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I guess the "American" products in a German grocery store are as authentic as "German" products sold in the US. 😂

The music in the whole video freaks me out, even as a german.. 😂 Dont do that ever again please, thank you.

Actually, the German name for arugula is "Rauke", but the Italian name "Ruccola" makes for better marketing.

Apfelsaft = apple juice, not carbonated. Apfelschorle = apple juice mixed with carbonated water. So yes, you can get apple juice without bubbles.

Reverse culture shock: Not all the milk is " haltbar" aka stays for weeks. There is " fresh" milk, too, which is refrigerated. :)

To classify things a little more precisely... This Edeka market takes its location at a US base into account. Some things were adapted for the American friends that would not be found in other places in Germany. And foam kisses have nothing to do with marshmallows. This is a type of sugared egg white that is applied to a thin, soft wafer and has a wafer-thin coating of chocolate. It tastes great and has surprisingly few calories for something so sweet...

Outstanding Video; i would add that the "Almdudler" is a beverage with alpine herbs and is from Austria, not with applejuice as the Lady mentioned. Greetings from a german Subscriber, stay stoked and keep grinding

The culture shock comment about milk in the EU is somewhat misleading: Only H-Milch (=ultra heated milk) is kept unrefigrerated, Frischmilch (fresh milk, obviously) hast to be refrigerated, just like in the US.

i am a german and just stumbled across your video.. i have some things to add.. German sweets arent as sweet as in the usa, we use way less sugar. Coca cola also is less sweet and made with real sugar, i think you call it the fancy coke ? Its similar to the cocacola in mexico. If you are new in germany, try our bread and cakes at the local bakery.. Also, most german speak a decent english, maybe with a heavy accent but we do speak english. Dont be afraid to ask for help. If you buy bottles, coke, fanta, beer and so on, dont forget to return them! you pay between 8 and 25 Eurocent deposit (Pfand) for one bottle and you get it back when you return it. 25 cent might not be much but it adds up! And to make it a bit more complicated, not every bottle has a deposit on it, for example, hard liqueur never has pfand on it.

Being raised in Germany we never drank soda. We drank mineral water and lemon or orange sprudel. It was delivered in cases weekly. Yum

Fanta is NOT anything like a carbonated orange juice. It's a soda, still. With 3% juice by law and lots of added sugar. Also coloring, which is not the one used in the USA, because that's illegal in the EU. But it is less sweet, does not contain corn syrup and is fruitier in flavor. The original Fanta recipe was developed by Coca Cola Germany in WW2 because they got cut off due to the embargo and had to get creative. So they took the ingredients they could actually source with no sea trade and war raging. Which was mainly apple cores and orange peels. So no straight pressed juice, but remnants cooked out of fruit waste. Still took off and held them together till after the war. Fun fact on the sugar: Germany, not being precisely tropical, can not grow sugar cane. However, selective breeding of root vegetables produced sugar beets, which can be grown in cold climates and produce lots of sugar locally. This is generally where all refined sugar in Germany comes from. Cane sugar is specifically labeled and generally more expensive as it's an imported product. You often see what may look like molasses on store shelves. That would be a thickened sugar beet juice product sold under various names, the biggest brand being Grafschafter Goldsaft. Tastes and looks a bit like blackstrap molasses, but it's cooked turnip juice and not a byproduct of sugar production, but something Germans make on purpose, as a bread topping.

One thing worth pointing out is that EDEKA is kind of a premium grocery store. - So the prices for food at EDEKA are somewhat higher than in other grocery stores like ALDI / LIDL / PENNY etc. In my personal opinion, it is worth it when shopping for fresh stuff like fruits and vegetables here the price is justified since EDEKA offers a higher quality / fresher products than the a fore mentioned so called discounters. Meat quality is also better at EDEKA, although I'd prefer a local Butcher for buying quality meat, I admit it is more expensive, but quality wise leagues above grocery stores. ... Small correction not every German grocery store offers "ethnic food" usually the larger ones, do not expect to find such a shelf in small grocery store in some village.

This is really sweet and respectful, I love it!

As a German without dietary restrictions I actually learned a bit I didn't know from your video

Apple juice you find in the juice section of the beverages. And it doesn't contain (sparkling) water. Apfelschorle is always in the soda section.

Not EVERY supermarket in Germany has a Bakery attached to it, alot of them do but we have Small Supermarket that dont have any bakery attached, but usually they still have a "bakery section" inside the store with "freshly rebaked frozen things" but they taste really good aswell. Should try Our Bread its really good and not as sweet as u know from the USA

11:30min It's not always in gram. I'm in my 30s and I order slices of sausage or ham like my mom, grandma and great-grandma did: "Ein Viertel, bitte!" "A quarter, please!" Refering to a quarter pound. Here in Germany a pound (ein Pfund) are exactly 500g (half a kilo), so a quarter of salami are 125g. :) And by the way ... she seems very educated and informed for an American.

About the milk: You should look better. We also have milk, that must be refrigerated. It's called "Frisch Milch" or "Vollmilch" (pasteurized). That milk you saw, was "H-Milch" (Ultrahocherhitzt).

Nice video, thanks for that! Just for your information, because I've heard it many times that chocolate kisses are like marshmallows, which is definitely not true. It is sweetened egg foam with a chocolate coating. However, this filling becomes tougher over time, i.e. when it is no longer fresh. It's a lottery to get fresh ones ;-)) But they only taste really good fresh.

We have different kinds of milk pasteurization too. What you mean is H-Milch that last a few month, than we have haltbare Frischmilch that last one or two weeks and we have Frischmilch that lasts only a few dasy.

Believe me or not but as a German woman, who lives in the US for almost 3 yrs now (married to an American guy) I felt pretty much the same when I went grocery shopping for the first time in the States. I was like.. why is this refrigerated? Why is this not refrigerated? Why do they have cup holders at the shopping carts? Why is this so expensive? What the heck is this? 😂

I'm from Belgium and living since one year in Germany I'm still surprised by all the breads and Danish pastry they have this is more than in Belgium and we have allready a lot of bread and pastry. The food in the EU is definitely healthier, less sugar and no artifical colours in general. In Belgium we also try to use as less as possible artifical colours. It's interesting to see how she compares to the US. Much people speak English in Germany and like somebody said maybe with a thick accent. Most people are keen to help especially the Schwaben, this is in the the South of Germany (Baden-Würtemberg) they are really helpfull.

Sodastream: it seems most Americans don't know about Pfand or things like these . When you buy this container as a new one, they cost more because you pay for the container itself, the metall construction. When you go with an empty one to the EDEKA you only pay for the filling, not for the bottle. Because you gave a bottle and get a bottle. The same when you buy campinggas(propan I think) in big containers here in Germany.

Tell your daughter to get ApfelSAFT. ApfelSCHORLE is applejuice with soda. The Smarties don't have peanuts inside. I loved the video❣️

As a german this video is really good. It provides good informations and ain't "dry" like some videos :D

Not just are you saving money by going to the local grocery store instead of commissary, the stuff at the grocery store is likely better for you as well! Us Europeans have a lot higher food safety standards, and less additives than similar foods from USA. I'm Swedish and honestly even avoid buying items imported from USA because of all the junk used in USA that we don't use here. German grocery store looks more in depth than most Swedish ones though, here it's for example very rare to find a manned butcher counter in stores, at the most you'll find a manned counter for cold cuts and some more special cheeses, but I haven't seen many manned butcher counters here since I was a kid.

I will only use german mustard on my hot dogs after being in German when my dad was in the army. Its way better than American mustard!

As a german I find the Oktoberfest music in the background so annoying. And Rucola ist actually the italian word although everybody sais that. The german word ist Rauke. Sorry for being a "Klugscheißer".

as an german, i love this kind of videos, but even as an german i dont buy things very often at an EDEKA, cause its much more expensive then an LIDL or an ALDI

Pasteurised Milk ist everywhere the same! The shelfstable milk that is shown here is Haltbarmilch. Its heated to 135 c for a few seconds and immediately cooled down to 5 degrees. This milk is shelfstable for months and needs no cooling

Buttermilk makes you beautiful! Thats what Müllermilch (Company) says! xD - Wenns scheh macht.... ^^

I live in Québec and groceries are outrageously expensive! We live close to Malone N.Y. state and there is an Aldi store! I just spent $234 CDN at our local IGA! 4 bags just for 1 person. Mostly veggies, pasta, cheeses, cat food/ litter and milk products. Before the covid things were half as expensive! My pay did not go up! Healthcare workers are striking next week for more pay etc.

We were stationed in Hanau from 72 to 96 (my father retired there in 81 and worked as an Army civilian as I did) and my Mother was German. We shopped both in the Commissary and on the economy downtown. I remember taking the bus downtown at 15 by myself and spending my baby sitting money or summer hire pay checks. So much fun.

I really liked this lady. She knew her stuff. It was enjoyable to watch Her an very informative. I have to admit.

I came back last week from USA, i noticed that european supermarkets have more groceries in stock, more selection and cheaper 👍 Tony’s chocolonely in USA Walmart 7,80$ in Germany at Rewe 2, 69€ 😳

We went to the market every Saturday. Always bought fresh veggies and flowers. I always bought bouquets of lilacs or roses and took them home. So much cheaper and fresher than the commisary.

Heinz has been replaced by Papa Joe, because Heinz inreased the prices. So Edeka said good Bye.

Those things in the "exotic" aisle are usually in very small packages and horribly overpriced. If you are not just looking to try stuff once, I suggest finding a specialty store. In most bigger cities, there are little corner shops that specialize in authentic products from specific countries or broader areas, i.e. the Turkish grocer, Asian markets or African stores. Stuff there ist most of the times cheaper, in bigger packaging and of better quality than the "authentic" stuff from the German supermarkets and you can find some fresh produce you won't see in the supermarket. And if you are lucky, you get cooking tips and tricks during checkout.

That was so sweet and funny. Please turn off the fun fare music. You are in a supermarket. 😂❤

12:20 That’s just long-life milk. There is fresh milk in the cooling section as well 😉

Almdudler is a sparkling water with herbal mix flavor ... Apfel is apple

I love this. Thank you for sharing, and I loved the long video honestly.

Thats a great video, very well explained. Btw Almdudler is not Apfelschorle, its an austrian lemonade made of mountainous herbs or something. People really like it. And the fish sticks from Frosta are the best but also the most expensive - Sure Iglo is the marked leader for decades. With the eggs there are some differences. There is like 4 or 5 different kinds. But if you go for the bio eggs anyway these are the best ones. The types indicate how the chickens were bred and how much space they have to roam which also translates into the price.

Hi from the UK 👋 🇬🇧 you would save even money if you stopped in aldis or lidl

The guy behind the camera pronounced every German word better than the woman who took German at school for three years

At 12 yrs old my father would send us to the totto lotto stand to get him beer and ciggerettes. Never had a problem buying it.

I loved the video & the music! Thanks a lot)) ❤

Good overview. It should be stressed that the store brands (EDEKA, REWE, ALDI, Kaufland; LIDL, NETTO) offer different varieties. EDEKA and REWE definitely serving a larger variety of 'healthier' products. As alway, you have to know your way around.

Amazing vlogs ❤

Nice video! Regarding dishwasher salt: You only need it if the mineral content of your water is quite high. This can vary a lot from city to city.

Greeting from Auerbach Oberpfalz. 20 km from grafenwöhr. Great video

Love that a bakery is attached 😊to all German grocery store

17:02 The water is particularly calcareous in southern Germany. That's why the dishwasher requires special salt. It only costs €0.80 and only needs to be refilled occasionally. The dishwasher will indicate this.

I took German in high school and always got good grades but of course my mom is German. My brother went to German school and took English. Not as easy because it was Englis not American. Lol

At the self check out you can only chevk out if you have a bank card ...you only have a card when you are old enough to drink. If you pay at the register they ask you how old you are and wanna see your Personalausweis. And that was not apfelschorle...you pointed at almdudler that s a herb lemonade, super yummy, has only the color in common with apfleschorle 😊

Fun fact. Many packaging in german grossers also have multi-lingual labels. usually on the back or side, It is really easy to find the info you are looking for even without knowing much german.

Ooh yes , spent a lot of time at Graf ( gunnery) I was a tank mechanic ( Schwienfurt) we went twice a year , never got off post , but have fond memories😅

For your daughter, you have to look for beverages where "Nektar" is written on it. It is juice with normal water. It is usually not in the packages like soda but in the ones like juice (also located where the juice is), but we usually buy juice and stretch it to nektar of our prefered concentration or make it into a "Schorle" with sparkly water. Saft = Juice Nektar = Juice with water Schorle = Juice with sparkly water

This is so helpful! I havent gotten the courage to shop off post yet!

Manda did a great job! Hopefully we will see more of her

Just a tip on how to pronounce „Gries“. It is pronounced like „grease“. the German „i“ is pronounced like the English „e“. The „e“ after an „i“ in Germany just indicates that the sound longer, it is not pronounced after an „Ii“ and it is silent. However, if you find the order reversed as in „Ei“ (egg) it is pronounced like the English „I“ . Hope that helps. Oh and btw Almdudler is NOT Apfelschorle ! It might look like it, but is is not. It is in fact a soda with herbs and it is from Austria, but Germans like it too. And of course there is PLENTY of apple juice in Germany - in the juice section. Clear apple juice and also natural apple juice which is not clear. I think in America they call it cider. And be aware if you find „Cidre“ in Germany, which is French and it also contains alcohol. Finally I know who buys Pufuletti! I tried them ones, never again - for me. Just horrible. But it’s good so everybody can find something to their taste.

Almdudler looks like Apfelschorle but it‘s not. It‘s a herb lemonade from Austria.

Applejuice does not have bubbles. Apfelschorle does, because it's watered with sparkling water. What you are looking at at 21:20 is Almdudler. This is a herb Soda and has got nothing to do with Applejuice.

I am so homesick now.

For imperials struggling with the metric system in terms of food weight, you can just roughly say for every lbs you want half a kilo. 2 lbs = 1 kilo. 4 lbs = 2 kilo and so on.

Super useful, my husband just got there 😊

Buttermilch is almost similar to Kefir, it is like whey. Schaumküsse are like a mixture of whipped sugar and a little bit of cram, usually with a dark chocolate covering, but you can get them in white chocolate too, or any colour, when handmade. The "cheese-gate" is the reason, why there is NO, not a single type of really good us-american cheese, especially not fresh ones. Scharf, when it comes to food, is not spicy, but "hot" - spicy in german would be "würzig", meaning that you get a lot of flavours, but it isn't necessarily "hot", like chilis and stuff. The soda-tanks are not necessarily refilled, that depends on the stores possibilities, but you get a prefilled one in exchange and are only charged for the content, the filling, the soda itself.

The EU has now banned non-GMO now in foods. No more round up in food. I was in Stuttgart cleaning out my mothers house in October and I noticed a lot of the German foods are graded on the label from A to F.

always happy to find fellow paulana spezi enjoyers

Later in the year they have Petersilienwurzel (parsley root) Combine that with multicolor carrot, parsnip, mushrooms (champignon) and slow cook that in a cream sauce with onion powder, garlic. (zuricher art) Ad soy sauce, salt, white pepper to taste. I like to ad strips of chicken strips .(innerfilet)

Fanta is a German invention, so I guess we got the og one.

I love the German grocery stores - wunderbar!! Great prices, too!!!

Try "Kiwi Beeren" you wash them and eat them with the shell like a berry its translated to "kiwi berry"

0:44 not every supermarked, but the most and we were still buying our stuff inside the supermarked, havent visited a bakery in years now 7:38 lol smarties and M&Ms are completely different things except they booth contain chocolate 21:10 good luck if you buy them believing they are "apfelschorle", but they arent bad just insanely far off

I think you also have to add that taxes are included in the price in germany

Im surprised about the alcohol at self-checkout. I know that Germany is different in that 16 year olds are allowed to drink and buy beer. But here in Czech Republic anytime you scan an alcoholic item into self-checkout it needs to be approved by the staff. Either directly on your self-checkout machine or I think theyre able to do it from their terminal that controls all of them if they just have a look at you and you are visibly older. Sometimes even if you buy a non-alcoholic beer you still need to be checked .. as even non-alcoholic does contain some alcohol even if its negligible. Anyway thats how its here.

I like it so much…nice Channel

Almdudler is not apple schorle, it's a fizzy drink from herbs, you can call it the austrian root beer.

5:43 Fresh milk from Bärenmarke... This was the first company, offering condensed milk, that lasts long, so it was used for preparing baby food.

Every food that is pre-packed provides translations on its label (in the EU by law) minimum about the ingredients. Apple/Google/deepL/… are providing popular translation apps.

well apfelsaft is in the juice section not the soda section

No need to bash the commissary...people work there regardless of opinions. Commissary is a privilege and I appreciate it as a milspouse. I love the economy wherever we go, but I also appreciate what we are given by the military bc we have that option as well.

The flowers, what would the price be in the US ??? (Most in the US will be import from The Netherlands, so I expect quite a bit more.) On the deodorant. Ofcourse Rossman has a better selection, as it is a drugstore. Supermarkets only carry a smaller selection as a drugstore, at least in Europe.

Has been to one supermarket and thinks all are the same, wow!!! So much bullsh*t!

Dedicated "foreign food"-sections are only in bigger groceries (not necessarily in small rural shops). And no, bakeries aren’t located by default in German groceries too. HTH Flavoring water - yep, Germans are used to have tap water (using the soda stream device to carbonate it). JFTR

Oh cool I live like 30 minutes away from Grafenwöhr :D Best regards

ie in german always pronounced as an ee in english ehile EI is pronoinced as the letter I

Awesome job mini me!!

I already wondered where you picked Up so many German words until you mentioned 3 years of German classes. Why you just Go to classes again? That would be a nice Hobby and you have good opportunities to practice.

ohh the thin about apple juice for your daughter in germyn we have 2 ways to have applejuice we have apfelsaft/applejuice and we have Apfelschorle /applejuice in sparklingwater so if u look at the fanta cola carbonated drinks section ur gonna find the Apfelschorle and ins the nature juice section often right next to the drink section u will find ypour clasic aplejuice but be carefull we have the sweetened apflesaft and we have Naturtrüb thats basicly jsut ass it comes pressed aple juice ^^

Asking the other way around: Do you guys still have Taco Bell and White Castle on-base? Some years ago I read the only locations of those in Germany were on-base in either Grafenwöhr or Ramstein, and I always told myself one day I will roll up to the gate with my German military ID just for that but never did.

By the way, "Almdudler" is herbal lemonade and not an apple spritzer. Even if it looks the same.

very good, thank you

Correction on the milk: There's two kinds of milk. The traditional milk which does need to be refrigerated and actually goes bad pretty quickly, especially when open and during bad weather. And "H-Milch" which can be stored for ages at room temperature until it's opened. I dislike the taste of H-Milch so i buy the fresh one. Also on the aluminium in deodorant: there was a lot of talk about this a couple of years ago but recent research has shown that it's actually pretty harmless because you don't actually absorb the aluminium. Sadly that isn't very well known. At the self checkout register: if you buy something with age restriction, the attendant gets a notification on their screen and if you are clearly old enough they remotely unlock it. Otherwise the register will call for an attendant as soon as you press the button to pay and the attendant will than check your ID.

7:49 smarties are not m&m's.Smarties were first. m&m's had to put the letter m on them to differentiate them from smarties. in europe, at least in germany you will only find smarties and no chocolate only m&m's, only ones with fillings like peanuts or crispy etc

And one more thing that is not entirely true, not all of our dyes and Colors for Food are plant-based, they are of "natural" origin, but that doesn't mean that they come from plants, some are obtained from animals, like carmine (red) from the cochineal scale insect ! It may sound disgusting, but it actually isn't and is much healthier than artificial waste from a laboratory!

If you want vegan whipped cream, you can use aquafaba, the water from a can of chickpeas. You can whip that and use it as a vegan replacement.

The milk culture shock is not one. Actually, you can get fresh pasteurised milk in the coolers. In the video just where the butter milk was. The H Milch, high heated milk, last longer, and does not need to be cooled.

8:40 Wrong. Artifical coloring is used everywhere. It just has to be declared on the ingredients list. Look for all the "E" numbers. What manufacturers use is up to them. It is not regulated like "avoid if you can". There might be more people looking to avoid it but from toothpast with titanium dioxide = white to butter with carotine = yellow, food colors are everywhere.