German Snacks, Souvenirs, Beer and Tea to Bring Home from Germany

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Germany is packed with snacks, sweets, drinks, and souvenirs worth bringing home, and this travel food guide narrows it down to the best local picks. From chocolate-covered waffle treats and chewy caramel candy to sour sweets, marzipan, crunchy peanut snacks, winter cookies, tea, beer, wine, and sausage, the focus is on foods you can actually pack for friends and family.  The creator also explains what makes these German specialties stand out, including supermarket finds from Kaufland, winter-only treats, tins and smoked sausages that travel well, and classic drinks like Pilsner, Helles, Weissbier, and Riesling. It is a practical mix of Germany food recommendations, souvenir ideas, and snack shopping tips for anyone planning a trip.  Created for viewers searching for German snacks, food souvenirs from Germany, what to buy in Germany, German sweets, German chocolate, German tea, German beer, and edible travel gifts. It is also useful as a Germany travel guide, supermarket food haul, and culture-focused tasting video for anyone looking for authentic local treats to bring home.

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00:00I just got back from my trip to Asia and I noticed how difficult it is to choose

00:05souvenirs and snacks to bring home in a country that you have never been to. You

00:09don't know what's good, what's tasty, what's local so I thought I should make

00:13a video about German snacks and souvenirs you can bring home to your

00:17loved ones to try out. In my opinion the best souvenir you can bring home is

00:22something to eat because nobody wants some like random things you buy in

00:27another country you know you look at it you put it in a corner and you forget

00:31about it. That is a horrible souvenir. So this video will be focused on food

00:36mostly snacks because I love snacks. Germany is producing great snacks and of

00:41course my hidden agenda is to make you fat. I'm not going to tell you to buy

00:46Gummibärchen, Rittersport or Jägermeister because those brands are super famous

00:51already and you can buy them internationally most of the time so it will

00:55be only food that you can buy here in Germany and not in any other country or

01:00maybe in a few countries but I don't know. Let's start with something chocolatey.

01:04Germany is one of the best chocolate producers out there after Switzerland and

01:08Belgium. Let's start with Balsen. Balsen is producing some of the most

01:13awesome tasting chocolate cookie whatever things so this is actually one of my

01:19favorites and yeah those food things here are not sponsored see it's not

01:25sponsored I bought them myself just so I can eat them oh no I broke them now it's

01:32basically chocolate with a waffle and there's like hazelnut cream inside it is

01:37so good this is one of the best snacks in the world I can eat the whole thing and the

01:45second thing you know. Next chocolate related snack is this it's called Riesen

01:53literally translated Giants and there is caramel inside and they're super chewy

02:02there's a lot of videos out there of Germans giving this to other people around

02:06the world. If you eat it you actually have to chew it for like five minutes and then

02:13you cannot talk because it's so delicious. Now I can continue the video because I

02:19need to eat it for half an hour. While I'm chewing I can I can show you the

02:27inside of it if you are coming to Germany bring this back to your friends this is

02:34so good. Okay next we have the famous Knoppers. Yeah Germans love everything

02:43that's with chocolate and with a waffle and damn I'm gonna get fat eating all this.

02:50It's basically a waffle on the top there's chocolate there's nuts inside

02:53Germans love those combos chocolate and nuts it's the best. There's tons of

03:01chocolate stuff to buy here but those are very unique you cannot buy them

03:05anywhere else and they are some of my personal favorites. Okay let's move on to

03:11the sour sweets. Germans love sweets like Gummibärchen, Haribo etc but they also

03:19love sour which not many countries like sour tasting sweets but if you like it you

03:25will find the most amazing sour sweets here. The best one is the Saure Zungen from

03:31Redband. You can't find them everywhere that's why I didn't cover them but if you

03:36find them you should buy them they are the best but the next best thing which is

03:41also amazing is from Nimzwei. Lachgumisauer. They are as sour almost as sour and they

03:50are super delicious. If you like sour sweets this is the way to go. So good. Okay next we

03:59have Mawam. All the Germans love Mawam. All the children are going crazy about this. Some of them

04:06have a sour taste but most of them are sweet. Look Mawam. They come in all shapes and

04:13forms and it is a very German sweet. It tastes amazing. You need to try it if you

04:20haven't. I'm a little bit sad right now because we covered all the snacks. Oh no

04:27there's one more. This snack it's chips. I don't actually know how to call this.

04:32It's a Mais Erdnuss snack. So basically it's made out of peanuts. You know in America there's

04:41this like cheese balls and I don't really like them but they are pretty similar to

04:49this cheese ball things but as a peanut taste. So they taste like peanuts. Very fluffy peanuts.

04:57They are super crunchy. Super tasty. I can eat the whole package in an evening. I can only

05:03recommend this because I have not seen them anywhere else in the world and I've been looking.

05:09That were all the snacks that I have here but there's one more. I couldn't buy it in the supermarket

05:13because they only sell it in winter and it is the infamous Lebkuchen. Germans love Lebkuchen.

05:20It's some kind of like cookie cake kind of thing with some spices in it but if you are here

05:27in winter

05:27you need to buy them. You need to eat them and they go perfect with tea. And speaking of tea,

05:35tea is another great thing to bring back home because Germans are crazy about their tea. You know

05:42I would even dare to say that Germans are crazier about tea than the English people. I mean

05:48not that they drink as much tea as the English. The English always drink tea every day. At least in

05:54my head. But Germans have a much bigger variety of teas. So there's like hundreds of different teas

06:01you can buy in a normal supermarket. I bought also a tea to show you but we have a lot

06:07of teas here so

06:08I don't know why I bought it. Let's check in the kitchen. Okay here we have our very organized tea

06:14sortiment. Look how many teas we have. We have one, two, three, four, five, six, twenty-two, twenty-three,

06:20twenty-four, twenty-five. Twenty-five different teas here and we are not crazy about teas. We drink tea maybe

06:28once a week, twice a week. That's not true. For breakfast we have every day a tea as well.

06:32But it's not a tea from here. It's ginger and lemon. Many countries drink tea but most of them

06:38drink either only black tea or green tea. But in Germany you have like, just to show you a few,

06:46we have here like apple vanilla, black tea, green tea with lemon, berry tea, you know, Turkish apple,

06:55rooibus, a thousand mixed teas. But Germans are especially crazy about herb teas. Like any expat who

07:04might have lived in Germany and went to the doctor can tell you that if you are sick the German

07:09doctor

07:10will recommend you to drink this kind of herb tea for that ache and if you have a headache you

07:15should

07:15drink this tea. So Germans are crazy about herb teas. So we have like hundreds of different kinds of teas

07:23with different herbs inside. All right before we move on to the wurst let me tell you quickly about

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08:57Germans are famous for the worst. You know sausages, all kinds of sausages. We have thousands of different

09:02kinds of sausages. Unfortunately, most of them you can't take home because they will go bad within a few

09:09days. So I have selected a few that you can take with you and they taste amazing. The first sausage

09:16we cover is the Leberwurst. Leberwurst looks like this. It's made out of liver. Not 100%, but maybe

09:25like 25%. Leberwurst is a creamy kind of sausage. Look, you just put it on the bread like this

09:31and then you eat it. And it is awesome. It's so good. Unfortunately, this fresh Leberwurst you can't

09:39take home because you need to keep it cool. But there's also Leberwurst that you can take home and

09:47this goes bad only in two years. So you can keep it for a long time. It doesn't taste as

09:53good as fresh,

09:55but it's still very good. But there are so many different kinds of sausages here. So my suggestion

10:00is just go to the local butcher. He can recommend you something. You can try different things. You,

10:06of course, you can buy the fresh ones, but they also always sell tins, tins with sausages. This one

10:13is Leona. It's a very basic German Wurst. I buy this and take this on camping trips and it lasts

10:20for

10:20years. And another great thing I always take on camping trips, the smoked sausages. We have a lot

10:26of smoked sausages. Also Austrians, they love this. This is kind of a like stick salami, which is smoked.

10:35So good. You can keep it for more than a year. So amazing. And of course, we also have the

10:41bigger ones.

10:42They're called Landjäger. They're basically the same like this, but thicker and with

10:49sometimes there are spices or cheese inside. This is the normal one. Buy this. It tastes amazing.

10:55And it's very German. This is from Schwarzwald, the black forest. Very good. And of course,

11:01I almost forgot the Currywurst. I couldn't find it in the supermarket I went to, but you can buy like

11:08Currywurst in a glass and you can just snack it out of there. So Currywurst famous for Berlin. You

11:16have to try it. It's really good. Ah, by the way, you can buy all of this that's on the

11:21table here.

11:21Everything I showed, I bought in Kaufland. Yeah, Kaufland is one of the biggest supermarkets in

11:27Germany. They have a huge sortiment. So everything you saw here today is from there, except this. This is

11:34from the local butcher. But many of the things you can also find in other supermarkets like Rewe or

11:39Edeka. But if you want to find everything in one place, just go to Kaufland. We did cover all the

11:44worst, unfortunately. But what we didn't cover is the beer. You can't go home to your country without

11:51taking some German beer. Germany is famous for its beer. I'm just going to show you a few examples of

11:58what kind of beer, different beers you should take home. It's not about the brand, but about the type

12:03of beer. So the first one would be a Pilsner. I'm not going to go into the details about what

12:10is it made

12:11of? How is it made of? But all you need to know is that there's a Pilsner. There's a Weiss

12:18beer.

12:18It's Hefeweizen made out of wheat. Then we have an Export, a Helles, a Dunkles. This is a dark beer.

12:28And of course, we have a Radler, a beer mixed with lemonade. Pils, Hefe, Export, Helles, Dunkles. So my

12:37suggestion is just take home one from each. Doesn't need to be this brand. It doesn't matter. But those are

12:44the German types of beer we drink. My personal favorite is the Hefeweizen. You drink it in these

12:51tall glasses. The Schwarz beer is only something if you like strong taste. I personally don't like it

12:57that much. And of course, if you don't know the Radler, it is one of the most popular drinks in

13:03Germany. But this video is not about beer. I just want to show you what kind of beers we have

13:09so that

13:10you can take six different beers home. And what most people don't know about Germany is that we

13:17make great wine as well. Germans actually drink as much wine as they drink beer. Maybe not as much,

13:24but almost. So in South Germany, we have actually very huge wine regions. I grew up in a wine region.

13:31So just take a German wine with you. If you don't know much about wines, just get a Riesling

13:37or a Grauburgunder. They're very basic, good wines. And it's very cheap. It's like five euro a bottle.

13:44So there you have it. This were all the snacks and souvenirs to bring home from Germany. And if you

13:49think there should be something I didn't mention, just leave a comment below with what it is. I'm sure

13:55the other people will appreciate it. I'm also curious. And if you think I made this video just as an

14:00excused by all these snacks, you're totally right. Yeah. Until the next video, happy snacking!

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