In sweden , swedish meatballs is more of a home food since its so easy to make at home and when going to a resturant I usually feel like it would be a "waste" to get meatballs there when i can make just as good ones at home haha
This it it you get make them at home. If you go out for cheap it's kebab or pizza, a burger. Going fancy it's meat or shellfish. Altho a Lasanga out is not bad. That said a few resturants on the tourist street of Stockholm have them made with elk. It's a whole different taste. To bad you didnt get an pressgurka (quick pickeled cucumber with yours)
A thought - In central Stockholm you find either street food or fancy restaurants. If you want to try food that the average Swede would eat I'd reccomend you to find a "blue collar" lunch restaurant. Or look for the word "husmanskost" (you will find it in a truckers diner). Not sure how many Swedes that would eat "gravlax" for lunch or supper...
@@danielpalmberg3371 How true. If you want to experience genuine Swedish food, visit a lunchrestaurang! Same goes for most countries. Go to the places where locals go. Before finding out what real Italian food was like, I wasted tons of money and way too much time doing tourist traps. Then, Italian friends I made took me to restaurants out of this world. Later, they came and visited me in Sweden, where we feasted on moose, reindeer, yellow pea soup/ärtsoppa, cold smoked pork belly and oven-baked pike (and a lot of salubrious beverages).
You have a point, but I do think they were able to taste a nice variety of Swedish foods, even though the toast skagen and gravad lax were a little fancier they are very common here in Sweden.
500 yrs ago was in the early 16:th century a couple of years after the coronation of Gustav Vasa - the first Swedish king. The viking era was about 5-800 yrs before that. The early 16:th century was also about 250 yrs before USA became a country. So 500 yrs ago is hard to deal with for an American.
Köttbullar/meatball is very polular in Sweden! But its something you have eaten since kindergarden and also very popular kids food so i think the average Sweed just prefer to eat something else when going out. Also Sweden have a big variation of cuisine so if you want to eat köttbullar during lunch you just have to found a restaurant that serve more traditional Swedish food, or at least is not i thai, indian, Lebanese restaurant so on. If you want to try something really fancy then try a Wallenbergare! Think of a gigantic meatball but lot more fancy (ingridient wise)!
Fried herring with mash is also a staple in Finland and so is knäckebröd (näkkileipä). Pickled, fried herring is a thing in Sweden but not fried, pickled herring. Fried salted herring is an old traditional dish.
Worth pointing out is that the herring used in Finland and the Eastern part of Sweden that is fried is Baltic Herring (in Swedish strömming). It lives in the brackish water of the Baltics and is smaller than its North Sea/Atlantic cousin. There is definitely a difference, even if the technical difference is where the fish is landed.
If you haven't already, please try stekt fläsk med löksås (fried pork with onion sauce), Biff a la Lindström (fried beef patties with capers and pickled beetroot) and Wallenbergare (finely ground veal patties with cream and egg yolks).
I love stekt strömming with mash, had it many many times in a wide variety of restaurants. Still have yet to ever have it served with a white sauce, it's always served with browned butter and lingonberries.
If anyone visiting Stockholm would like to have Swedish meatballs, here is a few recommendations: Operakällaren/Operabaren, Prinsen, Rich, Pelikan, Tranan, Gyllene Freden, Kryp in, Tradition, Grodan Grev Ture, Broms, Nybrogatan 38, PA&Co, Diplomat, Meatballs for the people, Bakfickan, Nisch, just to name a few!
As others have pointed out, most Swedes won't order meat balls at a restaurant. I don't. What I order is typically the posh version of them, called Wallenbergare. They are bigger, slightly flattened meat balls made of minced veal, whipped cream and egg yolk. Meatballs is something you make yourself or buy at the grocery store and just heat in your pan. And we actually often eat them with pasta and ketchup!
It depends on how fancy you want to make meal. Likes it has been pointed the regular version of meatballs you do at home. But of one of my alltime favorire dishes Ihave tried was venison meatballs with a chantarellr sauce. If you want more fancy meatballs i would try at restaurant f you dont know how to cook "wild game" in a proper way.
Traditional meatballs are made quite small, which is a bit more work, so not as cost effective for restaurants. For a similar experience you can try "pannbiff" which is the same mix but made larger and thus don't stay round but ends up more like a Hamburger patty
Meatballs are a dish that is mostly associated with making them at home yourself. When I would also say that it is more common to have them with boiled potatoes, and you should have pickled cucumber with them.
To be fair, making meatballs at home nowadays is mostly about bying ready made ones, either frozen or chilled, and just heating them up in the frying pan.
Restaurant "Soldaten Švejk" is really good, priced well and it is walk in. Swedish meatballs, plankstek or wallenbergare are all classic Swedish dishes worth trying. 👍
2:50 Just to point out, we have pickled fried herring here in Sweden. You coat the herring in flour, then fry it in the pan and after you pickle it. So it is soggy. It's quite good tbh.
There are actually quite a few restaurants that have meatballs quite close where you were! Meatballsb is a staple food here in Sweden and we eat it a lot! But mostly we eat it at home. It's usually served in restaurants that serves traditional "Husmanskost" traditional Swedish food.
The traditional recipe for gravad lax ("buried salmon") involves burying the package in the soil for some time. Nowadays it's done differently, but the result is the same.
"Köttbullar" is "husmanskost" = traditional home cooked food! There is resturantes in bigger citys that specialise on it for tourists. And its often served at lunch resturantes as "dagens rätt", the meal of the day.. typical at mondays! Herring is popular and used in many forms.. becuse we are sourunded by herring rich waters! Its in moste case "Baltic herring" that becomes "Stekt strömming", served at wednseday, and "atlantic herring" that become pickled "Sill"! Becuse at the atlantic shoreline we tend to eat more "stekt makrill" = fried makerell! Soo for fun.. our traditional "husmanskost"/home cooked meals.. thirsday is fried pork, with brown beans or onion sauce! (White beans is actulay tastier)! Thursday is "Ärtsoppa med fläsk" and "pannkakor med sylt" as desert! And if one was in the military back then a glass of Punch especialy in the Navy! Friday is on the end of the week.. it could mean different, its dependent on if one got the salary yet.. fresh fish like cod or havock with eggsause, or liver caserol.. in worste case "pölsa med rödbetor och ägg"! Pölsa is minced liver and kidney mixed with Barley, it dont look nice, it dont taste bad, its high in nutrients, and its the condiments that make it "a whole meal"! Saturday and Sunday is mixed cases.. but if one have got ones salary.. one could make it a bit "fancyer" on the weekend! Today "Taco Friday" is wery popular in homes with children.. becuse parents are exhausted, the kids can chose and pick, its easy to make.. all ingrediens is there at the store.. just buy and fry up some minced meat, put in some prepacked herb mixes! "10 Typical Swedish Meals (Husmanskost)" ruclips.net/video/x4nDdEZypJI/видео.html
I don't agree that in bigger cities we serve meatballs mostly for tourists. Meatballs is a typical business lunch meal too, or a after work dish too. At least in Stockholm is something locals eat often, specially in certain parts of Stockholm like Södermalm and Östermalm.
@@EEmB I never sad that.. but in bigger citys there is places that focus on tourists and there cravings for "Swedish meatballs"! And I think that could be expensive, long cues, but it could be worth the effort to try ones in there life "real swedish meatballs", kinda grandmothers recepy and all the right condiments!
Regarding kebab being so common in Sweden and Finland. What I've understood is that many of the Turkish and/or Kurdish immigrants who came to northern Europe in late 80's and 90's started kebab shops which made the food really widely available. Might be other reasons as well, but this definitely is one. Also in restaurants, you are more likely to find meatballs from the kids menu. Generally they are more home food as many here already mentioned.
@@emilialarsson496 We also eat lots of pizza and pasta, without any Italian immigrants.... You do not need immigration from an area to adopt some of their culture.
@@HerrBrutal-bl2fk No, a lunsjpakke is the main meal for lunch in Norway. Fika in general is a coffe brake, that you can have even without a baked goods OR with tea (!). ThaIn sweden we have coffee several times a day… but you can have fika for breakfast! Normally a fika brake can be a couple of hours into the workday (before lunch), and then after lunch, later in the afternoon, after dinner and even lateer in the evening. We drink A LOT of coffee here in Sweden. But to meet up for ”fika” will generally happen in the afternoon and then you sit down for a coffee, some sweet treat like a bulle or cake and a real chat.
@@snaxon Perhaps I didn't make myself clear. Lunsjpakke is often a rather filling meal, so therefore most Norwegians don't have room for a fika around 2 hours before and/or after lunch. But sometimes they manage to squeeze in a Kvikk Lunsj (similar to Kit Kat).
Thank you for your video and reactions. It is always as fun, educational and rewarding, to see others react to our dearest culture, the food. Food is sensitive, full of memories, maybe not always positive. But you two do it well, and with pleasure. Mixing classic dishes such as Toast Skagern with kebabs and fika, is as daring as it is admirable. Nice comments increase the value even more. And my own favorite? The next time my wife and I get married, we'll be offering raggmunk/rårake, fried pork and raw stir-fried lingonberries. All this is washed down with liberal amounts of beer, brewed by my son.
Meatballs (as we call them in Sweden) is something pretty much every Swede has eaten, but as a dish it’s more common among children (not saying adults don’t eat it too, but it has the reputation of being a very “simple” dish), but we include them on our holiday food table, so for Christmas, Easter and Midsummer you can probably find meatballs among the other foods). But it looks like you had a nice selection of actual authentic Swedish food (and kebab - Swedish in that many Swedes eat it), glad to see you got some good meatballs, they can be hit and miss depending on where you get them. And the fish place is where I’ve eaten lunch many time, and had that very same fish soup. Happy travels!
If you are not done testing Swedish food. Here are some suggestions: **Toast skagen** would be my top recommendation too. (Done) **Köttbullar** (meatballs) are of course a classic, as are **raggmunk** and **råraka** (two kinds of potato pancakes, served savoury), **ärtsoppa** (pea soup), and **pyttipanna** (diced and fried potatoes, onion and sausage, usually with a fried egg and pickled beetroots on the side). Fish in **pepparrotsås** (horseradish sauce) or dillsås (dill sauce) can also be very good. Various dishes with kantareller (chantarelle mushrooms) are a seasonal favorite. **Västerbottenpaj** is a nice pie with famous Västerbottensost cheese. Nicer restaurants often have moose, reindeer or dear meat. **Gratäng** is a baked single-dish meal, my favorite is fiskgratäng med moss (with fish and potato puree). **Janssons frestelse** is classic Christmas gratäng with anchovies. **Kålpudding** is another home classic, shredded cabbage baked with minced meat and rice. **Smörgåstårta** is a classic for any cellebration, it's basically a "layered cake" made out of bread and things you'd put on a sandwich. One quite exotic dish I like and haven't seen anyone else mention yet is **nypponsoppa**. It's a sweet soup made out of rose hips.
Bra sammanfattning. Alla dessa rätter kommer att serveras på min begravning. Och alla som kräver del av mitt arv måste äta av allt. Med glädje. Notarius publicus bevakar allas respons noga. Efterrätten är tuggfri.
A few years ago, I would have recommended the elk meatballs served at a small restaurant on Stortorget i Gamla Stan, but I haven't been there since the owners changed, so I don't know if they as good as before.
The sirens you heard are not actually police sirens, but fire department. There is a difference tone and decibel in each siren (firedept, police, ambulance, Customs). You can tell the difference if you are used to it 😊
Hi guys. All dishes look so good when you eat them, it's interesting to hear how you like the dishes, you may have seen that we have something called the dish of the day which usually includes food, salad, bread, drink and coffee, it is usually served between 10.00 to 14.00, the alcohol you tried (called nubbe) we usually drink it with herring and crayfish etc and preferably on Christmas Eve midsummer and in August for the crayfish season or whenever Preferably you want a nubbe. Have a nice stay 🌭👋
Pickled fried herring is more of a southern Swedish thing and is just as delicious. Fried herring is usually served with lingonberry jam either on dark rye bread or with mashed potatoes. The knäckebröd traditionally can be crushed and sprinkled on top of filmjölk (fermented milk) for breakfast and around Christmas you can skip the knäckebröd and crush Swedish gingerbread cookies on the filmjölk instead.
10:38: That's mustard. Or a mustard sauce. UPDATE: meatballs are absolutely no big deal in Sweden. You usually eat it about once a week, and it is not the first thing you think about when going to a restaurant.
A Swede here and i only eat meatballs at home, simple to do and taste yummie, if i'm eating on a restaurant i chose other food. We eat a lot of meatballs in Sweden but i think it's more of a everyday food with the kids after work for most of us.
When you had your meatballs it wasn't the police going by but the communal rescue service (used to be called fire department) going by. Fun fact, the sirens of the rescue service, police and ambulance sound different to each other so you can tell who wants a clear path in traffic in Sweden. Also Jenny where did you get your jumpsuit, would like to get one.
Gravad lax, although younger than knäckebröd which has been around for millenias, is also a very old Swedish delicacy. Back in the day they used to bury the salmon to ferment it "hence the name grav = grave" and has been around since at least the 1300s. The modern recipe hails from the 16-1700s. The taste is much different from the old recipe, which would be more close to surströmming than anything else. Most certainly one of my favorites from the Swedish cuisine if i had to chose.
Meatballs are definitely one the most favorite foods we got here in Sweden especially the kids eat it often. But it’s not something you eat at a restaurant, you eat it so often at home, school or preschool. You can also eat it with applesauce instead of lingonberry jam.
Unfortently the place to go for meatballs seem to closed. It's a mire italian inspired place there. It was next to hötorget in the location Posto is now. They had swedish husmanscost and was a really nice place for lunch. Most times we want other foods then the husmanskost for food when other people make it. We make all the food at home so not feel like pay for others to make it. It's more a treat go out eat instead of a way to eat for the day in sweden
Meatballs at restaurants is pretty much lowest tire establishments. But also highest. But in the end, it’s mostly home cooked. You missed the sour gherkin.
I don't like IKEA's meatballs, although the chicken meatballs are acceptable. But taste varies ... I make excellent meatballs myself, though ... :) Pre-made meatballs, that you can buy in EVERY grocery store, is staple food in every household. (Vegetarians and vegans buy "meat free meatballs", they are quite tasty too ...)
Great pronunciation of Toast Skagen! The fried herring is, sorry to say it, served the wrong way (and this is not just my opinion, remoulad sauce is the danish was to serve it). It should be served with lingonberrys, pickled cucumber and melted butter. The bread is called knäckebröd or hårdbröd (cracking bread or hard bread) and it’s baked that way, not dried out. Also, the vikings did not exist 500 years ago, the Viking era ended almost 1000 years ago. The liquor, akvavit (aqua vitae, water of life), or as we traditionally say “brännvin” (burning wine) is a traditional hard liquor that swedes drink befor, during and sometimes after a meal, especially during festivities. It’s basically liquor made from wheat and potatoes with herbs added to it. If you are going to Stockholm and want to try Swedish meatballs I would recommend Pelikan or Tennstopet. But you are correct, swedes usually make it at home and don’t eat it at restaurants. Whatever you do, avoid the place called “Meatballs for the people”, it’s a tourist trap. And also, that was fire fighters, not police! You can tell from the sound of the sirens!! I really liked your vide, and I’m happy that you liked my hometown!
Modern Swedish food is like Taco on Friday, sushi, pizza, falukorv and less and less of the husmanskost and husmanskost is not that old 150 years old or so.
One of the most popular dishes in Sweden is an import from Italy, actually: Spaghetti Bolognese. Adapted to a Swedish version over the years, of course, but served in every home as most kids loooove it.
Our beloved Swedish meatballs originally come from Turkey it was king Karl XII that toke the recipe to Sweden in eraly 17 hundred. Then Toast skagen is not a version of a shrimp cocktail... thats insultinig haha ;-)
Allot of us sweeds love kebab. The salmon you eat gravad, is laied i suger snd salt, whe have another way to preserv fish or mest, its rimmad. Only laied in salt
Liked the reactions. Yes kebab is like second national dish. And no swede would go out to a pub/restaurant and eat meatballs even tho it´s delicious . This is how you tell they are tourists :D
I guess meatballs are such a common household dish that most places don’t even bother.. probably like finding mac & cheese at a resturant in the usa. Meatballs is way more common in like gas stations or cheap blue collar lunch-places though.
Fast food meatballs are very different from restaurant meatballs. The restaurants that serve meatballs are quite often the more expensive with high quality food and fine dining, places like Operakällaren, Prinsen, Rich, Pelikan, Tranan, Gyllene Freden, Kryp in, Tradition, Grodan Grev Ture, Broms, Nybrogatan 38, PA&Co, Diplomat, to name a few in. Stockholm
You should try kebabpizza with lettuce and red and white sauces - one of the nice perks of having people from different regions moving here and their foods mixed into a unique Swedish dish! ❤❤❤🇸🇪
The knäckebröd (the crisp bread) is basic in Swedish cuisine. The sound, when you took a bite in it, sounded like it had absorbed the moisture in the air, and wasn't as crispy as it should've been. We all know the sound😂 But it's almost inevitable. Put salty butter on the bread to make the taste pop a bit more. 🤗
Just so you know; pickled herring in Norway is nowhere near the same as in Sweden. They mainly have salted herring with onion whilst we have dozens if not hundreds of types which are actually pickled.
A lesson about meatballs in Sweden, not all meatballs taste the same, as you can vary their seasoning. When it comes to the beer, and she said she prefers light beer, in the US you can't make good beer that tastes good. If you want to drink Swedish beer and get good beer, you should choose beer from what we in Sweden call micro breweries, as they do not produce large quantities of beer. They make a smaller amount of beer, but then have higher quality and tastier beer. Since darker beers are more flavorful than lighter beers.
You are referring to the most popular American beers. But there are plenty of good beers in the US, and quite a few are available at Systembolaget. Microbreweries are also very common in the US.
One thing you might get at IKEA that you didn't show in the video is Kladdkaka. Could be done at home, it's like a chocolate sticky cake that usually women die for. Especially pregnant women usually crave for it and men get hit in the head if they forget to stock up enough. So that's why I'm single I guess. I don't wanna get hit in the head with a shovel. 🤣 That fish soup with aioli seems to be very Italian to me. Never heard of it in my life. Mussels or aioli isn't exactly Swedish. Swedes have mostly stolen every food tradition from elsewhere. For example every friday is "Taco night" were you serve tacos and burritos. But ye anything with potatoes and meat (or fish) is usually Scandinavian or Finnish. 😀 Thank you for sharing your journey. It's fun to see how other people reacts to your country. Hope you guys post more videos! Thanks again! 😀
"It came from the Vikings about 500 years ago." There were no Vikings left only 500 years ago; it was more like 1000 years ago. The name Akvavit comes from Aqua Vitale, the water of life.
In sweden , swedish meatballs is more of a home food since its so easy to make at home and when going to a resturant I usually feel like it would be a "waste" to get meatballs there when i can make just as good ones at home haha
@@2xtreem4u Smakar skit och luktar fis.
@@2xtreem4u Nej det är du som inte kan göra goda köttbullar som tycker de där smakar bra.
Totally agree
This it it you get make them at home. If you go out for cheap it's kebab or pizza, a burger. Going fancy it's meat or shellfish. Altho a Lasanga out is not bad.
That said a few resturants on the tourist street of Stockholm have them made with elk. It's a whole different taste.
To bad you didnt get an pressgurka (quick pickeled cucumber with yours)
Thanks. Exactly what I came to say. 😁👍
You always spread butter on knäckebröd (crisp bread) - and it's also perfect to put slices of cheese on top of it.
Good to know!! Sounds delicious. Thanks for the information :)
@@JacobandJennyTravel unless you use soft cheese. in the tubes
I usually add cottage cheese and some spices (mostly grillkrydda), but you can put basically anything you would put on "normal" bread on it.
Getting meatballs at IKEA in Sweden is like going to the US to eat at McDonalds.
Im glad you chose to find proper meatballs!
There is just one difference. Meatballs at Ikea taste ok and food at McDonalds taste like sht
Hahaha that makes sense!! Thanks for watching :)
To be fair the lunch hall in IKEA is pretty damn good.
@@catd11ng74 no dude, just no
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Yes dude.
A thought -
In central Stockholm you find either street food or fancy restaurants.
If you want to try food that the average Swede would eat I'd reccomend you to find a "blue collar" lunch restaurant. Or look for the word "husmanskost" (you will find it in a truckers diner).
Not sure how many Swedes that would eat "gravlax" for lunch or supper...
@@danielpalmberg3371 How true. If you want to experience genuine Swedish food, visit a lunchrestaurang! Same goes for most countries. Go to the places where locals go. Before finding out what real Italian food was like, I wasted tons of money and way too much time doing tourist traps. Then, Italian friends I made took me to restaurants out of this world. Later, they came and visited me in Sweden, where we feasted on moose, reindeer, yellow pea soup/ärtsoppa, cold smoked pork belly and oven-baked pike (and a lot of salubrious beverages).
Thank you so much for the helpful information :)
You have a point, but I do think they were able to taste a nice variety of Swedish foods, even though the toast skagen and gravad lax were a little fancier they are very common here in Sweden.
I've been a swede my entire life! 🇸🇪
The viking era in Sweden ended around year 1050...
500 years ago would be the end of the younger middle ages.
Ackchyually meme needed here for this nerd
Reacted to that too 😸
That is good to know! Thank you for watching :)
500 yrs ago was in the early 16:th century a couple of years after the coronation of Gustav Vasa - the first Swedish king. The viking era was about 5-800 yrs before that. The early 16:th century was also about 250 yrs before USA became a country. So 500 yrs ago is hard to deal with for an American.
Köttbullar/meatball is very polular in Sweden! But its something you have eaten since kindergarden and also very popular kids food so i think the average Sweed just prefer to eat something else when going out. Also Sweden have a big variation of cuisine so if you want to eat köttbullar during lunch you just have to found a restaurant that serve more traditional Swedish food, or at least is not i thai, indian, Lebanese restaurant so on.
If you want to try something really fancy then try a Wallenbergare! Think of a gigantic meatball but lot more fancy (ingridient wise)!
That is all good to know!! Thank you for the information :)
Im a Swede myself, this is feelgood watching :D
We are glad to hear that! Thanks for watching :)
Fried herring with mash is also a staple in Finland and so is knäckebröd (näkkileipä). Pickled, fried herring is a thing in Sweden but not fried, pickled herring. Fried salted herring is an old traditional dish.
Worth pointing out is that the herring used in Finland and the Eastern part of Sweden that is fried is Baltic Herring (in Swedish strömming). It lives in the brackish water of the Baltics and is smaller than its North Sea/Atlantic cousin. There is definitely a difference, even if the technical difference is where the fish is landed.
That is great to know!! We could see that! Hope you're doing well friend :)
You really did good to find Kajsas Fisk. Their fish soup is renowned.
Yay we are so happy to hear that! Thank you for watching :)
If you haven't already, please try stekt fläsk med löksås (fried pork with onion sauce), Biff a la Lindström (fried beef patties with capers and pickled beetroot) and Wallenbergare (finely ground veal patties with cream and egg yolks).
I love stekt strömming with mash, had it many many times in a wide variety of restaurants. Still have yet to ever have it served with a white sauce, it's always served with browned butter and lingonberries.
Sounds delicious!! Thanks for your comment :)
If you ever get the chance, you should also try the meatballs and lingonberry with "pressgurka". Thanks for a great video! 👍
Sounds amazing! Thank you for watching :)
If anyone visiting Stockholm would like to have Swedish meatballs, here is a few recommendations: Operakällaren/Operabaren, Prinsen, Rich, Pelikan, Tranan, Gyllene Freden, Kryp in, Tradition, Grodan Grev Ture, Broms, Nybrogatan 38, PA&Co, Diplomat, Meatballs for the people, Bakfickan, Nisch, just to name a few!
Yes, yes, yes to all of them. And not only for their meatballs.
Great information!! Thanks for the recommendations :)
As others have pointed out, most Swedes won't order meat balls at a restaurant. I don't. What I order is typically the posh version of them, called Wallenbergare. They are bigger, slightly flattened meat balls made of minced veal, whipped cream and egg yolk. Meatballs is something you make yourself or buy at the grocery store and just heat in your pan. And we actually often eat them with pasta and ketchup!
That makes sense!! Thank you for the information :)
It depends on how fancy you want to make meal. Likes it has been pointed the regular version of meatballs you do at home. But of one of my alltime favorire dishes Ihave tried was venison meatballs with a chantarellr sauce. If you want more fancy meatballs i would try at restaurant f you dont know how to cook "wild game" in a proper way.
You can get very nice meatballs at good restaurants
Traditional meatballs are made quite small, which is a bit more work, so not as cost effective for restaurants. For a similar experience you can try "pannbiff" which is the same mix but made larger and thus don't stay round but ends up more like a Hamburger patty
That is good to know!! Thank you :)
the fried herring wants lingonberry as well! Gravad lax is with salt, sugar and dill and you keep it chilled for 2-4 days before is ready
Yum that sounds delicious!! Thank you for watching :)
Meatballs are a dish that is mostly associated with making them at home yourself. When I would also say that it is more common to have them with boiled potatoes, and you should have pickled cucumber with them.
Same as dishes with falukorv.
To be fair, making meatballs at home nowadays is mostly about bying ready made ones, either frozen or chilled, and just heating them up in the frying pan.
@@57thorns Personally, I make my own. It really is a lot better texture and taste when you do it yourself, and they are so easy.
That makes sense!! Thank you for watching :)
Restaurant "Soldaten Švejk" is really good, priced well and it is walk in.
Swedish meatballs, plankstek or wallenbergare are all classic Swedish dishes worth trying. 👍
Another one is, of course, Pelikan.
Thank you so much for the recommendations :)
2:50 Just to point out, we have pickled fried herring here in Sweden. You coat the herring in flour, then fry it in the pan and after you pickle it. So it is soggy. It's quite good tbh.
Pickled fried herring, not fried pickled herring. That would be weird ;)
@anders24014 engelska är svårt ;)
Wow that is good to know!! Thanks for the information :)
I love this video but definitely spat my wine out when you said Vikings were 500 years ago 😂😮
Hahahaha oops 😂🍷 we owe you some wine lol!!
There are actually quite a few restaurants that have meatballs quite close where you were! Meatballsb is a staple food here in Sweden and we eat it a lot! But mostly we eat it at home. It's usually served in restaurants that serves traditional "Husmanskost" traditional Swedish food.
Good to know!! Thanks for the information :)
“Smells like I’m going to wear a lampshade for dinner” “just throw it back” 😅 adorable 😊
Hahaha!! I am glad you enjoyed that as much as I did 😂 thanks for your comment friend :)
Skåne akvavit is a snaps, spiced spirits, with caraway, anise and fennel.
All sounds amazing! Thank you for watching :)
Gravad lax is cured with a salt,sugar,dill and some recipe also adds whitepeper mix.
The traditional recipe for gravad lax ("buried salmon") involves burying the package in the soil for some time. Nowadays it's done differently, but the result is the same.
Thank you so much for the information :)
"Köttbullar" is "husmanskost" = traditional home cooked food!
There is resturantes in bigger citys that specialise on it for tourists.
And its often served at lunch resturantes as "dagens rätt", the meal of the day.. typical at mondays!
Herring is popular and used in many forms.. becuse we are sourunded by herring rich waters!
Its in moste case "Baltic herring" that becomes "Stekt strömming", served at wednseday, and "atlantic herring" that become pickled "Sill"! Becuse at the atlantic shoreline we tend to eat more "stekt makrill" = fried makerell!
Soo for fun.. our traditional "husmanskost"/home cooked meals.. thirsday is fried pork, with brown beans or onion sauce! (White beans is actulay tastier)!
Thursday is "Ärtsoppa med fläsk" and "pannkakor med sylt" as desert! And if one was in the military back then a glass of Punch especialy in the Navy!
Friday is on the end of the week.. it could mean different, its dependent on if one got the salary yet.. fresh fish like cod or havock with eggsause, or liver caserol.. in worste case "pölsa med rödbetor och ägg"! Pölsa is minced liver and kidney mixed with Barley, it dont look nice, it dont taste bad, its high in nutrients, and its the condiments that make it "a whole meal"!
Saturday and Sunday is mixed cases.. but if one have got ones salary.. one could make it a bit "fancyer" on the weekend!
Today "Taco Friday" is wery popular in homes with children.. becuse parents are exhausted, the kids can chose and pick, its easy to make.. all ingrediens is there at the store.. just buy and fry up some minced meat, put in some prepacked herb mixes!
"10 Typical Swedish Meals (Husmanskost)"
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I don't agree that in bigger cities we serve meatballs mostly for tourists. Meatballs is a typical business lunch meal too, or a after work dish too. At least in Stockholm is something locals eat often, specially in certain parts of Stockholm like Södermalm and Östermalm.
@@EEmB I never sad that.. but in bigger citys there is places that focus on tourists and there cravings for "Swedish meatballs"!
And I think that could be expensive, long cues, but it could be worth the effort to try ones in there life "real swedish meatballs", kinda grandmothers recepy and all the right condiments!
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Regarding kebab being so common in Sweden and Finland. What I've understood is that many of the Turkish and/or Kurdish immigrants who came to northern Europe in late 80's and 90's started kebab shops which made the food really widely available. Might be other reasons as well, but this definitely is one.
Also in restaurants, you are more likely to find meatballs from the kids menu. Generally they are more home food as many here already mentioned.
Turkey got lots of Swedish turist learning kebab
Kebab spread from Germany who truly got lots of Turkish immigrants.
@@Merecir
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i have not ever seen a single german selling kebab in sweden
@@emilialarsson496 We also eat lots of pizza and pasta, without any Italian immigrants....
You do not need immigration from an area to adopt some of their culture.
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Of course you can pickle fried herring. It’s really good and a christmas staple in many homes.
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Yes there is also fried pickled herring, or pickled fried herring to be exact. It's really good!
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I love all youtubers are so obsessed with Fika. Its like coffe and a cake. They do that in all countries.
yes but in France they smell bad in the same time....
They really don't. Yes, they have coffee, yes, cake exists too, but fika isn't the product itself.
Not in Norway. They prefer lunsjpakke, which is a pack/set/bunch of sandwiches often containing things like goat cheese, ham and leverpostei.
@@HerrBrutal-bl2fk No, a lunsjpakke is the main meal for lunch in Norway.
Fika in general is a coffe brake, that you can have even without a baked goods OR with tea (!). ThaIn sweden we have coffee several times a day… but you can have fika for breakfast!
Normally a fika brake can be a couple of hours into the workday (before lunch), and then after lunch, later in the afternoon, after dinner and even lateer in the evening. We drink A LOT of coffee here in Sweden.
But to meet up for ”fika” will generally happen in the afternoon and then you sit down for a coffee, some sweet treat like a bulle or cake and a real chat.
@@snaxon Perhaps I didn't make myself clear. Lunsjpakke is often a rather filling meal, so therefore most Norwegians don't have room for a fika around 2 hours before and/or after lunch. But sometimes they manage to squeeze in a Kvikk Lunsj (similar to Kit Kat).
For swedes on the west coast, it’s always hilarious to see people eating toast Skagen in Stockholm.
Thank you for your video and reactions. It is always as fun, educational and rewarding, to see others react to our dearest culture, the food.
Food is sensitive, full of memories, maybe not always positive. But you two do it well, and with pleasure.
Mixing classic dishes such as Toast Skagern with kebabs and fika, is as daring as it is admirable.
Nice comments increase the value even more.
And my own favorite?
The next time my wife and I get married, we'll be offering raggmunk/rårake, fried pork and raw stir-fried lingonberries.
All this is washed down with liberal amounts of beer, brewed by my son.
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Meatballs (as we call them in Sweden) is something pretty much every Swede has eaten, but as a dish it’s more common among children (not saying adults don’t eat it too, but it has the reputation of being a very “simple” dish), but we include them on our holiday food table, so for Christmas, Easter and Midsummer you can probably find meatballs among the other foods). But it looks like you had a nice selection of actual authentic Swedish food (and kebab - Swedish in that many Swedes eat it), glad to see you got some good meatballs, they can be hit and miss depending on where you get them. And the fish place is where I’ve eaten lunch many time, and had that very same fish soup. Happy travels!
If you are not done testing Swedish food. Here are some suggestions:
**Toast skagen** would be my top recommendation too. (Done)
**Köttbullar** (meatballs) are of course a classic, as are
**raggmunk** and **råraka** (two kinds of potato pancakes, served savoury),
**ärtsoppa** (pea soup), and
**pyttipanna** (diced and fried potatoes, onion and sausage, usually with a fried egg and pickled beetroots on the side).
Fish in **pepparrotsås** (horseradish sauce) or dillsås (dill sauce) can also be very good.
Various dishes with kantareller (chantarelle mushrooms) are a seasonal favorite.
**Västerbottenpaj** is a nice pie with famous Västerbottensost cheese.
Nicer restaurants often have moose, reindeer or dear meat.
**Gratäng** is a baked single-dish meal, my favorite is fiskgratäng med moss (with fish and potato puree).
**Janssons frestelse** is classic Christmas gratäng with anchovies.
**Kålpudding** is another home classic, shredded cabbage baked with minced meat and rice.
**Smörgåstårta** is a classic for any cellebration, it's basically a "layered cake" made out of bread and things you'd put on a sandwich.
One quite exotic dish I like and haven't seen anyone else mention yet is **nypponsoppa**. It's a sweet soup made out of rose hips.
Bra sammanfattning. Alla dessa rätter kommer att serveras på min begravning. Och alla som kräver del av mitt arv måste äta av allt. Med glädje. Notarius publicus bevakar allas respons noga. Efterrätten är tuggfri.
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A few years ago, I would have recommended the elk meatballs served at a small restaurant on Stortorget i Gamla Stan, but I haven't been there since the owners changed, so I don't know if they as good as before.
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The sirens you heard are not actually police sirens, but fire department. There is a difference tone and decibel in each siren (firedept, police, ambulance, Customs). You can tell the difference if you are used to it 😊
Hi guys. All dishes look so good when you eat them, it's interesting to hear how you like the dishes, you may have seen that we have something called the dish of the day which usually includes food, salad, bread, drink and coffee, it is usually served between 10.00 to 14.00, the alcohol you tried (called nubbe) we usually drink it with herring and crayfish etc and preferably on Christmas Eve midsummer and in August for the crayfish season or whenever Preferably you want a nubbe. Have a nice stay 🌭👋
It was all so delicious!! Thanks for the great information :)
Pickled fried herring is more of a southern Swedish thing and is just as delicious. Fried herring is usually served with lingonberry jam either on dark rye bread or with mashed potatoes.
The knäckebröd traditionally can be crushed and sprinkled on top of filmjölk (fermented milk) for breakfast and around Christmas you can skip the knäckebröd and crush Swedish gingerbread cookies on the filmjölk instead.
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I like all the dishes you tried and I'm happy you did try them all and then liked them as well.
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Pickled herring (inlagd sill) is much more iconic and traditional in Sweden, try that there, so many different sauces.
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There is a swedish verson of kebab which is even tastier called Souvas.
It's based on reindeer meat.
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If you want to try meatballs in a restaurant, you should go to Meatballs for the people. They got some nice varieties of meats.
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10:38: That's mustard. Or a mustard sauce. UPDATE: meatballs are absolutely no big deal in Sweden. You usually eat it about once a week, and it is not the first thing you think about when going to a restaurant.
A Swede here and i only eat meatballs at home, simple to do and taste yummie, if i'm eating on a restaurant i chose other food. We eat a lot of meatballs in Sweden but i think it's more of a everyday food with the kids after work for most of us.
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Yes, fried and pickled herring is a thing and, it's lovely!
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When you had your meatballs it wasn't the police going by but the communal rescue service (used to be called fire department) going by. Fun fact, the sirens of the rescue service, police and ambulance sound different to each other so you can tell who wants a clear path in traffic in Sweden.
Also Jenny where did you get your jumpsuit, would like to get one.
Thanks for the information :) I got the jumpsuit from Amazon, here is the link: www.amazon.com/dp/B0BZSNC4YS?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_asin_title
13:39 The suger is called pärlsocker (pearl sugar)!❤❤❤🇸🇪
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Glad to see you enjoyed the swedish food
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Gravad lax, although younger than knäckebröd which has been around for millenias, is also a very old Swedish delicacy. Back in the day they used to bury the salmon to ferment it "hence the name grav = grave" and has been around since at least the 1300s. The modern recipe hails from the 16-1700s. The taste is much different from the old recipe, which would be more close to surströmming than anything else. Most certainly one of my favorites from the Swedish cuisine if i had to chose.
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Fun to see you eat at my regular lunch restaurants! I usually ask for lingonberries with my fried herring. 😊
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Meatballs are definitely one the most favorite foods we got here in Sweden especially the kids eat it often. But it’s not something you eat at a restaurant, you eat it so often at home, school or preschool. You can also eat it with applesauce instead of lingonberry jam.
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You picked the right place to eat fried herring. Kajsas is one of the best places for that in Stockholm.
And walking distance from my work. :)
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Great energy - makes me smile, thank you! 🙂Köttbullar should be found easily... Makes me wonder. Hahaha... Got hungry as beep!
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Again a wonderful video ❤❤❤❤❤❤
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Meatballs are what we call "Husmanskost" = homecooking/every day food. Thats why we tend to eat other kinds of foods when eating out.
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Unfortently the place to go for meatballs seem to closed. It's a mire italian inspired place there. It was next to hötorget in the location Posto is now. They had swedish husmanscost and was a really nice place for lunch. Most times we want other foods then the husmanskost for food when other people make it. We make all the food at home so not feel like pay for others to make it. It's more a treat go out eat instead of a way to eat for the day in sweden
Meatballs at restaurants is pretty much lowest tire establishments. But also highest. But in the end, it’s mostly home cooked. You missed the sour gherkin.
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0:28 love the guys shirt
😅😅 hahah
You should try Swedish pizza, at least one of the 100 or so available varieties. ;)
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yes there is fried pickled Herring and its super awesome.....
Kajsas fisk is classic. Love their fried herring!
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Thanks for visiting!
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Meatballs is mostly served as lunch in restaurants but not every day. Also we do our own meatballs at home a lot 😊
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I don't like IKEA's meatballs, although the chicken meatballs are acceptable. But taste varies ... I make excellent meatballs myself, though ... :) Pre-made meatballs, that you can buy in EVERY grocery store, is staple food in every household. (Vegetarians and vegans buy "meat free meatballs", they are quite tasty too ...)
Great pronunciation of Toast Skagen!
The fried herring is, sorry to say it, served the wrong way (and this is not just my opinion, remoulad sauce is the danish was to serve it). It should be served with lingonberrys, pickled cucumber and melted butter.
The bread is called knäckebröd or hårdbröd (cracking bread or hard bread) and it’s baked that way, not dried out. Also, the vikings did not exist 500 years ago, the Viking era ended almost 1000 years ago.
The liquor, akvavit (aqua vitae, water of life), or as we traditionally say “brännvin” (burning wine) is a traditional hard liquor that swedes drink befor, during and sometimes after a meal, especially during festivities. It’s basically liquor made from wheat and potatoes with herbs added to it.
If you are going to Stockholm and want to try Swedish meatballs I would recommend Pelikan or Tennstopet. But you are correct, swedes usually make it at home and don’t eat it at restaurants. Whatever you do, avoid the place called “Meatballs for the people”, it’s a tourist trap.
And also, that was fire fighters, not police! You can tell from the sound of the sirens!!
I really liked your vide, and I’m happy that you liked my hometown!
We make the meatballs at home, we don’t often order them in a restaurant
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Modern Swedish food is like Taco on Friday, sushi, pizza, falukorv and less and less of the husmanskost and husmanskost is not that old 150 years old or so.
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One of the most popular dishes in Sweden is an import from Italy, actually: Spaghetti Bolognese. Adapted to a Swedish version over the years, of course, but served in every home as most kids loooove it.
@christinabronnestam8274 most Swedish food culture is a import.
We usually don’t go out to restaurants and eat meatballs. It’s usually homecooked.
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That fish soup looks soooooooooooooo good!
But not typical swedish. More like a french fish soup.
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Janssons frestelse/Janssons temptation is something you also have to try. That is so swedish as can be.
Thank you for the recommendation :)
Pretty much only eat meatballs in resturants when they serve them as a daily special. Many such places serve them maybe twice a month.
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Our beloved Swedish meatballs originally come from Turkey it was king Karl XII that toke the recipe to Sweden in eraly 17 hundred. Then Toast skagen is not a version of a shrimp cocktail... thats insultinig haha ;-)
I doubt that story actually, because Swedish meatballs are usually made with a mixture of pork and beef, and pork isn't really compatible with Islam.
Allot of us sweeds love kebab. The salmon you eat gravad, is laied i suger snd salt, whe have another way to preserv fish or mest, its rimmad. Only laied in salt
You should try raggmunk. 🙂
Thanks so much for the recommendation :)
Liked the reactions. Yes kebab is like second national dish. And no swede would go out to a pub/restaurant and eat meatballs even tho it´s delicious . This is how you tell they are tourists :D
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meatballs is so common in our ordinary dinner here and we have a ton og good fresh healty food u must taste
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14:08 K25 - you missed a great food court there. I can also recommed Blå Dörren for traditional Swedish food.
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You know it's a fancy place when you have to make your own sandwiches
You seem to be so fun to around with! Wish I could've joined for a food day.
You are so kind, thank you so much for your encouraging words friend :)
Wow yummy yummy
All so delicious :) hope you are well friend!!
I guess meatballs are such a common household dish that most places don’t even bother.. probably like finding mac & cheese at a resturant in the usa. Meatballs is way more common in like gas stations or cheap blue collar lunch-places though.
Fast food meatballs are very different from restaurant meatballs. The restaurants that serve meatballs are quite often the more expensive with high quality food and fine dining, places like Operakällaren, Prinsen, Rich, Pelikan, Tranan, Gyllene Freden, Kryp in, Tradition, Grodan Grev Ture, Broms, Nybrogatan 38, PA&Co, Diplomat, to name a few in. Stockholm
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The vikings was about a 1000-1200 years ago. I hope you guys try out smårgåstårta/sandich-cake also
sv.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vikingatiden
@@johaneklund1547 slight corretion 1000-1300 years ago
@@mikaeljohansson7848 hahah
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You should try kebabpizza with lettuce and red and white sauces - one of the nice perks of having people from different regions moving here and their foods mixed into a unique Swedish dish! ❤❤❤🇸🇪
My favorit that I used to go with was a kebab pizza with letuce,tomato,cucumber and french fries.
@@Templarofsteel88 One real hangover pizza that is, haha
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The knäckebröd (the crisp bread) is basic in Swedish cuisine. The sound, when you took a bite in it, sounded like it had absorbed the moisture in the air, and wasn't as crispy as it should've been. We all know the sound😂 But it's almost inevitable. Put salty butter on the bread to make the taste pop a bit more. 🤗
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Just so you know; pickled herring in Norway is nowhere near the same as in Sweden. They mainly have salted herring with onion whilst we have dozens if not hundreds of types which are actually pickled.
hi jenny and Jacob i got my Chrsimas tree up im so excited for Chritmas😀😃
That is amazing, Christmas is the best! Enjoy friend 🎄
There is definitely a fried and then pickled herring in Sweden!
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A lesson about meatballs in Sweden, not all meatballs taste the same, as you can vary their seasoning. When it comes to the beer, and she said she prefers light beer, in the US you can't make good beer that tastes good. If you want to drink Swedish beer and get good beer, you should choose beer from what we in Sweden call micro breweries, as they do not produce large quantities of beer. They make a smaller amount of beer, but then have higher quality and tastier beer. Since darker beers are more flavorful than lighter beers.
You are referring to the most popular American beers. But there are plenty of good beers in the US, and quite a few are available at Systembolaget. Microbreweries are also very common in the US.
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You must try sweedish kebabpizza and at this time a year julbord that is a christmas buffe
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Looks great!
It was all so delicious :)
I can promise you that most Swedes would rather eat a BigMac at "Donken" than pay a fortune for a shrimp sandwich in the tourist trap Hötorgshallen.
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The liquid (Akvavit) is snaps, and you drink it with the food as a shot.
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You should try kebab in Hötorgshallen, next time you are in Stockholm. La Gazelle, is the place.
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Yup Kebabs official food for sure. In bread, Talrik or Pizza
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Fried pickle herring is a thing. I do it every Christmas.
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One thing you might get at IKEA that you didn't show in the video is Kladdkaka. Could be done at home, it's like a chocolate sticky cake that usually women die for. Especially pregnant women usually crave for it and men get hit in the head if they forget to stock up enough. So that's why I'm single I guess. I don't wanna get hit in the head with a shovel. 🤣 That fish soup with aioli seems to be very Italian to me. Never heard of it in my life. Mussels or aioli isn't exactly Swedish. Swedes have mostly stolen every food tradition from elsewhere. For example every friday is "Taco night" were you serve tacos and burritos. But ye anything with potatoes and meat (or fish) is usually Scandinavian or Finnish. 😀 Thank you for sharing your journey. It's fun to see how other people reacts to your country. Hope you guys post more videos! Thanks again! 😀
We almost only eat meatballs at home, they are hard to find "out", bacause that is easy to make and easy to make a lot off for the family
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The Aquavit is suposed to open your taste buds, so the food will be more joyable..
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You should also have some "Saltgurka", meaning pickled gherkin toghether with that meatballs, mushed potatoes and lingonberry. 👋👍🙏....
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"It came from the Vikings about 500 years ago." There were no Vikings left only 500 years ago; it was more like 1000 years ago. The name Akvavit comes from Aqua Vitale, the water of life.
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The Viking era was from the 7th century to the year 1056 or 58 when the battle of Stanford bridge in Britain was lost .
Swedish food is great😀
Yes it is :)