American Ranks the BEST and WORST Things About Germany! (Tier List)

[@loxlover1714]

Kelly: "This is the best thing ever, truly amazing! I give it a B".

[@lazyperfectionist1]

😄😄😄

[@h.p.d.9102]

She learned from chris stuckman😂

[@Kellydoesherthing]

Lol!! Trust me, it would’ve been all S and E tier if I didn’t try to vary it

[@Pewtah]

I stumbled upon that, too. Is that american exaggeration combined with truth?

[@ulrichbunny461]

yeah. That is so american.

[@constanze8404]

It feels as if David Hasselhoff will haunt us Germans until the end of time...🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

[@ReneDeMagic]

He is haunting for freedom :)

[@constanze8404]

@@ReneDeMagic *groans ...🤦‍♀️😁🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

[@Kellydoesherthing]

Lol!!

[@chrischolewa9104]

im just thinking -Baywatch !

[@gerolindenberg8017]

There are worse things in life than being haunted by him. He's quite all right in my book

[@michielvoetberg4634]

Do the same in reverse? Mischa ranking the American best and worst aspects.

[@alexjenkins1079]

That'd be interesting, especially for the rail network and cash culture. If it was me doing this "tier" thing, they'd both be S-Tier along with the towns and cities (I'm from the UK), and the Kaffee und Kuechen, Wuerste and Schnitzel would all be A or very high B tier for me personally (even though I drink tea instead of coffee). Not sure where Mischa would put them though.

[@saltydagger6635]

Michiel Voetberg Yes please

[@tomzito2585]

Ja that will mach a lot of Spass !

[@jeromemckenna7102]

I am not a big fan of raw meat, but the fact the Germany has laws that guarantee that their pork is much healthier than ours is admirable.

[@MrSpirit99]

There is no better breakfast! Period.

[@95DarkFire]

@@MrSpirit99 Especially when you are having Katerfrühstück (hungover breakfast).

[@smaragdwolf1]

@Jerome if you dont like raw minced meat, you shouldnt search pictures of "Mettigel" (Igel = Hedgehog) xD And yes...we do that in Germany. We form it this way, we present it on plates on Parties...and we eat it.

[@MushroomCloudConfetti]

@@smaragdwolf1 There is nothing better than a warm mettigel from a party the night before.

[@admiralmudkip9836]

Yeah but our meat is cheap and there's a lot of it.

[@shadyyyyVR]

Is anyone else having issues with a low volume level on this video? It's very quiet! EDIT: This got much more attention than I thought it would. Kelly, if you see this, love your videos! Just turn the volume up a bit so we can hear you :)

[@Sue-In-Oregon]

yes the low volume is driving me nuts, especially when the commercials come on at normal levels and blast my eardrums out. :(

[@chrischolewa9104]

absolutely !

[@Sue-In-Oregon]

@@tonys1636 I thought those cost money, yes/no?

[@Sue-In-Oregon]

@@tonys1636 thank you for the info :)

[@Sue-In-Oregon]

@@tonys1636 Thank you for the information, I appreciate it.

[@Thomas-bs4tv]

someone who puts the German Bahn and windows above beer and football has lost control over his/her life. lol

[@Kellydoesherthing]

That’s quite the twist on Karl Lagerfeld lol!

[@satakrionkryptomortis]

even putting the autobahn just in mid tear..its like....yeah...these roads need maintenance. maybe that is something they don't do in the US on the fly while the road can still be used..

[@pwolkowicki]

Budweiser isn't German. :P

[@bluebear6570]

IPAs and other brews are not really beer, but hop infused soft drinks, with a touch of alcohol added!

[@bernerbad]

I was thinking the same thing.

[@oliverkersting2852]

One mistake: David Hasselhoff isn't famous anymore in Germany. The Knight Rider show was in the 80's, his singing career started with the fall of the wall 1989 (I've been looking for a freedom), Baywatch was in the 90's, that's all. His success is over 20 years old and gone. He was just more famous in Germany than in the USA, not really famous at all.

[@Hamsterdam91]

He might not be very popular but he is indeed quite famous in Germany. Almost every one over age 20, maybe over 25, knows who he is

[@MrDonkrypton]

@@Hamsterdam91 : He's like herpes. No one likes it, but everyone knows it.

[@chrisrudolf9839]

I'd say he is still famous, even though their might be a percentage of millenials who haven't heard of him, yet I personally never liked him much neither as a singer nor as an actor and I was a bit weirded out that David Hasselhof was the only example of a German musician coming up in this video. If music was included at all, I would have expected a little diversity. To put it into perspective, it would probably feel similar to an American if someone made a similar video about American things and the only thing about music mentioned was ... let's say Britney Spears. That would be a good example because she is "outdated" to a similar degree than David Hasselhof, she is reasonably well known and was popular in her time, but she is nowhere near as iconic as to pick her as the one major example of U.S. pop music.

[@bernerbad]

LOL -- LOL -- LOL -- LOL -- LOL !!!

[@AndreasAASSchroth]

@@Hamsterdam91 Like Modern Talking, basically.

[@RichieZero]

I read "Tier list" in the thumbnail and thought it was going to be about animals! ;-)

[@pierreabbat6157]

Me too! 1. Katze 2. Hund 3. Kuh 4. Schaf

[@thorstenstoffel3959]

So did I.

[@ilikeyourname4807]

I associate tier lists with animals for an entirely different reason: Have you heard of TierZoo?

[@ichselbst880]

Oh Kelly, not so much choice in beer? From pure hop to horse pee all tastes are available 😄 you just have to find it. Indeed, the grand brands have a more or less unified taste, the pearls are hidden in small local breweries. And obviously patriotism has an influence on the taste. Once the beer from the brewerie where I was born seemed to be.... let's say... emm, ok, don't talk about. But since I live in France it is one of the best beers in the world 😉 Prost !

[@y33t23]

"German cities are so clean!" Singapore: *"Finally, a worthy opponent. Our battle will be legendary."* Also, here's something about the topic of Mettbrötchen: kzbin.info/www/bejne/oqCseoN-edp7p8U Don't question it, idk. Btw, I'm German and I agree with your opinion on Oktoberfest. It's nice to look at, but just very expensive and too big. I like to go to quieter, smaller Fests, like the one in my village, and just enjoy a nice day without spending all my savings and having to shove myself through huge crowds.

[@lotharschepers2240]

I have now stared at your ranking for minutes but I won't change the most of it (only as I'm an old car buff the two items related to that would get different rankings), as you have ranked the bakeries at the top, one little fun fact to that. The German counter piece to the FBI is the BKA (Bundes Kriminalamt) and they have a special task force that chases criminals around the Globe (Gruppe Zielfahndung). When they are chasing a german and did have an idea in which area he/she could live, they contact all german bakeries in that region at first hand and that strategy has worked out successfully for decades.

[@nevadawn7527]

I'm pretty sure that would be good a way to catch me - if I was on the run...😂

[@andrewserpico]

I Have been watching your channel for over a year now and love your videos. I am so glad still find the time and energy to keep this channel going!

[@martinmay91]

Kelly is a „Kaffeetante“. 😂😂😂😂😂

[@wannabetowasabe]

The comments on David Hasselhoff were spot on and remind me of a story. I'm retired from the U.S. Forest Service with the last 10 years of my career spent on a very heavily visited National Forest in the Sierra Nevada, next to Yosemite National Park. I worked in recreation management and law enforcement and made about 2,000 - 3,000 public contacts per year. The area had heavy foreign tourism. One day a German was asking me the details of the route he planned. He had started his trip in Phoenix and needed to end up in Los Angeles to return his rental car. He presented me with this "I vant to see Yos A Might, I vant to see the big trees, I vant to see Saun Francisco, I vant to see the Monterey Aquarium, I vant to drive the coast on Highway One and I VANT TO SEE BAYWATCH." I don't want to come off as some sort of American snob, but I could not help having to suppress my laughter at the last part of what he said. I had to drive away after helping him and walk in the woods to let out my laughter without any other visitors seeing me do so. I don't understand the German attraction to what was a fairly poorly produced show that required a great deal of suspending reality to watch. I've had a couple of friends who worked as L.A. County lifeguards and they shake their heads when the show is mentioned. Thanks for making your videos, I find cultural differences fascinating.

[@theoldar]

You put German beer at D? You are a brave lady. I admire that!

[@y33t23]

theoldar She wasn't living in a beer-area, and it's not really her taste, so pretty understandable. I live in a beer area and it's really luxury to have 50.000 different beers available everywhere, because about every town has at least one brewery.

[@nicktankard1244]

@@y33t23 yeah 50000 breweries which all make the same 3.5 styles. I'm not a fan of German beer as well. It's ok at best.

[@y33t23]

Nick Kupriyanov with a big amount comes a bit of variety. One learns to notice the differences when having tasted lots of different ones. The big amount of small breweries causes some kind of difference between their recipes.

[@nicktankard1244]

@@y33t23 it doesn't though. You could have a lot of the same. Czech beer is actually the same. Just lots of variations on the same thing. There are differences for sure but mainly it's the same few styles. Heineken and Augustiner, for example, are not 100% the same but it's just a basic lager after all. And Guinness, Augustiner, and Chimay are completely different beers. And the USA actually has more breweries than Germany even if you adjust for the population size.

[@theoldar]

I really wasn't commenting on the quality of German beer, just the fact that she was brave enough to criticize it!

[@peter_meyer]

That was fun. Nice selection from Mischa. I'm missing the z-tier for the Hoff.

[@Kellydoesherthing]

Lol! Glad you liked it!

[@Benni1000games]

Schnitzel is an Austrian dish :< The Germans often massacre our poor Schnitzel by pouring sauce over it

[@Kellydoesherthing]

They love their sauce haha

[@finndr1456]

And sooo many Americans are thinkin that Beethoven was Austrian and Adolf a German, life is unfair

[@thkempe]

@@finndr1456 Austrians ARE Germans who only live in their own country (like others - especially as minorities - in Denmark, Belgium, France, Switzerland, Liechtenstein and Italy). Mozart explicitly called himself a German. Metternich too. Why should the Austrians have the crown jewels of the Holy Roman Empire of the German(!) nation if they were not Germans? Many cities in Austria contain "German" in their names (Deutsch-Brodersdorf, Dt.-Geritz, Dt.-Haseldorf, Dt.-Jahrndorf, Dt.-Bieling, Dt.-Ehrensdorf etc.), which means that there are people living who are Germans. Imho, "Germans" are all people who use German as their mother tongue.

[@finndr1456]

@@thkempe yeah ethnically wise they are, but Hitler was a politician and and if you choose these political borders, he was a foreigner and from Austria

[@nobold2826]

@@thkempe I am an Austrian but I'd never call myself a German. Yes Mozart and Metternich might have called themselves German but times have changed. Or would an US-American call himself British, because he's basically a Brit in another country? In order to explain why Austrians don't call themselves German anymore: Austria was a long time a country containing many different ethnics. Everybody was an Austrian but depending on the language they spoke they felt croatian, Hungarian or ... German. After WW1 the German part of Austria wanted to join Germany. The Entente forbid this in order to not strengthen Germany. The Austrians thought they couldn't survive as the small country they've become. But it wasn't that bad and it started that the Austrians would see themselves as Austrians and not as Germans. Especially after WW2 when no one was proud of being a German, the Austrian "patriotism" started rising. Nowadays the Majority of Austrians wouldn't call themselves German. I just realized when I lived in Berlin for some months that there are more language differences than I would have thought. Sorry to disappoint you, but we're not the same people just in another country.

[@thatred]

Why does the list starts with the letter S? Makes no sense to me. Can someone please explain?

[@nicktankard1244]

I think it came from Japan, Mostly from games. It's a weird thing.

[@fly1ngsh33p7]

Schnitzel is actually Austrian - so called "Wiener Schnitzel" (Schnitzel from Vienna).

[@bazoo513]

And Austrians got it from Northern Italy

[@fly1ngsh33p7]

@@bazoo513 I didn't know that

[@sluggo206]

Wikipedia says it's called 'milanesa' in South America and Mexico because it was brought by Italian immigrants. "Cotoletta alla milanese (veal milanese) is one of Milan's signature dishes. In Milan the dish dates to at least 1134."

[@bazoo513]

@@sluggo206 Yes, in Italy it is still called ""Cotoletta alla milanese". While we usually make it from pork over here in Croatia, the veal original is considered the real thing. It is considered the "safe bet" when in an unfamiliar cafeteria or greasy spoon.

[@bazoo513]

@@fly1ngsh33p7 Yup, Austrians picked it up during their rule of Northern Italy and spread it all over Central Europe.

[@frankb1]

s ago (edited) Kelly, I really enjoyed this video, not for the rankings, but for the explanations. Greetings from Austin!

[@andrewmay3001]

Great video you are honest butt also balanced and sometimes ery dry humor is shown. Since you mentioned your mothers sauerkraut do you have German roots your self?

[@m_soko]

She does. She mentioned it in a previous video but I do not know if it is from her mother's or dad's side or both.

[@florianpeter7045]

German trains overpiriced af that’s why everyone is mad, too

[@Kellydoesherthing]

That’s a fair point. I thought they were pretty overpriced too

[@Groundhog3009]

I have a ticket for a year for 365 Euro. I think its a fair price.

[@MrDonRazzi]

Nah, it‘s all about planning the trip. If you‘re lucky to book early you may get from coast to alps for less than 60 Euros. BahnCard 25 saves another 25% of the fee and often will pay at the very first trip. If you‘re short on cash, but not on time in Germany, the trick is to ride local trains even on longer trips, as there are special offers like the „Schöner Tag“-Ticket, which is like a flat rate for all local trains in a specific German state for one day for just 31 Euros (prices differ from state to state). It just get‘s cheaper, if more persons join.

[@bernerbad]

You have to book ahead -- just like airlines. They've got super deals if you book ahead.

[@ichselbst880]

@@bernerbad Yessss, but.. very often delayed and all your planning is "for the feet (or the butt)". For our Americans: this means "not worth anything". And with some bad luck they ask you to pay supplementary because you took another connection train than the one you booked because you could not get it because of the delay of the first one and the last train was another booking group

[@Bishop_DE]

There's a saying in Germany. That partly explains why we like cash. It reads: "Only cash is true! It just has its advantages. If the technology is bitching or if you have simply lost your credit card, the advantages of cash are always there. ;-) Greetings Bishop

[@honigschlecker1]

You have to notice, though, that this line ("Nur Bares ist Wahres") derived from a time when people still used checks (which could bounce), or even drafts/loans. It's still in the head of many Germans, but IMHO it doesn't make a lot of sense anymore.

[@eragonshurtugal4239]

Even more important, a the bank or the goverment could decide to shut down you credit card but nit the chach you hold in your hand

[@95DarkFire]

7:18 In Germany we say "Hard water" as well, and I understand your problem.

[@andrewserpico]

I spent 3 years in Germany in the mid 1970's.Though I was stationed in a town named Fulda. A buddy and me traveled all over what at that time was west Germany. In 1977 we even spent 3 weeks hitch-hiking (It was the 1970's and bell bottom era) from town to town staying in small inns/guesthouses along the way. The one food that I most miss is jagerschnitzel and beer = A+!

[@vernalee5209]

We went to Fulda gap to visit the base/museum in September. My husbands father was stationed there around the time you were there. It's very powerful.

[@andrewserpico]

@@vernalee5209 11th armored cavalry also known as the Black horse

[@krystofdayne]

Yeah, I'm pretty on board with that. I'm from neighbouring Luxembourg (which, to Americans, probably means that I'm already kinda German) but I've been living in Germany for 6 years now and yeah, most of your assessments I agree with. The water one is weird to me, I've never had a problem with that (chalky residue on your shower, wtf? That really must a Mainz thing) although another water issue I have is that when you simply order "a water" in Germany, you always get sparkly water, which I don't really like, and you mostly can't get like free tap water, which is pretty usual in Luxembourg. The only real problem I have with your list though is Mett, because that is absolutely delicious xD I don't think I'd eaten raw pork before coming to Germany, but, you know, maybe. I really had no issues or preconceptions about that. I was already familiar with things like carpaccio and sushi so it didn't seem that strange to me plus when you eat things like Filet Mignon or other cooked pork dishes, it often isn't cooked all the way through on purpose, so you know, whatever, raw pork, sure. I only know that you should never eat raw chicken because of Salmonella and stuff. But Mett, hell yeah, that's awesome :D EDIT: minor grammatical mistake

[@Tfugtsgvufexv]

Krystof Dayne to Americans you don’t exist if you’re from Luxembourg lmao

[@krystofdayne]

@@Tfugtsgvufexv Yeah, that's true unfortunately xD

[@ChrisRaynoldYT]

Mett is the best! xD Your video, in which you tried Mett, started my wish to get my first Mett-Brötchen since 2 years. Today finally I ate it. I´ve waited for 4 days and it was delicious!! Thank you a lot :D

[@germangamekiller]

"German drivers are better than american drivers" Shows someone overtaking on the right.

[@AndreasAASSchroth]

Yes, but without hitting other cars.

[@ichselbst880]

At least better than French. A drunken German driver = sober french driver

[@ChrisTian-rm7zm]

I'm such a lousy driver. I think I would feel more at home on american streets.

[@gnarlsdarkley]

I had to chuckle at "glue" wine :D

[@basti5263]

Same here :D

[@mojojim6458]

Thanks for giving us this video, another enjoyable way to learn and be entertained.

[@GermanRainbow]

When I travel for a longer period I always miss my german bread 😂 - Viele Grüße aus Mainz 😊

[@chrischolewa9104]

Here in America-Aldi-does have some better bread !

[@evelinholmes6401]

No country does better bread then Germany 🇩🇪. My opinion. End I have been to many places around the world.

[@michael_1010]

@@chrischolewa9104 Aldi is a german shop :D

[@silkeschumann7261]

13:12 Oktoberfest - I take a village Weinfest any day over the Oktoberfest. I can't think of anything worse than mixing with a dense crowd of drunks. Weinfeste offer the same as the Oktoberfest but on a smaller scale, so you have room to walk and while the number of drunks is still fairly high they're less desensitized and have more control over their behavior and you can actually sit down and enjoy new wine and Salzkuchen with friends and hear yourself talking.

[@StrategosKakos]

@Beer I am flabbergasted that you did not manage to get your hands on IPA - every major city seems to have a beer specialty shop nowadays, featuring great craft beers from all over the world. Also, there are quite a few more hoppy German brews. It might be a regional thing, generelly the "harsher" types of beer or more common and popular in the nothern parts of the country.

[@lizalfaro9230]

I put screens in my German windows and I enjoy opening them more knowing I won’t get flying bugs

[@dhd951]

Loved the video!

[@Kellydoesherthing]

Thank you!!

[@wades2132]

lol... and your pic of Hasselhoff was a promo pic for Knight Rider. TV show from the early 80s, btw. Great vid! Pretty interesting and fun.

[@iZePlayz]

HOW DARE YOU! (BEER)

[@loria5287]

Yes!! This is the content I really enjoy in your videos! I really like all your videos but I like your descriptions of your experiences in Germany the most! So what if you trigger some people because they may not agree with your assessment of sour kraut! Thank you Kelly

[@Pommesgeneral]

Aw, i love your speaking so much. If i had the choice to learn professional english, i would chose you to teach me

[@itiswhatitis9083]

Love your video as always. Great sense of humour and interesting. The sound was very low though. Cant do a list..... never been there !

[@gac200076]

Hi Kelly, the water along the Rhine river is provided and filtered from the river...so in Cologne, Düsseldorf, Mainz etc. the water is indeed very calcareous. In other parts of Germany, for example in the mountains or in Bergisches Land, where I live, is amazing!

[@rheinking2754]

I really enjoyed watching your video. I am an American who has been living in Germany for 35 years. Your video reminded me of all the nice things about Germany that I take for granted.

[@Kellydoesherthing]

Thanks! I’m happy to hear you enjoyed it :)

[@norberthaag9345]

Love the shot of the Drosselgasse. Good to see something of home at times.

[@stuborn-complaining-german]

I agree with your Oktoberfest recomendation to go there once to have a look at it and have a good time, but keep it at that for foreign visitors. But keep in mind that the Oktoberfest is not really planed or designed to be international over regional drinking festival, but actually just is the yearly munich "Volksfest" for the people from in and around the city. About 58% of the visitors are directly from in and around munich, and an additional 17% are from the larger area around in bavaria. When you are from the munich area you will get almost daily invitations or offers to meet up there both from private and work related people, and very often go there several times even in one year. Not necessary to limitles party and get wated, but to get together, chat and have a good time and a beer for a few hours. Often so during the day...

[@wasfuernscheissname]

O yesss, a good hopy IPA is really difficult to get here ... But there is a craft brewery, called "Vogelbräu", in KArlsruhe, and they have "beers of the season" e.g. the "samba beer" (only from Mai 16. to June 13. this year). This is best IPA i know in our area ...

[@Schmissgesicht]

omg David Hasselhoff on E!? our hero who brought down the berlin wall, defeated the iron curtain and ended the cold war! how could you ...

[@mametaro0210]

I’m watching from Japan. I enjoy your videos every time. I have questions. Do you have recommendations places for honeymoon in the U.S and Germany? I’m sorry for my bad English. I’m so happy that you answer it.😍

[@Bamboo4U2]

Hawaii, if you can afford it.

[@Kellydoesherthing]

Thanks!! I would recommend Niagara Falls, the Finger Lakes in New York State, Breckenridge in Colorado, Lake Tahoe in California, Crater Lake in Oregon...I’m an outdoors person if you can’t tell haha and those are all chill places to enjoy. In Germany, oh gosh I’m overwhelmed. Try watching this video I made recommending places kzbin.info/www/bejne/hl6xqX9-qtyNg5I

[@56932982]

Germany: - Rhine Gorge / Upper Middle Rhine Valley, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and the near by Moselle river. - City of Dresden and Saxon Switzerland - Black Forest - Allgäu or Berchtesgaden Alps - Harz mountains - Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, especially Mecklenburg Lakeland Feed these keywords to Wikipedia and you will see...

[@peter_meyer]

To fulfill the stereotypes, try southern germany like Jochen Kunz recommended. For a honeymoon, try northern germany, especially the coast. If you have more than 2 weeks, try both.

[@evelinholmes6401]

mero mero Black Forest,Bavaria Germany’s one of Germany’s nicest Bundesland 👍😍

[@martinro5455]

Your honesty is quite fresh and your thoughts about the topics are rational. Stay true. By the way, after living back in the USA for so long, do you realy come back living in Germany? How about Micha? He seems to build up a new life over there. Do you talk about it?

[@malenar5237]

How did you make that program?

[@Bamboo4U2]

That could've easily be done in Excel. You just size the images so they're all the same and embed them in different cells.

[@malenar5237]

Jake Jones ahh okay thank you

[@bernerbad]

Of course these are your opinions!! I would add the lack of pressure to order food-pay-and-get-out at Cafes & Restaurants as number one.

[@strubbilottaf9094]

If you like Christmas Markets you can try if there is still the one south of National Portrait Gallery in Washington D.C. Was there seven years ago in December. No food, but a lot of nice stuff and a lovely christmas athmosphere. Btw. Have you been to Leopolds on M Street and tried the cake there?

[@BlackWater_49]

5:13 The opportunity?! I think you meant to say the chance because it sometimes honestly feels like winning the lottery if your train isn't delayed, canceled it has "technical difficulties". (Also I am from Germany and for foreigners it might not feel as bad as I make it sound but for a German... XD)

[@stpaley]

sometimes I charge but usually I do like to pay cash in a way that challenges my math skills; instead of handing the cashier a bill that gives me endless change I hand them bills & change that give me back larger denominations be it coins or bills, and I do get a lot of stares or questions like "you gave me too much money" so now I always preface my action with statements "I am trying to strengthen my math" or "I want certain change" but I still get a lot of looks but hey I have accepted my weirdness a long time ago

[@alexjenkins1079]

Personally, I prefer paying with cash, especially when it gives me so much freedom to buy things without feeling like there's someone looking over my shoulder at what I'm buying as I would when paying with a card. And you might not have heard of this, but when I buy things, if I can, I give the cashier , say, GBP 20,80 for a GBP 15,80 bill, so I don't get a load of change in coins back

[@stpaley]

@@alexjenkins1079 i am very curious, do you get stares back and ask that you gave them too much money, that happens frequently to me

[@alexjenkins1079]

stpaley tbh, I’m not sure, because I’m frequently looking away from the cashier, but I wouldn’t be surprised if I get some funny looks, and if the cashier’s thinking that I’ve given her too much. I’ve never been told that I’ve given her too much though, and when I get a receipt, it always has the correct amount of change on it. And I have been asked a few times before if I could make a payment up to where I could get a note instead of a load of coins as my change, such as £11,- instead of £10,-, for a £6,- order at my local fish and chip shop before so they could save their £1 coins

[@stpaley]

@@alexjenkins1079 i believe i understand what you are saying in the latter part of your comment; that they want to keep the change instead of the customer getting it which i do like at all, the business if they do not want to deal with the handling of change should short-change themselves and not the customer

[@alexjenkins1079]

stpaley I think they were low on change, especially £1 and £0,50 coins, at the time, probably after getting a load of people who paid with £20 notes for an order that might have cost something like £7 or £8. I don’t think they had enough of those coins for them to give me as my change either, so that might have been why I do it all the time, even if the business I’m in isn’t low on change, if only because it means I have less coins to have to deal with, which when you put them all together are very heavy and might actually break the zip on the coin compartment of my wallet

[@andrewozenilek5596]

I can't comment on every list item, because some (Oktoberfest) I haven't experienced, others I don't care about (tab water).However there are three items I feel strongly about. 1. I'm intrigued by your relationship to Mett. Why try it it again if you didn't like it? Is it just the fear of being governed by a bias? I love Mett, but there is nothing wrong with not liking it (obviously). The constitancy won't change a second time and bits of Mett will always get stuck in your teeth. 2. While I'm perfectly happy to accept different preferences, I think you treat German beer unfairly. I don't think you can compare mass produced beer with craft beer. You lived in Mainz. It's the home of Kuehn Kunz Rosen Brewery. They have (pretty good) IPA If you don't like that, okay. Maybe it's the mystique hops. I'm just saying don't compare apples and oranges. 3. I don't want to be offended, but I feel a little sting: David Hasselhoff is NOT German! His fame in Germany is more a product of his own imagination and American Late-night-hosts like Conan o'Brien, who jokingly claimed his face was on German money bills.

[@sluggo206]

Americans don't eat raw pork because it has salmonella. So, is the Mett pork really clean? We're also suspicous of sushi although more willing to eat it. Japanese chefs insist they use clean fish for sushi and are careful with it.OK, but how can you really tell whether a fish is clean?

[@evelinholmes6401]

Mike Orr that’s why you eat in germany. It is a selective piece of pork that will be used for mett. Standard are very high in Germany 🇩🇪

[@theobserver1320]

Kelly you are so personable and your views on Germany are so interesting. 👍🏻

[@TRVladdy]

Döner better be at S or imma do some aktive Sterbehilfe around here.

[@evelinholmes6401]

Vladdy Beruski I don’t remember Doener as German food. As I remember it was brought in by the Turks in the 60. I was born in Germany and lived there for 27 year’s. So it must have become popular in the mid 70s Here we call it donairs. The defently have middle eastern flavour to it . Not on my list as good.

[@TRVladdy]

not quite. I think you mean kebab, which is an ingredient in döner, but the version (also known as döner im fladenbrot or dürüm döner) we have here today, was invented in Berlin by some German guy.

[@Hamsterdam91]

@@evelinholmes6401 a turkish imigrant in Berlin had a small restaurant selling kebap but the business was not going well. He noticed that the Germans don't take their time to sit down and eat for lunch so he stuffed the kebap and salat in a bread so people could get it "to go", he called it Döner Kebap and it was selling like crazy

[@martinjohnson2830]

@@evelinholmes6401 and i dont remember schnitzel as a German food.

[@pebear]

I moved to Cleveland from CT / MA 2 years ago. I had my own well in CT and the water was great and tasted yummy. Here in Cleveland the water either tasted like Diesel or Chlorine, so I bought a water cooler and I fill up my 3 5 gallon water bottles for like 150 a piece at Wally World (Walmart) The water here in Cleveland is also very hard and calcified. Just have to use Lime-a-way to keep that calcium from building up in the shower. I rent a house here, but if I owned the house I would install a whole house water filter / reverse osmosis system, they don't cost all that much and the only downside is you have to replace the filter once and while.

[@tonys1636]

Use a Brita or other brand jug water filter for your drinking water, they make large ones nowadays, water should not be drunk ice cold in quantities but close to body temp, ambient is fine.

[@pebear]

@@tonys1636 my water cooler keeps it cool not cold. I was thinking about putting on one of those britta type filters on the tap. That's what my wife keeps bugging me about doing that. As a guy who used to be a pipe fitter in the service and was a plumber's helper through college, I love the reverse osmosis type filters.

[@tonys1636]

@@pebear I have the opposite problem, very soft water, great for cooking and drinking but trying to rinse shampoo from ones hair takes ages, saves on detergent in both the Dishwasher and washing machine, with soft clothes from the dryer without using fabric conditioner. Still use a water filter jug for drinking water as during periods of heavy rain water has a peaty colour to it or is it rust from our ancient water infrastructure in the town. Pipe network goes back to the early 20th Century, before water was piped into houses and one collected it from a tap on a beautiful cast iron or stone column on the street corner a lot of which are still in place but capped off, if not having been flattened by a truck and removed,

[@pebear]

@@tonys1636 I hate soft water. When I go to FL and like you said, rinse out shampoo it just does not feel like it comes out. When I lived in FL I would take 2 or 3 showers a day and you never felt clean because of the humidity and the soft water.

[@timlois]

I was doing the 5-gallon dispenser water for years, which worked fine. Just a hassle. I recently added a RO system to the house. It is relatively cheap to purchase and operate, tastes great, and I don't have to worry about the myriad chemicals and hormones raging through our public water supply for which we do not currently treat or test. Brita is good, but, charcoal filtration has it's limits and is ineffective for certain contaminants. Writing from Pennsylvania.

[@michelroerig7825]

Nice and honest video. :-)

[@markmesic2527]

On windows, where are the screens? There are no flies to worry about right?

[@wasfuernscheissname]

You love Schnitzel ? Then you have to try the "Gasthof zur Zieglhütte" in Idstein (approximatly 35 km from MZ) - after corona ...

[@berndheghmanns1437]

mo..moment David hasn't a Night Rider Movie, it was a hole series!!

[@martinc.720]

“Still believed in Santa” What are you saying? 😢😢

[@Sue-In-Oregon]

I thought that very same thing!!!!! :(

[@bazoo513]

Something is not quite right with audio in this one - very low volume and sounds distant.

[@cas5447]

I really have to say that I can get your point regarding the water and it's quality, but it varies from region to region. Same with the water pressure. Where I live (not far off Hanover, Lower Saxony) we actually don't have the problem of heavy water and an excellent water pressure. But if you move regions that can change very quickly. Also, David Hasselhoff isn't really popular around here. The only thing we really know him for is that he thinks that it was him who teared down that Berlin Wall (and yeah, the Knight Rider series of course)

[@bradbell3744]

Great video. Honest answers. So many videos go on forever and say very little.

[@farbsynthesefoto]

In which City did you livd at? The Platform looks like Würzburg. Greets! PS: Yup German Water is hard..i guess it is the Reason, why we are this much "Stiff" (is that the correct word?). 😊

[@feothyr6810]

4:20 - Mischa, casually waiting for Kelly to finish being excited about boring old buildings 😂 Concerning Oktoberfest: I don't think that's the old lady in you at all. Oktoberfest just doesn't make any sense if you're not a tourist or invited - way too expensive, too crowded and once you've been there, well ... it's off the bucket list and there are plenty other Volksfeste in Germany, without the tourists and the exorbitant prices ^^

[@dirksommer4896]

About the Hoff, there's a recent commercial for a german used car company featuring him as Michael Knight... You might enjoy that: kzbin.info/www/bejne/n3PcoWaLpNGid68 !

[@EllixbelliX]

the thing with water... it really depends on there you are living. My parents live near the bigger cities and their water is "hard". A bit like the water in Mainz, where the water pipes are really old and you can tast some of the methal and minerals that are in the pipes for a really long time. Now i live away from the bigger cities surroundet by nature, our water quality is SO GOOD, i can not imagne to buy water some time because our water is so refreshing and without any taste. its so beneficial

[@destryo3287]

I don't know whether the gas "argument" is valid for the Autobahn. What I mean is, German (or European) gas is quite pricy, BUT has a higher octane level than the regular gas in the US. (Regular octane level in Germany is as equal as the premium gas in the US). So if you drive more you have less pollution and spend less gas per 100km. (I have driven the BMW X3 latest model and had an average of 7.7l/100 I think).

[@Kellydoesherthing]

It was more about driving at a high speed uses more fuel than driving longer distances. I think the US/Americans wrote the book on long drives haha

[@destryo3287]

@@Kellydoesherthing Ah ok surely, you are in the right. I didn't understand your comment on the gas in the video. But if you drive 160kmh (100mph) left lane straight then yeah your wallet will cry.

[@ffarmchicken]

I had a good laugh! Thx.

[@steves5933]

Thanks, Kelly. Now I'm hungry. Schnitzel and/or Bratwurst, yummy. Just thinking about it and I gained a Kilogram. :)

[@Bamboo4U2]

She's not wrong about Schnitzel. If it wasn't such a pain to make (hammer, hammer, hammer down the pork), I'd have it all the time.

[@helge000]

Kelly, your list really nailed it! But deng, putting the Hoff in the last tier????!!! His concert was the sole reason the Berlin Wall fell!!!

[@martinc.720]

Daniel Helgenberger What, people took the wall down so that they could throw stones at him? :-p

[@evelinholmes6401]

Missed your history glass? It was with the help of President Bush the russian president and Helmut Kohl. Definitely not the Trunk called David Hasselhoff.

[@martinc.720]

Evelin Holmes I really think he was joking 🙄🤦‍♂️

[@martinc.720]

Evelin Holmes What’s a “history glass”?

[@lonespokesperson7254]

When I was in the eastern part of the U.S. (i.e Kentucky, Pennyslavania) in 1995, it seemed that the poorest states had the best freeways, and the richest states hat the most freeway potholes. I don't know whether this is still accurate or not, but that was the feeling I had. Of course, California is a totally different pair of shoes. The use concrete to build their freeways, back east they use the same material as Germany does, or at least something similare. The capital beltway was a nightmare in 1995, I had the responsibility of driving myself and 2 senior citizens to Silver Spring, Maryland, from Kentucky and it was already dark on this piece of road, and raining cats and dogs - it was really scary..

[@cmulder002]

German water does not have the high LEAD contents like flint for example and calcium does not poison you just might improve your bones/ teeth.

[@alexjenkins1079]

Sorry if this comes across as rather strange, but what are the things you really dislike (and perhaps even like) about German cash culture, when compared to that in America? Perhaps this might be a good video for you and Mischa, especially if he has gripes about American cash culture, or the lack thereof

[@sirstanley8599]

Mett 4 Life

[@letschill4725]

You have to try water in oder region of Germany .we have a lot of limestone here. Regions with sandstone have softerwater .its nearly every where local. Or Mixed with Bodensee water.you can buy with phone,watch or your bankcard nearly every where only small Stores or you have to buy min.10euro worth and normally you have to ask lol.the Thermen are left in Germany by Roman Empire

[@Astrofrank]

About beer: im Germany, you can choose from many types of beer, with various amounts of hop. In the North, you get more, in Bavaria, you get less. About water: the content of lime is very different at different locations. I am living in Bavaria with hard water, but I come from a region with soft water. And chlorine has almost no effect on the taste if it is applied as ClO2 (chlorine dioxide).

[@voidcommando7574]

lol for a me a german is D-tier ->A-tier B-tier ->S-tier inculding the Autobahn Trains are D Tier for German's and the cash system wtf you can nearly everywhere pay per credit card except really small places where you spend like 1-2 € with coins i didn't used used a single bank note in the last year and about the water it depends on region maybe you like it or not

[@evelinholmes6401]

Voidcommando most Germans buy Sprudel or stillest Wasser buy the case.

[@GamesCourier]

since the scandals and the ignorance of the industry towards change, you can actually put the German cars way lower

[@stephanryll2133]

the scandal was made public by the american car lobby. its a thing to think about.

[@blarfroer8066]

I bet the same technology was used by every big car company around the world, but some just didn't get caught.

[@GamesCourier]

@@blarfroer8066 if you really think that afterwards not every car company got controlled like that, then you are mistaking mister conspiracy

[@blarfroer8066]

@@GamesCourier if you really think countries don't try to protect their companies, you're deluding yourself. One could easily argue that the US government tried to weaken the German car manufacturers, as it is still doing today, despite the fact that those companies employ tens of thousands of US inhabitants.

[@GamesCourier]

@@blarfroer8066 If you really think other countries don't want to protect their companies by doing the same tests, you're deluding yourself.

[@blarfroer8066]

Yes, we do have a lot of calcium in our water, which does leave a good bit of residue. On the positive side, Germany is one of the few countries on this planet, where you will get unchlorinated, safe drinking water straight from the tap in every home, every office, every hotel and even most public bathrooms. I guess that's nice. Our tap water is actually cleaner and more controlled than bottled water.

[@furatceylan8]

hahahaha ... there are a lot things germans don´t like about "german stuff" as well ... i think you underrated the water - since you can drink tap water almost anywhere in germany without any problems. that being said, hard water is pretty common, in tap water, because germany has a lot of mountains and hills, hence the calciumcarbonate in it. but, other than tap water, bottled water is extremely cheap in germany and you can get soo so many varieties. germans buy water in boxes, with 9-21bottles - for a couple of bucks. i´m not a fussball person myself, so i´m ok with it, but for most germans having a local or national soccer-team to be fan of, is like probably being a basketball, football or baseball fan in the states - it´s almost tradition. i know a lot of guys who love nothing more than the big cups, national, international or world cups and do anything and everything to watch as many matches as possible, both live and on tv (live of course). met is a thing, i know, i´ve never tried it to be honest, not that i don´t like pork, but it´s a matter of personal taste - i don´t eat "fischsemmel" as well or a "schweinshaxn" (well, occasionally i do). nothing against THE HOFF please - knight rider was a childhood favorite of mine. didn´t help that d. hasselhoff has become a drunk and is a positively cameo-driven actor, as a cheap joke nowadays.

[@jamillx]

"since you can drink tap water almost anywhere in germany" streich das "almost". wenn es nicht trinkbar ist, liegts an Verunreinigungen direkt im Haus (z.B. Legionellen), nicht am Wasser selbst.

[@furatceylan8]

@@jamillx warst du also in allen häusern der ganzen republik damit du das sagen kannst? ;-) Wenn ein AKW 5-10km neben meiner Stadt steht, würde ich das Leitungswasser vielleicht nicht trinken wollen, oder wenn ich im Ruhrpott wäre auch nicht ^_^

[@jamillx]

@@furatceylan8 da spricht die pure Ahnungslosigkeit....

[@furatceylan8]

@@jamillx und da spricht die pure arroganz und gutgläubigkeit

[@jamillx]

@@furatceylan8 keine Ahnung was aus dir spricht, Ahnung jedenfalls nicht

[@tobjord]

The Mettbrötchen in your video shown would be way too much Mett. But a thin (1/2 to 1/4 of an inch) layer of Mett is fine

[@SebastianWeinberg]

I _completely_ understand your take on the hard water here in Germany. Where I live, the water is considered hard even by German standards; it's really less “hard water” and more “slightly damp chalk”. Getting a water filter and running every drop I use through it has completely changed my life. Everything tastes so much better now. Regarding German beer, I think it's the national pride that Germans have in the historical “Reinheitsgebot” that keeps the industry overly limited to a narrow selection. In the olden times that law may have made German beer superior to less cleanly or carefully brewed variants from other countries, but nowadays it's just an antiquated restriction.

[@cwfan2]

Knight Rider was a really awful show. I don't think it lasted more than one or two seasons at the most. There's something about a show when the star is stupider than his car.

[@volkerwendt3061]

By your ranking of beer, water and mettt you're on a good way to lose your German followers xD Tbh, the water stuff is pretty different in Germany. The more south you get, the worse it gets. I am Northener but lived a couple of years in various southern regions. Whereas "our" northern water is extremely good, the southern thing is way too "hard". Back here I never decalcify my washing of coffee machines. Down south had to do this on a regular basis. Beer, phew, there are some fancy beers in Belgium, USA and meanwhile even in Germany. Nice for a pretty short time, but nothing but piss in the long term. The real stuff here will ever prevail ;-) Liked your vid btw

[@teecana3977]

I am Bavarian and after my aunt got a water softener in her house I never even realized that there were differences. But I think soft water is really disgusting and I have a hard time drinking it, so I guess it's just a matter of habit

[@erictrumpler9652]

I don't understand why Hasselhoff even figures in this ranking, and why much more meaningful aspects of German theater and musical performance culture are left out.

[@Schifty1988]

because I obviously care more about Hasselhoff than theater and music

[@erictrumpler9652]

@@Schifty1988 But what makes Hasselhoff representative of German culture?....your personal preference?

[@charlesvanderhoog7056]

With regard to cars, it is an educating experience to see the list of brands and types that sell best in the USA. You won't find any American brands there. I was stunned.

[@rocko44444444]

Damn! I have te learn from an American woman, that the Hungarian Steak tartare has a sister named in Germany, called Mett. :) Same thing just with beef, instead of pork.

[@tuschman168]

I'm not a huge fan of Mett either. Not that I think it's gross. I grew up with it after all. But there are so many other options that I like better on my Brötchen.

[@Bamboo4U2]

Yeah, I'm with her. No way I'm eating raw pork. Nuh huh. Nope.

[@lynnb2562]

Knight Rider is a TV program not a movie. And I have to completely agree with you on your train assessment. One of the other Americans in Germany I'm planning about it and I'm just sitting there going I look pretty far outside of the city of AtlantaAnd I have no access to any public transit of any kind whatsoever. If I were in Munich I would have buses and trains going everywhere. Even a crappy train is better than a train you don't even have

[@ThomasSteffien]

"Zwiebelmett" has to be at least on "a" ;)

[@chrischolewa9104]

how about Hackepeter ?

[@peter_meyer]

@@chrischolewa9104 wird Kacke später.... SCNR

[@aka99]

@@peter_meyer aber vorher will der Peter Hacke n vollen Meter 8)

[@chrischolewa9104]

@@peter_meyer -OK

[@SYNEED]

Digger Nein des ist wiederlich

[@gwendolynsnyder463]

for people who want to visit Munich, I only suggest to stay away from the Central Station. If I said anything about the crime rate, take it with a grain of salt, because Idk, but the central station is pretty stinky and littered with trash. I suggest the Karlsplatz near the Central Station instead. Now I don't like crowded places, but the Karlsplatz Stachus is much cleaner than the Central Station.

[@Arosox]

In Germany, you have roads. In US, you have roads with potholes. In Slovakia, you have potholes with roads ;)

[@Kellydoesherthing]

Lol!

[@horisontial]

Very bold putting Deutschland in D tier for beer. I wouldn't personally have done the same. I think I'd put it in A tier for its quality. But I am like you. I love a hoppy beer and only quite trendy and expensive places have proper IPAa/DIPAs or other divengent genres of beer like sours/lambics.

[@wizardm]

I'm german and my wife and kids like Mettbrötchen but i find it disgusting and I never understood why people like it.

[@Austria002]

Schnitzel, in fact, is an austrian dish. Its not german. If you really are into food (i know you are), visit Vienna and try an original Viennese Schnitzel and a Kardinalschnitte as a dessert. That might sum up to 10k kcal but you'll love it.

[@imrehundertwasser7094]

Not German? Try to tell that to the thousands of German restaurants serving it.

[@Austria002]

@@imrehundertwasser7094 Nah, i wont. Chefs usually know the origin of the dishes they're serving. There may be different variations of Schnitzel, but the original dish is austrian. The first documented reciepe is from a cookbook written by Katharina Polt, a woman from Graz (Stryria, Austria) in 1897.

[@honigschlecker1]

Time for a yummy Mettbrötchen! 😊 Just noticing that I didn't have one for quite some time. I also have this teeth problem, though, after savouring one. 😒

[@Ivanfpcs]

I felt honestly trigerd with how you ranked Water, Football, Oktoberfest and Beer

[@marcelferino9479]

Mett is also known as Feuerwehrmarmelade or firefighter's jelly :)