Hey everyone, Dana here!
Yes, apples too! Apples are also different in Germany and the USA.
Who would have thought? Okay, well, if something as mundane as windows
can be different in the two countries, then it can't be so surprising
that apples are different too, right? But still,
I think some of the differences that I share with you in this video
might surprise you a little.
By the way, there is also an English version of this video.
Link to the English version of the video down in the description box below.
The first apple difference I'll share with you here, however, probably won't surprise you.
What do cars, shampoo bottles, sodas in fast food chains
and apples in Germany have in common?
They are all smaller than their counterparts in the United States.
Okay, of course, every apple is different, and how big or how small an apple is
can depend on, for example, which store you go to,
or maybe what year....time of year.
But from my experience in Germany and the USA,
the average size of the apples I have eaten and seen in the USA
was generally
larger than the average apples I eat and see here in Germany.
For example, I remember very well
that the apples I ate in the US were
often too much apple for a serving of apple for me.
I often shared my...the apple with my parents.
And that as an adult too. Here in Germany, on the other hand,
I find that the apples are either exactly, exactly the right amount of apple for me,
or sometimes even a tad too small for me.
For example, this apple here, Stefan bought it here in Germany.
And for me, I think it's a little too small.
So I can imagine if I eat this apple,
which I will do after this video shoot,
I can imagine it's a little too small for me.
When I'm done with it, I think I'll still want a little more apple.
But sometimes the apples in Germany are perfect for me too.
So the perfect amount.
But they are almost never too big. Which, as I said, was often the case in the USA.
The second difference for this video has something to do with the color and
watch out, watch out! I have just learned two new German words that are so beautiful:
"farbenfroh" and "farbenfreudig", literally color happy and color joyful.
As I've understood it though, both words mean something like "colorful", so "bunt", right?
Color happy and color joyful for colorful. I love that!
So yeah what did I notice?
I often eat Granny Smith apples and, yeah, in Germany and the USA
these green apples are quite green, but the ones in the supermarkets in the USA
actually look a bit greener to me than the ones in Germany.
The Granny Smiths in the USA taste, in my opinion and in my memory
also a bit more sour than the ones in Germany, could that be?
Yeah, that could also just be my memory perhaps,
so I would love to hear from you:
Please let me know in the comments, have you ever noticed
that the same kind of apple
looks and maybe even tastes different
in different countries?
And look, after just a few minutes we are already at apple difference number three:
how the apple feels in my hands. Yeah that's right! That is also different.
When I lived in the USA, we had
a special fruit and vegetable spray in my home for many years
to clean our fruit and vegetables before we ate them.
For example, the apples.
Because the apples we bought from the store were often quite waxy on the outside.
I'm not sure what "waxy" is in German.
The dictionary says "wachsartig", but I don't know that word.
But yeah, a lot of the apples I ate in the US
felt waxy to the touch when I held them.
And they were often a bit “shinier”
than the apples I normally eat in Germany.
This apple, for example, was bought by Stefan in a supermarket here in Munich,
and it doesn't feel waxy
like the apples I ate in the US when I lived there.
By the way, this here is not an organic apple.
And yeah, it feels soft, but not necessarily waxy.
I have to admit, though, it's been a while since I've eaten an apple in the US.
So please let me know in the comments
as far as the "wachsartigkeit" goes - is that a word?
How are apples in the US these days? And people in Germany,
are apples in Germany sometimes waxy like that too?
Let me know in the comments. Thank you!
The next difference doesn't really have to do with the apples themselves,
but rather with how they can often be found in stores.
Here in Germany in the supermarkets where I've gone shopping,
I usually find the apples in or on
a shelf that is a little bit tilted so you can nicely see and choose the apples.
I'm not explaining anything new here, this is a typical fruit and vegetable shelf
that you often see at the store.
And I also have the feeling that I've mostly seen the apples along the perimeter of
the fruit and vegetable department, and not in the middle.
In the US I also saw the apples on a tilted shelf quite often.
But in the USA I also saw something that I think I have
never seen in Germany:
sometimes in the USA the apples in supermarkets were in the middle of the fruit and vegetable department,
stacked like a small apple pyramid.
As I said, that wasn't always the case, but sometimes it was. And I don't think so in Germany.
People in the USA: is there an apple pyramid where you shop?
Please let me know in the comments.
And the final apple difference for this video is: apple idioms.
In English one compares apples with oranges,
whereas in Germany one compares apples with "Birnen".
No, just joking. Not that kind of "Birne", but rather a pear like this.
In English there is also the phrase "to be the apple of someone's eye".
And maybe you already know it from how I said it,
"to be the apple of someone's eye", it has something to do with love.
But how would you say that literally in German? "To be the apple of someone's eye".
"Der Apfel von dem Auge von jemandem sein".
Question mark, question mark.
Anyway, I believe this phrase doesn't exist in German,
but yeah, it basically means that one person loves another person.
And maybe you already know it from the way I say it, "to be the apple of someone's eye",
for me this phrase is a bit too cheesy.
A little too dramatic in some way.
Oh! This person! The apple of my eye! I don't know. It's too much.
In German there is the phrase "in den sauren Apfel beißen",
which does not literally exist in English - to bite in the sour apple - no.
But in English that would be "to grin and bear it" or with bite, "to bite the bullet".
I also found the phrase "für einen Apfel und ein Ei" online
and I learned it means something like buying something for little money, right?
Please let me know in the comments if you know this phrase too.
In English we don't say that with apples and eggs but rather with peanuts.
"For peanuts". I bought it for peanuts, so I didn't buy it for a lot of money.
So my question for you is:
which apple differences have you noticed,
and which other apple idioms do you know?
Please let me know in the comments below.
Thank you so much for watching. I also made an English version of this video.
Link to the English version of the video down in the description box below.
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