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The part about setting glögg on fire … never heard of that being done here in Sweden. But we do heat it. Often by having a candel under the glögg pot, to keep it warm.
Same
I have experienced it once but that was my cousins' German mother so probably not a Swedish tradition.
Har inte heller hört talas om att man sätter eld på glöggen 😮
Is it even possible? Typically glögg contains far too little alcohol.
Historically, cognac or vodka was poured over a large piece of crystallized sugar (sockertopp) and set on fire. The melting sugar dripped down into the wine and spices. In France a similar beverage was called brûlot. The practice of setting glögg on fire is found in cookbooks from the 1800's.
Source Wikipedia/glögg and Spritmuseum.
Glögg is served with raisins and almonds. We always drink it during christmas, with or without alcohol. You should try it 😁
Surströmming is actually nice. But it smells terrible. Either you hate it or love it!
Sounds really Christmassy, Is it served warm or normally cold?
@@dwaynesview Warm
@@dwaynesview The closest thing to glögg id say is wine. So its really a warm wine, doesnt really taste like regular wine and there are different flavours.
@@dwaynesview It's mulled wine but better. And can also be alcohol free especially in kid friendly situations.
I'm surprised they didn't mention the fact that Sweden is home to the music app Spotify.
Me too, especially since it was a "shocker"-fact in the thumbnail for part 1. Clickbait 🤷♂
They said that in another video he wieved
Sweden burn waste and use the energy in the energy grid and to heat homes. But we recycle about 50% of all waste so there are not enough for to burn. To make up the shortfall, the UK and Norway happily pay to let us have their waste.
Well, not entirely true Im afraid. Or more precisely you are missing a couple of pieces in your story that might be important to explain, right?!
Yes, we import but we do it mostly due to the fact that we DON'T burn waste that is harmful to the environment.
In other words; We do recycle more or less everything that is bad for the environment and everything that can be used as a part of new material. The rest becomes heat and/or energy.
@@ExbotHero but we don't import trash simply because "we can" or "we have the capacity", we import trash because, our recycling is getting so good, there is not much left to burn, and during winter, we rely much on burning un-recycleable waste for warming of households (fjärrvärme), so we *need* to import something to burn. So we import trash to our trash-burning facilities (instead of building facilities for burning natural gas as many other countries do)
@@mahnas92 Correct, we have more extended district heating systems than UK or Norway.
Julmust is also used in Easter except it’s renamed to Påskmust but is the same thing…
About julbock.
No the sleigh is pulled by reinders or horse. Ones it was the julbock that came with beatings or presents (julklappar) a nordic krampus. With modernisation he came together with jultomten (father christmas), but now the julbock is just a straw decoration in some corners.
In finland father christmas just took over the name (julbock)/Joulupukki
We drove left steered cars even when we had left side traffic. The passenger seat was referred to as the suicide seat.
So it's the same issue British drivers have every time they pop over to mainland Europe.
It was also better to adopt right side traffic since all neighbouring nations and pretty much the entire continent had it...
There were very few accidents related to the shift since it was meticulously planned.
Having your running lights on at daytime has been proven to reduce the amount of accidents so it's entirely for safety.
Vehicles are easier to spot even in the middle of the day.
Cars sold for the Swedish market have their running lights turn on automatically with the ignition.
I am Swedish, born and raised, still living here.
I have never heard of either mixing gloegg with aqvavit nor setting it on fire. Maybe it is some local tradition?
Surstomming is actually very nice, but it is an aquired taste.
Julmust is hard to describe, it has to be experienced. I love it!
By the way, LOVE your Sweden-day videos!
Surstömming doftar förjävligt
Julmust är bäst fö helvete
Right! Who has ever poured it over akvavit?
Watch Jonna Jinton explaining the dark and light seasons of Sweden!
Yes please👏🏼
I concur
as a Swede, watching this and the 1st episode back to back, I am very proud of many things that we've achived and what we've contributed to the world and for every time you've given us a clap, it sends chills down my spine.
If you ever decide to actually visit Stockholm, I'd buy you a beer.
Here's a fun gaming fact about Sweden!
After the banning of arcades back in the 80s, Radio store owner Owe Bergsten went to Japan and secured exclusive distribution rights for Nintendo for the Nordics, which his company Bergsala holds to this day. In the late 80s/early 90s, Sweden was the biggest market for Nintendo outside of Japan!
This, along with subsidized home computers meant that a Swedish video game industry emerged quickly. By 2021, the Swedish games industry employs over 8000 people, in 785 companies, with video games being 4.1% of Sweden's total service exports!
Notable studios are DICE (Battlefield, Mirror's Edge), Mojang (Minecraft), Paradox (Cities Skylines, Stellaris, Crusader Kings), Embracer Group (owns Tomb Raider, Lord Of The Rings, Dead Island and many more IPs in games), Thunderful (Steamworld games), avalance (Just Cause) and King (Candy crush)
In terms of music, Avicii is one of our biggest stars, alongside Zara Larsson and Robyn, but there are also some big song writers (look up Max Martin) and a massive metal scene (In Flames, Amon Amarth, Hammerfall, Amaranthe, Sabaton etc.)
Fun fact about Swedish metal band Sabaton is also that they recently were awarded Enlighteners of the Year. An award usually given to scientists, journalists etc. Watch their music videos and you'll understand why quickly!
Lastly, with Loreen winning the Eurovision song contest this year, were tied with Ireland for the most wins ever and Loreen were the first female winner to win twice. Her songwriting team were also the first to win twice!
No, there are is not really any goats pulling the Santa sleigh. There are only rare old pictures of one goat doing this (on the ground). But before Santa, it was a billy goat (a man with goat face mask) that delivered the Christmas presents. Or rather just a piece of wood. They knocked (old sw. klappa) on the door, opened it, threw in the wood, and quickly left again. Hence Christmas present is still called julklapp (Christmas knock) in Swedish.
And it was in fact Russian submarines in our archipelago, but a lot of people for some reason didn't believe it and started joking about it.
Both moose and reindeer are delicious animals. And to your question, yes you can find restaurants serving it in Stockholm. Really good ones at that. And some supermarkets even sell it. Here in the north, it's readily available throughout there year and I know many hunter families who's main source of meat comes from moose.
So, when you come to Stockholm, make sure to google for a spot that serves these two fabolous animals. Personally I really like going to Aardbeg Embassy when in Stockholm.
Oh wow I definitely have to try some Moose an Reindeer when I eventually come and visit. I just googled Aardbeg Embassy. The food looks so so good!!
@@dwaynesview Yeah you must try it, though I must say that it is very expensive. If you are buying it in a store, reindeer meat can easily cost the equivalent of 25-30£/kg
@@dwaynesview Moose almost is semilar to cow and oxe.
Reindeer is my new favorite meat, but it’s hard to find at a good price in the south of Sweden (Jönköping) except in like December. Has been a New Year’s Eve staple for us to have reindeer filet as our main course. 😋
Moose steak is a childhood favorite of mine ❤ deer (hjort) is also so good.
Lagom in swedish is about sharing. If You share bread or whisky, You take so all get same slice or milliliter.
We have the same in Danish named tilpas. You can try to transplate by danglish too. Its in beer You drink until You pas a mark on the big bottle in wood. You share.
And in Danish as swedish too. Til pas is about everything. If You eat You can eat too much, til pas/lagom or reamain hungry.
Shoes has to be tilpas as well. Too small is not good, Lagom/tilpas is. Some know what too big shoes are. they are not til pas.
Clothe of and on has many rules, but where there are no rules You can clothe so You are tilpas by feeling fine with no clothe, a little here and there and all over.
I didn't realize how much English i used and was surrounded with until my daughter at four years old was fluent in English and i had to force her to speak Swedish more so she wouldn't have a hard time in school. Born and raised Swede here 😂
Wow! So English is so ingrained in the culture that your daughter was fluent in English before Swedish. That’s so fascinating. It might get to the point where the Swedish language will actively need preserving.
As a Swedish preschool teacher I would say this is not representative of Swedish children at all. Swedish kids speak Swedish as their native and first language.
Hur kommer det sig att ditt barn pratar engelska som sitt första språk?
@@tillfalligt1148 vad är problemet med engelska va första språket?
@@RoseQuartz692 Det är snarare så att jag tycker att det är märkligt att en förälder som har svenska som modersmål pratar så mycket engelska med sitt barn att barnet talade flytande engelska men inte flytande svenska, i Sverige, i en svenskspråkig miljö och med svensk förälder. Vi är själva en tvåspråkig familj och jag har arbetat med tvåspråkiga barn, så jag ser inte tvåspråkighet som ett problem, tvärtom. Det var det ovanstående jag tyckte var besynnerligt.
You should also go to Gothenburg! Gothenburg got Liseberg, the best amusement park in sweden. They also got lots of museums like Universeum, Volvo museum, Aeroseum, Göteborgs Natur historiska museum (Gothenburg's Natural History Museum with the whale) and lots more!
Nah go to zip adventure park in Umeå
yeah he should go to gothenburg
Is Gothenburg really the translation of Göteborg? Viste jag inte
@@BoeZshortsJapp
Okej👍
We have what we call wasp years or wasp summers which just mean that some years there's tons of wasps during summer and other years there's hardly any. I hate wasp years 😂 Oh and it's gift, not yeft... And also, I have never ever during my 42 years long life seen anyone set glögg on fire! Glögg is like German glüvine.
Yes, IKEA is a Swedish company founded in 1943 by Ingvar Kamprad (1926-2018). The first letter "I" stands for Ingvar, "K" for Kamprad, "E" for the older name Elmtaryd (today Älmtaryd) which is the name of the small village where Ingvar grew up, and "A" for the parish Agunnaryd where Älmtaryd is located (I-ngvar K-amprad E-lmtaryd A-gunnaryd).
Jag var i både Älmtaryd, Agunnaryd och IKEA museum igår 😂🫡
Speaking of the part where danish, norwegian and swedish are basically the same languages I have an example. The other day I was playing a sandbox game and me and another guy went into a private server. His english was not very good so I asked where he was from. He was apparently from Norway and being a proud swede myself we started having conversations with each other in OUR OWN languages. I was speaking swedish and he was speaking norwegian. It was a great time and it was really fun to actually learn how similar the languages are really!
No swedes realy get spoken Danish though
You are usually never allergic to wasp unless you had been stung earlier in life
Regarding language in Sweden.. I can only speak for my generation and school.. but we were able to take german or french at 5th year (as we were 11 years old) to test and then select what to "major in" as grades started in grade 7-9.
In my school we also had a teacher who teached a optional class of spanish that I took just because I liked a girl... didn't work out and the class wasn't graded. 😂
So yeah.. we learn english from age 11 to 18 and don't dub language on tv so that's why we are good at it.
Next on... surströmming. IF eaten right you have hardbread or a rolled soft bread with boiled potatoes, chives or red leeks and sourcreme and dill together with small pieces of the fish sprinkled out.. The taste is best compared to a really strong cheese mixed with ammonia.... doesn't sound good and it's a special taste -but If done right it's not that bad. I tried it just last year and were a little disapointed due to all the videos online and I just went "This is kinda ok.." instead of running to a toilet to barf.
Lastly, a fun fact about Julmust is that it comes from a patented standard mix that you need to keep in order to call it julmust. Several companies are then able to make their own take on the drink -but the one that outsell Coca Cola during christmas comes from "Apotekarnes" and as you may know by now it's like a less carbonated and more malty version of cola. There is also a type next to it called "Svagdricka" that can be compared to a mix of julmust and beer... on later hand it seems that we ease our kids into beer drinkers. 😂
Then I would say that we need to get more people back into drinking Mead.. honney whine that goes back to the Viking area.
Yes it sounds strange to have the headlights on when the sun is up, but it's not for the drivers sake, it's for others to see the car earlier, it's proven.
The taxidermy whale is actually in the Natural history museum in Gothenburg. And it is open to public again. But only on election day since the word for whale (val) and election is the same in Swedish. And also on Valborg, a Swedish holiday 🐳 Yes, in Gothenburg we love puns.
Happy birthday from Sweden!🎉 and yes, there is resturants in Stockholm that has reindeer meat
@@Nekotaku_TV who do what?
I would like to make an addition to the parts about the language.
The swedish word "Flyg" translates to "Fly". Not the insect, which is called "Fluga" in Swedish, but the imperative (command) form of "Att flyga" - "to fly". That brings to mind this little swedish tongue-twister: "Flyg, fula fluga, flyg, och den fula flugan flög" which translates to: "Fly, ugly fly, fly, and the ugly fly flew."
If you read "Flyg" backwards, you get "Gylf", which translates to "Fly" - in the meaning of the hole in the front of a pair of pants, that can be closed with buttons or a zipper.
… and the zipper is a swedish invention
When we switched lanes in 1967 the amount of crashes actually decreased during the following years. Because nobody was used to driving on the right we drove more carefully leading to fewer accidents.
In Sweden we have tap water that tastes better than water bottles from store. That being said we got some real clean and tasty water.
If you want to get good reindeer meat, it's better to come up north.
Edit, very important: Surströmming is an INGREDIENT! You're meant to have a little of it in a thin bread roll with other things like mayo, lettuce, cucumber etc., NOT eat it as it is!
Edit 2: The left-to-right switch was actually a vote. People voted if we should switch or not. Funnily enough, the vote failed, but we switched anyway.
Well I disagree about Surströmming. We eat it just like pickled herring with potato. But also add chopped union and swedishflatbread.
Sweden switched to driving on the right because it led to less car accidents and trouble when crossing the border to ours neighboring countries.
not only neighbouring, most of the world drives on the right so its just easy, its like with the metric system, its just easy, but some places just refuse to improve :)
But the people voted no the no won but they change it anyway,
Yes! We are driving with our headlights on during daytime. Actually, vehicles are more visible in daytime.. Believe it or not..
I ❤ the fact that I can hear the Swedish National Anthem. I am Swedish and I get almost tears in my eyes 🇸🇪🌺 its so beautiful. By the end of the song we say:
"I want to live and die in the Scandinavia"
Its powerful ❤️
Vi säger "norden" inte skandinavien. De betyder inte samma sak.
Here's a funny translation for you guys:
Julmust is literally translated to Christmas-dank.
Dank meaning unpleasantly damp and cold is translated to must, or fuktig.
Ik cus i am Swedish
Surströmming ”Sourfish”is Fantastic! Importent to eat it the right way, whit potato, union, butter and bread
If you come to Sweden in December you should go to a restaurant that serves "Julbord" which translates into "Christmas table". It's a traditional Swedish Christmas smorgasbord. I can almost guarantee you will find at least one moose dish. Put on loose pants.
Julmust is taste like a crossing between Coca-Cola and beer , with a hint on dark caramel.
Note: only for sale during Christmas but can be found in store already in Oktoberfest. It’s also sold during the Easter but goes under the name Påskmust.
Ye true / Ja sant
Påskmust är bara för svaga människor
Funny, because I remember when Coca Cola bought a plant and made their own coca cola julmust mix (Bjäremust) and it was discontinued after two seasons. XD
Not true at all - julmust tastes nothing like Coca-Cola. It has a taste of its very own; the original recipe for the brew is a well-kept secret (supposedly known by only three persons). Julmust was created by Harry Roberts and his father Robert Roberts in 1910 as a non-alcoholic alternative to beer. The syrup is still made exclusively by Roberts in Örebro. The syrup is sold to different soft drink manufacturers who then make the final product in their own way. This means that the must from different companies does not taste the same, although they are made of the same syrup.
i never realised it tasted like beer and im 12...
Surstrumming is actually one of the better dishes that I eat during the year. It taste really good "if you it it the right way" but if you're not used to the smell, be prepare to run as that smell sticks to ANYTHING and EVERYTHING. You can't wash it away either. Could stay on you for a looong time.
I have been part of 3 times when a surströmming can is opened.
First time I managed to get it passed the nose and swallow it, but the other two times I just couldn't get it into my mouth because of the smell.
It's very salty and I liked it.
Götaland swede, btw.
He got the goat thing wrong. It can be traced to the Norse Gods and Thors two goats pulling his chariot. The God of Yule, our name for Christmas (jul), were actually Odin himself, known as Jolner (sorry, not sure what the English version would be).
But the Christmas goat were a spirit that were invisible during the most part of the year but took shape around Yule to make sure that the preparations were done correctly. Later it were the Youle goat that brought the gifts and I know my father spoke of this tradition so it must still have been around in this part of the country during the 1940's. The Swedish name for the Christmas gift, "julklapp", could be translated to Yule knock and they used to sneak around to the neighbours, knock on the door, opening it and throw in a gift and then trying to get away without getting caught.
2:28 Did you know that most wolves are more scared of humans than humans are of wolves? The only reasons a wolf would attack a human is if it either can't flee because it's cornered by said human or it is so hungry it just wants to eat anything edible in its path and a human gets in its way. Or if it's sick with something that makes it more aggressive.
5:05 The U in "sl*tstation" (because the moderation AI on RUclips is English I censored it) is pronounced long and not short.
24:00 Sweden imported lots of card from America, so most of their cars hat the driver seat on the left. That's one of the main reasons Sweden switched to right traffic.
When it comes to wasps,.. most people dies when they accidently drink a wasp that have crawled down into a soda can. So it is adviced to pour up the drink in a glas during the summer. And those who dies are often allergic because of messed up immune defence (v@xx)
The headlight thing is true, but newer cars have the "daytime running lights" like most other countries, which is OK. So the main headlight does not have to be on during daytime
They changed that you don't need to have lights on during the day, most cars have it as default tho.
Tungsten is heavy stone in swedish but the swedish word for tungsten is actually volfram
Surströmming is a very safe way to preserve fish for the long winter. As with other odours, when been in it some time, you get used to it. The taste is completely different and u should absolutely try it.
There are beginners' tricks with milk, lot's of potatoes, smetana, to make it milder.
The simple reason for switching from left hand traffic to right is that almost all swedish cars were built for right hand traffic - steering wheel on the left side in the car. This was because of car export. We built both Volvo and Saab, which we exported mainly to Germany, France and the US, who all had right hand traffic.
Most of those different "languages" in Sweden is in the northern part of Sweden.
Absolutely the majority of the swedish people speak swedish.
But it should be said that Sweden has a LOT of different dialects all over the country, and we actually can have a hard time to understand each other from south to north.
Surströmming is a historical dish. "The oldest known fish fermentation plant was in southern Sweden in Norje Sunnansund about 9,000 years ago. Among other things, there was industrial production of pickled fish, garum, in the Roman Empire. Surströmming is probably a dish with very old origins, but that the preservation method in Sweden first became common in the 16th century when a salt shortage arose due to King Gustav Vasa's warfare. The stream was then salted with less salt than usual. Whether this procedure was due to prior knowledge of acidified fish or whether the discovery of the preservation effect was a coincidence is debated ." They had no choice but eating the sour fish - and man are we greatful for that today.
It's good but it's like with sushi - you have to eat it a few times (the right way) to appreciate it. Tip - Let an experienced Swede open the can...
You can buy smoked raindear in most of the bigger supermarkets
23:08 When my dad was alive I know I asked him about this more than once and he didn't seem to have a problem at all with them switching to the right side.
They changed because many of our neighboring countries already drive on the right side.
I was 17 at the time of the swift. It was 5 am not pm we swifted and the following 3 weeks there were hardly any road accidents - everybody were very cautius and aware...
Julmust is very difficult to explain taste-wise, but it is veeery good. The best tasting one is the one of the brand ”Zeunertz” cus its not as sweet as its other counterpoints and has a more complex taste to explore
About glögg - the thing he's talking about is an old tradition that is pretty uncommon nowadays, where a sugar loaf was doused in cognac and lit on fire, melting down into even more of the brew. You sometimes see that done with liquer nowadays and it's called 'spritglögg' where 'sprit' means alchohol (usually referring to very strong alcohol). The most common type of glögg is 'vinglögg' which is more similar to mulled wine, like you say, or German glühwine, although vanilla is not as common in this type of glögg. It comes in both alcoholic and non-alcoholic versions but the types you buy in stores have very low alcohol percentage because of the regulation of alcohol. The stronger varieties you pretty much only find on Systembolaget.
Also, I love your enthusiasm. You absolutely have to come here some day!
Just had to add since you just said you love picking food, cured meats and such, you would absolutely love Swedish 'julbord' (lit. Christmas table). It is the epitome of winter smörgåsbord.
And just to answer a couple of questions: the main reason for changing from left to right traffic was 'safety' because the steering wheel was on the left, and the traffic accidents did go down pretty dramatically. You also asked about healthcare and it is largely covered by taxes, with free healthcare for all children under 18 and greatly subsidized for everyone else. That said there are some issues with queues, although they are regulated as well so you can't make someone queue indifinetely. Worth noting though about taxes is that filing your income tax return is pretty much no work at all here unless you own a business, everything is digitalized and kept track of for us and the taxes are withdrawn automatically every month (unless you own a business) so we barely even notice. We still live quite comfortably and we do get a lot of value for the taxes we do pay, even if I fully understand that it feels like a lot of taxes if you start counting.
Oh! We started to drive in the right lane because in swedish cars the stearing wheel is on the left side and it were the safer choice! I googled it .. i’m old, but not that old
Surströming basicly taste salty, but it is the combination with other ingredients that makes it good. + the beer and the liquor.
Surströmming is definitively an aquired taste. It doesn't taste as bad as it smells. After a bottle of vodka, or two it is quite edible. Surströmming is mostly eaten in northern part of Sweden. The season starts in august.
Before Sweden had Santa clause the tradition was that julbocken(the christmas goat) came and delivered the presents and i mean a person dressed as julbocken. In Sweden now a days Santa comes and delivers the present which is usually a relative dressed as Santa on the 24 of December which is when we celebrate Christmas in Sweden and personally meats the children and give them there presents while there awake.
The switching off driving on the left side of the road to the right side of the road was so organised that 0 accidents happened
Yes we are required to have light on at all times on cars. There are certain daytime running LED:s on new cars though. This is because it has been proven that it reduces accidents by cars being easier to spot.
Think of surströmming as anchovies. They have a strong taste and are used sparingly (or not, depending on taste) to add flavour.
The longest Swedish word is flagstångsknoppputsarmedels fabriksförsäljning Also julmust is like Coke but we drink it on Christmas
It’s cool to see this video since some of this is normal and we don’t realise it is only in Sweden. For example it’s just common sense to recycle because you can find recycling bags in a normal household.
You can get fine from the landlord if you do it wrong where I live they add a fine to your monthly rent if you do it wrong
The word "Lagom" is a short version of "Laget om" ("the whole team" is the closest translation) which means that if you got for example a pot of soup, you should only get so much that the whole team gets an equal amount.
The longest swedish word isnt actually Realisationsvinstbeskattning its, hypernervokustiskadiafragmakontravibrationer which is just a fancy way of saying "Hicka" (Hiccups)
Det längsta ordet i svenska språket är enligt Guinness Rekordbok nord-väster-sjö-kust-artilleri-flyg-spanings-simulator-anläggnings-materiel-underhålls-uppföljnings-system-diskussions-inläggs-förberedelse-arbeten med 131 bokstäver.
@@MrMovieLive det där är en mängd ihopsatta ord med bindestreck, jag vet inte hur höga det var när de tog med det i Guinness men något måste de ha vart, något starkt
@@gandarf80 Fan utan att dom bjöd på det också hahaha
Nope:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagom
And btw, Realisationsvinstbeskattning is the longest "real" word in Swedish, the problem with naming a "longest word" in Swedish is that because how the language works you can just keep adding words if you want. For example if you where trying to talk about a (hypothetical) salesman of particular sofa covers used mainly by people living in the Stockholm archipelago you could use the word (directly translated) Stockholm-archipelago-denizen-sofa-cover-salesman (without the "-"s).
I found reindeer meat in the local food store in the suburbs in southern Sweden..
Quite easy to get by.. something I've been told is moose tounge is a thing to behold and one of the best meats ever.
Moose tounge is delicious :)
I think, but I might be wrong, that the very first sting from a wasp isn't likely to be dangerous, but that you can develope an alergy from it, thus makeing future stings worse.
But allergies are complex, it might be different.
The fact what wasps is our most dangerous creature mostly shows how safe Sweden is then it comes to wild animals, if you not are allergic they are not dangerous at al. A sting hurts but most people dont suffer more than that.
Our fika is pretty similar to englands afternoon tea :) But we drink coffee or juice most of us, but tea is also totally okay during fika :)
There were 2 reasons why Sweden switched from left to right hand driving.
1) For some reason (don't ask me why), all cars in Sweden were designed for right hand driving.
2) Harmonization with the rest of Europe, that did drive on the right.
Ever heard about the Brit who went to Germany? While driving on the Autobahn, he heard an alert on the radio about someone driving against the trafic on the wrong side of the road. He shouted "ONE? There's bloody thousands of 'em!".
As a Swede I've never heard of the "Moose test" for cars. That's a new one! 😁
And also....
...Happy birthday!!!🎂
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moose_test
@@stiglarsson8405 Aha! Never new that was called a Moose test. Thanks!
Well, the Mercedes A-Class famously failed it, in front of a lot of journalists... Thus Mercedes "vält". ;)
@@magnusbergqvist2123 Haha. I do remember that!
@@dogpuppypuppy3347 There is more to it.. the mose test wasnt the first.. but a modern one, in Australia I belive the call it a Kangaro test?
However in 1965 Ralph Nader published his book.. "Unsafe at any speed"!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unsafe_at_Any_Speed
Well, Richard Simcott, a britt, is a polyglott. So you just hang in there with your languages. He knows around 20 languages rather fluently, and some 30 others that he knows to some extent. His Swedish is quite good actually.
Yes, Headlights must be on at all times in Sweden.
Of course only low beams unless light conditions dictates otherwise.
Because it makes a car easier to see.
Safety basically.
The goat is not pulling santas sleigh. Before we had santa the goat, which was basically a very scary santa would come and give presents and scare the children in to behaving.
Some say they goat is symbolising satan but can also be traced back to asatro which is the nordic mythology where goats pulled Thors carrige.
This we can see depicted in Elsa Beskows saga "Peter och Lottas jul".
France has the most McDonalds per capita in the EU.
It, together with most of the UK not falling far behind, is the country where the most fast food is served.
Swedes dont eat fast food that often, however, when commuting between places, particularly on the country side, one will often stop by at mcdonalds or the swedish counterpart Max.
Ahh ok. I should of guessed France as having the most. The UK definitely has loads. That’s why I was surprised that Sweden would be up there.
And Germany has the most McDonald's locations. Approximately 1,500
@@dwaynesview It's funny how everyone thinks of France when talking about high end cooking, but your average French eats really crappy food. It's not just mcdonalds that is big there, and the worse is, if they dont eat fried stuff with fries outside, they cook it at home. They'll still top it off with even more carbs in the form of bread and loads of fat in the form of the fattest cheeses known to mankind, not to mention all the sweets and the sweet breakfasts.
They're still quite skinny though, I think it's all the cynicism, coffee, depression, smoking that eats at them.
(French guy, raised in Sweden)
@@mikaelhultberg9543 Germany has done a very very good job at distributing its population in smaller/medium sized cities. I never felt like I was in an overcrowded place in Germany. I guess more cities = more locations.
surströmming is great when served properly
One important aspect of our language as to learn to speak it well is to know the 3 letters that US and UK does not have in their alphabet. Å Ä and Ö. Those letters becomes just O and A in
English and then you wont be able to say some words correctly.
Rain-dear on the Christmas table is a treat.
Moose are killed for the same reasons as any hunting season; it's just to prevent road accidents, and overpopulation of moose.
Also some states in sweden have drones with cpr equiptment (heart starters with diagnostic and piöossibility to conect thru it to doctor aid) that fly to the person needing and most people know cpr.
You talked about learning another language in school like german. In sweden we are taught Swedish, English and German/french/spanish (depending on which one you pick)
fun fact about the switching lanes part. There was 0 accidents which is surprising. It's called H-dagen or R-dagen. Don't remember. Which just means "right day"
Raindeer meat (and sometimes milk) are sold by sami people in Stockholm. I think it's only one genuine store situated in Norrviken in northern Stockholm. You can easily get there by commuter train.
As a Swedish vegan I can say that there are lots of restaurants that serve reindeer.
And one of the reasons for shifting from driving on the left to driving on the right is that it is safer to drive on the right hand side. The quick reaction when something unexpected happens when you drive is to pull your dominant hand downwards pulling your steering wheel with you. So for right handed people, which are in majority, you would drive of the road if you drive on the right hand side as opposed to into oncoming traffic if you drive on the left hand side.
We burn our trash ( thats not recycled or recyclable) to produce heat for heating and warm water in most cities. So when we are "to good" at recycling we need to buy trash so people dont freeze during winter. As things are going we will have to find a different way of heating our cities sooner rather than later because we are only getting better at not producing trash.
Swede here; How we discipline our kids, the dad and mom basically just looked at us with a swift and angry viking grimace if we did something bad. When I was 6 years old, my primal reaction was "Oh No! I angered my parents!". lol
Yeah and it worked to my heart burst when I make my parents disappointed at me and it’s still works today stranges😅
We share the same fear of wasps 😂. I’m 47 and have never been stung by one, and not knowing if I’m one of those severely allergic people is worrying so I avoid wasps at all cost 😆.
When I was out in the forest I was needed a pie break when I was on a road and the next toilet was a mile to, I go out to the forest and pie, a wasp sting my penis, I have never been so sceard I didn’t know I’m allergic to wasp I find out longer in life I’m not but that was scary so I understand that fear.
@@thetalker.7304 Not a place you’d want to be stung in either, regardless if you’re allergic or not 😂! Nasty little things, wasps 😖😖😖… I don’t mind bumblebees, they’re peaceful, but wasps are invasive and easily agitated.
We start read and study english already in 1th grade and in 6th grade we get to choose to also study german, spanish or french.
Glögg, gløgg or glögi is a spiced, usually alcoholic, mulled wine or spirit. Associated especially with Sweden, it is a traditional Nordic drink during winter, especially around Christma
Dalahäst technically means "horse from Dalarna" and and Dalarna can be directly translated as "The valleys". To conclude "Dalahäst" could be translated as "Horse of the valleys".
24:10 Yes you have to have dipped headlights, or daytime running lights on while driving.
A man in Sweden was working in a office but people forgot he work there so in 13 years he did nothing, and got paid for it. He is king that dude
Hello and thanks for a great video, just want to inform you that the julmust is quite hopy/flowery with toasted tones of deap caramel and not as sparkely as a soda more like a porter. The surströming itself is not lovley but in the right surcumstances and with the proper sides it is awseome( eat it outside whith mosquito candles😊)
The only thing I'd have to comment about here would be; For Swedes, Santa Claus does -not- ride on Goats, but on Reindeers :)
Julmust tastes like non carbonated coke but a bit sweeter.
But it is carbonated.
Mandatory with headlights. Switching driving side was due to better safety on the roads.
More fun facts: Surströmming, which is fermented herring, is actually becoming a rarity due to the fact of overfishing of herring.
In the 70's homosexuality was deemd an illness. The petty Swedes called in sick en masse claiming "to feel gay" and thus Homosexuality stopped being an illness.
Sweden switched to driving on the right side because, even though we had leftside traffic, the wheel was on the left side. Thus the switch to the much safer option of driving on the right was deemed better. And yes, it was chaotic for a few hours.
Swedish didn't become the official language of Sweden until 2009. The other languages are protected minority languages and someone who speaks any of the mentioned languages can request to have all official documents in that language. So if you really want to be petty, demand your tax report in Mäenkieli. Although, all communication from that moment on needs to be in that language and shit will take much longer, but at least you can annoy the county/state officials.
Semla wasn't mentioned, but it's a traditional Fat tuesday desert. It's sold mostly from December to February. Or October to April in some stores. Just like julmust is found in stores earlier and earlier each year. Swedes eat aroung 20 million Semla/year.
Swedes are kidn of obsessed with sweet things, so we have a special day for everyting from cinnamon rolls, pankakes to mudcake and waffles. If you can eat it, be sure there's a day to celebrate it.
Minecraft and CandyCrush aren't the only games made in Sweden. Battlefield and Teardown are just a few of the more popular ones made in Sweden.
We have our headlights on when driving because 6 months of the year, the sun doesn't really shine that much. Although, those are more position lights than anything useful. The lights in the back of the car don't need to be on at all times, only when visibility is poor (which it is most of the year with fog, heavy rain, snow storms and so on).
We have the most patents per capita in the world. So most things we take for granted are Swedish made or in some cases, improved.
As a recident of Stockholm, you can get most things here but if you want genuine raindeer or nordic stuff you'll need to go to Norrland or Sampi (Sami don't like the use of Lappland since Lapp is a derogatory name for Sami). I suggest you try Field berry (Åkerbär) jam, one of the rare delicacies in the world. Field berries only grow in certain conditons and in certain areas and are hand picked, thus 100ml jar of jam can cost between 130-250 SKR depending on availability. But it is soooo worth it!
When you come to Stockholm, try to be at the ABBA museum and Vasa Museum when they open, otherwise you'll have to deal with the crowds. Don't miss the wonderful vews from Monteliusvägen on Södermalm. One of many great outlooks in Stockholm. The city isn't just on a dozen islands, it's islands are also on various elevations. Spring/Summer is preferable over Fall/winter.
Reindeermeat is pretty easy to find, just ask around :) We have prepacked sandwiches etc with reindeermeat on trains etc all the way down in south of Sweden.
About swedes speak english. About 800 words u have in the english language origins from scandinavia.
And we started english classes from 4th grade (in the 70's).
Plus all movies or tv series are with swedish subtitles. Not that common outside of scandinavia. Even germans watch a lot of dubbed movies.
The combination of the 3 reasons above helps a lot to have english as a second language... i guess.
Btw, if you are planning to visit Sweden, try to be there at the 24 of august. Harry Mack is having a gig in Stockholm then.
How did you know I liked Harry Mack? LOL!
@@dwaynesview Because I simultaneously fell in the Harry mack rabbit hole as I was watching your swedish reaction videos. Hence you did some reactions to h.mack I thought you would like it.
Hello I am from Sweden and I love the videos you to about Sweden and I would love if you fly to Sweden
I'm from Sweden and I've never heard of goats pulling sants slaigh
I’m SWEDISH! Butt it’s ineresting to watch you se hos we have it in Sweden!
About no. 96. In 1981, a Soviet submarine ran aground outside Karlskrona naval base, sparking what would be nicknamed "the submarine hunting era". Basically, foreign naval vessels were seen and heard all along the Swedish coast during this time. Several times depth charges were dropped to force suspected submarines to the surface but nothing was ever officially found.
Speaking of julmust the grogg "Arga tomten" i.e. Angry Santa can be recommended. It consists of julmust and vodka although personally I prefer to mix it using gin..
Moose meat is tasty! Wasps are mainly active in hot summers, especially in August.
6:00 The Swedish word for tungsten is however volfram, originating from the scientific name wolfram