Clapping on a plane actually means: "Yeah, you didn't kill us!"

*slaps upper leg* "So!" *stands up and leaves* That's a true thing. I do this myself lol

HaHaHa - "einen letzten Absacker, und dann können wir gehen" ist völlig akzentfrei - Übung macht den Meister! Ausgehen hilft beim Sprachelernen, das ist der Beweis :-)

Not the plane lands, but the pilot lands the plane. I always considered the clapping an appreciation for the pilot. Whatever, I never clap.

Russians also clap to the successful landing. I find it's a nice way to say thanks to the crew, and a good stress relief if you're afraid of flying.

Wenn du dich entschuldigst, weil du statt um 19 Uhr um 19:02 Uhr zu einem Treffen kommst :D Wenn du immer nach der BESTEN Lösung suchst und niemals die einfachste willst... Wenn niemand weiß, was du wählst Wenn du täglich Brot essen kannst und das in vielen Sorten Wegen den Restaurants... Ich denke oft sind wir auch zu faul, selbst zu überlegen ob das Restaurant offen ist :D Ich liebe deine Videos... Ich war ein Jahr in Chicago und hatte tatsächlich Kulturschocks in ähnlichen Punkten, nur halt anders rum ;)

As a native German (and being born and raised in the Lower Rhine area) I would assume that your empty restaurant explanation is close to my thoughts on why it is the way it is. Keep in mind that going to a restaurant is more than just eating for almost every European we sit down and chit chat or gossip or discuss family issues and so on. If you do that inside an empty restaurant you are the one who feeds the curiosity of the service staff and at least I did feel uncomfortable with that. So if there are other guests the service staff would be more occupied and could not listen to my conversation that close.

I am German and my Grandmother moved out to the US. When visiting her the biggest difference I recogniced was that Germans like to cook themselves much more often than americans. As a result of that I also found that the food items in the stores here in Germany include more fresh vegetables and meat and the one in the US includes more premade foods.

Oh my gosh, your German is amazing. Almost accent free.

To land a plane safety is the most complex (and maybe difficult) part of a flight. So, when pilot crew manage to land us safely, it's really a life-saving moment. To thank them all for the pleasing journey as well as for landing us safely, we clap for them.

It's not just the Germans who clap when the plane lands, the Dutch also do it! They're expressing their gratitude to the pilots & crew for getting them there safely. I even experienced that among Italians on a A'Italia flight.

I watch "Dinner for One" only one time every year: on New Year's Eve and it's always so much fun. It will never ever become boring.

The most stereotypically German thing I do is... I am Obsessed with bread. I don't even eat bread every day, or every week. But I love good bread! And while living abroad the lack of good bread was the hardest thing 🤣 I will probably take a loaf with me when I go to Japan for my exchange year 🤣🤣🤣🤣

You know you're talking to a Canadian when they smile and apologize for everything all the time. ;)

They only clap on charter ( = vacation) flights, never heard it on a business flight.

Looking in the eyes of a person youre talking to is necessary expression of respect. At least my father told me that fifty years ago :). And to be honest " i hate small talk"! XD

Mastering the checkout system does contain more than yelling for a new lane. You also need to be able to pick the fastest one, when multiple are available. It's not as straight forward as counting the people waiting. You also need to analyze the speed of ther cashier, the amount of items they have in their cart and sometimes even the personality types of the people waiting (some are more chatty than others). And there is of course your own speed. You need to be able to beat the cashier: bagging your items faster (or at least as fast) as the cashier can scan them. That's extra tricky since you also have to pay while your're at bagging. Pro tip: If you're not alone at the store, let your partner take care of the payment process, while you are bagging. And please get your wallet ready while waiting in line. THAT is the right time to search for it. I can't believe how many people I met, bagging their items, the cashier demands an amount of money and THEN they starting to look for their wallet. As they havn't expected to pay anything. Speaking of not paying anything... If you ever wanted to buy something but leave a grocery store with MORE money in your pocket than going in, germany's bottle deposit system is your chance. Bring back a lot of returnable bottles or crates, pick an item that costs less than the deposit total and head to the checkout. It feels like a dick move, but it's worth it.

Wenn du keinen Applaus nach der Landung hörst, dann war die Landung SCHEISSE!!!

Clapping when the plane lands is not just a german thing LOL. The British do that too, just like reserving a pool seat with a towel, while on vacation in Mallorca.

I've never really been a huge Tatort fan, except for the ones with Kommissar Schimanski (starring one of my favourite German actors Götz George). They were so successful that they even made two movies that played in cinemas and later he got his own series (called simply "Schimanski").

I mean, starting to count with a finger that isn't the "first" finger just doesn't make sense 🤷🏻‍♀️😂

A doner kebab is fast food. Am guilty of asking for another checkout at Aldi. Love fresh air in my house. Love Dinner For One. Not the slightest bit Germanised because I am Australian and in Australia.

A very awesome and fun video Jenna, I love it. :). I can't wait to have you as my guest on my LiveStream next Saturday, YAY :).

The clapping on a plane is supposed to be something like a thank you to the pilot for a smooth landing. So if the landing is quiet rough there shouldn't be any clapping.

you nailed it. i would add to that supermarket story: if you DONT bag your stuff but just throw it back into the cart to pack it outside because you dont want to slow anyone down. edit: döner is definitely fast food because you can get in and out of a dönerladen within 4 minutes with your customized döner. can it get any faster?

When you cheer and don't look into each others eyes, we say, that this will lead to seven years of bad sex, or at least seven years of misfortune. So, always:. 😳

It‘s definitely the small talk reason in empty restaurants. I would feel super uncomfortable.

When I was in kindergarden, I noticed that some people started counting with the pointer and some with the thumb. And I was always thinking that I liked starting with the thumb better, because you don't have to switch direction while counting. And then, I was already in school, someone actually started from the little finger. (And all of them were native Germans...)

Your point with the crowd choosing is so true! I’ve been working at a outside pool since I was 15 and I noticed that especially on slow days people start to come to our shop when they see people in line. It is really weird it looks like sometimes Germans wait for someone else to do the first step

Queen of Positivity - das ist ein wirklich schönes und unterhaltsames Video gewesen, obwohl mich das Klatschen im Flugzeug noch immer verstört, LOL

Hi Jenna, KZfaq algorithm has brought me here. However, I like your content and your likable way of presenting your ideas. By the way, very German is waiting at red lights at a crosswalk in the middle of nowhere! :-) In diesem Sinne! Greetings Hubertus

Döner is the fastfood for the after hours before going home. I’m not german, but southern neighbor 😂. We complain about the same stuff like jaywalking lol

Sogar wenn ich abends einen Film auf Netflix schaue, muss das 20:15 Uhr sein😂

I am a German and i find it silly to clap when the plane lands. And i couldn't care less about Tatort.

Clapping once your plane has just landed is also done in the Philippines. It is like thanking the pilots and the crews that they did a well-done job that we arrived safely and well.

About the new restaurants that are always empty... Well, Germans tend to only trust what they know and they don't like risks. That's why they have so many insurances: to have a safe life without any bad surprises.

Cool video with a lot of truth to it. You got me with Dinner For One. I had to LOL. (The clapping after the landing bothers me a lot.)

I was laughing so hard about the grocery store part! As a German, I've encountered this situation regularly and I feel embarrassed every time ("fremdschämen"). That is, being part of a group of customers where one customer is so rude to the store employees. Usually the cashiers do a pretty good job at calling for additional personal, when lanes get too long. As you mentioned, German Discounters are very "günstig" in comparison to North American stores. But in order to offer those low prices, the stores need to cut costs in some areas. Usually that means having less staff. So I find it extremely rude to expect to pay very little, but on the other hand expect premium service. Yelling "neue Kasse" means to the cashier "you're doing a sh*tty job", even if there is no one around to open another lane. I always think, if you don't have those three minutes to wait in line, then pay a little extra in a more expensive store. 😜

germans do actually believe that it's bad luck if you don't look into the eyes of the person you cheer's with

We look into each others eyes when saying „cheers“ so That we dont have Bad Sex for 7 years, kinda Important!

2 Thoughts about the restaurant thing: in the past most customer were from the same village were the restaurant is located. So if the restaurant is empty it meant to be a bad omen, because not even the own folks want to go there. 2nd thought is that this behaviour got worse when gemans went to holidays and fell into a "Touristenfalle" which means they were tricked with bad food, service and so on. The other effect you described is the "Schaufenstereffekt". Nice german words in my opinion:) .

Haha, your observation about empty restaurants does not only apply to restaurants. Try standing in front of a shop window - looking at the shop's display will usually get you company after a while, too. :D

Hahah, great vid and fun list. Even still being here in the US, I picked up the habit a while ago of using my thumb to count and still do it here. Daran bin ich schon gewöhnt. Natürlich habe ich das auch festgestellt aus Inglorious Basterds (spoiler alert), weil der Fehler jeden das Leben gekostet hat. Das ist ja gute Verstärkung.😂 „So!,“ Jenna 😂 Na dann, weiter machen. LG aus Michigan. Ich freue mich, bald nach Deutschland zu kommen.

- You can only experience clapping hands on a vacation plane. Maybe we Germans did not understand that a successful landing is included in the price? You would be the only one in an German business aviation if you applaud and would expose yourself as a newbie. - Line up at poorly restaurants. I think that Germans are simply very loyal, regardless of whether the quality offered still corresponds to what the restaurant started with.

Tatort, which means "Crime scene" btw. starts at 20:15 because before that, at 20:00 there is the Tagesschau. Fun fact: Tatort started 1970 and to this day they purposefully never changed the intro.

Wow I didn’t know that your Chanel is so new on KZfaq. That’s amazing congrats you are doing great

The character "Max Ballauf", who works in Cologne now. Worked before that in Düsseldorf, as an "assistant" to Kommissar Flemming, the episodes were aired in the 1990s.

About 75% of this also applies to Dutchies 😂

Ein fröhliches Hallo von Ba-Wü nach Düsseldorf 😎 Lüften ist wichtig 😇 "Stoßlüften" ist besser. Das bedeutet das kurze 5-Minuten - Lüften zum Energiesparen 😁😉

My German gran had a zero tolerance line for being loud on a cemetery. She would always hiss at me then with "Sei nicht so laut! Das ist ein Friedhof! Man stört die Totenruhe nicht!" Aka "Don't be so loud! This is a cemetery not a playground! Don't disturb the peace of the dead!" Followed by evil stares towards little me 😆

I think the restaurant thing is mostly true for settings where we are not at home + at least for me, when I didn't look up restaurants beforehand. If there are a lot of people that must mean they are doing something right there ;) but I don't do it at home. I'm from the German countryside in the Southwest of Germany... Döner is fast food.

😂 herrlich! Tatsächlich kann ich mit Tatort nichts anfangen. Aber ich bin wohl eine der wenigen Deutschen. Es gibt ja tatsächlich Bars/Kneipen bei denen Sonntags der Tatort gezeigt wird. Dinner for one hab ich auch nur ein Mal gesehen 😂 Aber beim Absacker bin ich dabei 👍🏻🤣

"reservier uns schon mal Liegen" (on vacation), "vorglühen" (drinking at home before going out), "soooo" the opening to say good-bye

The First thing isn’t german, its european 😅 And your german is amazing 👌🏻 And „lüften“ is important 😅 who likes mold?😂

Der Film auf netflix oder prime wird 20:15 Uhr gestartet. So will es das Gesetz. Und vorher kurz durchlüften. 🤣

Concerning "Absacker" there is even a song named "Gute Nacht Freunde" by Reinhard Mey which perfectly describes the custom and it's a great tribute to friendship in general.

We swedes oftentimes clap at planes landing too, but also stare at people in general, when someone does something wrong and sometimes at foreigners regardless of ethnicity, we're also quite shy and following societal and unspoken rules quite strictly...

ich hab soo gelacht! Danke für das Video! You made my day! :D

Good morning ☕🔆 Maybe you should make a business out of it, if a new restaurant opens, they can hire you to sit there with someone. The most clapping happens on flights to Mallorca or Ibiza Germany's so called 17th federal state for party, is there something you need to say or to confess? Visiting Mallorca is very German. A Sunday family breakfast with everything prepared on the table like cold cuts, cheese, salmon, jam, plum butter, honey, Nutella with a boiled egg and different kind of rolls and bread, coffee, tea or hot chocolate is very German. And of course watching the Tagesschau, the most important News show on German TV every day at 08:00pm, that's why all the movies start at 08:15h. The private TV channels tried it a couple of times earlier, but failed. I guess there is enough material for more videos like this.

As for the restaurants: I agree. It is because if a restaurant is bad, one expects it to be empty and if it's full it must be for a reason. It is different with stores though. I would rather not enter a shop that is empty, because often you are just browsing, you don't quite know what to get - entering a store and being the only customer I'd feel all the eyes of people working there on me and feel compelled to buy something. As for the plane-flights: that usually happens with tourists who do not fly often. The more business-people are on the plane the scarcer it is.

One more thing what ist very German, is when we open all windows to get fresh air but when you open the door to the garden and you stand in the open door you parents tell you:" close the door we don't heed für the outside/ Mach die Tür zu wie heizen nicht für alle anderen".

With restaurants, you can actually get paid to go to restaurants so that they are not empty and actually customers come in. And if you go to an rater empty restaurant, they will always set you next to a window. So other people can see you sitting in the restaurant

TATORT is one good example for federalism in Germany. ;) Crime stories/TV Shows and their appreciation have a long history in german TV... from "Stahlnetz" (1950s) to "Der Kommissar" (1960s) to "Derrick" (1970s) to "Der Alte" (1980s). But the unique point for TATORT is their alternating venues, representing one (or more) special city per federal state...in the beginning in the 1970s with a great amount of "Lokalkolorit", very typical characters with a very local atmosphere. In recent days 21 different teams and citys/regions (including Austria and Switzerland) are shown...in 35 installments per year.

Absacker are a thing! So much so there's even songs about them (such as Reinhard Mey's timeless classic "Gute Nacht, Freunde"). Where I'm from, we call them "Schlürschluck" (round here, a 'Schluck' in this context isn't a sip but a shot and 'schlür' probably refers to the waddling way you'll be walking home after having one too many Schlürschlucks. My brother was pissed drunk out of his mind at the end of his wedding reception (which was around 6am) because everybody tends to insist on drinking one last Schlürschluck with the groom. :D The Absacker is the most dangerous drink of the night. When hungover, we always say, 'That last beer probably was bad/expired.' :D It's always the Absacker's fault, never the 35 beers' you had before that.

Omg, what you've described is soooooo russian, I can't believe😅 most of it at least. I'm russian in germany lol

I visited Vancouver once and there you say 'Thank you.' to the bus driver. That is pretty much the same with the clapping when a plane has landed. We just say 'Thank you' to the pilot. And in germany we have a Superstition that you get 7 years bad sex, when you don't look into the eyes, when cheering.

Opening aother supermarket lane: supermarkets in my area have a bell ringer / remote hanging in front of the lands where people can push a button and the announcement "another lane will soon be opened" then sounds, alarming the staff to send another cashier.

No Silvester without "Dinner for One"! Yes, I'm German, obviously! 😂

Pointer finger?!? Shouldn't that be index finger?!? That is SOOOO German, that literal translation of "Zeigefinger" being a pointer finger. :D

YOU are 100 % right! Well done. :D

Selbst hier auf dem Land gibt es überall Dönerläden! Schöne Grüße aus der Eifel (Kreis Cochem-Zell) :D

People in the US used to clap on landing (50s-70s). That progressed towards long haul flights, and now not all that often.

Sehr unterhaltsam! :)

I Like your friendly openness

You have to learn some expressions: Clapping in airplanes: "Fremdschämen". Going into prefilled restaurants only: "Herdentrieb". Btw: "Absacker" means: "Suicide drink" ("Absacken" from aviation means: "to loose altitude involuntarily", literally: "to go down like a sack"). "Döner" is fast food in South Bavaria too.

I usually don't clap after a plane landing, rarely when there are severe weather conditions at the target airport. But I've observed it. This happens usually when you are on a "vacation" trip / plane. Many people, probably rarely flying / not being used to fly are doing this. However on regular business flights I've never observed it. There obviously most business travelers just expect the pilot being a professional who's just doing his job.

when going back to italy. every.single.flight.clapping.after.landing. i thought it was only an italian thing 🤣

This restaurant thing probably goes back to the time of the Völkerwanderung: when Germans come to a pool of water, they first let a single person drink. If he survives for a while, the others drink too.

I only go insane with opening the windows to let fresh air in since we had mold in our new built home, last year and we were told we did not have to "Lüften" regularly because we have a built-in ventilation system that would take care of it, we followed the rules during the first few months as told and then mold happened to be a real big issue here. The humidity from the building process was still remaining in the walls. In the past, people moved in their homes after they let them dry for a certain period of time but now landlords and banks want to get their money in as soon as possible and thus they let the people move in immediately. Never again. Now I do Stoßlüften 2 to 3 times a day, every day and I find the ventilation system in here kind of redundant.

So many Swedish habits as well. The plane claps( i cringe), The dinner for one, fresh air and more.

Dear Lady well i am a Düsseldorfer Jung but i was living all over germany but east germany,no horse could drag me in the Nazi land. Looking into each others eyes is even in bavaria a guesture of honesty. Even in a very conservative state as bavaria Döner Kebab is a very popular food. I grew up at a time 1970's when the first turkish workers came to Düsseldorf. We the young once became close friends knowing that the turkish girls, as beautifull as they are, were forbidden.Not only once i was invited to a turkish home. I was offered some tea and invited for lunch.There at the time was no hate or anger, vica versa i myself was a stranger having blond hair.I was always threatend with a lot of respect and the hospitalaty was unreal.Still today after 50 years i am in contact with my turkish friends.

OMG. I have never been to Germany, but after watching this video I find myself soooo German! In fact, I'm Russian and I'm applying to university in Dortmund (if i manage it, we gonna be almost neighbors), so that's why I subscribed to your channel and I find it very informative and amusing. In Russia we start counting from the thumb too. And we also have an "Absacker" as well. And we clapp in planes after landing. My first trip abroad was from Moscow to Paris and then from Paris to Chicago. So when we landed in Paris everyone started clapping. I was like "Why do they do it?", but eventually I started to clapp as everyone else. But when we landed in Chicago I was about to start to clapp and no one, literally no one clapped in the plane. I was completely bewildered about that. The empty restaurant's fenomen seems to be weird to me. Taking into account such tendency of Germans to visit only full places, If I had to open a new restaurant in Germany I would simply hire some people for a week to imitate my customers and show how they enjoy the cuisine and atmosphere.

parts of a tatort episode was partially filmed at my past school in Vienna in the summer break while I was a student there

Born in germany, 30 years old and i just learned Im not german. I dont know what dinner for one is, I dont watch Tatort, I have never heard the word Absacker, I would never yell to open up another lane, I dont like full Restaurants, I dont clap in planes,.... I could go on.

Very funny how you hold us Germans a mirror under our noses. But I was surprised about the clapping in the plane. Is that still going on? I didn't hear this in years and I'm usually several times a year in the air. Maybe my ears cut it out now automatically. =;-)

You are German when you ring the neighbour's doorbell and tell him to cut his hedge. :-)

German here, if we are not familar with the restaurants in an area we always look where a lot of people are sitting before we go in. I always assume the locals should know where you can get good food.

I go to the market when it opens to beat the crowds lately. Many times I am the first to park in the customer section. No matter which row I park in the next cars park around me leaving 100's of empty spaces. I think people just naturally clump together. This would be easy to confirm by a statistician.

was soll man sagen !!! Perfekt du hast alles richtig gesagt, und dein Deutsch ist unglaublich gut .

Okay, let's see if I can agree :D I often start with the pointing finger... huuuuh, interesting! Not all the time, though. I'm a mix! The plane lands and people start clapping? Only encountered that once. My parents definitely follow the crowds. I'm more adventurous, but they definitely follow that rule! (and my parents think that if a restaurant is not filled with people, then it's probably not good) I know some people who like 'Absacker', but we usually don't do it. My parents just love to have a coffee after their food. And when 'Prosting', we also don't have to look each other in the eye. We only do it for fun to check if we can lift the glass and not spill anything while not looking at it. Döner... yeah, fast food. That fits. I never yell to ask for another lane... and I also rarely see it. So it happens, but it doesn't happen often. Fresh Air. Oh yes. I often open up the window. Especially in summer and autumn. But in winter, I mostly keep it close. I'm not that much a fan of Dinner for One, and I only watched it once and we never watch it New Year's Eve. My parents watch 'Tatort'. I don't. Almost never do. (Netflix here!) It's totally fun to check what applies and what not! Fun video! Thanks!

8:38 well most newer European Windows are isolated that well, that you HAVE to open windows once a day in winter or else you have water run down Windows and will have Mould soon... ask you apartment owner ... and google „warum lüften wichtig ist“ ... it’s also for YOUR Health.

counting starting with thumbs is funny, i didnt realize that :D. i didnt clap after landing, i dont like it. i prefer empty restaurants. last drink is a must :D. döner is the best.

Because of: "Dinner For One" It's funny that the little comedy has become a tradition in Germany. When you consider that Freddie Frinton, the butler, absolutely hated Germany.

Latvians do most of those things as well! Except for the last two mentioned here and yelling at the checkout counter might be less common here in Latvia (but happens from time to time). I guess, those centuries living under German cultural influence still has its mark left here.

:D Nr. 2 is so true but I do not know why, maybe they are just happy they had a good pilot.

... to the broadcast of "Dinner for one!" but still missing important two facts at the end of the year: Number 1 - it is not Christmas, if at least 3 weeks before Christmas Eve the song of the group Wham "Last Christmas" is not sounded. Number 2 - you MUST watch the movie "The Little Lord" on TV before or on Christmas and you must be able to recite the lyrics to the movie by heart. THEN CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR'S EVE CAN COME.

The biggest thing is prefering a drink with no ice, it's been my thing my whole life, it just makes sense...

I am definitely born and raised in Germany but I consider it impolite when asking the store staff to open another lane, especially when it is visible that they are busy for an apparent reason or when they are just about to open another cash register anyway. I would not do it myself.

Oh help! I'm as German as you can get, but still I don't seem to be fully integrated going by your list. 🤣

number 3 is so true too ,,,so funny