tap water in Norway is pure and the ones from Voss is even better due to the fact of cold weather and running water and glaciers, soon Norway turn all-electric,, no more fun with noisy bikes or cars :/, it will be a sad moment for me
I (from Germany) visited Norway in 2019 and wanted to return last year what for obvious reasons did not work (fck cvd!). But Norway is such a great country. I made a roadtrip (airbnb) with my best friend on the Lofoten. Never saw such landscape. First day we had a house with a lake! Another night we had a tiny house from the 19th century (authentic). The prices aren't that bad, but they have a sugar tax (and yeah, Voss is tap water). Norwegian people are very kind and friendly. Almost everybody speaks English (actually never met one that doesn't). So, when it is safe to travel again (hopefully), my best friend and me will return. If go back a third time I probably won't leave anymore. Norway
To anyone interested in Norway I can recommend “team Bachstad” the recent season (if there are English subs) and “typisk norsk” (it’s uploaded with English subs on yt) they show what is Norwegian from our point of view
It’s good to hear that you like Norway! It is a very nice place but it can be very cold in the winter. We are speaking many languages so everyone can come here and understand us
@@emmaandresen4163That's okay, I'm no summer guy. Everything above 25°C is too hot. And winters without snow and positive double digit temperatures are awful :o). My dad, may he rest in peace, always said: "There's not 'too cold'. There's only wrong clothing."
@@marcuszaja6589 was your dad Norwegian? It’s a common thing to say here in Norway that there is no such thing as too cold weather it’s only wrong clothing!
11:28 the public water distribution, and Voss factory are kind of separate, but basically from the same location. Not only wash their dishes, but flush their toilet, water their garden, and wash their car.
The theme of Vigeland's Sculpture Park is 'the human life cycle,' which is what the author is asking about. Both figurative and literal interpretations are needed.
Another interesting fact about Norway is that there are almost no “private beaches”. The Norwegian shoreline is for public use, and you can’t build your houses inside approximately 100m from the shore unless you apply for it
Norwegian here to clear up all the questions! 1. Yes, the counties merged the 1st of January 2020 2. Vigelandsparken, located within Frognerparken has a bunch of random, often naked statues carved by Henrik Vigeland. 3. I've never had pickled herring, none of my friends has either for all that I know. Aka, its a rare / older dish that isnt eaten much anymore. 4. Brown cheese is a cheese made with whey leftover from making goats cheese, it is caramelized and therefore turns brown / orange. Basically tastes like caramel and is really good. I personally like it, but it's pretty much a hit or miss for most people.
Our water here is actually amazing. My aunt moved to Danmark 10 years ago, and she still comments on it every time she back in Norway, how much she have been missing it. I remember when I was a kid, and was shocked when we went on vacation and had to BUY bottle-water for drinking 😂 We are totally water-spoiled up here!
its a sweet caramell tasty cheese. i would not describe it as cheese in texture. its soft and mush, mabye a bit maluable aswel. I am Norwegian, i dont eat it regulary but its great with waffles and butter :D
I get bullied by my british friends for not liking their tap water. But when you’re used to the clean water we have here, tap water around the world just tastes like chlorine and it’s not very pleasant.
As a Norwegian I want to say that taco and pizza is more normal than most of the traditional Norwegian dishes. Most people I know eat taco every Friday and pizza at least once a week. The grocery stores even have discount on taco stuff on Fridays.
An error. You can camp anywhere in Norway just not on private area. Much of Norway is private - you can camp wherever you want also on privat property but not on fields for food production or closer than 150 m / 450 ft. from a permanent residence.
I'm wheezing at the description of Norway- no- We're the ones who will keep 2m distance even before corona. Never sit next to one another on the bus, even if you know each other. And you never interact with humans unless necessary.
Am Norwegian, can confirm I've barely noticed there's been a pandemic. If anything I've appreciated the fact that my personal space has now been enforced by law for a while.
The thing with the Geography Now-series is that they are extremely fast-paced, and almost without punctuation. So whilst it seems like they say the tree is given to Scotland, as it was under the UK "category", they probably just meant the UK as a whole there.
Its actually not wrong. As a thanks for help from WWII many gets a tree. London, Edinburgh, Orkney Island, Newcastle and Grimsby gets their tree. Also New York gets a tree.
Im from Massachusetts but moved to Oslo 6 years and loved this video. That pickled herring is delicious by the way. Its called Sild and usually is in a sauce like tomato or mustard based. You just put it straight on a slice of good bread and its a great lunch 👌🏼 Also that fylke merge did already happen now
Also, it's not the OIL that made us rich. Sure, the oil made NORWAY rich, but it's not what made the PEOPLE rich. High taxes (counterintuitively enough), fair to fair-ish wage and labour laws and world leading welfare schemes is what made the PEOPLE rich.
Hi taxses made us made us rich? No oil and Hydropower (Hydro use this cheap electricity to make aluminum) made us rich. Yhea hi taxes on those gave people the money. But still it was oil and Hydropower that made us rich.
@@ZipzZzzz5 actually you are wrong. If you look at Sweden and Denmark they have are rich too, but they don’t have oil, at least not as much as we have. Harald Eia have some videos about it in the series called sånn er Norge:)
@@mathildeholmas8314 Sweden has a massive depth actually. I heard someone making a joke about it being the same size as the norwegian budget only negativ ... or something like that.
This is true, but the oil made us a buffer we have been constantly falling back on ever since. The oil was also used in the beginning to build a more prosperous country, but then the parliament felt they had to change tactics for the future.
The income from sale of oil is not a part of the BNP. This income is saved into the Pension fund and used to invest into businesses around the world. Example Facebook, Google etc.
Aaand at least here where i live (but think its the whole country), you should actually really not ask or talk about someonce/yours income. It may be public, but it’s still rude and wierd to talk about 😅😅
It’s hard to find the source but this is what I’ve heard from a Norwegian who knows such odds facts. So I’m not just making a joke/troll! Of course art can mean many things. The title of the piece is called “Mann jager fire genier” Which translates sorta to Man chases four Gemini (spirits)
@@Andaars Ah ok thought that was a translation error. Wonder if Vigeland every officially shared his meaning of the statue to confirm. I don’t see how a baby is a genius 🤷🏻♂️
One of the best things of living in Norway is how free it is. There are rarely high fences around any property, and people leave their currains/blinds up. It is for the most part a society based on mutual respect and trust. And it is very expensive to live here, but also very safe 😊
We usually have waffles with brown cheese, sour cream and strawberry/raspberry jam. And it is actually pretty normal to go skiing or hiking when ur on holiday.
Quick note about the public record of the wealth: You can't look into others wealth without getting noticed. Either by mail or such. So they have to log into a public service with their own "digital identity", and as such, will show who looked at your records.
Before the right wing government came into power you could look the data up anonymously. That changed, now if you look up your neighbor he will know you have had a look at his numbers.
Hi, I'm from Norway. From january 2021 the merging of ''Fylker'' was finished ;) Brown cheese is made of goat milk. I've heard many say it has kind of a caramel taste. I personally like it. As for the tradisional food ... Um ... Well, the sheep head is called 'Smalahove' it's for ... a extreamly few interested people. Lutefisk, pickled harring and rakfisk is not to my personal taste, but the christmast dishes, those are very tradisional. We are also very fond og waffles ;) Tip for black metal band from Norway is ''Dimmu Borgir''
Smalahove is great, people are just put off by the look. If you like pinnekjøtt you will most likely also enjoy smalahove, though not quite as good as pinnekjøtt.
Another few thing about Norway thats a huge difference from America is for example that you don’t need insurance to get treated at the hospital, you only pay a small fee (a tiny fee) for some treatments and other is free, thats because of the taxes thats taken from our salaries before we get paid. The taxes also pays for other things too, but in Norway you don’t get heaps of bills from the hospitals to pull you down after an illness. Also, in Norway women can take up to A YEAR of maternity leave from work where if I remember it correctly you can choose 9mnds with 100% pay or 12mnds with 75% pay.. Its been a while so I don’t remember it quite.. The food; a correction, Sweden is known for their meatballs (kjørtboller) but in Norway we have (kjøttkaker) translated to meat cakes thats almost like meatballs but bigger. The brown cheese is made from goat cheese. I have actually made it once before. You have goats milk in a large pot, add a type of liquid I dont remember right now whats called, and cook it over low to medium heat for hours, it eventually turns thick and brown ( during the cooking when its getting brown and thicken it taste kind of sweet but also bitter caramell-ish...yum)and at the end a texture like playdough, put it in a box and let it sit and harden. :)
The brown cheese is called gjetost ( ye toast), its actually delicious and almost has a nutty or smoky caramelized flavor to it. Also Krumkake is amazing my grandmother still makes it every year at Christmas. Another really good seasonal food they don't list is yulekake which is a Norwegian Christmas bread with raisins. I could go on for ages about all the different pastries and treats like troll horns, cloud berry cream, and lefse just to name a few.
Of Norwegian music, I would recommend to you Wardruna. (The vocalist behind it, Einar Selvik, was the drummer of an infamous black-metal band called Gorgoroth.) Wardruna, however, did a co-op with Aurora for a song called "Helvegen" that is an absolutely stunning performance. You can find it here on YT. Edit: Also, the video made no mention of the institution known as *LO* (Lands Organisasjonen - translated to "Country Organization") which regulate wages according to inflation values and to other wages in the country. If the value of *one* job drops, LO makes the judgement on whether this job should crash, or if all other wages in the country should be adjusted in solidarity. The result is that Norway have the most well-paid jobs for unskilled labourers in the world, and comparably low wages for high educated experts. The purpose of this is to create a higher level of equality in society overall, and it have led to a higher social trust. There is barely any crime here, and LO have, in theory, much of the credit for that.
@@TheWolvesCurse some odd Germans here and there-- but its mostly Poles that come here to take the jobs most Norwegians are too spoilt to do. By their words, we're a country of introverts and some of them say its hard to make friends up here. I can understand why; since the lockdowns were lifted we are all happy we don't need to keep 1 meter distance to eachother anymore and can go back to the usual 5. 😂
@@TheWolvesCurse yeah, those narrow twisty roads did have a few old grandmothers dictating the speedlimits in the end, just like how green politicians get to dictate the gas-prices.
@@HateMachinist i thought the gas tax goes to your retirement fund? or did i misunderstand the video up there? our gas prices are going up like crazy too, and electricity is slowly becoming a luxury, as private users are subsidizing the industry. there was a law called "EEG Umlagegesetz", since then our electricity is even more expensive than in denmark (currently 0,32€ per kWh on average) yet politics pressure us towards buying electric cars... it's madness. all the while income of "working class" people is stagnating, and rents in densely populated areas exploding. economically we're becoming more and more americanized, which i despise. i'm still lucky as a "skilled" worker in an automotive supply company, but they're planning to lay us all off til 2025 and move our production to romania and serbia, where workers are cheaper.
About the income register, it’s still frowned upon, and nobody talks about wages to peers. In addition when you check out someone’s income you have to log in with your national electronic ID and the person in question get’s an email telling them who checked it. All in all, great video!
Actually, talking about income being frowned upon is a trick that the management tries to do, removing the transparency that we have had in the past. The only people benefiting workers not talking about income are the owners. But yeah, great video.
@@stianrol yes this. Me and my colleges talk freely about it and nobody thinks it's strange. We have the same job and it's good to know what your colleges are making and helps us argue for our potential raise.
We actually consider talking about how much money we make really tacky and rude, but we also keep track of everyone’s income to prevent illegal business👍
@@1971Dangermouse tror eg må gjenta meg selv her. Hva dømte de han PÅ? ikke hva dømte de han for. Å bare så d é nevnt, etternavnet mitt er ACAB-JOHANNESSEN = All Cops Are Bastards-Johannessen. Eg har ingenting til overs for Jensen, men rett skal være rett. Det ska ikke være NOEN tvil når han blir dømt. Å leser du forklaringen til Cappelen, så skjønner du va eg mener.
A lot of Norwegians don’t eat traditional Norwegian food. I have never tasted pickled herring for instance. thanks for the video. Cheers from a Norwegian!
Come on people, try the local food. I have eaten about everything, except the eyeball from the goat. "Pickled herring" or "sild med eddik" comes in many different sauces and is delicious. Norwegian bread is fantastic.
The biggest of the 3 preserved viking ships found in Norway (one of the ships in the viking ship museum they mentioned) was found near my childhood farm on our fields where I was originally the heir of the land. Although our family name wasn't tied to that property at the time they found it, but still kinda cool I think! 😁 There was speculations about having a viking theme park built on our fields but I'm not sure if that's going to happen or not yet.
My grandmother was from Denmark, and took me there, as well as Norway to visit family when I was young. They are such beautiful places, Norway is just so stunning! I'd love to live in Denmark and be able to visit Norway and Sweden frequently 😍
Hey, Rjukan! That's where I'm from! And it's no big deal, most of Norway is covered in clouds most of winter anyways, but we have our own Sun Festival each year to celebrate the return of the sun.
First of all, this is a very good video! (Btw... I'm from Norway.) 3:25 - Yes! Our 19 counties merged into 11 in 2020. 7:00 - VIGELAND SCULPTURE PARK. This is a park full of naked sculptures, that's all. (For Scandinavians this is not a big deal.) The statue of the dude fighting the babies has no deeper meaning. 11:40 - VOSS WATER = ordinary tap water. It's bottled from a river with just average water quality, and this is far from the glaciers. 14:00 - PICKLED HERRING is eaten at Christmas. Some people love it, others hate it. Most of us don't dislike it. 15:00 - When Norwegians go abroad, BROWN CHEESE is what we miss most! It has a very sweet taste, and is made by boiling a mixture of milk, cream, and whey carefully for several hours so that the water evaporates. The heat turns the milk sugars into caramel, which gives the cheese its characteristic brown colour and sweetness. 19:10 - 19:45 - This dialect thing the best part. I love it!! 21:00 - Yes! Everyone's income and wealth is on public domain. But it's not possible to check a person's income or wealth anonymously. The person that you check will be aware of it. 22:50 - Honestly Norwegians really don't care much about Black Metal. 24:20 - Norwegians reach out to the far corners of the world. That's definitely no understatement. (I myself have been to 175 countries.) 25:00 Yes, Jim! We give the Brits a tree for Christmas every year! You'll find it on Trafalgar Square. (Talking about gifts... We would reeeeealy like to give that mountain to Finland, but our rigid constitution prevents us from doing so.) Thank's for a very good video, Jim! From what you say I'm 100% sure that you will love Norway. As in all other places we have our ups and downs, but it's a really beautiful country and superb for hiking. It's a safe and open society where police officers normally are unarmed. The crime rate is low, and so is the discriminaton rate. We are proud about our welfare state, free healthcare for everybody and free schools and universities. Our government takes care about everybody, without being communists.
Spot on, og hilsener fra Ski! ... There are a few of us who do care about black metal, though Norway, in common with most of the western world consume American and british pop music mostly. I personally play in two black metal bands myself.
5:20 The seed vault was put there, to take advantage for the year round cold, be recently they had to upgrade with artificial cooling because of warmer climate.
Pickled hearing is great, it’s often made with vinegar, suger, pepper corns and other types of spices. you can also get with tomato, Curry sauce and more at least here in Denmark and I guess in Norway too🥰
Funny how Volvo isnt even swedish anymore lol, majority of the cars have been designed in shanghai since 2012 and built in China. Only cars produced in Sweden is the V60, V90, XC60 and XC90 for Europe. Theyre probably gonna pull 100% out of sweden very soon with all the new factories theyre building in china.
@@TheGamingNorwegian You do realize that Volvo has factories all over the word right? The designer for the new gen of cars is a german dude. That does not mean Volvo is a german brand. Geely owns Volvo, that does not mean that Volvo is a Chinese brand either. GM has even owned Volvo some years back, again that does not mean that Volvo is American. Volvo = Swedish because thats where it started, simple as that.
Well it's not cold at all during summer(7-9 months). And the spoon looked like this before sweden conquered and took a huge part of norway. Could not load up picture but google norway before they lost jemtland and herjadalen. The golfstream hits norway so atleast south part have many days with 20-30 degreeds celcius. Atleast not cold the way i see it. ofc sahara is alot warmer.Fewer but still many warm days in northern part too but they have more cold days in north. Lots of people tanning and bathing on the beaches...I live in Oslo
Yeah... Nope. Actually the most discusting thing i ever tried in all my years. Only lutefisk and smalahove made me this sick after tasting. Dont listen to the weird guy saying its good xD
metal.. well i can mention the local ones. one that did get some bad rep was "Mayhem". we had Darkthrone. and half a mile from me "Dimmu Borgir" had there "band room". all this was just outside Oslo on the east side. Kolbotn-langhus-ski.
The herring is commonly pickled along with onion in vinegar and sugar. It's called "sursild" which directly translated is "sour herring". It tastes great if you ask me, the texture isn't as slimy as you'd think, it's actually fairly firm. There are also variants of pickled herring in tomato sauce, mustard, curry, sour cream and probably more.
everyone learns the text languages in Norway through school, but all the different dialects in Norway can ALMOST almost be considered 15 different languages, because they have such large variations.. This is one of the reasons that Norwegians are some of the best at adapting new languages due to a very large variety in use of sounds and synonyms.
Og alle fra sogn og fjordane og møre kan si at Hordaland ikke er ordentlig "Vestland", så hvorfor faen bestemte vi oss for å gi navnet "vestland" til de to. "Vestland" burde være Sogn og Møre, det er de som har den typiske vestlandsnaturen mens rogaland og hordaland har en sørvestlig natur. Og så har vi "bibelbeltet" som skaper flere kulturproblemer mellom Hordaland og Sogn, så jeg lurer bare på HVORFOR.!! Ikke for å hate på hordaland, dere er vestlige fylker, men dere har ikke den typiske vestlands fjell/fjord - naturen i like stor grad.
@@thehiraethserendipity3425 kan vel stemme, men der jeg bor nå har ganske høye fjell (kjent plass p stå på ski) men noen plasser i «Vestland» har ganske kjedelig natur
The reason the discussion of wages is seen as "tacky" in America is completely intentional. It has been in direct and active corporate effort to frame it as such in media since the 50s. The reason obviously being that people shouldnt discuss their wages so they wont know if they are being underpaid. Also do a reaction to the Russ tradition lmao you will be shocked
Brown cheese is made of the by-product whey, which is separated out in the process of making regular, yellow cheese (like Jarlsberg, Gouda etc.). Everything was used back in the day, so they came up with brown cheese (and prim, which is a spreadable version of brown cheese, simply put). Brown cheese is sweet and caramel-like in taste. It is made with either cows milk or goat milk, or a combo. The goat milk version is the most intense flavored, the pure milk is much milder in taste. The combo or the cows milk versions are the most common (not entirely sure). (And yes, I’m Norwegian.)
you should see northern light in person! its awesome. and the sheep head (smalahove) with brown cheese (brunost) is a really good dish you should try. it is a really specific taste. Norwegian nature is beautiful.
the frogner park and the vigeland sculpture park is the same park. fun fact: it was originally a contest where artists would compete to have their fountain on Stortinget in Oslo. Vigelands was so good they canceled the contest, but he didn't feel like his fountain would look good with the surrounding area, so they ended up with a park where over 200 of his sculptures are on show now
That was fascinating, although the announcers talk far too fast for my 76 year old brain to retain much of what was said. As fan of both Angelina Jordan and Aurora, I’d love to go there and see them perform and/or just to visit.
Brown cheese is in a way just caramelized milk. It is (arguably) from a town called Vinstra in one of the most prominent valleys, the Gudbrand valley in the newly merged county of Innlandet (literally “the inland., but you got that one). In the valley, people argue if it is called brown cheese, or red cheese, and you are seen as a traitor if you say the opposite as them. The story goes that a farm lady left the milk that would become cheese a little too long, giving it a caramel like texture. It can be used in many different ways, some even toast it, making it super runny. Most people eat it on bread with butter underneath, and have it as lunch. Another interesting food that people eat every day, is liver paste (leverpostei). It has so many vitamins, that an ad here says to give your kids only one slice of bread with liver paste per day, because they can get health problems from overdosing on vitamins.
Wait what?! ur only supposed to eat one slice of bread? HOW AM I NOT DEAD XD I eat like 4-7 slices of bred with liver paste every day. maybe I need a doctors appointment...
Brown cheese is Production. Brunost is made by boiling a mixture of milk, cream, and whey carefully for several hours so that the water evaporates. The heat turns the milk sugars into caramel, which gives the cheese its characteristic brown colour and sweetness.
@torivarnor We were fighing an international war and you can't expect those numbers to be accurate. Norwegians were fighting on all fronts during WWII. They were killed like flyes in the war for and against the nazies. The nazies also killed norwegians in concentration camps in Poland, like all our jews ... or most of them. Mainland Norway was occupied and we were furtunate in many ways being so called ariens. The nazies were nice if people played ball with them. Don't think for a minute they were very nice though. Out went democracy and equality in the law. The germans did what they wanted. An old teacher of mine had a story to tell as a young boy in nazy occupied Norway. He followed a girl on the streets. He didn't have any nasty plans, but he was just following her. It was very insecure for a girl to walk in the city alone in those days, she must have been terrified and he knew it, but being a young boy you know. That was his story. The nazies did what they wanted, and you would never know if you suddenly fell on the wrong side of someone.
@torivarnor That is the convenient answer. How many soldiers do you think sat in the concentration camps? I'm not discussing more with you. It was an international war. People die. Deal with it.
The tax/income public knowledge thing is not really much of an issue (fun fact: the person whose income/wealth is on distplay in the image in that section is our own prime minister, so yes even our politicians income/wealth/tax status is open to public knowledge) and I don't think most people here even care that much what their neighbours earn/spend because a lot of professions have standardized pay based on a combination of level of education and years of experience, so it's not really that surprising. Also we're in practice a very cashless society (we do still use cash to some degree, but the vast, vast majority pay by card and/or use cash apps - even a lot of street vendors take app payment here, including people selling the street magazines - because people here usually do not carry around cash most of the time).
The counties did merge but not like that the 2 northern most counties "Troms" and "Finnmark" merged into the new county "Troms og Finnmark" (in the video they merged "Nordland" and "Troms") the new county is the largest in the county and it in itself is larger than several European countries like Ireland. Several of the new counties goes into the election with the promise of splitting up, in Finnmark 98% of the population voted NO to merge with Troms however the government refused to listen to the people leading to the staggering fact that 98% og the population in Northern Norway no longer trust the central government, or that the central power seat in Oslo cares about the people living here.
After the recent debacle over "oslo shouldn't get vaccines yet even though they have the highest rate of infection in the country" were not really trusting of ANYONE here right now. Trying to pass it off like were just partying it up out here and that's why people are sick, not like the population density here makes it impossible to not interact with others regularly or anything. Jesus.
@@scandisnowgirl3696 well no one is saying that oslo shouldn't get any vaccines but it does shatter what little trust people have left in government up here especially when small municipalities without the ability to care for the ill loses their only vaccines so that they can't even vaccinate what health care personnel they have and less so for their elderly. All of this while the South African variant of the virus is rapidly spreading among our population, it doesn't really help with the sentiment of people feeling that the South doesn't care at all for the people living here's well being. It would be nice to at least get to vaccine health care personnel first. When we tried protecting our people the South got quite angry as they didn't like the Southerner quarantine principle, where we managed to keep our health care institutions to just bearly handle what we had. Just like how we closed the border to foreginers. One thing is to change the vaccination strategy and to redirect some of the NEW vaccines arriving TO Oslo which in all honesty would feel more like we're in it together than forcefully taking the vaccines from other places to give them to the capital, of course that'll lead to division. One thing is for sure the relationship between North and south is strained to a breaking point.
@@jubmelahtes I have heard some of the worst shit imaginable said about people in Oslo. We have been hit the hardest out of EVERYONE here and for the last year have been under the strictest measures in the country and asked to sacrifice the most, and yet the north continually says disparaging, horrible things and tries to play politics with our very lives by diverting vaccines. Its shameful.
@@jubmelahtes btw, dont try to bring up healthcare personnel, they have largely all been vaccinated at this point, and you KNOW this happened like a week ago, long after healthcare personnel were vaccinated.
@@scandisnowgirl3696 I understand you've had It bad I'm not saying otherwise, no one are angry at you the people but rather the authorities. We're not one Unified country we've never been that, the North always has been and likely always will be second grade in this country, that shit you've heard the last year we've been through forever. And no not all personell has been vaccinated yet most places didn't even get to start on the elderly above 70, yet we have some of the oldest populations due to the centralization politics led by the government for years now. Oslo made the vaccination policy into politics when they demanded other municipalities in dire situations to send their vaccines meant for their most vulnerable citizens in the middle of rising numbers down because it benefitted them the most, thats politics and oslo will always be prioritised. I honestly wish for the best for every citizen in this country but it definitely doesn't feel like its mutual, it never has. And if we didn't struggle with collapsing local economies due to the strain of 60-70% of the population being quarantined or sick right now. I'd be more than happy to give our vaccines to areas in more need of them, we're all struggling this hasn't been easy for anyone, yes the problems are different between the the largest cities and smaller ones or rural areas. We don't have the infrastructure to handle what we have, you may be familiar with the fact that the government gave us air ambulances without the possibility of treating people on the way, or that they've been closing down our hospitals centralising them for years and at the same time how much are they giving the elite taxcuts, or for the new government building or the parliament garage? They're literally pumping all the resources and value they can out of the region while they never build up anything because some firm in oslo says its not profitable to invest in us. When they have built out something its most likely to destroy the culture or way of life of the sami. Every damn thing is a constant struggle. So yes it would feel nice to have some solidarity and unity in the biggest crisis we've faced in modern time but the way they chose to go about it was sure to lead to division you don't get solidarity and unity through force but rather through voluntariy and empathy I think you'd be surprised if we even got a chance to do that. It would be nice to just once in a lifetime feel like equal citizens and not this caricature we're portrayed as. And mabye it would be nice if people down there actually just once spoke up that we and our culture and languages are as much worth as theirs.
Pickled herring, are one of my favorite foods. Especially the Parisian type. Which are sweet and sour. The herring isn't raw, because it's been laying in the pickle juice, all the time. It have to have a lot of onions, and black pepper, and vinegar, and some sugar. Yummy, it's so good.
Pickled herring are what we call "Sursild" Sur=sour Sild= Herring. But usually we buy it in a glass, and it doesn't look like the picture at all. Try Duck the name Sursild, and maybe "Delikat Sursild" you will understand. It have been pickled in a container for a long time, so it's not raw anymore. It's being made with a 'ton' of different spices, and herbs. I like the ones with some sugar in it the best. Brunost=Brown cheese. It's made from either goat milk, or cows milk. There's a large variety of brown cheeses. Personally I like to have a little bit of honey, or syrup on the bread, and put brown cheese on top. It's hard to describe the taste of brown cheese. Maybe a little bit caramelized. And it stick to your gums some times.
Hell in Norwegian actually means to have good luck (lucky). Hell og lykke = good luck and happiness. Hell is from old Norwegian and it means the same in Islandic (and Islandic was the language we use to speak in Norway, then we took it to Island with the Vikings and also settled there).
@@tomjacobs2759 Old-Norse or Norrønt like we call it in Norway was the language they spoke in Norway at the time. Norrønt or Old-Norse is a collective term for Old-Norwegian and Old-Islandic as the differences of the languages are few. It was the Norwegian Ingólfr Arnarson and his wife who was the first persons to settle down on Island (in about year 874 AD). Norrønt was the language he spoke so it was only natural that they also spoke that language there.
The brown cheese is actually made from lefroever whey mixed with some cream and milk rater than the "real" cheese stuff, and then it's slow cooked for a long time until the milk sugars start to caramelize and most of the moisture have evaporated, the brown milky caramel goop is then poured into molds and refrigerated until it hardens.
If you are looking for some good music, here is a few: DIMMU BORGIR (Symphonic black metal) i would recommend starting with 'Gateways (LIVE - FORCES OF THE NORTHERN NIGHT)' Anything from Aurora ofc Pagans Mind (progressive metal) Ina Wroldsen kaizers orchestra Sivert Høyem there's alot more than this, but it's what came to mind. Good luck!
Black Metal : Mayhem, Dimmu Borgir, Satyricon etc.. Brown cheese: sweet, almost a caramellic taste. We have a well working health care system and so on. Well paid vacation for 3 weeks or more :)
If you search public records, like checking out your nabour or boss, they get a notification of everyone that has checked they're income and wealth. So not many ppl will get caught doing so.
You can also buy the service from a third party provider, though. They just do the search for you for 50 kroner. I just want to say that it's not the income that's public. It's income after deductibles which will be different for each person.
Unfortunately, giving Finland the mountain top is against our constitution.. I would love it if we did it. We have so many mountain tops and we beat the land of a thousand lakes' number of lakes by about 250.000 lakes, so Finland deserves the break.
We made and ate a lot of pickled herring - aka. "sursild" - when I was a kid. It's usually eaten on a slice of bread with mayonnaise, salt, and pepper. If you don't mind fish, it is actually really good. "Sursild" IS NOT to be confused with Sweden's "surströmming". It's not the same thing. "Surströmming" is literally *fermented* herring, which smells and tastes like death. "Sursild" is just *pickled* herring, which is awesome.
I think We all Norwegians in the comments can agree that the foods that were showed in the video is holidays food or on Family diners! So uhhh amaricans if u come to Norway dont order these up just randomly...And Brown Cheese is goat cheese! Kjøttkaker is normaly to have But not as normal as Taco, Pizza or international food. 😄
@@astridrohde3450 No, we can tan just as much as you guys in the south. Fuck, I could get a tan at midnight if I wanted to. Just depends on were in the north you live. Some cities are sunnier then others.
@@xiamusmc271 well where I live which is bodø it mostly rains a lot and there is so much hecking wind! It is too cold most of the time to tan sadly. You are so lucky!😇
Brown cheese is made by basically heating up and consentrating the whey over several hours. This causes the milk sugar to caramelize. I guess it's a bit of an aquired taste, but it tastes pretty sweet and with hints of caramel. It's made from cow and/or goat milk, and the more goat, the sharper the taste. It got a bit of "wild" taste to it, so a bit of the cheese added to the souce when serving meat from deer, elk and such, really complements the flavour.
@@Thesortvokter in the "first wave of black metal" you have Bathory which influenced the sound of what was to become black metal. It was Venom from England who coined the term "black metal" with the song Black metal. I do recommend watching the documentary "helvete" where they explain this 👍🏻
@@torry91 Yes, Venom coined the term, I just mentioned BATHORY because it's what sounds most like what norwegian BM sounded like in the early 90's and that it's kinda funny Quorthon was from Sweden when everybody thinks BM is a norwegian invention.
Nice video 🙂👍 So to answer some of your questions. Yes, the countys merged. Pickled herring is'nt as bad as it sounds. But I can't eat to much of it at a time. One open faced sandwich with it, and I'm good for a while. Brown cheese is made by boiling down the whey that is left after cheese making. They boil it for hours until it reduces and caramelize. There are different types. Some made from goat whey and some from cow. As for black metal bands. I've only gotten in to one of them. Dimmu borgir, Norwegian symphonic black metal band. I recomend you check out their song Gateways (live Forces of the northern night) (there are about 100 people on stage in that performance)
@@JimGames In Norway we've had to make do with what we've had. Down in Spain and Italy they'll feed the whey to the life stock for the product to be tastier. So, to eat brown cheese may be overwhelming on its own, if you'd come here go to a convenience store or at a gas station to order waffle with 'brunost', that'll turn you.
@@JimGames Also there's a north-German recipe for pickeld herring called Matjes, it's commonly sold in Sweden. It was once made here to export to Sweden but I can't get it anywhere here. There's just 2.5 hours from here by a ferry so I'll just.. uh never mind, it's closed.
I have never heard of pickled fish. I bet it’s better than it sounds. It’s just not sold anywhere around here. I’m in Boston we eat a lot of seafood too.
@@JimGames You're in MA.. would you mind to react to the Massachusetts song by the boys who made "What does the fox say"? The lyric is a bit on the spicy side..
The merging happened, but the one that weren't merged with anyone "Nordland" Northland still exist, they messed up alittle there. It was Troms and Finnmark that were merged and should now be nr 1, and a smaller nr 2 fylke. Also just to add, the merging happened against the local peoples wishes. They voted on it where'as roughly 90% didn't want the merger. Also alot of our food that he mentioned there was "invented" as a way to preserve food, and was very normal before we found our oil. And I'm a very picky eater and I didn't have to eat that pickled herring, but then again I've never even heard of it as it's not a normal delicacy from northern Norway, so that makes me glad as it looks nasty. Brown cheese is made with the biproduct from making cheese/butter that has been caramelised, it's very tasty on freshly baked bread. Also kake translate to cake, and krumkake is sort of like crêpes that sort of dries when it cools down and become quite crumbly. It's eaten with wiped cream and berries, some prefer strawberries but I like it with cloudberries. Also when it comes to our tax-records being public, I don't mind as for me atleast I don't care enough to check what other people payed in taxes or how much they make a year. As long as they contribute to our healthcare, public schooling and other services like police- and fire-departments, we're good. Also last time I checked, Sweden is not part of NATO.
Very nice, I really enjoyed this. You showed up on my radar when you reacted to my favorite vocal band, Home Free. Enjoyed both reactions, would love to see you reacts to more Home Free. My husbands family immigrated from Denmark, I will have to see if you have reacted to info on Denmark. Thanks !!!!!
Not really anything unique tho. Those cable cars can be found all over the world (the Alps is full of them). Not something I would put front and center....
It’s funny because we’re just so proud of our country and love to hear other people’s opinion of us😂 About the income database, I don’t think the majority of people find it that interesting. I reckon it’s because the income gap between low and high paying jobs aren’t that big compared to in the US, but also a lot of people are part of unions that negotiate salaries for them🤷🏽♀️
It would be cool with a bit more discussion throughout, personally I watch reaction videos for reactions, I'm never annoyed that you pause the video or whatever. By the way, brown cheese is awsome. It's goatmilk where they caramelize the sugar which makes it brown-caramel-like colour. ++ the income on public record is a pretty nice thing but noone really checks it. You always get notified about exactly who checks your income, so for many it's still perhaps a bit emberrasing to bother prying into
Pickled/fermented fish: Yeah, we don't really eat those dishes outside of holidays, where it's tradition to eat fermented fish. Most of the other foods that were presented in the video are not really eaten either -- they're just traditional foods eaten by certain regions during certain holidays (again, due to tradition). Every-day foods over here is usually either tacos or frozen pizza (really, frozen pizza is the most eaten dish over here). Brown Cheese: It's not actually cheese, but it is made by the byproducts of goat cheese production. It is definitely something (almost) every Norwegian eats. Income on Public Record: Our nation is founded on the principle of trust. Without trust, our welfare system (which we are very proud of and defensive about) would collapse. So income is on public record (although if anyone searches for your income records, you will get notified by the tax administration) for everyone to be able to "audit" each other. That doesn't mean it is okay to talk about your income or ask others about their income in public. Side-note: We are a very shy people (except when drunk, where we usually get wayyy too drunk), and the principle of not inconveniencing others is embedded in everyone. We don't want to be of bother. For example, if we're on a bus, or a plane, and we want to get up from our seats whilst sitting in the window seat, we would never verbally ask the person in the aisle seat to get up. We would uncomfortably and nonverbally try to signal that we are going off on the next stop. That is, if there is anyone sitting next to you on the bus. We usually don't sit next to each other on buses, so a bus in Norway would be considered "full" if it in reality were half-full. People would rather stand for 30 mins than sit next to a stranger.
"Pickled/fermented fish: Yeah, we don't really eat those dishes outside of holidays" You realize 'pickled herring' is Sursild, right? That's a staple food (and also delicious) of any Norwegian breakfast/lunch-table and hardly only eaten during holidays. If you don't have sursild - why even have lunch?
@@sigurdaa Sursild does taste good, but where I'm from, that usually is only eaten around Christmas times - just like ribberull and sylte, although all these three "pålegg" are sold year-round. I don't know anyone who even has sursild in their fridge outside of Christmas times. That said, I know quite a few people who do not like sursild at all, so to say "if you don't have sursild - why even have lunch" is extremely misleading. I don't think I personally have eaten sursild in 5-6 years. Also, note that I specified fermented fish. I have never met anyone who has eaten rakfisk or lutefisk outside of Christmas times.
@@Henoik Taste aside - go to any store and you'll find 5-10 different brands of sursild at any time of the year. I eat sursild all year around and my canteen at work has it as one of their regular servings (as in it's as basic as jarlsberg and makrell i tomat). It may be a regional thing? I'm in western Norway and sursild is very common all year around here.
@@sigurdaa Yeah, it is sold year-round, but I think it's a regional thing. I'm from Eastern Norway, and have been living in Southern Norway for the past 5 years, and it doesn't seem to be that common down here either. I don't argue that it tastes bad, but I'm definitely not used to it outside of Christmas.
22:37 I'm surprised that they didn't include the Hardingfele (basically a local variation of the violine with extra strings on the *inside* of the violin, look up videos of it on youtube to get an idea about the sound)
The brown cheese is basically caramellized cheese. There are loads of different kinds, ranging from goats cheese to cows cheese, sometimes we add cardamom or cinnamon. They are great with waffles and real butter
I have a question. Hvor mange her(som ser/høre på dette) er fra Norge? Ska hilse fra Sandnes!
Javel...? Ska sei, fine mann.....
Hilser fra Kristiansand!
Hallaise! - Narvik
Hilser fra Drammen
Hilsen fra Vikebygd :) Aksdal Skjold
LUL.
Norwegians buy 4 liters of GASOLINE for a little over $7.
Americans: 😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱
Also Americans: Buys 0.75 liters of WATER for $8.
tap water in Norway is pure and the ones from Voss is even better due to the fact of cold weather and running water and glaciers, soon Norway turn all-electric,, no more fun with noisy bikes or cars :/, it will be a sad moment for me
@@gardini100 Avtaually there is no glaciers anywhere around where Voss Water is made. It is from a little place in Southern Norway called Iveland 😂
Higher gas price = less Co2 by cars
@@farhadrazavi8941 thats actually how they think
@@Eirran2 hehe you got me there :) , but a nice bottle indeed:D
I (from Germany) visited Norway in 2019 and wanted to return last year what for obvious reasons did not work (fck cvd!). But Norway is such a great country. I made a roadtrip (airbnb) with my best friend on the Lofoten. Never saw such landscape. First day we had a house with a lake! Another night we had a tiny house from the 19th century (authentic). The prices aren't that bad, but they have a sugar tax (and yeah, Voss is tap water). Norwegian people are very kind and friendly. Almost everybody speaks English (actually never met one that doesn't). So, when it is safe to travel again (hopefully), my best friend and me will return. If go back a third time I probably won't leave anymore. Norway
To anyone interested in Norway I can recommend “team Bachstad” the recent season (if there are English subs) and “typisk norsk” (it’s uploaded with English subs on yt) they show what is Norwegian from our point of view
It’s good to hear that you like Norway! It is a very nice place but it can be very cold in the winter. We are speaking many languages so everyone can come here and understand us
@@emmaandresen4163That's okay, I'm no summer guy. Everything above 25°C is too hot. And winters without snow and positive double digit temperatures are awful :o). My dad, may he rest in peace, always said: "There's not 'too cold'. There's only wrong clothing."
@@marcuszaja6589 was your dad Norwegian? It’s a common thing to say here in Norway that there is no such thing as too cold weather it’s only wrong clothing!
Nope, my dad was croatian :o).
11:28 the public water distribution, and Voss factory are kind of separate, but basically from the same location.
Not only wash their dishes, but flush their toilet, water their garden, and wash their car.
American living in Norway! The statue of the guy fighting babies is even more glorious in person 😅
The what now. Im norwegian and have never heard of that...
@@astridrohde3450 den er i vigelandsparken, nærme sinnataggen
The theme of Vigeland's Sculpture Park is 'the human life cycle,' which is what the author is asking about. Both figurative and literal interpretations are needed.
Not to brag, but our water here in Norway is pretty damn amazing though :D
And luckily we're not stupid enough to put fluoride in it....
Facts. Kvalitet må jg si
fuck yeah it is!
Well, we had to have something good...
Also in Scotland are water is amazing
Compared to England are tap water taste completely different
Another interesting fact about Norway is that there are almost no “private beaches”. The Norwegian shoreline is for public use, and you can’t build your houses inside approximately 100m from the shore unless you apply for it
The number of private beaches/shoreline, will increase as long as rich, tory voters get their will. Shame.
@@runetollefsen7458 Rune da... Hva er det du snakker om da :)
Beaches are mostly privately owned by open to the public according to law. On the other hand Norway has some 100,000 km beaches.
@@runetollefsen7458 rules against that, Rune
Norwegian here to clear up all the questions!
1. Yes, the counties merged the 1st of January 2020
2. Vigelandsparken, located within Frognerparken has a bunch of random, often naked statues carved by Henrik Vigeland.
3. I've never had pickled herring, none of my friends has either for all that I know. Aka, its a rare / older dish that isnt eaten much anymore.
4. Brown cheese is a cheese made with whey leftover from making goats cheese, it is caramelized and therefore turns brown / orange. Basically tastes like caramel and is really good. I personally like it, but it's pretty much a hit or miss for most people.
Nei sild e spist mye av Norges befolkning men kanskje ikke av folk i Oslo bobla.
@@lappis22 du
Må jo skrive på engelsk/you
Must write in English
3. We eat pickled herring for every holiday in sweden. Xmas, easter, midsummer, crayfish season. Allways the pickled herring :)
Have you never heard of 'sursild'? Its pickled herring! You must tru Olivas Sursild, its the best!
Pickled herring is a Swedish thing or even Danish
Our water here is actually amazing.
My aunt moved to Danmark 10 years ago, and she still comments on it every time she back in Norway, how much she have been missing it.
I remember when I was a kid, and was shocked when we went on vacation and had to BUY bottle-water for drinking 😂
We are totally water-spoiled up here!
the way he pronounces longyearbyen is kinda funny because the "longyear" part of the name is english but he says it as if it's norwegian
"what the hell is brown cheese" so you have chosen death
Its nasty..tastes like plastic
its a sweet caramell tasty cheese. i would not describe it as cheese in texture. its soft and mush, mabye a bit maluable aswel. I am Norwegian, i dont eat it regulary but its great with waffles and butter :D
@@alexbakke8885 I love brown cheese ice cream with strawberry sauce.
It's like salted caramel..but not the cheese alone!
I live in Ålesund
@@1971Dangermouse you pallet is broken. stop smoking
@@michaelespeland you eat Lutefiske and raksfiske and you wanna say my palette is broken..? Hahaha
In half Norwegian and half Scottish, but I live in Norway. So when I went to Scotland I drank the tap water and had to spit it out😂
I get bullied by my british friends for not liking their tap water. But when you’re used to the clean water we have here, tap water around the world just tastes like chlorine and it’s not very pleasant.
Taps in Scotland actually provide Irn Bru.
Same. My Scottish grandparents have a filter in their water jug. I think it's better on the islands.
Sry, this great principle of “allemannsretten” principle has been severely diluted due to weak and incompetent solutions waivering this ban frequently
My gran is from Norway and most of my family is there but we live in Scotland 😁 We used go to Sogn every year when covid wasn’t a thing
As a Norwegian I want to say that taco and pizza is more normal than most of the traditional Norwegian dishes. Most people I know eat taco every Friday and pizza at least once a week. The grocery stores even have discount on taco stuff on Fridays.
That´s so sad.
@@berradengrymme2789 why is that sad? It tastes better and is easier to make
@@straykidsforlife8217 Food cult disepearing is sad
Taco fredag :D
@@berradengrymme2789 not rlly the food culture is stil here or it would not be taken up
"Omg Voss water is just our tap water. I wash my dishes with that"
That's literally me! 😂😂
The guy with the babies statue looks crazy on its own, but trust me, it makes sense within the greater context of the sculpture park.
An error. You can camp anywhere in Norway just not on private area. Much of Norway is private - you can camp wherever you want also on privat property but not on fields for food production or closer than 150 m / 450 ft. from a permanent residence.
*and you have to leave it as you found it... no trashing the place & leaving your rubbish around
i didn`t even know that and i live in norway
and have my hole life
The same goes with the shoreline it is a public area, but some people think they own it and hate visitors, and it is fun to let them know :)
100 meters from private property
@@gardini100 its possible to own but anyone can be there
I'm wheezing at the description of Norway- no- We're the ones who will keep 2m distance even before corona. Never sit next to one another on the bus, even if you know each other. And you never interact with humans unless necessary.
Ahh my kind of people
@@JimGames pff yes. Although many of us are also the kind of people to tackle our friends in the street or dunk each other in snow.
@@JimGames Yeah, we were really disappointed when we had to move closer to each other when the pandemic started. ;)
Am Norwegian, can confirm I've barely noticed there's been a pandemic. If anything I've appreciated the fact that my personal space has now been enforced by law for a while.
We like our personal space
Yes we do give the Christmas tree but it’s not in Scotland they’re wrong about that it’s in London Trafalgar Square
The thing with the Geography Now-series is that they are extremely fast-paced, and almost without punctuation. So whilst it seems like they say the tree is given to Scotland, as it was under the UK "category", they probably just meant the UK as a whole there.
Its actually not wrong. As a thanks for help from WWII many gets a tree. London, Edinburgh, Orkney Island, Newcastle and Grimsby gets their tree. Also New York gets a tree.
@@eilifkr To say that Oslo gives Scotland a tree is wrong though. The only city that Oslo gives a tree to is London.
@@Henoik Thats correct. Oslo gives to London and Hordaland have given Edinburgh a tree since 1949.
we send one to new york too
BRUNOST is the Norwegian name for Brown cheese, and it is sooo GOOD!!!
Its cow poop
: )
No
@@mrssama6562 Well... it's made out of milk. Usually goat milk, or a mix of cow and coat milk.
Det er sant = thats true
It depends on who your talking to lol, it’s really a hit or miss when it comes to brown cheese. For me it’s a hit
Im from Massachusetts but moved to Oslo 6 years and loved this video. That pickled herring is delicious by the way. Its called Sild and usually is in a sauce like tomato or mustard based. You just put it straight on a slice of good bread and its a great lunch 👌🏼
Also that fylke merge did already happen now
Also, it's not the OIL that made us rich. Sure, the oil made NORWAY rich, but it's not what made the PEOPLE rich. High taxes (counterintuitively enough), fair to fair-ish wage and labour laws and world leading welfare schemes is what made the PEOPLE rich.
Hi taxses made us made us rich? No oil and Hydropower (Hydro use this cheap electricity to make aluminum) made us rich. Yhea hi taxes on those gave people the money. But still it was oil and Hydropower that made us rich.
@@ZipzZzzz5 actually you are wrong. If you look at Sweden and Denmark they have are rich too, but they don’t have oil, at least not as much as we have. Harald Eia have some videos about it in the series called sånn er Norge:)
@@mathildeholmas8314 Sweden has a massive depth actually. I heard someone making a joke about it being the same size as the norwegian budget only negativ ... or something like that.
This is true, but the oil made us a buffer we have been constantly falling back on ever since. The oil was also used in the beginning to build a more prosperous country, but then the parliament felt they had to change tactics for the future.
The income from sale of oil is not a part of the BNP. This income is saved into the Pension fund and used to invest into businesses around the world. Example Facebook, Google etc.
Even though the income and taxes are public. You can see who has looked at your income. So you don’t really spy on your neighbours cause they’ll know
Yeah, but isn’t that a new thing? Like you could spy on people before without them knowing, but now they’ll get notified, right?
Aaand at least here where i live (but think its the whole country), you should actually really not ask or talk about someonce/yours income. It may be public, but it’s still rude and wierd to talk about 😅😅
The “dude fighting the babies” is about the struggle of being a father in society.
Got. To. Resist. Urge. To. Upvote. Can't. Destroy. Nice.
It’s hard to find the source but this is what I’ve heard from a Norwegian who knows such odds facts. So I’m not just making a joke/troll!
Of course art can mean many things. The title of the piece is called “Mann jager fire genier”
Which translates sorta to Man chases four Gemini (spirits)
@@SeanPercival actually means Man hunts 4 geniuses.
@@Andaars Ah ok thought that was a translation error. Wonder if Vigeland every officially shared his meaning of the statue to confirm. I don’t see how a baby is a genius 🤷🏻♂️
@@SeanPercival that's a good question actually. I'll try to check it up. Probably easyer for me as a Norwegian to find the answer 🤪
One of the best things of living in Norway is how free it is. There are rarely high fences around any property, and people leave their currains/blinds up. It is for the most part a society based on mutual respect and trust. And it is very expensive to live here, but also very safe 😊
And we have a great health care compared to for example The USA
Also we are very much introverts, most of us.
@@lairoslairoslairos I don’t agree, I talk to almost every person I meet, and it’s always pleasant👍😊 Maybe it’s you that’s introvert😉
@@lillm6874 you have the wrong idea of what introvert means
@@lairoslairoslairos Etter hva jeg har lært så betyr det innadvendt, hva mente du med det du skrev da?
We usually have waffles with brown cheese, sour cream and strawberry/raspberry jam.
And it is actually pretty normal to go skiing or hiking when ur on holiday.
Quick note about the public record of the wealth: You can't look into others wealth without getting noticed. Either by mail or such. So they have to log into a public service with their own "digital identity", and as such, will show who looked at your records.
Think that is only if a company looks you up, not private people
@@agnethamortensen447 it will give you a notice either way, company or private person.
@@agnethamortensen447 it goes for private people to :)
Before the right wing government came into power you could look the data up anonymously. That changed, now if you look up your neighbor he will know you have had a look at his numbers.
Hi, I'm from Norway. From january 2021 the merging of ''Fylker'' was finished ;) Brown cheese is made of goat milk. I've heard many say it has kind of a caramel taste. I personally like it. As for the tradisional food ... Um ... Well, the sheep head is called 'Smalahove' it's for ... a extreamly few interested people. Lutefisk, pickled harring and rakfisk is not to my personal taste, but the christmast dishes, those are very tradisional. We are also very fond og waffles ;) Tip for black metal band from Norway is ''Dimmu Borgir''
Smalahove is great, people are just put off by the look. If you like pinnekjøtt you will most likely also enjoy smalahove, though not quite as good as pinnekjøtt.
im not a picky eater but i prefer Ribbe over pinnekjøtt but lutefisk det kan de som liker det ha for seg selv.
Another few thing about Norway thats a huge difference from America is for example that you don’t need insurance to get treated at the hospital, you only pay a small fee (a tiny fee) for some treatments and other is free, thats because of the taxes thats taken from our salaries before we get paid. The taxes also pays for other things too, but in Norway you don’t get heaps of bills from the hospitals to pull you down after an illness. Also, in Norway women can take up to A YEAR of maternity leave from work where if I remember it correctly you can choose 9mnds with 100% pay or 12mnds with 75% pay.. Its been a while so I don’t remember it quite..
The food; a correction, Sweden is known for their meatballs (kjørtboller) but in Norway we have (kjøttkaker) translated to meat cakes thats almost like meatballs but bigger.
The brown cheese is made from goat cheese. I have actually made it once before. You have goats milk in a large pot, add a type of liquid I dont remember right now whats called, and cook it over low to medium heat for hours, it eventually turns thick and brown ( during the cooking when its getting brown and thicken it taste kind of sweet but also bitter caramell-ish...yum)and at the end a texture like playdough, put it in a box and let it sit and harden.
:)
The brown cheese is called gjetost ( ye toast), its actually delicious and almost has a nutty or smoky caramelized flavor to it. Also Krumkake is amazing my grandmother still makes it every year at Christmas. Another really good seasonal food they don't list is yulekake which is a Norwegian Christmas bread with raisins. I could go on for ages about all the different pastries and treats like troll horns, cloud berry cream, and lefse just to name a few.
Of Norwegian music, I would recommend to you Wardruna. (The vocalist behind it, Einar Selvik, was the drummer of an infamous black-metal band called Gorgoroth.) Wardruna, however, did a co-op with Aurora for a song called "Helvegen" that is an absolutely stunning performance. You can find it here on YT.
Edit: Also, the video made no mention of the institution known as *LO* (Lands Organisasjonen - translated to "Country Organization") which regulate wages according to inflation values and to other wages in the country. If the value of *one* job drops, LO makes the judgement on whether this job should crash, or if all other wages in the country should be adjusted in solidarity. The result is that Norway have the most well-paid jobs for unskilled labourers in the world, and comparably low wages for high educated experts.
The purpose of this is to create a higher level of equality in society overall, and it have led to a higher social trust. There is barely any crime here, and LO have, in theory, much of the credit for that.
i think i want to move to norway now... are there a lot of germans? xD
@@TheWolvesCurse some odd Germans here and there-- but its mostly Poles that come here to take the jobs most Norwegians are too spoilt to do. By their words, we're a country of introverts and some of them say its hard to make friends up here.
I can understand why; since the lockdowns were lifted we are all happy we don't need to keep 1 meter distance to eachother anymore and can go back to the usual 5. 😂
@@HateMachinist sounds like a dream come true. 🤣🤣🤣 only your speed limits and gas prices are a bit off putting.
@@TheWolvesCurse yeah, those narrow twisty roads did have a few old grandmothers dictating the speedlimits in the end, just like how green politicians get to dictate the gas-prices.
@@HateMachinist i thought the gas tax goes to your retirement fund? or did i misunderstand the video up there?
our gas prices are going up like crazy too, and electricity is slowly becoming a luxury, as private users are subsidizing the industry. there was a law called "EEG Umlagegesetz", since then our electricity is even more expensive than in denmark (currently 0,32€ per kWh on average) yet politics pressure us towards buying electric cars... it's madness. all the while income of "working class" people is stagnating, and rents in densely populated areas exploding. economically we're becoming more and more americanized, which i despise. i'm still lucky as a "skilled" worker in an automotive supply company, but they're planning to lay us all off til 2025 and move our production to romania and serbia, where workers are cheaper.
About the income register, it’s still frowned upon, and nobody talks about wages to peers. In addition when you check out someone’s income you have to log in with your national electronic ID and the person in question get’s an email telling them who checked it.
All in all, great video!
Actually, talking about income being frowned upon is a trick that the management tries to do, removing the transparency that we have had in the past. The only people benefiting workers not talking about income are the owners.
But yeah, great video.
I don’t get an email when someone checks mine 🤔 but I can look up who checked anytime (American in Norway)
@@stianrol yes this. Me and my colleges talk freely about it and nobody thinks it's strange. We have the same job and it's good to know what your colleges are making and helps us argue for our potential raise.
Who cares, as long as there is cannabis.
We actually consider talking about how much money we make really tacky and rude, but we also keep track of everyone’s income to prevent illegal business👍
Apart from drug dealing policemen!!
@@1971Dangermouse fortsatt INGEN bevis på at Jensen solgte. Oppdater meg gjerne på ka de egentlig dømte Jensen på
@@kim5071Acab 21 years for helping drug dealers and bribes!
@@1971Dangermouse tror eg må gjenta meg selv her. Hva dømte de han PÅ? ikke hva dømte de han for. Å bare så d é nevnt, etternavnet mitt er ACAB-JOHANNESSEN = All Cops Are Bastards-Johannessen. Eg har ingenting til overs for Jensen, men rett skal være rett. Det ska ikke være NOEN tvil når han blir dømt. Å leser du forklaringen til Cappelen, så skjønner du va eg mener.
@@kim5071Acab I don't know enough about the case to get into a debate about it, but yes ACAB!
A lot of Norwegians don’t eat traditional Norwegian food. I have never tasted pickled herring for instance. thanks for the video. Cheers from a Norwegian!
Da må du prøv. Det e godt! Ha på litt grov sennep, rømme, mandelpotet og løk så hi du'e!
@@EdvardBolaasMusic grov sennep for å dempe smaken av silden? 😅
I'm norwegian and I've never tasted smalahove, pickled herring, rakfisk, gravlaks or lutefisk. No thank you! :)
Come on people, try the local food.
I have eaten about everything, except the eyeball from the goat.
"Pickled herring" or "sild med eddik" comes in many different sauces and is delicious.
Norwegian bread is fantastic.
Kjem nok litt an på hvor i landet man kjem fra. I storbyer er det nok ikke mange som eter tradisjonell mat, men fleire på bygdene og småbyene.
The biggest of the 3 preserved viking ships found in Norway (one of the ships in the viking ship museum they mentioned) was found near my childhood farm on our fields where I was originally the heir of the land. Although our family name wasn't tied to that property at the time they found it, but still kinda cool I think! 😁 There was speculations about having a viking theme park built on our fields but I'm not sure if that's going to happen or not yet.
My grandmother was from Denmark, and took me there, as well as Norway to visit family when I was young. They are such beautiful places, Norway is just so stunning! I'd love to live in Denmark and be able to visit Norway and Sweden frequently 😍
Never underestimate the great power of Brown cheese🇳🇴
Brunost
Fersk hjemmebakt brød og fersk brunost .. mmmm...
Freshly homebaked bread and fresh browncheese / also on warm toast.. we also idé the browncheese in the sauce
I'm Norwegian, but i don't like Brown cheese- (Brunost)
Mm, julebrød med brunost
Hey, Rjukan! That's where I'm from! And it's no big deal, most of Norway is covered in clouds most of winter anyways, but we have our own Sun Festival each year to celebrate the return of the sun.
First of all, this is a very good video! (Btw... I'm from Norway.)
3:25 - Yes! Our 19 counties merged into 11 in 2020.
7:00 - VIGELAND SCULPTURE PARK. This is a park full of naked sculptures, that's all. (For Scandinavians this is not a big deal.) The statue of the dude fighting the babies has no deeper meaning.
11:40 - VOSS WATER = ordinary tap water. It's bottled from a river with just average water quality, and this is far from the glaciers.
14:00 - PICKLED HERRING is eaten at Christmas. Some people love it, others hate it. Most of us don't dislike it.
15:00 - When Norwegians go abroad, BROWN CHEESE is what we miss most! It has a very sweet taste, and is made by boiling a mixture of milk, cream, and whey carefully for several hours so that the water evaporates. The heat turns the milk sugars into caramel, which gives the cheese its characteristic brown colour and sweetness.
19:10 - 19:45 - This dialect thing the best part. I love it!!
21:00 - Yes! Everyone's income and wealth is on public domain. But it's not possible to check a person's income or wealth anonymously. The person that you check will be aware of it.
22:50 - Honestly Norwegians really don't care much about Black Metal.
24:20 - Norwegians reach out to the far corners of the world. That's definitely no understatement. (I myself have been to 175 countries.)
25:00 Yes, Jim! We give the Brits a tree for Christmas every year! You'll find it on Trafalgar Square. (Talking about gifts... We would reeeeealy like to give that mountain to Finland, but our rigid constitution prevents us from doing so.)
Thank's for a very good video, Jim! From what you say I'm 100% sure that you will love Norway. As in all other places we have our ups and downs, but it's a really beautiful country and superb for hiking. It's a safe and open society where police officers normally are unarmed. The crime rate is low, and so is the discriminaton rate. We are proud about our welfare state, free healthcare for everybody and free schools and universities. Our government takes care about everybody, without being communists.
Spot on, og hilsener fra Ski!
... There are a few of us who do care about black metal, though Norway, in common with most of the western world consume American and british pop music mostly. I personally play in two black metal bands myself.
Most Norwegians don't care about black metal, but some of us do. Just like in all other countries.
Oh nice... i live in the brown spot...
And the christmas tree we give the UK, is the one in Trafalgar Square.
5:20 The seed vault was put there, to take advantage for the year round cold, be recently they had to upgrade with artificial cooling because of warmer climate.
Pickled hearing is great, it’s often made with vinegar, suger, pepper corns and other types of spices. you can also get with tomato, Curry sauce and more at least here in Denmark and I guess in Norway too🥰
You should check out our graduation Russe party, there is a video of it on RUclips.
Oh yeah I love that video, it’s gonna be me in 3 years ✌🏼
@@vildestrm8042 if Corona allows it 😅
@@NorseOkies true😔
@@vildestrm8042 krysser fingrene og tærne for deg!
Fun fact: Norway offered Sweden to trade oil fields for Volvo stocks. Sweden declined 🤡
I did not know about that. Wtf Sweden, we love your cars so fucking much. Please give us a piece of that sweet ass Volvo money lol.
Norway declined
@@minirille3031 nop it was Sweden
Funny how Volvo isnt even swedish anymore lol, majority of the cars have been designed in shanghai since 2012 and built in China. Only cars produced in Sweden is the V60, V90, XC60 and XC90 for Europe. Theyre probably gonna pull 100% out of sweden very soon with all the new factories theyre building in china.
@@TheGamingNorwegian You do realize that Volvo has factories all over the word right? The designer for the new gen of cars is a german dude. That does not mean Volvo is a german brand. Geely owns Volvo, that does not mean that Volvo is a Chinese brand either. GM has even owned Volvo some years back, again that does not mean that Volvo is American. Volvo = Swedish because thats where it started, simple as that.
Pickled herring is an acquired taste, however, when used to it it tastes delicious 😋
Summer in Finland starts when you get your first early potatoes with pickled herring. Delicious! 😍
Same in sweden atleast where I am :)
The NIdaros Cathedral is called Nidarosdomen in Norwegian, and it's where Aurora performed when she fried you soul :)
It was OK. She has a weakness in her voice, resembling that of Dido.
You can tell it is cold here in Norway. The country is formed like a mitten.
HEY! It's shaped like a guitar. Because we fucking RULE black metal!!
@@Thesortvokter I see your point. 🤘
@@HS-su3cf TRVE KVLT!
Well it's not cold at all during summer(7-9 months). And the spoon looked like this before sweden conquered and took a huge part of norway. Could not load up picture but google norway before they lost jemtland and herjadalen. The golfstream hits norway so atleast south part have many days with
20-30 degreeds celcius. Atleast not cold the way i see it. ofc sahara is
alot warmer.Fewer but still many warm days in northern part too but
they have more cold days in north. Lots of people tanning and bathing on
the beaches...I live in Oslo
Pickled herring or "Sursild" as its called, is actually pretty delicious.
Would have to agree on that :)
It is not slimy at all. On the contrary it is firm.
Oh HELL NO! That shit should be under the Geneva convention as a chemical weapon!
It is føcking delicious!
Yeah... Nope. Actually the most discusting thing i ever tried in all my years. Only lutefisk and smalahove made me this sick after tasting. Dont listen to the weird guy saying its good xD
metal.. well i can mention the local ones. one that did get some bad rep was "Mayhem". we had Darkthrone. and half a mile from me "Dimmu Borgir" had there "band room". all this was just outside Oslo on the east side. Kolbotn-langhus-ski.
The herring is commonly pickled along with onion in vinegar and sugar. It's called "sursild" which directly translated is "sour herring". It tastes great if you ask me, the texture isn't as slimy as you'd think, it's actually fairly firm. There are also variants of pickled herring in tomato sauce, mustard, curry, sour cream and probably more.
everyone learns the text languages in Norway through school, but all the different dialects in Norway can ALMOST almost be considered 15 different languages, because they have such large variations.. This is one of the reasons that Norwegians are some of the best at adapting new languages due to a very large variety in use of sounds and synonyms.
BRUNOST IS THE MAIN LANGUAGE
Sant!
Yes it merged, my home was called «Hordaland» now its vmcalled «Vestland»
Og alle fra sogn og fjordane og møre kan si at Hordaland ikke er ordentlig "Vestland", så hvorfor faen bestemte vi oss for å gi navnet "vestland" til de to. "Vestland" burde være Sogn og Møre, det er de som har den typiske vestlandsnaturen mens rogaland og hordaland har en sørvestlig natur. Og så har vi "bibelbeltet" som skaper flere kulturproblemer mellom Hordaland og Sogn, så jeg lurer bare på HVORFOR.!! Ikke for å hate på hordaland, dere er vestlige fylker, men dere har ikke den typiske vestlands fjell/fjord - naturen i like stor grad.
@@thehiraethserendipity3425 kan vel stemme, men der jeg bor nå har ganske høye fjell (kjent plass p stå på ski) men noen plasser i «Vestland» har ganske kjedelig natur
The reason the discussion of wages is seen as "tacky" in America is completely intentional. It has been in direct and active corporate effort to frame it as such in media since the 50s.
The reason obviously being that people shouldnt discuss their wages so they wont know if they are being underpaid.
Also do a reaction to the Russ tradition lmao you will be shocked
Brown cheese is made of the by-product whey, which is separated out in the process of making regular, yellow cheese (like Jarlsberg, Gouda etc.). Everything was used back in the day, so they came up with brown cheese (and prim, which is a spreadable version of brown cheese, simply put). Brown cheese is sweet and caramel-like in taste. It is made with either cows milk or goat milk, or a combo. The goat milk version is the most intense flavored, the pure milk is much milder in taste. The combo or the cows milk versions are the most common (not entirely sure). (And yes, I’m Norwegian.)
you should see northern light in person! its awesome. and the sheep head (smalahove) with brown cheese (brunost) is a really good dish you should try. it is a really specific taste. Norwegian nature is beautiful.
Pickled herring is good yeah, but we usually put it on bread for lunch and not for dinner 😂
the frogner park and the vigeland sculpture park is the same park.
fun fact: it was originally a contest where artists would compete to have their fountain on Stortinget in Oslo. Vigelands was so good they canceled the contest, but he didn't feel like his fountain would look good with the surrounding area, so they ended up with a park where over 200 of his sculptures are on show now
The Vigeland park lies within the Frogner park, but it’s not accurate to say that it is the same park.
That was fascinating, although the announcers talk far too fast for my 76 year old brain to retain much of what was said. As fan of both Angelina Jordan and Aurora, I’d love to go there and see them perform and/or just to visit.
You know I had a bit of trouble following as well. It’s trendy to fast cut things on RUclips but a lot of information can get lost.
When you have a chance look at the pictures from the sculpture park, it is wild!
Im just dying inside everytime they say something wrong
That's got to feel terrible.
i can also relate eventhough im swedish
NUhokkæn
AKA in Norwegian nøkken
Brown cheese is in a way just caramelized milk. It is (arguably) from a town called Vinstra in one of the most prominent valleys, the Gudbrand valley in the newly merged county of Innlandet (literally “the inland., but you got that one). In the valley, people argue if it is called brown cheese, or red cheese, and you are seen as a traitor if you say the opposite as them.
The story goes that a farm lady left the milk that would become cheese a little too long, giving it a caramel like texture. It can be used in many different ways, some even toast it, making it super runny. Most people eat it on bread with butter underneath, and have it as lunch.
Another interesting food that people eat every day, is liver paste (leverpostei). It has so many vitamins, that an ad here says to give your kids only one slice of bread with liver paste per day, because they can get health problems from overdosing on vitamins.
Wait what?! ur only supposed to eat one slice of bread? HOW AM I NOT DEAD XD I eat like 4-7 slices of bred with liver paste every day. maybe I need a doctors appointment...
You're very welcome here. We love Americans in Norway. Fun fact is that there are more Americans moving to Norway each year than the other way around.
No wonder considering the crappy welfare system they have in the US.
@Ted Love That's just it, they have none.
Pickled herring is delicious, we have it in Denmark to. Not slimy at all since it is pickled in vinegar and sugar.
A traditional Christmas lunch dish with aqvavit... lot’s of aqvavit
Same in Sweden :)
In Finland, too. It's really good.
I have never heard of it, i am norwegan
@@nilserikdahle1365 Really? Pænt underligt hvis du spørge mig.
Brown cheese is Production. Brunost is made by boiling a mixture of milk, cream, and whey carefully for several hours so that the water evaporates. The heat turns the milk sugars into caramel, which gives the cheese its characteristic brown colour and sweetness.
We love pickled hearing in Scandinavia, here in Sweden we eat it for Christmas, easter, midsummer, and bascly the rest of the year too.
Yep, we do give them the Christmas tree :)
@torivarnor That’s just none-sense. If you try to state a “fact”, you should also give us a reliable source, but that I am sure you can not find.
In fact the tree is not given to Scotland,but England. London to be exact ☺️
@@mimsen3232 true 😄
@torivarnor We were fighing an international war and you can't expect those numbers to be accurate. Norwegians were fighting on all fronts during WWII. They were killed like flyes in the war for and against the nazies. The nazies also killed norwegians in concentration camps in Poland, like all our jews ... or most of them. Mainland Norway was occupied and we were furtunate in many ways being so called ariens. The nazies were nice if people played ball with them. Don't think for a minute they were very nice though. Out went democracy and equality in the law. The germans did what they wanted. An old teacher of mine had a story to tell as a young boy in nazy occupied Norway. He followed a girl on the streets. He didn't have any nasty plans, but he was just following her. It was very insecure for a girl to walk in the city alone in those days, she must have been terrified and he knew it, but being a young boy you know. That was his story. The nazies did what they wanted, and you would never know if you suddenly fell on the wrong side of someone.
@torivarnor That is the convenient answer. How many soldiers do you think sat in the concentration camps? I'm not discussing more with you. It was an international war. People die. Deal with it.
The tax/income public knowledge thing is not really much of an issue (fun fact: the person whose income/wealth is on distplay in the image in that section is our own prime minister, so yes even our politicians income/wealth/tax status is open to public knowledge) and I don't think most people here even care that much what their neighbours earn/spend because a lot of professions have standardized pay based on a combination of level of education and years of experience, so it's not really that surprising. Also we're in practice a very cashless society (we do still use cash to some degree, but the vast, vast majority pay by card and/or use cash apps - even a lot of street vendors take app payment here, including people selling the street magazines - because people here usually do not carry around cash most of the time).
The counties did merge but not like that the 2 northern most counties "Troms" and "Finnmark" merged into the new county "Troms og Finnmark" (in the video they merged "Nordland" and "Troms") the new county is the largest in the county and it in itself is larger than several European countries like Ireland.
Several of the new counties goes into the election with the promise of splitting up, in Finnmark 98% of the population voted NO to merge with Troms however the government refused to listen to the people leading to the staggering fact that 98% og the population in Northern Norway no longer trust the central government, or that the central power seat in Oslo cares about the people living here.
After the recent debacle over "oslo shouldn't get vaccines yet even though they have the highest rate of infection in the country" were not really trusting of ANYONE here right now. Trying to pass it off like were just partying it up out here and that's why people are sick, not like the population density here makes it impossible to not interact with others regularly or anything. Jesus.
@@scandisnowgirl3696 well no one is saying that oslo shouldn't get any vaccines but it does shatter what little trust people have left in government up here especially when small municipalities without the ability to care for the ill loses their only vaccines so that they can't even vaccinate what health care personnel they have and less so for their elderly. All of this while the South African variant of the virus is rapidly spreading among our population, it doesn't really help with the sentiment of people feeling that the South doesn't care at all for the people living here's well being.
It would be nice to at least get to vaccine health care personnel first.
When we tried protecting our people the South got quite angry as they didn't like the Southerner quarantine principle, where we managed to keep our health care institutions to just bearly handle what we had. Just like how we closed the border to foreginers.
One thing is to change the vaccination strategy and to redirect some of the NEW vaccines arriving TO Oslo which in all honesty would feel more like we're in it together than forcefully taking the vaccines from other places to give them to the capital, of course that'll lead to division.
One thing is for sure the relationship between North and south is strained to a breaking point.
@@jubmelahtes I have heard some of the worst shit imaginable said about people in Oslo. We have been hit the hardest out of EVERYONE here and for the last year have been under the strictest measures in the country and asked to sacrifice the most, and yet the north continually says disparaging, horrible things and tries to play politics with our very lives by diverting vaccines. Its shameful.
@@jubmelahtes btw, dont try to bring up healthcare personnel, they have largely all been vaccinated at this point, and you KNOW this happened like a week ago, long after healthcare personnel were vaccinated.
@@scandisnowgirl3696 I understand you've had It bad I'm not saying otherwise, no one are angry at you the people but rather the authorities. We're not one Unified country we've never been that, the North always has been and likely always will be second grade in this country, that shit you've heard the last year we've been through forever. And no not all personell has been vaccinated yet most places didn't even get to start on the elderly above 70, yet we have some of the oldest populations due to the centralization politics led by the government for years now.
Oslo made the vaccination policy into politics when they demanded other municipalities in dire situations to send their vaccines meant for their most vulnerable citizens in the middle of rising numbers down because it benefitted them the most, thats politics and oslo will always be prioritised.
I honestly wish for the best for every citizen in this country but it definitely doesn't feel like its mutual, it never has. And if we didn't struggle with collapsing local economies due to the strain of 60-70% of the population being quarantined or sick right now. I'd be more than happy to give our vaccines to areas in more need of them, we're all struggling this hasn't been easy for anyone, yes the problems are different between the the largest cities and smaller ones or rural areas. We don't have the infrastructure to handle what we have, you may be familiar with the fact that the government gave us air ambulances without the possibility of treating people on the way, or that they've been closing down our hospitals centralising them for years and at the same time how much are they giving the elite taxcuts, or for the new government building or the parliament garage? They're literally pumping all the resources and value they can out of the region while they never build up anything because some firm in oslo says its not profitable to invest in us. When they have built out something its most likely to destroy the culture or way of life of the sami. Every damn thing is a constant struggle.
So yes it would feel nice to have some solidarity and unity in the biggest crisis we've faced in modern time but the way they chose to go about it was sure to lead to division you don't get solidarity and unity through force but rather through voluntariy and empathy I think you'd be surprised if we even got a chance to do that. It would be nice to just once in a lifetime feel like equal citizens and not this caricature we're portrayed as. And mabye it would be nice if people down there actually just once spoke up that we and our culture and languages are as much worth as theirs.
Pickled herring, are one of my favorite foods.
Especially the Parisian type. Which are sweet and sour.
The herring isn't raw, because it's been laying in the pickle juice, all the time.
It have to have a lot of onions, and black pepper, and vinegar, and some sugar.
Yummy, it's so good.
Pickled herring are what we call "Sursild" Sur=sour Sild= Herring.
But usually we buy it in a glass, and it doesn't look like the picture at all.
Try Duck the name Sursild, and maybe "Delikat Sursild" you will understand.
It have been pickled in a container for a long time, so it's not raw anymore.
It's being made with a 'ton' of different spices, and herbs.
I like the ones with some sugar in it the best.
Brunost=Brown cheese. It's made from either goat milk, or cows milk.
There's a large variety of brown cheeses.
Personally I like to have a little bit of honey, or syrup on the bread, and put brown cheese on top.
It's hard to describe the taste of brown cheese. Maybe a little bit caramelized.
And it stick to your gums some times.
Brown Cheese on fresh toasted bread is amazing. :)
Have you tried it with strawberry/raspberry jam?
Its Even better that way
@@lairoslairoslairos i don't think i have.
@@Shibato_san well then you should, Brown cheese is already super tasty, and with jam it's almost perfect
We dont care about what other income is here in Norway 🤣 We dont care if one makes More or less. ;)
Hell in Norwegian actually means to have good luck (lucky). Hell og lykke = good luck and happiness. Hell is from old Norwegian and it means the same in Islandic (and Islandic was the language we use to speak in Norway, then we took it to Island with the Vikings and also settled there).
Hell also means pour. "Hell i litt mer a" - pour me some more
@@rudolfantler1732 That's right did not think of that.
Islandic comes from Old-Norse, not the other way around.
@@tomjacobs2759 Old-Norse or Norrønt like we call it in Norway was the language they spoke in Norway at the time. Norrønt or Old-Norse is a collective term for Old-Norwegian and Old-Islandic as the differences of the languages are few. It was the Norwegian Ingólfr Arnarson and his wife who was the first persons to settle down on Island (in about year 874 AD). Norrønt was the language he spoke so it was only natural that they also spoke that language there.
The brown cheese is actually made from lefroever whey mixed with some cream and milk rater than the "real" cheese stuff, and then it's slow cooked for a long time until the milk sugars start to caramelize and most of the moisture have evaporated, the brown milky caramel goop is then poured into molds and refrigerated until it hardens.
Noooooo you shared a seecret
6:55 Frogner park, and Vigeland sculpture park, are kind of the same. The sculptures are inside the Frogner park
When it comes to the public list of income: the person you look up get a notification that you are looking them up
If you are looking for some good music, here is a few:
DIMMU BORGIR (Symphonic black metal) i would recommend starting with 'Gateways (LIVE - FORCES OF THE NORTHERN NIGHT)'
Anything from Aurora ofc
Pagans Mind (progressive metal)
Ina Wroldsen
kaizers orchestra
Sivert Høyem
there's alot more than this, but it's what came to mind. Good luck!
I am Norwegian, and I can say that the counties have indeed merged.
Black Metal : Mayhem, Dimmu Borgir, Satyricon etc..
Brown cheese: sweet, almost a caramellic taste. We have a well working health care system and so on. Well paid vacation for 3 weeks or more :)
If you search public records, like checking out your nabour or boss, they get a notification of everyone that has checked they're income and wealth. So not many ppl will get caught doing so.
You can also buy the service from a third party provider, though. They just do the search for you for 50 kroner.
I just want to say that it's not the income that's public. It's income after deductibles which will be different for each person.
yes the counties in norway merged in 2020 and i live in norway
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I’m surprised he didn’t mention the health care system, big differences to the us. Also the justice system and politics.
Unfortunately, giving Finland the mountain top is against our constitution.. I would love it if we did it. We have so many mountain tops and we beat the land of a thousand lakes' number of lakes by about 250.000 lakes, so Finland deserves the break.
Your income for the previous year is public, but you get to know who has looked up your income numbers. Like double transparency
The language in Iceand is almost the same as the old viking language
We made and ate a lot of pickled herring - aka. "sursild" - when I was a kid. It's usually eaten on a slice of bread with mayonnaise, salt, and pepper. If you don't mind fish, it is actually really good. "Sursild" IS NOT to be confused with Sweden's "surströmming". It's not the same thing. "Surströmming" is literally *fermented* herring, which smells and tastes like death. "Sursild" is just *pickled* herring, which is awesome.
I think We all Norwegians in the comments can agree that the foods that were showed in the video is holidays food or on Family diners! So uhhh amaricans if u come to Norway dont order these up just randomly...And Brown Cheese is goat cheese! Kjøttkaker is normaly to have But not as normal as Taco, Pizza or international food. 😄
The hotels in Oslo often offer sursild at a breakfast buffet.
@@1Bob4All Ye, But its often We can choose What We want so if people visiting Norway want to try it They can! Norway also have other wierd things!
For those who wonder: Norway now has 11 "Fylker" (but MANY Norwegians are unhappy about it🙃)
Yeah, Norwegian here. Makes no sense to me. Especially Viken.
Yeah probably you old guys.
I dont give a shit. Cause the most important county in Norway, Rogaland stayed if course the same 😉
"It's hard to get a tan in Norway" What the hell?? No it's NOT hard to get a tan in Norway, between easter and September just go ahead and get a tan.
A little hard for north norwegians though. A lot of rain and cold.
@@astridrohde3450 No, we can tan just as much as you guys in the south. Fuck, I could get a tan at midnight if I wanted to. Just depends on were in the north you live. Some cities are sunnier then others.
@@xiamusmc271 well where I live which is bodø it mostly rains a lot and there is so much hecking wind! It is too cold most of the time to tan sadly. You are so lucky!😇
@@astridrohde3450 Thanks! Yeah, I live in Finnmark. Rain is not too common.
@@astridrohde3450 Uansett så er det feil å si man ikke blir brun i Norge 👍😊
Brown cheese is made by basically heating up and consentrating the whey over several hours. This causes the milk sugar to caramelize.
I guess it's a bit of an aquired taste, but it tastes pretty sweet and with hints of caramel. It's made from cow and/or goat milk, and the more goat, the sharper the taste. It got a bit of "wild" taste to it, so a bit of the cheese added to the souce when serving meat from deer, elk and such, really complements the flavour.
You can see the Norwegian christmas tree in Trafalgar Square, London, every year. The tree often comes from a forrest near my childhood home actually.
Blackmetal "started" with the band Mayhem, they just made a documentary about it called Helvete (hell)
You will find it on Nrk app with VPN.
@@mfurmyr or on RUclips if you search "helvete NRK"
Black metal was established in the 80's with bands like Swedens BATHORY. We just nicked it and made it our own.
@@Thesortvokter in the "first wave of black metal" you have Bathory which influenced the sound of what was to become black metal. It was Venom from England who coined the term "black metal" with the song Black metal. I do recommend watching the documentary "helvete" where they explain this 👍🏻
@@torry91 Yes, Venom coined the term, I just mentioned BATHORY because it's what sounds most like what norwegian BM sounded like in the early 90's and that it's kinda funny Quorthon was from Sweden when everybody thinks BM is a norwegian invention.
Nice video 🙂👍 So to answer some of your questions. Yes, the countys merged. Pickled herring is'nt as bad as it sounds. But I can't eat to much of it at a time. One open faced sandwich with it, and I'm good for a while. Brown cheese is made by boiling down the whey that is left after cheese making. They boil it for hours until it reduces and caramelize. There are different types. Some made from goat whey and some from cow. As for black metal bands. I've only gotten in to one of them. Dimmu borgir, Norwegian symphonic black metal band. I recomend you check out their song Gateways (live Forces of the northern night) (there are about 100 people on stage in that performance)
Wow! Thank you so much!
@@JimGames In Norway we've had to make do with what we've had. Down in Spain and Italy they'll feed the whey to the life stock for the product to be tastier. So, to eat brown cheese may be overwhelming on its own, if you'd come here go to a convenience store or at a gas station to order waffle with 'brunost', that'll turn you.
@@JimGames Also there's a north-German recipe for pickeld herring called Matjes, it's commonly sold in Sweden. It was once made here to export to Sweden but I can't get it anywhere here. There's just 2.5 hours from here by a ferry so I'll just.. uh never mind, it's closed.
I have never heard of pickled fish. I bet it’s better than it sounds. It’s just not sold anywhere around here. I’m in Boston we eat a lot of seafood too.
@@JimGames You're in MA.. would you mind to react to the Massachusetts song by the boys who made "What does the fox say"? The lyric is a bit on the spicy side..
The merging happened, but the one that weren't merged with anyone "Nordland" Northland still exist, they messed up alittle there. It was Troms and Finnmark that were merged and should now be nr 1, and a smaller nr 2 fylke. Also just to add, the merging happened against the local peoples wishes. They voted on it where'as roughly 90% didn't want the merger.
Also alot of our food that he mentioned there was "invented" as a way to preserve food, and was very normal before we found our oil. And I'm a very picky eater and I didn't have to eat that pickled herring, but then again I've never even heard of it as it's not a normal delicacy from northern Norway, so that makes me glad as it looks nasty.
Brown cheese is made with the biproduct from making cheese/butter that has been caramelised, it's very tasty on freshly baked bread.
Also kake translate to cake, and krumkake is sort of like crêpes that sort of dries when it cools down and become quite crumbly. It's eaten with wiped cream and berries, some prefer strawberries but I like it with cloudberries.
Also when it comes to our tax-records being public, I don't mind as for me atleast I don't care enough to check what other people payed in taxes or how much they make a year. As long as they contribute to our healthcare, public schooling and other services like police- and fire-departments, we're good.
Also last time I checked, Sweden is not part of NATO.
Surely you have tried sursild, which is pickled herring.
@@1Bob4All Oh right pickled herring is sursild? Then NO! My dad eats it alot, but luckely he never forced me to eat it.
Very nice, I really enjoyed this. You showed up on my radar when you reacted to my favorite vocal band, Home Free. Enjoyed both reactions, would love to see you reacts to more Home Free. My husbands family immigrated from Denmark, I will have to see if you have reacted to info on Denmark. Thanks !!!!!
In Norway there is a city called Tromsø with a thing named Fjellheisen, which is an elavator ish up the mountain
Google it
Not really anything unique tho. Those cable cars can be found all over the world (the Alps is full of them). Not something I would put front and center....
It’s funny because we’re just so proud of our country and love to hear other people’s opinion of us😂 About the income database, I don’t think the majority of people find it that interesting. I reckon it’s because the income gap between low and high paying jobs aren’t that big compared to in the US, but also a lot of people are part of unions that negotiate salaries for them🤷🏽♀️
It would be cool with a bit more discussion throughout, personally I watch reaction videos for reactions, I'm never annoyed that you pause the video or whatever.
By the way, brown cheese is awsome. It's goatmilk where they caramelize the sugar which makes it brown-caramel-like colour.
++ the income on public record is a pretty nice thing but noone really checks it. You always get notified about exactly who checks your income, so for many it's still perhaps a bit emberrasing to bother prying into
Pickled/fermented fish: Yeah, we don't really eat those dishes outside of holidays, where it's tradition to eat fermented fish. Most of the other foods that were presented in the video are not really eaten either -- they're just traditional foods eaten by certain regions during certain holidays (again, due to tradition). Every-day foods over here is usually either tacos or frozen pizza (really, frozen pizza is the most eaten dish over here).
Brown Cheese: It's not actually cheese, but it is made by the byproducts of goat cheese production. It is definitely something (almost) every Norwegian eats.
Income on Public Record: Our nation is founded on the principle of trust. Without trust, our welfare system (which we are very proud of and defensive about) would collapse. So income is on public record (although if anyone searches for your income records, you will get notified by the tax administration) for everyone to be able to "audit" each other. That doesn't mean it is okay to talk about your income or ask others about their income in public.
Side-note: We are a very shy people (except when drunk, where we usually get wayyy too drunk), and the principle of not inconveniencing others is embedded in everyone. We don't want to be of bother. For example, if we're on a bus, or a plane, and we want to get up from our seats whilst sitting in the window seat, we would never verbally ask the person in the aisle seat to get up. We would uncomfortably and nonverbally try to signal that we are going off on the next stop. That is, if there is anyone sitting next to you on the bus. We usually don't sit next to each other on buses, so a bus in Norway would be considered "full" if it in reality were half-full. People would rather stand for 30 mins than sit next to a stranger.
"Pickled/fermented fish: Yeah, we don't really eat those dishes outside of holidays"
You realize 'pickled herring' is Sursild, right? That's a staple food (and also delicious) of any Norwegian breakfast/lunch-table and hardly only eaten during holidays. If you don't have sursild - why even have lunch?
@@sigurdaa Sursild does taste good, but where I'm from, that usually is only eaten around Christmas times - just like ribberull and sylte, although all these three "pålegg" are sold year-round. I don't know anyone who even has sursild in their fridge outside of Christmas times. That said, I know quite a few people who do not like sursild at all, so to say "if you don't have sursild - why even have lunch" is extremely misleading. I don't think I personally have eaten sursild in 5-6 years.
Also, note that I specified fermented fish. I have never met anyone who has eaten rakfisk or lutefisk outside of Christmas times.
@@Henoik Taste aside - go to any store and you'll find 5-10 different brands of sursild at any time of the year. I eat sursild all year around and my canteen at work has it as one of their regular servings (as in it's as basic as jarlsberg and makrell i tomat). It may be a regional thing? I'm in western Norway and sursild is very common all year around here.
@@sigurdaa Yeah, it is sold year-round, but I think it's a regional thing. I'm from Eastern Norway, and have been living in Southern Norway for the past 5 years, and it doesn't seem to be that common down here either. I don't argue that it tastes bad, but I'm definitely not used to it outside of Christmas.
#teamribbe always
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I'm surprised that they didn't include the Hardingfele (basically a local variation of the violine with extra strings on the *inside* of the violin, look up videos of it on youtube to get an idea about the sound)
The brown cheese is basically caramellized cheese. There are loads of different kinds, ranging from goats cheese to cows cheese, sometimes we add cardamom or cinnamon. They are great with waffles and real butter