5 Things You THOUGHT Were German but Actually AREN’T!

5 Things You THOUGHT Were German but Actually AREN’T! | Feli from Germany

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@FelifromGermany 5 күн бұрын

What other things do people believe to be typical for a country, but they're not even from that country? 😅 Let me know in the comments below!

@kiwidanglish 5 күн бұрын

Singapore Noodles. It’s a Cantonese dish that originated in Hong Kong, yet it's called Singapore noodles.

@therandomname69420 5 күн бұрын

I'm dying, people think the chicken dance is a traditional German dance? 😂 Do they also think that the Macarena is a traditional Spanish dance? haha

@dm33enjoyer 5 күн бұрын

french fries. they are from belgium

@christophermatthews6972 5 күн бұрын

I lived for my first 30 years in England. I never saw an English muffin until I moved across the Atlantic. We have crumpets which are vaguely similar but taste and feel different.

@matthewmorrisdon5491 5 күн бұрын

Scotch comes from Northern Ireland.

@PESHajnal30 4 күн бұрын

Didn't expect the complete history of the chicken dance, but here we are.

@D3nn1s 12 сағат бұрын

And i expected a clip of it, because as a german ive never seen it

@PESHajnal30 12 сағат бұрын

@@D3nn1s tbh that's crazy, I am german myself and do know the chicken dance. But I don't think I have really seen it in the last ~15 years or so. Maybe the reason is I am not a child anymore since ~15 years :D

@Lumbeseckel-Oo 7 сағат бұрын

I know it as a classic tune for german carnival (Fastnacht/Fasching) in my childhood days, back in the 80s/90s.

@AlexanderGoeres 3 сағат бұрын

an information overflow regarding ententanz

@miaks1988 4 күн бұрын

I‘m swiss and I got asked about „The Sound Of Music“ more times than I can count! First time I heard about it I had no idea what it was, and people were confused since they firmly believed it must be a traditional swiss childrens movie. When I finally watched it and did some research, I found out it is a american Broadway musical turned Hollywood movie with a story set in Salzburg, Austria. I cannot explain HOW on earth every single american I meet is convinced it is swiss 🤣

@michael-1680 4 күн бұрын

Because many Americans associate mountains with Switzerland, I think. We also make the same connection to the book & movie, "Heidi".

@nancywillaert5129 3 күн бұрын

@@michael-1680 there’s a place in Germany you can cross the border with Switzerland by foot we almost did with or dogs on a hike lol, but also Austria. We travel a lot to Germany and when hiking up the woods we use google maps and orientation and see okay that mountain is Austria, there’s Switserland and these are Germany. It’s fun. Bodensee and you have it in view. We turn of our roaming to manual otherwise before we know we get a big phone bill 😂.

@mjolner42 2 күн бұрын

The only association that film has with Switzerland is that's where the Von Trapps escaped to at the end of the film (but not in real life). But I don't think I'd even ask an Austrian about it, the same way I wouldn't ask a random Australian about what they think about Crocodile Dundee.

@fabianhebestreit3240 2 күн бұрын

@@mjolner42 But Crocodile Dundee actually is an Australian movie.

@angela_tarantulas 2 күн бұрын

I‘m Swiss too, but I never heard about this 🙈😄

@timmmahhhh 4 күн бұрын

The origin of German Chocolate Cake is hilarious! I always scratched my head and said there's no way this is German with the coconut. Thanks for the great explanation.

@sluggo206 4 күн бұрын

We could call it Hawaiian Chocolate Cake or Thai Chocolate Cake. :)

@timmmahhhh 4 күн бұрын

@@sluggo206 those names make a lot more sense!

@Wildcard71 4 күн бұрын

Chocolate with coconut? Sounds like a "Banjo" bar!

@tcphll 2 күн бұрын

It's interesting to me that the coconut is the part that makes it seem "not German" when chocolate is no more indigenous to Germany (or Europe in general) than coconut. In fact, if you look at where cacao is grown and where coconuts are grown, it's pretty much the same places, none of which are near Germany. Just shows you how ubiquitous chocolate is globally rather than being associated to the regions that grow it. I guess it's kind of similar to coffee or tea in that regard.

@timmmahhhh 2 күн бұрын

@@tcphll true though the Swiss in particular are known for their chocolate making/processing, but yes not growing.

@moatl6945 5 күн бұрын

From Lower-Bavaria Here: - Chicken Dance: I'm old enough to know the original hype in the early 1980ies. For me it's more like a song for carnival season (Fasching). - Beer-Cheese: Personally I don't like Obazda. I'm more found of an other dish called Kartoffelkäse (potato-cheese). It's made out of mashed potatoes, cream and/or sour cream (or cream-fresh or yogurt to taste) and pepper and chives. But remembering my grandma, she made an Austrian dish called Liptauer (after the Slovakian region of Liptov) sometimes made of (old soft) cheese like Camembert, butter, paprika and beer. But the consistence was more like Obazda and Potato-Cheese… German Chocolate Cake: Heared of it during some Geology lectures of Nick Zentner during the COVID-lock-downs as an analogy of the Columbia-River-Basalts in Washington and Oregon. Didn't know it's made out of coconut, too, until now. Christmas Pickle: Heard of it. We don't have one. That's it. The adapter: As an electrical engineer I hope this device is safe. Lets say so: These adapters tend to have a massive flaw. The more possibilities you have to connect, the more possibilities you have t unintentionally touch voltage… And this adapter does not feature ground connection…

@garyco766 4 күн бұрын

Adding an engineering review of the adapter is the most hysterically German thing ever! (in a good way!)

@screwthisin 3 күн бұрын

I would say that I think that the power draw could create a fire hazard, especially if you have all devices charging all at once.

@MMChoza 3 күн бұрын

I live in Austria and I loveeee Liptauer!!❤❤❤

@Serenity_Dee 3 күн бұрын

As an American, the first time I saw the chicken dance associated with Oktoberfest was on an episode of Futurama. Before that, to me, it was always one of the silly group dances at a wedding.

@pseudonym745 2 күн бұрын

Stuff must be toxic to everyone with a rest of pruzian blood in him... 😂

@folkehoffmann1198 5 күн бұрын

A former friend of mine is Korean and once another former friend asked her if she could make fortune cookies for her. The response was something like "They seem to exist as Asian everywhere but in Asia."

@kimjess4313 4 күн бұрын

Thats funny because fortune cookies are Chinese immigrant food. Its not even Korean haha

@robertewalt7789 4 күн бұрын

Fortune cookies are now made in Brooklyn, NYC. Maybe originally in San Francisco?

@tiggerfink 4 күн бұрын

They were invented in San Francisco by the Japanese. They put these country names in foods as a marketing ploy to make lots of money.

@changingpeopleslivesmoon2993 4 күн бұрын

Same thing with sea weed it’s from Ireland

@Rocketsong 4 күн бұрын

@@robertewalt7789 San Fransisco, Japanese Tea Garden in 1914 or so.

@Motacilla191 4 күн бұрын

3:10 Seeing Helga Feddersen referred to as “another German artist” is tough. Young people like Feli have probably never heard of her, but she was a well-known and very popular comedienne.

@FelifromGermany 4 күн бұрын

I don't know if you noticed but I didn't give any background information on any of the bands and artists. It would have taken wayyyy to long to go into detail about every single one of the artists and songs 😅

@JoSheeply Күн бұрын

"Die Wanne ist voll uh uh uh ..." 😊 She was a congenial comedy partner of Diddi Hallervorden. Unfortunately, she fell ill with cancer early in her life and died at early age after a long suffering. That's probably why she's almost forgotten today.

@miklosernoehazy8678 4 күн бұрын

...the Christmas Pickle... ...my dad was from Hungary; spent a few years in Munich, and when asked about the Christmas Pickle he said it was a traditon that originated in Poland amongst ethnic Germans, sometimes in the mid-1800's...

@koobs4549 3 күн бұрын

Really? I was pretty certain that it was invented by the folks at Bronner’s Christmas Wonderland in Frankenmuth, MI 😂

@bjorn-falkoandreas9472 2 күн бұрын

Nah. Actual historians found it most likely was a scam. They traced production of novelty pickles to a factory in Thuringia in the 19th century. Because figuring out where novelty pickles were made at what time should not be so hard because there obviously is not demand whatsoever for that. Those pickles did not sell. It is assumed that some scam artist bought the production on the cheap and told Americans that it was a traditional German Christmas Tree ornament. And since the Christmas Tree as a tradition was already young, Americans believed it. Same as the Chickendance misunderstanding. Americans went to the Oktoberfest once. During the 80s. While the Chickendance was a bona-fide hit among boomers. And the American visitors assumed they were doing it all the time instead of only that season. Because the American fallacy is that nothing in Europe ever changes. They think we are some sort of museum. Same with that godawful cheese dip and mustard. They saw Obatzda. Couldn't make it because they did not ask for the recipe and Brie is illegal in the US. They saw Brezel and Weisswurst being served with mustard. Couldn't get the sausage. Didn't understand the mustard. They used their day-glo goop instead. It is as if they had all of that described to them, understood nothing and thought their genetics would make them right.

@WooShell 2 күн бұрын

I know several people who have started doing the Pickle thing now that the meme is getting more popular.. so it might actually end up becoming a tradition, given enough time.

@red.maned.unicorn Күн бұрын

My family has German ancestry on both sides (plus ancestry from like half of Europe overall lol) and we had a pickle ornament, but we just did it because of a children’s picture book called “Pickle Things.” The book started with “Pickle things you’ll never see, like pickles on a Christmas tree” and went on to list many other silly places you _won’t_ see pickles. (I also recall “a pickle nose, and pickle toes.”) So when we saw a pickle ornament in a shop, we thought it was hilarious to prove the book wrong! Didn’t hide it, didn’t have a reward for finding it, just saw it and laughed 😂

@MaraMara89 23 сағат бұрын

I am Polish and never hears of that. But now I want pickle ornament :) it would be easy to spot on my tree though, because the tree is white ;) or maybe it would get lost as most of my ornaments are green and ocean blue

@songtraveler 5 күн бұрын

Then there's Häagen-Dazs ice cream, assumed by many to be from Europe, but was in fact invented in New York in 1960.

@timmooney7528 4 күн бұрын

It's one of those made up names, like how Orville Redenbacher created the term "gourmet" popping corn. The term allowed him to charge more for the the hybrid of corn he used.

@thorstenjaspert9394 4 күн бұрын

This ice-cream is blocked frozen. German and Italian ice-cream is much softer and more delicious.

@HalfEye79 4 күн бұрын

@@timmooney7528 Some metal-bands put an umlaut in their band-names just to look mor edgy or so. (i.e. "Motörhead")

@Winona493 4 күн бұрын

Interesting. I as well thought it might be Swedish or Danish. Now I know better. Thank you. Jaja, man lernt nie aus!😂

@michael-1680 4 күн бұрын

Yes, the name was deliberately invented to sound "Danish", but it's actually not even a real word in Danish, just a meaningless set of sounds.

@johannesschon7111 4 күн бұрын

You forgot the „Spundekäs“ eaten in Rheinhessen wich is usually always eaten with Brezel. Sometimes also with the small ones.

@AnjelikkaKowalski 5 күн бұрын

I get asked about the German Chocolate Cake all the time...I always tell people the real German Chocolate Cake is the Black Forest Cake...and yup, the pickle is something I have never heard of in Germany.

@FelifromGermany 5 күн бұрын

I personally wouldn't consider Black Forest Cake to be chocolate cake though. 😅 But that one is definitely from Germany.

@user-zt8ey5kz4i 5 күн бұрын

@@FelifromGermany Jetzt muss ich die ganze Zeit an Schwarzwälderkirschtorte denken 😭

@tiberius8390 5 күн бұрын

Yes, as Feli said. Schwarzwälder is no chocolate cake. While there is some chocolate in the dough and usually on top, it's mostly whipped cream with a filling of cherries with cherry liquor.

@peacearchwa5103 5 күн бұрын

Consumed to the accompaniment of Horst Jankowski's "A Walk in the Black Forest" song!

@Chris10.13 5 күн бұрын

⁠@@tiberius8390that’s not how cakes work 😅, Black Forest cake is undoubtedly a chocolate cake, with cherries and whipped cream

@hiredgun7186 4 күн бұрын

first generation Canadian here, my family hails from SE Germany in Singen, I have never heard of a Christmas pickle , and my grandparents kept a lot of the German tradition, far as German chocolate cake, never had that when I was in Germany, had Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte many times, but theres 0 coconut or pecan in that

@user-ie4tt1xp7j 2 күн бұрын

WE WUZ DEUTSCHE UND SCHEISSE

@bbjd9328 4 күн бұрын

Christmas Pickle -- this is what I heard. Bronner's Christmas Store in Frankenmuth, Michigan sells lots of Christmas ornaments and some years ago, like in the 1970"s had made the pickle as part of a larger set of a decoration package. However, people began to request a new pickle so as to not break up the set because they would accidently throw it out with their dead tree or forget to remove it from their artificial tree and it got broken. So Bronner's began to advertise in their catalog the Christmas Pickle as "fun activity for the kids" so the pickle became a game. Also, think of the names in involved: Bronner's (German) Frankenmuth (means Franconian Courage--a political division/state in Germany) Pickle (well, Germans pickle everything!). The rest is good ol' American marketing!

@sabineschumann4832 4 күн бұрын

Ich habe Deinen Kanal erst vor wenigen Wochen entdeckt und bin begeisterst, wie sehr Deine Videos vor positiver Energie nur so sprühen. Und auch, wie gut die darin enthaltenen Informationen recherchiert sind 😃❤👍

@rolij.3315 3 күн бұрын

Dieser Akzent!!

@peterborn7536 2 күн бұрын

Meine Frau und ich verkaufen auf dem Weihnachtsmarkt Christbaumschmuck und Spielsachen. Tatsächlich haben wir auch die Weihnachtsgurke im Angebot, jedesmal müssen wir erklären welcher Sinn dahintersteckt. Niemand kennt es. Und jedesmal ist es ein großer Spaß für die Kunden, mit lustigen Gesprächen. Auch kaufen die meisten Leute eine Gurke. Somit wurde eine neue Tradition erfunden. 😊

@justynazujko7892 5 күн бұрын

Every time i hear the chicken dance the first thing that comes to my mind is ,,kaczuchy" which is a Polish children song about ducks who have little beaks, tails, legs and like water.

@deutscher1a 4 күн бұрын

Sounds like "alle meine entchen"(all my ducklings) but in polish

@Thefutureis96 3 күн бұрын

I find the videi extremely disappointing!

@noracox6567 4 күн бұрын

I love your research into all things German, herman - American, etc. My mother, born in gelsenkirchen (sp) in 1925 would have loved your channel!!!! She came to USA permanently in the 1970's when I was 9 years old. Was always shaking her head about the things Americans "knew" about Europe. Fun to see a young woman reflecting on these same things.

@luisalarose 4 күн бұрын

I‘m German and I thought the Christmas pickle was an American thing 😂

@claudiafesch-jv8wt 3 күн бұрын

I thought it is an English Tradition.

@Name-ki1xi Күн бұрын

same😂

@Tinkerkel 5 күн бұрын

Yeah, we actually have a yodeling pickle on our tree. It's motion activated. Thank you, Grandma For this very loud addition to christmas.

@markdodel1706 4 күн бұрын

I gave my daughter one of these last year. She lives in Germany and she gave it to her German boyfriend who thought it was hilarious and showed it to all his friends who also thought it was hilarious.

@neonsparxx 4 күн бұрын

@@markdodel1706That is hilarious! 🤣

@WideCuriosity 4 күн бұрын

Until you have to put up with it for days.

@l.a.3680 4 күн бұрын

As a german, this just makes me angry. I know its a small thing and i should not get angry about something like that, but that there are so many people out there who think we would put a pickle on a tree for whatever reason - its just so stupid. I mean - cheese to Brezeln - it makes sense to think that. A stupid dance - there are lots of stupid traditional dances in southern germany, its not that far from the truth. But a pickle on a tree on christmas? Thats as if i were telling people its an american tradition to shove someone a cheeseburger up its butt when he/she turns 21 or something like that.

@Julia_USMidwest 5 күн бұрын

Your digging deep into original historical accuracy is commendable!

@nataliec6041 4 күн бұрын

I never thought about where the Chicken Dance originated. I grew up in Wisconsin and it’s common to play this at wedding dances. (Yes, the band played it at my wedding in 1994)

@dougbrowning82 4 күн бұрын

In Canada, the preeminent version is by The Emeralds, and called "The Bird Dance". It was released in 1982 by Winnipeg based K-Tel Records.

@fuzzyworld3 2 күн бұрын

I went to a wedding once, the bride forbade the playing of the Chicken Dance, much to the dismay of the groom's family, who discovered that another song had a similar enough beat to which the Chicken Dance could be danced!

@stacypowell5143 2 күн бұрын

I used to DJ weddings in WI and I played the chicken dance at every one of them 😁

@RobinPoe 4 күн бұрын

I was first introduced to the Chicken Dance when I was stationed in northern Italy, my first military assignment. It was called the Bala di Qua Qua. I used to live in Pittsburgh, and the Christmas pickle is a staple there. The most likely story is that it was a marketing campaign by the Pittsburgh-based Heinz Company, who besides making Ketchup, also makes pickles.

@kiwidanglish 5 күн бұрын

The chocolate cake one is honestly so surprising I never expected that. Whenever anyone figured out I was learning German as an American they were always like " I know how to make German chocolate cake"

@insulanerin7601 5 күн бұрын

I don't think I ever had pecans in Germany. And while coconut is used, it is considered exotic (like coconut milk for asian recipies), not particularly german.

@chitlitlah 5 күн бұрын

The pecan tree is the state tree of Texas and we had a lot of Germans immigrate here, so I was thinking Texas before she even said it. I have three pecan trees in my backyard in Dallas. The coconuts came from somewhere far away, though.

@TheMcIke 5 күн бұрын

I was afraid that she was going to say that Black Forest cake (Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte) wasn't German! It's the cake I think of when I think of a German cake. I've had "German's Chocolate Cake", but having grown up with a father that didn't like coconut, we didn't have it very often, and our German teachers in high school taught how to make Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte (you were given the recipe in German...).

@mariokrings 5 күн бұрын

@@TheMcIke and this is a German cake, so don't worry. 🥰 ...don't be stingy with the _Kirschwasser (cherry spirit)!_

@justinyoung9055 5 күн бұрын

@@insulanerin7601 chocolate is native to Mexico

@lxUn1c0 4 күн бұрын

Another food that many Americans think is German but actually isn't: Black Forest ham. Or I guess I should say: the deli meat sold in the US as Black Forest ham. If you put a German Black Forest ham and the American version side-by-side, it's a completely different product. The American version was developed by Ferdinand Schaller, who couldn't keep up with the demand in New York City by following the authentic curing method he had learned in Stuttgart. So he developed a new recipe that didn't require the hams to sit around for so long.

@m.rubland6737 4 күн бұрын

You did mention the us word "stein" for a glass of beer. I´ve never heard this in germany.

@oldfrittenfett1276 8 сағат бұрын

You're right. Here in germany, it just means "stone".

@currykingwurst6393 4 сағат бұрын

Here in Rheinland-Pfalz a Stein Bier is specifically a 1 Liter glass of beer. Doesn't have anything to do with what Americans call a "beer stein", but it does exist in Germany in some way.

@patricknelson5151 2 күн бұрын

My wife is Malaysian Chinese and we lived in Malaysia for nearly seven years in the early years of our marriage. Now we live in California and we have found that in nearly every Malaysian restaurant we have ever encountered, they proudly serves a dish they call Mango Chicken. I have no idea where this dish originated from but I never seen it (or anything like it) anywhere in Malaysia. It seems to be a completely American invention. They also serve desserts here that are vaguely like authentic Malaysian desserts but then add chocolate or some other American ingredients that would never be seen in Malaysia.

@bobo2186 5 күн бұрын

I grew up in MN/WI. We never assume anyone eats cheese like we do!

@sonkeschluter3654 5 күн бұрын

Do you consider the Swiss and Netherlands as rivals or brothers?

@bobo2186 4 күн бұрын

@@sonkeschluter3654 I would say brothers, you have better taste in cheese! We just eat a lot more of it...

@rjsieder 5 күн бұрын

Well researched, as always. I had no idea about the German Chocolate Cake's history. I'm glad Black Forest Cake, at least, is German (and delicious)!

@Marco_Onyxheart 2 күн бұрын

The Black Forest Cake has sometimes been said, though, to be a lie.

@r.c.brousseau9655 3 күн бұрын

Hi Feli, I’m from Canada and I really enjoy your channel, which I always find to be informative and very well presented. Keep up the good work!

@Idebara 4 күн бұрын

Well a german here, originating from bavaria. Never heard of a chrismas pickle in Bavaria. But my wife is from Thüringen. In her family its tradition to have a christmas pickle an the christmas tree. And its at least done since three generations. So it looks to me like a really secluded tradition, known only in little parts of germany.

@SheratanLP 4 күн бұрын

Ich bin Thüringer und habe noch nie in meinen 65 Jahren etwas von einer Weihnachtsgurke gehört. Erst jetzt, durch mehrere Videos habe ich von diesem Unfug in Amerika gehört und dass er es eine deutsche Tradition sein soll..

@Motacilla191 4 күн бұрын

@@SheratanLPNaja, "Unfug" würde ich es nicht nennen. Ist doch eine süße Tradition, auch wenn sie wohl eine amerikanische Erfindung ist. Ich bin auch aus Thüringen und habe eine Weihnachtsgurke zuerst in einem Laden in Lauscha gesehen, wo bekanntlich der gläserne Weihnachtsbaumschmuck herkommt. Als ich mich darüber wunderte, meinte die Verkäuferin: "Ja, die verkaufen wir oft an amerikanische Kunden".

@SheratanLP 4 күн бұрын

@@Motacilla191 Lauscha ist ja nur ein Katzensprung von Pößneck entfernt. :) Und wenn die Lauschaer dadurch gute Geschäfte machen können, dass sie Amerikanern Glasgurken verkaufen, bin ich damit einverstanden es nicht mehr als Unfug ab zu tun. 😁😁

@equolizer 4 күн бұрын

@@SheratanLP Wenn du in der deutschen Wikipedia nach dem Artikel Weihnachtsgurke suchst, ist da ein Bild von einem Katalog der Lyra-Fahrrad-Werke in Prenzlau von 1909, in dem man eine Glasgurke als Weihnachtsschmuck kaufen kann. 1909 war jetzt keine Zeit, wo man hier schon amerikanische Bräuche übernommen hat.

@AnNi1492K 4 күн бұрын

@@equolizerChatGPT:“Diese Glasgurke ist tatsächlich eine interessante Kuriosität. Es wird spekuliert, dass dies möglicherweise auf eine Marketingstrategie oder Werbeaktion zurückzuführen sein könnte. In den USA und anderen westlichen Ländern gab es zu der Zeit eine zunehmende Popularität von importierten Weihnachtsdekorationen aus Europa.“

@thomaslehrer4210 4 күн бұрын

One of the most famous chocolate cake is the Sachertorte, but originates in Vienna. Very delicious!

@LunaticDesire 3 күн бұрын

Though we don't really eat it ;) Most of us have family recipes but it's not a popular cake. Also if you ever come to Vienna don't eat the the one from the Hotel Sacher, it's overrated. Try any other cafe or bakery that has good ratings.

@thomaslehrer4210 2 күн бұрын

@@LunaticDesire Sorry, but I cannot admit. I know a lot of different Sachertorte, but the original is the best, by far. The cake itself is NOT dry as a lot others and the glaze is delicious. The best I know. But I admit, that it is over-priced.

@kathilisi3019 2 күн бұрын

@@thomaslehrer4210 Hotel Sacher makes their cakes drier and the glaze harder than the actual original recipe on purpose, to extend the shelf life. Café Demel in Vienna sells the original recipe Sachertorte.

@greengummibear 5 күн бұрын

The German wife HATES when I hear the Chicken Dance and say "your national dance!" I'm usually in trouble for awhile, but worth it…

@FelifromGermany 5 күн бұрын

Oh boy 😂

@neonsparxx 4 күн бұрын

I would rage if someone said that to me! 😅

@LouisChang-le7xo 4 күн бұрын

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@avi.chan23 4 күн бұрын

he woke up and chose war :D

@vladd896 4 күн бұрын

Funny enough how being from Ukraine I was only exposed to Russian version of that song and was convinced it was a Soviet song 😅 (actually plagiarized like many stuff back then)

@jps30 4 күн бұрын

I was thinking of NALF the second you mentioned the butter Bretzel.

@leumas75 4 күн бұрын

Me watching at 5:07 - What about Obazda?!? Also me 90 seconds later - ah, well, there you go. FYI - As an American who was been to 5 München Oktoberfest, I have actually seen someone in a fullbody chicken suit, but it turns out he was from Fairfax, Virginia.

@robletterly6679 5 күн бұрын

good episode. I appreciate the story about the German's Chocolate Cake. As it turns out, all three of my father in laws were German, and the first two made a big deal about the Germanic qualities of their favorite cake, the pecan and coconut creation you mentioned. Somehow I knew it was bullcrap, and it felt good to hear you debunk that specific myth. Thank you, Feli.

@LauranceVanMeter 4 күн бұрын

Love your show: my beer cheese, and, yes, I’m from Winchester, KY, home of beer cheese. Beer cheese 16 oz shredded cheddar chs (abt room temp) 12 oz beer (flat/not stale) 1 tbs cayenne pepper 1 tbs black pepper 1 tbs salt 2 tsp minced garlic Combine all ingredients in blender. Blend low for 6 min, or until smooth. Place in container; refrigerate overnight. Enjoy.

@kscman 3 күн бұрын

Please don't do that with german beer 😂😂😂

@jross4622 3 күн бұрын

@@kscman we Kentuckians make it with beer because we would never make it with our beloved bourbon😉

@JW-eq3vj 2 күн бұрын

@@jross4622 Kentuckians can only ruin bourbon by making a mint julip. 😀

@jross4622 2 күн бұрын

@@JW-eq3vj exactly 🫡😂😂

@berti2311 Күн бұрын

Beer cheese in Germany is a cheese thats eaten with beer

@haraldmoritz4864 3 күн бұрын

I love how you explain things on your program. You are always spot on, keep doing what you are doing. Thank you from a big fan of you.

@carlbeaver7112 4 күн бұрын

I grew up in CIncy ('50s & '60s) and I have never heard of a Christmas pickle. I do believe I had heard of The Chicken Dance in the '60s. I think it knocked the Conga Line dance out at wedding receptions and also showed up at some picnics and Oktoberfests back then. When I first saw large pretzels in Cincy they were plain and on the rarest occasions someone might put a little mustard on them. I recall one the most popular things back then were sauerkraut and Hamilton Metts - and I still love both!

@RPSchonherr 5 күн бұрын

When I was a kid we never had a pickel ornament but we had plenty of german glass ornaments.

@andyh1213 3 күн бұрын

I had never heard of the Christmas pickle until one of your videos, but I have one on my tree now. My kids love it :)

@mascami 3 күн бұрын

Me too!!

@urbanslamal4900 4 күн бұрын

I really love how well your videos are based on great research! Very nicely done!

@Student-cs2ws 4 күн бұрын

Feli, as a loyal Dutch fan, I can say you’re almost there with the pronunciation! You’ve already mastered one of the toughest sounds, the Dutch guttural /g/. Keep it up! Just make sure the /d/ in ‘dans’ doesn’t turn into a /t/ like in ‘Tanz’. Also, save the /ui/ for last. Those Germanic languages can seem intimidating due to their large vocal inventories, so don’t worry about them until you need to study them in detail. Otherwise, people might get scared of learning German and Standard Dutch. Did you know that Low German/Saxon, spoken in our eastern provinces and the northern German Bundesländer, is particularly challenging. Its vocal inventory is neither Dutch, nor German, nor Danish. The Germanic dialect continuum is a total chaos with different diphthongs every kilometer, influencing accents even in Standard Dutch and Standard German. Ick soall mae saeggn, doaht ‘t heanig aon! Gaoht so doer mit dissn videos wat iej heer maockn doaht! Dat as ick alntied waedder gearne kieckn doah naoh alns wat iej maockn doaht; mit oanmoendig foell plesear!

@heikozysk233 4 күн бұрын

Thanks to my Oma who still spoke some Pladdütsch with me, it helped to get at least the gist of your last paragraph 😉 While Plattdeutsch is quite different in many aspects from modern day Standard Dutch, e.g. lacking the Dutch pronounciation of G or SCH, it still pushes you in the right direction away from Standard German, like kieken/kijken instead of kucken or maockn/maken instead of machen. Though it does not prepare you for words like "to switch off (something)" in Dutch 😆

@mr.donatello 4 күн бұрын

I had obazda when I was in Germany last year and loved it. Had it for breakfast whenever it was available.

@jamesf931 3 күн бұрын

My favorite version of the “Chicken Dance/Der Ententanz” is the doorbell of the German in the TV show, The IT Crowd. Season 2, Episode 3, Moss and the German. I WANT this doorbell!

@dpsonnenberg4537 3 күн бұрын

Thank you for the video. I can't wait for the next show.

@michaelbcohen 5 күн бұрын

In a way many food ones like the Pretzel ones are essentially German (in New York, it is served with Mustard, which was an actual German Jewish thing), because it was German Immigrants who created these things as a way of combining all the different regional foods as one cuisine when they all lived in the same neighborhoods when they came here between 1848 and 1935 What you mentioned about Braunschweig, an American Sociologist who in 1935 published about the Nazi's rise to power, said that from 1933 interviews he did, that there everyone was Braun or schweig when it came to the Nazis. But Hitler was Ethnic German from the border region, in a country with at the time a high rate of German identifiers. But with the foods, many foods from many cultures came to their own in the US, because immigrants from all regions of a country would come here, blend cuisines mixed with local ingredients. I am Jewish, but while bagels are a Jewish food from Eastern Europe over 500 years old, cream cheese is an American invention for example. Or Beef Pastrami is a Jewish food (Pastrama that it is based on, it pork or goose) from Hungary and Romania, but the Rye used in classical NY Delis is a Jewish style Rye from Poland, using "deli mustard" which is Jewish from Germany" for example, as everyone blended their cuisines into one in the local neighborhoods

@johnhoare1055 4 күн бұрын

Many Americans have corned beef and cabbage on St. Patrick's Day, believing it to be a traditional Irish dish. It isn't. In point of fact bacon and cabbage is the traditional dish in Ireland. Historically, some regions had lamb instead of bacon. The New England boiled dinner, consisting of corned beef with cabbage and one or more root vegetables, which was also popular in Atlantic Canada, was adopted by many Irish immigrants living in neighbourhoods served by Jewish butchers when they couldn't get bacon, or in other places beecause it was cheaper. And that's the origin of the Irish-American corned beef and cabbage tradition.

@user-ol2so9ce2q 2 күн бұрын

Would that be Irish bacon or bacon bacon?

@johnhoare1055 2 күн бұрын

@@user-ol2so9ce2q Nearly two billion people in the former British Empire agree with Ireland about what cut of a porker is bacon, peculiar North American habits notwithstanding... :)

@tulipwindmill 2 күн бұрын

Add to that American corned beef is different.

@user-ol2so9ce2q Күн бұрын

@johnhoare1055 (sigh...) Once again, two cultures separated by a common language. You might have simply replied, back or belly. As far as culinary peculiarities go, I find it fascinating that the ancient, noble, varied cultures of the British isles have spent so much of history evading the concept of flavor in their own cuisines. lol 😆 😀

@johnhoare1055 Күн бұрын

@@user-ol2so9ce2q Bland is a flavour 😃

@miseentrope Күн бұрын

Feli consistently provides history, education, and entertainment. Absolutely one of my favorite channels. 🥰

@jamespence9469 2 күн бұрын

The first time I came across the "Chicken Dance"" was when I was stationed In Germany (Kitzingen, FRG) between 1983 and 1985. Many of the principal officers in our battalion were invited to a Fasching dance and party held by our panzergrenadier Partnerschaft unit in the Regensburg area. It was a way the local unit thanked the local folks for their support. All of us linguistically impaired Amis were paired with good English speaking locals at our tables. When a certain dance started, all the locals latched on to one of the befuddled American soldiers or their spouses and drug us to the dance floor to be introduced to the "Chicken Dance". I have to admit it was a wonderful ice breaker and set the tone for the rest of the night. As an olde pharte now, I can only assume that what may have been common in Bavaria before the fall of the Berlin Wall may have gone out of style before the younger generation came along.

@JoSheeply Күн бұрын

I'm bavarian by birth 😁 and can assure you that i never danced the "chicken dance" or "Ententanz" as we call it after the age of 10. I'm born 1975. I only know it as children's dance, I did not recocnize it here in Germany for many years now. Since the mid 80s, I've only noticed it in American movies, series and when brought up on KZfaq. Maybe your Panzergrenadier comrades had fun making the Amis look a bit silly. But you all apparently had a lot of fun and that's what counts. Especially on Fasching.

@garyh7949 5 күн бұрын

The Christmas pickle is a new one to me. And I grew up surrounded by ancestral German relatives, including my parents and grandparents.

@lijntje266 4 күн бұрын

when you said german cake i tought of Schwarzwalder Kirsch ( or black forest cake) that does seem to be german :P

@rabitec. 4 күн бұрын

I thought they maybe meant Sachertorte

@duaneleavesley3778 4 күн бұрын

One of your best informative videos. Thanks for the hard work!

@roberthoffman4713 4 күн бұрын

OK, I finally subscribed after watching several of your videos and being entertained and learning things that I didn't know about.

@Gearhart_Music 5 күн бұрын

Where I live, there's a German restuaraunt and pub that serves pretzels with mustard. It's one of the few places around here that I can get a liter of Bitbürger.

@tiberius8390 5 күн бұрын

Fun fact. Bitbruger is from Bitburg, which is on the very west side of Germany. Also I believe it's Pilsener beer, which is bitter. In West Germany they don't serve beer in 1 liter sizes, and definitely not Pilsener. I would even be surprised if you get 0.5l beer in Bitburg. Usually it's 0.33liters, which is also the size of 1 bottle (usually). 1 liter Maß and generally "Halbe" (0.5 liter) is a Bavarian thing and the Bavarian "standard" beer is lager beer to large extend, which is not (that) bitter but more sweet.

@uztre6789 5 күн бұрын

@@tiberius8390 Pils beer is popular all over Germany and half liter glasses are as well, even though other sizes might be more associated with a certain place or region (like the small ones in Köln or the Maß in Bavaria)

@desperadox7565 5 күн бұрын

Bitburger

@gubsak55 5 күн бұрын

@tiberius8390 true. I live 30 km from Bitburg, where the brewery is located and 25 km from where some of the hops are grown (next to Irrel). In Bitburg and Trier and everywhere around this area at restaurants, the bear is served in 33 cl or 40 cl glasses. The Bitburg bottles contains 33 cl or 50 cl (1/2 litre), but only the 33 cl or 30 cl versions are served in restaurants. The slogan "Bitte ein Bit" of course refers to the polite asking "Bitte" "Please". They are the Official Sponsor for the European Football Championship.

@jrgptr935 5 күн бұрын

@@tiberius8390At least in my childhood, beer was mostly available in litre bottles, including Pils(ner) of course, and most people took 2 or 3 bottles to work. Transl DeepL

@ruthp2545 5 күн бұрын

I noticed that about thirty years ago, the Christmas market started producing vegetable and fruit Xmas ornaments that sold in places like Bronners (a huge Christmas store) in Frankenmuth, MI...a 'Little Bavaria' resort town. I remember pickle ornaments being a big novelty from that...perhaps that contributed to this association of pickles and Germany. I never saw any pickle ornaments anywhere before that.

@user-ol2so9ce2q 2 күн бұрын

It was a rehash of a fad that had popped up briefly in the 60s and 70s. My family has glass pickle and chili pepper ornaments older than I am. I'm 51.😊

@mandukate 2 күн бұрын

Me and my wife went to Oktoberfest 2016. We did the Spaten Brewery tour, and that's where I first had the Pretzel with Obazda. 🤤 Also managed to get a table at the Schottenhamel tent and watched the Oktoberfest inauguración ceremony. A memory that will last a life time!

@Mike-wr7om 4 күн бұрын

You do great historical research. I learned a lot from this video. The history of the "German Chocolate Cake" was especially interesting.

@happykt 5 күн бұрын

I was in the US Army in Germany and often attended the German/American friendship club in Frankfurt. All the German's thought Kraft was a German company and Kraft Macaroni and Cheese was invented in Germany (they were always asking me to buy boxes at the US Army grocery store and bring them a box.) I knew they were wrong and wrote to Kraft Foods and got a full history of the company and gave it to them. Kraft was founded in Chicago, Illinois, not in Germany and still is an American company. This factoid hunt was done in the early 1990s before the internet. The person that was the most sure that Kraft was a German company the guy who worked as an economist for the Deutsche Bundesbank, headquartered in Frankfurt.

@desperadox7565 5 күн бұрын

It's because Kraft is a German word meaning strength.

@Roberternst72 5 күн бұрын

Just one word: „MIIIIRAAAACOLIIIIIIII!“

@DavidZinselmeier 5 күн бұрын

Don't tell Feli this. She will find any way to prove that Germany invented Mac and Cheese and Kraft IS a German company.

@xiaolan1369 5 күн бұрын

I guess because the name is German. The guy who founded it had German heritage. Same with Heinz, I always thought it was a German company until I realized it's actually American

@jrgptr935 5 күн бұрын

Ich erinnere mich da an einen Norbert WALTER, meinst Du den? I remember a Norbert WALTER, is that who you mean?

@chiefbobdavis99 5 күн бұрын

Being of German descent, living in Texas now but from Cincy, never heard of the pickle thing. As for pretzels w/ cheese or mustard, it’s definitely an American thing. Thanks, Feli!! PS: Love the Euros!!

@matthewmorrisdon5491 4 күн бұрын

As a Texan, we never had cheese and pretzel and Texas has its own form of German.

@david.ferris 2 күн бұрын

i was stationed in Germany early 80's got pretzels with mustard, butter, and some for of soft cheese all the time.

@hendrikhelsper6781 Күн бұрын

@@david.ferris a soft cheese spread is often eaten with a pretzel in Rheinhessen. But it's no cheese sauce. Ive never heard of pretzel being eaten with mustard though.

@Anne-qk3ch Күн бұрын

I actually got that Epika adapter for my Germany trip earlier this year. It comes in pink! Worked great.

@user-jg1of2vc9z 3 күн бұрын

Growing up in the midwest in the 60s/70s/80s, my German speaking grandparents and their relatives played the chicken/duck dance at every wedding or community dance there was. I had never heard of the Christmas pickle thing until about 6 years ago when we hosted a German exchange student from Stuttgart. She started the tradition for our family.

@ricktaylor5397 4 күн бұрын

Great video. Most American pretzels are rock hard, so you really need something to dip it in. Once you’ve had a real German butter pretzel, you’ll never go back to American pretzels.

@nancywillaert5129 4 күн бұрын

Oh they are my staple food when traveling to Germany with our campervan. And yes Butter! The fun part is in Germany you can still buy a part of a bread especially the darker breads.

@LouisChang-le7xo 4 күн бұрын

American pretzels are just crackers

@devenscience8894 3 күн бұрын

Hmm, in my experience, the pretzels I've had in Germany have been harder than the big soft pretzels you get at the mall shops, or the like.

@nancywillaert5129 3 күн бұрын

@@devenscience8894 i would say they are more like dense bread like Consistency, they have different versions now, more long gated, some with cheese on top too. I keep them in a plastic seal bread bag so they stay softer a bit longer otherwise they get hard faster. We don’t have that in Belgium so its always fun to try out other foods. Like the potato balls, but my favorite is the Kaiserschmarren with raisins. Funny enough Oetker sells it in pouches you only have to add milk and eggs. For the time being i can have my pleasure at home that way. I have my cast iron skillet now that i can use on my stove. I have a cookbook culinaria U.S.A. That’s about region’s specialty. But sometimes I have to find a other spice or thing to replace due it’s not available in Belgium. Had once key lime pie and it was so sour i was thinking that can’t be right? We have only a small selection of American foods they call culinary in some stores and even then i think hmm is it real. We have more Asian food stores and Eastern European stores. In Brussel there’s the Matonge quarter if you want to find original African foods although some cities have a small store. But hey it might show i like foods. Love to cook and only thing is my husband can’t handle to spicy 😂 have to adapt a bit.

@falklumo 3 күн бұрын

@@devenscience8894Outside Bavaria, Pretzels are normally to be avoided. However, one of the best are available at Brezelbub in Düsseldorf Main Rail Station. Pretzels have to be fresh to be good.

@Raider_MXD 5 күн бұрын

In Germany the Ententanz (Chicken Dance) is a thing at Fastnacht / Fasching / Karneval (carnival) events. When I lived in the US a co-worker presented German chocolate cake to me at the office which confused me quite a bit 😁

@tru3sk1ll 4 күн бұрын

+1 Love your Picard avatar !

@w8stral 4 күн бұрын

That German Chocolate cake may have been Prussian which today is actually Poland. Millions from this region moved in 19th century. There is a reason WWi/WWII and Germany were actually about FOOD-->importing ~30% of it at the time, and Prussia was utterly destroyed, broken up, and depopulated by and large by both wars. My own family(moms side) was from this region who moved here in 1880's and what often is called "German" dish here in USA is closer to a Polish equivalent dish than anything else.

@CaptHollister 4 күн бұрын

It was not named for Germany, it was name for Samuel German who was an American chocolate maker. Thank you Max Miller and Tasting History. Edit: I should have watched the whole video before replying

@SheratanLP 4 күн бұрын

Aber weniger als Ententanz, sondern eher in der Frank Zander Version.

@Raider_MXD 4 күн бұрын

@@SheratanLP Meiner Erfahrung nach ist das etwa gleich verteilt, aber das mag sich von Region zu Region unterscheiden.

@clausfischer5108 8 сағат бұрын

Deine Videos sind immer sehr unterhaltsam und funktionieren auch in die andere Richtung, sprich als Einblick in Gewohnheiten der Amerikaner. Und großen Respekt, wie du perfekt englisch und deutsch mischen kannst 😃

@jeremiahlyleseditor437 5 күн бұрын

Great Video. Those Philadelphia soft pretzels were delicious back in the 70s. They used to be 4/1.00 and would be breakfast and lunch. Very filling.

@uribove 5 күн бұрын

The only "german chocolate cake" we know here in Belgium is Schwartzwaldtorte or zwartewoud taart

@jrgptr935 5 күн бұрын

Mit dem guten Kirschwasser darin - deshalb ist sie bei Kindern so beliebt... With the good cherry brandy in it - that's why it's such a favourite with children...

@michaelparkin6974 4 күн бұрын

in England we call it Black Forest gateau and it was very fashionable in the 1970s and 80s

@neonsparxx 4 күн бұрын

@@jrgptr935I'm German and my parents didn't allow me to eat it as a kid because of the alcohol.

@surlespasdondine 4 күн бұрын

Yes but that's not really chocolate cake

@jrgptr935 4 күн бұрын

@@neonsparxx Da ist Die wirklich etwas entgangen, alle kleinen Kinder lieben die Torte.

@Quark0611 5 күн бұрын

2:25 Nailed it! De Vogeltjesdans. Das V wird in NL wie ein W in Deutsch ausgesprochen.

@stephenwilling7287 3 күн бұрын

I mioved here from England in 1983, and it was the first time I had ever heard of an "English Muffin". I tried one and it's kind of sort of like a scone (or scone, depending the part of England you are from), but it's not a scone. I was also asked If I'd like some tea, because all English drink tea right? I was given a glass of something with ice and a slice of lemon. Didn't even taste like tea, and it was October in Minnesota, why would I want an ice cold drink anyway. The Britich drink tea, lots of tea, I must have my tea daily. But it's hot tea with milk (not cream) and sugar, and the bigger the cup/mug the better.

@volkerwoll5008 4 күн бұрын

7:36 Spundekäs is a Chees traditionaly served with Prezel. In fact in Mainz it is quite a common snack.

@LA-MJ 5 күн бұрын

You could argue Austrians caused both wars, blundered them spectacularly and let the Germans take the blame

@DashRiprock513 4 күн бұрын

Great video...... Now please explain the David Hasselhoff phenomenon between the us and dland.

@neonsparxx 4 күн бұрын

Well, he's the reason the Berlin wall fell, so...... 🤣

@michael-1680 4 күн бұрын

@@neonsparxx What, he leaned against it? 😆

@T-41 2 күн бұрын

Third generation German American here - hadn’t heard of Christmas pickle until you mentioned it some time ago. Thanks for another well researched , well presented program.

@miguelangelsandoval9850 4 күн бұрын

I was born in México. I moved to Los Ángeles in 1978, when I was 17 years old I'd never eaten or seen a burrito in my life until I moved to Los Ángeles. Nowadays, you can find burritos all over México. Burritos were created in California, not México.

@lbernau 5 күн бұрын

A lot of americans think danish pastry originated in Denmark. It's actually from Vienna. (the danish word for it being Weinerbrød = Bread from Vienna) And the other way round: The danish name for Chips is "Franske Kartofler", meaning French Potatoes even though Chips comes from th U.S.

@bvbxiong5791 4 күн бұрын

wait a minute, you guys have "French Potatoes" and we have "French Fries". those sneaky French are up to something...

@askjell1535 4 күн бұрын

British or american chips? Jeg har aldrig hørt nogen sige “franske kartofler”, bare “pomfritter” eller “chips”

@Alias_Anybody 4 күн бұрын

French Fries are also Belgian, and the Croissant is just the Austrian Kipferl reinterpreted with a different dough, introduced to France in the 1700s.

@garyco766 4 күн бұрын

@@bvbxiong5791 Apparently, they're up to delicious potato things.

@michaelgrabner8977 4 күн бұрын

@@Alias_Anybody Brought to France by the cooking entourage of Austrian Princess Maria Antonia (=in French "Marie Antoinette") who got married to the French Dauphin Louis... The "cresent of the moon-shaped Kipferl" was part of her breakfast routine ever since and by the way for her made out of "flaky pastry" already instead of the just for the "common people´s/peasant-style plain shortcrust pastry" version... The French then just changed the sort of "flaky pastry" into a "local french sort of flaky pastry" and additionally added a lot of butter into the dough And because the Kipferl was "moonshaped" the French called it then "Croisssant" which is literally refering to the "cresent of the moon" shape, while the Ausrian name "Kipferl" actually means "little hornlet" originally derived from Latin "cippus" which in the 13th century became germanized "chipfen" which became centuries later in the diminutive form "Kipferl"= alternative expression for "Hörnchen" in German

@RPSchonherr 5 күн бұрын

Those PA Dutch changed everything

@stevemyers8330 5 күн бұрын

😆

@maralisil 5 күн бұрын

@@stevemyers8330"Vye Sure!"

@silversleeper1193 3 күн бұрын

I went to school in the US from 10-13, and a history teacher there tried to tell me my last name wasn’t German, but Pennsylvania Dutch. I had literally moved there from Munich, I think I knew my own heritage 😂

@conlon4332 5 күн бұрын

9:18 Woah, I got whiplash from that change of pace!

@aeconsulting1 4 күн бұрын

Awesome research, I didn’t know the X-mas pickle either 😂😂. I saw Kräuterkäse on the Brezel 🥨, I love it. Well done Feli 👏..

@freakishuproar1168 5 күн бұрын

I had no idea that The Tweets "Birdie Song" was just one iteration of a European craze. Those synths in the old school duck dance tracks, absolutely majestic stuff... :p

@maralisil 5 күн бұрын

The Chicken Dance is huge at Musikest in Allentown/Bethlehem Pennsylvania! My hubby introduced me!

@Samcaracha 4 күн бұрын

1:08 1. Chicken dance 4:57 2. Pretzles with cheese 2:26 3. Adolf Hitler 11:55 4. German chocolate cake 14:00 5. Christmas pickle 16:04 Outro There you go. 😊

@dianedavidson5283 4 күн бұрын

Thank you!

@SheratanLP 4 күн бұрын

Hm. Ich brauche keine Aufteilung, da ich mir eh das ganze Video anschaue. :)

@Samcaracha 4 күн бұрын

@@SheratanLP Lovely Shera, you do as you like. Diligent little bee, you are! 😀

@stef987 3 күн бұрын

I remember the Ententanz/chicken dance to be relatively popular, especially among us kids, in my earlier childhood in the early 90s (in Germany). I think we used to dance to the "Wenn wir alle Englein wären"-song (there were quite a few weddings back then and the adults probably thought us kids were to young, anyway, to understand the naughtiness of certain songs), but I just learnt via this video not only that it was a naughty song, but also that it's actually "Englein" (little angels), I always thought it said "Wenn wir alle Entlein wären" (if we all were ducklings 🦆).😄 I would eat a Brezel/Pretzel with cheese sauce or mustard, but then again I'm not Bavarian.😅

@mynameismud08 5 күн бұрын

I love Obatzda. You can eat it with pretzels too! We have a local restaurant that has a Bavarian vibe and they sell huge pretzels with Obatzda. You are right though it is too thick to use for dipping and it needs to be spread more than standard pretzel cheese.

@michaelsmart4939 5 күн бұрын

More than I ever wanted to know about the chicken dance! I grew up in Philadelphia, where big soft pretzels are almost a staple food item. Sometimes we would put mustard on them. But, cheese dip? No idea where that came from!

@james-p 4 күн бұрын

It may vary by household - I'm from a town just outside Philadelphia and we always put mustard on ours. I'm craving one now lol.

@monty8101 4 күн бұрын

One thing comes to my mind, that is probably only known in Germany - "Russischer Zupfkuchen" (Russian ???cake, don't know how to translate). A type of cheesecake totally unknown in Russia, but invented by German company Dr. Oetker decades ago.

@regig.9493 3 күн бұрын

No, that's an old DDR recipe that was known just as Zupfkuchen. Dr. Oetker used it after a recipe competition where people sent in their recipes. In the former east Germany it was already popular well before that, but wasn't called anything Russian.

@roterdachs 2 күн бұрын

same with Russisch Brot

@dk0x539 Күн бұрын

Neither was Ivan Rebroff a Russian 😂

@JoSheeply Күн бұрын

@@regig.9493 😁 "DDR Zupfkuchen" would have sounded kind of strange probably. And it probably wouldn't have been a sales success either.

@berti2311 Күн бұрын

Das Ding hatte auch den Namen "preußischer Zupfkuchen" und Dr. Oetker hat es etwas umbenannt

@heikozysk233 4 күн бұрын

My family comes from several very different parts of Germany and never in my whole life have I seen a Christmas pickle or heard anyone talking about the pickle tradition. Some people like to decorate their trees not only with traditional ornaments but also look for some wacky or unusual ornaments. I could very well be that the very small percentage of people in Germany who claim to follow the "pickle tradition" just had someone in their family getting one of those during the last decades. Maybe the merchant also told them the "story" behind the pickle so they started that "tradition" also in their families. Anyway, it's a pretty cute custom and I can imagine that smaller kids love the pickle hunt on Christmas Eve.

@titan_drow507 4 күн бұрын

The Geman's chocolate cake was the best for me 😂😂😂 and almost explains "words can become reality" 🥰 I will try that recipe in the future.

@s.a.4358 4 күн бұрын

In Belgium a popular thing to put on sandwiches is “American”, which is raw minced meat mixed with spices, ketchup and other things. It’s very good but I cannot imagine it being popular in the USA (as raw meat).

@brittakriep2938 4 күн бұрын

In Germany ,Mett' ( see english word meat) exists. This is raw minced pork, spiced with Salt and Pepper. A half bread roll is covered ith Mett, and some raw onion pieces added.

@s.a.4358 4 күн бұрын

@@brittakriep2938 yes!! Also delicious!

@berti2311 Күн бұрын

Hackepeterschrippen könnte man mal wieder machen! Manno, jetzt hab ich Hunger...

@Alias_Anybody 4 күн бұрын

Someone in some comment section I've read claimed the "Christmas pickle" once was a small local tradition somewhere in western central Germany, I think the Pallatinate or something. Even if that's true, calling it a "German" tradition would still be like saying that Mardi Gras is one of THE US holidays, a big stretch.

@stevecascaden6345 4 күн бұрын

Thank you very much for clearing up my mis conception about the "Chicken dance". The first time I ever encountered it was during a wine festival In downtown Wiesbaden in 1982, when I was in the army stationed outside of Wiesbaden-Erbenheim.

@GregInHouston2 5 күн бұрын

Thanks for the history lesson on German Chocolate Cake. I think it was you that first told me this when I asked a few years ago.

@juliaclaire42 5 күн бұрын

Helga Feddersen shozkd also be named and not just called 'another artist'. She was the first real comedienne and died far too early! Check out her art!

@joergn.1800 4 күн бұрын

Helga Feddersen und Didi Hallervorden ❤️

@Wildcard71 4 күн бұрын

@@joergn.1800 You, the bathtub is full.

@joergn.1800 4 күн бұрын

@@Wildcard71 😁👌

@JoSheeply Күн бұрын

@@Wildcard71 "I stimm you zu" - UH UH UH 😁

@vclamp 4 күн бұрын

Beer cheese soup is a must try! You are welcome.😊

@PhlogPhanatic 4 күн бұрын

I saw Christmas pickle ornaments being sold in the Spreewald around the Sorbian villages and when I asked my Wife's uncle who had lived there for 40 years and he said "this is tourist rubbish for Americans". I thought it was just one of those things that was like a regional tradition which for the Spreewald would make sense given thats the pickle place in Germany, but I was wrong.

@Rayraywheelz 3 күн бұрын

I'm going to buy one of those adapters. Thank you for the discount

@redhawk87p 5 күн бұрын

There are several in the U.S.: mochi icecream (created by a Japanese-American in Texas I believe), teriyaki sauce (from Washington state), American sushi like the California roll, Mexican coke (it is no longer 100% cane sugar and is only a marketing ploy), and many others

@lostslough 4 күн бұрын

I recently learned that orange chicken was invented by Panda Express in Hawaii. It was a variation of General Tso's chicken, which also is not from China. Two chefs claim to have invented General Tso's, but both say that they did so in New York City.

@patricknelson5151 2 күн бұрын

@@lostslough In case you haven’t heard of it, there is a great book about the origins of American Chinese food (with a long section on General Tsao’s chicken) by Jennifer 8 Lee (her real name) called “The Fortune Cookie Chronicles.” It was originally published in 2009. Highly recommended. Like Feli does here, she breaks down a lot of myths about “Chinese Food”, including the origin of the fortune cookie (which Felli mentioned in the video).

@lostslough 2 күн бұрын

@@patricknelson5151 I actually just ordered that book! She's one of my favorite journalists, I'm excited to read her book.

@johnwood551 5 күн бұрын

Like being told when I was in Belgium that steak tartare was “was what ALL Americans eat”, and never have seen anyone eat that .

@s.a.4358 4 күн бұрын

Haha true!! Steak tartare and “americain” are still slightly different though.

@royblack2395 4 күн бұрын

Lived in Belgium too. They call it "Filet Americain".

@LouisChang-le7xo 4 күн бұрын

no, we eat chemical saturated processed meat and get diabetes afterwards

@bobbuethe1477 Күн бұрын

Every August, the town of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania hosts a ten-day "Musikfest." Several "Platzen" are designated for different types of musical performances. I first learned the Chicken Dance at the "Polkaplatz."

@Christian-yf8zy 4 күн бұрын

Obazda cheese dip is often made with beer. Greetings from Bamberg, Bavaria

@davidc.4957 5 күн бұрын

Danke. This will take days before "de vogeltjesdans" (I appreciate the try to speak Dutch) is out of my head.

@jamesshearer9616 5 күн бұрын

Pretzels and soft pretzels are ubiquitous in the Pennsylvania German Lancaster County PA. Not sure, but I believe the mustard addition came from 70 miles away in Philadelphia, where they squeeze the soft pretzels together into a rectangle and sell like 5 of them in a strip on street carts.

@Kim-427 5 күн бұрын

I never thought that was German. I thought that was our American love for cheese and dipping things. Lol

@user-fn8we4sg3l 5 күн бұрын

My wife just brought me sift pretzels from Sturgis. Delicious. They did not have the long ones. I miss those. When I was young we could get them off of street vendors in Pittsburgh.

@user-fn8we4sg3l 5 күн бұрын

Soft..sorry

@Kim-427 5 күн бұрын

@@user-fn8we4sg3l Hey,I’m from Pittsburgh.

@AndrewAMartin 4 күн бұрын

Nothing like the added 'spice' of exhaust fumes in your Philly street vendor pretzels... When my dad worked in Philly, he'd get a case of soft pretzels directly from the makers and we'd put them in the freezer. We'd pop them in the microwave for an afternoon snack with a little mustard on them..

@koreykilburn5303 2 күн бұрын

When I was stationed near Kaiserslautern my favorite were the pretzels with the cheese crust baked on them. I'm glad you mentioned those pretzels. Definitely more delicious than nacho cheese sauce or beer cheese dip.