In today's episode we're visiting a typical German supermarket for beverages only where
Jörg is in beer heaven, we're having ice cream at a typical ice cream parlour and we
show you around beautiful St. Wendel in Saarland.
Hello!
Today we'll show you something typical German.
Yes!
At least something which we never have seen in the UK.
No.
Yeah, a special market where you can only buy beverages.
Yes.
And we thought we would take you with us - yeah - because yeah, it's actually we think it's
quite an experience.
Yes and it's something typical German.
And you should know we always came here because we lived nearby.
So this one is called Globus Getränkemarkt.
Yeah.
Let's go inside.
So the first thing we have to do, my parents gave us some empty boxes with water, mineral
water.
And this is what we have to do now and Jörg said he would like to explain it to you.
Yeah.
Yeah, I just said that my parents gave us some empty or - yes - boxes with empty bottles
- yeah - with mineral water.
So the big difference is when you buy a lot of bottles in Germany you buy them in a kind
of box.
Yes.
Yeah.
This is what they look like.
And when you buy the box you pay a deposit - yes - for the boxes and the bottles - and
the bottles - yes.
So and then when you go into the shop you can return your boxes - yes, these are the
machines - they are machines so you put them in - yeah - the machine scans the box and
the bottles - yes -
so even if one bottle will be missing - yes - yeah, the machine recognises it so you - yes,
yeah - could even return half of - yeah - the box.
Well, well a box that is half empty - yes - and then it says 36 bottles and 3 boxes.
Yes, that's 9.90€ because that's your deposit.
Yes.
And now you have to print that.
Yeah and because of that system people don't throw bottles into the nature - yeah - because
it's worth money so - yes exactly - it's really good.
Yeah, that's that's what we what we like so let's go inside because you actually have
a lot of choice.
But you don't only get beverages here, see they even have bread, you can even buy things
for pets or well, some food.
Now Jörg do you also want to buy some beer?
I will.
Yes.
'Cause I'll take something with us to the UK.
Yes.
I just have to find the right brand.
Yeah.
Do you want to buy Rothaus?
We will see.
Yeah, we'll have a look.
Oh and what I can see now look we've got brands you can buy in the UK like Brewdog.
What's that?
Brewdog?
Yes.
Yeah and you can buy it in the UK.
Yeah, so this is called, this area is the Craft Beer Arena.
Jörg, did you see this?
Yes.
Oh my god.
That's a big bottle.
And that's beer?
Yes.
That's amazing.
Look at this.
Yeah.
3 litres.
That's amazing.
Yeah.
Easy way to get drunk.
Definitely.
And you should see this.
This is German beer: Karlsberg Urpils, Karlsberg here you have
Erdinger Weissbräu, Mönchshof, Radeberger, König Pilsener.
I just spotted Jörg's favourite which is this one, Rothaus.
Jörg's absolute favourite.
Tannenzäpfle.
I have to call him and tell him that it is right here.
Here you have Bruch Bier which is from this area here.
Oettinger, Holstein - yeah.
This is probably paradise for many people - yeah - I think.
If you're a beer lover that's - paradise - yeah, no yeah, beer lover's heaven.
Yeah and this beer is from the area here as well, Grosswald - yeah - but you don't like
it, do you?
No.
How can you have so much beer?
That's crazy.
Oh look, they have Irish beer here.
And Guinness.
It's a bit noisy here because of the boxes.
Oh that, yeah, we used to have that here in Germany.
Thomas Henry?
I think yeah.
I've never heard of it.
Yes, you forgot about it.
We had it at home several times.
Yeah?
As you can see, this is quite a big supermarket for beverages only.
The choice is quite difficult if you're looking for something for something new for example.
Oh this is something I need to show you this.
Here.
Well, Almdudler is actually Austrian but very popular here.
And, but what does it taste like Jörg?
Herbs.
Yes exactly.
Herbs.
Very fresh, very good.
That's a very lovely logo we think.
But we need to find the water that we have at home.
Did you spot the water?
No.
Maybe that's the disadvantage.
In the UK you've got 3 kinds of different waters - oh, yeah - here you've got 25.
Even more.
I think more.
It's crazy.
Yeah.
There it is.
No, they don't have Nürburg Quelle.
No, they don't have it.
They used to have Nürburg Quelle but now they have - here it is - yes, Gerolsteiner.
That's the one, Gerolsteiner.
So should we get 3 boxes as well?
No, your mother told me 2.
Only 2?
2 will do.
Right.
And it doesn't matter whether you have - well, these are plastic bottles - yes - but it doesn't
matter whether these are plastic bottles or glass bottles, it's all through a deposit
system - yeah - which is really great.
Yeah, they do - look - there's glass - yeah.
And that's water as well.
Yeah, Wasserglück.
Yeah.
And by the way,
this is still water and this is water.
And these are wines but that seems to be pretty small.
Yeah.
They have more beer and water.
Do you - but I spotted - think they have more beer and water than wine?
Yeah, they do because - they do - probably that's because Globus also has a supermarket
in the area - yes - and they've got a huge department full of wine and - yes - and champagne
- so that's a 5 minute drive from here.
Yeah.
But look, also
it's British.
Oh yeah, that's true - from the UK - that's true.
And I'm not sure - that's great -
no that's from Croatia, Irish cider - yeah - German, Swedish.
So so much choice.
Yeah.
Here, UK, English cider.
But now you probably want to get some beer.
Yes.
But we just wanted to show you the selection and the size of a supermarket filled with
beverages.
Yeah.
And I've never seen that in the UK.
No, we've never seen that in the UK.
That's one thing I sometimes miss because - yeah - gives you a kind of selection.
Well, the thing what I miss is the deposit system - yeah - because I think that's it's
just such a good system.
What have you got there?
Störtebeker?
Yeah.
Have you tried that before?
No but it looks interesting.
I - and - I think it looks beautiful, reminds me of Horatio Hornblower.
And it's 6 bottles with different tastes.
Yeah, yeah that's good.
And it's from the Baltic Sea.
Yes.
From Stralsund.
It's gorgeous.
I think that's beautiful - yeah -Bavarian and, you should get that one and maybe that
one.
Or we should get that one behind me, Ayinger, because we lived very close to Aying, like
15 minutes from Aying.
Sorry about that, I just noticed this.
Sorry.
Which one was that?
This one?
Tegernseer.
Tegernsee, a beautiful area in Germany - yes - in the south of Germany, in Bavaria.
So so gorgeous.
And when we came across these huge bottles earlier, we didn't notice these ones.
Yeah.
Packed in Lederhosen.
Yeah.
This is so pretty.
Makes a great present.
Yes.
The packaging is just gorgeous we think.
So you have the Lederhosen here and the shirt - yeah.
Typical Bavarian.
Yeah.
To show you the price of this, we never showed, we never shared the prices actually you know.
Yeah 4.99€.
So we just check again so that you have some kind of reference.
Look, 1.15€.
That would be heaven.
Now, that's - compared to the UK because in the UK that would be 1.80GBP minimum.
Yeah.
And now let's double check this one.
Look, 0.95€!
Oh my gosh!
0.95€.
That's a bargain.
95 cents, that's a huge bargain.
Guys.
And it's half a litre.
It is half a litre.
So it's more than a pint.
That's so cheap Jörg - yeah.
You should get a lorry.
Yes but - no, of course not, just joking.
Now let's go to the till and then do something else that we like doing in Germany.
Now we do the next thing that is very popular in Germany.
We are outside of an ice cream parlour.
This is what we usually do once or twice a year in summer.
Have a lovely ice cream and I just ordered my favourite, Spaghetti Eis and yours is a
Black Forest ice cream.
Yeah.
And we can't wait.
It's a lovely day we are here in St. Wendel which is a small town in Saarland.
Usually the ice cream parlours are run by Italians - yes - so you really get really
good Italian ice cream.
Yes and they are everywhere in Germany.
Yes.
So this one is called - Cortina - Eiscafé Cortina -and it's run by Italians.
Yes, they are the best.
So Jörg just ran to the car to get my jacket but our ice cream came and this is Spaghetti
Eis.
And it's called Spaghetti Eis because they look like spaghettis and with a sauce bolognese
but this is actually strawberry and this is Jörg's Black Forest ice cream.
That looks great, doesn't it?
You should show there the price because I think it's actually quite cheap, isn't it?
So these 2 ice creams are 10€.
That is great.
Yeah.
That's really great.
This is so good.
This is one of the simple ice creams that you get here at the ice cream parlours but
to this day my ultimate favourite.
So good.
And I think what makes this one so tasty is, you can see there's whipping cream in the
middle as well and this makes it so good.
So yours is chocolate ice cream - yes - basically - yeah, with cherries - yeah - and whipping
cream.
So it's basically the same as the Black Forest gateau - yeah - and it's just ice cream and
really yummy.
This is the ice cream parlour.
And by the way the ice cream was really delicious.
It was a real treat.
And now we want to show you a little bit of St. Wendel because it's it's quite a lovely
town we think.
Lovely buildings and yeah.
There are some great restaurants here.
Yeah I think years ago we went to the one on the left remember?
Yes I, yeah, it was really good.
Yeah.
St. Wendel is a very cosy and nice - it is - town.
And the funny thing is I think when you visit after years - it you notice it even more I
think.
Yeah.
That's really strange.
This one is lovely, this one is nice.
Hmm.
What's it called?
Do you have the name?
No.
I love this.
Being organised is half of your life but I life in the other half.
Yeah.
This could be me.
Now you've seen two typical German things.
Yeah.
Shopping for beverages.
And the Italian ice cream parlour.
Yeah, wonderful.
Well, we really really loved it.
Yeah.
And we hope you liked it as well and yeah, stay tuned for more videos and we'll see you
again very soon.
Yeah and show you more of our home country.
Yes.
So until next time.
See you soon.
Bye.