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Post by pieter on Dec 22, 2019 6:29:31 GMT -7
I have to say that everything they say about the Netherlands and the differences with Germany could be replaced by Danish or Denmark. The Danes are the closest to us in style, mentality, and individuality. The solistic and direct way of acting. Maybe the German way of communicating and speaking is a little bit more pleasent than the Dutch and Danish directness and bluntness. What is very funny is that I go the Deutsche Bäcker, because I love German bread, little breads for sandwitch and German Käsekuchen oder Quarkkuchen. So the Germans in this video are right. I can tell you that a lot of Dutch people in the border region cross into Germany for German petrol, German bread, German meat, German fruit, German vegetables and German wine and beer. Of course the Dutchmen also buy whiskey and Vodka in Germany.
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Post by karl on Dec 22, 2019 14:17:14 GMT -7
Pieter Thank you for this very interesting video, for it describes a great deal between The Netherlands and Germany, the people, expectations and food....I love food.. The video was very complete with the lady host conducting and well done interview of people she met on the street with cold contacts that went well. Yes, you are right, this also could have gone as well with Dänmark and The Netherlands. And yes, My self I must say do miss both the German greybread {Graubrot} and also Dansk Pugbrod which is a dark Rye bread: nordicfoodliving.com/danish-rye-bread-rugbrod/For Dansk Smorrebrod {means buttered bread} is so delicious as an open bread topped with what ever is available and what ever you like. That what is not available here is Pickled Herring, this goes well with Smorrebrod, if a person dislikes pickled Herring, it is not a crime to pile up what you like to the event of needing a fork to eat it, who cares, if it is good and tasty, well, eat it... Karl
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Post by pieter on Dec 22, 2019 16:23:04 GMT -7
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Post by pieter on Dec 24, 2019 8:59:07 GMT -7
Pieter Thank you for this very interesting video, for it describes a great deal between The Netherlands and Germany, the people, expectations and food....I love food.. The video was very complete with the lady host conducting and well done interview of people she met on the street with cold contacts that went well. Yes, you are right, this also could have gone as well with Dänmark and The Netherlands. And yes, My self I must say do miss both the German greybread {Graubrot} and also Dansk Pugbrod which is a dark Rye bread: nordicfoodliving.com/danish-rye-bread-rugbrod/For Dansk Smorrebrod {means buttered bread} is so delicious as an open bread topped with what ever is available and what ever you like. That what is not available here is Pickled Herring, this goes well with Smorrebrod, if a person dislikes pickled Herring, it is not a crime to pile up what you like to the event of needing a fork to eat it, who cares, if it is good and tasty, well, eat it... Karl Karl, Yes, it describes a great deal between The Netherlands and Germany. I recognize these conversations, because they remind me of my own conversations with German expats, students, artists, musicians and visitors (I spoke with German tourists and business congress people in hotels, restaurants and the Arnhem Art Museum, and during art projects I was involved in during the late nineties and early this century). There are differences between the people, the expectations they have and the food. Certainly. I love food too. You could say that the Dutch food is somewhere inbetween the Belgian/French and British food. Clearly different than the British and German cuisines. Especially the last decade the Dutch cuisine moved into the direction of the French and Belgian cuisines. The French and Belgian cuisines were better for decades, but today the Dutch restaurants serve quality food comparable to the excellent French and Belgian ones. The Germans were right about the fact that in cantines of vocational universities, like Saxion in Enschede at the German border (good college by the way) they often serve fried food. My guilty pleasure is excatly these Dutch Frikandellen, Rundvlees Kroketten and next to that the Dutch Sauseizenbroodje, broodje frikandel or huzarensalade (an Olivier salad in English). Next to that I work close to the station and there are 3 dangers there. The Dutch station snack stop ‘Smullers’ in the centraal station building, Burger King also located in the Central Station building and McDonalds at the Central Station square. And next to these 3 dangers there are the Turkish, Egyptian, Native Dutch, Chinese and Israeli snack bars and Shoarma (Shawarma)and Kebab restaurants where you can have various meat dishes with french fries and fresh salads with garlic saus, mayonaise, tomato saus, sambal saus, whiskey saus and etc. I am addicted to the Shoarma dish and therefor have seen many Turkish, Egyptian and Israeli Shoarma (Shawarma) restaurants. I also like the vegetarian Fallafel dish in such restaurants every now and then. Coming from a family with some East-Indies colonial heritage I love the Indo-European (Eurasian) and the Asian Javanese, Sumatran and Balinese Indonesian cuisines, and the Moluccan (Ambonese), Chinese, Malayan (close to Indonesian), Japanese and Thai cuisine as well. I love to eat Vietnamese Loempia’s in Arnhem with sweat sauer saus. Since Arnhem is located in the Eastern Netherlands you have local and regional Saxon and German influences. People over here drive over the border to do shopping in Germany a lot. Dutch people also love the traditional German christmasmarkets a lot and we love Glühwein. The lady host of Easy German spoke the most with German people she met on the street in the Eastern Dutch Twente, Low Saxon city, Enschede in the province Overijssel. Enschede people are proud Twente people, which means Eastern Dutch Low Saxon Twente dialect or regional language speaking people with the heavy nasal N sound. You hear the German influence in their speaking. They are borderland people. Live close to the German border. Twents Low Saxon is probably also spoken on the other side of the border with a German accent. Dutch people sometimes with great amazement heard Germans speaking a familiar sounding dialect 100 km inwards Germany. Some Dutch and German regional languages and dialects are closely related. Dutch and German borderlanders often understand each other. Often there are family relations that cross the border. Dänmark and The Netherlands are different countries, but they share a maritime history, the Northsea and the Wadden area. And they share a liberal mindset and being individualistic peoples. Less collectivist than for instance the Germans or Russians. The German and Belgian greybread {Graubrot, Pain Gris} are delicious indeed. The Danish dark Rye bread and Danish blue chrese as well. And in the evening I don’t mind a fresh Tuborg or Carlsberg beer. The Dutch and the Danes are Herring Fishermen and we love to eat herring. I love Herring with cut unions and sometimes Pickled cucumber. Cheers, Pieter
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Post by karl on Dec 24, 2019 10:39:15 GMT -7
Pieter
I must say, you do have such wonderful replies, I could not stop smiling with your replies,,thank you..
Karl
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