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🇩🇪 5 NORMAL THINGS IN GERMANY THAT I HAD NEVER SEEN BEFORE | New Zealand expat 🇳🇿

Antoinette Emily

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I'm Antoinette a New Zealander living in Germany.

In this video, I talk about some normal everyday German things that I had never seen before coming to Germany. I know some of these things originated in other countries but to me they are German because the first time I saw them was in Germany 😊

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20 Comments

@victorialo8992 5 years ago (edited)

My mom is German and my dad is Italian, so it makes me happy to see that the Italian coffee maker is now seen as something typically German! Thanks to the generations of Italian immigrants for bringing Italian food & lifestyle to Germany and merging the cultures! <3 And much more practical than an actual coffee machine that's a hassle to clean and breaks much more easily

@Happy_Soyjak 5 years ago (edited)

Number 3 is "Halloumi". A grilled chese from the eastern mediterranian.
Number 4 is a "Bialetti" moka pot from Italy.

@corvuscorone7735 5 years ago

I love the small coins. People lose them, you find them on the ground and that makes you feel so lucky :D

@michaelkusica2013 5 years ago

So I have a joke. A nearsighted man comes into a musician store and says:“ I would like to buy the red trumpet and the white accordion.“ The shop owner repeats:“ O.k. you can have the fire extinguisher, but the radiator stays here.“
Greetings from NRW, love yor videos. Michael

@thomasp.5057 5 years ago

What you smell when you turn on the central heating in autumn is the dust which has been deposited over the whole summer. 😁😇

@LeanderSukov 5 years ago

All Italians are crying, because you declared their espresso maker to be a German coffee maker. 😏

@MartinSayre 5 years ago

The Coffee brower ist Italian, we have four of those: 2 for one cup, one for 3 cups and one for 6 cups 😀

@tonzelle2720 5 years ago

In the Netherlands the 1 and 2 cent coins are phased out too... Every price is rounded off at 5 cents.

@karlchenmuller4059 5 years ago (edited)

1. 0:51 Heizung
2. 3:20 Curry Ketchup
3. 5:00 Halloumi Grilled Cheese
4. 6:25 Italian coffee brewer
5. 8:30 Cent coins

@mikesch0815 5 years ago

Curry Ketchup is a must have in Germany. I can't live without it!

@simonaw.1215 5 years ago (edited)

It is an old german tradition to save up this copper coins and use them to pay for your bridal shoes. This is for good luck and showing that you will be a good and frugal wife.

@MrPummi88 5 years ago

5 Things I would never thought that they were special for someone. Especially Nr. 1. Really? 😅

@ginger8900 5 years ago

Regarding the Grillkäse/grilled cheese: There are even a loooot of different types of Grillkäse not only Halloumi. e.g. Brie cheese or we put feta with herbs in a small foil pan...

@gerdpapenburg7050 5 years ago (edited)

One and two cent coins are typical German. "Wer den Pfennig nicht ehrt ist des Talers nicht wert" is a typical German saying. I wish we would phase them out like the Dutch people did. When your grocery bill in the Netherlands is between €21.48 and 21.52 you pay €21.50; when it is between 21.53 and 21.57 you pay €21.55. BTW: the production costs of those coins are actually higher than its value.

@SiqueScarface 5 years ago

German here without Curry Ketchup at home (although I actually like it): When the Ecu turned into the Euro back in 1999/2002, and the coinage was designed, many Eurozone member states proposed to have 5 cents as the smallest coin. But Germany insisted on the 1- and 2-cent coins, because apparently, Germans love the -and-ninety-nine-cents-prices, and they insist on exact change.

@andreausberlin1975 5 years ago (edited)

Theese small coffee makers are called "Bialetti", just like the italian company that invented them

@RSProduxx 5 years ago (edited)

The espresso cooker is actually from Italy... Italian workers brought them to Germany... They exist in various sizes as well
I love those things... Grew up with italian friends so I was used to them since childhood anyway :)

@johnkitchen4699 5 years ago

We moved to the USA 11 years and I miss radiators. Hot air circulation is so wasteful - heating unoccupied rooms, etc.

@andreaseufinger4422 5 years ago

The coffée-maker we call it an italian coffee or espresso machine. We have one, we usually use it on camping, because you can put it on a gaz boiler.

@juliebrooke6099 5 years ago (edited)

Here in the U.K. radiators are the most common type of heating, usually run from a gas boiler, sometimes oil in remoter areas where they don’t have mains gas. Good for drying
Laundry and warming towels on.