Choose a typically German gift
Finally, clichés about typically German and stereotypes are welcome when you are looking for a present and Giver and recipient alike have the appropriate humor necessary to appreciate the gift (even if it's purest kitsch) to have. Above all, culinary delights, which a recipient cannot buy at home abroad or can only buy for a lot of money, are a successful one typical German gift, especially edible and not a bulky space robber like a cuckoo clock, for example Dust catcher.
Typical souvenirs or thank you from Germany
- All gifts that show the colors of the national flag (in a conspicuous way) are clearly German. One in black, red and gold resp. Yellow knitted hat, or a scarf in the same colors, a bag or a thousand other possible things.
- Typically German is the dwarf, in all possible designs and made of all possible materials.
- The cuckoo clock is also typically German, often a symbol of the purest German kitsch. But don't yell "O horror!"! Depending on the design, there are also wonderfully kitschy cuckoo clocks that exude cult character.
- The Ampelmännchen also represents Germany, actually only the GDR, but meanwhile the motif has also become so widespread in West Germany that it stands for the whole of Germany. In very distant regions, with the Chinese or Eskimos, the difference between the FRG and the GDR is blurred anyway. In Berlin there is a shop on Gendarmenmarkt which is only dedicated to the Ampelmännchen and which is a formidable point of contact for tourists.
- Everything you buy at KaDeWe, in Kaufhaus des Westens, in Berlin, is also typically German. You should have the gift wrapped in tasteful wrapping paper from the department store using the free gift service. You also get the gift wrapped in an unusual way.
- And since we're already thinking about Berlin, a piece of the Berlin Wall (available at flea markets) is of course typical for Germany.
- And don't forget: the eternally German lederhosen. If you also give the recipient a yodel or give them a pair of trousers in their lederhosen, you will surely top your gift and get an even better response.
- Another typically German item of clothing is a VoPo hat (Volkspolizei hat).
- Photo books about Germany's castles are also often very popular with recipients abroad. Neuschwanstein, for example, is also a force, like from a fairy tale into ours world offset.
- Even a cookbook with German specialties can make the recipient's heart beat faster, if he, like so many today, has discovered what an experimental and exciting wide field of cooking is to be explored by want.
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Culinary delights as a characteristic German gift
- Not more German than German sausages, right? Especially the Frankfurter sausages or white sausages, which are eaten with sweet mustard, is called "zuzelt" with a technical term. So please teach the most likely ignorant recipient the correct vocabulary, otherwise the sausage may not taste really good. It is also best to include a meal guide illustrated with photos.
- Stollen and Black Forest cake are undoubtedly typical German cakes. Stollen is often very easy to send if it is already stored in a tin box. The manufacturers have also thought of giving away and launched small studs on the market. You can of course bake these cakes yourself - that would be a really great gift because it takes time.
- While cheese is typically French - and something as creepy as spray-can cheese is typically American - bread and pastries are typically German (pretzel, for example).
- A smoked sausage that your butcher kindly welds for you and a recipe book (a recipe with sauerkraut) are also typically German.
- Lübeck marzipan is also a beautiful, easy to send, delicious and typically German gift.
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