The water outside of Stockholm is the Baltic sea, which is a mix of salt and fresh water, the water outside of Lysekil is Västerhavet, which is much saltier, so the seafood is different. Great reaction as always!
Not to mention that the fish in the Baltic sea is poisonous and you are only recommended to eat fish from it once or twice a year and women that can give birth and children are recommended to abstain from Baltic sea fish alltogether.
@@Osquar No, it's not poisonous. There used to be elevated lead levels and you shouldn't eat large amounts. More like no more than two times a week. Sadly the Baltic has fallen victim to predatory fishing practices so there are very little fish left for our Swedish fishermen. For example: the Baltic Herring is more or less extinct these days
the thing about smoking prawns, I think he means that you often extend the shelf life by smoking prawns that you have not managed to sell, they are perfectly fine to eat but the quality is worse than if you had smoked them directly. and yes!, if it hasn't moved after you cut it with the knife, it would have meant that it was already dead, and could have been unhealthy to eat.
Lobster has an interesting history. It used to be a poor food cuz people treated it like an insect. Then refrigeration and now it's amazingly expensive. People once complained they had to eat it every day, now they complain they can't ever.
Connor, you have to take into account the göteborg(gothenburg) vs stockholm bickering/rivalry, when people from götet(gothenburg) say stuff that like gothenburg is the best. Eastside vs westside thing. Keeping true to your birthside. Giving a peak when you can to the other side. Especially those two sides. While the south part(skåne county) is being heckled by both sides. And the northern sweden just heckles everyone for being pussies, except the north. A fun banter, if it stays as a banter.
Stockholm is on the east cost with the Baltic sea. The water is brackish and normaly warmer in the Baltic sea.The lake Mälaren on the west of Stockholm is sweet water. The water on the west coast is salt water and colder. So different fishes and sea food can be find. Also the Baltic sea has problem with low amount of new fresh water, so the water gets higher levels of toxins and some fishes are not good because of that. Source im from the Largest island in the Baltic sea.
The "Van ..." in Dutch names indicates that the family name is also the name of a location. It means "of ...". It would be like saying Connor from Road Island" with the "from Road Island" being your actual family name.
You also have 'de' (the) and many other pre-name words as part of the family name. I.e. 'de Boer' (the Farmer) , 'de Groot' (the Big (one) ). 'in het Veld' ( in the Field)
@@Templarofsteel88 "von ..." is only used by some Swedes of German ancestory. It is incredibly rare among Swedes with Swedish roots. The Swedish equivalent of both "van" and "von" is "av". They are all cognates. We simply do not have a tradition of using location names with such a format. One thing that is pretty unique among Nordic peoples is that some Swedes have latinized last names. That is the result of a naming fad in the 18th and 19th centuries.
@@1Anime4you Yes, people in Sweden using the "von" is almost always from German nobility. Just one thing thing, when you say "av" it really shold be "af". Although it's pronounced the same.
The west coast of Sweden have proper salt water, the east coast (Baltic) have brackish water. All the rivers running out into the Baltic cause it to have less salt in the water. I bet it makes oysters grow different. Mussles are fine on the east coast as on the west coast.
28:44 There have been winters when it was possible to walk across the Öresund (the sound between Sweden and Denmark). It would however be very dangerous because of all the shipping passing through it.
@@McJibbin Don't open the can indoors. I have seen videos where the pressure blows the contents around when the can is opened. Make sure you do it outside, preferably on grass and not on a deck.
@@Nekotaku_TV When I was a kid in the 70's noone ever opened the can under water. When you get used to it and you crave it you also want to feel that awful smell just to be sure it's the real deal.
Hi Connor ! You are a happy halfhour every time with your videos and reactions i always enjoy looking at this and hearing you , you are excellent in swedish by the way😃 here is a swedish swearword for you. Jäklar - it mean like damn And the letter Ä is pronounced like the ai in the english word fair , the a in your Word compare or the ea in bear . Hope you keep learning and teach us aswell - wish you a beautiful day and take care with smiles and good wibes from Sweden 😃
Read about Karl X (Charles X) and the year 1658. What happned when Swedes could walk on the ice to Denmark. I think Demnark still have an old law about it. you are allowed to hit the swede whit a stick/club. If he walks over the ice to Denmark.
About smoking in Sweden question, I have noticed alot of younger people do think a 2nd time before doing bad stuff. So as I see it, alot older people do it still who havnt stopped yet, but not many younger people do it. I belive it doesnt belong to the category "tough" or "bad guy" or "cool" kids who does it anymore. I asked some kids what they thought of smoking, and they said "Who wants to smell like an ashtray?". I hope that is what we are getting and not a change and people go back to that. We are abit more smarter nowdays (sorry for everyone who thinks this message was offensive).
15:30 My father was a surströmming afficionado. He once had a can of it in his car for more than a year, because he'd forgotten he had it there. When he found it, the can had become ball-shaped. And when they opened it, the fish had dissolved completely. It had turned into fish-sauce. Edit: The Romans had a fish-sauce they used for everything, called 'garum'. I suspect that would have tasted a bit like surströmming.
regarding the Sweden/Denmark hike: there is a bridge between Sweden and Denmark so no reason to wait for ice to walk there, i would also not recommend doing that anyways. great reactions and very good pronunciations as always, man. I am impressed at your skill in snapping it up even when watching people who talk way faster than you would normally hear when learning in class or so. Also, it's Lys"E"kil, he just doesn't pronounce the E enough for you to hear it properly.
The water that separates Malmö and Copenhagen is called the Öresund. However it is not so often nowadays that this water completely freeze, but it has happened. When I was young we used to ice skate on the sea. In fact, this is how the Swedish king Charles X Gustav in the winter of 1658 finally defeated the Danes, by actually taking his entire army and crossing the Öresund while it was frozen and then laying siege to Copenhagen. This was a very risky move, but it seemed that fortune favors the bold! But this is very rare as warmer currents are carried from the Gulf of Mexico, through the Golf Stream which flows diagonally across the Atlantic from the Southwest to the Northeast and brings these warmer waters into the southern part of Sweden and Denmark, which is why we can have milder climates than Germany and Poland even though they are further south.
Walking from Sweden to Denmark in winter isn't recommended. It's far too cold on the bridge. Even though a Swedish army walked across one winter a few centuries ago to teach the Danes a lesson, today the shipping lanes are kept open with icebreakers if it freezes. And if you want to see an honest reaction to eating surströmming, search for it on the Ashen channel. Or click this if you trust links from strangers: ruclips.net/video/hIVTIwvJttg/видео.html Him and Barry are almost doing it in a sensible way, even if reluctantly. I think it was a thing they promised to do as a stretch goal for a film project. Maybe worth a reaction? Or as research if you think of trying it yourself...
I'd say the smell of Surströmming, after it's been opened under water and rinsed etc, is a bit like a bad egg-fart. I guess it might be more intense if you smell it straight out of the can instead of having it on a plate after it's been rinsed. I guess similar to how some people get nauseous when smelling someone else's puke and even start puking themselves, the same effect can come from the fermented smell of Surströmming. It also comes down to is you are used to it or not. Someone who clean vomits daily will probably not start to throw up after 5 years at the job.
The "k" that sounds like "ch" or "sj" is really hard on people trying to learn Swedish. We have a dozen different "ch" sounds... and just when you think you know... then they it's an "s"... like in "snaps".
smör [smur] = butter, It's the cognate of your English word "smear", which also used to mean "grease" of "fat" (noun) in Old(er) English. bord = table gås [goas] = goose normally, but the word is used here to mean "(open) sandwich" / " snack" etc. So the litteral tranlation of this borrowed Swedish word is "butter(ed) sandwich table" ( i.e. a buffet of open sandwiches of various types ).
Vasa or Wasa is/was a Family name. Gusta Eriksson Wasa, Erik XIV, Johan III, Sigismund Wasa, Carl IX, Gustav II Adolf and Queen Kristina all belonged to that family.
Smoked shrimp, when smoked and directly eaten, are delicious and have a lot of oils and fatty flavours that are released. If you chill and store them, a lot of that is gone. So there is a huge difference between buying smoked shrimp at a store and buying smoked shrimp directly at the smokery.
Many moons ago I was at a party in my home town. Extra fun because Dolph Lundgren was there. Me and my friend arrived in his Volvo 164. When we left, hours later someone har placed an open surströmming can in the car. Not a fun drive home.
Fermented herring (surströmming) is a delicacy. It has a salty umami taste, and with the proper condiments it's amazing. And once you learn to appreciate the taste, the smell (which is mostly an issue when you open the can) isn't so bad.
That snaps song, here is a way for you to sing it as an english speaker, with nonsense words, but it sounds like the real deal. Hell and gore, Chung hop father Allan ley Hell and gore, Chung hop father Allan ley Oh handsome in the hell and tar and hell are in the half and four Hell and gore, Chung hop father Allan ley SKÅL!
I think van in dutch names means from in english or maybe of. So Adriaan van de plasse would be something like Adrian from/of the puddle translated to english.
Worst thing you can do is opening a surströmming-can under water. It's a bit counter intuative, but the initial spray numbs your sense of smell, it really doesn't smell that bad after the initial shock. However, if you open the can under water you won't have the shock and you'll feel the smell more intensly and for a longer time. Another thing, traditionaly the drink with surströmming isn't beer and snaps, it's milk.
A small tip regarding pronunciation: the letter 'e' is almost never silent, no matter where in the word it is placed. For example: LysEkil, not 'Lyskil'
I love shellfish, if there's a beech with rocks and the tide is out, I'm there with a bucket collecting muscles and winkles to eat. Growing up in London I regularly ate shellfish and jellied eels mmmmmm
surströmming actually have a best before date where the fermentation has gone for too long and made it into mush, those guys you were describing probably ate spoiled surströmming.
I'm 37 years old and just bought my first can of Surströmming yesterday and gonna try it for the first time.. They say it would be like old stinky cheese and that makes me feel ok with it. Gonna try it soon. He did it good though and with respect even though he didn't like it. Also you are correct... the "van" is kinda like yourname "van/from" area/city... in Sweden we have yourname from your fathers name as in Adam Svensson.. Sven being your father son being the son of Sven.
What really puzzles me as a Dane, having seen all those hilarious reactions videos of poor foreigners attempting to eat surströmning, is, how on Earth did anyone in Sweden - presumably in his or her right mind 😂 - ever figure out that it was actually humanely possible to eat this smelly stuff without getting sick? 😉
When it comes to “Surströmming” (Swedish Fermented Herring) what ever you imagine the smell is going to be like, it’s worse. 😂 My dear mother (god rest her soul) use to have a “Surstömmingsskiva” (Swedish Fermented Herring Party) every autumn, sometimes the fire department would show up, some one called them, because the smell made them thing of gas or chemicals. So it’s essentially chemical/biological warfare in a can. The taste on the other hand is less impressive, more or less just salted herring. Ok on “knäckebröd” (Hard/Snappy bread) with some raw chopped onions and sour cream.
Today is Surströmmings premiär of the year 2022! Surströmming is always a fridged food at 4c. Don´t eat it if it isen´t stored coold at the hole time. Don´t bye this in another contry than Sweden! Well you can, but i don´t wanna eat bones and rutten fish soup!😀
If the straight between Sweden and Denmark were to be frozen solid yes you could walk over to Copenhagen from Malmö. But that is not going to happen again any time soon. And even if the straight is frozen the icebreakers keep the shippinglanes open. In 1658 march i think, the swedish king went over the ice. Some of the food in the video that Ivar tried was the poormans food many years ago. Like the oysters and shrimp. But then the rich noticed how good the food was and claimed it for themselves. I can´t eat eat because of allergies. But herring NOT SURSTRÖMMING is delicious. And my hometown Malmö have so much more than just falafel and kebabs!!
Question about if it really is that bad, I havn't ate it yet and probbly wont (Swedish). But I know how it smells, because when I was in middleschool one thing happend haha. They opened a airdrum in school with some loose screws they just handpicked off, and they opened one up and the whole school had to shutdown for 3 days untill they found it. Abit longer weekend for us that week :D
If you grew up on a fram its not that bad. For other people the smell is bad realy bad. Hide it in schools are a classic we did that back in the 90s to. The taste is not that bad if you eat it the correct way. it taste like super salty herring. I dont like herring so I will not eat it unless i have to.
Today Sweden smokes less than most of the rest of Europe. Used to be a lot more 10-15 years ago. When we stopped alowing smoking in public places, It went down, just like in the US.
Walking across from Sweden to Denmark nerver happens in modern times due to maritime traffic between the countries. I think you did a video on the old ancient war between us and how Sweden surprised the Denmark kingdom and won a significant battle by a fluke of nature, freezing the waters so the Swedish army could just walk over and ransack the Danes and win the war.
Even if Öresund would freeze over I wouldn't walk over to Denmark, as far as I know they still have an old law where the danes have to beat any swede that walks over the ice
believe me surströmming is REALLY that bad. it smells like a bad fart mixed with garbage but really strong and you can smell it pretty far away. I've never smelled it up close but would probably puke if I did.
that fish smells worse than you can possibly imagine some people can handle it but i cant be near that stuff [ it was so hard not to put a your momma joke in here ]
U are amazing with swedish pronansinations:)u sure u not swedish:)😉👍most swedish open the can under water to avoid the first heavy smell who happend when the can is opend
Traditional Swedish swear words are not sexual references, rather they are religious. So, one easy one for you is “Satan!” - pronounced “Sah t on”. Also, “Helvete!” Enjoy. 🥰
No, the Surströmming is worse than you see on youtube. I have eaten it and it tastes better tgan the smell... but the smell is really the smelliest food possible.
Smörgåsbord is a swedish word. It literally men “sandwich table”. It is like you say a buffet of traditional Swedish dishes.
The water outside of Stockholm is the Baltic sea, which is a mix of salt and fresh water, the water outside of Lysekil is Västerhavet, which is much saltier, so the seafood is different. Great reaction as always!
Not to mention that the fish in the Baltic sea is poisonous and you are only recommended to eat fish from it once or twice a year and women that can give birth and children are recommended to abstain from Baltic sea fish alltogether.
@@Osquar No, it's not poisonous. There used to be elevated lead levels and you shouldn't eat large amounts. More like no more than two times a week. Sadly the Baltic has fallen victim to predatory fishing practices so there are very little fish left for our Swedish fishermen. For example: the Baltic Herring is more or less extinct these days
the thing about smoking prawns, I think he means that you often extend the shelf life by smoking prawns that you have not managed to sell, they are perfectly fine to eat but the quality is worse than if you had smoked them directly.
and yes!, if it hasn't moved after you cut it with the knife, it would have meant that it was already dead, and could have been unhealthy to eat.
Lobster has an interesting history. It used to be a poor food cuz people treated it like an insect. Then refrigeration and now it's amazingly expensive. People once complained they had to eat it every day, now they complain they can't ever.
Smorgasbord is a loan word from Swedish
SMÖRGÅRDSBORD! Och surströmming tillhör INTE ditt!!!!!!!!
And native English speakers butcher it by ignoring the ö and å in smörgåsbord.
The thing he says when the diver comes with the oysters is "Oo de lally", from the Disney movie Robin Hood. But little more swedish pronunciation.
Connor, you have to take into account the göteborg(gothenburg) vs stockholm bickering/rivalry, when people from götet(gothenburg) say stuff that like gothenburg is the best. Eastside vs westside thing. Keeping true to your birthside. Giving a peak when you can to the other side. Especially those two sides. While the south part(skåne county) is being heckled by both sides. And the northern sweden just heckles everyone for being pussies, except the north. A fun banter, if it stays as a banter.
there is always a love/hate relationship between Stockholm and Gothenburg.
and everyone unites against the dane (again, as banter)
@@cuffzter Dansk jävlar. :P
Stockholm is on the east cost with the Baltic sea. The water is brackish and normaly warmer in the Baltic sea.The lake Mälaren on the west of Stockholm is sweet water. The water on the west coast is salt water and colder. So different fishes and sea food can be find. Also the Baltic sea has problem with low amount of new fresh water, so the water gets higher levels of toxins and some fishes are not good because of that. Source im from the Largest island in the Baltic sea.
The "Van ..." in Dutch names indicates that the family name is also the name of a location. It means "of ...".
It would be like saying Connor from Road Island" with the "from Road Island" being your actual family name.
that makes sense thank you 😄👍
You also have 'de' (the) and many other pre-name words as part of the family name. I.e. 'de Boer' (the Farmer) , 'de Groot' (the Big (one) ). 'in het Veld' ( in the Field)
same thing in Sweden but with von (pronounced fon)
@@Templarofsteel88 "von ..." is only used by some Swedes of German ancestory. It is incredibly rare among Swedes with Swedish roots. The Swedish equivalent of both "van" and "von" is "av". They are all cognates. We simply do not have a tradition of using location names with such a format. One thing that is pretty unique among Nordic peoples is that some Swedes have latinized last names. That is the result of a naming fad in the 18th and 19th centuries.
@@1Anime4you Yes, people in Sweden using the "von" is almost always from German nobility. Just one thing thing, when you say "av" it really shold be "af". Although it's pronounced the same.
The west coast of Sweden have proper salt water, the east coast (Baltic) have brackish water. All the rivers running out into the Baltic cause it to have less salt in the water. I bet it makes oysters grow different. Mussles are fine on the east coast as on the west coast.
28:44 There have been winters when it was possible to walk across the Öresund (the sound between Sweden and Denmark). It would however be very dangerous because of all the shipping passing through it.
You know you now have to buy some and try the fermented herring on a live stream. It will answer all your questions and we can enjoy your reaction.
ok i am going to
@@McJibbin Don't open the can indoors. I have seen videos where the pressure blows the contents around when the can is opened. Make sure you do it outside, preferably on grass and not on a deck.
@@greeneaglz2573 Haha, he has explained several times just that in his videos. But even better, under water.
@@Nekotaku_TV When I was a kid in the 70's noone ever opened the can under water. When you get used to it and you crave it you also want to feel that awful smell just to be sure it's the real deal.
@@fredosinsemilla3896 Haha ewww.
Hi Connor ! You are a happy halfhour every time with your videos and reactions i always enjoy looking at this and hearing you , you are excellent in swedish by the way😃 here is a swedish swearword for you. Jäklar - it mean like damn And the letter Ä is pronounced like the ai in the english word fair , the a in your Word compare or the ea in bear . Hope you keep learning and teach us aswell - wish you a beautiful day and take care with smiles and good wibes from Sweden 😃
Read about Karl X (Charles X) and the year 1658. What happned when Swedes could walk on the ice to Denmark. I think Demnark still have an old law about it. you are allowed to hit the swede whit a stick/club. If he walks over the ice to Denmark.
They didn't walk *to* Denmark, they were already in Denmark. They crossed from Jutland (Jylland) to the islands, and towards Copenhagen.
@@Griexxt You are correct. Even if they had walked from Skåne they would have been walking from Denmark. It was after this Skåne became swedish.
@@KristoferOlsson Good point.🙂
About smoking in Sweden question, I have noticed alot of younger people do think a 2nd time before doing bad stuff. So as I see it, alot older people do it still who havnt stopped yet, but not many younger people do it. I belive it doesnt belong to the category "tough" or "bad guy" or "cool" kids who does it anymore. I asked some kids what they thought of smoking, and they said "Who wants to smell like an ashtray?". I hope that is what we are getting and not a change and people go back to that. We are abit more smarter nowdays (sorry for everyone who thinks this message was offensive).
Absolutely true, but there’s still a lot of people who “fest röker” (party smoke). At parties a lot of people smoke.
Well we were there 500 years before the dude columbus..
15:30 My father was a surströmming afficionado. He once had a can of it in his car for more than a year, because he'd forgotten he had it there. When he found it, the can had become ball-shaped. And when they opened it, the fish had dissolved completely. It had turned into fish-sauce.
Edit: The Romans had a fish-sauce they used for everything, called 'garum'. I suspect that would have tasted a bit like surströmming.
regarding the Sweden/Denmark hike: there is a bridge between Sweden and Denmark so no reason to wait for ice to walk there, i would also not recommend doing that anyways.
great reactions and very good pronunciations as always, man. I am impressed at your skill in snapping it up even when watching people who talk way faster than you would normally hear when learning in class or so.
Also, it's Lys"E"kil, he just doesn't pronounce the E enough for you to hear it properly.
The water that separates Malmö and Copenhagen is called the Öresund. However it is not so often nowadays that this water completely freeze, but it has happened. When I was young we used to ice skate on the sea. In fact, this is how the Swedish king Charles X Gustav in the winter of 1658 finally defeated the Danes, by actually taking his entire army and crossing the Öresund while it was frozen and then laying siege to Copenhagen. This was a very risky move, but it seemed that fortune favors the bold! But this is very rare as warmer currents are carried from the Gulf of Mexico, through the Golf Stream which flows diagonally across the Atlantic from the Southwest to the Northeast and brings these warmer waters into the southern part of Sweden and Denmark, which is why we can have milder climates than Germany and Poland even though they are further south.
Awesome 👍👍👍 Greetings from Helsinki, Finland 🇫🇮🇺🇸🇸🇪
Walking from Sweden to Denmark in winter isn't recommended. It's far too cold on the bridge.
Even though a Swedish army walked across one winter a few centuries ago to teach the Danes a lesson, today the shipping lanes are kept open with icebreakers if it freezes.
And if you want to see an honest reaction to eating surströmming, search for it on the Ashen channel. Or click this if you trust links from strangers: ruclips.net/video/hIVTIwvJttg/видео.html
Him and Barry are almost doing it in a sensible way, even if reluctantly. I think it was a thing they promised to do as a stretch goal for a film project.
Maybe worth a reaction? Or as research if you think of trying it yourself...
Karl X walked across the water from the other side (Germany today) he came from Poland.
@@donquixote1502 Dang! You're right. Thanks for the reminder. I've made that mistake before.
I'd say the smell of Surströmming, after it's been opened under water and rinsed etc, is a bit like a bad egg-fart.
I guess it might be more intense if you smell it straight out of the can instead of having it on a plate after it's been rinsed. I guess similar to how some people get nauseous when smelling someone else's puke and even start puking themselves, the same effect can come from the fermented smell of Surströmming.
It also comes down to is you are used to it or not. Someone who clean vomits daily will probably not start to throw up after 5 years at the job.
The "k" that sounds like "ch" or "sj" is really hard on people trying to learn Swedish. We have a dozen different "ch" sounds... and just when you think you know... then they it's an "s"... like in "snaps".
smör [smur] = butter,
It's the cognate of your English word "smear", which also used to mean "grease" of "fat" (noun) in Old(er) English.
bord = table
gås [goas] = goose normally, but the word is used here to mean "(open) sandwich" / " snack" etc.
So the litteral tranlation of this borrowed Swedish word is
"butter(ed) sandwich table"
( i.e. a buffet of open sandwiches of various types ).
The stench of surströmming makes it like eating in an outhouse on a dump.
Vasaparken does indeed mean "the park of Vasa"
Vasa or Wasa is/was a Family name. Gusta Eriksson Wasa, Erik XIV, Johan III, Sigismund Wasa, Carl IX, Gustav II Adolf and Queen Kristina all belonged to that family.
Smoked shrimp, when smoked and directly eaten, are delicious and have a lot of oils and fatty flavours that are released. If you chill and store them, a lot of that is gone. So there is a huge difference between buying smoked shrimp at a store and buying smoked shrimp directly at the smokery.
Many moons ago I was at a party in my home town. Extra fun because Dolph Lundgren was there. Me and my friend arrived in his Volvo 164. When we left, hours later someone har placed an open surströmming can in the car. Not a fun drive home.
Fermented herring (surströmming) is a delicacy. It has a salty umami taste, and with the proper condiments it's amazing. And once you learn to appreciate the taste, the smell (which is mostly an issue when you open the can) isn't so bad.
At 24:13 I believe he said "oh-de-lally" which is a quote from the 1975 Disney's Robin Hood.
That snaps song, here is a way for you to sing it as an english speaker, with nonsense words, but it sounds like the real deal.
Hell and gore, Chung hop father Allan ley
Hell and gore, Chung hop father Allan ley
Oh handsome in the hell and tar
and hell are in the half and four
Hell and gore, Chung hop father Allan ley
SKÅL!
yes you can walk from Malmoe to Denmark if its really cold and the water turns into ice...happens before...
I'm sure I saw the "opening the can under water" tip, was on QI, heh heh.
I think van in dutch names means from in english or maybe of. So Adriaan van de plasse would be something like Adrian from/of the puddle translated to english.
Worst thing you can do is opening a surströmming-can under water.
It's a bit counter intuative, but the initial spray numbs your sense of smell, it really doesn't smell that bad after the initial shock.
However, if you open the can under water you won't have the shock and you'll feel the smell more intensly and for a longer time.
Another thing, traditionaly the drink with surströmming isn't beer and snaps, it's milk.
A cool resaurant you should check is. Aifur, Viking Restaurant in Stockholm Sweden. It´s a restaurant. One of a kind
Sweden extends some 1,000 miles (1,600 km) to the north and south and 310 miles (500 km) to the east and west.
yea the mucels still have energy left in them thats why they can still twitch
A small tip regarding pronunciation: the letter 'e' is almost never silent, no matter where in the word it is placed. For example: LysEkil, not 'Lyskil'
It all dialect related, but you are right as far as Lysekil goes.
Most eat imported oysters, it's cheaper than the Swedish west coast oyster. So in Stockholm AND in the cities most buy imported oysters.
Pronunciation of k depends on if the vowel after is hard or soft
I love shellfish, if there's a beech with rocks and the tide is out, I'm there with a bucket collecting muscles and winkles to eat. Growing up in London I regularly ate shellfish and jellied eels mmmmmm
spot on about smörgåsbord
surströmming actually have a best before date where the fermentation has gone for too long and made it into mush, those guys you were describing probably ate spoiled surströmming.
"sur-strömming" actually does mean "sour-streaming" - The Scandinavian languages are indeed close cousins of (older) English. 😊
please try surströmming! it would be so fun !
i can send you a can straight from sweden :)
You should try surströmming or fermented haring!
Part 2 Hype!
I'm 37 years old and just bought my first can of Surströmming yesterday and gonna try it for the first time.. They say it would be like old stinky cheese and that makes me feel ok with it. Gonna try it soon. He did it good though and with respect even though he didn't like it.
Also you are correct... the "van" is kinda like yourname "van/from" area/city... in Sweden we have yourname from your fathers name as in Adam Svensson.. Sven being your father son being the son of Sven.
What really puzzles me as a Dane, having seen all those hilarious reactions videos of poor foreigners attempting to eat surströmning, is, how on Earth did anyone in Sweden - presumably in his or her right mind 😂 - ever figure out that it was actually humanely possible to eat this smelly stuff without getting sick? 😉
When it comes to “Surströmming” (Swedish Fermented Herring) what ever you imagine the smell is going to be like, it’s worse. 😂 My dear mother (god rest her soul) use to have a “Surstömmingsskiva” (Swedish Fermented Herring Party) every autumn, sometimes the fire department would show up, some one called them, because the smell made them thing of gas or chemicals. So it’s essentially chemical/biological warfare in a can. The taste on the other hand is less impressive, more or less just salted herring. Ok on “knäckebröd” (Hard/Snappy bread) with some raw chopped onions and sour cream.
Today is Surströmmings premiär of the year 2022! Surströmming is always a fridged food at 4c. Don´t eat it if it isen´t stored coold at the hole time. Don´t bye this in another contry than Sweden! Well you can, but i don´t wanna eat bones and rutten fish soup!😀
If the straight between Sweden and Denmark were to be frozen solid yes you could walk over to Copenhagen from Malmö. But that is not going to happen again any time soon. And even if the straight is frozen the icebreakers keep the shippinglanes open. In 1658 march i think, the swedish king went over the ice. Some of the food in the video that Ivar tried was the poormans food many years ago. Like the oysters and shrimp. But then the rich noticed how good the food was and claimed it for themselves. I can´t eat eat because of allergies. But herring NOT SURSTRÖMMING is delicious. And my hometown Malmö have so much more than just falafel and kebabs!!
Surströmming can be bought as fillet as whole fishes
Question about if it really is that bad, I havn't ate it yet and probbly wont (Swedish). But I know how it smells, because when I was in middleschool one thing happend haha. They opened a airdrum in school with some loose screws they just handpicked off, and they opened one up and the whole school had to shutdown for 3 days untill they found it. Abit longer weekend for us that week :D
If you grew up on a fram its not that bad. For other people the smell is bad realy bad. Hide it in schools are a classic we did that back in the 90s to. The taste is not that bad if you eat it the correct way. it taste like super salty herring. I dont like herring so I will not eat it unless i have to.
17:52 Yes, they're exaggerating IMO. And if you're as squeamish as the guy in the video, then don't stick your nose in the can!
Roe is caviar, fish/shellfish eggs pretty much. :-)
Smörgåsbord is a Swedish word that can be translated to sandwich table.
Yes; Vasaparken could be translate to the park of/for Vasa (parken = the park)
Whoohoo! Lysekil, my home town! 😀
Today Sweden smokes less than most of the rest of Europe. Used to be a lot more 10-15 years ago. When we stopped alowing smoking in public places, It went down, just like in the US.
Walking across from Sweden to Denmark nerver happens in modern times due to maritime traffic between the countries. I think you did a video on the old ancient war between us and how Sweden surprised the Denmark kingdom and won a significant battle by a fluke of nature, freezing the waters so the Swedish army could just walk over and ransack the Danes and win the war.
Connor, love your reactions by the way!
You don't open the can like that, you open it under water.
Even if Öresund would freeze over I wouldn't walk over to Denmark, as far as I know they still have an old law where the danes have to beat any swede that walks over the ice
Swedes don't smoke a lot. We used to, back in the 60s, 70s and 80s but not as much anymore.
Surströmming is not a dish from Göteborg. Its from the east coast. yak...
van is like von in german it means "from" ...
Love the picture framing.Oh by the way British food ain’t that good but some of that Swedish stuff?😄
You don't ignore the ö and å in smörgåsbord. They're there for a reason.
believe me surströmming is REALLY that bad. it smells like a bad fart mixed with garbage but really strong and you can smell it pretty far away. I've never smelled it up close but would probably puke if I did.
Believe me, Surströmming is even worse. ;-)
I've had a lot of swedish food and to this day I haven't found anything I don't like
"Is America number one?"
Hahahah oh you sweet american. You're currently 19, a few places over Bahrain.
that fish smells worse than you can possibly imagine some people can handle it but i cant be near that stuff [ it was so hard not to put a your momma joke in here ]
U are amazing with swedish pronansinations:)u sure u not swedish:)😉👍most swedish open the can under water to avoid the first heavy smell who happend when the can is opend
yea i hear you, it much better to eat one that just twichhed lol as its proof it just died and are super fresh
29:15 ..those naughty saudis
Hahaha... omg..
Smørgås bord.. it means sandwich table
yup. van is like son. andersson. etc!
Swear words in Swedish 😊 Fy fasen, jävlar, fasen också, sablar, för bövelen!
8:24 Looks like a scene from Alien.
Why did he write it with an â instead of å?
Yup, the park of Vasa.
"can you walk over?"
Ohhh let me tell you old friend en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_Across_the_Belts
Good swedish curse word is "fan"... 😊
if disintegrated - dont eat! bad surströmming!
it do smell! and its not overrated
Traditional Swedish swear words are not sexual references, rather they are religious. So, one easy one for you is “Satan!” - pronounced “Sah t on”. Also, “Helvete!” Enjoy. 🥰
dam you know how to open surströming call me impressed
You got the "smörgåsbord" thing correct.
Yes! The world comes from the swedish word ;)
sadly its not allowed on airplanes cuz they can blow up due to the high pressure
it still smells even if u get it into water:)
Thats the fileet...
:D :D No america is not NR 1.. :D they were 19 in 2021 by the way.. if you mean hapiness... but thats just stats ..
No its not so many that smokes in Sweden anymore
No..they alive
GUNS
No, the Surströmming is worse than you see on youtube. I have eaten it and it tastes better tgan the smell... but the smell is really the smelliest food possible.
100% smell no its
"Is America nr 1?" Hahahaha. .. omg..
Try the bottom of the list of developed nations and you might find USA.
the slimy oyesters you see are NOT FRESH lol. gotta buy you some dinners in sweden. please come
America isn't even in the top 10 happiest countries.
10:00 I stopped watching…
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