This looks like a "Rumpelkammer" 😂😂😂😂😂

That is so over the top - no German bakery will ever look that way 😂

Where is the German bread? Where are the 49 different types of bread rolls? JJ seems to be more like a pastry chef, not a baker.

The shop is clearly a Patisserie, not a bakery. The number of Biersteins equals the number of health violations if he was here in Germany.

On their Website: "Indianapolis has a large German community with several German clubs, dances, sports and even an authentic German butcher shop." Well, Ryan - shopping time. And then you do a life-test on camera.

Tbh, the "ordnungsamt" would close that shop in germany for health concerns.

When I was an exchange student in 1994 in Indianapolis they surprised me with a visit to the Heidelberg. After we had some food I was asked by my exchange family how I liked it. I replied: Imagine we where in germany and I surprise you with a visit to a burger restaurant with every stereotype of the us you can imagine and classic country songs are playing in the background...... Let's put the fun aside it is so stereotypical and over the top that I really was surprised by it and liked it.

Well... I would not call it authentic, but it does seem legit.

this hole bakery looks scary to me 😂 that doesn't look like a usual German bakery at all haha

A small American Cafe is here right around the corner. Mrs. and Mr. Starbucks are running it.

I'm the guy who sent Ryan the link to their website after I randomly saw the Heidelberg Haus on Google Maps (I've never been there). Ryan, it's great that you quickly made a video out of it. :-) Please go there and make a vlog as a 100,000-subscriber special. ;-) Unfortunately, it seems that there is indeed no bread there, but there is bratwurst, etc. The mentioned 15 dishes are all warm meals, and the cakes and pies are additional (as stated on the homepage). So it's more than just a pastry shop. Gruß aus Köln, Simon :-)

The funny thing about diaspora culture(s) is that they always represent the cultural identity of a group at the moment in time when the immigration happened. It's not that it's not 'authentic' but it's just not authentic to modern German culture but to some long-outdated version of it. That holds true for the way they speak, their decorations, but also for their cuisine. Diaspora groups attempt to preserve and continue their culture, but it's usually already a nostalgic home-sickness driven vision of it, and they're completely out of the loop as far as the living ever evolving culture of their root country is concerned, and without realizing it there are subtle changes that only happen within the diaspora itself - like the weird pickle in the christmas tree custom that only exists among German diaspora in the US, but that literally NOBODY knows in Germany. So you end up with something like an old photograph of a reflection in a funhouse mirror, a distorted and outdated version that has very little to do with the respective modern-day nations.

I mean the interior doesn't look normal, but the guy seems german enough and so do the foods on first glance so authentic enough i'd say :D It's expected it's not 100% the same

Looks like a souvenir shop in the first tourist spots after the war. But the gateaux are definitely worth a try!!! And please find out if he has bread, too!

2:56 It looks like an authentic souvenir shop (designed for foreign tourists) mixed with a Tante-Emma-Laden (Aunt Emma shop - German for a corner shop in a village) from the 1960s or 1970s.

Jürgen is "the Man"!!! ...but it's hilarious that they are playing second WorldWar March Music while presenting the bakery 😂😂

Maybe 1968 some bakeries looked like this in Germany, nowadays they look different.

ONLY AN AMERICAN WOULD EXPECT TO GET A BURGER AT A GERMAN BAKERY…

It looks quite Americanised

The most American video I ever seen. The most authentic thing about this store is JJ's accent.

Looks less like a bakery and more like a collector of garden gnomes or in my grandma's front yard 50 years ago. But the cakes, pastries and pies look authentic. Seems to be more of a pastry chef than a baker though.

Hahaha.....Ron from Munich, this video produced tears in my eyes and a big smile! Soooo funny! :))

I wish to see Ryan go there and take his first bite in a black forest cake.

looks like a tourist shop they build in disneyland haha🤣

Next, a video showing you eating what you bought from that German bakery!

For the real food there is a restaurant called Gerst Haus in Evansville that looks very promising. If that’s not to far away…

"maybe the american dream isn't dead after all! I mean, granted, it was 1963!" hahahah that was so funny 😄

We had this in Germany not long ago right before the fall of the Berlin Wall, where people were fleeing the GDR in thousands with a little more than they could wear to not stand out while on their way to the Embassy of West-Germany in Prague. They had money in their pockets that was worthless and they had to live in refugee camps and all they got for a start was 100 Deutsche Mark „Begrüßungsgeld“ (welcoming money) and perhaps some gifted clothes from the Red Cross. You probably could do a whole series of reaction videos about that time in 1989 and how Germany eventually got reunited in 1990.

I'd really like your 'review' of that store. The cakes looked amazing. Maybe some 'Kaffee und Kuchen' after a bit of a road trip?

Hmmm Springerle ... they remind me of my late Grandma who used to make them for Christmas. (timestamp 0:59)

As a high gwallidee bakery and giftshop in the state of Indiana, USA, it looks absolutely lechidd. By the way I didn't see any bread, laugenpretzels or brötchen ...?

Come on Ryan, go there and share the experience with us. Wann see more Gartenzwerge (gnomes)

what first came to my mind was the "tante emma"-laden that was close to my school - young viewers may not know about those nowadays; it's where we as kids bought all sorts of stuff during breaks ("freistunde"). i'd expect that he'd sell "brötchen mit schokokuss" for 50 cents (ein paar groschen früher in den 80/90ern). but of course there also need to be other stuff like sweets and savoury snacks. he likes to bake - maybe he turned his hobby into his profession. he's not formally a baker perhaps - it's not a sterile bakery like in germany nowadays. he does it with fun and passion. i'm very sure that the cakes he's selling taste just amazing - they are homemade after all. what i'd compare it to is a "landcafé" - there you'll also find regional cakes and pastries that are also made by the owner in a nicely decorated environment that is supposed to make you feel at home. that he's selling souvenirs is to meet the demand of his customers that have their own ideas what german culture is like - and it's fun. i hope everyone is enjoying it just as much as him. i'd call what he offers perhaps even more authentic than what you may get in many german cafés/bakeries (even though i didn't see the bread here). the cake looked good enough to me.

It looks more like a souvenir shop than a german bakery. But who even cares? It's nice ...

It very authentically looks like one of the tourist traps in Heidelberg - which are kinda unauthentic of course. ^^

Please go there and do a vlog

looking forward to your vlog in this place! 👍😃

authentic? weeeel, i wouldn’t necessarily use that word. the store itself is definitely more of a general attraction to appease to the american curiosity and customers 😅. i’ve never seen a bakery look like this in germany 😅😅😅 but I think JJs cakes are very likely propper recipies from germany and he said he hasn’t changed them since the 60s, so they should be good? you should definitely go and check them out! it could be a fun road trip video for the channel too 😊 (though i wouldn’t expect to get any kind of german bread there since he is clearly a pastry chef who makes cakes and cookies and other sweet baked goods)

We need a Ryan on tour video with you trying that pastry. ✨🤩👍

Every page in his recipe book has probably an added "x2" next to the amount of sugar required.

Das Buch ❤ meine Oma hat auch so eins gespickt mit uralten Zeitungsartikel von uroma noch.

Nein Nein Nein !!!😂

"Stary face - that's very German!" You are supposed to debunk these kind of stereotypes, not promote them! 😂 I heard a while ago, that the problem with making "authentic" German bread in the US is, that you hardly find suitable flour over there. I've no idea if this is (still) true, but it would explain why American bakeries don't simply offer German style bread, which seems to have such a good reputation and surely would sell great, "like sliced bread" as we say in German.

Schnitzel is not German. So... He doesn't serve Schnitzel. And I respect him for that decision. :D

Ein bisschen wie ein sehr kleiner, in die Jahre gekommener 'Karl's Erdbeerhof' mit Thema Klischee Deutschland! 😉 Der Laden wär mein Albtraum 😱

Yes, EVERY bakery in Germany looks EXACTLY like that 🤣

cool dude. cakes look legit German

She sounds like the voice actress for Rip Van Winkle in Hellsing Ultimate Abridged. 😅

Had to laugh as he pronounced his surname half in English and half in German. It's pronounced " joong " not "jung" Herr Jungbauer. But it is a understandable after assimilating so well into the American culture. :)) And no, you don't have "Gartenzwerge" or " Bierkrüge" etc in German homes anymore unless you are about 80 or 90 years old..... .

Drink your Piss Water, but tell me nothing about bread and beer. 🤣🤣🤣 Greetings 🇩🇪

Aw man. I lived in Indy for a year in the nineties and never knew of this place. I only went to the Rathskeller, which had good food but lacked this over the top silliness. Young me would have loved Heidelberg Haus.

The most authentic German aspect about him is the fact that they "still do everything exactly the same as 48 years ago" 😂

Roadtrip Time

drive through and buy BRETZLES😂 YIPPIE YA YEAH

I feel simultaneously offended and fascinated by this "bakery".

You can definitely tell that he didn't change anything since the 60s 😂

It looks great, you have to go there and make a video of it. I, as German, will give this store a seal of German acceptance .So this store is legit.😊😊

Its more pastry but yeah looks like something my grandmother would bake

@Ryan the decorations can be ignored, no bakery in Germany would look like this but if you try to sell german food outside of Germany you have to attract more customers by selling a "german ambience". What counts is the food which was not very much in display on this vid but it seems legit. If his sausages come from a german butcher I think it's worth a ride. And buy some bread an bretzels.

That’s the most american bakery you can imagine. Maybe just lagging 100 flags or so.

Bruh even me as a German couldn’t understand his name first 😂😂😂

I thought it was a real bakery, but it seems to be a souvenir shop. It's easy to sell those trinkets in a country where you can get snake oil. Try to start that kind of "authentic" shop in Germany and tomorrow you'll be broke. Ever heard of Kitsch?

I don´t think that if you would add every gnome in german bakerys, this one would have more. At least I´ve never even seen a more german bakery in germany other than „Lila", „Steinecke", „Brot und Butter", 1000+. And by the way, some of these bakery products I´ve never seen in germany in my entire life, so I think there could be made some adjustments in the products they sell over the years, what is nothing bad in any shape or form, but it takes away the „Zeitlosigkeit über alle grenzen hinweg". Anyway, I would like to see you go there and watch everything on your own. For me as a german, it is very amsing to see you find out about things that are totaly normal for me and also learning something new about my fatherland.

We are looking forward to your trip to Indianapolis for a bakery food tasting video.

Its over germanized for Americans so it calls more for your attention. It doesn't look like regular bakery in Germany. Fortunately. But i guess what they bake will be ok?

Its Not a bakery, but a cacery 😂 i mean Café, pastry mixed with a Museum. But i have no doubt, that the caces and pastrys are very close or even better to the german Originals and are very yummi. So pls go there and enjoy, but dont expect bakerys in germany are like this.

It all looks pretty americanized to me and the interior of the bakery looks EXTREMELY 'kitschig'/'kitschy' to me and made me think of a stuffy home of some eccentric eldery people, probably with cat or dog hair covering a lot of stuff. To be honest, I might start to feel sick in this bakery.😅 All in all, they REALLY seem to have milked all clichees they possibly could, making the video, including the probably fake accent of the 'narrator'. On a side note: the bakery probably wouldn't be named like this in Germany, not just because there's technically a grammatical error, but also because bakeries are not really just named after cities. But it's in the US, so it's done differently there, of course, as he needs to market it to Americans, and he probably actually did a good job with that. But it doesn't at all look like an authentic German bakery to me, not at all like a 'regular' one you would find in Germany. Here his bakery would probably be a place that's a bit special and people might go there mostly for it's (and possibly the owner's) eccentricity. The cake might be good, might be worth a try. Edit: oh, and bakeries in Germany are usually all about bread and cake, you wouldn't really get a warm meal there (I wouldn't be surprised if this would actually be illegal even). I think you can drink some coffee and eat some cake at most bakeries and you can also buy sandwiches and possibly a bratwurst or Leberkäse in a breadroll, but I think it's pretty uncommon they serve actual warm dishes.

i heard that there was one bakery company that went from germany to the us and made at first real german food but over time where forced to make the food more palatable to americans so that sells are high enough. the idea may be cool to have a real german bakery but you can't survive of just having a cool idea so i would not be surprised if that bakery also wouldn't make 100% authentic german bread. there is also a real german baker that went to japan without even knowing japanese and now runs a bakery there and he had a similar story of having to adapt his bread as real german bread was simply to sour and to hardy for japanese. they just can't handle flavor

Please take us with you When you Go there!!

If he went from germany as an bakery master i believe his bread is more original german than some of the bread here in germany. Only few original only one human own bakeries left. Most of the bread are industrial. Bsire better than bread from other nations😊, but not the same than bread from old tradition😢

I don't know what the bakeries in the Black Forest looked like when Jordan lived there. My family lived in Germany for less than four years. I went to a bakery every morning before school and saw too the inside of other bakeries. This bakery in Indianapolis certainly doesn't look like any of the bakeries I remember. Mainly because you don't see much bread. This is significant because in Germany you'll not be distracted by garden gnomes. A typical German bakery looks modern, but not uniform, and is characterized above all by the fact that you can see a lot of bakery products at a glance, especially the different types of bread. To me, this Indianapolis bakery looks more touristy-style. Or Jordan likes to reminisce about his youth.

damn what the hell is that decoration

A lot of people rightly say that it's of course totally over the top in terms of it's "German-ness". But I don't see anything wrong with it, especially in the US. People want an experience and to see something different, and that's exactly what they get there. There's also no actual princess living in the castle in Disneyland. :p

If you ever go there try the "schwarzwälder Kirschtorte"!!

Looks Like a Ramschladen. Please go there and film it. ❤

That was awesome fun, Ryan! I would love to go to get food from here, too. When you go to visit the Heidleberg Hause, please bring you video camera along. It would be fun to see your experience. Ich danke Ihnen vielmals! Es macht mich glücklich, jetzt über diesen wunderbaren Ort, das Heidelberger Haus, zu wissen. Danke für deine Videos, Ryan. Frieden

In my town there is an original American restaurant with traditional American food. It is directed by Ronald McDonald. Thanks to him, I know what Americans look like and what they eat all day. A question for the experts here: When I visit the USA, is it enough if I dye my hair red or do I also need make-up so that people recognize me as a real American?

1:42 She sounds and speaks like a German cartoon woman

I have relatives from Germany in Indianapolis

Come on Guys....this MUST be a joke😂🤦

The most German thing is probably the accent of this guy. 😅🥖

oh my gosch, this is amazing :D so funny!

the statue looks more like something u will find in italy to me :D

Make a video about the Heidelberg Café if you visit it.😉 The cakes look like in Germany. I hope they taste as yummy as here, too. I don't have doubts about that. I have never seen so many German gnomes in any Café or bakery here in Germany. 😄 If I were in Indianapolis, I would try this out. 👋🏻👴🏼

Hop onto your Corolla and make us a reaction live.

3:22 Why americans say gnome? Its Gartenzwerg so more acurate to say is Gardening dwarf. Gnome is the same in Germany but we write it Gnom

The owner of the bakery have a strong german accent and you can hear more see the german influence of him in the shop. I know another old lady in Mississippi she is also german,dont know if she stil lives, seen a older video from her from 2005 then she was older and had a restauant there.

6:14 : Ryan: 👀 Me: 😂

Hi Ryan, start the Corolla and be on the way to Indianapolis, i'm so excited of your personal experience with this bakery 🤗😘

The stuff they sell there is looks legit.

💪😂👍 cool Video!...more of this...

Well, big R... Form an away team and explore this place...! And if you over there, ask in the bakery for a place with a good German bratwurst and other stuff. I bet dollar to peso, that they know some...!

This "bakery" guy is making fun of us. Nothing more nothing less😂

The store decoration is creepy😂 According to their website they have laugen pretzels. There you can finally eat one! The looks of the cakes are definetely americanized, I wonder how the taste is.

Its not a Bakery its a Pastry Shop. Bread is a side business there.

No german Bakery here in Germany looks like this

Looks really yummy, so really worth a try and if it is tasty then who cares for anything else.

As a German, I would call this a patisserie and not a bakery.

The narrator is super funny. She reminds me of the actress Kristen Schaal, who I really like.

Sounds rather legit. I would pay him a visit. But it’s rather a confectionery (Konditorei) than a bakery (Bäckerei)