With "free food" she is referring to school lunches. By law, a school is required to provide 1 nutritious meal a day (for 1-9th grade). The government pays for it with the taxes we pay. With high school it is different depending on what the local government decides. They realized that children perform better in school if they're not hungry, so the idea is to lessen the impact of class divides.
Allemansrätten (The Right of Public Access) includes private land (except for people’s gardens). It gives you the right to hike, bike, camp, ride and so on everywhere, while being considerate to nature, wildlife and landowners, meaning you don’t do damage and clean up after yourself.
Not even one singel car got in to an accident the day when we changed to drive on the right side. Everyone got the information and stoped their cars on the same time and then changed side. Pretty cool
Avicii Arena is an arena lol. They have concerts there and they play jockey. It was called Globen(the globe) until recently A visit to the doctor, no matter the reason, costs 100 kr, which is around 10 dollars. And you don't have to pay for the ambulance lol. About the free food, I'm pretty sure she meant in school. We don't have to pay to eat there.
@@sannaolsson9106 Right? Couldn’t they name something else after him? Like, Globen is such an iconic landmark. And also, why only Avicii? There are so many great Swedish legends that have gotten nada in their name.
You need to see Jonna Jinton - " Living with the dark winters in Sweden. Midninght sun & polar night" so you can see what life is like in north of Sweden.
Up to 3,5% alcohol in regular stores. Above 3,5 % only in state own stores. We have 3 of those stores in my city. And in those there are of course wine, beer, vodka, whisky, rhum, gin and so on. Absolut vodka is from sweden. And no.. when we changed from driving on left to the right side of the road, there were maybe som disorder the first hour. Then it went fine. I'm old enough to remember when it happened in 1967.
Depends on how it's cooked, if the meat is left to soak in milk overnight and then cooked the next day then it takes the gamey flavor out and tastes like a really lean beef.
You pay a maximum of 123 dollars per year to see a doctor. So if you been to the doctor (primary care, specialists, emergency, all types) that many times you’ve paid up to 123 dollars, the rest for that year will be free. For medicine the price cap is 247 dollars a year. Anything you need above that will be free. Insulin is completely free.
Allemansrätten actually is on private land to, as long as you do not see the house you can put up a tent. Whatever you do, do not show you where there though. ( never litter or break trees or destroy) then you can get in worst cases shot.
The tubed food is big over here. The picture with lots of tubes are all cream cheese with different flavors: shrimp cheese, bacon cheese, crab fish cheese etc. :) Search YT for "American tasting Swedish food" and you will see.
6:20, yes, I can imagine that as I have done that almost the whole straight from götteborg to kvikkjokk following the E4 north and E45 back south took around 20-22 hours to drive, not counting the stops
We have fish shaped candy, but it's just one of thousands of different kinds of candy. I have no idea how Swedish Fish became a thing 😅 Also the consistency of our candy fishes are usually a bit different. The lobster tube is not lobster paste. All those tubes contains flavoured cheese spread. So it's lobster flavoured cheese 😅 Very tasty 😊
I dont know if anyone else has already explained it but the reason why the Swedes chose Minnesota of all places was because it reminded them of home. The soil and the nature is similar, there are a bunch of lakes and trees all around, they have bears, fish, and moose just like home. It was like a home away from home for them and thats why they stayed in and around Minnesota
The green stuff on the Princess cake is marzipan 😋. A minimum of seven is old tradition, usually we just have one thing with our coffee, like a cinnamon bun or some type of cookie or pastry. But we do have our fika-time every day.
The Systembolaget part is more of a "Anything that's higher than 3.5%ABV can only be sold at Systembolaget", you can find beer that's 3.5%ABV and lower in regular grocerystores. This is to minimize the risk of overconsumption (as us Swedes used to drink WAAAAY too much alcohol back in the 19th and 20th century)
Allemansrätten (freedom of roaming) specifically means you are allowed to go on private land, but only certain types. If it’s a privately owned forest, you can go. You’re even allowed to pick berries, mushrooms, and the like. However, you’re not allowed to litter or destroy nature. Especially not in nature reserves.
The 3.5% alcohol - Basically 3.5% (volume%) is the limit for when it can only be sold at Systembolaget. Anything with less than 3.5% can be sold in any store (still with the agelimit) and anything with more alcohol can only be sold by Systembolaget (or bars/pubs with special alcohol-licenses). There is also a progressive tax for alcohol where the more alcohol it has the higher the tax on it and where, on average, wine have a higher tax than beer and things like that.
Allemansrätten: It doesn+t have to be public land...even private owned lands are included in this....but there are some restrictions and exceptions..... Like farmed land (where the crops grow) are off limits....and you are not allowed to close to homes.....so no ones garden/yard.,,,, But if you own a piece of forrest... I am allowed go go there.... camp there and pick berries and so forth...
You can buy alcohol up to 3,5% in regular stores at 18, but anything higher in procent is only sold in the state owned stores at 20 years old with super high prices because of the high tax on alcohol
I am absolutely grateful to Sweden for creating snus. I couldn't live without it, the shipping from Sweden is outrageous but worth it to get a far superior product than American tobaksvara.
11:07 That part is incorrect, you have the right to walk, cycle, ride, ski and camp (for a night) on any land with the exception of private gardens, near a dwelling house or land under cultivation. So privately owned forests for example that aren't being cultivated can be entered, someones back yard however, you can't. You can also pick berries and mushrooms, something a lot of companies exploit in recent years by hiring foreign workers to comb through forests for wild berries picking them clean when allemansrätten doesn't apply to companies.
Any alcohol above 3,5 abv is not allowed to be sold in regular stores, we have special stores that are owned by the state that sells all that kind of alcohol in Sweden
I think she meant free food in schools ☺️. And roads I guess is infrastructure, that we have functional roads all across the country, trains and buses to get you anywhere, you don’t have to rely on having a car to get around.
alcohol lesser than 3,5 % can be sold in regular stores. Higher than that it is sold by Systembolaget, the state owned monopolized licker store. It has regulated open hours (totally closed on sundays and bank holidays) and because it is monopolized offer a wide range of products, my favourites being american west coast beer.
kalles kaviar is nothing like fancy caviar. its smoked and heavily salted and usually eaten at breakfast on a piece of toast, often with sliced eggs. I guess its in paste form to be easily put on your toast. all the other different pastes in the picture after is cream cheese with different tastes, yes one of them is hummer taste. There is also shrimp (actually good I promise) taste. also in paste form because its easy to spread on your toast.
Thanks for a great video and interesting comments. 🙋♀️ Yes you should try the Palt dish. It’s delicious. One of my favourites actually. By the way, it is not cranberries with it, it is sweetened lingonberry jam. Yummie. 😋 I think you already have got answers of all your questions in the comments, so I don’t need to go thru them again.
I have reindeer meat in the freezer right now. It tastes so good, especially dried and salted. Moose hamburgers are good too. Oh and Systembolaget sells alcohol from 3,5% and up, anything less than that normal stores can sell.
Iirc, the amount of accidents after switching the side of the road actually decreased for a short while, since people got very careful with their driving after that. Our trains still drive of the left side though (except for trams, and some trains in Skåne, due to the Öresund bridge to Denmark where trains go on the right), since there was literally no insentive politically or economically to change that.
April weather - I remember being at Uni and gone in to study for a day. It was dark and raining as I went there so felt good to just sit indoors. About lunchtime it was sunny, warm and not a cloud in the sky and I sat outside eating my lunch. At about 3-4pm I looked out and there was a heavy snowfall with a few inches of snow on the ground. All in less than 12hrs.
Avicii arena (known as ”Globen” or ”The Globe” by the locals, no matter how many times it’s renamed) is a sports/music/entertainment arena. It’s an iconic part of Stockholm’s skyline, along with our city hall (Stadshuset).
Allemansrätten: Actually you CAN pitch your tent also on private property, but only for 24 hours and it has to be out of sight from their place of living. So it's not like you can camp in someones backyrad, but if their 'backyard' is sizeable enough, yuo can. They didn't convey all the details in this video.
When they go through FIKA, the green pastry is called "Princess cake" and is also the most iconic cake there is in Sweden and can be served on our very own "National day" which is the 6 of june and of caurse the cake is served with a small swedish flag on top, otherwise it's more common that the cake have a pink marzipan rose on the top instead. This cake however is just a cake you nomally eat when you celebrate something, so if it's just a coffie break from work then FIKA can look very different. It could also be just coffie.
Yes, we have lots of different vodkas, whiskeys, whines- you name it. We just don't sell it in grocery stores or drug stores- we have a special place for that: Systembolaget
Read on a swedish fish pack once.. Said Made in Canada :P Oh and btw, if you're curious about northern sweden, check out Jonna Jinton .. you won't regret it :)
The reason they show Donald Duck on Christmas eve is that in the 60's the TV -station(SVT) started to show it to give the children something to view. It was around that TV Came to Sweden(1958)
ABBA is literally the initial of the band members (Agnetha Fältskog, Björn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson, and Anni-Frid Lyngstad) and yes, they are Swedish. Globen is an arena, not a museum, it was recently renamed Avicii Arena after the artist Swedish artist Avicii passed away.
If you like to see the difference between summer and winter in the north of sweden, watch Jonna Jinton's video ua-cam.com/video/3zTR4ayDG38/v-deo.html .She does it all herself, Filming and editing, Beautiful videos, and she is a singer and a jewlery maker too. And yes there are cities and towns in the north.
Avicii arena was named after the DJ Avicii. Which I assume you are familiar with? It was named after him when he died. Before that it was called the Globe Arena. He's had atleast 1 number 1 song in the US. But it's just like any other arenas. Concerts and hockey games are the most common one. And yes, Abba is Swedish :)
So nobody’s gonna tell this man what a micronation is? Alright then, guess its up to me! So, a micronation is basically when a person or group of people claim a piece of land for themselves and act like they’re and independent nation eventhough they have no actual legal backning whatsoever. These micronations usually have their own flags, currencies, forms of gouvernment and ”borders” and so on but in reality they are not legal countries like for example Sweden, Germany, the UK or the US.
Why Minnesota.. they was farmers and lumberjacks.. and there was free land to claim, and it looks like scandinavia! They know how to use that sort of land!
Alemansrätten works like this. You can not go into gardens and private land close to houses and on farmlands. Also nature reserves has it´s own rules. But all other lands both private owned and public owned is free to roam and pick berries, mushrooms and so on. As long as you don´t destroy the nature. You cannot hunt animals or fish however you want. owners need to approve of that first and fishinglicences might be needed.
The 3.5 ABV rule relates to what beverages can and can not be sold in a normal supermarket. Anything of 3.5 ABV or lower can be sold anywhere, stronger alcohol than that can only be bought through the Systembolaget state monopoly.
The "micronations" in Sweden aren't really nations, it's more of a cultural statement or a protest against the government, for one reason or another. It's only the Sami people of the north that has some independence and also their own parliament. The Avicii Globe Arena in Stockholm is an arena, with music concerts, hockey tournaments, and the like. Allemansrätten, or the Right of Public Access, does not apply to someone's backyard, but you can walk into a forest, no matter who owns it. Pick berries and mushrooms, but you're not allowed to cut down trees, since they belong to the forest owner. However, you're allowed to camp, at least for one night anywhere (not including someone's backyard) if you plan to stay longer you should ask for permission. You can also go and swim in any lake, regardless of who owns it. If there is farmland in front of the lake, the farmer must leave a strip or a path so people can reach the lake, because you're not allowed to just stomp down someone's plants.
I know I'm late to the party but here is a comment on the health care price cap. If you just see a doctor or have surgery, the price is pretty much the same. If you cut your finger chopping onions and need a stitch, its about 20 USD. If you need to check your left eye because its a bit red, its about 20 USD. Did you need a heart transplant and then a month of intensive care? It's about 20 USD for the transplant and then about 15 USD per day spent in the hospital. You might need to buy some medicine in these cases to take home but if it passes about 100 USD, the rest is free.
@JimGames They did a follow-up video regarding Sweden with their video regarding the history of the Swedish flag where they issued some explanations and more facts about stuff, recommend watching that as well if you haven't already done that.
seven types of cookies is usually reserved for special occations such as birthdays or other celebrations. but we do love our pastries. we have a special pastry which we basically only eat around this one day in the spring called a Semla, this one day is actually named in it's honor.
the sciense center is a hockey Arena and an event arena and you can only buy strong alcohol at systembolaget and bears 3.5% on supermarket buy you cant buy stong alcohol after 17:00 or on sundays free food is in the schools.
The Kaviar is in paste form to be in a tube so you can bring it on your skii trip or your Hiking expedition without haveing to bring a cooler:) instead ask yourself the question! what should be on tube so you can bring it when you Hike :P well maby everything? :P YEES EVERYTHING! TUBE IT! what do you do? YOU TUBE! 1 million in dept? it would Maximum cost maby 150 dollars in Sweden to visit the hospital like that,, maby 15 dollars even :P
In the first graphic he included Finland in Scandinavia, this is wrong, they are Nordic. Globen / Avicii arena is an arena, a concert hall yes. There is an observatory thingy on the outside. No snow in the south would be extremely rare. I can't remember it happening in my life. Yes, even in the south there can be snowfall in May... Haven't had reindeer meatballs, but damn the meat is good. Princess cake has marzipan on top. It's a big one. Also, he said historically it's was 7 kinds of cookies, and I guess it's a tradition in some cases but not common. Also fika goes way beyond the workplace. No, surströmming is not anchovies, it's fish all right, but it's fermented and makes some gag because of the smell and salt. 23:45 What?! Looks nothing like it, looks like egg. Kalles Kaviar is so good! And we have A LOT of stuff in tubes. 26:20 Ewwwwwwww. Yes, anything strong is sold at Systembolaget, which is a chain which isn't open every day and at short hours. But bars serve anything. Sweden is one of the least religious countries in the world, but it's changing with all the muslims coming here, sad. I'd rather be wrongfully be called a racist than deny facts and pretend this shit is ok. Yes, Swedish fish is not from Sweden, it's an American thing. Sweden also recycle so well that we buy trash from Norway and the UK to be able to use it for fuel.
Oh we have strong alcohol here, but anything with a higher alcohol content thant 3,5 % can only be sold in our state owned liquor stores called Systembolaget. Alcohol has a very long history hear and sadly so does alcohol dependence. It's a cold and dark country a lot of time of the year with many periods in history of starvation - but most households would make their own alcohol. You are hungry? Alcohol. Cold? Alcohol. Children are sick? Alcohol. Children can't sleep because they are cold, hungry and sick? Alcohol. So in the middle of the 19th century a lot restrictions were put in place to stem this and it has led to the system we have today. This means that no private owner can get rich of of selling alcohol here. The alcohol is always sold at the same price in stores. There's less commercials for alcohol and so on. Since Systembolaget is run by the government they don't really have the need to make money, so you can find more than just the "best sellers" even in the smaller stores in small towns.
If I were to travel by car from Gothenburg to the town furthest North, it would take around 20 hours with no stops (says my iphone map app). Good idea for traveling 👍🏻, I might do that one day. Usually when traveling I choose warmer countries to escape Swedish winter 😂 but summers here are warm and beautiful ☺️.
Fika - I guess it is more of a lifestyle in that it is always something you can do when you cant think of anything else. If you want to meet up with your friends, Swedes are not strong on the "let' just hang out", we like to do something. So go out and have a Fika is a good enough reason to meet up and have a chat. In the workplace a coffee-break is something that most Unions seem to have added to the work schedule. You put down your work, you go to the breakroom, you get a coffee or tea and maybe grab a cookie as well. While there you can smalltalk in general, discuss the latest sports that's been going on, or you can have informal work meetings since most people from the entire company comes together around the same time. You can tell your boss something that (s)he might want to know about, or your boss can catch up with how things have going. I personally speculate that the Fika during work is simply just an alotted time to be social with others. it is ment to replace the occasional smalltalk as you pass your co-workers in the hallway so that workers can focus on being productive and work-related things and then when it's time for a Fika you switch into social, non-work mode.
It’s not at all difficult to get your hands on stronger alchohol if you’re over 20 (or 18 at pubs), you just can’t buy it in the convenience store. This has actually helped reduce the amount of alcoholism, and has reduced the crime rate significantly every year.
The reason why the swedish immigrants choose Minnesota I believe is becasue they thought the ground (the earth) the trees and the nature looked kind of simular to how it looked in sweden from were they came from and it felt like a little part of sweden were with them. So they did it for those kind of reasons I think but it could also be for other reasons too.
(Swedish) Got covid (real bad) and had to visit hospital 4 times and the ER 3 Times total cost about 150 usd... I was unable to work for 3 mounths but still 90% of my sallery
you can only buy up to 3.5% alcoholic bevrages in regular stores . Systembolaget is goverment owned stores that sell the stronger stuff. anything above 3.5% is sold there.
They are WRONG about the "Allemansrätten" (Right of Public Access). You HAVE access to be on private land! That's the point! This is how it works; "'the public has access to private land where no damage is likely to result and prohibition would be unreasonable"'. You can camp anywhere you want....in Sweden for one or two nights. (Not caravans dough....that's not real camping anyway) ;-) You can pick berries in the woods, climbing or hiking, fishing is free with rods along the coast and in the five largest lakes, you have to buy a "fishing-card" in many smaller lakes but that doesn't cost much. The nature is available for everybody. With a few EXCEPTIONS like peoples GARDENS, MILITARY AREAS and SUCHLIKE, and with these "right to roam" come responsibilities; that is, an OBLIGATION neither to harm, disturb, litter, nor to damage wildlife or crops. "The Swedish know-it-all" ;-)
I belive our medical care caps are about 107,748usd for treament and doctors appointments( not dental care that has an other separate cap) and 215,496usd for medicine per year after that there is only specially hard operations or plastic surgery and the like that will cost you. Im diabetic and my medicine I mostly get free after like 2-3 months. So 323,244 usd/ yearly for healthcare (not including dental) is the most you as an avagage swede is gonna need to pay and the avarage doctors appointmment costs on avarage less than 20usd.
1 million for healthcare? omg thats horrific!!! here u pay with ure taxes or u have a cap up to about 1500 swedish crown and after its free. 24hours in hospital is about 90 crowns wich is drawn from ure tax
Coffee was banned because of economic reasons. Basically, Sweden didn't have any trade companies that imported it directly so all of it was bought at pretty high cost from foreign trade houses.. and as coffee was very popular, that's a lot of money flowing out of the country.
But it was sold as if you drink a cup of coffee, you end up with a syringe in your arm. There is old anti coffee propaganda to be found on the internet, an antique version of reefer madness.
46:28 fun fact about the national anthem. The reason it's not official is because the government thought that a national anthem should be chosen by it's people, even now that's what they think. so if the majority of Swedens population suddenly wanted Wrecking ball as the national anthem, it would be the national anthem.
Freedom to roam: you can't walk in someone's backyard, but almost. You have to stay out of sight or 50 yards away from a house, to allow for privacy. But you may walk on private owned farmland or forests, you may put up a tent anywhere and stay one night, minding the 50 yard rule from a house.
With "free food" she is referring to school lunches. By law, a school is required to provide 1 nutritious meal a day (for 1-9th grade). The government pays for it with the taxes we pay.
With high school it is different depending on what the local government decides.
They realized that children perform better in school if they're not hungry, so the idea is to lessen the impact of class divides.
Allemansrätten (The Right of Public Access) includes private land (except for people’s gardens). It gives you the right to hike, bike, camp, ride and so on everywhere, while being considerate to nature, wildlife and landowners, meaning you don’t do damage and clean up after yourself.
Not even one singel car got in to an accident the day when we changed to drive on the right side. Everyone got the information and stoped their cars on the same time and then changed side. Pretty cool
Avicii Arena is an arena lol. They have concerts there and they play jockey. It was called Globen(the globe) until recently
A visit to the doctor, no matter the reason, costs 100 kr, which is around 10 dollars. And you don't have to pay for the ambulance lol.
About the free food, I'm pretty sure she meant in school. We don't have to pay to eat there.
But let’s be honest, who actually calls it Avicii Arena?
@@Elis_Nordgall The name change is ridiculous lol
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Right? Couldn’t they name something else after him? Like, Globen is such an iconic landmark.
And also, why only Avicii? There are so many great Swedish legends that have gotten nada in their name.
You need to see Jonna Jinton - " Living with the dark winters in Sweden. Midninght sun & polar night" so you can see what life is like in north of Sweden.
Up to 3,5% alcohol in regular stores.
Above 3,5 % only in state own stores. We have 3 of those stores in my city.
And in those there are of course wine, beer, vodka, whisky, rhum, gin and so on.
Absolut vodka is from sweden.
And no.. when we changed from driving on left to the right side of the road,
there were maybe som disorder the first hour. Then it went fine.
I'm old enough to remember when it happened in 1967.
Reindeer is delicious! Also, when she talks about free food I'm assuming she means that students in Sweden get free food at schools.
Yes, students in Sweden get free food at schools.
@@aborg7529 And paid to go.
No, reindeer is not delicious at all. It is quite expensive though, so that is most likely one explanation to why some people like it.
Depends on how it's cooked, if the meat is left to soak in milk overnight and then cooked the next day then it takes the gamey flavor out and tastes like a really lean beef.
You pay a maximum of 123 dollars per year to see a doctor. So if you been to the doctor (primary care, specialists, emergency, all types) that many times you’ve paid up to 123 dollars, the rest for that year will be free. For medicine the price cap is 247 dollars a year. Anything you need above that will be free. Insulin is completely free.
Allemansrätten actually is on private land to, as long as you do not see the house you can put up a tent. Whatever you do, do not show you where there though. ( never litter or break trees or destroy) then you can get in worst cases shot.
The tubed food is big over here. The picture with lots of tubes are all cream cheese with different flavors: shrimp cheese, bacon cheese, crab fish cheese etc. :) Search YT for "American tasting Swedish food" and you will see.
6:20, yes, I can imagine that as I have done that almost the whole straight from götteborg to kvikkjokk following the E4 north and E45 back south took around 20-22 hours to drive, not counting the stops
We have fish shaped candy, but it's just one of thousands of different kinds of candy. I have no idea how Swedish Fish became a thing 😅 Also the consistency of our candy fishes are usually a bit different.
The lobster tube is not lobster paste. All those tubes contains flavoured cheese spread. So it's lobster flavoured cheese 😅 Very tasty 😊
I found out that it had more to do with the flavor of the candy as in sweet-ish and got misprinted as Swedish.
It does however have real lobster or shrimp or whatever flavour it says to have, and not artificial.
The swedish fish is not our fish shaped candy. Also its produced for the american market and not avalible in Sweden.
I dont know if anyone else has already explained it but the reason why the Swedes chose Minnesota of all places was because it reminded them of home. The soil and the nature is similar, there are a bunch of lakes and trees all around, they have bears, fish, and moose just like home. It was like a home away from home for them and thats why they stayed in and around Minnesota
The green stuff on the Princess cake is marzipan 😋. A minimum of seven is old tradition, usually we just have one thing with our coffee, like a cinnamon bun or some type of cookie or pastry. But we do have our fika-time every day.
The Systembolaget part is more of a "Anything that's higher than 3.5%ABV can only be sold at Systembolaget", you can find beer that's 3.5%ABV and lower in regular grocerystores.
This is to minimize the risk of overconsumption (as us Swedes used to drink WAAAAY too much alcohol back in the 19th and 20th century)
The avicii arena is like what you first thought a place to hold really big concerts and events it is quite big.
Allemansrätten (freedom of roaming) specifically means you are allowed to go on private land, but only certain types.
If it’s a privately owned forest, you can go. You’re even allowed to pick berries, mushrooms, and the like.
However, you’re not allowed to litter or destroy nature. Especially not in nature reserves.
The 3.5% alcohol -
Basically 3.5% (volume%) is the limit for when it can only be sold at Systembolaget. Anything with less than 3.5% can be sold in any store (still with the agelimit) and anything with more alcohol can only be sold by Systembolaget (or bars/pubs with special alcohol-licenses).
There is also a progressive tax for alcohol where the more alcohol it has the higher the tax on it and where, on average, wine have a higher tax than beer and things like that.
Allemansrätten: It doesn+t have to be public land...even private owned lands are included in this....but there are some restrictions and exceptions..... Like farmed land (where the crops grow) are off limits....and you are not allowed to close to homes.....so no ones garden/yard.,,,, But if you own a piece of forrest... I am allowed go go there.... camp there and pick berries and so forth...
You can buy alcohol up to 3,5% in regular stores at 18, but anything higher in procent is only sold in the state owned stores at 20 years old with super high prices because of the high tax on alcohol
I am absolutely grateful to Sweden for creating snus. I couldn't live without it, the shipping from Sweden is outrageous but worth it to get a far superior product than American tobaksvara.
17:30 yeah in school we get free food provided by the school itself. However at university level school we have to buy our own food like any others
11:07 That part is incorrect, you have the right to walk, cycle, ride, ski and camp (for a night) on any land with the exception of private gardens, near a dwelling house or land under cultivation. So privately owned forests for example that aren't being cultivated can be entered, someones back yard however, you can't. You can also pick berries and mushrooms, something a lot of companies exploit in recent years by hiring foreign workers to comb through forests for wild berries picking them clean when allemansrätten doesn't apply to companies.
Any alcohol above 3,5 abv is not allowed to be sold in regular stores, we have special stores that are owned by the state that sells all that kind of alcohol in Sweden
10:15 yes, ABBA is a swedish band. The name ABBA is an abbreviation of their names, being: Agnetha, Benny, Björn and Anni-Frid .
I think she meant free food in schools ☺️. And roads I guess is infrastructure, that we have functional roads all across the country, trains and buses to get you anywhere, you don’t have to rely on having a car to get around.
alcohol lesser than 3,5 % can be sold in regular stores. Higher than that it is sold by Systembolaget, the state owned monopolized licker store. It has regulated open hours (totally closed on sundays and bank holidays) and because it is monopolized offer a wide range of products, my favourites being american west coast beer.
the alcohol that they sell in systembolaget is from 3,5% and up. everything under can be bouth in regular food stors.
10:14 yes ABBA are from Sweden :)
kalles kaviar is nothing like fancy caviar. its smoked and heavily salted and usually eaten at breakfast on a piece of toast, often with sliced eggs. I guess its in paste form to be easily put on your toast. all the other different pastes in the picture after is cream cheese with different tastes, yes one of them is hummer taste. There is also shrimp (actually good I promise) taste. also in paste form because its easy to spread on your toast.
Thanks for a great video and interesting comments. 🙋♀️ Yes you should try the Palt dish. It’s delicious. One of my favourites actually. By the way, it is not cranberries with it, it is sweetened lingonberry jam. Yummie. 😋
I think you already have got answers of all your questions in the comments, so I don’t need to go thru them again.
I have reindeer meat in the freezer right now. It tastes so good, especially dried and salted. Moose hamburgers are good too.
Oh and Systembolaget sells alcohol from 3,5% and up, anything less than that normal stores can sell.
Iirc, the amount of accidents after switching the side of the road actually decreased for a short while, since people got very careful with their driving after that.
Our trains still drive of the left side though (except for trams, and some trains in Skåne, due to the Öresund bridge to Denmark where trains go on the right), since there was literally no insentive politically or economically to change that.
April weather -
I remember being at Uni and gone in to study for a day. It was dark and raining as I went there so felt good to just sit indoors. About lunchtime it was sunny, warm and not a cloud in the sky and I sat outside eating my lunch. At about 3-4pm I looked out and there was a heavy snowfall with a few inches of snow on the ground. All in less than 12hrs.
Avicii arena (known as ”Globen” or ”The Globe” by the locals, no matter how many times it’s renamed) is a sports/music/entertainment arena. It’s an iconic part of Stockholm’s skyline, along with our city hall (Stadshuset).
Allemansrätten: Actually you CAN pitch your tent also on private property, but only for 24 hours and it has to be out of sight from their place of living. So it's not like you can camp in someones backyrad, but if their 'backyard' is sizeable enough, yuo can. They didn't convey all the details in this video.
I think the free food she referenced is in the schools. We get served free lunch every day
No... Surströmming is nothing like anchovies. Anchovies are edible.
And the green stuff on the cake is marzipan.
Surströmming is a fermented herring. I’ll bet it’s nothing like you have ever smelled or tasted before
@@aborg7529 I'm Norwegian, so you are absolutely right. I know exactly what it is, and so I stay away.
Surströmming are our own biochemical warfare.
When they go through FIKA, the green pastry is called "Princess cake" and is also the most iconic cake there is in Sweden and can be served on our very own "National day" which is the 6 of june and of caurse the cake is served with a small swedish flag on top, otherwise it's more common that the cake have a pink marzipan rose on the top instead. This cake however is just a cake you nomally eat when you celebrate something, so if it's just a coffie break from work then FIKA can look very different. It could also be just coffie.
Yes, we have lots of different vodkas, whiskeys, whines- you name it. We just don't sell it in grocery stores or drug stores- we have a special place for that: Systembolaget
Read on a swedish fish pack once.. Said Made in Canada :P
Oh and btw, if you're curious about northern sweden, check out Jonna Jinton .. you won't regret it :)
Jonna og hele familien er fantastiske ❤️ smukke videoer hun laver
i promise if u get a hold of "kräftost" or "kalles kaviar" u dont want anything else, that is 1 of if not the most common produkts here
Prular for moose in Swedish is; Älgar. Because one moose in Swedish is Älg
Random Swedish lesson!
The reason they show Donald Duck on Christmas eve is that in the 60's the TV -station(SVT) started to show it to give the children something to view. It was around that TV
Came to Sweden(1958)
ABBA is literally the initial of the band members (Agnetha Fältskog, Björn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson, and Anni-Frid Lyngstad) and yes, they are Swedish. Globen is an arena, not a museum, it was recently renamed Avicii Arena after the artist Swedish artist Avicii passed away.
yay so fun. I'm from sweden love this video.
29:38 _The Room_ reference FTW
You are TEARING ME APART, Barbs!
As a swedish army that has subscribed to you for a long time this made me happy 🤪💜
If you like to see the difference between summer and winter in the north of sweden, watch Jonna Jinton's video ua-cam.com/video/3zTR4ayDG38/v-deo.html .She does it all herself, Filming and editing, Beautiful videos, and she is a singer and a jewlery maker too.
And yes there are cities and towns in the north.
Avicii arena was named after the DJ Avicii. Which I assume you are familiar with? It was named after him when he died. Before that it was called the Globe Arena. He's had atleast 1 number 1 song in the US. But it's just like any other arenas. Concerts and hockey games are the most common one. And yes, Abba is Swedish :)
avicii arena is a normal arena just shaped as a ball, theres concert and cons in there mostly as far as i know.
So nobody’s gonna tell this man what a micronation is? Alright then, guess its up to me! So, a micronation is basically when a person or group of people claim a piece of land for themselves and act like they’re and independent nation eventhough they have no actual legal backning whatsoever. These micronations usually have their own flags, currencies, forms of gouvernment and ”borders” and so on but in reality they are not legal countries like for example Sweden, Germany, the UK or the US.
Why Minnesota.. they was farmers and lumberjacks.. and there was free land to claim, and it looks like scandinavia! They know how to use that sort of land!
Avicii Arena is a large arena that hosts events like ice hockey, concerts etc. The Swedish national hockey team play their home games there
7:12 And his saucy ship's a beauty!
Alemansrätten works like this. You can not go into gardens and private land close to houses and on farmlands. Also nature reserves has it´s own rules. But all other lands both private owned and public owned is free to roam and pick berries, mushrooms and so on. As long as you don´t destroy the nature. You cannot hunt animals or fish however you want. owners need to approve of that first and fishinglicences might be needed.
The 3.5 ABV rule relates to what beverages can and can not be sold in a normal supermarket. Anything of 3.5 ABV or lower can be sold anywhere, stronger alcohol than that can only be bought through the Systembolaget state monopoly.
The "micronations" in Sweden aren't really nations, it's more of a cultural statement or a protest against the government, for one reason or another. It's only the Sami people of the north that has some independence and also their own parliament.
The Avicii Globe Arena in Stockholm is an arena, with music concerts, hockey tournaments, and the like.
Allemansrätten, or the Right of Public Access, does not apply to someone's backyard, but you can walk into a forest, no matter who owns it. Pick berries and mushrooms, but you're not allowed to cut down trees, since they belong to the forest owner. However, you're allowed to camp, at least for one night anywhere (not including someone's backyard) if you plan to stay longer you should ask for permission. You can also go and swim in any lake, regardless of who owns it. If there is farmland in front of the lake, the farmer must leave a strip or a path so people can reach the lake, because you're not allowed to just stomp down someone's plants.
the avicii arena is fort artist to preform in. Abba is from sweden. 💜
37:47 It was literally the plot of an episode of _The Ghost and Molly McGee_ , a show that is otherwise bright and cheery.
I know I'm late to the party but here is a comment on the health care price cap. If you just see a doctor or have surgery, the price is pretty much the same. If you cut your finger chopping onions and need a stitch, its about 20 USD. If you need to check your left eye because its a bit red, its about 20 USD. Did you need a heart transplant and then a month of intensive care? It's about 20 USD for the transplant and then about 15 USD per day spent in the hospital. You might need to buy some medicine in these cases to take home but if it passes about 100 USD, the rest is free.
@JimGames They did a follow-up video regarding Sweden with their video regarding the history of the Swedish flag where they issued some explanations and more facts about stuff, recommend watching that as well if you haven't already done that.
Greetings from Gotland. Avicci arena were formerly called Globen or The Globe and are a sport and events arena.
seven types of cookies is usually reserved for special occations such as birthdays or other celebrations. but we do love our pastries. we have a special pastry which we basically only eat around this one day in the spring called a Semla, this one day is actually named in it's honor.
alcohol at or over 3,5% has to be sold in the state owned stores, anything under 3,5% can be sold in regular stores
I’m following your BTS journey (which I love) and stumbled on this. It was great 💜
Hej från Göteborg! 🇸🇪
the sciense center is a hockey Arena and an event arena and you can only buy strong alcohol at systembolaget and bears 3.5% on supermarket buy you cant buy stong alcohol after 17:00 or on sundays
free food is in the schools.
I work at Volvo in Göteborg 😄
The Kaviar is in paste form to be in a tube so you can bring it on your skii trip or your Hiking expedition without haveing to bring a cooler:) instead ask yourself the question! what should be on tube so you can bring it when you Hike :P
well maby everything? :P YEES EVERYTHING! TUBE IT! what do you do? YOU TUBE!
1 million in dept? it would Maximum cost maby 150 dollars in Sweden to visit the hospital like that,, maby 15 dollars even :P
In more northern parts we also eat Moose tungues👌🥲
In the first graphic he included Finland in Scandinavia, this is wrong, they are Nordic.
Globen / Avicii arena is an arena, a concert hall yes. There is an observatory thingy on the outside.
No snow in the south would be extremely rare. I can't remember it happening in my life.
Yes, even in the south there can be snowfall in May...
Haven't had reindeer meatballs, but damn the meat is good.
Princess cake has marzipan on top. It's a big one. Also, he said historically it's was 7 kinds of cookies, and I guess it's a tradition in some cases but not common. Also fika goes way beyond the workplace.
No, surströmming is not anchovies, it's fish all right, but it's fermented and makes some gag because of the smell and salt.
23:45 What?! Looks nothing like it, looks like egg.
Kalles Kaviar is so good! And we have A LOT of stuff in tubes.
26:20 Ewwwwwwww.
Yes, anything strong is sold at Systembolaget, which is a chain which isn't open every day and at short hours. But bars serve anything.
Sweden is one of the least religious countries in the world, but it's changing with all the muslims coming here, sad.
I'd rather be wrongfully be called a racist than deny facts and pretend this shit is ok.
Yes, Swedish fish is not from Sweden, it's an American thing.
Sweden also recycle so well that we buy trash from Norway and the UK to be able to use it for fuel.
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Oh we have strong alcohol here, but anything with a higher alcohol content thant 3,5 % can only be sold in our state owned liquor stores called Systembolaget. Alcohol has a very long history hear and sadly so does alcohol dependence. It's a cold and dark country a lot of time of the year with many periods in history of starvation - but most households would make their own alcohol. You are hungry? Alcohol. Cold? Alcohol. Children are sick? Alcohol. Children can't sleep because they are cold, hungry and sick? Alcohol. So in the middle of the 19th century a lot restrictions were put in place to stem this and it has led to the system we have today. This means that no private owner can get rich of of selling alcohol here. The alcohol is always sold at the same price in stores. There's less commercials for alcohol and so on. Since Systembolaget is run by the government they don't really have the need to make money, so you can find more than just the "best sellers" even in the smaller stores in small towns.
If I were to travel by car from Gothenburg to the town furthest North, it would take around 20 hours with no stops (says my iphone map app). Good idea for traveling 👍🏻, I might do that one day. Usually when traveling I choose warmer countries to escape Swedish winter 😂 but summers here are warm and beautiful ☺️.
Fika -
I guess it is more of a lifestyle in that it is always something you can do when you cant think of anything else. If you want to meet up with your friends, Swedes are not strong on the "let' just hang out", we like to do something. So go out and have a Fika is a good enough reason to meet up and have a chat.
In the workplace a coffee-break is something that most Unions seem to have added to the work schedule. You put down your work, you go to the breakroom, you get a coffee or tea and maybe grab a cookie as well. While there you can smalltalk in general, discuss the latest sports that's been going on, or you can have informal work meetings since most people from the entire company comes together around the same time. You can tell your boss something that (s)he might want to know about, or your boss can catch up with how things have going.
I personally speculate that the Fika during work is simply just an alotted time to be social with others. it is ment to replace the occasional smalltalk as you pass your co-workers in the hallway so that workers can focus on being productive and work-related things and then when it's time for a Fika you switch into social, non-work mode.
It’s not at all difficult to get your hands on stronger alchohol if you’re over 20 (or 18 at pubs), you just can’t buy it in the convenience store.
This has actually helped reduce the amount of alcoholism, and has reduced the crime rate significantly every year.
when I had surgery and spent one night I paid $5 I think
24:24 you have it on eggs and as a toping on bred
The reason why the swedish immigrants choose Minnesota I believe is becasue they thought the ground (the earth) the trees and the nature looked kind of simular to how it looked in sweden from were they came from and it felt like a little part of sweden were with them. So they did it for those kind of reasons I think but it could also be for other reasons too.
(Swedish) Got covid (real bad) and had to visit hospital 4 times and the ER 3 Times total cost about 150 usd... I was unable to work for 3 mounths but still 90% of my sallery
you can only buy up to 3.5% alcoholic bevrages in regular stores . Systembolaget is goverment owned stores that sell the stronger stuff. anything above 3.5% is sold there.
They are WRONG about the "Allemansrätten" (Right of Public Access). You HAVE access to be on private land! That's the point!
This is how it works; "'the public has access to private land where no damage is likely to result and prohibition would be unreasonable"'. You can camp anywhere you want....in Sweden for one or two nights. (Not caravans dough....that's not real camping anyway) ;-) You can pick berries in the woods, climbing or hiking, fishing is free with rods along the coast and in the five largest lakes, you have to buy a "fishing-card" in many smaller lakes but that doesn't cost much. The nature is available for everybody.
With a few EXCEPTIONS like peoples GARDENS, MILITARY AREAS and SUCHLIKE, and with these "right to roam" come responsibilities; that is, an OBLIGATION neither to harm, disturb, litter, nor to damage wildlife or crops.
"The Swedish know-it-all" ;-)
The canvas things is more due to the fact that it's illegal to do offroading in Sweden
I belive our medical care caps are about 107,748usd for treament and doctors appointments( not dental care that has an other separate cap) and 215,496usd for medicine per year after that there is only specially hard operations or plastic surgery and the like that will cost you.
Im diabetic and my medicine I mostly get free after like 2-3 months.
So 323,244 usd/ yearly for healthcare (not including dental) is the most you as an avagage swede is gonna need to pay and the avarage doctors appointmment costs on avarage less than 20usd.
6:30 aboit 19h E4 and 22h E45.
1 million for healthcare? omg thats horrific!!! here u pay with ure taxes or u have a cap up to about 1500 swedish crown and after its free. 24hours in hospital is about 90 crowns wich is drawn from ure tax
Coffee was banned because of economic reasons. Basically, Sweden didn't have any trade companies that imported it directly so all of it was bought at pretty high cost from foreign trade houses.. and as coffee was very popular, that's a lot of money flowing out of the country.
But it was sold as if you drink a cup of coffee, you end up with a syringe in your arm.
There is old anti coffee propaganda to be found on the internet, an antique version of reefer madness.
Palt is awesome. Kalles kaviar is awesome .
Reindeer meatballs are freaking amazing!
46:28 fun fact about the national anthem. The reason it's not official is because the government thought that a national anthem should be chosen by it's people, even now that's what they think.
so if the majority of Swedens population suddenly wanted Wrecking ball as the national anthem, it would be the national anthem.
Absolut Vodka is Swedish haha
Now that you mentioned it, I never thought about how crazy that is. Someone just went: "Oi, lets taxidermy a fucken whale, m8!"
The law of allemansrätten. You know the roaming law. They are wrong. You can go into somebodys yard, as long as you dont destroy or disturb.
"Aprilväder" > april weather, is basically all 4 seasons happening in one day.
Haha Absolute Vodka is literally from Sweden.
Things Swedes put in paste tubes are toothpaste, and thins we put on sandwiches.
Freedom to roam: you can't walk in someone's backyard, but almost. You have to stay out of sight or 50 yards away from a house, to allow for privacy. But you may walk on private owned farmland or forests, you may put up a tent anywhere and stay one night, minding the 50 yard rule from a house.
Danish man here, first thing i did when i turned 15, was buying a 3L bottle of Jack Daniels from the closest gas station
The travel ban was in respons to the travel ban that the US put on all EU citizens.
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