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Stick Bread is one of the biggest food mysteries. It should not taste good, but hell it does.

Some hints for baking stick bread: Don't bake it over the flame, it will burn. You need to baje it over the "Glut". If you want to make it more fancy, you can slice cheese like Gauda and roll it with the bread around the stick. I personally prefer the sweet dough, where you just add sugar. You can also roll the dough into sugar, when it's on the stick, so it will be caramelised on the outside. Or you eat it with Nutella or jam, when it's ready. There are so many nice options. 🤩

Donnie, do you know the Belgian comic series of Lucky Luke, "the man who shoots faster than his shadow"? It is very popular in Europe, translated into over 20 languages, a parody of the Wild West era, also embedding some historical persons like Calamity Jane, Billy the kid, the Daltons, Sitting Bull and others. We loved to read the funny stories.

My random question: What is the difference between icecream and gelato? Ant to the topic of the video: Until a few years ago I thought Karl May is known everywhere...

Winnetou was an awesome part of my childhood. The films, the books, the audio dramas (on vinyl), all so incredibly interesting. Also went to the festival and play at Bad Segeberg several times. Maybe you should give the first Winnetou movie (Winnetou I / Apache Gold) a try, don´t know if the available English dubbing is worth it though.

Random question: As a son of a German mother and an Italian father I don't see really a difference between German ice-cream and Italian gelato, and always believed they are the same because even when I learned Italian in school (had to go once a week to an Italian Catholic school for that), gelato und Eis (here in Hamburg we say "Eis" for ice-cream, which is just short for "Speiseeis") were just seen as the same and translated into each other. Loved Winnetou growing up, played it even with friends. Haven't had Stockbrot for 31 years, but when we did we also threw potatoes wrapped in aluminium foil into the same fire (like a baked potato). Never ever heard anyone refer to making "Stockbrot" as grilling it. It was either "Stockbrot machen" or "Stockbrot rösten".

A German tries to explain handball to an American: "Handball is like water polo, - only without water." 😅

Weaving the ad into the stick bread segment was well done.

I live in Germany, but stem from Poland and handball is very popular there as well. My elementary and secondary schools had their own teams and championships. As far as Stockbrot is concerned, I first tried it in Denmark in 1993 and it was also new to me, since in Poland "camp fire potatoes" ( potatoes baked in a piece of tin foil in hot ashes) are more popular.

Winnetou: My father had the complete Karl May collection and I read them all. Technically the stories revolve around a German traveler (Old Shatterhand) as the point of view, not Winnetou. There is also a version of this traveler in the Middle East and Balkans. We also visited Bad Segeberg once and the live actions films were part of my childhood. There was even a board game, but I think that got lost over time with different location changes of our family. And Gelato every time, when I want to enjoy the experience. Ice cream is for cooling down, not as pleasure :)

"Stockbrot". I wasn't born in Germany, but coming to Germany in 1971 as a 15yo for the first time, I didn't find this unusual. When I was a chlld in the UK back in the 1960s we did this when we went camping with the Scouts or Guides or Boys or Girls Brigades in the summer. We called it campfire bread. But we also used to do this at home in wintertime simply by mixing flour, water and a pinch of salt into a dough and spearing it on a toasting fork (that was an antique even back then!) to cook the dough by holding it over the open coal fire. It had a unique taste, either woodfire smoky in summer or coalfire smoky in winter. In the winter we also roasted chestnuts over the fire as well, wedging a long-handled cast-iron pan into the coals. The chestnuts had to be pierced open first with a pin or a knife tip, though, otherwise the rising pressure inside would cause them to explode. You do not want to be hit by very hot bits of exploding chestnut that burn like hell if they manage to drop down the neck of your shirt or go up your sleeves or trouser legs! From some German friends I heard they did similar things in winter, roasting chestnuts on top of the cast-iron stove in their house. As a Brit, I first encountered Winnetou as a summer exchange student in Germany back in the 1970s when the films were were shown in the local cinemas and on TV. I had also grown up reading books by James Fenimore Cooper in English, and (since my mother was French) I got plenty of input about the French in North America as well. To me, Winnetou was based more on the JFC books and French accounts of trappers, scouts and frontiersmen and - though fiction - was therefore far more believable than any of the Hollywood Westerns I ever saw during my childhood. I can understand the controversy today because Winnetou is an unrealistic Westernised figure, but at least Winnetou was protrayed as a main character and a figure to be admired. The fact that he was played by Pierre Brice (a Frenchman) who certainly grew up with a French view on North America that was characterised perhaps a smidgin more by cooperation with the Native American peoples than the "Trail of Tears" southern view probably helped. Winnetou is definitely perceived as the hero in the Karl May books.

As a German, I have difficulties defining the difference between ice cream and gelato. For me, gelato is simply the Italian word for ice cream.So: I like both, but unfortunately I shouldn't eat either. I made Stockbrot when I was young, but I never really had the patience. It's good when it's done, but it takes far too long. I grew up with my father's Karl May books that he grew up with, and I read most of them several times back then. A few years ago, when I inherited them, I simply couldn't see why I devoured them as a child. I found the storytelling rather boring, and the representation of countries and cultures other than German(y) embarrassing at best. It seems to me that Schorle has become far more popular in recent years (well I say recent, but I mean the past 25 or 30 years. When I was young, I knew Schorle existed, but to me it was always something you did when you wanted to make your fruit juice last longer (or have enough to go round for a whole family from a single pack or bottle). It might just be my own perception, though. I'm pretty sure though that it wasn't regularly sold pre-mixed back in the day like it is now.

Oh, I can't remember how many times I cried over Winnetou's death. I inherited all the audiobooks on vinyl from my older brothers and Winnetou was quite popular with them. Winnetou's friend Old Shatterhand, portraied by Lex Barker, was Karl May's alter ego. The other one was Kara Ben Nemsi, who rode through the orient. I guess no kid born till the 1980s grew up without knowing any Karl May book. I even was lucky enough to see Pierre Briece, who played Winnetou in the famous movies, in the live action plays in Elspe. And about Schorle... I don't drink juice because it is way too sweet. But I love Schorle, especially with passion fruits juice. It almost tastes like lemonade but as less calories. I mix every juice with carbonated water and it is really good. What is the difference between ice cream and gelato, please?

That random question caught me rly off guard as a German and I had o google what the difference is hahaha since Gelato is just ITALIAN for ... Ice Cream and here in Germany all of that is just called Ice Cream "so you want to know what's better... Ice cream or .... ICE CREAM?" hahaha

I guess the appeal of stickbread is the sentiment "You know, I'm something of a baker myself"

The stick bread made me so happy! We are living in the North of Germany right at the border to Denmark. And stick bread is so popular here that they even do it with the children in kindergarten. Yes, with kids 4-6 years old. And everybody loves it. To make your stick bread more exciting: you can add grated cheese and bacon in the dough, yumm! Or you fill it after cooking with a chocolate bar like kinderriegel or duplo (in this case make sure, that you close the dough on top of the stick, so that nothing can run out).

I`m German and I`m 61 but NEVER heard of stick bread!!!

Another phenomenon besides Winnetou that I had never heard of in the States was Astérix and the village in Gaul that continued to resist the Romans and Caesar. Was that just my corner of the country, are the characters generally unknown in the States, or has it perhaps changed?

Just have to say, yozu really nailed the pronouciation of the german states. Ane yea, stickbread needs other people to talk about stuff while the bread is baking. Winnetou was a big part of my child hood and i can't understand what that culutural apropriation stuff is about. Winnetou was basically one of my child hood heroes with stable morales and fighting for the good.

I've been playing handball for almost 22 years. It's such a beautiful dynamic full contact sport. I wouldn't say that handball is more popular in our area than football, but our 1st ladies played in the 2nd Bundesliga and the sports hall was always full. But I also have to admit that this sport is very popular in the north, especially in Schleswig-Holsten. With the top teams like THW Kiel or SG Flensburg, we all have handball in our blood.

Sitting at a campfire making stick breads is a really precious childhood memory of mine. It was always a social event for every class trip that included a "Jugendherberge". And it is still nice sitting with your friends at nice warm campfire, chatting, drinking beer and trying to be the winner of stickbread making (means it isn't burned). And: Definitely Ice cream!

German here: I never ate stick bread. What we did when I was young, was to roast potatoes directly in the fire _(could be done either wrapped into tin foil, or "bare naked")._ Since you live in Rhineland-Palatinate, simply watch out for "Kartoffelfeuer" in your region. _(May sometimes be called something like "Grumbeerfeschd", or similar, and usually takes place around the German Thanksgiving (first Sunday of October))._ To give you an idea: using the fire pit in your video, you'd simply put some potatoes directly into the embers and let them become cooked even. And yes: that means the skin gets all black and charred. Doesn't matter - the potatoes underneath taste delicious. A dip with it, made out of curd, seasoned with some herbs, salt and pepper...mmh.

A good friend at school played handball and I often went to his games to cheer him on. Yes, Winnetou and also Karl May's other stories were definitely part of my childhood, the books as well as the movies. My brother is dyslexic and the desire to read "Winnetou" made him put in the effort to finally learn how to read. So our parents gave him Karl May's books as presents for every Christmas and birthday. The movies were typically shown on Sunday afternoons and it was always a family event to watch them together.

Stockbrot...yes, definitely. Generally: freshly baked bread is delicious. I heard a baker describe quality bread once: It's "when you eat an entire roll without any toppings..and you want another one"...and Stockbrot does that for me every time.

I played Handball for around 8 years. And in the area where I grew up Handball was also more popular to play than soccer. So it was also part of our school sport.

Karl May is a phenomenon - you should really take a closer look at his stories. Basically, he wrote a lot of stories about places he never was before. His knowledge came from traveller guides, written documentations about those places and so on. He was really imaginative. He also wrote some books about laurence of arabia, a story set in the orient. And he never was there or spoke any kind of language from there.

That was the most clever way to integrate an ad into a YT video I have ever seen. Well done!

Winnetou is definitely a childhood classic and something my family loved (we used to watch the movies on TV together)

"Stockbrot" is a simple grilling strategy and mostly for the cids. When you are on a Grill Party, from a certain age on, there are kids running and playing around. To give them a certain entertainment instead of bugging their parents this is a very good strategy. it take time, is healthy and fire is alöways fascinating for the little ones. Besides the grown ups can drinks a beer and chat. as working in a kindergarten myself once in a while we go out with the kids and make Stockbrot. its always fun. greetings from germany

I think you drink "Apfelschorle" not because you like lsparkling water so much that you would mix it with everything, but rather because it is a very refreshing drink - especially in the summer or doing sports. As for stick bread: If you thing it somewhat boring like I do try mixing some dried tomatoes into the dough and sprinkle it with some salt before putting it onto the fire

Croatian here, we also love our handball, thanks for representing our small country. Winnetou film was also filmed in our country.

I used to play handball from age 7-10 while in Germany, glad I was able to continue it after moving to Sweden where it's also popular. Kept playing handball for another 20 years or so in Sweden. Don't usually go watch handball matches though

1. Handball: we regularly played at school and I was also in my youth in a club. Whereas the women played Bundesliga we youngsters played Bezirksliga. A classmate of my later husband played as an adult for a Bundesliga club. 2. Never even heard of this, but it sounds fun. 3. Winnetou: read some of the books, listened to radio plays, and watched all the 1960ies movies multiple times. I didn't know about the animated series though. 4. Schorle: it's more refreshing than and not so sickly sweet as plain juice. With wine, you can have a "Saure Schorle" (carbonated water) or a "Süße Schorle" (with "Limonade"). Esp. on hot days a Schorle will quench your thirst way better than the plain beverage. And with a Weinschorle you'll get less drunk. 5. As Germany mostly consumes what Americans call gelato I once follow the trend. Gelato it is.

"stickbread" tastes great to eat plain, but to make it more interesting, many try to get it off the stick whole and fill the resulting hole with nutella (=hazelnut-chocolate spread). Or you can vary the recipe to include herbs, dried tomatoes or olives in the dough!

you could explain Schorle to nongerman people with a kind of lemonade/ soda pop, but with actual juice. Stockbrot is more something to keep children entertained, similar to marshmallows, but probably healthier (because less sugar). You can still dip it in ketchup or other dip to add some more flavor. What the woman in that clip did, i would consider a sacrilege. Only way to make a Stockbrot is on open fire/ flames, not a barbecue grill.

Stick bread is made from simple yeast dough and can be savoury or sweet. I personally prefer sweet stick bread, but that depends on your preference. Sweet stick bread is usually more popular with children. The experience of making stick bread as a child is of course also very exciting but also very exhausting because you have to wait so long until the bread is ready. It is simply exciting to look for the right sticks (as straight and long as possible), roll up the dough, sit around the campfire with parents, siblings or friends and wait for it to be ready, mostly because children like to poke around in the fire with the sticks and then eat the long-awaited reward for all the waiting. Edit: I forgot to say YES sweet stick bread is definitely authentic and delicious, also yes there are the rotate and one place at a time stick breads (Im on team rotate).

German scout leader tips on upping your Stockbrot game: - More embers, less flame!, so that your bread gets less of that grey sooty covering that's bitter and not quite healthy - cover the tip! It's usually where you get most of the heat, so you don't want your stick taking the brunt of it and turning to ash or even burning your bread -spice up the dough with herbs and seeds, linseeds and sesame give a nutty tint and a little oil to the mix - make the best hot dog bun ever! by trusting and sliding the whole baked Stockbrot of your stick filling the whole with a sausage: Wiener, Kabanossi, cheesey Krainer, or grilled Nürnberger/Merguez - there's a lot to choose from in the German 'sausage department' 😉

In some regions of germany Stockbrot (Stick bread) is called Knüppelkuchen (club cake) and it is extremely popular to do as a child during barbeque or in summer camp because you could prepare your own food and add contiments or eat it as it is. I't is really fun to do and tastes great

Karl Mays fictional Winnetou is the reason why we Germans appreciate American Natives so much.

An original "Schorle" or more specific a "Schorle sauer" is exactly the same as a sprizzer - white wine with carbonated water. it's even called Spritzer or Gespritzter in some regions. a "Schorle süß" is white wine with lemonade Red wine with Cola is what we call "Korea". Juices with carbonated water are "Saftschorle". So don't be suprised if you got wine instead of juice if your order just "a Schorle".

I actually don't like carbonated drinks, so I usually order a "Stille Apfelschorle" which means they usually just mix apple juice with tap water. "Stille Schorle" usually costs less than the juice alone and isn't as sweet as pure juice, which I prefer.

I like the stickbread the most when its crispy outside, but doughy inside. A little bit of sugar in the dough (just a sprinkle) also helps.

Thank you for trying out „Stockbrot“. I really enjoy when the video has another location. All of your videos are good, but testing something in real life is a nice variety :)

For stick bread you rinse the branch by removing all the bark and let the stick dry (eg. by time or over the fire). You also place the doug on the tip so the wood won't get scorched or catches fire. The stick is normally thinner than your pinky at the tip. Kids *loooove* making stick bread.

some advices for a better stick bread experience ;) 1. use a longer and thinner stock (also remove the bark where the dough is) 2. hold the stick bread over the embers and avoid the flames 3. the dough should be a little bit thinner on your stick 4. eat is with something like jam or Nutella (if you use a sweet dough)

Winnetou was a huge part of my childhood. I watched all the movies, I read all (?) the books _(my grandmother gifted me a collection of 36 of Karl May's books, when I was 10),_ and of course - as kids we played "Cowboy and Indians"...and I always wanted to be the Indian - because of how May portrayed them: brave, nobel, with cool abilities, like sneaking unseen through the grass, using bow and arrows, and of course throwing a tomahawk. Way cooler than the cowboys. What happened recently was one of the worst examples of the so called "woke-culture". These people think they are so progressive, while attempting to rewrite history to make it "nicer looking". "Geschichtsrevisionismus" is the term for that, I believe. And under most other circumstances, the same people would be against it. It's the same what happened to "Pippi Longstocking", etc. Rewriting things that they wish, wouldn't exist. It's a shame, really.

I really liked the outdoor section. I'd definitely watch more of you trying out stuff in your garden :D

I’m an adult leader for our local church youth. We have an annual 5 day retreat with the youth. Not being native German, I was like Stock what? Now I’m the master Stockbrotteig maker at our annual retreat. 😂The kids love it! Ice cream AND gelato.

I'm usually almost always on the American side when it comes to food (for example, being on "Team Doughnut", not "Team Berliner"), but the Gelato vs American Ice Cream controversy is a exception. I decisively prefer gelato. Frankly, stuff like Ben & Jerry's or Hagen Dasz tastes like frozen, sugary deep fryer lard to me. I especially don't like the heavy, dense consistency and prefer the more airy, light, melty consistency of gelato.

Thank you for being an ambassador for our country and culture 😇

As a german, I've never had stick bread either. There were always fellow kids in a handball team, during my time in school. And I didnt't know that gelato was an english word, thought it was italian for ice cream. So I don't know what's the difference.

The great period of Karl May movies was from 1962-1968, during which 17 very successful movies were made, starring Pierre Brice and Lex Barker. Pierre Brice is French and Lex Barker is US-American, their voices had to be dubbed. Very famous was the theme song of the films made by film composer Martin Böttcher

I grew up in Franconia and there it is called "Stockbrot" meaning stick bread. It was made out of an slightly salty dough like pizza dough. Now I live in Saxony and here everybody calls it "Knüppelkuchen" what is more like stick cake. Most people make a sweet dough here. However I prefer to make a dough with roasted onions and spices.

The thing about handball is that when football became professionalised, it very quickly became very expensive to field a top tier team. So if you wanted one, you needed big sponsors. Handball was cheaper (less international competition for the top players, smaller team sizes once they shifted to playing indoors and so on). So a town or region that didn't quite have the industrial power to support a Bundesliga football side could easily support a Bundesliga handball team. Which is why it kind of became the sport of small and medium towns. The regions that are most prominent in german handball are not the classic industrial centres, but regions that have a bunch of medium sized companies (the famous Mittelstand). For example Ostwestfalen-Lippe is full with these kinds of companies, as is Württemberg. And yes, you read that correctly, handball used to be played outside. It was basically football, but played with your hands. It only became this very fast paced game with high scores once they moved it inside.

to me stick bread is always a thing connected to Maifeuer or Osterfeuer where we make a huge fire often burning the old christmas trees while celebrating easter/spring. A huge thing for kids as they get to get pretty close to such a huge fire. Also for the adults: making fresh stick bread while drinking beer is just great.

We went multiple times to the Karl May Festspiele in Bad Segeberg when we went on holidays in Northern Germany.

My younger sister loves "Stockbrot". When we meet during the summer we still make it regularly. She eats it usually with strawberry jam and I like it with marshmallows.

Stickbread we cook in our childhood in easterfire ,stickbread & folienkartoffeln top, folienkartoffeln we put inside the Glut of the easterfire . (For Folienkartoffeln you just need a raw potato put it in a Aluminiumfolie & pur it into the glowing Kohle of the (easter)fire, when its so Soft enough cooked to eat its time for Peeling & eating it for examplebwith Butter or with sourcream as topping.)^^

Thank you for the videos… they have been extremely helpful. I am moving to Germany soon in the K-town area and your videos have been a blessing to learn the culture.

Thanks for making the stick bread, it looks amazing. I'd have a bucket of melted butter to dip it in: )

Most of the time if you make Stockbrot you normaly pull it from a stick and use it as a "hot dog bun" but with a real sausage

I live in Kiel , where THW Kiel plays, and in my twenties when I still lived im Northern Frisia, I played Football im Flensburg. In that year our Winter Training was in the same Gym as Flensburg-Handewitt. Both are better Teams in the HBL (Handball Bundesliga). Stockbrot is awesome. Karl May Spiele are in Bad Segeberg Schleswig-Holstein. There you still see actors as Winnetou and Old Shatterhand

We’ve played handball in school , and we even had a tournament against other schools every year !

Stockbrot is especially something for little kids. Mine had it in kindergarden, at kids birthday parties or at other fests, so the kids have also what to Do.

Adding cheese and bacon to the stick bread dough was also a gamechanger

I read all Winnetou books several times in my youth. I really liked them much. Everytime there's a Winnetou movie on TV I can't stop myself from watching ist although the good old times are gone. Handball is indeed a big player in Germany. It is in a constant fight with basketball and icehockey of which sport is number 2 behind football. There are kind of waves in this fight. Perhaps biathlon plays a big roll in this fight as well but it is not really a team sport and it's only done in winter. I have never played handball myself: I loved table-tennis and basketball when I was young. 😊

As a Girl Scout in the US we made stick bread, and ate it with jelly when it was done

Wine with soda is also called Schorle here so "spritzer" would be the most fitting description

FYI. I just Googled German Stick Bread and several recipes popped up. I'll have to try it sometime here in New Hampshire.

If you are more interested in Winnetou you should try to see the Winnetou Plays in Bad Segeberg in Schleswig-Holstein. There is a whole western village and they have an open air play in the summer. I have been there three times already and it was always very good. The festival is called Karl May Spiele.

stockbrot dough can also be eaten raw so theres no need to cook it all the way through if youre impatient - still tastes great! :)

Stick bread is more than just making bread. It's about the experience of sitting on the fire together, having conversations, maybe someone brings a guitar. You enjoy the evening. And at some point the bread is done. It's not simply getting a snack, but the experience of making it yourself. Fairly popular to do it with kids. And not putting it too far down or it burns on the outside and is still raw in the middle.

Thanks for your very interesting contents that contain what I have never ever heard/seen since I moved to Germany from Japan (in 1997)!!

When I grew up, you couldn't surf through the channels on a Sunday afternoon without hitting a Winnetou movie - but to us (kid of the 80ties in Austria) they were old fashioned film we weren't interested in. The generation born in the 50ties was hyped about Karl Mays Adventure stories - books or movies, Winnetou as well as the ones playing in Arabia. Handball was something we played in PE - this or volleyball or basketball, more then watch professionals do it. About your question of the week: Sounds like the same thing in 2 different languages, so no preference.

Kudos for trying Stickbread!

Dear Donnie and Aubrey, I also never ever heared about "stick bread" - so for me it was weird, too. You can have a Schorle even with all kinds of juice not only apple juice. In Bavaria many beer gardens also offer a "Saure Weinschorle" it is wine (red wine or white wine) mixed with "Mineralwasser". Maybe you get in in Rheinland-Pfalz as well as there are many vineyards 🙂but maybe such a Saure Weinschorle is unknown in Rheinland-Pfalz as well 🙂Greetings from Philipp

I have a board game "Winnetou". Loved to play it a lot as child. Learned many Native American Words through Winnetou.

Yep. I'm from Mecklenbug-Vorpommern (that state at the baltic sea that nobody ever talks about) and I grew up with all of these. I drank a ton of Apfelschorle, I made myself some nice stick bread as a child (although I remember it more as an easter fire/spring thing rather than a summer thing), I watched Handball from time to time and even know people who play in the major league ( cause i studied in Ostwestfalen-Lippe which was mentioned in the video) and I used to watch Winnetou movies with my parents. So these things are commen throughout most if not all of Germany.

Going to handball game is really a blast, at least in the 1st league it is loud, fast and great atmosphere.

Handball was invented in Danmark at spread to some countries 🙂

Played Handball when I was in Highschool (not a “school team”, but in Verein )

Loved Handball as a kid in 5th to 6th grade: short and more chubby than atletic made me a good attacing "center forward" tank, who scores his goals by throwing kneehigh (max) while diving. Suddenly the "fat one" was one of the first 3 picks. Stockbrot = German marshmallows Icecream: Best Gellato(?) I had was in Santa Theresa di Gallura at the northern tip of Sardinia

The mentioned Winnetou books were not by the original author, but something like a spin-off more similar to the "Yakari" comic series than to the Karl May Books (for which the copyright expired in 1963). They tried to use the fame of "Winnetou" to promote their movie and the books based on that movie.

I've lived (almost) my entire fairly long life in Germany and have never heard of "Stockbrot" until this very moment. Fun fact: Karl May never actually visited the U.S. He literally made up all of his Winnetou stories at his home in Radebeul in Saxony.

1st: yes i played Handball in school! 2nd: of course did i stockbrot, very often it goes together with the first campfire experiences for little boys and girls. 3rd.inmy generation reading karl may was kinda mandatory. very often it became a collection cause a karl mai book was the evry year birthday present fom grandma ( at the end me and my brother had 62 of his 88 books) and 4th: is Donnie 4 crawling now? best wishes to your family Michael/Hannover

In the Summer i Always went to Segeberg with my Grandpa and Father because there is a big Theater for Winnetou and i Always Loved IT!

In my youth I would play handball for about 10 years. BTW: I grew up in the region of Ostwestfalen-Lippe, mentioned by you as one of the handball centers in Germany, and my club was the HLC (Handball- und Leichtathletik Club) Höxter.

Here in OWL (Ostwestfalen-Lippe) Handball is indeed very popular. My boyfriend entered his verein at age 8 and has been playing Handball for 18 years now. Most of his friends and acquaintances are still playing or have at least tried Handball. The older people sometimes still play or take on other roles in the vereine. They sell beer and food during the games, sell tickets or protocol the game. I always go to their games of course, and despite still not knowing the rules fully (oops) I always have lots of fun. ☺️

You have to put bacon cubes into the break Stick dough. Amazing!!

i played ca 20 years handball. met my back then idol stefan kretzschmar at a game. if you wanna know everything about winnetou you have to visit starigrad (paklenica) in croatia were a lot of the movies were made (paklenica national park). there is also a winnetou museum and you can also do some beachy vacation.

Stick bread is cool in a group when sitting around the fure. You can add spices or herbs to the dough to make it even tastier. Rosemary is very nice in the bread :)

Handball was originally an outdoor sport. Over the years the indoor variant became more popular. Also, field hockey is still played in Germany.

A thing that I love doing is add bacon and Scamorza (a smoked cheese) to the stick bread. You can add the cheese into the dough and wrap the bacon around the stick and wrap the dough around the bacon. That's pure joy

In this one aspect, I guess I am typical German in loving Italian food, and especially gelato. And Winnetou was one of my childhood heroes, too.

Your description from the Stockbrot tasting is korrekt, the bread is just yeastdough like pizzadough. Some People even make it with "Italian herbs" :)

In Denmark we call stick bread "snobrød" (twisted bread) and when cooked we fill it with our favorite marmelade.

For the real experience stick bread has to be burnt on the outside and still raw on the inside. Ah, the nostalgia.

When I was a kid we would always make stick bread while camping, and when the stick you use is the right size you can pull it off in one piece and then stuff a grilled hot dog sausage inside and it tasted great

next time you try making stick bread remove the bark from the stick first before puting the dough arond the stick.....you dont want the dirt/mold etc from the bark inside your bread. Also freshly baked bread is the best. maybe try and buy the "Knack & Back Sonntags-Brötchen" and make sure you film not only when you eat it but also when you open it and when it starts to smell deliciously in your whole house/apartement shortly before it is done.