• 3 weeks ago
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00:00Dear Carambolage editorial team,
00:04Recently I discovered a German peculiarity,
00:07which I would like to tell its French viewers about.
00:11I am on a student exchange in Frankfurt.
00:14On the first evening, the girl I am staying with calls me to dinner.
00:19At 6 p.m.? A bit early for a French woman.
00:23On the table there is bread, sausage and cheese.
00:26That's definitely the appetizer, I think.
00:28But no, there's nothing more.
00:30Well, my hosts probably didn't have time to cook.
00:34Are you kidding me? Are you serious when you say that!
00:35The next day, same thing, sandwiches.
00:39Now I understand why dinner in Germany is called Abendbrot.
00:44In the evening the German bread is cold.
00:48Thanks to my host family, I now know practically everything about this evening ritual.
00:53At the traditional dinner, which is served between 5 and 7 p.m.,
00:59you eat slices of bread, ideally 8 mm thick, butter, cold cuts and cheese.
01:06This is a little more exciting than it sounds.
01:09The Germans have an incredible number of different types of bread.
01:12Brown bread made from rye and wheat flour,
01:15normal white bread,
01:17then this pumpernickel made from almost black rye meal
01:21and 297 other varieties, which I will not list here.
01:27There is also a lot of variety when it comes to sausage.
01:30Hunting sausage, liver sausage, beer sausage, yellow sausage, ham, salami and so on.
01:36Unfortunately, the cheese selection is less exotic.
01:40Gouda, Tilsiter and a somewhat bland so-called butter cheese.
01:45And now it's time to get to work.
01:47Some garnish their bread with pickles, radishes, cucumber or a hard-boiled egg.
01:54The North Germans like to eat their pickled Bismarck herring or smoked kippers
02:00and in the south there is sometimes a sausage salad in the evening.
02:05The custom of eating cold food in the evening dates back to the 1920s.
02:10In contrast to rural France, industrial centers developed quite early in Germany.
02:16Canteens will soon be introduced in the factories and companies there.
02:21Because the workers eat a hot meal at lunch, they do not necessarily need a second hot meal in the evening.
02:28Especially since their work has become a little less strenuous thanks to technological advances.
02:34So you make things easy in the evening: a few slices of bread and that's it.
02:39By the way, instead of plates, Germans use small boards made of plastic or wood.
02:45They are completely flat and are therefore ideal for topping slices of bread.
02:50The funny thing is that I had already won such a board in the carambolage puzzle,
02:56without knowing exactly what it is good for.
02:59Sincerely, Chloé Ribotta.
03:15Subtitles commissioned by ZDF for funk, 2017