I can't remember the last time I went grocery shopping on a saturday. You are two brave men! Next level: IKEA on a Verkaufsoffener Sonntag 🤣🤣

@eberbacher007

2 жыл бұрын

Ok, lets try this,shopping on Saturday when the 24th of december is a sunday = 3 days of closed stores after that saturday.

@cadeeja.

2 жыл бұрын

Pah. Easy peasy. Fear of Saturday shopping?! Ridonkulous. Ein Genie überschaut das Chaos. Sind sie zu stark, bist du zu schwach ^^

@svenv9034

2 жыл бұрын

An other level is going to the small supermarkt in the railway station of a larger city on a Sunday.

@norbertderiro9458

2 жыл бұрын

Level 10 : New Opening of a polish ALDI

@trish9396

2 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

True art. The director introduces another order of observation where the former protagonist watches the new protagonist make the same experiences as the former protagonist. Brilliant!

@joeyalfieri1721

2 жыл бұрын

Breaking the fourth wall, the fifth wall, all the walls

@hannahanna649

2 жыл бұрын

@@joeyalfieri1721 Good bones

Actually one of the biggest achivements of my life was to be called "Bruder" bei my local Dönermann. I swear to god, if I ever hold a Nobelprice speech and they ask me about my biggest achivement, I will name the "Bruder" thing. So getting a free drink form you Dönermann is already a big achivement for the first week in Germany. Congratulations and Welcome to Germany.

@MarvMetal

2 жыл бұрын

This. Its just gold how you level up from almost feeling insulted, because you dont understand the Dönermann lingo to being called "Bruder" or "mein Freund" or he just straight out remembers your name after months and you dont even remember having told him your name.

@hannah2729

2 жыл бұрын

"Chef" is where it's at though

@glockenrein

2 жыл бұрын

Hallo, bittschön!

@emjayay

2 жыл бұрын

@@MarvMetal I was a civilian working with Navy people for six months and one guy called me "shipmate".

@are_you_f_serious

2 жыл бұрын

That's some kind of Sad, dude.

Need more of these German adventures of Malf and Nalf

@marlajacques6947

2 жыл бұрын

Hell ya! 🤣😂

@marlajacques6947

2 жыл бұрын

Haha just saw your name, you’ll be lynchpin for the Malf, Nalf and Alf series when you go visit them 😆

@mojojim6458

2 жыл бұрын

@@marlajacques6947 Except he got the name order backwards.

@marcmech1

2 жыл бұрын

Big brother is watching you 😜

There's a whole TV series here, Two American Brothers take on Germany, one pretzel or kebab at a time.

@mojojim6458

2 жыл бұрын

Take note of this story board suggestion, Nalf. Oh, wait; you already have.

I see Mikey prepared himself in advance before arriving in Germany by learning some basic vocabulary. Smart!

The real apocalypse is shopping at an Aldi at 8 in the morning when they have chidlrens clothes or computers on sale. Best advice push it real good, always...

@viomouse

2 жыл бұрын

My supermarket is ok on most saturdays. The late mornings are a little worse. But a workday between 16:30 and 18:00... you don't wanna be there.

@S-V-E-N-1-9-7-8

2 жыл бұрын

> The worst are often old grandmas with their rollators aka "The Rollatorgörls". These Ladies mutate into a mixture of Rambo and Terminator and pushing everyone else aside just to be the first to get to the rummage table 🤕

@kerry4385

2 жыл бұрын

@@S-V-E-N-1-9-7-8 push it real good!

@susannabonke8552

2 жыл бұрын

@@S-V-E-N-1-9-7-8 oh yeah, they are so annoying. Will you make a film of this?

@mojojim6458

2 жыл бұрын

@@S-V-E-N-1-9-7-8 I should have copyrighted , too. Sigh ©

I always found US dollars to be Monopoly money.. They all look the same and feel like they’re worth nothing

@marksauck8481

2 жыл бұрын

It might as well be the way the Fed keeps running them off the press left and right.

@garrettevans9193

Жыл бұрын

For anyone not well versed in US economics, allow me to clarify what Mark above me said: "Fed" means the Federal Reserve; the central bank of the US. As you can deduce from his comment, the Federal Reserve prints and distributes monies, among other duties that I cannot recall at this time.

As a warm up, Americans should shop at Aldi and Lidl in the states before moving to Germany.

@susannabonke8552

2 жыл бұрын

Immigration test.

@the_retag

2 жыл бұрын

Tutorial level of aldi lidl

@nutrylzone367

2 жыл бұрын

In USA the coin thing is not always used at some of the Aldi in USA even though they have the chain mechanism on the cart. But at least most returns the cart. Sadly no German wine and beer sold in most as well. 😪

@amymalone3995

2 жыл бұрын

We only have Aldi not Lidl, Norma or Edeka.

@amymalone3995

2 жыл бұрын

@@nutrylzone367 most of the Aldi in my area have wine but I dont think its German. It gives me a headache so I dont even bother looking at it. The only true German things I've seen at our stores are chocolate and maybe some cookie/biscuit snacks.

I grew up in the 80´s and 90´s where Stores closed at Saturday 12 o´clock midday. Today its way more relaxed to do groceries at Saturday.

@JJJT-

2 жыл бұрын

And they closed early on wednesday, too.

@Morpheus451

2 жыл бұрын

I also remember this. Now the Netto around the corner is open until midnight six days a week and has self-checkout. That's what I call progress.

@Geggy0815

2 жыл бұрын

@@Morpheus451 Midnight?? WTF. All stores close at 8 o´clock evening here. 😡

@imrehundertwasser7094

2 жыл бұрын

@@Geggy0815 Let me guess, you're in Bavaria? That's the one German state that comes to mind where shops close at 8. (Edit:) Just looked it up, Saarland has that too.

@Morpheus451

2 жыл бұрын

@@Geggy0815 That sucks. I guess you are living a bit more rural? I am in the Ruhr area. To be sure I made a quick survey of the supermarkets around here - Kaufpark, Netto 24:00; Penny, Real 22:00; Aldi, Edeka, Lidl 21:00.

It's so much fun to see you in big brother mode. To Mikey remember your seatbelt those fines are not cheap. Saturday is the worst day for shopping in Germany!

@user-sm3xq5ob5d

2 жыл бұрын

Strange. I got at about 20:00 or even later and there are very few people in the shop. Some items may be on short supply. But my range of things I regularly buy is also very limited.

I have a big feeling little bro will be fluent in German ever before his big bro. More fearless in using what he knows.

As an American who has been living in Bavaria for the past five years (but who lived here in high-school before), I've been loving your videos of seeing and learning about the country - and now with your brother! One of my younger brothers was here as part of his Army service, but we never managed to meet up then. Viel Spaß euch beiden, die Gebrüder Alfieri :) ps - loved the "servus" , something we use in the southeast of the country as well !

I cackled when you said grocery shopping on a saturday evening in Germany is the apocalypse 😂 pretty much the most accurate thing I have ever heard. Also before holidays of any kind

@tasminoben686

2 жыл бұрын

Holla, schönes, neues Jahr! 🤩

@Fidi987

Жыл бұрын

That's not even true. The apocalypse is grocery shopping in Germany in the evening before a holiday. I once forgot about that and needed something from the supermarket on New Year's Eve. It was not even late in the morning, maybe 10 am. The store closed at 2 pm. The queue before the cheese and meat counter at the back of the store went almost to the front entrance door. Then, the queue for the checkout went from that counter back to the cash registers, so, almost same distance. I stood there in line for 45 mins just to buy that ONE item we had forgotten and needed for dinner.

I hope you two enjoy yourselves here in Germany! Also the "Tschüssi" was the sign that u have officially have been germanized.

@B.A.B.G.

2 жыл бұрын

Absolutely.

@triblex305

2 жыл бұрын

Ladies and Gentlemen, we got him. :D

@ValkyrieMain

2 жыл бұрын

@@triblex305 *breakbot - baby I'm yours intensifies

@uliwehner

2 жыл бұрын

germanized maybe, but not southernized. Tschuessi is for Touris. Servus, Ade, etc. would be appropriate for a proper southerner ;)

@ValkyrieMain

2 жыл бұрын

@@uliwehner Klugscheißen⁹⁹⁹ lol

Hehe, Nalf, I'll up that 'absolute chaos in the grocery store' by several factors. Go shopping on the 24th of December, when that 24th is a Thursday, thus Friday AND Saturday AND Sunday the stores will be closed as well. The absolute sheer terror of late Christmas present shoppers, late grocery shoppers, and the terrors of having to survive a FULL four days without buying fresh groceries drives Germans absolutely bonkers. THAT is the ultimate chaos of German grocery shopping. Phaw, shopping on a Saturday at 5 PM... that's child's play... I do that while snoozing through on jet-lagg induced sleep deprivation. 😂😂

The Way in which you form this unique and special relationship with your Kebab/Döner-Shopowner of choice is something really heartwarming. They are almost always immigrants from the near east and have their own lingo and habits. It's as if you increase your friendship level until some day the shopowner calls you by your name, and remembers what you usually eat, so he just asks "like always?". Thats when you've made it. Have gone through that process a few times over the years in different german citys. At some point you are a kind of supreme customer, who gets free stuff and enhanced service. Me and my colleagues from work had such high status with our Dönermann, that once we arrived he even asked (quite insistingly) other guests to move to other tables, so we six could sit together and stuff, was almost a little too much service at times, but man we loved it there. Took us about 2 years of going there almost every Thursday (Donnerstag -> Dönerstag) to cultivate that relationship, almost sad that I dont work there anymore...

@HansWurst-lg1ws

2 жыл бұрын

Couldnt be more accurate haha

@FreebirthOne

Жыл бұрын

For me it was my favaorite pizzeria. Once I forgot my money (there you can't by with Credit Card or Phone). She just waved it away saying "bring it tomorrow"

Worst time is actually 17 o'clock under the week...because that is when everyone who stops at the grocery on the way home is there. Naturally the absolute worst time is before a long weekend, especially the Eastern and the Christmas Weekend.

@susannabonke8552

2 жыл бұрын

Providing food for the family is an earnest task! Germans are so funny. But then, the stores themselves are ugly so you wanna leave..

@swanpride

2 жыл бұрын

@@susannabonke8552 Well, who would want to stay for a long time for something as mundane and repitive as grocery shopping? If you are able to go in and out fast, than a store is set up well. I don't care how beautiful it is.

@theworldaccordingtokirsch

Жыл бұрын

Try this at the beginning of a month, when most people get their pay.

Would love to see more of his "firsts" in Germany. Keep it up, Guys and have great Time here! :)

Absolutely hilarious. As a German who has lived in the UK for 12 years and now back, I feel a similar reverse culture shock and am trying to spread the use of “excuse me” in supermarkets ;-D

Soo nice to see you together, I find myself having developed a weird mama-goose feeling for my favourite manchild… so nice that you have a playfriend now always…just get him to a hairdresser 💇‍♂️ 😂😂 Well done shopping💪🏻💪🏻🤣🤣

@ThatManFromGermany

2 жыл бұрын

That mullet is dope!

@nancywutzke5392

Жыл бұрын

Mullet's are back!

@ishouldbestudyingrightnow

10 ай бұрын

@@nancywutzke5392 Yeah, I keep thinking he looks like Tyler Eifert.

These smiles of excitement are so contagious :)

a usual day in a new country must be a very nice adventure!! wait until the spring is there, he wouldnt leave germany...esp not schwäbisch hall or southern part of the country! a nice breakfast on a sunny spring sunday morning is a very nice expierience

1:30...on the topic of butter pretzels; M.A. "That one sucked' met with the mother of all grimaces from N.A. So many hopes and dreams shattered.

I always enjoy your videos! Exciting times with your brother!! Enjoy!

Geez, your brother speeks German quite well on his first day. How many years did it take you Nalf?

@susannabonke8552

2 жыл бұрын

@Der Typ Little brothers try to outdo their siblings.

@BobWitlox

2 жыл бұрын

A few more videos and Mikey's German will be better than Nalf's.

@mojojim6458

2 жыл бұрын

@@BobWitlox But never better than his French.

14k views in four hours? Go off then young king

So nice to see you two brothers together! And also when you are with the rest of your family. Your parents seem like such lovely people. From your Canadian pretend grandma.

i love those videos, they are so relaxing to watch, thx

I'm an old man - well 60, so not that old, I reckon. When I was growing up - in Canada 🇨🇦 - everything was closed on Sundays as well. It's actually a great idea! The idea of a "day of rest"... excellent. Nice to see that the Germans 🇩🇪 haven't abandoned the idea. Just looking in on your channel as a kind of reminiscing... my last time over there was in West Germany in 1988. Things have definitely changed!

Oh my goodness that looks like a Kaufland!! 🤣🤣🤣

I love these vlogs of Mikeys first experiences here in Germany. Bitte weiter so, viele mehr ;-)

So basically this supermarket in Germany looks like every supermarket in New York City or LA at 4 am.

Can’t wait for Mikey’s channel when he starts complaining that you’re the behemoth villain, doing many evil deeds to him such as being a Yufka pusher and getting him badly addicted to this yummy food stuff. Thanks for another fun video with Mikey :-)

saturday 9 am is worse going grocery Shopping 🤣

super nice to see him also experience germany for the first time together with you who already had this feelings :D

A whole new world of content...gotta love it.

You have been friendly to your brother, try the aldi/lidl checkout experience next.

@rolanddeschain6089

2 жыл бұрын

Try an Aldi or Lidl in a big city, in a rather shady neighborhood just before a few holidays. This is next level hardcore.

@paavobergmann4920

2 жыл бұрын

jup. lightning speed cashiers, a square foot to get your stuff organized for packing and bona fide riots in yout back.

Nice video. The town architecture is beautiful. Much success.

Need more adventures of MALF and NALF and AALF and JALF and (other) AALF and (other) JALF

@hannahanna649

2 жыл бұрын

Just join your brothers in Germany, you will have a blast

@sisuguillam5109

2 жыл бұрын

@@hannahanna649 Hanna is right.... Come on over to the dark side. We have Döner...

Gotta take a shower after Saturday evening grocery shopping in Germany ;)

I remember the Jetlag when i flew from Hamburg to Los Angeles, you got my condolences guys!

Mikey seems to be a quick learner. Great video.

I cannot remember what it's like to have the stores closed on a Sunday. Its been years since the Danish government allowed stores to open on Sundays. It was actually a law they changed, called Lukkeloven (closinglaw - roughly translated). Cody and Speedy now has an "adopted third kid"😉🤣🤣🤣

@reconciliation86

2 жыл бұрын

Always a breath of fresh air when I'm on vacation in Finland. "oh no it's saturday!! wait...they open at 10:00...yay"

@reconciliation86

2 жыл бұрын

And love the dynamic around the dutch border where they are open on sundays but I think closed on mondays so people just drive an extra 10 km or so both ways on different days.

Es ist total verrückt mein Alltagsleben aus der Perspektive eines Amerikaners zu sehen. Ich bin jedes Mal fasziniert. Alles was für mich normal erscheint, ist ein Magic Rollercoaster Adventure für jemand Fremdes.

I love these videos !

Fun, thanks, good to see it working out. Glad to see Mikey survived the grocery store. About as chaotic as it gets. The wallet with the coin purse is a true landmark though you have to just run into one. Lol I don’t know. All the best

Boss battle music shopping is next level ^^

I love this kind of content, I could watch it for hours

Wow ! What feelings of success he must have !

Mikey still has to develope his complaining skills. Here he can learn most from Grand Master Nick.

Nice! Just yesterday I thought, now there should be a lot of new "First Time" videos on this channel with Mikey! And Cody be like: "Oh no, now there are two of them!"

To get a free drink from your Dönermann in the first week is a massive achievement!

your little brother coming over is mullet content gold!! looking forward to the next season ! :)

Mikey always reminds me of a little puppy.

This is highly entertaining to watch.

I played football at Tualatin (Co2015), now living in Frankfurt. It’s cool to see some fellow Oregonians over here! Keep up the good content

@sisuguillam5109

2 жыл бұрын

'Erbarme, zu spät... die Hesse komme' starts playing in the background!

Between 7 and 8 o‘clock in the morning is the perfect time on Saturday 💪🏻😂

Wait until the holidays and you need to go to the store on Christmas Eve. There was a line out the door at my nearby store, and had never seen anything like it in the US :D

Going to the grocery store on saturday is the apocalypse... this line almost made me falling of the chair

LOL, exactly! One of the first things my daughter noticed was that no one says excuse me. They cut you off and bang into you and just keep on going

HAHA thats so cool to see, I have been living here in Thuringia for 11 years now and I can relate to your brother in the grocery store getting bumped into so many times and no one saying excuse me lol. Too good :D.

@nadelison2213

2 жыл бұрын

Maybe the said „Tschuldigung“ instead of „Excuse me“ 😉 That’s what I usually say 😄

@seanward536

2 жыл бұрын

@@nadelison2213 I speak and understand German fluently so I would have hear them say it at least once lol. No big deal :)

@greenknitter

2 жыл бұрын

Irish? my fiance is from Thuringia and I'm Irish. Thuringia is really beautiful, my favourite state in Germany.

Mercedes Police? No one's ever gonna scape.. 🤣🤣⚡⚡

You guys should have gone shopping in south Germany near the Swiss boarder. You would enjoy shopping in Schwäbisch Hall on Saturdays 😂😂

@paavobergmann4920

2 жыл бұрын

Konstanz, "LAGO"-mall, saturday afternoon. "Let´s just pick up some..."- ERROR!

German grocery store chaos XDD at least you don't have to guess the price with taxes ^^

Advise... Plan when to go shopping and make a list what you need... Best is e.g. Fridays around midday (if you can) when the old people and mothers are home preparing/eating lunch or waiting for their kids coming home in a place that is not frequented by school children or people spending doing their shopping in the lunch break... Saturdays - early in the morning but before women send their kids or the husbands to get what they have forgotten on their weekly shopping tour - and when the others take their time to have an easy start in their free day with a good breakfast. Germans are world champions in planning - not everybody, the others you see Saturday afternoon in the supermarkets... ;)

Diese Videos sind so unterhaltsam/ These Videos are so entertaining

Nalf and Malf... Sounds like a Sunday Morning Kid's Cartoon 🤣

Good vibes 😊

Stores are closed on Sunday? That is lovely!!! That grocery store looks like a cross between Aldi and Costco!

Ah yes very used to those carts at Aldi US. But the place you went to was higher need as they bagged your groceries. As for the insane grocery shopping times here that would be Trader Joe's on Saturdays and Sundays until 6pm and there are so few of them that TJs "brought" that apparently German tradition of crazy busy shopping with them. Great video glad your brother is acclimating well!

@felixdergluckliche3108

2 жыл бұрын

Well Trailer Joe is a subsidiary of Aldi

saturday evening already is hard but if monday is a holiday even worse

Awe, that was just adorable. 🥰

The only thing I recall about grocery shopping is if you touch it (fruits and veges) you buy it. I loved the different products especially the baby items. My son loved the kinder tea, biscuits and food. Back then the carts weren't on a coin release, at least those near us.

your german's getting better and better

This was really entertaining.

i hope we can see these two in a Bierzelt soon....

@hannahanna649

2 жыл бұрын

dancing on benches and tables...

@friedrichstock6377

2 жыл бұрын

I think a Bierzelt could be a bit problematic this year. Or we can see them in quarantine soon afterwards...

How does your brother feel? The first time away from home and then immediately in another country. It's good that his big brother Nalf is here with him :) .

Loved it, as always. (But I still prefer our German shopping closing times to an US supermarket brightly mir at midnight with two people per square kilometer present 😉. )

The slowest checkouts in the world can be found in Switzerland or Spain; in the latter cashiers are constantly on the phone or chatting, going to weigh fruit or disappearing for other reasons. In Germany it's super fast, but shopping here is really stressful.

Next level is shopping in Czechia the day before national holiday, only days when the shops are closed.

as a german i really enjoyed watching this

I hope he's enjoying his first Sunday :D

Dude that Grocery Store is like the most comfortable for shopping even on saturday evenings. Big Kauflands in Suburbia are paradise. Try going REWE City or EDEKA in a city like cologne or Stuttgart, where the corridors are just wide enough to let one person comfortably walk. Its like a 10m x 35m area, literally hell

Cart Narcs would love the german cart system 😂

fun to watch

In nyc we had the grocery cart deposit at some stores years ago. I don't think they have anymore.

Sitting in my german Stuhl, I actually have no clou, why I´m watching the 10th of your vidos. I know all this stuff from being a 39 year long, born german, but it still get´s facinated some how.

It's called Kundenbindung, because of the free drink on the Yuvka, he will probably show up more often ;-) Do notice that small children get their small Würstchen at the butcher.

Samstag Abend Einkaufen ist nicht die Apokalypse. Einkaufen am 23. Dezember, wenn danach die Geschäfte für 3 bis 4 Tage geschlossen haben, DAS ist die Apokalypse. Einkaufen am 24. Dezember, wenn die Läden um 13 Uhr schließen und danach 3 bis 4 Tage geschlossen sind, ist vergleichbar mit The Walking Dead. ( Da sind nur die letzten, verschlafenen und vergesslichen Zombies unterwegs und alles, was man will, ist ausverkauft) Einkaufen an Silvester, wenn der 31. Dezember ein Sonntag ist, und ALLE ihren Schnaps kaufen gehen, ist auch furchtbar.

Dude! I've been in Berlin for 3 years now and my German level is still at like A.05. I can confirm that the jet lag from PDX is one of the worst feelings.

Great stuff you doing Deutschland!

If you go grocery shopping on a Saturday go after 8PM.. Or on any weekday for that regard. I hate grocery shopping when it's busy.

Due to Big Brother's loving care and preparation the newcomer is less shocked by German atrocities. But why on earth does he not pay with his card? Big grocery stores prefer that. Amusing to see how Mikey immediately fell for Yufka, no chance for Nick's beloved Butterbrezel, Nick must be disappointed. Nice that daddy Cody was also involved to keep an eye on the little one. So the "family" is together again. Looking forward for the Biergarten season, no yufka with the beer, but maybe Mikey will like a Leberkässemmel, truly Swabian.

@rogink

2 жыл бұрын

I was thinking the same. I know smaller shops in Germany might not accept cards, but supermarkets should. I don't think that would reduces the queues though. And even if kid brother has just opened a bank account, he won't get a bank card for a few days.

@ericminch

2 жыл бұрын

@@rogink Besonders in der Covid-Zeit they prefer Kontaktlos payment.

@PumpkinDolce

2 жыл бұрын

Probably he didn't receive it yet. He opened his German bank account just the other day.

@rogink

2 жыл бұрын

@@ericminch Germanglish?

@kataetwas2825

Жыл бұрын

LeberkäsWECKEN , Semmel ist bayrisch 😉

We have labels like that on cigarettes in Canada as well

I really enjoy to see how Mikey discovers south germany as usa citizen

He will lern the proper way to complain very quick! Tx Nalf!

So many trigger points touched on here. You thought the grocery shopping was chaos. Wait a few minutes and see the real chaos in the comments here. TSGO

@NoNeedTo...

2 жыл бұрын

Everything will be smooooooooth and orderly…….. 😜

He should experience a German hairdresser.

@susannabonke8552

2 жыл бұрын

He likes it.

Your Bro looks like you. But with a Wig. I love it. Have a good one.