Ice Cream In Germany [Everything You Need To Know]

[@alessiasavioli9598]

I have never wrote a comment, but firstly thanks for your videos! I am an Italian girl studying in Germany, and I have immediately noticed that gelato is big thing in Germany. Related to differences with Italy, I have noticed that many people eat it at every time in day in Germany (from the morning to evening), while in Italy gelato is mostly for a sweet break in the afternoon. It maybe explains the first place position for Germany as producer. Regarding the price of gelato, that’s true, in Italy is more expensive (2.50/3€ for two scoops) and not common to ask for 1 scoop of gelato. Very final thing, Germans cannot definitely live not without cappuccino, at least what I have seen till now. By the way, thanks again for your videos. Useful and helping me to get into German culture more smoothly:) P.S.: the technique “see if there is line outside a Gelateria” to understand if it’s good or not, it’s sooo used even in Italy

[@simplegermany]

Thanks a lot for sharing your Italian insights, Alessia 😊

[@abhijitbagchi6841]

Thanks, I didn't knew that Gelato is taken at a definite interval in the afternoon only in Italy.

[@Ph34rNoB33r]

Most important part of Spaghetti-Eis is the whipped cream at the bottom that gets frozen by the vanilla ice cream and has this very special texture.

[@simplegermany]

Oh yes, and it's super tasty 😋

[@Hypnotize1969]

Jaaaaa, das ist das Beste von allem!

[@reinhard8053]

But it was just a way to use less (expensive) ice cream.

[@crazydrifter13]

What a coincidence😂 This video came out just 12 mins ago and I just came home from an ice-cream haul and started to browse KZbin as I sat to cool down under the fan 😂

[@simplegermany]

hehehe that's awesome 😆. And what flavor ice cream did you have?

[@crazydrifter13]

@@simplegermany Bought several flavours today to try them 😂 Chocochips family pack Butterscotch cone Punjabi kulfi Afghan dry fruit cup Raajbhog kulfi And another new one that I don't remember the name of 😂 Safe to say these are gonna last a couple of days . I'm excited to come to Germany asap and try Viennetta icecream because it looks übercool 🤩

[@simplegermany]

Wow, that really sounds like ice cream for some days 😅 Enjoy!!

[@elhammirzaei9684]

Thanks for the great videos. Can you please talk about residence permit and fiktionbescheinigung process as well? In dusseldorf area, wuppertal ...and small cities

[@Khoros-Mythos]

I forgot how much I missed spaghetti ice! Spaghetti ice and cola ice are still my favourites even after trying difference ice and ice cream across the world.

[@awbrompton2308]

"... the ice dealer ..." 🤣

[@crazydrifter13]

Ice ice baby🤣

[@simplegermany]

🤣

[@ortalitush]

Greetings from München! I have an Italian gelato place near my house, it costs 1.8 per scoop, and in Munich I also went to places that were 1.3 and 1.4 per scoop (to be honest, I haven't seen anything above 2€ per scoop, but I am sure they exist). My favorite gelato flavor: CHOCOLATE😋🍦 Thank you for a great video💜

[@simplegermany]

Thanks for your insights! Uh, chocolate is also a nice flavor :)

[@winterlinde5395]

Hazelnut, banana. In der Reihenfolge. Haselnuss first, Banane on top😋

[@danilopapais1464]

Favourite flavour on its own would be either Joghurt-Kirsch oder Melone while in a mix at least one of the scoops has to be vanilla and one chocolate (like in our "Riesentüte" where you have a cone with 3 scoops, whipped cream, wafer and either chocolate-, strawberry- or caramel-sauce).

[@simplegermany]

Sounds delicious!

[@chipobenkele1362]

I recently moved to Germany from Rome. I agree with you on the length of the queue. It happens in Rome too. It says alot about the quality of the Gelato. Am looking forward to testing German gelato.

[@chipobenkele1362]

And in Rome we have gelato all year round. 😋😋

[@janam9536]

My son loves Amarena and Mango, too! I prefer combinations with fruit and joghurteis.

[@pourdamghani]

Awsome video, as always :) I quite like the advanced animations and graphics :D

[@simplegermany]

Super cool! Thanks for your feedback 😊

[@chiragpatil3718]

Mango Joghurt icecream was my first ice cream when i entered germany nd that was ooh la la! Even my friends liked this flavour

[@Francebound2024]

Heading to Munich next week! Besides the Biergarten, I’m looking forward to the spaghetti eis! Thanks for your videos!

[@simplegermany]

Have fun in Munich!

[@hartmutbohn]

Hi from Spaghetti-Icecream-City Mannheim. Fontanella makes other wonderful flavors. My personal favorite is "apricot&lavender".

[@simplegermany]

Uuuh that sounds super interesting!! 😊

[@JackieOdonnel]

Spaghettieis blows my mind! Love it.

[@lorindariley7248]

Matcha has been my favorite since I was a little girl visiting my grandma. Never seen it in Europe before but I also avoided all eis. I didn’t realize it was so “healthy.” Will make a point to partake next time.

[@bjoern0975]

Many Eisdielen in Germany use pre-produced preparations that they only have to add milk and other fresh ingredients to (just like most bakeries use industry pre-mixes for their bread doughs). These mixtures are a huge market in food wholesale. Unfortunatley, this is especially true for many hip pop-up ice cream parlors that offer vegan alternatives and such. People who run those in most cases are no trained ice makers. But, of course, there are still many gems of traditional Eisdielen who stick to family recipes and quality of old, too, as well as young people eager to learn the traditional craft and work without artifical additives etc.. My favorite flavors are Stracciatella as well as sometimes (on colder days) cinnamon.

[@pizzlephoenix]

just the content I'm looking for! i've seen so many stores with 'eis' written in front and long queues on sunny days but my anxiety has prevented me from finding out more hahaha

[@simplegermany]

Now you know! Go for it 😊

[@juliobarbeiro8642]

I really liked the first time I tried spaghetti Eis (two weeks ago).

[@ralfmelchert2814]

My favourite icecream used to be pistacchio.But now it is coconut.But only in Thailand.There is a guy in the quarter where we have our house in Bangkok.He makes the ice himself and drives it around with his own built sellingstand on a moped.Very delicious and cheap also.

[@simplegermany]

Oh I love a great coconut ice cream! The one from Thailand sounds delicious! -J

[@Marymationnn]

My favorite gelato taste is bubblegum, in my city each gelato stand has it

[@ninan9650]

My favorite ice is tonka bean, which you can get at the Nordmannns Eisdiele in Flingern. They also gave a great Rhubarb sorbet 😋

[@simplegermany]

Uhh, yes we have been to that Eisdiele as well 😊

[@Ph34rNoB33r]

Nordmanns Eisfabrik once had some ice cream (probably "gelato") made with Greek yoghurt and raisins and some other things (don't remember), it was great. Not sure whether it was a one time experiment, but I never saw it again (haven't been to Flingern that often for the last few years, so maybe I missed it). The place is definitely one of the best in Düsseldorf, and whenever I was there, the queue was shorter than my average experience with the Eisschmiede in Unterbilk (my sample size is small, and the visits were not exactly randomised, so it might be some sampling artifact)

[@gilliantracy7991]

Looking forward to eating ice cream…oops gelato…on my visit to Germany!

[@RustyDust101]

Favorite flavor: raspberry. Or, more recently, the Swiss Raspberry-Strawberry from Mövenpick. Yes, yes, that is store-bought. But the Swiss Mövenpick is sooooo much better than the ones you can buy here in Germany. And their Raspberry-Strawberry is to die for. Oooooh, soooo gooood...

[@thejuan7379]

I will be moving to Augsburg in the next couple of months, so your videos have being really helpful for me that is moving to Germany. Looking forward to having some nice "Gelato" 🍨🤤

[@simplegermany]

All the best for your move 😊

[@omotoshobusayomi7738]

Totally agree with the cash as a payment method. Also, there are so many eisdiele around. Each with varying flavours too!

[@thorz7304]

2 Scoops? Most of the time i order 5. Sometimes 4. My favorite flavors are stracciatella, malaga, bacio, amarena cherry and pistachio.

[@sabafj369]

OMG 😲😱, the pic of the ice cream 🍦😍.

[@highviolet345]

We had an Ice Cream week in Berlin 3 weeks ago. It was great to taste special "Gelatos" for 1 euro per kugel. Of course at least with half an hour waiting. 😃

[@Fred_L.]

Well I think ice cream from supermarkets is perfectly alright. Not the same as parlor ice cream but alright. And available through all seasons of the year.

[@martinbruhn5274]

When I was a kid, one scoop of gelato used to cost 60 cent and before that 1D-Mark (which is equivalent to 0,5€ to anybody who doesn't know). Now, paying up to 2€ isn't a rarity.

[@kilsestoffel3690]

I am old! Me first self bought scoop of ice cream was 15 Pfennig (around 1978..)

[@simplegermany]

wow, how much would that be equivalent to euros nowadays?

[@kilsestoffel3690]

@@simplegermany 7,5 cent.

[@martinbruhn5274]

@@simplegermany I did a little quick math and the inflation (based on the data by statista) between 2000 and 2021 was over that a little over 2 decade span ca 38,3%, meaning, if in 2000 at my local Eisdiele one scoop of ice cost 1DM (or 0,5€), that would be equivalent to roughly 0,7€. Now, mind you, I come from a rural part of Germany with relatively low cost of living, but at the same time, over that period, the economy has boomed in my home region, meaning, that the cost of living (and therefore also the cost of labour) has probably grown much faster, than the inflation in Germany overall. Also, the gelato there is still quite affordable, it's gone over 1€ only by perhaps 2017, or around that time (I think it's now at 1,5€)

[@dreasbn]

Ich kann mich noch gut dran erinnern dass ich immer gesagt hatte ein Eis zu 0,60 Pfennig Und das waren drei Kugeln. Dann war es plötzlich ein Eis zu 75 ein Eis zu 90. Das war glaube ich ziemlich lange und dann wurde die eine DM Grenze gerissen Und drei Kugeln kosteten plötzlich 1,05 DM. Das müsste alles so im Zeitraum Mitte der siebziger bis Mitte der achtziger gewesen sein. Würde ich mal tippen.

[@abhijitbagchi6841]

Not all the Gelato Parlor charge over 2 euros, there are many which take 1.50 euros per scoop in Munich

[@simplegermany]

Thanks for your insight!

[@karinland8533]

In Oberfranken (Upper Bavaria)the scoop is 2,10€ as well. But everything else is pretty cheap.

[@simplegermany]

Wow, thanks for confirming the ‚Bavarian‘ price 😇

[@busragundogdu303]

I will try spagetti ice cream as soon as possible.🥰

[@ehemalssimehtt3739]

❤️ Simple Germany ❤️

[@pilter34]

The spaghetti in South Asian ice-creams makes it into a "Faluda" or "Kulfi Faluda" with a kulfi

[@metin3289]

#1It is worth to mention that: MOST of the people working for italians in these Eis cafes, are Brazilian-born-italians who are attracted by the salary and working conditions that, although bad for German standards, allow a couple to come back to Brazil with enough money to buy houses, cars and other investments within 2 summers. I personally know a handful of them that own 5+ flats and some have their own Eis cafes. #2 My favorite flavours are Malaga and Amarena. #3 And people, tip them if the service is nice. They had a hard time in the last 2 years. Now I tip even when I buy a single scoop. #4 A friend who worked in a place in Bochum, said that the Italian owner of his former workplace instructed him to pour a couple of spoons of used coffee ground in each bucket of vanilla. It would make it look like better quality eis with real vanilla. Then yes. No queue, no good. #5 I'd love to see a video talking about parks around dusseldorf area in which we can do BBQ #6 I love the quality of your vids.

[@MartinQMusic]

Hey Girls, thank you very much for your content. I have one month in Munich and you have help me a lot with many thing!. Is it in your plans to talk about this 9 Euro ticket? I have seen some tiktoks but noting that clear so far. have a wonderful day!

[@simplegermany]

Welcome to Germany 😊 We hope you have been able to start settling in more smoothly! As to your question, the Deutsche Bahn runs an FAQ on its sales page. You can use Chrome as a browser, right-click and select translate to English to read it: www.bahn.de/angebot/regio/9-euro-ticket. It should be available to anyone in Germany, however, it is only valid for local transportation (in any city - you can mix and match) but not intercity transportation (so IC, EC and ICE are excluded). Hope this helps! 😊

[@MartinQMusic]

@@simplegermany thank you very much! You are the best!!!

[@Al69BfR]

When I was young we had an ice cream dealer who made scoops out of two or sometimes even three flavors for us kids who had only money for one or two scoops. And those where the times where Pistachio was considered an exotic flavor. 😊 Fun fact: Germans do their air quotes the same way as Americans do. 😉 For me a spaghetti ice can‘t go without the whipped cream beneath the vanilla ice cream spaghettis, because I especially like it, when the whipped cream starts to freeze. 🤤

[@reinerbergkamen7852]

Ice Dealers :) Genial

[@ruhikohli2294]

Chocolate and berries is my favorite

[@domi3054]

In Landshut was 2 Euros/scoop last summer so I guess It could be 2.10

[@simplegermany]

Thanks for confirming. It seems Bavaria has a different price scheme for gelato 😇

[@fannychristozova8158]

I'm lactose intolerant, so my relationship with ice-cream was always complicated. Great video and awesome ice-cream bits! 🙂I love ice ice cream, but then I'd be sick because of having it, unless it's just the pure substance. Could I BE any more boring with how I understand ice-cream? 😂 Yes, I could, same applies to coffee. Clean and dark. Oh, if only I could drink coffee with milk, I'd adore it, but I can't; and ice-creams make me wanna cry because I love all of them, but only can eat some. 🍦🍨

[@simplegermany]

Aww, sorry to read you're lactose intolerant! Here in Germany you will hopefully find some nice lactose free options 😊. I prefer my coffee black 😋 -J

[@fannychristozova8158]

@@simplegermany Kudos, Jen, for the coffee! But about the ice-creams I really love a pure chocolate ice-cream, or at least really pure substance, not vanilla with.. or milk with... as is the case most often. 🙂 What is your favorite ice-cream?

[@simplegermany]

My new absolute favorite is a pistachio flavor in a new gelato place 🤤

[@fannychristozova8158]

@@simplegermany So glad you have a fave flavor, I checked on that one, sounds great! And especially when it's a new place! By the way, great on your taking on the shorts! Just stumbled on that one, love it!!

[@pourdamghani]

I would almost always will go for vanilla, as the name is similar in English and German, and it has a sweet flavor that you can trust no ice cream shop would get wrong :D

[@reinhard8053]

Yes, I always take one scoop of vanilla, then something fruity as the second.

[@karinland8533]

Greek yoghurt-walnut-fig, yes that is one flavor

[@simplegermany]

Sooooo yummyyy!

[@PalmyraSchwarz]

The great popularity actually only came after the Second World War, but actually already at the beginning of the 20th century gelatiere from the Dolomite valleys Zoldo and Cadore moved to Austria, Germany and the Netherlands to initially only sell their delicacies on ice cream carts. The trade is currently having problems with young people, along with other skilled trades. In addition to completely in-house production, starting with fresh ingredients according to secret recipes, the suppliers of the ice cream parlors also use ready-made convenient mixtures. They don't necessarily taste worse and the variety in the sales counter increases. In fact, it's almost always a sign that many different flavors of ice cream are based, at least in part, on pre-made mixes. I think the craziest trend is coming from Berlin, where the ice cream is made in portions in front of your eyes with -196°C frozen nitrogen. Personally, I ate my best ice cream in Sienna, Italy: Pistacchi!

[@tneon9132]

I honestly wouldnt get out of my way calling it gelato since its just the italian word for ice and or frozen. As a child my favorit flavor is probbably the new Yoguhrette one my local Eisdiele sells. I just came across it and just cant stop. A more comon flavor i like would be Cherry and Banana

[@chrisbaertl5708]

The squeezer is usually for making Spätzle, not for Spaghetti ;)

[@Heartburn1220]

I remember Spaghetti Eis! Memories! but now I am vegan and lactose so sad LOL

[@fabioc981]

In Italy we have also spaghetti ice, but mainly for kids XD

[@simplegermany]

Ah interesting! Now the question is was it really invented in Germany and then ‚exported‘ to Italy? 😅

[@fabioc981]

@@simplegermany seems confirmed that was an Italian in Manheim

[@andreashorn9638]

I am a bit astonished about the description of gelato in Italy. I usually pay 4-5 Euros for a coppa grande, which contains usually 4 flavours. Where on earth are you going to? And that was in tourist places like Volterra. In smaller places it is even cheaper.

[@simplegermany]

Last time we were in Tuscany, but also in France and Spain you pay 2-3 euros per flavor/scoop. At least from our experience. 😊

[@stefan6412]

Ricotta mit Himbeere/Kirsche/Erdbeere nach Saison der Früchte!

[@simplegermany]

yum!

[@MrSvladcjelli]

Oooh, is Ferrero Rochers chocolate available as a flavor?

[@simplegermany]

Sometimes it is 😁

[@MrSvladcjelli]

@@simplegermany Sehr vunderbar.

[@Neshan772]

😍❤️

[@jkb2016]

Wusste nicht mal, dass es einen Unterschied gibt - für mich war das Jahrzehntelang einfach "Eis" 🤷

[@RobAussie01]

‘Ice dealers’ makes it sound like there are drug dealers everywhere in Germany 😂

[@simplegermany]

The good kinda drug 😅

[@youtuberkid2384]

Great video! But nobody seems to quite make video and talk about miserable condition without Bidet sprayer on WCs in Germany. Please make a video on how to self install using T-VALVE and if it's something legal to do. And if any approval from anybody is needed before that. And total cost and time spent for a novice. 😊 Pls

[@simplegermany]

Bidets are simply not common at all in Germany 🤷‍♀️

[@youtuberkid2384]

@@simplegermany but why? Germany is a first world country!😃

[@simplegermany]

It‘s just not part of our culture, nothing to do with the economic status. 😉

[@youtuberkid2384]

@@simplegermany Economic status definitely influence the status of lifestyle and most importantly basic hygiene oriented lifestyle. It's strange that people are ignoring this basic truth😃

[@youtuberkid2384]

@@simplegermany but you would agree that you also find it pretty strange why such a basic thing is not a standard fitting in 21st century in Europe/Germany that is the land of great automobile technology 😃

[@rickyn1135]

Pistachio Gelato,Vanilla Ice cream 🙈

[@simplegermany]

Uuh we recently discovered a new gelato place with such yummy pistachio! 😊

[@rickyn1135]

@@simplegermany I’m getting me some Pistachio Gelato this week,Bcuz of you young ladies. 😜

[@arnodobler1096]

Ice cream from the supermarket is at least 30% air

[@karinamoraru8289]

Ruccola-Limmette!

[@simplegermany]

Uhh, we have never seen Rucula ice cream, sounds interesting 😉

[@arnodobler1096]

salty caramel almond

[@simplegermany]

Uh that sounds very yummy 😄

[@arnodobler1096]

Ihr habt einen an der Waffel! 😂

[@simplegermany]

😅

[@ShredAstair]

to everyone wondering: YES spaghetti-ice is frozen noodles

[@simplegermany]

…with the taste of vanilla 😅