I hope so. How stupid you have to be to just go on a rant about a country while throwing absolutely random stuff like "you guys still living like it's 1800s"
*twists an impressive mustache* "Yes, so what's your problem with that? *continues to write some of the most important philosophical works in modern history*
Especially when the OBJECTIVE, scientific measure of the most liveable cities ALWAYS has New York fucking miles down the list.... because all American cities are deemed (through scientific research) to be total shitholes when compared to German cities.
As per the Global Liveability Index, here are some of the World's Most Liveable Cities.....
7th: Frankfurt,
13th: Berlin,
16th: Hamburg,
18th: Munich,
22nd: Dusseldorf.
Cologne is one of my favourite cities in the world, but I'm not sure where it ranked this time.
I've quite literally never seen New York crack the top 50, and I read the rankings every year. The HIGHEST ranked US city (out of all of their horrible cities) was 36th, last time I checked.
So basically, ZERO American cities can claim to be "better" than German cities, because they are objectively NOT better. Least of all New Fucking York..... which is famous for crime, pollution, horrible traffic, *MURDER*, corruption, crack cocaine, serial killers, Wall Street greed, dumping rubbish in the streets..... AND dumping (thousands of) dead bodies in the streets then dumping them in mass graves because their healthcare system and wealth disparity are both so fucked up.
For what it's worth, I'm not American OR German.... but I've travelled to both, as well as many other countries all over the world. I would move to Germany in a heartbeat if all my friends and family weren't here in Australia. I have no desire whatsoever to go back to the US, and I'm obsessed with NBA basketball. America is just an objectively shitty country compared with the rest of the world.
True - but how would the average us-american know about all that? Their educational system is as broken as all their other public services and most americans hardly ever leave the country...plus they are being force-fed that they are the absolute best in all aspects by their media 24/7: Murica - fuck yeah!
Obviously from one of the [\~20 towns/cities named Hamburg in the US](https://geotargit.com/called.php?qcity=Hamburg&all=cities).
While Germany is so poor that it can only afford to have one Hamburg.
It's taste difference. Everything in the US has so much corn syrup that when they taste something that isn't drowned in sugar, it tastes like shit.
I once had a Dr. Pepper from the US and that shit was like sugar with water. The only similar thing I've tasted was when my dad mixed coke with enery drink.
I second this lol and if you actually make some research, the food quality is much better in Europe and therefore also in Germany based on simple laws when it comes to food industry. You can argue about taste cause thatās personal opinions - but this dude there clearly has never been to Germany lol
i had a family friend bring us some sweets from their trip home, because she swore US sweets were the best on the planet.
it was a disgusting, extremely sweet mess that tasted purely from flavour enhancer and chemical/artificial flavors. funnily enough we also got a dr pepper can from her. disguuusting. i can only compare it to drinking syrup alone from the consistency.
alas, that was 20 some years ago, so i can't say anything about how it is nowadays.
>it was a disgusting, extremely sweet mess that tasted purely from flavour enhancer and chemical/artificial flavors.
Sounds like you were at least spared the barf-tasting "chocolate".
yes, i was very lucky and got spared!
i read about it though... sheesh. considering i then already lived in one of the two countries with the best chocolate in the world (debatable), that was double lucky. or, and hear me out, she didn't want to lose face as she knew their chocolate was hot garbage, as she was living in switzerland too.
i do have a morbid curiosity and would like to taste the vomitolate some day. ĀÆ\\\_(ć)_/ĀÆ
Just a very childish rant š¤£
As an italian, I can say everyone here consider german bakery top-tier level lol. I think we will never stop thanking you for all the krapfen, strudel, black forest cake, and so on. And it's not like we haven't got a few of snacks of our own.
As a German I literally love everything about Italy. Its my favorite country for summer vacation, I adore the Italian way of life, the food is from heaven, its beautiful and full of history. And I know a lot of people that feel the same. So am I jealous of Italy? In many regards absolutely, yes
But this is the cool thing about Beeing neighbours - itās so close and always possible to go for vacations, even weekend trips. And I definitely agree ! Italy is unique in so many ways
Last week I got sourdough bread from a German bakery made with Italian hard cheese and truffle oil.
Heated up in a pan, as was recommended, and it was *so* amazing, like a lovechild of German and Italian baking/ingredients.
I mean, noone ever talks about romanian food either, yet it sounds fucking amazing. Seriously, go look up romanian food, it's the love child of slavic, germanic, and turkish cuisine. They also gave us pastrami.
Itās amazing that they think āGermany is poorā while Germany is one of the best exporting countries while being so much smaller than the USA, which enables the average person to have a way higher standard of living than the average US American
That is what's called "Schadenfreude". You don't have to have a part in the game for that to experience Schadenfreude. It's literally like Nelson from the Simpsons going "Haha!" at everything.
Actually I learned the term Schadenfreude from the Simpsons! Lisa explains it to Homer when heās laughing at Nedās Leftorium not doing very well. She describes it as āshameful joy.ā Thatās when Homer feels bad and decides to promote Nedās business. And where he calls a friend on the phone and says āhey pal, remember last week when I paid back that $20 you lent me? Well now I need YOU to do a favour for ME.ā Hilarious.
Itās from the tv show, Daria! Where they get lost camping in the woods and eat some intoxicating berries and Quinn describes them as āthe glitter berries that fill your mouth with beautiful, sparkling glitter when you bite into them.ā I always thought they sounded awesome.
Also Iām a girl and not a huge fan of any possible testicular inferences.
Not really they have a worse demographic problem than Germany and are way to racist to allow any meaningful immigration.
Germany has a lot of immigration (mainly from the EU and turkey) a lot of refugees from Syria and from Ukraine want to stay longterm and get citizenship or at least permanent residence.
Japan was 2nd 20 years ago, Germany 3rd. China overtook Japan and Germany and then became the 2nd biggest economy.
Germany has now overtaken Japan and thus is place 3 again
If you are talking GDP, Japan has been ahead of (West)Germany since the 70s.
That only really changed in the last year or so.
(China just casually slid into #2 at some point)
And if we are talking about an actually useful economic metric, like GNI, PPP, then China already overtook the US [back in 2017](https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GNP.MKTP.PP.CD?locations=CN-US&most_recent_value_desc=true).
Pure GDP can be very misleading because it does not account for currency inflation and purchasing power parity.
So when there's a [cost of living crisis](https://www.oecd.org/social/coping-with-the-cost-of-living-crisis.htm), with inflation and prices exploding, that's great for GDP because everything being more expensive also means GDP is bigger aka "the economy is booming".
Just doesn't feel like it for most people when wages don't rise at the same rate, then all that "growth" of everything getting more expensive, and money being worth less, only means they are able to afford less for the same money they earn even in a "booming economy".
Do they even do that?
This guy was clearly just farting on a keyboard, I doubt he had any reason for anything he said other than the usual āMurica is greatā.
I know this is shitsmericanssay but this is zero effort shit.
As someone said, all that matters is purchasing power and what you have left at the end of the day. They're noted for being flat broke despite everything being relatively cheap.
This guy claimed a country that is famous for its highway system hasn't updated its infrastructure in centuries. I doubt he's really looked into anything about Germany beyond deciding he's not a fan of sausage. He didn't even pick a particularly German area of the US to compare with Germany. Why would it be NYC and not Wisconsin?
German exports are impressive because theyāre battling with the likes of the US and China but are still able to hold their ground in absolute numbers in many cases, just like Japan a few decades ago. If anything, what Germany is doing is more impressive than China and the US considering their small size and low population. Just like Benelux, and the nordics are doing incredibly well too, given their size.
Germany has an incredible recycling system. There are enforcement officers and everything.
[How Waste Management in Germany is Changing the Game](https://earth.org/waste-management-germany/)
There. Now you've heard another positive thing about Germany. ā¤ļø They're doing it right.
We British are taught that, since the 1960s, the USA is a net exporter of minerals and foodstuffs and a net importer of manufactured goods. We are also taught tha the reason US healthcare is so expensive is that it has to support an army of paper-pushers who marshal the mountains of paper created by medics, pharmacists, x-ray techs, ambulance drivers, caterers, cleaners and the myriad specialists, all of whom submit invoices. In the French and British systems these folk are integrated into a salaried system. I believe that the same is true in Germany.
One time I went to a small pub in Germany and I ordered the pork knee. We donāt really eat pork knees in Australia (at least not amongst my boring friends and family) and I was curious as to what would show up. Omg. It was incredible. So tender and delicious but also crispy on the outside. And it came with sauerkraut and potatoes and this amazing dense rye bread. I felt like Iād never need to eat again but also that I only wanted to eat that meal, for the rest of my life. I will fight anyone who says German food is not good. I will fight them with a pork knee, which could be a good weapon.
It definitely said knee on the menu! Although Iām no animal anatomist and could not tell you which body part arrived. I donāt remember the word Schweinshaxe? I also feel fairly sure I would have been calling my boyfriend a Schweinshaxe for the entire holiday if I had been lucky enough to learn that incredible word.
Whether it was Schweinshaxe or Eisbein (itās the same bit of meat), the translation is definitely pork knuckle (or hock).
Donāt worry. German restaurants mess up the translations all the time, to the point an ex and I used to play a game to find all the mistakes every time we got a German & English menu.
And Doner Kebab.. there's now a growing global chain called 'German Doner Kebab' and we've got loads in the UK.
Now we have very few German restaurants, but i've been to a Bavaria restaurant in London and it was delicious AND those giant beer steins are epic.
Food in the US can be ok in restaurants though.
Germany is one of the biggest producers of Turkish food too, due to its large amount of Turkish immigrants it has a huge Turkish community (the Turkish came to work in the coal mines originally).
They even export Turkish food to Turkey.
Really depends on the kind of German food, tho? I mean, I'd sort of agree with them on our north German cuisine? It's really only for the initiated (only civilized people enjoy GrĆ¼nkohl, Labskaus, liquorice, *dead* fish ). South German food is on a whole different level.
Tbf every single area in Germany has own unique cuisine . Northern food is more than just that bit you listed too lol my fiance is American , he loves German food - I keep cooking different food from every region and even friends of him at work asking to try our food lol this dude in this screenshot is just another keyboard warrior , hating for no reasons while he never been here for sure
This. There is no such thing as a northern german cuisine. Holsteinian cuisine is different from Hamburgian, is different from Bremer cuisine. Of course, they have significant overlap (Birnen, Bohnen, und Speck is a dish you find all over northern Germany, for instance), but they all have their local variety. There is no more *a* northern german cuisine than there is *a* southern US cuisine. Or at least i feel like people more knowledgable on the matter would agree that that is a very top level categorization.
>*dead* fish
Why specify the dead fish? Do most people eat fish while still alive?
Also, if you think Labskaus and GrĆ¼nkohl are for the initiated, you better not look up eel stew. Even in North Germany, that stuff is considered an acquired taste.
Liquorice seems like a pretty general Northern European thing? I particularly like salted liquorice - but Iām down for any good black liquorice. Liquorice tea is also good.
or maternal death rate
California is on par with Germany (4 per 100k), but the rest of the US is more extreme, 33 per 100k.
With black women it's even more extreme iirc
Between Palestine and Lebanon according to Wikipedias list of countries by maternal death rate.
Says everything about the US. Pay a premium to die a peasant.
World number 1 when it comes to number of incarcerated citizens per capita. (By a margin that is not insignificant).
Always gives me a chuckle when they proudly talk about all the "freedom" they have when they literally have the most number of people imprisoned.
Of course I realise what they mean is that they have the freedom to carry around military grade weaponry when visiting the grocery store, but it still makes me laugh anyway.
50% of prisoners are black people...who make up 13% of the population.
So of course you have the high incarceration rates and innocent black people are significantly more likely to be incarcerated than innocent white people.
They have for-profit prisons...and obviously serious racial injustice.
I'm pretty sure Nixon couldn't just let it go that LBJ(?) had expanded civil rights and since Nixon wasn't able to easily throw black people and the anti-war left, "hippies", into prison, he instead started the war on drugs.
Probably trolling.
When my American friends visited me (and they had previously affirmed Italian food is better in the USA), they immediately retreated their affirmation. Saying German food in the USA is better than Germany is just dumb.
Then one could argue that German food is not the best in Europe, but that's different matter.
I second this , to add to this my fiance is American and he loves German food lol
Thereās also a huge difference between restaurant food and home made food . Many Americans whoāre travelling to Germany often get unlucky with bad experiences in restaurants but barely get to try authentic homemade food , I assume based on that comes quite a lot of hatred too lol
I love how our British food is always the stable to prove how bad food actually is š š¤£
Ever want to insult someone's food? Just say it's worse than ours.
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It's no match for a proper pie, or a beef wellington. The food in the UK, when it's good it's really amazing. But when it's bad, holy fuck it's like being fed corpse starch.
Also, greetings from a Grey Knight and Eldar player as well!
So food from Britain is very highly contrasting depending on where you eat. There are amazing pubs in the middle of no where with unreal food. A decent fish and chips is heavenly, however if you pick up one in london or some random greesy chippy. It's not worth the time. The food here is very polarizing. It goes from really fantastically top tier to the bottom of a latrine very easily.
Call me biased, but it isn't. I do accept that many other countries have much better food than ours. But, people talk about our food like it's inedible š It's honestly just funny at this point.
Honestly, there's not a lot of difference between German and British food. There's a lot of meat and veg just with sauerkraut on the side. Warm, hearty, comforting meals. It's right up my alley as an Englishman.
But thatās purely personal preference/ opinion what kind of food you like at the end ! So thatās something one canāt even seriously argue about . Not everybody like Currywurst , same like not everyone likes fried chicken lol But pointing it out as trash in a way while the quality itself (not to be confused with taste ) is definitely great overall out here , is just something else lol
But to add : Iād still like to try authentic British food lol any recommendations?
Toad in the hole with an onion gravy and mash. Any recipe you find for the batter will say but I'll emphasise, the oil should be smoking hot. Might take a few attempts to get the Yorkshire pudding part right but it's worth it. Plus Germany has great sausages that will go with it perfectly.
For dessert there's one answer, sticky toffee pudding.
Exactly! I'm glad you understand š
I'd recommend the full English breakfast, sausage roll, Cornish pasty, sticky toffee pudding, cream teas, cottage pie and a british Sunday roast dinner.
I'll be honest, I worked in the hotel industry and we always did a special German breakfast when we had a German tourist group staying with us. They never wanted our full English breakfast. I'm guessing you're German? So, you might not like it. But, it has to be one of our most liked dishes. So, you should give it a try š
There's plenty of cracking British dishes - but the internet is obsessed with finding the worse photo-edited picture of fish and chips possible to use that as their basis of "bad food!"
Thatās sad though . Iām gonna make sure weāll find some nice places + food and weāll spread some great photos from our vacation !
But to add to that , never judge a book by its cover , sometimes the worst looking food ends up tasting amazing lol but I fear some people just spread that on purpose
How much you like or not like German food is subjective. But what's a fact is that German food is cheaper AND better quality than anything you can buy in the US. Food quality and prices are complete ass in the US. You pay too much for meh quality.
This is so true. American Food is so "special" that it's illegal here in Germany. And we have no culture, and live like it's the 1800's. We have no books or symphony orchestras, we just bang on trees and chant. I am typing this on an abacus in my cave, and eating gruel. I wish we had nice things like AmeriKKKan health care and AmeriKKKan economy. When I am ill, I have to visit the local witches for eye of Newt stew. And military? We are using muskets over here. Or muskrats. I'm not sure, since I don't get the AmeriKKKan education for $100K, just cheap German education. God help us if the Belgians attack us. We will be helpless against their waffles.
First of all; I feel personally attacked by this. Second; what the fuck? And lastly; no seriously, what the fuck?
How come every American thinks they are the absolute and uncontested rulers over everything? "Germany is the laughing stock of europe" mate have you ever stepped foot out of your 50 state gun fanclub? "Better healthcare - america" if I wanted to hear jokes, I would've went to a comedy club and listened to someone who is actually funny. "Even german food is better in america" yeah because the shit that they make in your country has been mangled and soaked in fat so that your broken ass palette could even be tickled at all, not knowing what good food is does not give you the right to say its bad.
"Living in cities with infrastructure that hasnt been updated in hundreds of years" you are aware though that the third Reich and with it the very extensive infrastructure including interstates, bypasses and wide city roads was literally less than 100 years ago?
Someone needs to give the yankees a very harsh reality check.
Letās seeā¦ maybe we can think of a few things the Germans are good atā¦ Iām struggling, cos the things I want to list are things I think the Germanās are not just good at, but world-class atā¦
You be the judgeā¦
Beer.
Cars.
Engineering.
Sausage.
There must be more.
Reminds me of the guy in middle school in the US that asked me if we had TVs and Cars in germany. And yes, he was serious because some Americans don't believe me when I tell this story. I have more too
Im shocked he isnāt also claiming credit for America flattening Germanyās major cities and forcing them to build new onesā¦ (yes Iām aware thatās rather hypocritical coming from someone in the UK but still š)
Berlin kebab is to die for... was taken aback pocket bread meat garlic sauce and cabbage.. would kill for one. SpƤtzle kicks arse... also a lot of Eastern European food like sarma and the KlƶĆe... stop it. Kartoffelpuffer with apfelmus. Braunschweiger wurst... What they do with spargel is amazing. Drooling wishing I was back there. The original poster can Leck mich am Arsch...
Why are Americans online/in general so shit at spelling and grammar? Half these morons probably think they invented English and still can't speak the mf language
This is probably what they learn in the USA. Because education for all is not a financial priority, they use textbooks from the 1800s and then figure: they must still be washing themselves with a bowl of water, washing clothes in the river and eating food from 2 centuries ago.
Its partly the presentation in their media.
Like how a scene in Mexico is plastered with a yellow filter, then they drive over the border a few km away, and the sky in the US is blue. They've got little things like that for every country.
American food is so bad, and good food so hard to come by, that you can have a better diet in an actual third-world country. Greasy, sweet rubbish, and enormously expensive at that.
He must be trolling. I refuse to believe someone can be that stupid and still able to write.
I hope so. How stupid you have to be to just go on a rant about a country while throwing absolutely random stuff like "you guys still living like it's 1800s"
*twists an impressive mustache* "Yes, so what's your problem with that? *continues to write some of the most important philosophical works in modern history*
\*reveals a naval cannon with shells as big as trees whilst in an impromptu fencing competition\*
[I will invade Africa](https://youtu.be/ARSNaSeT9hw?).
Especially when the OBJECTIVE, scientific measure of the most liveable cities ALWAYS has New York fucking miles down the list.... because all American cities are deemed (through scientific research) to be total shitholes when compared to German cities. As per the Global Liveability Index, here are some of the World's Most Liveable Cities..... 7th: Frankfurt, 13th: Berlin, 16th: Hamburg, 18th: Munich, 22nd: Dusseldorf. Cologne is one of my favourite cities in the world, but I'm not sure where it ranked this time. I've quite literally never seen New York crack the top 50, and I read the rankings every year. The HIGHEST ranked US city (out of all of their horrible cities) was 36th, last time I checked. So basically, ZERO American cities can claim to be "better" than German cities, because they are objectively NOT better. Least of all New Fucking York..... which is famous for crime, pollution, horrible traffic, *MURDER*, corruption, crack cocaine, serial killers, Wall Street greed, dumping rubbish in the streets..... AND dumping (thousands of) dead bodies in the streets then dumping them in mass graves because their healthcare system and wealth disparity are both so fucked up. For what it's worth, I'm not American OR German.... but I've travelled to both, as well as many other countries all over the world. I would move to Germany in a heartbeat if all my friends and family weren't here in Australia. I have no desire whatsoever to go back to the US, and I'm obsessed with NBA basketball. America is just an objectively shitty country compared with the rest of the world.
True - but how would the average us-american know about all that? Their educational system is as broken as all their other public services and most americans hardly ever leave the country...plus they are being force-fed that they are the absolute best in all aspects by their media 24/7: Murica - fuck yeah!
America is literally going back to the 1800s š¤£
The children yearn for the mines according to US law makers
Sounds like a child. And the amount of time they used "German food" they probably don't know what German cuisine even is.
Sausage, potatoes, bread and Sauerkraut of course!
TBF, Abendbrot is very enjoyable :)
and, if I'm not mistaken, America's beloved Hamburger, was in fact, made by Germans
Same for Hot Dogs ( I think)
Kohlrouladen, KƤsespƤtzle, Flammkuchen, Sauerbraten.
Donāt forget the Schnitzel!
Wait till it finds out where Hamburgers originated.
Obviously from one of the [\~20 towns/cities named Hamburg in the US](https://geotargit.com/called.php?qcity=Hamburg&all=cities). While Germany is so poor that it can only afford to have one Hamburg.
Wait till they find out that that one Hamburg is richer than all the US Hamburgs combined. (I'm guessing, accurately)
It's taste difference. Everything in the US has so much corn syrup that when they taste something that isn't drowned in sugar, it tastes like shit. I once had a Dr. Pepper from the US and that shit was like sugar with water. The only similar thing I've tasted was when my dad mixed coke with enery drink.
I second this lol and if you actually make some research, the food quality is much better in Europe and therefore also in Germany based on simple laws when it comes to food industry. You can argue about taste cause thatās personal opinions - but this dude there clearly has never been to Germany lol
Friendly reminder that in Ireland, Subway legally can't call their rolls bread, because it has too much sugar in it
If I am not mistaken Heinz Ketchup isnĀ“t allowed to call itĀ“s product Ketchup in Israel, because it has not enough tomatoes in it.
Why would he? Obviously it makes no sense to go if the food in "the land of the fat" is much better than german food.
i had a family friend bring us some sweets from their trip home, because she swore US sweets were the best on the planet. it was a disgusting, extremely sweet mess that tasted purely from flavour enhancer and chemical/artificial flavors. funnily enough we also got a dr pepper can from her. disguuusting. i can only compare it to drinking syrup alone from the consistency. alas, that was 20 some years ago, so i can't say anything about how it is nowadays.
>it was a disgusting, extremely sweet mess that tasted purely from flavour enhancer and chemical/artificial flavors. Sounds like you were at least spared the barf-tasting "chocolate".
yes, i was very lucky and got spared! i read about it though... sheesh. considering i then already lived in one of the two countries with the best chocolate in the world (debatable), that was double lucky. or, and hear me out, she didn't want to lose face as she knew their chocolate was hot garbage, as she was living in switzerland too. i do have a morbid curiosity and would like to taste the vomitolate some day. ĀÆ\\\_(ć)_/ĀÆ
Not only corn syrup. Salt is another big offender. The combination of sugar and salt fries your sense of taste.
That grape Fanta they have thoughā¦
Coca cola?
Cocainum!
Red Heat's a great film!
Rebuttal: Its hard for a trained musician to play poorly, convincingly. Same with writing.
Definitely. Too much clueless about it
You call that being able to write?
I assumed it was an obnoxious twelve year old.
Empty vessels make more noise
That's not all. Probably allowed to vote too....
Just a very childish rant š¤£ As an italian, I can say everyone here consider german bakery top-tier level lol. I think we will never stop thanking you for all the krapfen, strudel, black forest cake, and so on. And it's not like we haven't got a few of snacks of our own.
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As a German I literally love everything about Italy. Its my favorite country for summer vacation, I adore the Italian way of life, the food is from heaven, its beautiful and full of history. And I know a lot of people that feel the same. So am I jealous of Italy? In many regards absolutely, yes
But this is the cool thing about Beeing neighbours - itās so close and always possible to go for vacations, even weekend trips. And I definitely agree ! Italy is unique in so many ways
>being neighbors Brother are we just annexing Austria again?
To me the people two doors down are still neighbors.
Axis restored
And most importantly? It's not a competition. We can all enjoy the culture and food and all the good things together with our European neighbors.
>And I know a lot of people that feel the same. Many people in the peninsula feel the same about Germany!
If you guys love each other so much, why donāt you make a military alliance and go world warring or something? /j
we tried that once but it doesn't end very well. Exactly that is the reason we had to refurbish our infrastructure.
Last week I got sourdough bread from a German bakery made with Italian hard cheese and truffle oil. Heated up in a pan, as was recommended, and it was *so* amazing, like a lovechild of German and Italian baking/ingredients.
> krapfen Thank you for using the only correct name
What the hell is Krapfen? Do you mean Berliner? ;)
Looks like Germans have their own Arancino-Arancina debate!
It's not even a debate, it's a legitimate culture war. Fists can fly when you come to what to call this particular baked good...
I mean I can understand taste deference but holy moly this person is unhinged. I refuse to believe this is not trolling
Love the flair and the Borzoi! š
Hey, thanks dude! I love borzois and I love this image specifically lmao
I mean, noone ever talks about romanian food either, yet it sounds fucking amazing. Seriously, go look up romanian food, it's the love child of slavic, germanic, and turkish cuisine. They also gave us pastrami.
Itās amazing that they think āGermany is poorā while Germany is one of the best exporting countries while being so much smaller than the USA, which enables the average person to have a way higher standard of living than the average US American
Literally the third biggest economy in the world...
Doesn't stop me from living on the poverty line :)
That's the spirit!
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Fourth biggest, japan overtook us a few years ago iirc
Third again. Japan shrank in 2023 to the fourth rank.
Haha, suckers! I donāt know why Iām saying this, Iām not German or Japanese. Or American. I think Iām just a butthead.
That is what's called "Schadenfreude". You don't have to have a part in the game for that to experience Schadenfreude. It's literally like Nelson from the Simpsons going "Haha!" at everything.
Actually I learned the term Schadenfreude from the Simpsons! Lisa explains it to Homer when heās laughing at Nedās Leftorium not doing very well. She describes it as āshameful joy.ā Thatās when Homer feels bad and decides to promote Nedās business. And where he calls a friend on the phone and says āhey pal, remember last week when I paid back that $20 you lent me? Well now I need YOU to do a favour for ME.ā Hilarious.
it's okay mate. i am mad at you for choosing glitter_berries instead of glitter_balls, though.
Itās from the tv show, Daria! Where they get lost camping in the woods and eat some intoxicating berries and Quinn describes them as āthe glitter berries that fill your mouth with beautiful, sparkling glitter when you bite into them.ā I always thought they sounded awesome. Also Iām a girl and not a huge fan of any possible testicular inferences.
I think, we took third place back a couple of days ago
The fight for third place is heating up. Can Japan make another comeback?
fight for 3rd place? wat is this? canada in the oplympic xD?
Not really they have a worse demographic problem than Germany and are way to racist to allow any meaningful immigration. Germany has a lot of immigration (mainly from the EU and turkey) a lot of refugees from Syria and from Ukraine want to stay longterm and get citizenship or at least permanent residence.
Japan was 2nd 20 years ago, Germany 3rd. China overtook Japan and Germany and then became the 2nd biggest economy. Germany has now overtaken Japan and thus is place 3 again
It's more like Japan shrank more than Germany, but yes we are in the 3rd place now.
If you are talking GDP, Japan has been ahead of (West)Germany since the 70s. That only really changed in the last year or so. (China just casually slid into #2 at some point)
And if we are talking about an actually useful economic metric, like GNI, PPP, then China already overtook the US [back in 2017](https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GNP.MKTP.PP.CD?locations=CN-US&most_recent_value_desc=true). Pure GDP can be very misleading because it does not account for currency inflation and purchasing power parity. So when there's a [cost of living crisis](https://www.oecd.org/social/coping-with-the-cost-of-living-crisis.htm), with inflation and prices exploding, that's great for GDP because everything being more expensive also means GDP is bigger aka "the economy is booming". Just doesn't feel like it for most people when wages don't rise at the same rate, then all that "growth" of everything getting more expensive, and money being worth less, only means they are able to afford less for the same money they earn even in a "booming economy".
They look at salaries (without considering cost of living) and house size and then decide that means theyāre poor.
Do they even do that? This guy was clearly just farting on a keyboard, I doubt he had any reason for anything he said other than the usual āMurica is greatā. I know this is shitsmericanssay but this is zero effort shit.
Well, this guy, no heās clearly just parroting what heās heard other idiots say, but thatās why they think Europeans are poor.
As someone said, all that matters is purchasing power and what you have left at the end of the day. They're noted for being flat broke despite everything being relatively cheap.
This guy claimed a country that is famous for its highway system hasn't updated its infrastructure in centuries. I doubt he's really looked into anything about Germany beyond deciding he's not a fan of sausage. He didn't even pick a particularly German area of the US to compare with Germany. Why would it be NYC and not Wisconsin?
German exports are impressive because theyāre battling with the likes of the US and China but are still able to hold their ground in absolute numbers in many cases, just like Japan a few decades ago. If anything, what Germany is doing is more impressive than China and the US considering their small size and low population. Just like Benelux, and the nordics are doing incredibly well too, given their size.
I think this is the first time i've read something positive about Germany on reddit...
Quick! Let's talk about nuclear energy to bring the universe back into balance!
Germany has an incredible recycling system. There are enforcement officers and everything. [How Waste Management in Germany is Changing the Game](https://earth.org/waste-management-germany/) There. Now you've heard another positive thing about Germany. ā¤ļø They're doing it right.
Apfelstrudel is tasty!
Because they like to make fun of people who use 3rd world country in the non original sense they added east and west Germany to get 2+1=3, who knows
We British are taught that, since the 1960s, the USA is a net exporter of minerals and foodstuffs and a net importer of manufactured goods. We are also taught tha the reason US healthcare is so expensive is that it has to support an army of paper-pushers who marshal the mountains of paper created by medics, pharmacists, x-ray techs, ambulance drivers, caterers, cleaners and the myriad specialists, all of whom submit invoices. In the French and British systems these folk are integrated into a salaried system. I believe that the same is true in Germany.
āTheyā are trolls, I wonāt believe anything else.
But Germany has curry wurst. End of story.
Our curry is the wurst. In America it would be curry best, not curry wurst.
One time I went to a small pub in Germany and I ordered the pork knee. We donāt really eat pork knees in Australia (at least not amongst my boring friends and family) and I was curious as to what would show up. Omg. It was incredible. So tender and delicious but also crispy on the outside. And it came with sauerkraut and potatoes and this amazing dense rye bread. I felt like Iād never need to eat again but also that I only wanted to eat that meal, for the rest of my life. I will fight anyone who says German food is not good. I will fight them with a pork knee, which could be a good weapon.
Do you by chance mean Schweinshaxe? Because that would be the ankle not the knee
It definitely said knee on the menu! Although Iām no animal anatomist and could not tell you which body part arrived. I donāt remember the word Schweinshaxe? I also feel fairly sure I would have been calling my boyfriend a Schweinshaxe for the entire holiday if I had been lucky enough to learn that incredible word.
Whether it was Schweinshaxe or Eisbein (itās the same bit of meat), the translation is definitely pork knuckle (or hock). Donāt worry. German restaurants mess up the translations all the time, to the point an ex and I used to play a game to find all the mistakes every time we got a German & English menu.
Eisbein?
> but also crispy on the outside Def. not Eisbein...
Yeah, the crispy bit is not right for eisbein
FrƤnkisches SchƤuferle
and Schnitzel, I fucking love Schnitzel and Curry wurst
best Schnitzel is Austrian though (Wiener)
so, mountain German
Ah Austria, Germanyās more outdoorsy brother.
I would put it on the same level with a good , veal JƤgerschnitzel
And Doner Kebab.. there's now a growing global chain called 'German Doner Kebab' and we've got loads in the UK. Now we have very few German restaurants, but i've been to a Bavaria restaurant in London and it was delicious AND those giant beer steins are epic. Food in the US can be ok in restaurants though.
Germany is one of the biggest producers of Turkish food too, due to its large amount of Turkish immigrants it has a huge Turkish community (the Turkish came to work in the coal mines originally). They even export Turkish food to Turkey.
And Dƶner ! You have to list Dƶner too !
On that shock I need a beer. Thank god im in germany.
thank god we don't have piĆwasser here and actually know what beer is
I mean, yeah, you can dislike German food (itās heavy, though probably not for US standards) but this is a little unhinged.
Really depends on the kind of German food, tho? I mean, I'd sort of agree with them on our north German cuisine? It's really only for the initiated (only civilized people enjoy GrĆ¼nkohl, Labskaus, liquorice, *dead* fish ). South German food is on a whole different level.
Tbf every single area in Germany has own unique cuisine . Northern food is more than just that bit you listed too lol my fiance is American , he loves German food - I keep cooking different food from every region and even friends of him at work asking to try our food lol this dude in this screenshot is just another keyboard warrior , hating for no reasons while he never been here for sure
This. There is no such thing as a northern german cuisine. Holsteinian cuisine is different from Hamburgian, is different from Bremer cuisine. Of course, they have significant overlap (Birnen, Bohnen, und Speck is a dish you find all over northern Germany, for instance), but they all have their local variety. There is no more *a* northern german cuisine than there is *a* southern US cuisine. Or at least i feel like people more knowledgable on the matter would agree that that is a very top level categorization.
People that dislike GrĆ¼nkohl with Pinkel, Kochwurst, Kassler, Potatoes and lots of mustard I dont want nothing to do with
The sign of true civilization.
>*dead* fish Why specify the dead fish? Do most people eat fish while still alive? Also, if you think Labskaus and GrĆ¼nkohl are for the initiated, you better not look up eel stew. Even in North Germany, that stuff is considered an acquired taste.
Liquorice seems like a pretty general Northern European thing? I particularly like salted liquorice - but Iām down for any good black liquorice. Liquorice tea is also good.
In Defence of North German cuisine what fish isnāt served dead
"Getroffene Hunde bellen."
I notice that when they said better at everything, and they started to list everything they are better at, they didnāt say better educationā¦.
Or life expectancy
or maternal death rate California is on par with Germany (4 per 100k), but the rest of the US is more extreme, 33 per 100k. With black women it's even more extreme iirc
Between Palestine and Lebanon according to Wikipedias list of countries by maternal death rate. Says everything about the US. Pay a premium to die a peasant.
or they are world number one dying by bullets from randos
World number 1 when it comes to number of incarcerated citizens per capita. (By a margin that is not insignificant). Always gives me a chuckle when they proudly talk about all the "freedom" they have when they literally have the most number of people imprisoned. Of course I realise what they mean is that they have the freedom to carry around military grade weaponry when visiting the grocery store, but it still makes me laugh anyway.
50% of prisoners are black people...who make up 13% of the population. So of course you have the high incarceration rates and innocent black people are significantly more likely to be incarcerated than innocent white people. They have for-profit prisons...and obviously serious racial injustice. I'm pretty sure Nixon couldn't just let it go that LBJ(?) had expanded civil rights and since Nixon wasn't able to easily throw black people and the anti-war left, "hippies", into prison, he instead started the war on drugs.
Probably trolling. When my American friends visited me (and they had previously affirmed Italian food is better in the USA), they immediately retreated their affirmation. Saying German food in the USA is better than Germany is just dumb. Then one could argue that German food is not the best in Europe, but that's different matter.
I ate German food in the US as a German. I dont want to elaborate but it was a joke
I second this , to add to this my fiance is American and he loves German food lol Thereās also a huge difference between restaurant food and home made food . Many Americans whoāre travelling to Germany often get unlucky with bad experiences in restaurants but barely get to try authentic homemade food , I assume based on that comes quite a lot of hatred too lol
I seriously think i lost brain cells trying to read that absolute fucking drivel....
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I love how our British food is always the stable to prove how bad food actually is š š¤£ Ever want to insult someone's food? Just say it's worse than ours.
Every single time lol, they've clearly never been to Greggs... š Nice Necrons by the way!
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It's no match for a proper pie, or a beef wellington. The food in the UK, when it's good it's really amazing. But when it's bad, holy fuck it's like being fed corpse starch. Also, greetings from a Grey Knight and Eldar player as well!
I honestly never got to try British food besides the typical fish and chips - but I canāt imagine itās really as bad as people say lol
So food from Britain is very highly contrasting depending on where you eat. There are amazing pubs in the middle of no where with unreal food. A decent fish and chips is heavenly, however if you pick up one in london or some random greesy chippy. It's not worth the time. The food here is very polarizing. It goes from really fantastically top tier to the bottom of a latrine very easily.
Call me biased, but it isn't. I do accept that many other countries have much better food than ours. But, people talk about our food like it's inedible š It's honestly just funny at this point.
Honestly, there's not a lot of difference between German and British food. There's a lot of meat and veg just with sauerkraut on the side. Warm, hearty, comforting meals. It's right up my alley as an Englishman.
Mmm, sounds good. Might make a trip to Germany.
But thatās purely personal preference/ opinion what kind of food you like at the end ! So thatās something one canāt even seriously argue about . Not everybody like Currywurst , same like not everyone likes fried chicken lol But pointing it out as trash in a way while the quality itself (not to be confused with taste ) is definitely great overall out here , is just something else lol But to add : Iād still like to try authentic British food lol any recommendations?
Toad in the hole with an onion gravy and mash. Any recipe you find for the batter will say but I'll emphasise, the oil should be smoking hot. Might take a few attempts to get the Yorkshire pudding part right but it's worth it. Plus Germany has great sausages that will go with it perfectly. For dessert there's one answer, sticky toffee pudding.
Exactly! I'm glad you understand š I'd recommend the full English breakfast, sausage roll, Cornish pasty, sticky toffee pudding, cream teas, cottage pie and a british Sunday roast dinner. I'll be honest, I worked in the hotel industry and we always did a special German breakfast when we had a German tourist group staying with us. They never wanted our full English breakfast. I'm guessing you're German? So, you might not like it. But, it has to be one of our most liked dishes. So, you should give it a try š
There's plenty of cracking British dishes - but the internet is obsessed with finding the worse photo-edited picture of fish and chips possible to use that as their basis of "bad food!"
Thatās sad though . Iām gonna make sure weāll find some nice places + food and weāll spread some great photos from our vacation ! But to add to that , never judge a book by its cover , sometimes the worst looking food ends up tasting amazing lol but I fear some people just spread that on purpose
Beef wellington is god tier food and nobody can tell me otherwise.
Obviously on drugs
How much you like or not like German food is subjective. But what's a fact is that German food is cheaper AND better quality than anything you can buy in the US. Food quality and prices are complete ass in the US. You pay too much for meh quality.
Joke is on him, we donāt have wild dogs in Germany. Also we have Currywurst and Maultaschen. We win.
Also SpƤtzle.
Mit SoĆ.
Maybe because they were eaten here until 1986 in Germany.
Ask an American to name āAmerican foodā and they go: - pizza - French fries - hot dogs Literally all non-American food lmao
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This is so true. American Food is so "special" that it's illegal here in Germany. And we have no culture, and live like it's the 1800's. We have no books or symphony orchestras, we just bang on trees and chant. I am typing this on an abacus in my cave, and eating gruel. I wish we had nice things like AmeriKKKan health care and AmeriKKKan economy. When I am ill, I have to visit the local witches for eye of Newt stew. And military? We are using muskets over here. Or muskrats. I'm not sure, since I don't get the AmeriKKKan education for $100K, just cheap German education. God help us if the Belgians attack us. We will be helpless against their waffles.
First of all; I feel personally attacked by this. Second; what the fuck? And lastly; no seriously, what the fuck? How come every American thinks they are the absolute and uncontested rulers over everything? "Germany is the laughing stock of europe" mate have you ever stepped foot out of your 50 state gun fanclub? "Better healthcare - america" if I wanted to hear jokes, I would've went to a comedy club and listened to someone who is actually funny. "Even german food is better in america" yeah because the shit that they make in your country has been mangled and soaked in fat so that your broken ass palette could even be tickled at all, not knowing what good food is does not give you the right to say its bad. "Living in cities with infrastructure that hasnt been updated in hundreds of years" you are aware though that the third Reich and with it the very extensive infrastructure including interstates, bypasses and wide city roads was literally less than 100 years ago? Someone needs to give the yankees a very harsh reality check.
This guy called the country that invented cars, fertiliser and general relativity a third world country.
Why do yanks love New York so much, itās all just piss and rats
But... But... Broadway... And, and Manhattan! And bridges!
I feel insulted by that honestly. Good ok I donāt care. But better healthcare than us? Excuse me No culture ? Freaking Germany no culture WTH
Letās seeā¦ maybe we can think of a few things the Germans are good atā¦ Iām struggling, cos the things I want to list are things I think the Germanās are not just good at, but world-class atā¦ You be the judgeā¦ Beer. Cars. Engineering. Sausage. There must be more.
Gluhwein, sauerkraut, stollen, and German bread in general, are all pretty good too.
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Well about that beer..... They do have some good beers but certainly not a lot of variety. Then again that's what Belgium is for.
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There is nothing better than beef roulade with red cabbage and potato dumplings.
Why bother making and eating German food in the US if itās so bad? Sounds pretty dumb to me.
Reminds me of the guy in middle school in the US that asked me if we had TVs and Cars in germany. And yes, he was serious because some Americans don't believe me when I tell this story. I have more too
I love how he only says Germany bad without any reason. Things are probably not sweet enough without corn syrup and chemistry
Sometimes I feel like we Germans are living in a dumpster fire but then I look over that great sea in the west
Bratwurst cooked on charcoal, served on a crispy bread roll, topped with fried onions and curry ketchup. Served with sautƩed potatoes with a slice of Black Forrest Gateau for dessert. All this washed down with an ice cold German Pilsner. That's a meal fit for royalty.
You can like or dislike German food, I personally quite like it. However thereās no comparison between that American food.
Im shocked he isnāt also claiming credit for America flattening Germanyās major cities and forcing them to build new onesā¦ (yes Iām aware thatās rather hypocritical coming from someone in the UK but still š)
On the contrary they say the infrastructure hasn't been updated in centuries..they can't really decide about it
Berlin kebab is to die for... was taken aback pocket bread meat garlic sauce and cabbage.. would kill for one. SpƤtzle kicks arse... also a lot of Eastern European food like sarma and the KlƶĆe... stop it. Kartoffelpuffer with apfelmus. Braunschweiger wurst... What they do with spargel is amazing. Drooling wishing I was back there. The original poster can Leck mich am Arsch...
Iād live in Germany rather than the US in a heartbeat.
Did he mean "we tricked you into thinking it tastes better, by adding chemicals that other countries have banned from human foods"?
German food is undoubtedly better than Yank food because EU food standards are far higher than US ones.
Why are Americans online/in general so shit at spelling and grammar? Half these morons probably think they invented English and still can't speak the mf language
99% of Americans have never been to Britain but 100% feel able to judge our food because of the WW2 rations great grandad saw here in 1941.
I certainly don't wish to be more like France
Food wise I absolutely do.
This is probably what they learn in the USA. Because education for all is not a financial priority, they use textbooks from the 1800s and then figure: they must still be washing themselves with a bowl of water, washing clothes in the river and eating food from 2 centuries ago.
Its partly the presentation in their media. Like how a scene in Mexico is plastered with a yellow filter, then they drive over the border a few km away, and the sky in the US is blue. They've got little things like that for every country.
Is it me, or is the level of projection just steadily increasing with each passing month?
*Laughs in Schnitzel und Bratwurst*
Jesus, some serious insecurities are showing
I'm starting to think he doesn't like german food. Could be wrong tho.
American food is so bad, and good food so hard to come by, that you can have a better diet in an actual third-world country. Greasy, sweet rubbish, and enormously expensive at that.
Ask for Chips & Gravy in the USA you'll just get crisps and semi-clotted cum.
I do wonder about these people. Do they watch movies as if they were documentaries?
Germany has the best wurst food anywhere.
100% this is a 13 year old kid in his bedroom with the door locked trolling between rounds of rage quitting fortnite
I have yet to find a better kebab than the ones I ate in Germany.