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LUL.
Norwegians buy 4 liters of GASOLINE for a little over $7.
Americans: đ±đ±đ±đ±đ±đ±đ±đ±
Also Americans: Buys 0.75 liters of WATER for $8.
tap water in Norway is pure and the ones from Voss is even better due to the fact of cold weather and running water and glaciers, soon Norway turn all-electric,, no more fun with noisy bikes or cars :/, it will be a sad moment for me
@@gardini100 Avtaually there is no glaciers anywhere around where Voss Water is made. It is from a little place in Southern Norway called Iveland đ
Higher gas price = less Co2 by cars
@@farhadrazavi8941 thats actually how they think
@@Eirran2 hehe you got me there :) , but a nice bottle indeed:D
I have a question. Hvor mange her(som ser/hÞre pÄ dette) er fra Norge? Ska hilse fra Sandnes!
Javel...? Ska sei, fine mann.....
Hilser fra Kristiansand!
Hallaise! - Narvik
Hilser fra Drammen
Hilsen fra Vikebygd :) Aksdal Skjold
11:28 the public water distribution, and Voss factory are kind of separate, but basically from the same location.
Not only wash their dishes, but flush their toilet, water their garden, and wash their car.
American living in Norway! The statue of the guy fighting babies is even more glorious in person đ
The what now. Im norwegian and have never heard of that...
@@astridrohde3450 den er i vigelandsparken, nĂŠrme sinnataggen
The theme of Vigeland's Sculpture Park is 'the human life cycle,' which is what the author is asking about. Both figurative and literal interpretations are needed.
I (from Germany) visited Norway in 2019 and wanted to return last year what for obvious reasons did not work (fck cvd!). But Norway is such a great country. I made a roadtrip (airbnb) with my best friend on the Lofoten. Never saw such landscape. First day we had a house with a lake! Another night we had a tiny house from the 19th century (authentic). The prices aren't that bad, but they have a sugar tax (and yeah, Voss is tap water). Norwegian people are very kind and friendly. Almost everybody speaks English (actually never met one that doesn't). So, when it is safe to travel again (hopefully), my best friend and me will return. If go back a third time I probably won't leave anymore. Norway
To anyone interested in Norway I can recommend âteam Bachstadâ the recent season (if there are English subs) and âtypisk norskâ (itâs uploaded with English subs on yt) they show what is Norwegian from our point of view
Itâs good to hear that you like Norway! It is a very nice place but it can be very cold in the winter. We are speaking many languages so everyone can come here and understand us
@@emmaandresen4163That's okay, I'm no summer guy. Everything above 25°C is too hot. And winters without snow and positive double digit temperatures are awful :o). My dad, may he rest in peace, always said: "There's not 'too cold'. There's only wrong clothing."
@@marcuszaja6589 was your dad Norwegian? Itâs a common thing to say here in Norway that there is no such thing as too cold weather itâs only wrong clothing!
Nope, my dad was croatian :o).
Norwegian here to clear up all the questions!
1. Yes, the counties merged the 1st of January 2020
2. Vigelandsparken, located within Frognerparken has a bunch of random, often naked statues carved by Henrik Vigeland.
3. I've never had pickled herring, none of my friends has either for all that I know. Aka, its a rare / older dish that isnt eaten much anymore.
4. Brown cheese is a cheese made with whey leftover from making goats cheese, it is caramelized and therefore turns brown / orange. Basically tastes like caramel and is really good. I personally like it, but it's pretty much a hit or miss for most people.
Nei sild e spist mye av Norges befolkning men kanskje ikke av folk i Oslo bobla.
@@lappis22 du
MÄ jo skrive pÄ engelsk/you
Must write in English
3. We eat pickled herring for every holiday in sweden. Xmas, easter, midsummer, crayfish season. Allways the pickled herring :)
Have you never heard of 'sursild'? Its pickled herring! You must tru Olivas Sursild, its the best!
Pickled herring is a Swedish thing or even Danish
Our water here is actually amazing.
My aunt moved to Danmark 10 years ago, and she still comments on it every time she back in Norway, how much she have been missing it.
I remember when I was a kid, and was shocked when we went on vacation and had to BUY bottle-water for drinking đ
We are totally water-spoiled up here!
BRUNOST is the Norwegian name for Brown cheese, and it is sooo GOOD!!!
Its cow poop
: )
No
@@mrssama6562 Well... it's made out of milk. Usually goat milk, or a mix of cow and coat milk.
Det er sant = thats true
It depends on who your talking to lol, itâs really a hit or miss when it comes to brown cheese. For me itâs a hit
In half Norwegian and half Scottish, but I live in Norway. So when I went to Scotland I drank the tap water and had to spit it outđ
I get bullied by my british friends for not liking their tap water. But when youâre used to the clean water we have here, tap water around the world just tastes like chlorine and itâs not very pleasant.
Taps in Scotland actually provide Irn Bru.
Same. My Scottish grandparents have a filter in their water jug. I think it's better on the islands.
Sry, this great principle of âallemannsrettenâ principle has been severely diluted due to weak and incompetent solutions waivering this ban frequently
My gran is from Norway and most of my family is there but we live in Scotland đ We used go to Sogn every year when covid wasnât a thing
Another interesting fact about Norway is that there are almost no âprivate beachesâ. The Norwegian shoreline is for public use, and you canât build your houses inside approximately 100m from the shore unless you apply for it
The number of private beaches/shoreline, will increase as long as rich, tory voters get their will. Shame.
@@runetollefsen7458 Rune da... Hva er det du snakker om da :)
Beaches are mostly privately owned by open to the public according to law. On the other hand Norway has some 100,000 km beaches.
@@runetollefsen7458 rules against that, Rune
the way he pronounces longyearbyen is kinda funny because the "longyear" part of the name is english but he says it as if it's norwegian
"Omg Voss water is just our tap water. I wash my dishes with that"
That's literally me! đđ
Not to brag, but our water here in Norway is pretty damn amazing though :D
And luckily we're not stupid enough to put fluoride in it....
Facts. Kvalitet mÄ jg si
fuck yeah it is!
Well, we had to have something good...
Also in Scotland are water is amazing
Compared to England are tap water taste completely different
As a Norwegian I want to say that taco and pizza is more normal than most of the traditional Norwegian dishes. Most people I know eat taco every Friday and pizza at least once a week. The grocery stores even have discount on taco stuff on Fridays.
ThatÂŽs so sad.
@@berradengrymme2789 why is that sad? It tastes better and is easier to make
@@straykidsforlife8217 Food cult disepearing is sad
Taco fredag :D
@@berradengrymme2789 not rlly the food culture is stil here or it would not be taken up
The guy with the babies statue looks crazy on its own, but trust me, it makes sense within the greater context of the sculpture park.
One of the best things of living in Norway is how free it is. There are rarely high fences around any property, and people leave their currains/blinds up. It is for the most part a society based on mutual respect and trust. And it is very expensive to live here, but also very safe đ
And we have a great health care compared to for example The USA
Also we are very much introverts, most of us.
@@lairoslairoslairos I donât agree, I talk to almost every person I meet, and itâs always pleasantđđ Maybe itâs you thatâs introvertđ
@@lillm6874 you have the wrong idea of what introvert means
@@lairoslairoslairos Etter hva jeg har lÊrt sÄ betyr det innadvendt, hva mente du med det du skrev da?
I'm wheezing at the description of Norway- no- We're the ones who will keep 2m distance even before corona. Never sit next to one another on the bus, even if you know each other. And you never interact with humans unless necessary.
Ahh my kind of people
@@JimGames pff yes. Although many of us are also the kind of people to tackle our friends in the street or dunk each other in snow.
@@JimGames Yeah, we were really disappointed when we had to move closer to each other when the pandemic started. ;)
Am Norwegian, can confirm I've barely noticed there's been a pandemic. If anything I've appreciated the fact that my personal space has now been enforced by law for a while.
We like our personal space
An error. You can camp anywhere in Norway just not on private area. Much of Norway is private - you can camp wherever you want also on privat property but not on fields for food production or closer than 150 m / 450 ft. from a permanent residence.
*and you have to leave it as you found it... no trashing the place & leaving your rubbish around
i didn`t even know that and i live in norway
and have my hole life
The same goes with the shoreline it is a public area, but some people think they own it and hate visitors, and it is fun to let them know :)
100 meters from private property
@@gardini100 its possible to own but anyone can be there
Im just dying inside everytime they say something wrong
That's got to feel terrible.
i can also relate eventhough im swedish
NUhokkĂŠn
AKA in Norwegian nĂžkken
Of Norwegian music, I would recommend to you Wardruna. (The vocalist behind it, Einar Selvik, was the drummer of an infamous black-metal band called Gorgoroth.) Wardruna, however, did a co-op with Aurora for a song called "Helvegen" that is an absolutely stunning performance. You can find it here on YT.
Edit: Also, the video made no mention of the institution known as *LO* (Lands Organisasjonen - translated to "Country Organization") which regulate wages according to inflation values and to other wages in the country. If the value of *one* job drops, LO makes the judgement on whether this job should crash, or if all other wages in the country should be adjusted in solidarity. The result is that Norway have the most well-paid jobs for unskilled labourers in the world, and comparably low wages for high educated experts.
The purpose of this is to create a higher level of equality in society overall, and it have led to a higher social trust. There is barely any crime here, and LO have, in theory, much of the credit for that.
i think i want to move to norway now... are there a lot of germans? xD
â@@TheWolvesCurse some odd Germans here and there-- but its mostly Poles that come here to take the jobs most Norwegians are too spoilt to do. By their words, we're a country of introverts and some of them say its hard to make friends up here.
I can understand why; since the lockdowns were lifted we are all happy we don't need to keep 1 meter distance to eachother anymore and can go back to the usual 5. đ
@@HateMachinist sounds like a dream come true. đ€Łđ€Łđ€Ł only your speed limits and gas prices are a bit off putting.
@@TheWolvesCurse yeah, those narrow twisty roads did have a few old grandmothers dictating the speedlimits in the end, just like how green politicians get to dictate the gas-prices.
@@HateMachinist i thought the gas tax goes to your retirement fund? or did i misunderstand the video up there?
our gas prices are going up like crazy too, and electricity is slowly becoming a luxury, as private users are subsidizing the industry. there was a law called "EEG Umlagegesetz", since then our electricity is even more expensive than in denmark (currently 0,32⏠per kWh on average) yet politics pressure us towards buying electric cars... it's madness. all the while income of "working class" people is stagnating, and rents in densely populated areas exploding. economically we're becoming more and more americanized, which i despise. i'm still lucky as a "skilled" worker in an automotive supply company, but they're planning to lay us all off til 2025 and move our production to romania and serbia, where workers are cheaper.
"what the hell is brown cheese" so you have chosen death
Its nasty..tastes like plastic
its a sweet caramell tasty cheese. i would not describe it as cheese in texture. its soft and mush, mabye a bit maluable aswel. I am Norwegian, i dont eat it regulary but its great with waffles and butter :D
@@alexbakke8885 I love brown cheese ice cream with strawberry sauce.
It's like salted caramel..but not the cheese alone!
I live in Ă lesund
@@1971Dangermouse you pallet is broken. stop smoking
@@michaelespeland you eat Lutefiske and raksfiske and you wanna say my palette is broken..? Hahaha
Also, it's not the OIL that made us rich. Sure, the oil made NORWAY rich, but it's not what made the PEOPLE rich. High taxes (counterintuitively enough), fair to fair-ish wage and labour laws and world leading welfare schemes is what made the PEOPLE rich.
Hi taxses made us made us rich? No oil and Hydropower (Hydro use this cheap electricity to make aluminum) made us rich. Yhea hi taxes on those gave people the money. But still it was oil and Hydropower that made us rich.
@@ZipzZzzz5 actually you are wrong. If you look at Sweden and Denmark they have are rich too, but they donât have oil, at least not as much as we have. Harald Eia have some videos about it in the series called sĂ„nn er Norge:)
@@mathildeholmas8314 Sweden has a massive depth actually. I heard someone making a joke about it being the same size as the norwegian budget only negativ ... or something like that.
This is true, but the oil made us a buffer we have been constantly falling back on ever since. The oil was also used in the beginning to build a more prosperous country, but then the parliament felt they had to change tactics for the future.
The income from sale of oil is not a part of the BNP. This income is saved into the Pension fund and used to invest into businesses around the world. Example Facebook, Google etc.
Im from Massachusetts but moved to Oslo 6 years and loved this video. That pickled herring is delicious by the way. Its called Sild and usually is in a sauce like tomato or mustard based. You just put it straight on a slice of good bread and its a great lunch đđŒ
Also that fylke merge did already happen now
Summer in Finland starts when you get your first early potatoes with pickled herring. Delicious! đ
Same in sweden atleast where I am :)
Yes we do give the Christmas tree but itâs not in Scotland theyâre wrong about that itâs in London Trafalgar Square
The thing with the Geography Now-series is that they are extremely fast-paced, and almost without punctuation. So whilst it seems like they say the tree is given to Scotland, as it was under the UK "category", they probably just meant the UK as a whole there.
Its actually not wrong. As a thanks for help from WWII many gets a tree. London, Edinburgh, Orkney Island, Newcastle and Grimsby gets their tree. Also New York gets a tree.
@@eilifkr To say that Oslo gives Scotland a tree is wrong though. The only city that Oslo gives a tree to is London.
@@Henoik Thats correct. Oslo gives to London and Hordaland have given Edinburgh a tree since 1949.
we send one to new york too
Another few thing about Norway thats a huge difference from America is for example that you donât need insurance to get treated at the hospital, you only pay a small fee (a tiny fee) for some treatments and other is free, thats because of the taxes thats taken from our salaries before we get paid. The taxes also pays for other things too, but in Norway you donât get heaps of bills from the hospitals to pull you down after an illness. Also, in Norway women can take up to A YEAR of maternity leave from work where if I remember it correctly you can choose 9mnds with 100% pay or 12mnds with 75% pay.. Its been a while so I donât remember it quite..
The food; a correction, Sweden is known for their meatballs (kjĂžrtboller) but in Norway we have (kjĂžttkaker) translated to meat cakes thats almost like meatballs but bigger.
The brown cheese is made from goat cheese. I have actually made it once before. You have goats milk in a large pot, add a type of liquid I dont remember right now whats called, and cook it over low to medium heat for hours, it eventually turns thick and brown ( during the cooking when its getting brown and thicken it taste kind of sweet but also bitter caramell-ish...yum)and at the end a texture like playdough, put it in a box and let it sit and harden.
:)
The language in Iceand is almost the same as the old viking language
Pickled herring is an acquired taste, however, when used to it it tastes delicious đ
Even though the income and taxes are public. You can see who has looked at your income. So you donât really spy on your neighbours cause theyâll know
Yeah, but isnât that a new thing? Like you could spy on people before without them knowing, but now theyâll get notified, right?
Aaand at least here where i live (but think its the whole country), you should actually really not ask or talk about someonce/yours income. It may be public, but itâs still rude and wierd to talk about đ đ
The âdude fighting the babiesâ is about the struggle of being a father in society.
Got. To. Resist. Urge. To. Upvote. Can't. Destroy. Nice.
Itâs hard to find the source but this is what Iâve heard from a Norwegian who knows such odds facts. So Iâm not just making a joke/troll!
Of course art can mean many things. The title of the piece is called âMann jager fire genierâ
Which translates sorta to Man chases four Gemini (spirits)
@@SeanPercival actually means Man hunts 4 geniuses.
@@Andaars Ah ok thought that was a translation error. Wonder if Vigeland every officially shared his meaning of the statue to confirm. I donât see how a baby is a genius đ€·đ»ââïž
@@SeanPercival that's a good question actually. I'll try to check it up. Probably easyer for me as a Norwegian to find the answer đ€Ș
The brown cheese is called gjetost ( ye toast), its actually delicious and almost has a nutty or smoky caramelized flavor to it. Also Krumkake is amazing my grandmother still makes it every year at Christmas. Another really good seasonal food they don't list is yulekake which is a Norwegian Christmas bread with raisins. I could go on for ages about all the different pastries and treats like troll horns, cloud berry cream, and lefse just to name a few.
love NOrway! very funny video! thanks!
Hi, I'm from Norway. From january 2021 the merging of ''Fylker'' was finished ;) Brown cheese is made of goat milk. I've heard many say it has kind of a caramel taste. I personally like it. As for the tradisional food ... Um ... Well, the sheep head is called 'Smalahove' it's for ... a extreamly few interested people. Lutefisk, pickled harring and rakfisk is not to my personal taste, but the christmast dishes, those are very tradisional. We are also very fond og waffles ;) Tip for black metal band from Norway is ''Dimmu Borgir''
Smalahove is great, people are just put off by the look. If you like pinnekjĂžtt you will most likely also enjoy smalahove, though not quite as good as pinnekjĂžtt.
im not a picky eater but i prefer Ribbe over pinnekjĂžtt but lutefisk det kan de som liker det ha for seg selv.
Quick note about the public record of the wealth: You can't look into others wealth without getting noticed. Either by mail or such. So they have to log into a public service with their own "digital identity", and as such, will show who looked at your records.
Think that is only if a company looks you up, not private people
@@agnethamortensen447 it will give you a notice either way, company or private person.
@@agnethamortensen447 it goes for private people to :)
Before the right wing government came into power you could look the data up anonymously. That changed, now if you look up your neighbor he will know you have had a look at his numbers.
5:20 The seed vault was put there, to take advantage for the year round cold, be recently they had to upgrade with artificial cooling because of warmer climate.
The herring is commonly pickled along with onion in vinegar and sugar. It's called "sursild" which directly translated is "sour herring". It tastes great if you ask me, the texture isn't as slimy as you'd think, it's actually fairly firm. There are also variants of pickled herring in tomato sauce, mustard, curry, sour cream and probably more.
We actually consider talking about how much money we make really tacky and rude, but we also keep track of everyoneâs income to prevent illegal businessđ
Apart from drug dealing policemen!!
@@1971Dangermouse fortsatt INGEN bevis pÄ at Jensen solgte. Oppdater meg gjerne pÄ ka de egentlig dÞmte Jensen pÄ
@@kim5071Acab 21 years for helping drug dealers and bribes!
@@1971Dangermouse tror eg mÄ gjenta meg selv her. Hva dÞmte de han Pà ? ikke hva dÞmte de han for. à bare sÄ d é nevnt, etternavnet mitt er ACAB-JOHANNESSEN = All Cops Are Bastards-Johannessen. Eg har ingenting til overs for Jensen, men rett skal vÊre rett. Det ska ikke vÊre NOEN tvil nÄr han blir dÞmt. à leser du forklaringen til Cappelen, sÄ skjÞnner du va eg mener.
@@kim5071Acab I don't know enough about the case to get into a debate about it, but yes ACAB!
Never underestimate the great power of Brown cheeseđłđŽ
Brunost
Fersk hjemmebakt brĂžd og fersk brunost .. mmmm...
Freshly homebaked bread and fresh browncheese / also on warm toast.. we also idé the browncheese in the sauce
I'm Norwegian, but i don't like Brown cheese- (Brunost)
Mm, julebrĂžd med brunost
Oh nice... i live in the brown spot...
And the christmas tree we give the UK, is the one in Trafalgar Square.
When you have a chance look at the pictures from the sculpture park, it is wild!
everyone learns the text languages in Norway through school, but all the different dialects in Norway can ALMOST almost be considered 15 different languages, because they have such large variations.. This is one of the reasons that Norwegians are some of the best at adapting new languages due to a very large variety in use of sounds and synonyms.
BRUNOST IS THE MAIN LANGUAGE
Sant!
Hey, Rjukan! That's where I'm from! And it's no big deal, most of Norway is covered in clouds most of winter anyways, but we have our own Sun Festival each year to celebrate the return of the sun.
For those who wonder: Norway now has 11 "Fylker" (but MANY Norwegians are unhappy about itđ)
Yeah, Norwegian here. Makes no sense to me. Especially Viken.
Yeah probably you old guys.
I dont give a shit. Cause the most important county in Norway, Rogaland stayed if course the same đ
We love pickled hearing in Scandinavia, here in Sweden we eat it for Christmas, easter, midsummer, and bascly the rest of the year too.
The NIdaros Cathedral is called Nidarosdomen in Norwegian, and it's where Aurora performed when she fried you soul :)
It was OK. She has a weakness in her voice, resembling that of Dido.
You can tell it is cold here in Norway. The country is formed like a mitten.
HEY! It's shaped like a guitar. Because we fucking RULE black metal!!
@@Thesortvokter I see your point. đ€
@@HS-su3cf TRVE KVLT!
Well it's not cold at all during summer(7-9 months). And the spoon looked like this before sweden conquered and took a huge part of norway. Could not load up picture but google norway before they lost jemtland and herjadalen. The golfstream hits norway so atleast south part have many days with
20-30 degreeds celcius. Atleast not cold the way i see it. ofc sahara is
alot warmer.Fewer but still many warm days in northern part too but
they have more cold days in north. Lots of people tanning and bathing on
the beaches...I live in Oslo
Brown cheese is the bi product of making cheese and its boiled down to a brown mass that gives us brunost and prim. Its kinda caramelly, sweet and savoury. Its a tiny piece of heaven!
Where is the goat milk?
@@Goldenhawk583 goat Milk can be used too, bur goat cheese is different ÂĄ
@@mimmixio7578 I have worked on making Brunost.. In the mountains of Voss, with 13 cows and a herd of goats. It is whey ffrom cows milk, with goat milk added, then boiled down.
If you are referring to other kinds of goat cheese, that are white or yellow, then I will agree with you.
We usually have waffles with brown cheese, sour cream and strawberry/raspberry jam.
And it is actually pretty normal to go skiing or hiking when ur on holiday.
A lot of Norwegians donât eat traditional Norwegian food. I have never tasted pickled herring for instance. thanks for the video. Cheers from a Norwegian!
Da mÄ du prÞv. Det e godt! Ha pÄ litt grov sennep, rÞmme, mandelpotet og lÞk sÄ hi du'e!
@@EdvardBolaasMusic grov sennep for Ă„ dempe smaken av silden? đ
I'm norwegian and I've never tasted smalahove, pickled herring, rakfisk, gravlaks or lutefisk. No thank you! :)
Come on people, try the local food.
I have eaten about everything, except the eyeball from the goat.
"Pickled herring" or "sild med eddik" comes in many different sauces and is delicious.
Norwegian bread is fantastic.
Kjem nok litt an pÄ hvor i landet man kjem fra. I storbyer er det nok ikke mange som eter tradisjonell mat, men fleire pÄ bygdene og smÄbyene.
Yes it merged, my home was called «Hordaland» now its vmcalled «Vestland»
Og alle fra sogn og fjordane og mÞre kan si at Hordaland ikke er ordentlig "Vestland", sÄ hvorfor faen bestemte vi oss for Ä gi navnet "vestland" til de to. "Vestland" burde vÊre Sogn og MÞre, det er de som har den typiske vestlandsnaturen mens rogaland og hordaland har en sÞrvestlig natur. Og sÄ har vi "bibelbeltet" som skaper flere kulturproblemer mellom Hordaland og Sogn, sÄ jeg lurer bare pÄ HVORFOR.!! Ikke for Ä hate pÄ hordaland, dere er vestlige fylker, men dere har ikke den typiske vestlands fjell/fjord - naturen i like stor grad.
@@thehiraethserendipity3425 kan vel stemme, men der jeg bor nÄ har ganske hÞye fjell (kjent plass p stÄ pÄ ski) men noen plasser i «Vestland» har ganske kjedelig natur
The biggest of the 3 preserved viking ships found in Norway (one of the ships in the viking ship museum they mentioned) was found near my childhood farm on our fields where I was originally the heir of the land. Although our family name wasn't tied to that property at the time they found it, but still kinda cool I think! đ There was speculations about having a viking theme park built on our fields but I'm not sure if that's going to happen or not yet.
Iâm from Norway!đłđŽđłđŽVery fun and intresting to watch! đđ
Yep, we do give them the Christmas tree :)
@torivarnor Thatâs just none-sense. If you try to state a âfactâ, you should also give us a reliable source, but that I am sure you can not find.
In fact the tree is not given to Scotland,but England. London to be exact âșïž
@@mimsen3232 true đ
@torivarnor We were fighing an international war and you can't expect those numbers to be accurate. Norwegians were fighting on all fronts during WWII. They were killed like flyes in the war for and against the nazies. The nazies also killed norwegians in concentration camps in Poland, like all our jews ... or most of them. Mainland Norway was occupied and we were furtunate in many ways being so called ariens. The nazies were nice if people played ball with them. Don't think for a minute they were very nice though. Out went democracy and equality in the law. The germans did what they wanted. An old teacher of mine had a story to tell as a young boy in nazy occupied Norway. He followed a girl on the streets. He didn't have any nasty plans, but he was just following her. It was very insecure for a girl to walk in the city alone in those days, she must have been terrified and he knew it, but being a young boy you know. That was his story. The nazies did what they wanted, and you would never know if you suddenly fell on the wrong side of someone.
@torivarnor That is the convenient answer. How many soldiers do you think sat in the concentration camps? I'm not discussing more with you. It was an international war. People die. Deal with it.
You're very welcome here. We love Americans in Norway. Fun fact is that there are more Americans moving to Norway each year than the other way around.
No wonder considering the crappy welfare system they have in the US.
@Ted Love That's just it, they have none.
7:31 The Whaling museum had a sleep over for Kids many years ago. You could walk around bones and penguins at night, sleeping next to a display case with taxidermied leopard seal or polar bear looking werry alive đŹ and watching night at the museum on a big tv and eating pizza . âïžđł
Pickled herring is a delicacy!! So nice
About the income register, itâs still frowned upon, and nobody talks about wages to peers. In addition when you check out someoneâs income you have to log in with your national electronic ID and the person in question getâs an email telling them who checked it.
All in all, great video!
Actually, talking about income being frowned upon is a trick that the management tries to do, removing the transparency that we have had in the past. The only people benefiting workers not talking about income are the owners.
But yeah, great video.
I donât get an email when someone checks mine đ€ but I can look up who checked anytime (American in Norway)
@@stianrol yes this. Me and my colleges talk freely about it and nobody thinks it's strange. We have the same job and it's good to know what your colleges are making and helps us argue for our potential raise.
Who cares, as long as there is cannabis.
Pickled herring or "Sursild" as its called, is actually pretty delicious.
Would have to agree on that :)
It is not slimy at all. On the contrary it is firm.
Oh HELL NO! That shit should be under the Geneva convention as a chemical weapon!
It is fĂžcking delicious!
Yeah... Nope. Actually the most discusting thing i ever tried in all my years. Only lutefisk and smalahove made me this sick after tasting. Dont listen to the weird guy saying its good xD
Black Metal : Mayhem, Dimmu Borgir, Satyricon etc..
Brown cheese: sweet, almost a caramellic taste. We have a well working health care system and so on. Well paid vacation for 3 weeks or more :)
metal.. well i can mention the local ones. one that did get some bad rep was "Mayhem". we had Darkthrone. and half a mile from me "Dimmu Borgir" had there "band room". all this was just outside Oslo on the east side. Kolbotn-langhus-ski.
The reason the discussion of wages is seen as "tacky" in America is completely intentional. It has been in direct and active corporate effort to frame it as such in media since the 50s.
The reason obviously being that people shouldnt discuss their wages so they wont know if they are being underpaid.
Also do a reaction to the Russ tradition lmao you will be shocked
Brown cheese is in a way just caramelized milk. It is (arguably) from a town called Vinstra in one of the most prominent valleys, the Gudbrand valley in the newly merged county of Innlandet (literally âthe inland., but you got that one). In the valley, people argue if it is called brown cheese, or red cheese, and you are seen as a traitor if you say the opposite as them.
The story goes that a farm lady left the milk that would become cheese a little too long, giving it a caramel like texture. It can be used in many different ways, some even toast it, making it super runny. Most people eat it on bread with butter underneath, and have it as lunch.
Another interesting food that people eat every day, is liver paste (leverpostei). It has so many vitamins, that an ad here says to give your kids only one slice of bread with liver paste per day, because they can get health problems from overdosing on vitamins.
Wait what?! ur only supposed to eat one slice of bread? HOW AM I NOT DEAD XD I eat like 4-7 slices of bred with liver paste every day. maybe I need a doctors appointment...
My grandmother was from Denmark, and took me there, as well as Norway to visit family when I was young. They are such beautiful places, Norway is just so stunning! I'd love to live in Denmark and be able to visit Norway and Sweden frequently đ
You can see the Norwegian christmas tree in Trafalgar Square, London, every year. The tree often comes from a forrest near my childhood home actually.
You should check out our graduation Russe party, there is a video of it on CZcams.
Oh yeah I love that video, itâs gonna be me in 3 years âđŒ
@@vildestrm8042 if Corona allows it đ
@@NorseOkies trueđ
@@vildestrm8042 krysser fingrene og tĂŠrne for deg!
Pickled hearing is great, itâs often made with vinegar, suger, pepper corns and other types of spices. you can also get with tomato, Curry sauce and more at least here in Denmark and I guess in Norway toođ„°
Brown cheese is made of the by-product whey, which is separated out in the process of making regular, yellow cheese (like Jarlsberg, Gouda etc.). Everything was used back in the day, so they came up with brown cheese (and prim, which is a spreadable version of brown cheese, simply put). Brown cheese is sweet and caramel-like in taste. It is made with either cows milk or goat milk, or a combo. The goat milk version is the most intense flavored, the pure milk is much milder in taste. The combo or the cows milk versions are the most common (not entirely sure). (And yes, Iâm Norwegian.)
you should see northern light in person! its awesome. and the sheep head (smalahove) with brown cheese (brunost) is a really good dish you should try. it is a really specific taste. Norwegian nature is beautiful.
First of all, this is a very good video! (Btw... I'm from Norway.)
3:25 - Yes! Our 19 counties merged into 11 in 2020.
7:00 - VIGELAND SCULPTURE PARK. This is a park full of naked sculptures, that's all. (For Scandinavians this is not a big deal.) The statue of the dude fighting the babies has no deeper meaning.
11:40 - VOSS WATER = ordinary tap water. It's bottled from a river with just average water quality, and this is far from the glaciers.
14:00 - PICKLED HERRING is eaten at Christmas. Some people love it, others hate it. Most of us don't dislike it.
15:00 - When Norwegians go abroad, BROWN CHEESE is what we miss most! It has a very sweet taste, and is made by boiling a mixture of milk, cream, and whey carefully for several hours so that the water evaporates. The heat turns the milk sugars into caramel, which gives the cheese its characteristic brown colour and sweetness.
19:10 - 19:45 - This dialect thing the best part. I love it!!
21:00 - Yes! Everyone's income and wealth is on public domain. But it's not possible to check a person's income or wealth anonymously. The person that you check will be aware of it.
22:50 - Honestly Norwegians really don't care much about Black Metal.
24:20 - Norwegians reach out to the far corners of the world. That's definitely no understatement. (I myself have been to 175 countries.)
25:00 Yes, Jim! We give the Brits a tree for Christmas every year! You'll find it on Trafalgar Square. (Talking about gifts... We would reeeeealy like to give that mountain to Finland, but our rigid constitution prevents us from doing so.)
Thank's for a very good video, Jim! From what you say I'm 100% sure that you will love Norway. As in all other places we have our ups and downs, but it's a really beautiful country and superb for hiking. It's a safe and open society where police officers normally are unarmed. The crime rate is low, and so is the discriminaton rate. We are proud about our welfare state, free healthcare for everybody and free schools and universities. Our government takes care about everybody, without being communists.
Spot on, og hilsener fra Ski!
... There are a few of us who do care about black metal, though Norway, in common with most of the western world consume American and british pop music mostly. I personally play in two black metal bands myself.
Most Norwegians don't care about black metal, but some of us do. Just like in all other countries.
Fun fact: Norway offered Sweden to trade oil fields for Volvo stocks. Sweden declined đ€Ą
I did not know about that. Wtf Sweden, we love your cars so fucking much. Please give us a piece of that sweet ass Volvo money lol.
Norway declined
@@minirille3031 nop it was Sweden
Funny how Volvo isnt even swedish anymore lol, majority of the cars have been designed in shanghai since 2012 and built in China. Only cars produced in Sweden is the V60, V90, XC60 and XC90 for Europe. Theyre probably gonna pull 100% out of sweden very soon with all the new factories theyre building in china.
@@TheGamingNorwegian You do realize that Volvo has factories all over the word right? The designer for the new gen of cars is a german dude. That does not mean Volvo is a german brand. Geely owns Volvo, that does not mean that Volvo is a Chinese brand either. GM has even owned Volvo some years back, again that does not mean that Volvo is American. Volvo = Swedish because thats where it started, simple as that.
Brown cheese is Production. Brunost is made by boiling a mixture of milk, cream, and whey carefully for several hours so that the water evaporates. The heat turns the milk sugars into caramel, which gives the cheese its characteristic brown colour and sweetness.
Thank you
I am Norwegian, and I can say that the counties have indeed merged.
Pickled herring is good yeah, but we usually put it on bread for lunch and not for dinner đ
Oh thanks now I know more about my countryđ đ â„ïž
I actually lived right with the sourse of the Voss water, so I was one of the first houses to get all clean voss water in the tap, shower, toilet, etc.
That was fascinating, although the announcers talk far too fast for my 76 year old brain to retain much of what was said. As fan of both Angelina Jordan and Aurora, Iâd love to go there and see them perform and/or just to visit.
You know I had a bit of trouble following as well. Itâs trendy to fast cut things on CZcams but a lot of information can get lost.
The tax/income public knowledge thing is not really much of an issue (fun fact: the person whose income/wealth is on distplay in the image in that section is our own prime minister, so yes even our politicians income/wealth/tax status is open to public knowledge) and I don't think most people here even care that much what their neighbours earn/spend because a lot of professions have standardized pay based on a combination of level of education and years of experience, so it's not really that surprising. Also we're in practice a very cashless society (we do still use cash to some degree, but the vast, vast majority pay by card and/or use cash apps - even a lot of street vendors take app payment here, including people selling the street magazines - because people here usually do not carry around cash most of the time).
"It's hard to get a tan in Norway" What the hell?? No it's NOT hard to get a tan in Norway, between easter and September just go ahead and get a tan.
A little hard for north norwegians though. A lot of rain and cold.
@@astridrohde3450 No, we can tan just as much as you guys in the south. Fuck, I could get a tan at midnight if I wanted to. Just depends on were in the north you live. Some cities are sunnier then others.
@@xiamusmc271 well where I live which is bodĂž it mostly rains a lot and there is so much hecking wind! It is too cold most of the time to tan sadly. You are so lucky!đ
@@astridrohde3450 Thanks! Yeah, I live in Finnmark. Rain is not too common.
@@astridrohde3450 Uansett sĂ„ er det feil Ă„ si man ikke blir brun i Norge đđ
When i look out of my window i see one of the Fjords .. best view ever :)
The counties did merge but not like that the 2 northern most counties "Troms" and "Finnmark" merged into the new county "Troms og Finnmark" (in the video they merged "Nordland" and "Troms") the new county is the largest in the county and it in itself is larger than several European countries like Ireland.
Several of the new counties goes into the election with the promise of splitting up, in Finnmark 98% of the population voted NO to merge with Troms however the government refused to listen to the people leading to the staggering fact that 98% og the population in Northern Norway no longer trust the central government, or that the central power seat in Oslo cares about the people living here.
After the recent debacle over "oslo shouldn't get vaccines yet even though they have the highest rate of infection in the country" were not really trusting of ANYONE here right now. Trying to pass it off like were just partying it up out here and that's why people are sick, not like the population density here makes it impossible to not interact with others regularly or anything. Jesus.
@@scandisnowgirl3696 well no one is saying that oslo shouldn't get any vaccines but it does shatter what little trust people have left in government up here especially when small municipalities without the ability to care for the ill loses their only vaccines so that they can't even vaccinate what health care personnel they have and less so for their elderly. All of this while the South African variant of the virus is rapidly spreading among our population, it doesn't really help with the sentiment of people feeling that the South doesn't care at all for the people living here's well being.
It would be nice to at least get to vaccine health care personnel first.
When we tried protecting our people the South got quite angry as they didn't like the Southerner quarantine principle, where we managed to keep our health care institutions to just bearly handle what we had. Just like how we closed the border to foreginers.
One thing is to change the vaccination strategy and to redirect some of the NEW vaccines arriving TO Oslo which in all honesty would feel more like we're in it together than forcefully taking the vaccines from other places to give them to the capital, of course that'll lead to division.
One thing is for sure the relationship between North and south is strained to a breaking point.
@@jubmelahtes I have heard some of the worst shit imaginable said about people in Oslo. We have been hit the hardest out of EVERYONE here and for the last year have been under the strictest measures in the country and asked to sacrifice the most, and yet the north continually says disparaging, horrible things and tries to play politics with our very lives by diverting vaccines. Its shameful.
@@jubmelahtes btw, dont try to bring up healthcare personnel, they have largely all been vaccinated at this point, and you KNOW this happened like a week ago, long after healthcare personnel were vaccinated.
@@scandisnowgirl3696 I understand you've had It bad I'm not saying otherwise, no one are angry at you the people but rather the authorities. We're not one Unified country we've never been that, the North always has been and likely always will be second grade in this country, that shit you've heard the last year we've been through forever. And no not all personell has been vaccinated yet most places didn't even get to start on the elderly above 70, yet we have some of the oldest populations due to the centralization politics led by the government for years now.
Oslo made the vaccination policy into politics when they demanded other municipalities in dire situations to send their vaccines meant for their most vulnerable citizens in the middle of rising numbers down because it benefitted them the most, thats politics and oslo will always be prioritised.
I honestly wish for the best for every citizen in this country but it definitely doesn't feel like its mutual, it never has. And if we didn't struggle with collapsing local economies due to the strain of 60-70% of the population being quarantined or sick right now. I'd be more than happy to give our vaccines to areas in more need of them, we're all struggling this hasn't been easy for anyone, yes the problems are different between the the largest cities and smaller ones or rural areas. We don't have the infrastructure to handle what we have, you may be familiar with the fact that the government gave us air ambulances without the possibility of treating people on the way, or that they've been closing down our hospitals centralising them for years and at the same time how much are they giving the elite taxcuts, or for the new government building or the parliament garage? They're literally pumping all the resources and value they can out of the region while they never build up anything because some firm in oslo says its not profitable to invest in us. When they have built out something its most likely to destroy the culture or way of life of the sami. Every damn thing is a constant struggle.
So yes it would feel nice to have some solidarity and unity in the biggest crisis we've faced in modern time but the way they chose to go about it was sure to lead to division you don't get solidarity and unity through force but rather through voluntariy and empathy I think you'd be surprised if we even got a chance to do that. It would be nice to just once in a lifetime feel like equal citizens and not this caricature we're portrayed as. And mabye it would be nice if people down there actually just once spoke up that we and our culture and languages are as much worth as theirs.
Brown Cheese on fresh toasted bread is amazing. :)
Have you tried it with strawberry/raspberry jam?
Its Even better that way
@@lairoslairoslairos i don't think i have.
@@Shibato_san well then you should, Brown cheese is already super tasty, and with jam it's almost perfect
The brown cheese is brunost, it's sweet and has distinct caramel notes to it. It was weird to my immigrant palate at first but I warmed up to it. You eat it on waffles and I really enjoy waffles with brunost and raspberries. Also it's flammable. One of Norway's worst tunnel fires was actually a cheese fire!
If you search public records, like checking out your nabour or boss, they get a notification of everyone that has checked they're income and wealth. So not many ppl will get caught doing so.
You can also buy the service from a third party provider, though. They just do the search for you for 50 kroner.
I just want to say that it's not the income that's public. It's income after deductibles which will be different for each person.
Pickled herring is delicious, we have it in Denmark to. Not slimy at all since it is pickled in vinegar and sugar.
A traditional Christmas lunch dish with aqvavit... lotâs of aqvavit
Same in Sweden :)
In Finland, too. It's really good.
I have never heard of it, i am norwegan
@@nilserikdahle1365 Really? PĂŠnt underligt hvis du spĂžrge mig.
When it comes to the public list of income: the person you look up get a notification that you are looking them up
6:55 Frogner park, and Vigeland sculpture park, are kind of the same. The sculptures are inside the Frogner park
About Norwegian cabins theres a lot og different kinds, on the mountains, by the sea, or some have cabin by the ski resorts. Some have modern cabins who look more like our houses, and some have smaller cabins who have gone from generations to generations. My cabin has been inherited for five generations, with solar panels, outdoor toilet and water in the river. Every summer the family gathers for volunteer work to improve the cabin and for fun family time. I love to relax and enjoy the time at our cabin, with fishing, swimming and berry and mushroom picking. And white the music playing all night from a old radio or from the guitar. Just as fun whether it is with some friends or with my parents, brothers, aunts, uncles and cousins, with and without theyr boyfriends and girlfriends. There are so much history and good memories in that placeâ€ïž
the frogner park and the vigeland sculpture park is the same park.
fun fact: it was originally a contest where artists would compete to have their fountain on Stortinget in Oslo. Vigelands was so good they canceled the contest, but he didn't feel like his fountain would look good with the surrounding area, so they ended up with a park where over 200 of his sculptures are on show now
The Vigeland park lies within the Frogner park, but itâs not accurate to say that it is the same park.
The lutefisk is litterally gross white jelly, the pickeled herring is nice and firm, sweet and sour, an aquired taste, but if you have had sushi, you'd find it adventurous but palletable.
Ok How dare you. You have clearly never had proper lutefisk if it was jelly. It' supposed to be firmer.
Brown cheese is AWESOME!! freshly baked bread and brown cheese with (maybe just me, )some norwegian strawberry jam. Heaven
Brown cheese is made by basically heating up and consentrating the whey over several hours. This causes the milk sugar to caramelize.
I guess it's a bit of an aquired taste, but it tastes pretty sweet and with hints of caramel. It's made from cow and/or goat milk, and the more goat, the sharper the taste. It got a bit of "wild" taste to it, so a bit of the cheese added to the souce when serving meat from deer, elk and such, really complements the flavour.
yes the counties in norway merged in 2020 and i live in norway
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Iâm surprised he didnât mention the health care system, big differences to the us. Also the justice system and politics.
Hell in Norwegian actually means to have good luck (lucky). Hell og lykke = good luck and happiness. Hell is from old Norwegian and it means the same in Islandic (and Islandic was the language we use to speak in Norway, then we took it to Island with the Vikings and also settled there).
Hell also means pour. "Hell i litt mer a" - pour me some more
@@rudolfantler1732 That's right did not think of that.
Islandic comes from Old-Norse, not the other way around.
@@tomjacobs2759 Old-Norse or NorrĂžnt like we call it in Norway was the language they spoke in Norway at the time. NorrĂžnt or Old-Norse is a collective term for Old-Norwegian and Old-Islandic as the differences of the languages are few. It was the Norwegian IngĂłlfr Arnarson and his wife who was the first persons to settle down on Island (in about year 874 AD). NorrĂžnt was the language he spoke so it was only natural that they also spoke that language there.
Pickled herring, are one of my favorite foods.
Especially the Parisian type. Which are sweet and sour.
The herring isn't raw, because it's been laying in the pickle juice, all the time.
It have to have a lot of onions, and black pepper, and vinegar, and some sugar.
Yummy, it's so good.
Homemade Herring.
Published October 27, 2014 by johnsen
Good old-fashioned favorite.
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Recipe:
5-6 Herring fillets (approx. 500 g)
completely diluted
1-2 onions
Lake:
1 1/2 dl sugar
1 dl vinegar, 7%
2dl water
1 teaspoon whole pepper
2 bay leaves
Some carnation nails
Allspice
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Boil the ingredients for the sheet, stirring until the sugar has melted. Cool the sheet until it is cold. Cut the herring at an angle into 2 cm pieces, onion into thin slices and place it in layers in a glass or jar. Put on a tight lid.
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Let the pickled herring stand for at least 2 days before serving. It lasts for several weeks.
Fun fact. Norwegian film directer/producer Harald Zwarts is a close frend Whit Michael Douglas. Ho playd in on of his first Hollywood prudce filn "One Night at McCool's"
It turned out that pickled herring is Michael Douglas' favorite food, so every time Harald Zwart is in Norway, he must promise Michael Douglas and bring as much pickled herring as possible. Something that was not as fun for Harald Zwarts. It did not smell very good in his travel bags afterwards? From an utevjue som years back.
At the point where the host says: "Which allows us to transition to..." a CZcams commercial popped up for Frozen Crown - would have seemed to have been part of the program - if I hadn't seen the commercial before.
Lol
We dont care about what other income is here in Norway đ€Ł We dont care if one makes More or less. ;)
Pickled herring is a pan Scandinavian dish. I'm from Sweden and we have it as part of basically every Holliday meal. From Christmas to midsummer!
Very nice, I really enjoyed this. You showed up on my radar when you reacted to my favorite vocal band, Home Free. Enjoyed both reactions, would love to see you reacts to more Home Free. My husbands family immigrated from Denmark, I will have to see if you have reacted to info on Denmark. Thanks !!!!!