Comments by "John Warner" (@johncrwarner) on "Type Ashton" channel.

Thank you both for your entertaining video. I have lived in Germany, being originally from Britain, for 15 years. So I sympathised with your “don't“. Re: carrying cash At least prior to the pandemic cash is king in Germany I have to say I always pay for bread especially with cash. In the pandemic contactless arrived even in bakeries. I still make sure I have cash even though I have a bank card. Re: the Autobahn Lauren's experience reminded me of my mother-in-law. Who when she drove was famous for getting on the Autobahn and driving the wrong way before stopping to phone for directions LOL
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Sans Soucis is also the name of Fredrick the Great's Summer Palace in Potsdam that he had built as a retreat so the cosmetic brand is very likely trading off that reference too. When the children get older there are a lot of nice inventive wooden games by Steffen-Spiele and Steffen Mühlhäuser the owner designs the games I think he / they are based in Rhineland Palatinate north of you.
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@UnExcited42 I certainly always carry cash and check whether they take cards etc.
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One or two things I noticed with respect to German vs US supermarkets Firstly in my one trip to the US I remember all the fruit and vegetables being big but when you ate them they were "tasteless" They had the taste of a much smaller fruit but were bulked out by a lot of water. The cheese aisle in the US had many many kinds of wrapped single slices of cheese with many additions and flavours and very very little chunks of cheese That was in a small section of "artisan cheese" The last think I found amusing was oatmeal cereals there was apple, cinnamon, apple and cinnamon etc. etc. There were nineteen different ones but no plain oatmeal I asked where it was and it was in completely another aisle the lady said it was near the dog food LOL In Germany, I do shop more often and visit three or four shops plus the market regularly I buy x here because it is better and y there as they stock the one we like. I like that. I also agree about customer service I was once behind a person and they had a problem It was with their Kundenkarte - nothing else. But the cashier didn't say anything to the customer but just contacted her supervisor and we waited while she sorted it out. There was no communication between the customer and the workers and none seemed to be expected. I went to another Kasse and they were still dealing with it when I exited.
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I taught English at a company in a neighbouring town where the company started as a bicycle shop in the town before growing to a specialist engineering company In their museum they still proudly had their early bikes
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@TypeAshton In our local Volkshochschule in November (pre-Covid at least) we had Spielewelt a conference of games manufacturers With many wooden toy manufacturers present.
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@LaureninGermany Be happy - the Autobahns in Germany are all very similar!
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Here in Bielefeld above the Aldi-Äquator we only have Aldi-Nord and in our Aldi supermarkets we often have Trader Joe's labelled products in store but I have still to find "Everything but the Bagel" seasoning.
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I went into hospital for my Myasthenia gravis and I was scheduled in at 14h00 so I missed lunch and at 17h30 "Abendbrot" came round and it was literally two slices of Graubrot a slice of meat and a slice of cheese and a small bowl of something described as salad. I am a vegan and a diabetic so they found some vegan spread and a tomato but that was it. My sugar crashed that night and I had to get some Rote Grütze that the nursing staff had spare from the fridge I went out the next day to the nearby supermarket and bought fruit and snacks.
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I live in a church owned block of flats The Evangelical Church own this block and hold it because it is funding their pension funds. I had to register my religion when I arrived in Germany which was interesting and unusual coming from another European state fortunately my religion is not one that has a "religious tax" so I do not pay that.
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