was ist das für eine “Rasse”? sind Bayern biologisch so “eigentständig”? Vielleicht wurde in der Boomerschule einfach anders unterrichtet?
i don’t know if I get the joke? could you please explain it because I don’t think(?) you’re trying to be racist
It’s literally from the damn movie.
ah lol ok
bruh I said I was wrong - the hivemind can be so pathetic
We just have to deal with it for the moment…
Lemmy is going through that middle-school/puberty age, with all the corny forced memes; (eg. The beans, stroganoff, etc. phases) bandwagon voting, and toying with the line between light-hearted and mean when trying to roast or joke around.
Reddit is still bandwagon voting and they’ve been around for a decade. I think that’s just a function of having a downvote button on the internet. Almost made me want to join Beehaw
Though what Americans think of as a pretzel is just a sad squiggle of brown dough.
Am dumb American, enlighten us.
If you get the chance of eating a fresh German pretzel, please compare it to American “Soft pretzels” :)
Looks delicious but not overly different from what I’m used to.
My guess is they think you only have the small crunchy ones in the US like these:
To be fair, when people in the US think of a “pretzel”, those are the ones they think of. You can buy big bags of those in any supermarket. If you want to get a big, bready pretzel, you have to go to a restaurant.
Americans usually label the small crunchy ones as pretzels and the big real ones as “soft pretzels” when the former is (apparently) an abomination
A restaurant? What about your local bakery? Laugengebäck is amazing, you should eat more of it!
Here in Philly soft pretzels are everywhere, they’re a staple. I think usually those little hard ones are just a snack for kids?
I actually don’t like those ones at all, ha ha.
A Brezel has to be eaten fresh. Once it’s older than 30 minutes it gets stale and stops being a proper Brezel!
Okay?
Diese Kommentarsektion ist nun Eigentum der Bundesrepublik Deutschland
Welchem Bundesland soll sie gehören?
Ja
Wieso
That’s one order of sauerkraut. Is there anything else I can get for you today sir?
At this point I’m not sure if I’m too much racist or too much woke, because I absolutely don’t understand what is the meaning of the joke. Is German a race now? Or are Asians (race?) supposed to hate pretzels for some reason?
You’re American so your concept of race is based on skin color rather than nationality.
I’m American now? Fuck! Thanks Obama, I guess
Fucking Obama man. Just changing people’s nationalities!
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It’s just a meme that is used when someone stereotypes a group of people (not intending to offend), but the stereotype is is accurate.
basically “how dare you stereotype us, but also yes”.
But he’s really describing Germans as a race? I feel like my grandfather when I was talking to him about playing Sonic
Edit: I get it now, thanks for your effort
Yeah “Culture and our people” would fit better here
The original joke is that someone asks the Asian guy if he likes some stereotypical Asian foods (I forget, like ramen or moon cake).
The Asian dude says that same line about how his people are insulted but he does actually like the food. It’s a pretty funny bit actually.
This meme is just swapping the Asian for German but it keeps the 2nd half of the meme, about the comedian’s race, the same. You’re right, German is not a race.
Ah OK OK, thanks for taking the time to dumb it down.
I changed it. Old sample is in the comments.
Vielen Dank mein sehr geehrter Schweinehund (sorry for bad German! 😊)
Das ist kein schlechtes Deutsch. Da fehlt nur ein Beistrich, aber den hätten viele Deutsche auch weggelassen
Besser ist das.
To be fair, no need to be German to love sauerkraut, beer and bretzels.
Okay this is gonna sound dumb but I’m bad at history. Is the reason there are so many German Asians because of the Axis during WWII?
Edit: Ah, it’s because of the Vietnam war. This is mildly embarrassing but it’s better than staying ignorant.
There are?
Only if we actually take all of Asia, then yes, there are a lot of people from West Asia in Germany. But that doesn’t has anything to do with WWII and probably not what the user meant.
Yeah, someone else explained that they were refugees from the Vietnam War. That’s what I get for making assumptions.
It may just be a coincidence I’ve experienced and now because I’m thinking about it it’s easy to fall inbto confirmation bias.
No.
A lot of people with (East) Asian roots in Germany are Vietnamese. West Germany had refugees during the American War in Vietnam and Eastern Germany had people coming over because of the socialist brotherhood thing (cheap workers for unpopular work).
Oh gotcha. That makes sense.
I changed it. Old version:
Mettwurst, pickles and salami are part of my eating habits I exported. Getting good sauerkraut is difficult even in Germany, it’s all just the cheap vinegar stuff instead of lactaid acid.
you can make Sauerkraut yourself quite easily. It should last you quite a bit too if you keep it in the fridge.
It’s ok, like nothing special. Grünkohl is way better but I have another favourite. I would share it, but it’s so regional I’d basically doxx myself. And even if you’d know it, you don’t want to know what it’s made of ^^
Bestes ist Wirsing mit Kartoffelpüree. Wir nennen das “Schlappschlapp” hier.
rotkohl is my favorite, but I really enjoy sauerkraut also.
Fun fact about it. Depending on what ingredients you use it can either get red, with acidic, blue, if it’s neutral and yellow, if it’s basic. And even purple or green if it’s in between the extremes
Grünkohl is fucking amazing, yes! Spent some time in Friesland when I was younger and Grünkohl along with some good sausages and mustard blew my mind
It’s still Bretzel.
Pretzl is like the disabled version of it.Brezel
This. It’s Brezel, Brezn, Breze or Brezl. Never is there a t in there. Except in Swiss German, which hardly is German at all.
Thank you
I hate Sauerkraut and Beer
Am I even German?
Nein.
Saurkraut is one of those things I can’t stand on its own.
On a beef sandwich or with sausage is another story.
Beer though, not sure what to say there. Drink more beer? Then it doesn’t matter if you like it or not.
Sauerkraut, like cole slaw in the US, is best as a condiment/topping
Cole slaw is best anywhere away from my food.
If you’ve never had a reuben, you’re missing out.
Sauerkraut und Schumpfnudel. Beschte
Edit: Kann nicht schreiben.
Schupfnudeln = Schumpnudeln?
Wurstfinger
Dachte es wäre ein regionaler Ausdruck lol
The only beer I like is Desperados, but only the ones the lemons one
The French eat Saurkraut with a bunch of different types of sliced up sausage and bacon. Like just in a bowl. I’ve always thought it was weird.
I spent a month in Germany last year. Turns out the most authentic German food is currywurst and middle eastern food lol.
But maybe that’s just in Berlin. They probably have good potato based dishes in Bavaria.
If you spent your month in Berlin, you didn’t visit Germany. Common mistake.
Lol.
It’s like saying you didn’t visit the US because you only went to NYC, but not Texas.
Only that Berlin is probably the “least German” place to go, while NY is not.
But that’s not what OP said. OP Made a stupid claim about how only visiting Berlin means one hasn’t really visited Germany.
To your point, my analogy works quite well - If you go to NYC expecting to find the stereotype of cowboys, massive steaks, and barbeque, you’ll be disappointed, because that shit is in Texas.
It’s all relative to how one defines a country’s culture and the lens it creates. Just because someone has myopic expectations does not mean that NYC is less American than anywhere else in the US. The same holds true for Berlin and the rest of Germany.
I think you’re missing the point. NYC doesn’t have cowboys or anything but it’s representative of other aspects of American culture.
Berlin is in fact the least German town in Germany. It has its own kind of culture that is vastly different from the rest.
Berlin is just as German as NYC is American, both have big city cultures that don’t really fit with life outside them.
Lived in NY for a while (manhattan) and travelled to a lot of other states. The comparison rings true for me, NY has it’s own culture for sure.
No, I fully understand the point. By “German” you mean Fachwerkhäuser, Oktoberfest, Lederhosen and Dirndls, Bier Steins and Weißwurst, and you’re correct, these cultural symbols are not characteristic of Berlin - these are Bavarian. There is so much more to German culture than Bavaria though, despite what the Bavarians think.
No, I don’t.
I am German, so I know what German culture is I guess.
Fachwerkhäuser are not Bavarian, it’s just that Bavaria has many old townships that kept them intact. You see them all over Germany tho.
There is no german fast food except curry Wurst in Berlin. That doesnt mean there is no good german food. Just in Berlin there are viewer Restaurants selling german food than asian/ middle East and italian food and there is a lot of fast food. I dont know why there are so few German restaurants. In Munich you find more of them…
Uhhhh? Doner kebab?
Never mind that was dumb. Wasn’t reading correct
In Munich you’ll find more Bavarian restaurants.
I hear it’s a good place for munchin’.
I feel that’s kinda the point of Berlin though, its culture is formed by the patchwork of nationalities that migrates there. Much like the UK with its Indian food
Yeah I found it so weird how much international food there was in Berlin. I had to go looking for more traditional dishes.
Also, graffiti… graffiti, everywhere.
Well…It’s a captital alright.
Kind og expected to assume there will be a more international audience in comparison to the country side.
Bavaria is probably the most “German” german region. That’s where all the lederhosen stereotypes come from.
Basically it’s the Texas of Germany. Old school, religious, and conservative.
Edit: in the very rural parts, they even have their own dialect that to some Germans is almost completely unintelligible. I realized this when I took German language classes in high school in the USA and what they were having me learn was very much NOT the way my Bavarian mother spoke to me. It felt kind of irritating when they told me I was pronouncing things wrong and my grammar was wrong when I fuckin’ lived there as a child and spoke it fluently.
Bavaria is probably the most “German” german region.
So eine Frechheit! Nehmen Sie das sofort zurück!
Hey, if Germany can call America a bunch of corndog-eating cowboys, then we can call Germans tiroler hut-wearing yodelers.
Alright then, I guess that cancels each other out …
Well it’s the part where after the second world war Americans temporarily governed and American soldiers and their families where stationed. So all they ever saw of Germany was Bavaria. They took their experience back home and so the image spread.
Northern Germany is nothing like southern Germany. Yes they like their beer, but Bratwurst and pretzels? More fish and bread.
I must insist that it’s very different beer though.
I was with you in the first half. But northern Germany still loves their beer and brats. We had bbqs almost every weekend and if you didn’t have beer and brats, you might as well not have a party.
Although there almost always way just a full fish on the grill at some point only in northern Germany so I will give you that.
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It’s so funny to me that you all have your own interpretation of what’s liked in what parts of what I would say is a small country in relative terms. You know what Americans eat in all 50 states? Burgers and fries.
It seems to me that cultural homogeneity is a principle in the US though. I think it’s good though because it promotes mobility between states and holds what is a really massive nation together
It’s really only homogeneous at the high level. Every state has areas of vastly different culture depending on what the major immigrant groups were. A city founded by the Dutch, Polish, Finns, or French are all vastly different even in the same state.
There are a few other dialects in Germany that the rest can’t understand. For example Plattdeutsch and Friesisch. (Both in northern Germany)
Both are independent languages though. While they do have some similarities with German (Platt more than Friesisch), they are more closely related to Dutch and English.
In Bavaria the favorite snack of locals while there was way to big of a sausage in a way to small of a fresh bun. Not a hotdogs but, like a small sandwich roll. Tasted fantastic
There’s was one time I ripped the sausage in half and made it so the sandwich was a double decker, and I got some mean looks.
The Döner is a German food though, it was invented in Berlin.
When I was a kid it was more common to have German restaurants and Imbiss. But they can’t compete in price and speed with cheaper alternatives in the cities. That’s why they were gradually replaced. When you want to eat some more traditional German cuisine, you’d have to go to smaller towns or a hotel restaurant.
Nah you are close. We eat “Döner” (a turkish dish modified for Germany, basically a german invention) curry wurst and “Wiener Schnitzel” with french fires.
We drink beer all over the country but about every 50 km you have a different kind of beer that is prefered and don’t you dare to say a different beer is better.
Also the glasses in which the beer is drunken grows from north to south.
As a Brit living in another country, I get this too. People make jokes about me liking Doctor Who, drinking lots of tea and having bad teeth.
How dare you but also that is completely accurate.
No need to kick him in the pearly whites while he’s down mate!
Are you singing this while in New York?
I wish I could get decent fish and chips or scones with clotted cream in Germany.
People shit on British food, but every time I visited the UK, the food has been fantastic. I even liked the haggis I tried.
I lived in Germany as a kid and I really miss the pretzels. They don’t make them like that here - they were big and chewy on the bottom and thinner and hard on top.
This would also work with the Agent J meme from MiB 3
True.
