Searching for the Communist Cuisine of East Germany

[@ZacharyDBrooks]

In the movie Goodbye, Lenin!, a son has to search high and low for Spreewalder pickles because he is trying to hide the fact that Communism collapsed from his terminally ill mother.

[@ResasRandomStuff]

spreewalder pickles are still verry popular in east germany. (trust me I live there)

[@shredderly]

Awesome movie with an awesome soundtrack.

[@xdiceman2042]

@@ResasRandomStuff bekommst du auch bei uns in Südwesten im Schwarzwald!

[@smhorse]

I think he ended up putting the West German product into the old East German packets and bottles in order to deceive his mother!

[@TheOtherKiltedadventurer]

Great movie

[@stuckonautomatic]

7:45 How sweet. The host leaves, but she still prepares the coffee for the camera guy.

[@karl.k.3947]

Props to the guy speaking German and trying his best!

[@NutsInYourMouth]

Wir probieren's ja auch. Nur, auch wenn wir in den weiterführenden Schulen uns für's Fach Deutsch entscheiden, ist die Aussprache immer mit einem fetten Akzent belegt. Bisschen a la Rudi Karel. Es sei denn, man ist da aufgewachsen und hat ne angelernte Deutsche Schnauze. Ich muss ja selbst lachen, wenn ich Landsleute höre.

[@jojojojo4332]

@@NutsInYourMouth it's a Dutch man.

[@thevoid5503]

Er kommt aus Holland und wir sprechen auch "Deutsch".. Naja...Dialekt. :p

[@noname-wv3ve]

That doesn't sound like Turkish? What do you mean?

[@jakx2ob]

I love how they randomly switch zwischen Deutsch und Englisch.

[@EuroS50]

Ja, it's very lustig when they do the denglisch ding there.

[@SirManfly]

@@EuroS50 now I'm hungry for pasta and schnitzel !!!

[@NutsInYourMouth]

Especially wenn er tussen nederlands, deutsch und auch English switches. Er creates een eenmalige taal, which i never have zuvor gehört.

[@toosmallfortv6732]

@@NutsInYourMouth don't ever do that nochmal for pete's sake

[@MarekMichalakMusic]

Ja, I like that auch :)

[@Alex-bf7mc]

take a moment to appreciate the host for speaking 3 languages to make this, thank you

[@overworlder]

I went through Checkpoint Charlie in 1988. you had to change a vast amount of DM or dollars into even more DDR marks and then spend the day and evening wandering around East Berlin trying to spend them. It was winter and freezing, misty and gloomy. There was minimal lighting and few shops. The history museum on Unter den Linden had the requisite Marxist display of German history. We went to a ‘Cuban’ restaurant for dinner and I’ve never forgotten the main. It had a Spanish name but it was a pork chop with tinned black beans, a pineapple ring, boiled potato and a simple iceberg lettuce salad.

[@Suite_annamite]

I've got distant relatives who immigrated to East Germany from Vietnam: the food was *great* as far as they were concerned.

[@xhg7a]

wdym vietnam is known for its cuisine not so much east germany

[@tnminhkhoi1398]

@@xhg7a We used to be under the same roof Numerous Vietnamese migrated to East Germany

[@VeryProPlayerYesSir1122]

@@tnminhkhoi1398 Communism is evil.

[@sooryan_1018]

@@VeryProPlayerYesSir1122 Damn das crazy, but who asked

[@100Mmore]

@@VeryProPlayerYesSir1122 No it’s not, you’re saying this to try an save your own life

[@Divert486]

He didnt even finish the sausage and pasta plate... What an insult.

[@4nc3st0r]

Bet it was just for the show, surely he ate it all after cameras were off

[@Divert486]

I really hope so lol.

[@ejsapayan2]

lol if you watch most food shows they rarely eat the whole thing...the camera crew gets to eat the rest

[@American-Motors-Corporation]

Well I'd have never touched it if I had known it has coleslaw on it!! Nasty why do people especially old people want to eat things that smell like people's shoes!! It's footslaw!!!

[@philipcooper8297]

In Soviet Germany the sausage finishes you.

[@pineapplesareyummy6352]

I have been to Germany three times (including to Berlin and Leipzig) but never specifically looked for DDR-era cuisine. I guess that's one thing I should look for next time I'm in the country. I don't see anything wrong with the food. It has the look and feel of homemade comfort food, practical, and appropriate for the times.

[@david.69k]

My father served for 2 years in the army of URRS in Eastern Berlin. He even saw the fall of the Berlin Wall.I love him he told me a lot of stories from there.❤

[@MikeBenko]

That mysterious eastern European cold cut known in Russia as "Doctor's Sausage". Nobody I asked really knows for sure what it's made of.

[@alexismontez4230]

Life of Boris came up with a recipe

[@ianhomerpura8937]

@@alexismontez4230 My Name is Andong also did one recently

[@wanderowa]

Google it! There is its original ingredients: good quality meat. Its license and first factory had been bought from the USA.

[@DARisse-ji1yw]

See any stray dogs or cats ?

[@wanderowa]

@@DARisse-ji1yw I meant good pork and beef. The quality had changed in the 70s due to the economy difficulties.

[@denisenova7494]

He called the dumplings (Knödel) "A bread you eat with it" and then he makes a giant ball that looks like a cauliflower and cooks it instead of rolling little balls/dumplings and cooking them. He totally messed that one up. And of course the average person had less than that. A Soljanka with that many different sausages was maybe done for Christmas if you were lucky.

[@hbecker123]

GDR-food was not five-stars haut cusine. The best thing is the chocolate without cacao. But i think they had all the things what people need for their life, and no one must hunger. But i am happy now to buy products in the supermarket from all over the world today.

[@tenbroeck1958]

I am directly Westphalia German-American, but I am 1/2 East German, and this is an awesome video. Human beings in trying times succeed and thrive often creating new traditions.

[@liqiz1755]

Interesting to hear🎉

[@GrieverHellfire]

Some interesting food history, but they could honestly just have had a German person do the show and keep it all in German. Would have given it better flow in my opinion.

[@MrAchsas]

yea i agree

[@patriceakoube6493]

Der würde Knödel auch nicht mit Weißbrot vergleichen lol

[@bonghungk7544]

The speaker hipster look is annoying especially him trying to look cool 😎

[@AlamoOriginal]

@@bonghungk7544 speak for yourself, that is how anyone under 40 looks these days

[@N1t3Owl]

Solyanka is actually a Russian dish, the recipe is really old, even older than ussr.

[@caIigula]

That's what they say in the vid, that it is a Russian dish -> 3:17

[@Menuki]

It's quite interesting to see the culture; Innovation in the face of scarcity. The fascination with ketchup was quite strange though

[@fonkyman]

probably has to do with the ''secretly eating western food" idea

[@zalba5710]

The GDR Ketchup tasted quite different tho (according to my mother). It contained much less sugar and was nearer to actual tomato paste.

[@hexenbesen1981]

this made me cook soljanka for the first time in 15 years! always loved it :)

[@DerHerrMitR]

This is my early childhood right there. My grandmother still cooks some of these dishes up until today.

[@alexandrebouvier7731]

I just tried to do a "ddr-jagerschnitzel" style, unfortunately i don't have these sausages in Canada so i used instead canned meatloaf (spam) and made a "sauce rosée" based on "béchamel" and a basic italian tomato sauces (il sugo)... Of course I added ketchup too (and cream) with basil. Not bad. but this recipe use a lot of dishes lol. This remining me our old french-canadian food, french-canadian was poor back in early 20th century, our families (7-8 children) was huge. Our cuisine was considered "boring", because based on simple cheap ingredients, no exotic spices too but today we can improve these old recipes. If I use veal cutlet instead of spam It can be a solid dinner meal, served with a salad.

[@myusernameissoobnoxiouslyl1466]

Still better than American school lunches

[@amarillorica]

America is literally nazi germany

[@salvadorreyes1337]

@@amarillorica What kind of a statement is that? Only fucking person from my generation would say that.

[@badgerattoadhall]

literally? America is literally not Nazi OR Germany. are you sure you didn't mean "America is metaphorically Nazi germany"?

[@celebrim1]

American school lunches and communist cousine share in common that they are a top down regulated economy with commoditized and subsidized government products. So, not really that far a part. If you look at places where the school lunches are at least OK, they've got a localized economy with decision making authority in the hands of a local specialist and a non-commoditized supply chain.

[@celebrim1]

@@amarillorica I've been on the internet since before there was such a thing as a web browser, and in my nearly 30 years of surfing the internet that is the single dumbest statement I have ever heard anyone make. You managed to pack more errors into a single statement than words. We are all dumber from having heard your inane comment, and may God have mercy on us all.

[@Prmni]

What a great show! We also have "poor knights" or "köyhät ritarit" in Finland, but ours differs that it has less cinnamon and some jam spread under the cream and it was usually made with leftovers from loaf buns by my grandparents.

[@slouberiee]

In Czechia we have "poor knights" meal too - slices of bread, covered in scrambled eggs, fried, with raw onion on top + ketchup and mustard. Great meal :)

[@Obsidi3]

I didnt need to hear that you are from Amsterdam, I could hear it right away

[@phileasfogg5785]

Superiority complex or accent?

[@fickdichgoogle8618]

@@phileasfogg5785 accent. as a german i also heard the accent right away ;)

[@hw3647]

@@fickdichgoogle8618 you can hear when he speaks English but it isn't as pronounced as other people i have heard.

[@simonh6371]

Complete rubbish, it is a Dutch accent, when Dutch speak English you don't hear which city they are from!!! Only when they speak Dutch. Or do you think that Amsterdam is somehow it's own entity and not part of any country? I guess that you are American. One of the funniest things I ever heard in Amsterdam was said by an American tourist talking amongst his friends ''Gee, I heard they even have their own language here!''. Such ignorance is hilarious.

[@simonh6371]

@@fickdichgoogle8618 Unsinn, Quatsch. Das ist eine Niederlaendische Akzent.

[@reohtz4878]

I thoroughly enjoyed this video!! My late mother was born in Chemnitz and escaped to the west before the wall was built. I'm familiar with regular German food but was fascinated by this particular cuisine. Thanks so much!

[@sif_2799]

Soljanka is also called Wurstsuppe and there's a proverb that goes "Ich bin doch nicht auf der Wurstsuppe dahergeschwommen" meaning "I didnt come swimming on the sausage soup" meaning "I'm not stupid"

[@ResasRandomStuff]

I'm 20 now. I live in the part of germany that was the GDR. my parents are from here. I grew up with some of this stuff :D

[@danielwolfgang8234]

When naming todays states of Germany, that were part of the GDR, the Gentleman in the Restaurant forgot one state. Mecklenburg-West Pommerania, which was the most northern state and included the entirety of East-Germanies coastline.

[@Dominikmj]

This is quite a glorification, how it was in the GDR. My family as West Germans, had relatives in the East - and basically they had very, very less. A supermarket didn't had all these products - it was almost empty! And the quality of the existing products was further quite mediocre. Not even over holidays, they had a soup with different sausages... The whole craze in Germany about "original" GDR food, is only nostalgia - it has nothing to do with deliciousness!

[@Zajin13]

Mit der Qualität die du heute hast sind die Sachen aber durchaus küchenfähig.

[@Dominikmj]

Zajin13 Ich meine nicht, dass die heutige Qualitaet das Essen nicht genussvoll machen kann! Ich meine nur, dass die meisten Leute vergessen, dass die Produkte nicht immer so toll waren - aber besonders: dass oftmals die Regale in den Lebensmittellaeden leer waren!

[@Dominikmj]

JohnTheGreat7822 This is a very subjective statement! In fact a lot of "Ossis" [people lived in the East] migrated to the West, because there were more jobs, better career chances and better paid jobs as well. What you had for a long time was, that people in the East had not the qualification to work in the West [or didn't had the scope]. I am sure, that this is not the case anymore - but still most of the "original", better versed people from the East are living in the West. Hence take it with a grain of salt, if you talk to the remaining people in the East... In fact though it is not so simple. For some industries, it is still pretty straight forward, that you just have to work in the West, if you want to do career at least. But it also depends on what you are interested in... Nature in the East is quite interesting, but there are also other regions in Germany [e.g. the South or the North] which is beautiful. Off course people are also very different... East Germans have usually an approach which is a bit simpler and less posh - but then again, you need to like that..

[@hansmahr8627]

JohnTheGreat7822 There's a weird kind of nostalgia with East Germany considering it was a totalitarian regime. It's the same with a lot of Eastern European countries, many people feel that they had better lives back then even though there was less freedom. Eastern Germans have this kind of special identity that brings them closer together. The fact that many Western Germans still look down on them doesn't help. But you have to see the bigger picture: while Eastern Germany wasn't as terrible as Soviet Russia or Nazi Germany, many people were imprisoned, threatened, abused. People seem to forget that when they get nostalgic for the good old DDR. (Nostalgia is the only explanation for most of the food that's presented here.)

[@Dominikmj]

Hans Mahr I totally agree! But even though... it is not only about the regime and its habit to violate human rights. It is also, that the citizens had literally less to eat. All the products which can now be bought in these nostalgia supermarkets and stores were never seen in sufficient quantities. At times the stores looked empty! And especially this fact makes me wonder, why people are forgetting these conditions.

[@dandygirl6]

I'm sorry only 2 mins in and he is drinking liqueur made from veggies, gotta give the commies points for creativity

[@XxLeCaptainxX]

Stuff made from roots is common.

[@AraFrances168]

Hate to break it to you but that's what all liquor is made from

[@thatsnodildo1974]

What do you think Vodka was made from?

[@asianman3455]

dandygirl6 S A K E

[@finestin92]

A liqueur made out of spices and roots. Sounds kinda familiar, when you think about it 🤔

[@Eragonollie1]

Great episode! Really enjoyed it, presenter has character which really helped. Watched full way through. GJ

[@MrNodebate]

"Fotzelschnitte" - I'm pretty sure she's Swiss ;) That's what we call it in Switzerland, but hell yeah: It sounds really dirty;D

[@SwissMarksman]

chum verreis

[@voetbalbert]

this guy is fun as fuck want to see more from him en holland rep.

[@jamesjacocks6221]

As an admitted foodie (what sane person isn't?) I was struck with the similarity of this cuisine and that at a men's dorm at a state college. If it's edible, it's okay. The part I liked was the cheery former GDR citizens who laughed at the good old days and were nostalgic simultaneously.

[@velvetamore]

I learnt German for two years in secondary school and the only thing I recognised was 'was ist das' lol

[@undabnachphoenix]

I dont get it. Why is there a dude from Holland talking about food from east germany? Wouldn't it be more authentic if somebody from the eastern states talk about the stuff and food they know from "back in the days"?! I mean he has absolutley no clue what he is talking about? Ain't no Bitterballen and Frikandel in east Berlin...

[@maozedong2186]

haha ja hab ich mir auch gedacht

[@Banane3]

Because he takes the pov of the viewer, the one who doesnt know shit about it.

[@NutsInYourMouth]

Because the germans don't dare. He did. Did you? Where's your video?🤣 i want to see your authentic version of it. Spielts eigentlich ne rolle? Man könnte auch den ganzen mist of ossisch drehen mit n paar guten Untertiteln. Dann können's die Wessies auch verstehen. Ist so nicht ganz authentisch ja, aber warum hats noch kein ossie gemacht für munchies?🤔

[@RFM-]

Hi great video, I was in East Germany for the first time this year 2018 and really liked it, Leipzig, Dresden, Moritzburg and Meissen. Hope to go back soon. I love all of Germany but needed to see the East, Yes its not the true east but still has some history there.

[@ulipeterson6112]

its called "arme ritter" (translated: poor knight), because in the middleages, even the poorest people usually had access to the main ingredients (bread, eggs and milk). therefore it was a meal for the common people. its also quite common in west germany, too.

[@slouberiee]

and in Czechia too :)

[@ShemsuHor1403]

Hey I am from Leipzig seeing my city here is a great pleasure. I often cook dishes like those (Soljanka, Jägerschnitzel und Nudeln/ Kartoffelmuß) I think it must be some sort of collektive food memory :-) One of my most loved dinners is hot chocolate milk and buttered buns. My grandmother used to tell me that this was her favourite too because, she grew up whith ww2...

[@paulspydar]

I lived in Berlin & then Munich just after the wall came down (within a year) & because I am a vegetarian & was just picking up my German language it was very difficult to eat, but I loved Germany & I know its a cliche but the people really were generous , In both cities I found a place to stay for free within 24hrs of getting off the train & plane.

[@petesaekz7619]

This sound like food you should be eating while either drinking or already massively drunk. Personally I love German food, but this is a darker side of German food. This is a cuisine that resembles the rough n' tumble of the time. And man do I love that kind of food.

[@lauritoerni2080]

Coming from the former east, we still eat that food alot Especially Soljanka is still very popular here, and it's a very tasty dish honestly And as you said, it is a really good dish for a night of drinking

[@lloyd4956]

Food of the people comrades 🖤

[@Simi822]

Kettwurst was also the "hot dog" of the other east countries like Czechoslovakia or Hungary.

[@dmays67]

Wow a cuisine I never thought about before & one I'm happy you shared. Of course on reflection the food, dishes & tastes of east germans would necessarily be novel & suited to their market & the economic reality of the time & place of the divided Germany. Thank you for your personal & entertainjng education in east german food & [food] culture. Delightful! 'D

[@Mansion416]

I been to east Germany to be honest the food is fine i tried it people think it looks dull but it taste good. I been to better places to eat but the places I ate in the east was great food. I tell you this it taste where better then any fast food restaurants

[@porkscratchings5428]

I stayed near Rostock for a weeks hunting and stayed in a house where we had food provided and food after our activities 9n the Forrest. Omg, or was awful lol. I could eat it as I am well travelled . Even the west Germans in our group raised their eyes at the food provided. They joked our hosts who were elderly really lived the way of the east behind the wall lol. The food was basic, enough to sustain a Forrest worker in 1950 😂 Thanks goodness for Maggi sauce, we used it all up in a week 😂

[@hbecker123]

Das DDR-Imbissessen war wirklich keine Haute Cuisine mit 5 Sternen. Der Hit ist die Schokolade ohne Kakao. Aber ich denke die hatten ansonsten alles was man zum Leben braucht und hungern musste auch keiner. Trotzdem bin ich froh heute im Supermarkt Waren aus aller Welt kaufen zu können.

[@joannegray5138]

Interesting video. I grew up in the UK during the 70s and 80s, and had an interest in how "the Red Threat" lived their lives (mainly because I was told they wanted to nuke us into oblivion, so I wanted to know if they were so different to us and why we couldn't live in peace).

[@hyukal]

I was an exchange student to Germany in 2013, and I stayed in west Germany. When my class went to Berlin, we ate at a restaurant in the DDR Museum. I ordered the Jägerschnitzel and it was exactly as what was shown in this video! Keep in mind that I was in Rheinland-Pfalz for a week, and in Nordrhein-Westfalen. In both states I had Jägerschnitzel, and it was the breaded pork cutlet with that mushroom gravy. Not in east Berlin! You Ossies don't know how to make Jägerschnitzel! D: jk it wasn't terrible but now I know lol

[@Marketdoor]

I just wanted to make a comment that there arent that many types of sausages here in the corner of Germany I come from (south germany) but then I thought about all the sausages that we have here and that are regular here. Nürnberger Weißwurst Rindswurst Bratwurst Frankfurter/Wiener Würstchen (Kind of the same) Bockwurst Thüringer Wurst Then I wrote this comment. And those are just the kinds of sausages that are not dried, there are so many dried sausages as well.

[@DrYazman]

Interesting food culture there in east Germany. It'd be cool to try some of this food.

[@RicoJames724]

14:50 'releasing there juices' priceless part..

[@JCavLP]

Yeah but that sausage thing is still an insult to real jägerschnitzel

[@goblinpresident4234]

West Germany was wealthier because of the Marshall plan while the GDR barely had enough to pay for war reparations to the USSR (which most of the value was forgiven), that's it. Western europe/ US and Eastern Europe/ USSR wasn't a science experiment in which you could extract accurate results of capitalism vs socialism. Remember that the Soviet Union had most of its industry and infrastructure destroyed in WWII just barely after industrializing while the USA didn't, not only that but the USA had industrialized more than 100 years before Russia. Don't jump to conclusions about socialism without understanding historical context.

[@67claudius]

The Soviet communism (socialism) was already a disaster before the outbreak of World War II.

[@LymanZerga1]

Woah, I just had tom hardy take me on a tour of GDR food

[@Rey972]

tom hardly

[@NutsInYourMouth]

The dutch Tom Hardy, living in Berlin. Yeah, sugar...of course

[@surrealchemist]

How many times did she ask what the Soljanka was called before it sunk in

[@Feffdc]

these foods are 5 star hotel dinner compared to american great deppression era food

[@leon8594]

If you think this is how everyone ate you are wrong.

[@cerdic6867]

They didnt have ready access to all of this, this is just a showcase of what they *could* have.

[@cerdic6867]

@creepy albino guy were all of these showcased readily available at the same time? Really? Also what time period exactly?

[@lucianraphael9527]

greekmarine these were the typical foods you found in eastern bloc countries, food from the Great Depression only existed for a small amount of time due to a massive economic crash.

[@vito_keys]

Jägerschnitzel is definitely something I would love to try making at home

[@SmakoSmell]

That liver and onions looks so good

[@Scorpitarios]

This Kettwurst is actual Hotdogs we used to get in 90s and 2000 Switzerland. Don’t how the situation is now though, haven’t eaten take away food for over 10 years.

[@archibaldhadock5811]

In Spain during Franco dictadure there was a lot of chocolate without cacao (called "sucedaneo de chocolate") Cacao was very expensive. Cacao was from Guinea ecuatorial (Spanish colonnia) and was very expensive and rare. Während der Franco Diktatur hatte viel Schokolade ohne Kakao (genannt Schokoladeersatz, "sucedaneo de chocolate) Kakao aus Äquatorial-Guinea kam und war sehr teuer

[@davidjoelsson4929]

@@new-lviv i think it was known as a rich socialist country because it lived off of russia

[@DabaksolGuardPost]

2:34 "A cameramen try to stealthy filmed a group of old man who i strongly believed are Stasi agent that having a reunion" . . . . That's why he immediately come down.

[@AGH331]

15:22 "You see this little bloody ..." It's not blood, it's myoglobin.

[@Wanderer-uz8js]

@ Dr. Pierre Khazen , GDR means German Democratic Republic or East Germany , the DDR was around from 1949 - 1990 , the DDR ceased to exist in 1990 because Germany was reunited

[@Phobero]

Wow, I remember cacao-less chocolate from former Yugoslavia, where I sometimes went to see some relatives. It was made from carobs if I remember correctly - wasn't even that bad! Butcher shops without meat were a sorry sight though :/

[@Thrashmetalman]

I find it funny folks in the comments getting triggered cause some folks made soviet nostalgia food.

[@lucascoval828]

Or are they triggered on how the food is being made? Accuracy, etc.

[@KingDennisJensen]

This was actually a great/fun episode. Not sure why all the hate. Well done though, I really want to visit Germany. As a Canadian, I can only speak English and French so the language barrier would definitely be an obstacle.

[@Shiro-49]

The most people in Germany can speak english

[@DollyStreep]

***** don't spread lies, honey. There are just a small number of Nazis here!

[@DollyStreep]

***** You think you're funny? Cause you're not. I'm just super tired of uneducated people spreading lies.

[@DollyStreep]

***** What people will do for money...

[@Fliptheonly]

KingDennisJensen most younger people will speak english and even the old ones will understand the very basics most of the time. i went to berlin over newyear once and i heard more english then german.

[@jessar82]

Mate, keep it up you look so chilled and free on cam ;)

[@SaBoTeUr2001]

OMG, the Knoedel! I'm guessing he didn't read the instructions.

[@robinwiley7166]

Most of the recipes are basic folk foods. Even here in the US my parents would cook similar dishes.Both my grandfathers were full German one from Bavaria and the others parents were from near the Schwarzwald.

[@denisenova7494]

Actually not. GDR food is more improvised and is more simliar to Russian folk food if any. It differs from Bavarian food.

[@HabboCoolcattim]

Hipsters! Hipsters everywhere!

[@ErikHelinNYC]

Cool comment. I like it. Very original and good.

[@Chchcheuk]

le vice hipsters meme

[@kkvvdd]

nah just Europeans.

[@SpillTheBeansSon]

Everyones a Hipster and you are a douche bag.

[@randywatson8347]

Hipsters can't cook lol.

[@oldmate3152]

Actually looks really appetising!. If i am ever to visit Germany i'd have to try some of this out, out of curiosity.

[@NewPipeFTW]

Not a fan of liver in general.. but the _Soljanka_ looked good. 👍 And respect for the good german. DDR sweets are awesone 🙂 Hope you also got a chance to taste some "Zetti- _Knusperflocken"_ and the _Bambina"_ choco-caramel bar thingy 😁

[@fg87fgd]

The wall was not there, "because Russia and the Allies split Berlin". The "Niemand hat vor eine Mauer zu bauen" wall was there, because after around 15 years of soviet style socialism their people had enough of it and fled their country. Including Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, BTW.

[@telephonic]

I wanna kettwurst

[@Amillionyawn]

Interesting Soljanka was also a very common childhood food in Shanghai, just its called Russian soup there...and chocolate without cacao as well

[@soixantecroissants]

Very odd hearing the funky soundtrack to the food of scarcity.

[@danielbright2916]

"Because they couldn't get what the west had". To be fair, I lived in Bavaria a year and their recipes weren't all that different. I had "hay" schnapps so bread schnapps isn't to imply poverty, just ingenuity.

[@lauritoerni2080]

We make alcohol from pretty much everything here really, many people make their own liquor as a pasttime (often berry or peppermint liquor)

[@MrAchsas]

i live in germany but he kind of messed up some stuff lol

[@Tombombadillo999]

They really looked like a nice bunch of people, cheers

[@Ronbo710]

If you think there was that much meat back then - keep dreaming.

[@ongobongo8333]

There was, learn your history. Communists ate well.

[@realogpkn]

@@ongobongo8333 what you talkin' bout Willis ?

[@dillaryclump4018]

@@ongobongo8333 yeah communist dictators ate well... like your supreme leader kim

[@ongobongo8333]

@@dillaryclump4018 you think DPRK is actually communist?? Lmfao

[@dillaryclump4018]

@@ongobongo8333 Yep... it's the end goal of every communist regime 😂 Oh wait... it's not REAL communism unless YOU tried implementing it... ahahaahahahaha!!!

[@archstanton4365]

Nice! I love the jaktschnitzel og tomat sauce med pasta. It maybe don't sound great but it is. In the US one can use thick balogna if no Dr. Sausage can be found.

[@donphoenix2113]

don't look too appetizing, but would try it.

[@JoeAriminvm]

Of course I had to watch a Just Eat ad in the middle of this.

[@kmanc8571]

this guy has extremely pretentious friends

[@ginogallo7710]

Some called them Hipsters....

[@calmlights]

@@willg4802 Did she marry the black guy ?

[@MrFlerovium]

Typical berliners

[@SuperMrFriendly]

@@MrFlerovium typical berliners are the old lady selling ketwurst. zugezogene hipsters are not berliners. just quintessentiall rootless cosmopolitans.

[@lucaosswald1752]

@@SuperMrFriendly True that. The whole bunch looked super annoying. I'm surprised none of them were vegan.

[@JamieR1988]

Don't ever make a roux with a whisk!! One, it doesn't turn out the same Two, aluminium and steel cause a chemical reaction when rubbed together and it will colour the sauce and give it a metallic taste.

[@knownuser0815]

"Dein Gaffeh wa mit Zucka wa?" :D

[@mkismkismk]

I love both western and eastern German cuisine. Yummy.

[@daithi007]

9:10 burping is not classy

[@constantin1959]

I fully agree! I'd even say that it takes away some of the credibility of the video

[@LDuke-pc7kq]

You do know in Germany burping is considered a compliment to a dish, drink or chef right?... Same as slurping noodles in Japan is appropriate. Or eating with hands from same plates in many middle eastern or African cultures is considered polite. Let us celebrate diversity !

Comunism is against classes.

[@platycryptusundatus7144]

@@LDuke-pc7kq You do know that one about burping is just a plain lie, as long as it's not a joke or anything. Burping in Germany is just as rude as in the rest of the western world, since I'm german and I think I should know better than anyone who isn't.

[@bonghungk7544]

He’s a low end Dutch

[@simonh6371]

Compared to the standard fare in the presenter's home country of the Netherlands - Stamppot (mashed potatoes and kale with a ''rookworst'' sausage - like Unox brand, usually made from processed connective tissue and mechanically recovered meat) or ''Hollandse Hachee'' - a luxurious beef stew made only with beef, onions, water and a bay leaf - no further vegetables, herbs or spices, no wine - this GDR food must seem like haute cuisine. Or the wonderful Dutch croquettes made from breaded grey sauce (made from flour and milk) and about 1 gramme of meat per croquette (the sauce is chilled to make it less liquid before being coated in breadcrumbs). When I lived in the Netherlands I usually ate Surinamese, Indonesian or Turkish food when eating out, because I like my food to have some flavour. The only thing I really miss from there is the Pea Soup which was pretty hearty and tasty.

[@honestly108]

Auferstanden aus Ruinen!

[@auricom24]

Die Zeile hab ich nicht verstandt!

[@dws49]

Und der Zukunft zugewandt !

[@Zorro9129]

Die Fahne hoch!

[@Polarwolf98]

@@Zorro9129 Falsches Kackregime.

[@fidgetspinner1050]

auferstanden als ruinen

[@msnow9847]

My Brain: I wanna sleep Google: Here watch some guy making east German food! Me: But East Germany is not that far away. I could Go there myself.. My Brain and Google: REEEEEEE

[@galibmahfuzullah6152]

2:46 Full hd

[@krugerblue]

GDR was luxury compared to Romania, Bulgaria, and other pact countries. I did travel a lot before 1989 in a lot of countries, and i would say that Hungary was probably the most luxurious communist state back then, followed by GDR, and Juvoslavia. Crossing into Hungary back then felt like crossing into the West.

[@G0053-e3r]

Im hearing him bite down on the fork, and its driving me insane. ;(

[@KL-np5un]

The one thing I do when I visit places here in Germany is try the different currywurst from each of these places.

[@SMGJohn]

49% of the east Germans wants to return to the old days, shows even if there is lack of luxuries that only a handful of the population could get their hands on, life was still better back then with more secure future and a steady job.

[@doggo_s19]

I am East German and this is a total fucking lie, nobody wants to go back to the oppression of soviet occupation, are you fucking stupid?

[@SMGJohn]

You think I am going to take some random person like you serious? www.spiegel.de/international/germany/homesick-for-a-dictatorship-majority-of-eastern-germans-feel-life-better-under-communism-a-634122.html www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2009/nov/08/1989-berlin-wall foreignpolicy.com/2014/11/07/8-things-that-were-better-in-east-germany/

[@doggo_s19]

Except I know who these people are, they are a tiny, tiny amount of old 80 year old german-russians. I grew up in DDR and lived most of my life in east germany, nobody pines for that. You have fucking no understand of what it was like living under soviet occupation. Nothing. Those people that pine for it, the small, small minority are the few that actually benefitted from it, the higher up political class. spiegel doesn't even go into detail of the "majority" claim. Same sort of shit reasoning AfD uses and speaks for "the majority" in east germany, shit head fucking politicians like frauke petry who think they can say "majority" of east germans when they dont even speak for everyone. This is the same shit reasoning putin apologists and russian favoured parties in Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia, etc use, that the "majority" want to go back but in reality nobody expresses this, same bullshit russia also says frequently that "former soviet states want to return". Fucking bullshit and fuck you. Why don't you go ask if people also want to go back to the time of Czeschoslovakia which is just as absurd.

[@SMGJohn]

I grew up on the moon, at its really made of cheese. You have fucking no understand what its like living on a cheese moon, none!

[@ActionableFreedom]

The Stazi and Gestapo would be amazed at the NSA. It is as if the other side got emboldened when the East fell. I mean you are putting up everything that the Stazi had to steal from you freely on Facebook now. Your politics, your culture, your relationships....

[@zentz6869]

thanks for sharing that looked like fun times

[@TheGoLeo98]

What is the best diet Book? ->Karl Marx, „Das Kapital“

[@johnhmstr]

Never heard of Brotschnapps (bread schnapps) before. Sounds amazing, now i must find some.

[@fable2omg]

"As original as possible" "What?" CRINGE!! Holy fucking shit xDD I swear, if an American showed up where I live and said that I'd turn him around.

[@orwelliantotoro4440]

Good to see the GDR Culture being appreciated instead of just laughed at like many westgermans did after 89.