Why Germans are obsessed with potatoes! | Germany In A Nutshell
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Whether as a fried potato, potato salad or potato fritters - Germans LOVE potato dishes. Potatoes are grown all over Germany, because the climate is similar to the region of origin of the famous potato. In fact, it doesn't come from Germany at all! Euromaxx reporter Hannah Hummel tells you where the potato actually originated, how it is grown and which varieties and dishes are most popular in Germany.
How do you like your potatoes best?
CHAPTERS
00:00 Intro
00:31 Potato 101
01:51 Deep Dive
03:12 Very Brief History
03:57 Ein bisschen Deutsch
04:29 Inside Stories
05:23 Outro
#Potato #Germany #GermanCulture
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CREDITS
Report: Hannah Hummel, Shaheen Welling
Camera: Henning Goll
Edit: Neven Hillebrands
Supervising Editors: Mirja Viehweger, Ruben Kalus
Special thanks to Biohof Klass and the restaurant Zum Märkischen Eck in Trebbin.
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Thank you for mentioning how the potato originated from South America!
@patrickfitzgerald2861
10 ай бұрын
Yes. So many "traditional" European foods were actually brought back there after the invasion of the Western Hemisphere began in 1492. Tomatoes are another prominent example.
@hassenvenero5126
10 ай бұрын
As a Peruvian, it surprises me there are people who think potatoes come from Europe.
@laiyinquan8355
10 ай бұрын
@@hassenvenero5126That's because European countries extensively use potatoes in their dishes
@laiyinquan8355
10 ай бұрын
@@allthingsfair773 To be fair, they kind of are geographically?
@divelea
10 ай бұрын
I mean... europeans told us where everything originated.
The apparent German potato farmer has ONE HEAVY aussie accent XD XD I liiiiveeee *snap snap snap*
@PetraSoule
2 ай бұрын
well, that is not that unusual for a German to sound like an Aussie. When I went to England in 1974 I was often asked if I was from Australia.
Potatoes are such a life saver, can't imagine my life without them
@JJONNYREPP
10 ай бұрын
Why Germans are obsessed with potatoes! | Germany In A Nutshell 1415pm 5.8.23 top notch advice to note when taking up that invite made by yer german friend: take along a lengthy piece of slate with you....
@Tommusix
9 ай бұрын
Like bread. As a German I can't imagine a life without bread.
@dennisp8520
8 ай бұрын
@@Tommusixi can not imagine life without bread but I can imagine life without potatoes. That being said potatoes are an absolute miracle food. They have really good nutrients and can be used in so many different ways. They are also easy to grow and super cheap to buy.
In a video about Germany and potatoes I had expected a mention of the two types of potato salad. It's almost a religious thing here.
@dweuromaxx
10 ай бұрын
Haha - correct. Perhaps we need a part 2 ;)
Coming from the Andes, I love potatoes in their different preparations 🤩 liebe Grüße aus Ecuador 🥔😍
4:33 I thought Hannah was gonna introduce us to her grandma 😂
I am from West Bengal which is a Bengali state in India... So, we Bengalis also love potatoes so so so much that in every veg or non-veg dish, we put potatoes 🥔 (Aaloo- potato in Bengali)... When I came to Germany then I realize that Germans and Bengalis have many things similar but the most important is Kartoffel !! I loved it... ❤😅😊
@soulxslayerchan
10 ай бұрын
Mochli
@kumarmanjeet6704
10 ай бұрын
Same thing in bihar.. We put potatoes in almost everything
@liqiz1755
9 ай бұрын
Really? It’s true that Kartoffel is potato, richtig.
thanks.potatoes are worth liking!
Having lived in the greater Stuttgart area many years, I now live near Bonn and prefer all sorts of potatoes. But home-made Spätzle are truly superb!
I remember a story from my childhood about the "Alte (old) Fritz" popularizing the potato by making a show about serving them at court and having the fields watched by armed guards during daylight hours. In order to tempt poor peasants into stealing from the fields at night. Because guarded fields would show those hungry enough that the strange bulbs must be good and worth eating the unknown.
@cedriceric9730
10 ай бұрын
Omg
@cedriceric9730
10 ай бұрын
Omg
@cedriceric9730
10 ай бұрын
Omg
@angelikapreu9323
10 ай бұрын
I've heard this Story too.
@dansattah
10 ай бұрын
Sounds about right. My mother told me how grandpa had to steal potatoes in East Prussia to survive before he migrated to Mecklenburg-Westpomerania.
I own a very large cookery book titeled "Deutsche Küche". And what`s on the cover? A boiled potato! (Teubner Verlag)
Thanks for the nice subject. You forgot the "potato dumplings and the potato bread" 😊
@dweuromaxx
10 ай бұрын
How could we! 😱
@Sunshine-un5ww
10 ай бұрын
Both are so tasty
"Kartoffelpuffer/Reibekuchen" (~potato pancakes) are missing 😀
@karstenbursak8083
10 ай бұрын
Ah ... Pommes de Bordell 😂😂😂
@gluteusmaximus1657
10 ай бұрын
Baggers in Nürnberg.
@angelikapreu9323
10 ай бұрын
Reiberdadschi hier.👋😀
Gratulieren, amusing overview. Be well & stay safe
Ihr hättet bei den Beispielen noch Kartoffelknödel hinzufügen können. Die sind in Bayern sehr beliebt. Ein schönes Video, toll gemacht!
How could one not to like potatoes? 👀
2:05 even your farmers look like models ❤❤
I love this series! 👏🏻😃
I like to eat mashed potatoes with brat wurst… I sprinkle pepper powder on both… It’s super easy to cook and delicious for lunch or dinner
I love potatoes!! As always, I really enjoy your videos!! Vielen Dank!!
What about those marzipan potatoes you get at the Christmas market?
I guess the potato farmer learned his English during his 2 year young persons visa stay in Australia
@dweuromaxx
10 ай бұрын
😅😅 sounds like it!
@PetraSoule
2 ай бұрын
well, that is not that unusual for a German to sound like an Aussie. When I went to England in 1974 I was often asked if I was from Australia. Not everyone sounds like Arnold Schwarzenegger. North Germans sound different when speaking English than folks from the south of Germany😁
@trancemadmaz
2 ай бұрын
@@PetraSoule That guy has definitely been to Australia
good quality video for people
3:00 Are you supposed to throw the potatoes like that? Doesn't it cause bruises on them?
Cute outfit on presenter! I grow them in my community garden plot but they messed up the soil for tomatoes.
@Steeler-wg5zo
10 ай бұрын
Do you have a gray iron foundry nearby? The chips from machining of gray cast iron are great for growing tomatoes. They go off like rockets when you put the chips in the ground.
We had a really delicious Kartoffel served in a skillet at Schwabinger Kartoffelhaus in Munich years ago. 🥔🍄🧈🥦🧀
Interesting. In china the potato was mostly brought in by Chinese pirates through european trade in the Ming Dynasty. It was the food of the poor. It grew in marginal areas, hills and mountains of China. potato still have a stigma as poor people's food. Even if people grew up eating it. They won't buy etc.. They don't want people to think they are poor. I had to take decades to get my parents to start eating potatoes again lol.
@marco21274
10 ай бұрын
I ate really delicious fried potatoes in Yunnan. In my experiences the food in the poor provinces tastes much better than in the rich ones. It is simply fresher. 😊
It is kinda weird that people have that impression that we are obsessed with potatoes. Our consumption per capita is admittedly way larger than the world average, but we are just about average in Europe. Especially former Soviet Republics and East European countries eat way more. But also some South American countries, other Central and West European countries (e.g. UK 20 kg more per capita) or countries like Nepal and Rwanda consume way more. King is Belarus with 3x the German consumpion.
@Steeler-wg5zo
10 ай бұрын
da machen die aber Vodka draus...LOL
Absolutely miss the kebab boxes with fries in Germany, wish it were more common here in the States.
It is the same in Belgium, i eat it like 5 times /week😁
1:22 you forgot the most important variant: potato dumplings!
What are German Midsummer without potatos.
The problem with this video is that it leaves you hungry :)
I like potatoes, some of 'em I love. I love baked potatoes, skin left on, with butter, sour cream, salt, black pepper, maybe bacon and melted sharp Cheddar cheese, chives, maybe some spring onion tops, (fully loaded, very nearly potatoes Brennsn - something to Google). I also like baked potstoesI'with chili con carne, shredded Cheddar cheese, and pickled jalapeño slices with sour cream. m also partial to mashed potatoes, with butter, salt and black pepper, or decorated with spring onion cuts, bacon crumbles, and Cheddar cheese. I don'tvcare for American potato salad, but do like the German (schwäbische) potato salad (I was tempted to write "Kartoffelsalat" or "Erdapfelsalat"). Also, potato bread is great!
0:25 Fly love potato too :o)
Okay, so I just watched a 6 minute video about potatoes 😅
I like mashed potatoes and fresh asparagus with my filet mignon. 👌
A life without potatoes is possible, but pointless.
Sebastian Klass has an Australian acccent!!!
@thomasschumacher5362
10 ай бұрын
Sure does
@dweuromaxx
10 ай бұрын
His mother is actually Australian.
@bundiboo
10 ай бұрын
Yep - picked it straight away. Surprised he didn't say "spud".....
Sooooo important to show it all to the world. But one extremely important dish ist missing: Klösse or Knödel. In Frankonia where I come from or Thuringia which is my wife's home they're almost religion.
Potato 🥔🥔 😋😋
Belarus + potato = love
Wow, your German is amazing..! 🤩
German villians could love this video and all videos for you
Beclin cũng muốn mua . Mua được hả
"Potatoe salat with vienna sausages...its hardly get more german than that" - here DW is historical too correct. Because yes, Austria is still a "German" country when you look to the historical context of this attribute...but I bet they will hate this soooooo much to hear ;-)
How close different nations and countries about their tastes)
Who’s the bloke with the Aussie accent?
I'm not German but I love potatoes.
@hkkhgffh3613
10 ай бұрын
Wickid!
Well more they are focused on potatoes and less they are focused on panzerdivisionen :D viele liebe grusse
@angelikapreu9323
10 ай бұрын
WW2 is more than 70 Years over.🤦 Three Generations!
Potatoes just are the BEST FOOD
I like potatoes 🥔
I love bratkartoffeln. No one like the Germans, know how to make bratkartoffeln.
Hannah is even more delicious than potatoes. And I LOVE potatoes.
Well we have something in common the Germans ,potatoes ,greeting from Ireland
@liqiz1755
9 ай бұрын
Really?
The potato farmer spent a year backpacking down under, didn't he?
@dweuromaxx
10 ай бұрын
His mother is from Australia. 😉
@Baccatube79
10 ай бұрын
@@dweuromaxx das erklärt es natürlich. Ich hatte ihn schon im Verdacht, dieser eine Leon zu sein, den wir alle im Bekanntenkreis haben, der nach dem Abi ein Jahr für Hike & Travel in Australien war und jetzt Ökofarming in Brandenburg macht.
I actually Love Potatoes, and German Culture
Am I the first to mention the terrible pun: Wie heißt das Reh mit Vornamen? Kartoffelpü!
@dweuromaxx
10 ай бұрын
😆
Weiß jemand, warum es keine speckig kochenden Kartoffeln mehr gibt?
@saba1030
10 ай бұрын
Es gibt sie noch, heisst jetzt = festkochend 😊
@hape3862
10 ай бұрын
@@saba1030 Naa, die waren anders. Irgendwie schleimig, die haben gekocht sogar manchmal Fäden gezogen am Messer beim schneiden, waren aber echt gut, z. B. für Kartoffelsalat.
@saba1030
10 ай бұрын
@@hape3862 OK. Kenn ich so nicht, habe deswegen extra gegoogelt ... und da kam die Antwort = festkochend, es wurden auch die Namen der "speckig en" Kartoffeln mit angegeben 🥔 Kannst ja mal schauen, ob die Lieblingskartoffel/speckig dabei ist. Guten Hunger 😊
@karstenbursak8083
10 ай бұрын
Da fällt mir nur die gute alte "Sieglinde" ein
@Steeler-wg5zo
10 ай бұрын
@@karstenbursak8083 es gab auch mal 'Rheinische Mölle'...
Would had been nice if she had gone more in detail which type goes with which dish, instead of just glossing over this fact. I always have this problem with Frau Netto.
Sie lieben so sehr der Kartoffeln In Deutschland
Das heisst Grumbiere !!!
@12tanuha21
8 ай бұрын
Grumbeer
Every body likes potatoes
@Sunshine-un5ww
10 ай бұрын
Yes, roasted, fried, baked, mashed in dumplings and bread. Yummy
There are several European nations who consume more potatoes per capita than Germany.
Frederick the great
Just don't tell the Irish and the Russians..... They're obsessed with potatoes too
What happened to the other girl who used to do these videos?
And I thought that Belarus is a potato country
Nein😅
Jewish like potatoes too, lahtkees
Farmers don't develop new potato varieties, thus they are not named after farmers daughters!
My German-American mother served me WAY too many potatoes as a kid. Now I rarely eat them. And after a meat-filled childhood, I no longer eat any mammals either.. Potatoes are one thing, but I'm amazed that Germans still eat so much pig meat . . . ugh! 😫
@pwp8737
10 ай бұрын
to each his own
@patrickfitzgerald2861
10 ай бұрын
@@pwp8737 Exactly why the entire planet is turning in to a human garbage dump. Too bad you're so selfish.
I freaking love patatoes...
Germans are the besst and the most correct and the most blessed nation in world i would like all european Continent to convert in German