I UNDERESTIMATED GERMAN SUPERMARKETS.... (Why Aren't AMERICA'S Grocery Stores like THIS?)

Watch this mindblower American Review a typical German supermarket and analyze the differences between that and American Grocery Stores.
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[@saarli5762]

If you see that danish cookie box or any round cookie box in a german old ladies home, don't be disappointed if you open it: I think it's the generally accepted üalce to put all the knitting stuff or replacement buttons for clothes

[@strenter]

I don't throw away those boxes either. They are great for storing things like screws or 3D Print filaments.

[@timomueller3021]

My grandma actually uses them for cookies

[@casbee9610]

I bought such cookies cause I needed a box for my sewing stuff. Learned it from grandma 😀

[@themGAMEman]

This is kind of a slav thing as well

[@Frohds14]

I never eat the cookies, they taste like sand. But I have several boxes. Knäckebrot boxes too.

[@Schranking]

The thing about the so called "Schockbilder" (shocking pictures) on packages of tobacco or cigarettes is that it doesn't deter people who are already smoking but there are studies that show that it deterred people from starting smoking.

[@andreashouben5355]

My kids asked my parents who are smokers why there are such gruesome pictures on the packages and they were too ashamed to explain it.

[@emilioalvarez2763]

Daaamnn a Dollar and 20 Euros?? Inflation is hitting 😂😂

[@KaroF.]

1 euro 20 Cent !!!

[@zckd]

@@KaroF.take jokes

[@derek4177]

@@KaroF. dang, we got Sherlock Holmes over here.

[@weeabo.3383]

@@KaroF.its karen not karo

[@Harryxd3]

The Inflation is in germany very schit 💀💀

[@dominik7423]

The cheapest mineral water / sparkling water for 0,25€ was actually even cheaper a year ago, it was 0,19€. Water from famous brands cost much much more money of course. And if you want to drink just pure water, for the love of your mind, wallet and environment, just drink tap water. It has an extremely good quality and costs roughly 0,002€/l.

[@troopzon]

German tap water is cleaner than any other water u can get due extreme regulations by the government.

[@seebee925]

I also prefer to drink pure water. But it tastet different from the tube in the whole country. Different mineral soil composition. I can't drink that here, for example, because it has so much lime (Kalk?) and it gives me stomach ache.

[@guyro3373]

@@seebee925 Water from the tap is safe to drink anywhere in Germany (it's tested for that purpose - although if you have very old plumbing, I would be careful). However, that does not mean it might not contains things or tastes you would not enjoy - it's tested for safety, not for taste...

[@seebee925]

@@guyro3373 I know. I didn't even question it. I have lived in Germany for 50 years 😉

[@seebee925]

@@guyro3373 one could at most add: please do not buy/drink any water from NESTLE!

[@19DarkLink94]

Sadly he didn’t showed much of the fruits and vegetables. Then you would see some of the biggest differences between America and Germany

[@Name-ki1xi]

I was waiting for that too...

[@TheUlli1964]

Does he looks like he ist eating vegetables? Only meat and more meat and sweets and coke. We adapt to Amerika.

[@klamin_original]

@@TheUlli1964 20 year olds and 30 year olds certainly don't buy the stuff he bought.

[@codykyle511]

I know the exact store i could show that to you

[@shacks29]

How can you see it?

[@SiriusDelta]

Not every Edeka looks high quality like this, but most do. Edeka is one of the most expensive groceries here in Germany though, but they surely are on top concerning quality. Since I mostly go to the same store and buy the stuff ahead for a whole week, I've created a shopping list that has categories in the same order I walk through the shop, so it's easy to spot if I missed something. Since I use this list, I have almost no wasted groceries anymore as I only buy what I'm definitely consuming. I'd recommend that to everyone, it's a real waste and also a money saver, and it also helps avoiding to buy stuff that you rather don't want to buy like sweets and other unhealthy stuff in a brief moment of weakness ;)

[@GeeShocker]

Isn't that how almost everybody does it? 🤷‍♂️

[@SiriusDelta]

@@GeeShocker most people I know don't have a list. I didn't have one for many years myself. I went to the shop and bought random stuff. Not the best idea.

[@GeeShocker]

@@SiriusDelta maybe i'm just too old. 🥴

[@sGSuicude]

And then there is my local Lidl that decided to rearrange the whole place so my list is useless xD

[@swanpride]

@@sGSuicude Yeah, I was p... off to...in the middle of the pandemic, you only want to get in and out as fast as possilble, and lidl decides that THIS is the right moment to play musical chairs with their selection.

[@sevenfifteen]

Your surprise about food being REAL food ("you use actual cheese") made me laugh. But otoh, it really is so sad, if you think about it. Even bread was butchered in America, nothing is the real thing anymore. Artificial flavor, cancer-causing chemicals, sugar in each product. How do you guys expect your children to become healthy adults like that? I hope, your country will change one day for the better.

[@gazz3867]

REAL CHEESE! Lol! That's so adorable. Do we want food that is actual food? Um... yes? lol

[@ForgedInFire6469]

We can even eat fresh minced Pork meat ("Mett") here in Germany without getting sick because our Hygiene measures for meat are so strict. And our tap water is considered a food item too, so its so clean you can drink it directly from the sink.

[@rajeshupadhyay5683]

Well said! I am also here to learn how to invest after listening to a lady on tv talk about the importance of investing and how she made 7 figure in 3 month, somehow the video taught me nothing and left me even more confused, I'm a newbie and I'm open to ideas on how to invest for retirement

[@lezliewhicker8450]

@@rajeshupadhyay5683I'll suggest you lookup Teresa Jensen White, this is her name online, she's now the real investment prodigy since the crash and have help me recovered my loses

[@petermusa5396]

Despite the economic crisis and the rate of unemployment now is the best time to invest

[@tobyk.4911]

The chocolate company "Lindt" (mentioned near the end of the video) is a Swiss company, however the Lindt chocolate that is sold in Germany usually comes from their factory in Aachen (in western Germany, at the border to Belgium and Netherlands) ... So maybe we could say that it's Swiss chocolate, produced in Germany. In that sense, it's not really wrong to say that this chocolate "comes from Germany". ;-)

[@bur1t0]

Going to Germany from Australia, the only thing I missed was great Asian food. Apart from that, pretty much everything was better. Especially the bread. They do not fuck around with bread.

[@maluex1145]

Then you didnt go to good asian resteraunts. We got some damn good asian food in germany

[@bur1t0]

@@maluex1145 Some, sure. Of the non-migrant countries, Germany is doing a spectacular job. But Australia is predicated on migrants. The most diverse Kiez feel homogenous by even rural Australian standards.

[@ehmha3641]

@@bur1t0 ever been to Düsseldorf? Germany is a migrant country and the turkish, Italian, greek or viet places are pretty much on point and authentic. Also you'll find authentic restaurants of any kind in any city they're just often not where the tourists go.

[@kalterverwalter4516]

@@maluex1145 Good Asian food is scarce in Germany. Good and Authentic Asian food is almost Impossible to find. Dude German Asian Cuisine can Not be Compared to Australia Asian Cuisine. Just the proximity from Australia to South-East Asia especially in regards of Ingredients cant be underestimated.

[@kalterverwalter4516]

@@ehmha3641 No not really. Just compare the German Döner to the Turkish one. The Same goes for Italien good in Germany. We use Most of the Times a different cheese which isnt Authentic at all. Or compare a German Carbonara to an Italien one. Also Ragout Bolognese is typically Not eaten with Spaghetti.

[@nilsschenkel7149]

Edeka claims a bit of the higher end image for themselves in Germany, and some things are more expensive there than in your run of the mill discounter. A Netto, Norma, Aldi or Lidl will look pretty different. I´d assume they chose Edeka because usually they are built more spacious, so it´s easier to film there undisturbed.

[@rajeshupadhyay5683]

Well said! I am also here to learn how to invest after listening to a lady on tv talk about the importance of investing and how she made 7 figure in 3 month, somehow the video taught me nothing and left me even more confused, I'm a newbie and I'm open to ideas on how to invest for retirement

[@lezliewhicker8450]

@@rajeshupadhyay5683I'll suggest you lookup Teresa Jensen White, this is her name online, she's the real investment prodigy since the crash and have help me recovered my loses

[@richardwahl4354]

Investment now will be wise but the truth is investing on your own will be a high risk. I think it will be best to get a professional👌

[@alhajishehu7037]

Financial management is a crucial topic that most tend to shy away from, and ends up haunting them in the near future

[@jewellwalker9808]

@@lezliewhicker8450Thank you, I just lookup her name online and going through her profile in her webpage, she smashed all her state certificate and accreditation🙏

[@jancleve9635]

8:17 We have basically 2 types of milk here. Fresh in the fridge and h-milk (haltbare Milch). There are skim variants of both but H Milk has a way longer experiation date and tastes different for me.

[@thedarkfox9851]

Also want to add that alot of terms like "Fresh" are not "protected" so to speak, so you could write that on anything. Which alot of companies do, as it suggests a better product when it is actually just an empty phrase.

[@chaosinfernoid9008]

And both are crappy, because they are heated to prevent it from getting bad. Also normal Milk tastes more like Water then actual milk. Bruh.

[@justTyping]

@@chaosinfernoid9008 Only if you buy the 1,5% or even 0,1% version. Dont know why the last one even exist. 3,5%/3,8% is fine.

[@chaosinfernoid9008]

@@justTyping You think these are actual milk?

[@justTyping]

@@chaosinfernoid9008 Which one? The 0,1 or 1,5. White Water and thin milk. 3.5/3.8 is ok. And yes I know milk has even more when it comes from the cow. We used that kind of milk quite a long time and I also drunk some fresh milk from cow. (so no change of the milk after it come out of a cow)

[@FaridMC]

3:45 Advertisement in TV for tobacco products is already banned in germany. But I can still remember them (35) .

[@vayalond7203]

I think it's an European Union wide ban, in France too we don't have Ads for tobacco or Alcohol in TV the only places you can put an Ad for Alcohol in France is on billboards, on Internet or Magazines (and not in Kids or sports related websites/magazines) also Tobacco and Alcohol Brands can't sponsorise sports event and any ads is only the brand, what it do (like the strenght of the Alcohol) and a message telling: too much it's bad for health, no more because otherwise it can fall under an incentive and it's abnned

[@ArchieArpeggio]

In Finland tobaco products must be hided in cabins or in automated machines by the register and you have to ask in register what is the number for blue Chesterfield and also rgeular size or bigger pack. Then you puhh that number what register says and the pack of cigarettes comes from inside that machine.

[@usbxg3474]

Your german might be good, but the name of the "Netto markt" has nothing to do with the german word "Nett". In this case it actually means your american "net" (after deductions, the net weight of a product without the package, the real money you make each month after the taxes are taken off...and so on)

[@DanielRMueller]

That might be all true, but the more surprising thing to me was to learn that the discounter "Spar" is not called this name because you can "Geld sparen" (save money, like also in the word "Sparkasse", savings bank), but because it's a dutch acronym for the corporation, and its icon is a fir tree because the word "Spar" also refers to a fir tree. I wonder how much this association to "sparen" in Germany however helped them to become popular here back then. I think now Spar has been taken over by Edeka (in Germany) however, so I guess this goes into the lexicon of useless knowledge.

[@spaspieler5687]

Actually, "Netto" is italian / latin. Means like "pure" and like @USB XG wrote in brackets.

[@shacks29]

@@spaspieler5687 No "Netto" is a German word it describes a amount before Tax and after Tax its called "Brutto"...with this name "Netto" is implying they so cheap like a Netto amount before tax.

[@peterfunny5662]

​@@shacks29 It's a loanword from Latin, just like brutto. Also, you got them wrong: Netto is the amount after taxes, and Brutto is before taxes. As @spasieler5687 said, Netto is Latin for "pure" or "clean" while Brutto means "raw" or "unpure", implying that some amount of money needs to be metaphorically "cleaned off" to get the "pure" amount.

[@vornamenachname27]

​​@@DanielRMuelleret's get even crazier! EDEKA used to be written EdK which is an acronym/abbreviation for Einkaufsgenossenschaft der Kolonialwarenhändler.

[@ializarg]

In European supermarkets you use coins to unlock the car. If you put a coin in, when you return the car and put the lock back on it, the mechanism returns the coin to you. But you don't even need a coin, just something the same size. That is why there are key chains with a pendant of that size (for example that of BMW) that serve this same purpose. In fact many supermarkets or product manufacturers give you a fake coin to use to unlock the carts.

[@jancleve9635]

9:40 Not really marshmellow, tastewise a little bit. It is more like a foam or mousse that tastes like pure sugar with a hint of kinda vanilla. Hard to describe. Eat it while here, that stuff doesn`t suvive Deutsche Post and Us Postal service. These are fragile and heatsensitiv. If the are old and/or overheated the foam solidifies and voilá Marschmellow^^

[@cheliozz3048]

It's dry-aged meat, not dry meat :D it's expensive steak that has been dry-aged, usually gets a cover of mold outside the fat which is cut off before being cooked. It has a special "nutty" kind of taste according to the reviews and is said to be extremely tender if cooked well. Funny thing is: I thought this trend came over from the USA.

[@lichansan1750]

Actually ... :D Dry ageing was the go to method all over the place until a few decades ago where cooling and industrialization made it cheaper to do the "wet aging" and this became standard Dry aging never went completely extinct everywhere. but just rarely used because sooo much expensive. But expensive makes good videos. And i also think it was first made popular again in the usa

[@ImDembe]

To be fair dry aged meat gets drier since it releases moisture during the process and you get less meat in the end.

[@AmperahGaming]

@@ImDembe dry aged steaks are by no means dry.. they are perfect in every single way

[@ImDembe]

@@AmperahGaming That dosn't take anything away from how dry ageing works...if you dry age something to long it's gonna be dry.

[@AmperahGaming]

@@ImDembe the meat isn’t dry when you’re eating it..!

[@thedarkfox9851]

About the fine in parking spots it is absolutely enforced, but maybe you get lucky and they aren't checking your location at the time. Wouldn't try them tho, the Ordungsamt is not known for their ability to let things fly lol Edit: Just found out that the supermarkets actually hire private companies to check the parking spots not the Ordnungsamt my bad :)

[@xDasMottex]

think it depents on the city, last time i saw someone checking it was a women from the "Ordnungsamt" in front of LIdl and she was very strict to this god damm "Reichsbürger" XD sorry this was hillarious

[@geeemm135]

what he says... dont fuck around with the time limit on supermarket parking spots :D some of them get checked manually, others have sensors built into the parking spots that track the amount of time you park there.

[@anna-ranja4573]

Yes, this was one with sensors

[@TakumoZ]

i got fined being in a delivery van, and i delivered goods for the edeka. pasrked there for 10 minutes, didnt have my parking time allocater ("been standing here since") and i got fined 25 €

[@arthur_p_dent]

@@TakumoZ you should have contacted the management. They cannot possibly charge you for parking there while loading/unloading anyway.

[@marcelx174]

11:27 real butcher shops are getting really rare in Germany. The big supermarkets integrated butcher shops many years ago. Not at Aldi or Lidl. But Edeka, Rewe etc have butchershops

[@takashikamiyama4607]

The butchershop at my local Edeka is pretty good.

[@Daniel_9881]

markant has butcher shops too

[@marcelx174]

The butchershop at my REWE is good as well. But it's nothing compared to an good old butcher. Real Handwerk. Same with bakeries

[@ItsTw1sted]

My rewe doenst have a butchershop :(

[@Theo-1984]

9:40 Dickmann's are like melted marshmellows covered in a thin layer of chocolate and a sweet waffle below. Marshmellow doesn't really describe it too well, but it seems to be the closest to what you'd compare it to.

[@christianemmler6496]

About the Parking Fine: you have to leave a "Parkscheibe" in your car, which indicates your time of arrival. So the staff can see. If there is no "Parkscheibe", you get fined anyways

[@Astrofrank]

In this case, a Parkscheibe is not needed, as written on the sign. Some supermarkets use cameras (and almost surely software) for checking the times. This one calls it "automatische Parkzeitmessung".

[@jaypee112233]

Since a few years few supermarkets here added sensors in parking spaces that detect when a car is parking on them so you don't need a Parkscheibe (clock disc). If the system senses that you're exceeding the maximum time someone gets notified and you might get a fine.

[@user-me3of1di7b]

mein lokaler rewe will eine parkscheibe, vor 5 Jahren einmal vergessen und nur beim Bäcker im rewe gewesen für knapp 5min, naja das Ordnungshüter war schneller, hat 5 Euro gekostet 😅🤣

[@thomasd5]

That Bratnudel-offer is actually a hot meal to take away. Some Supermarkets have a "hot counter", where you can get hot meals to take away, where can buy hot food in your lunch break ready to be consumed. And when I was in Berlin last summer, I even noticed a supermarket that had some tables and seats where you could eat the food on the spot.

[@LigH_de]

4:09 - Bratnudeln mit gebackene»m« Hühnerfilet und Gemüse = Fried noodles with baked chicken filet and vegetables ... never seen that in a local EDEKA, must be a very major branch. 7:56 - most milk sold in Germany, usually in TetraPak boxes (except for explicit "Frischmilch" in glass bottles or other packs), is pasteurized (H = homogenized and briefly heated) and stays fresh when chill for weeks until opened, and about another week in fridge after opening. Also a reason why not to sell it in huge bottles: Once it gets sour, all the rest would be wasted. PS: Why the heck do you call Euros Dollars? No, it's Euros.

[@Nost2682]

1€ =$1 In the Edeka there are various food shops. We have Chinese food and doner kebabs.

[@luru112]

For a normal Edeka I've never seen a restaurant other than a bakery in it either. We have a Edeka and a E-Center in our town. The bigger E-Center has a chinese to go restaurant in it. Maybe the Edeka in there is a mix of both.

[@2LucasKane3]

@@Nost2682 1$=0,98€ Not the same.

[@Nost2682]

@@2LucasKane3 A few days before it was 1 to 1.

[@darthplagueis13]

I think that one's in Krefeld, at least that's the location noted on the original video.

[@inkenhafner7187]

About the parking tickets: most supermarkets have a time limit for parking, a lot of them do not enforce that strictly, but if you see a sign like the one he showed in his video, they're probably quite quick with ticketing you.

[@jancleve9635]

12:01 Dry aged is a thing in america too James. I think we got it from you ... like Halloween. Tried it once at a barbecue with friends. It was very tender but I am still a babarian^^. I prefer the fresh stuff, tender will get interesting again when I am old.😁

[@McGhinch]

Dry aged is not a thing from the US. It is the process used before there was plastic wrap available for wet aging. It just got out of style and when some butcher in New York reenvented it, it became fashionable.

[@TheKartoffel101]

The idea of those big supermarkets is to be like a mini-mall so they have their own stores and butcher and fish shops in there. So it's a bit of either a downsized mall or an upgraded supermarket.

[@habi0187]

Regarding the parking it very much depends on the location. In more rural areas it is not enforced so much by the companies but in the bigger cities they even subcontracted the parking to third party companies which will control it by the minute and issue a fine immediately.

[@Skyliner04s]

"Netto" (translates to "net") has 2 different defintions in Germany, but it´s always exclusive: It either in relation of the contents of something without the packaging like: "There are 500g frosted flakes net in this box." Or in relation to the costs of something without the taxes like: "The box of frosted flakes comes in at two fitty net." "Brutto" (translates to gross) is the opposite, it includes packaging and taxes.

[@ihurtyourbrain3685]

no dude "nett" means nice, so niceo 😁

[@Alex_Ma21]

@@ihurtyourbrain3685 yes, but thats not where the name comes from. netto is literally a word in german which doesnt has to do anything with nett

[@ihurtyourbrain3685]

@@Alex_Ma21 bruh....

[@YamiSuzume]

Those translations are both the same net.

[@Tinyten]

In Germany you often ask stuff like what a salary is after all the tax that you pay (i.e. Lohnsteuer - salary tax). So "netto" means the real amount of money you end up having. I think the name "Netto" wants to suggest that you pay the real prices there without any added costs. Which is a lie of course.

[@XxDarkManaxX]

Awww, the Kinderwurst gave me some childhood flash backs. My Mum was a little strict about that, because if we started begging, she specifically told the employee they shouldn't give us one. Thats why we behaved always very well in every grocery store xD

[@arthur_p_dent]

About these parking fines on store parking lots: they were usually introduced because too many people who weren't actually shopping in the store were parking there all day, to the point where actual customers could no longer find a parking spot. This is a problem in many places - keep in mind that free parking is very scarce in many European cities. Generally speaking, the fuller the parking lot, the more likely the fines are to be enforced. However, if you are an actual customer and just forgot to display your Parkscheibe, there is a fair chance you may not have to pay after you spoke to the manager. However, some stores have outsourced the parking enforcement to other companies usually named "parking control" or something like this. Some of these companies are very greedy. So you can't be sure to escape without paying the fee. Although if too many customers complain about having to pay the fees, chances are the management will switch to a different enforcement company before they lose too many customers.

[@ergocinema]

I also shed a tear when I ate Toblerone for the first time. They used to make the giant ones where you need a saw to cut it down.

[@mortenbecks2017]

Maybe that is the answer to the "how are you guys not fat?"-question. The candy is so good you are completely fullfilled after a bite or two. Scarfing it down like a box of twinkies or rice crispie treats would be disrespectful.

[@jochenlutz6524]

Another issue to check if the white asparagus is fresh is to look at the bottom of it (where it has been cut). If that looks dry, don't buy it.

[@IceBro]

There are some places that are very strict about how long you can park there but supermarkets generally don't check how long you park. I've seen a Lidl near a stadium before which had a sensor in every parking lot because people parked there whenever there was a game and customers had nowhere to park.

[@Nost2682]

Most of the time it's a rip off. You also get a ticket if you don't have a parking disc in your car. Or if it hasn't leafed off yet.

[@sylviarohge4204]

8:04 This milk is not in the refrigerated section. Most milk is sold in such packs. The milk is homogenized (the fat droplets are extremely fine and remain evenly in the milk) and ultra-high heated (to preserve, kills bacteria and spores). Thanks to this process, the milk does not need to be refrigerated and, unopened, has a shelf life of more than 6 months.

[@Zodiac301]

No it was refrigerated. It was in a german Kühlregal. Ultra high heated milk is marked different

[@historyman9436]

That there was infact refrigerated milk. Easiest way to tell is that the Homogenized milk cartons tend to have an H on the packaging - distinctly missing here. Beyond that, our refrigerating units also have that little bar you saw briefly at the very bottom

[@marcoftheninja6278]

7:15 Making an actual list for groceries on paper a good way to avoid buying more thing than you need. I personally don't use a marker, but I rip the paper edge next to the name on the list to check it.

[@claudiakarl7888]

I use an app on my phone, I can tick everything off there too

[@marcoftheninja6278]

@@claudiakarl7888 never used an app for such a thing before... I'm still pretty much old-school 😅😉

[@fliplefrog8843]

I've had have to laugh sooo hard! Nice one, dude...

[@Selgald]

For public parking spots, it will get enforced (in rural areas not so much). If it's a parking spot dedicated for a supermarket, it will not because it's private property, those sings are there for legal reasons in case someone abuses it. There are also places where you have to pay, so a barrier opens, and you can park (but you won't see that at supermarkets, that's more for dedicated big parking garages).

[@minischembri9893]

Dry aged meat is meat that cured in very dry air so that it doesn't rot thanks to bacteria etc. It is so tender once cooked that you can cut it with a fork !!

[@Danisachan]

I don't know if anyone in the comments said it already, but most of the milk in grocery stores in Germany is actually not refrigerated. (The ones shown here in the video were on plain shelves too). They don't have to be. They go through a process of superheating before being packaged which makes them last for months all without a refrigerator. That's why seeing milk stocked alongside your cans and other pantry items is not an uncommon thing in German households. :)

[@galimir]

not true.Its non refrigerated only the dead irradiated sht,what is so dead it cant go spoiling😉All the normal fresh milk and yogurts are refrigerated here.Yeah,there are piles of the dead sht too,but I never ever buy any of it-as there is not a single reason I would prefer dead sht over fresh milks and yogurts.And the prise is totally affordable for me,even of thr bio and biodynamic ones(what I only buy).I just love German supermarkets!

[@AmperahGaming]

@@galimir I always buy fresh whole milk in glass bottles! It’s amazing

[@berosti460]

I Watch your Videos since 1/2 year now and i love it to See you whatching and loughing my Country

[@schnelma605]

1:07 Normally you have to put a parking disc under the windscreen. The sign says automatic parking timer (automatische Parkzeitmessung), so they do it differently

[@h3m1v33]

You dont know what dry age is? Watch Guga man. It concentrates the flavour basically and it gets that unique funky dry age flavour. Since alot of water evaporates you pay more money for the Same amount of meat. Btw you Cut away the dry Part on the outside and eat the moist Part inside.

[@WolfkingSybren]

Love the video! As a smoker I actually made a little collection of the horrific pictures they put on the sigarettes and tabacco...it's like art...so yes, you are right....the pictures don't help people to not buy their tabacco....even commercials won't do it. But the EU is planning to price the tabacco so high that most people won't be able to afford it ( including me) so in a year or two, we are forced to stop smoking.....( that strategy will work for the government)

[@Chimponaut]

It might not help in your case, but the fact is that it does help.

[@justTyping]

Buy the album from postillon where you can put them in.

[@chaosmagican]

Yay another black market emerges. Then I can go buy weed in a store and have to go to my current dealer for tobacco.

[@WolfkingSybren]

@@chaosmagican I can see that happen fairly soon...jeezz what world are we living on/ in? well let's enjoy it now it's still doable..cheers!

[@dettkima]

I think it stops young people starting so they might never be addicted

[@shieru2207]

Love your content, James! Greetings from germany.

[@Jujinko]

I love ur content !

[@Flugkaninchen]

If You are already that impressed by a German grocery store, wait You see a French one! I'm from Germany, so Edeka is pretty standard for me. French grocery stores are still on a whole different level.

[@Nils.Minimalist]

Well, the Super U in France (Brittany) are no better or worse than our Real's.

[@CavHDeu]

Ich liebe Amerikaner, also das Gebäck 😅 aber ihr Amis seid auch ganz ok 😎 Er sagt da was völlig richtiges, deutscher Pudding ist ok, aber niederländischer Vla ist unschlagbar 😋

[@Lutanend]

The locker thing is new for me

[@moepdiesau1768]

i only know lockers like that from media markt

[@MrLowbob]

regarding the parking fines its really depending on where you are. in my new hometone there is like one check every other year and in some places in hamburg where i lived before, if you go more than 1 hour over the limit you can pretty much be sure to get a ticket every time

[@wolsch3435]

The prices in German supermarkets may seem low to you. You just have to remember that these prices refer to average incomes in Germany. We are currently experiencing severe inflation and retail sales are falling massively.

[@deadlineuniverse3189]

2.95€ is roughly 1/4-1/3 of the pay the German Worker is entitled by law to make for an hour of work. Although the facts I’m basing this off are like 5 years old.

[@hdlink]

Minimum wage is actual 10,45 Eur/hour. Going up in October to 12 Eur/hour.

[@SaraBlu]

It was 9,82€ for the first half of 2022, so 1/3 is pretty close to the price of the sandwich (belegtes Brötchen)

[@markmeier2781]

With the parking, some supermarkets has sensors in the floor. If the care is not moved within the announced time they automatedly know and someone comes out, check if you are at the care and if not you will receive a ticke.

[@terenceskill9526]

Just had a big laugh when you were reading "Aprikosenbaellchen" :D XD

[@pray4x]

4:40 it's just a normal Brötchen, kinda funny how special it seems to be for others 😅 I eat one of those every morning 😋

[@DasIllu]

"Alice in Wonderland" was yesterday. Today it's "Ami im Aldi" 🙂

[@maikigr9560]

10:00 u get 1 disc of sausage at the metzger/butcher and i did see them giving out free ones after the customer bought something and is leaving and just for the Kids. Generally u can ask to try stuff is small samples before u buy them, not in the Supermarket wirh prepackaged stuff tho. Supermakets have a "bar" like its shown in the video

[@xDasMottex]

about the parking...same times they are very strict, sometimes they are not depents on the city and the office, when they catch you, you pay. The point is we have parking discs. when they catch your car without one in the front window you get a ticket, so you have to put the disc in the front with the time you arrived there and so they can see how long youre parking there

[@DomingoDeSantaClara]

Funnily enough I just saw one of those on a German car here in the UK a few days ago,thanks for the explanation. The supermarkets over here usually have camera controlled parking which identifies what time you enter and leave by recording the number plate. There's no escape!

[@tramper42]

4:13 Bratnudeln mit gebackenem Hühnerfilet & Gemüse ~ Noodles from buttered pan(fried) , with baked chicken filet and Vegetables

[@wodanswil]

Ay man. This channel is good. I'm Dutch and when I go to Germany, it's like going to far away relatives cultrurewise but only on the surface! Digging deeper I get a lot of sentiments as echoed here on your channel. I love the differences. There's not a big enough sack of weed I can smuggle on my holidays for the time I'm wanting to stay there. Heard they're fixing cannabis being illegal though...

[@christianprehn7919]

Also at 5:23 this is when he first entered the actual supermarket. Before that he was just in the hallway where some "fast food chaines and bakeries have their shops open"

[@deitschebanana4128]

Hey James, your pronounciation is way better than Donnie's from "Passport Two" who is living in Germany for few years now. You really make an effort to learn, I like it :-)

[@FanatiX24]

In my german reagion in southwest, parking in some of these supermarkets can be very, very strict. It is a sensor installed on each parking place, and if there is someone parking over time, they come immediately out to fine you, and it will cost a lot of money.

[@atzenpeterMcfresh]

The comparison of meat and crack....made my day :D

[@lamaglama6231]

About the fines on supermarket parking lots. Only one store in my city does it and I just refuse to shop there anymore. So I don't know how strict they are.

[@Stockbruch]

That's a Edeka Center, they always look nice and have conveniences you wouldn't get in smaller Edeka stores or discounters. Sadly most products shown were brand products or from the bread/meat/cheese/fish counter. Most of the time you can just get their own brand Gut&Günstig for way cheaper. Many also have a self-service bread shelf inside which is periodically refilled by the staff and also way cheaper.

[@drohnele3741]

where i live they have a camera systems that calculates the time you spent. if you're over it you will get a letter with the bill

[@emiliajojo5703]

Good thing for their next marketing campain :netto is niceo!!!would work.

[@delars15]

nowdays most supermarked parkinglots have small devices on the parking spot and if u stay too long the one who makes the tickes get an notification but normally they only come there if there are at least a few more cars that stayed too long

[@wandtron]

At Aachen, there is a stock sale of a Lind Factory of Aachen, as a student i sometimes brought lots of chocolate there for friends and family, i think it was arround 10% cheaper than at the supermarket, i should visit it again Sometimes

[@helloweener2007]

Only 10%? When I was there .. more than 15 yeasr ago, I had a girlfriend studying at the RWTH, you could get 50% and more. I got chocolate sprinkles and other baking decoration for 50 cent each. When you take "damaged" goods, which means often only that packaging failed you can get big discounts. Lindor and easter stuff was really cheap with wrong foliage. You can even get products that re not on the market. And an addition. Aachen is also the biggest plant of Lindt in Europe which does all: R&D, marketing, production. It is a Swiss company but the most production and also a big chunk of product development and marketing is done in Germany.

[@unclepear]

At 0:49 i completely died from laughter. I dont know if it was on purpose, but the way he said "edeka" was identical to the wermacht song "Erika"

[@ytdrachengame1157]

Hello from Dortmund in Germany! ✌️😀 It is incredible how good you pronounce the German words. Chapeau!

[@smiledwolf7824]

Funny how I saw a random video of a supermarket nearby on your channel haha

[@hannes6114]

Gotta say - never have seen lockers before and that Efeka is definitely an extravagant one :)

[@TheQuerantino]

Hey james. Luv ur vids. When visting germany ,try dickmanns. The white soft inside of it is somehow a mix of marshmallow and soft ice in consistency. And tastes similar like marshmallow, but not really compareable.if you like them ,when visting germany, put one of it inside a seedless brötchen.

[@DereineBrotmann]

Lindt may originate from Switzerland, but almost everything sold in Germany is produces in Aachen, in the very west of Germany. They even have something called a "werksverkauf", outlet store, I would translate it, right next to the production, where you can get stuff cheaper. Some things are just testing prices, but my favorites are the "Bruchwahre", stuff, that got damaged during production, or just has bad packaging. They just put all of it in a big bag and sell it for cheap. So good.

[@BaalTomekk]

7:30 My wife and I use a simple app for that. She can add things with her phone and I can add things with my phone and we can both look at the list while shopping and erase from the list what we already got, so we can shop twice as fast.

[@generalsaufenberg4931]

10:00 That's how I noticed for the first time that I'd gotten old. When they stopped giving me a free slice of Schinkenwurst, in the butcher's shop 😥🤣🤣

[@moufo8253]

Usually germans dont buy aspargus at the grocery store. Here it's a seasonal vegetable you get at little huts put up by aspargus farms all across the cities. Not sure about bigger cities but thats how you do it in more rural areas. Same for strawberries. there u can even go to the fields and pick your own

[@fotzkopp4723]

Comparing Crack to Lyoner is hilariously funny hahahaha :DDDDDDD

[@sarahmichael270244]

hi, some info from a german Brat.... means put in a hot pan with oil. The cakeprice is just for 1 piece of cake, not the whole cake. There is Kinderwurst aswell with panda or a bearface on the slice of sausage We have buthershops aswell, but a lot of supermarket have a butcherarea, too.

[@mortenbecks2017]

Parking enforcement in supermarket parking lots usually isn't too strict. You don't want to risk fining actual customers who just took a little longer than expected, and hiring a private company to perform constant monitoring is expensive in itself, supermarkets will rarely do that. But the sign gives you legal grounds to stand on when someone is actually hogging a space long term. The lockers are indeed awesome to store your backpack in if you are walking or biking to the shops.

[@sodaaccount]

I exclusively wear Levi's. Bought my first ones in the US in 2008 for a mere 20-30$ per piece. I still wear them today and they even saved my skin countless times when I was skating more often. One of the best investments I ever made and eventhough prices have risen over the years you can still get them for 40-50$. Another great tip are Hilfigher boxershorts. My 2008 ones are still good, except one that ripped apart recently.

[@KilianGosewisch]

In our E-Center (bigger Edeka) they even have USB-Chargers in the lockers and you dont need a coin for the carts. They trust you here and there never ever is a wild cart sitting around being abandoned in the parking lot.

[@Ihridyaahni]

8:08 you'll find the milk out on shelves OR in the fridge in the grocery store, be it in Edeka, Rewe, Lidl, usw.. :D

[@wakeupcall2665]

Shopping list: so with the iPad app Notes, and you have it synced to your iPhone/Apple Watch and you can tick items off there. I use my Apple Watch with Siri all the time to add items to my grocery list, and my partner does as well. It works like a charm!

[@partikelsmusic]

The food makes James wild :D

[@PattisKarriereKarten]

None of my next grocery stores have lockers 😂 Saw that the first time.

[@c4l977]

Edeka is my store!!! I am going to miss it when I return back to the US in Oct.

[@johnjayrambo]

i really love the crack notice!

[@Lucasger]

1:09 we dont even have that anywhere where I live lol

[@agansa9693]

1:11 I parked at a supermarket and overlooked exactly this sign and therefore did not put the stupid blue parking meter. 30 minutes later I came back and had a yellow ticket under the wiper. You can make money with parking. Accordingly, we are very strict.

[@EddRad]

about the "stricknes of parking"(1:20m) i seen preasureplate parking spots, timing your parking at lidl.

[@misterugly4984]

6:34 You killing me..XD

[@alexaales7937]

James, you not being able to get over the fact that we use real cheese on our sandwiches just cracked my up, that was so funny!

[@TVTransmo]

I live in Denmark. Many places here have licence plate scanners that register when you arrive and when you leave again. So its automatic, you receive ticket in mail, if you stayed too long and didn't pay :)

[@000jimbojones000]

yep thats swapping over here too.. first the netherlands got it... and some in germany also get this new system... i guess in a few years everyone has it... a neat way that you cant give your parking tiket to another person anymore... :-( they scan everything in a few years. Also automatic check out will replace some cashiers.

[@wonka6848]

Regarding the parking times: In smaller villages and cities they don't control it, but in bigger cities where parking lots are rare and cost money, they "sell" this kind of ticketing to other companies that take care of the problem and keep the fee you have to pay.

[@animalm4st3r]

Edekas and some other "bigger" chains that dont wholy focus on being the "cheap" discounter have inhouse butcher shops and fish vendors, thats were he showed the fish and the marinaded meat

[@Max.Mustermann.]

about the parking fine. some Supermarkets have Sensors Embedded into the Pavement on every single parking spot which get checked (for parking duration) by private companys who "enforce" the fines so yes this is very strict ... if your able to send them a copy or the original receipt from that day and time they mostly dismiss the fine... PS: the Top Line on the Sign Kundenparkplatz = Customer Parking and the Automatische Parkzeitmessung = Automatic Parking time measuremen... on the bottom of the Sign Datenschutzhinweis = privacy policy and Vertrags- und Einstellbedingungen = Terms of Service which you actually lawfully ACCEPT by driving onto the Parkinglot ... the Supermarket has to give you Full Access to those Documents / Informations they are mostly Posted near the Entrance or on the Sign itself... Have a Good one o/

[@BulletToothKnecht]

Cool you are in Krefeld, i know that all it's my Hood. I go shopping there.

[@xanoskarruns317]

aldi here uses ground sensors to check how long you've stand there. If it's to long someone comes and fines you. more or less full auto mode.

[@JohnHazelwood58]

Depending on where you are in Germany, the sizes of those shops are very different. I live in a very small village on the countryside in Bavaria and our Edeka is only about 200m² in size - that's smaller than my house! But when I go to the shop in the city of Düsseldorf for example, ... man, this shop has two floors, 12.000m², incl. restaurants and bars so you can take a break from shopping while shopping!