13 Things That Shocked Me About Sweden! 🇸🇪
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- Опубліковано 7 лют 2025
- Hej hej! After living in Sweden for almost a month from playing professional football, I’ve come across some things that I didn’t expect. From grocery store scanners to food in tubes and the fact that it gets dark at 4 PM…. Sweden has surprised me in many ways.
In this video, I share 13 things that stood out to me as a foreigner living/moving here. If you’re curious about life in Sweden or want to see how I’m experiencing life as a professional footballer, feel free to follow along! This is some Swedish culture vs Canadian culture vs American culture!
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Try opening the can forward instead like now backwards
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Du måste använda konservöppnare åt andra hållet 😅.
Yeah, like what's forward when opening a can? 😅
But of course counter clockwise is the way to go!
Don't punsh new holes! Use smaller 'wrist moves' so the can-openers egde doesn't leave the lid but shears around while by each move advancing the 'hook' a tiny bit forward (counter clockwise).
Förstör henne inte för resten av livet. Märks att du inte hejjar på DFF. Go girl. Nice video!
@@Dataknutte vilka är DFF och vad har dom med detta o göra och nej hejar inte på dom, hurså?? Va ju lite mer som ett skämt.. Vem går ens nära det där. Just ja jag glömde det är internet där alla tar allt på allvar ;)
3:25 try going forward, might be easier!
Only reason i went to the comments 😁
Yes you are doing it right but go forward instead of backwards❤
All the "pastry-days" I think are there to compensate for that the weather is so depressing in our country for 50% of the year 😂
But that said, I think you're lucky starting your time in Sweden during the winter. This way you get to experience the summer highs without being unprepared for the winter lows.
I have some friends who moved here during the summer and they were "devastated" when the winter came around. But after some years they've come to accept the winter darkness. (A very Swedish move if you ask me)
I am a filipino and now a Swedish citizen and living in Sweden more than 16 years. I love Sweden ❤🫶
Did she just call risgrynsgröt Norwegian??? I have never been this offended in my life
Forgive MEEE
@@ChloeMinasYT Never mind! The Norwegians think it's a Norwegian specialty!
I love getting an outside view on Sweden! Great video!
Looking at the triangular shape of your string of kaviar, it guess you might have stabbed the metal sealing with a knife or similar. As I’m sure others have already told you: If you press the top of the cap into the seal, you get a nice star-shaped hole. This goes for most, if not all, tube food.
Welcome to Sweden Chloe! Personally I was surprised that a canadian was unaware of the sun setting at different times during the year. Surely Canada is far enough north to have seasonal changes? My wife used to live basically ON the equator and she had a really hard time transitioning to a reality where the sun didn't rise AND set at basically the same time every day.
When you open the can with that type of can opener, move it forwards instead of backwards. It'll be a lot easier to open. Trust me.
First off: welcome to Sweden, enjoy your stay!
The can opener: you went backwards, you are supposed to go forwards.
Cooking spray, what? Sugar-free syrup, what? Most people use butter or some type of cooking oil, but there's also liquid butter/oil mix in bottles.
Black/blood pudding: Slice it in about 1 cm thick and fry it on medium high heat, it doesn't have to cook through as long as it is warm. People serve it with different things, but lingonberry jam is a staple. Others also add bacon, fried eggs, or maybe fried Falukorv/Falu sausage. Needless to say, it can get quite fatty and salty if you use all of it.
Bikes and locks: My regular bikes have been safe for years living in a not so great area. My electric bike got stolen within a month.
Closing times: the bigger the city the longer the opening times. But the state monopoly alcohol store tends to have short opening hours on saturdays and always (I think) closed on sundays. You have to plan your alcohol purchases. You can find beers up to 3.5% in grocery stores.
Semla: going back say 50 years and further back, there were strict regulations on when you could sell semla. I think bakeries could only sell semla just one day or one week around february, if they were caught selling outside those days they could be fined.
Kalles kaviar: you definitively ate it wrong, especially if you are particular with fishy-tasting food. Proper dark bread, spread butter on the bread, sliced boiled egg, and kaviar on top. Or something we did at my grandmother; knäckebröd/crisp bread, butter, kaviar, and chopped chives. The kaviar taste is so devisive with people who didn't grow up with it that it can be used as a prank on tourists. There have been hidden camera type of stuff when a TV crew is visiting another country, set up a table in the middle of a square, and have the locals try kaviar. It's very rare anyone likes it.
What a great comment! Thanks for the info :)
As a general rule Sweden is good at berries, baked goods and candy. My brother's wife, who is Canadian, was blown away by the fresh strawberries in Sweden the first time she tried them. The early varieties which you'll start to see in late May are just okay. Starting from July you can find really good ones. That also goes for wild strawberries, raspberries, cloudberries & blueberries (technically they're bilberries but everyone calls them blueberries). In terms of baked goods the must tries are in my opinion: Princesstårta, Budapesttårta, Napoleonbakelse
Shoehorns are a must for any type of shoe with a harder collar, something like a dress shoe. Don't worry about not liking Kalles Kaviar, it's not for everyone, I don't like it either.
And yes, the weather is usually pretty grey and boring around this time if there's no snow. March is a better month, it'll still be sunny around dinnertime then and the light in general is just a lot warmer. I'd say my favourite time is around mid-May to mid-June. Everything is in bloom, the temperature is usually very nice and it'll be sunny almost every day.
Get a shoehorn in metal, feels a lot better than the plastic ones.
This is how I prepare blood pudding:
Start by frying up some bacon until it's really crispy. Leave the grease in the pan. Slice the blood pudding in thin slices and fry it in the bacon grease until crispy on the surface. You don't want too thick slices, or the pudding will be mushy in the middle. Yes, it is supposed to be black. Don't worry, it's not burnt. Serve with bacon and lingonberries, or some other sweet/tart condiment. I like to take some sour apples, slice them up and give them a quick stir fry in a clean pan. Add a little brown sugar to caramelize and some yellow curry powder. This becomes sort of a hot apple chutney that goes (and looks) great with blood pudding.
Serve with some raw cut greens like white cabbge or carrots on the side.
So, why even eat blood pudding? It is cheap and easy to prepare. it is a very good source of iron, so it is great if you are having iron deficiency, especially if you are menstruating or if you are a blood donor.
Thank you!! :)
@@ChloeMinasYTMy old lady is crazy about bloodpudding, and I can’t even stand the smell of it frying! We had it served in school and it was way to thick slices and fried to long and taste more like a sole. Plus it was served with a salad of raw cabbage and lingonberry - an horrible combination for kids!
On the can opener youre going the wrong way, go forwards instead, but dont slide it all the way up, just go up down up down as you push forwards, its simpler and quicker
1: All of Europe stare in disbelief at American bathroom stalls.
3: Go to some kitchen utelsil store and ask for a "Röda Clara". It's a wall mounted can opener. You won't regret getting one.
5: That shoe horn costs like 5 or 10 SEK at Ikea!
6: Cooking spray? Here we buy a brick of butter or margarine!
7: Blood pudding is THE food youo eat when you have a hard time making ends meet.Very cheap way to fill your belly.
8: The rice porridge is a Christmas staple here in Sweden.
9: Pedestrians having the right of way isn't just niceness, it's the law. If you hit a pedestrian on a zebra crossing while driving YOU caused the accident, period. Which means people make sure they don't hit pedestrians.
10. Here in Stockholm the sun will set like 11:30 PM around midsummer, and rises around 2:30 am.
11. Swedish folklore says that if you put seven different flowers under your pillow on Midsummer's night, whoever you dream of will be your future spouse.
12: The usual way to eat a semla is to first eat the lid (you may use the lid to scoop up a little cream), then you eat the rest of the bun. One variation is to place it in a bowl of hot milk and then eat it. Semla is available between New year and Easter, but if you're very traditional you only eat them on Mardi Gras.
13: Sweden is a country with a lot of coastline and not so much land area, and crops could sometimes be poor, so we historically survived on fish to a large extent. So of course we eat fish roe. And we invented all sorts of weird methods to preserve our fish, including fermenting it.
Go counter clockwise around the can - now you go backwards. A tip...: From 3 to 12 to 9 to 6 around the can...counter clockwise.
Your overall positivity is very infectious, made me smile. Welcome to Sweden! 🥳
Thank you:)
So much fun to watch this as a Swedish person! So many things I didn't know was unusual😂
Great video! Positive vibe! Looking forward to the next one
You have a lot of caviar, try butter bread first then apply just thin layer evenly spred❤
Just a friendly pointer on the bike/pedestrian-paths.
By law you should walk on the left side of the road whenever possible (unless otherwise indicated by road-signs, road-markings)
The signs you typically will see are round blue with a bike and pedistrian on them with a line between them (like in the video) but also where the pedestrian is ontop and the bike is below with no line.
When you have the line separation you will walk on the side that the pedestrian is (can be both left and right) and if there is no line you should walk on the left side.
For the can opener.
You did it half right.
Rotate the can clockwise instead and do not lift the opener completely out of the can. Leave the tip of the edge in the existing cut when you rotate and you can quickly make a new one and extend the existing cut.
Well welcome to Sweden! You are correct, we just survive during the dark and cold winter months but come Spring you'll see a totally different Country. I guess you've been told already but you're moving the tin opener in the wrong direction...
The Kalles Kaviar...yes aquired taste indeed but you didn't do it any favours there, grab a falu råg rut (a type of knäckebröd) have some butter on it, spread a thin layer of Kalles on there and add sliced hardboiled egg, You'll get it if you try it.
Semla kicks ass, for real. You should also try Napoleonbakelse if you see one.
Good luck with the footy!
The Kaviar tube. You flip the cork and punkture the opening with the cork so it becomes a star. You need butter and egg not just kaviar on a burned slice of bread
LOL I’ll use eggs and butter next time!!
@@ChloeMinasYT Don't forget the butter (rec. Bregott).
@@ChloeMinasYT And try the "kaviar" variant with dill; very much not like "cat food"! 😉 And hard boiled egg is mandatory. And as you said; "knäckebröd" is preferable (over charred bread 😅).
Is nobody gonna address how she actually did open the Kalles kaviar? The pase that comes out is supposed to have a star-shape but it is more in the shape of a triangle which indicates she used something strange to open it with? Just to be clear, you are supposed to open it with the back of the cap :)
So close with the can opener. Go the other direction. Then it just pushes down the metal without having to cut a new hole each time.
The can opener was hillarious, made me wonder if you also are cutting your bread from the inside out >.< You were close though, next time try going forward instead of backwards :). And Kalles kaviar is a bit of an aquired taste, but you should try it WITH stuff, like butter or as your teammate on the eggs, it really breaks up the salty taste and thats the way it's supposed to be. blending the salty with the buttery or eggy taste, or even with cheese makes it taste so much different. Good luck in your football career and i look forward to more vids.
You almost figured out the can opener, just go the opposite way with it and you're golden!
the can opener opens counter-clockwise and you dont have to lift it up all the way after each cut
The can-opener works much more effectively if you go in the opposite direction and let the opener 'chew' into the can lid instead of stabbing it on multiple occasions.
Exactly, that way you don't have to lift it and place it down again like she did in the video. She went backwards opening the can 😂
Try going forward with the can opener.
Why do you use the can opener backwards?
Go the other direction and it will be a lot easier for you.
Try the semla with warm milk.
That is the best way to eat it.
Then it is call "hetvägg".
Sales of semla ends at easter.
Mistakes were made
The Kalles kaviar, try it with butter and maybe with egg. Butter and kaviar is a great combo, and it makes the kaviar taste milder. When it comes to kebab pizza, go with the real deal , handmade from a good pizzeria! Frozen is good too, but a good, real kebab pizza can't be compared to frozen ones
You should push the can opener foward as you rotate the can. Doing it backwards like you're doing it means you need to punch through the metal each time rather than continuing your previous cut.
Grocery shops closing at 19 or 20 is a small town thing, Växjö is a lot smaller than Montreal, in the cities the shops close later.
My town is smaller than Växjö and its major grocery stores close at about 21-22. It's more that Växjö is in the southern end of the Swedish Bible Belt.
Just saw your channel today for the first time, welcome to Sweden and i hope everything goes well for you in your new soccer team :)
Thank you and welcome!
To eat the Semla or fastlagsbulle, you take off the lid and scoop off whipped cream and eat it first. Then you have the lower part now ready to be eaten by hand.
Use Kalles with eggs if the saltyness is too much.
Yupp, semla eating is almost like a ritual! Lid off, scoop off surplus cream - to your individual liking, since the next step is to eat the whole bun. Very difficult if you have a yaw problem or a minute mouth. 😂
Kalles taste special if you’re not used to it. You use the top/lidd of the tube and turn it around and press it through the seal to open. Then it creates a little star in the seal.
The can opener, try going the other direction(Forward), so cutting into the can. Makes a much cleaner, and easier cut.
Most cans today have easy open, and I don't even have a can opener. But the easiest way to use one is to get one that was made to use with your dominant hand. I gather from your video that you're right handed, so you've got the right one, and you started correctly. But after you've punched the initial hole, lift it up, but keep the tip of it still in the hole and move it anti-clockwise along the can's edge (clockwise if you're using one for left handedness), then push down again. The cutting edge is slightly curved, so it will extend the cut further along the can's edge as you push it down. Continue until you can open the lid, but not until it detaches completely.
Use BUTTER! Cars have to stop for you, it's the law. Otherwise we would not stop for pedestrians
Fun fact: The border between Canada and the US sits on the same latitude as Paris.
Denmark has more people living further north than all of Canada.
We're called the North for a reason.
You Canucks might have the cold and the snow, but you do not have the 6 months of seasonal depression we have here.
Welcome to Sweden! Vitamin D supplements are your friend, or eat fish oil!
We use the shoehorn to protect the back of the shoe. It means … you take care of your shoes 👞💖You can use your shoes for a lot of years.
The semla is a tradition hundreds of years old, and up until the 1950s it was actually ILLEGAL for bakeries to sell them prior to fat tuseday. Anyone who did would be fined. 😅These days we aren't as strict, although you can normally just find them from january-march even today, and the bakeries of sweden sell 1 billion kronor worth of semlor each year.
The can opener should be used in the other direction. It makes it much smoother to just continue and slide it along the groove.
The vanilla extract sticks... uhm, it's actual vanilla!
If you use that type of can opener dont press it towards yourself do it the other way its much easy :)
You should definitely go to the north of Sweden in the summer. Then you will really see the sun a lot. If you go above the arctic circle in in the summer then the sun never sets so basically 24 hours of daylight.
When eating Kalles on toast - first try not to burn your toast, spread some butter on the bread and then put the kaviar on. You may try it with some slices of hard boiled egg under the kaviar.
The can opener is supposed to be routed in the opposit direction, anti clockwise
Hard boiled eggs whit kaviar
Kalles kavier fits more eggs than bread, sure it works on bread but without hard boiled eggs it doesn't go that well.
I disagree, mainly because I don't like eggs ;)
Nice video! Yes, our kaviar is an acquired taste, but in my experience a lot of people like it after they really give it a chance and try it a few times. The best way to eat it in my opinion is on soft bread(it can but dones not have to be toasted) with quite a lot of butter. Put the caviar first and boiled eggs on top, preferable freshly boil and still warm.
Thank you!
You moved the can opener the wrong way, once you cut through the kid move the opener the way the sharp edge points( forwards away from you) and it becomes an easier action.
Great fun to hear a so positive attitude in an outside perspective!
Glad you enjoyed it!
And "vanilla extract on a stick" is actually vanilla, not extract.
As a swedish person I gotta ask what the heck cooking spray is? You mix eggs milk and flour to make pancakes it's so easy a child could do it.
It's an oil spray for the pan. I use butter though, tastes better.
@@charliekoohler4774 huh, who knew? Wouldn't it be the same to just pour any kind of cooking oil in the pan?
Thanks!
Risgröt with some milk and cinnamon powder on top is amazing, you have to try it.
Sugar too typically
Can even go with jam! (Never tried that myself though)
@@snowfloofcathug Never tried it with sugar, but I can only guess that it's even better. Although the risgröt itself already has quite a bit of sugar in it, but it rarely gets worse with sugar, I use a lot on pancakes lmao.
Can't blame you from using the can opener in reverse, takes a few tries to get it right 🤣
Vanilla extract exists in bigger stores at least and maple syrup can be found in the "international" section of some stores but is generally very expensive.
The "Risgröt" or Risgrynsgröt from Felix is very good together with körsbärssås (cherry jam/sauce in a small carton). Some whipped cream in the porridge makes it even tastier, but you will need to take a nap after eating it 😂
Kaviar is a relatively strong taste. You should try the red Kalles, it's milder. Also use relatively little in proportion to what you're putting it on. If you use it alone on a thin piece of bread, it will be really overpowering.
...and go the other way with the can opener.
The striped variant which is half cream cheese (and really comes out in distinctly colored stripes like toothpaste) is also worth a try, since the cheese helps balance the strong salty flavor.
Blodpudding is to be served with lingonberry and optional fried bacon , and you can also serve it with boiled potaotes. If you skip the bacon you serve it with browed butter :-) very tasty!
Going to have to try it out someday!! Thanks for the info!!
The can opener got me! Try to open it and rotate the can the other way. lol
Vanilla extract is in the baking isle.
So is maple syrup. You can also find maple syrup in the "American shelf" if you want to get a brand you might be more familiar with.
But, cooking spray is really rare or at least has been. We use squeeze bottle liquid margerine instead or just butter.
You're going the wrong way with the can opener! You continue moving it forward instead of backwards. That way is quicker and easier.
I'm really enjoying these videos! Can't wait for the next one!
Glad you like them! More to come!
As already mentioned in the comments, try using the canopener the other direction (forward instead of backwards), and when eating unflavored kvarg, try adding a bit of drizzled honey on top. Finally when having "Kalles kaviar" and you´re not used to it, I would suggest you try the striped one, it´s a mix of cream cheese and caviar, and has a more smooth taste. Please do keep up your good work, and do more videos like these. As a Swede, this is really interesting to watch!
I have hazelnut cocoa spread (Nutella or other brand) in my unflavored kvarg, plus some flax and sunflower seeds. It's an awesome combo!
Love your video, felt a lot more genuine than others I´ve seen. Good luck with your career.
You used the can opener in the reverse direction as if repeatedly stabbing it over and over again. But once it goes through once the sharp edge is used to saw the rest open.
To get used to kaviar you should put a thin layer of butter then spread a thin layer of kaviar on top, then put sliced hard boiled egg on top of that. Then eventually you can put a good amount of kaviar on top instead of a thin layer underneat the eggs (like the pic in the video). Butter becomes optional once youve aquired the taste for it. Also vetekaka or hönökaka is the best for egg sandwiches imo.
Good tips! Alsooo thanks for the egg sandwich rec
Your positive energy is contagious. You'll be a vitamin injection to the team.
I appreciate it!
I am amazed that you try everything. So many people are so closed off to try new things and you just go for it. Love that!
Hope you continue loving Sweden. :D
Hahah thank you! :) why notttt explore!
When it comes to the can opener you found the correct starting position, but then you turned the can in the wrong direction.
Blodpudding with lingonberry is really tasty! The problem with blodpudding is that you have to fry it right. Not fried enough it is doughy and yucky, and fried to much it turns hard and burnt. If you are clumsy like me you manage to get it both too burnt on the surface and too raw in the middle.
Traditionally semla is eaten the tuesday before lent, but nowadays you can find them most of January, February and March.
Yes, Kalles kaviar is perfect on hardboiled eggs!
Try pyttipanna instead. Preferably with a fried egg, canned or stewed beetroot. It is usually popular among exchange students.
As Swedish i can tell you
reason you have pay is Maintenance & Cleaning - The fees help cover the costs of keeping the facilities clean and stocked with toilet paper, soap, and other essentials.and Preventing Misuse - Charging a fee can discourage people from loitering, vandalizing, or using the restrooms for non-bathroom-related activities.
Please go to a pizza and try kebabpizza, don't go with the frozen one!
As said, move the can opener forwards, not backwards. We use "Flytande margarin / smör" - liquid margarine / butter, kind of never use anything such on spray cans. You may get some vanilla extract in some stores, but most stores got "vaniljpulver" - vanilla powder which is more common to use. Sugerfree syrup is quite uncommon in regular stores, though available online and at some pharmacies. Though we do have loads of "normal" syrup; white, light, dark, maple, etc.
Those tincans are the old fasion army style cans (You are just open it backwards...) the only reason they are so common is because they are very cheap to make, but for example fish jars often still have those roll up covers.
Ahhh hahaha the added in laughter during the tuna can was gold 🤣🤣🤣. You're funny, good vibes. 🙂
You never eat caviar without butter. Put butter on your bred and after that … not to much caviar. When you eat samla, you take away the top and eat that first with cream on and after that the rest. Rice porridge is a very Swedish porridge. You eat it a lot around christmas with cinnamon, a little suger and of course milk.
Kalles Kaviar can be an acquired taste for sure with a distinct salty flavour. First regarding the tube you flip the cap and use that to properly puncture the opening. Then we would not use it on toast but on some form of soft bread with butter and on top of say sliced hard-boiled egg. Then when new to it use a small amount as it is quite salty and adjust the amount if you like it.
That said it is a very divisive issue here in Sweden where some love it and others hate it like with liquorice. Personally I love it on some sliced hard-boiled egg like your friend mentioned. It can also be nice with swedish crispbread and a thin layer of butter.
For the kalles kaviar, I recommend having it on Lingongrova with a thin layer of butter, then hard boiled eggs & then put the kaviar on top :D!
It’s really good :)
Great video! love watching you experience our "wild" swedish lifestyle :D Hopefully you get to travel up north.
Thank you!
Foreigners eating swedish things never gets old
The semla is supposed to be eaten before the christian fasting begins but you can find them long before and long after. Swedens lowkey version of mardi gras.
The can opener is not unique to Sweden but you used it backwards.
Pastries have a special day for two reasons really. 1: More sales for the businesses. 2: People can cheat on their diet without feeling bad about it.
Kalles kaviar needs boiled eggs to taste good. I love Kalles, but not on it's own. I'ts like eating ketchup on it's own, not really tasting that good either, right? Give it another try with boiled eggs 🙂 (i can also recommend to use some butter (Bregott) on the bread)
this!
Will give it a try!
Look for the "extra mild kaviar". It's much better to start with.
And put on some sliced cubumber on top of the kaviar. Butter,kaviar,cucumber no eggs needed,but its nice.
You dont need knäckebröd,its good on any bread ;)
3:21: you're holding the can opener right, but it is easier to "dig" forward into the can lid. The can opener will resist less then. 11:56: you can always buy a semla, but they're harder to find then, the semla has (AFAIK) a long tradition in Sweden, being somehow related to lent and easter. Traditionally the semlas had a premier at the Shrove Tuesday.
Your channel popped up on my recommendations. I love your personality. Welcome to Sweden! Hope you have a good time :)
Thank you so much!!
If the road is shared by vehicles and walking, the pedestrians shall walk on the left and the vehicle is on the right. If it is a strictly pedestrian way, you kepp to the right.
So that way you as the pedestrian will see the vehivcle coming towards you and the vehicles you dont see (i.e traveling the same way as you) will be on the other side.
Welcome to Sweden.
1. You start the other way with the can opener, just go forward 😂
2. Risgrynsgröt is riceporrige, it's not norwegian. You heat it, and commonly eaten at winter/christmas with cinnamon and sugar and milk. But some eat it all year.
3. We have some aquired tastes, I guess the most common is Kaviar (smoked roe) and salt liqorice.
Don't eat it like that. Buy faluknäcke (rye crisp bread) and then put butter, sliced boiled egg, and some dill, then kaviar on top. That's how I would do it.
4. I recommend trying filmjölk, if you liked kvarg. It's another unique Swedish milkproduct - not as high in protein, but really good I think. It's a bit sour, but doesn't taste like yoghurt at all. Very common for breakfest or I sometimes just drink it and put some sugar in it.
Talk about coming the wrong winter though, cause the weather this winter has been so terrible. Just gray and not even cold. Not even in january Usually it's always cold and snow, like last winter was fantastic & beautiful.
Thanks for the comment!! :)
@@ChloeMinasYT 👌Best of luck in your football. I also played from ages 6 to 18 when I was younger. Fun sport.
Wait other countries don't use shoe horns?
Poor all over 55 there then. 😢
About kvarg, my son ate a lot of that mixed with frozen strawberries (no sugar) while he trained 6 days a week. Well he ate a lot of other food too, but luckily enough he went to a gymnasium (high school) that let the kids eat (free as this is Sweden) at a big company restaurant which always had three different courses and you could eat as much as you wanted. Saved my back from having to carry home all that extra food!😂
He bought the kvarg and strawberries himself because he wanted the one with most protein. Can’t remember if it was the one from Lidl or ICA though.
"Semla" or "Fettisdagbulle" (Compare with france "Mardi gras" = Fat Tuesday)
Is from the time when we were Catholics, i.e. around 1550. It has of course changed a bit, but the principle was that you should eat well before Lent, which began 40 days (I think) before Easter. It was only a few days then. Nowadays, the rolls come earlier and earlier every year. Not so long ago they came during February.
You're in a small city, you can't compare it to Toronto or Montreal. E.g. Stockholm has supermarkets etc that are open later.
Yes, here in Gothenburg no grocery stores close as early as 7 pm. Lidl closes the earliest I've seen and they close at 9 pm. But we have grocery stores that are open from 5:30 am to 11:30 pm here.
Go forwards with the can opener. :)
Since you live in Småland, you should definitely try Småland ostkaka (cheesecake). You eat it warm with a sweet jam and with optional milk.
Dont use cooking spay for love of god use butter for pancakes and oliveoil for everyday cooking
Or coconut oil! With or without taste. Can take heat a lot better than butter and olive oil. Never use rapeseed!
I only use olive oil in marinades or salad dressings. For frying I use a small amount of butter (for the taste and colour) and sunflower oil for heat and texture (surface). Olive oil isn’t a neutral taste, same goes for raps (cannoli) and I always buys the best of the olive oils for the taste and using it for frying would be a sin.
Norwegian rice pudding? It’s not Norwegian.
I learned a long ago thet the Norwegians think it's a Norwegian specialty! And this is not a "Norwegian joke"!
You will notice every day now it will get brighter, i think the sun is up for around 6 minutes more each day right now. March is a great winter month with lots of sun.
You just popped up in my feed and I am glad you did. Always nice to see people learning about your own culture and traditions. The rice pudding (Risgrynsgröt) is definitely not norwegian. It is a very swedish speciality that is most popular around christmas served hot with milk, sugar and cinnamon or as a dessert called "Ris a la Malta", which is rice pudding mixed with whipped cream and vanilla sugar, served with raspberry/strawberry sauce and if any other scandinavian country would be involved, it would be Denmark since they have their traditional christmas dessert called "risalamande" which is more or less the same as the swedish but they put chopped almonds in it too (to be honest, it makes it even better). The swedish fika tradition is probably our best invention and semla is the king of all swedish pastries. Yes, you could say kanelbulle should be nr1 but I think semla is at the very top simply because it is restricted to a certain period of time. Traditionally it was pretty strict that you only consumed them on shrove tuesday (Mardi Gras or in Swedsh, Fettisdag) but the last 30-35 years the time to sell and eat them has been extended so much that nowadays you can eat them from beginning of january until easter.
That’s really interesting! In Russia, we have a similar dish called 'рисовая каша' (rice kasha, or rice porridge), but we eat it all year round, mostly for breakfast. I believe it’s cooked the same way as the Scandic versions (slowly simmering rice in milk until it becomes thick and creamy), some people add sugar, butter, honey, or jam, while others eat it plain.
@@polinamish Yes, that sounds about the same. We eat it all year around also as a "easy" meal with some sort of sweetener and topping like raspberry jam or so. This particular way of eating it described here is more linked to Christmas. You boil the rice in cream (or half cream/milk if you want to lower your fat intake) and eat it with sugar, milk and cinnamon. If you follow tradition you put a whole almond in the porridge before serving and the one that get the almond is gonna be the next one to be married.
A small comment about the can opener. You are holding it right, but you are has to move it the other way. Much easier. =) And one other thing, I don´t know how you opened the food tube, but the kaviar looked a bit strange coming out of the tube. If you didn´t know, you turn the tubes cap, and press it on the tube to make a hole.
for kalles try having way less and definitely try it with hardboiled sliced egg, I can't imagine having it straight up like that, that's crazy to me. But yes, it's an acquired taste, u want an amount that makes the egg the "right" amount of salty cuz u're not putting salt on the egg slices, just kaviar.
^ this!
Kaviar should be handled the same as surströmming, people new to it should start with TINY amounts of it and with all the 'condiments' which in the case of kaviar is either butter/cheese/egg or all of them.
Kaviar and surströmming should be seen more like a spice than the main ingredient, you only put as much of it as you like and since both have such a strong taste its best to start with "barely nothing" until you get used to them and gain the acquired taste.
Risgrynsgröt (rice porridge) is a traditional Swedish dish which has nothing whatsoever to do with Norway. Whomever told you that gave you false information. Enjoy the porridge with a lump of butter in the middle and sprinkled cinnamon on top - and milk of course.
I USA och många Engelskspråkiga länder så säger man rice pudding. Jag har en svärson i Texas. Jag åt rice pudding när jag besökte min dotter.
Well, to say that risgrynsgröt has nothing whatsoever to do with Norway isn't entirely correct though, because they eat rice porridge in Norway too, but the dish wasn't invented there - it originates from Asia.