I've travelled all around the world and Norwegian milk is way way better than anything else. No milk I've tasted abroad even comes close. That is also one of the reasons why our milk chocolate is the best.
In Norway, milk is commonly pasteurized but not ultra-pasteurized, which helps to retain its natural flavor. Additionally, Norwegian cows are often grass-fed and raised in less industrial settings, which can also contribute to the milk's flavor.
Regulations on the keeping of cattle 2004. Paragraph 10. Cattle must be ensured the opportunity for free movement and exercise on pasture for a minimum of 8 weeks during the summer half-year.
If you want ultra-pasteurized milk in Norway, you can get the lactose free milk. It's nice if you don't use milk regularly, because it lasts much longer, but it cost a little more.
I've travelled all around the world and Norwegian milk is way way better than anything else. No milk I've tasted abroad even comes close. That is also one of the reasons why our milk chocolate is the best.
My grandparents have a milk (don't remember the proper name) farm and the milk right from the tank is WAAAAAY more tasty then what you get in the store! Big difference
Hey Tyler, if you wanna try some Norwegian tap water, go buy a bottle of Voss water, you can get it in stores in the US. It's basically your average Norwegian tap water by taste but not the best tap water by far.
@@ketil4237 Well, yes and no. It has nothing to do with the place Voss, but all Voss water is from a ground source in Vatnestrøm in Iveland, Agder. So basically Norwegian tap water.
VOSS is just regular bottled water named after a winter resort in Norway. It's just a brand name. I guess all water stored in a plastic bottle for a long enough time tastes dull. To experience the real taste of norwegian water you need to get it fresh from the tap.
@@ketil4237 As long as the tap water is kept in fridge temperature, it stays fresh longer. In the summer, when it is hot, tap water don't get properly cold. Therefore I keep some tapped water in the fridge. How long it stays fresh I can't say, cause I have to refill two liters every night.
Tyler! I so want to send you a norwegian gift basket to try out all the different things you are so curious about! Would love to watch you do a reaction video to all the new exhiting things from norway you have never tried.
About chocolate: Swiss and Belgian chocolate is renowned for being the "upper class" of chocolates. Still they fall far beyond the quality and the variety of Norwegian chocolates.
Norway has the best mass produced chocolate of the three in my (biased norwegian) opinion, but small scale Belgian chocolate is waaay better than anything I have had in Norway
Funny thing historically, a lot of Norwegian milk chocolate is based on old old Swiss chocolate recipes and technics (been to Freia factory in Oslo) they talked about some Swiss guy that invented the modern form of milk chocolate knowledge was passed down to the founders of freia so they were taught the Swiss way of making it then they improved on it to make it to an taste Norwegian people would like
@@nyancatbeatcreature.3782 I've had plenty of Swiss and Belgian chocolate, and I must honestly say they're pretty overrated. So Freia and other brands did a pretty good job improving the recipes.
I am stunned that no one suggested Brown Aquavit made of potatoes (there's laws regarding Aquavit production in Norway when it comes to what it is drilled from, and compared to in Sweden and Denmark, in Norway it HAS to be made from potatoes, or else it will just be labeled as "snaps" and not Aquavit/Akevitt. Compared to the other contries, most of the Norwegian ones are stored on caskets and are natural brown in color, with a few exemptions if blank ones (Taffel Akevitt)
The chocolate in Norway is changeing to the wors. It’s a big company that is going to make all chocolate taste the same so they make more money by not having alot of factories for each chocolate taste.
There's some unique winter equipment you that is hard to find anywhere else. Telemark skis, wood skis and "sparkstøtting" (or just "spark"). And "Marius" sweaters, of course.
I was recently in Seattle for a few weeks on business. One night, a Norwegian collegue and I met with some of our American collegues and for some reason they started talking about lefse. I have never in my entire life met anyone so captivated by lefse. It was like this big mystery that they had heard of from grandparents and they couldn't get enough. So there I was, explaining how we typically eat hotdogs and sausages in lefse rather than bread and it felt like I was a priest in church preaching to a congregation. It was really bizarre. Very fun though. :) Lefse with snøfrisk, smoked salmon and scrambled eggs, are just amazing. My recipe. Try it!
Norweigen tapwather is sold worldvide under the name"VOSS" Norweigen chocolate, yarn, chees, waffelions and cheesslicers are - not surprisently - advailebly in the rest of Scandinavia. Greetings from Denmark. 🇩🇰
08:29 What they mean is that people will have multiple cheese slicers in their drawers, one will be assigned to one type of cheese and another assigned to another type of cheese. It's not that cheese slicer companies design them differently for the various cheeses out there.
Norwegian water is very good water, this because the water has passed through nature and its various contents such as sand, bog, rock and mountains. And since we do not use substances to control bio-substances to regulate the water, the water contains little metals and other things. In America, for example, fluoride is used in the water, it is not allowed in Norway. When you say VOSS water is "just" water from the tap, this is not quite right. This is water that is taken from underground springs in the mountains, some of which can be found in Norway. Something that also makes this water special, as the water is filtered through mountains, with its nutrients and salts. And since water is one of the basic ingredients in beer, Norwegian beer is very sought after in many European countries, as the purity of the water brings out the flavors in a particularly good way. I have tasted American beer myself, and was unfortunately not very impressed. So as many say, it tasted more like water than beer. It was very light, so I think wheat is often used in the beer. Something we also use in Norway in beer, but we often use rye and komle together, and it gives a much darker and simply better beer, much because of the clean water, which of course contributes to the good taste.
Also they purify it less aggressively. Water abroad often have a strong chemical taste. And Voss water is not mountain water like for example Imsdal, neither is It from Voss. It's groundwater from a local source in Agder, but it is purified differently keeping more of the minerals compared to drinking water. So here you have been fooled by the gimmick.
Porsgrunn definitely holds the record for the coldest and most delicious water I’m a Norwegian I ain’t surprised that our water tastes better the water taste changes from city to city my house is 45 mins away from my grandmothers house and her water tastes way better
Smash is good chocolate, it is corn cones with a balance of salty and sweet chocolate, tastes real great, addictive. A block of cheese cost less than double the price for finished slices cheese, so a slicer is a good thing to have to save some money. I like the cheese slicer that has not a plate on it where the cheese possibly sticks to the plate, instead without the plate on it it looks kind of like a potato peeler, it works for any cheese even the soft ones like brunost (and it wont work on the softest knife spread type cheese of course). Search for "ostehøvel amitto myk ost" for the thin blade version, or "ostehøvel tråd" and you will find examples of these ones, i dont use the tråd version myself, i find the amitto to be good enough, but i can se it possibly is great with the softest cheeses like blue mold and such that easy crumbles. I think this Walther's (unknown year it was first made) chocolate is rather new, i can see he started working at Freia in 1971 and develops chocolate today it seems. I has not tasted this particular chocolate and if it had been around my grandma sure would have bought it at some point in time. But i has tasted a similar one called Helnøtt (1958), with whole hazel nuts or Firkløver (1926) with chopped hazel nuts, and both of them is good and probably similar. Go buy the one with no added taste called Freia Melkesjokolade (1906), it is the most sold one, and yeah, chocolate should be a taste in itself not mixed with anything to get the real taste of the norwegian chocolate quality, and then you can add flavors when you know how it taste plain bare. We have several water taps in our homes with i think 20 different tastes.. lol, nah, it taste nothing, and yeah it is clean so don't waste your money on bottled water in our country lol :) When i was a kid we did in school go for a trip to see the water purifier system and i think it had ultraviolet light and falloff pools and filters and such, it has been great water quality forever since i was a child in the 1970's. You wont be a man until you has tasted lompe lol :) Well yeah, probably not that world changing. But it is a good alternative to the pølsebrød (sausage bread), you can even use both at the same time, some asks for that. And load up with chopped cucumber salad, ketchup, mustard and fried onion.
Jarlsberg cheese has been one of the most exported food products to USA and for many years (mentioned several times in the movie The Devil wears Prada by the chef bf of Anne Hathaway's role figure), And you obviously can find Norwegian chocolate in US, but probably not in the general food stores - check Natasha and Debbies show when they taste our chocolate and learn about Norway - "For our second video looking into the gorgeous country of Norway, we grabbed a handful of Norwegian snacks to taste for the first time from our incredible International Market" - ruclips.net/video/jsD4aaKW2AM/видео.htmlsi=5QLYi1Uh6ZpoXfBn
The US chocolate tastes awful, because it's based on what was made for US soldiers in WW1 or WW2. What they gave the soldiers there, became the norm. To us, US chocolate has a mild vomit taste.
14:24 Yes, as the Generative AI explains, our water has less additives and unwanted substances in it, so there's nothing to change how the water tastes, and the purity of the water is much higher than many other places. Back in 2018, I used one of my Water Impurity Testers on tap water in the USA before going back home to Norway, and while my memory isn't the best and can't remember the numbers precisely, I do remember that I was genuinely shocked at how much more impure the US tap water was compared to the Norwegian tap water. And while the US bottled water was much less impure than their tap water was, Norwegian tap water was still much less impure than even the US bottled water.
The cheese slicer is a Norwegian invention, but you can find them in most European countries. What kind of slicer you’d need is decided by things like the cheese’s hardness. How do Americans slice their cheeses?
We dont use so much Sugar in our Chocolate here in Norway you can taste the Chocolate not only sugar and Chemicals. The ice cold water running down from the Mountains have a distinct taste you dont find so many other places. Kviteseissmør is a Gourmet Butter. Knekkebrød is also very popular in Sweden.
The upside of living in a cold climate is that your chocolate doesn't need to be made to withstand heat, therefore taste can be prioritized. That's why so many ppl around the world really like Norwegian chocolate. I have seen so many videos of ppl with (To me) funny over-the-top reactions of tasting Norwegian chocolate for the first time.
Depending on where you live in USA, it might be possible to buy Norwegian food in some specialised shops that only sell Norgegian or Scandinavian food. But having someone sen over some samples for you to try would be a fun video to watch
I’m from Denmark and we also have tap water directly from the underground. It is nothing like bottlewater! 😅. But if you hike in the Norwegian fjelde and drink from creeks - you Will always remember. I did it in my childhood on a vacation.
To add up, Norwegian chocolate (and milk chocolate), Norwegian cheese(s), flatbreads (ryvita style and the potato flat bread), Lompe (potato based soft and round "tortillas", not to be confused with "lefse" which are also soft and potato based) are absolutely #1 worldwide. The wool yarn is of course good. There are more sheep than people in Norway so only the best quality wool is turned into yarn. The rest is used for insulation or energy. Nobody mentioned sodas, though. Solo is an old and really nice oringe soda, but I guess it's not all that special. And then you have more specific foods: Gammalost (Old cheese). Do NOT try it unless you are a cheese lover. HaPå: A spread that is kind of sweet, a little caramel and all areound weird. (A bit like Marmite is weird, but not in the same way). Pultost: Grainy and VERY smelly cheese. And the list goes on and on... Cheese slicers, fish hooks, zippers...
tbh i never realist that we in norway does have heart shape waffles i thought every one els had i like watching you because i learn new things what you guys didnt know about us
Check Hillesvåg yarn or Rauma yarn ❤️ Do you want me to send you some Norwegian candy to sample? Water is a lot better. Compared to the rest of Europe it's brilliant to come home, always ice cold in the tap. Also very good for the hair.
If so then every Marabou chocolate is Norwegian in origin (since that was Freias company in Sweden, they couldn't use their name due to another company owning that trade mark). Edit: Woops, I read flatbrød for some reason. Yeah, knekkebrød is Swedish.
@@BizzyX78 Only it wasn't. It was painted by an aspiring Norwegian painter named Oscar Carl Augen Kristoffersen in 1907. He painted it in a completion, to be used on a tin containing Freia Kakao. Sad part is that he died on the trip he went on, payed by the price money he won. The boat he traveled on sank.
The bottled water Voss is tap water from a small place closer to Kristiansand than to the town of Voss, which it has it's name from. Norwegian tap water are excellent in taste. Even in restaurants, if I am driving and can't have wine, I ask for tap water. Most restaurants provide that for free, but a few insists on bottled water. If they have either Voss or Isklar bottled water. But if they only have the Swedish water, or the salty Faris water, I don't drink it, just take the glass to the bathroom, let the tap run for 30 secs so the water is cold and fresh - and return to my table with the most excellent drink. We have a restaurant chain here in Norway called Egon. Great food and great service. In the one near my work, they are so used to me ordering bacon-rolled filet mignon with small potatoes and water to drink, they don't ask me what I want to drink anymore, just bring a large jug of water with ice and a glas.
04:28 This is something I constantly hear from practically any and all Americans that visit Norway and tries out our chocolates. In the USA it's so hot that Norwegian Chocolate would easily melt, so to stop their US made chocolates from melting, they put some ingredients in their chocolates that changes the taste of the chocolate, but gives it a higher melting point than without the added ingredient. This is what I've gathered from various videos and articles online is the reason for the significant taste differences.
They do the same (but different) type of deal with bread, so it lasts longer. It makes the bread taste horribly just like the added ingredients to their chocolate. It's about money, products that last longer yield more cash than those that expire fast, at least it's much more likely though not a certainty. But very likely.
Voss water got some troubles because people(Norwegian people) kept saying it was Norwegian tap water. This because people around the world did not realize that this was not a criticism of the quality of the water, but rather a statement about the quality of the Norwegian tap water. No one meant that Voss was bad for being tap water, they just meant that Norwegian tap water is equal or better than almost all bottled water brands.
Freia melkesjokolade (milk chocolate) is a must. absolutely nothing compares so smooth . norwegian tap water are boteled and sold abroad (Voss and others).
I was cat sitting a little outside Bergen, and the tap water in that house was amazingly good, never before have I drank so much glasses of water in one month.
The reason we have multiple cheese slicers in norway is for the sake of efficiency. for example, Jarlsberg is fairly easy to slice, so a straight cutter is fine, Brown cheese on the other hand is harder in its consistency in a way, so if you try using the straight cutter you'll rip the cheese, drag off bigger chunks of cheese from the corners more easily. basically it becomes an uneven mess.
To me, US water tastes kinda . . . dead tbh Also, I dont think you noticed, but Jarlsberg is produced in Norway, Ireland, and Ohio actually! Long story
You have seen smash before. in the adds you have seen from norway, you cant have just one, i belive the add say. And there are alot of those funny once. One were he is stoped in border control, and the controller pretends he discover the bag over and over because he needs more. one of the other adds was were they made all of theyr stuff into this choclade and at the end she looked at her hand. Well that was smash.
Also the wool is abetter they say because the sheeps here need it to keep warm most of the year compeard to other countrys. So maybe stock up on wool clothes as well...?!
The reason we need different cheese slicers is because we tend to buy cheese in blocks rather than pre-cut or spreadable. Different hardness and consistency, different cheese cutter.
Jarlsberg cheese is available all over the USA, and select places have also brown cheese. Heck, we export brown cheese even to the UK. Most common is the G35
If you buy pre-sliced and pre-packed cheese you already know that it has lost all the flavor and the packing material is just over the top ridiculous. Buy a chunk of cheese and a slicer. It saves you money, it saves the environment, AND you get good cheese!
When it comes to lompe,there are recepies online,try it with a hot dog and crisp/raw onion,ketchup,mild or strong mustard,and also maybe cucumber salsa.
I would add 2 things. First, there's reindeer meat, specifically dried hearts. You can find them in quite a few places outside of Norway, such as Canada/Alaska/Finland/Sweden/Russia but due to it being a rather northernly thing it still isn't commonly found elsewhere. However, the second thing I'd add would be whale meat, due to it being illegal is almost all other countries. I find whale meat to be very interesting. It tastes sorta fishy, or perhaps "salt water"-like, but since whales are mammals, it's more like a cow steak than fish meat. I guess you could say it's a hybrid of the two.
The Norwegian and Swedish word for butter is smør (or smör). Smorgasbord is derived from the Swedish word smörgås, which means single piece of bread with butter (and toppings)...
I can understand the water part is odd, but I believe it. I'm Norwegian myself and I traveled last year (2023), to California in the summer to visit some friends of mine. From every single tap, be it at my friends place or hotels or what not, there was a rather strong smell of chlorine, coming from the water. I didn't dear to drink it, only washed my hands with it.
Waffle irons are abundant in the "Norwegian" states in the Middle West, particularly in Minnesota. Lots of decendants of Norwegian immigrants keep old traditions alive. If you would try Norwegian food and look at other Norwegian traditions you should take a trip to Minnesota. Especially on May 17th, the National Day of Norway. Like being "home".
When traveling in Europe (not that I do that much) I always miss the water I have in my tap at home. The water you get any other country has this weird sandy taste to it, which at home in Norway it has this pure fresh taste to it (if I could describe the taste).
We have allso in Finland these waffle Irons and cheese slicers and these are very common in Finland and these made in Finland too. You can allso buy Norwegian Brown cheese and Smash in Finland some foodstores. Knäckebröd is allso very common in Finland too. It is really originally from Sweden.
About «Kvitseid smør»: Kvitseid is a city in Norway Smør means butter 🧈 We have a cabin close to Kvitseid. My fathers bestfriend with family lived in Kvitseid so I have been there a lot. My father loved to use this cheese slicer on the KvitseidSmør and eat it directly on the bread without anything else on. It’s a butter with much salt 🧂 and it taste so much that it doesn’t need anything else 😂 About the Smash: In the 90s my family always had this chips formed like small “wafer ice cream cones” maid by corn 🌽 and cheese 🧀 called “Sombreros.” As snacks. Then they tried to dip this chips in chocolate. It went virals! Because it’s a good mix with salt and sweet and crispy. After making of Smash it was hard to find that original chips, and that make me sad because that was one of my favorite chips and Smash is really expensive. But in some few store I was lucky finding that chips in small size with chili. But not in food store 😢
You should definitely taste some of our treats and give us your opinion on them😊 love your videos, they're super entertaining, and even I learn stuff I didn't know!
I think cheese slicers and brown cheese go together. You wouldn't want to cut brown cheese with anything else, and I imagine that we went from there to using it for all other cheese as well. At least hard cheese that can't be spread. 😊 I have broken a cheese slicer. The metal slicer and wooden handle, clearly just glued together, came apart. Freia is definitely the biggest chocolate brand, followed by Nidar. A giant neon sign, advertising for Freia, has lit up Karl Johans gate, The main street of Oslo, for more than a century now. Unfortunately, Freia is no longer as Norwegian as it used to be. In 1993 it became a subsidiary of Kraft Foods, later Mondelēz International, which is currently heavily criticised for continuing to trade in Russia after the invasion of Ukraine. Because of this, among other things, the airline SAS no longer offers Freia chocolate on FLIGHTS. Norwegian Air Shuttle also joined the boycott at first, but seems to have reversed their position.
so Byutric acid is actually found in a lot of things including American chocolate and for example in It is found in animal fat and plant oils, bovine milk, breast milk, butter, parmesan cheese, body odor, vomit, and as a product of anaerobic fermentation.
I'd say that the main difference between US and Norwegian chocolate is that the US version is more coarse. More sugar, more cocoa, less milk and less work done in producing a more subtle and refined taste. More added sugar and less milk sugar is a part of that I suspect. US chocolate feels like sugar and cocoa have been smashed together in a block, Norwegian chocolate feels like it has been cooked and developed with more care before being allowed to cool and harden. And with way too much sugar used in most US chocolates I have tried.
The chocolate is good cuz of the milk we use, the milk is made over 1000 times better then you're milk we dont mas preduce the pruduct so we dont need arteffisial stuff in our chocolate who makes the chocolate tast like heven i can probebly send you some chocolate if you want
Tap water in Norway is for the most better than anything you can buy, but there are times in a few regions where water is'nt perfect. However there is few things better than to get home from a long trip abroad and get a glass of cold tap water.
You can buy Norwegian tap water in the US. Voss water is just Norwegian tap water. I prefer the tap water in Oslo. I think it tastes better. Farris is the most tasty water I've ever had, but it's very mineraled. Ever since I moved to Oslo, I've pretty much stopped drinking soda or other flavoured drinks. The only thing I ever add to my beloved Oslo water (Maridalsvann) is CO2.
Hey Tyler! If I had your address, I would for sure send you a serious selection of Norwegian chocolate and snacks. I'd even throw in a beautiful cheese slicer 👍 Enjoy your videos! Greetings from Ålesund, West Coast of Norway!
"We don't have much use for this in the states" (a cheese slicer) You don't have cheese in the US? Norwegian milk and Norwegian chocolate are the best. PS: You're dumb if you purchase water in Norway unless it's specifically for emergency rations, in which case it's allowed. Other than that, heeeeeeell no. Water from the tap is
For best I would say it's a matter of taste. I mean I love liquorish, but if someone doesn't like it, they won't appreciate it. There is lots of unique food here. I know my parents' jaws dropped when they saw the little kids eat Kaviar paste on bread for breakfast in kindergarten like it's the most normal thing. ^^ My dad usually takes home tørrfisk (dried cod), kålrotstappe ( powder to make turnip mash) and chocolate. When we travel we usually bring leverpostei cans (liver paste) with us, because my kids want it in case they don't like spreads where we go. I also agree with the milk. I used to hate milk until I moved here. And it makes me cringe when I see the ridiculous prices people pay for bottled Voss water when we literally just open the tab and have the same. :)
Someone should send Tyle some boxes of Norwegian Candy so we can have a reaction to that.
Yeah
I’ll do it, just need a P.O box! Suggestions are also welcome for what to send
Agree
@@retroroarFreia Milk chocolate is a must, obviously.
Yess🎉
I've travelled all around the world and Norwegian milk is way way better than anything else. No milk I've tasted abroad even comes close. That is also one of the reasons why our milk chocolate is the best.
i remember trying milk in spain and i was like wtf is this? XD its crazy how different the taste is its like its not the same product
It's the milk, that's for sure!
The only one that's better is Irish milk. But Norwegian chocolate is delicious. And Smash!!!!
Finally someone who acknowledges the milk, I wholeheartedly agree
Same experience in Belgium @@eirik874
Milk could probably be a major Norwegian gourmet export if the right people knew how good it is.
In Norway, milk is commonly pasteurized but not ultra-pasteurized, which helps to retain its natural flavor. Additionally, Norwegian cows are often grass-fed and raised in less industrial settings, which can also contribute to the milk's flavor.
Regulations on the keeping of cattle 2004.
Paragraph 10.
Cattle must be ensured the opportunity for free movement and exercise on pasture for a minimum of 8 weeks during the summer half-year.
If you want ultra-pasteurized milk in Norway, you can get the lactose free milk. It's nice if you don't use milk regularly, because it lasts much longer, but it cost a little more.
I've travelled all around the world and Norwegian milk is way way better than anything else. No milk I've tasted abroad even comes close. That is also one of the reasons why our milk chocolate is the best.
My grandparents have a milk (don't remember the proper name) farm and the milk right from the tank is WAAAAAY more tasty then what you get in the store! Big difference
@@etji1 råmelk (raw milk) is unmatched. Unpasteurised and straight from the source. Magic
Hey Tyler, if you wanna try some Norwegian tap water, go buy a bottle of Voss water, you can get it in stores in the US. It's basically your average Norwegian tap water by taste but not the best tap water by far.
@@ketil4237 Well, yes and no. It has nothing to do with the place Voss, but all Voss water is from a ground source in Vatnestrøm in Iveland, Agder. So basically Norwegian tap water.
VOSS is just regular bottled water named
after a winter resort in Norway. It's just a brand name. I guess all water stored in a plastic bottle for a long enough time tastes dull. To experience the real taste of norwegian water you need to get it fresh from the tap.
@@ketil4237 As long as the tap water is kept in fridge temperature, it stays fresh longer. In the summer, when it is hot, tap water don't get properly cold. Therefore I keep some tapped water in the fridge. How long it stays fresh I can't say, cause I have to refill two liters every night.
@@megatryn Thats right 🥰
Tyler! I so want to send you a norwegian gift basket to try out all the different things you are so curious about! Would love to watch you do a reaction video to all the new exhiting things from norway you have never tried.
Yes Norwegian tap water is the best. I can attest to that. Drinking it even right now.
We can even ask a free glass of water on any restaurants.
Water with ice cubes ...!
A lot of the reason Norwegian, Swiss and Austrian chocolate and cheese is so good, is because of the milk and how the milk is produced.
and because we dont put bad shit chemicals in it
Plus fresh, really fresh, and pure mountain water
About chocolate: Swiss and Belgian chocolate is renowned for being the "upper class" of chocolates. Still they fall far beyond the quality and the variety of Norwegian chocolates.
Can confirm. Tried plenty varieties of the most expensive chocolate from all three.
Norway has the best mass produced chocolate of the three in my (biased norwegian) opinion, but small scale Belgian chocolate is waaay better than anything I have had in Norway
@@david82633Now try small brand chocolate from Norway and I bet it'll beat even Belgian chocolate. 🇳🇴😋
Funny thing historically, a lot of Norwegian milk chocolate is based on old old Swiss chocolate recipes and technics (been to Freia factory in Oslo) they talked about some Swiss guy that invented the modern form of milk chocolate knowledge was passed down to the founders of freia so they were taught the Swiss way of making it then they improved on it to make it to an taste Norwegian people would like
@@nyancatbeatcreature.3782 I've had plenty of Swiss and Belgian chocolate, and I must honestly say they're pretty overrated. So Freia and other brands did a pretty good job improving the recipes.
NORWEGIAN CHOCOLATE IS DANGREOUSLY DELISIOUS❤❤❤❤
I don't really eat that much candy, but the Smash is ridiculously good and it's almost impossible to stop. Just like in the commercial 😂
I am stunned that no one suggested Brown Aquavit made of potatoes (there's laws regarding Aquavit production in Norway when it comes to what it is drilled from, and compared to in Sweden and Denmark, in Norway it HAS to be made from potatoes, or else it will just be labeled as "snaps" and not Aquavit/Akevitt. Compared to the other contries, most of the Norwegian ones are stored on caskets and are natural brown in color, with a few exemptions if blank ones (Taffel Akevitt)
The chocolate in Norway is changeing to the wors. It’s a big company that is going to make all chocolate taste the same so they make more money by not having alot of factories for each chocolate taste.
It’s tragic that Freia was sold to Craft Foods.
There's some unique winter equipment you that is hard to find anywhere else. Telemark skis, wood skis and "sparkstøtting" (or just "spark"). And "Marius" sweaters, of course.
I was recently in Seattle for a few weeks on business. One night, a Norwegian collegue and I met with some of our American collegues and for some reason they started talking about lefse. I have never in my entire life met anyone so captivated by lefse. It was like this big mystery that they had heard of from grandparents and they couldn't get enough. So there I was, explaining how we typically eat hotdogs and sausages in lefse rather than bread and it felt like I was a priest in church preaching to a congregation. It was really bizarre. Very fun though. :) Lefse with snøfrisk, smoked salmon and scrambled eggs, are just amazing. My recipe. Try it!
Norweigen tapwather is sold worldvide under the name"VOSS"
Norweigen chocolate, yarn, chees, waffelions and cheesslicers are - not surprisently - advailebly in the rest of Scandinavia.
Greetings from Denmark. 🇩🇰
As a Norwegian living in America, I really enjoyed watching this!
08:29 What they mean is that people will have multiple cheese slicers in their drawers, one will be assigned to one type of cheese and another assigned to another type of cheese.
It's not that cheese slicer companies design them differently for the various cheeses out there.
Norwegian water is very good water, this because the water has passed through nature and its various contents such as sand, bog, rock and mountains. And since we do not use substances to control bio-substances to regulate the water, the water contains little metals and other things. In America, for example, fluoride is used in the water, it is not allowed in Norway. When you say VOSS water is "just" water from the tap, this is not quite right. This is water that is taken from underground springs in the mountains, some of which can be found in Norway. Something that also makes this water special, as the water is filtered through mountains, with its nutrients and salts. And since water is one of the basic ingredients in beer, Norwegian beer is very sought after in many European countries, as the purity of the water brings out the flavors in a particularly good way. I have tasted American beer myself, and was unfortunately not very impressed. So as many say, it tasted more like water than beer. It was very light, so I think wheat is often used in the beer. Something we also use in Norway in beer, but we often use rye and komle together, and it gives a much darker and simply better beer, much because of the clean water, which of course contributes to the good taste.
Also they purify it less aggressively. Water abroad often have a strong chemical taste.
And Voss water is not mountain water like for example Imsdal, neither is It from Voss. It's groundwater from a local source in Agder, but it is purified differently keeping more of the minerals compared to drinking water. So here you have been fooled by the gimmick.
Porsgrunn definitely holds the record for the coldest and most delicious water I’m a Norwegian I ain’t surprised that our water tastes better the water taste changes from city to city my house is 45 mins away from my grandmothers house and her water tastes way better
Smash is good chocolate, it is corn cones with a balance of salty and sweet chocolate, tastes real great, addictive.
A block of cheese cost less than double the price for finished slices cheese, so a slicer is a good thing to have to save some money.
I like the cheese slicer that has not a plate on it where the cheese possibly sticks to the plate, instead without the plate on it it looks kind of like a potato peeler, it works for any cheese even the soft ones like brunost (and it wont work on the softest knife spread type cheese of course).
Search for "ostehøvel amitto myk ost" for the thin blade version, or "ostehøvel tråd" and you will find examples of these ones, i dont use the tråd version myself, i find the amitto to be good enough, but i can se it possibly is great with the softest cheeses like blue mold and such that easy crumbles.
I think this Walther's (unknown year it was first made) chocolate is rather new, i can see he started working at Freia in 1971 and develops chocolate today it seems. I has not tasted this particular chocolate and if it had been around my grandma sure would have bought it at some point in time. But i has tasted a similar one called Helnøtt (1958), with whole hazel nuts or Firkløver (1926) with chopped hazel nuts, and both of them is good and probably similar.
Go buy the one with no added taste called Freia Melkesjokolade (1906), it is the most sold one, and yeah, chocolate should be a taste in itself not mixed with anything to get the real taste of the norwegian chocolate quality, and then you can add flavors when you know how it taste plain bare.
We have several water taps in our homes with i think 20 different tastes.. lol, nah, it taste nothing, and yeah it is clean so don't waste your money on bottled water in our country lol :)
When i was a kid we did in school go for a trip to see the water purifier system and i think it had ultraviolet light and falloff pools and filters and such, it has been great water quality forever since i was a child in the 1970's.
You wont be a man until you has tasted lompe lol :) Well yeah, probably not that world changing.
But it is a good alternative to the pølsebrød (sausage bread), you can even use both at the same time, some asks for that. And load up with chopped cucumber salad, ketchup, mustard and fried onion.
Brown cheese is available in the U.S.A. it is under the name Ski Queen.
Cheese slicers are also available in the USA 🇺🇸 as well.
Jarlsberg cheese has been one of the most exported food products to USA and for many years (mentioned several times in the movie The Devil wears Prada by the chef bf of Anne Hathaway's role figure), And you obviously can find Norwegian chocolate in US, but probably not in the general food stores - check Natasha and Debbies show when they taste our chocolate and learn about Norway - "For our second video looking into the gorgeous country of Norway, we grabbed a handful of Norwegian snacks to taste for the first time from our incredible International Market" - ruclips.net/video/jsD4aaKW2AM/видео.htmlsi=5QLYi1Uh6ZpoXfBn
The US chocolate tastes awful, because it's based on what was made for US soldiers in WW1 or WW2. What they gave the soldiers there, became the norm. To us, US chocolate has a mild vomit taste.
Buteric acid for the win! If you want your chocolate to taste American, just leave out for a year or two
Holy crap, are you serious? Did the world wars become a norm in the US regarding chokolate?! I can fully support that mild vomit-thing. It DOES!
Since Freia was sold to Craft Food they changed the recipies 😢 It should never have been sold out.
We are known for high quality milk.And clean food,that's why the cheese and chocolate is so good.
Kvammen ? min oldemor heter kvammen og dro fra vestlandet å nordover . men det er vel mange kvammen dog ser ikke det etternavnet mye
14:24 Yes, as the Generative AI explains, our water has less additives and unwanted substances in it, so there's nothing to change how the water tastes, and the purity of the water is much higher than many other places. Back in 2018, I used one of my Water Impurity Testers on tap water in the USA before going back home to Norway, and while my memory isn't the best and can't remember the numbers precisely, I do remember that I was genuinely shocked at how much more impure the US tap water was compared to the Norwegian tap water. And while the US bottled water was much less impure than their tap water was, Norwegian tap water was still much less impure than even the US bottled water.
You have to travel to Norway. Its wery fun, and much good stuff. 👍🏻
The cheese slicer is a Norwegian invention, but you can find them in most European countries.
What kind of slicer you’d need is decided by things like the cheese’s hardness.
How do Americans slice their cheeses?
Presliced.
We dont use so much Sugar in our Chocolate here in Norway you can taste the Chocolate not only sugar and Chemicals. The ice cold water running down from the Mountains have a distinct taste you dont find so many other places. Kviteseissmør is a Gourmet Butter. Knekkebrød is also very popular in Sweden.
The upside of living in a cold climate is that your chocolate doesn't need to be made to withstand heat, therefore taste can be prioritized. That's why so many ppl around the world really like Norwegian chocolate. I have seen so many videos of ppl with (To me) funny over-the-top reactions of tasting Norwegian chocolate for the first time.
8:31 One for brown cheese and one for white cheese. The brown can be used for white, but the white cheese slicer can not be used for brown cheese.
Someone should seriously buy this man a ticket to Norway allready xD And yes, our tap water is better than bottled water, and it's great
we had UK visitors. and they filled their baggage with tap water to take home. the said their tea has never tasted that good before.
Depending on where you live in USA, it might be possible to buy Norwegian food in some specialised shops that only sell Norgegian or Scandinavian food. But having someone sen over some samples for you to try would be a fun video to watch
I’m from Denmark and we also have tap water directly from the underground. It is nothing like bottlewater! 😅. But if you hike in the Norwegian fjelde and drink from creeks - you Will always remember. I did it in my childhood on a vacation.
Hver gang jeg er i fjellet tar jeg med meg fjellvann hjem.
@@VidarLund-k5q det forstår jeg godt.
Jeg kan huske at vi bare ville have mere, fordi det var så godt 👌
Where I live, we have a flatbrød called Skjenning. We use it for a soup called "Sodd" Its regular on one side and sugary on the other side
You use flat bread to eat and get everything on the plate, push the food onto the bread... the same can be used for loaves.
To add up, Norwegian chocolate (and milk chocolate), Norwegian cheese(s), flatbreads (ryvita style and the potato flat bread), Lompe (potato based soft and round "tortillas", not to be confused with "lefse" which are also soft and potato based) are absolutely #1 worldwide. The wool yarn is of course good. There are more sheep than people in Norway so only the best quality wool is turned into yarn. The rest is used for insulation or energy. Nobody mentioned sodas, though. Solo is an old and really nice oringe soda, but I guess it's not all that special. And then you have more specific foods: Gammalost (Old cheese). Do NOT try it unless you are a cheese lover. HaPå: A spread that is kind of sweet, a little caramel and all areound weird. (A bit like Marmite is weird, but not in the same way). Pultost: Grainy and VERY smelly cheese. And the list goes on and on... Cheese slicers, fish hooks, zippers...
tbh i never realist that we in norway does have heart shape waffles i thought every one els had i like watching you because i learn new things what you guys didnt know about us
Check Hillesvåg yarn or Rauma yarn ❤️ Do you want me to send you some Norwegian candy to sample? Water is a lot better. Compared to the rest of Europe it's brilliant to come home, always ice cold in the tap. Also very good for the hair.
sadly he never read or reply comments
@@kendexter I know, I don't really understand the point of having a channel then.
@@the_oslovian It's just to make money ...
@@mareiketje4899 I sadly think you might be right
Although we love knekkebrød in Norway I am pretty sure it is of Swedish origin 😉
If so then every Marabou chocolate is Norwegian in origin (since that was Freias company in Sweden, they couldn't use their name due to another company owning that trade mark).
Edit: Woops, I read flatbrød for some reason. Yeah, knekkebrød is Swedish.
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- I've always found it quite humorous that a Swede chose an African stork to be depicted on Norwegian chocolate...
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...also quite crazy that our beloved chocolate is adorned with a carrion bird 😅
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Only it wasn't. It was painted by an aspiring Norwegian painter named Oscar Carl Augen Kristoffersen in 1907. He painted it in a completion, to be used on a tin containing Freia Kakao. Sad part is that he died on the trip he went on, payed by the price money he won. The boat he traveled on sank.
The bottled water Voss is tap water from a small place closer to Kristiansand than to the town of Voss, which it has it's name from. Norwegian tap water are excellent in taste. Even in restaurants, if I am driving and can't have wine, I ask for tap water. Most restaurants provide that for free, but a few insists on bottled water. If they have either Voss or Isklar bottled water. But if they only have the Swedish water, or the salty Faris water, I don't drink it, just take the glass to the bathroom, let the tap run for 30 secs so the water is cold and fresh - and return to my table with the most excellent drink. We have a restaurant chain here in Norway called Egon. Great food and great service. In the one near my work, they are so used to me ordering bacon-rolled filet mignon with small potatoes and water to drink, they don't ask me what I want to drink anymore, just bring a large jug of water with ice and a glas.
Kviteseid butter is just brilliant
knitted woolen jumper, woolen clothes in general, Norwegian cheese, cheese grater, chocolate, coffee, salmon, trout, herring, Fun juice, applesauce, jam, outdoor clothes such as hiking jacket and hiking trousers, Viking winter shoes, flat bread, potato cake/lefse, ice cream, skis, fishing hooks, vegetables grown in Norway, confectionery, woolen socks, Imsdal water, honey.
04:28 This is something I constantly hear from practically any and all Americans that visit Norway and tries out our chocolates.
In the USA it's so hot that Norwegian Chocolate would easily melt, so to stop their US made chocolates from melting, they put some ingredients in their chocolates that changes the taste of the chocolate, but gives it a higher melting point than without the added ingredient. This is what I've gathered from various videos and articles online is the reason for the significant taste differences.
They do the same (but different) type of deal with bread, so it lasts longer.
It makes the bread taste horribly just like the added ingredients to their chocolate.
It's about money, products that last longer yield more cash than those that expire fast, at least it's much more likely though not a certainty. But very likely.
Voss water got some troubles because people(Norwegian people) kept saying it was Norwegian tap water. This because people around the world did not realize that this was not a criticism of the quality of the water, but rather a statement about the quality of the Norwegian tap water. No one meant that Voss was bad for being tap water, they just meant that Norwegian tap water is equal or better than almost all bottled water brands.
Freia melkesjokolade (milk chocolate) is a must. absolutely nothing compares so smooth . norwegian tap water are boteled and sold abroad (Voss and others).
I was cat sitting a little outside Bergen, and the tap water in that house was amazingly good, never before have I drank so much glasses of water in one month.
The reason we have multiple cheese slicers in norway is for the sake of efficiency. for example, Jarlsberg is fairly easy to slice, so a straight cutter is fine, Brown cheese on the other hand is harder in its consistency in a way, so if you try using the straight cutter you'll rip the cheese, drag off bigger chunks of cheese from the corners more easily. basically it becomes an uneven mess.
To me, US water tastes kinda . . . dead tbh
Also, I dont think you noticed, but Jarlsberg is produced in Norway, Ireland, and Ohio actually! Long story
You have seen smash before. in the adds you have seen from norway, you cant have just one, i belive the add say. And there are alot of those funny once. One were he is stoped in border control, and the controller pretends he discover the bag over and over because he needs more. one of the other adds was were they made all of theyr stuff into this choclade and at the end she looked at her hand. Well that was smash.
Jarlsberg is also in some of the adds you have seen. Cheese is cheese add.
Also the wool is abetter they say because the sheeps here need it to keep warm most of the year compeard to other countrys. So maybe stock up on wool clothes as well...?!
The reason we need different cheese slicers is because we tend to buy cheese in blocks rather than pre-cut or spreadable.
Different hardness and consistency, different cheese cutter.
Smash is essentially chocolate coated bugles
Jarlsberg cheese is available all over the USA, and select places have also brown cheese. Heck, we export brown cheese even to the UK. Most common is the G35
If you buy pre-sliced and pre-packed cheese you already know that it has lost all the flavor and the packing material is just over the top ridiculous. Buy a chunk of cheese and a slicer. It saves you money, it saves the environment, AND you get good cheese!
13:53 Priceless reaction
If you want to, I'll mail you some original Norwegian chocolate! Cause it's true, we have the best kind! 🎉
When it comes to lompe,there are recepies online,try it with a hot dog and crisp/raw onion,ketchup,mild or strong mustard,and also maybe cucumber salsa.
Ketchup is culinary rape....
As a Norwegian I am thoroughly enjoying your content 😂👏👏👏
In 2010 i bought norwegian chocolate in Anchorage, Alaska.
I would add 2 things. First, there's reindeer meat, specifically dried hearts. You can find them in quite a few places outside of Norway, such as Canada/Alaska/Finland/Sweden/Russia but due to it being a rather northernly thing it still isn't commonly found elsewhere.
However, the second thing I'd add would be whale meat, due to it being illegal is almost all other countries. I find whale meat to be very interesting. It tastes sorta fishy, or perhaps "salt water"-like, but since whales are mammals, it's more like a cow steak than fish meat. I guess you could say it's a hybrid of the two.
I believe the shape of the smash-pieces are to emulate the 'overflow horn' or the old sagas.
as a norwegian at 13 i thought it was a cool coincidence that i was eating freia chocolate when the thumbmail was
Smash is a trumpet shaped corncrisp covered in chocolate.. very good!
I love how Tyler watches 37 Smash commersials per month, and still is surprised when it shows up in a Reddit thread🤣
We have different kinds of brunost. From caramel flavour to more goaty ones.
Fløtemysost (cream brown cheese) is by far the best. The others have to strong.taste.
The Norwegian and Swedish word for butter is smør (or smör). Smorgasbord is derived from the Swedish word smörgås, which means single piece of bread with butter (and toppings)...
I’m from Norway and I feel dumb when I don’t know things about Norway
U should try Voss vann it is Norwegian water
I can understand the water part is odd, but I believe it.
I'm Norwegian myself and I traveled last year (2023), to California in the summer to visit some friends of mine.
From every single tap, be it at my friends place or hotels or what not, there was a rather strong smell of chlorine, coming from the water.
I didn't dear to drink it, only washed my hands with it.
Same here, visiting Japan in 1975. Chlorine, yes.
Waffle irons are abundant in the "Norwegian" states in the Middle West, particularly in Minnesota. Lots of decendants of Norwegian immigrants keep old traditions alive. If you would try Norwegian food and look at other Norwegian traditions you should take a trip to Minnesota. Especially on May 17th, the National Day of Norway. Like being "home".
When traveling in Europe (not that I do that much) I always miss the water I have in my tap at home. The water you get any other country has this weird sandy taste to it, which at home in Norway it has this pure fresh taste to it (if I could describe the taste).
Smash is like a chocolate covered Bugle. Super tasty!
Kvitseid smør is a kind of butter . very yummy and a bit salty
We have allso in Finland these waffle Irons and cheese slicers and these are very common in Finland and these made in Finland too. You can allso buy Norwegian Brown cheese and Smash in Finland some foodstores. Knäckebröd is allso very common in Finland too. It is really originally from Sweden.
About «Kvitseid smør»:
Kvitseid is a city in Norway
Smør means butter 🧈
We have a cabin close to Kvitseid. My fathers bestfriend with family lived in Kvitseid so I have been there a lot. My father loved to use this cheese slicer on the KvitseidSmør and eat it directly on the bread without anything else on. It’s a butter with much salt 🧂 and it taste so much that it doesn’t need anything else 😂
About the Smash:
In the 90s my family always had this chips formed like small “wafer ice cream cones” maid by corn 🌽 and cheese 🧀 called “Sombreros.” As snacks. Then they tried to dip this chips in chocolate. It went virals! Because it’s a good mix with salt and sweet and crispy. After making of Smash it was hard to find that original chips, and that make me sad because that was one of my favorite chips and Smash is really expensive. But in some few store I was lucky finding that chips in small size with chili. But not in food store 😢
Kviteseidsmør is the BEST butter Ive ever tasted except Salted Vossasmør. But thats a local thing and not massdistributed.
You should definitely taste some of our treats and give us your opinion on them😊 love your videos, they're super entertaining, and even I learn stuff I didn't know!
Kviteseid butter is the best butter. The taste is amazing!
I think cheese slicers and brown cheese go together. You wouldn't want to cut brown cheese with anything else, and I imagine that we went from there to using it for all other cheese as well. At least hard cheese that can't be spread. 😊
I have broken a cheese slicer. The metal slicer and wooden handle, clearly just glued together, came apart.
Freia is definitely the biggest chocolate brand, followed by Nidar. A giant neon sign, advertising for Freia, has lit up Karl Johans gate, The main street of Oslo, for more than a century now.
Unfortunately, Freia is no longer as Norwegian as it used to be. In 1993 it became a subsidiary of Kraft Foods, later Mondelēz International, which is currently heavily criticised for continuing to trade in Russia after the invasion of Ukraine. Because of this, among other things, the airline SAS no longer offers Freia chocolate on FLIGHTS. Norwegian Air Shuttle also joined the boycott at first, but seems to have reversed their position.
Great video!
Would like you to compare your tap water to Norwegian water. I think you can find Voss pretty easily, but they're pricy
Voss is only tap water in a fancy bottle....
Smash! is made by Nidar in Trondheim where I live, it's dangerously good 😁
Mokkabønner. Dark chocolate from Freia!
Smash, are like a cone of 'cornflakes' dipped in chocolate.
I love them, sadly it's a bit too expensive.
"A bit too expensive" is Norway in a nutshell, innit?
@@markussmedhus9717 Absolutely. But, if you do some 'researching' in the stores, you can buy cheaper food, and snacks, that are good.
so Byutric acid is actually found in a lot of things including American chocolate and for example in It is found in animal fat and plant oils, bovine milk, breast milk, butter, parmesan cheese, body odor, vomit, and as a product of anaerobic fermentation.
I'd say that the main difference between US and Norwegian chocolate is that the US version is more coarse. More sugar, more cocoa, less milk and less work done in producing a more subtle and refined taste. More added sugar and less milk sugar is a part of that I suspect. US chocolate feels like sugar and cocoa have been smashed together in a block, Norwegian chocolate feels like it has been cooked and developed with more care before being allowed to cool and harden. And with way too much sugar used in most US chocolates I have tried.
The water in Norway taste clean and fresh is that makes sense, when I where in Germany and Poland the water taste more of chlorine
the chocolate is from what ive heard is because we are willing to pay more for chocolate, so we get better quality..not sure if this correct or not..
The chocolate is good cuz of the milk we use, the milk is made over 1000 times better then you're milk we dont mas preduce the pruduct so we dont need arteffisial stuff in our chocolate who makes the chocolate tast like heven i can probebly send you some chocolate if you want
If youre curious about the water in norway check out farris (a fizzy water brand) and how its made
Smash is one of the best candy here in Norway, and it´s cornlayer that is dipped in chocalte.
Tap water in Norway is for the most better than anything you can buy, but there are times in a few regions where water is'nt perfect. However there is few things better than to get home from a long trip abroad and get a glass of cold tap water.
Gome/ dravle... sweet fresh cheese used with lefsa and as dessert😊
You can buy Norwegian tap water in the US. Voss water is just Norwegian tap water. I prefer the tap water in Oslo. I think it tastes better. Farris is the most tasty water I've ever had, but it's very mineraled. Ever since I moved to Oslo, I've pretty much stopped drinking soda or other flavoured drinks. The only thing I ever add to my beloved Oslo water (Maridalsvann) is CO2.
Nidar > Freia after the Mondelez purchase. More sugar, less chocolate in the recipes. Saving that sweet, sweet cash you know.
Hey Tyler!
If I had your address, I would for sure send you a serious selection of Norwegian chocolate and snacks. I'd even throw in a beautiful cheese slicer 👍
Enjoy your videos!
Greetings from Ålesund, West Coast of Norway!
"We don't have much use for this in the states" (a cheese slicer)
You don't have cheese in the US?
Norwegian milk and Norwegian chocolate are the best.
PS: You're dumb if you purchase water in Norway unless it's specifically for emergency rations, in which case it's allowed. Other than that, heeeeeeell no. Water from the tap is
Smash is pretty much Bugles covered in milk chocolate. Tasty, addictive, vanishes extremely quickly.
Norwegian air, smell of rain and clearness of sunlight is the best. But I am afraid it cannot be bottled and distributed 🫠.
For best I would say it's a matter of taste. I mean I love liquorish, but if someone doesn't like it, they won't appreciate it. There is lots of unique food here. I know my parents' jaws dropped when they saw the little kids eat Kaviar paste on bread for breakfast in kindergarten like it's the most normal thing. ^^ My dad usually takes home tørrfisk (dried cod), kålrotstappe ( powder to make turnip mash) and chocolate. When we travel we usually bring leverpostei cans (liver paste) with us, because my kids want it in case they don't like spreads where we go. I also agree with the milk. I used to hate milk until I moved here. And it makes me cringe when I see the ridiculous prices people pay for bottled Voss water when we literally just open the tab and have the same. :)
You have Voss water from Norway in bottles in the USA and it is water from the tap
You actually know how to say kvikk lunsj, surprising