Food from Countries that No Longer Exist | East Germany (GDR)

[@ryoji4200]

In German they use Father Land to refer to their nation and in Russia they use Mother Land. So, yeah, missed opportunity for a culturally accurate joke.

[@britpackdog4545]

Captain hindsight 😂

[@KitoAkari1612]

DDR anthem still used "Vaterland" for their country.

[@bxnr_]

That's what I was thinking!

[@roanferguson8873]

The Soviet Union is the kind of divorced mom that spends all the child support on herself while letting her kids starve and sending them to school with thrift store clothes

[@TheOblake2]

"Unt Faza land"!!

[@Banana_Loupe]

The Coleslaw Part is new to me. Normally its just Jägerschnitzel, Spirelli Noodles, and the ketchup or tomatopaste based sauce

[@Andreas1975Ffm]

Cucumber salad

[@RailwayScholar]

Ein bisschen Rohkost ist gesund

[@DerEckardt]

You are a man (or woman) of culture 😎👍🏻

[@famts3716]

They’re called fusilli and they’re not noodles😭

[@Banana_Loupe]

@@famts3716 you clearly are not german, so silence, they are Spirelli Nudeln

[@arminrichard1836]

was born in 2000 in eastern Germany and this is still one of our better school meals. Good memories with this one. This and super simple mass produced pancakes.

[@yungwildnfree]

I didn’t know eastern Germany existed until the 2000s

[@lybula]

Definitely! My parents still joke about me telling them I loved the school pancakes better than theirs at some point

[@causti9744]

@@yungwildnfree East-West identification still goes strong to this day and you notice the difference enough to mention it like he did. Ofc the GDR didn't exist anymore, but you wouldn't find this meal in a school cafeteria or a former west german state, while it's commonly served in the former eastern states.

[@DioBrando_Sama]

​@yungwildnfree we're still kinda split up in west and east. Sadly.

[@westerxxx9220]

@DioBrando_Sama well I’m not making current generation guilty for their grandpas but you are lucky to have a country in the first place 👍🏻

[@laleluna8053]

I never thought I'd live to see a non-east-german prepare this.

[@FUCKINGRI0T]

Same

[@JmKrokY]

🤔

[@Graf-Fischgen-von-Fischgesicht]

Whats the name of that dish?

[@laleluna8053]

@@Graf-Fischgen-von-Fischgesicht Jägerschnitzel. But you might wanna specify it by saying Jägerschnitzel DDR Art, since in the west of Germany Jägerschnitzel means a regular Schnitzel with mushroom sauce :)

[@Graf-Fischgen-von-Fischgesicht]

@@laleluna8053 just Jägerschnitzel i thought it would have it own name

[@Stony2103]

My east german then-divorced dad used to make this for us on the weekends we were over. Haven't thought about it in a while, but now I crave it again.

[@thesonicfanthatknowsall]

did he scratch a fry with a 200 dollar ds game

[@SirSmokeALot27]

Lappen

[@tarkitarker0815]

@@thesonicfanthatknowsall 200? wtf is wrong with you americans, you can get that game for 10 bucks in germany.

[@Andi-ex1js]

Omg same But he made a proper tomato sauce and no coleslaw

[@LexifromZargon]

Wrong sausage and the salad doesn't go on top. And idk who tf ads mustard to the sauce but i will find you. But i really appreciate you taking the time to show others the dish! And it seems to have turned out pretty well! Hope you enjoyed it!

[@simonh6371]

He's in the UK so can't get proper Jagdwurst very easily. If you do find it, it's just in very thin slices for sandwiches. I recognise what he uses, it's Krakow sausage which we can buy here, we don't even have to go to a Polish shop, we have a Polish section in regular supermarkets. It's actually a bit better than Jagdwurst to be honest.

[@hoathanatos6179]

Fried krakowska is even better, though. I fucking love it.

[@yungwildnfree]

@simonh6371 Mortadella can be a used as replacement too… if you season it.

[@diewahreKleine]

also the wrong type of ketchup..the right choice would be born or werder

[@hopek7369]

Senf muss oder Rettich wenn geht

[@JasminM-cu5ln]

"Sounds awful but is actually pretty delicious" sums up east germany's entire existence. Coming from a German who had tasted both

[@AlSidre]

Hey Grüße aus Dresden ❤

[@cescocesco1105]

Frage von einem 2000er Kind... Die DDR war eigentlich voll in Ordnung, oder? Habe nämlich mal gehört, dass die Leute dort gehungert haben.

[@mspaint93]

German food is actually good, people dunk on it for being 'basic' looking but it's genuinely well done using good ingredients.

[@superzockertvyt9630]

​@@AlSidre daher kommen meine Großeltern

[@jaggmeeler2039]

Love that 💜

[@Gustav1127]

The Salat do not belongs on top of the dish at all. Its served beside the plate.

[@trugeld]

wie etwas aus horror

[@teddyboi001]

DANKE SCHÖN

[@k.kosmonaut9387]

MÖCHTE NOCH JEMAND EIN SALATSCHÄLCHEN?

[@KatZwe]

we never had it with salat. I think the school meals had one, but rarely slaw, more likely cucumber or carrot...

[@EnclavePublicRelations]

Oh who really cares

[@RomanianWalterWhite]

My eastern european ass was drooling the entire video 😭😭

[@tinogaw]

Most delicious Eastern European food 😂

[@ProstiEsliTrahnul228]

​@@tinogaw take your meds

[@goldenhourss]

good cuz i was gagging as an italian

[@goldenerkese]

@@goldenhourssthe whole of west germany gags at this too

[@fatchins9126]

Skill issue on their part Shit goes hard

[@mariamustermann6527]

Noch nie gesehen dass da Krautsalat dazu gehört. Die Tomatensauce kann ich regelrecht schmecken

[@mariusm8130]

Ich fühles 😂

[@juliusdohrn2758]

Und die Wurst sieht viel zu premium aus😂

[@ClaudiaSeeland]

@@juliusdohrn2758 So ist es wohl 🤣

[@Coradon-t1p]

@@mariamustermann6527 Ach Krautsalat hattet ihr auch nicht?

[@cavareenvius7886]

Kann man Ketchup vermischt mit Bratensoße überhaupt noch als Tomatensoße bezeichnen? Ich bin ehrlich gesagt froh dass ich kurz nach dem Mauerfall geboren wurde.

[@boblyith]

man said it “sounds awful” but the polish in me was salivating at the description 😭😭

[@ppw749]

lol for everyone from Eastern Europe it doesn’t “sounds awful” at all 😂😂

[@HéctorGarcía-j6n]

Me too

[@zwierzification]

Same and I'm vegan 😂

[@listopad09]

Zgadzam się

[@alacashrisen]

Arab here and this...i want this

[@whynotjustmyusername]

Okay, East German here. Firstly, Jägerschnitzel is served without any vegetables. It is just pasta, tomato sauce and the Jägerschnitzel itself. Secondly, that's the wrong mustard. In East Germany there is only one brand of mustard we will even consider mustard, that is Bautzner. Thirdly, we don't use weird crafty vinegars, we use straight up food grade acetic acid solution ("Essigessenz").

[@Dr.Eis.van.Wrestling]

Bautzner, Werder oder Born-Senf. Wenn dann schon richtig!

[@MaxesTechnik]

Werder Ketchup. Nichts anderes. :D

[@sorenkirk850]

@@MaxesTechnik exakt! Bautzner Senf & Werder Ketchup

[@karottenkrieger6272]

der Dijon Senf hat schon echt ein aggressives Schnauben aus mir rausbekommen

[@sorenkirk850]

@@karottenkrieger6272 Gesundheit!

[@danyolobobolo6498]

Just incase anyone was wondering the game is Bionicle Heroes. Had to do research since pausing didn't work :(

[@bluelightstudios6191]

Your a legend and a hero, I grant you this Medal of Honor!!! 🥇

[@danyolobobolo6498]

@@bluelightstudios6191 Why thank you good sir

[@N1quill]

what game tf are u on

[@brandonstonge7513]

@@N1quillthe DS game catrdidge that he uses for various random purposes throughout the video 😂 they’re in all of his videos along with a tiny hand

[@danyolobobolo6498]

@@N1quillif you open your eyes and actually watch the video you'd realize how dumb as fuck the question is XD

[@ChaosChatter]

Funfact: after the two parts of Germany reunited, some cities that were named differently during the time of the german democratic republic were re-named to what they were previously. So it's not only possible to be born in a country that no longer exists, but also in a city that technically no longer exists. Funfact two: there's an east german dish that has one of the most bizarre food names ever. Tote Oma, translated: Dead Grandma.

[@BartlomiejDmowski]

Could you give an example of such a city?

[@ChaosChatter]

@@BartlomiejDmowski Of course! Today's "Chemnitz" used to be "Karl-Marx-Stadt", for example

[@BartlomiejDmowski]

@@ChaosChatter ah, this way. Like Stalingrad, Leningrad. In Poland, we had Stalinogród (Katowice) for a while Didn’t think about it, makes sense

[@JohnySlama]

The dead grandma meal sounds like your mom trying to cook something after your grandma died that grandma used to cook

[@JohnySlama]

​@@BartlomiejDmowskiyeah, same thing in basically all ex-ussr countried

[@darken0id306]

Its wild seeing a non eastern-german person make this dish but its nice that you like it. One thing thats important: The salat part of the dish is served seperately. You dont put it on top. Also you usually wouldn't mix the noodles with the sauce because you also use the sauce to dip the Jägerschnitzel for extra flavour.

[@_notFBI]

With this video you made my East German Dad super happy. Thanks a lot! ❤

[@platoonmexx9278]

i have to highly doubt that, from the saussage to the sauce to the coleslaw.. its wrong

[@thedoomnegotiator9693]

@@platoonmexx9278 You seem miserable to be around.

[@platoonmexx9278]

@@thedoomnegotiator9693 when u are a delusional failure, i hope so

[@georgiospapaioannou-xc9pb]

What's his dads body count btw.

[@SouksavanThavonesouk]

​@@platoonmexx9278 Remember​ it​ doesn't​ matter.

[@greasycaveman9482]

While stationed in Germany awhile back I dated a woman who made this for me a few times. Apparently her grandma grew up in East Germany and passed the recipe to her, and yes it is pretty damn good. If made with love at least.

[@soundtorial4567]

As a german i can tell you one thing: east germany has the best women :D

[@greasycaveman9482]

@@soundtorial4567 so very true. Edit: I really miss Germany sometimes.

[@Stars_to_infinity]

​@@soundtorial4567 it really does

[@xzraphi]

@@soundtorial4567Yes East Germany has the best women thats a fact haha

[@patta8388]

@@soundtorial4567Ihr habt 90% "Tschakkeline" und "Jennifah".

[@beaneske]

I have lived in what was formerly the DDR my entire life, so this is the version of Jägerschnitzel I've always known. In uni, one of my friends from Bavaria (former BRD) was so excited when he saw Jägerschnitzel on the menu in the cafeteria. His excitement faded pretty quickly when he realised that it was not a schnitzel with mushrooms but instead, this.😂😅

[@dansattah]

I didn't know about the coleslaw. Going to university in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (Eastern Germany), that fried pork with -noodles- pasta is truly comfort food that is usually served twice a month at the local canteen. To avoid conflicts and confusion with the West German perception of Jägerschnitzel, we nowadays call it "Panierte Wurstscheibe mit Nudeln (Jägerschnitzel)" on the canteen menu.

[@psychoedge]

The coleslaw wouldn't be served as dollop but I can definitely see a canteen having some in a little bowl as a side dish.

[@clax__]

who the f can tell the difference

[@dansattah]

@@clax__ It's actually pretty obvious. The traditional (West German) Jägerschnitzel is a pork cutlet with mushroom sauce, usually served with potatoes. The Jägerschnitzel from the video is an East German creation of rations and food shortages.

[@Marlin_Quast]

Jo will garnicht klugscheißen aber wenn du Noodles schreibst denken englische Muttersprachler an asiatische Nudeln, weshalb in diesem Fall Pasta verwendet wird, da es um italienische Nudeln geht. Ist was komisch, dass dort ein Unterschied gemacht wird aber hab den Fehler in Australien andauernd gemacht und wurde falsch verstanden, also bloß für die Zukunft. :)

[@thinncrispyy9570]

we use to have one word for it but now we have FFFOOOUUUUURR YYYAAYYYYYYYY lmfao

[@matheushenriquegoncalves1081]

What a historical tragedy this narration. Its sounds like cold war never ended lol

[@ErickMarcelloni]

Yeah ikr... It looks he made so much effort not to sound an idiot, yet he did lol

[@deltbuddy5067]

Yep, this idiots mind is stull stuck in the 80s.

[@Tobias-b6d]

You got it buddy it never end

[@eastfrisian_88]

German here from the northwest. Few years ago my parents were on vacation in east Germany and called me in the evening and my dad said "I was never so disappointed than ordering Jägerschnitzel here" and I knew what he meant and cried laughing. I knew because I have friends from east Germany and tried some of their "famous" recipes but I think it's very delicious!

[@williamkarl-gustafmoller8492]

This looks like something you'd make late at night when the firidge is nearly empty and the stores are all closed. LOVE IT!

[@notusneo]

Summed up east germany pretty well

[@dasbeta]

Es war ja auch so du Schnelldenker

[@WhiteBloggerBlackSpecs]

Our when the stores don't have food after you've been waiting in line for hours

[@saureminenaufseher4820]

Yeah, that's pretty much what east Germany was/partly is, and nearly empty fridge and a creative homecook

[@WeItenspinner]

That's pretty much all of eastern Germany's kitchen. XD

[@Ermwhatthesmegma]

Bro is torturing that Nintendo card💀

[@thesonicfanthatknowsall]

It's a 200 dollar ds card bro 💀

[@Bepdomize]

​@@thesonicfanthatknowsall what game was it? I tried looking at every frame but I couldn't tell.

[@Justin_Roiland]

Bionicle lol

[@gellog0530]

Bionicle is goated

[@thesonicfanthatknowsall]

@gellog0530 yes it is but don't mention it in a cooking video

[@newergamer7974]

As an Austrian, I have to say, this looks really delicious! Id love to try this out soon. I like the simple foods the most and this is just my style

[@alpharius6781]

It's fatty and salty, tastes resonable

[@Shane-ed6mu]

Did everyone not see him scraping the food with a nintendo DS game 💀💀💀

[@Jetstream_Sam]

There was a DS game in the onion

[@capybara1232]

i did notice it 💀

[@john_doe_milk]

I noticed 💀

[@tanikokishimoto1604]

Wouldn't know what that was. Sorry.

[@Rakshasa1986]

​@@tanikokishimoto1604 the Nintendo DS was a handheld game system. Cartridges like the one shown in this video were used to play games.

[@mhpremixesedits2342]

As a GDR kid kudos to you for making a quite authentic Jägerschnitzel

[@PfannkuchenKuchen]

Naja der krautsalat gehört da aber nicht dazu

[@genkidama4675]

Und ne richtige Jagdwurst war das auch nicht

[@Pseudomonasa]

Als Wessi kann ich nur sagen da war 2/3 nicht authentisch

[@stab7113]

Dude i gotta be honest Jägerschnitzel day in primary school absolutely slapped like that shit was easily my favourite

[@That1Kid-cr8zy]

Rough translation means “hunters cutlet”. Simple dish with the coolest name

[@mx338]

East-Germany was also sanctioned from trading with the west, had most of its industrial base destroyed and ended up paying 99% of Germam war reperations towards even the allies. So it's a miracle it even did as well as it did.

[@Crustaceannationrepresentative]

Not to mention most of the skilled labor force migrated to West Germany while they still could because the living conditions were so bad in the east

[@gregor2436]

​@@CrustaceannationrepresentativeI would rather say "how much better it was in the west". It was not exactly bad, but - as the west got the marshall plan, huge amounts of money as a showcase, how great capitalism could be, the east had to pay reparations and was not in great shape after the war ...

[@animalm4st3r]

@@gregor2436 "had" is a strong word for getting your entire industry stolen and shipped to the soviets.

[@mrbroccholi]

The east simply failed because it was a socialistic dictatorship…

[@armanbath]

Based answer

[@lukasz.adamski]

It's delicious. To be honest I always loved such recipes. It's something magic in creating tasty and savoury food using basic and cheap stuff instead of having to rely on fancy, hard to get and overpriced things.

[@trixx3518]

Did nobody notice him rubbing the food with a bionicles cartridge at the start? Lmao

[@mnaman6781]

It drives user engagement and you fell for it! Lol

[@bigchunky7499]

Stop making stuff up dude that never happened...

[@SKRRTCOBAIN00]

@@bigchunky7499KeYS

[@Krausam]

As a German chef from east Germany, i can say looks good and decent. Only the plating is a bit off with the layering. Also you have two factions on this dish, with tomatoe sauce and noodles or with boiled potatoes, carrot-peas mix vegetable and a gravy sauce. Noodle tomato one more in schools and kindergarten, the gravy version more for adults in company cantina, for workers

[@schatten105]

Du willst ein Deutscher Koch sein und findest das gut? Sag mir wo du Kochst damit ich niemals versehentlich in diese Kaschemme reinstolper. Das is ja nichtmal vernünftige Jagdwurst junge

[@Simon200o]

Carrot-peas mix never came with gravy, it came with a sauce created by the almighty "Mehlschwitze"

[@Krausam]

@@Simon200o Mehlschwitze ist nur das Dickungsmittel. Roux is just the thickener. And brown basic sauce is translated to gravy. Auf Deutsch Bratensoße.

[@Simon200o]

@@Krausam You take the juice from the can and use the roux (thanks for the translation). You do not use gravey. The color of the sauce is milky white, not brown.

[@Krausam]

@@Simon200o In welchen Bundesland wird das den gemacht, das ist eine Variation von der habe ich noch nie gehört? Oder meinst du ihr habt das Gemüse in weißer Soße liegen? Weil ich meine nicht dass das Mischgemüse in Bratensoße ist. Die ist dazu für das Schnitzel und die Kartoffeln.

[@al3xxx918]

It’s always nice to hear people talking about the situation in countries, they only heard of

[@EvolutionIsALie]

In this video he used: 9 tiny hands 1 tiny foot 3/4 little white babies from cabbage 4 uses of Nintendo ds cartridge 1 was hiding in onion and 2 to crack eggs (Tell me if i missed anything)

[@dersuddeutschesumpf5444]

​@Anonymous-cc5pn and you just added to it. Well done bimbo

[@gegamertv1239]

I still don't know why but why the hell is he using baby parts and ds games? Is he having a mental health issue?

[@EvolutionIsALie]

@gegamertv1239 i wouldn't trust that guy.. i mean noone asked for his oppion fistrly and now hes liking his own comments

[@henningbartels6245]

were any tiny hands and babies harmed during the recording of the video?!?

[@EvolutionIsALie]

@henningbartels6245 i dont think so, they look unharmed, tho it might be psychological trauma due to being trapped in cabbage

[@SandBarioth]

Just for clarification, this is not the East-German version of the west "Jägerschnitzel". It gets it's name from the sausage that is used the "Jagdwurst" that's why it is called that way. Also you wouldn't serve coleslaw with it, it just the sausage and the "Spirelli" with tomato sauce. And if it would be served with something it would be "Krautsalat" and not with the english/american coleslaw. And this is not to mocke him, it is just to educate other people (Ja ich mein auch die Wessis).

[@bigosdiler]

Sorry to ask, but what is correct name for this recipe or can i have a link to it. Greetings from Silesia.

[@SandBarioth]

So, you take the sausage and cut it into disks, about a finger thick. Then you are going to bread the pieces and fry them off. Since the sausage is already cooked, just warm it through and fry until it is your desired colour. Traditionaly you would serve pasta (fusili) and a tomato sauce of your choice. But it can be served with different things, I hope that helps. I couldn't send a recipe, because they are all in german

[@bigosdiler]

@@SandBarioth Thank you

[@henkipenkidenki]

@@bigosdiler ddr-museum a good recipe in english, just google for "hunters schnitzel with tomato sauce" You can add some water to the tomato sauce if it's a little bit too thick or heartburn-inducing. The hunting sausage is made of finely ground pork with some whole chunks of belly and lean meat mixed in. This might be really hard to find tho, outside of Germany at least.

[@derschwenki9615]

(Ja ich mein auch die Wessis) Herrlich, wenn nich wunderscheen XD

[@elyca]

Jägerschnitzel is my favorite food ever. No meat tastes as good as Jagdwurst and the sauce with the noodles just makes it so perfect 👌

[@lessanderfer7195]

"..the little they had...", goes on to use 30 separate items.

[@raikbarczynski6582]

yes but all what he used was available in the GDR.

[@alisamrk]

well, we HAD stuff, but only stuff that grew locally. if you tried to ship stuff into the GDR you were put in prison or worse.

[@buolindo8795]

West Germany is Leia getting to live on Alderaan and East Germany is Luke having to live on Tatooine

[@modeman4100]

Yeah if alderaan was full to the brim with imperials just like West Germany with ex-Nazis.

[@kittocat3635]

Not quite lol

[@buolindo8795]

@@kittocat3635 What do you mean?

[@littlebugsmith]

Juvenile understanding of politics. Go play on your ipad

[@patta8388]

@@littlebugsmith As someone actually growing up and living in germany... how about you bugger off and let people have fun?

[@thegoldenminion8088]

My therapist visited east Germany during that time period and described it as miserable, and mentioned that when going there, multiple times, she was asked if she could sell her jeans to one of the people living there and was even offered 120 dollars (equivilant to 458 dollars today)

[@tokre8880]

Yeah you usually didn't get jeans .... ppl watched western television, listened to western radio and boom the desperate urge came to live like the people from the west. Also life there wasn't miserable it's just most buildings being in bad shape cuz that pathetic one party government didn't give a f*ck. Well and you knew that you are always watched by our own version of the bloody KGB....

[@desroth]

"Sounds awful" Me, cooking it on an almost weekly basis: Well like thats just your opinion, man

[@flunkifer9514]

As an east German, I ask: "Why Coleslaw tho? (Or how it's written)

[@noahk.6639]

Glaube der meint einfach normalen krautsalat

[@ashdahlia]

My parents were both born in East Germany and grew up there. So even though I was born after Germany became one country again and after my parents moved to the west of Germany, I grew up with that stuff. (Not the coleslaw I never had that tbh) And yes it looks terrible and just from hearing what it is it maybe sound like it taste terrible, but it's truly amazing food. From what I heard from my parents, it was also typical for schools to serve this kind of food. It was cheap, fast and tasted good. It was one of the first recipes I learned to make myself because it's so easy. For me, it's nostalgia from my childhood and probably for my parents too. I will probably even make this kind of stuff sometimes for my own kids...

[@sakuda213]

I’d tear that up, it looks like an amalgamation of food you make at 3am

[@psychoedge]

and that's why it's so good

[@marvin2678]

Yeah making fun of poor people ...

[@Kisel228-fp8iz]

@@marvin2678???

[@ScottTorrance31]

@@marvin2678 What is bro wafflin' on about

[@trollfake9578]

@@Kisel228-fp8iz Because ppl in soviet bloc WERE poor as fuk. Only their occupational regimes (with military support from moscow) had tons of money/resources/priviledges and they spent it on muscovite's wars like Vietnam, Korea, Cuba etc - "spreading the revolution". Ordinary ppl in soviet-occupied countries were left with leftovers. There were constant product shortages and ppl had to be creative to survive. "but they had healthcare and houses" - so did ppl in the WEST Europe. Do you really think that ONLY soviet states had social systems?! Dude... Almost whole Europe had and has public healthcare, education, housing etc. The difference is that ppl can become wealthy and get more stuff if they're smart (and become doctors, enterprenours etc), while in soviet states everyone got the same shit no matter how hard they tried and only those close to political system had priviledges and bonuses.

[@arran10]

Petition make a dish of the late Manchuria

[@justx.em1liaa]

My East German (Berlin) grandma used to make this for me! I was born after 1989 though, so I didn’t grow up in the ddr (gdr). But my parents always tell stories about it.

[@ResasRandomStuff]

East german here. There is no coleslaw served with it, It's served with noodles and this kind of tomato sauce (which also has onions in it) only, no coleslaw.

[@Rubashow]

East German here. It's actually a classic and everyone likes it. Kind of a comfort food. The cole slaw is a nice touch but I've never seen it with that dish.

[@chn.175]

I was born after the reunification but this kind of Jägerschnitzel was a childhood staple and evoked pure childhood nostalgia

[@missnandor]

Ah, that's my childhood right there. Great to hear you liked it!

[@mayasu4277]

It’s accurate. Here in East Germany this is a staple in every canteen and being an immigrant from the west I was a bit disappointed an what I saw on first glance. But my husband made it once for our toddler on a day that kid would not eat. He demolished that dish ❤

[@Anne-si8cg]

I'd object to the salad and the sauce was not made with mustard in my youth. I made this dish for my western german nephew when he visited with his family (- the sauce, because he was not supposed to have sugar). His parents looked bewoldered, but it turns out children still love it. He devoured it in record time :)

[@EldritchDoodler4828]

Usually I'm fine with you using DS cartridges to cook, but Bionicle Heroes is where I draw the line lmao

[@PhantomFelix211164]

"It sounds awful but its actually pretty delicious" East Germany in a nutshell

[@ben7932]

And yet for some reason, they broke out of their utopia

[@thatsnodildo1974]

Yet people did everything in their power to go West

[@generalerica4123]

@@ben7932Yeah, the thing was… of course it mattered who you were, if you were - following their definitions - an upstanding citizen and shared the ideology chances are life was pretty good for you, especially if you don’t expect to live in a castle. If you were different though for whatever reason, life could get many shades of awful and, should by chance some or most of your family live in west Germany, pretty agonizing. It’s pretty common in these systems that people don’t flee because it’s literally impossible to remain but because they can’t stand it anymore from a psychological standpoint. They need the freedom even if they never make use of it, the assurance that it’s there if you wanted is immensely calming to the human psyche. To a lessened extent you can see this in other areas, too, be that food, infrastructure, wearing of medical equipment to ward off a pandemic… people are deeply affected by their mental state, and sadly, especially in the online age we have argued ourselves into a corner where emotional reactions are frowned upon if they come from the wrong people. Together with everything else we’ve not just undermined authority but the basis to bring it back because the moment Person A says something that isn’t agreement, Person B can go "Haha, get triggered!" And move on. It’s dangerous, and you can see the end result in history.

[@JR-ut2ne]

I don’t know low quality of life, dictatorship and no basic freedoms don’t sound so delicious. And apparently East German citizens didn’t like it either.

[@rumbatumblajambomambo6241]

utopia? lol@@ben7932

[@connordaniels765]

That looks like my weekends of finding anything in the freezer and cupboards and throwing it all together!! Love it

[@cameroneridan4558]

East German food is generally surprisingly good. Also fun cursed fact: the sauce was a mix of ketchup and canned tomato puree, but the germans weren't stretching the tomato puree with ketchup, no, they were stretching the ketchup with tomato puree.

[@kittichan]

My parents still base their cooking on the GDR cookbook and I love it. My mum loves Kurt Drummer recipes (although I think some of them are quite weird 😅)

[@maktiki]

Ketchup=Tomato puree+vinegar+spices+sugar

[@cameroneridan4558]

@@maktiki yes. Why are you saying this tho? Puree = Tomato + blender + cooking off the water afterward. Since we're apparently explaining how things are made.

[@maktiki]

@@cameroneridan4558I mean you cannot "stretch" ketchup with tomato paste. You "can" but you make the ketchup only better quality. more tomato=better ketchup. This is the opposite of stretching

[@cameroneridan4558]

@@maktiki I really don't think you understand how the perception of various everyday goods as luxury affected eastern mentalities, nor of the questionable quality of import goods in general. It does not matter that theoretically the (low quality) puree improved the ketchup, ketchup was the "fancy" processed sauce in the same way that 1950s WASP americans thought adding mayonnaise to absolutely everything made it fancy.

[@FinnieTheFox]

Als Ostdeutscher kann ich nur sagen das es bis heute ein Klassiker ist.

[@maxhlr2800]

Bin etwas zu spät für die DDR aber meine Oma machte es oft zum Sonntag oder wenn ich bei ihr war. Es ist mein Lieblings Essen weil es Lecker ist und Erinnerungen bringt.

[@yvonnekramer89]

Okay aber das wird doch mit Tomatenmark gemacht und ohne Krautsalat oben drauf, was soll das? Ist doch komplett falsch gezeigt hier 🤨🫣🙃

[@raikbarczynski6582]

@@maxhlr2800 gabs es bei uns in der Schule in den 90ern immer noch. Und unsere Schulköchinnen waren gestandene Frauen aus der DDR, soll heißen das Essen war immer super auch wenn es immer relativ einfache gab. Verdammt, jetzt vermisse ich den Milchreis aus der Schule

[@Hitsugix]

Jup, gibts bei mir mindestens einmal im Monat, allerdings ohne Salat.

[@FADGhost70]

My mom still made these dishes. The GDR may have ceased to exist but the culture is still there. Yes cooking is also part of culture. Edit: And the sausage you used is way too fancy.

[@vulturonix7460]

Mother is from the german democratic republic and she told me there was a simple saying: "The west had the meat, we had the sausages"

[@shizukakawakami6084]

It's really funny, but people from USSR (I mean Kazakhstan in particular) considered GDR as heaven on Earth with lots of goods and opportunities

[@ottifant64]

@@shizukakawakami6084 People in the west thought that East Germany was the richest country in the eastern bloc (aside from Russia), but then 1989/1990 came and people realized it was actually bankrupt.

[@cooltwittertag]

​@@ottifant64lots of soviet colonies were bankrupt, thats why the soviets had to bankroll them all.

[@PuddingXXL]

@@shizukakawakami6084 Fun fact: Kazakhstan had a lot of forced german labour deported to it after WW2 by the soviet union. There is a sizeable german speaking population there that started out as gulag slaves. I think the perception of rich GDR came from the interactions with the german labourers in Kazhakstan.

[@TerraPosse]

Jägerschnitzel is one of the few dishes that even in our school cantines still tasted nice.

[@sowietnkvd]

idk how it looked in germany, but in poland, there was food on coupons (you couldnt buy it if you didnt have the coupon, you still had to pay) and families often got like 100g of meat per week, so such dish wouldnt really work (also there was a ban on selling meat on mondays, because catholic poles didnt eat it on friday anyway, so now you needed meat only for 5 days, not 7) also toilet paper was very valuable, and in one region of poland there was an average of less than 1 toilet paper roll per person a year

[@alexrochlitz7402]

My dad was born and lived in West Germany (Köln-Düsseldorf area) for about 30 years before Agfa moved him here to the US where I was born and grew up. I'm forever grateful that I got to grow up eating delicacies like (western) Jägerschnitzel and that I got to go on vacation to Germany once a year to experience it there too. Having said that and having had family who lived in East Germany I can tell that that must be surprisingly delicious. Nobody expects it but German cuisine absolutely slaps whether in the West or East.

[@trollfake9578]

Because even soviets didn't manage to destroy German culture and spirit during 50 years of brutal occupation.

[@isforme2789]

We have a lot of hearty dishes for comfort and a full belly without trying to be fancy

[@hi_elyse]

it’s genuinely a shame. east germany was infinitely better and had a much higher quality of life, but no one can have nice things if rich people decide against it.

[@Jannihue]

That is the first time I see this dish from another person other than my grandma ❤. I love it and it always makes me feel comfortable and connected to my family

[@misslyntheena]

I love our East German version of Jägerschnitzel (hunters schnitzel) so naturally I was shocked when I moved to the West only to find out that their version of Jägerschnitzel is just a normal Schnitzel with a mushroom sauce… now I really want some good old childhood Jägerschnitzel. But in my family we’d eat it with potatoes, broccoli and brown sauce.

[@u.s.1974]

Igitt, wie kann man bloß das ostdeutsche Kulinarverbrechen einem echten Schnitzel vorziehen.

[@UbimubimOsas]

​@@u.s.1974troll

[@reyynoneMapping]

@@u.s.1974Hast halt keine Ahnung oder es noch nie probiert.

[@Tudas]

@@u.s.1974 Es ist halt einfach besser

[@GojiraSteve2019]

Not gonna lie that actually looks good minus the coleslaw on top (I would just eat that separately)

[@paulobetrugo6009]

That is not eaten with it and the Krautsalad is different .... he messed up the recipe...

[@GojiraSteve2019]

@@paulobetrugo6009 wait really? Well it still looks good to eat regardless

[@paulobetrugo6009]

@@GojiraSteve2019 ja, I mean he still did the pasta right and the sauce but even we use a different sausage here. But no doubt that's a really tasty dish... I grew up in the east and I really love east Germany, even I face a lot of racism there because of my phenotype and Religion.

[@thetruedraco3786]

The salad part is new to me. I’m living in East Germany, my parents were born here. Never saw coleslaw on top of a Jägerschnitzel. It’s just the Jagdwurst with breading, Spirelli (Fusilli) and a Ketchup and Water based, quit sweet tomato sauce. It’s very delicious. Your Jagdwurst seems a bit small.

[@barbabiet0la]

In the side of Germany defined as a "strict no nonsense father" Women used to have more rights and freedom than in the west side...

[@MathiasRosenkranz-ch7se]

Please make a Meal from Czechoslovakia 🇨🇿

[@vortexthebeast7511]

Sehr gut gemacht 🔥💪🏼 grüße aus Thüringen ❤

[@World_of_Countryballs443]

Diese Kommentarsektion ist nun Eigentum der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik 🇩🇪⚒️

[@benjoewri]

Never forget, the Stasi leadership still have their pensions paid for and live well today 👍 Horrific men.

[@Jonniz2000]

Found out today that every jägarschnitzel I've ever had here in Sweden has been a DDR one 😅

[@AleTitan]

finally! a country inactually familiar with! That looks pretty good given the whole "limited acccess to goods and supplies" thing

[@lustwaffe9000]

That is the prison version of a Schnitzel. Yo bunkie, you want some?

[@ELiT3Griefer]

Bus-DISGUSTING!

[@alisamrk]

that's funny, since in east germany you could actually go to prison for talking about politics to your neighbor.

[@shiraya318]

I grew up with this in East Germany (post-GDR but with parents that grew up during that time) and this video made me realize I haven't eaten it ever since moving out. Now I'm craving it to the extreme haha

[@Balluna]

so we just all gonna collectively ignore the *DS game card?*

[@theutheone]

Not only that, but Bionicle on the DS. Fucking rude as hell.

[@lissmunich7979]

You should try Soljanka! Its also an East German Dish where back in the GDR they would put leftover meat and vegetables in a stew with some sour cream. Now it is a beloved household stable with a vegetable base called Letscho thats paprika based and for me its a nice familiy meal with bread and I always request it to special events like my birthday. 10/10 would always recommend!

[@mysteriev7071]

I'm Russian and it's the first time I find out, that our Солянка dish was eaten in Germany

[@lobster5114]

It's very beloved in the eastern regions, my mother used to cook it at new years eve. ​@@mysteriev7071

[@JJ-ze6vb]

It’s a Eastern European dish, not one invented in the GDR.

[@BettieEilish._.luvUbilllie]

I like the explanation (as a German) 😂 and the dish is soooo delicious

[@EcceHomoBarNapoli]

This is not the original dish. You used the wrong ingredients for the sauce and the Jägerschnitzel. This dish was never eaten anywhere in the GDR with such a salad as a topping. It remains to be mentioned that this was one of the most popular dishes for us children made in Ostdeutschland!

[@Manu-zb2th]

Thanks. Was looking for that! Unfortunately wrong sausage, cole slaw like that -> with mayo is not an east german thing (we have "Krautsalat", but we don't eat it with "Jägerschnitzel") And all in all: Great for showing DDR Food 👍. Thanks. (But details matter to us too, we're German 😅)

[@Doughound]

i suspect you are not a real german and you just directly google translated east germany into " ostdeutschland" which a german would not say instead we would say DDR or " Deutsche demokratische republik"

[@EcceHomoBarNapoli]

@@Doughound Du musst es ja wissen ob ich Ostdeutscher bin oder nicht. Bist wohl von drüben? Du Besser Wessi 🤣

[@Schakuta]

​@@Doughoundalso ich sage "Ostdeutschland"

[@the_retag]

@@Doughound als wessi kann ich sagen, Ostdeutschland und ossi hört man durchaus noch, auch aus den neuen Bundesländern, oft mit stolz

[@swampking5417]

Honestly, for real if this man moved to the US and started a small business in something like the state of Florida, or even more up north, just don’t go to New York or California this man will make some money

[@VoiceDisasterNz]

I doubt he'd be caught dead in Florida

[@swampking5417]

@@VoiceDisasterNz Florida still better than New York, and still better than burning in California he’ll be fine Florida man isn’t that dangerous

[@TheKillahKyla]

I bet he is making good money already from this channel and doesn't have to leave the UK to move to the hellscape that is the US

[@molasses1257]

For me Jägerschnitzel always was a schnitzel with a savory mushroom cream sauce with pepper in it. Served with fried potatoes and fresh parsley. It was really strange when I found out some people made it totally different but called it the same

[@cutehomelessman]

i realy realy like that version of schnitzel

[@u.s.1974]

That is not a Schnitzel, that is a culinary felony.

[@cutehomelessman]

nuh uh, you americans literally put wing sauce on a schnitzel@@u.s.1974

[@callumgriss5422]

you mean an abusive father who took literally everything you had, and left you to more or less rot for 40 years, just like all the other kids he kidnapped and kept in his basement?

[@Purev-qb2zg]

basically

[@crookedpenguin]

this is still a really common meal in the parts of Germany that used to be the GDR! often served as school lunch

[@Grtghjeojegii]

In German you would say DDR in english its GDR

[@radschele1815]

Yeah, the father was also selling the bike and stuff in beginning to punish GDR...

[@radschele1815]

Also, awesome!

[@cayhill81]

no cole slaw and also not only tomatosauce but Letscho which is with peppers - loved it as a kid 😂😂😂

[@JustsomeDude-y3l]

JÄGERSCHNITZEL

[@SolveThisMurderIn60Seconds]

Eren

[@Primitive_Productions]

​@@SolveThisMurderIn60Secondsfunny.

[@beburs]

“ What little they had “ lol what, they were an industrialized nation bro…this Brit makes them out to be in a third world nation starving or something 😂

[@georgt555]

No cole slaw. German here, who grew up in the former GDR. Just Jägerschnitzel (hunter schnitzel; the sausage is called "hunt sausage", hence the name). Spirelli pasta and a sauce made with Ketchup. That's it. A typical school cafeteria meal. Jäger Sauce (the mushroom sauce mentioned) is sth completely different. It's true tho, that Jäger Sauce is more common in the west.

[@humansvd3269]

How do you make the sauce? Ketchup, tomato paste, sugar water and butter? I cannot find a consistent answer on this. I have the jagdwurst and spiral pasta.

[@georgt555]

@@humansvd3269 Hi! It's basically a roux mixed with ketchup = poor man's tomato sauce. Try this (copied from a German website): 250 ml ketchup 375 ml water 1 medium onion, diced 50 g butter Flour, about 1 tbsp 1 tsp sugar 1 tbsp tomato paste Salt Sauté the diced onions in butter over medium heat in a pot until translucent. Increase the heat slightly and add flour for the roux; stir it to avoid lumps. Add ketchup, tomato paste, and water, then bring briefly to a boil. The sauce should have a nice consistency now, with a glossy surface. Finally, season with sugar and salt. (Some people like to add a splash of vinegar, others prefer to skip it for a sweeter flavor.) Good luck!

[@AltDavidMiscavige]

Ketchup on pasta- now we know where Mama June got the idea for Honey Booboo’s sketti.

[@starvinghub]

"Who gave you what you needed, nothing more." They didnt even give what was needed

[@I.Steinberg]

Even as a post reunification child i still had this in school and loved it. Probably they still have it on the menu

[@florianstumpf4349]

DDR Schnitzel is actually pretty good!

[@moin_games5448]

I grew up in east Germany after the wall was torn down but I still experienced all the influences this time had. Especially when it comes to food; My grandpa always made East German food. Especially Jägerschnitzel with tomato sauce and pasta being one of my favourites when I was a kid. The biggest difference in food is how the salads are made. When I ordered a potato salad in the west for the first time, I was shocked. The potato salad was made with potatoes,vinegar, oil and spices which I’ve only tasted with green salads. In the east we make most of our salads with mayonnaise and other things like shown in the video.

[@alexanderschulz7924]

No Ketchup in the sauce, because Ketchup was rare to. Traditionally you used a roux (Mehlschwitze), were you add water, tomato paste and sugar/Salt/pepper. And usually you don't add coleslaw

[@humansvd3269]

Thank you. I'm trying to recreate the dish, but the sauce made me suspect of its authenticity.

[@alexanderschulz7924]

@@humansvd3269 for the base sauce: Melt 1/4 piece of butter (125g), add 2 heaped tablespoons of flour and stir well so that nothing lumps. Deglaze this roux with about 0.8-1.2 liters of water (depending on whether you prefer it thick or thin) and continue to stir well. Once the roux has dissolved in the water, stir in 1 tube of tomato paste (200g). Then add 2 teaspoons of salt and 4 tablespoons of sugar. Bring to the boil and if necessary. Season again with salt/sugar. This is the base. For the Jägerschnitzel, simply serve with the noodles and the schnitzel. You can also add some chopped, fried sausage (Jagdwurst or Wiener) or ham and then simply eat it as “noodles with sauce”. Some people leave a finely chopped onion melted at the beginning and/or add chives. There are quite a few variations. The Jägerschnitzel in the video is fine, but the coleslaw is complete nonsense, it's something American prepared like that, something that Germans (East and West) don't know.

[@humansvd3269]

@alexanderschulz7924 Thank you!

[@lowkeyhali]

im from Bavaria and here jägerschnitzle is made with a normal schnitzel, rhamsoße with mushrooms and fries

[@lordasperger9878]

My stepdad ^^ is from Leipzig. He always Cook DDR food like jägerschnitzel, soljanka or wurstgulasch. Always delicious😋

[@timdietz9259]

Up to this day you get this at least once a week in every cafeteria be it school, kindergarden, university in east Germany.

[@MrRave...0]

As an eastern German, I can confirm that we still eat this and its bussin🤤🤤🤤