Shoes indoor? Why WOULD you wear shoes indoors? All the rainy, muddy or snowy streets filled with filth, dog shit, thrown away burgers, saturday vomits on the sidewalk. Do you want this on your floors? In Sweden most houses have beautiful wooden floors. You don't want scratches from gravel and small stones caught on the underside of your shoes.
I don't agree on the "don't let the food wow you"... is more "don't let the food in tourist traps fool you". Sweden have absolutely lovely food. The seafood the West cost, some parts of Stockholm and some coast cities, are absolutely amazing! We have plenty of "traditional food" that is very tasty too; meatballs, reindeer, deer, Wallenbergare, so many trad dishes that is so nice. But maybe this guy have gone to the tourist trap places, with high prices and not good quality. All countries have them.
I visited Stockholm last year for the first time (from the UK). I absolutely loved it. People really friendly. Enjoyable food and drink with welcoming hospitality in the restaurants, bars and hotels. True that cash isn't needed as it's all cards (contactless) transactions. I look forward to returning to Sweden and discovering and experiencing more of this great country.
Thank you sir for those kind words 😀. You are so welcome here 😊. Me on the other hand would love to visit England and just sit in a small local bar watching Liverpool vs Man United 😀😀😀. What a experience that would be 😊
I am norwegian and I have something to say about cost level and food. First about food; if you go for the best of traditional dishes then the food os going to be great, but if you go for everyday food or mid to low range norwegian food, then expect that the flavors will come from the main ingreditents, and not from spices, except salt and black pepper. Rememger that norwegian chefs have won many international cooking competitions and many restaurants with michelin stars, so on the high end of restaurants there is quality an flavor. Do not be too fearful of fermented food, it is usually very healthy and a taste explosion, do not everything is bland here, but as I said traditional everyday dinners is going to taste mostly of the main ingredients. if you eat simmered cod, it will taste of just that. When it comes to cost level the buying power of norwegians inside norway is not very far from americqans buying power in america, but our main benefit is that almost any job allows for travelling the world.
No, surströmming isn't used as an ingredient in anything but the traditional surströmming dish, where you put the fish on flatbread, with boiled potatoes (often the special kind called "almond potatoes" due to it's shape), sourcream, chopped red onions.
Even in Sweden, we don’t have a lot of restaurants that serve only Swedish food. He did say a lot of stuff that is accurate but he has a lot of stuff wrong. And yes, Norway is way more expensive. Swedish people near the border work in Norway because the salary is higher, and Norwegian people near the border go to Sweden to shop because everything is cheaper here.
I am a swede born in Stockholm. In general I would say that most observations on Sweden are very individual. For instance I wouldn't be upset if anyone said Ikea in any other way than I do. People will get what you mean. As for the swedish chef I think that most swedes especially young, will have no clue what "bork, bork bork" means, and it's not a swedish word, so swedes may just think you're drunk. As for food I think that most tourist just go to the central places, and then it will be more expensive. In videos what I see a lot is "yeah, I went to have dinner and it was 15-20 us dollar which is cheap for Sweden", and im thinking "I don't know a lot of swedes that do that". One thing I can recommend in Sweden is Take ferries! Whether it is within Sweden or to another country. If you don't take the best cabins it will be much cheaper than a hotel, and you can go to Tallinn, Helsinki, Riga, Turku etc. During normal season you could easily get a cabin on a ferry (40 hours, with 7 hours in Helsinki or so) from Stockholm to Helsinki for about 125 us dollars. It could be more expensive during the summer. If people want the most for their money I'd go to Sweden in mid May or Mid September. It can still be quite warm, and most people are working then, so travels within Sweden and to other places will be cheaper.
Swedish chef. We laughed about that puppet too. Nothing that comes out of his mouth is anywhere close to Swedish though. He could just as well have been the Icelandic Chef for all that matters.
He kind of sounds like they took a Swedish, Norwegian and Danish lexicon, threw it into a blender and then glue the words together. With gibberish added here and there.
That guy is amazing. He did a video about Franklin,TN.I commented that I was moving there in a few weeks,and he reached out and gave me job opportunities from a guy he knew there.Show that man and his channel much love everyone ❤️
I've never had any trouble putting a furniture from IKEA together, it got instructions and everything. We in the nordic really like vowels, in Sweden we even have 3 more then you, å, ä and ö.
Great reaction, guys! 😃 The fermented herring thing... Well, I've tried that once. Brought a can to a party, but the host and the other guests refused to let me have it inside. Fortunately it was summertime and I opened it in the garden. 2 brave and curious friends joined me. The smell was nasty, but the taste was ok. You need a couple of liquor shots with it, tho!😆 And of course my friends pranked me by giving me a can of that fish for my 30th birthday later that year... 😄
surströmming is not something you find in restaurants, it is almost only in northern Sweden that they are found. don't know how many people like it, I'm none of them would guess that probably 10% of the population likes it.
We don't mind you calling IKEA "Eye-Key-Ah" when speaking English, we do that too. It just sounds weird to switch to the Swedish pronunciation "Eee-keh-Ah" mid sentence. Same with H&M, we say like "Eysch n' Em" when saying it in English, rather than "Haw Em" as we would say in Swedish. I feel like this guy just included that in the video to show off that he knew the Swedish pronunciation.
Fermenting the herring was an old way of preserving fish, in a time before fridges and freezers, just like pickling. It's not rotten though, but very fermented. Personally I wouldn't touch it with a ten foot pole, the smell mostly resembles a leaking sewer in summertime, no I'm not joking. Adding it as a flavour would likely destroy any dish. If you still decide to try some, you should visit the northern parts of Sweden late in the summer. Make sure to avoid pranksters, maybe ask some slightly older people for a real test and make sure you're serious about it. Or buy a can and open it above water, the over pressured can will make sure to spray some of the souce in your face, you have been warned. 😁
Norway is pretty expensive,but we have cheap healtcare,education and high wages.Depends a lot on your lifestyle.I spend a lot of time gardening,visiting friends,and hiking.All free.
About wovels,- contrary to popular belief Swedish, Danish and Norwegian contain a substantial amount of wovel sounds you don´t have in English. In English it´s something like 23 different wovel sounds,- in Danish it´s something like 43-44 and three more actual wovel letters in the alphabet than in English , so the sequence: " A æ ue i æ å å æ ø.." is an actual sentence in a particular Danish dialect. ( Reading and meaning: Jeg er ude i åen på øen: I´m out in the creek on the island). I suspect it´s the same for Swedish and Norwegian.
What do you mean 'contrary to popular belief'? It's well known scandinavian languages have many wovel sounds, as you rightly point out. I've never heard anyone opine that the opposite is true.
The candy you call Swedish fish do not exist in Sweden. That is a bad copy on what was/is called Pastellfiskar from the company Malaco. US/Canada kept the form but changed the quality and taste to the worse, much worse. Surströmming is mostly popular amoungst the northern east coast of Sweden. Most people in that area ate it once or twice in the late summer. Where Im from South east of Sweden. Nobody ate Surströmming unless some from the north brought it. I have never eaten it in any other way then the traditional way. Taste is salty fish. Nothing good but I can eat it if it becomes a small part of the dish. I would never go out and buy it myself. Why there are no Swedish resturants around the world is mostly because we dont have huge swedish immigrant groups around the world. Swedish cousine was focused on basic food you eat at home. Its called husmanskost (house man food). Its very heavy on meat and potatoes or fish and potatoes. We had limited amount of acces to spises and fresh veggies up here in the north.(But we have lots of salt) It was not possible to grow or if you where lucky you could harvest it during 3 weeks. We love to let the produce be the star, the meat or the veggies, We dont like to destroy the fish with lots of spices or deepfry it so the only thing you taste is oil and spices. Swedes also love to take other countries food and change it to make it our own. You can test to put anything in food. The Swedish pizza or Swedish Taco is a perfect exampel of that. Mexican comming here to eat a taco will not understand what is happening. Or the Italian with the pizza.
I'm Swedish, and I never had surströmming. And I never will. Most Swedes haven't, it's a very local thing that people in the North enjoy like once a year. The open it outside and in a bucket of water is true. It really smells... putrid. You think some sewer system is broken somewhere if your neighbors are having a surströmming party. But yeah... it's one of those things Swedes tend to prank their foreign guests to try, just for laughs. But don't let this stop you from trying pickled herring. That's not the same thing at all as the fermented herring (=surströmming). At all. I feel like sometimes people watch these "surströmming"-videos, and then they get afraid of all herring. Pickled herring can be very delicious, it's very salty, of course, but it comes in so many flavours and sauces, and you start with a small bite, lots of potatoe and sauce (Americans tend to take a huge bite with nothing else on the fork when they try it, and then the taste is too overwhelming, and you won't get the real flavor sensation=.
02:28 Hello! from a Swede. The only reason I sometimes walk in with my shoes on is if you are in a hurry and have forgotten some important example. Otherwise no shoes on :)
I thought the "Americans complaining about Ikea furniture" was a TV comedy trope thing. The furniture is easy peasy to assemble and I love it. Only time I didn't love it was when I dropped part of my son's bed on my toe and my toenail turned blue.
Many places has a number for waiting in line, like your DMV. But even if you are the ONLY one in the store you are supposed to take a number because otherwise things might get confusing for the tellers.
Apart from the surströmming (which most swedes have not even tried, it is a northern swedish thing), the only thing you will probably react to is the pickled herring (which is a very goodsummer and christmas dish), all our meat dishes are very good.
@@peo4989 herring yes, very common in all of Sweden. Surströmming är dock främst en norrländsk specialitet: Wikipedia: Surströmming är en svensk, framförallt norrländsk, specialitet[1] som i industriell skala främst produceras utmed Höga kusten.
The "Swedish" Chef is such an american thing. Both in itself as a gag and referencing it. For example I would bet money neither of my parents has ever seen it.
Our local cuisine i would say is more homey and filling. The pickled and fermented part is more eaten at different holiday celebrations. The normal cuisine is usually potato based with gravy and meat or soups. It is true, it's not meant to wow, it's meant to fill your belly and keep you warm. Though i do think it tastes amazing, but it's no fancy pants styled gourmet meal.
I'm a Swede, currently living in Sweden but I grew up in Spain. If there's something I sorely miss from Spain (other than my friends) it's the food. Swedish food is perfectly serviceable but on the dull side compared to what I'm used to. One thing that's underappreciated is Swedish chocolate though. Gives Swiss chocolate a run for it's money.
What he said about our food is not really correct I would say. Yes, our traditional food was very grey, we didn't have much spice and as you say, we did what we could to survive. But today, I would say that the biggest part of modern swedish food culture is to borrow the best things from other peoples food culture and bring it into our own. So we have a lot of "traditional" swedish dishes with curry powder and pineapples and stuff like that. If we see something new that we don't know what it is, we test it out in every dish we can imagine. And if it's good, we keep it. Some combinations can both look and sound weird for a lot of people, but if they work, they work. :)
If you do reactions of Sweden, Finland should be next. This is not a request, it is a demand. Seden is always first in everything, except joining Nato 😂😂😂, when our beautiful countries are a subject.
then we have a lot of farmland and livestock and we also have greenhouses and we can get all kinds of food all year round there are actually many good restaurants. which has well-grown or bred raw materials of a quality you can only dream of in the USA, I know I have been to the USA several times
I had to visit an ATM last Thursday here in Stockholm and it was the first time in probably 10 years. It felt like a step back in time. The problem now is that I don’t know what to do with the change I got after my purchase. Perhaps I save it as a memory.
I haven't used an ATM for probably 10 years or so. If someone wanted to pay me cash for some reason, I don't know if I would accept it, I wouldn't know if it was real money. I have no idea what our bills look like..
My bank has the solution to that. Next to the Minibank (Norwegian term for ATM) they have an opposite-machine. You put in your card, feed it the bills, drop the coins in a drawer, and it's deposited back in your account (or another account you designate). Sure, only a few banks have them, but if you can find one in a rural municipality of just 7000 inhabitants, you can probably find one in an actual city too.
The taste of surströmming is actually very similar to fish sauce. I would say it is the closest approximation if you are curious. The smell is very different though :D
Wolter gets many things wrong. Dressing up, yeah yeah, it kind of depends, usually t-shirt and yeans are fine. Wearing a suit or a dress at a concert or when visiting friends may seem a bit weird. It may have passed, but there was a facion trend of wearing worker's pants. Yeah, high prices, minimum $3 for a pint, and at least $5 for a meal, but you have to know your way around or you'll be paying $15 for the beer and $20 for the meal, or more. Surströmming cans should absolutely not be opened under water, the chock to the system when getting the initial smell makes it smell less during the meal. It's eaten with Onions, Sour cream, and Almond potatoes in a wrap of thin bread (or on top of the traditional crispy thin bread). And traditionally you drink milk with it.
You guys should realy try a swedish hamburger. Two panfried herrings with maybe some mustard and creme fraiche with red caviar and lettuce between two buns. It´s the best! Costs only like 5 us dollars at the street.
Always, always, always take off your shoes! If I can only give one tip to a tourist, it would be that. Never ever walk in the apartment or house with your outdoor shoes on.
Oh, and ps. homemade Swedish food is actually really good in its own hardy way; it's just the restaurants that cater to tourists that are usually pretty shitty.
A swedish farmboy from the south. They forgot to mention komage and dyngstampar for food. And yeah the dont use shoes inside is a law. We dont like mud in our beds especially if you work on a farm. Fermented herring is definetly good but prefer beef and poultry.
Jaaa, det där med skor inomhus är ju inte äns logiskt eller rationellt att ha inomhus 🤔. Så det har jag aldrig förstått hur man kan ha det. Har man varit ute en hel dag så vill man ju ta av sig dom svettiga och äckliga skorna. Skor är ju till för att ha utomhus för att skydda våra fötter
Please do a video about Norway 😁 And yes Sweden has a lot that is cheaper then Norway, Norwegians take trips to Sweden Especially for and shopping for alcohol, smoke and meat. Denmark is also cheaper than Norway in many things.
About the food, yes we prefere the taste of the ingredienst rader than the spieces. If you favor that the speces take over the taste, don´t eat swedish food.
I just can't understand why Americans can't say Ikea, the "I" is not eye and that is all you have to know. The silly part is that right after the explanation that the I is hard to say, I hear the word Ignorent, why is that possible to say and not twisted to eyegnorent ? There are lot of words in English and US-English that comes from Norse, German and French languages and some of those words have the original pronunciation of the letters aeuio.
Surströmming is not used as a condiment nor an ingredient, unless it's eaten traditionally as a wrap, in soft wheat tortilla type flat read, a certain type of potatoes, red onion and sour cream. If you've ever driven by a paper mill you'll have a reference of the type of smell. It's like diarrhea stink on steroids.
As a Swede I can't remember the last time I went to a Bankomat (ATM). I don't have a wallet with me when I go shopping. I use my mastercard chip inserted under the skin of my hand or in some cases my phone or watch.
I’m Swedish, I’ve managed to stay away from surströmming all my life (which isn’t very hard since I live in the Southwestern parts, I don’t know anyone eating that, only a few who at some point in their life tried it once). 😖😖😖 Why would anyone eat something that people puke from just opening the can 🤢?
I think Ikea has basically increased the average swedes' IQ by 20+ points just because we are SO accustomed to translate 3D from paper to real life. It has practically made us excel in those 3D puzzle tasks you have in IQ tests 🤣 I have no trouble at all putting Ikea furniture together. I guess Danes are into the same thing with their LEGO invention. 😉 Schooling people from a young age.
That dude is very wrong about Swedish food, it is great for most part, we do not eat so much Surströmming for example, but we do not much eat Swedish traditional food in restaurants, but that is about escapism, we are making traditional Swedish food at home mixed with taco on Fridays and sometimes homemade pizza.
Swedish krona is weak compared to US dollar right now. So it is not that big of a difference to what things cost in USA. But when this video was made it was definitely much more expensive.
Regarding bombs and danger crime, it´s mostly happen in the imigrant poor outer parts of the biggest cities. Generally it´s wery safe compared to most other countries. But befare if you are out wery late in the cities.
I can't imagine anything more nasty than to walk in with shoes in your house. Dog crap and other stuff under your shoes and then soil it all around inside your house? No. Loads of American homes have the full carpet floors and you see far to often that they are totally dirty and stained. unhygienic.
i like when you look at video like this and other stuff about europe :) the thing you say have happend to me when i was in kambodja, the atm stole my card the first week ( was travel for 6 weeks in asia ) becuse my bank think someone had hack my card but i was lucky and had a second card whit me .. but have never happend again even if i been in 47 contries :P // swedish guy
That's interesting, I've never heard of chitlins. Since I am no stranger to liver and other offal meat I don't think I would have a problem with that ;) Surströmming though, that's yuck! Haha even though I am a swede
Although you make it sound like there was no interest in making good food, which is not true. When you talk about traditional food, it's about what ingredients were available locally, and then we can't be compared to a warm country like Mexico. They had chili, we had carrots. We did the best we could with what we had. This is why new nordic is tastier than the traditional food, because it is based on nordic ingredients plus adds flavors that we can now buy. But there are also good traditional dishes. Regarding vowels, we have 3 more than you. å ä and ö
Surströmming (fermented herring). Most Swedes do not eat it. It is more cherished in the north and by a few people who eat it as a seasonal happening once a year. It is unnatural to eat food that is rotten. It is truely vile. Search youtube for it. It is funny to watch people who are trying it for the first time.
I love puting togheter ikea funitures. And fore real if you want to try surströmming openit under water outside because otherwise te smell is so bad. And their are good Swedish food.💚💚
Our restaurant food may be somewhat expensive but we dont tip we pay our workers a livable wage . And i just heard that mcdonalds in california is charging $18 for a big mac that would never happen here. And also i think fast food should cost 3-400%more than $18 for a burger than americans maybe wouldnt be so SuperFat and lazy
Eye key a yep we say it that way too not the Swedish way .....sorry Sweden and also the shoe thing is nice but here it depends on each individual household I think for the most part we wear shoes indoors
@@jimmykarlsson2567 honestly it depends on whose house ur going into my house personally I wear my shoes and anyone else that comes in wears there shoes there be a mat just inside the door to wipe ur feet
then don't think so expensive in Sweden in comparison was in the USA last summer and they were more expensive than in Sweden. and our speech may sound funny but in turn all Swedes speak English + 1 or 2 other languages as well as the 3 Nordic languages. how many languages does the average american speak 😜
DANG OMG! NORWAY IS SOOO Expensive! A British Standup Comedian said: My family and I went for a day trip to Norway To the Capitol OSLO - Sooo beautiful. And my friend asked: What did you do there? I replied - WE had a Sandwich. Friend: - WHAT kinds did you have? Me : - NO! WE HAD A Sandwich! - WE the entire family SHARED ONE Sandwich! SLIGHTLY Exaggerated - BUT not false! I myself have only been to Norway/Oslo ONCE! On a Ferry/Cruiseship going Copenhagen, Gothenburg, Oslo! I DID NOT - EAT in Oslo - I went back to the ship and ate there! SO yes! Norway is EXPENSIVE! Norwegians and the Danish - Go to Sweden to Shop "Cheaply" - because their currencies are stronger than the the Swedish! The Swedes go to Germany or elsewhere on the Continent to Shop Cheaper! I myself go to shop Alcohol and Beer for less than half the price! AND IN for instance Denmark they have INSANE TAXES ON CANDY, CARS, Coffee and Cigarettes! A Danish friend of mine go to Sweden once a month and buy four cartons of cigarettes and the savings cover her trip and she still saves money! SO basically it seems like Denmark wants to tax everything that IS or CAN be BAD for you! Like a TAX ON SUGAR! SO the Scandinavian Countries are in many ways both similar and different! BUT internationally - QUITE EXPENSIVE and NORWAY IS MOST EXTREME! BUT - Norwegians EARN MORE - IN a stronger Currency! Because Norway has the OIL MONEY! SO BRING FOOD to Norway - EVEN the Norwegians do!
He is so American talking creap we have amazing food but not so spicy we juse salt and black pepper if you like sea food or meat or vegan food Sweden 🇸🇪 is great foid cultur but no most Swedes don,t eat surströmming comon thing in the north not in the South of Sweden 🇸🇪.
Shoes indoor? Why WOULD you wear shoes indoors? All the rainy, muddy or snowy streets filled with filth, dog shit, thrown away burgers, saturday vomits on the sidewalk. Do you want this on your floors? In Sweden most houses have beautiful wooden floors. You don't want scratches from gravel and small stones caught on the underside of your shoes.
I don't agree on the "don't let the food wow you"... is more "don't let the food in tourist traps fool you". Sweden have absolutely lovely food. The seafood the West cost, some parts of Stockholm and some coast cities, are absolutely amazing!
We have plenty of "traditional food" that is very tasty too; meatballs, reindeer, deer, Wallenbergare, so many trad dishes that is so nice. But maybe this guy have gone to the tourist trap places, with high prices and not good quality. All countries have them.
So many people don't know about our food culture, it's SAD 😭.
I visited Stockholm last year for the first time (from the UK). I absolutely loved it. People really friendly. Enjoyable food and drink with welcoming hospitality in the restaurants, bars and hotels. True that cash isn't needed as it's all cards (contactless) transactions. I look forward to returning to Sweden and discovering and experiencing more of this great country.
Thank you for liking my country 😊 i like England 🏴 🤝
Happy to hear that you enjoyed your visit here.
@@mr.sts.p You're welcome. Thanks! 👍
@@BOBSYOURUNCLE-rn4ku 🙏
Thank you sir for those kind words 😀.
You are so welcome here 😊.
Me on the other hand would love to visit England and just sit in a small local bar watching Liverpool vs Man United 😀😀😀.
What a experience that would be 😊
I am norwegian and I have something to say about cost level and food. First about food; if you go for the best of traditional dishes then the food os going to be great, but if you go for everyday food or mid to low range norwegian food, then expect that the flavors will come from the main ingreditents, and not from spices, except salt and black pepper. Rememger that norwegian chefs have won many international cooking competitions and many restaurants with michelin stars, so on the high end of restaurants there is quality an flavor. Do not be too fearful of fermented food, it is usually very healthy and a taste explosion, do not everything is bland here, but as I said traditional everyday dinners is going to taste mostly of the main ingredients. if you eat simmered cod, it will taste of just that. When it comes to cost level the buying power of norwegians inside norway is not very far from americqans buying power in america, but our main benefit is that almost any job allows for travelling the world.
No, surströmming isn't used as an ingredient in anything but the traditional surströmming dish, where you put the fish on flatbread, with boiled potatoes (often the special kind called "almond potatoes" due to it's shape), sourcream, chopped red onions.
I was going to comment the same❣️
"Don´t expect Swedish food to wow you". The Seafood culture on the west coast absolutely slaps
We don´t want the spices to cower the natural taste of the ingredients.
Even in Sweden, we don’t have a lot of restaurants that serve only Swedish food. He did say a lot of stuff that is accurate but he has a lot of stuff wrong.
And yes, Norway is way more expensive. Swedish people near the border work in Norway because the salary is higher, and Norwegian people near the border go to Sweden to shop because everything is cheaper here.
No Swede would react to your pronunciation of IKEA. Really
I am a swede born in Stockholm. In general I would say that most observations on Sweden are very individual. For instance I wouldn't be upset if anyone said Ikea in any other way than I do. People will get what you mean. As for the swedish chef I think that most swedes especially young, will have no clue what "bork, bork bork" means, and it's not a swedish word, so swedes may just think you're drunk. As for food I think that most tourist just go to the central places, and then it will be more expensive. In videos what I see a lot is "yeah, I went to have dinner and it was 15-20 us dollar which is cheap for Sweden", and im thinking "I don't know a lot of swedes that do that". One thing I can recommend in Sweden is Take ferries! Whether it is within Sweden or to another country. If you don't take the best cabins it will be much cheaper than a hotel, and you can go to Tallinn, Helsinki, Riga, Turku etc. During normal season you could easily get a cabin on a ferry (40 hours, with 7 hours in Helsinki or so) from Stockholm to Helsinki for about 125 us dollars. It could be more expensive during the summer. If people want the most for their money I'd go to Sweden in mid May or Mid September. It can still be quite warm, and most people are working then, so travels within Sweden and to other places will be cheaper.
You guys likes vowels? I can say a whole sentence in Swedish using only vowels.
Å i åa e i ö. Translates to "and in the stream there's an island" 😂😂😂
Do the longer one: "Ä e e å å i åa ä e ö". Translates to "There's a stream and in the stream there's an island".
Swedish chef. We laughed about that puppet too. Nothing that comes out of his mouth is anywhere close to Swedish though. He could just as well have been the Icelandic Chef for all that matters.
He kind of sounds like they took a Swedish, Norwegian and Danish lexicon, threw it into a blender and then glue the words together. With gibberish added here and there.
@@Templarofsteel88 🤣🤣🤣
To me it is the same as going "ching chong" for Chinese people. It basically comes down to stereotyping our accent for laughs.
That guy is amazing. He did a video about Franklin,TN.I commented that I was moving there in a few weeks,and he reached out and gave me job opportunities from a guy he knew there.Show that man and his channel much love everyone ❤️
I think you guys should check out Allt för Sverige. It's both educational and a game show.
I've never had any trouble putting a furniture from IKEA together, it got instructions and everything. We in the nordic really like vowels, in Sweden we even have 3 more then you, å, ä and ö.
Vad är vowels??
Är det bokstäver??
@@jimmykarlsson2567 Jo
@@jimmykarlsson2567vowels är vokaler!
Great reaction, guys! 😃 The fermented herring thing... Well, I've tried that once. Brought a can to a party, but the host and the other guests refused to let me have it inside. Fortunately it was summertime and I opened it in the garden. 2 brave and curious friends joined me. The smell was nasty, but the taste was ok. You need a couple of liquor shots with it, tho!😆 And of course my friends pranked me by giving me a can of that fish for my 30th birthday later that year... 😄
surströmming is not something you find in restaurants, it is almost only in northern Sweden that they are found. don't know how many people like it, I'm none of them would guess that probably 10% of the population likes it.
Jaa vid höga kusten så räknas det som en delikatess.
Men aldrig på resturanger
@@jimmykarlsson2567 men tror du jag har rätt om ca 10% vet faktiskt inte
We don't mind you calling IKEA "Eye-Key-Ah" when speaking English, we do that too. It just sounds weird to switch to the Swedish pronunciation "Eee-keh-Ah" mid sentence. Same with H&M, we say like "Eysch n' Em" when saying it in English, rather than "Haw Em" as we would say in Swedish.
I feel like this guy just included that in the video to show off that he knew the Swedish pronunciation.
Best country in the world - welcome guys! 😍
Tasty traditional Swedish food isn't eaten in restaurants, it's eaten at grandma's house.
We have a lot of farmland, and a lot of fancy restaurants. As well as cheaper places, obviously.
Fermenting the herring was an old way of preserving fish, in a time before fridges and freezers, just like pickling. It's not rotten though, but very fermented. Personally I wouldn't touch it with a ten foot pole, the smell mostly resembles a leaking sewer in summertime, no I'm not joking. Adding it as a flavour would likely destroy any dish. If you still decide to try some, you should visit the northern parts of Sweden late in the summer. Make sure to avoid pranksters, maybe ask some slightly older people for a real test and make sure you're serious about it. Or buy a can and open it above water, the over pressured can will make sure to spray some of the souce in your face, you have been warned. 😁
Norway is pretty expensive,but we have cheap healtcare,education and high wages.Depends a lot on your lifestyle.I spend a lot of time gardening,visiting friends,and hiking.All free.
About wovels,- contrary to popular belief Swedish, Danish and Norwegian contain a substantial amount of wovel sounds you don´t have in English.
In English it´s something like 23 different wovel sounds,- in Danish it´s something like 43-44 and three more actual wovel letters in the alphabet than in English ,
so the sequence:
" A æ ue i æ å å æ ø.." is an actual sentence in a particular Danish dialect. ( Reading and meaning: Jeg er ude i åen på øen: I´m out in the creek on the island).
I suspect it´s the same for Swedish and Norwegian.
What do you mean 'contrary to popular belief'? It's well known scandinavian languages have many wovel sounds, as you rightly point out. I've never heard anyone opine that the opposite is true.
Hey just a heads up, the word you're looking for is vowel, not wovel!
The candy you call Swedish fish do not exist in Sweden. That is a bad copy on what was/is called Pastellfiskar from the company Malaco. US/Canada kept the form but changed the quality and taste to the worse, much worse.
Surströmming is mostly popular amoungst the northern east coast of Sweden. Most people in that area ate it once or twice in the late summer. Where Im from South east of Sweden. Nobody ate Surströmming unless some from the north brought it. I have never eaten it in any other way then the traditional way. Taste is salty fish. Nothing good but I can eat it if it becomes a small part of the dish. I would never go out and buy it myself.
Why there are no Swedish resturants around the world is mostly because we dont have huge swedish immigrant groups around the world. Swedish cousine was focused on basic food you eat at home. Its called husmanskost (house man food). Its very heavy on meat and potatoes or fish and potatoes. We had limited amount of acces to spises and fresh veggies up here in the north.(But we have lots of salt) It was not possible to grow or if you where lucky you could harvest it during 3 weeks. We love to let the produce be the star, the meat or the veggies, We dont like to destroy the fish with lots of spices or deepfry it so the only thing you taste is oil and spices. Swedes also love to take other countries food and change it to make it our own. You can test to put anything in food. The Swedish pizza or Swedish Taco is a perfect exampel of that. Mexican comming here to eat a taco will not understand what is happening. Or the Italian with the pizza.
In Norway you sometimes buy a piece of cucumber. At least you could a few years ago.
I'm Swedish, and I never had surströmming. And I never will. Most Swedes haven't, it's a very local thing that people in the North enjoy like once a year. The open it outside and in a bucket of water is true. It really smells... putrid. You think some sewer system is broken somewhere if your neighbors are having a surströmming party.
But yeah... it's one of those things Swedes tend to prank their foreign guests to try, just for laughs.
But don't let this stop you from trying pickled herring. That's not the same thing at all as the fermented herring (=surströmming). At all. I feel like sometimes people watch these "surströmming"-videos, and then they get afraid of all herring. Pickled herring can be very delicious, it's very salty, of course, but it comes in so many flavours and sauces, and you start with a small bite, lots of potatoe and sauce (Americans tend to take a huge bite with nothing else on the fork when they try it, and then the taste is too overwhelming, and you won't get the real flavor sensation=.
02:28 Hello! from a Swede. The only reason I sometimes walk in with my shoes on is if you are in a hurry and have forgotten some important example. Otherwise no shoes on :)
I thought the "Americans complaining about Ikea furniture" was a TV comedy trope thing. The furniture is easy peasy to assemble and I love it. Only time I didn't love it was when I dropped part of my son's bed on my toe and my toenail turned blue.
Many places has a number for waiting in line, like your DMV. But even if you are the ONLY one in the store you are supposed to take a number because otherwise things might get confusing for the tellers.
My wife and I assemble IKEA furniture like our kids assemble Lego. It's hard for us to stop once we've started.
Apart from the surströmming (which most swedes have not even tried, it is a northern swedish thing), the only thing you will probably react to is the pickled herring (which is a very goodsummer and christmas dish), all our meat dishes are very good.
I live in southern sweden and we always had herring. Fermented, smoked, cooked etc all kinds of it no big deal so i dont agree with you.
@@peo4989 herring yes, very common in all of Sweden.
Surströmming är dock främst en norrländsk specialitet: Wikipedia: Surströmming är en svensk, framförallt norrländsk, specialitet[1] som i industriell skala främst produceras utmed Höga kusten.
The "Swedish" Chef is such an american thing. Both in itself as a gag and referencing it. For example I would bet money neither of my parents has ever seen it.
I'm Swedish, I watched Sesame Street as a kid, and I had never heard of the Swedish chef until I met an American as an adult.
😂😂😂 this guy is sooooo American.
Our local cuisine i would say is more homey and filling. The pickled and fermented part is more eaten at different holiday celebrations. The normal cuisine is usually potato based with gravy and meat or soups. It is true, it's not meant to wow, it's meant to fill your belly and keep you warm. Though i do think it tastes amazing, but it's no fancy pants styled gourmet meal.
I'm a Swede, currently living in Sweden but I grew up in Spain. If there's something I sorely miss from Spain (other than my friends) it's the food. Swedish food is perfectly serviceable but on the dull side compared to what I'm used to. One thing that's underappreciated is Swedish chocolate though. Gives Swiss chocolate a run for it's money.
What he said about our food is not really correct I would say. Yes, our traditional food was very grey, we didn't have much spice and as you say, we did what we could to survive. But today, I would say that the biggest part of modern swedish food culture is to borrow the best things from other peoples food culture and bring it into our own. So we have a lot of "traditional" swedish dishes with curry powder and pineapples and stuff like that. If we see something new that we don't know what it is, we test it out in every dish we can imagine. And if it's good, we keep it. Some combinations can both look and sound weird for a lot of people, but if they work, they work. :)
one a scale from 1 to 10, I will say that ikeas meatballs will be a 5 or maybe a 6 absoluty no more.
If you do reactions of Sweden, Finland should be next. This is not a request, it is a demand. Seden is always first in everything, except joining Nato 😂😂😂, when our beautiful countries are a subject.
then we have a lot of farmland and livestock and we also have greenhouses and we can get all kinds of food all year round there are actually many good restaurants. which has well-grown or bred raw materials of a quality you can only dream of in the USA, I know I have been to the USA several times
I had to visit an ATM last Thursday here in Stockholm and it was the first time in probably 10 years. It felt like a step back in time. The problem now is that I don’t know what to do with the change I got after my purchase. Perhaps I save it as a memory.
I haven't used an ATM for probably 10 years or so. If someone wanted to pay me cash for some reason, I don't know if I would accept it, I wouldn't know if it was real money. I have no idea what our bills look like..
My bank has the solution to that. Next to the Minibank (Norwegian term for ATM) they have an opposite-machine. You put in your card, feed it the bills, drop the coins in a drawer, and it's deposited back in your account (or another account you designate).
Sure, only a few banks have them, but if you can find one in a rural municipality of just 7000 inhabitants, you can probably find one in an actual city too.
@@faust82 yea you can find them in Stockholm also but thats just to much of a hassle 😜
The taste of surströmming is actually very similar to fish sauce. I would say it is the closest approximation if you are curious. The smell is very different though :D
Wolter gets many things wrong.
Dressing up, yeah yeah, it kind of depends, usually t-shirt and yeans are fine. Wearing a suit or a dress at a concert or when visiting friends may seem a bit weird. It may have passed, but there was a facion trend of wearing worker's pants.
Yeah, high prices, minimum $3 for a pint, and at least $5 for a meal, but you have to know your way around or you'll be paying $15 for the beer and $20 for the meal, or more.
Surströmming cans should absolutely not be opened under water, the chock to the system when getting the initial smell makes it smell less during the meal. It's eaten with Onions, Sour cream, and Almond potatoes in a wrap of thin bread (or on top of the traditional crispy thin bread). And traditionally you drink milk with it.
The prices are pretty similar to the US and remember taxes are always included in the price tag dont have to worry about that
You guys should realy try a swedish hamburger. Two panfried herrings with maybe some mustard and creme fraiche with red caviar and lettuce between two buns. It´s the best! Costs only like 5 us dollars at the street.
Always, always, always take off your shoes! If I can only give one tip to a tourist, it would be that. Never ever walk in the apartment or house with your outdoor shoes on.
Speaking as a Dane, aka not an expert, The Swedish Chef sounds more Norwegian than Swedish.
Oh, and ps. homemade Swedish food is actually really good in its own hardy way; it's just the restaurants that cater to tourists that are usually pretty shitty.
A swedish farmboy from the south. They forgot to mention komage and dyngstampar for food. And yeah the dont use shoes inside is a law. We dont like mud in our beds especially if you work on a farm. Fermented herring is definetly good but prefer beef and poultry.
Jaaa, det där med skor inomhus är ju inte äns logiskt eller rationellt att ha inomhus 🤔.
Så det har jag aldrig förstått hur man kan ha det.
Har man varit ute en hel dag så vill man ju ta av sig dom svettiga och äckliga skorna.
Skor är ju till för att ha utomhus för att skydda våra fötter
Please do a video about Norway 😁
And yes Sweden has a lot that is cheaper then Norway, Norwegians take trips to Sweden Especially for and shopping for alcohol, smoke and meat. Denmark is also cheaper than Norway in many things.
About the food, yes we prefere the taste of the ingredienst rader than the spieces. If you favor that the speces take over the taste, don´t eat swedish food.
I just can't understand why Americans can't say Ikea, the "I" is not eye and that is all you have to know.
The silly part is that right after the explanation that the I is hard to say, I hear the word Ignorent, why is that possible to say and not twisted to eyegnorent ?
There are lot of words in English and US-English that comes from Norse, German and French languages and some of those words have the original pronunciation of the letters aeuio.
Surströmming is not used as a condiment nor an ingredient, unless it's eaten traditionally as a wrap, in soft wheat tortilla type flat read, a certain type of potatoes, red onion and sour cream. If you've ever driven by a paper mill you'll have a reference of the type of smell. It's like diarrhea stink on steroids.
As a Swede I can't remember the last time I went to a Bankomat (ATM). I don't have a wallet with me when I go shopping. I use my mastercard chip inserted under the skin of my hand or in some cases my phone or watch.
Oh, "Bankomat" is how we call it here in Austria as well. 🙂
Same. If someone tries to give me cash I don't know what to do with it anymore. Those new coins are confusing.
I’m Swedish, I’ve managed to stay away from surströmming all my life (which isn’t very hard since I live in the Southwestern parts, I don’t know anyone eating that, only a few who at some point in their life tried it once). 😖😖😖 Why would anyone eat something that people puke from just opening the can 🤢?
Same here, never tried it, but I have a friend who eats most every year, but he knows how to prepare it.
Our food is fantastic 🤌🏻👌🏼If You gona try Surströmming, eat it in the right way. It is so so good ❤
I think Ikea has basically increased the average swedes' IQ by 20+ points just because we are SO accustomed to translate 3D from paper to real life. It has practically made us excel in those 3D puzzle tasks you have in IQ tests 🤣 I have no trouble at all putting Ikea furniture together. I guess Danes are into the same thing with their LEGO invention. 😉 Schooling people from a young age.
Don’t worry about pronouncing IKEA correctly, we really don’t care 😊🇸🇪
There are actually Swedes that have never seen the Swedish currency...
Never seen a fellow swede who actually took offense at the Swedish chef, or impressions thereof.
That dude is very wrong about Swedish food, it is great for most part, we do not eat so much Surströmming for example, but we do not much eat Swedish traditional food in restaurants, but that is about escapism, we are making traditional Swedish food at home mixed with taco on Fridays and sometimes homemade pizza.
Swedish krona is weak compared to US dollar right now. So it is not that big of a difference to what things cost in USA. But when this video was made it was definitely much more expensive.
Regarding bombs and danger crime, it´s mostly happen in the imigrant poor outer parts of the biggest cities.
Generally it´s wery safe compared to most other countries.
But befare if you are out wery late in the cities.
I can't imagine anything more nasty than to walk in with shoes in your house. Dog crap and other stuff under your shoes and then soil it all around inside your house? No. Loads of American homes have the full carpet floors and you see far to often that they are totally dirty and stained. unhygienic.
Don't go to IKEA to eat meatballs, go to an actual good restaurant
i like when you look at video like this and other stuff about europe :) the thing you say have happend to me when i was in kambodja, the atm stole my card the first week ( was travel for 6 weeks in asia ) becuse my bank think someone had hack my card but i was lucky and had a second card whit me .. but have never happend again even if i been in 47 contries :P // swedish guy
That's interesting, I've never heard of chitlins. Since I am no stranger to liver and other offal meat I don't think I would have a problem with that ;)
Surströmming though, that's yuck! Haha even though I am a swede
I think he is completely wrong about food. yes it is easier more robust homemade
Although you make it sound like there was no interest in making good food, which is not true. When you talk about traditional food, it's about what ingredients were available locally, and then we can't be compared to a warm country like Mexico. They had chili, we had carrots. We did the best we could with what we had. This is why new nordic is tastier than the traditional food, because it is based on nordic ingredients plus adds flavors that we can now buy. But there are also good traditional dishes.
Regarding vowels, we have 3 more than you. å ä and ö
Surströmming (fermented herring). Most Swedes do not eat it. It is more cherished in the north and by a few people who eat it as a seasonal happening once a year. It is unnatural to eat food that is rotten. It is truely vile. Search youtube for it. It is funny to watch people who are trying it for the first time.
Sweden is where Ikea comes from, but ask people on the street, and not one has any of those little L-shaped wrenches on them. Go figure.
I love puting togheter ikea funitures. And fore real if you want to try surströmming openit under water outside because otherwise te smell is so bad. And their are good Swedish food.💚💚
Dont's of Finland next?
Our restaurant food may be somewhat expensive but we dont tip we pay our workers a livable wage . And i just heard that mcdonalds in california is charging $18 for a big mac that would never happen here. And also i think fast food should cost 3-400%more than $18 for a burger than americans maybe wouldnt be so SuperFat and lazy
I’m showing up from Germany. 😌
Eye key a yep we say it that way too not the Swedish way .....sorry Sweden and also the shoe thing is nice but here it depends on each individual household I think for the most part we wear shoes indoors
Do y'all have special indoor shoes then???
@@jimmykarlsson2567 honestly it depends on whose house ur going into my house personally I wear my shoes and anyone else that comes in wears there shoes there be a mat just inside the door to wipe ur feet
then don't think so expensive in Sweden in comparison was in the USA last summer and they were more expensive than in Sweden. and our speech may sound funny but in turn all Swedes speak English + 1 or 2 other languages as well as the 3 Nordic languages. how many languages does the average american speak 😜
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ok just saying US is the only country who wears shoes inside😅
In Norway you altso take your shoes off.
Look at these two trying to be cultured but refuse to change what they are accustomed to. Only Americans can do this and get away with it.
You pay with your phone to 90%
Kökultur. Don't skip the lines.
Don't mention the war.
DANG OMG! NORWAY IS SOOO Expensive!
A British Standup Comedian said: My family and I went for a day trip to Norway To the Capitol OSLO - Sooo beautiful. And my friend asked: What did you do there?
I replied - WE had a Sandwich.
Friend: - WHAT kinds did you have?
Me : - NO! WE HAD A Sandwich! - WE the entire family SHARED ONE Sandwich!
SLIGHTLY Exaggerated - BUT not false!
I myself have only been to Norway/Oslo ONCE!
On a Ferry/Cruiseship going Copenhagen, Gothenburg, Oslo!
I DID NOT - EAT in Oslo - I went back to the ship and ate there!
SO yes! Norway is EXPENSIVE! Norwegians and the Danish - Go to Sweden to Shop "Cheaply" - because their currencies are stronger than the the Swedish! The Swedes go to Germany or elsewhere on the Continent to Shop Cheaper! I myself go to shop Alcohol and Beer for less than half the price!
AND IN for instance Denmark they have INSANE TAXES ON CANDY, CARS, Coffee and Cigarettes!
A Danish friend of mine go to Sweden once a month and buy four cartons of cigarettes and the savings cover her trip and she still saves money!
SO basically it seems like Denmark wants to tax everything that IS or CAN be BAD for you! Like a TAX ON SUGAR!
SO the Scandinavian Countries are in many ways both similar and different!
BUT internationally - QUITE EXPENSIVE and NORWAY IS MOST EXTREME!
BUT - Norwegians EARN MORE - IN a stronger Currency! Because Norway has the OIL MONEY!
SO BRING FOOD to Norway - EVEN the Norwegians do!
🇸🇪IKEA = Eeeekeeeaa 😊
He is so American talking creap we have amazing food but not so spicy we juse salt and black pepper if you like sea food or meat or vegan food Sweden 🇸🇪 is great foid cultur but no most Swedes don,t eat surströmming comon thing in the north not in the South of Sweden 🇸🇪.