These Are The Weirdest Swedish Foods...
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- In this video I discuss the weirdest foods I've experienced as an American living in Sweden. Some I like! Some, not so much...
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i just love "Svenskdjävlar" the salt really get you awake, but take it easy with the "heta Svenskdjävlar"
I spent a year as a high school exchange student in Lund, and I love Kalle's kaviar!
Did you know of a teacher named Kristofer Rosfjord, teaches Math and Computer Science at Lund High School?
@@krisdunwoody7037 The name does not sound familiar, but it was many years ago. I attended Lunds Privata Elementarskola (also known as Spyken) back in 1967-68!
@@carolynpearce7338 Oh, this would have been in the last few years, he is my Pen Pal for Decades, and started working there at Lund HS!
Me too especially with dill! Any brand works though!
I am a Finn, and I always have Kalle's Kaviar in the fridge. I live currently in Poland, and they have it here as well, although in Poland there is another Swedish brand of fishroe paste that is more common.
Jansonsfrestelse (janssoninkiusaus) is also very common in Finland, although we do not eat it during Christmas. It is a regular food.
Also, Kebab pizza for the win. The best thing. I also love reindeer pizza. I am sure they have that in Sweden as well.
Also, pickled herring is eaten all over the Baltic Sea. In both Finland and Poland, it's super popular.
Saltliqourice seems to be a Nordic thing.
Smörgåstårta (voileipäkakku) is very popular in Finland especially in summer.
Definitely have reindeer pizza in sweden! probably way more common the further north you go, but i see it from time to time even in the central parts of the land
We have sandwitch cake in Estonia as well. Like you said, it can be done with fish (salmon, trout) or ham and cheese. The last one is maybe more popular among kids 🙂 Baltic herring is also a traditional food here, not a fan of it either.
Yes! And with shrimps, eggs, mayo, dill etc..yummy
Surströmming is actually really good! It smells worse than it tastes 😄 I eat it at least once per year with my family and relatives as a tradition called "surströmmingsfest". It's one of the few times I get to meet my cousins and more distant relatives. It's almost like a holiday.
Gothenburgian here. Ate Surströmming for the first time on New Year's eve 1999/2000 when I was like 12. Remember that we had to open the doors and windows on both sides of the house to air the smell out, but that the smell was worse than the taste.
Ouch, ät aldrig surströmming inomhus / västernorrland
Ansjovis is not anchovies. Anchovies are called sardeller in Swedish.
Baltic herring? That's strömming (same as sill really).
Abba is from Bohuslän...so nowhere near the Baltic. The herring is caught in the North Sea for Abba's sill.
Here in Norway, we also eat taco on a Friday,but before that it was Grandiosa pizza on Friday. not just any pizza, but from this brand. BTW: You can take your mom to Germany, there can she get kepab pizza as well😀
In denmark it's tuesdays
As a swede I can tell you this. In a "smörgåstårta" you can mix creamcheese or cream fraiche with paté or Kalles or often time our swedish "mjukost" to make a soft filling. Then as you said we make them pretty with toppings to show the "theme".. shrimp, ham, cheese and pretty vegetables. It's realy not that crazy its like a sub or sandwich with some fillings. And yes... I do love "svenskjävlar" untill they hurt my mouth but cilantro taste like lavender... go chew on that. 😂
My fist sandwich cake, was only with creamcheese and leverpastej. I thougnt this cant be good!! it was good...
You should mix candies that are really salty and really sour. Like a sour pacifier with "häxvrål". It's not life changing but quite good.
Not a type of food but the package of it: the tubes, never seen it used to the same extent as in Sweden
Violet (viol) is a common flavor for candy, never liked it myself but most others do
I think cinnamon is the US version of Sweden's licorice. It can be sweet or hot and it takes some time to get used to but everyone who grew up with it seems to enjoy it
you miss a lot of traditional foods like blodpudding, råraka, potatisbulle, raggmunk, rotmos, fläskkorv, different kinds of porridge, all the diffrent kinds of salmons, gravad, rökt etc. som local foods like kroppkakor, pitepalt, some places in the north eat soup with what they call ''klimpen''.
Blodpalt, pölsa och isterband också😅
@@Snorpish svensk ostkaka är också ganska unikt, fiskpudding också kanske? Kålpudding kanske?
Stefan, I have heard in previous videos that your Swedish has improved a lot and you start to speak fluently now. I’m impressed. As a Swede I want to help you with just a few things and that is the å, ä and ö sounds. In the beginning of this video you said språk several times but used the a sound instead of the å sound. It should be språk where å sounds like o in adorable. Then you said smörgåsbord where your ö sounded like the english o or the swedish å, as if you said smårgasbård. Try to say ö as you do ea in learn. Smörgåsbord is diffcult as you both have an ö and an å and also an o, pronounced as the oo in food. Swedish is not easy though, I know. Just trying to help you a bit. Keep up the good work with the Language lock down. That’s a great business idea anyways. All the best wishes. 🌸🌸
I was going to make the same comment. It’s really important if you want to speak proper Swedish and not so hard to learn. Note the difference in meaning between spraka and språka, räka, råka and raka, or höra and hora (!) Å sounds like like the ’o’ in ’Orchard’ Ö like the vowel sound in ’learn’ and the Ä sound is used a lot in US English, like ’last’ I had to learn quite a few tricky sounds in both Castilian Spanish, Russian and Turkish!
Here in Handen I think it is called "Flygande Jakob" (Flying Jacob) and is made of "Kyckling/chicken, banan/banana, ananas/pineapple, jordnötter/peanuts and curry", it is rathey yummy as long you can overcome the trauma of seeing fruit as a "natural candy", it is rather healthy (I think) and full of energy.
I suggest you try some more traditional old swedish dishes. Like pölsa, made from liver, lard and barley groats. Served with potatoes and pickled red beets. Leverstuvning (Liver stew) Blodpudding, Kroppkakor made from potatoes, weat flower and salty pork and onions inside. Kroppakor are served with melted butter and off course Lingonsylt (Lingonberry jam)
Blodpudding med lingonsylt är gott😊
Riven vitkål skall med!
Och rivna morötter ❤️
@@superbird426näää riven vitkål 😜
@@engfoinroblox5710 vi gillar lite olika, men det är gott med 😉
Oj va gott!
Sandwich cakes are pretty much food in cake form;
they generally contain ingredients like eggs, ham, vegetables, caviar, and similar food items like that. You can definitely use them as actual foods every now and then, at least as long as they don't contain too much whipped cream.
We have put banana on our tandoori chicken pizza for years now, and it's so good.
BTW I'm Swedish born, but married to a Kiwi (New Zealander) living in Australia.
We've made this pizza for our son and his friends many times and they all loved it, although at first they thought the banana was weird.
I think we had it for the first time at a restaurant in NZ.
Other very specific Swedish stuff :
Isterband
Grynkorv
Lutfisk
Grandma food. 😀
There is nothing better than Lutfisk. I could eat that every week,
We eat Lutfisk (lipeäkala) in Finland too.
Grynkorv with mashed potatoes and senapssås (mustard sauce)! Mmmm, tasty! It is a thick sausage made from mainly pork meat and barley grains and it is boiled, not fried. It is the "national" course in the part of Sweden I am from, Västergötland. More specifically Skaraborgs län, we even have a Grynkorv Academy, acting to preserve the grynkorv. Grynkorvens dag is celebrated on the third thursday in October every year.
Thanks for the interesting information.
Salty licorice is great! And there's nothing wrong with banana and curry on a pizza!
You should try "varma mackor" with "Kalles Kaviar" and banana slices under the cheese...
I have a theory that swedish "pita-bread" culture just migrated to tacos sometime in the late 90s/early 00s. Basically all the wird ingrediants and you upraded with some spices and different bread.
One could also mention blodpudding!
Banana pizza is one of my all time favourites but i like most variants as well, i have never heard of löjrom pizza that seems far more strange than banana on a pizza but i would love to try it since i really like löjrom. Smörgåstårta is absolutely fantastic
Swedish Ansjovis is not at all Anchovies. Ansjovis is made of herring. Anchovies is called Sardell in Sweden.
Have you tried the canned fishballs in lobster sauce wirh boiled potatoes? As a kid I really loved it 😋. Being vegeterian I don't eat it anymore...
Janssons I would describe more as a potato gratain with anchovies :) (its my Maltese husbands favorite on the julbord/christmas buffet ❤) but most of us "kids" in the family dont like anchovies so my mum makes one extra alternative version with Kalles kaviar in it instead and its so good :)
An unsmoked kaviar is even better.
@@michaelhansen5353 never tried it but that sounds nice too 👍
It's not anchovies at all. Anchovies is sardeller in Swedish.
@@starvictory7079 Exactly. One way of translating the Swedish word "ansjovis" that I found when searching, is "tinned sprats cured in brine"...if that makes any sense. Swedish ansjovis is actually more related to "sill" mentioned in the video.
and what swedish people mean when they say ansjovis is sprat (skarpsill) nor Anchovis nor sardeller@@starvictory7079
Im an American and I love the Kallies fish row in a tube, it's really just like caviar with some fillers, such as potato flakes. I use to be able to find it in the Swedish neighborhood here in Chicago, now I just get it at IKEA.
Hey, how about doing an episode about doing laundry in Europe and how to use the drying rack and waiting forever for jean to dry and how all the towels come out extra crispy and uncomfortable.
You have got to try some kroppkakor with lingonberry jam 😊
You should try Swedish "Kräftskiva", it's very traditional and very festive.
The salt in Svenskjävlar isn't regular old salt, it is ammonium chloride or sal ammoniac (salmiak).
If you want to try the stuff I recommend this order:
Tier 1 - Salta Katten
Tier 2 - Djungel vrål
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Tier 15 - Svenskjävlar
Surströmming I eat every year. Preferably with the red onion, sour cream, dill and potatoes, never on bread. Surströmming has an incredible amount of Umami, and doesn't taste at all like it smells :)
Kaviar is a must on the breakfast egg (which of course is hardboiled) instead of salt, or spread on a slice of bread with fresh cucumber slices or sliced egg. Smörgåstårta is great, but I'm not a fan of those with a layer of canned tuna. As for surströmming, I've never had it, nor do I have a desire to try it. Swedish pizzas are a bit exotic. I just wonder how much the fact that most pizza places are run by people from the Middle East influences the styles that have developed.
Love, love, love banana pizza! 🤤 The first time I had it actually wasn't in Sweden but in Thailand.
Isn't the banana curry pizza just a really watered down version of the traditional swedish dish "Flygande Jacob"? Ham instead of chicken and bacon, curry instead of chili sauce and cheese and bread instead of rice. Also in some places you can get your banana curry pizza with salty peanuts on top which is like the staple of Flygande Jacob.
good stuff steff
Smörgåstårta is the best! The most common flavors are leverpastej, ost & skinka, lax & räkor or rostbiff 😊
I am swedish if you like pizza try it like this; thin crust garlicsauce on the crust instead of tomoatosauce then have lots of cheese and if you like crunks of gorgonzola cheese as well i prefer when my pizza is less time in the oven so i ask for less baked
I live in Denmark, we also have “smörgåstårta” often white tuna 6:01
It's very common to have variants of smörgåstårta lined with cheese doodle crumbs, usually with cheese, ham, tomatoes on top.
i have worked whid sandwich cake , so i make one sea food and one meet kind, did do it for 14 days ago for my granchild birthday, the love it
I love the "Svenskdjävlar" but if you eat more than 3-4 it might start to feel like it is caustic, then you take a few more and enjoy the pain 😂
Messmör is a Swedish thing, it kinda holds the place of peanut butter on the breakfast table.
Svensk jävlar exist in a couple of different varieties:
1. The original recipe which comes in two different sizes:bite sized and XL.
2. Chocolate coated:the original recipe with a coat of semi sweet Belgian chocolate.
3. Spicy strawberry:the original recipe with a strawberry flavored coating and Carolina Reaper hot pepper extract.
So far i have only tasted the original recipe and the chocolate coated varieties.
The idea of consuming Reaper extract is a little scary to me.
Hi Stefan. You say you don't like surströmming - most Swedes don't either...but when it comes to taste cleansing, I think you should try to find an English grocery store and ask for a (small) can of Marmite. THERE you can talk about strange foods. It's a dark brown batter that you spread on the sandwiches. It is disgusting but useful because the misery contains a lot of B vitamins. The product is made from the bottom residues that form when brewing beer ... Try it!
Other Swedish foods you might explore or discuss in a video are messmör (which you of course can get in a tube), all the weird processed cheese you can get in tubes, and all the foods that are mixed in with them, right in the tube (like a toothpaste type tube). Shrimp cheese, crayfish cheese, skagen cheese moldy cheese, smoked reindeer cheese, blue cheese with apple and cinnamon. All in nice little toothpaste tubes! and lets not forget the ham cheese and the bacon cheese, or even the processed squeezable brie cheese. But enough about cheese. Also, Swedish sausages which range from fthe beloved staple alukorv (more or less a ring bologna) to isterband, a more ‘controversial’ sausage that I love and dream about, though I haven’t eaten one in more than three decades. Pölsa, which looks kind of what I imagine scrapple would look like after pulsing it in a blender with some oatmeal. Flygande Jakob (Flying Jacob). Princesstårta (Princess Cake). Ugnspannkaka (Oven Pancake. Semla.
You missed 'flying jacob'. Also Mexico has a sandwich cake, Pastel de Atún (Mexican Tuna Cake)
I think you would enjoy a oxfile, ägg, bearnaisesås pizza it's a delicious combination and my favorite.
A taco section in every grocery store is true and kind of weird. But we do love tacos!
2:16 As a Swede who's tried it once as a kid - it's not bad, very sweet tasting buuuuut...It's, from what I understand, considered a "Dessert pizza", like a nutella sandwich or something. More as a movie night snack maybe rather than dinner. And yeah I definitely would take the Kebab pizza over that any time.
Cinnamon tastes very sweet in cooking and so does banana, fruits in general means it's not dinner. Now I have seen people order chicken pizza with peanuts and curry like some Tikki Masala nightmare and that is by far much worse, not to mention Danes putting (day old cold) spaghetti on a pizza which is atrocious...
I don't eat fish but I make two exceptions - Kalles Kaviar on an egg sandwich, and Canned tuna (I guess it's just the meaty consistency) with whatever. But some people put tuna on Pizza, now that is awful.
Well, if yo like nutella, you should try a nutella and brie grilled cheese sandwich.
There is the meaty and the fishy "smörgåstårta", some are filled with soft cheese, and shrimp and smoked salmon, others are "leverpastej" and smoked ham ...
Anyway, tacofredag is sort of like the "fredagsmys", cozy friday.
Not much cooking, just fry upp the ground beef (or whatever), mash the avocado and mix it, chop some stuff and put it on the table, heat the tortillas (or not, whatever you use), lay the table, and everybody can help out, and then sit down and pick your taco together, sort of like a julbord. But the children like it. It is fast and easy, celebrating that the work/school week is ended. Then for dessert a big bowl of "lösgodis", small candy.
7:57 tack för att du påpekar det här. Förbryllar mig att varenda svensk har gurka på sin tacos.
If you want to try some more really wierd/nasty foods you have to try blodpalt/paltbröd, pölsa (sausage made from intestines), isterband, kalvsylta and aladåb
You say you don't appreciate Kalles Kaviar. Most Swedish kaviar is smoked. Try an un-smoked variant instead. That is what I prefer, e.g. with hard-boiled egg on knäckebröd.
I LOVE Svenskjävlar! And surströmming! And Im from northern Sweden (Jämtland) ^^ Maybe that's why!
Edit: Norway also have the exact same tradition with taco friday. With the same bread and toppings :)
You are so correct. UN should put a world wide ban of eating tacos Saturday - Thoursday.
Denmark have tacotuseday!!@@brahand
Jag har en stor buske med koriander. Jag smakade den som den var och det var väldigt intensivt. Men lite som smaksättning i asiatisk i mat är supergott!
Well most of those are common Finland too. Bananas and bearnise sauce on pizza are not our thing for sure. Those are youst weird. Kalles regular caviar ain´t very good, but the "rundiga" is delicious. Spread it on your bread after you´ve spread butter to it and spread it same way as the butter. Thin layer on top of your bread is great.
I just love everything with shrimps. I used to buy that Rydbergs räkksallad and it is so good with boiled potatoes and pan fryed sausage. Slice of Skogaholmslimpa with rundiga kaviar and glass of milk, there is a good Swedish dinner 😄. Well at least for my Finnish taste.
The Hawaii pizza (pineapple, no banana) is originally from Canada.
Thank you Canada!
But we swedes have ”inproved” this Hawaii pizza by adding banana. 😱😩🤬
There is no banana on a Hawaii pizza only pineapple
@@jurgen4466 Pineapple and ham. Some versions might also add bacon.
@@jurgen4466 precisely what I wrote. The one with banana is generally called Africana, because banana is a staple in food in east Africa.
The amount of people that dont understand the majesty of swedish pizza should hop on the next train across europe and try some. You will be blown away how well we have it in that regard. been trying pizzas on 3 continents in a score of countries and nothing even comes close to ours.
Hey man
What airline, as an American did you fly on? I'm trying to fly to Sweden
Koriander is like a you either love it or hate it, but i know alot of people that both hate and love it, i think i am in between i like it in salads
I make Swedish-Mexican fusion tacos, with both cucumber AND cilantro on them :D
I love svenskjävlar but you can only eat it a small piece at a time, gotta savour the salmiak before you take your next bite
"Svenskjävlar" are really good, very, very salty and i like them alot!
I wish I had some nachos now with pico de gallo .
I've introduced banana curry pizza to more than a few foreigners and most of them either enjoyed it or downright loved it! And this includes Americans.
Sure, one or two said "I would not order one for myself, but I like it well enough". _No one_ so far has said "I hate it and will never eat it again".
That said, kebab pizza always blows all competition out of the water.
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_Sill_ is *Atlantic* herring! it's called _strömming_ when caught in the Baltic north of a small village outside of Kalmar. The pickled version is unequivocally _sill_ as it's caught in the seas to the west.
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Why did you open a can of _surströmming_ out in the open? The way veterans do it is in a bucket of water. At least you put it in a flatbread wrap with the traditional ingredients :)
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I'm Swedish born and bred, with Finnish ancestry, and I don't get salty licorice either. Sweet black licorice is nice but I really _do not_ like salty.
That said, it's pretty easy to avoid, so I do just that and anyone liking stuff coated in salmiak (that salty stuff) is on their own.
Trust me, a lot of us Swedes are as baffled by banana on pizza as you are. I would fight for smörgåstårta and salty liqorice though (even Svenskjävlar).
smörgåstårta är bland det godaste som finns
Have you tried smoked eel?
They say that surströmming comes from an shipload of fish gone bad. And som finns wanting to buy them anyways. Next time they met they finns the wanted to buy more. Finland and sweden has been the same country for many years. And Stockholm is placed to be in the middle of both countrys
There is also hot sandwich cake, wich can be like pizzas.
In my opinion, Svenskjävlar was one of those things that just had to happen, for the same reason as to why there are eating as many raw ghost pepper friuts as possible competitions. And also why there used to be a hot dog stand in Gamla stan that claimed to sell the spiciest hot dog in the world, and offered a refund to anyone who managed to eat an entire sausage.
That koriander thing is just weird. I see women on dating sites writing in their profile that they don't like koriander, or that they do. Which always confuses me as I personally don't give a damn if my food contains koriander or not.
I love the salty Swedish licorice. I think it's an acquired taste of you're not from Sweden. I'm not but I just really like it and have since I was a kid
I'm a big salty liquorice freak, but even I think svenskjävlar is a bit much. Djungelvrål is delicious however!
With all the talk of pizza I was hoping you would mention “pizzasallad”
Svenskjävlar är ju jättegott!! =) Men så älskar jag allt salt godis, synd att de tog bort Gott å blandat Extra salt, den påsen var kanon!!
Svenskjävlar is good. A bit heavy on the salt though
I love koriander. I can recommend la neta, really good mexican style tacos. Swedish tacos are for kids.
Ja, svenskjävlar är jättegott! Men inget man äter massor av på en gång. Och det är inte salt, det är salmiak. Lite annorlunda smak. Gooood!
as a swede i didnt relize how much fish food types we have
And USA have Hersheys chocolate that seems to be on the same level as Surströmming. Actually been warned not to try Hersheys.
Du borde prova varm smörgåstårta! Hönökaka/jubileumsbröd med köttfärs, bacon, lök, tomat och ost. Den är god👌 ps. Jag har svenskj*vlar hemma. Jag gillar dem!
I like really spicy food and i'm a Swede 😁 I'm not eating Harakiri-korven though as my brother has done 2 times 😂😅🥵
Paltbröd med fläsk och béchamelsås.
Surtrömming är ett gammalt sätt att bevara fisken, innan kyl och frys fanns😃👍
Surströmming came about during the 16th century when Sweden had a salt shortage.
Basically they tried to stretch out their salt supplies, but just enough salt was used to prevent the raw herring from rotting while allowing it to ferment.
I’d rather suck on a bar of soap than eat coriander. Another weird food that I didn’t realize was weird until fairly recently is the variety of tubed foods. Perfectly normal growing up but I’ve started questioning it since the dawn of CZcamsrs born in other countries.
Jag älskar svensk mat! Dock inte lakrits! 😊 min favorit middag är Pitepalt! Mums!
Ha det! /Heather
Du borde testa grynkorv med potatismos! En vinnare.
fredag mat åh kvällar betyder att det är helg så det är okey att äta snabbmat eller mer onyttig mat och godis/snacks, märkts mer i små barns familjer där de försöker äta bättre
Förortspizza heter det också. Usch enligt mig. Ska vara napolitansk Edit: though we have some variants that are good, like löjromspizza and tryffelpizza. For example from Brillo
Jag ääälskar Svenskjävlar! 🤤 Men det är ju verkligen en sort man bara tar ett par utav och sen är nöjd 😅
Denmark have tacotuseday!
I love banana on pizza
You didnt mentioned kroppkakor
Kräftor!
Tacofredag, kyckling på fredag (gammal klassisk reklam) allt lyxigt ska ätas på fredagen idag tydligen. Förr i tiden var det på söndagen man lyxade till det med "Söndagsstek"
You should stick with grits and possum!
I like SvenskJävlar 😃😋👌
Vi kör med banan på tacosen i vår familj. Inte vanligt vad jag vet.
Ewwww banana curry pizza nope and i'm Swedish. Bearnaise sauce and pork filet or loin is yummy and calzone etc etc.