I found Swedish stuff across the USA
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- Опубліковано 26 вер 2024
- I want my cheese slicer back :(
I am so happy to finally get this video posted! I didn't expect such a long delay between videos, but traveling made it hard to upload.
During the past month, I traveled to Pennsylvania and Alabama to visit my sisters. Along the way, I tried to find as many Swedish things as I could. In this video, I show you everything I found!
In Philadelphia, PA, I went to the American Swedish Historical Museum.
There's apparently a Swedish festival in Thorsby, Alabama?! Maybe next year...
Bonus: I went to the first IKEA in the USA... or did I?!?! This is still up for debate.
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It’s so cute you are into Sweden that much you even visit a museum to get a fix of swedish in you.
Ja det är det ta mig fan :)
johan f
if Americans really that much into Sweden they should make a whole city addicted to Sweden and hold Swedish festival like in japan funniest thing I ever seen
The Swedish fix 😁
@@oskat8981 Minnesota är väl på god väg?
Tbh it is something a Swedish person would visit too if they were there lol
Like others said, your pronunciation of Höganäs Stengods was pretty much flawless
Extra PR NS ALP stands for Prima Nysilver Alpacca and it means that it's first-rate german silver (a silver alloy) electroplated over brass (with the Alpacca alloy).
Essentially electroplated nickel silver rather than solid
My grandfather was Chief Engineer at Höganäs. He joined the company in1899. I have a book about the company that was written in 1997 on the 200 year anniversary. Farfar is featured in the book with his picture and a page talking about his contributions to the company.
Hurra vad roligt med en ny video av dig! Jag har längtat! Hoppas på fler. 🥰
Höganäskrukan are very well-known pots in Sweden.
They are made in China nowdays...
Det är roligt hur dyra de är idag medan mina mor- och farföräldrar hade dem och då var de inte dyra.
Heeeej Meagan! Kul att äntligen få se dig igen 🥰 God Jul & Gott Nytt år 🤶🏽🎅🏽🎄
My grandmother has got the same höganäs bowl. It is used for her Julsill at christmas. she got that bowl from her mother.
You should save the jewelry box in the condition you bought it in and have it valued. I’m not an expert, but I think the signature on the bottom of the box indicates that it can be valuable.
The Swank Jewelry Box is apparently somewhat of a collectors item and other boxes of the same brand goes for around 40-80 USD online. So... 0,64 USD was a steal!
One story about forbidden coffee is that coffee was thought to be toxic so to prove this, a prisoner was forced to drink coffee every day, the problem became that he grew very old and lived longer than any of the coffee-poisoned believers.did.
From Wikipedia - New Sweden article
New Sweden (Swedish: Nya Sverige; Finnish: Uusi Ruotsi; Latin: Nova Svecia) was a Swedish colony along the lower reaches of the Delaware River in America from 1638 to 1655, established during the Thirty Years' War when Sweden was a great military power. New Sweden formed part of the Swedish efforts to colonize the Americas. Settlements were established on both sides of the Delaware Valley in the region of Delaware, New Jersey, Maryland, and Pennsylvania, often in places where Swedish traders had been visiting since about 1610. Fort Christina in Wilmington, Delaware, was the first settlement, named after the reigning Swedish monarch. The settlers were Swedes, Finns, and a number of Dutch. New Sweden was conquered by the Dutch Republic in 1655 during the Second Northern War and incorporated into the Dutch colony of New Netherland.
From Wikipedia Kalmar Nyckel article
Kalmar Nyckel (Key of Kalmar) was a Swedish ship built by the Dutch famed for carrying Swedish settlers to North America in 1638, to establish the colony of New Sweden. The name Kalmar Nyckel comes from the Swedish city of Kalmar and nyckel meaning key in Swedish. The name was also a tribute to Kalmar Castle which was a symbol of power during the time of the Swedish Empire when Sweden was a military great power.
A replica of the ship was launched at Wilmington, Delaware, in 1997.
Since I know that you have studied Swedish literature, I would like to remind you of the first line in August Strindberg's Hemsöborna "Han kom som ett yrväder en aprilafton och hade ett höganäskrus i en svångrem om halsen."
Swedish Match is a Swedish tobacco company. Most known for the snus I guess :P
And for matches as that was how they started as "Svenska Tändsticksaktieoblaget".
The story of its founder, Ivar Kreuger, is a complex and fascinating bit of history that's worth reading up on.
even as a swede I didn't knew coffee was banned for a while. I thought first it was during the 1939-1945 era when alot of stuff in sweden was rationed or banned(same in the US because the military needed it).
Go visit New Sweden! I think you will have a blast there!
So nice to see a new clip from you, it is always interesting to watch. Myself studied at Örebro University 2009-2013 so it felt more "real" to listen to your stories about your studentlife. :) I hope you some day will come back!
That box with red inside is going to bee the new home for your osthyvel / cheese slicer!
When you'r gona have a really luxurious breakfast the box with the osthyvel will be gently presented on a platter.
😁
Cheers from Northern Sweden!
You must be the best ambassador for Sweden without being Swedish (yet), please come home to Sweden again, as soon as possible. You are missed.
Wonderful. Didn’t realize there was a place like this in the US. As someone who adores Sweden and relearning the language at the moment, this is great.
I hope you get the opportunity to come back to Sweden again and live here. I keep my fingers crossed. 😁👍
Did the museum explain that the Swedish 17th colony was just outside of Philly? You were 40 km away from the former Fort Kristina.
Jenny Lind was definitely on the 50:- before the update a few years back
My grandfather's older sister emigrated 1901 and lived in Philly.
That’s the old 50kr yeah, hope you’re doing well and having a jolly good time 👍🏻
The box marked "Swank" on the bottom was likely retailed by the men's jewelry retailer of the same name and was used for storing cuff links, studs, tie clips, tie bars, bracelets, etc. I wouldn't destroy the inside of the box until you know if there are collectors out there who would pay for that. My mother went to an estate sale and bought a Lanvin necklace for $25 and my sister later sold it for $2,400 on Etsy after Kiera Knightly was seen wearing it. Of course, it's yours now and you can do what you want, but sometimes it pays to check things out before dismissing it for its lack of value.
God Jul och Gott Nytt År Meagan! Hoppas du får komma hem snart!!
Hugh Jackman in "The Greatest Showman" ?? I haven't seen it. -- HÖGANÄS ! That's the REAL thing, traditional look!
There is a Swedish bakery somewhere in Miami also, they serve "kanelbullar".
I’m actually related to Jenny Lind, my grandmother on my mother’s side’s maiden name was Lind 😊
Cool! Didn’t know much about her before I saw ”The greatest showman” movie. I’m not sure how accurate that movie is, but it was interesting to have her placed in a context and that a small part of her story was told.
@@onomatopoetisk Well the movie didn’t really show much of her so there aren’t many things that can be inaccurate. It is however true that her fame reached the United States around that time. I don’t know if you’re Swedish and maybe already know this but she was on our 50 kronor bill until recently.
@@E-jit Yes, I’m Swedish. I’m disappointed of myself that I don't know much about her.
@@onomatopoetisk She’s not really someone you hear much about, I hardly know anything about her either.
I live in Höganäs and i find it soo cool that you found a höganäskrus in us! When you comeback to sweden you have to visit us and see our incredible nature and maybe eat swedens best burger
Har väntat på en ny video. Roligt att du är tillbaka.💛
That yellow pot / kruka looks perfect for a inlagd citronsill .😀
Senapssill kanske😎
Hej, Du kan lätt hitta Mora och Stockholm i Minnesota. Om jag minns rätt ligger de nordväst om Minneapolis. I Mora hittar du Dalahästen, mycket info om Vasaloppet. om du tittar på polisbilarna i Mora, har de Dalahästen som emblem på dörrarna. Lycka till. Jag har varit i Minneapolis många gånger på kurser och annat.
Det finns en svensk godisaffär som heter "Sweetish" i Lancaster, PA.
Klockrent namn!
the osthyvel "cheeseslicer" as a matter of fact: it's a norwegian invention, one of the best things that has ever come out of Norway, except Wenche Myhre and Grynet Molvig of course...
Best thing out of Norway= Flexnes and Flåklypa Grand Prix
And I guess we stole them too.. 😉🇸🇪
Welcome back, you have been missed!
The Höganäs ceramics bowl is from southern part of Sweden (north west part of Skåne) the compani was a well known compani up to the 70 - 80, don´t know if your bowl have any worth but there are some stuff that are kind of expensiv.
And the Sidney Opera House is covered with over one million ceramic tiles from Höganäs.
I'd say that that pot is a very good find, and a super good example of traditional Swedish craft. Höganäs is the best and most famous Swedish pottery manufacturer. Excellent pick!
I knew as soon as a saw the pot that where it was from, and as someone who lives in Höganäs it was pretty cool seeing one found out in the wild in the US!!
Hope everything works out and you can come back to Sweden if you want. With your attitude and joy of life you spread, nothing will stop you from realizing what you want. Continue to spread your enthusiasm then there is always a door open, I hope!
Entertaining video. Great to see you again. Please, don't let it take so long until the next one.
Hey Meagan, the Höganäs is a good find. That piece has some value and it is going up.
You are great and I love seeing your videos.
If you every find yourself near NC come see me in the Greensboro area.
Swede in NC.
Take good care of Höganäskrukan !!!!
Swedich Match Is a Swedish company that was previously called Tändstiks bolgat, for a period they were the only ones who made safety matches. This made them world leaders in matches and they were for a period Sweden's largest company and it was extremely important for the Swedish economy. The stock market crash in the late 1920s hit the company extremely hard and if I remember correctly, its founder then committed suicide. Today, the company is not as important to the Swedish economy as it was before. But is still a relatively large company and they make most of the snus sold in Sweden, they also have other tobacco products. They have employees in nine countries so the company you are talking about can very well be part of Swedich Match.
Always nice to watch your videos👍
I loved the necklace she's wearing. A little throwback in history since it's a mix between thor's hammer and the jesus cross xD
Great video, really enjoy ur content @meagan 😁
Best Regards from a Swede in Örebro
Very interesting !! As a swede i never knew coffee was banned :o Such a scary thought!
Imagine if someone tried to ban coffee today 😠
@@reineh3477 I would go berserk!😂
Nice that you highlighted my town of Örebro, a little more than two and a half minutes into your video! Yes I love my little "mini-city". Have you visited it? :)
Hi meagan nouis !
Your not lost 😅
I think your sister took the osthyvel to keep for herself. She like that's smart thing, I keep it. 😄
God jul, Skål Tom.
"I dragged my family with me so that we could go see this museum".
HAHA, I see what you did there!
God Jul!
Underhållande som fan 🥰
Great to see you and your smile.🥰👍
Hopefully you made er up to Swedetown up by Houghton, MI. Da Yoopers would have appreciated havin' ya up der. I do a lot of snowmobiling up through that region. Väldig vackert.
I'm swedish and I had no idea that coffee used to be banned. Imagine the outrage if that happened today. 😂
same!
Yes Coffee was once considered a drug in Sweden :D
Was this around the time they sold cocaine as medicine in Apoteket or earlier?
The cocaine as medicine (common all over Europe at that time) was around 1880-1920 as I recall, and the infoboard she quoted mentioned Linné, so at least the first coffee ban seems to have been earlier.
Not sure about the later bans. :)
@@suntiger745 Yes Coffee was sold as a drug from Apoteket in 1685 and then 1794 our king Gustav III once again prohibited the habit of drinking Coffee but then it had more to do with luxury items "överflödsförordning".
Love the Fika sign :D
..in the great depressin in the 40s after the WWII coffe was even rationed due to shortage, you could buy 1pk each 15 weeks, so substitute coffes or delted coffe was quite common... have heard stories even Bark coffe was common...later when released we begun drink alot of coffe...something we still do...
HURRAY FOR FIKA!...
The "original" Torsby (spelled without H) is a small town in northern Värmland, not far from the Norwegian border. Sven-Göran Eriksson aka Svennis, a veeery famous football (soccer) manager grew up there. Quite a surprise that there's a Swedish-American settlement down in Alabama!
Yes Jon, and there is one in Canada as well.
Hope to see you in Sweden again ! Merry X-mas to you!!
Merry Christmas Meagan. I enjoyed your video. Looking forward to your return to Sweden 🇸🇪.
If you didn't discover it already, Swedish Match is a company that makes matches and tobacco products, mainly snus.
nice to see you again but just so u know the cheese slicer was invented in Norway by a carpenter called Thor Bjørklund :)
Hey, just found your channel and i think its soo much fun XD I was thinking that since your not in sweden anymore and still want to make content pertaining to sweden id suggest a video idea :D "What swedish youtubers do i watch" and maybe review them or something hahah or maybe favourite swedish tv shows and stuff like that :) Loving the content so far and gonna binge the rest of the night :P
Swank Jewelry Box Design Philippe Made in Sweden made for Men , rings
Fun fact since you mention ikea i live where ikea was born Agunnaryd just a tiny workshop with no heating. He later opend the worlds fierst ikea in Älmhult. And I have been ther many times. Actually I'm supposed to go ther tomorrow since I need a new cabinet. 🙃
Meagan, do you know if they have a Swedish Yuletide event in Minneapolis? We have one here in Boston (well, once the pandemic ends it will happen again). We also have a Scandinavian Culture Center (very small) that is inside a nursing home, and they have a Scandinavian cafe on Saturdays! (in Newton, MA).
Yes, Jenny Lind was on the 50 kr note until 2015 or 2016 when the new notes were introduced and she was replaced with Evert Taube
I have one of those pot-thingys too.. but brown.
I am happy 2 ser u agine. I wish you a really " God Jul " and " Gott nytt år på dig " . And i hope u will b back soon.
God Jul megan hoppas du har det fint över Jul / Nyår.
There are so many cities in the us that got their names from Swedish settlers. Thorsby is an American variant of Torsby (which you find in Värmland). Look at the list here: sv.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lista_över_svenska_ortnamn_i_USA
Wow! I didn’t know there were so many!
lovely to see you back.
A happy new year to you!!
God jul Meagan!
Shohorne? I hope you find it in US as well! I always enjoy your videos! Jenny Lind actually used to be on Swedish banknotes, so she was pretty famous. Astrid Lindgren is on the small banknotes (for children) today. The Höganäs bowl vill last 1000 years if it is not dropped to the floor, and the yellow colour is new enough not to contain Kadmium.
Swedish match is a tobacco company. They’re the ones making snus.
The 50 SEK bill with Jenny Lind was in use between 1996-2016 (the new variant with Evert Taube introduced in 2015).
En annan sak Meagan som jag tänkte på. Som du tog upp att du kommer söka om att får komma till Sverige igen. Känner du att du vill träna svenska, så ställer jag upp och gör mer än gärna det! (Förmodligen har jag glömt att säga det, bara). Hoppas du får en fin jul och ett gott nytt år! :)
Yes, Höganäs ceramics are quite classic. I've made pickled cucumber in those and a friend made german rum-punch.
Sill and potato is very important december 24 in sweden. With schnaps vodka !!!!!!
if you not already know its coming a movie called *utvandrarna* whit Gustaf Skarsgård ;) alot of history in that
2:42 Crazy to see my small hometown (Västervik) on a mural like that in the US. :D
I love this video.
I just love your vids❣️
And it would be so nice if you could spread the Swedish pronunciation of IKEA! 🌷
Nice to see you again. 😊
During the age of liberty - frihetstiden på svenska - farmers banned Coffee since it was something only the nobility drank.
Gött att se dig igen!
DO NOT remake old swedish stuff if it isnt already. Those things can be worth alot
There is a village in Sweden named Torsby. Probably where ”Thorsby” comes from.
Aren't there like a dozen Torsby in sweden?
Same way there are a dozen or so Västervik, Ryd and Stenåkra.
@@suntiger745 Only one Torsby.
@@johanf9279 Not quite. There's one in Värmland and one in Värmdö, Stockholm. There's also a Torsby Socken in Bohuslän.
And two Torsby in Finland, and although that's not Sweden, Sweden might be part of the reason they were named Torsby given the long time the two were one country. :)
@@suntiger745 I am pretty sure Torsby in Värmland that is the heritage to Thorsby.
Bronx in New York is named after a Swed Jonas Bronck born outside city of Sävsjö in Sweden.
You have to take good care of that Höganäs mustard jar they are expensive. it usually has a lid made of cork.
Alabama Isent really Swede habitat. There is a reason a lot of our emigrant siblings ended up in The northern Midwest. Funny a lot also ended up in Washington. Would probably have gone in that direction myself if I went, the winters sound scary in Minnesota.
Swedish Autotech is probably a Saab and/or Volvo mechanic. There was a similarly-named place where I used to live.
Hot, intellectual American digging deep about Swedes, no idea why this was suddenly suggested on my feed.
Kindo similar to how Christmas was banned in the US back in the colonial era.
Banned for over 20 years by the puritans!
(Colonial era Boston, 1659 to 1681)
You är back!👍
That yellow Höganäs could be worth a lot of money!
Det borde du undersöka 😀
lycka till med allt
The Greatest Showman was the name of the movie!
Ja, svenskt kaffe är bäst! Och speciellt Zoega's kaffe. Sen att Maria Zoega drev företaget på 1800-talet( i min hemstad Helsingborg) efter hennes make dog, gör att det smakar ännu bättre. 💪☕
I know I'm late to the party but just so you know, for quite a while Chicago was the city with the second biggest population of Swedish people in the world
Gevalia is a coffée brand from Gävle (:
It means Gävle in latin
Coffe wasn't banned once, they actually did it several times (first started 1756 and the last ended in 1823) and they was about as usefull as the Prohibition was in the United States (although created a bit less organized crime).
If I remember correctly, it is a power struggle between the nobility and the bourgeoisie. They punished each other with different laws that affected one group proportionally much more. Coffee was an example of something that was almost only consumed by one group.