So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

[Trenchfriend]

I've often read about the way Hogan and company were handled on German TV, and turning it into broad satire for a German audience is really the only way that show could be done in Germany. In the US it occasionally verged into straight adventure/espionage drama, but that element in that setting would probably not translate well.

 

[Tiki Tom]

Growing up, the story I heard was that Hogan’s Heroes was part of a CIA plot to rehabilitate the Germans (our new allies against the USSR). By then, the Germans had been demonized for so long that it was hoped that Klink and Schultz would help humanize our new allies a little in the eyes of the American public. Some of the people I heard this theory from were themselves WWII veterans who had served in Europe.

 

[Trenchfriend]

Overacting Major Hochstetter sounds so cheesy and affected in original tone, but in german synchro, I would promptly buy the choleric, moustachioed, german "poison dwarf". Perfect synchro.
But Klink as the ironic, mocking, saxonian clown officer is just unbeatable!

 

[Lean'n'mean]

Growing up, the story I heard was that Hogan’s Heroes was part of a CIA plot

I see your penchant for conspiracy theories started early in life.

 

[Trenchfriend]

The espionage/sabotage-plot is still there, in the german synchro, but the cynical german joking became the main part. The inserted jokes and topics, which doesn't exist in the original tone. Like Klink's never seen female housecleaner "Miss Kalinke", which Klink always slanders about. That's she is never seen, is explained on her cleaning work happening at night.

 

[Tiki Tom]

I see your penchant for conspiracy theories started early in life.

Nah. I just learned to allow myself to have a little fun early in life.

But Klink as the ironic, mocking, saxonian clown officer is just unbeatable!

I wish my German was good enough to discern between regional accents. I'd love to be able to hear the difference between a Saxonian and a Bavarian. My daughters can probably tell the difference. I do recognize Schweizerdeutsch when I hear it, so I'm not a total lost cause.

And thanks for posting that side-by-side comparison of the German clip and the English clip. The dubbing (Synchro) is amazing.

 

[Trenchfriend]

@Tiki Tom
And Klink talks typical Dresden-Saxon. And Schulz typical south-Bavarian.

 

[Trenchfriend]

Don't ask german 50+ supermarkt staff, where the storebrand Oreos are.

"The what?"

 

[Fading Fast]

Don't ask german 50+ supermarkt staff, where the storebrand Oreos are.

"The what?"

We buy a lot of store brand items as, in many cases, we can't tell the difference and they are meaningfully less expensive.

But I gave up years ago trying to find a store brand Oreo that tasted as good as (or even close to) a real Oreo.

There is something in the true Oreo that gives it a unique flavor that no store brand - at least that I've tried - has ever captured.

Have you found one in Germany that does?

 

[Trenchfriend]

I'm always buying the ones from Rewe and never tried the original.

 

[LizzieMaine]

There are Americans who still swear that the Sunshine Hydrox was a better Oreo even than an actual Oreo.

 

[Fading Fast]

I'm always buying the ones from Rewe and never tried the original.

Wait, what? You have to try the real ones. If you lived in NY, I'd send you a box.

There are Americans who still swear that the Sunshine Hydrox was a better Oreo even than an actual Oreo.

I believe we've chatted about those before. Didn't they even try a comeback recently? They'd do if Oreos weren't around, but even in my count-the-pennies house growing up, we (usually) paid up for Oreos. Heck, when we were flush, Pepperidge Farm cookies, once in awhile, made an appearance - they seemed very fancy. There wasn't a lot of waste in our budget, but my Dad did like his name-brand store-bought cookies.

I remember, in the '70s, somebody sent my parents a box of Godiva Chocolates. We opened and tried them like they were caviar or something (not that we ever had caviar) as they seemed insanely fancy and expensive. But I'm not kidding, it was like an unveiling or something as we cleaned the kitchen table from dinner and then brought out the box like it was the Golden Chalice. The same thing happened when we tried Haagan-Dazs ice-cream (don't remember how we got it as I can't imagine we bought it): it was an event when we tried it (little did we know back then that it came from Brooklyn).

 

[Tiki Tom]

Fading Fast, those fancy brands would never even have appeared in my house when I was a kid. Okay, maybe as a gift. But for a long time I was so much in awe of those brands, that they somehow served as kind of a marker that let me know that --although I can now afford them-- my roots are on the wrong side of the tracks and I cannot bring myself to actually purchase them, even now.

 

[Fading Fast]

Fading Fast, those fancy brands would never even have appeared in my house when I was a kid. Okay, maybe as a gift. But for a long time I was so much in awe of those brands, that they somehow served as kind of a marker that let me know that --although I can now afford them-- my roots are on the wrong side of the tracks and I cannot bring myself to actually purchase them, even now.

As noted, we were a frugal household, but my Dad liked his cookies, so they made it to the budget. But like you, many things today are still in my head such as ordering more than one glass of soda in a diner or pizza place as that was the limit I was allowed the few times a year we went out to eat. I'm 55, but still, when eating out, I can hear my mother telling me to wait until the food comes to order a soda "so that you'll have it to drink with your food." It's amazing how our childhoods frame so much of our lives.

 

[Harp]

But I gave up years ago trying to find a store brand Oreo that tasted as good as (or even close to) a real Oreo.

There is something in the true Oreo that gives it a unique flavor that no store brand - at least that I've tried - has ever captured.

Now I need some Oreo thins...

 

[GHT]

Don't ask german 50+ supermarkt staff, where the storebrand Oreos are.

"The what?"

Oreos? I thought that Bobby Day sang about them. Didn't Michael Jackson do a very successful cover version?
A pretty little raven at the bird bandstand
Taught him how to do the bop and it was grand
They started goin' steady and bless my soul
He out-bopped the buzzard and the oriole.

 

[LizzieMaine]

Ice cream? The everyday stuff was Sampson's -- local store brand --, the birthday-party stuff was Sealtest, and the fancy stuff was Breyer's. I never even heard of Haagen-Dasz until I went to California in 1982. (It was still unfamiliar enough that everybody I met called it Haygen-Daze.)

I'll never forgive Kraft for what they did to Breyer's. In the 60s and 70s, it was the best ice cream on the planet. Now, it's gummy, chemical slop.

 

[tonyb]

Waitstaff usually likes me because I tip well and am mindful of how I can make their job no more difficult than it needs to be.

Restaurant operators might have a different take. I rarely order anything to drink other than water, rarely order an appetizer, rarely order dessert. Those extras can double the tab.

The missus differs on this account. She wants the three-buck soda pop and the eight-buck dessert and the eleven-buck appetizer. YOLO, is how she sees it.

 

[ChiTownScion]

Ice cream? The everyday stuff was Sampson's -- local store brand --, the birthday-party stuff was Sealtest, and the fancy stuff was Breyer's. I never even heard of Haagen-Dasz until I went to California in 1982. (It was still unfamiliar enough that everybody I met called it Haygen-Daze.)

I'll never forgive Kraft for what they did to Breyer's. In the 60s and 70s, it was the best ice cream on the planet. Now, it's gummy, chemical slop.

I wouldn't feed Sealtest today to my worst enemy's dog but I rate Ben & Jerry's pretty highly. My wife's family is from Texas, and they have a brand there called Bluebell that demonstrates that even Texans can do some things right.

Believe it or not the best (in my opinion) vanilla ice cream today (aside from hand made) is the store brand @ Costco. Not too much air, right butterfat content, great taste: nothing better for my Bananas Foster or Cherries Jubilee. You have to buy two half gallons at a time, so a big enough freezer is a must.

A locally born and bred ice cream treat are Dove Bars. They started making them by hand in a neighborhood candy shop until Mars took up the brand in 1985. The dark chocolate cover is prime candy quality, and the classic version features a French Vanilla inside.

 

[3fingers]

I wouldn't feed Sealtest today to my worst enemy's dog

I didn't know you could even buy Sealtest anymore. It disappeared here years ago and never returned. It sounds like I have been fortunate to have missed its revival. Too bad. Many childhood memories of eating a dish of Sealtest and making 7up floats with my grandad.