The ice cream shops are once again open in Germany after being closed for the winter!
So let's talk about ice cream differences in Germany and the U.S.
Hey everyone! I'm Dana and you're watching Wanted Adventure Living Abroad.
Last summer I put out a video trying several different delicious kinds of ice cream around Munich.
That was definitely a fun video to film.
And about a year ago I also made a video about soda, popcorn, pizza, chips and ice cream,
where I mentioned a few Germany versus USA ice cream differences.
Both of those videos linked in the little I in the corner and down in the description.
But today I have a few new ice cream differences that I don't believe I mentioned in either
of those two other ice cream videos.
And the first one has to do with what I mentioned at the beginning of this video: ice cream
stores in Germany reopening after the winter.
In Germany a huge chunk of the ice cream places close for the winter, whereas in the U.S.
as far as I have experienced it, a lot of ice cream places stay open throughout the winter.
Some might close, but it doesn't seem to me to be as big of a percentage as the really
huge percentage of ice cream places that close here in Germany over the winter.
Here in Germany it feels to me like it's pretty much a given...it's just kind of
assumed that ice cream places will close during the winter and if you happen to see an ice
cream place open here in the winter in Germany it's like: whoa that place is selling
ice cream in the winter!? Wow! But now let's get on to the sweet stuff. The ice cream itself.
Starting with something called Spaghetti Eis in Germany.
Now spaghetti ice cream is not a thing that is unique to Germany alone, I have seen this
kind of ice cream sundae in other ice cream shops in other European countries too, but
I had never seen or heard of it before moving to Europe.
So I had never seen it in the U.S., and I was actually never really brave enough to
buy it for myself because I thought like...Spaghetti ice cream -- is that going to be cold spaghetti
with ice cream on top?
Then one summer Stefan ordered a Spaghetti Eis and I was pleasantly surprised to find
out that no, no actual spaghetti noodles are involved in this sundae.
But rather the ice cream is formed into little spaghetti like strings, and the sauce is strawberry
sauce, not marinara sauce, and there's usually some whipped cream in there as well.
Which brings me right into the next difference, whipped cream on ice cream sundaes.
In both the U.S. and Germany whipped cream on ice cream is a thing, but in the U.S. all
the whipped cream that I've ever had has been pretty dang sweet.
Most of the time as sweet or maybe even a little sweeter than the ice cream itself.
Whereas in Germany all the whipped cream I've ever tasted on ice cream here has been considerably
less sweet than the ice cream itself.
And at first I was like: hey, this whipped cream is not sweet enough!
But now I've actually come to really enjoy it.
It provides a kind of balance to the sweetness of the ice cream sundae and doesn't run the
risk overpowering the whole flavor.
But now a quick hop back into the ice cream shop to actually order your ice cream.
And there's another difference here too.
In the U.S. from my experience it's pretty common to be offered a taste test of one or
a few different ice cream flavors before finally choosing what you want to get.
At every ice cream place that I've been to in the U.S. you can ask to try a couple
different ice cream flavors, or the people working at the ice cream place will even offer,
like: "would you like to try something?" if they see I'm struggling to figure out what I want.
In Germany so far I have never experienced that.
As far as I know that's just not really a thing here.
I have stood here in Germany in ice cream shops mulling over what flavor to get for
a while and nobody has ever offered me a taste test before purchase.
And my last big difference for this video is that getting ice cream in the summer is
really popular in Germany.
Like, ice cream in general is also a pretty popular thing in the U.S., and there are lots
of ice creams that you can buy in the supermarkets in the U.S.
So, yes, ice cream itself is popular in the U.S.
But I feel going to an ice cream shop and getting some ice cream is much more popular
and a more of a common thing for adults to do here in Germany in the summer than in the U.S.
Germans, for example, can be known to go get some ice cream from an ice cream shop during
their lunch break just in the middle of the week.
I can still remember my first summer in Europe, I was living in Prague, dating Stefan who
lived in Munich and he wrote me one afternoon telling me that during the lunch break he
and his colleagues, like around 5 or 6 people, had all gone out for ice cream together.
And I was like: oh cool, was it someone's birthday? Or, you know, what are you guys celebrating?
No, nothing. No celebration.
They just all went out and got ice cream from the ice cream place down the street
on their lunch break. And at first I thought like, well, I mean, maybe it was just them.
But then I moved to Germany and once the summer rolled around I noticed lots and lots of people
getting ice cream during their lunch break.
People wearing suits here in Germany walking past me on the sidewalk in the afternoon eating
ice cream from an ice cream cone or from a cup that they had gotten from the ice cream place.
As far as I know that is not a common thing in the U.S. I don't think I ever went out
and got ice cream on my lunch break with or without my co-workers in the U.S.
For me in the U.S. going to an ice cream parlor was something I did as a kid and then as an
adult maybe for example on a date in the evening, or when on vacation.
But not just like on a Tuesday during my lunch break with my co-workers.
So my question for you is: do you eat ice cream on your lunch break?
And do you prefer ice cream in a cone or in a cup, or are you not a fan or ice cream at all?
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Lots and lots of people getting ice break during their lunch break. Did I say ice break?
And there is another difference...here too?
Something called Spaghetti Eis...in Germany. Ice cream!
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