in videos where obese people are not seen as unhealthy, they are actually always from the USA. I don't want overweight people to feel ashamed, but I also don't want them to spread nonsense and think that it's healthy just because it's hard to lose weight. Everyone has to decide for themselves whether it looks good, but it is not healthy! I've been living in Germany for 26 years and so far I've seen a maximum of two people who were in these drive things because (at least that's how it looked)they were overweight and I live in a big city.

when you're inviting someone over it means you are taking them into your care... its the same when you're inviting someone to dinner

There's a difference between inviting someone to dinner and asking someone if they'd like to have dinner with you. If you invite them to dinner, you pay. If you ask them if they wanted to have dinner with you, they pay for their food themselves.

Being invited to dinner usually means to be treated for dinner in Germany. Most people I know will cook at home for their guests, some also go to restaurants. But with the rececnt price increases because of inflation and raised taxes this seems to be getting rarer. Usually families in Germany sit at the table and only start eating once everyone has food and is seated. Meaning they wait until everyone is there, so they can eat together. I really like it better that way, when I was little that sometimes was the only time of the day the whole family was in the same room for more than a few seconds.

You INVITE someone for dinner is different from lets MEET/GO OUT for dinner... The first implies you invite them "to YOUR table"/"SHARE your food" as in: you make/pay for the food... imagine you eating at a campfire and some people happen by that you *invite to share* The latter is the american way of doing things... you don't invite me for dinner, you ASK me to tag along. Technically *I* would be doing *YOU* a favour by tagging along making it more enjoyable for *YOU* , you know, the more the merrier and all that. ..and *I* pay for *YOUR* improved enjoyment.

If you tell someone "let's go eat dinner on saturday" it's not an invitation. But if I tell you "I want to invite you to dinner" then it's on me.

11:01 Exactly, you're supposed to wait until everyone has got their meal.

You wait till every body is served, and then you start. In Europe it is very rude not to do so.

10:47 you schould wait for the other guys to get their meal

It is a good habit to wait that all have their plates and then usually wish ”bon appetit!”

in germany if you are eating with somebody you are supposed to wait until everyone has taken their seats and then everyone starts eating together ^^ so lets say mom cooks dinner and isnt quite ready yet with the food but parts of it are and they are already at the table you just wait until she is finished completely and sits down and after that everybody starts eating together :)

Meine Oma (R.I.P.) hätte gesagt: Dat es kei Kölsch!

& they don't know Winnetou und Old Shatterhand oder Captain Future 😂 🤣👍 das hat mich damals echt überrascht!

According to Knigge it is OK to start eating as soon as you got your food, if it is warm. But yes table manners are a lot different in USA

adding costs to a fixed price ? â french hotel tried this once on me , so i got angry and asked them to call the police. They offered me the original deal in the end.

It can actually be quite satisfying to invite someone over, cook them a nice dinner and see them enjoy it. We don't think so much of "I have to pay" ... but " I am the host, and I can create a nice evening for my friends and myself". That's what 'friend' means to us. The more you go south in europe the heavier this mentality is. Like they will fight you over the bill. Because THEY are the ones who want to pay. Quite lovely actually. "I invite you" I think all over the world (except in the US) means "I take care, be my guest (literally)".

Inviting somebody in germany has two different meanings depending on the context. You differentiate between inviting someone and treating someone. "Ich lade dich zum Essen ein" basically translates to "let me treat you to dinner (Not splitting the bill)". "lass uns essen gehen" translates to "let's go grab something to eat (splitting the bill)"

it's seen as a good sign that the eggs are fresh when there are feathers or a bit dirt on the eggshell, it is seen as more natural and not industrialised

An American invitation is someting like a voucher to view a grilled chicken for free -- but you're not allowed to eat it.🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣