Why it's ILLEGAL TO DANCE in Germany! Easter in the US vs. Germany

Why it's ILLEGAL TO DANCE in Germany! Easter in the US vs. Germany | Feli from Germany

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It's Maundy Thursday/Gründonnerstag which means that Easter is right around the corner! 🎉🐰 Time, to finally dedicate a video to this holiday and talk about how it's celebrated in Germany and the US. Did you know what the McDonald's Filet-O-Fish has to do with Easter (and Cincinnati)? And that dancing is banned in Germany tomorrow?
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2:36 Easter - A Religious Holiday?
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@FelifromGermany 2 жыл бұрын

Do you celebrate Easter? And if so, what does it look like in YOUR family? What do you eat and what are your traditions? 😊

@josueveguilla9069 2 жыл бұрын

Yes. I celebrate the Pagan holiday of Easter. Yes, despite me being an atheist.

@thevashfan12392 2 жыл бұрын

@@josueveguilla9069 lol, sound more like a theologian or theologist? Hmm questions needing answers.

@josueveguilla9069 2 жыл бұрын

@@thevashfan12392 No. I'm an atheist. A Politically Incorrect atheist, to be exact.

@vicdiaz5180 2 жыл бұрын

Restrictions to facing is bananas. No disrespect to Germany also a fine country, but USA and all its flaws, I’m have for our Constitution Anyhow, great video. Learn a lot from Germany from your channel. Make Germans great dancers great again!! 🇩🇪

@thehoneybadger8089 2 жыл бұрын

Ham on Easter is an in-your-face joke on the Jews. Personally, I prefer rabbit as an in-your-face joke on the Pagans.

@GlenHunt 2 жыл бұрын

In the US we used to have a total ban on dancing, but Kevin Bacon liberated us. It's the subject of a documentary called Footloose.

@user-qc6vy2cg3w 2 жыл бұрын

😂😂

@ahwhite1398 2 жыл бұрын

I hear those people had sticks up their butts.

@margretblaswich 2 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂

@stevengerczak6009 2 жыл бұрын

😄😄😄

@scott2836 2 жыл бұрын

😛😝😜🤪🤣

@mitchyoung93 2 жыл бұрын

I don't know if these vids are addictive or I'm just procrastinating from doing actual work.

@bigscarysteve 2 жыл бұрын

Osterwoche does not mean Holy Week. Osterwoche means Easter Week, which is Easter and the six following days. Holy Week is the week before Easter, and it's called Heilige Woche or Karwoche in German.

@karinland8533 2 жыл бұрын

I have never heard Heilige Woche 🤔

@eugenebelford9087 2 жыл бұрын

Well, I am German (and yes, by some unfortunate design of the Universe I had to take classes in Catholic religion) ... I simply have a question: Who cares?

@NOLAgenX 2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, in Catholicism (at least here in the U.S.) the week leading up to Easter is Holy Week, with Holy Thursday, Good Friday, and Easter Sunday.

@pando0884 2 жыл бұрын

@@eugenebelford9087 I care :) now stop asking such a dump question, it's nothing wrong with correcting it.

@eugenebelford9087 2 жыл бұрын

@@pando0884 It wasn't really a question on my part but a mild rebuke; a written frown. Mostly because these religious/ catholic based laws 🤦🏼 here really wind me up since decades. 😈 Is it really asking too much that they do their voodoo stuff at home and in private without using every opportunity under the sun trying to lecture the rest of the world about the finer points of their superstition? 😖

@sharonriano9958 2 жыл бұрын

I do celebrate it as a Holy Week being Catholic, it also hits different to me by having other traditions. I watched your video today on Holy Saturday and it helped me a lot to understand what the Osterfeuer means! My bf sent a picture to me and I didn't get it until now! Thank you🥰

@AmericasGotGermans 2 жыл бұрын

I was wondering how Easter might look like here in the US compared to Germany as it is our first time of celebrating Easter in Boston since we moved 😊 My kids were glad to find out that the Easter bunny will also come to our new house to hide some eggs and small presents for them in our backyard 😊 My son was worried the Easter bunny wouldn't make it this year, because he thought the bunny could be too afraid to hop on an airplane like we did 😉

@cnorton1us 2 жыл бұрын

Extra bonus for you this year: Patriots' Day, a state holiday in Massachusetts and Maine is the day after Easter. It doesn't move around with Easter, though, it's always the third Monday in April. Enjoy a Sam Adams Boston Lager and/or watch the Boston Marathon normally held on this day!

@AmericasGotGermans 2 жыл бұрын

@@cnorton1us You are right 🙂 The Boston Marathon is a special treat and we will watch it for the first time this year! Can't wait! Surprisingly, I do not drink beer, even though I am German, but my husband loves Sam Adams Lager A LOT 🙂

@geoffreyherrick298 2 жыл бұрын

He hitches a ride with Santa!

@StormyDay 2 жыл бұрын

Awwww. Kids worry so much, I’m so glad the Easter Bunny found him! Both Christmas and Easter mostly come from your German traditions, along with some British ones. Welcome to the US!

@AmericasGotGermans 2 жыл бұрын

@@geoffreyherrick298 Like that 😁👌Honestly, I was struggling a bit when he asked me all those questions about how he will travel to the US 😅

@Ken00001010 2 жыл бұрын

My Easter observance is to watch "The Life of Brian" every year.

@SeekTheLight 2 жыл бұрын

I stumbled across your channel while writing a report on immigration. I am hooked on your channel...the energy, the positivity, etc. Keep up the work and have a blessed day!

@kevinbreckenridge6729 2 жыл бұрын

Life of Brian is the perfect Easter movie, I'm going to watch it after my ham and scalloped potatoes 🥔!

@TJSnej01 2 жыл бұрын

It´s the best to celebrate the Karfreitag (Friday) with the movie "Monty Python's Life of Brian", some snacks and a cold drink.

@jessicaely2521 2 жыл бұрын

I do a mixture of Polish Easter and American Easter. I think a lot of Americans do a mixture of where their ancestors are from Easter and American Easter (not all). The Polish bring an Easter Basket to church on Saturday to be blessed. It typically has eggs, bread, salt, sausage (biala kielbasa), a cake, among other stuff. On Easter Sunday the immediate family(mom, dad, and siblings) do an Easter egg hunt, see what kind of gifts the Eater bunny left. After this we get together with the family for a family breakfast that starts with eating Easter Basket, then zurek soup soup, bigos, sausage with horseradish, and cake

@alexjensen7622 2 жыл бұрын

You know what would be cool for a video?? Since it's getting close to Easter, you should rank some American chocolates or candy compared to German ones. I keep hearing that our chocolate isn't as good as the stuff you have back home, but it'd be great to hear your opinion on which is the most tolerable 😅

@espben360 2 жыл бұрын

Chocolate would definitely be a good topic for a video! German chocolate is top!!

@kar460 2 жыл бұрын

Our chocolate is terrible compare to other countries. Actually get to taste the chocolate not the waxy and sugar that we get here.

@alexjensen7622 2 жыл бұрын

@@kar460 I've found one or two I like...but they're not nearly as popular or well-known as the bigger brands here. I plan to visit Germany and meet my family sometime in the next few years. I'll have to try some of the good stuff while I'm there

@ssgtmole8610 2 жыл бұрын

Alex, there is one way to find out how excellent american chocolate is compared to other countries. Get any canadian chocolate bar (so you don't have to pay international overseas shipping prices) and try it. Any generic chocolate bar from canada will do - it doesn't have to be a premium brand. Something along the line of the canadian version of a basic Hersey's bar, or something similar to Snickers if you prefer something like that. There is a significant difference in my opinion. I won't say which country's chocolate I preferred so I don't mess with your opinion. I walked into a store similar to a 7-11 in Victoria, BC when I was there on a holiday and purchased 2 different chocolate bars in the low-priced impulse buy candy section - not the $$ designer chocolate section.

@travelandliveingermany7295 2 жыл бұрын

German chocolate is the beeest

@jamesbond_007 2 жыл бұрын

You spoke about Good Friday and the traditions in Deutschland & the US. Surprisingly (to me), *this* Good Friday seems to be being treated as a holiday -- our normal Friday trash pickup is delayed by one day (which they do when a holiday occurs during the week), US tax filing deadline was pushed off til Monday the 18th so it didn't fall on Good Friday, etc.

@jeanjohnson8492 2 жыл бұрын

Hot cross buns are very common here and are sold in many grocery stores and bakeries during the week before and on Easter.

@michaelodonnell824 2 жыл бұрын

I'm Irish. Until 2018, it was Illegal to sell alcohol, either in Pubs or in Off Licences (liquor Stores) at all on Good Friday!

@danperlmutter 2 жыл бұрын

This is you at your best: informative, interesting and delightful! Loved this video

@ryfreedman 2 жыл бұрын

Always interesting, never a dull video!

@joshuafranco1570 2 жыл бұрын

I really like the cultural explanation about the dance thing. Way cool. This helps us Americans understand the rest of the world. Keep stuff like this coming. Great vid. 💛

@alexj9603 2 жыл бұрын

It comes from the Christian tradition of Good Friday which is about the death of Jesus Christ on the cross. It is a day of silence and mourning. And people who don't follow this Christian tradition are at least supposed not to disturb those who do. And on Easter Sunday the joy comes back with the resurrection of Jesus.

@not-a-theist8251 2 жыл бұрын

I think it's important to point out that the dance ban is very controversial and there have been protests against it for a long timw

@andrewbooth5533 2 жыл бұрын

Ich komme aus Kanada, ich bin lernen deutsche aus Duolingo und itz es super! sëhr aufregend. I just want to say thank you for helping me with the language you help me understand the language better.. du bist sëhr schön auch :)

@marycarroll9915 2 жыл бұрын

Love your videos! Thanks for teaching me more about my German Heritage!

@gix9461 2 жыл бұрын

I love that you talk so much about linguistics and etymologies! Props to you!

@pendragon2012 2 жыл бұрын

Cool video-didn’t know about filet o fish! Happy Easter, Feli and have a safe trip home! P.S I ordered a coffee mug! :)

@oscarmolina252 2 жыл бұрын

Love your videos as well as those from Understanding Train Station. They're very educative, so keep on doing a great job 👍☺️

@robertzander9723 2 жыл бұрын

Wonderful video, even with not so many differences, it is still an interesting topic to listen to. Well presented. Yes, like you said it, from 4:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. there is a ban on dancing in Berlin and Brandenburg on Good Friday. Not all regulatory agencies deal with this in the same way. But that's not really much, in Berlin you don't actually party much earlier anyway.

@dondash8921 2 жыл бұрын

Happy & blessed Easter to you & your family

@UnAshamed2010 2 жыл бұрын

The egg rolling game sounds really fun @Feli Thanks for sharing!

@fossostv 2 жыл бұрын

diesen kanal muss man einfach lieben! bitte mach weiter so, liebe feli! ❤️

@CapitalJ25 2 жыл бұрын

Happy Easter!

@NightHawk42 2 жыл бұрын

Just found your videos. Great information. I grew up in Bavaria in the 90s. I miss it.

@donaldbie8481 2 жыл бұрын

Have a wonderful Easter Feli!

@josueveguilla9069 2 жыл бұрын

Happy Easter, Feli from Germany 🐇

@johnschuster1770 2 жыл бұрын

Have a Blessed Easter.

@Kapplerartbloomingdale 2 жыл бұрын

Nuts. Happy Easter

@ERICKlingstenSC 2 жыл бұрын

Hi Feli, in Wisconsin, they have fish fry's every single Friday. It's a really big deal here.

@mdh12690 2 жыл бұрын

Apparently fish fries are a Midwestern thing. We eat fried fish and spaghetti in St. Louis.

@yee2246 2 жыл бұрын

Very nice and informative video. God bless you. Thank you

@vernon2542 2 жыл бұрын

Happy Easter

@justina.6769 2 жыл бұрын

I lived in Florida most of my life and it wasn't until I moved to Pennsylvania that I noticed how big "Fish Fry" was during the week of Lent. In the Southeast fish fry is a common everyday thing all year round.

@anthonyfuqua6988 2 жыл бұрын

I love the Feli to Feli conversations. Very meta.

@virginiaegley7896 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for your video! This is my Easter when I was little we had ham potato salad macaroni salad and deviled eggs and the hard-boiled eggs that was colored and of course the Easter candy. That's how it was my little at my house. Of course we wanted to church on Easter Sunday too. So that's what's my childhood Easter now whatever I feel like making a living alone. And this year potato salad that I make like my mom . Enjoy your Easter with your boyfriend Ben.

@emily_gross1990 2 жыл бұрын

Yes, I live in Michigan and for the past several years my uncle has made hot cross buns for easter. I think because the cross on them is reminiscent of the church cross. Usually here we have spring type foods. Ham is the big meat, along with spring vegetables and of course deviled eggs.

@floundergearjam 2 жыл бұрын

Feli, Happy Easter!

@Pegnitztal 2 жыл бұрын

Frohe Ostern!

@Saskue78 2 жыл бұрын

Great video 🙂

@mattwiland9692 Жыл бұрын

I was stationed in Grafenwoehr Germany in the USAF from 1990-92, I remember no music on Easter and another holiday (can't remember what). Generally we had a movie, I did not know the type of movie was restricted. I thought I remember the music starting again at midnight but I could be wrong. It's been a long time. I love your channel.

@anlasbry 2 жыл бұрын

I’m originally from Peru and I’ve been in New York since I was a kid. My family usually celebrates by eating seafood. I don’t remember if we went to church; we probably did because I remember we had crosses made of palm leaves from Palm Sunday. This year I’m working on weekends, so I’ll probably just spend it like any other Sunday, though for me Easter and Christmas were more of a cultural instead of religious thing.

@jcunningham5582 2 жыл бұрын

Some how I came across your channel. I fell in love with your channel. It brings back a lot of memories. I'm 36 and was stationed in Grafenwoehr and Bamburg 07-2010 minus 15 months in Iraq. Munich and Nurneburg we're my favorite cities. Frankfort reminded me the most of America. I live out in the rural area 40 minutes east of Cincinnati. Cincinnati has a lot German heritage.

@donnabreedlove6862 2 жыл бұрын

I remember my neighbors in West Germany decorating their trees, mostly with wooden eggs.

@bobpeters61 2 жыл бұрын

I thought dancing and beer went hand in hand.😜 Actually, though, in the religious household in which I grew up the tradition was that Easter was the first Sunday to wear our new church clothes, which were then worn to church for the entire following year, and only worn elsewhere if it were a formal, dress-up occasion.

@yamuis 2 жыл бұрын

Vrolijke Pasen, Feli! (Dutch for Happy Easter!) 🙋‍♂️

@godworden2768 2 жыл бұрын

Why Vrolijke and not Gelukkig?

@yamuis 2 жыл бұрын

@@godworden2768 Wat jij wil.

@godworden2768 2 жыл бұрын

@@yamuis I’m asking why Vrolijke and not gelukkig, both mean happy so what’s the grammar rule on that?

@yamuis 2 жыл бұрын

@@godworden2768 Just an expression, I don't know the background

@not-a-theist8251 2 жыл бұрын

God you guys have such a funny lanvuahe😊 I'm sure you find Germany funny too

@MaxiRyu99 2 жыл бұрын

Frohe Ostern, Feli!!!

@chazpher 2 жыл бұрын

Hello from Boston, Hey Feli, Love your channel! I've been watching lots of your videos. Your energy and enthusiasm is contagious. Appreciate your affection for the US and your obvious pride in being german. In another video I watched you were responding to some jack-ass complaining about living in Germany. I've never been to Germany, but have only heard wonderful things about it. Haters gonna hate. There are more similarities than differences...

@marklord2221 2 жыл бұрын

Frohe Ostern

@JFW5358 2 жыл бұрын

Enjoy your Easter back in Germany, Feli.

@jamesvandemark2086 2 жыл бұрын

Easter baskets are a must-have for kids! 🐰

@williamhadley1580 2 жыл бұрын

Hot cross buns are definitely something that I grew up with on Easter weekend. I've fasted meat on Fridays since childhood, but I don't just eat fish. I also get creative with vegetarian and egg based meals (like sub sandwiches with green peppers and scrambled eggs).

@rudolfkaiser7273 2 жыл бұрын

Wow, this is really interesting, Feli. I'm originally from Munich too and I've never heard of Oaschiem, but it sounds like fun! All over my childhood I had to go to church and my mum had bacon, ground horseradish and radishes consecrated together with a cake in the form of an Easterlamb there. After church, we had these things together with coloured eggs for brunch. I don't know if that's a common thing, but the Holy Mass that consecration of the food was performed took place on 12 o'clock midnight between Saturday and Sunday. Around the church there were wheels spun to make noise and chase the evil winter ghosts off, called Ratschn.

@jack2453 2 жыл бұрын

In Australia, Good Friday was always the one day of the year when NOTHING was open (even moreso than Christmas). I was really surprised to find that this was not the case in other countries e.g. UK, France, Italy. But did find it is the case in the Catholic bits of Germany e.g. Köln. The world really is weird.

@dutchgamer842 2 жыл бұрын

In the Netherlands, the Friday before Easter is a normal business day as well.

@amacater 2 жыл бұрын

It _used_ to be the case that everything shut in UK on Good Friday - the only day that all shops are shut is Easter Sunday, however. And Easter Monday is always a UK Bank Holiday.

@andrewcram6032 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@Blanko1998 2 жыл бұрын

I don't know if this is done everywhere, but in our village and I think also in the area around (North/middle Germany near Göttingen) it is so that the Easter fire consists largely of the old Christmas trees. The fire department collects them and then uses them later for the Easter fire.

@WolfRoss 2 жыл бұрын

Fish fries and specials are found in most states on Friday's all year round in the US. The Southwestern US has a large and still very much practicing Roman Catholic population because of the early Spanish settlement. Even in Utah which is a Mormon settled state, the second largest religion is Roman Catholic.

@rnrtruestories 2 жыл бұрын

Easter's really just an excuse for my family and myself to get chocolate and eat a turducken

@kernira 2 жыл бұрын

My mom makes hot cross buns every year. They are something my siblings and I always look forward to.

@kaih6560 Жыл бұрын

The fish frying exists in Germany too. I often attended those as a child. There was such an event at a lake nearby

@Jan324td 2 жыл бұрын

Fried fish is a very common thing on Easter Friday. Every Fishing Club in the county offers Backfisch (Fried batterd Fish) with Potatosalat on that day.

@clinthowe7629 2 жыл бұрын

that bonfire looks like a man sitting astride a fiery steed, 😁

@johnvittie9571 2 жыл бұрын

Feli, Great video on the Easter difference between the US and Germany. Have you seen the very special celebration held in Oberammergau, Germany, every 10 years the"Passion play" or "Passionsspiele" done since 1633 by the Oberammergau villagers? Love your videos.

@billf1 2 жыл бұрын

Here in Wisconsin we have a Friday Fish Fry every Friday of the week. Unless your restaurant is a specialty restaurant on a Friday you may not be busy. Many of the Fish Fry's meal would include potato pancakes or some form of potato salad and coleslaw. Some restaurants may give you a choice between what types of fish. The most common fish is Cod; but you could get anything from perch; bluegill; or walleye it all depends on the restaurant and what their menu is.

@dhg1960 2 жыл бұрын

Hi Feli. a great video. I have often considered writing and giving you my slant on things, I am British and have lived in rural Austria for over 30 years. When I arrived I spoke no german, I am now fluent and also understand fairly well Styrian, Bavarian and Schwäbisch. I am writing because I felt your description of easter in Bavaria was quite different to here in Austria. Good Friday is not a public holiday here ( suprisingly, as it is very catholic ) but if one is protestant, one gets a day off. Very typical is the Easter Cross, this is a very large cross which is often lit up at night and usually on top of a hill or mound and can be seen for miles. On Easter Saturday is Fleischweih - locals all turn up at their local chapel / wayside cross and bring with them the easter food, which is then blessed. The food is mainly cured meats, horseradish (Kren), boiled eggs and various breads, not forgettng beer. Afterwards they have a short social gathering and drinks. Then the families go home for the easter feast ( eating said foods ). The typical easter game is Eierbecken, a bit like conkers but with hard boiled eggs. We too have an easter fire on Saturday but this is now only common in rural areas. On Easter Sunday the children search for easter eaggs which are typically left in nests built by the easter bunny. From Maunday Thursday til Easter Sunday the church bells don't ring and it is common to hear socalled Ratschen, ratchets or rattles.

@not-a-theist8251 2 жыл бұрын

For catholics Easter Sunday tends to be the more important holiday while it's good Friday fro Protestants. At least that's what I learned in school. So it kind a makes sense that it's nit a holiday in Austria

@wandilismus8726 2 жыл бұрын

Geez Kren... my Ex is from Innsbruck and her mother asked me if I like Krensuppe, but being from northern Germany I understood " Magst du Krähensuppe?" Do you like crowsoup..... i was shocked 😂

@ANNEWHETSTONE 2 жыл бұрын

@@not-a-theist8251 as a Protestants/ Anabaptist. Easter sunday is very important. I thought that Catholics thought Friday was more important 🤔. You show Jesus still on the cross. For us it is most important that he died and rose again.

@fedupnow61859 2 жыл бұрын

Hot cross buns were popular in the early part of my life. I am 62. I don't remember seeing too many for sale as I got older. My mom baked Osternbrot which is basically Hallah bread with an egg in the middle and sugar on the top. I grew up in Conneticut USA

@thehoneybadger8089 2 жыл бұрын

An old joke was referring to non-regular churchgoers as "C. E. Christians"; those who go to church only on Christmas and Easter🙃🌵

@Amlux1984 2 жыл бұрын

Or “creasters”

@babotond 2 жыл бұрын

i heard it like "i go to church every second day. the second day of christmas and the second day of easter."

@britishjohn62 2 жыл бұрын

Where I’m from in West Yorkshire in the UK, well, even the UK in general, there is something called the “Sunday Roast,” people would normally have roast beef and “Yorkshire puddings” which are generally what most people think of as popovers, and veggies. That’s the norm for Easter. Just a little trivia about Easter where I was from, which I currently also live in the US.

@quentinrance8974 2 жыл бұрын

Very interesting.

@matthiasscherer9270 2 жыл бұрын

Very interesting what they are doing during Easter in USA. I guess the reason why there are no fish fries in Southern Germany is, that many regions mostly had animal fat/oil so this also was nothing to eat during Lent.

@pebear 2 жыл бұрын

The New York City Cabaret Law was a dancing ban originally enacted in 1926, during Prohibition, and repealed in 2017. It referred to the prohibition of dancing in all New York City spaces open to the public selling food and/or drink unless they had obtained a cabaret license.

@michaelsommers2356 2 жыл бұрын

When I was little I thought it was Monday Thursday, which confused me a bit.

@aaronmarx6323 Жыл бұрын

Every Easter my family has brunch / breakfast Lunch on Easter.

@ital2525 2 жыл бұрын

Hi Feli, in Italy we tend to have roast lamb on Easter Sunday. The no meat and only seafood on Good Friday is traditional too.

@moeball740 2 жыл бұрын

@Ricardo do you do the full Easter meal? A friend of mine who is from Palermo hosted my wife and I for an Easter luncheon one time and I've never seen so much food in all my life! Lasagna, broccoli, lamb, salad, it went on and on, something like 7 or 8 courses! It was all delicioso but I was in so much pain afterwards from eating way too much!

@kordellcurl7559 8 ай бұрын

My family usually would have a fish buffet of cod, cod tongues, scallops, and shrimp. On Easter Sunday we would have either a turkey and use to have a Easter egg hunt but we all grown up.

@taavihorila3879 Жыл бұрын

There was a similar dancing ban in Finland too. If I remember correctly, it was lifted in 1990's. Lot of Easter traditions are similar in Finland and Germany, mainly because of the Lutheran church.

@achein8842 2 жыл бұрын

I didn't realize fish fries were specific to the Midwest since I've attended them all my life. I look forward to fish fry Fridays during Lent. The parishes use the dinner gatherings as a way to bring the community together and raise money for the church. Cincinnati always posts a fish fry guide of all the local fries. Happy Easter!

@johnhenkel1828 2 жыл бұрын

Fish fries are very common in the Southeast as well, they may happen any time of year, but they become more frequent on Fridays of Lent. Until sometime in the 1960s Catholics would not suppose to eat meat on any Friday during the year. Meat was classified as anything with lungs which is why fish and other seafood are not included.

@lemasander4932 2 жыл бұрын

It’s only in 15 german states, that the kids have actual easter holidays. Hamburg is the exception. We have two weeks in march, so it often differs from easter week. There was one try to change it, but it wasn’t accepted, so they changed it back. Rumors have it, that the teachers (and others) wanted to keep the separate holidays to be able to go skiing without all the other states at the same time 😅. Those weeks of holidays in Hamburg are referred to as: spring holidays (Frühjahrsferien), march holidays (Märzferien) or skiing holidays (Skiferien)

@robertknight4672 2 жыл бұрын

In Easton Massachusetts the the public schools used to have Rush Hashanah and Yom Kippur as well as Good Friday off. However due to an excessive amount of snow days during the blizzard of 2015 School eliminated those holiday so they wouldn't have to open earlier beginning of the year. However students who choose to stay home on their holidays are not penalized and teachers are instructed not to give out new lessons on those holidays. Auburn School District's that was closed on the those holidays did not use the blizzard as an excuse fan and left those holidays intact.

@raymondmuench3266 2 жыл бұрын

Hot cross buns were common during Lent, but disappeared at Easter. As to the Easter fire, it’s a requisite at the Easter Vigil on Holy Saturday night.

@jackfairweather199 Жыл бұрын

My wife's family ascribes to the Eastern (Greek) Orthodox faith. Easter is by far their most solemn and widely celebrated religious holiday. There are church services beginning on Good Friday and the family all gets together for a large meal on Easter Sunday. Lamb is always served. As far as games go, there are hard boiled eggs died purple and everybody gets one. Each person cracks the end of another's egg with the end of his/her egg. The person left with a totally un-cracked egg at the end of the game is the winner. As for dancing, the Greeks will dance at the drop of a hat normally but, since Easter is such a solemn observance, there is never any dancing. I am not of Eastern Orthodox faith but I am always touched by the reverence of this celebration.

@stevecagle2317 2 жыл бұрын

In my family, Deviled Eggs we're always made. Of course when I make them now they really are deviled! I mix the yolks with a hot mustard and hot sauce along with mayo, then sprinkle them with sharp paprika! Oh, fish fries around me in Indiana tend to be fund raisers for the group putting them on.

@travelandliveingermany7295 2 жыл бұрын

Wow cool 😎

@paulwarren9927 2 жыл бұрын

I love deviled eggs, especially when made with cayenne pepper.

@karenschafer2827 2 жыл бұрын

my father was Danish and we always had lamb for Easter dinner. My. Own family now has ham.

@patrickchambers5999 2 жыл бұрын

It is funny how crowded churches are on Easter and Christmas morning or Christmas Eve midnight service but on other Sundays you could throw a soccer ball (football) across the chancel and not hit anyone!

@wcg19891 2 жыл бұрын

Doesn’t really work with Catholics because the entire Mass is centered around the Communion

@nimwey7701 2 жыл бұрын

So weird, in The Netherlands we have concerts to open the Festival season at Easter :)

@MsTimelady71 2 жыл бұрын

Here on the east coast, hot cross buns with icing are a big thing that we have every Easter. Our family isn't religious so we mainly get together for a nice meal(lamb and vegetarian entrees) and give each other small chocolate bunnies. Way back in the 1970s, Good Friday was still an observed holiday but nowadays most people have to use their PTO. I really miss having a four day weekend like the rest of the world. As a child, my parents(Easter Bunny) would hide our easter baskets somewhere in the house and we would have to find them, and Grandparents would always have an Easter egg hunt at their house for all the cousins. And all my siblings would get new Easter outfits.

@LyleFrancisDelp 2 жыл бұрын

No-meat Friday is the reason that school lunches always included fish back when I was a kid in the 60s.,..even in the heavily Protestant Bible Belt.

@juliebilmes1941 2 жыл бұрын

We have hot cross buns in Canada and we either get good Friday or Easter Monday off

@greatwhiteape6945 2 жыл бұрын

You should see the size of bunnies In Nevada and Arizona. I ran over one in my truck and I thought I would never get rid of it.

@darthdaja 2 жыл бұрын

Easter foot for our traditional South bavarian easter"brunch" (taking place after church which is due to technicality actually on Saturday evening) I am missing are: a marzipan cake lamp and porked ham... Things we take to churche before together with salt and eggs to get them "blessed"

@BiteChain 2 жыл бұрын

Hallo Feli! The Tanzverbot is not really enforced in Berlin :) not even for few hours like you mention in the video. I don't go clubbing anymore since 5 years but i do have danced during stille Feiertage (also on Good Friday). Frohe Ostern! Dario

@travelandliveingermany7295 2 жыл бұрын

In Berlin are no rules

@jennywells416 2 жыл бұрын

Here in upstate NY we have fish fry every Friday year around.

@markcdeyoung3118 2 жыл бұрын

Them Hot Cross marzipan buns baby yeeeah!!!! Germany must be the town where they film Footloose 🎶everybody everybody cut loose 🎶 footloose kick off your Easter Sunday shoes Ooh wee Feli shake it shake it for me girl 🎶

@jasonpendergraft4511 2 жыл бұрын

I’ve heard of the hot cross buns tradition. But have never had one myself.😀

@fariesz6786 2 жыл бұрын

about the fish fries though: only yesterday i walked past a left-over sign advertising Steckerlfisch on Good Friday, and i doubt that's just a Schleißheim thing.. or is it? 🤔👀

@atomict1974 2 жыл бұрын

Kinda like "Footloose" I think. 🎛🤸‍♀️💃🕺🤸‍♂️💃🤸‍♀️🕺🎛

@patchup 2 жыл бұрын

In my younger years I went to church every Sunday and was even an acolyte. We used to call the people that only showed up on Christmas and Easter the Holly/Lily crowd. Every church I've been too has been packed full on the multiple services for Easter and Christmas.

@travelandliveingermany7295 2 жыл бұрын

Often people do like that