Btw, the prices you see on meat are per kg, not per package. So if the price for minced meat is 133 per kg, and the package is 0,5 kg, it would be half that for that package.
As a Coop employee I can mention that we focus a lot on organic products, we gather all the products that are about to expire, lower the price and places them in a specific fridge and they always sell out and saves us from throwing it away. We do the same thing with fruit and veggies, not poor quality veggies but the kind of veggies that you yourself wouldn't pick. The bakery makes banana bread, the deli makes daily lunch with products whom are about to expire so our wastes is really low.
Yellow peasoup with mustard as entre and panncake with sweet jam and whipped cream as main course is a compulsory dish at the lunch menu on many restaurants on thursdays! That is a very old tradition that started in the military. Cheap and good food that filled your stommach. 😋😋
Yup, it's a good idea, but I can't see the environmentally friendly thing about that tbh with all the plastic! Glas can be recycled and reused infinite amount of times so it ought to be better for the environment but I guess it takes more energy to create a glass jar than a plastic container! 😐
Sweden is the second most coffee drinkimg country in the world after Finland. The tube of jam is a refill so that you don't have to throw away the jam jar when it is empty. you just fill it up again. Lingonberry jam is similar to cranberry sauce. I would say Estrella is the biggest crisp brand in Sweden. Some would say OLW, but I think Estrella sell better. Also, we say chips, just like the Americans. That thing he thought was rice pudding was actually split pea soup. The cheese in tubes is even creamier than your typical cream cheese. The metal tubes are as good as tins when it comes to preserving food,that's why they are sold at room temp. Once opened though they should be stored in the fridge. Swedes love Mexican food (mostly tacos and burritos) because they love spicy food. Most of them can't handle spicy, but they do love it. It is easy to prepare, not too expensive, and very appreciated. In Sweden we have taco Fridays. You're absolutely right about the alcohol. Olive oil is used in some cooking, but it has a very specific flavour so many use rapeseed oil, but most use butter.
Although there's a difference between Finland and Sweden. Finnish coffee is light to medium roasted whereas Swedish coffee is medium to dark (or very dark) roasted.
NOPE!!!!!Placering Land Landets samlede forbrug (cirka) 1 Finland 66.000 tons 2 Norge 52.470 tons 3 Island 3.600 tons 4 Danmark 50.460 tons or Indholdsfortegnelse Hvem drikker mest kaffe i verden? 1. Finland - 12 kg pr. indbygger 2. Norge - 9,9 kg pr. indbygger 3. Island - 9 kg pr. indbygger 4. Danmark - 8,7 kg pr. indbygger 5. Holland - 8,4 kg pr. indbygger 6. Sverige - 8,2 kg pr. indbygger 7. Schweiz - 7,9 kg pr. indbygger 8. Belgien - 6,8 kg pr. indbygger 9. Luxembourg - 6,5 kg pr. indbygger 10. Canada - 6,5 kg pr. indbygger Hvilket land drikker mest kaffe?
@@nightwolfnordberg9476 Indholdsfortegnelse Hvem drikker mest kaffe i verden? 1. Finland - 12 kg pr. indbygger 2. Norge - 9,9 kg pr. indbygger 3. Island - 9 kg pr. indbygger 4. Danmark - 8,7 kg pr. indbygger 5. Holland - 8,4 kg pr. indbygger 6. Sverige - 8,2 kg pr. indbygger 7. Schweiz - 7,9 kg pr. indbygger 8. Belgien - 6,8 kg pr. indbygger 9. Luxembourg - 6,5 kg pr. indbygger 10. Canada - 6,5 kg pr. indbygger Hvilket land drikker mest kaffe?
Correction Xtra is actually a Swedish brand and was previously called Blåvitt but the name was changed due to the "å" as it went international to other No rdic countries. Extra is a store brand of coop, but coop doesn't exist in every country of the Nordic so in some countries it can be found in other stores then coop. Coop also one of the more expensive supermarkets. Willys and Lidl is usually the cheapest followed by ica.
@marcusfridh8489 The most common supermarkets are ica, coop, willys, and lidl at the places where I've lived. And I know coop is the most expensive and ica is cheaper than coop but not cheaper than willys and lidl can be cheaper then willys but is a much smaller store. This from me who have lived in different places in Sweden and regularly compare prices. Ofc it varies where you live but this is generally it.
Why do Swedish people like taco style foods? Oh i don´t know, could it be our culture of smörgåsbord? Mix and match the food on your plate, served from an assortment of small bowls of dishes on the table? Getting together with your friends for Taco Tuesday is great!
That COOP is also located in the city (well, on the large island called Södermalm in Stockholm) and is not cheap because of that. But it is fairly large anyway :D
The Lingonberry bread is my mom's favourite, i ate itt almost every day growing up. ^^ It's so good with butter and a slice of cheese.. Edit: The Salad bar is not 13:90 per KG, it's per 100 grams. (HG)... So it's 10x more expensive than they thought.
Knäckebröd is a staple food, it lasts for a long time and has a nice taste and texture. You can have any kind of toppings on it The history behind it is that once baked, it was stored on a rod above the kitchen stove which kept it dry and is the reason for the hole in the middle. Lingonberries tastes tart, but quite a lot of sugar is added when making jam, so the taste of jam is a mix of sweet and sour. I don't think anyone eats it as a treat, but you can add it to porrige or "filmjölk" (our version of Yoghurt), perhaps as a dessert, mixed with milk but I think other berries are more common. We don't usually put jam on bread, but there are exceptions like Orange Marmelade on toast. Sallad bars are pretty pricey, he said "per kg", but it was "per hg". Surströmming is from the east coast of north Sweden and most Swedes have never tried it. Risgrynsgröt is a porrige made from rice, milk, and cinnamon. It's a classic during Christmas. Many different foods has popped up during the years, Pizza was not common until the 80ies, Friday Tacos became a thing around 2000 I think, Indian food became popular at about the same time, Sushi became popular a bit earlier, say 1995. I don't think I've ever seen a Mexican restaurant here, it's usually Tacos made at home on Fridays. Systembolaget is for anything above 3.5%. 3.5%, 2.8% or 0.5% can be bought in regular stores. Olive oil (as well as other oils) has become fairly popular lately, we traditionally use butter.
Liqourice is the best! Especially salty liqourice - liqourice in its raw form is sweet, bitter and just tastes like anise/ fennell. Salty liqourice comes from ammoniumchloride being added to it.
20:12 - one thing I think you should try is actually on screen right now, the "ostkaka" (rectangular package on the top shelf), it translates to cheesecake but is nothing like what you think of when you hear that. Heat it up and serve with some jam (I would recommend raspberry or cloudberry) and whipped cream. I absolutely love it!
Surströmming is from Sweden, from the Västernorrland region which is on the Swedish east coast. Also it is seasonal, you wount find it in the supermarket all year around.
Showing my inner 'know it all': In the 1600's, Swedish traiders noticed that their salted haring had gone rancid so they sold everything to some Finns. When they returned the next year they expected some hard words but was actually asked if they had more rancid fish for sale. Let's call it 'something that came from nesesety'. Salt was expensive so they used less than needed to preserve the fish.
Swedish coffee is top tier💯 I always take it with me when I visit my family in the UK😂 ALSO, about the alcohol: Only maximum 3,5 (light beer) is sold in the supermarkets. Anything higher is sold in the liquor stores. Like wine, spirits, and beers over 3,5 alcohol
I can't guarantee that I remember it right but I think that Swedish coffee is the best that any country that don't grow coffee beans, have. The difference between different brands is however enormous! Here in Skåne we drink Zoegas Skånerost or nothing. It's a dark röst that works well with our water.
I love how you can just blurp out the most perfectly pronounced Swedish word here and there 😃👌. It takes me by surprise every time, and makes my Sweet-dish heart happy. You'd do great as a Swede. Bless!
det är rätt kul för våran blodpudding är inte pudding. vi tog namnet.. england o finnland har den gammla varianten men finnland kallar de mustamakkara pga förpackningen/ svart korv.vi har skosulor med lingon...ja asgott.
Plastic bags are not worse than paper bags. And Swedish plastic bags are not even made from oil. However the imported chinese ones people buy to replace the forbidden plastic bags are indeed made from petroleum...
If you go to Sweden and need to go grocery shopping, there's usually a part of the prcetag that's called some version of "Jämför pris", "Compare price", and it will show the price per some standardized unity, so price of cheese would be listed as price-per-Kg, milk would be price-per-L, eggs would be price-per-egg. So that it's easier to compare an 8-egg carton with a 10-egg carton and a 12-egg carton, or 0.675kg of minced meat with 823g of minced meat.
yellow tube = pea soup (or machine gun gruel) , white one = rice porridge (add jam or syrup, but not lingon) brown tube = beans. The tubed cheese is vaccuum-sealed so need no fridge until opened, you open them by punching a hole with the back of the lid. Best meat is found at CityGross they usually have their own butcher at the store. Only LIDL and Willys remains for cheaper food since coop bought all the Netto stores. Coop is the most expensive store for food.
"Licorice root used to be a medicinal plant, sold in pharmacies as recently as the 1970s. It is a narrow branch-like root which, when chewed together with saliva, gives the typical licorice flavor as it slowly softens. There are studies on animals that demonstrate that the substance glycyrrhizic acid found in licorice can have anticarcinogenic effects, i.e. cancer prevention properties".
Because most Swedish food are savory or salty just on its own you can often see different jams being added to the dish to balance it out (almost like a palate cleanser), like lingonberries, bilberries and cloudberries, so you get this sweet and salty or sweet and savory taste, the same goes when it comes to candy, there are a lot of sweet and sour/salty types including chocolates. And like most of the nordic countries we have many types of liquorice candy including "Svenskajävlar" which is know for being one of the saltiest candies on the planet.
Our family always has at least three, often five, varieties of mustard at home. Different mustards for different food, and for different members of the family. We usually have three varieties of ketchup in the fridge as well.
You CAN get alcohol in supermarkets in Sweden, but like the guy in the video commented on, only up to like 3,5% alcohol which is basically non-alcoholic, anything above that you have to go to systembolaget, same system as Finland but we have a higher limit on the %
Extra is a Swedish brand, the cheese in tube is real cheese and also not cream cheese. The big stores have also a big section for Asian food as well, also other food like Balkan, Hungarian, American food.. Anyway this shop is not very big so little limited in size.
Yes beer and alcohol under 3.5% is sold at grosery shops, the rest at systembolager. Same in Norway where it's called vinmonopolet. I'm a Vodka Ice drinker and those are also sold at groceryshops. Prices is also higher in Norway compared to Sweden in case you want to visit Norway. Stay away from Meny shops as this is the most expensive food shops in Norway. Same for gas/petrol stations, their prices is way more than normal shops.
3.5% or less alcohol is sold at supermarkets. It`s called ”lättöl” (light beer) and if you want stronger stuff you have to go to Systembolaget. Most supermarkets have an age-check if you buy beer and you have to be 18 years old. The same with wine or lättvin. We use light with milk or yoghurt (lättmjölk o lättyoghurt) as well but then the ”light” is regarding fat levels.
I'm not a healthy person but I know enough to avoid palm oil. It contain loads of calories/energy but nothing else. Hypothetically, you could survive for years on 2,5-3 dl a day (a multi vitamin pill a day is STRONGLY recommended) but you would starve to death after a month because the human body doesn't handle it well. It isn't food.
28:46 Swedish supermarkets can sell alcohol 3.5% or milder in stores (beer, cider). Stronger than 3.5% in Systembolaget (wines), can also be bought in Systembolaget milder beer than 3.5%.
Some Swedish chip brands are: OLW - general snack brand, potato chips, cheesepuffs, chips, peanuts and various dips. Estrella - Same deal, some different snacks like onion puff rings, peanut puff rings Lantchips - strictly chips, easily distinguished by the brown non-bleached paper colorred bags with a white label in the middle. All three of the above are or were Swedish owned but have since been folded into bigger conglomerates. Orkla in the case of OLW
You can buy plastic bags but they are very expensive compared to the paper bags. I drink only 2 types of coffee, Ice Coffee and coffee drinks. Jam in a tube is a refill pack for jars basically. OLW and Estrella is the biggest (Crisp Brands(we call it Chips). Surströmming is usually eaten in late August, but Surströmming cans can be found in the refrigerated fish section. Tubed cheeses are highly pasteurized and if unopened can last for about 1,5 years. Opened tube is recommended to be refrigerated and last about 3 months. Cider Max 2,5 % and Beer Max 3,5 % can be sold at regular food stores. ALL alcohol over 3,5% is only at Systembolaget. Cooking oil is Raps (Rapeseed/Canola oil) or/and butter, Olive oil mainly for flavoring.
Coop stands for Cooperative - which means that these shops are owned by members/customers. Its not like with most other shops that has got one or a few owners that get all the profits. So I’m guessing you have the same concept in the UK with a similar type of chain.
Rice porridge is white, (split) pea soup yellow, the brown is swedish sweet and sour brown beans (tuesday food in sweden) and the orange one is a root vegetable mash.
The price on the meat is for 1 kilo, but the container is less, we usually put jämför pris "compare price" for one kilo on the shelf, so look at the packaging for more accurate pricing for that packet.
Swedish coffee is pretty good imo and if I'm not misremembering we also drink the most coffee in the world. The jam in the tube is meant to be a refill for those squeeze type bottles and larger style containers. OLW and Estrella are the bigger brands we have, but they're far from the only ones. We call them chips rather than crisps. Tbh skip the surströmming and stick to the more classic dishes like meatballs, flygande jakob, gravad lax, pickled herring, kroppkakor, kalops, wallenbergare, biff a la lindström, biff stroganoff, raggmunk, fläskpannkaka and Janssons frestelse, just to name a few. The prices for the minced meat and chicken are per kilo, so since the minced meat one is a 500g package it's actually half the price they wrote down. Willys or Lidl is the cheaper stores, but like you said the quality will be slightly lower since a lot of the meats sold there will be from other countries with lower standards for their meat. For desserts etc I would recommend ostkaka with strawberry jam, nyponsoppa with mandelbeskvier (rosehip soup (it's more like a juice that you serve hot tbf) with almond slices/biscuits), rhubarb pie with vanilla sauce, rhubarb cream and milk. The Taco thing just came about as a part of some clever marketing from back in the late 90's/early 2000's. It was combined with the terminology "fredagsmys" which roughly translates to Friday cosiness. It was a term coined to promote spending quality time as a family at the end of the work/school week. So the marketing gurus jumped on the opportunity and combined it with the concept of having a pick and mix open spread style dinner table of texmex food that you could share with friends and family on a Friday night. We don't really have any ties with Mexico, but you can't go wrong with Mexican food. It's way more common for Swedes to travel to countries like Turkey, Greece, Spain and Thailand for their vacation. You can only purchase alcohol stronger than 3,5% at Systembolaget, anything else is available anywhere else. Olive oil, rapeseed oil, sunflower oil and cooking oil (which is basically a mix of rapeseed and sunflower oil) are the most common oils we use, I would guess that most people here use rapeseed oil when cooking, but I could be wrong.
Dwayen, if you know you're visiting someone in sweden, tell them to stock up on some Julmust/Påskmust. Really only sold around Christmas and Easter. You should be able to still get some right now.
If you're buying "fika" or any pastry. I recommend buying it from a proper bakery, it's dubble thr price then in a food store but I think it's worth it. (In my opinion) ❤
The history of Tacos and Sweden is weird honestly, but it is based on the Smörgåsbord friendly Swedish view of food: Basically a spice company owner (Nordfalks as it was called) ate tacos on a sailboat because people had bought taco shells in Switzerland of all things. And everyone loved the "build your own taco thing" and he got obsessed with it and he pushed this idea using marketing, and then one day it just hit home and it started becoming bigger and bigger until in the 2000's it just skyrocketed and made Santa Maria (Formerly known as Nordfalks) quite a big brand. And no, I am not sure if we take Tacos so seriously, we have started to, but interestingly it went to the home so fast that no real restaurant standard was made and as such people just did whatever they felt like, nowadays serious taco enthusiasts that want to bring authentic feeling to the entire thing, but since the roots was in Tex Mex we have multiple Taco cultures really.
@@triscelion7336 But Tortillas are way more popular than the texmex ones. Haven't even seen any restaurants with tacos so no idea there, it's very much a food you do at home.
You can buy exactly up to 3.5% in shops. Higher percentage in systembolaget. We have many good mustards. .bread we have butter on and some toppings. Mostly cheese or ham, sausage. Metal tubes with cheese are for it to last a long time. If it is not open, you can keep it at room temperature. Open in refrigerator.
We have Taco Friday. Not a clue why that is... 😂 I think it happened some time in the 90s due to good markering I guess. Not sure why many Swedes eat Mexican food on Fridays (instead of Taco Tuesday!). I don't think Sweden is particularly into Mexico in any other ways. 🤷♀️
I went to Texas as a foreign exchange student in 1988. I loved the tex-mex, which I had never seen or heard about before. When I came back to Sweden in the summer of 1989, there were taco shells and taco spice mix in the stores and within months "everyone" was eating tacos. I still don't know why, but I know pretty much when it happened.
1. Pretty sure everyone here has had the lingonberry rye bread. 2. Coffee in Sweden is very strong compared to most countries. To most Swedish people, coffee outside of Sweden tastes like you poured half coffee, half water in there and yes the coffee is hot. 3. The jam is a tube is because we can refill the glass jars with it. 4. We can have lingonberry for juice as well. 5. Our are big brands for crisps are Estrella and OLW, then we have some international brands like Doritos, Pringles and lays. 6. It 13-90 hg not kg for the salad 7. Köket means kitchen yes. 8. Butchers are very hard to find in Sweden nowadays. We go to grocery stores for meat and I would say City Gross does it the best. Also, all groceries have gone up an insane amount, to the point that it can be cheaper to eat out if you are alone. Especially protein forces. 9. Swedish ready-made pancakes are decent, ofcorse not as good as homemade but still good enough. 10. The rice porridge is pea soup, and we usually eat with pancakes as a dessert to it. 11. Yes, that the cream cheese we use, I love the jalapeño one. There is real cheese in it, but since it vacuum sealed, it does not need to be cold until you break the seal for it. 12. Tried to look up why we eat Mexican food, but it was a complicated history and too much to read. 13. Most grocery stores have an Asian food section and pretty well done ones, as we also have stores that sell east Asian ingredients. The store they went to seems very small and missing some things we typically see in our supermarkets. 14. Kvarg is a really healthy thing since it so protein rich and is kinda like a stiff yogurt in consistency. Maybe a bit closer to Greek yogurt for consistency, actually. So, not like ostkaka. 15. We do have eggs that can go outside and inside, along with being ecological and Swedish. Coops änglamark is one of the better ones for that. 16. There is a limit of 3.5% for alcohol, but any higher than that is systembolaget. So yes you are correct. 17. We are three different types of mustard. The skånsk ones that very grainy and spicy. The sweet ones that and very smooth and sweet with varying spiciness and finally the tame smooth ones, that does not really taste very much. 18. We cook with butter or rape seed oil. This was one long comment, but really looking forward to seeing the videos of you trying things when you are in Sweden, and I hope you come to southern Sweden like Malmö too.
Yes Lingonbröd is very good, and by the way your pronounciation of bröd was correct the last time you said it. The reason that some of the Knäckebröd are still in round big bread with a whole in the middle, is because in the olden days, people had lika a round pole in the cealing, where they hanged them after baking them themselfs. Knäckebröd usually is eaten with a little butter and a slice of cheese, but obviously you can have just anything on. Lingon can also used in whipped cream in an icecream cone. But we usaually use it with food, like pancakes with bacon in it, or meatballs. OWL and Estrella are the two big brands of crisps. If you want bigger crisps packages you should go to Ö&B. Surströmming comes from back in the days, when they put herrings in a barrel, end when they got to the bottom of the barrel it hade become fermented. If you try Surströmming open the jar under rinning water or a bottle of sprite, the stench is kind of tough and it gets better if you do it that way. In Sweden you also eat it with thin bread with messmör, and potatos and onions. So don´t try it just as is.
9:10 i think it's supposed to be a bit sour, people tend to recommend "raw stirred lingonberry" rather than jam. it's probably much sweeter than vinegar or lime juices. some wants egg or pancakes with bacon and lingonberry other prefer them with sweet jams. i'm not big on cookies or cakes, but i don't think it's commonly used in them. it has quite a bit of sugar or sweeteners
Swedish people eat the most candy per person in the world. About 17 Kg candy per person/year. The avarge person in the world eats about 7 kg candy per person/year.
It's kind of a story how mexican food got popular in Sweden, basicaly the spice brand Santa Maria introduced 'texmex' spice for swedes tastebuds around 1990-1999. It has become an tacofriday thing, lots of familys eats tacos every friday. Cx
The Jam-in-a-tube is meant for people who have their own glass jars they can wash out and put new jam in. You just have a clean jar, cut an opening in one side of the "tube" and squeeze the jam into your jar. Alternatively I suppose you could clean one of those squeeze bottles for jam and put it in one of those, though I have never done so myself. Either way - Hey presto, no heavy glass jar to be transported by the people stocking the grocery store. And no jar for you to throw in the recycling either. Edit: You could hypothetically just use it when baking or something too obviously, but the scenario I described is the main idea. iirc they were introduced as "refill" packages at some point, though don't quote me on that.
OLW and Estrella are the major brands. I think that their quality is pretty much the same - one is better at one flavour and the other at another. We also have lots of smaller brands, often of higher quality but somewhat more expensive.
@@PastorCastor I think the taste is in the oil they are using. Some times I think that Estrella tastes a bit oily and wierd. But most of Estrallas otions are good too. But OLW has the flawors that I tend to go for.
In those tubes you got peasoup, brown beans, riceporridge and some more. The cheesetubes is not creamcheese but more of a melted cheese with different flavors.
The whole Mexican food thing is really mostly tacos and even more specific "taco Friday". Good marketing, easy to make (just fry up some minced meat and add spice mix, then chop some veggies and open a few jars of salsa/guacamole etc) and it's a good family dinner since everyone can choose what to put in their own tacos. Kids don't like it spicy? Skip the hot salsa. Don't like cheese? Skip it. And so on. Plus it's nice to involve the kids when preparing the food. They can help chop veggies and stuff. When it comes to other food cultures, it is much more common as take out food. Pizza, kebab, hamburger, thai, chinese, sushi, indian etc. And like someone else mentioned earlier, many of the prices you see are per kilo. Not per package. Almost all vegetables and meats are displayed with kilo price. So even if the tag says 133 kr, that 500 gram minced meat would cost 66.50 kr which is approximately £5.
He was dead wrong on the rice grains in small plastic rolls. The white roll with blue label is rice porridge like you have for christmas morning. The yellow roll is completly different, it is pea soup with ham in it i think, so that's more of a lunch item. And the brown roll are brown beans in sauce, typically eaten with bacon or pork of some sort. i think the creme colored roll is acctually just jam in a roll, like raspberry or lingonberry. the orange kind could be carrot stew in a roll...seems like this store just placed all the rolls next to eachother regardless of that's inside it :)
That lingonberry bread is one of my favourite kinds of bread. It doesn’t taste of lingonberries, but it’s really soft and flavourful while still being dark bread.
The "tubed" jam are rfills. You buy a squeezy or a tub or whatever and then you buy rfills. Saves the environment from us throwing out the hard plastic bottles and tubs every time one goes empty.
You're a bit off regarding that round bread. First of all, you can say that the bread is round because of tradition, because long ago this bread was baked in homes, on stone slabs by an open fire. They had a hole in the middle because they were hung on a pole near the ceiling in the kitchen, for storage (probably to keep pests (mice) from getting to them). My breakfast, growing up was a soft bread (loaf) and a hard one (crisps), with butter, ham and a good aged cheese. My favorite nowadays are meatballs, mashed potatoes, cream sauce, lingonberry jam, gherkins, beer and crisp bread with butter and cheese...
19:52 white ones are rice porridge, yellow is pea soup with pork rice porridge has a messy kind of rice first boiled in water and later with dairy, think you mostly eat it with sugar and cinnamon during Christmas. maybe it's available all year
If you want to get drunk you buy your beer at systembolaget. If you only want to drink beer when you eat dinner because you like the taste, then you buy beer at the supermarket. I eat chicken and beef everyday so it can't be that expensive. We love licorice in the Nordic countries. I bought Swedish and Finnish licorice at Coop today. Licorice ice cream is really good.
Estrella is the latin word for "Star" And yes, that and OLW are the two major brands that has been neck in neck competing since forever, at the very least since before I was born.... hich wa in 1983... I feel so fakking ancient saying that.
16:22 When pronouncing "Köket", the first K makes a "Ssh" sound, and ofc the Ö makes an ö sound.. the second K is hard K. So more like "Sh-ö-kett" 28:35 To buy ANY Alcoholic bewerage above 3,5% alcohol you need to visit Systembolaget, Anything under that is called "Folk-(Alcohol), like Folk ÖL for Folk beer.. and so on" cus it's too weak and you'll have to drink an absurd amount of it to actually get an affect that it's ok to be sold in regular stores. So yeah, you're completely right :D It just didn't sound like he knew systembolaget existed to be honest, OR forgot that it did. On the thing when you asked what you must try, i would HIGHLY recommend you to try swedish sandwich-cake.. It's SUCH a unique thing and it's so FLIPPING savory and good. When it comes to like regular food there isn't much that we have that the UK doesn't have an equal too, i was thinking BlodPudding but you guys have that called Black pudding, also i was thinking "Raggmunk med fläsk" which is basically just hashbrowns with pork (fat bacon slices)... Maybe you guys don't have a true comparison to "Stuvade makaroner och falukorv" which is pasta cooked in milk with cheese and Falukorv sausages.. Hmmmm, it's a hard one i'll tell ya. Ohh actually yeah, The Pea-soup with grainy mustard is actually popular.
The sallad price was actually per hectogram (100 g), not per kilogram. Not a unit used much outside of Sweden. EDIT: Most metric countries just go with increments of 1000
The jam in the tube is a refill. If you buy a bucket of jam, you can buy a refill to fill your bucket again instead of buy a new bucket. Much more environmentally friendly. 😊
Xtra is a swedish low cost brand and knäckebröd is the most common bread I think (or use to be). Knäckebröd is very very good and if you forgot to by bread there is always knäckebröd at home… lingon is for everything.
Man, you are starting to get the swedish words and pronouncation down really good, and first try to! Respect❤😊 -and yes, we do have a sweet tooth, but I think a lot of it comes from working hard in partly cold country, you need that fast hit of sugar/carbs and caffeine fika to get back to keep getting shit done😂 -you can only buy alcohol 3,5% at age 18, at age 20 you get full responsibility and full access to sytembolaget wich i would argue is the best alcohol seller in the world (besides the tax)
Swedes buy a lot of minced meat. We make meatballs, spaghetti with Köttförssås (minced meat sauce) a kind of i guess bolognese, biffar ( a minced meat patty with chopped onion and black pepper) and a lot of other dishes. So we always have it at home then they swooped in with the taco dish that's just minced meat fryd then you add about a glass of water and the taco spice then you let the water boil off leaving the minced meat covered in the spice mix. Then you add what ever you fancy like a smörgåsbord. And it tastes so different from a lot of other stuff we have, and almost all kids love it too, so it quickly became an easy but tasty dinner option.
The knäckebröd isn't always big and round like that. Ypu canbuy smaller ones too that's kinda like a square. And you can put the cream cheese spread on soft bread too.
the thing he said is rice grains and porridge, is actually pea soup. There are white ''sausages'' with ''rice grain-porridge'' but the thing he held up is pea soup.
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Btw, the prices you see on meat are per kg, not per package. So if the price for minced meat is 133 per kg, and the package is 0,5 kg, it would be half that for that package.
Exactly.
The Salad was per hecto (100 grams).13 kr for a kilo rinsed salad would be below the cost of production.
As a Coop employee I can mention that we focus a lot on organic products, we gather all the products that are about to expire, lower the price and places them in a specific fridge and they always sell out and saves us from throwing it away. We do the same thing with fruit and veggies, not poor quality veggies but the kind of veggies that you yourself wouldn't pick. The bakery makes banana bread, the deli makes daily lunch with products whom are about to expire so our wastes is really low.
At 19:45 he picks up pea soup, but he talks about rice porridge which actually to the left of the pea soup.
Yellow peasoup with mustard as entre and panncake with sweet jam and whipped cream as main course is a compulsory dish at the lunch menu on many restaurants on thursdays! That is a very old tradition that started in the military. Cheap and good food that filled your stommach. 😋😋
You forgot to mention that they are pre-cooked aswell and only require reheating (or you could eat them cold if you prefer that)
Eh, the good pea soup comes out of the green military cans.
The jam in the plastic tube, is a refill for the glas jar.
Yup, it's a good idea, but I can't see the environmentally friendly thing about that tbh with all the plastic! Glas can be recycled and reused infinite amount of times so it ought to be better for the environment but I guess it takes more energy to create a glass jar than a plastic container! 😐
I think most of them use bio-degradable plastic that usaly is not plastic but a substitution that is environment friendly.
Sweden is the second most coffee drinkimg country in the world after Finland.
The tube of jam is a refill so that you don't have to throw away the jam jar when it is empty. you just fill it up again.
Lingonberry jam is similar to cranberry sauce.
I would say Estrella is the biggest crisp brand in Sweden. Some would say OLW, but I think Estrella sell better. Also, we say chips, just like the Americans.
That thing he thought was rice pudding was actually split pea soup.
The cheese in tubes is even creamier than your typical cream cheese. The metal tubes are as good as tins when it comes to preserving food,that's why they are sold at room temp. Once opened though they should be stored in the fridge.
Swedes love Mexican food (mostly tacos and burritos) because they love spicy food. Most of them can't handle spicy, but they do love it. It is easy to prepare, not too expensive, and very appreciated. In Sweden we have taco Fridays.
You're absolutely right about the alcohol.
Olive oil is used in some cooking, but it has a very specific flavour so many use rapeseed oil, but most use butter.
We should have more spice it is not easy to try to burn up your mouth to weak sauces😢
I had a termos of coffe at school today
Although there's a difference between Finland and Sweden. Finnish coffee is light to medium roasted whereas Swedish coffee is medium to dark (or very dark) roasted.
NOPE!!!!!Placering Land Landets samlede forbrug (cirka)
1 Finland 66.000 tons
2 Norge 52.470 tons
3 Island 3.600 tons
4 Danmark 50.460 tons or
Indholdsfortegnelse
Hvem drikker mest kaffe i verden?
1. Finland - 12 kg pr. indbygger
2. Norge - 9,9 kg pr. indbygger
3. Island - 9 kg pr. indbygger
4. Danmark - 8,7 kg pr. indbygger
5. Holland - 8,4 kg pr. indbygger
6. Sverige - 8,2 kg pr. indbygger
7. Schweiz - 7,9 kg pr. indbygger
8. Belgien - 6,8 kg pr. indbygger
9. Luxembourg - 6,5 kg pr. indbygger
10. Canada - 6,5 kg pr. indbygger
Hvilket land drikker mest kaffe?
@@nightwolfnordberg9476 Indholdsfortegnelse
Hvem drikker mest kaffe i verden?
1. Finland - 12 kg pr. indbygger
2. Norge - 9,9 kg pr. indbygger
3. Island - 9 kg pr. indbygger
4. Danmark - 8,7 kg pr. indbygger
5. Holland - 8,4 kg pr. indbygger
6. Sverige - 8,2 kg pr. indbygger
7. Schweiz - 7,9 kg pr. indbygger
8. Belgien - 6,8 kg pr. indbygger
9. Luxembourg - 6,5 kg pr. indbygger
10. Canada - 6,5 kg pr. indbygger
Hvilket land drikker mest kaffe?
@@RobertClaeson A lot of people in Finland drink dark roasted coffee, including me.
Correction Xtra is actually a Swedish brand and was previously called Blåvitt but the name was changed due to the "å" as it went international to other No rdic countries. Extra is a store brand of coop, but coop doesn't exist in every country of the Nordic so in some countries it can be found in other stores then coop.
Coop also one of the more expensive supermarkets. Willys and Lidl is usually the cheapest followed by ica.
Lidl and Willys is followed by City Gross and Coop xtra, and then Ica and stora Coop is the most exspensive
don't they have the "Änglamark" brand as well though
and isn't ica often the priciest, or maybe it depends on what ica
@@smievil änglamark was their more ecological brand
@marcusfridh8489 The most common supermarkets are ica, coop, willys, and lidl at the places where I've lived.
And I know coop is the most expensive and ica is cheaper than coop but not cheaper than willys and lidl can be cheaper then willys but is a much smaller store.
This from me who have lived in different places in Sweden and regularly compare prices. Ofc it varies where you live but this is generally it.
In finland coop is marketing cheap brand
Why do Swedish people like taco style foods?
Oh i don´t know, could it be our culture of smörgåsbord?
Mix and match the food on your plate, served from an assortment of small bowls of dishes on the table?
Getting together with your friends for Taco Tuesday is great!
I like it because it delicious 🇫🇮❤️🇸🇪
I have no idea either, but I think your theory sounds VERY plausible.
That COOP is also located in the city (well, on the large island called Södermalm in Stockholm) and is not cheap because of that. But it is fairly large anyway :D
The Lingonberry bread is my mom's favourite, i ate itt almost every day growing up. ^^ It's so good with butter and a slice of cheese..
Edit: The Salad bar is not 13:90 per KG, it's per 100 grams. (HG)... So it's 10x more expensive than they thought.
lingongrova with leverpastej was the best growing up
@@zebbish421 Omg yes!
Coop as a brand is not only Swedish.
There are 12 different brands across 12 different countries all named Coop without being related to eachother.
I was a bit confused as Swedish Coop is membership owned making expanding to other countries a bit complicated.
Knäckebröd is a staple food, it lasts for a long time and has a nice taste and texture. You can have any kind of toppings on it
The history behind it is that once baked, it was stored on a rod above the kitchen stove which kept it dry and is the reason for the hole in the middle.
Lingonberries tastes tart, but quite a lot of sugar is added when making jam, so the taste of jam is a mix of sweet and sour. I don't think anyone eats it as a treat, but you can add it to porrige or "filmjölk" (our version of Yoghurt), perhaps as a dessert, mixed with milk but I think other berries are more common. We don't usually put jam on bread, but there are exceptions like Orange Marmelade on toast.
Sallad bars are pretty pricey, he said "per kg", but it was "per hg".
Surströmming is from the east coast of north Sweden and most Swedes have never tried it.
Risgrynsgröt is a porrige made from rice, milk, and cinnamon. It's a classic during Christmas.
Many different foods has popped up during the years, Pizza was not common until the 80ies, Friday Tacos became a thing around 2000 I think, Indian food became popular at about the same time, Sushi became popular a bit earlier, say 1995. I don't think I've ever seen a Mexican restaurant here, it's usually Tacos made at home on Fridays.
Systembolaget is for anything above 3.5%. 3.5%, 2.8% or 0.5% can be bought in regular stores.
Olive oil (as well as other oils) has become fairly popular lately, we traditionally use butter.
Lingonberry jam in milk is very tasty instant milk shake essentially.
Liqourice is the best!
Especially salty liqourice - liqourice in its raw form is sweet, bitter and just tastes like anise/ fennell.
Salty liqourice comes from ammoniumchloride being added to it.
20:12 - one thing I think you should try is actually on screen right now, the "ostkaka" (rectangular package on the top shelf), it translates to cheesecake but is nothing like what you think of when you hear that. Heat it up and serve with some jam (I would recommend raspberry or cloudberry) and whipped cream. I absolutely love it!
Proper jam choices. Blueberry works too, if you have the good stuff. Cream is optional.
@@mellertid It should be eaten with milk - not cream.
The proper jam is made from cherry (the light red sour version, called klarbär in sweden), cloudberry jam is best for waffles.
You absolute mad lads.
Drottningsylt. Also, you can 100% eat it cold.
Surströmming is from Sweden, from the Västernorrland region which is on the Swedish east coast. Also it is seasonal, you wount find it in the supermarket all year around.
Showing my inner 'know it all':
In the 1600's, Swedish traiders noticed that their salted haring had gone rancid so they sold everything to some Finns.
When they returned the next year they expected some hard words but was actually asked if they had more rancid fish for sale.
Let's call it 'something that came from nesesety'. Salt was expensive so they used less than needed to preserve the fish.
Swedish coffee is top tier💯 I always take it with me when I visit my family in the UK😂
ALSO, about the alcohol: Only maximum 3,5 (light beer) is sold in the supermarkets. Anything higher is sold in the liquor stores. Like wine, spirits, and beers over 3,5 alcohol
I can't guarantee that I remember it right but I think that Swedish coffee is the best that any country that don't grow coffee beans, have.
The difference between different brands is however enormous!
Here in Skåne we drink Zoegas Skånerost or nothing. It's a dark röst that works well with our water.
@@boek2777yea the water i have at my house its gevalia, but other parts of my city prefers others
I love how you can just blurp out the most perfectly pronounced Swedish word here and there 😃👌. It takes me by surprise every time, and makes my Sweet-dish heart happy.
You'd do great as a Swede.
Bless!
About the meat prices, the tag on the shelf is usually price/kg, so the 600g packade they held up would not bee 133 kronor, but rather 80-ish.
Lingonjam and bloodpudding is the best combo.
det är rätt kul för våran blodpudding är inte pudding. vi tog namnet.. england o finnland har den gammla varianten men finnland kallar de mustamakkara pga förpackningen/ svart korv.vi har skosulor med lingon...ja asgott.
Tyvärr är den där halvrunda man ser överallt (geas?) tämligen kass. Nästan alla andra är OK.
if anyone is wondering the jam tube is generaly cheaper than normal jam and that is because its for a refill
Plastic bags are not worse than paper bags. And Swedish plastic bags are not even made from oil.
However the imported chinese ones people buy to replace the forbidden plastic bags are indeed made from petroleum...
Also, plastic ending up in the ocean is very much (99.9%) an outside EU challange.
UK and US do make it to the top-10 list though. 😮
Honestly, licorice icecream is SO good. You have to try it. Even if you don't care for licorice candy, you might enjoy the icecream
might actually be something for people you do not like licorice, since the cream mellows it the flavor a bit.
If you go to Sweden and need to go grocery shopping, there's usually a part of the prcetag that's called some version of "Jämför pris", "Compare price", and it will show the price per some standardized unity, so price of cheese would be listed as price-per-Kg, milk would be price-per-L, eggs would be price-per-egg. So that it's easier to compare an 8-egg carton with a 10-egg carton and a 12-egg carton, or 0.675kg of minced meat with 823g of minced meat.
yellow tube = pea soup (or machine gun gruel) , white one = rice porridge (add jam or syrup, but not lingon) brown tube = beans.
The tubed cheese is vaccuum-sealed so need no fridge until opened, you open them by punching a hole with the back of the lid.
Best meat is found at CityGross they usually have their own butcher at the store. Only LIDL and Willys remains for cheaper food since coop bought all the Netto stores. Coop is the most expensive store for food.
Lingon goes well with oatmeal though.
"Licorice root used to be a medicinal plant, sold in pharmacies as recently as the 1970s. It is a narrow branch-like root which, when chewed together with saliva, gives the typical licorice flavor as it slowly softens. There are studies on animals that demonstrate that the substance glycyrrhizic acid found in licorice can have anticarcinogenic effects, i.e. cancer prevention properties".
The jam in the tube is for refilling jars so you can reuse the glass jars
Because most Swedish food are savory or salty just on its own you can often see different jams being added to the dish to balance it out (almost like a palate cleanser), like lingonberries, bilberries and cloudberries, so you get this sweet and salty or sweet and savory taste, the same goes when it comes to candy, there are a lot of sweet and sour/salty types including chocolates. And like most of the nordic countries we have many types of liquorice candy including "Svenskajävlar" which is know for being one of the saltiest candies on the planet.
They are in one of the most expensive stores in Sweden, FYI. Coop is expensive as hell and is avoided by people on a fixed/ low income.
Rice porridge, for Christmas morning with cinnamon, a pinch of sugar and milk…yum
Correct about Systembolaget, beverage under 3,5 volympercent you can buy at the grocery stores, other wine , liquor or beer you buy at Systembolaget.
Our family always has at least three, often five, varieties of mustard at home. Different mustards for different food, and for different members of the family. We usually have three varieties of ketchup in the fridge as well.
Raps/rapeseed oil is the one we use to cook with. Oliver oil you use cold just to drizzle on or in cold sauces or vinigrettes or sometimes in bread.
Surströmming is a seasonal thing and you can't find it in stores year round. It is Swedish.
Yes, the systembolaget thing is correct (3.5% and below can be bought in a regular store)
You CAN get alcohol in supermarkets in Sweden, but like the guy in the video commented on, only up to like 3,5% alcohol which is basically non-alcoholic, anything above that you have to go to systembolaget, same system as Finland but we have a higher limit on the %
Mix lingonberry with whipped cream...it's amazing with pancakes or icecream or spungecakes or cupcakes.
Extra is a Swedish brand, the cheese in tube is real cheese and also not cream cheese. The big stores have also a big section for Asian food as well, also other food like Balkan, Hungarian, American food.. Anyway this shop is not very big so little limited in size.
Yes beer and alcohol under 3.5% is sold at grosery shops, the rest at systembolager. Same in Norway where it's called vinmonopolet. I'm a Vodka Ice drinker and those are also sold at groceryshops.
Prices is also higher in Norway compared to Sweden in case you want to visit Norway. Stay away from Meny shops as this is the most expensive food shops in Norway. Same for gas/petrol stations, their prices is way more than normal shops.
3.5% or less alcohol is sold at supermarkets. It`s called ”lättöl” (light beer) and if you want stronger stuff you have to go to Systembolaget. Most supermarkets have an age-check if you buy beer and you have to be 18 years old. The same with wine or lättvin. We use light with milk or yoghurt (lättmjölk o lättyoghurt) as well but then the ”light” is regarding fat levels.
lättöl is -2.25%. 2,8-3.5% is folköl some call it mellanöl. (Mellanöl used to be 3.5-4,5% but was removed in the late 70s.)
We do not use palm oil because of how it is made is bad for the environment, so anything using palm oil is looked down on as a nono!
We mostly uses sunfloweroil or rappaoil
I'm not a healthy person but I know enough to avoid palm oil. It contain loads of calories/energy but nothing else.
Hypothetically, you could survive for years on 2,5-3 dl a day (a multi vitamin pill a day is STRONGLY recommended) but you would starve to death after a month because the human body doesn't handle it well.
It isn't food.
28:46 Swedish supermarkets can sell alcohol 3.5% or milder in stores (beer, cider). Stronger than 3.5% in Systembolaget (wines), can also be bought in Systembolaget milder beer than 3.5%.
Some Swedish chip brands are:
OLW - general snack brand, potato chips, cheesepuffs, chips, peanuts and various dips.
Estrella - Same deal, some different snacks like onion puff rings, peanut puff rings
Lantchips - strictly chips, easily distinguished by the brown non-bleached paper colorred bags with a white label in the middle.
All three of the above are or were Swedish owned but have since been folded into bigger conglomerates. Orkla in the case of OLW
You can buy plastic bags but they are very expensive compared to the paper bags.
I drink only 2 types of coffee, Ice Coffee and coffee drinks.
Jam in a tube is a refill pack for jars basically.
OLW and Estrella is the biggest (Crisp Brands(we call it Chips).
Surströmming is usually eaten in late August, but Surströmming cans can be found in the refrigerated fish section.
Tubed cheeses are highly pasteurized and if unopened can last for about 1,5 years. Opened tube is recommended to be refrigerated and last about 3 months.
Cider Max 2,5 % and Beer Max 3,5 % can be sold at regular food stores. ALL alcohol over 3,5% is only at Systembolaget.
Cooking oil is Raps (Rapeseed/Canola oil) or/and butter, Olive oil mainly for flavoring.
Coop stands for Cooperative - which means that these shops are owned by members/customers. Its not like with most other shops that has got one or a few owners that get all the profits. So I’m guessing you have the same concept in the UK with a similar type of chain.
Co-op started in Rochdale UK the year of 1844.
To Sweden it came in the year of 1850, in a town called Uppsala.
Its not same brand, just have nearly the same name
@@Aragorn430 it's the inspiration from the Brittish that made governor von Kræmer in Uppsala to open a coop in Sweden.
That ice cream is really good though 😂
And the pick and mix candy is available in every supermarket here.
Riceporage!!😂😂😂😂
Its yellow pea soop
Rice porridge is white, (split) pea soup yellow, the brown is swedish sweet and sour brown beans (tuesday food in sweden) and the orange one is a root vegetable mash.
Jam in a tube is for refill the jars.
Swedes love the refill packs to save on materials.
Jam tube is for refilling a glass jar.
Lingongrova is so good!
Gevalia coffe black ofcourse. The tube of jam is so you can use a container at home. It makes less glas garbage .
Surströmming comes from Northern Sweden (ångermanland, höga kusten)
The price on the meat is for 1 kilo, but the container is less, we usually put jämför pris "compare price" for one kilo on the shelf, so look at the packaging for more accurate pricing for that packet.
Surströmming is Swedish, the Norwegian equalient is called Rakfisk but made from trout or char. Surströmming is made from Baltic Sea herring.
22:38 we have a HUGE mexican population. there are approximately 3 nexican guys in sweden who are probably here on vacation.
Swedish coffee is pretty good imo and if I'm not misremembering we also drink the most coffee in the world.
The jam in the tube is meant to be a refill for those squeeze type bottles and larger style containers.
OLW and Estrella are the bigger brands we have, but they're far from the only ones.
We call them chips rather than crisps.
Tbh skip the surströmming and stick to the more classic dishes like meatballs, flygande jakob, gravad lax, pickled herring, kroppkakor, kalops, wallenbergare, biff a la lindström, biff stroganoff, raggmunk, fläskpannkaka and Janssons frestelse, just to name a few.
The prices for the minced meat and chicken are per kilo, so since the minced meat one is a 500g package it's actually half the price they wrote down.
Willys or Lidl is the cheaper stores, but like you said the quality will be slightly lower since a lot of the meats sold there will be from other countries with lower standards for their meat.
For desserts etc I would recommend ostkaka with strawberry jam, nyponsoppa with mandelbeskvier (rosehip soup (it's more like a juice that you serve hot tbf) with almond slices/biscuits), rhubarb pie with vanilla sauce, rhubarb cream and milk.
The Taco thing just came about as a part of some clever marketing from back in the late 90's/early 2000's. It was combined with the terminology "fredagsmys" which roughly translates to Friday cosiness. It was a term coined to promote spending quality time as a family at the end of the work/school week. So the marketing gurus jumped on the opportunity and combined it with the concept of having a pick and mix open spread style dinner table of texmex food that you could share with friends and family on a Friday night.
We don't really have any ties with Mexico, but you can't go wrong with Mexican food.
It's way more common for Swedes to travel to countries like Turkey, Greece, Spain and Thailand for their vacation.
You can only purchase alcohol stronger than 3,5% at Systembolaget, anything else is available anywhere else.
Olive oil, rapeseed oil, sunflower oil and cooking oil (which is basically a mix of rapeseed and sunflower oil) are the most common oils we use, I would guess that most people here use rapeseed oil when cooking, but I could be wrong.
We cook with butter, or rapeseed oil. The olive oil is for flavour, like in dressings and such.
Dwayen, if you know you're visiting someone in sweden, tell them to stock up on some Julmust/Påskmust. Really only sold around Christmas and Easter. You should be able to still get some right now.
Also glögg with raisins and almonds.
Jam in a tube is for refilling your jar back home
Both Estrella and OLW is our main chips/crisps brand
we acully have Lays booth in subway and in strores
If you're buying "fika" or any pastry. I recommend buying it from a proper bakery, it's dubble thr price then in a food store but I think it's worth it. (In my opinion) ❤
The history of Tacos and Sweden is weird honestly, but it is based on the Smörgåsbord friendly Swedish view of food:
Basically a spice company owner (Nordfalks as it was called) ate tacos on a sailboat because people had bought taco shells in Switzerland of all things.
And everyone loved the "build your own taco thing" and he got obsessed with it and he pushed this idea using marketing, and then one day it just hit home and it started becoming bigger and bigger until in the 2000's it just skyrocketed and made Santa Maria (Formerly known as Nordfalks) quite a big brand.
And no, I am not sure if we take Tacos so seriously, we have started to, but interestingly it went to the home so fast that no real restaurant standard was made and as such people just did whatever they felt like, nowadays serious taco enthusiasts that want to bring authentic feeling to the entire thing, but since the roots was in Tex Mex we have multiple Taco cultures really.
And the tacos they sell are the TexMex versions so they are not mexican, they come from the USA. True mexican tacos are nearly all soft.
@@triscelion7336 But Tortillas are way more popular than the texmex ones. Haven't even seen any restaurants with tacos so no idea there, it's very much a food you do at home.
You can buy exactly up to 3.5% in shops. Higher percentage in systembolaget. We have many good mustards. .bread we have butter on and some toppings. Mostly cheese or ham, sausage. Metal tubes with cheese are for it to last a long time. If it is not open, you can keep it at room temperature. Open in refrigerator.
Many larger stores bake bread and pastries in the store. So the bread can be baked the same day.
We have Taco Friday. Not a clue why that is... 😂 I think it happened some time in the 90s due to good markering I guess. Not sure why many Swedes eat Mexican food on Fridays (instead of Taco Tuesday!). I don't think Sweden is particularly into Mexico in any other ways. 🤷♀️
I went to Texas as a foreign exchange student in 1988. I loved the tex-mex, which I had never seen or heard about before. When I came back to Sweden in the summer of 1989, there were taco shells and taco spice mix in the stores and within months "everyone" was eating tacos. I still don't know why, but I know pretty much when it happened.
1. Pretty sure everyone here has had the lingonberry rye bread.
2. Coffee in Sweden is very strong compared to most countries. To most Swedish people, coffee outside of Sweden tastes like you poured half coffee, half water in there and yes the coffee is hot.
3. The jam is a tube is because we can refill the glass jars with it.
4. We can have lingonberry for juice as well.
5. Our are big brands for crisps are Estrella and OLW, then we have some international brands like Doritos, Pringles and lays.
6. It 13-90 hg not kg for the salad
7. Köket means kitchen yes.
8. Butchers are very hard to find in Sweden nowadays. We go to grocery stores for meat and I would say City Gross does it the best. Also, all groceries have gone up an insane amount, to the point that it can be cheaper to eat out if you are alone. Especially protein forces.
9. Swedish ready-made pancakes are decent, ofcorse not as good as homemade but still good enough.
10. The rice porridge is pea soup, and we usually eat with pancakes as a dessert to it.
11. Yes, that the cream cheese we use, I love the jalapeño one. There is real cheese in it, but since it vacuum sealed, it does not need to be cold until you break the seal for it.
12. Tried to look up why we eat Mexican food, but it was a complicated history and too much to read.
13. Most grocery stores have an Asian food section and pretty well done ones, as we also have stores that sell east Asian ingredients. The store they went to seems very small and missing some things we typically see in our supermarkets.
14. Kvarg is a really healthy thing since it so protein rich and is kinda like a stiff yogurt in consistency. Maybe a bit closer to Greek yogurt for consistency, actually. So, not like ostkaka.
15. We do have eggs that can go outside and inside, along with being ecological and Swedish. Coops änglamark is one of the better ones for that.
16. There is a limit of 3.5% for alcohol, but any higher than that is systembolaget. So yes you are correct.
17. We are three different types of mustard. The skånsk ones that very grainy and spicy. The sweet ones that and very smooth and sweet with varying spiciness and finally the tame smooth ones, that does not really taste very much.
18. We cook with butter or rape seed oil.
This was one long comment, but really looking forward to seeing the videos of you trying things when you are in Sweden, and I hope you come to southern Sweden like Malmö too.
Yes Lingonbröd is very good, and by the way your pronounciation of bröd was correct the last time you said it. The reason that some of the Knäckebröd are still in round big bread with a whole in the middle, is because in the olden days, people had lika a round pole in the cealing, where they hanged them after baking them themselfs. Knäckebröd usually is eaten with a little butter and a slice of cheese, but obviously you can have just anything on. Lingon can also used in whipped cream in an icecream cone. But we usaually use it with food, like pancakes with bacon in it, or meatballs. OWL and Estrella are the two big brands of crisps. If you want bigger crisps packages you should go to Ö&B. Surströmming comes from back in the days, when they put herrings in a barrel, end when they got to the bottom of the barrel it hade become fermented. If you try Surströmming open the jar under rinning water or a bottle of sprite, the stench is kind of tough and it gets better if you do it that way. In Sweden you also eat it with thin bread with messmör, and potatos and onions. So don´t try it just as is.
Hey, Dwayne, your pronounciation is getting really good! Good work!
And yes, Lingongrova (bread with lingonberries) is amazing.
9:10 i think it's supposed to be a bit sour, people tend to recommend "raw stirred lingonberry" rather than jam. it's probably much sweeter than vinegar or lime juices.
some wants egg or pancakes with bacon and lingonberry other prefer them with sweet jams.
i'm not big on cookies or cakes, but i don't think it's commonly used in them.
it has quite a bit of sugar or sweeteners
Swedish people eat the most candy per person in the world. About 17 Kg candy per person/year. The avarge person in the world eats about 7 kg candy per person/year.
Yes we Swedes love sweet stuff! But when it comes to food, we also love the contrast of sweet and salt🤩
It's kind of a story how mexican food got popular in Sweden, basicaly the spice brand Santa Maria introduced 'texmex' spice for swedes tastebuds around 1990-1999. It has become an tacofriday thing, lots of familys eats tacos every friday. Cx
The Jam-in-a-tube is meant for people who have their own glass jars they can wash out and put new jam in. You just have a clean jar, cut an opening in one side of the "tube" and squeeze the jam into your jar. Alternatively I suppose you could clean one of those squeeze bottles for jam and put it in one of those, though I have never done so myself.
Either way - Hey presto, no heavy glass jar to be transported by the people stocking the grocery store. And no jar for you to throw in the recycling either.
Edit: You could hypothetically just use it when baking or something too obviously, but the scenario I described is the main idea. iirc they were introduced as "refill" packages at some point, though don't quote me on that.
When it comes to Crips it is OLW or Estrella. I'm all for OLW my self.
OLW and Estrella are the major brands. I think that their quality is pretty much the same - one is better at one flavour and the other at another. We also have lots of smaller brands, often of higher quality but somewhat more expensive.
@@PastorCastor I think the taste is in the oil they are using. Some times I think that Estrella tastes a bit oily and wierd. But most of Estrallas otions are good too. But OLW has the flawors that I tend to go for.
Both are disgusting Taffel is king.
In those tubes you got peasoup, brown beans, riceporridge and some more.
The cheesetubes is not creamcheese but more of a melted cheese with different flavors.
The whole Mexican food thing is really mostly tacos and even more specific "taco Friday". Good marketing, easy to make (just fry up some minced meat and add spice mix, then chop some veggies and open a few jars of salsa/guacamole etc) and it's a good family dinner since everyone can choose what to put in their own tacos. Kids don't like it spicy? Skip the hot salsa. Don't like cheese? Skip it. And so on. Plus it's nice to involve the kids when preparing the food. They can help chop veggies and stuff.
When it comes to other food cultures, it is much more common as take out food. Pizza, kebab, hamburger, thai, chinese, sushi, indian etc.
And like someone else mentioned earlier, many of the prices you see are per kilo. Not per package. Almost all vegetables and meats are displayed with kilo price. So even if the tag says 133 kr, that 500 gram minced meat would cost 66.50 kr which is approximately £5.
He was dead wrong on the rice grains in small plastic rolls. The white roll with blue label is rice porridge like you have for christmas morning. The yellow roll is completly different, it is pea soup with ham in it i think, so that's more of a lunch item. And the brown roll are brown beans in sauce, typically eaten with bacon or pork of some sort. i think the creme colored roll is acctually just jam in a roll, like raspberry or lingonberry. the orange kind could be carrot stew in a roll...seems like this store just placed all the rolls next to eachother regardless of that's inside it :)
That lingonberry bread is one of my favourite kinds of bread. It doesn’t taste of lingonberries, but it’s really soft and flavourful while still being dark bread.
The "tubed" jam are rfills.
You buy a squeezy or a tub or whatever and then you buy rfills.
Saves the environment from us throwing out the hard plastic bottles and tubs every time one goes empty.
You're a bit off regarding that round bread.
First of all, you can say that the bread is round because of tradition, because long ago this bread was baked in homes, on stone slabs by an open fire. They had a hole in the middle because they were hung on a pole near the ceiling in the kitchen, for storage (probably to keep pests (mice) from getting to them). My breakfast, growing up was a soft bread (loaf) and a hard one (crisps), with butter, ham and a good aged cheese. My favorite nowadays are meatballs, mashed potatoes, cream sauce, lingonberry jam, gherkins, beer and crisp bread with butter and cheese...
19:52 white ones are rice porridge, yellow is pea soup with pork
rice porridge has a messy kind of rice first boiled in water and later with dairy, think you mostly eat it with sugar and cinnamon during Christmas. maybe it's available all year
About the meat prices, it’s often per kilo, so 133kr/kg, the minced meat was a half a kilo.
Jam in the tube is a refill package to refill jars.
If you want to get drunk you buy your beer at systembolaget. If you only want to drink beer when you eat dinner because you like the taste, then you buy beer at the supermarket.
I eat chicken and beef everyday so it can't be that expensive.
We love licorice in the Nordic countries. I bought Swedish and Finnish licorice at Coop today. Licorice ice cream is really good.
Estrella is the latin word for "Star"
And yes, that and OLW are the two major brands that has been neck in neck competing since forever, at the very least since before I was born....
hich wa in 1983...
I feel so fakking ancient saying that.
Jam in tube = refill
16:22 When pronouncing "Köket", the first K makes a "Ssh" sound, and ofc the Ö makes an ö sound.. the second K is hard K.
So more like "Sh-ö-kett"
28:35 To buy ANY Alcoholic bewerage above 3,5% alcohol you need to visit Systembolaget, Anything under that is called "Folk-(Alcohol), like Folk ÖL for Folk beer.. and so on" cus it's too weak and you'll have to drink an absurd amount of it to actually get an affect that it's ok to be sold in regular stores. So yeah, you're completely right :D
It just didn't sound like he knew systembolaget existed to be honest, OR forgot that it did.
On the thing when you asked what you must try, i would HIGHLY recommend you to try swedish sandwich-cake.. It's SUCH a unique thing and it's so FLIPPING savory and good. When it comes to like regular food there isn't much that we have that the UK doesn't have an equal too, i was thinking BlodPudding but you guys have that called Black pudding, also i was thinking "Raggmunk med fläsk" which is basically just hashbrowns with pork (fat bacon slices)...
Maybe you guys don't have a true comparison to "Stuvade makaroner och falukorv" which is pasta cooked in milk with cheese and Falukorv sausages.. Hmmmm, it's a hard one i'll tell ya.
Ohh actually yeah, The Pea-soup with grainy mustard is actually popular.
try Gustafskorv, its a very regional food here in Dalarna where i live.
The horsemeat sausage
29:30 - Yes, that's exactly what it's about!
Änglamat/angle od is made from whipped cream lingnberry jam and cookie crumbles.
The sallad price was actually per hectogram (100 g), not per kilogram. Not a unit used much outside of Sweden.
EDIT: Most metric countries just go with increments of 1000
The jam in the tube is a refill. If you buy a bucket of jam, you can buy a refill to fill your bucket again instead of buy a new bucket. Much more environmentally friendly. 😊
Xtra is a swedish low cost brand and knäckebröd is the most common bread I think (or use to be). Knäckebröd is very very good and if you forgot to by bread there is always knäckebröd at home… lingon is for everything.
7:44 - this particular one is literally the best jam I know! A nice pice of bread, this jam an a slice of good cheese on top 😋😍
Estrella and OLW are the big Chip/crisp brands. OLW is a Nordic brand and Estrella is Swedish.
the jam in tub thing is for refilling in your own jars
Man, you are starting to get the swedish words and pronouncation down really good, and first try to!
Respect❤😊
-and yes, we do have a sweet tooth, but I think a lot of it comes from working hard in partly cold country, you need that fast hit of sugar/carbs and caffeine fika to get back to keep getting shit done😂
-you can only buy alcohol 3,5% at age 18, at age 20 you get full responsibility and full access to sytembolaget wich i would argue is the best alcohol seller in the world (besides the tax)
And if I remember average salary is just a little higher in UK than in sweden, but an average doesn't tell much about anything else
We usually only have lingonberryjam to food. But sometimes the berries goes in cakes or, as you saw early, in bread. We also make lingon-juice.😊
Swedes buy a lot of minced meat. We make meatballs, spaghetti with Köttförssås (minced meat sauce) a kind of i guess bolognese,
biffar ( a minced meat patty with chopped onion and black pepper) and a lot of other dishes.
So we always have it at home then they swooped in with the taco dish that's just minced meat fryd then you add about a glass of water and the taco spice then you let the water boil off leaving the minced meat covered in the spice mix. Then you add what ever you fancy like a smörgåsbord.
And it tastes so different from a lot of other stuff we have, and almost all kids love it too, so it quickly became an easy but tasty dinner option.
The knäckebröd isn't always big and round like that. Ypu canbuy smaller ones too that's kinda like a square. And you can put the cream cheese spread on soft bread too.
At 6:27 it was actually a quite good pronunciation!
the thing he said is rice grains and porridge, is actually pea soup. There are white ''sausages'' with ''rice grain-porridge'' but the thing he held up is pea soup.