Americans Trying Swedish & Finnish Christmas Candy! | Sponsored by Sweetish Candy and Goods
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- Gingerbread!! Lots and lots of gingerbread! Today we are trying different Christmas candies from Sweden and Finland, but no matter where the candy is from it seems that gingerbread is a favorite Christmas flavor. Enjoy watching us experience different Christmas sweets from brands like Karl Fazer, Marabou, Goodio, Kolsvart, and Cloetta.
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The real christmas candy is home made :) Like home made ginger bread, lussebullar (safron buns) (we eat lussebullar on advent and on lucia, before christmas) and knäck. In my family we also eat salt almonds and a really good chocolate fudge. //swede
Pepparkaka and home-made candy. Julmust and of course Glögg. If you haven't tried Glögg, that's a must try.
@@systerkeno glögg is mulled wine
Ischoklad or ”icechocolate” is my favorite
The tuttifrutti stick is a form of candy cane the original is mint. Gränna is the city of candycanes by we calls them polkagris
To add to this, such candy canes are also very popular among middle-grade schools to purchase in bulk and the pupils re-sell them at a larger markup to help finance a school trip. There's also a few other popular items used for this, like cookies and fudges.
While personally not too big a fan of candy canes, the brand you got - "Gränna", is in my opinion the best producer by far. Their flavor saltlakrits(salty licorice) candy cane is almost righteous. :D
Our (swedish and the rest of Scandianvia) "blåbär" are much smaller than the american blueberries. The american blueberries are also more white on the inside compared to the swedish ones, from what I've noticed. When eating them your whole mouth get purple/blue. Personally I think the swedish ones taste better and have a softer texture.
PS. the last way Haley pronounced Marabou was pretty darn close to how it actually is pronounced
The swedish blueberries are actually bilberries. So it is a different berry :)
Bilberries and American blueberries are actually not that different. They both belong to the same genus, Vaccinium.
@@zambar_z357 yes they are related :) I think they are different though. Looks different (different size, different color on the meat), feels different and tastes different and different names. I love the crispy texture of American blueberries :) American blueberries with milk and sugar 👍🏼🥣 swedish blueberry pie though (smulpaj with crust) with vanilla sauce 👍🏼
@@yuiop271 Different berries but in the same family.
A Swedish Moose is a Reindeer just because it's a little smaller?
Its popular to microwave the candy cane from Gränna for a few seconds and pour it over ice cream. It isn't a typical candy for christmas though, it's most popular during summer with 400-500 flavours (possibly more) and it comes in different shapes for example lollipops or small bites formed almost as little boats (polkagrisar - "polka-piglets") . The most classic (original) flavour is the mint version in red and white colours.
Favourite candy at christmas?
Well…….a box of Aladdin chocolate, of course!
😍👍🏼
Marabou plain chocolate is nice, but the best is their orangecrisp chocolate, marabou is prounaced maraboo 🙂
i'm swedish and my absolutely favorite christmas treat is knäck. Knäck is like "caramel" bites with chopped almond or sea salt on top. It is absolutely amazing!! I really love these videos! Would love to see more!
I wish that someone would've sent you a box of real gingerbread and a bottle of glögg (mulled wine). We drink that hot, with raisins and almonds in it.
Our without raisins or almonds.. 😉
The blueberry taste in the julskum is their taste of 2020. Different taste every year.
Come over here and taste the blueberries directly from the forest and tast the difference
Love that there is only Swedes and Finns here 😄❤️
We love it too :)
Fun fact: Sweden's most profiled economy professor, Micael Dahlén, is a spokesperson for Juleskum, and gets to eat as much of their products as he wants.
christmas is Julmust, Ginger bread and Mulled wine... but also chocolates..
Typical Swedish things I think of for Christmas is knäck, ischoklad and marsipangrisar
Watch nature shows with Marabou storks and you’ll know how to pronounce it.
Christmas for me is julmust, gingerbread and saffron buns (saffranlussekatter).
I believe the packaging said neither Grenna nor Granna- it was Gränna. (Ää, Öö, and Åå are all distinct letters in Swedish)
Yep the Swedish blueberry taste a lot more than the American blueberry
Pepparkaka, choklad och julmust is christmas to me.
Juleskum Blåbär is a new flavour for this year 2020
Ask sweetish if they can get frosen swedish blueberrys ,its a huge difference from american
Gränna is a little town in Sweden that its known for there polkagrisar.( the long tutti frutti lolly) Its a woman that started making the candy long time ago I think she became a widow and had to make money for her and her son. Now its a lot of small polkagris factorys that make them in that small town. ( many other flavours and candys that is based on the womans recepies)❤❤
MORE INFO
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gränna
I think it was started in Gränna.
@@ESPirits87 yes I think so too.😊
And the "original" is peppermint flavoured... 😋
About winter glow: Mulled wine is known as glögg in sweden. I think it originaly came from germany in the form of Glühwein. It is a spiced wine that is heated before drinking. It is usually served with almonds and raisins in sweden and is mostly only sold in the winter. Also the sandwich original is most likely swedish as the company making the icecream "GB glass" is swedish.
Marabou is pronounced like Malibu
You guys are soooo cool
The Marabou Pepparkaka bar is really good. Both Marabou and Fazer are great chocolate. Most Marabou chocolate bars are really good.
those chocolate bars are almost standerd size in sweden :)
That’s standard?! Wow! 😲
@@FromtheHobbitHole yes 200 gram is standard size, some is only 100 gram.
@@sussiebre And almost the same price as the 200 g... 😳
Mulled wine is like the german glüwine. It is a sweet wine with cristmass spices witch is heated and then you drink it
In Sweden we say "glögg"
Try say Maraboo. Marabou is a bird. Marabou stork.
When trying to pronounce Marabou you can try to think of the “Mar a” from Mar a Lago and the “bou” from caribou.
Thanks for the tip!
Or like Malibu... 😉 But with "ra" instead of "li"...
Bilberry is the European blueberry. They are of the same family as the American kind. Ours is much more concentrated in flavor and color. They are purple on the inside and smaller. There are actually many types of blueberries, not just one.
Fun fact about the Bilberry vs American Blueberries, is that most swedish blueberries(Bilberries) grow wild in the forest, instead of beeing cultivated.
While they grow in the wild, they are usually smaller and darker(which can be shown below)
pbs.twimg.com/media/BxfVLQ1CUAAjou0.jpg
And becouse they are not cultivated, and instead take more time to mature, they have up to 70% more anthocyanins (antioxidants), as the American Blueberry only have anthocyanins in the skin of the berry, while the Bilberry has it throughout the flesh aswell, and therefor have a stronger taste.
Love your videos and reactions to swedish candy! Hope you guys one day get a chance to visit our great country in the North and depending on the time of the year, maybe even experiance Aurora Borealis :)
PS, would love to see a reaction montage about you guys watching the "Great Swedish Adventure"
www.greatswedishadventure.com/
which is a swedish television series called "Allt för Sverige" about americans, exploring their swedish roots.
I've actually worked both at Marabou factory in Stockholm and later at Fazer warehouse in Malmö. That was in the 80's. We could eat as much as we wanted. I really loved chocolate then. I don´t anymore....
Gränna "stick" is a polkagris, which people in USA call candy cane i think? they are usually white and red and minty, but Gränna make all kind of flavors, after warming it up it becomes more of a chewy candy, unless it is old and then it is just hard and a bit flakey
Marabou is an amazing chocolate, everyone who have tried it love it. It's now owned by an American company so I'm kinda surprised they dont try to sell it more in the states ( you can get them at Ikea). But it's 10 times better than Hersheys.
Mondelez might have their own brand in the US, they also own Cadbury and Milka.
I prefere the Norwegian Stratos... 😋
Oh great... The USA must have the monopoly of EVERYTHING that is much better than anything that they have ever come up with.
No offense, that's just my opinion.
Three very good and classical swedish crhristmas candies is
Knäck -. Butterscotch with nuts
Ischoklad - ice chocolate (not real ice) that is sweet chocolate that melts in your mouth
Rostade mandlar med smak av apelsin(orange)och pepparkaka, - Roasted almonds with a taste of orange and gingerbread
Jummie 😀🤶🤶🤶😄
Ischoklad = chocolate and coconut oil
How candy canes are made: ruclips.net/video/IjfA4j2Ibsk/видео.html
I know the video is in Swedish but the important information in it is that the dough is 145 degrees C when they pour it on the stainless steel table. The dough is made from water, sugar and vinegar. The part they color (red in this video) is for decoration only, it has no taste of its own. The stainless steel table is water cooled to get the temperature down so they can work with the dough. The peppermint flavour is dripped in the dough during the twisting and folding.
Happy Holidays to you!
American chocolate has minimum 20% cocoa solid in Milk chocolate to be called chocolate in Europe it is 25% and Finland used have 30%, I dont know how it is to day.
Gränna is a town in Sweden,famous for its candy making,its very well known for that all over sweden and its products are quite good..
Where is the Djungelvrål???
Mmm... Not so much "Christmas" tho... 😉 Salta (salty) Grodor (frogs)!!! Mmmmm.... 😍
julskum 2020 is because the blueberry taste is intruduces in julskum this year
(its more like Maraboo)
American blueberries dont tast so much compares to swedisch.... compare real berrries please do
From Denmark, I LLLLLLOVVVVEEE this channel. One inch is 2,54 cm ;-p
Grenna is spelled wrong - but thats the way it is pronounced. It should read Gränna.
In Sweden we have a chochlat box called Alladin. Thats the Christmas treat for me.
You may not know this but we drink mulled wine at Christmas.
Hi guys! ”Pepparkaka” Peppar-the spice pepper, kaka-cake but to us ”gingerbread”.
Sugarcanecandy from Gränna: In 1859, Amalia Eriksson received permission from the magistrate in Gränna to run a sugar bakery and make caramels. She was the first to make candy canes. The production, in a former customs house at the then southern entrance to Gränna, developed well, and Amalia Eriksson eventually gained several successors with polka pig production in the city.
Polka pigs are named after the dance polka which was popular at the time. At this time, pigs were a general term for sweets, which should have contributed to the name. A polar pig is seldom shaped like a pig; on the other hand, the rod can often have a hook at one end (to make it easier to hang in a Christmas tree and is then called a pole stick. Best regards Peter
Thanks for all the great info, Peter! We did not know any of that 😃
Another thing: Kaka- also the small cookies 😉
american blueberry is white on the inside, while "nordic" blueberries are blue/red straight through
I totally agree when it comes to bilberries vs american blueberries. Sadly, your blueberries are pretty tasteless compared to bilberries. I feel sorry for you! 😁
How the candycane is made: ruclips.net/video/NLV7ynxqf7I/видео.html
If you ever try a candy stick like that again and want to share, keep it in the paper and hit it against the table a couple of times and it will break into more managable pieces.
the first sandwich candy a inspired by www.gb.se/glassar.html they have that i icecream form it is only n Swedish could not find a translation button
It's Gränna. Candy Canes were invented in Gränna, Sweden. =)
sorry im late to the game but Goodio is a RAW choklad. Vegan
The A's in Marabou is suppose to be pronounced like the first A in Amazing.
When you pronounce Swedish you need to think of the vowels almost like notes/tones. So for "pepparkaka" generally the first vowel will be up, the second down, third up and fourth down. Google translate actually got it pretty well for this word. When native English speakers do Swedish the thing they seem to struggle the most with is the melody of the words. When you listen closely there's a Lot of melody elements in Swedish.
Thanks for explaining it to us like that. That’s very helpful!
Metric system for teh win! 😄
If i drink softdrinks 2-3 times a year at least 1 time its going to be julmust
The pepparkaka (sandwich candy) is Swedish.
Favorite sweet thing to eat -saffron buns ( Lussekatter / saffransbullar in Swedish we eat them all christmas and on Sankta Lucia day it’s on the 13 th of December . You can also eat with cream and almond paste that is called Semla in Swedish. To drink of course we drink Julmust from the brand Apotekarna.Merry Christmas.
Blåbär is the same word as the english blueberry. Swedish blueberries are smaller, sweeter and has more colour. I like to mix the two in cakes. The american version doesen't get as soggy and stay pretty. 😄
Bilberry is the word for "European blueberry"
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bilberry
@@EmA-oo9xk Tack! Alltid kul att lära sig nåt nytt.
Elisabeth, that’s cool that you mix the two in your cakes!
@@EmA-oo9xk I'm English. We have bilberries here but have not heard them called blueberries.
I'm sure they're different from what the Americans call blueberries.
They grow wild here.
Hailey said the word Marabou perfectly the last time she said it, at 14.44! Well done! 😁
Thanks! Good to know that one of us can say it right 😜
That shocked me
Candy people is kind of a new candy company in Sweden (most of our brands are 100 year old but they are younger) If memory serve the are based in Malmö so close to Denmark and they sell to the Danish and Swedish market. And polkagris is super duper traditional and Gränna is like the one place in Sweden that produces them. The whole town is old and there are a lot of tourist visiting for the polkagris.
Sounds like a town we’d like to visit! We love old historic places.
If you want the Swedish way, we pronounce it like MAH-rah-boo. But honestly I think the pronunciation is the least important part of the video.
Thanks!
Sandwich is an ice cream made by a swedish ice cream company.
Gränna is a small town in Sweden, where polkagrisar (polka pigs) are made in the old way. No machines, made by hand. When I eat a polkagris I break it into pieces.
We definitely should have broken ours into pieces
A tip, most of the chocolate bars 🍫 are supposed to be opened the same way as marabou because you can close the packaging again. You just run the edges with the sealer between your index finger and your thumb. 😊😉
Thanks for the tip! That’s fantastic
Marabou better than Fazer? Well that's a first. :)
But Marabou IS much better then Fazer
@@TruEcho If you like milk then yes. If you like Chocolate then Fazer is better.
As a swede and American i cannot say there's any big difference in blueberry taste. Sure when you pick them fresh in the forest they taste better. But it's negotiable in my opinion. Taste the same in Costco as it does in ICA.
Fresh blueberries at ICA are almost always the ”american” kind, so that is why, frozen are on the other hand mostly the swedish kind
She said marabou right the last time :)
How nice that you like blueberry and gingerbread, but I do think you found out now, candy from Sweden and Finland are not do sweet as American candy and taste close to natural...
Wishes at 3 langues, Merry Christmas, God Jul, Hyvä joulua..🎁🎉 See you at 2021"
i could say something about that candy cane but it's not very appropriate or nice so i'll just keep it to myself.
Thank you for doing that 😉👍
Thanks for a great video!! Merry Christmas!! God Jul!!🎄
You are welcome! Thanks for watching and enjoying it!! Merry Christmas and God Jul to you too!
The original candy canes, white and red (peppermint) is actually originally from Gränna, the same brand you just tried. Located in, Gränna, Sweden.
Marabou is pronounced the same in English, as it is the same name for a kind of stork (Marabou Stork)
The main reason it’s called julskum doesn’t have anything (mainly) to do with flavor, but for the reason it almost exclusively comes out around Christmas.
We do have Skum candy year round but the Santa, Christmas tree etc is only available during Christmas.
There by getting the name julskum
maraboo - MaRaBo
The candies I think of and really enjoy for Christmas are
Terry's Chocolate Orange and Little Debbie Christmas Tree Vanilla Cakes
I live in Gothenburg (Harbour city) which is in west side of Sweden.
Love the channel especially during corona times!
The brand on those small gingerbread flavord with filling comes from a company that is more known for their icecreams. The company is "GlassBolaget" often shorted to GB. That heart shaped logo is the logotype they are using.
The 2020 julskum blåbär is the tast of this year and next year it will be a new tast. greetings from Gothenburg
you need to get your hands on the actual gingerbread ice cream sandwich, its darned tasty
Hmmm...I wonder if we can...
Merry Christmas Blessings, Nathan, Hailey and Sage! Enjoy all the firsts! 🥰 Still enjoying these fun videos. Happy New Year as well!🎉🎉
The peppermint stick actually originates from Gränna, Sweden.
Candy canes, sugar cookies and gingerbread that I make from a American recipe. It’s molasses in the dough
We love using molasses in our baked goods here in the States!
@@FromtheHobbitHole The gingerbread cookies I make with molasses taste amazing so I understand why you do that 😊
As someone from sweden the main things for me would be the Julmust and Knäck (butterscotch)
I really like spicy candy with gingerbread or cinnamon flavour.
When i think of christmas i think of all good food we have here in Sweden like Janssons frestelse (Janssons temptation) ångkål, herring and gravad lax. When i think of cake i think of Stollen. Its a german fruitcake that i sometimes bake. Love it!
The tuttifrutti stick you can also by as smal caramels depends on what you prefer.
Merry Christmas to you and your family. Thanks for making this weird year a little better.
I was just about to type "Julmust" when you brought out the can. Another thing that I associate with christmas is not a flavour, but a smell. The smell that fills the air when you blow out a live candle. I think it has to do with the fact that I'm not a live candle person. I only use them around christmas.
I had to check wikipedia about that Blueberry/Bilberry thing. My english/swedish dictionary have both words but does not clarify that "Bilberry" is the american word for european blueberry.
Blåbär is pronounced Blowbear.
Thank you for the pronunciation help!
As a Swede, I have to say the best chocolate in Europe is...
...Finnish, Belgian and Swiss. The French varieties are decent, too. Germans are right up there near France. Sweden...we make *some* good chocolate, but not on the scale of the other guys. Most is done by smaller candy companies.
Edit: And yeah, our blueberries are different from yours. Smaller, more flavorful. Part of it is natural, the other is that American fruits and veggies are often grown for size over flavor (it's why tomatoes in major American grocery stores are actually kind of flavorless compared to what you find in smaller farmer's markets).
Edit edit: Also? We have two varieties of gingerbread - both are spicier than the American versions (the Finnish is even more spicy, and usually both larger and slightly softer). Regular gingerbread cookies are thin and crunchy and are awesome dipped in glögg (or coffee!). Soft gingerbread has the texture of bundt cake, except a little softer, and is awesome.
Gingerbread works fine with cold milk too... 😎
Mcjuggernuggets trying candy!
😂
Peppar Kaka - Pepper Cake
I love florentines. 😋. Merry Christmas 🎄 Have a lovely time x
That Sandwich candy bar u guys ate, is a kind of candy copy of one of the most popular ice-creams in Sweden, -called "Sandwich" :D. And yes, -its a Vanilla ice-cream with semi soft Gingerbred.
We do love the Gingerbread in Sweden. Gingerbread = Pepparkaka. (Peppar = pepper, Kaka = cake).
Usually Pepparkaka is more spicy then the then USA gingerbread.
Sweden and Finland have a history, so some stuff is shard, tast in candy is one of those shard things.
Marabou and Coletta is Swedish Companys. Fazer is Finnish. So the chocolate is very similar.
And there some candy that is more or less unique for Sweden/Finland. Ex. Very salty or sour liquorice.
Gingerbread sandwich är INSANE, så jävla god.
Actually having Juleskum Blåbär as I'm watching this
Candypeople is a swedish company from Malmö (A city south in sweden) .
I hear it pronounced like groan/grown because of Gröna Lund in Stockholm (which is across the street from the ABBA museum).
No. But "ae" instead of a is more like it. Ö is like "oe".. kinda..
No "Dammsugare" huh? Well good video and marry christmas to you!
knäck / butterscotch is the Essentials christmas candy you make at home
marry christmas from sweden
Thanks! Merry Christmas to you too! 🎄