Born '82 in Sweden. NEVER have I EVER seen anyone have ketchup on Tacos. That's the weirdest thing I've ever heard in my entire life and I can guarantee it's NOT a common Swedish thing. Keep the videos up! I LOVE THEM! ❤
I grew up in Sweden in 70’s and 80’s, and at that time, there were known to be a type of person who would add either ketchup or lingonberries to just about any food. My mother referred to them as peasants (though I am sure this was not true of all peasants [farmers/bönder]). But maybe some of these stereotypical types persist in pockets of Swedish society, and she just happened to share some tacos with some of them?
@@fordhouse8b I would say that farmers were less likely to add ketchup to everything than working-class people in towns and cities. My mother and her siblings were kids in the 60's, 70's and 80's, my grandparents small-scale farmers, and to my grandparents, ketchup was something rather exotic that they would never ever add to any of the classic Swedish dishes my grandmother cooked. They'd put it on hotdogs, sure, but I don't think they ever cooked any themselves at home, only down by their summer cabin every once in a while, and even then not when it was just the two of them. They did have lingonberry jam with the usual dishes though, but not to excess and _definitely_ not with pancakes. In my experience, farmers tend to be a conservative bunch when it comes to food preferences, or at least they were up until my parents' generation.
@@Thaerii I probably should mention that my mother probably included most urban working class people under the sobriquet of peasant, since until fairly modern times the vast majority of Swedes dwelled in rural areas, and that when my mother was growing up (40’s and 50’s) most working class urbanites were only a couple of generations descent away from being peasants and farm laborers themselves. Yes, sometimes my mother could be a bit of a snob. She wasn’t very fond of either ketchup or lingonberries. I myself never did acquire an affinity for lingonberries as child, and mostly ate ketchup on hot dogs and the occasional burger. On my French fries I preferred mayonnaise. As an adult (in the US) I still like mayo on my fries, but will eat them with ketchup, or a blend of he two. Growing up in Sweden, in the second half of the 70’s and most of the 80’s, I also occasionally ate macaroni with ketchup, which my mother despised, as she wasn’t a great fan of either pasta or ketchup. As a broke college student in the US, at the very end of the 80’s and beginning of the 90’s, I did eat quite a bit of pasta with ketchup, since pasta was cheap and ketchup packets were essentially free from any fast food place. Hot sauce from Taco Bell was also a frequent component of my "spaghetti sauce,’” since that was the era of their 39 cent value menu. 10 tacos for $3.90 could not be beat, especially when I could also stuff my pockets with free hot sauce packets.
@@fordhouse8b I did suspect she was... I hated lingonberries as a kid but have gained an appretiation for them as an adult, while I loved ketchup then but now very much follow in my grandparents' footsteps and don't keep it in my home; it's for hotdogs and certain burgers only. I don't know when you were in Sweden last, but McDonald's, Burger King and Max all have a plethora of dips to choose from, so why settle for ketchup or mayo even at a mediocre fast food place?
@@Thaerii I don’t even remember the last time I had lingonberries, as they are not widely available in the US, and it has been almost 30 years since I last was in Sweden (1994). Just had a look at the Max menu. I would love if some burger chain in the US offered béarnaise sauce. Knorr Béarnaise sauce mix packets were a staple of my childhood. I don’t eat plain ketchup much at home, but I like to have it on hand, as it is a useful as an ingredient for a variety of sauces, dressings, or dishes. From sweet and sour sauce and BBQ sauce to Russian dressing and ketchup fried rice.
The pancakes is the dessert. You don't eat them together 🤣 And I have never heard of ketchup on tacos, and I would never try it. Cucumber on the other hand are commun, and delicious 😋 (born and bred Swedish)
This. I also have NEVER heard of ketchup with tacos, maybe she is hanging out with some really poor students. Salsa sauce is standard with some gräddfil (sour cream).
I've seen people eat pancakes and yellow pea soup together. A spoon of soup, pancakes, soup etc. However, normally, yes, thick pea soup with salty pork and a lot of thyme, marjoram and mustard is actually nice but maybe an acquired taste (I need it some times) and after the soup we eat pancakes. Some eat the soup with a Swedish liquor called punch. Ketchup on tacos does not make sense to me either.
Not peasoup with pancakes as a side dish 😂😂😂 The pancakes are for dessert!! Often served on thursdays in restaurants! And I would never put ketchup on a taco! 😂😂😂
Ketchup on tacos? 😂 I've never had that or even seen someone put ketchup on tacos. And cucumber on tacos is yum.. It add a crispness and freshness to it.
What is flying Jacob? Flying Jacob is a chicken gratin. In this gratin there is chicken, banana, bacon, cream, chili sauce and peanuts. The recipe was created by Ove Jacobsson. He was a pilot in Sweden. According to the newspaper "Allt om mat" the dish was created under great pressure. At home, Ove Jacobsson was responsible for making dinner for the neighbors. He threw together a mixture of two other dishes. He used bacon instead of fried pork which he took from the pasta dish Spaghetti Carbonara. From a pork tenderloin dish, he used bananas and peanuts and replaced the pork tenderloin with grilled chicken. The chicken took less time to cook. It was a success and the dinner guests named the dish after his nickname which was "Flying Jacob".
You eat pea soup and pancake on Thursdays in Sweden, but they are eaten separately. Pea soup first, then pancakes. If you don't want pea soup, you don't get any pancakes. ;P
That's a very old fashioned tradition and I don't know anyone who follows it. I never eat that just because it's Thursday. I eat pancakes when I feel like it and I eat peasoup when I feel like it. And never after one another.
@@sannaolsson9106 Its very common that it is served in restaurants for lunch every thursday here in Sweden. Not every type of restaurant of course but those that serve mainly Swedish food. On tuesdays its always Raggmunk also.
@@sannaolsson9106 Some may eat it at home sometimes as well but probably not every thursday, i eat peasoup sometimes at home but without the pancakes, dont care if its thursday or not though, ha ha..
A hotdog with Skagenröra (shrimp mayo) is the best! Forget ketchup, I go with Skagenröra all the time! 👌 In school I got Pea soup and pancakes on Thursdays, later I got it on Thursdays when I did my military service. I don't know if its still common, but its an old tradition 😜 Flying Jacob is a regular thing in my home (I'm a single man) 😂
On who came up with Flying Jacob. It was a man named Ove Jacobsosn. He named it Flying Jacob since he worked with air freight. It was first published in the magazine Allt om mat in 1976. There are some variationsrik on the recepie, but the most common (also my favorite) is chicken, banana, roasted salted planets, bacon, cream, sweet chilisauce, salt and pepper. It is one of a few really swedish dish since most of the food associated with sweden were invented elsewhere. Oh, and it is delicous! 😊
The peasoup on thursdays most likely originates from the 13th century. You ate it to gain energy and to fill upp before the friday fast. But its still somewhat of a traditional thing 🙂
Taco and ketchup must be some kind of crazy shit that kids do...never seen it or heard of, (Swede here). Cucumber and tacos totally goes together! Peasoup you eat first! Then enjoy pancakes as dessert! Liquorice ice cream is sooo good! We have the best kind of pizza, seriously I've been all over Europe, it's just the best combinations here imo. Flying Jacob is a childhood favourite! Never heard of anyone not liking it, not even immigrants neighbours that usually didn't like Swedish food! Love your reactions, cheers
If you offered me a choice between a piece of chocolate or a salty black liquorice i wouldn't hesitate i pick the salted liquorice any day, just thinking about it makes me salivating 😂. Looove it.
You have the pea soup (with mustard) first, and then the pancakes with jam as a dessert. And you need to flavour the liquorice with ammonium chloride. For a really swedish dish you may also try pizza with chicken, banana, peanuts and curry... 😘
I think you're on to something with the plantain and curry. The banana curry pizza was invented after we Swedes was introduced to charter trips. People liked the foreign food and tried to recreate it. Flying Jacob is made with rotisserie chicken and it's very creamy and tasty. The ketchup on tacos is not common, I've seen a few very young kids do that. The kids thought the red taco sauce (a mild hot sauce) was too strong and they didn't like sour cream.
Never seen Ketchup on Tacos. Pancakes are eaten as a desert after the soup, not combined with it, but can also be eaten as a main dish without the soup, btw we never eat pancakes for breakfast. Nor Black Pudding, they both are for Lunch or Dinner. Pizzas can have some weird toppings, I'm not a fan of Banana or Ananas myself, but some sauces are nice, can become a bit sloppy but since we usually don't eat pizzas by the slice, but with knife and fork, it works.
Eating pea soup and pancakes is a nice Swedish tradition, and there is a certain sequence to how you usually go about it. Here is a step-by-step explanation: ### 1. Preparation - **Serve the pea soup:** Start by heating up the pea soup, which is usually made with dried peas, onions, and sometimes pork or sausage for flavor. - **Done with pancakes:** Grill the pancakes to be served after the pea soup. These are usually thin and can be served with various accessories. ### 2. Eat the pea soup - **Start with the soup:** Pour a portion of the pea soup into a deep plate. - **Use Spoon:** Use a spoon to eat the soup. It is common to vary the pea soup with mustard on the side for extra flavor. - **Follow the soup with bread:** Many also usually have rye bread or crisp bread as a side dish. ### 3. The pancakes - **Serve the pancakes:** When the soup is eaten, you can move on to the pancakes. Serve them warm, perhaps with jam and cream or sugar. ### 4. Enjoy the meal - **Eat the pancakes:** Fold or roll the pancakes and add the desired accessories. Use a fork knife to eat. By following these steps, you can enjoy this classic Swedish dish in the best way! Bon appetit!
The pea soup is a very old tradition. Ever since the 13th century, the Swedes have eaten pea soup on Thursdays because at that time we were a Catholic country and people fasted on Fridays. Because of this, you needed to eat properly with protein the day before fasting, hence the peas and pork that you usually have in the soup. Why we nowadays eat pancakes with cream and jam after the soup, I don't know, but maybe a few hundred years later people wanted to eat even more so that they got really full. Cucumber on tacos is very common but I´ve never ever heard of ketchup on them, though it doesn´t surprise me because Swedes eat ketchup with a lot of different dishes. People from other countries tend to be more surprised that we eat jam with the meat.
"Flygande Jacob" you should try. Its realy good. It is basicly Chicken fileys, Curry Spice (the yellow type), Bananas, Peanuts, Chilli sauce (equal amount as the cream), Bacon bits, and cream (or Coconut milk if you want to make it a bit more exotic). In the oven as a caseroll for 30-45 min (or something, untill the chicken is done). Serve it with what ever you want, but traditionally here in Sweden it should be cooked rice. its a staple here on New Years eve. Cheers,
I find it so bizarre that you have never tried tacos lol. My English friend hadn't either until she visited me once so it seems to be a British thing?? I don't know what kind of weird people Kimberly hang out with but I've never once in my life had ketchup on tacos and no obe I know does it either 😆 You put salsa on it, not ketchup!
The tradition of Peasoup in Sweden started probably already by the vikings back in the 1200's. In the 1700's the Peasoup was served together with warm Arrak punsh (it's claimed to reduce the farts 🤣). The tradition to eat it on Thursday is due to the catholic fast on Friday. You never eat the pancakes together with the soup, it's dessert! Never seen or heard of serving tacos with ketchup?
Pea soup and pancakes, for me is something I ate every Thursday when being a conscript in the army. The pancakes are desert, but not always, when in the army and it is -10 Celsius, it might be good to eat the pancakes first to they don't get frozen. But the issue is that the pea soup get cold then. In such cases I might have switched between them (not eating them together). It is quite common for restaurants to have pea soup and pancakes for todays lunch on Thursdays. Some of us got a bit addicted to pea soup in the army.
Flygande Jacob ( Flygande Jacob) the dish was invented by Ove Jacobsson who worked in the air freight industry, hence the name. Asked to make the main dish for a neighbourhood potluck in Stockholm in 1976, Jacobsson combined the few ingredients available to him in his refrigerator into a casserole, cooked it, and served it at the party where it was a hit. His neighbor, Anders Tunberg, worked for Allt om Mat (All about Food) magazine, and thus the recipe was first published in a Swedish cooking magazine in 1976.
About the hotdogs. There's this dish called "halv special" (half special) or "hel special" (whole special) that you can buy which is variations of hotdog with mashed potatoes. It's the common swedish name for it. You should try it if you ever visit!
The Pancackes with the peasup where the soup is the main and the pancakes is dessert. And you had a lot of that combination in the Swedish military forces, and yes I did some time in the military. And it should be peasoup and a very strong mustard and some kind of Arrak or Punch on the side, and after that you should get pancakes with jam and whipped cream! And thursdays are the traditional peasoup and pancakes day and almost every lunch restaurant serves it here in Sweden every thursday!
Yes, some use ketchup it's true. When we make tacos, we add banana as an accessory, so good. we often grill banana and bacon together. Wrap bacon around the banana then grill it super well. On pizza, it's true, we have different things on our pizza, and we have different sauces, for example. garlic sauce, mild sauce, strong sauce, bea sauce, etc. When it comes to sweeping, pancakes are for dessert edition in Sweden😊
I agree that its strange to serve chili with rice and i was born and has lived all my life in Sweden , i ate chili sometimes when i was growing even in school and it was never with rice, i never order it at a restaurant now since it will come with rice and i dont like that.
It's very common to serve a hot dog like that here and in Göteborg (Gothenburg) the most common like salad is Västkustsallad (West coast salad) which is shelfish, champignons, asparagus, sour cream and mayonnaise. If you order hot dog with mashed potatoes here in Göteborg it's called halvspecial (half special) and if you want two sausages it's called helspecial (full special). The Pea soup is a very very old traditional thursday dish! Whenever it was served in school it was on a thursday! If you go out and eat on a lunch restaurant in Sweden on a thursday you can bet Pea soup is on the menu! The Pan cakes are more like a dessert and at the lunch restaurant you can choose if you want the Pan cakes with the soup or after. Licorice is a big no no can't even stand the smell of it. Ice cream is good so why you wanna mess it up then.
Have you never eaten tacos?! :O You have to try tacos its the best. Like all Swedes eat our pre-Swedish version every Friday, but if we want to succeed, we also often go out to a Mexican restaurant and get the real thing. But you don't have ketchup on it, but not surprised that she has met some Swedes who have it, as many Swedes like to ruin food with ketchup on almost everything, a friend of mine usually has it on ice cream, for example, which is completely crazy. (having said that, there are certain dishes that clearly should be served with ketchup Prawn salad on sausage is a really nice combination. If you come to Sweden, you must order a, Hel Special med Räksalad . Don't order it at the petrol station though, they are usually not very good. No, the pancakes are dessert, an extremely old combination in Sweden. Licorice is like coffee you have to get used to it. No, licorice is not a laxative, but I know that some throat lozenges are and some of them are flavored with licorice, but it is not the licorice that makes them laxative, on the other hand, licorice raises your blood pressure but also has positive properties such as containing vitamin B , oils, antioxidants and can have anticarcinogenic effects, i.e. cancer prevention properties. Flygande Jakop is a real 80s classic, it is not eaten much anymore and you probably won't be able to order it in a restaurant.
Around 1990 kebab pizzas in a variety of shapes and topping combinations became a popular snack after a hard night out, around the time the pubs discos etc closed... I think the sausage with shrimp sallad might have a similar story (the story I have heard is that a drunk dude wanted a sausage with everything at around 3am, and the guy in the sausage cart played along), but that is a more local dish initially (Gothenburg I think). On the topic of licorice icecream - it works well with vanilla or lemon icecream. You missed the really strange thing you have with the pea soup - warm punsch (an alcoholic beverage based on arrak, around 20-30 percent alcohol ie 40-60 proof). Normally (traditionally) you get about 6-10 cl with each bowl of pea soup, making the thursday afternoon much more pleasant.
Banana pizza with curry and fillet of pork or beef is really good, i hope you try it. The Swedish pizzas are really varied there are a lot of types and it has been around for very long, im in my 50´s but it was around even when i was a kid. Flying Jacob (Flygande Jacob) is very nice too.
You don't combine the pea soup and pancakes the soup is the main and the pancakes dessert. I have never in my life seen some put jam or dipped the pancakes in the soup. We do put mustard in the soup tho for extra flavor 🙂
Tacos and Ketchup is very new for me..i have never seen a swed have Ketchup on tacos..we juse a red hot Chili saus..i wonder if Kimberly think the Chili sauce is Ketchup??? All in sweden are eating Pea soup and after the pea soup we are eating Pancake and whipped cream + Strawberries every Thursday in 100 year....
Hi Dwayne! Try tacos, they're deLicious. She's right, ketchup does not have any business being on a taco. I'm Swedish and I've never heard of anyone putting ketchup on their tacos. Salsa, sour cream and guacamole is the way to go. I think she's wrong about cucumber though. Hot dogs with shrimp salad is liked by many here, and it isn't disgusting, but I'd go with ketchup, mustard, roasted onions and relish instead. Shrimp salad on avocado on the other hand, fabulous! Eat the pea soup first and the pancakes after. This is traditionally eaten on Thursdays. The reason for this is because Swedish pea soup usually contains pork, and back in the day you weren't allowed by the church to eat meat on Fridays because that day was for fasting. This dish is still a Thursday staple in military mess halls all over Sweden. Black licorice, especially salty, is very common in Scandinavia and Finland. Some like it, some don't. I love it. Swedish pizza is the best in the world. I've lived in America and their pizzas don't even come close. When you do try pizza, try kebab pizza. That's the one with chips and lettuce. So good! Flygand Jacob (Flying Jacob) is really good and I highly recommend it.
chili con carne is great with rice. Tacos does not go with ketchup in my opinion, never heard of a swede that likes that, are you sure it wasn't salsa? Tacos with cucumber however is great räksallad (shrimp sallad), goes very well on hotdogs, we serve it everywhere. the peasoup and pancakes (jam and whipped cream), is an old tradition for thursday...so you serve the soup as a meal and then the pancake after as a dessert. although normally we do eat pancakes (crepe style) as a lunch meal or even dinner often in sweden. personally i dont like peasoup, but i do eat crisp bread with salted butter and cheese with my pancakes..it's a nice savoury contrast. black salty licorice or salmiak is amazing and it tastes really good with ice cream. Sweet licorice however is vile. black licorice icecream or licorice sprinkles for ice cream is really common in sweden. Pizza with different varieties is exciting, but not always my personal fave. however i like bolognese on pizza. flying jacob is good. she said it correctly.
I'm sure other people have already said this, but the pancakes with the jam is not eaten together with the pea soup, or at least it shouldn't be. It's more of a dessert, you eat your pea soup and then you get yourself some pancakes that is usually served with some sort of jam and sometimes even whipped cream
Ketchup on tacos, Salsa is basicly ketchup with chunks in it, cucumbers is just another green with the corn, lettuce tomato and onion, it does neither add or subtract from the taste, the peasoup is a traditional meal, soup is not concidered very filling, and too much pancaces makes you too full to work, but the combination is heavenly, and to the peasoup you eat mustard, because the peasoup contain diced pork. I dont like bananas in any food, so neither the Pizza nor the Flying Jacob is something I eat, but there are other intresting combinations on Pizza I love, like smoked raindeer meat and bearne sauce, or just Pizza with smoked Wästerbotten cheese.
Yellow peasoup and pancakes is a traditional Thursday meal. Long ago people would fast on Fridays, so they ate the protein rich yellow peasoup on Thursdays, so they would be strong during fast. Pancakes are a later addition that came when restaurants started serving Yellow peasoup and wanted to have something more than just the soup.
@@dwaynesview Yup, although it technically wasn't a fast on Fridays, But you werenot alloed to eat meat. There is a reason that the Norwegian city of Bergen for example got rich selling dried fish during the middel ages to all of Europe.
we literally have thursdays for "peasoup and pancances- day" =) (I'm Swedish and I also hate licorice tbh, besides Finnish sweet licorice, that's amazing combined with crisps and chocolate)
Im so happy to be living in sweden as a the huge food lover I am. I mean we havnt that much food that are created here and typical "swedish".. I mean it is really few dishes that are pure swedish (Swedish sandwichcake, sour herring, "Pölsa" are the only ones I can think of right now but the list aint that big if you really break it down) but we have a great and rich food culture thanks to all peoples that have moved or fleed here and brought their culture and foods with them. I mean wherever you go you have alot of different food alternatives to try out no matter if it is fastfoods, restraurants or something you create yourself with groceries from the store.. and no matter where I go I always try new foods when I travel but after a week or two my stomach always wants home not to the weather, culture, life or country in it self but to all our food. That is the best thing about sweden for sure. Not saying that other countries food are bad, not at all I have eaten amazing food in other places to but in some country you get more spicey food, in some more sweet, in some more salt but in sweden we have it all and I guess it comes back to our word "lagom" is best at the end of the day. EDIT: haha didnt look through the entire video before I commented so I add this edit haha.. Flying jacob is the best food that exist that I ever had eaten. Especially when I do it myself haha, as I add choped jalapeno to get it even more spice. I would serve you that if we were to meet ^^
Why? Because we can! 😂 Nothing wrong with that! 👍And Dwayne, you guesst it right about pancakes, it is not a "One meal", it's dessert, all swedish kids know how to eat it but mostly we wanted the pancakes first and only. Every Thursday we got it in school, The best day of the whole week!
Taco and ketchup? Never sen it and never heard of it. We do salsa as the tomato element. Like many comments already said pancakes is the dessert. Back in the 70’s and the 80’s you always served a dessert when you had any kind of soup. I guess it steams from the times when the soup wasn’t filling enough on it own. Flygande Jakob is a weird dish to many swedes and far from served in all Swedish homes. I would have to be paid to eat that for sure 😂
as a Swede, ketchup on tacos hmmm no, shrimp salad on hot dogs sometimes, shrimp salad in a thin bread roll is a must. thin bread roll=mashed potatoes 1-2 fried sausages, mustard ketchup diced cucumber pickle, and shrimp salad, possibly a little lingonberry jam. The pea soup is the main course, the pancakes are a dessert, usually the standard when you eat pea soup at a restaurant or when it is served in the canteen at work.
I am not a huge fan of liqourice (salty is better than sweet!), BUT liqourice icecream is actually delicious!! The sweetness and coolness of the icecream balances the saltyness of the liqourice.
The problem with licorice in ice cream is not the licorice, it's that it's salted licorice, salt don't belong anywhere near ice cream. Laktrits puck, is however delicious, licorice goes well with vanilla. Some weirdos just put ketchup on everything, it belongs on hot dogs, meatballs and maybe pasta. Cucumber or zucchini is great on tacos. The peanuts can be a bit hard in "flying jacob" cashew nuts works better for me. As for the shrimps on hotdog, nah, it belongs with mashed potatoes, not with bread. I put hamburger dressing + ketchup on my hotdogs, no mustard. Mustard belongs on coldcuts IMHO.
Im from mid Sweden and i have never put ketchup on taco , Never seen somebody use ketchup on taco either. Hotdogs with shrimp sallad doh thats fantastic
The panncakes are dessert after the peasoup. And I have never seen anyone put ketchup on a taco either. I hate liqorice. Don't like it at all! My favorite pizzas is Hawaii and Africana. Flying Jacob is tasty too.
Never heard of ketchup on a taco, but on the other side I never got sourcream on tacos when I got tacos at a Mexican shop in SF bay area when I lived there. Salt licorice with a sweet vanilla ice cream is so yummy
i am 65 when i was 3 month old my grandpa let me taste yellow peasoap for first time. i have loved it hole my life, pancake without jam i will pass every time, it have to be cream and jam..
Flygande Jakob is delicious! Not a very common dish these days though. I think it had it's hay day in the 90's. For the pea-soup and pancakes, the soup is the main course and the pancakes are the dessert. NOT meant to be eaten together! A very old dish that was/is served on Thursdays. Not in every home perhaps.
I ate licorice ice-cream in the 60:s. So, that flavour is nothing new. I learned then that I don't like licorice. I made Flygande Jacob for a friend in Canada. She forgot the name and refered too it as a Dead Parrot Dinner. 😂
I've said it before and I say it again.. If there's any way to ruin a Pizza a Swede have tried it. ... but when trying every imaginable combination we some time stumble upon greatness!
"Pancakes with jam are often served as a dessert for pea soup. Perhaps it is because when pea soup began to be served in restaurants, something more than the soup itself was needed for a complete meal that the restaurateur could charge handsomely for. The pea soup is also associated with Erik XIV who was Sweden's king from 1560 - 1568."
I think Asian food has the combination of sweet and sour and Swedish food the combination of salty and sweet (salty meatballs and sauce + lingonberry jam, ham, mustard and apple jam, salty liqourice and so on).
Pea soup is an ancient tradition at least in Sweden. According to rumor and documents at the time, the Swedish king Eric XIV (1533-1577) is said to have died by poisoned pea soup. Even if that's not how he died, it's at least mentioned as a dish in documents almost 500 years ago. Not really sure why the tradition of "Pea soup and pancakes on thursdays" came from but it's not uncommon in the military or schools, or even most lunch restaurants.
Love Chili con Carne with rice. Ketchup does not belong on tacos, never heard of anyone eating it that way. Salsa (of varying level of hotness) on the other hand is basically mandatory. Cucumbers defintively should be on Tacos. Never tried the hot dog with the shrimp salad. I prefer sweet and strong mustard, and maybe a bit of ketchup. It is however very popular on the West coast. You must have fresh ingredients. The pancakes is a dessert. Should be served with strawberryjam and whipped cream. The pea soup is served with hot mustard, some Thyme, and maybe with a glass of Arrack-based punch )only to adults as it is an alcoholic beverage). The soup usually also contains some pork (but nowadays also often served without it).Traditionally served on Thursdays, in all the months that do not contain a "r" in its name. Pancakes as a meal in itself is usually only served to children. Love Licorice, but not in icecream. I prefer salty licorice though. That red thing that is called licorice in the US, that is some chemical garbage. Flygande jakob is very good. Even though I don't like bacon, but the smoky saltiness works very well with the other flavours.
Greetings from Finland! Just like in Sweden peasoup is traditional food and is served on thursdays and pancakes are dessert. We also call that combo "lataa ja laukaise" aka lock and load becouse it really gets your gas going. Peasoup makes you fart and pancake with whipped cream sure does too so it will be hell of a firework that your ass is going to shoot out. Well i would never put ketchup on tacos and never heard that it would be normal in here. But liquirice in icecream is delicious. Im quite sure we have much more of different brand icecreams with liquirice and also salty liquirice icecreams as Sweden does. Chili con carne is normal food here too and it is served with rice. We even had it in school and was one of my favourite foods. But as we were in scgool there wasn´t much of chili in that dish so we called it con carne with my friends.
I haver never seen anyone have ketchup on tacos. A lot of people have it on pancakes tho. Weirdos 😂. And speaking of pancakes they are a dessert to the peasoup. To the peasoup the traditional condiments are mustard and punsh. Punsh is a sweet arrak liquor.
She really needs to do more resarch. Its not mayonaise in shrimpsallad as its called. Its cream fraiche in it. Pancakes you eat after the soup as a dessert. The sauce on the pizza is called kebab sauce. Ketchup on taco i never heard about. I'm Swede.
Looking at your reaction, licorice ice cream would make you gag. I love it though! Crunchy layer of salt licorice glazing, then the sweet cream inside… ❤
Born '82 in Sweden. NEVER have I EVER seen anyone have ketchup on Tacos. That's the weirdest thing I've ever heard in my entire life and I can guarantee it's NOT a common Swedish thing.
Keep the videos up! I LOVE THEM! ❤
I grew up in Sweden in 70’s and 80’s, and at that time, there were known to be a type of person who would add either ketchup or lingonberries to just about any food. My mother referred to them as peasants (though I am sure this was not true of all peasants [farmers/bönder]). But maybe some of these stereotypical types persist in pockets of Swedish society, and she just happened to share some tacos with some of them?
@@fordhouse8b I would say that farmers were less likely to add ketchup to everything than working-class people in towns and cities.
My mother and her siblings were kids in the 60's, 70's and 80's, my grandparents small-scale farmers, and to my grandparents, ketchup was something rather exotic that they would never ever add to any of the classic Swedish dishes my grandmother cooked. They'd put it on hotdogs, sure, but I don't think they ever cooked any themselves at home, only down by their summer cabin every once in a while, and even then not when it was just the two of them.
They did have lingonberry jam with the usual dishes though, but not to excess and _definitely_ not with pancakes.
In my experience, farmers tend to be a conservative bunch when it comes to food preferences, or at least they were up until my parents' generation.
@@Thaerii I probably should mention that my mother probably included most urban working class people under the sobriquet of peasant, since until fairly modern times the vast majority of Swedes dwelled in rural areas, and that when my mother was growing up (40’s and 50’s) most working class urbanites were only a couple of generations descent away from being peasants and farm laborers themselves. Yes, sometimes my mother could be a bit of a snob. She wasn’t very fond of either ketchup or lingonberries. I myself never did acquire an affinity for lingonberries as child, and mostly ate ketchup on hot dogs and the occasional burger. On my French fries I preferred mayonnaise. As an adult (in the US) I still like mayo on my fries, but will eat them with ketchup, or a blend of he two. Growing up in Sweden, in the second half of the 70’s and most of the 80’s, I also occasionally ate macaroni with ketchup, which my mother despised, as she wasn’t a great fan of either pasta or ketchup. As a broke college student in the US, at the very end of the 80’s and beginning of the 90’s, I did eat quite a bit of pasta with ketchup, since pasta was cheap and ketchup packets were essentially free from any fast food place. Hot sauce from Taco Bell was also a frequent component of my "spaghetti sauce,’” since that was the era of their 39 cent value menu. 10 tacos for $3.90 could not be beat, especially when I could also stuff my pockets with free hot sauce packets.
@@fordhouse8b I did suspect she was...
I hated lingonberries as a kid but have gained an appretiation for them as an adult, while I loved ketchup then but now very much follow in my grandparents' footsteps and don't keep it in my home; it's for hotdogs and certain burgers only.
I don't know when you were in Sweden last, but McDonald's, Burger King and Max all have a plethora of dips to choose from, so why settle for ketchup or mayo even at a mediocre fast food place?
@@Thaerii I don’t even remember the last time I had lingonberries, as they are not widely available in the US, and it has been almost 30 years since I last was in Sweden (1994). Just had a look at the Max menu. I would love if some burger chain in the US offered béarnaise sauce. Knorr Béarnaise sauce mix packets were a staple of my childhood. I don’t eat plain ketchup much at home, but I like to have it on hand, as it is a useful as an ingredient for a variety of sauces, dressings, or dishes. From sweet and sour sauce and BBQ sauce to Russian dressing and ketchup fried rice.
The pancakes is the dessert. You don't eat them together 🤣 And I have never heard of ketchup on tacos, and I would never try it. Cucumber on the other hand are commun, and delicious 😋 (born and bred Swedish)
A few likes ketchup on pancakes to (not me)
This. I also have NEVER heard of ketchup with tacos, maybe she is hanging out with some really poor students. Salsa sauce is standard with some gräddfil (sour cream).
With u on this one. She must be delulu
Agree
I've seen people eat pancakes and yellow pea soup together. A spoon of soup, pancakes, soup etc.
However, normally, yes, thick pea soup with salty pork and a lot of thyme, marjoram and mustard is actually nice but maybe an acquired taste (I need it some times) and after the soup we eat pancakes.
Some eat the soup with a Swedish liquor called punch.
Ketchup on tacos does not make sense to me either.
Not peasoup with pancakes as a side dish
😂😂😂
The pancakes are for dessert!!
Often served on thursdays in restaurants!
And I would never put ketchup on a taco! 😂😂😂
Ketchup on tacos? 😂 I've never had that or even seen someone put ketchup on tacos. And cucumber on tacos is yum.. It add a crispness and freshness to it.
Lol right! Ive never seen or heard anyone here in Sweden put ketchup on tacos
@@reypara4897 She must have gotten it confused with salsa? Nobody puts ketchup on tacos...
My thougts exactly 😂 I do not know what type of pepole she hangs out with but ketchup on tacos is just nasty.
@@reypara4897precis inte jag heller 😂 super konstigt
My kids puts ketchup on tacos😀😊
What is flying Jacob?
Flying Jacob is a chicken gratin.
In this gratin there is chicken, banana,
bacon, cream, chili sauce and peanuts.
The recipe was created by Ove Jacobsson.
He was a pilot in Sweden.
According to the newspaper "Allt om mat" the dish was created under great pressure.
At home, Ove Jacobsson was responsible for making dinner for the neighbors.
He threw together a mixture of two other dishes.
He used bacon instead of fried pork
which he took from the pasta dish Spaghetti Carbonara.
From a pork tenderloin dish, he used bananas and peanuts
and replaced the pork tenderloin with grilled chicken.
The chicken took less time to cook.
It was a success and the dinner guests named the dish
after his nickname which was "Flying Jacob".
Flygande Jakob is an awesome dish!
I think its called caserolle, not gratin in English
ketchup on taco??? never ever in my life seen a swede do that lmao
nope hell no live in sweden and no
I know that people would do that when the taco craze started here in Sweden.
@@Templarofsteel88We have ketchup on everything else, so why not also on tacos?
I switched from ketchup to chilli sauce as soon as I left home@@AnotherDuck
@@920215GurraI prefer salsa myself. Depending on how hot I want it at the moment. Although I don't really prefer tacos as a whole anyway.
You eat pea soup and pancake on Thursdays in Sweden, but they are eaten separately. Pea soup first, then pancakes. If you don't want pea soup, you don't get any pancakes. ;P
That's a very old fashioned tradition and I don't know anyone who follows it. I never eat that just because it's Thursday. I eat pancakes when I feel like it and I eat peasoup when I feel like it. And never after one another.
In Finland same thing.thursday is traditionally peasoup day and dessert after that is pancake.
But u may eat those whenever u feel like it 👍
@@sannaolsson9106 Its very common that it is served in restaurants for lunch every thursday here in Sweden. Not every type of restaurant of course but those that serve mainly Swedish food. On tuesdays its always Raggmunk also.
@@Stefan- Oh I was thinking of normal people's homes haha
@@sannaolsson9106 Some may eat it at home sometimes as well but probably not every thursday, i eat peasoup sometimes at home but without the pancakes, dont care if its thursday or not though, ha ha..
A hotdog with Skagenröra (shrimp mayo) is the best! Forget ketchup, I go with Skagenröra all the time! 👌
In school I got Pea soup and pancakes on Thursdays, later I got it on Thursdays when I did my military service. I don't know if its still common, but its an old tradition 😜
Flying Jacob is a regular thing in my home (I'm a single man) 😂
Skagenröra on everything.
On who came up with Flying Jacob. It was a man named Ove Jacobsosn. He named it Flying Jacob since he worked with air freight. It was first published in the magazine Allt om mat in 1976. There are some variationsrik on the recepie, but the most common (also my favorite) is chicken, banana, roasted salted planets, bacon, cream, sweet chilisauce, salt and pepper.
It is one of a few really swedish dish since most of the food associated with sweden were invented elsewhere.
Oh, and it is delicous! 😊
The peasoup on thursdays most likely originates from the 13th century. You ate it to gain energy and to fill upp before the friday fast. But its still somewhat of a traditional thing 🙂
It was also very popular with pea-soup on Thursdays in the military for a long time, maybe even today.
and we eat them seperatly just at the same sitting. pancakes here are more of a dessert or snack then an actuall meal.
@@Nubbe999
Yes, that still goes. Depending on where you end up there might be an alternative soup as well.
I have lived 35 years in Sweden, I have never seen anyone put ketchup on a taco
Taco and ketchup must be some kind of crazy shit that kids do...never seen it or heard of, (Swede here).
Cucumber and tacos totally goes together!
Peasoup you eat first! Then enjoy pancakes as dessert!
Liquorice ice cream is sooo good!
We have the best kind of pizza, seriously I've been all over Europe, it's just the best combinations here imo.
Flying Jacob is a childhood favourite! Never heard of anyone not liking it, not even immigrants neighbours that usually didn't like Swedish food!
Love your reactions, cheers
If you offered me a choice between a piece of chocolate or a salty black liquorice i wouldn't hesitate i pick the salted liquorice any day, just thinking about it makes me salivating 😂. Looove it.
Same here.
Best of all is salty liquorice covered in chocolate! 😁
You have the pea soup (with mustard) first, and then the pancakes with jam as a dessert. And you need to flavour the liquorice with ammonium chloride. For a really swedish dish you may also try pizza with chicken, banana, peanuts and curry... 😘
Peasoup first then pancake
I think you're on to something with the plantain and curry. The banana curry pizza was invented after we Swedes was introduced to charter trips. People liked the foreign food and tried to recreate it. Flying Jacob is made with rotisserie chicken and it's very creamy and tasty. The ketchup on tacos is not common, I've seen a few very young kids do that. The kids thought the red taco sauce (a mild hot sauce) was too strong and they didn't like sour cream.
Never seen Ketchup on Tacos.
Pancakes are eaten as a desert after the soup, not combined with it, but can also be eaten as a main dish without the soup, btw we never eat pancakes for breakfast. Nor Black Pudding, they both are for Lunch or Dinner.
Pizzas can have some weird toppings, I'm not a fan of Banana or Ananas myself, but some sauces are nice, can become a bit sloppy but since we usually don't eat pizzas by the slice, but with knife and fork, it works.
Eating pea soup and pancakes is a nice Swedish tradition, and there is a certain sequence to how you usually go about it. Here is a step-by-step explanation:
### 1. Preparation
- **Serve the pea soup:** Start by heating up the pea soup, which is usually made with dried peas, onions, and sometimes pork or sausage for flavor.
- **Done with pancakes:** Grill the pancakes to be served after the pea soup. These are usually thin and can be served with various accessories.
### 2. Eat the pea soup
- **Start with the soup:** Pour a portion of the pea soup into a deep plate.
- **Use Spoon:** Use a spoon to eat the soup. It is common to vary the pea soup with mustard on the side for extra flavor.
- **Follow the soup with bread:** Many also usually have rye bread or crisp bread as a side dish.
### 3. The pancakes
- **Serve the pancakes:** When the soup is eaten, you can move on to the pancakes. Serve them warm, perhaps with jam and cream or sugar.
### 4. Enjoy the meal
- **Eat the pancakes:** Fold or roll the pancakes and add the desired accessories. Use a fork knife to eat.
By following these steps, you can enjoy this classic Swedish dish in the best way! Bon appetit!
The pea soup is a very old tradition. Ever since the 13th century, the Swedes have eaten pea soup on Thursdays because at that time we were a Catholic country and people fasted on Fridays. Because of this, you needed to eat properly with protein the day before fasting, hence the peas and pork that you usually have in the soup. Why we nowadays eat pancakes with cream and jam after the soup, I don't know, but maybe a few hundred years later people wanted to eat even more so that they got really full.
Cucumber on tacos is very common but I´ve never ever heard of ketchup on them, though it doesn´t surprise me because Swedes eat ketchup with a lot of different dishes. People from other countries tend to be more surprised that we eat jam with the meat.
as a swede i have never heard of anyone putting ketchup on Taco
A well made "flying Jacob" is really really good, she say banana? It should have banana in it too 🤤
I'm a Swede who never have heard of someone eating ketchup on tacos 😅 But cucumber should be on tacos 👏
Yea when you buy tacos the shelf is full with taco sauce, so who just walks past that and grabs a ketchup bottle???
The pea soup is the meal and the pancakes are like desert after you’ve finished your soup. It’s a Thursday meal.
"Flygande Jacob" you should try. Its realy good.
It is basicly Chicken fileys, Curry Spice (the yellow type), Bananas, Peanuts, Chilli sauce (equal amount as the cream), Bacon bits, and cream (or Coconut milk if you want to make it a bit more exotic).
In the oven as a caseroll for 30-45 min (or something, untill the chicken is done).
Serve it with what ever you want, but traditionally here in Sweden it should be cooked rice.
its a staple here on New Years eve.
Cheers,
I find it so bizarre that you have never tried tacos lol. My English friend hadn't either until she visited me once so it seems to be a British thing?? I don't know what kind of weird people Kimberly hang out with but I've never once in my life had ketchup on tacos and no obe I know does it either 😆 You put salsa on it, not ketchup!
My sister visited me from abroad some weeks ago and it was the first time she had tacos, she's 34 😂
The tradition of Peasoup in Sweden started probably already by the vikings back in the 1200's. In the 1700's the Peasoup was served together with warm Arrak punsh (it's claimed to reduce the farts 🤣). The tradition to eat it on Thursday is due to the catholic fast on Friday. You never eat the pancakes together with the soup, it's dessert! Never seen or heard of serving tacos with ketchup?
Peasoup first, pancakes are desert... Licorice icecream is absolutely best!
Who is she hanging out with that puts ketchup on tacos? We usually put something called "taco sauce" which is a red salsa. Maybe she got that wrong..
Pea soup and pancakes, for me is something I ate every Thursday when being a conscript in the army. The pancakes are desert, but not always, when in the army and it is -10 Celsius, it might be good to eat the pancakes first to they don't get frozen. But the issue is that the pea soup get cold then. In such cases I might have switched between them (not eating them together). It is quite common for restaurants to have pea soup and pancakes for todays lunch on Thursdays. Some of us got a bit addicted to pea soup in the army.
Flygande Jacob ( Flygande Jacob) the dish was invented by Ove Jacobsson who worked in the air freight industry, hence the name.
Asked to make the main dish for a neighbourhood potluck in Stockholm in 1976, Jacobsson combined the few ingredients available to him in his refrigerator into a casserole, cooked it, and served it at the party where it was a hit.
His neighbor, Anders Tunberg, worked for Allt om Mat (All about Food) magazine, and thus the recipe was first published in a Swedish cooking magazine in 1976.
The shrimp majo salad on hotdogs has mostly white cabbage. Yellow peasoup is served with bacon bits and the pancakes is mostly served as a desert.
The pancakes is a dessert that you eat after the pea soup. And to be right it should be served with Punsch that´s a sort of Swedish Arrack liqueur.
About the hotdogs. There's this dish called "halv special" (half special) or "hel special" (whole special) that you can buy which is variations of hotdog with mashed potatoes. It's the common swedish name for it. You should try it if you ever visit!
6:03 pancake are either eaten with jam and whipped cream or with bacon and something, pancake is eaten after pea soup.
The Pancackes with the peasup where the soup is the main and the pancakes is dessert. And you had a lot of that combination in the Swedish military forces, and yes I did some time in the military. And it should be peasoup and a very strong mustard and some kind of Arrak or Punch on the side, and after that you should get pancakes with jam and whipped cream! And thursdays are the traditional peasoup and pancakes day and almost every lunch restaurant serves it here in Sweden every thursday!
Yes, some use ketchup it's true. When we make tacos, we add banana as an accessory, so good. we often grill banana and bacon together. Wrap bacon around the banana then grill it super well. On pizza, it's true, we have different things on our pizza, and we have different sauces, for example. garlic sauce, mild sauce, strong sauce, bea sauce, etc. When it comes to sweeping, pancakes are for dessert
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I agree that its strange to serve chili with rice and i was born and has lived all my life in Sweden , i ate chili sometimes when i was growing even in school and it was never with rice, i never order it at a restaurant now since it will come with rice and i dont like that.
7:22 *All* licorice is black (or rather dark green). It can be with or without ammonium-salt though.
Banana and curry (the spice) on pizza, thatś a chicken pizza, often with salty peanuts on the top as well =D Soooooo gooood!!!!
It's very common to serve a hot dog like that here and in Göteborg (Gothenburg) the most common like salad is Västkustsallad (West coast salad) which is shelfish, champignons, asparagus, sour cream and mayonnaise. If you order hot dog with mashed potatoes here in Göteborg it's called halvspecial (half special) and if you want two sausages it's called helspecial (full special). The Pea soup is a very very old traditional thursday dish! Whenever it was served in school it was on a thursday! If you go out and eat on a lunch restaurant in Sweden on a thursday you can bet Pea soup is on the menu! The Pan cakes are more like a dessert and at the lunch restaurant you can choose if you want the Pan cakes with the soup or after. Licorice is a big no no can't even stand the smell of it. Ice cream is good so why you wanna mess it up then.
Have you never eaten tacos?! :O
You have to try tacos its the best. Like all Swedes eat our pre-Swedish version every Friday, but if we want to succeed, we also often go out to a Mexican restaurant and get the real thing.
But you don't have ketchup on it, but not surprised that she has met some Swedes who have it, as many Swedes like to ruin food with ketchup on almost everything, a friend of mine usually has it on ice cream, for example, which is completely crazy. (having said that, there are certain dishes that clearly should be served with ketchup
Prawn salad on sausage is a really nice combination.
If you come to Sweden, you must order a, Hel Special med Räksalad . Don't order it at the petrol station though, they are usually not very good.
No, the pancakes are dessert, an extremely old combination in Sweden.
Licorice is like coffee you have to get used to it. No, licorice is not a laxative, but I know that some throat lozenges are and some of them are flavored with licorice, but it is not the licorice that makes them laxative, on the other hand, licorice raises your blood pressure but also has positive properties such as containing vitamin B , oils, antioxidants and can have anticarcinogenic effects, i.e. cancer prevention properties.
Flygande Jakop is a real 80s classic, it is not eaten much anymore and you probably won't be able to order it in a restaurant.
Actually the traditional menu is peasoup with warm punch to drink and then pancake cake.
Pancakes in layers with cream and jam mix in between.
Around 1990 kebab pizzas in a variety of shapes and topping combinations became a popular snack after a hard night out, around the time the pubs discos etc closed... I think the sausage with shrimp sallad might have a similar story (the story I have heard is that a drunk dude wanted a sausage with everything at around 3am, and the guy in the sausage cart played along), but that is a more local dish initially (Gothenburg I think).
On the topic of licorice icecream - it works well with vanilla or lemon icecream.
You missed the really strange thing you have with the pea soup - warm punsch (an alcoholic beverage based on arrak, around 20-30 percent alcohol ie 40-60 proof). Normally (traditionally) you get about 6-10 cl with each bowl of pea soup, making the thursday afternoon much more pleasant.
Pea soup and pancakes (crepes) is a century old Thursday tradition from the military. The crepes are dessert.
I'm Swedish, never heard of anyone putting ketchup on tacos 😅 Kim met a weird Swede 😝
Banana pizza with curry and fillet of pork or beef is really good, i hope you try it. The Swedish pizzas are really varied there are a lot of types and it has been around for very long, im in my 50´s but it was around even when i was a kid. Flying Jacob (Flygande Jacob) is very nice too.
Oohh. That first pic on (I think) kebabpizza with fries on is AMAZING!! The best combo ever 😊😊
You don't combine the pea soup and pancakes the soup is the main and the pancakes dessert. I have never in my life seen some put jam or dipped the pancakes in the soup. We do put mustard in the soup tho for extra flavor 🙂
Tacos and Ketchup is very new for me..i have never seen a swed have Ketchup on tacos..we juse a red hot Chili saus..i wonder if Kimberly think the Chili sauce is Ketchup??? All in sweden are eating Pea soup and after the pea soup we are eating Pancake and whipped cream + Strawberries every Thursday in 100 year....
Hi Dwayne!
Try tacos, they're deLicious. She's right, ketchup does not have any business being on a taco. I'm Swedish and I've never heard of anyone putting ketchup on their tacos. Salsa, sour cream and guacamole is the way to go. I think she's wrong about cucumber though.
Hot dogs with shrimp salad is liked by many here, and it isn't disgusting, but I'd go with ketchup, mustard, roasted onions and relish instead. Shrimp salad on avocado on the other hand, fabulous!
Eat the pea soup first and the pancakes after. This is traditionally eaten on Thursdays. The reason for this is because Swedish pea soup usually contains pork, and back in the day you weren't allowed by the church to eat meat on Fridays because that day was for fasting. This dish is still a Thursday staple in military mess halls all over Sweden.
Black licorice, especially salty, is very common in Scandinavia and Finland. Some like it, some don't. I love it.
Swedish pizza is the best in the world. I've lived in America and their pizzas don't even come close. When you do try pizza, try kebab pizza. That's the one with chips and lettuce. So good!
Flygand Jacob (Flying Jacob) is really good and I highly recommend it.
chili con carne is great with rice.
Tacos does not go with ketchup in my opinion, never heard of a swede that likes that, are you sure it wasn't salsa?
Tacos with cucumber however is great
räksallad (shrimp sallad), goes very well on hotdogs, we serve it everywhere.
the peasoup and pancakes (jam and whipped cream), is an old tradition for thursday...so you serve the soup as a meal and then the pancake after as a dessert. although normally we do eat pancakes (crepe style) as a lunch meal or even dinner often in sweden. personally i dont like peasoup, but i do eat crisp bread with salted butter and cheese with my pancakes..it's a nice savoury contrast.
black salty licorice or salmiak is amazing and it tastes really good with ice cream. Sweet licorice however is vile. black licorice icecream or licorice sprinkles for ice cream is really common in sweden.
Pizza with different varieties is exciting, but not always my personal fave. however i like bolognese on pizza.
flying jacob is good. she said it correctly.
I'm sure other people have already said this, but the pancakes with the jam is not eaten together with the pea soup, or at least it shouldn't be. It's more of a dessert, you eat your pea soup and then you get yourself some pancakes that is usually served with some sort of jam and sometimes even whipped cream
Ketchup on tacos, Salsa is basicly ketchup with chunks in it, cucumbers is just another green with the corn, lettuce tomato and onion, it does neither add or subtract from the taste, the peasoup is a traditional meal, soup is not concidered very filling, and too much pancaces makes you too full to work, but the combination is heavenly, and to the peasoup you eat mustard, because the peasoup contain diced pork.
I dont like bananas in any food, so neither the Pizza nor the Flying Jacob is something I eat, but there are other intresting combinations on Pizza I love, like smoked raindeer meat and bearne sauce, or just Pizza with smoked Wästerbotten cheese.
Yellow peasoup and pancakes is a traditional Thursday meal. Long ago people would fast on Fridays, so they ate the protein rich yellow peasoup on Thursdays, so they would be strong during fast. Pancakes are a later addition that came when restaurants started serving Yellow peasoup and wanted to have something more than just the soup.
That's so interesting, so that's where it comes from. Why did people fast? Was it for religious purposes or was it solely just tradition?
@@dwaynesview back in the day Sweden used to be catholic, so it was a religious thing.
@@dwaynesview Yup, although it technically wasn't a fast on Fridays, But you werenot alloed to eat meat. There is a reason that the Norwegian city of Bergen for example got rich selling dried fish during the middel ages to all of Europe.
we literally have thursdays for "peasoup and pancances- day" =) (I'm Swedish and I also hate licorice tbh, besides Finnish sweet licorice, that's amazing combined with crisps and chocolate)
Flygande Jakob is a top notch swedish dish
Im so happy to be living in sweden as a the huge food lover I am. I mean we havnt that much food that are created here and typical "swedish".. I mean it is really few dishes that are pure swedish (Swedish sandwichcake, sour herring, "Pölsa" are the only ones I can think of right now but the list aint that big if you really break it down) but we have a great and rich food culture thanks to all peoples that have moved or fleed here and brought their culture and foods with them. I mean wherever you go you have alot of different food alternatives to try out no matter if it is fastfoods, restraurants or something you create yourself with groceries from the store.. and no matter where I go I always try new foods when I travel but after a week or two my stomach always wants home not to the weather, culture, life or country in it self but to all our food. That is the best thing about sweden for sure. Not saying that other countries food are bad, not at all I have eaten amazing food in other places to but in some country you get more spicey food, in some more sweet, in some more salt but in sweden we have it all and I guess it comes back to our word "lagom" is best at the end of the day.
EDIT: haha didnt look through the entire video before I commented so I add this edit haha.. Flying jacob is the best food that exist that I ever had eaten. Especially when I do it myself haha, as I add choped jalapeno to get it even more spice. I would serve you that if we were to meet ^^
Why? Because we can! 😂 Nothing wrong with that! 👍And Dwayne, you guesst it right about pancakes, it is not a "One meal", it's dessert, all swedish kids know how to eat it but mostly we wanted the pancakes first and only. Every Thursday we got it in school, The best day of the whole week!
Ketchup on tacos?! NO WAY!! But cucumber.......oh yes! And I LOVE icecream with salty licorice in it! Flying Jacob is delicious!
I've lived my whole life in Sweden (38 years) and I've never - NEVER heard of anyone putting ketchup on tacos.
Taco and ketchup? Never sen it and never heard of it. We do salsa as the tomato element.
Like many comments already said pancakes is the dessert. Back in the 70’s and the 80’s you always served a dessert when you had any kind of soup. I guess it steams from the times when the soup wasn’t filling enough on it own.
Flygande Jakob is a weird dish to many swedes and far from served in all Swedish homes. I would have to be paid to eat that for sure 😂
as a Swede, ketchup on tacos hmmm no, shrimp salad on hot dogs sometimes, shrimp salad in a thin bread roll is a must. thin bread roll=mashed potatoes 1-2 fried sausages, mustard ketchup diced cucumber pickle, and shrimp salad, possibly a little lingonberry jam. The pea soup is the main course, the pancakes are a dessert, usually the standard when you eat pea soup at a restaurant or when it is served in the canteen at work.
I am not a huge fan of liqourice (salty is better than sweet!), BUT liqourice icecream is actually delicious!! The sweetness and coolness of the icecream balances the saltyness of the liqourice.
The problem with licorice in ice cream is not the licorice, it's that it's salted licorice, salt don't belong anywhere near ice cream.
Laktrits puck, is however delicious, licorice goes well with vanilla.
Some weirdos just put ketchup on everything, it belongs on hot dogs, meatballs and maybe pasta.
Cucumber or zucchini is great on tacos.
The peanuts can be a bit hard in "flying jacob" cashew nuts works better for me.
As for the shrimps on hotdog, nah, it belongs with mashed potatoes, not with bread.
I put hamburger dressing + ketchup on my hotdogs, no mustard. Mustard belongs on coldcuts IMHO.
Im from mid Sweden and i have never put ketchup on taco , Never seen somebody use ketchup on taco either. Hotdogs with shrimp sallad doh thats fantastic
Only the brave eats licorice coz the weak can't
The panncakes are dessert after the peasoup.
And I have never seen anyone put ketchup on a taco either.
I hate liqorice. Don't like it at all!
My favorite pizzas is Hawaii and Africana.
Flying Jacob is tasty too.
I love salt licorice ice cream
Dwayne, how can you never have tried tacos? That is truly amazing. 😮
Never heard of ketchup on a taco, but on the other side I never got sourcream on tacos when I got tacos at a Mexican shop in SF bay area when I lived there.
Salt licorice with a sweet vanilla ice cream is so yummy
i am 65 when i was 3 month old my grandpa let me taste yellow peasoap for first time. i have loved it hole my life, pancake without jam i will pass every time, it have to be cream and jam..
Flygande Jakob is delicious! Not a very common dish these days though. I think it had it's hay day in the 90's. For the pea-soup and pancakes, the soup is the main course and the pancakes are the dessert. NOT meant to be eaten together! A very old dish that was/is served on Thursdays. Not in every home perhaps.
The pizza thing they do in Denmark and in Norway they do the hotdog thing. And liqoris icecreme you will find in all of the nordic countries.
I do always have ketchup and cucumber on my tacos. I do also have banana, corn and strawberries.
I ate licorice ice-cream in the 60:s. So, that flavour is nothing new.
I learned then that I don't like licorice.
I made Flygande Jacob for a friend in Canada. She forgot the name and refered too it as a Dead Parrot Dinner. 😂
I once by mistake combined chilicheese and vanilla soft icecream. It was’nt bad at all.
Hamburgers with schrimpsallad and raw onionrings... best drunk food ever!!!! (for dry ppl, it works without being drunk too)
I've said it before and I say it again.. If there's any way to ruin a Pizza a Swede have tried it.
... but when trying every imaginable combination we some time stumble upon greatness!
"Pancakes with jam are often served as a dessert for pea soup. Perhaps it is because when pea soup began to be served in restaurants, something more than the soup itself was needed for a complete meal that the restaurateur could charge handsomely for.
The pea soup is also associated with Erik XIV who was Sweden's king from 1560 - 1568."
He was poisoned with pea soup with arsenic in it.
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if you are tourists, you have to try this grilled sausage in bread with mustard ketchup and cucumber salad
We never eat tacos with ketchup.
The panncake are for after the soup because you soup is not a full diner so you always have panncakes to feel full
never seen ketchup on tacos here in sweden! But pineapple salsa and cucumbers ((((((ofc)))))), corn and red onions, yum!!
Ketchup on tacos?. Never done it but why not. The salsa sauce is tomato so why not…. Maybe its good. Schrimps on hotdog… hell yeah!
I think Asian food has the combination of sweet and sour and Swedish food the combination of salty and sweet (salty meatballs and sauce + lingonberry jam, ham, mustard and apple jam, salty liqourice and so on).
I really like that combination, I think I have the palette for salt and sweet food.
Pea soup is an ancient tradition at least in Sweden.
According to rumor and documents at the time, the Swedish king Eric XIV (1533-1577) is said to have died by poisoned pea soup. Even if that's not how he died, it's at least mentioned as a dish in documents almost 500 years ago.
Not really sure why the tradition of "Pea soup and pancakes on thursdays" came from but it's not uncommon in the military or schools, or even most lunch restaurants.
sewde here and i never use ketchup with tacos the closest to ketchup i use is hot sauce.
Hmmm. Think I mudt do flygande Jakob tomorrow
I'm a swede and I'm shocked about ketchup on tacos as well. The only thing that goes with ketchup is hot dog.
You can pick up frozen Flying Jacob TV-dinners in most grossery shops.
We eat chili as well .. chili con carne is similar but its own thing.
Love Chili con Carne with rice.
Ketchup does not belong on tacos, never heard of anyone eating it that way. Salsa (of varying level of hotness) on the other hand is basically mandatory. Cucumbers defintively should be on Tacos.
Never tried the hot dog with the shrimp salad. I prefer sweet and strong mustard, and maybe a bit of ketchup. It is however very popular on the West coast. You must have fresh ingredients.
The pancakes is a dessert. Should be served with strawberryjam and whipped cream. The pea soup is served with hot mustard, some Thyme, and maybe with a glass of Arrack-based punch )only to adults as it is an alcoholic beverage). The soup usually also contains some pork (but nowadays also often served without it).Traditionally served on Thursdays, in all the months that do not contain a "r" in its name. Pancakes as a meal in itself is usually only served to children.
Love Licorice, but not in icecream. I prefer salty licorice though. That red thing that is called licorice in the US, that is some chemical garbage.
Flygande jakob is very good. Even though I don't like bacon, but the smoky saltiness works very well with the other flavours.
I'm a 35 year old Swede and I've never seen anyone put ketchup on a Taco..
Never heard of ANYONE having ketchup on tacos. And I have tacos eveey Friday like a true Swede. 😜
Greetings from Finland! Just like in Sweden peasoup is traditional food and is served on thursdays and pancakes are dessert. We also call that combo "lataa ja laukaise" aka lock and load becouse it really gets your gas going. Peasoup makes you fart and pancake with whipped cream sure does too so it will be hell of a firework that your ass is going to shoot out.
Well i would never put ketchup on tacos and never heard that it would be normal in here. But liquirice in icecream is delicious. Im quite sure we have much more of different brand icecreams with liquirice and also salty liquirice icecreams as Sweden does. Chili con carne is normal food here too and it is served with rice. We even had it in school and was one of my favourite foods. But as we were in scgool there wasn´t much of chili in that dish so we called it con carne with my friends.
Haha I bet the combination gets the ass going lol!
I haver never seen anyone have ketchup on tacos. A lot of people have it on pancakes tho. Weirdos 😂.
And speaking of pancakes they are a dessert to the peasoup.
To the peasoup the traditional condiments are mustard and punsh.
Punsh is a sweet arrak liquor.
She really needs to do more resarch. Its not mayonaise in shrimpsallad as its called. Its cream fraiche in it. Pancakes you eat after the soup as a dessert. The sauce on the pizza is called kebab sauce. Ketchup on taco i never heard about. I'm Swede.
Flygande Jacob is fantastic!
I love Chicken, Banana, Peanuts and Curry on Pizza!
Taco with ketchup? Never! Though some people have ketchup on everything...
Looking at your reaction, licorice ice cream would make you gag. I love it though! Crunchy layer of salt licorice glazing, then the sweet cream inside… ❤
Yeah I don't think I would like it. I've never had the taste buds for Liquorice. It's just not my cup of tea I think lol