I’ve become even MORE GERMAN now

American living in Germany - I AM SO GERMAN NOW!

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Music:
"When We Found The Horizon" by Late Night Feeler

[WantedAdventure]

Thanks so much for watching! How many cake idioms did you count in this video?😁🎂🍰

[beka]

I never thought about cake as a dessert... To me is is a meal in itself, therefore I would never eat it directly after another meal.

[CLechleitner]

Cake has to be eaten as early as possible obviously, if only for the health advantage!

Left-over cake is a perfect breakfast ;-)

[xyzz]

We always have three cakes at a birthday party, so everyone can choose between different types of cake.
There is a positive side effect to this: we always have a lot of cake left to eat the days after the actual birthday.
Since I love cake, I sometimes can't resist to eat it in the morning after the birthday for breakfast 🍰☕🤤

[Geekomm]

I don't really don't care about the time at all. Cake is still cake. 🤷🏻‍♂️

[irmgardkoloska]

Another big birthday cake related difference between Germany and North America (in my case, Canada) is that in Germany the "Geburtstagskind" provides the cake, whereas in Canada it is considered sad if one makes ones own birthday cake.

[andrewcram]

Amusing and pretty corny which I love. I think you have progressed impressively over the last decade integrating into the German culture and you are a huge inspiration to me to keep improving past the intermediate level as I try to structure my life so I can emigrate into Germany and adapt to their culture as well.

[kilsestoffel]

Coffee and cake is more a snack in the afternoon than a dessert.
My childrens birthday partys in the seventies began mostly at 3:00. When everybody has arrived, we had cake, not with coffee, but with cocoa or juice. Then playtime with different games. The party ended with a simple dinner, often wieners with potatosalad.

[ronitb]

How are you doing videos in two different languages. Amazing. 👍🔥

[JostSchwider]

👍 for the "Kaffeeklatsch"!
👍 - _also_ for the YT algo! 😊

[felizitash]

#CakeintheAfternoon - because cake is not a desert! Cake is... cake! It belongs in the afternoon! Pudding, ice cream, mousse, fruit salad, jelly etc. etc. - those are deserts. Cake. Is. Not.

[alexZWL]

In the Netherlands it's birthday cake with the first round of coffee doesn't matter what time of the day. On an normal day just when drinking coffee

[derschattenpoet]

#cakeintheafternoon
the evening is not a place for cake, it's the place for BBQ.
But BirthdayCake also with candles is totaly a thing in Germany, too. But I gues more at birthday-partys for children rather than an adult celebrating his/her day.

[xMissCamelot]

Cake enhances the taste of coffee, so definitely team afternoon! Something HAS to go with the coffee!

[MrMegaPussyPlayer]

4:42 I think I just figured out why I never can remember when it is lunch and when it is dinner. Even if we don't do Kaffee und Kuchen, we eat snacks called Nachtisch. Which are usually served after you're done with lunch, but in the US that happens after dinner. So, reading English lecture my mind was placing dinner in the middle of the day.
Depends on the region we eat Kaffee und Kuchen, or Nachtisch, or both. So you might still chewing your lunch, and might get served cake (or another sweet snack) only to get cake again a few hours later as a meal before dinner. Incidentally, even if we have a saying that goes otherwise*, lunch is the biggest meal of the day, while dinner usually is smaller. That reflects in the name as well Abendbrot (alternative name to Abendessen).
Meals in Germany in the Order from Morning to evening (might differ on region): Frühstück, Brunch*², Brotzeit*², Mittagessen (+ Nachtisch), Kaffee und Kuchen, Abendessen/-brot.
After listing that: Now I'm surprised the Germans aren't a lot fatter than they are.


*=Man soll frühstücken wie ein König, mittagessen wie ein Edelmann und abendessen wie ein Bettler.
*²=Not actually native to the region I live in, nor the one I grew up in.

[ultimativerHexer]

In Great Britan you have 5 o'clock tea, in Germany you have "Kaffee und Kuchen" at four.

[langly]

I'm not so much of a what time do we have cake. It still depends. I prefer a coffee cake or a sliced of iced lemon loaf if I'm at Starbucks. As long as there is coffee to go with the cake.

[FiddlingJoker]

I know this video is mainly about cake, but I can't find your other video where you talked about Germans not wishing each other a happy birthday before their actual birthday.

I think one reason for this difference from the US is where the focus of the sentiment lies, and this difference in focus is expressed in the words used in the two phrases:

In English you wish some a happy birthday, so you are expressing your wish/hope that their birthday will be a happy day for them. So it makes more sense to express that wish before the actual date.
In German, the phrase is "Herzlichen Glückwunsch zum Geburtstag" oder "Alles Gute zum Geburtstag". The "zum" in this case means "on the occasion of" - so what we're saying is that "On the occasion of your birthday, I wish you luck/happiness".
The focus is not on the day of the birthday itself, but rather on the coming year. So what we're thinking when we say "Herzlichen Glückwunsch" or "Alles Gute" is something like: "Now that you have completed another year of your life, I wish you all the best for the next year of your life."
Sometimes the phrase (on birthday cards and such) is actually "Alles Gute fürs nächste Jahr" or something similar.

Maybe think of it like New Years' Eve. If you said "Happy New Year's" to someone before midnight on New Year's Eve, that would feel strange, right?
I think it's the same with birthdays for us Germans.

[Tredecimus]

Preferably #cakeintheafternoon but basically: Kuchen geht immer.

[dieterbuchholz]

Cake in the afternoon is the natural god given time frame to eat this delicious pastry.