5 Things You THOUGHT Were German but Actually AREN’T! | Feli from Germany

What other things do people believe to be typical for a country, but they're not even from that country? 😅 Let me know in the comments below!

ÜBRIGENS hat Hitler immer gesagt er sei DEUTSCHER, was soll diese Realität Verweigerung? FAKT ist ihr wart die bösen NAZIS die dem IDIOTEN hinterhergelaufen seid und nicht wir Österreicher! Erzähl da drüben keinen Müll!

ja Adolf war Österreicher doch bei uns wurde er nicht mal an der Kunst Uni angenommen aber hingegen ihr PIEFKES seid ihm nachgelaufen und habt wieder mal die ganze Welt in einen Krieg hineingezogen! Schön bei der Wahrheit bleiben Feli oder willst jetzt sagen Österreich ist Schuld am 2WK?! Erzähl deinen Zuschauern doch mal was ihr Piefkes so zu verantworten habt, WW1, WW2 und "2015 wir schaffen das" und das ihr ihr in ganz Europa so beliebt seid wie ein rostiger Nagel den man sich eingetreten hat!

I wonder which region in Germany might have celebrated the pickle tradition. My anscestors are from Germany (on my dad's side of the family) & we had never had that celebration. When I spent a year abroad, as a student, I lived with a German family & they did celebrate that tradition, but they had had exchange students before me, so I don't know if it was their tradition or one that they celebrated because of hosting exchange students. I love when I hear your explanations of things, because it brings some regional things to light that I may not have experienced while living much farther north.

In Poland 🇵🇱 it is known as Kaczuchy (Ducks in a a playful manner). Really close to the Yugoslavian version). Hugely popular during wedding parties! 😅

I don't know, the history of the chicken dance sounds pretty German to me.

Something Like "Toast Hawaii" to Persons born there..

I thought German chocolate cake is chocolate cake with coffee in it

They also do belive Trump is a financial geniouss. So, I will have some pretzl. See how this all turns out

I dont like you, but you earned my like.

Is Feli ready to celebrate grünkohl?

German apple pancake is an other one....
or also called hootenanny. It has absolutely nothing to do with our apple pancake. 😄

I read up on the pickle ornament originating from German immigrants/settlers in the US have started that.

Love this topic Feli!.....keep on making your great videos about good ole Germany and the USA!☺........Make another video about the German torte many layered cake and its difficulty to create, German beer that has a sweet dark brau taste and nothing like the panther piss commonly associated with regular beer here in the states, marzipan(sweet almond paste) and white chocolate, bratworst with that sweet brown mustard, wiener schnitzel, cooked ground poppy seed with graham crackers and sugar on Christmas Eve♥As a young 7 year old boy living with my Dad(stationed on a US Army base in Sraubing, Germany) and Mom(who's Mom lived in Heidelberg), I will never forget these beautiful foods and traditions(opening your presents on Christmas Eve, and celebrating it also on Holy Night). It makes me want to make another visit now that I am 69+ year old. I have a cousin named Karola that lives with her husband of many years in Weinheim, located close to beautiful Heidelberg. Feli, you are the BEST German tour guide, and a most educated lady on You Tube. You will make it to 1 million subscribers in the future. Play some disc golf with your boyfriend while in Cincinnati and contact one of the best disc golfers in the world, Germany's Simon Lizotte who is loved by all his competitors on the Disc Golf Pro Tour. I would love to see you make a You Tube with Simon teaching you and your boyfriend how to play on a Cincinnati disc golf course.☺Sincerely, Bill M., Uncasville,CT☺

Come to my home state of Maryland and German restaurants serve soft pretzels with cheese, but you can also get crab dip. We Marylanders love our Chesapeake Bay Blue Crabs.

Well , also the german cake called “ sache torte” is also in america called german chocolate cake.

Hey Feli, I think the tradition ist originated in a part of Brandenburg The Spreewald. It's a regional tradition that should bring luck and a good harvest in the coming year. They still hang it in the Christmas tree over there (now a Dekoration and not a real pickles like in olden times). So it is a German tradition, but only in a very small part of Germany. And they only hang it in the tree, The search for it must be an American tradition.

Best wishes from Germany ❤

In traveling to China, I noticed that chopsticks just seem to "work better" in China. I struggle to use them in Chinese restaurants in the US, but used them so easily in China.

I finally realized that the food in China is specifically cut and prepared for use with chopsticks. However, the food served in Chinese restaurants in the US comes in pieces too large to handle gracefully with chopsticks.

I think that some things that people say are German, might actually be a thing in one small region of Germany. The same goes for any other country.

Hallo, Feli! Als Münchnerin sage ich nur: Hut ab vor Deiner Recherche - die späte Spaatsbürgerschaft von A.H. kannte ich so auch nicht. Der German Schokoladekuchen ist echt strange! Und echt: Ententanz kenne ich nur vom Kinderkarneval. Gut gemacht und weiter so! :))

That music is so Mexican now! I hear it every day working construction

können wir nicht mal bayern los werden? das ist bei weitem das schlimmste, das alle denken wir würden in Lederhosen rum laufen, hab bisher nicht mal welche gesehen nur aus film und fernseh

Over 50% of "Chinese" food from an express "Chinese" restaurant is not really Chinese.

No Christmas pickles, but an old family tradition is putting a sausage on the top of the tree. And Santa has never come to me. It was the manic mechanic who came with presents in a shopping cart thrown by a horde of christmas-squirrels. Read in the new book "German Christmas like it has never been", written by Pinocchio von Münchhausen ... 😇

Hitler was Austrian.

2 weeks in Germany and the chicken dance and mustard with pretzel were everywhere.

The pickle must be a regional thing. Not only have I never heard of the german christmas pickle but also... WTH???

I think the pretzel cheese combination probably comes from the “pretzels” sold at those mall chains. They’re really just salted bread, not pretzels, and desperately need something with more flavor. Which has made Americans crave cheese with pretzels, even when they get the good kind that actually qualify as, you know, pretzels.

I do not understand why Germans have guilt. Slavery in the US not my guilt trip.

Pretzels are already extremely unhealthy, but combined with soft cheese (phosphates), this looks more like deliberate kidney destruction than a snack.

That's good to know 😌 ❤.

Wanted to drop a line and say how much I enjoy your videos.

Thank you, Feli, for pronouncing Pecan properly!!!! I'm a born and raised Texan. It's a Native American word that means......pecan.....and they pronounce it the way Feli does.

Hi Feli, I am regularily enjoying your videos - being Austrian :). I wonder if you could one day talk a litte about nutrition supplements - it seems to me that US citicens are addicted to them: You can hardly find any products in super markets that are "pure", i.e. everithing is modified by adding nutrition supplements (not even milk seems to be just what it is). In addition there is a constant impression that people start their days swallowing pills as nutrition supplements. How about your impressions concerning this topic?
Another thing: It seems to me that whenever the "big sizes" in US are mentioned - homes, kitchens, roads, packages, etc. one should also mention that the "modern US history" (I mean the times after the "discovery" of America) with relatively few people has lead to the impression for them that the ressources are infinite: Land without limits, wood without limits, ... energy without limits. Of course this impression turns out to be wrong at the long run: Ressources ARE limited - but the idea that they are not is still alive within many Americans, as it seems. So they are not to blame - mindset is a result of history mainly - and hard to change wherever on our planet.

As a german I plead to take over the tradition of dipping prezels into cheese from america that sounds awesome I realy always missed something👍🇩🇪🇺🇸

That song was in the US before 1981. Wedding bands in North East played it in the late 70's.

So, no more dancing like a chicken when nude?

In the UK I've always eaten pretzels plain. Now I'm not saying "full English breakfast" doesn't exist in England but I've always heard it called "all day breakfast".

I can say the same about French fries, which in reality were named French-fried potatoes long ago...meaning potatoes dipped in hot oil (a French technique). Fast-food restaurants, somewhere in time in the USA, dropped the French-fried phrasing and just wrote French fries. Besides that, fries are really a Belgian invention, not French. Merci, Feli.

Amerikaner....war klar

Feli, is celebrating St. Nick's Day on December 6 and putting empty shoes out for gifts and candy - is this a German tradition? My German-American wife insists it is.

My wife of German ancestry (Trier Germany) will be heartbroken to learn that German Chocolate cake is NOT German. I don't have the heart to let her know

Feli, if you like "Beer Cheese" dip with your Bavarian pretzels, in Wisconsin and Minnesota (many German descendants live in those two upper Midwestern states), a popular soup is Beer Cheese soup. You would love Beer Cheese soup.

Beer barrel polka/rosamunde is not a German polka, but Czech Škoda lásky written by Jaromír Vejvoda. Also VW Beetle is not a german project, but it was a stolen project from Tatra 97 during german occupation. This was even confirmed by Ferdinand Porsche

The cheese. Never touched. Mom taught me that dip does the dish no justice. She had habits from her new Yorker Ashkenazi food ideas. Spaetzel, pretzels with salt, blinzses ( typo) and jarlsburg. She ate no other cheese munster and Swiss being the secondary so my food choices were started on my mom's polish Russian ancestral influences and we ate. A lot of challah. I did anyway. But yes, cheese dip is like goyim food for those who have not eaten matzoh before. A second childhood favorite. And rye. Lots of rye bread. So yes, thank you for this! As well as the Duck dance. It had more influence in our small town by the 90s. Took a long time to find a home.

I once asked people in south Germany where I can find some Ratzeputz. But found nobody even knows what it is. So I guess something could be local, even in Germany.

last year i had been on a trip in America. Always ordered the prezels, cause they came with a cheese dip. wanted to eat typical american lol

I'm Irish and German, but I'm fascinated with German culture more than Irish culture.

Probably Toast Hawaii😂
That's as Hawaiian as German Chocolate Cake is German.

Winchester Kentucky to be exact, my hometown.