American reacts to 'Northern Germany: Meet the Germans Road Trip Part 1/4'

[@wZem]

Ryan: "Wow! It's like Hawaii" Me, a Northern German: "It's absolutely nothing like Hawaii"

[@lanabanana80]

Yeah if Hawaii had CRAZY weather 😂

[@Mike8827]

Maybe toast Hawaii

[@norwegianwood7564]

Of course it is like Hawaii- with a little bit of wind, rain and just a feeeeeew days without sun. 🤪

[@melchiorvonsternberg844]

As a Southener, I sign up for this... Ihr armen Schweine. 3 Wochen früher Herbst und dafür zum Ausgleich, 3 Wochen später Frühling.

[@dck030]

More like Hawaii toast

[@BennoWitter]

Speaking of "over the top". Having subtitles on, on a video that already has subtitles and is in your own language....that is subtitle overkill.

[@vanessah5217]

Especially since the KZbin generated ones are way worse than the in video ones 🙈 like yt doesn't always understand what people are saying and also makes quite a few spelling errors

[@DanWorksTV]

only subtle

[@Ray_Vun]

it was so distracting. but at least when the people were talking in german, the youtube subtitles went away and we only had the video's

[@i86ij99]

and I activated my CC on top of his CC on top of the video's own subtitles, and I was utterly confused

[@ingevonschneider5100]

Maybe he has ADHS.

[@lef2617]

As a northern German, I am always happy when someone talks about northern Germany

[@morfrikel7472]

true, people are always looking at the south and forget about the beauty of the north

[@DJone4one]

I'm from a northern coast and it's so beautiful.

[@Harzer-Roller]

You can only get good Mettbrötchen in Thuringia and Lower Saxony. For most foreigners, Bavaria equals Germany

[@hah-vj7hc]

Moin

[@silkefunck1717]

I am from Husum but living in Southitaly

[@hah-vj7hc]

As a Northern German, I am shocked you didn't know we have beaches because it implies you didn't know we have a coastline

[@danielertl]

I think he talked about the islands. Not the coast.

[@leDespicable]

But, to be fair, not many Americans know that Germany has a coastline lol

[@Quotenwagnerianer]

@@leDespicable That only solidifies the stereotype the U.S citizens never have looked at a map in their entire life.

[@uliwehner]

a "coastline" alone does not make for a beach. think mountains and cliffs.

[@Marina_-_-]

He meant Florida type beaches. And I think they all still think it's like a, tropical beach.

[@Onkel-Stevo]

KZbin: How many subtitles do you want? Ryan: YES!

[@davdav3945]

🤭

[@666LonesomeSailor]

Thanks for the lulz xD *gg

[@ZyradosPlays]

The proper Moin from Ryan was the most german think i ever had seen on this channel so far

[@sandrap.3399]

Schickimicki too :-)

[@theodorbutters141]

He's slowly becoming a german! Can;t wait for him to post vlogs form Germany in the future

[@LemmyD_from_Germany]

That would be cool... To visit, see and get all these stuff in Germany that he has only seen in videos for years 😂

[@witthyhumpleton3514]

For the rock sugar, it does take a long time to dissolve, and that is the point. You often only use one for more than a cup, and don't stir. Meaning you have different tastes as you drink the tea, more milky, less sweet, in the beginning, and then a sweeter part at the end, since the sugar dissolves at the bottom and stays.

[@pklausspk]

It is said that drinking tea like this represents life. It's bitter most of the time but sweet when you get into paradise in the end.

[@piiinkDeluxe]

​@@pklausspk that's kinda sad, because it should be a bit sweet before death as well. 😅

[@chrisw.menzel4714]

Also pouring the hot tea on the Kluntje makes it break into smaller pieces. That is the sound it makes. I love that you have tea with all the senses when you have it the East Frisian way.

[@UntotesSchaf]

...and when it comes to it's end and it's to sweet, you'll add new tea to the cup.

[@rhysodunloe2463]

In the North we say "Moin". "Moin Moin" is already chitchatting. Or as we call it: Gesabbel. 😅

[@rommit9613]

only tourists say "Moin Moin" 😊

[@gaedingar9791]

If someone feels really chatty, its "Moinsen" here.

[@MiaMerkur]

In some areas it is Moin in the day and Moin, Moin in the morning.

[@gudrundietrich2158]

Wer mehr sagt als moin ist ein Schwätzer.

[@COACTUSFECI75]

hahaha these amis....🤣🤫🤭 tell nobody... the think we have no cost and beaches..and bitches as well😅🤣 da müssen wir ein ostfriesen meme zumachen...sächt de friesenjung zun opa "wo is eingentlich amerika??? du mien jung datt wes ik net,aber wir ham da son ami auf der arbeit der kommt jeden morgen mit fahrad zuarbeit,da kann das nicht weit weg sein🤣🤣

[@vanessah5217]

If you rent a Strandkorb at the sea, you don't have to drag them across the beach. They are already there and the owners (typically hotels I think) only take them away if a storm is coming or at the end of the tourism and beach season in general end. I think I heard that they can be locked using flaps to close the bench part, so you actually have to pay to use them and I guess they also lock them for storms, too. But please double check this with Germans who actually live in the North and have firsthand experience

[@svendevarennes520]

You can lock them and keep your stuff inside, there are compartments that one can open up. You can also pull the shade down and lay down on some of them (they recline) - it's useful if you want to keep your stuff safe or if you want privacy when dressing - they provide quite some cover when the shade is pulled down. But yeah, their purpose is as a windscreen - after bathing in the already quite cold Baltic, wind can chill you down quite quickly. This extends the bathing season beyond July-August

[@anniebe4992]

far too heavy to drag them across the beach. You can pull out and push in the bench part and hence lock a wooden board in front of them in the evening. The next day you rent a new one (or the same if you want to) and only turn it to the desired direction 🥵 then chill 😌

[@meretes.lintrup4684]

The Strandkorb is a great invention. I bought one for my garden after a trip to Rügen (Northern Germany). It's perfect because it shelters you from the wind, you can adjust the back so that you can lean back, you can pull out a foot rest, there's a small fold-up table for your drink and little pockets for a magazine. And the shade-bit on top can be foldet back and forth. In other words, perfect in every respect.

[@buciallstar]

As a born and raised northern German, I'm all for the salt life

[@Midaaas]

Ich hasse Fisch

[@blubbTee]

​@@MidaaasAlle? Sind oft sehr unterschiedlich.

[@Midaaas]

@@blubbTee Hab lange keinen mehr probiert. Mach ich vielleicht bald mal :)

[@schwammi]

@@Midaaas Was haben dir die armen Fische getan??

[@Midaaas]

@@schwammi wie? was? Ich mag den Geschmack und den Geruch einfach nicht

[@Athalear]

As a northern german it's my duty to spread the word that Labskaus tastes way better then you may think when first looking at it 😌

[@grimgolf79]

kann ich so nicht unterschreiben....😂

[@Athalear]

@@grimgolf79 Jagut muss ja nicht, aber kommt manchmal auch noch darauf an wers kocht 😄

[@themonstergummitier1844]

As an eastern german: I like it! 🙂

[@shapeshifter1211]

When I moved from NRW to Bremen, my co-workers explained Labskaus like this: It's a sailors' food. And since many off those didn't still have all of their teeth, they prepared the food in a way you didn't need your teeth. If you come into stormy weather, the food doesn't roll from the plate, it stucks. If it's getting even more stormy and one has a week stomach, nobody notices, because on the way out it looks just like on the way in. Nevertheless, it tastes great and I like it.

[@ForgeMoon]

Labskaus is totally a comfy food, just like Grünkohl :-)

[@fionarras4736]

There are over 100 low german dialects, with some quite near to some english dialects like cockney english. Friends from London brought their Father with them to Germany on a Trip who mostly spoke cockney and he could walk up to the older people in our village and talk directly with them without much problems as their languages were so similar.

[@harryhaller9386]

English is mainly an Anglo Saxon language.

[@dannymarc3438]

I'm original from south-west Germany and i love the north very much. The sea, the flat green landscape and the beautiful hanseatic cities. And i love all the fresh fish.

[@Dennis_1811]

A colleague from south Germany told me that he likes the north more, because it seems in the south the people are more like "get out of my way/leave me alone" (Ellenbogen-Mentalität).

[@hans471]

​@@Dennis_1811you are talking like that about us southern "Germaners"? Get out of my way! 😡

[@LeroxYT]

@@Dennis_1811 isnt that more like berlin region/ big citys?

[@TheOriginalDogLP]

​@@Dennis_1811 haha what I feel its the opposite

[@myeramimclerie7869]

I am so triggered by the double subtitles 😵 My eyes didn't know where to focus! How can you NOT automatically read those and just ignore them?

[@nonsensicalnonsense1035]

10:58 I was on board with you right until you criticised the Mettbrötchen, that just broke my heart 💔😭 nearly ripped out all my hair after that one!

[@ExtremeTeddy]

Lapskaus sieht aber auch echt wie ausgekotzt aus. Daran lässt sich nicht rütteln :D

[@teotik8071]

@@ExtremeTeddy Das gezeigte Labskaus fand ich auch unansehnlich, freundlich gesagt. 🤐 Aber man kann es auch anders zubereiten, so dass die Optik nicht über Bord geht. 😂

[@henner7371]

@@ExtremeTeddy it tastes much better than it looks like. He was not wrong to compare the Labskaus to Mettbrötchen, because it tastes awesome too.

[@ExtremeTeddy]

@@henner7371 Oh ok, I didn't got that comparison. My understanding was that Labskaus is the worst so far to him.

[@that-possum-guy3209]

@@ExtremeTeddy It's not like he's ever eaten either - he's judging based on his ideas of the foods rather than on their actual taste.

[@wasserbergbrewing]

Actually, I am from Leer in East Frisia. Altough the younger people don‘t do the tea-ceremony everyday anymore, it‘s quite a part of our culture and to be honest, nothing tastes more like home and childhood to me, like a cup of „Bünting“ or „Thiele“ with Kluntje and cream. I was really happy to see, that our ritual is also seen by other cultures, which are not from our region. Props go out to DW and to you, Ryan!🎉

[@Sir2maZ]

Me too. I instantly recognized the old town of Leer in the beginning of the Video and the boundaries of reality began to shake. But when they did that part about East Frisian tea culture in the tea-museum of Leer, the universe exploded :D

[@themattschulz3984]

So for starters: you say moin, thats how you greet people ... if you like them you nod at them too ... and if you smile, that is widely considered as proposing. If you have a panic attack, you say "oha", if its really bad you might raise your voice a little while doing so ... and basically every bit of wind where the sheep still keep their curls, is NOT a storm, i repeat: NOT a storm.

[@chrisrudolf9839]

The purpose of a Strandkorb (literally "beach basket") is to shield you from the often quite strong wind on a more chilly day (of which we have many, northern Germany isn't Florida ;-) ), so you can still enjoy the sea air and maybe even get warmed up and tanned by the sun (when there is a gap in the clouds), without being cooled down and getting sandblasted by the winds. You don't drag them around with you, they are much too heavy for that, they stay on the beach and you can close and lock them when you leave.

[@DaDunge]

they also sort or represent renting a part of the beach dont they?

[@chrisrudolf9839]

@@DaDunge No, they don't. Renting a Strandkorb doesn't come with renting a private "territory" on the beach and acess to the beach also isn't usually tied to renting a Strandkorb. AFAIK, sea beaches are always public in Germany (other than e.g. in Italy, where sections of the beach are often private property and e.g. only accessible for the guests of a certain hotel). In some tourist regions, muncipalities charge a fee from non-residents for beach access (to help finace clean-up, lifeguard services in swimming areas, etc.), but that isn't tied to renting a Strandkorb.

[@RufusNasedo]

I'm from Hamburg which we declared ourselves "die schönste Stadt der Welt" (the most beautiful city in the world). Our regional dishes often look disgusting compared to other parts of Germany, but is just so tasty. I love making Labskaus myself. Franzbrötchen, Fischbrötchen and Mettbrötchen I'm not able to live without.

[@pieceofbread5686]

Move over Döner, Fischbrötchen ist der beste Imbiss

[@ole7236]

I'm a German from Northrhine-Westphalia and I really like Labskaus.

[@eastfrisian_88]

Labskaus, bean stew, kale, pea soup ... all looks like already eaten and puked up, but sooo tasty 😂 In my opinion, the best (not homemade) Labskaus can be found at the Open Day at the naval base in Wilhelmshaven. 🤤

[@LeroxYT]

Well i was in parts of Hamburg which looked not that great

[@Hendricus56]

Hamburg schönste Stadt? Nah, ich würd sagen da schlägt Lübeck auch alle mal. Insbesondere weil es hier noch die Altstadt gibt (zumindest teilweise)

[@Brazzelkanal]

Moin from Hamburg. Happy to see that the Franzbrötchen made it in there. The "Labskaus" could also be described as pulled beef with potatomash and beetroots, and yes, it looks weird, but tastes good 😊

[@marchurnik]

Please don't forget : Slightly salted young herring, pickled cucumber and a fried egg sunny side up. "Labskaus mit Schwanz" (with herring). If you combine the mashed potatoes with red beet / beetroot, you will get a very crasy colorful pink mash. Please try it - essy cooking and astonishing delicious.

[@beldin2987]

I'm myself from Niedersachen now Bremen, but i always thought Labskaus is some Bavarian stuff just like Leberkäse. It somehow doesn't really sound northern 🤔

[@Brazzelkanal]

@Marc Hurnik I'd prefer the pickled herring, Bismarckhering or Rollmops. :)

[@whattheflyingfuck...]

@@beldin2987 ich kannte die Herleitung von lob's course, aber dass es laut Wiki fünf verschiede Herleitungsvarianten gibt wusste ich nicht 😄 //de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labskaus#Etymologie

[@marchurnik]

Labskaus is a combination of ingredients you can storage longterm on a sailing ship.

[@DontPanick]

If you insult the Mettbrötchen never step a foot into Germany for your own security 😂

[@buciallstar]

Also Labskaus might look weird but it's absolutely delicious

[@lbergen001]

Or the matjes hering...so delicious

[@wizardm]

I'm German and I hate Mettbrötchen. It's digusting. Why should you eat raw pork?

[@olli1068]

​@@wizardm Think of all the energy you save when you eat it raw!

[@olli1068]

Just yesterday I watched a video on another KZbin channel where an American KZbinr, who had been reacting to a lot of German videos finally came here for some first-hand experience. He went to meet a German KZbinr and guess what he got served? Mettbrötchen. You have been warned!

[@Linealo]

I'm very familiar with the east Frisian side of things because of family reasons and have to admit, this has been one of the better representations of the region and especially Leer. It's hard to find good videos on KZbin to show to long distance friends and I haven't come around to making my own one, but this one at least shows some of the more interesting aspects without simply brushing over the fun facts or cultural aspects.

[@nicoleotto1404]

LG aus leer ,Ostfriesland ❤

[@tim_bublitz]

Him: "That's like a litre of tea a day!?" Me: "Ja, moin..."

[@Moleman0815]

I'm not from the north but i also drink a liter of tea nearly every day, i don't drink coffee, so i need to drink something else which is warm and helps me getting up and also tea is delicious. :D

[@kiviona8774]

Moin! Greetings from Hamburg! (: Finally a great video about our North, that made me very happy (:

[@bettiegorgels9637]

I loved this one! living in the province of Groningen , Netherlands next to Ost Friesland it is very familiar to us.

[@elbrauschen7034]

It's nice to see you looking at other areas of Germany. Sometimes you get the feeling that Germany is only defined by Bavaria and the Oktoberfest. By the way, the sunniest region in Germany is on the Baltic Sea coast. 😉 1,917 hours of sunshine are counted here on average per year - more than in any other region. Best regards from the Hanseatic city of Greifswald.

[@Moechtegernpilot1]

It’s quite sunny here directly at the coast

[@eyekona]

That was a very good albeit shorts representation of northern Germany. Me being from northern Germany (easy friesia) myself I'm speaking lower German but I was really baffled when we first moved there at the age of 6. Even school was in Lower German and I had to adapt very fast to understand what they were saying in school. One funny thing the didn't mention was, that people from the Netherlands living on the north coast also speak "lower German/Platt" and thus we are able to communicate easily across borders even when we do not speak Dutch and they don't speak German.

[@tysej4]

It's the same with many of the Southern-most Danes as well ^^ Sadly that appears to be a trend the youth does not care for ;_;

[@KeksKlinge]

I‘m from Leer where that tea museum part of the video was filmed :D It‘s really cool to see your home town in one of your videos! About the candy sugar: You would drink as many cups of tea until the candy is dissolved. You don‘t wait for the sugar to dissolve until you drink the tea, you just drink it as hot as possible (because it‘s best when hot) and add new tea on the candy sugar 😊

[@haukebruns8212]

Yes, I learnt from my grandma that I have to use one Kluntje for three cups of tea :) But to be honest, most people in east frisia nowadays stir their tea

[@KeksKlinge]

@@haukebruns8212 You’re right. Or they don’t use Kluntje or milk at all 😅

[@bertkassing8541]

"Plattdeutsch" and Dutch are very similar. People used to speak 'across borders'. My mother-in-law from Enschede (which is close to the border with Germany) transitioned fluently into the local dialect spoken on both sides of the border. My ancestor came from Germany around 1800 and he had no problem with the language because his version of Plattdeutsch was almost the same as the language spoken in the Netherlands at the time.

[@ReginaRegenbogn]

I'm from the middle of Germany (although north of Kassel, so technically I'm from Northern Germany, too). Plattdeutsch is really hard for me to understand. However, I have moved to Bavaria 20 years ago and still am unable to understand my father-in-law if he talks to his son at their customary speed :D I get the gist of it, but their regional dialect has their own words which I just don't know (similar to other dialects in Germany; I've lived a few years around Tübingen and Stuttgart and sitting on a train with elderly people was a fantastic linguistic experience) Some dialects are like a completely different language, not just different pronunciation. Loving that, and I'm glad that there are efforts all around the country to preserve dialects.

[@DaDunge]

Not as close as platt and frisian are.

[@Sir2maZ]

​@@ReginaRegenbognSmall side note that Plattdeutsch is often mistaken as dialect but Low German (Niederdeutsch, in contrast to 'Hochdeutsch' defined by geographics) is an actual language with its own dialects. And it is in fact related to Dutch, Frisian, Danish and English (Anglo-Saxon) since they share the same Old Saxon roots. Low German is also spoken in parts of the US, Brazil, Paraguay and Russia through colonization and the Mennonite diaspora.

[@peterl5804]

Thanks for the video, Ryan. I speak low German but lived 300 km south of the sea. The language area is quite large although low German is spoken mainly in the rural parts of Northern Germany.

[@revo8662]

Finally you take a look at the most beautiful parts of Germany: HH & S-H!

[@Zach2003]

As someone raised in the north with the whole 'Ostfriesentee' culture, 1l a day is not that hard to beat. Most tea ceremony teapots have around 0,7l, but in my family (especially on garherings) we prepare the 1,5l teapots. My father drinks 3 of those every day, if I drink tea I get to about 2. We (at least in my family) only use the small cups for gatherings and special occasions though (also because they don't hold that much tea compared to a normal mug. Fun fact about the Kluntje (the piece of sugar): us kids loved snacking the remains of it when we had finished our cups of tea, but the adults didn't like that, because they often filled a second cup of tea that got sweetened enough with the rest of the Kluntje, so to them it was wasteful. We were only to eat it if it was our last cup of tea, or we drank one without sugar after

[@UntotesSchaf]

Was the same for me. Now that I'm in the middle of my 30s I do it like adults. 😂 I grew up outside of East Frisia but raised by an East Frisian mother and still in Lower Saxony.

[@grandmak.]

That was nice to see my home town Lübeck in the video. It was also the home town of Thomas Mann the famous author who lived in California during WWII. The Frisian tea ceremony : I actually order my tea online from that area because it's so strong and delicious. The sugar lump dissolves slowly during several servings of tea in your cup. The Strandkorb ( beach chair) is very convenient because 1. you can turn it around for shade if you want, 2. you can alter it to a lying position, 3. it holds all your stuff and 4. you don't get sand all over you and in your clothes. In addition it provides you with some privacy when you change from bathing suit to dry clothes. You can rent it for a few hours, a day or - more cheaply - for one or more weeks. Some 'natives" rent one for the whole summer.

[@whattheflyingfuck...]

(beach basket) add-on: ... and if it is windy but sunny you can snuggle up in its wind-shadow and enjoy the sun anyways

[@grandmak.]

@@whattheflyingfuck... yeeees, and that's the best.

[@Itazu]

Good Video about Northern Germany. But to be honest, in the moment she mentioned sweets, I thought she would show Lübecker Marzipan. And I missed some more examples of Backsteingotik and other typical Northern German buildings and styles like Giebelhäuser or Reetdach.

[@jeffwalker9486]

I always love your reaction, Germany is really a beautiful country with a lot of art and culture, rich history good food, and most importantly, the people

[@Alias_Anybody]

All the stereotypes about lighthouses, pirates and retired captains who don't talk much also exist about northern Germany, sometimes they even originated there. People often forget that the North Sea region has traditionally been kind of a cultural area on its own.

[@AdrianGyörgy-c2r]

Thank you for having an inlook into the nicest part of germany (imo)!

[@KitsuneHB]

I'm from Bremen and yes - "Moin Moin" is over the top! We speak when it's necessary. Something like "Moin." - "Moin." - "And?" - "Yes. Löppt." "*nods*" is a whole conversation. The East Frisian Islands are pretty. Not like Hawaii. :D But those without cars got such a nice air, lots of beaches and you can relax a lot! And sell your kidneys for food - their expensive. :D But worth a visit. I will be on holiday on one of them (Juist) in a month. "How can you drink a liter of tea a day?" - Me: *looking at my pot of tea on my desk* "Well, I just drink." Seriously - I drink tea every day.

[@billiejo3800]

Kandiszucker, rock candy is well known in different german countries. In the Southwest, especially Palatinate , we use brown rock candy in mulled wine and tea too.

[@jameyspielt]

Greetings from Bremen! ;) "Labskaus" (Which is corned beef with mashed potatoes) is astoundingly good. There are regional differences though when it comes to the extra ingredients.. I eat it with Egg, Beet Root (from the glass) and pickles.. I don´t like fish in there. ;) It looks like dogfood, but it tastes great!

[@callsigndd9ls897]

Yes, Labskaus originated in the days of sailing ships. When a ship was on its way home and supplies were running low, the cook would make Labskaus from the leftovers. It is said that only the cook and God knows what is in the mashed potatoes. Most of the time it was made with potatoes, beetroot, onions and salted or smoked meat that had been cut into very small pieces. It was also served with pickled herring or a fried egg (if available).

[@eastfrisian_88]

Moin from Friesland! I grew up near Leer and speak Low German fluently. The "Kluntje" (rock sugar) will be re-used, normally you have to drink three cups of tea (and a middle sized Kluntje will normally last this long). A liter of tea was easily doable, two cups in the morning for breakfast, three cups in the afternoon, two cups in the evening ... so at my grandparents were even for me as a child seven to ten cups of tea relatively normal per day. I switched to coffee long ago - but I always have East Frisian tea at home and about twice a month I have to drink tea, somehow I miss it. I even have a fifty year old large East Frisian tea set, but it hasn't been used in my house yet 😂 During the video I thought "I normally don't eat fish that much!" and realized I was biting into a slice of tuna pizza and had fried fish ("Backfisch") two days ago. 😂😂 My mum lives in the southeast and everytime when I visit her I think like "Oh pls god, why do people talk SO MUCH here?! I hate smalltalk, I just want my quiet piece!" 🙈😨🤭 And often I thought about moving away, from the north towards Bavaria to my mother ... But when I have visited her for ten days and am greeted with "Moin!" again on the train behind Hanover, then I know: I will soon be home. You'll never get the "North German" out of me.

[@pinkhope84]

Yep ich bin auch Norddeutsch durch und durch. Kann mir keinen anderen Teil von Deutschland vorstellen. Ich liebs hier einfach. Grüße aus Hamburg. Bin um Oldenburg aufgewachsen. Und fühle mich nur im Norden wohl.

[@claudia2389]

I am from Lübeck, and its so cool to see you react to it ❤

[@Blaps911]

The "beach baskets" / Strandkörbe just stand around at the beach. At the "entrance" to the beach there is a small hut or just a guy in a chair who will give you a key to unlock one for a few bucks. You can rent them for a few hours, the whole day or even longer if you REALLY want that one spot every day.

[@genossewurzelkobold3141]

The problem: it's expensive as hell

[@LemmyD_from_Germany]

You can buy them for 300 Euros up to 2000 Euro for your garden. That ist quite common here in the north. Makes your garden look even fancy.

[@Kollektivable]

Love the weather love the flat landscape, Hamburg is a pearl and will never leave the north. Oh and the people are awesome and grumpy

[@sorenmeyer7347]

Great seeing you react to the roadtrip of meet the germans. This series gives a really nice impression of the german landscapes and different traditions around the country.

[@voyance4elle]

I am from West Germany and I easily drink way more tea than 1 liter per day! I rarely drink water or other beverages, mostly tea throughout the day.... Also I love Lübeck so much and one of my favorite vacation memory from childhood was our Langeoog vacation!

[@Chrischi3TutorialLPs]

Northern Germany is definitely a place to eat fish in, especially the port cities. One classic is the fish roll. Just a Weizenbrötchen with fish, usually cold, though cooked, or, in the case of Bismarckhering for instance, pickled. Oh yeah, and should you choose to buy one, hold it with both hands. Seagulls are agile, opportunistic, stronger than you think, and brave enough to try to steal your fish roll out of your hands if you let them.

[@Stolens87]

I really liked this. Rachel is a hell of a host, always enjoy her videos. Thanks for your reaction!

[@Rebirth2401]

This is one of the cool things of germany, you can start a trip in the north and travel to the south and everything will change. people, land and kulture

Ooooh i am born in Leer where they drank the tea 😊❤️

[@christianstein6644]

If you ever hapen to be in North Germany in June, make shure to come to Kiel. Kiel is the host of the 'Kieler Woche' the Kiel's week, the biggest sailing event in the world. And it's also a big folk festival with as many daily visitors as the Oktoberfest. But it's a lot more international. And Kiel is much smaler than Munich, so the whole city is partying and listening to dozends of local, national and international bands for free.

[@1987Tatsu]

As a Kieler I can confirm this

[@hendrikwiekenberg]

Yes, i'm born in Kiel too. And also stationed there for a few years as a navy-soldier. In the entrance area of the "Kieler Fjord" is the village "Laboe" with the naval memorial. As a tourist attraction, the last submarine of the wartime navy of the German Reich "U 995" lies there on the beach as a museum piece.

[@larslacronimus3908]

nd zur Arbeit zu kommen ist eine Katastrophe -.-

[@xaverlustig3581]

4:30 You don't normally drag the beach baskets around. You typically rent one for a couple of days, so you have a cosy place to spend your beach time in. They have a footrest, drawers to put your beach utensils in, and they can be locked over night.

[@valskye3251]

"high" german is some sort of common german, it means that everybody understands what you want because you try to speak free of your regional dialekt. "low" german in that sense of "plattdeutsch" is like saying "low" german to other regional dialekts like sächsisch or bayrisch or saarländisch and so on

[@DontPanick]

Why the quotes? It is called High German, actually Standard High German to be precise. And it is also called Low German. Those are the real names.

[@holgerlinke98]

high and low are about the elevation. Standard german is just another mixed dialect that stems mostly from a higher elevated region.

[@winterlinde5395]

@@DontPanickI think it’s called Hochdeutsch und Plattdeutsch.

[@witthyhumpleton3514]

@@holgerlinke98 Not correct, but understandable why you would think so, because the terminology gets very confusing. Low German refers to the elevation, and there are so called "High German dialects" which are things like swabian or franconian, around the south. They are also named after the elevation, but then there is Standard High German, which doesn't refer to the elevation at all, but the standard dialect, this dialect originally came from the Saxon region in the 15th and 16th century, but later developed to be the hannoveranian dialect, you can guess where that one comes from. It gets confusing because one high german does refer to the elevation, while the other has nothing to do with it.

[@deinauge7894]

Plattdeutsch or Niederdeutsch (literally low german) is the family of dialects in the flat northern parts of Germany. Southern dialects are called Oberdeutsch (literally "high" german - in the geographical sense). edit: what we call Hochdeutsch (literally high german) is NOT the same as Oberdeutsch, and is closer related to Platt and middle german ;-)

[@_yanoda_4128]

What tf is this subtitle on top of the subtitle😭. Pls turn off the subtitles generated by KZbin when the video is in English and has own subtitles.👍 Edit: This even lead to some misunderstanding of the stuff she said like "harbourport voices" -> "harbor porpoises" (excually).

[@danibristol380]

Maybe watching James Bray during his first ever trip to Germany might be a nice reaction for you. He's got several videos released and more coming up. Keep up the good work! Describing a Strandkorb like a beach church pew made my day, that was a very funny description!

[@pinkhope84]

I love seeing him exploring Germany. Eating his first Döner, it was fun to watch how much he enjoyed it. Or how scared he was at the Autobahn 😅😂

[@somersaultcurse]

6:10 "harbourport voices" was the google-translation you looked at. the original translation said "harbor porpoises" :D

[@MsJule1981]

Before I quit eating meat "Labskaus" was one of my favorite foods. I ate it at least once a week 😄 But only from one particular brand 😁

[@eerokutale277]

1:43 Here in Finland "Moi" is informal greeting and can be used at any time of the day. I don't know where it comes from.

[@Harzer-Roller]

Moin comes from the Dutch moij equals beautiful.

[@eerokutale277]

@@Harzer-Roller I did some research (googling) and it appears that the word "Moi" has been used over 100 years in Helsinki. I'm not familiar with Tampere dialect but as far as I know they use word "Moro" similary, it comes from Swedish greeting "God morgon", no need to translate it.

[@jensgoerke3819]

Just one liter of tea per day? For me that's the normal pot of tea for breakfast, usually followed by another one whenever I feel like it.

[@pinkhope84]

Schwarztee?

[@jensgoerke3819]

@@pinkhope84 Preferably Darjeeling - much easier on the stomach than coffee.

[@pinkhope84]

@@jensgoerke3819 i like ostfriesentee but mostly i drink peppermint tee. But thats like 2 cups per day. One Liter just in the Morning is alot 😅

[@jensgoerke3819]

@@pinkhope84 I'm retired, so I have time for a relaxed breakfast. When I was working full time I drank one pot before lunch and one in the afternoon, plus half a liter of milk split between them.

[@faultier1158]

I'm at about 1.5l of black tea per day.😅 Not connected to any meals though, but spread out over the day.

[@6h483]

This is so funny, i know dieke personally 😂 i didnt know he is in this documentary

[@dat_rinchen]

I'm from northern Germany 😀 I live in "Brake" , we've got many beaches to visiting for free and the biggest river island of Germany

[@teotik8071]

The biggest river island is 'Wilhelmsburg' a quarter of the borough Hamburg-Mitte where the river Elbe splits into northern and southern Elbe.

[@henner7371]

@@teotik8071 Did you know the Wümme splits into a southern, middle and northern arm near Ottersberg and reunites after 15 km somewhere near Bremen-Borgfeld ? So there is technically a rel. big river island too.

[@teotik8071]

@@henner7371 I did not know that. Possibly due to the fact that the part in between isn't considered to be an river island. But I would agree with you, technically it is an island. 😉

[@henner7371]

@@teotik8071 same to Wilhelmsburg, I think just locals and some Northern Germans know that it is an river island.

[@teotik8071]

@@henner7371 You're probably right with this assumption.

[@PupMailo]

Moin, I am from lower Saxony, near Hamburg and it is so cool to recognize the places from the video. North Germany is a very beautiful area, I would say every small Village has its own charakter. Often people from other parts from Germany say, that North Germany is to flatt and boring. Yes, it is flat, but IT is not boring. I can recommend to visit Hamburg an Lübeck. Esspecially the port from Hamburg an the beaches near Lübeck are so nice.

[@rotfellfoxy]

you should watch all the other parts please! oh and after that more on hamburg in my eyes thats one of the best cities in germany

[@Blutwind]

As a born Bremer i am geneticaly forced to disagree

[@michaelmedlinger6399]

Not “one of the best” - THE best!!

[@coffeecigarettes9422]

4:15 Yes, you can rent a "Beach Basket" but you must not move it to another place. Just a little bit twisting to get or avoid sunshine or wind is allowed but nothing more. You can compare it with sun beds or beach couches or however you call it although these baskets are much more cozy. You can see them all over the northern beaches at both coast lines but only in Germany.

[@sessyfan791]

Where are my northern German guys, saying that everything below Schleswig Holstein is no northern Germany at all, and everything below Hamburg is foreign land xD (No offend to anyone, it's just a running gag ;) )

[@sonatine3266]

Labskaus = corned beef / minced beef, potatoes, beetroot, a bit of beetroot juice + pickles juice and salt / black pepper all mixed together to one mash. It's easily one of the most unappetizing looking but delicious tasting soulfoods I know and you eat it together with fried eggs and pickles. It comes from the hanseatic times, when the sailors ate their dinner during heavy waves - they needed something that would not roll from their plates and simply because of the fact that when you mix all those ingredients to a mash and sometimes a few potatoes were maybe not 100% good anymore, they added beetroot for the better (pink) coloring and pickles juice for a bit of balancing sourness. Honestly, it tastes amazing.

[@ronnyseffinga7950]

moin moin they say in Hamburg, and thats already a huge conversation for the other northerners, lol .... grts from a dutch cheesehead, happy to live in Bad Zwischenahn Lower Saxony....

[@emilbruns9238]

13:35 That’s the point with the “Kluntje”. It dissolves very slowly, so you can sweeten several cups with it.

If I HAD to move and could choose between Hamburg and Berlin, I'd pick Hamburg at any time.

[@fxbx1312]

Really excited for the rest of this series, I was suggesting these videos in December already and seeing you react to them now just made my day ! :)

[@nichtthunder]

07:15 As a German, I'm really glad they put subtitles at that part, because I could barely understand that guy Also, I love how you used the KZbin Auto-Generated subtitles, when there were already subtitles in the video xD

[@teotik8071]

I would have preferred if he used Danish subtitles because the English ones were already there. 😝

[@dumdidum631]

I understood nearly everything he said. ^^

[@jennyh4025]

Really? He was so easy to understand for me (grew up in NRW, about an hour from the Dutch border). The subtitles actually irritated me. 🤷‍♀️

[@blondkatze3547]

We live fourty km away from the north Sea in East Frisia. My husband and i love eating fish in the fish restaurant there and then taking a relaxing walk on the beach.We then go to our favorite cafe on top of the dike, drink tea and coffee and enjoy the great view of the sea. Lovely Greetings fom East Frisia ☺💚☕🫖🍺🏖

[@myeramimclerie7869]

Well how do you guys drink like a liter of soda a day? 😅

[@steemlenn8797]

one cup at lunch. Okay, slightly exaggerated, McDonalds L size is only 887ml.

[@emmakolz861]

@@steemlenn8797 only???!!!

[@alphonsbretagne8468]

I lived 10+ years in the north and really liked it. When it was Schietwetter yet again, my uncle often said "It's fine summer weather, because the rain falls nearly perpendicular". 3:53 it's a canopied [wicker] beach chair. If you picture-google "Strandkorb" you'll get the idea.

[@haggihug3162]

I was born in the Rheinland, raised in Westfalen and now I live in Bremen (Bremerhaven). I feel really tired to all hte bavarian stuff, that tells people that this is germany. So this video about a littlebit from Norddeutschland was really refreshing and most likable. I happyliy looking forward to more stuff, thats not from bavaria.

[@leximatic]

11:00 Labskaus may not look like much, but it's great and doesn't require fresh ingredients, except from the egg, which isn't essential.

[@pokerfaceslul]

As a northern german I am disappointed she didn't even mention the annual "Schützenfest", originating in the Emsland (Lower Saxony).

[@LeroxYT]

But Schützenfest is celebrated all over Germany if im not mistakening

[@pokerfaceslul]

@@LeroxYT yes, however it still had its origins up here and has some of its biggest festivals in the Emsland, while in bavaria for example, the Oktoberfest is more popular

[@LeroxYT]

@@pokerfaceslul yeah thats true, here where i live we also have the Heideblütenfest

[@RustyDust101]

The Platt is still very closely linked to English. Or rather middle English. It was derived from the lower Saxon (you know, like the German state of Niedersachsen/ lower Saxony). That's why the region in GB is called Anglo-Saxon. Because these lower Saxons traveled and traded all along the North and Baltic Sea coasts. At some time the Saxon Platt was considered THE trade language in most of Europe. This influenced the development of modern English massively. Now, with Platt NOT being spoken so regularly anymore it retained a lot of its older structure which is more closely related to English than to modern high German. High German is just the name for a regular German with as little dialect as possible to make communication among the incredibly varied regions of Germany more readily available. A Bavarian from a mountain village trying to communicate with a North German resident of one of the islands would have serious problems to understand each other if not for high German. If both spoke ONLY their dialect it would be similar to some speaking a thick Creole and someone from an Amish village trying to speak to each other in their respective dialects/languages. Btw: the Platt is strongly related to what the Amish and the Mennonites speak.

[@misterfox3303]

High German is like standard German that is spoken by most of the people in Germany.

[@marjanpel1563]

Haha, aber nicht in BaWü: Wir können alles. Außer Hochdeutsch! ;)

[@misterfox3303]

@@marjanpel1563 since I'm from Saxony, I know this problem hahaha but I really like Schwäbisch!

[@marjanpel1563]

@@misterfox3303 My husband is from Schwaben.

[@bh5037]

The Strandkorb is for rent on a daily basis ( 7-14 Euro dep on which beach you rent it) . It is owned by a so called Strandkorbvermieter who has a permit to put the STrandkörbe onto the beach . This happens in the spring time and they stay there for the wholesummer until fall. - so only 2 movements a year ! It is protected by a wooden shield with a lock -you get the key when you rent it ... very common in Germany and many people also have such one on their garden or on the balcony . Costs between 1500 - 2.000 Euros each when you buy it for yourselve.

[@manuelplate6370]

I am very curious for Ryans reaction, when he learns about the Wattenmeer. 😂

[@germanyhamburger5552]

He's a scammer

[@ElwoodEBlues]

​@@germanyhamburger5552was soll der Quatsch? Wieso schreibst du überall so einen dummen Kommentar hinein?

[@germanyhamburger5552]

@@ElwoodEBlues weil da ein scammer war der andere betrügt und der gemeldet wurde, jetzt ist er weg.

[@ElwoodEBlues]

@@germanyhamburger5552 achso ... dessen Kommentare wurden dann wohl auch gelöscht. Jetzt sieht es so aus, als hättest du anderen geantwortet.

[@germanyhamburger5552]

@@ElwoodEBlues Egal, hauptsache der wurde gelöscht, der hat immer das gleiche Bild wie der KZbinr und fragt halt die Leute um spenden und das sie den privat anschreiben sollen. Viele wissen es aber einige auch nicht, habe mit Hayley Alexis schon darüber gesprochen und bei ihr sind auch solche fälle wo einige darauf reinfallen.

[@einfynn]

1:55 it was a REALLY GOOD "MOIN MOIN"!

[@MtheHell]

There was only one thing today, that was slightly annoying: The double English subtitles added to the English audio😵‍💫- But I'm looking forward to the next Road Trip videos.🍿

[@lici5209]

Soooo another Northern German citizen here, born in Hamburg, raised in some small villages even more northern than Hamburg. You should totally check out the Kiwo (Kieler Woche) wich is the largest sailing festival ever. It takes place in Kiel a city directly located at the Baltic sea. It's actually right around the corner an gonna start this weekend already. Check it out!

[@cozyblueberry2367]

I feel like Kiel is never mentioned anywhere in these videos. Even in this one where Northern Germany is the focus.

[@KeesBoons]

At least it was in the spotlight with the 1972 Olympics :o)

[@bernice6867]

I visited Annapolis once. It was cloudy and windy and I felt right at home.

[@topi3146]

Lapskaus is delicious.

[@DanielRMueller]

The traditional way to drink East Frisian tea is to not stir, and the Kluntje is used over several cups. So it isn't supposed to dissolve immediately. However, I - and most of the East Frisians I know - usually stir my tea and take a kluntje for each cup. (So it is a really sweet, hot drink!) Not stirring however has some neat perks - as mentioned in the video, you get different layers, and the final tends to be the sweetest. That's a nice experience. You normally drink your tea hot, but if you let it cool off, the sugar will mostly be at the bottom so you get a neat drinking exerience from bitter to sweet. The tea "ceremony" is also definitely a time to sit down - not running around with your starbuck's cup while you are busy with stuff. You sit down at the table, everyone gets his cup filled. You wait for it to cool off a little and talk about "Gott und die Welt", and when everyone is finished drinking the first cup, you fill up again. And you do this at least 3 times (probably more). After the tea is brewed and the tea pot is filled, it can still get stronger, being more bitter. So if you don't like that too much, it's important to know when to quit. My grandma also has the rule (not very strictly observed, more like a guideline): If there is cake with tea, you only take your first bite after you drunk your first cup. You typicaly drink tea at least in the morning at home for breakfast, and in the afternoon. But you might also make a tea break sometime between 9 und 10. And sometimes you even drink it in the evening (almost a must if you missed out your afternoon tea).

[@cold_fire]

Labskaus tastes yummy 😋 If you are in Northern Germany, you have to taste it. It's so much better, than it seems 😊 Good idea to cook this weekend ☝️

[@manuel0578]

You can rent a Strandkorb but you can’t drag it anywhere. It’s stationary. Usually there’s like a fence in front of the seat that you have to remove using a key.

[@JonasReichert1992]

Hawai but like it would be in Antarctica…

[@KeesBoons]

Well, not quit that cold ;o)

[@Marina_-_-]

I am wondering how warm it gets and how cold the water is actually.

[@KeesBoons]

@@Marina_-_- I guess the air temperature gets in the 30s C tops during the hottest days, usually with a nice wind cooling things down. The water up to 20 C near the beach? Will also depend on the location.

[@JonasReichert1992]

@@KeesBoons Almost😂 (living close to the Coast)

[@JonasReichert1992]

@@Marina_-_- And it often Rains.

[@MonjaRudat]

Moin from Cuxhaven, a beautifull town at the North Coast of Germany. We have got a 13km sandbeach here with a lot of Strandkörbe ( beachbaskets). You can rent them for a day or your full holiday at the beach. We love them, because while you sit in them, the sun does not burn so much. You can pull them against the sun, so you can sit in the shadow. And if it is windy, they are also very usefull. From Autumn to Spring, the beachbaskets will not be at the beach, because of the stormy and very wet weather at the coastside. The whole beach and sometimes even parts of the city are under water. Then we have our storm surge time. I guess you can see a lot of pictures and videos on google from Cuxhaven at that time.

[@gwaptiva]

The real WTF is that you have to pay to get onto some beaches

[@winterlinde5395]

But what I like about our beaches is that there are no private areas where you can’t go at all.

[@holgerlinke98]

what, where? I thought all beaches are freely accessible by law.

[@winterlinde5395]

@@holgerlinke98 they are. But some municipalities raise Kurtaxe. A small fee that’s usually included in the cost for your hotelroom , for example. Inhabitants don’t have to pay at all. Guests who only come for the day pay at the beach. It’s used for cleaning the beaches and other necessities for tourists.

[@holgerlinke98]

@@winterlinde5395 that's a completely different thing a fee to access the beach tho

[@merlekissner2008]

At a born and raised northern German (in the south they call us „Fischkopp“ means „fishhead“) I love to see, that people in other countries see the multiple faces and cultures of germany. And not only Lederhosen and Sauerkraut, because especially the Lederhosen is only typical for the south of Germany. You are right, that Lapskaus doesn’t look very good, but it is that type of food, that you must taste before judge, I think. But also here in the North, there are many people that don’t like it. But I really think, that some special thing is missing.😅 There is one more typical german food named „Mettbrötchen“. 😂 I love it and really couldn’t live without it. You don’t have to drag the Strandkorb over the sand. They are placed all over the beach and there are different owners were you can rent it for a day.

[@Archphoenix1]

high german is what the guys from Berlin speak you watch all the time. the ones who interview germans.its not really fancy,its bland and boring!

[@cold_fire]

That's wrong. In Berlin is spoken with accent: Berliner Schnauze ... with "icke" and so on. High German is spoken only in schools. And maybe near Hannover.

[@winterlinde5395]

Yes. The Easy German people aim to speak high German. Because that’s what their channel is about. To teach German. Berliners don’t speak high German but their dialect which people from other regions find rude. High German for Germany is what English is for the world. People in the Hannover region in Lower Saxony have it as their first language 😊

[@juanfran579]

Berlin isn't the main reference for High German.

[@micst6828]

Moin, oh yes the weather in northern Germany. If you are riding a bike the wind is always against you. And we called rain often "moisture from above", is not as frustrating.

[@cheffscream]

13:44 the lady just explained, that they put the cream in anti-clockwise, because they want to stop time, while enjoying their tea. So, yeah it often takes two or three cups beffore all the sugar is gone and that's the whole point.

[@sperl42]

This road trip is really worth watching. Thank you for being so curious.

[@Dylailahma]

on the topic of the weather here in northern germany. My brother used to say "summer is the best weak of the year"

[@HafdirTasare]

04:27 No, you rent it and go where it is stationed. It's like you rent a beach chair with a draft shield that has also little tables.