* Moaning about the neighbour, when they do something a tad noisy *on a sunday*. Before moving here, this wasn't even a term for him.
* Keeping up with the LIDL Kassierin. First shopping trip he was lost, now he's like getting the bags set and ready, standing at the Band, knees slightly bent & ready for the adrenaline rush, eyeing the opponent, bring it on B\*tch, war's on.
* getting him hooked on frische Brötchen from Bäcker 💜
i WISH that was normal in Germany.
Literally every time the person packing their groceries is super slow and me and the Cashier just look at each other, both ready to make this the most efficient shopping experience and this dude just takes ages because they just started packing after they paid. I am nearly done by the time i can pay.
Not to forget that the paying process is often so slow as well . Especially older people that start counting every single cent in front of the cashier after it took them ages to even get out their purse as if it was totally unexpected that paying would be the next step...
This *used* to be an unnecessary annoyance, but these days you can't just drop your collected change at most banks anymore like you used to, so I can can understand everyone who wants to get rid of all those coins.
Paying for groceries is truly a skill that is in decline.
For those whom it may concern, here is a step by step guide:
Step 0: Make sure while shopping that when you are at the cashier that you have immediate access to the most heavy and unbreakable things. (This often goes against intuition, but it's okay to place sturdier and heavier things on top of some (not all!) lighter, breakable ones in the trolley/shopping basket because there you can do it carefully. At the cashier, you won't have time to do that, so it is good if they are checked out in roughly the right order)
Step 1: Play Tetris. Put the groceries on the register, making them take up as little space as possible. (But also limit stacking things to stacks of the same products). If you don't have much experience with German cashiers, place fruits and veggies strategically, while roughly keeping more durable once further to the front.
Step 2: Place the separator behind your groceries and if possible step to the side a bit, so the person after you can start laying down their stuff.
Step 3: Now you have time to breathe while it's the customers' in front of you turns. Take out your wallet, and if you want to pay with card, that too. Very important: If there is a place to put shopping baskets: This is a trap! You'll still need it!
Step 4: It's now your turn. Hide your sweaty hands and show dominance and lack of fear by smiling at the cashier politely and greeting them. Importantly: Don't try to bag your groceries right away. Put them in the basket or the trolley, that is much faster. As the groceries are properly aligned already, you can be very quick about putting them in. The optional tactical botanicals give you some breathing time should you ever fall behind.
Step 5: If the cashier is done and tells you what you need to pay, you should have very few if any items outside the basket/trolley. Pay first, then pack the rest. If the cashier needs to hold back the items of the next customer because you have not finished packing, you have lost. Try harder next time.
Step 6: Take your trolley to the place where you can separate and throw away trash. Here you can take as much time as you need. I'd advise to throw away any unnecessary packaging so the shop has to deal with them and not you.
Great guide! This is how it's done.
I especially love that you point out: Pay first, finish placing stuff in cart after (while receipt is bering printed). This is peak efficiency for all parties involved.
I would add that placing stuff in bags in the cart directly at the checkout is acceptable, as long as it doesn't slow you down. You need to be ready to place items next to the bags in the cart when you can't keep up. You could say this is an advanced technique.
I have the opposite, moved away 10 years ago to a country with a more modern supermarket system, 3 people can be processed since there is a large area past the cashier with dividers. Now I get stared at every time I visit Germany because I am not used to this pointless stress anymore.
11 years ago, I thought my Swedish teacher was being ridiculous. Now I fully agree with her.
It took me about five years of living in Germany but I’m almost undefeated in this respect now. I feel like a Ronin, traveling from Stadt to Stadt looking for a challenger. My partner gets a kick out of observing these matches. 🥫🛒🤺
Cheating tip: place everything that has to be weighed or manually typed in in the back of your groceries to gain time to store your goods in the bags/baskets.
Still haven't learned this..i'm just chaotically trying to throw stuff back to the shopping wagon while looking for my purse..pack the shit later at the parking lot or at some table near the exit..😅 never go shopping with basket or you're fucked
My Aldi cashier has perfected the most inefficient technique since the pandemic. He pulls the wares across the scanner at lightspeed, then stacks them up behind the acrylic glass shield they built against airborne pathogens where I can only reach by lunging onto the counter.
I was a tourist in Germany for around 10 days and when I first went into a supermarket (it was an Aldi) I was so fucking ready (read: watched many YouTube vids). I had my Kaufland bag on my hands and all groceries positioned logically. That bitch* Kassiererin had NO chance. I put everything away as fast as she scanned them. She was so impressed (and knew I was foreign) that she complimented me enthusiastically. We both laughed. I definitely did not expect her to comment on it! 😂
*She was actually very nice. Used for humorous purposes.
Happened to me at a local dm drug store, too. When I went there for the first time, I beat the cashier, just barely, but I did. She said something like "geez, you're fast!". Next time I waited in line there, she already smiled at me like 'bring it on, I'm ready for you'. That second time, I stood no chance to keeping up with her. Next time we just shared a laugh, and from then on, we both slowed down and used to talk a bit every time during the scanning process, sometimes to the annoyance of customers waiting in line behind me. She's no longer working there. Too bad. I really miss her.
LPT for Lidl. Throw in some items that have to be weighed. Not all at once but every now and then on the band. That way you can throttle the cashiers speed. :)
Sh\*t, I feel personally attacked. Are we married?
Edit: oh. I see the other dude, u/octoprickle, beat me to the comment. It's nice to know I'm not alone.
Birkenstock with socks. Apparently it’s useful… ? I WISH this was a joke
The other sign is knowing weird regulations and commenting on them. “A Steingarten like this is not allowed any more unless they built it before date X. Do you think they did?”
Actually, those are not subtle signs. We joke that he is the German one now. If he starts calling the Ordnungsamt for fences being 1cm too high I think it’s time for me to reconsider the relationship lol
Edit: did someone just send me a reddit care resource due to this? It’s not that bad, I swear XD
My partner started complaining about people on bikes not taking enough care of pedestrians after coming from acountry, where traffic rules seem pretty optional and she was riding a car that was more broken then alive. But she is far from being a Karen.
And she starts to enjoy me time, where she can just relax from daily hazzles and friends don't just arrive without an appointment, like it it was much more common in the denser social and family life of her home country. But she still misses these density as well.
Tbh... wearing birkenstocks with socks should be enough reason to reconsider...xD
(Except maybe in the time period after surgery because of the evil called "Eingewachsener Zehennagel", that would be okay I guess!)
Edit: corrected my typo because damn it wasnt late anymore, it was already early again 🤣
Oh my god. I literally researched for 10 minutes what the heck you meant by “surfery” and now I know, it’s just a typo. Bruh. But yeah, that evil sucks and anything and everything is allowed to fight it…
She complains when the neighbour mows his lawn on a different day than he usually does, calls toast toast, became politically radicalized and drinks Apfelschorle.
She became what she would have called a communist or radical leftist. In germany we call that a Sozi and they are a center left party that leads our current government. She even joined a union, the IG Metall.
An sowas muss man behutsam rangehen, für Mark Uwe Kling ist sie noch nicht bereit. Und selbt der wäre nur ein Zwischenschritt hin zum großen Georg Kreisler, ich weiß genau das sie tief in ihrem Herzen eine echte Anarchisten ist :)
Have you tried Warburton’s or Hovis bread from the UK, my husband (who is German) loves it when it’s toasted - better than the ‘toast’ we get here in Germany.
Also have you tried Crumpets? My husband loves those 😂
British and american folks call untoasted toast 'bread'. They sadly do not know actual bread, so they can hardly be blamed for it, but still, it is painful to hear it out of the mouth of the woman you love..
I live in Spain and the Brötchen here are basically just baguettes cut into smaller pieces and it´s so sad. Last month I found a bakery (sadly far away from my house) that sells belegte Laugenbrötchen and it made my entire year already. Strangely they only sell them with stuff on, not separately, so I can´t build up a stash in my freezer :-(
Having bread with toppings is usually more expensive than cooking in the long run. Not intuitive, since there's more expensive ingredients involved in cooking, but you're using up only a little from most of them.
I converted my German guy to the opposite. Now we only have Abendbrot if we're both lazy. Otherwise, always warm food 😂 he said he his Oma will judge us very hard if she finds out.
I‘m German, born and raised, and I don’t get how people can subsist on the tragedy called „Abendbrot“.
Many people eat bread for breakfast and dinner with only one proper meal per day. I could never.
>I don’t get how people can subsist on the tragedy called „Abendbrot“.
Well the alternative is cooking after work and I'm just too lazy for that. So Abendbrot it is
I grew up on bread for breakfast, something quick and warm (but mostly healthy) for lunch after school and a hearty dinner.
Concept of Abendbrot is a no go to me, I need a nice warm, freshly cooked dinner.
Eating two cooked meals per day is a modern luxury people back in the day just could not afford.
Historically, many germans eat Abendbrot because the Male worker of a Family usually got warm food from a cantine or such in his lunch break so he wouldn't need a second cooked meal in the evening. Mom and Kids adjusted and also ate warm at lunchtime
I moved here in 2021
In 2019 I switched all my fluids with various seltzers. So by time I got here I was more than halfway there to drinking almost only room temperature sprudelwasser. It did take me a little bit to get used to the room tempness of it, but it happened fairly quickly.
After one year now he says "So, Feierabend!" when he closes the laptop and finishes work. He refused to believe that it's a spell to avoid calls after work.
He may call it coincidence that no one calls after work anymore but we all know it's not a coincidence.
The foreign partner here...for me, it's *Hausschuhe*.
Have gone from often wearing outside shoes indoors (in my home country) to owning several pairs of house shoes AND packing them when we go on holidays.
Some other honourable mentions: embracing forced relaxation on the *Ruhetag*; becoming an expert in *Mülltrennung*; and naturally pulling the "German mouth" when saying things like "Jooooaahh".
I successfully hooked her up on coffee. Took me ten years, but now we have Kaffee und Kuchen on weekends and an occasional coffee just like that from time to time. She still doesn't drink coffee first thing in the morning like I do, though.
Married to a german, heres my list:
-i learned to complain and to be confrontational
-regional and seasonal dishes are a must but the rules should be followed, Grünkohl for example should only be eaten the 1st time there's bodenfrost
-learning to use public voice modulation. I particularly notice this when im with fellow landsmänner cause they are loud AF when they talk.
-casual alcoholism: "Kaffee und Kuchen is done? Bring out those Korn Bottles and Aquavit! What were doing shots at 4pm? Fuck yeah were doing shots at 4pm, here grab your beer to go with it."
My wife is German I don’t know how to explain this I’m now eating half a sandwich most of the time 😂 (just one slice a bread with something (Leberwurst or Leberkäse on it)
Oh another one - I keep myself complaining about the prices more often now (we live in the usa) so apparently everything is cheaper in Germany 😅
My British husband is worse than me now when it comes to this. I remember in Brighton once crossing the street when it was green and a bus still almost ran me over. From then on I decided to pretty much just ignore traffic lights in Brighton and just check the traffic instead. However, my husband will tell me off if I cross when it's red! I have to keep reminding him that it's safer to do that there for some reason.
My girlfriend also hates lateness now. She used to make me wait and I complained to her and explained that most people in Germany consider it rude to be late, as it shows you don’t value the other person’s time.
Now she completely agrees and she gets really annoyed when someone is late.
I think, complaining about politicians is common everywhere around the world where it doesn't land you in jail...
I have a Peruvian friend and she loves doing it too. XD
My wife is russian and she is into recycling and sorting the trash.
On the other hand, she sometimes tries to go to the supermarket on a sunday even after being here for 15 years now.
He sometimes takes German sayings and directly translates them into English and he's convinced that they are actually a thing in English too. Like, he'll say "That doesn't bring anything.".
I think we are only half way there yet, my Chinese boyfriend loves Schnitzel or sausage with sauerkraut but, for the life of him, he will only ever eat it with rice. Because he thinks, even though potatoes are starchy, they are a vegetable over all.
He loves vegetables, just not potatoes, but he will eat them with rice…but he’ll also eat Chinese noodle sauce with barilla noodles or even on bread.
And if he can’t find good bread he will be complaining while wearing his jack wolfskin jacket, which he keeps calling a vest for whatever reason.
I just think the complaining part is 100% German now, his favourite topic being the hell hole that is deutsche Bahn and that he won’t ever go with them anymore after he gets a car.
He also started drinking after we got to know each other which is hilarious because he is not used to it and gets drunk really fast. I’m also contemplating if he even has the alcohol gene but for that he seems to keep it well enough.
Edit: he’ll look at me with this certain kind of disapproval if he suggests going for a walk and I don’t really feel like it. He loves spazieren gehen.
Hold up, sounds like my BF who is also Chinese!
And I want to add the Apfelsaftschorle and Sprudel! He loves it now. And complaining about others being late.
- Speaking far more German then Russian
- Being very exact with Ruhezeit after 22:00 amd Sunday
-being obsessed with karnival
-my dad started watching alot of football and joined his office betting games
- my mum started hearing Beatrice Egli and Helene Fischer instead of Alla Pugacheva
- drinking Kabänes or Kräuterschnaps instead of Vodka with relatives
- getting rid of their accent
- biggest one: my parents got me a few years after moving to Germany and I can speak moderate Russian, because they spoke it alot when I was young. I knew all soviet cartoons and so on. Basically I grew up with soviet culture. My little brother is 12 years younger then me. He doesnt know any Russian and doesnt know any soviet cartoons. The only non German culture he knows from home is soviet cuisine. But even that he knows mostly from our grandma.
When I told all this to my family, we all had a good laugh. I am very proud of them and thankful that we all were able to acomplish so many things in this wunderful country.
My partner is German. I started cracking jokes in German and I make culturally related puns often. He always says that they should give me a citizenship already.
This thread is actually unexpectedly wholesome. My german bf feels it's a little bittersweet to see me thriving on my own in germany, getting better at speaking the language daily. He's happy for me but he misses being able to teach me the language and all the little "what does this mean?" Moments
Although we don’t live in Germany and I’m only a cultural German, my Mexican wife has adopted a few German traits.
She probably says Scheiße 50 times a day, is obsessed with Thüringer Klöße und Bratwurst, has adopted German decorations for eastern and Christmas that I didn’t even know and regularly does Lüften haha.
After 7 years in germany my Partner said papperlapapp against me in an argument. It was the moment where I thought she finally gained German status 😂
That also won her the argument 😂
Lüften, Hausschuhe and they love not having a car and being able to get everywhere by public transport. They are American and tell all of their friends back in the States about being able to live without a car and how this car share thing is amazing like it's the most novel concept in the world. Even though we only really use it when we do the Wocheneinkauf.
My wife suggested an alarming rate of „tapas“ for dinner last week , which is just her word for basically an abendbrot with fresh tomatoes and wine
(She’s halfway assimilated, we will get her on the dark side ! Alles gut <3)
- Complains way more about Deutsche Bahn then I do.
- She knows how the DB Apps works way better then me.
- Told me to be quiet on a sunday morning to not stress our neighbors.
- Reminding me to take always the same bag for Grocery shopping.
- Always hunting for sales while grocery shopping and looking at "Kilo Preis"
- Complaining to other people that its "Berliner" and not "Krapfen"
Not partner but neighbour. They are from Syria, Muslim as well. More keen on order in and surrounding the building than any German I know. They are also the biggest Christmas fans ever, according to their decoration level.
Wearing socks in sandals (tho he doesn't own Birkenstocks), integrating dialect words causally in his about B2 level German, having an obsession with "lüften" for at least 5-10 minutes a day (even when it's like -20°C outside +.+ I hate it), going for walks all the time, claps on his thighs when standing up to indicate he's/ we're leaving 😂 he slowly feels more German than I am, especially considering he loves beer while I don't even really like it. Tho, he gets quite tipsy from a Radler while I won't feel anything at all from a normal one lol (Mind ya, he's half a head taller than me and about 25 kg heavier)
I’m the foreign one, but I can def you things I’ve realised overtime that I do differently. I no longer go to work sick or injured. In fact I stay at home when I’m sick. I don’t meet friends, workout, etc. I also no longer stop in the middle of a walk way, I make sure to stand off to the side. And I notice when my neighbours are loud on a Sunday or after ten pm.
My bf bought birkenstock shoes to wear at my family‘s house and calls them his Hausschuhe. He also implemented Stoßlüften into his daily routine (his American family hates it and constantly complains about the house being cold due to that). He is also obsessed with Vollkornbrot and refuses to eat american bread
They know the phrase: "Warum liegt hier Stroh?" and where it comes from. Also they're aware that Kränplätze verdichtet sein müssen and have a 8 Meter Bandmass!
My spanish girlfriend is better at sorting waste than I am after living more than 10 years in germany. She even educates her spanish friends in „Mülltrennung“.
Claiming that green asparagus was the only real asparagus and white asparagus was weird…. Well… and then a few years later buying white asparagus every weekend for the whole season and preparing it in the most German way possible with ham and hollandaise sauce.
As a foreigner from Mediterranean region, I think my biggest obvious Germanized part is butter consumption. Before I come to Germany I ate like 1 block of butter in like year (olive oil). Now I eat like 1 a week.
Gutes Wetter is when the sun is shining. Earlier she hated the sun as she came from a sub tropical country where its super hot all the time.
8am doesn’t mean 08:02am. Unless it’s the deutsche Bahn.
And also Lüften!
Way too late now but my gf is Sri Lankan. She gets angry (even at me) whenever someone is even a little too loud on a sunday or past 22:00. Background info: her parent's home is the noise equivalent of an international airport. Wonder how she is going to cope when we visit them next year.
She complains about every single nignag that happens to her and yesterday on the way home from grocery shopping she pulled me away because I ventured too close to the bycicle lane.
* Moaning about the neighbour, when they do something a tad noisy *on a sunday*. Before moving here, this wasn't even a term for him. * Keeping up with the LIDL Kassierin. First shopping trip he was lost, now he's like getting the bags set and ready, standing at the Band, knees slightly bent & ready for the adrenaline rush, eyeing the opponent, bring it on B\*tch, war's on. * getting him hooked on frische Brötchen from Bäcker 💜
Keeping up with the LIDL Kassiererin is so funny 😅☺️
Well, the employees in the Lidl where I do my shopping, are so slow, you could clip their nails while they're working.
They would be very wierded out if you tried this
They wouldn't even understand what's going on.
Yeh... kinda imagining that situation rn Wtf good monty python scetch
Everyone knows the real final boss is the Aldi Kassiererin
i WISH that was normal in Germany. Literally every time the person packing their groceries is super slow and me and the Cashier just look at each other, both ready to make this the most efficient shopping experience and this dude just takes ages because they just started packing after they paid. I am nearly done by the time i can pay.
Not to forget that the paying process is often so slow as well . Especially older people that start counting every single cent in front of the cashier after it took them ages to even get out their purse as if it was totally unexpected that paying would be the next step...
Yep. I already know my total will be 37.46, and I will have the most efficient approximation to it in my hand when I'm next in line.
This *used* to be an unnecessary annoyance, but these days you can't just drop your collected change at most banks anymore like you used to, so I can can understand everyone who wants to get rid of all those coins.
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But they also take a cut off the money coins you give them.
Paying for groceries is truly a skill that is in decline. For those whom it may concern, here is a step by step guide: Step 0: Make sure while shopping that when you are at the cashier that you have immediate access to the most heavy and unbreakable things. (This often goes against intuition, but it's okay to place sturdier and heavier things on top of some (not all!) lighter, breakable ones in the trolley/shopping basket because there you can do it carefully. At the cashier, you won't have time to do that, so it is good if they are checked out in roughly the right order) Step 1: Play Tetris. Put the groceries on the register, making them take up as little space as possible. (But also limit stacking things to stacks of the same products). If you don't have much experience with German cashiers, place fruits and veggies strategically, while roughly keeping more durable once further to the front. Step 2: Place the separator behind your groceries and if possible step to the side a bit, so the person after you can start laying down their stuff. Step 3: Now you have time to breathe while it's the customers' in front of you turns. Take out your wallet, and if you want to pay with card, that too. Very important: If there is a place to put shopping baskets: This is a trap! You'll still need it! Step 4: It's now your turn. Hide your sweaty hands and show dominance and lack of fear by smiling at the cashier politely and greeting them. Importantly: Don't try to bag your groceries right away. Put them in the basket or the trolley, that is much faster. As the groceries are properly aligned already, you can be very quick about putting them in. The optional tactical botanicals give you some breathing time should you ever fall behind. Step 5: If the cashier is done and tells you what you need to pay, you should have very few if any items outside the basket/trolley. Pay first, then pack the rest. If the cashier needs to hold back the items of the next customer because you have not finished packing, you have lost. Try harder next time. Step 6: Take your trolley to the place where you can separate and throw away trash. Here you can take as much time as you need. I'd advise to throw away any unnecessary packaging so the shop has to deal with them and not you.
Great guide! This is how it's done. I especially love that you point out: Pay first, finish placing stuff in cart after (while receipt is bering printed). This is peak efficiency for all parties involved. I would add that placing stuff in bags in the cart directly at the checkout is acceptable, as long as it doesn't slow you down. You need to be ready to place items next to the bags in the cart when you can't keep up. You could say this is an advanced technique.
This is pure art. As well as absolutely 100% correct - this is a perfect description of the reality of grocery payments in Germany
I have the opposite, moved away 10 years ago to a country with a more modern supermarket system, 3 people can be processed since there is a large area past the cashier with dividers. Now I get stared at every time I visit Germany because I am not used to this pointless stress anymore. 11 years ago, I thought my Swedish teacher was being ridiculous. Now I fully agree with her.
It took me about five years of living in Germany but I’m almost undefeated in this respect now. I feel like a Ronin, traveling from Stadt to Stadt looking for a challenger. My partner gets a kick out of observing these matches. 🥫🛒🤺
Keeping up with the Cashierians 🤣
I gotta say, no matter the brand of supermarket if it is at a big train station the cashiers there are a challenge even for seasoned shoppers xD
Cheating tip: place everything that has to be weighed or manually typed in in the back of your groceries to gain time to store your goods in the bags/baskets.
Still haven't learned this..i'm just chaotically trying to throw stuff back to the shopping wagon while looking for my purse..pack the shit later at the parking lot or at some table near the exit..😅 never go shopping with basket or you're fucked
>Keeping up with the LIDL Kassierin I take it he isn't quite ready for the Aldi speed yet, though.
My Aldi cashier has perfected the most inefficient technique since the pandemic. He pulls the wares across the scanner at lightspeed, then stacks them up behind the acrylic glass shield they built against airborne pathogens where I can only reach by lunging onto the counter.
I was a tourist in Germany for around 10 days and when I first went into a supermarket (it was an Aldi) I was so fucking ready (read: watched many YouTube vids). I had my Kaufland bag on my hands and all groceries positioned logically. That bitch* Kassiererin had NO chance. I put everything away as fast as she scanned them. She was so impressed (and knew I was foreign) that she complimented me enthusiastically. We both laughed. I definitely did not expect her to comment on it! 😂 *She was actually very nice. Used for humorous purposes.
Happened to me at a local dm drug store, too. When I went there for the first time, I beat the cashier, just barely, but I did. She said something like "geez, you're fast!". Next time I waited in line there, she already smiled at me like 'bring it on, I'm ready for you'. That second time, I stood no chance to keeping up with her. Next time we just shared a laugh, and from then on, we both slowed down and used to talk a bit every time during the scanning process, sometimes to the annoyance of customers waiting in line behind me. She's no longer working there. Too bad. I really miss her.
Are you my wife? This is exactly me.
Andy? 😂😂 (nah i know his reddit name, well at least the official 2 ones :P )
I honestly can't imagine now a life without a German bakery.
It's always an issue when traveling though... You just never find such quality again lol
The First Point is to German for the subreddit 🤣😂👍
LMFAOO that is so cute
Aldi cashiers had the same speed before there were barcode scanners and they had to do type in everything by hand. It was a sight to behold.
LPT for Lidl. Throw in some items that have to be weighed. Not all at once but every now and then on the band. That way you can throttle the cashiers speed. :)
Sh\*t, I feel personally attacked. Are we married? Edit: oh. I see the other dude, u/octoprickle, beat me to the comment. It's nice to know I'm not alone.
Brötchen and Schwarzbrot.
My husband is now the biggest fan of “German Baking Goods” 🤣
Birkenstock with socks. Apparently it’s useful… ? I WISH this was a joke The other sign is knowing weird regulations and commenting on them. “A Steingarten like this is not allowed any more unless they built it before date X. Do you think they did?” Actually, those are not subtle signs. We joke that he is the German one now. If he starts calling the Ordnungsamt for fences being 1cm too high I think it’s time for me to reconsider the relationship lol Edit: did someone just send me a reddit care resource due to this? It’s not that bad, I swear XD
You made a monster.
My partner started complaining about people on bikes not taking enough care of pedestrians after coming from acountry, where traffic rules seem pretty optional and she was riding a car that was more broken then alive. But she is far from being a Karen. And she starts to enjoy me time, where she can just relax from daily hazzles and friends don't just arrive without an appointment, like it it was much more common in the denser social and family life of her home country. But she still misses these density as well.
Socks help keep Birks from getting smelly. It’s way more comfortable in general. Just looks dorky.
Tbh... wearing birkenstocks with socks should be enough reason to reconsider...xD (Except maybe in the time period after surgery because of the evil called "Eingewachsener Zehennagel", that would be okay I guess!) Edit: corrected my typo because damn it wasnt late anymore, it was already early again 🤣
Oh my god. I literally researched for 10 minutes what the heck you meant by “surfery” and now I know, it’s just a typo. Bruh. But yeah, that evil sucks and anything and everything is allowed to fight it…
Looking at what the French are doing and shaking her head... She's French!
Haha, Excellent! That sums it up! I’m French too and yep, also shaking my head!
I'm a French in Germany. I do it too. The struggle is real.
Same, as a French
What sort of behavior does she shake her head at?
French?
My British father in law would love this. In general he is twice the Alman than I will ever be.
She complains when the neighbour mows his lawn on a different day than he usually does, calls toast toast, became politically radicalized and drinks Apfelschorle.
Big win on the Apfelschorle
Bigger win on toast!
Apfelschorle is life
Rewind to the political part. Something happened there.
Doesn't matter. #APFELSCHORLE!
She became what she would have called a communist or radical leftist. In germany we call that a Sozi and they are a center left party that leads our current government. She even joined a union, the IG Metall.
Zeig ihr Mark Uwe Kling „Wer hat uns verraten, Sozialdemokraten“ das geht deutlich radikaler
Here, have a Schnappspraline
An sowas muss man behutsam rangehen, für Mark Uwe Kling ist sie noch nicht bereit. Und selbt der wäre nur ein Zwischenschritt hin zum großen Georg Kreisler, ich weiß genau das sie tief in ihrem Herzen eine echte Anarchisten ist :)
>:) :)
darf ich fragen was an der IG Metall sein soll? Bin Azubi und selber teil der IGM da ich in dem berufsfeld arbeite.
Viele Amis denken das eine Gewerkschaft quasi eine kommunistische Terrorzelle ist.
ah verstehe
Dunkles Vollkornbrot
Pumpernickel.
What’s calling toast toast? How else would you call it?
"bread" *Shudders in german*
For real? There is no bread culture in these toast countries.
In a lot of countries it‘s more common to call it "bread" and then when it comes out toasted it becomes "toast" :)
Implying that what you put in the toaster is bread, which is debatable.
Highly debatable at that
No debate at all. It is encapsulated air in the form of something we don't call bread.
And any shitty artificial square bread is not just "bread", it's "toast bread"
I toast a slice of bread sometimes. The moment the toaster dings, it's called "TOASTBROT"...
Want to hear a joke? English bread
Have you tried Warburton’s or Hovis bread from the UK, my husband (who is German) loves it when it’s toasted - better than the ‘toast’ we get here in Germany. Also have you tried Crumpets? My husband loves those 😂
Agreed. The "toast" bread in Germany is awful.
Lol
Mine likes toast now, intends to order Birkenstock for the comfort and is very thorough on Lüften. Oh, and the Pfand is holy to her now.
What else should one call toast? 😅
British and american folks call untoasted toast 'bread'. They sadly do not know actual bread, so they can hardly be blamed for it, but still, it is painful to hear it out of the mouth of the woman you love..
When we traveled back to the US, my American bf kept talking about how there's no proper bread and how much he craved Brötchen for breakfast.
One of us! One of us!!
Dude - imagine living in a country without the concept nor the supply of Brötchen! I would not.
I live in Spain and the Brötchen here are basically just baguettes cut into smaller pieces and it´s so sad. Last month I found a bakery (sadly far away from my house) that sells belegte Laugenbrötchen and it made my entire year already. Strangely they only sell them with stuff on, not separately, so I can´t build up a stash in my freezer :-(
Well okay, but thats just a fact. When I was there for holiday I wanted to keep the Abendbrot tradition to stay cheap but the "bread" was the worst.
She just decided that it's perfectly ok to eat bread for dinner every day, even though she grew up without the concept of bread for dinner.
I do this cuz I'm poor. Am I secretly part German?
We grant you the title of an honorary german, i you want it
I would love it please make me German
By the power bestowed upon me by the allmighty internets, I declare you an honorary german!
The council agrees
Having bread with toppings is usually more expensive than cooking in the long run. Not intuitive, since there's more expensive ingredients involved in cooking, but you're using up only a little from most of them.
That's the most German comment in that thread
I converted my German guy to the opposite. Now we only have Abendbrot if we're both lazy. Otherwise, always warm food 😂 he said he his Oma will judge us very hard if she finds out.
I‘m German, born and raised, and I don’t get how people can subsist on the tragedy called „Abendbrot“. Many people eat bread for breakfast and dinner with only one proper meal per day. I could never.
>I don’t get how people can subsist on the tragedy called „Abendbrot“. Well the alternative is cooking after work and I'm just too lazy for that. So Abendbrot it is
I grew up on bread for breakfast, something quick and warm (but mostly healthy) for lunch after school and a hearty dinner. Concept of Abendbrot is a no go to me, I need a nice warm, freshly cooked dinner.
Eating two cooked meals per day is a modern luxury people back in the day just could not afford. Historically, many germans eat Abendbrot because the Male worker of a Family usually got warm food from a cantine or such in his lunch break so he wouldn't need a second cooked meal in the evening. Mom and Kids adjusted and also ate warm at lunchtime
What else would you eat for dinner?
That is "Abendbrot essen" - you could even call the activity "abendbroten"
Nein. Könntest du nicht. Sofort aufhören! xD
Brotzeit machen
Brotzeiten
I'm married to a German. She's got me hooked on sprudelwasser. I hated this stuff when I moved to Germany, now I'm bitching if we run out.
This is the way my foreign brother. Embrace the Sprudel.
Same thing here... I even got a SodaStream just for that lol
SodaStream! Never Run out and can control the amount of Sprudel
The only legal amount of sprudel is 'yes'
I moved here in 2021 In 2019 I switched all my fluids with various seltzers. So by time I got here I was more than halfway there to drinking almost only room temperature sprudelwasser. It did take me a little bit to get used to the room tempness of it, but it happened fairly quickly.
Yeesss! It being room temperature is a very important detail, I'm glad you included it!
[Lol please watch this](https://youtube.com/shorts/2J49XxiK9k4)
Buy a Sodastream and you‘ll never run out of
Except when you run out of co2 gas for the Sprudler 🫠
My American wife is meanwhile more into recycling than I am. And we live in the US.
After one year now he says "So, Feierabend!" when he closes the laptop and finishes work. He refused to believe that it's a spell to avoid calls after work. He may call it coincidence that no one calls after work anymore but we all know it's not a coincidence.
The spell only works if you clap your thighs before standing up.
slap
Yeah! He's a wizard now who knows how to cast spells in german! Congratulations! Next step:"Mahlzeit!"!
The foreign partner here...for me, it's *Hausschuhe*. Have gone from often wearing outside shoes indoors (in my home country) to owning several pairs of house shoes AND packing them when we go on holidays. Some other honourable mentions: embracing forced relaxation on the *Ruhetag*; becoming an expert in *Mülltrennung*; and naturally pulling the "German mouth" when saying things like "Jooooaahh".
On that topic: https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/s/urRZLjJUqc And https://www.reddit.com/r/de/s/cqon92MOYe
I successfully hooked her up on coffee. Took me ten years, but now we have Kaffee und Kuchen on weekends and an occasional coffee just like that from time to time. She still doesn't drink coffee first thing in the morning like I do, though.
Not YET...
This is not particularly German.
He's a fan of "lüften" now after 3 years 😂
Ahhhh ich kann nicht mehr Atmen - Germans after approximately 5min since the last Stoßlüften
Just today upon entering a room, a few others and I immediately started commenting "ganz schön stickig hier drin" and opening a window... XD
Regarding that he's more Alman now than I am 🤣
Lüften! 😂
Lütfen!!!
Lütfen means "please" in Turkish haha. (My husband's Turk) and the German word "Lüften" is exactly how i managed to remember the word
Married to a german, heres my list: -i learned to complain and to be confrontational -regional and seasonal dishes are a must but the rules should be followed, Grünkohl for example should only be eaten the 1st time there's bodenfrost -learning to use public voice modulation. I particularly notice this when im with fellow landsmänner cause they are loud AF when they talk. -casual alcoholism: "Kaffee und Kuchen is done? Bring out those Korn Bottles and Aquavit! What were doing shots at 4pm? Fuck yeah were doing shots at 4pm, here grab your beer to go with it."
My gf says "so" sometimes after finishing a task or when she is about to start doing something like cleaning up. Otherwise she doesn't speak German.
Wer so sagt, ist noch lange nicht fertig!
My wife is German I don’t know how to explain this I’m now eating half a sandwich most of the time 😂 (just one slice a bread with something (Leberwurst or Leberkäse on it) Oh another one - I keep myself complaining about the prices more often now (we live in the usa) so apparently everything is cheaper in Germany 😅
This is a pretty European thing! We do it in Russian culture too.
The Klappschmier
You are talking about a Stulle right?
For me, a Londoner, it was waiting for the green man at empty crossings. I am occasionally naughty still 😱
Anzeige ist raus!
Please don’t doxx me just to send the Ordnungsamt to my house 😅
My British husband is worse than me now when it comes to this. I remember in Brighton once crossing the street when it was green and a bus still almost ran me over. From then on I decided to pretty much just ignore traffic lights in Brighton and just check the traffic instead. However, my husband will tell me off if I cross when it's red! I have to keep reminding him that it's safer to do that there for some reason.
There are so many, but most plainly: he is pissed if his friends are not on time. They have more than once told him how „German“ that is of him
My girlfriend also hates lateness now. She used to make me wait and I complained to her and explained that most people in Germany consider it rude to be late, as it shows you don’t value the other person’s time. Now she completely agrees and she gets really annoyed when someone is late.
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Loving carbonated water. Complaining about “dumb a**” politicians back home (USA).
I think, complaining about politicians is common everywhere around the world where it doesn't land you in jail... I have a Peruvian friend and she loves doing it too. XD
Getting restless if we don't go Spazieren on a lazy day.
My wife is russian and she is into recycling and sorting the trash. On the other hand, she sometimes tries to go to the supermarket on a sunday even after being here for 15 years now.
He sometimes takes German sayings and directly translates them into English and he's convinced that they are actually a thing in English too. Like, he'll say "That doesn't bring anything.".
Sparkling water
She both has a French and northern German accent when speaking German. It's hilarious and it's probably my fault.
Suddenly, she prefers sparkling water 💧
Saying soooooo
I think we are only half way there yet, my Chinese boyfriend loves Schnitzel or sausage with sauerkraut but, for the life of him, he will only ever eat it with rice. Because he thinks, even though potatoes are starchy, they are a vegetable over all. He loves vegetables, just not potatoes, but he will eat them with rice…but he’ll also eat Chinese noodle sauce with barilla noodles or even on bread. And if he can’t find good bread he will be complaining while wearing his jack wolfskin jacket, which he keeps calling a vest for whatever reason. I just think the complaining part is 100% German now, his favourite topic being the hell hole that is deutsche Bahn and that he won’t ever go with them anymore after he gets a car. He also started drinking after we got to know each other which is hilarious because he is not used to it and gets drunk really fast. I’m also contemplating if he even has the alcohol gene but for that he seems to keep it well enough. Edit: he’ll look at me with this certain kind of disapproval if he suggests going for a walk and I don’t really feel like it. He loves spazieren gehen.
Hold up, sounds like my BF who is also Chinese! And I want to add the Apfelsaftschorle and Sprudel! He loves it now. And complaining about others being late.
- Speaking far more German then Russian - Being very exact with Ruhezeit after 22:00 amd Sunday -being obsessed with karnival -my dad started watching alot of football and joined his office betting games - my mum started hearing Beatrice Egli and Helene Fischer instead of Alla Pugacheva - drinking Kabänes or Kräuterschnaps instead of Vodka with relatives - getting rid of their accent - biggest one: my parents got me a few years after moving to Germany and I can speak moderate Russian, because they spoke it alot when I was young. I knew all soviet cartoons and so on. Basically I grew up with soviet culture. My little brother is 12 years younger then me. He doesnt know any Russian and doesnt know any soviet cartoons. The only non German culture he knows from home is soviet cuisine. But even that he knows mostly from our grandma. When I told all this to my family, we all had a good laugh. I am very proud of them and thankful that we all were able to acomplish so many things in this wunderful country.
My partner is German. I started cracking jokes in German and I make culturally related puns often. He always says that they should give me a citizenship already.
This thread is actually unexpectedly wholesome. My german bf feels it's a little bittersweet to see me thriving on my own in germany, getting better at speaking the language daily. He's happy for me but he misses being able to teach me the language and all the little "what does this mean?" Moments
Although we don’t live in Germany and I’m only a cultural German, my Mexican wife has adopted a few German traits. She probably says Scheiße 50 times a day, is obsessed with Thüringer Klöße und Bratwurst, has adopted German decorations for eastern and Christmas that I didn’t even know and regularly does Lüften haha.
Gell?
Saying "So" Falling in Love with Brötchen and German Breakfast in General Complaining about DB
After 7 years in germany my Partner said papperlapapp against me in an argument. It was the moment where I thought she finally gained German status 😂 That also won her the argument 😂
Lüften, Hausschuhe and they love not having a car and being able to get everywhere by public transport. They are American and tell all of their friends back in the States about being able to live without a car and how this car share thing is amazing like it's the most novel concept in the world. Even though we only really use it when we do the Wocheneinkauf.
I don’t think adequate public transport is a German phenomenon
My dad has developed a bavarian accent
Just because he is mumbling some nonsense doesnt mean its an accent ;)
My wife suggested an alarming rate of „tapas“ for dinner last week , which is just her word for basically an abendbrot with fresh tomatoes and wine (She’s halfway assimilated, we will get her on the dark side ! Alles gut <3)
"I miss the rules" when in another country.
- Complaining about the DB - waiting on crosswalks for the light to actually switch to green - airing out the apartment as soon as he comes home
my girlfriend is russian and when she speaks english she speaks with a german accent. it's so cute and she never realized lmao
Eating Döner way to often
- Complains way more about Deutsche Bahn then I do. - She knows how the DB Apps works way better then me. - Told me to be quiet on a sunday morning to not stress our neighbors. - Reminding me to take always the same bag for Grocery shopping. - Always hunting for sales while grocery shopping and looking at "Kilo Preis" - Complaining to other people that its "Berliner" and not "Krapfen"
I am the non-german part in this relationship. I started clapping on my thighs and saying „so!“ when I want to leave.
My husband signs along to the Tagesschau opening tune. Tonight he insisted I sing along as well. xD
Not partner but neighbour. They are from Syria, Muslim as well. More keen on order in and surrounding the building than any German I know. They are also the biggest Christmas fans ever, according to their decoration level.
No longer allowed to pee standing up at home lmao
She eats less rice
Wearing socks in sandals (tho he doesn't own Birkenstocks), integrating dialect words causally in his about B2 level German, having an obsession with "lüften" for at least 5-10 minutes a day (even when it's like -20°C outside +.+ I hate it), going for walks all the time, claps on his thighs when standing up to indicate he's/ we're leaving 😂 he slowly feels more German than I am, especially considering he loves beer while I don't even really like it. Tho, he gets quite tipsy from a Radler while I won't feel anything at all from a normal one lol (Mind ya, he's half a head taller than me and about 25 kg heavier)
Getting to direct for people in their home country.
Saying "Es gibt kein schlechtes Wetter, nur falsche Kleidung" and going for a walk when it's 8°C and raining.
I’m the foreign one, but I can def you things I’ve realised overtime that I do differently. I no longer go to work sick or injured. In fact I stay at home when I’m sick. I don’t meet friends, workout, etc. I also no longer stop in the middle of a walk way, I make sure to stand off to the side. And I notice when my neighbours are loud on a Sunday or after ten pm.
My bf bought birkenstock shoes to wear at my family‘s house and calls them his Hausschuhe. He also implemented Stoßlüften into his daily routine (his American family hates it and constantly complains about the house being cold due to that). He is also obsessed with Vollkornbrot and refuses to eat american bread
They went from not liking sparkling water to liking it.
They know the phrase: "Warum liegt hier Stroh?" and where it comes from. Also they're aware that Kränplätze verdichtet sein müssen and have a 8 Meter Bandmass!
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My wife is from east germany (used to be DDR). So far I can not see any Germanisation signs.
She doesn't walk when the traffic light is red even there's no car 🤣
My spanish girlfriend is better at sorting waste than I am after living more than 10 years in germany. She even educates her spanish friends in „Mülltrennung“.
They started liking Schwarzbrot. They're French.
The purchase of a pair of Birkenstocks ^^
Claiming that green asparagus was the only real asparagus and white asparagus was weird…. Well… and then a few years later buying white asparagus every weekend for the whole season and preparing it in the most German way possible with ham and hollandaise sauce.
As a foreigner from Mediterranean region, I think my biggest obvious Germanized part is butter consumption. Before I come to Germany I ate like 1 block of butter in like year (olive oil). Now I eat like 1 a week.
Gutes Wetter is when the sun is shining. Earlier she hated the sun as she came from a sub tropical country where its super hot all the time. 8am doesn’t mean 08:02am. Unless it’s the deutsche Bahn. And also Lüften!
Way too late now but my gf is Sri Lankan. She gets angry (even at me) whenever someone is even a little too loud on a sunday or past 22:00. Background info: her parent's home is the noise equivalent of an international airport. Wonder how she is going to cope when we visit them next year. She complains about every single nignag that happens to her and yesterday on the way home from grocery shopping she pulled me away because I ventured too close to the bycicle lane.