Hey everyone, Dana here. As we all know Germans love ice cream.
If you didn't know, you can check out this video over here where I mentioned
that Germans love ice cream. But yeah, Germans love ice cream so in
this video I thought that I would make one of Germans favorites: Spaghetti Eis.
What do I need for Spaghetti Eis? Not that much. I need, for one, spaghetti of course.
You know, can't make Spaghetti Eis without spaghetti. Marinara sauce. Got that.
And I also need ice cream. Can't make Spaghetti Eis without ice cream, right?
This that I have here is vanilla ice cream, and that's traditionally what
I've seen being used in Spaghetti Eis here in Germany. But I guess you could
use any kind of ice cream that you want. But yeah, we've got vanilla ice cream.
Alright let's make some Spaghetti Eis. The first thing that I have to do to make
this German delicacy is boil some water and cook some pasta of course.
To check and see if it's done I throw a piece against the kitchen cabinet, of course.
If it sticks I give it another minute and a half because I like my pasta well-done.
Now that the pastas done, it's time to heat up the marinara sauce.
Alright I've got everything that I need. Now I just have to put it all together to make the
Spaghetti Eis. First comes the pasta. And then marinara sauce on top of the pasta.
Last but not least: a scoop of vanilla ice cream and it's ready to go.
Okay so now I just have to try this German delicacy of Spaghetti Eis.
What am I waiting for? This is what I've been preparing all afternoon. All afternoon, you know.
So, um, yeah. Let's just let's just dig in then
Got the pasta and I've got the marinara sauce and some ice cream.
Mmmm, that's disgusting. That's not great. That is not good.
It does have something though. Hold on. I kind of like the pasta and the ice cream part.
Hold up here. I'm going in for a second bite. By the way this ice cream, fantastic.
Nope, it's bad, it's bad. Stefan, would you like a bite? It's really weird.
I'm going in for a third, a third taste.
Let me just make sure.
It's really...you know this Spaghetti Eis thing...I'm not really sure.
I'm not sure what the Germans are thinking here
with Spaghetti Eis. I'm not really sure.
Just kidding, just kidding. Of course...well is it of course?
I don't know, but this is definitely not Spaghetti Eis.
Thank goodness. In Germany there is something that's
called Spaghetti Eis, as I mentioned in the ice cream video. But this is not it.
This is, yes, literally spaghetti and vanilla ice cream. But in Germany there's
something called Spaghetti Eis and it's just supposed to, you know, like, resemble
spaghetti. So the vanilla ice cream is put through I guess like a press so that
it comes out kind of looking like a bunch of little spaghetti noodles.
And then on top of that is some strawberry sauce which is to represent the marinara
sauce. Also some flakes of white chocolate like grated on top, and that is
to represent Parmesan-type cheese. There's also usually whipped cream I believe.
And I'm not really sure what that's supposed to represent, you know?
The ice cream is the pasta, and the strawberry sauce is the marinara sauce,
and the white chocolate is cheese. But I'm not sure what the whipped cream is
supposed to..it's just delicious, you know? So it's there
because it's delicious. But yeah, when I first heard about Spaghetti Eis, I was
imagining something like this. And then I found out it was actually like this
sweet dessert ice cream sundae and everything was good. But yeah, at first I was
a little concerned when I thought, Spaghetti Eis! Huh?
So my question for you is:
How in the world did someone come up with the idea for Spaghetti Eis, and why
is it such a favorite here in Germany? Do you like Spaghetti Eis?
Please let me know in the comments below.
Thanks so much for watching. I hope you enjoyed this video.
Just a quick reminder: I will be having a book reading event here in
Munich at the Hugendubel am Stachus on July 18th 2019, if that wasn't clear,
July 18th 2019. It's starting at 6 p.m. aka achtzehn Uhr.
I am so excited. I hope to see you there.
There's more information on the event down in the description box below.
Until next time, auf Wiedersehen!
Maybe just one more bite...no just kidding!