This channel existing is probably the weirdest thing about Norway. Because it's not visited by English speakers interested in learning about Norway, but rather Norwegians that like foreigners taking about Norway
Because who wouldn’t be curious to know what others things plus there are so many videos about Norway spreading misinformation rooted in political propaganda, and stereotypes… so of course you wanna correct that if you’re from the actually country and culture. Du er norsk sant?!🤣🤣🤣👀🤡
Vinmonopolet is maybe inconvent at times but the plus side is that the fancier stuff is way cheaper than in other countries and they can basically get you anything you want if you put in an order. Also the staff are very knowledgeable, so they help a ton if you are a dumb consumer like me.
----- @Kraakesolv ----- - That thing about them getting you pretty much whatever your heart desires that is for the most part true, but with one major caveat... Legally the alcohol in Norway only goes up to 60% for human consumption, so if you are after something stronger than that you are basically out of luck. Unless you brew it yourself, which can be quite risky if you get the balance wrong. And I'm quite certain that the '60%'-rule still applies for homebrew as well, so it's pretty hush hush after a certain point. - The drinking culture in Norway is pretty different compared to other countries... The laws and regulations surrounding alcohol and the consumption thereof are quite strict in Norway even after one has reached legal drinking age. Which is why most young drinkers adhere to this thing we here in Norway call 'Fjortis-Fylla' even though most of us don't start drinking before much later on in life after we've actually reached the legal drinking age. The phenomenon is basically a 'bratty, entitled, shortsighted to h3ll with rules and regulations'-type of teenage mentality. Which means that during the weekends, if and when you get your hands on alcohol, you basically drink yourself stupid. Where drinking becomes a competition to see who can drink others under the table, basically 'the last person standing'-type of thing. Most people will eventually grow out of this with age, but there are sadly those that do not. One of life's bitter lessons about self-control, one that some seem to learn far too late, if at all. -----
@@anushkasekkingstad1300 its shit if you work a little longer days and do not live close and get invited to some gathering a few days in advance. Should be no problem opening until 20.00. We dont drink less then countries that has longer opening hours thats for sure. Its just to get more money since they pay them for less hours
I don’t think it’s actually called Christmas milk or Easter milk. They only change the packaging designs and colors; the milk itself is the same. It’s not a different product. Most of the types of meat mentioned here are available year-round, but there’s more of it during the seasons when we traditionally eat most of it. This is regulated based on market demand.
You can buy those meat products year round, but they're all bbq products, so they're not bought much during the winter time. Super markets stock other products instead. We have warm lunches in Norway. I have it where I work. We close stores in order to be able to pay our employees better. Ii would be cost-prohibitive to keep them open 24/7. People don't need more clothes or food if it can be bought 24/7. Fredagstaco is exactly like Taco Tuesday, it's a marketing / humor thing. We have curtains, but Norwegian houses are built in a manner where looking in isn't as easy as it probably is in other countries. Why have windows if you're going to close the curtains all the time. Might as well have a wall then. Norwegians aren't peeping Toms. We eat lunch from 11:00 to 12:30 or so, for about half an hour. Strict schedules make sense if you have a lot of meetings. If we all had lunch at different time, scheduling would be hard. Vinmonopolet is a bit restrictive, but they do have the best selection in the world due to the high volume they buy. You can in some cases buy alcohol at 4.8% or more outside vinmonopolet.
Easter milk and Christmas milk is just milk in a milk carton with some cartoons on them, usually a baby chicken during Easter and a Nisse during Christmas
During Christmas, everything is marketed as "Christmas-whatever," same during Easter. The actual product is often completely the same. I once bought Christmas toilet paper with the Easter Bunny on - yes, make it make sense.
I work as a psychiatric nurse doing outpatient work, and I have come to associate closed curtains with my patients (mostly those who struggle with addiction). If I see thick curtains during the darker seasons, I always wonder if the people living there has someone to talk to about their struggles..
One can think of the expression "to shed some light" on a situation. The daylight will reveal all the dirt and mess, and remind one about how much work there is needed to fix this view, and it can be enough to make some people crumble and give up. It's sad but true. Dimmed lights, candles, incense to cover cigarette smells and other odors, and so on, are very often coping mechanisms as you point out. I think if their place looked clean and tidy, they would start pulling those curtains away. I wanna say I appreciate your thoughts, you seem to be one who cares
The thing with getting to know us, and not be considered a friend boils down to what norwegians think a friend or friendship is. Foreigners seem to have very superficial friendships, and everyone they meet and talk to for more than 10 minutes suddenly becomes their friend. We think most of what foreigners considers a friend, is a “bekjent” (acquaintance).
I do not like curtains. They are a lot of trouble/work/washing. Also if you live in a beautiful area, you want to see outside all the time. Blocking out the surroundings makes me feel clostrophobic.
We have ribbe or the fish called torsk in christmas evening, just like u having turkey on thanksgiving. We often have turkey the 1,2 or 3 christmasday😋It’s tradision🎄😊 We celebrate Christmas Eve on December 24th at 5:00 PM. Then it's dinner (ribs) and for dessert we have rice pudding or rice porridge with an almond in it, and whoever is lucky enough to get the almond gets a gift😋So after the food has cooled down a bit, we start getting the packages🥰While I understand that you celebrate Christmas Day🥴It's strange to us that you don't celebrate on Christmas Eve itself🤪Norway
Some stores in Norway offer a discount on tacos on Fridays. In the past, people often had porridge on Saturdays. Lots of fish during the week, but always meat on Sundays.
often in norway some stores, usually only supermarkets, are open on sundays, but they open around 2pm so that their workers can still enjoy the start of their sunday.
No, it's not like we can only eat tacos on Fridays😅We can eat tacos whenever we want. But for us, tacos are "weekend" food,(comfort food) So that's why so many people eat tacos on the weekends. Then it was probably the grocery stores that started having sales on taco products every weekend, so that's how taco fridays came about😀Norway🎄
10:25 new cabins can be expensive, however when it comes to our cabin culture, most cabins are inherited in some way, either from friend or family, meaning you don't spend a lot or any money on acquiring it, but just to maintain it. If you go far enough back in history these cabins used to be just regular houses that our ancestors lived in, but were left behind and used less and less as the cities grew and people moved away from the forests, mountains and beaches.
As a Norwegian I cracked up when you tried to say Vinmonopolet 😂😂 Yes, the reason why shops are closed on sundays and we celebrate things like ascension day is that we have a christian culture in our country and the law is still affected by that. It's true that many Norwegians are very reserved. But when we get to know you, we are family.
Curtains are usually only closed on bedroom windows during summer nights since it doesn’t get dark enough for many to fall asleep. The only exception is generally street facing basement windows
and in the older houses at winter, to keep the cold out from the living room, many houses don't have fireplaces. big houses do, but apartments og highrises don't
Its not just shops closed on sundays, but sundays are supposed to be quiet. Its illegal to do on sundays: Cut your lawn, do construction work, or any other loud noise activity that bothers neighbors. Its encouraged to handle it between yourselves, but if that doesn't work the police will handle it.
I'm Norwegian living in Oslo, that also have lived several other places from north to south and west. In general foreigners trying to tell about Norway often does not get it quite right. Depends if close curtains, most do it for bedroom to keep it dark or to do certain things. Some stuff are seasonal, does not mean it is not done other times, it depends. Certain foods can be enjoyed whenever you want, even if seems as having it a particularly day. Different personalities and degrees of social mindset, from very introvert to very extrovert. Some may drink to get more social. Different types of cabins, from houses to very simple small ones with no electricity or water where can take several hours to walk/ski to. Food can be cheaper than it seems, if buy when on sale or close to expiration date. Several work places can have a microwave to heat food. Larger companies and/or in cities have a cantina/grocery close where can get various food along hot. Reason to much bread are because of many types where most are OK healthy, loaf/white bread are not that much used since more for special occasions.
I use my curtains to block the sun and whenever I for some reason want to have privacy, but normally I have them open as it feels a bit claustrophobic with them closed… Many now have pleated blinds that can be put at the bottom of the window, so you can get privacy and light at the same time…
I have made my ovn homemade bread for the last 20 years. I always make 8 big breads once or twice every month to put in the deep freezer. Here in Norway, almost everyone eats very coarse bread with a lot of whole grains in it. Much healthier than white bread.
I have never once realized that people close their curtains in the evenings in other countries. To me, curtains exist to block out the sun during daytime and I don’t really think about people seeing in. Many houses aren’t built in a way where you can see that much in anyway, and I don’t think many people actively try to look in either (not any more than they would at daytime anyway)
The Dutch remain on total display in their windows as well. "We have nothing to hide." And you can definitely see that in the red light district in Amsterdam. In France we close our shutters for thermal reasons.
8:06 the different dialects here can be so different that they're pretty much as different from "standard" Norwegian as swedish or danish is different from "standard" norwegian (if that makes sense.) cause it's not only the way we pronounce but also how we spell and even have a lot of different words and ways of saying, how the sentences are built.
If you had different types of bread in the store in the USA, from fine to coarse, then you would probably eat bread from childhood and for breakfast and lunch. But many Norwegians also eat cereal. There are also many people who eat porrige, especially in the winter in the morning. And eggs and bacon are quite common in the summer, especially at weekends. And this with the Friday taco is quite exaggerated, just like the Saturday pizza. In our family, we usually eat tacos on Lördag. And we can take pizza in the middle of the week if you don't have time in the afternoon, for example. I know, for example, that Americans can be surprised that Norwegians can eat pancakes for dinner, but then you often have a soup as a starter together with dried crusts. We eat Spaghetti with spaghetti sauce and meat dough. Liver is another dinner Americans don't realize we can eat. But try it when you come to Norway, and you will be surprised.
19:01 it's just how we casually and usually in a friendly way say "yeah" or "yes", there's also the opposite of saying "no/nah" with an exhale instead of an inhale. Swedes also do this too, inhaling to say yes.
I'm Norwegian and i can confirm about the drinking culture and we need too drink too getting know other people. Mostly because we are very shy too reach out too other people when we are sober. Curtains ain't closed because the trust we have with each other. It's very low criminal activity so we don't need too hide our items from the people. Also if they would break in like breaking a window for example 99% of us has security system that alerts a security company and if we don't respond them after the alert they would send people too their home within short period of time. That's also helpful with the building up the trust and we like too believe that nobody are criminal.
Vinmonopolet; They have a fixed rule to how much profit they would take, so when rare wine batches etc. is sold in Vinmonopolet, people from other countries visit to buy a lot and export it, because it is a lot cheaper than if you would buy it anywhere else. You can read on their website on how they make their money. But they do make a lot of money.
I'm dying laughing here🤣🤣😂 The "Ja" and gasping is so familiar and funny😂 Not everyone does it though. Also I was in the US for the first time this year and was in shock of how social everyone were. And people talking to strangers all the time. This is definitely something we don't do. I think I got to know more people in the US the 2 weeks I was there, compared to the last 15 years in Norway.
The inhale yes is a double comfirmative kinda, like making sure you know we are paying attention and we agree. Same goes for using «no» and repeating/ adding on the subject.
I remember visiting family in the states and was yelled at for not closing the curtains when it was dark outside 😅 I had never heard that closing curtains was a thing for preventing burglars or other bad people watching you. Well you have dialects as well in the states. Some places use words and slang words that are not used in another area. The main reason for our many dialects is that people did not get influenced that much language wise. In earlier times people stayed more in their area or region. Today after people got cars, tv , internet etc. a lot of the words used in a region are now disappearing and the language is becoming more unison with the majority
The Frozen pizza situation :) who ever wrote it, you absolute legend. I also, as a norwegian, totaly agree. Why the fudge would I eat that, when I can get a real pizza.
I'm Norwegian and I only remember we closed the curtains in the bedrooms. I lived for many years in the Netherlands and nobody closed the curtains there either. Nowadays it's more normal to close the curtains during the winter to try to keep the heating costs down. I now live in the South of Europa and I don't have any need of curtains. I do have shutters on the outside of the house and I close them if we heave heavy wind and rain during the winter and keep them closed to keep the heat out during the summer, but it has nothing to do with wanting privacy. I drink every day! Two glasses of wine when we have our evening dinner. That is hier normal. After dinner I just want a cup of coffee with some sweets. Period! Even a Norwegian can be civilised. 😄
The food for summer… you can get it all around the year. But summer it is fresh goods, and in winter it’s frozen.. Very often we don’t close the curtain, cause we don’t live that crowded. We also respect privacy, so we don’t go around looking in windows. If I was going on a walk… and I stared in a window from the street. I would be imberrased. Not the one inside the house!😅🙈 Easter milk is regular milk .. it just sets the tone for the season we’re in. We eat tacos whenever we want. But usually alt of us eat husmannskost during weekdays, and when it’s weekend, we have more snacks dinner. Not the tragiske stuff, but the extra good stuff. Like taco, pizza, lasagne, etc… I don’t have an answer to why we eat cold lunsj. But if it is warm, it feels like dinner. The warm Lund we do eat , is grilled hotdog, burger etc.. or in the fall we sometimes have soup. Cold food is usually one slice bread, butter and spread. We have a lot spred to choose from. Egg, meat, jam, cheese, chocolate, Banos, , banana +++ and you can combine a lot of them. And mix up what type of bread you like. Often ho e made. Or knekkebrød, or polar brød , og tortilla, or salad.. Sunday’s closed stores… the history in Norway is that we are Christian. (Not that most of us are now)… but Sunday is the day of rest .. it’s not to many years since they started opening up a few mini versions of grocery stors on sundays. It’s kind of nice when the "world" is more quiet. Less cars on the road, more people hiking and just realizing. It’s important to lower you’re shoulders. And it’s not that hard to plan for. I mean.. it’s one day.. usually we try to only shop grocery once a week. And Norwegians usually makes all the food. We are also very many who makes it from scratch. (Ex: Instead of buying meatballs , we make them ) Norway is so so expensive , that we party at home, and only go out to town for a bit. Many you just buy 1-2 drinks or beers out then. Taxi is also extremely expensive! And often we have long distance to travel to get to the city.
@18:50 if we don't intake the air, it sounds awful and like we arent apriciating talking at all, like we want to just watch tv, or play a computergame and is annoyed to have to talk and get disturbed
Taco fridays are very important. Fridays are the only day of the week its legal to eat tacos. If you are caught eating tacos on any other day you risk a hefty fine. You can apply for a special permit to serve tacos on a saturday or sunday if there is a special occasion, and its not possible to have it on a friday. Its worth noting that most of these applications are denied, and it cost about 5000NOK to apply. And dont try to be sneaky about it because your neighbour will snitch on you, theres a reward for reporting illegal tacos.
My mother told me that closing our curtains was tacky, like we did something we needed to hide… After she passed away I bought blinds and havent opened them since😂😂
17:12 dude, if you don't drink alcohol in Norway, people question why. Alcohol is so important for Norwegians, every social event has alcohol and people drink so much until they get sick every single time. It's a very toxic relationship with alcohol
And 10:15 not everyONE has a cabin, every FAMILY has one. It’s basically like e family heirloom. Since every family has one it might seem as though everyone has one since almost every member of the family has the keys to the cabin.
AND 12:15 I think the person is just talking about lunchtime or some sort of break, maybe the crackers had some sort of meaning that i dont understand like another employee giving out crackers as a gift. But if not it was probably just lunch break, which is not allowed to work during a break since you are technically off work during break but still under the supervision of your workplace. So they can be held accountable if you hurt yourself from overworking
We close our curtains sometimes, but usually not. We tend to have tall hedges or fences for privacy 😂 in apartments we close the curtains on the windows facing other apartments to get privacy. And in smaller cities or towns... We may have shorter hedges/fences or nothing. You trust your neighbours to give you privacy 😛 if someone is staring into your windows, I can PROMISE you, that ENTIRE neighborhood will talk about it and shun you like the plague 😂
We eat grilled meat in summer And Tacos whenever. There are shops for grocery every sunday, but only small shops are allowed. We use the curtains too close off the sun.
An American friend of mine has a lot more of the «Cabin Culture» than I do here in Norway. She has a trailer at a campsite in the forest/mountains where she lives and she spends all the time she can there… ☮️💜💓💟☯️💟💓💜☮️
The curtain thing is definitely a real thing. I am american and my husband is Norwegian. I like my privacy. My husband thought it was strange that I wanted to keep the curtains closed. I think it is just a cultural thing. We compromised and got the shades that can be put half way up or down. That way we can see out, but still have some privacy. Also as far as dialects go. I live in the north of norway. People definitely speak a bit differently up here.
if you read 2 lines more it clearly stated that the meat was used for outdoor bbq in the summer and thats the reason its not in the stores outside summer.
only two reason to close the curtain is one if you get sunny days (not to often) we close them to see the television. two when making illegaly moonshine...
Taco Friday is just a marketing gimmick used by the supermarkets - We eat taco whenever we want to. I never eat Taco on Fridays. Regarding curtains; I live by the ocean. I only use curtains during the coldest winters, to keep the cold out. I enjoy the midnight sun and the ocean view.aand the aurora borealis. I have no neighbours just the ocean view. And we enjoy spending time in nature.
We sometimes have hot lunches, especially if we are at conferences, courses etc. which often is at hotels. But normally we have a packed lunch or go out and buy a baguette or something like that to have for lunch. That was what I usually did when I worked. 🤗❤❤❤
My little Granddaughter is sleeping outside on the terrace in her stroller. Even though it's cold. She is wrapped up well and sleeps very well in the fresh air. She is 6 months old.
Our daughters are 11 years old now but, when they were tiny, we would go for a coffee or lunch with friends. Rather than disturbing their sleep, we would leave them sleeping outside, warmly wrapped up, protected from the weather in their pram which was simply lined up among the others. Our mothers used to enjoy taking them out, meeting their friends and enjoying lunch, leaving the babies sleeping contentedly.
I remember when I was a kid, we used to travel to a place in Eastern Norway to camp with our caravan. The kids there thought I was Danish, but I’m just from the South, they didn’t get that though and called me «The Dane»!!! 😂😂😂
In Europe, all Scandinavians are known for drinking a lot of alcohol, until they are very drunk. There is a much more decent alcohol culture the further south in Europe you go. When I studied in Germany, I often heard that if Germans were on holiday in southern Europe and saw someone getting really drunk, they could be sure that they were from Scandinavia. And so it mostly always was. So here in the North we have even more of the old Viking culture left. In southern Germany you could see a young person on the bus with nice clothes and a bottle of wine nicely wrapped, on a Saturday night. While here in Scandinavia it is more common to see young people on either side of a crate of beer. Personally, I liked the alcohol culture in Germany much better. If I saw a few bottles of wine standing in the hallway of a German's home, that wouldn't mean that they drank them over the weekend, but they could stand there for several months. But if I see it here in Norway, I get much more concerned.z But on the other hand, Germans are more known for having a beer before going to bed and it's not common here in Norway at all, unless you've lost control of your alcohol consumption.
The only room i close the curtains is the bedroom. Other rooms, are only if you have noise naboer that looks in, or you live at a busy street. other then that they are decoration
Most German beer is pilsner at around 5%, with light beer at half that. Higher ABV are usually speciality beers, which I suppose might be more popular for export and therefore over-represented outside Germany.
The products are for the Summer grilling season. And I close my Curtains. This is a lot of B.S. You can often buy hot lunches at work. and you can buy Taco on a Monday.
Actually, dialects are almost the same in most countries. In the US, you have East and West Coast dialects and you will in general hear if someone's from New York or California. Have you never heard someone from the south speak :) It's the same in Norway. There are dialects in Norway that sometimes make it very hard to understand what the other person is trying to say. Especially on the West coast, there are some societies that in earlier times didn't have much influences from the rest of the country. These would be small communities especially.
Lol I just realized my last three relationships with two Germans and one Ukrainian all started while I was out drinking. I am sober now - and a social pariah in Norway. The drinking culture is so fundamental that it's almost impossible to socialize sober.
I hardly ever close my curtains either and neither do most of my neighbours here in Denmark. I never thought about it as weird, tbh. Guess I learned something new today. 😅
I must comment this! We are all different in Norway as in the US. Some eat taco for fridays and some not. About the curtins, we have them for the sun and it s cosy, sometimes we don t close them cause we are not shy. All in all i think we are a mix of Europe with those thinks, and you also since many of yuou are from Europe. We have only one type milk, but some wirh more fett and some with less. When we drink before we go to city calls FORSPILL, it s from German, but often we just have a big party over night. I think many of your ex. are just funny. Have a great day.
I’m a Norwegian, the thing about Christmas milk and Easter milk is bullshit. You can eat taco any day if you wish, closing the curtains is very individual. We have hot lunches too. I don’t know where you get this information. The thing about the cabin is partly true. Yes, we have taxes but then again it’s free healthcare for everyone.
We don't close our curtains because we don't care enough about our neighbours to look into their windows, so we feel safe that no one looks into ours. I'll bet you anything that if you ask any Norwegian person what their neighbours' names are, they have no clue.
Not everyone is the same in Norway. But if you go a lot out on bars in the town, which are often the place where you come into contact with people easily, you will often meet Norwegians who behave as described here. They drink a lot and often do things they would never do sober and they excuse themselves by saying that they were just that drunk the next day, if someone were to say something about it later. I also irritate myself as a Norwegian about this. But the fact that they don't "recognize" you the next day, is a lot of uncertainty and anxiety and maybe also that they are ashamed of what they did when they were drunk or don't remember everything and also become insecure because of it. I must say that I often like myself better among foreigners than among Norwegians because of this behavior. But fortunately not all Norwegians are like that, many here also drink rarely or not at all, but they are usually not to be found out at the bars out in the city.
When you think about norwegian drinking culture, realize that we are basically the irish.. not just genetically but in the way we party too.. with drink we suddenly get the gift of gab and open up a bit..
RE: Bread... the American bread (white) is not called bread in Norway. Norwegian bread is not white. Most Norwegian bread is healthier and often looks home made with grains, seeds, etc.
Hi Tyler. Is there any place i can send you a message? I have a really good video i want you to react to. Love your videos btw. You put us Norwegians in a really good light!
@3:30 do you americans need us to give you healthy bread recipes, so you can bake your own bread, and not it all the preservatives?? buy a meatslicer machine, bake a lot off bread, slice the bread, put in bags and freeze them. they can be in the freezer up to 6 months, and take out slices right in the toaster. it's so good. i atleast only buy bread if my week is long, and i don't have time to bake the bread for the week for my daughters lunch, breakfast and eveningsnack. only dinner is not bread, sometimes bread to dip in the soup we eat in the fall/winter. sometimes she can get leftover dinner in the lunchbox, those times i heat it in the morning, and it's still warm because we have routines for food. lunch in school is 11:00-11:15 then recess to 12:00 usually, breakfast at 7, because school starts early 8, and dinner for small kids in the time 16:00-17:00, if they are older and have practice dinner can be 17:00-18:00, that way the have time for homework and then we have eveningsnack usually at 19:30, that way they don't get hungry when they go to bed between 20:00-21:30, then the day starts again school for small children is usually from 8:30 - 13:35 somedays to 14:00, when they get older it can be to 15:00 usually but not much later. then we have a out-of-school options if the children are small, and the workdays are long. those are from 7:30-8:30 in the same building as they have original school, and then they start right after the bell rings out the last class and lasts until 17:00. this we have for 1.-4. grade, from 5. grade they have to go home alone, or home to someone else or public library or practice and wait for their parents/older siblings to pick them up.
Having taco on any other day then friday is wierd as it "opens" the weekend. Curtains we use to block sun and for decorating part of window but then not closed. Owning a cabin/camping wagon and/or a boat ïs normal. We are not defensive on purpose about how great we have it, its our "janteloven" preventing us to just own it and then respond by finding something to complain about to downtalk it. Mmmm Bread atleast 2-3 times a day but dark bread and not "light" bread like you have (light bread we call toast bread/sweat bread). Yeah most our public holliday are based from religion. Now we just use it as an excuse to have free from work. About friendship: Most norwegians dont waste any time on shallow friendships. We are either a 100% friend or your basicly just a stranger/acquaintance ;) We are definitly quality over quantity in that regard, making it very hard to bond for some unless we "click" at the get go. Americans beeing the opposite in term of oversharing and can ask me "how are you doing" as a greeting can find it very difficult to bond a meaningfull friendship with norwegians. Pretend to care or give compliment but not follow up further even by sentence or thru casual talk is a big deal breaker for many norwegians and makes you seem not cinsere or shallow.
I'm as norwegian as they come, but (perhaps because of how the building I live in are placed), I allways keep my curtains closed. I don't like being like a mannequin in a store window.
I suggest you would get to the bottom of it easier by letting the AI in on the premise by prompting "why are this that and the other only common during summer in norway"
We’d be very concerned if we weren’t very different in our values and behaviours to the average US American. There’s no doubt that we’re cautious about inviting strangers into our groups. It takes time to get to know people and become comfortable with them. I’m glad that the lady who raised this eventually felt accepted. When we used to visit the US on business, pre 2016, we couldn’t believe that anyone would put sugar in bread. We found US bread unpleasant and unhealthy and never touched it. At home, we bake ourselves delicious and nutritious Danish ryebread and enjoy it frequently. It appears on the table at every meal. Eating it is voluntary although most do.w Shops being closed on Sundays is no problem to us. We have 6 days each week to buy whatever we need. There are many other things to do on Sunday, rather than shopping. Closing gives shop staff the ability to spend Sunday with their families. My wife and I don’t have cabins but my parents have since I can remember. We no longer spend the colder months in Norway. Our 11 year old daughters have only experienced two winters. We haven’t used my parents’ winter cabin in years. Their summer cabin is a very different story though. We regularly enjoy long weekends there during the summer. Our girls love it and spend endless hours in the fjord, regardless of the water temperature. They build really good campfires and we really enjoy spending a balmy summer’s evening, sitting around the fire as a family, chatting over a drink or a hot chocolate, toasting something delicious. The cabins have curtains but they’re purely decorative and are never drawn. We have no near neighbours and Norwegians consider it extremely rude to look at residential windows. We’ve never really thought about curtains previously. Our home in Bergen has the North Sealapping along the bottom of our garden. We’re set a distance back from the street, which is a cul de sac. We don’t have a fence but we are screened from the road by shrubs and trees. Our neighbours on either side are close friends and our homes are a good distance apart. We have curtains but have no real reason to draw them. Our home on Australia’s Sunshine Coast is a country property. The house is set back about a kilometre from the quiet gravel road and isn’t visible from the road. Our pool area is clothing optional. We have full length windows, but are very relaxed about drawing curtains, preferring to enjoy the evening, summer light.
I can explainy the drinking with some pople and not recognizing them the next day, that is because when you get drunk you teand to forget what happened las night includidn the people you met, we are not pretending to not know them, we honestly don't remember meeting them
Speaking on an inhale (usually saying yes), is almost always way more subtle than what you imagine. It is more like a slight hiss/whisper at the back of your throat, not a big gasp like you displayed. If you do it during conversation, it is a way to confirm what the other person is saying, and that you are paying attention, without interrupting them. The average Norwegian isn't very expressive when they talk, so confirming that we are still actively listening is a considerate thing to do. That doesn't mean that we actively think about doing it; it is just something that has worked its way into the language, and you do it intuitively. If you do it loudly/with greater force, it usually implies frustration with something, and/or a signal that you really don't want to be a part of the conversation (dismissal). And yes, Norwegians are in general bad at communication on the level that many expect. We provide answers to the specific questions that you are asking, but we normally assume that you ask the questions that you want an answer to. Answering questions that you haven't asked is both a bit of an insult to the intelligence of the other person, and it will make the conversation last longer.
Most Norwegians are extremely introverted, and alcohol is our social medicine. Our drinking culture is the worst. Especially among teens and young adults. We're almost on top in Europe. Our government's monopoly seem to have the opposite effect, because nobody likes being told what to do. I personally blame the law of Jante for this. The fact we keep telling ourselves that being successful in life is a bad thing. I don't the American way of bragging out loud is right either. I think being successful in life should be a person's goal. But brag and be proud inside your own head.
. Our breads typically do not have sugar in them and most have some/or a lot of whole grains so are a lot healthier even than bread in Sweden. . I am only half Norwegian (half English) and don't understand the need to close my curtains. I do have them, however, more for decorative purposes. . I don't find Norwegian humour funny, nor the American for that matter, much prefer the understated British. . Seasonal foods annoy me intensely. . I don't mind the shops being closed on Sundays, it's always been that way. But being retired I sometimes forget that it's Sunday and everything is closed, that annoys me 😅
This channel existing is probably the weirdest thing about Norway. Because it's not visited by English speakers interested in learning about Norway, but rather Norwegians that like foreigners taking about Norway
YH LOL
I dønt knåw whatt ju are tålking abøut, I am djøst a typpikal ammerikan duud.
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He also have channels for UK and Canada, so I guess we are not the only weird country then.
Because who wouldn’t be curious to know what others things plus there are so many videos about Norway spreading misinformation rooted in political propaganda, and stereotypes… so of course you wanna correct that if you’re from the actually country and culture. Du er norsk sant?!🤣🤣🤣👀🤡
If we were to close the curtains when it's dark they would be closed about half the year...😂
Ofcourse we close the curtains... we aint weirdos.
Eller er du kanskje en av de raringene?
Vinmonopolet is maybe inconvent at times but the plus side is that the fancier stuff is way cheaper than in other countries and they can basically get you anything you want if you put in an order. Also the staff are very knowledgeable, so they help a ton if you are a dumb consumer like me.
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- That thing about them getting you pretty much whatever your heart desires that is for the most part true, but with one major caveat...
Legally the alcohol in Norway only goes up to 60% for human consumption, so if you are after something stronger than that you are basically out of luck.
Unless you brew it yourself, which can be quite risky if you get the balance wrong.
And I'm quite certain that the '60%'-rule still applies for homebrew as well, so it's pretty hush hush after a certain point.
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The drinking culture in Norway is pretty different compared to other countries...
The laws and regulations surrounding alcohol and the consumption thereof are quite strict in Norway even after one has reached legal drinking age.
Which is why most young drinkers adhere to this thing we here in Norway call 'Fjortis-Fylla' even though most of us don't start drinking before much later on in life after we've actually reached the legal drinking age.
The phenomenon is basically a 'bratty, entitled, shortsighted to h3ll with rules and regulations'-type of teenage mentality.
Which means that during the weekends, if and when you get your hands on alcohol, you basically drink yourself stupid.
Where drinking becomes a competition to see who can drink others under the table, basically 'the last person standing'-type of thing.
Most people will eventually grow out of this with age, but there are sadly those that do not.
One of life's bitter lessons about self-control, one that some seem to learn far too late, if at all.
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Yes vinmonopolet is great, but they should have longer opening hours. Should be 10.00 to 20.00. 6 days a week i think:)
It isn’t difficult to organise our alcohol from Vinmonopolet. Their restricted hours only discourage impulse buying.
@@anushkasekkingstad1300 its shit if you work a little longer days and do not live close and get invited to some gathering a few days in advance. Should be no problem opening until 20.00. We dont drink less then countries that has longer opening hours thats for sure. Its just to get more money since they pay them for less hours
@@Randomdude21-e There’s more to life than working. We drink considerably less per capita than many other countries.
I don’t think it’s actually called Christmas milk or Easter milk. They only change the packaging designs and colors; the milk itself is the same. It’s not a different product.
Most of the types of meat mentioned here are available year-round, but there’s more of it during the seasons when we traditionally eat most of it. This is regulated based on market demand.
You can buy those meat products year round, but they're all bbq products, so they're not bought much during the winter time. Super markets stock other products instead. We have warm lunches in Norway. I have it where I work. We close stores in order to be able to pay our employees better. Ii would be cost-prohibitive to keep them open 24/7. People don't need more clothes or food if it can be bought 24/7. Fredagstaco is exactly like Taco Tuesday, it's a marketing / humor thing. We have curtains, but Norwegian houses are built in a manner where looking in isn't as easy as it probably is in other countries. Why have windows if you're going to close the curtains all the time. Might as well have a wall then. Norwegians aren't peeping Toms. We eat lunch from 11:00 to 12:30 or so, for about half an hour. Strict schedules make sense if you have a lot of meetings. If we all had lunch at different time, scheduling would be hard. Vinmonopolet is a bit restrictive, but they do have the best selection in the world due to the high volume they buy. You can in some cases buy alcohol at 4.8% or more outside vinmonopolet.
Easter milk and Christmas milk is just milk in a milk carton with some cartoons on them, usually a baby chicken during Easter and a Nisse during Christmas
Yeah, and at Easter there is the påskekrim (murder mystery) on the milk cartons..😂
During Christmas, everything is marketed as "Christmas-whatever," same during Easter. The actual product is often completely the same. I once bought Christmas toilet paper with the Easter Bunny on - yes, make it make sense.
Oooooh, now it makes some sense. I have never heard about these before!!!
I work as a psychiatric nurse doing outpatient work, and I have come to associate closed curtains with my patients (mostly those who struggle with addiction). If I see thick curtains during the darker seasons, I always wonder if the people living there has someone to talk to about their struggles..
One can think of the expression "to shed some light" on a situation. The daylight will reveal all the dirt and mess, and remind one about how much work there is needed to fix this view, and it can be enough to make some people crumble and give up. It's sad but true. Dimmed lights, candles, incense to cover cigarette smells and other odors, and so on, are very often coping mechanisms as you point out. I think if their place looked clean and tidy, they would start pulling those curtains away. I wanna say I appreciate your thoughts, you seem to be one who cares
I find it weird that many foreigners use 50 words to describe something we would use two words for....exhausting ! 😂Especially spanish speakers
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"Kos" is a good example of this. One word that describes a collection of things.
The thing with getting to know us, and not be considered a friend boils down to what norwegians think a friend or friendship is.
Foreigners seem to have very superficial friendships, and everyone they meet and talk to for more than 10 minutes suddenly becomes their friend.
We think most of what foreigners considers a friend, is a “bekjent” (acquaintance).
I do not like curtains. They are a lot of trouble/work/washing. Also if you live in a beautiful area, you want to see outside all the time. Blocking out the surroundings makes me feel clostrophobic.
We have ribbe or the fish called torsk in christmas evening, just like u having turkey on thanksgiving. We often have turkey the 1,2 or 3 christmasday😋It’s tradision🎄😊 We celebrate Christmas Eve on December 24th at 5:00 PM. Then it's dinner (ribs) and for dessert we have rice pudding or rice porridge with an almond in it, and whoever is lucky enough to get the almond gets a gift😋So after the food has cooled down a bit, we start getting the packages🥰While I understand that you celebrate Christmas Day🥴It's strange to us that you don't celebrate on Christmas Eve itself🤪Norway
Some stores in Norway offer a discount on tacos on Fridays. In the past, people often had porridge on Saturdays. Lots of fish during the week, but always meat on Sundays.
We do have blinds on our Windows, because of the sun not coming in mostly… but we like to look outside, because we are so courious 😂😂
people carrying skiis and bicycles on the tram feels very Norwegian to me, everyone is about to go out and do some serious sporting. :D
often in norway some stores, usually only supermarkets, are open on sundays, but they open around 2pm so that their workers can still enjoy the start of their sunday.
No, it's not like we can only eat tacos on Fridays😅We can eat tacos whenever we want. But for us, tacos are "weekend" food,(comfort food) So that's why so many people eat tacos on the weekends. Then it was probably the grocery stores that started having sales on taco products every weekend, so that's how taco fridays came about😀Norway🎄
10:25 new cabins can be expensive, however when it comes to our cabin culture, most cabins are inherited in some way, either from friend or family, meaning you don't spend a lot or any money on acquiring it, but just to maintain it. If you go far enough back in history these cabins used to be just regular houses that our ancestors lived in, but were left behind and used less and less as the cities grew and people moved away from the forests, mountains and beaches.
I'm Norwegian and I have the curtains closed, I don't like people looking into my apartment
As a Norwegian I cracked up when you tried to say Vinmonopolet 😂😂
Yes, the reason why shops are closed on sundays and we celebrate things like ascension day is that we have a christian culture in our country and the law is still affected by that.
It's true that many Norwegians are very reserved. But when we get to know you, we are family.
Curtains are usually only closed on bedroom windows during summer nights since it doesn’t get dark enough for many to fall asleep. The only exception is generally street facing basement windows
and in the older houses at winter, to keep the cold out from the living room, many houses don't have fireplaces. big houses do, but apartments og highrises don't
Its not just shops closed on sundays, but sundays are supposed to be quiet.
Its illegal to do on sundays: Cut your lawn, do construction work, or any other loud noise activity that bothers neighbors.
Its encouraged to handle it between yourselves, but if that doesn't work the police will handle it.
I'm Norwegian living in Oslo, that also have lived several other places from north to south and west. In general foreigners trying to tell about Norway often does not get it quite right.
Depends if close curtains, most do it for bedroom to keep it dark or to do certain things. Some stuff are seasonal, does not mean it is not done other times, it depends. Certain foods can be enjoyed whenever you want, even if seems as having it a particularly day. Different personalities and degrees of social mindset, from very introvert to very extrovert. Some may drink to get more social. Different types of cabins, from houses to very simple small ones with no electricity or water where can take several hours to walk/ski to. Food can be cheaper than it seems, if buy when on sale or close to expiration date. Several work places can have a microwave to heat food. Larger companies and/or in cities have a cantina/grocery close where can get various food along hot. Reason to much bread are because of many types where most are OK healthy, loaf/white bread are not that much used since more for special occasions.
I use my curtains to block the sun and whenever I for some reason want to have privacy, but normally I have them open as it feels a bit claustrophobic with them closed… Many now have pleated blinds that can be put at the bottom of the window, so you can get privacy and light at the same time…
I have made my ovn homemade bread for the last 20 years. I always make 8 big breads once or twice every month to put in the deep freezer. Here in Norway, almost everyone eats very coarse bread with a lot of whole grains in it. Much healthier than white bread.
I have never once realized that people close their curtains in the evenings in other countries. To me, curtains exist to block out the sun during daytime and I don’t really think about people seeing in. Many houses aren’t built in a way where you can see that much in anyway, and I don’t think many people actively try to look in either (not any more than they would at daytime anyway)
The Dutch remain on total display in their windows as well. "We have nothing to hide." And you can definitely see that in the red light district in Amsterdam. In France we close our shutters for thermal reasons.
8:06 the different dialects here can be so different that they're pretty much as different from "standard" Norwegian as swedish or danish is different from "standard" norwegian (if that makes sense.) cause it's not only the way we pronounce but also how we spell and even have a lot of different words and ways of saying, how the sentences are built.
If you had different types of bread in the store in the USA, from fine to coarse, then you would probably eat bread from childhood and for breakfast and lunch. But many Norwegians also eat cereal. There are also many people who eat porrige, especially in the winter in the morning. And eggs and bacon are quite common in the summer, especially at weekends. And this with the Friday taco is quite exaggerated, just like the Saturday pizza. In our family, we usually eat tacos on Lördag. And we can take pizza in the middle of the week if you don't have time in the afternoon, for example. I know, for example, that Americans can be surprised that Norwegians can eat pancakes for dinner, but then you often have a soup as a starter together with dried crusts. We eat Spaghetti with spaghetti sauce and meat dough. Liver is another dinner Americans don't realize we can eat. But try it when you come to Norway, and you will be surprised.
19:01 it's just how we casually and usually in a friendly way say "yeah" or "yes", there's also the opposite of saying "no/nah" with an exhale instead of an inhale. Swedes also do this too, inhaling to say yes.
I'm Norwegian and i can confirm about the drinking culture and we need too drink too getting know other people.
Mostly because we are very shy too reach out too other people when we are sober.
Curtains ain't closed because the trust we have with each other. It's very low criminal activity so we don't need too hide our items from the people.
Also if they would break in like breaking a window for example 99% of us has security system that alerts a security company and if we don't respond them after the alert they would send people too their home within short period of time. That's also helpful with the building up the trust and we like too believe that nobody are criminal.
Vinmonopolet; They have a fixed rule to how much profit they would take, so when rare wine batches etc. is sold in Vinmonopolet, people from other countries visit to buy a lot and export it, because it is a lot cheaper than if you would buy it anywhere else. You can read on their website on how they make their money. But they do make a lot of money.
I love closed shops on Sunday. Wery peacefully and nice to be outdoors.
Last year in norway, snowfall reached up to over a meter and temperature to -22"F, even in the southernparts
I'm dying laughing here🤣🤣😂 The "Ja" and gasping is so familiar and funny😂 Not everyone does it though. Also I was in the US for the first time this year and was in shock of how social everyone were. And people talking to strangers all the time. This is definitely something we don't do. I think I got to know more people in the US the 2 weeks I was there, compared to the last 15 years in Norway.
The inhale yes is a double comfirmative kinda, like making sure you know we are paying attention and we agree. Same goes for using «no» and repeating/ adding on the subject.
Hot lunch dishes are quite common nowadays.
I remember visiting family in the states and was yelled at for not closing the curtains when it was dark outside 😅 I had never heard that closing curtains was a thing for preventing burglars or other bad people watching you.
Well you have dialects as well in the states. Some places use words and slang words that are not used in another area.
The main reason for our many dialects is that people did not get influenced that much language wise. In earlier times people stayed more in their area or region. Today after people got cars, tv , internet etc. a lot of the words used in a region are now disappearing and the language is becoming more unison with the majority
The Frozen pizza situation :) who ever wrote it, you absolute legend. I also, as a norwegian, totaly agree. Why the fudge would I eat that, when I can get a real pizza.
I'm Norwegian and I only remember we closed the curtains in the bedrooms. I lived for many years in the Netherlands and nobody closed the curtains there either. Nowadays it's more normal to close the curtains during the winter to try to keep the heating costs down. I now live in the South of Europa and I don't have any need of curtains. I do have shutters on the outside of the house and I close them if we heave heavy wind and rain during the winter and keep them closed to keep the heat out during the summer, but it has nothing to do with wanting privacy. I drink every day! Two glasses of wine when we have our evening dinner. That is hier normal. After dinner I just want a cup of coffee with some sweets. Period! Even a Norwegian can be civilised. 😄
most people dont shut their curtains here in Sweden either. I do personally because I like privacy and be able to walk around naked. haha
I have blinds for that lol
The food for summer… you can get it all around the year. But summer it is fresh goods, and in winter it’s frozen..
Very often we don’t close the curtain, cause we don’t live that crowded.
We also respect privacy, so we don’t go around looking in windows. If I was going on a walk… and I stared in a window from the street. I would be imberrased. Not the one inside the house!😅🙈
Easter milk is regular milk .. it just sets the tone for the season we’re in.
We eat tacos whenever we want. But usually alt of us eat husmannskost during weekdays, and when it’s weekend, we have more snacks dinner. Not the tragiske stuff, but the extra good stuff. Like taco, pizza, lasagne, etc…
I don’t have an answer to why we eat cold lunsj. But if it is warm, it feels like dinner. The warm Lund we do eat , is grilled hotdog, burger etc.. or in the fall we sometimes have soup. Cold food is usually one slice bread, butter and spread. We have a lot spred to choose from. Egg, meat, jam, cheese, chocolate, Banos, , banana +++ and you can combine a lot of them. And mix up what type of bread you like. Often ho e made. Or knekkebrød, or polar brød , og tortilla, or salad..
Sunday’s closed stores… the history in Norway is that we are Christian. (Not that most of us are now)… but Sunday is the day of rest .. it’s not to many years since they started opening up a few mini versions of grocery stors on sundays.
It’s kind of nice when the "world" is more quiet. Less cars on the road, more people hiking and just realizing. It’s important to lower you’re shoulders. And it’s not that hard to plan for. I mean.. it’s one day..
usually we try to only shop grocery once a week. And Norwegians usually makes all the food. We are also very many who makes it from scratch. (Ex: Instead of buying meatballs , we make them )
Norway is so so expensive , that we party at home, and only go out to town for a bit. Many you just buy 1-2 drinks or beers out then. Taxi is also extremely expensive! And often we have long distance to travel to get to the city.
@18:50 if we don't intake the air, it sounds awful and like we arent apriciating talking at all, like we want to just watch tv, or play a computergame and is annoyed to have to talk and get disturbed
Taco fridays are very important. Fridays are the only day of the week its legal to eat tacos. If you are caught eating tacos on any other day you risk a hefty fine. You can apply for a special permit to serve tacos on a saturday or sunday if there is a special occasion, and its not possible to have it on a friday. Its worth noting that most of these applications are denied, and it cost about 5000NOK to apply. And dont try to be sneaky about it because your neighbour will snitch on you, theres a reward for reporting illegal tacos.
My mother told me that closing our curtains was tacky, like we did something we needed to hide…
After she passed away I bought blinds and havent opened them since😂😂
17:12 dude, if you don't drink alcohol in Norway, people question why. Alcohol is so important for Norwegians, every social event has alcohol and people drink so much until they get sick every single time. It's a very toxic relationship with alcohol
7:25 If anyone wants to know what we call it in norway we call it “vors” (v is pronounced as an f) and it is short for “forspel” which means foreplay
And 10:15 not everyONE has a cabin, every FAMILY has one. It’s basically like e family heirloom.
Since every family has one it might seem as though everyone has one since almost every member of the family has the keys to the cabin.
AND 12:15 I think the person is just talking about lunchtime or some sort of break, maybe the crackers had some sort of meaning that i dont understand like another employee giving out crackers as a gift.
But if not it was probably just lunch break, which is not allowed to work during a break since you are technically off work during break but still under the supervision of your workplace. So they can be held accountable if you hurt yourself from overworking
We close our curtains sometimes, but usually not. We tend to have tall hedges or fences for privacy 😂 in apartments we close the curtains on the windows facing other apartments to get privacy. And in smaller cities or towns... We may have shorter hedges/fences or nothing. You trust your neighbours to give you privacy 😛 if someone is staring into your windows, I can PROMISE you, that ENTIRE neighborhood will talk about it and shun you like the plague 😂
Fun video to watch😂(im from Norway btw).
We eat grilled meat in summer
And Tacos whenever. There are shops for grocery every sunday, but only small shops are allowed. We use the curtains too close off the sun.
I could eat hot meals 4 times a day. I'm not sure i'm Norwegian. Although i enjoy getting drunk and talking to people.
Not all Norwegians have cabins, but many companies have cabins that the employees can rent.
in my part of Norway (the west,Bergen) we eat sheep's head (smalahåve) at this time of year. i love it
An American friend of mine has a lot more of the «Cabin Culture» than I do here in Norway. She has a trailer at a campsite in the forest/mountains where she lives and she spends all the time she can there… ☮️💜💓💟☯️💟💓💜☮️
The curtain thing is definitely a real thing. I am american and my husband is Norwegian. I like my privacy. My husband thought it was strange that I wanted to keep the curtains closed. I think it is just a cultural thing. We compromised and got the shades that can be put half way up or down. That way we can see out, but still have some privacy. Also as far as dialects go. I live in the north of norway. People definitely speak a bit differently up here.
if you read 2 lines more it clearly stated that the meat was used for outdoor bbq in the summer and thats the reason its not in the stores outside summer.
We dont even have curtains in our home, only blinds on the windows behind the tv
Christmas milk is the same milk as at other times of the year, only the package that has a Christmas theme.
You seem to be very interested in our country. And i like that! :]
Curtains only collect dust.
only two reason to close the curtain is one if you get sunny days (not to often) we close them to see the television. two when making illegaly moonshine...
Taco Friday is just a marketing gimmick used by the supermarkets - We eat taco whenever we want to. I never eat Taco on Fridays. Regarding curtains; I live by the ocean. I only use curtains during the coldest winters, to keep the cold out. I enjoy the midnight sun and the ocean view.aand the aurora borealis. I have no neighbours just the ocean view. And we enjoy spending time in nature.
The Ja! is like the "Ok then" on fargo.Or as they said, a "Carry on"
We sometimes have hot lunches, especially if we are at conferences, courses etc. which often is at hotels. But normally we have a packed lunch or go out and buy a baguette or something like that to have for lunch. That was what I usually did when I worked. 🤗❤❤❤
My little Granddaughter is sleeping outside on the terrace in her stroller. Even though it's cold. She is wrapped up well and sleeps very well in the fresh air. She is 6 months old.
Our daughters are 11 years old now but, when they were tiny, we would go for a coffee or lunch with friends. Rather than disturbing their sleep, we would leave them sleeping outside, warmly wrapped up, protected from the weather in their pram which was simply lined up among the others. Our mothers used to enjoy taking them out, meeting their friends and enjoying lunch, leaving the babies sleeping contentedly.
The drinking thing is 100% legit, and you do wisely pretending you dont know them the day after too
I remember when I was a kid, we used to travel to a place in Eastern Norway to camp with our caravan. The kids there thought I was Danish, but I’m just from the South, they didn’t get that though and called me «The Dane»!!! 😂😂😂
In Europe, all Scandinavians are known for drinking a lot of alcohol, until they are very drunk. There is a much more decent alcohol culture the further south in Europe you go.
When I studied in Germany, I often heard that if Germans were on holiday in southern Europe and saw someone getting really drunk, they could be sure that they were from Scandinavia. And so it mostly always was.
So here in the North we have even more of the old Viking culture left. In southern Germany you could see a young person on the bus with nice clothes and a bottle of wine nicely wrapped, on a Saturday night. While here in Scandinavia it is more common to see young people on either side of a crate of beer. Personally, I liked the alcohol culture in Germany much better.
If I saw a few bottles of wine standing in the hallway of a German's home, that wouldn't mean that they drank them over the weekend, but they could stand there for several months. But if I see it here in Norway, I get much more concerned.z
But on the other hand, Germans are more known for having a beer before going to bed and it's not common here in Norway at all, unless you've lost control of your alcohol consumption.
The only room i close the curtains is the bedroom. Other rooms, are only if you have noise naboer that looks in, or you live at a busy street. other then that they are decoration
You come across as a very wise guy. And so nice.
Canada's beer is 6% alcohol and light beer 4.5% Dutch beer is 8% German Beer is 10% to 12% alcohol.
Liquor goes from 15% to 40% alcohol
Most German beer is pilsner at around 5%, with light beer at half that. Higher ABV are usually speciality beers, which I suppose might be more popular for export and therefore over-represented outside Germany.
The products are for the Summer grilling season. And I close my Curtains. This is a lot of B.S. You can often buy hot lunches at work. and you can buy Taco on a Monday.
Actually, dialects are almost the same in most countries. In the US, you have East and West Coast dialects and you will in general hear if someone's from New York or California. Have you never heard someone from the south speak :) It's the same in Norway. There are dialects in Norway that sometimes make it very hard to understand what the other person is trying to say. Especially on the West coast, there are some societies that in earlier times didn't have much influences from the rest of the country. These would be small communities especially.
"like 3/4 meals a day have bread??"
No, no. The meals don't have bread. They ARE bread.
Lol I just realized my last three relationships with two Germans and one Ukrainian all started while I was out drinking.
I am sober now - and a social pariah in Norway. The drinking culture is so fundamental that it's almost impossible to socialize sober.
I hardly ever close my curtains either and neither do most of my neighbours here in Denmark. I never thought about it as weird, tbh. Guess I learned something new today. 😅
Why have a window if you are not going to look out? And get light in.
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We are all different in Norway as in the US. Some eat taco for fridays and some not. About the curtins, we have them for the sun and it s cosy, sometimes we don t close them cause we are not shy. All in all i think we are a mix of Europe with those thinks, and you also since many of yuou are from Europe. We have only one type milk, but some wirh more fett and some with less. When we drink before we go to city calls FORSPILL, it s from German, but often we just have a big party over night.
I think many of your ex. are just funny. Have a great day.
I’m a Norwegian, the thing about Christmas milk and Easter milk is bullshit. You can eat taco any day if you wish, closing the curtains is very individual. We have hot lunches too. I don’t know where you get this information. The thing about the cabin is partly true. Yes, we have taxes but then again it’s free healthcare for everyone.
We don't close our curtains because we don't care enough about our neighbours to look into their windows, so we feel safe that no one looks into ours. I'll bet you anything that if you ask any Norwegian person what their neighbours' names are, they have no clue.
There’s no legal drinking age, but you can’t buy any alcohol until you’re 18.
Not everyone is the same in Norway. But if you go a lot out on bars in the town, which are often the place where you come into contact with people easily, you will often meet Norwegians who behave as described here.
They drink a lot and often do things they would never do sober and they excuse themselves by saying that they were just that drunk the next day, if someone were to say something about it later. I also irritate myself as a Norwegian about this.
But the fact that they don't "recognize" you the next day, is a lot of uncertainty and anxiety and maybe also that they are ashamed of what they did when they were drunk or don't remember everything and also become insecure because of it.
I must say that I often like myself better among foreigners than among Norwegians because of this behavior.
But fortunately not all Norwegians are like that, many here also drink rarely or not at all, but they are usually not to be found out at the bars out in the city.
When you think about norwegian drinking culture, realize that we are basically the irish.. not just genetically but in the way we party too.. with drink we suddenly get the gift of gab and open up a bit..
RE: Bread... the American bread (white) is not called bread in Norway. Norwegian bread is not white. Most Norwegian bread is healthier and often looks home made with grains, seeds, etc.
Hi Tyler. Is there any place i can send you a message? I have a really good video i want you to react to. Love your videos btw. You put us Norwegians in a really good light!
@3:30 do you americans need us to give you healthy bread recipes, so you can bake your own bread, and not it all the preservatives??
buy a meatslicer machine, bake a lot off bread, slice the bread, put in bags and freeze them. they can be in the freezer up to 6 months, and take out slices right in the toaster. it's so good.
i atleast only buy bread if my week is long, and i don't have time to bake the bread for the week for my daughters lunch, breakfast and eveningsnack.
only dinner is not bread, sometimes bread to dip in the soup we eat in the fall/winter.
sometimes she can get leftover dinner in the lunchbox, those times i heat it in the morning, and it's still warm because we have routines for food.
lunch in school is 11:00-11:15 then recess to 12:00 usually, breakfast at 7, because school starts early 8, and dinner for small kids in the time 16:00-17:00, if they are older and have practice dinner can be 17:00-18:00, that way the have time for homework and then we have eveningsnack usually at 19:30, that way they don't get hungry when they go to bed between 20:00-21:30, then the day starts again
school for small children is usually from 8:30 - 13:35 somedays to 14:00, when they get older it can be to 15:00 usually but not much later. then we have a out-of-school options if the children are small, and the workdays are long. those are from 7:30-8:30 in the same building as they have original school, and then they start right after the bell rings out the last class and lasts until 17:00.
this we have for 1.-4. grade, from 5. grade they have to go home alone, or home to someone else or public library or practice and wait for their parents/older siblings to pick them up.
I have no reason to close my curtains, no reason to carry and gun and never felt unsafe when someone is knocking on the door.
Having taco on any other day then friday is wierd as it "opens" the weekend. Curtains we use to block sun and for decorating part of window but then not closed. Owning a cabin/camping wagon and/or a boat ïs normal.
We are not defensive on purpose about how great we have it, its our "janteloven" preventing us to just own it and then respond by finding something to complain about to downtalk it.
Mmmm Bread atleast 2-3 times a day but dark bread and not "light" bread like you have (light bread we call toast bread/sweat bread).
Yeah most our public holliday are based from religion. Now we just use it as an excuse to have free from work.
About friendship: Most norwegians dont waste any time on shallow friendships. We are either a 100% friend or your basicly just a stranger/acquaintance ;) We are definitly quality over quantity in that regard, making it very hard to bond for some unless we "click" at the get go. Americans beeing the opposite in term of oversharing and can ask me "how are you doing" as a greeting can find it very difficult to bond a meaningfull friendship with norwegians. Pretend to care or give compliment but not follow up further even by sentence or thru casual talk is a big deal breaker for many norwegians and makes you seem not cinsere or shallow.
And the pizza sitch is wierd to us too, its a joke that the grandiosa is our national dish. Its like 25% of our diet, at least.
I'm as norwegian as they come, but (perhaps because of how the building I live in are placed), I allways keep my curtains closed. I don't like being like a mannequin in a store window.
I suggest you would get to the bottom of it easier by letting the AI in on the premise by prompting "why are this that and the other only common during summer in norway"
We’d be very concerned if we weren’t very different in our values and behaviours to the average US American. There’s no doubt that we’re cautious about inviting strangers into our groups. It takes time to get to know people and become comfortable with them. I’m glad that the lady who raised this eventually felt accepted.
When we used to visit the US on business, pre 2016, we couldn’t believe that anyone would put sugar in bread. We found US bread unpleasant and unhealthy and never touched it. At home, we bake ourselves delicious and nutritious Danish ryebread and enjoy it frequently. It appears on the table at every meal. Eating it is voluntary although most do.w
Shops being closed on Sundays is no problem to us. We have 6 days each week to buy whatever we need. There are many other things to do on Sunday, rather than shopping. Closing gives shop staff the ability to spend Sunday with their families.
My wife and I don’t have cabins but my parents have since I can remember. We no longer spend the colder months in Norway. Our 11 year old daughters have only experienced two winters. We haven’t used my parents’ winter cabin in years. Their summer cabin is a very different story though. We regularly enjoy long weekends there during the summer. Our girls love it and spend endless hours in the fjord, regardless of the water temperature. They build really good campfires and we really enjoy spending a balmy summer’s evening, sitting around the fire as a family, chatting over a drink or a hot chocolate, toasting something delicious.
The cabins have curtains but they’re purely decorative and are never drawn. We have no near neighbours and Norwegians consider it extremely rude to look at residential windows. We’ve never really thought about curtains previously. Our home in Bergen has the North Sealapping along the bottom of our garden. We’re set a distance back from the street, which is a cul de sac. We don’t have a fence but we are screened from the road by shrubs and trees. Our neighbours on either side are close friends and our homes are a good distance apart. We have curtains but have no real reason to draw them. Our home on Australia’s Sunshine Coast is a country property. The house is set back about a kilometre from the quiet gravel road and isn’t visible from the road. Our pool area is clothing optional. We have full length windows, but are very relaxed about drawing curtains, preferring to enjoy the evening, summer light.
I can explainy the drinking with some pople and not recognizing them the next day, that is because when you get drunk you teand to forget what happened las night includidn the people you met, we are not pretending to not know them, we honestly don't remember meeting them
12:15 Grandiosa is not pizza…
2:26 well, we can’t really bbq in the winter 😂
We can, we just don't necessarily find it natural. I know several people here up north who cook their ribbe in the BBQ
12:30 the way this person is describing our traditions make us seem autistic haha
Speaking on an inhale (usually saying yes), is almost always way more subtle than what you imagine. It is more like a slight hiss/whisper at the back of your throat, not a big gasp like you displayed. If you do it during conversation, it is a way to confirm what the other person is saying, and that you are paying attention, without interrupting them. The average Norwegian isn't very expressive when they talk, so confirming that we are still actively listening is a considerate thing to do. That doesn't mean that we actively think about doing it; it is just something that has worked its way into the language, and you do it intuitively. If you do it loudly/with greater force, it usually implies frustration with something, and/or a signal that you really don't want to be a part of the conversation (dismissal).
And yes, Norwegians are in general bad at communication on the level that many expect. We provide answers to the specific questions that you are asking, but we normally assume that you ask the questions that you want an answer to. Answering questions that you haven't asked is both a bit of an insult to the intelligence of the other person, and it will make the conversation last longer.
You guys have 4 meals a day? I must have not gotten that memo..😅
I NEVER heard of «Christmas milk» or «Easter milk»!!! NEVER in my 59 year old life have I heard of that…
I think they are just talking about the different designs of the milk cartons during holidays.
Most Norwegians are extremely introverted, and alcohol is our social medicine. Our drinking culture is the worst. Especially among teens and young adults. We're almost on top in Europe. Our government's monopoly seem to have the opposite effect, because nobody likes being told what to do. I personally blame the law of Jante for this. The fact we keep telling ourselves that being successful in life is a bad thing. I don't the American way of bragging out loud is right either. I think being successful in life should be a person's goal. But brag and be proud inside your own head.
. Our breads typically do not have sugar in them and most have some/or a lot of whole grains so are a lot healthier even than bread in Sweden.
. I am only half Norwegian (half English) and don't understand the need to close my curtains. I do have them, however, more for decorative purposes.
. I don't find Norwegian humour funny, nor the American for that matter, much prefer the understated British.
. Seasonal foods annoy me intensely.
. I don't mind the shops being closed on Sundays, it's always been that way. But being retired I sometimes forget that it's Sunday and everything is closed, that annoys me 😅
we have parts of Norway, whit dialects that we dont even understand, from the north to some in-land dialects in the south