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Want to make a German happy? Flowers and wine might be a good start. But to really win one over, consider a gift of sickly-sweet globs of sugary gelatin.
Lecker: Germans have been obsessed with gummy bears since their invention in 1922 by Hans Riegel.
Germany may be the land of Black Forest cake and Apple strudel, but at the end of the day, it's cute little ursine candies that most satisfy the national sweet tooth: the gummy bear, known here affectionately as the Gummibärchen.
First invented by confectionist Hans Riegel in Bonn, Germany, in 1922, Haribo's "dancing bear" soon became a favorite of German luminaries including Kaiser Wilhelm II, Albert Einstein, children's author Erich Kästner and even former Chancellor Konrad Adenauer.
Germans eat them everywhere. In the cinema, on the streets and in school. And it isn't just the kids: open the drawer of a German's office desk and there's at least a 50-50 chance you'll find a small little package of gummy bears, gummy worms, gummy colas or some other form of sickly sweet gummy candy. The cafeteria in the German parliament hands them out for free. But the true sign of the national obsession with gummy bears is the number of shops you can find here dedicated to them. Entire stores on high-rent shopping streets in posh city centers are devoted exclusively to selling gummy bears, with prices by the kilo. The largest chain, Bären-Treff, has 34 stores in cities across the country. It's no small market, either -- according to the Association of the German Confectionary Industry, the average German consumes 3.49 kilograms of gummy candies each year.
The array of choices is nothing short of stunning -- and they come in every shape, color and size imaginable. Believe it or not, gummy bears are also custom-made for the health-conscious and calorie-watching crowd. You can find vegetarian gummy bears, sugar-free versions sometimes called "diabetic gummy bears," as well as organic and chemical-free gummy bears. In the super-trendy Munich neighborhood of Schwabing, there is an entire shop devoted to selling animal-shaped sugar-gelatine blobs free of unnecessary chemicals.
So, should you be invited to a German home for dinner, bringing a bottle of wine is a nice gesture and flowers will be well-received. But if you really want to make your German hosts happy, bring them a package of Gummibärchen for desert. But don't eat them yourself!
ok errr yeah :p (like I understand what you just said..Haribo makes kid something) anyway.
I remember a story of hanso/gretel where they had to eat through a wall of licorice
Haribo's German catch phrase is "Haribo macht Kinder froh / und Erwachsene ebenso", which is translated as "Haribo makes Kids happy / and adults the same".
In English, to preserve the rhyme, it becomes "Kids and grown-ups love it so / the happy world of Haribo".
Hansel and Gretel (German: Hänsel und Gretel) is a fairy tale of Germanic origin, adapted by the Brothers Grimm.
Hansel and Gretel (German: Hänsel und Gretel) is a fairy tale of Germanic origin, adapted by the Brothers Grimm.
yeah. (oops sorry about the spelling)
There are a whole bunch of stories I remember like the 4 musicians from Bremmen (sp?) etc etc.
I also remember my parents buying me these audio tapes with different stories, I had a whole collection of this.. TTk..something.. I think.. man I'm talking 20 years ago.
yeah. (oops sorry about the spelling)
There are a whole bunch of stories I remember like the 4 musicians from Bremmen (sp?) etc etc.
I also remember my parents buying me these audio tapes with different stories, I had a whole collection of this.. TTk..something.. I think.. man I'm talking 20 years ago.
The Junior detective series TKKG is a series of radio plays and novels.
In all German-speaking countries they are the most commercially successful series of novels of their type, apart from The Three Investigators, translated into German as "Die drei ???" ("The Three Question Marks"). They call themselves TKKG, after the initials of their names: Tarzan (later renamed in Tim, because "Tarzan" is a trademark), Karl, Doughnuts (in German Klößchen) and Gaby; an unofficial fifth member is Gaby's Cocker Spaniel, called Oskar. Since 1979 they continually solve all sorts of crimes, from thefts and robberies to kidnappings and terrorism.
GARDEN ANGELS
The Secret History of the Garden Gnome
For more than a century now, the garden gnome has colonized Germany's gardens and windowsills. It's a symbol of German diligence and order, but also part of a comic and dark underworld.
Good garden gnomes.
The French blockbuster "Amelie," may have made him trendy abroad in recent years, but nanus hortorum vulgaris, has been a regular fixture in German culture for more than a century. Created in 1872 in the small town of Graefenroda in the German state of Thuringia, none of the kobolds, trolls and sprites that populate Teutonic mythology has endeared itself to Germans like the common garden gnome. Experts estimate that some 25 million of the glazed ceramic creatures now inhabit German living rooms and perfectly manicured flower beds.
But the common garden gnome has fallen on hard times in recent years, his reputation tarnished by campaigns led by mean-spirited elitist intellectuals and even perverts. To intellectuals and other touchy types, he's despised as the embodiment of kitsch and petit-bourgeois parochialism. Some outsiders have even sought to savage the image of the gnome by plunging him into a world of decadence, violence, and sex. There are pornographic gnomes, one-eared Van Gogh gnomes and "Scream" v
