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Heading to Germany for the Christmas markets or maybe you want to celebrate a bit of a German Christmas at home? Well here are the best Christmas eats in Germany. What Germans eat at Christmas #christmasmarkets #germanchristmas #germanfood Filmed in Bamberg, Germany Visit Our Amazon Store for Drinkware, cookingware, travel gear, and other necessities of life. http://www.amazon.com/shop/woltersworld Follow Jocelyn on Instagram - http://www.instagram.com/jocelynwoltersworld Follow Simply Jocelyn on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/Simply-Jocelyn-A-Globally-Inspired-Life-100312851709273/ Follow Our Shorts Channel for quick travel tips: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmSIWRrLCcqamLlTEEBLFLA
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for the little we knocked into fellow hungry travelers mark here with walters world and
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today we're in bombay germany and today we're going to talk about one of the tastiest eating
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sessions you can have in germany and you know what that is going to eat at the christmas market
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during the christmas season because honestly there are so many tasty treats you need to have
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when you come here to Germany at Christmas. I want to give you the best ones, but we're going to focus on the foods
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you're going to get at the Christmas markets. And honestly, I've had these all. They're all worth getting
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except for one that I'm going to mention, okay? And I think the important one for people to talk about
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when they really think of German Christmas, they think of the Leibkuchen. And Leibkuchen is gingerbread
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And the most famous Leibkuchen or gingerbread is from Nuremberg. And if you can get that gingerbread
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and yes, it looks like there's a wafer on the bottom. There is a wafer on the bottom
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And you have this big circle round, tasty Lebkuchen treat, sometimes with a chocolate coating
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sometimes with just a wash on top, maybe a nuts on top. Oh my gosh, you can't go wrong with it
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And you'll see that we, I mean, there'll be various styles that are here, but the traditional
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circle one, that's what you definitely have to get when you're here. So Lebkuchen is a must
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Oh, and you'll see the Lebkuchen hearts hanging around. Don't eat those
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Those are more for decoration, not for tastiness. Get the ones that are like down in the glass
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that's going to be a better tasty thing for you. Now, another thing is when you walk around, you're going to smell nuts
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You're going to smell them cooking nuts. And there's two kinds of nuts you need to have when you do come to the Christmas markets in Germany
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One, you'll see it Heissemeloni or hot cooked chestnuts. You know, chestnuts roasting on an open fire
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Yes, you have people that are really roasting chestnuts and you'll get a bag of them to eat them up
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Oh, my God, they're so good. So with the chestnuts, you get them the roasted chestnuts like this
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OK, but you don't just pop it in your mouth. You do have to peel it. OK, because I've seen some tourists just start eating them right away
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You peel it. It looks like a little brain. And then you eat it and you're good to go
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And it really takes you back in time and you have it. Now, another thing, another nut thing you'll probably find when you're here
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And this is actually much more common on Mondalyn. And Mondalyn are almonds, but it's not just almonds
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It's candied almonds. And you just get like a tutu, a little like paper sack full of them
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And you get 100 grams, 200 grams, however you want. but there's a lot of different flavors, but just the plain old candied almonds, you just
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love them. They coat them and cook them up. You'll see them stirring it around, getting
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them ready for you. When you get them when they're warm, amazing. The Mandeln, if you
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get them hot and they sweet they really good but just walking around snack this is a really good one So the Mandeln grab some Can go wrong with those Now another thing you might see when you go to the places that have the Mandeln the nuts
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you'll look to your right and you'll notice, wait a minute, that looks like a bunch of fruit on a stick covered in chocolate
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Yes, Germans want to stay healthy during the holiday season, so they do have fruit
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Though it is a skewered covered in chocolate, but hey, there's fruit underneath that
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So that's another little thing you can get and make yourself feel kind of healthy when you have it
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Now, a super Christmas thing when you come to Germany is Stollen
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Okay, Stollen is a sweet bread and it has like onions and maybe nuts in it
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You might have marzipan in it. If you see it all in the U.S., it'll say like almond cream in the middle, right
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Or almond paste in it. It is really a truly Christmas thing. Now, the most famous Stollen is from Dresden
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So if you go to Dresden, also Dresden has one of the best Christmas markets in all of Germany
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You go there, you can get that. but you'll see it all over the country. Heck, if you have an Aldi
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or Aldis as we like to call them in the U.S., I guarantee during the holiday season
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they have stolen an Aldi, and you can get that. Cut yourself a slice of it
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or maybe a little bit of butter on there if you can, but some places you just sell it there, you can grab that
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Some places you'll see Fluchtebrot, which is fruit bread. Neither of those are like fruitcake
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Don't worry, you're not going to have fruitcake. Well, Fluchtebrot is more like that
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but that's only in certain regions. But the stolen, yeah, that's one thing you really have to have
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That's really a Christmas, like, fruity, dense, like, sweet bread that's nice to have
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Though I will warn you, the powdered sugar on top, when you take a bite, you might add choco on it
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And that powdered sugar reminds me of another tasty treat you need to have
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Now, this comes in many different sizes and variations, but it's basically the kvakbalki
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the basically little fried donuts. And you might have little tiny ones like this big, and they give you a big tutu
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They love the paper little flute, I don't know, like corn, where they put stuff in
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but these little tiny like donut holes with lots of powdered sugar on them where you might get the
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big ones the big cock bulking I don't know why they call them bulking because they're like huge balls and this fried dough I mean that's a really nice thing that you have and I know my dad every
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time we come to Germany at Christmas and we come to Germany at Christmas a lot he's always like I
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need those my grandma made those his grandma was from Germany so he's like I need to have that
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we're like okay all right and that's something you really like it's a nice warm thing to have too
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And the thing is, when you're going around, you'll see all kinds of candy shops and other
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little treats you can get. And you'll see one. It's called a Schneeballchen, which means snowball or a little snowball
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And I want to tell you this, the Schneeballchen, when you see them, they look good. It looks like it a lot of dough formed together in a ball you know like pieces of dough formed together in a ball And then they coat it with maybe chocolate or other coverings on there and you like oh this is going to be so good and you bite into it and you like oh yeah no this isn what I kind of expected
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I mean, you could try it. It looks really good, but it's not my jam. Now, another Christmas treat at the Christmas markets that not everyone's a big fan of is marzipan
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And marzipan is just basically almond paste, but what's cool is they shape it into different things
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It might look like fruit, so you feel like it's healthy, or it might be shaped like a potato
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but there's all kinds of different marzipan treats you can have as well so there's lots and lots of
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different sweet treats when you come here that you can enjoy all right now the thing is though
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you don't just come to eat at the markets you come to drink and obviously the most popular thing to
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drink at the christmas markets is the glue vine or the hot mulled wine so think of it as a sweet
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wine but like a heartier with like herbs kind of in it so it tastes like it's like christmas flavoring
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and they warm it up and you've got these cute little mugs you get it in and the mugs are
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different in like every city you go to and you can actually collect them like you we have literally
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dozens of christmas mugs from all over germany i mean we we have a problem we need help okay
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but you can get those and it makes a nice like like souvenir to take with you or a gift to give
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to somebody but i gotta warn you if you're gonna get the glue vine the first one you might have to
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pay a fund a deposit anywhere from one euro to five euros per glass so do you think it's a
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30 euro glass of Gluvine, your first one, you might have to give them eight because it's a
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five euro deposit. But don't worry, when you give them the cup back, you get your money back. No
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problem, all right? But the thing is, there's not just one Gluvine, the red wine kind of Gluvine
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There's also Vise Gluvine, the white Gluvine, which is like, I think, a less sweeter version
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You don't have the candy coated in your mouth. Another version, you get cherry or Kiech Gluvine
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Cherry Glühwein is really nice with the cherry flavor. Or Himbelebeer, which is raspberry Glühwein
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Now, if you don't want one of the Glühweins, you want something a little bit stronger, you can get a Glühwein mit Schoss, is with a shot
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So there's different liqueurs they might have that you can put in there. And yes, it's going to cost more to have the shot in there, just FYI
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So there is that. But if you don't want Glühwein, you want something that already has the extra kick in it
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you have Foyutzangebülle, which is basically like Fire Bowl or Fire Tongue Bowl
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I guess you'd say it. And what's cool is it's, it's kind of like the Glavine with the rum already
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mixed in. And then back in the day, you don't really see this very often anymore. They would
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literally take like a sugar cube, light it on fire and there'd be like a little fire on top of it
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I mean, I remember back in the day we used to do that. Now a lot of the markets, I don't even know
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if they can do it anymore because I haven't seen it for a few years, but they still sell foods on
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Ebola And so you can get that It definitely doesn taste as sweet It tastes more punchy when you here The thing is you can get non drinks too They have kinder punch which is kid punch So the kids can sit around and drink while you have
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the Glühwein. They could have their kinder punch, which basically tastes like warmed up Capri Sun
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fruit punch. Basically, there's that. You could have aisle punch, which is not, it's like egg
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liqueur. So it's literally an egg liqueur. They'll put that in there and warm that up for you. So
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That's kind of a nice other alternative. And yes, you want it with the Zana, the cream on top, the whipped cream on top
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That really makes it. Oh, and a bonus thing. If they have Glubia, the hot beer, stick to the Gluvine
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That's my little advice to you. Stick to the Gluvine, not the Glubia
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Yeah, there's also a cider you might see here as well. Hot chocolates are available too
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And yes, you can get alcohol added on to all those too or without alcohol for the hot chocolate and cider
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so there's a lot of warm things out there to keep you warm because we got those christmas markets
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you're outside it's snow and it's cold it's chilly and this way you can keep warm and what's cool is
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when you're having your drinks that's one of the best times to meet locals here in germany is at
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the christmas markets but having those drinks with them gives you a chance to talk to them gives you
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a chance to meet them it's really wonderful and the thing is though when you're out you're like
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wait i've had all these treats mark and i've had all these drinks but what about something more
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fortified. I need some meat, but I got to tell you, no matter what Christmas market you go to
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there will be some kind of bratwurst when you are there. Now, it might depend where you are
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Like if you're Nuremberg, you have the Nuremberg bratwurst. The little tiny ones that'll come like
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four or five or six, it seems like it'll roll and you'll have that. Or you can get a towing
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bratwurst, like the normal bratwurst. When you think of a bratwurst, that's the best one. Or my personal favorite, what comes out of the Christmas markets are the Halmeta bratwurst
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the half meter bratwurst. They literally bend it over because it's so long. You have those out there
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And what I got to tell you is try the regional sausages at those Christmas markets. I'm here in
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Bombay. So I'm having the Bombayga sausage just north of Europe in Coburg and I was having the
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Coburg a bratwurst. So you really do have some regional sausages to try and some are all over
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the place. But that's one of the warm things you want to have. And the thing is, when you go around
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to restaurants after the Christmas markets, because the Christmas markets usually close at eight or
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you know sometimes even earlier some go a little bit later but like eight o'clock's a good breaking
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point where most of stuff closes down and you want to go to dinner one christmas dish that you'll see
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pop up is ganza blues or just ganza goose so if you see goose breast on the menu get it because
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that's a really traditional german christmas meal so i hope this helps you get warmed up and hungry
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for your next trip to germany for the christmas markets what's your favorite treat to get at the
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christmas markets let me know in the comments below we wish you a frolic of einachtend or
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Merry Christmas from here in Bombard, Germany
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