4 Things EXTREMELY Popular in Germany, Americans Have NEVER Heard Of! 🇩🇪

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[@wallacem41atgmail]

The game you're speaking of is "field" handball. The ball game which I've known as "handball" [It's correct name is squash.] is popular in American cities, such as New York, where exercise space is very limited. It is played against a wall where one can play by one's self but it can be quite thrilling when their's an opponent. It can even be played as a four-some with two against two. It is especially popular with business travelers as the required equipment (a ball and a pair of gloves) is easily carried on board an airplane with little, if any, inconvenience or questioning. For men, sitting while urinating is way more common in the US than is realized. You've mistakenly assumed that the sitter is facing away from the water-closet (the tank of water perched on the back of the bowel which is used to flush the bowel). One prepares for urination in the usual fashion but then takes an additional step of sitting on the front rim of the bowel while continuing to face the tank. It's really quite simple. Removal of the pants is not required. [German husbands usually take on the responsibility of policing the family bathroom facilities and don't wish to create any additional work for themselves than is necessary.] [Aside: Does this mean German men are more considerate of their wives than American men?]

[@kiliipower355]

When I was a child, in the 70s, handball was a popular sport for girls. Back then, most "Fußballvereine" didn't accept girls. And that was the alternative.

[@carstenschlick1682]

Great Tip for the Stick Bread.... mix some Bacon and Cheese in and it will become even better

[@jeffharper9703]

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[@jeffharper9703]

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[@steemlenn8797]

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

[@PassportTwo]

That was exactly my thought!! There for sure has to be some elements to the experience that makes it taste so good. I'm not a huge fan of smoking cigars by myself, but I love to smoke cigars around a fire with a group of friends as we have deep talks. Same with the stick bread! We made some of my left over dough in the oven, and it was pretty bland and boring. Of course, the fire and smoke add some flavor to it, but most of the enjoyment for sure was in the process of making it!

[@V100-e5q]

@@PassportTwo I would say the same goes for Marshmellows. Hadn't they a lot of sugar content it would be rather nothing. BTW: You know the feeling when you wake up in the morning after having a dream where you ate the largest marshmellow in the world? And can't find your pillow!

[@joedoe5079]

Also known as snakebread! Schlangenbrot

[@karlwiklund2108]

It seems kind of like bannock. Which does taste good, but is hardly popular.

[@joachimschwabe3301]

@@PassportTwo Most people add some amount of sugar, so it basically tastes like a crispy smoky hot dog roll. In Slovakia, Czech Republic and Hungary there is something similar called "Trdelnik" (tree striezel, or tree cake), made on wooden cones.

[@kathrintaraba3274]

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

[@Pewtah]

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

[@PassportTwo]

Had never heard of him until we moved over here actually 😅 But now I have seen Lucky Luke in many comic book and book stores around Europe 😊

[@j.wagner1633]

@@PassportTwo I think why most Americans never heard of Winnetou is, because Karl May wrote the books in a time, claiming that he himself lived through all of what he wrote in his books, where the era of American colonisation and "Wild West" was almost non existent anymore. There's a recent short documentary by the MDR in German about Karl May, asking the question if he really believed what he wrote was true or if he was just a really talented scammer.

[@hessin3027]

Terence Hill has Made a US-film als Lucky Luke.

[@diarmuidkuhle8181]

@@PassportTwo Check it out, it's really funny. So is Asterix, probably the best-known comic series in Europe.

[@danilopapais1464]

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

[@Llortnerof]

Pretty sure it is largely the same, with the biggest differences being preferred flavours. To the point that many ice cream parlors use Italian names.

[@holger_p]

It's like German wine and Italian wine. IT's the same thing, made the same way, you tell different stories around it, have little different tradition, another amount of sunshine, other varieties. You still pronounce the origin. And people talk like Pinot Grigio would be different from Grauburgunder. But it's not.

[@picobello99]

He probably meant American ice cream. In Europe ice cream = gelato, but American ice cream uses a different recipe.

[@BalduinTube]

Most of german icecream is made by Italians that live in Germany, so how should there be any significant difference?

[@holger_p]

@@BalduinTube The receipe is from Italy, but of course there was icecream before 1960, before some Italians moved to Germany.

[@TrangleC]

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

[@PassportTwo]

Thanks! Hoped it would make it a little more enjoyable than just a big block segment 😅

[@maximstepinac6716]

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

[@Fred_L.]

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

[@HalfEye79]

When there wasn't Winnetou, very few Germans would even know about Native Americans. Or at least they would know much lesser.

[@bjssjb9874]

@AZBYCX Have you read Winnetou? Perhaps some of the traditions and descriptions that Karl May makes in his books are not 100% correct. Maybe even wrong, but what he definitely conveys in his books is a great respect for other cultures. In his books he conveys that one should not only make an effort to learn and study other cultures but also to move appropriately in their culture in order to show them respect. So I think that's a big goal and actually only leads to really getting to know the actual facts. So, yes, to really learn, mistakes are part of it. You only learn from mistakes. The Karl May books are novels, not scientific elaborations. A made-up story doesn't have to be based entirely on fact. It's made up now. Nobody expects this to be based on facts, but it makes you want to find out facts. Is that so wrong?

[@bjssjb9874]

@AZBYCX I entirely agree with you that it was wrong of him that he pretended to have really experienced these adventures. But it's not true that he didn't know anything at all. His stories are based on research at the time. As far as I know, he even copied some of the texts one-to-one from factual reports (that's also a bit questionable, of course). That's why some people are even amazed at how his descriptions of the environment match real places. I don't understand how you can claim that Karl May taught the Germans to see the Native Americans as a very primitive people. His stories are about the fact that these natives are not primitive, but just as capable as the whites. His books also show that there were not only the natives, but many different tribes, peoples, cultures and languages. He also conveys that not everyone always lived in tents and poor huts, but that they too had a high culture. I think the problem you see is the image that the media portrayed then and now of the indigenous people. You blame Karl May to a certain extent. But it's not his fault. On the contrary, if more weight had been given to his books, they might have been shown more respect sooner.

[@achimdemus-holzhaeuser1233]

@@bjssjb9874 I did my Uncle had all the Books and I read them cover to cover. It was amazing.

[@ASteingraben]

Go to Bad Segeberg. There is a museum here about the genocide of the indigenous people of North America.

[@joannajaworska0000]

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

[@dnocturn84]

I'm German and also grew up with multiple versions of potatoes in foil in hot ash or glowing firewood. Very delicious. But I also did know about Stockbrot as well, while potatoes usually were quite a bit more common for me.

[@isabellabihy8631]

Yep, potatoes wrapped in tin foil and baked in the campfire. It has a lovely smoky flavor.

[@uli1956]

Sixty-something years old German here: Never in my life I have seen somebody preparing Stockbrot except on TV or in KZbin, and only during the recent 20 or 30 years, but never before. But I loved the flavor of potatoes roasted in the embers of the camp fire, without aluminium foil. The blackened outer regions of the potatoes were the most delicious part.

[@isabellabihy8631]

@@uli1956 Yes, me too being a sixty-something German. When I was an elementary school kid, we didn't use the tin foil either, but later we did.

[@tobiasgund8048]

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

[@Cornu341]

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

[@AntjeKristensen]

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

[@dw8931]

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

[@suzetteospi]

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

[@LetumFalcis]

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

[@Llortnerof]

Well, you had to get palatable food at least once on the trip after all...

[@Krokostad]

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

[@KaiHenningsen]

Internationally, Karl May actually seems somewhat less popular than Perry Rhodan, another extremely popular German literary product.

[@marenq4138]

I googled it and apparently (American) ice cream contains more far than gelato. What we consider Speiseeis from the Eisdiele in Germany is usually gelato, but some of the Eis you can buy in the supermarket is American ice cream, like Ben& Jerry's.

[@Aleas10301]

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

[@peterzerfass4609]

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

[@joshina4497]

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

[@alicemilne1444]

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

[@utej.k.bemsel4777]

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

[@TrineBiene24]

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

[@kirstenjakobsen1651]

Just like us in Denmark! We love Handball!

[@pilotlars]

My father played for HSV before we moved to the US. Then he refereed handball and soccer for local, national and international events.

[@JanBlank]

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

[@friarhill]

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

[@shimone6116]

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

[@suekellner4736]

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

[@jehib8533]

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

[@MrFrozenFrost]

Maybe Stockbrot is a way to teach german children patience.

[@SchmulKrieger]

That's because you became a Wokeist!

[@eljanrimsa5843]

@@SchmulKrieger It's quite common to read and love Karl May growing up, getting the fire started to read other authors, getting the passion to travel and experience other cultures, and when you come back some day to read Karl May again you realize that he isn't such a good story-teller, and didn't experience other cultures himself.

[@chezratte1357]

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

[@miridroge6043]

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

[@MrTjonke]

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

[@dawnrodgers1170]

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

[@Cynthia-ql9lw]

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

[@michaelmedlinger6399]

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

[@PassportTwo]

You're absolutely right! That is a character we didn't know about it until we moved over to Europe. Maybe some Americans have heard of this comic because there are English versions available, but we certainly hadn't! 😅

[@conniebruckner8190]

@@PassportTwo My Dad bought me a French version of Asterix when I was about 15 or so... I had never seen that character before.

[@Fred_L.]

Not the only French creation in that regards. Blueberry, a long-running Franco-Belgian comic series, is quite weird in that aspect as it is set in the Wild West (for the most part). Pretty awesome, too.

[@chrisk5651]

I first saw Asterix in high school when I was learning French.

[@all_in_for_JESUS]

Also Lucky Luke

[@twinmama42]

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

[@petersmiling9494]

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

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

That is ... surprisingly good as explanation.

[@crazyfrog773]

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

[@PassportTwo]

That's so interesting! It honestly looks like a sport I would be really into playing if I would have just been given the opportunity like you had!

[@crazyfrog773]

Yes, I still really like to watch the games because it's faster, more action and in my opinion more emotions than on soccer games. In a lot of areas there are some sport groups where they play just for fun, maybe you find one for you :)

[@schmidtikovsky2825]

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

[@joshina4497]

We always called it Knüppelteig

[@Trollportphosphat]

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

[@PassportTwo]

Hey, thanks so much for that! I definitely struggle with pronunciation but I am always trying to improve!! 😊

[@sylviarohge4204]

@@PassportTwo Bread on a stick is also great fun for kids. Children are generally enthusiastic about fire, so instead of forbidding them everything, it is better to direct their interest towards harmless ones. Giving them a stick and a piece of dough is ideal, and that keeps the little ones busy for a while.

[@hypatian9093]

@@sylviarohge4204 And a stick length away from the fire ;)

[@red_dolphin468]

there is actually a american native-cartoon show which I watched much more raising up in Cologne, Germany. - " Yakari " - the serie or charackter of Winnetou is only known from my father´s DVD collection to me :)

[@solar0wind]

@@red_dolphin468 Oh, yes, I watched only Yakari as well. I'm not interested in Winnetou tbh.

[@kreativuntermdach7351]

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

[@Jan_Seidel]

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

[@RoxRikSor]

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

[@Cornu341]

The meant difference is: Gelato is, what you can find in a nice ice caffee here in Germany. Ice cream is what you can buy in the supermarkets. The more densly packed, frozen version instead of the softer gelato. EDIT: typo

[@RoxRikSor]

@@Cornu341 yea I kinda figured that after googling xD It just left me so confused at first

[@Jeyshara]

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

[@bibliopolist]

Actually, I have always thought of him as the German Joseph Smith (author of the Book of Mormon), without most of the malice. A talented scammer who was great in making people believe his made-up stuff that he got from maps and traveller guides.

[@ramonek9109]

How is it a scam? He is a fiction writer.​@@bibliopolist

[@TheSleepyowlet]

@@bibliopolist Nah, he was just a romantic with loads of imagination. He actually did travel to America later in life to see for himself what it was like, and he was appalled at how Native Americans were treated. He proceeded to write a couple more books that were closer to reality and tried very hard to get people to read those instead of his more fanciful stuff, but they never caught on. Readers wanted the romantic view of the Wild West. But there is another author, Liselotte Welskopf-Henrich, who was an anthropologist and wrote several novels centred around Native Americans and their fates. When she went to the US to study the Lakota, they honoured her with the title of Lakota-Tashina which roughly translates to "protective blanket of the Lakota". Her books are amazing and were incredibly popular in East Germany, where they sparked their own film franchise.

[@petersmiling9494]

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

[@Pokeminator]

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

[@marcelli1990]

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

[@an3pic174]

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

[@PassportTwo]

Ahhhh...so insert a sausage in the middle where the stick was after words?

[@lyricsmind]

Oh really? Never heard of that. Where are you from? Sounds kinda good🙂

[@ReisskIaue]

@@PassportTwo At least it is something you can do with it. Or use some dips to add more flavors. Of course you can eat it just directly as you did.

[@ReisskIaue]

@@lyricsmind It sounds a little like a "Ketwurst" (combined word of Ketchup and Wurst). Kind of GDR's answer to the hotdog, where you have a long, hollowed out wheat bread (like this stick bread) and put ketchup and a "Wiener" in the hole after baking - of course you might add further sauces or replace the ketchup with mayonnaise or "Remulade".

[@RammsteinXFan]

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

[@madTitanja]

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

[@KindGottes92]

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

[@christopherandresen9790]

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

[@TrangleC]

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

[@PassportTwo]

Fair enough! haha, In the US, I would RARELY pick up a Ben & Jerry's or Hagen Dasz, so it is a little unfortunate that is pretty much all you can get around here, but I still prefer American-style ice cream 😊

[@TrangleC]

@@PassportTwo Not blaming you or saying one side is objectively right. It is just about what one grew up with and has positive childhood associations with. To be fair, when I think of gelato, I don't really think of just the gelato, but I think of elaborate sundaes with whipped cream and chopped fruits and chocolate sauce and a candy cherry on top and the gelato just being part of that bigger thing. I do think that American Ice Cream, due to its dense and harder consistency, lends itself less well to being part of a sundae. You'll surely disagree, but to me the thought of scooping through the whipped cream and hitting this hard, clay-like ball underneath and having to really dig into that with the spoon, crushing the banana pieces or what else is underneath, is weird. 😁

[@chrisbaertl5708]

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

[@martind.5257]

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

[@idnwiw]

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

[@aerosoul12345]

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

[@calise8783]

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

[@pascalh.3535]

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

[@maylinde986]

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

[@wandilismus8726]

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

[@birgerhansen1532]

Handball was invented in Danmark at spread to some countries 🙂

[@PassportTwo]

Interesting! I didn't know the roots of the sport honestly.

[@DontPanick]

That's actually not accurate. Handball like games already existed in ancient Greece and predecessors of modern handball developed differently in a couple of European countries in the 19th century. The first ruleset in modern times is actually from Denmark, but is lacking a lot of basic concepts of modern handball. Denmark had the leading role in the development of indoor handball. But the core concepts are the same as in outdoor handball. The basic principles for the modern handball were actually developed in the 1910's in Germany. The first German ruleset was a sport for girls without contact, because things like football were not suited for them. But just a few years later the rules were adapted for boys, contact was allowed, dribbling was inventend (like in basketball but 3 steps instead of 2 are allowed) and the ballsize was reduced (it was like a football before), so throwing became more important. Also the rule of throwing the ball from outside the crease (the zone around the goal) was invented. But the field size and team size was the same as in football and thus it was played outdoors. So saying that Denmark invented it, is definetly not appropriate.

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

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

[@morgenstern1234]

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

[@TheIncredible1984]

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

[@charlottebghandersen4195]

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

[@s.b.7924]

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

[@stevefish3124]

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

[@winnipoodoodleido]

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

[@ipurpleyou5227]

Handball is amost as popular as soccer in regional and youth leagues. Every german student at least here in north know about it.

[@SaridenChan]

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

[@clawravenscroft1788]

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

[@Nilana2401]

To the first thing: I play handball right now in school, but I've never played it before. Sometimes I watch handball on TY. To the second thing: Stick bread for me is so delicious. The bad thing is, that you have pretty long at the fire until it's done. To the third thing: I heard of it, but don't know anything about it. And to the last thing: I drink apple juice most of the times mixed with carbonated water because it is very sweet without. I'm sorry for doing this structure in a comment. I just didn't know how to do it differently. Btw amazing video.

[@furzkram]

Never heard of Stockbrot in Hesse county. Sounds like a thing from farther north.

[@ellieisnotcool]

My mom used to play handball in a team as teenager and my big sister did too until she eventually started professional crossbow shooting. I did ballet & swimming when I was a kid/teen. My little brothers did fencing & football

[@ald00I]

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

[@xXxDeamonlordxXx]

Well, with the Stickbread, we always get some at the Mittelalterfestival. You can get the classic, but also sweets with some choclate chips in it, or even rolled up with salami and tomato sauce, mildly covered in cheese, so Pizza on a stick, if you like. Its quite nice^^

[@martinbruhn5274]

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

[@seldakaya0414]

Salted butter goes amazingly with stick bread!

[@MichaEl-rh1kv]

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

[@aenwynsnow2828]

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

[@friedhelmmunker7284]

Karl May is a much better liar then Trump. His Books with great stories, never visit america or the east.

[@SABRINA.ARMY.BTS.]

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

[@samu6874]

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

[@KoenigKoppi]

Mostly Stockbrot is made when kids a around. When you make it again: We normaly wrap aluminium foil araound the stick first, so the bread will not glue to the stick. I personally like it with a little bit of butter. (Hope you can understand my German English...)

[@MythosHB]

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

[@pilotlars]

I've never heard of Stockbrot either.

[@fgregerfeaxcwfeffece]

Might be rural thing where you can actually make fire outside without having it be a big event. Because near the Luxembourg border that was absolutely a thing.

[@roswithatausiani9283]

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

[@clausappel8086]

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

[@h.s.3273]

In Baden Württemberg there are many farmers and private people who grow apples (and other types of fruit). Delicious apple juice is often made from it. If you know someone you can usually buy the juice in 5 liter canisters for 5 euros. So you can mix the apple juice yourself with mineral water. I often travel long distances with my family. Most of what we miss are our drinks (often too much sugar in other countries), bread, sausage and cheese. There is nowhere else with this variety.

[@GoodOldErin]

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

[@michaelkloters3454]

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

[@Sennahoj_DE_RLP]

If you want to visit a handball game, you can go to either Ludwigshafen or Mannheim, these should be the closest from where you live

[@corpi8784]

The best teams in Handball in Germany come typically from small to medium sized towns /cities in more rural areas where they are typically at least as popular as football: Gummersbach,Lemgo,Kiel, Grosswallstadt, Flensburg etc... Berlin is an exception to the rule

[@philippbock3399]

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

[@karinbirkenbihl2053]

I guess you can get Weinschorle also in der Pfalz.

[@chaplainkelley8251]

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

[@currykingwurst6393]

Kaiserslautern? That's funny because they live in Ramstein.

[@londrai2625]

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

[@marcblum5348]

Handball: was our main team sport in school from 5th to 8th grade. As we grew up it got replaced by basketball and volleyball. Soccer (European football) does not work that good in school, because it requires a bigger field. And we spent lot of school sports inside due to the bad weather.

[@Sekire1]

Kudos for trying Stickbread!

[@kaess307]

The topic is handball in Germany, but the handball player in the upper left corner is the Dane Mikkel Hansen.

[@queenofroses09]

I was at my first handball game when I was about 2. I grew up on handball in my mother's milk. But I come from a town that was German handball champion several times, so this was kind of a given. I have played handball, my sister played handball, my husband played handball, my BIL played handball, my nephew played handball, my son plays handball. I even did my master's thesis on handball ;)

[@yekaterinahawkins-vf7lf]

Read all the Karl May books. One of my most wonderful friends going through childhood were my Karl May books . Wonderful hours spent reading them

[@gerdforster883]

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

[@henningbartels6245]

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