How to eat Surströmming
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- Опубліковано 26 сер 2016
- Here is an instructive video on how you are supposed to eat Surströmming (Fermented Baltic herring) without being appalled by the smell.
By the way, if you find a female fish you can eat the roe (and it is good)
I've seen bombs disarmed with less care.
If not done right im sure this can end up really "explosive" 😃😃😃
Vad i 've seen talks for itself !
LMAO!!!!!
Jayyy Zeee
Now that's funny, I don't care who you are....😆
This comment is the best
Love the amount of time and effort spent eating this small portion of food he describes as "not that bad"
stubborn is what you call it
@@71dembonesTV I had the same reaction -- seems like a tremendous effort for something that's "not that bad" if you "do it the right way".
@@BobZambarano the fact that he's standing way away from his house, holding it in a bucket of water, and not wearing shoes (for fear of them being irreparably permeated with rancid fish juice) does not convince me of it being "not so bad" lol
@@71dembonesTV lmaooo
basically was prolonging the actual eating as long as possible and finished vid midway through the tasting...
This is what UA-cam should be all about. Just a simple video by a person at home with a camera explaining random things for the benefit of others
This comment is gold
@@abbassihm what
@@anthonysampson1630 it's not that hard to understand
"Broadcast yourself"
UA-cam was amazing about 15 years ago.
Now it is a Den of Iniquity
This dude speaks fluent English, presents Swedish culture, sitting in Polish t-shirt
... made in China (the t-shirt, not the dude).
Mr. Worldwide
I was confused I thought he was british then I saw his name
Now that's true multicultural fellow
@@vincentlo7678 maybe he grew up in the UK, swedes dont usualoly have a british accent
When you randomly stumble upon your old math teacher doing a tutorial on eating fish on youtube
I've had many students over the years so I am afarid you have to tell me when I taught you.
we're waiting!
come oon we waiting
Op will surly deliver...
Magnus Frodin op pls deliver
1. Red hut in the back
2. Lots of forest
3. Guy too tall to remain in frame
Sweden confirmed from 1 frame
ikr.. he looks like a freaking giant.
The swedish average height is actually smaller than germany's and the netherlands'
Well, dutch are one of the tallest in the world
Last I checked Swedes were the 3rd tallest people in the world. I think the Dutch are the tallest.
Christopher Robin 😂
This is hilarious.. I have Swedish friends, and what this man does in his tutorial is typically so Swedish.
"It's not so bad if you take precautions, don't inhale through nose and hide it into a flatbread, onion and condiments."
I am laughing aloud while I watch this because this is what I love about swedes.. nothing brings them down. They can eat a pile of shite and not only endure it with great stoicism but make it an enviable experience.
My respect, dear Nordic neighbours, you are great people.
Each to their own but I do not even like meat that is aged too much, I find this absolutely disgusting beyond belief, but you are correct the Swedes are a unique bunch very tough indeed, I was in Turkey and they were jumping off a cliffe I was like no way but the Swedes were up there first.
Thank you. We do enjoy a fair bit of "detached masochism", as is the custom when you live so far north you have to gaslight yourself into thinking, "Seasonal Affective Disorder just ain't that bad". Every day is a cold plunge to get dopamine levels back on track.
What a pile of crap...so u adore them for denying the reality basically, lol. Crap is crap, no matter howany condiments you cover it with...and that's what swedes do,. they're not only denying stuff, they're also denying their denial. So they're in denial of denial lol
@@nothinghere1996 I was in Cambodia around 2015, and they had some kind of fermented fish that smelled like sewers and tasted like vomit, could that be the same thing?
@@dagmichaelAnd if you eat it daily, your IQ will drop so badly and go back neanderthal like them Laos , Cambodia and Esan people
If he was a teacher, I would never fail his class. Such a great way of politeness and usage of speech.
Apparently he is 😄
Or just y'know. Pay attention in class and study because education is your future.
@@EngineerMikey5 lol, not for me since long years. Although, I have become a teacher, so in a way we can say education is my future 😂
I just saw a comment saying he was his math teacher so...
@@EngineerMikey5 Quit acting like being a good teacher doesn't matter. It makes a world of difference. Anyone with a good education would know this. I had a shite education and even I know it.
UA-cam's algorithms must have gone insane. I have no idea how it decided I wanted to watch some random Swedish guy on his small channel provide matter-of-fact instructions on eating surströmming correctly, but I chose to watch it and enjoyed it. It wasn't sensationalized or anything- just an honest instructional video on preparing a strange food item. Kudos.
Seems like it is working as intended then
@@gewurzgurke4964 Is call: ''reality''. UA-cam is not so braiwashing like the Tv.
Dude i was thinking the exact same thing.
its my maths teacher, lit school memes. Pretty insane to see him on my recommended.
UA-cam knows you better then you do, IT'S THE FUTURE THE MONKEY FUTURE!
This guy: "It smells a little bit, but it's not so bad"
Rest of the world: "Brueeegleghhhghgh"
Its because the rest of the world that tried to eat it ATE it like an idiot and just jam it on their mouth as it is.
@@paganmin80 the rest of the world starts gagging and vomiting only from smell without even touching the fish.
Haha
Not so bad, I'm doing this outside because the weather is so nice. That's all.
I mean lots of people doesn't like the smell and the taste durian
I fucking love durian and the smell of it
I am Scottish living in Australia. I think you got it absolutely right with haggis and vegemite comparison. I eat haggis on rare occasion and enjoy it and get exactly what you are saying. I wouldn't try Surströmming though hehe.
Vegemite has a very sharp and intense salty flavour, especially if you layer on too much, and it is definitely an acquired taste.
Quality haggis is delicious - there’s nothing especially challenging about it unless you have an issue with eating offal. I’d put it in the same category as black pudding/blood sausage.
The primary complaint I hear about haggis is that it’s too rich and heavy and a bit ‘stodgy’ especially when served with potatoes and turnip.
I've lived in Scotland and regularly ate haggis. I never understood what was supposed to be so strange or offensive about it, organ meat is regularly consumed all over the world and as far as organ meats go, haggis seemed fairly tame to me. I really liked it though, especially on pizza, and always thought it could make a good topping for ramen.
@@kiyoaki1985 I always wanted to try a good haggis. Now I want to try a pizza with haggis aswell!!
I live in the us, and had no trouble with haggis when I visited Scotland, no trouble with vegemite in Australia (though less appetizing than haggis for sure) and I could barely swallow surstromming on an hors d’oeuvre. I felt like that zombie fish came back to life in my stomach to swim around the rest of the night. I guess some cultural delicacies are closer to others, and some are just on the far opposite end of the spectrum. I couldn’t do the Balut in Vietnam either. Something about fermented meat that I just don’t have the constitution for.
@@Daddybuttman Yup haggis is quite delicious. The thought of the ingredients might put most people off. I think Surströmming will be on par as almost impossible to eat for most people as Balut. I wouldn't even try either.
I really like how balanced you are in your explanation; encouraging people to get the best out of a new taste experience, and dismissing the other over exaggerated reaction videos.
My dude has three different accents simultaneously.
Swede, Aussie, American lol
kinda like Ole Gunnar Solskaer...
@@millsykooksy4863 where did you hear american lol
i hear british, some sprinkle of aussie and swedish, i hear no american whatsoever
listen to him say can, sounds American
Eating something that you need to open 40 feet from where you eat it is hardcore.
What is that in real unit?
@@Tonysmithmusic Just do it in the kitchen in batches. Open as many cans as you're gonna eat underwater in a sink, then remove the guts and bones with hand using gloves, then put the fishes in a bowl and bring it to table. Takes a lot less time than this.
@@waterdropsofprozac450 how are you not dead?
suustroming is metal af
@@milannovak2515 We did, 5 more times. There have been six crewed lunar landings and a total of twelve people who have walked on the surface of the moon. It would have been 14 if not for an abortion due to an oxygen tank exploding.
I had the pleasure of trying this with wonderful people in Stockholm. I was told that it tastes like life itself. After finishing I agreed with the sentiment in that life can be difficult!😂
Lol
Not even the first time i've watched this video, it seems to pop up on my recommended every couple of months. A relaxing watch every time.
I’m too deep in this Surströmming rabbit hole I’ve already watched every tutorial of this stinky fascinating can of fish the only thing left now is to try it myself
Did you order it?
@@abiku2923 I’m sadly to inform that my mission is a fail😔
@@donjonpapi7493 you tried it but couldnt swallow it?
Did you try it yet?
They dont always say onion and creme frachie, very good with it also.
Thought the bread was a napkin at first haha.
it is tumbrea a flat bread
Best comment :D
I thought that too :D
Szwedzki przysmak. Ja też myślałem,że gościa "pogięło" i kładzie to na serwetkę :)
rob. g that would explain the fish, or the entire bizzare food.
I want to eat it with people who are enjoying it. 100% authentic Swedish food culture experience. Thanks for showing us how to eat it properly.
I put it in tomato soup. Try it it's the best honestly.
@@craigboden9455 I will surely will! Thanks!
Freak
I eat it as fillets with fresh potatoes, creme fraiche and chive. Absolutely amazing, but using fillets saves you a few minutes of sitting in the unpleasant smell.
People might overlook one of the core reasons why this may look a bit dreadful. He purchased Surströmming fermented in whole. If this was a can of filets, it would be over in 3 minutes. You get the can, go outside in the backyard with a bucket of water. Open the can underwater (I prefer to open it the entire way under water, not just pierce it, it's fine as long as you don't aim to store leftovers, in which case you should store prepared sandwiches, not a can if are smart). And simply take the filets out and put them in your sour cream/potato sandwich.
This guy is a pro at dragging out and making it 10 minutes lmao
Or, OR, better idea - just eat something else?
@@karlhendrikseYeah I don't know if people know this but you can just run to McDonald's or whatever, it's super easy to not eat rotten fish 😂
@@LangstonDev It's not rotten, just fermented. Fermented cabbage for example is fairly popular in multiple culinary branches and doesn't make you projectile vomit from just the smell.
@@karlhendrikse for people who are used to eating it, it likely tastes different to them than it does to us because they've acquired a taste for it, and probably has a unique flavor to them that cannot be replicated by anything else. Surströmming is one of the most extreme examples of this, but its the same phenomena that occurs with beer, salmakki, haggis, vegemite, marmite, natto, etc.
This man made this video because he truly loves his culture and I bet he was tired of UA-camrs making a mockery of it, tbh I might actually try it now just out of respect for this man and also cause I’m curious to try it
F
@@RonBest XD
Did you survive?
I tried it after watching this video and it was really good. Very expensive in the UK, but worth it. I posted the video as well 👍
@@thra5herxb12s what????? Dude ??? It was pretty good ???
I thought the bread is actually a napkin with patterns
same!
i believe it's this
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunnbr%C3%B6d
So did I
@TomiSlav do you eat live fish?
Same!!
I like to watch surströmming videos every now and then. It's a meal unlike any other, and it is a testimony to history - how powerful our ancestors' will to live and fight starvation was, in fact.
This guy is so relaxed and pleasant. True gentleman. He would be the great personality for teacher in my opinion.
He was apparently a teacher
He isn't relaxed, the intro is so anxious.
@@k.w.a.s pretty sure he's on the spectrum imo
Man best random click ever
same hereeeeeeeeee lol
Right, no? Hahha you gotta love UA-cam at 3am
“That’s for true”
Lmfao
I love how honest this guy is about it. Like a salesman sheepishly trying to sell you a lemon and you both know it. Good video!
It's not so bad...
There are plenty of other foods in the world that are delicious, and doesnt involve entrails. I think I will go with those instead!
Boring idiot
More like to trying to sell you some 💩 poop and convincing you it's fine to eat
@@meatybadger1506 nah its probably good if prepared well, just like this spanish dish that's basically just pig intestines
i've never tried either, but i wouldnt pussy out
@@eabrook2 it still has the guts of the fish.
Brilliant, you have cleared up the mystery about this particularly Sweedish food.
As an Aussie, I'd like to thank you for nailing the concept of Vegemite, it’s not a sacred dish (to most Australians) it's different. And it's an experience for many.
But I’m not sure I could survive Surströmming. I will respect its Swedish aficionado’s.
Hugh Jackman taught me how to eat vegemite correctly and now I love it.
I think that the fans of this food are just a myth, because I didn't see a single one...
@@snaigel well shit by that logic I don't exist because you've never seen me lol
@@helicocktor Yes you exist, you are writing to me xd
@@snaigel what if I'm just a figment of your imagination and you're actually schizophrenic.
Oh shyet I'm not real. Fuck.
I'm from Malaysia. Got curious one day and bought a can of surstromming from ebay. The smell is strong, but not that much different from some of the fermented seafood we have here. I experimented with it. Mix it with sliced chili pepper, diced onions and squeezed a wedge of lime over it. It goes really well with a rice. I also mix it in a stir fried veges as well. I apologize if any Swedish is offended that I don't prepare it the way it should be.
Why would you apologize.. it's just food, you decide how to enjoy it
Which is worse belacan or this?
@@anonymous-do5bs Belacan is milder in my opinion. more like cencaluk + budu. Well not really. but it's the closest i get. My brother on the other hand said it's like tempoyak that gone bad.
@@fadlya.rahman4113 haven't tried either of those but I guess u can say it's pretty bad right 😂
Ionuc C tell that to the Italians. They take their pastas seriously.
He stands in "fight or flight" mode lol
Because he's facing a can of surströmming, that's why.
@@blackrastafarian a difficult challenge, even for the average swede
Lol
glad im not the only one who noticed it looks like there's a bear holding the camera
Laughed way more than this was funny
Love it. I live in the US and brought a can of surströmming from Sweden when I went home. We opened it outdoor and had all the fixings. The reaction was anywhere from gross to interesting. I am not sure it is ever going to be more than a local Swedish thing. But so what, please visit Sweden, you will like it.
Tried this for the first time a week ago. Did like you said, opened it under water. Ate it with flat bread and onions and sour cream. It was delicious
The way everything is “not so bad” for him is the way i want to live my life
A sandwich with this fish and a cold beer is amazing
@@appanpappan i think every sandwich with cold beer is amazing hahaha
@@thebestever333 true that!
@@thebestever333 I dont like beer
I am on the verge of vomiting, but it's not so bad.
I had literally no intention of watching this all the way through, and then I did, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. I would totally eat that final product. You really couldn't have presented that much better.
Quite captivating
The combination of potatoes, yoghurt, chives, fish and bread is just really solid. I can see how it tastes decent even if the fish itself is quite an acquired taste.
Yeah I agree. Most the time foods like this are born out of necessity, I'd suspect most people who really love it are older and it may have even been a treat at one time during long, dark winters. Why people thought it would be some rich people, super tasty delicacy is beyond me.
Kinda like Menudo, people praise it up and down saying how good it is but it's not good because it's got organs and stomach lining in it, it's good because people spent a LOT of time trying to figure out how to make the cheapest, most available stuff palatable.
It's not yoghurt, it's sour cream
@@jaade9485 ahh ok, I guess yoghurt works fine too. But I can pretty much guarantee you he would've used sour cream if he'd had it at home. That's what's traditional here in sweden.
This is what the tube was made for. Thank you good sir.
Now a days when i see a thumbnail with no arrows, circles, artificial colors, bait tittles, a persons face with an unhinged expression, i just know its going to be a absolute masterpiece,a true classic, vintage utube at its finest without actually beingfrom the good old days, wen the tube was still in Its infant stage, innocent, and pure, without any nonsense and perhaps not a single ad, not even one. Take notes kids, this is what a true banger looks like.
You actually had me when you said “different kind of experience.” Reminds me of an old chef I used to work for. His quote was “have balls to try everything, you don’t have to swallow. If you hate it spit it out. But at least have to balls to try.” Never had the balls to call him out on his phrasing of his favourite quote however.
Oh that fucker knew lol
Yeah, I’ve said that to a few women too.
@@jimgavin1726 I don't know how many times i've told this to your mother at this point
Wait, what? This chef advised you to swallow his balls?
Literally the rule I go by when trying something I haven't ever eaten yet. I can't go wrong with trying, now, can i? The only thing is if I get the new food from someone else I'm a guest at, I tell them straight away that I have never ever eaten it, so please excuse my reaction and prepare only a little taster of the whole food instead of a whole plate.
My life is now complete! I’ve come to the end of the Internet! I’ve seen everything! I’m finally finished!
Hahaaaha 😂
😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣
Lmao 🤣
Me toooo. Haha
its just youtube
A Swedish guy talking in perfect English wearing a shirt from Wrocław with some polish on it. What is it, a crossover episode? 🤣
Thanks for teaching us :)
Thank you for sharing your culture! You are wonderfully well spoken and I would 100% watch a show with you narrating
I just spent 10 minutes and 47 seconds watching a man roll a fish doobie....
And it was the best calm video I’ve seen in a while 😂😂😂
So I did
and it was AWESOME
I hear yah
🕺🕺🕺🤣🤣🤣🤣
Fish doob 😂
Dude that area is beautiful.
Im Australian and i agree with vegemitie, its home grown. Ya cant teach it
Matt and chris 4 the win.A3K for gold
But its the truth. This video would be very different in Mälmö
malmö*
Dude, all you see is some grass, some trees, and some wooden buildings. Clearly you've never been to Pennsylvania.
I’m impressed by the care he takes to make sure he is speaking eloquently in what I assume is his second language. The pauses and corrections make his speaking as refined as a native Englishman.
I'm not gonna lie, the way you described the taste at the end, and the way you actually prepared it, it looks really good.
unfortunately it only looks like that, i thought like that too .
This dude has LEVEL 1 character animation....
Ahahahhahha
apparently he's a math teacher. That explains both the character animation and the shorts.
And the socks outside with no shoes.
_eats surstromming_
*lvl. 99 boss*
*_tHaTs hOw mAfIa wOrKs_*
Felt like I was watching someone play Oblivion.
“When you open the can, you might not want to inhale”😂😂😂💀
Open the can outside. Under water. If at all possible remove your face because the smell is putrid.
Then layer it with potato and union till you can't taste the burned sour fish you just opened. Welcome to pandora's box. It smells like ass
I'm just captivated how beautiful this homestead looks.
I am watching this from India with no plans of ever visiting Sweden in the future. Sat through the whole 10 mins 47 secs.
What a wonderful 'grown-up' antidote, to all the puerile videos, showing people throwing-up! Many thanks!
Have you ever smelt it. It smells like the sweat under deadman’s ball sack
@@mondachewon2873 Its the reason why you open it under water, away from the preparation area, and take a singular fish out after getting most of the liquid off of it. And then remove the gross entrails and the crunchy spine. If I'm not mistaken in my theory, the flavor is partially due to the fermentation with the entrails and the bones included, like a stew in a way, so when the good stuff is separated from everything else, its not so bad. Eating it without removing the entrails and bones is like eating a stew without removing the spice leaves and the bones, neither you'd ever want to consume.
Thanks a lot, now i can show this off to my friends
Thanks for addicting me to your videos bruh
Other than clipping twitch, Nimbo has an interest on eating Surströmming.
Simp
Didn’t expect you here but hi
What are you doing here
Yep, that’s the first person I’ve seen eat it and not make a song and dance about it. Well done mate 10/10. Very educational. 👍🏻
Stumbling about this instruction video, I am definitely delighted about the fact, that Mr. Dahllöf widened my horizon by explaining the one and only traditional method of eatig Surströmming. Up to now I have never gone beyond videos that display a lot of vommiting guys by opening the cans - bragging about their mates' strange sounds - but this video definitely makes me feel prepared for any events involving 'it'. Thanks a lot for this masterpiece of cultural education. If you didn't know, now you do. 😬
The most civilized Surstromming video on UA-cam! I really want to try this the correct way! Now to order my can off eBay!
:-)
Jason McLemore Just be careful for the death juice
I once heard of a guy actually drinking the juice from the can. No matter how much you enjoy surströmming, drinking the juice must be pretty awful
Jason McLemore Moscas incluídas..
I saw what you did there... flies included. I live in Sverige one year and I try the exact recipe and it is delicious, I mean it was pretty good after all the rituals of opening and preparing the fish. Viva Chile!, la comunidad más grande de migrantes de Suecia!
This man is soft spoken, yet has a commanding presence. Fantastic video!
I agree with you about 40 %.
@Holy hahaha
@Holy why did you upload the same video 4 times with different, yet equally retarded titles?
This is the classic UA-cam content I never knew I needed until now! Brings me back to the 2000s.
I love how this man says "backbone" lol it's so enunciated and determined
It would have been absolutely comedy gold had he taken a first bite and then immediately started cursing and getting sick...
okay - maybe not. Thank you for your perspective and lessons. Really enjoyed the video.
lmaooo that would actually be amazing
that would be so grat. ^^ 10 minutes setup for this joke
Lol soon as the camera was off he spat it out lol 😂
Dude youre creepy as fuck
was waiting till the end for it
This guy is clearly a very nice man. I feel like hes the awesome grandpa/uncle that you get really attached to because they do anything and everything to make the grand children/nephews happy :) great video
He did well. He stood up for a thing everyone hates. Hard to do. Keep going!
Do you live in Colorado?
He was a math teacher
Finally. A man that knows how to properly prep and eat a food that is uncommon to a lot of people.
This guys voice is calming as hell
youtube algorithm didnt bring me here. I specifically searched for this. 😅
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Same
Same. My dad showed me a video so I looked it up to show my husband then clicked this right after.
Same here!
LOL
This video is like ASMR for me. Something quietly pleasant about the way he speaks.
He is a math teacher, that would explain it :D
I never noticed a math teacher being loud and/or wild :D
anders damin ohhh my God thank you
Same!!!
So much preparation for it to be an acquired taste on level with vegemite. If I have the chance I will try it, not for the experience nor the taste, but because you went through the effort of explaining very well how to not mess it up.
Surstromming is great in potato salad or as an accoutrement to potato latkes or as seasoning to a stir fried rice dish. I love it, if I had a recipe, I’d make it myself!
The lesson one needs to take when it comes to very strong foods, is that they always seem to be eaten with a pile of relatively bland staple - like potatoes, or rice. You made mention of Vegemite, and like Surströmming, the most common form of eating it is on buttered toast. I form I occasionally ate it is is with mashed avocado on top. There's nattō, the Japanese fermented beans. They get eaten with rice.
So really, people need to remember these pungent foods get eaten with other stuff that help augment and soften them.
Natto is excellent, i prefer it to vegemite
It's like "saft". It's very concentrated and disgusting on it's own, but you're meant to dilute it with water. You put 1dl saft in a glass, and then pour in 9 dl water in that glass.
@@northe4158 What kind of saft are you drinking? Mine is 1 + 7 (ICA) but better quality is down to 1 + 4.
I hate seeing taste test videos where people treat marmite like it is jam and absolutely smother a piece of toast with it.
except for durian 😁. most of the time we eat durian as it is, although some people do eat durian with rice.
Not sure if your accent is English, Australian, or Swedish
He's not Australian mate. I can promise you that. Saying Vegemite isn't great! Wtf? 😂
It's a mix ;) all swedes have a hard time deciding what accent to speak with 😂👏
Bluemon lmao
@@idajohansson6921 i dont mind swedish accent at all. It sounds awesome. This guy speaks english very clearly and the accent is not that hard. Most of us, estonians have a really harsh accent that well never get rid of no matter what
I think hes Swedish Living in Australia
Thank you so much for explaining and demonstrating. It looks like something people ate to survive winter before refrigeration.
Thank you for bringing some culture to the world. I never realized Surströmming can be a positive experience, since every media in Germany or Switzerland only highlight the negative aspects.
Best from Switzerland: Mad
dude stands like he is always ready to run.
You mean fight, he is facing surströmming after all.
@@AnonyMous-ql9nj 😂😂😂
I think it's just that he is quite tall and was trying to stay in frame. :D
@@AnonyMous-ql9nj Make sense, you can't escape surströmming.
I've never heard someone say "Take the entrails out" is such a calm manner.
I have, in Silence of the Lambs.
"Its not so bad"
Hans Tun Oh god
We regularily disembowel those who have slighted us here in Sweden, doesn't really faze us after 13.
Great video. Here in Italy we have something on the same line of that - it's called "colatura di alici" and it's basically a thick liquid obtained from piles of rotting anchovies 😅 It's quite strong in taste and you basically use it as a replacement for salt in your fish-based dishes. In small amounts, and used the right way, it's absolutely delicious (as I'm sure surstromming must be)
I didn't know that anchovies suffered with piles. 😮
The British have Worcester sauce and in many parts of Asia this kind of fish sauce is also really popular.
The difference is that it's usually used as a condiment, like soy sauce, and for cooking.
Here however, the dude is just eating rotten fish. It's not quit the same 😂
it's garum! call it by the name your ancestors called it
@@OmnivorousOtter101 don't act so conceited if you don't know what you are talking about. "Garum" is a generic and rather debated term for something similar that the Romans (but maybe the Greeks as well) were believed to make. The definition is very uncertain, however it was probably a sort of sauce, this meaning that it contained pieces of fish - lot of different fishes. I was referring instead to something different, which is strictly liquid (not a sauce) and is produced with only one type of fish (anchovies). Garum is probably an ancestor of this product, but it's not the same thing.
@@situazionauta nice
As a Finn (yes, a Finn despite my name) I found this video to be a lot of fun and interesting. Loved the accent as well, somehow a mix of English and Australian accents, with a touch of the Swedish accent behind the scenes.
As some comment stated, which I can't find anymore, the "bomb disposal"-introduction is quite hilarious and makes the video even more fun to watch.
I got quite curious about trying to eat this the right way. Even got a bit hungry while watching it, and also started to miss summer already.
dunno how everyone is finding the australian accent, lots of aussie accents are pretty rowdy and wildly out there compared to his slightly poshy british accent
@@Yobott I think for example that he pronounces "try it" in (to me) a more Australian way. There are some other cases as well.
Is Surströmming much different than pickled herring?
@@bopryszlak3863yes, if herrings are firecrackers, this stuff is an atomic bomb. Without exaggeration: the smell of it alone can easily induce vomiting, let alone eating it.
I eat the whole thing backbone and all just add salt
Damn even the fish in Sweden need Ikea manuals
"-Are there fins in it?"
"-No, only Swedes"
This guy wants to be papanomaly so bad lmaoo
really well made video! I love your attitude and honesty! you seem like a very smart and articulate man! thanks for sharing your culture with us
Thank you very much, for years I've been looking forward to try my first surströmming and now I know how to do it properly.
Final line is good: I hope this saves someone from a terrible experience.
Showed my wife how to properly eat surströmming today. Years after finding this gem, I’m glad it’s still around 💛
I love his defence of Surströmming, he is literally in the middle of a large area of grass, and having to open in under water; that does not sound like a food I want to tangle with. I lived in Sweden and I would not even dream of going near the stuff.
Never stopped people from eating durian eventhough they have been stabbed by its spikes lol
@@harukrentz435 fresh durian smells fine.
It just spoils rather quickly.
Thanks for this video! After all those challenges seen, very gently and precisely explained how to correctly eat. But, still nothing what I would need to try ....
I've spent 10 minutes watching a guy make a sandwich, might as well see him eating the sandwich.
Lol!
Its just how you know that he's speaking the truth the entire time. It proves that he taught us the correct way to prepare it.
But its still absolutely hilarious to watch people open the can the wrong way. That one poor guy who opened it in his car, like a dozen Febreze cans were discharged in one video
@@Avetho oh I remember that dude in the car. Trust me that smell will stay for months in that car. No car refreshener will help. Its embedded into the surface and I can't help but cry 🕺🏿🕺🏿⚰️🕺🏿🕺🏿
10/10 for the cameraman for bearing the smell.
Dude there were 2 plates. He's eating as well.
For all we know he might have been wearing a hazmat suit
Very academic approach of this explanation video. Thank you very much!
THANK YOU for taking the time to explain how this is supposed to be eaten.
I would say the bread looks like a corn tortilla/flat bread and sourcream could be used instead of yogurt.
unfortunately, this product is not readily available in the USA but can be purchased but at an unreasonable price (50.00-99.00 USD).
Wish I would have known about this during my travels through Sweden on my way to NordKapp from Germany(Wiesbaden was home for years) would like to have tried it.
Thx again!!
What a perfect accent! I would never have been able to tell that English is not your native language.
Thanks
Almost everyone in Scandinavia speaks English.
He speaks good English but I can still catch some accent. If you watch some Swedish youtubers, I think you can tell it's sort of a similar accent.
Brithis accent actually, I was embarrased because I spoke with american accent (from Chile)
ua-cam.com/video/Rt6cU_igF-4/v-deo.html Here's the other side of the spectrum of the Swedish English
What's up European Henry Rollins
Haha Henry Rollins gave the commencement speech at my college graduation
G1
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I was about to comment that! But seems like I was 1 year too slow (Just came over this video today).
@@lindseygirk5584 I'm sorry you had to endure him
i was very excited to watch this because i wanted to purchase some surstromming, unfortunately i learned that its gonna cost around 400 dollars just to get it to my house, guess i wont be trying it for awhile but i did enjoy this video, thanks for teaching us how to enjoy this delicacy.
I certainly didn't expect to see a t-shirt from my hometown in Poland when UA-cam randomly suggested a Surströmming eating tutorial
I watched the video for the 3rd time and just now realised the same thing 😂
I thought the bread was a napkin the whole time before he laid the ingredients on it.
i thought it was a napkin until he said bread lol, i was wondering why he is putting potatoes on a napkin :D
It’s like pita bread but wider and baked in a special oven. It’s called “lavash” you can look it up on youtube how to make it. Really good stuff.
im watching so high i didnt realise till i read this one
i was like "where's the damn bread tho"
@@MrChitakifsy Uhm what, Lavash? Its called tunnbröd (flatbread) and it is not like a pitabread, far from it..
literally bought a can because as an american i wanted to try it (always down to try new things) realized i have NO CLUE how to prepare it. awesome video and very informative!
this is one of the most enjoyable videos i’ve watched all year
Thanks for the advice. I've just bought my first tin of Surströmming, the same brand as you have in the video and almost impossible to get hold of here in Ireland. I'm planning to have a bit of a Surströmming party at Christmas with a few friends and I'm sure your advice will make it a more pleasurable experience. The bucket of water seems like a really good tip. Thanks again.
Did you have it…?
@@fleetingmoments it keeled him r.i.p.
Your accent while speaking the English language is very interesting. It seems to be a combination of English, Australian, and American, with some very stark transitions. It's so intriguing to hear Nordic people speak English.
Its called a Swedish accent
@@briannecarlson6500 to me it sounded more like distinct fragments of a few English-as-a-first-language accents due to how he may have learnt the language. But I guess if that's how it works with all Swedish people speaking English, than okay.
@@k-leb4671 We learn English from watching TV over here - American movies and drama shows, British comedy and murder mysteries, and Australian soaps and nature documentaries. Only programming that's specifically for preteen children, or domestically produced, are dubbed here, so everything aimed at teens and up runs in the original language with subtitles - or for Spaghetti Westerns, dubbed to English with subtitles. (And while I was growing up, we still had raw cable from the UK, so even the kids' shows weren't translated. All the good cartoons ran on Sky, Super and TCC with no subs when I was a kid...)
It’s definitely more British than American though. Just the occasional rhotic “R” sound.
@@briannecarlson6500 no way the Swedish and the nordics in general speak good English but this guy sounds almost native, it seems that he lived in an anglophone country for a bit
I've seen the videos of people bashing it, but I always wanted to still try it. Seeing this man passionate about it and loving his culture shows it doesn't matter how smelly, icky, or whatever, its just the experience as a while. Really want to try this. Thanks Ake!
The only thing that bothers me is why use a fork to cut-up the potatoes while using the knife to hold the potato in place ?!
Just wanted to say how much I enjoyed this simple video. Came here after seeing all the "Surströmming challenge"-type videos. Cheers from Texas.
Awesome! I've had a laugh watching lots of people trying to open that can! Thank you for teaching us how to eat it properly!
I ate surströmming once without knowing it was surströmming. It was actually really good, and I would definitely eat it again.
I am really glad this video is out there. Thanks, OP. Ive never tried it, but it is good to see it done by someone who knows how to properly eat it. Very fascinating
The can opening part is so satisfying, it's like you're cutting through the metal like butter.