German Breakfast Vocabulary

A typical German breakfast A typical German breakfast is what we have here and In this video I'm also showing you something truly special about Germany: sometimes we eat raw meat for breakfast Sometimes we eat raw meat for breakfast Okay let's get started What do we have here First off what's all this called These are rolls Rolls It's simply a regular light rolls and this one is a rye roll What's that called Sunflower seed rolls and those also have tiny sunflower seeds Do you see them Those are Sunflower seeds And what do we have here This is a chocolate roll This is mostly for children Here we have butter plain and simple and honey That is Flower honey That's jam And here we have ham The ham the cooked ham And this is cheese Now here's what's special about it and Although it's called Mett or Hackepeter the term Hackepeter is used for example in Berlin Saxony and Brandenburg and it refers to raw pork With onions and usually one eats it with a little salt and pepper A pinch of salt and pepper and that goes right on the roll And yes here we have we still have a bit of salad cumber tomato and parsley We also have parsley Here This is also parsley And what do you think this is That's egg salad—just a salad made with eggs and a little bit of dressing And here we have another whole grain roll And what do we have here to drink It's a cappuccino So this is what Germans eat for Breakfast on the bread Look here's the roll You do it like this Either separate it again here the roll And then with the knife akes it some prefer it with butter or without I like butter so I do I'll take a little butter too And you can remember this verb as well It's The knife And now you spread the butter on the roll Look like this Exactly so either wipe it off or you could say smear it Smear it And then you take Just add a little of that and put it right here Then you can do it like this eating raw meat with onions That's truly typical German Breakfast Or you could just put the cheese on like this See that That's Slice cheese That's what slices are for And this is slice cheese Yes perfect And enjoy your meal Try my German Academy's free trial and gain access to over 200 real-life dialogues just like this one complete with transcripts and subtitles in German English grammar explanations and plenty of exercises Check out the link in the description