American REACTS to Swedish Life | Sweden Is INCREDIBLE
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- Foreigner REACTS to Swedish Life | Sweden Is INCREDIBLE. An American's view on living in Sweden (Swedish food, culture, winter weather, etc.)
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under christmas in sweden the company coca cola drops its buying rate with 50% because of julmust
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Never understood why, I mean I tolerate it sometimes, but a cola is way better, but I suppose it adds to the festive spirit, and in that way I love it too.
@@appleskum6520 I wonder if he is of Swedish decent
@@sylvialupehernandez9154 yeah, he looks Scandinavian, and he is sooooo cute
@@appleskum6520 Is nationality different than race and ethnicity?
Fun fact. The northern parts of sweden have a one month long night, during the darkest time of the year. It's called a polar night.
Same in Norway and Finland
Ye
How can I live in Sweden and not know this
The reverse happens on summer.
@@Ida-xf3on ????? What...
A populear prank in the 90´s, we put an open can of surströmming in the ventilationshafts, had to clear out the entire school :)
My school did nothing though when some guys did it at my school. We just had to smell it for a couple days.
“Sweden is brutally cold during the winter”...it’s like visiting Florida saying the US. is sooo warm! Sweden is big in size and where I live winters are usually mild with no or very little snow. Rarely below freezing. Trust me, Minnesota winters are way colder and longer than over here in the south of Sweden.
About Surströmming, most Swedes don’t eat it, in this clip it sounds like it is a National dish or something.
not longer in south sweden is not cold iam fråm småland
Where I live it's extremely cold but there's never really any snow and we have daylight from 9:00 to 15:00 or 16:00
I an swedish, lived in Stockholm, Gothenburg and southern Sweden. I have also lived in New York and the Winters are actually pretty much the same
@C J so you lived in Sweden for two years and you know more about Sweden than I do as a Swede? I dont think so. I guess you lived in northern Sweden but saying that Sweden is dark all day all winter is so not true
@C J New York City is about the same latitude as Rome
I survived the winter by eating hard bread, pickled herring and drinking snaps. In the summer, berries and mushrooms are plentiful. Jag alskar Svergie, fran Los Angeles :)
I love eating mushrooms called toppslätskivling (liberty cap), they grow all over Sweden
Moving too Kiruna next month... the one hour of sunshine we have now will seem like a luxury in the polarnigth...
Yes, I went to high school in Kiruna. Loved it and the people there.
@@MrNorberg Finns inge "high school" i Sverige :D hur som helst hur gick det i im-klassen då?
I live in Stockholm and originally from metro Detroit Michigan. Its colder in Michigan then in Stockholm. I have lived here for 5 years
Stockholm is down South in Sweden sow compered to North of Sweden were we have no daylight during mid winter and much colder it's alot of difference :)
Stockholm is situated on the coast so the winter cold is moist which can be worse than a dry cold -and the winters has gone mild to be around zero since early 90s ( and moist ) -the white regular winters starts about 200 km further north these days
I live in Indiana. We are neighbors then.. it's really freezing in here. Imagine michigan and the lake...
He's probably from Utah. Utah can get cold, especially Mountain towns, but it's typically hot and dry and their bad weather doesn't last it just passes through
I was in Gothenburg last February and we had like 10 feet of snow in Maine when I left. None in Sweden.
Well it depends where you are if you are far south in Sweden then you almost never get that cold
Yeah the winters isn’t really that cold, last winter the average temperature was probably like 3*C
Especially not near the coast. Snow usually don’t last for many days in the coastal areas.
In Härnösand we had 2-3 meters of snow just a few years ago and that is very much a coastal city.
@@Bearodon Well that’s because it’s the eastcoast quite far up north
@@viktorskold9593 It is not even close to far up north it is in the middle of the country 20 km north of the geographic midpoint. And if you talk about north on the globe the entire country is far up north.
Of course you gagged if you ate Surströmming that way! You're supposed to gut it first and just eat the file... that like catching a fish and then just starting to chewing on it and thinking you tried Sushi
Ty, i am so done with everyone, no one eats them the "right" wayyyyyy
Me not like it but still so annoyed on people never eat it the right way and then having opinions about how bad it was
Yes!!
And you eat it on bread with potato, sour cream, onion etc.
The surströmming is more like a spice and it's really really good.
If it wasn't for all the hassle with the smell I would eat it all the time.
I am from sweden and when you talked about julmust then I drank some julmust
@@AnniCarlsson yepp same
I would say Julmust tastes something like Rootbeer+Coke+ a dash of dark beer.
I can't come up with something closer anyway.
It was originally created as an alcohol free alternative to beer for adults, I think in the 1920s. It wasn't as sweet then, but it wasn't the hit for adults as they hoped for, but kids liked it, but kids liked it better sweeter. So nowadays it's rather sweet. Me, being an adult who don't like beer, I LOVE Julmust, it's a MUST for Christmas, Easter ("Påskmust" = Easter must, the same thing) and if it's possible to save a bottle or two for Midsummer I'll try to 😋!
The closest thing I can think of is a non-alcoholic sweet version of guinness beer
I live in the north of sweden, and yeah it's cold. But it's not unbeareble. I'm still alive aren't i? It sounded like he was describing the north pole. 😂
When you say North, do you mean far up in the actual North of Sweden, or more like Norrköping?
@@appleskum6520 no not norrköping, the "actual north". Im from norrbotten.
@@appleskum6520 is this sarcasm??? You do know that Norrköping is further south than Stockholm right?
It is unbearable at times, below -20 just isnt fun, below -30 its lethal no matter what you wear.
@@neuroleptika where I live in The East part of Sweden, we had around -18 some days ago, but it goes from just a few minus during day to very cold during later in The day to night and early morning, again it changes over time. I would not say it is unbearable, quite refreshing with cold air instead of heat which Comes with summer at around 28 to 30 35 celcius. But of course we gotta dress appropriately
Actually surströmming as a delicatess if eaten right. You wash under water (which get rid of the smell) and then you place it on tunnbröd with chopped onions and almond potatoe. Yummy!
Nej inte gott!
You RINSE the fish? OMG😣🙄...
Anyway, I totally agree with the rest.
Your friends clearly played a practical joke on you with the surströmming. You're supposed to open it in a bowl of water, so it won't smell the building down, and you're supposed to eat it on bread (hard (knäckebröd), or thin soft (tunnbröd)) with boiled potatoes, Västerbotten cheese, sour cream, tomatoes and onions.
I bought it when I first went to Sweden and didn't know you couldn't open it in an apartment and I did. It stunk and my wife went "crazy" she told me it is done outside and in a bucket and you are supposed to wear old clothes. I didn't know I'm not Swedish. The entire apartment block stank.
For some reason , he sounds just like he is born in Sweden , and is acting like someone from Sweden speaking English. I can't but this.
Jag har träffat killen. Definitivt amerikan!
@@camillan7464 ja
It is strange that everyone who has lived, lives or travels in Sweden and is not a native Swede should tell about sour herring ????
NOTE 60 percent of Swedes refuse to eat sour herring!
It is most popular in northern Sweden.
6 percent eat sour herring once a year
with friends at some kind of party where you eat sour herring.
(Sometimes mostly for fun because of the stench. Fun to see who can handle the stench)
ONLY 4 percent of Swedes eat sour herring several times a year.
If I didn't live in an apartment and it was less expensive I would love to have it more than a few times in August - September! Love it!
But, surströmming should be eaten the right way with the right accessories. NOT, more or less, swallowed whole, like a gull would eat! 😂
I am Swedish, over 50 and have never tried the herring and would never do
I will just add, IT IS NOT "SOUR" It's fermented. Fermented in salt, much salt. The process produces gases that smell, very much, and scares off most people. However, the taste is quite different.
I'm to be 60, born, growed up in and have lived in the Stockholm area until four years ago. Loved "surströmming" since I could eat solid food.
@@annabackman3028
Well, it's not that much salt.
It's salted herring but with less salt, invented during the salt shortage during the hansa war.
@@alexanderbarkman7832 Over 8 % of the weight it's still very salty.
Anyway, you're absolutely right about the facts 👍😃
(The Hansa era, when the people in Stockholm spoke Low German, rather than Swedish, thanks to merchants, ship crues and other workers.
This time in history gave the Swedish language a little push away from Norwegian and Danish.
It's interesting though, that Danish isn't as affected by German as Swedish became, while being next to Germany, and areas where Low German still is spoken.)
Why did you eat the surströmming? Your friends must have had alot of fun. I'm Swedish, but I will never eat that. 😅
Why?
It's really good. If you eat it right. And not as he did.
Surströmming det tycker jag är inte så gott faktiskt
I'm swedish to but my grandma eats surströmming
You don't eat just the fish.. you put it on flat bread with potato, onion and sour cream. It's delicious when eaten right..
Alla jag känner här i norra Sverige äter det.
not surprising you gagged eating surströming like that, you are supposed to remove the bone and skin, cut it up, and put it on a thin bread roll with boiled potatoes, dill, and sour cream.
Thats really good.
Tomte nissar its called its a mythical being living in the forest of sweden and during the christmas they bring Joy and love
This feels like an advert for Sweden haha
He's not exaggerating about the surströmming, at my school someone put a can of opened surströmming in one of the ventilation ducts and they closed the school for a full week... It really is that level of stinky haha
Someone did the same thing at my school but at the end of the last day of the term so dont know how long it smelled for
Living in the south of Sweden, we hardly get any snow but the winter more raw and windy instead.
Hejsan. Va kul att du bodde här i 2 år! Yeah, we have many great things here. You forgot to mention swedish snus!
yeah im "sure" this video isn't sponsored by fjällräven...
Your Swedish pronunciation is really good!
Christmas drink in sweden is called Glögg
Thank you for sharing this with us. How long dif you lived over there?
he said for 2 winters so 2 years most likely.
Surströmming is an umami bomb, like a lot of other fermented foods. You eat it together with other things and the flavour of the fish is diluted at the same time that it enhances the things eaten with it. Usually eaten with sour creme, potatoes cooked in dill water, diced red onion and maybe some caviar (not the stuff that comes in a tube, the stuff you get in a small jar).
At least that is what has been explained to me, I can't go near the stuff due to the smell.
its fun in the winter in sweden, its pitch black when you wake up and go to work and pitch black when you come home xD
Julmust and "Champis" was developed in the 19th century as a non-alcoholic alternative to beer and champagne. It was an atempt stop sweads from drinking so mutch.I would say julmust tastes like a combnation of beer and Coca-Cola.
I remember that fish smelling fishy. I loved the smell. My in laws have a advent candle ring.
Born and raised here and I've never had surströmming because WHY, and never experienced -26 degrees Celsius.
But glad you love the part of Sweden where these things happened! :)
Try it, it's really good.
IM FROM SWEDEN
And in the summer time "sommarsolståndet" happens translated to eng "Summersunstand" it dosent get dark at all so its like the reverse of winter time here 😃
Nice Swedish pronunciation :-)
the winter depends on where in Sweden you are, i live in the south of Sweden and we have barely had any snow for like the last five years or so
I bet you've had snow this winter though!
That's so daring. I'm Swedish but would never even try it!
I'm swedish hej alla svenskar
Im from sweden!!!
Actually people have called the firestation for gas alarm
when surströmming was opened inside, not knowing where the smell came from lol
Surströmming is not really a common food, it is more of a cultural marker and a remnant from the time when Swedes were so poor they could not afford to throw away food, even when fermented due to using too little salt to preserve it. Salt was expensive along the northern Baltic coast, where the water is neraly freshwater in spite of it being part of the sea. If you want to try a good Swedish culinary dish, you should try "Gravlax" - or why not the Christmas table?
As for the Christmas special drink, did you not try "Glögg"?
I just want to say that you said ”fjällräv” (the jacket) perfect!👍(for an american)
Some of hyperbolism here., I assume it is to spark interest, however:
Sweden is so dark: Well, yes, during winter but during summer it’s the opposite
Everyone eats surstömming: no, while it is still a ”thing+ fewer and fewer actually eats it. although I love it. Also you’re supposed to eat it with an assortment of condiments, most commonly, potato, onion, sourcream and a special type of hard of thin bread (tunnbröd).
Eating it “youtube style” is like catching a fish and eat it directly and think you had sushi, like someone already mentioned
Anyway, cool video, and julmust is life
I am from Sweden
Grattis!
0:34 my man he has a true swedish fjällräven jacket
Tip to people being in Sweden during winters. Get your d-vitamin supplements. Especially if you’re dark skinned. I’m white and I take it, and it makes a huge difference.
Medelpad is the middle of Sweden, not Dalarna.
Its pretty close to middle
You should eat surströmming with hard bread either tunnbröd or knäckebröd with sliver of a newly cooked potato. You can add small bit of red onion and small dollop of gräddfil (sour cream) with gräslök.
I can not tell how it taste since I am allergic to fish and seafood in all its forms. But everyone who eats surströmming tells me it is really good if you eat it properly.
You ate surströmming? Oh that was a bad move for your tastebuds man. 😂 Thats something that take a lot of getting used too.
But yeah, julmust is freaking awsome~
-26°? Well... that's quite normal ...in southern Sweden.
Hi from Dalarna!!😊
Hej! Where in Dalarna? I've visited Falun several times. Plan to move there during Spring, hopefully.
You can Also buy julmust in ICA's! (For those who doesn't know, its most likely swedens largest grocery store)
Live in sweden and winters are not so cold for us that have lived in sweden for long
Where in America are you from? I'm guessing Minnesota?
I LOVE surströmming!! 😂
You have been in the North in Sweden. In the South it’ s not the same could and culture. In the south we don’ t ett surströmming. Sweden is a long country and have alot of different cultures. In the south we are more like the Danish people. I brought Glögg to the first amercan family I met, and they said it was so strong.
Skåne is most like Denmark. 1658 become Skåne Swedish
Surströmming is actually not that commonly liked or eaten at all in Sweden. I don't know a single person who eats it. Most people haven't even tried it. This is further shown by the fact that there are really only one or two brands that you see in stores because the demand is so low that it simply wouldn't be profitable to get in to it. Being Swedish doesn't mean you like the smell and taste of fermented fish lol, those who do like it usually either grew up with it or acquired a taste for it some other way.
Just so you guys know, it gets cold at winter but at summer it's hot and the Surtröming actully almost no one likes. I don't know anyone that eats Surstöming lol
Coldest vinter day i have experienced was a hellish - 42
Back in like -00 or -01 we got one day of extreme cold. I remember that most thermometers stopped working as they were only rated to -50c. Locally I hear dthay they recorded temperatures down to -52c. During the bus ride home from school, the hydraulics in the bus froze, so we had to kick the door open to get out and in to the bus they sent to help after ours broke down.
Your pronunciation os really good!
What do yoou mean when you say "2 winters"?
I love surströmming! But you should not eat it plain of course! 😀Surströmming is supposed to be eaten together with potatoes, and onion and wrapped up in at special bread. 😊
Theese ”dalahäst” or chicken is just a small part of Sweden. And ”surströmming”. Is very rare, there is only a few who eats this. Also most common in the north
Dalahäst means valley horse not chicken, märks att du ej har källgranskat din kommentar vilket du borde göra före du skriver en faktatext :=´)
Julmust taste like nail polish ...? Haven't heard that before. ...😀 Nice vid. Thx
Thanks for the video! A few things to add: 1. Suströmming should not be eaten fish by fish but with hacked onions, almond potatoes, sour cream and swedish flatbread. Very tasty and very good although the can should be thrown away immediately. It smells really awful. 2. Christmas in Sweden is Yule or Jul which is old swedish for feast. Jul was the greatest feast of the year during pre-christian (viking) times and still is. The little gnomes are tomtar. And tomtar are important in the swedish language because they are an intrinsic part of the property, i.e. "tomt" in swedish. Thus, the tomte is the guardian of the tomt (property). In Sweden we don´t expect "Santa" on christmas. We expect the tomte to bring us a "julklapp", that is a gift with a tap, if we have good relations to our guardian tomte (so you have to work on this relation during the year in order to expect gifts for jul!). 3. Julmust is a sweetened alcohol free beverage which derives from old mumma and svagdricka (light drink). In old Sweden we used to brew our beer with exotic and precious spices for jul (like fennel, ginger, cardamom etc) which is the original julbrygd or christmas brew and the forerunner to the commercial julmust which is mainly for the children. However, you can buy mumma and mix with your preferred christmas beer. It surely makes the beer aromatic and "julish" and a little sweet. Sweden could be cold during winter. During my military service I experienced -42C and I have been skiing downhill in -30C during winter. Thanks once again and please share more of your swedish experiences!
I live in sweden!
It seems like you lived in northern Sweden. Not all of Sweden are like that lol
BAHAHAH its sound to fun when he say ”fjällräven” ahhaha
I'll be moving to Sweden as soon as the EU lets me. But I'm well prepared for the winter there. I've lived in Maine my entire life. Lol
When you try surströmming do it with people that know how to eat it.
Your supposed to eat only the files and they go on bread with potato, sour cream, onion etc.
It's really really good.
Also the smell isn't that bad after the initial chock.
You open the tin under water, then you rince the fish before setting them on the table.
The tin with the smelly stuff is placed far from the table, that attract bugs so you don't get them around the table.
(and the day after you can use the tin to attract wild boar or fox if you are a hunter. Or you can lure crayfish with it.)
I've been here since January 6 and even my boyfriend's parents don't eat it. Unless you're 80+ y.o. you don't eat it. Haha
@@dead666jezebel
Try eating it with people who know how. And bring your boyfriend.
He said no way. Haha he's actually Finnish but Swedish citizen. Lol
This is probably the most innocent explanation of what Sweden is all about. =) Also, I wouldn't say that Dalarna is in the very center of Sweden, we're more south than north.
I think Dalarna is the most Swedish region of Sweden. Gustav Vasa, need I say more?
Dalarna is the heart of Sweden but the very center is in Jämtland just a bit north of Dalarna, so not far off.
That jacket isn't enough if you'd go to the north part of sweden. Over there the temperature can go all the way down to -50 celcius if you're extremly unlucky. I've never tried surströmming and i'll never do it. That's a dish old gramps used to eat, but modern people doesn't cuz ofc it's smelly. It's very rare to eat surströmming.
Hej! Surströmmingen är en mycket gammal maträtt & har funnits sedan 1100-1200-talet & det var ett bra sätt att bevara maten så den gick att äta under längre tid på året. Så här förvarade många andra länder också deras fisk då de inte hade kylskåp & frys. Folk torkade också fisk, vilket är fortfarande vanligt på Island, idag.
Not very much snow and cold in Skåne.
Like spring in december-february
My coldest day was - 42 degrees celcius
I'm sorry that was the way you were introduced to surströmming. I think your friends did you a disservice turning your first go into a dare type situation - or at least that's what it sounds like when you say you ate it strait from the can. I'm not saying done right everyone would like it, but to give you the best chance to appreciate the tradition you should have it the traditional way on some hard or soft flat bread with butter, finely chopped red onions, potatoes, sour cream and chives; also some wormwood schnapps to drink with it doesn't hurt.
You are not supposed to eat it like that. Onion, sourcream, potato and surströmming on a flatbread is awesome.
small small pieces of strömming
I’m just here to support my country
It's not that cold in sweden i now that. I liv in sweden and i hav don it my hole life, 10 years
Have
Depends on where you are.
Go to the far north, and if you really want the cold to bite you go up the mountains. Think before you speak. I just noticed you said you have lived here your whole life 10 years. So you are 10 years of age. I appologies, but Sweden can be very cold depending on were you are.
Ah fast i norra Sverige kan det bli -30, och den här killen verkar ha bott i just norra Sverige. Samtidigt får Skåne sällan kallare än 0 grader så och det tillhör fortfarande, så vitt jag vet, Sverige.
@@viktoriabackeus7610 fast i Skåne så har vi en fuktig vinter. Vilket faktiskt är värre och kallare då kylan sätter sig, kläderna blir fuktiga och det fryser och tinar hela vintern.
Så det blir kallare med fukt i luften. Den försvinner under 0
I like your chanel
I was homeless in sweden from 16 to 21. Imagen that we are nords we handle it
Surströmming is in the north of Sweden, most Swedes live in the South. A clue?
I live in Sweden its not that cold when its cold every winter
And surströmming isent that bad but it dosent smell that great
U should come to Skåne..
You were quite far north right? Here down south it hardly gets that cold anytime. Once in many years maybe. I'm really glad to have been in Sweden this year but otherwise I really don't want to be here during most of the year, because it's cold and dark. For me it's too cold and dark in the south as well and I want to be somewhere warm all year around. But summer in Sweden is amazing and during that time I don't really want to be anywhere else. The climate is not the only bad thing though, the second is the alcohol laws. Those two things are the by far worst things here.
Sweden is long, if you put it on top of the U.S. map, and put the northern most part of Sweden in Minnesota, the southern most part of Sweden will end up in Texas.
I love SWEDEN ❤️
So fare wellfare and democraty
Let's just put one thing straight. Most Swedes never ever eat, or encounter, surströmming. It's not representative for Swedes in general. Most countries have some kind of really old foods that noone eats regularly anymore
when i see him i feel he is Handsome and cute lol
Everyone: Sweden
Me: Sveden
Me: Sverige
(Pronuonced 'Svärje', the 'ä' something like the first sound in 'ai' in 'air', or 'ae' in 'aerosol', the 'e' is heard, something like the (first) 'e' in 'every')
@@annabackman3028 Kul att du försöker lära ut engelsktalande folk hur man uttalar engelska, men till ingen nytta då de ej lär sig ett andra språk
5:50, what about *GLÖGG*
+1
@xNAJAFx Är som pizza. Vi har vår smaksättning
it's not cold in sweden but it's dark af all day long
18h in Stockholm in december
sure it is cold but we want snow :(
In sweden cristmas is on The 24 december
Swedes watch Donald Duck and eat ham. Drinking must
😍😃
If you want to. I can gift surströmming to any yanks that doesn't believe him ❤️❤️🤣🤣🤣 ita smells like your first girl but tast like here grandma😂😂🧓 fermented delux with a gag twist as an ending!
I am Swedish!
Me too
De ä nog ba svenskar här
Im Bosnian. Hey guys.
-26 celsius? Where were you. Kiruna???
I would say that Stockholm can get -20 C but rarely colder than that.
Well, below-25 for six weeks straight is unusual in Stockholm but still it happend.. all who thinks below -20 is Kiruna are from South of Sweden where there rearly get below -5... in Kiruna its not unusual with temperaturs below -40.
XD
It's Slovenia flag
thanks for catching that!
Sweden
Thats a rooster, not a chicken. :-)
Vem äter äcklig surströmming i Sverige? Allvarligt talat,jag bor i Sverige Göteborg,och så kallt är det inte som han säger,
Göteborg är långt nere i sverige. Längre upp i sverige blir det så kallt.
Ganska uppenbart att han bodde typ i Kiruna eller liknande orter. Om det är det enda man har att jämföra med så tror man nog att hela Sverige är på det sättet.
Jag älskar surströmming
Surströmming och grisfötter. Mat för Svenska män
🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🤙 im swedish
Swede ur Danish ffs 🤣🤣💐🇸🇪✌️