We do eat pizza with our hands, and burgers too. And kebabs. And tacos. The knife and fork thing comes into play if we sit down in a restaurant to eat these things, because for instance a "proper" burger is so stuffed with salad, veggies, dressing, etc it becomes next to impossible to eat without cutlery. Many Norwegians always use a knife and fork when eating at home as well, because it's convenient to absolutely fill your plate and then sit down and dig in (tools may come in handy).
agree that some fancy hipster impractical burgers can be aided by cutlery, but generally.. anyone eating a pizza or a burger with a fork and knife is either peerpressured into it or a plain psychopath.. imo-
For me it depends, if its fast food, street food, etc. I will always eat that with my hands. If it is a restaurant, I would generally eat it with fork and knife, even if it is pizza, but that's only if they do not pre-cut it, that's a sign for me to eat it with cutlery. Also as multiple people has already said, if the burger is next to impossible to eat with hands. At the family, friends or similar dining table, it is always cutlery, just a basis of manners.
04:53 Norwegians eat their food with their hands when applicable and when in casual settings, Norwegians eat their food with fork and knife when in business or non-casual settings. Norwegians don't go to a 5 star restaurant and eat the burger with our hands, but they do go to a Burger King or Mc.Donalds - or other fast food/take-away places - and eat the burger with their hands. It's the same way as how you wouldn't go to a fancy setting dressed in your casual clothes.
I am almost 30 and I have never tried Smalahove/Sheeps head. Never had it offered to me either. It is definitely a (north?) western Norwegian tradition, which is where they traditionally had more sheep and a bigger reliance on them. When I grew up however one of my friends whose family was from Western Norway used to make it and I was at his house once when they were preparing it. It looked kind of macabre with a massive barrell they used to heat the head in outside and then a chainsaw to split them in half after.
I'm from Northern Norway and I never had sheeps head eiter. I think it more like from the western paret, but it's not very common (no wonder it looks disgusting!)
me and my girlfriend are Norwegian. have watched all the videos on your youtube channel. I find it very interesting to hear what you think about Norway. keep up the good work
When it comes to the fluency. One major part is that people from Norway and me from Sweden consume a lot of content I English. It differs but I would say 90% of UA-cam, movies, tv-shows etc is in English.
I was once told that one of the best ways to learn a new language is to watch childrens tv programs. You`ll learn the ABC, 123 and how to talk/pronounce words. Never tried it myself, but I can kinda see how it could help. Great video as always. Love to watch this while enjoying my morning coffe! Happy hollidays and a (early) Merry X-Mas ( God Jul ) to you!
You may be interested in the program Alt for Norge (All for Norway). It is a tv-show features Norwegian Americans participating in challenges relating to Norwegian history and culture, competing to win a reunion with their distant Norwegian relatives. It has been ten seasons, with ten episodes each. Some of the seasons can be found at www.youtube.com/@Rowaryz/videos
As an Norwegian, i am proud of my country.But it is hard work and thanks to our parents, grandparents who made this country possible. Like your comments and reactions. Keep up the god work. Best reguards TBS.
Create a go found me to save up money to visit Norway. Seems like you really want to go there. :D but check out further north in Norway. Troms and Finnmark. love your videos keep them coming
previous exchange student here. I still remember everyone looking at me when i ate pizza with utensils, after using napkins to remove all the grease from the pizza (was like small puddles). And the bread was sweet, like pastries, not anything like european bread. Still slowly working on the weight i put on in america, after 10 years LMAO
Hamburgers and pizzas are in general not eaten with fork and knife in Norway . . and It is not normal to put chokolate powder on chese either. Head of sheeps are called "smalahove" and is not a common dish to find everywhere in Norway . It is a tradition in Hordaland (west of Norway).
She mixed Nesquick/O’boy in Cottage Cheese to make a chocolate pudding. I don’t think it is that crazy of an idea, seems like a quick way to make something sweet for after dinner without too much work. And also, cottage cheese is a fresh cheese, so it would be a quite suitable product to use for something like that. I remember when it was new in the 70s, one of the first things people were told to use it for, was with mixed fresh fruits, as a fruit salad. Many others would maybe try to mix it in something like Kesam or Skyr, would make it more like a familiar pudding or mousse and if no one said anything, it would probably pass as some normal product. At least Skyr would be perfect, with it’s rich consistency and all… If you use milk products, I would’ve given Skyr Naturell a try with Nesquik or cocoa powder mixed with a sweetener and maybe a little vanilla and let it dissolve properly in a little milk maybe before cooling it down and mixing it with the skyr. Then cool that down before serving. Could be a better version of a chocolate pudding or mousse! And you get to control the amount and type of sweetener!!! Me however, I stick to vegan yoghurt which I mix with different things when I feel like something like that. I either make my own homemade (which I let ferment just with a couple of probiotic capsules, so maybe it shouldn’t be called «yoghurt», but it is darn yoghurty and very good for you! I usually use either only coconut milk or a mix with soy milk and I let it «hang» until Greek Yoghurt thickness, sooooo creamy!) or I buy a coconut yoghurt from Coop. It is very good too! Yummy! Sorry, I totally digressed and that on such an old video too… 😂😅😅 Sorry… But who knows, maybe someone can benefit from the info? ☺️🤗
The salmon thing is basically a freshness game. The fresher it is, the better it is. Unless you go for smoked salmon, that keeps. I'd recommend that btw.
Thats the case for most fish though. Used to live in main land canada and then moved out to newfoundland and the fish was 1 million times better. When you can get it same day, never frozen, it's always so much better
Pizza and hamburgers are normally eaten by hand in Norway, just like the rest of the world. In some restaurants(not the fastfood ones) we might use knife and fork if the burgers are too big or the restaurant just calls for a more civilized approach.
To say that Norwegians as a whole either eat lambs head (Smalahåve) or not is a bit flawed. It's a traditional dish, from the western part of the country (iirc). The older generations and people further from the cities might very well be more inclined to eat it, but it's not a everyday meal. More like on special occasions and such, not to mention this tradition stems in part from a desire and a need to utilize all parts of the animal. Younger generations and people in more urban areas will likely share your opinions on it, i know i do at least. Regards, some guy from Bergen Norway
I have a fond memory from when I was little were my grandparents had served “Smalahåve” (sheepshead), for a nicer family gathering. I don’t remember everything that was served, and I was a bit to nervous to try it. But my grandpa had cleaned half of the jaw and gave it to me. I was fascinated by the sheep’s strange teeth and played with it for hours, coincidentally it had the same shape as a gun and it became my toy-gun for a couple of days/weeks.
It looked like... something else. If you google "stjärtlapp" you get a simpler version that we used here in Sweden when I was a kid. Also "Stiga Snowracer" was a personal favorite because you could make quite big jumps. Some even switched to BMX handle bars.
lol, I'm eating pizza while WATCHING this - WITH my hands :D Love your content, btw. Also, sidenote: I did eat hamburger with knife and fork when I was in the US - It did fly ;D
7:04 Yes, search for "smalahove" "Smala" is a archaic Norwegian word for sheep. And "Hove" is slightly archaic/new Norwegian word for head. It's a traditional dish in Norway, the Faeroe islands and Iceland at least. I don't know about Sweden and Denmark.
cottage cheese isn't like what one would think of as traditional cheese. Think cheese curds more than cheese slices. The sleds is more like the teal one next to the red one you pulled up on google.
I'm from Lithuania and my grandma always has cottage cheese with homemade jams and berries but it always grossed me out like some other dairy products haha. Don't know why
4:45 Most people eat hamburgers with their hands (at least I think so), but at least in my case, if it is really big, or has one of those wood things in the middle to hold it together, I use a fork and knife.
08:22 That is one fancy "tiny Norwegian sled" lol Normally the sled (called: "Akebrett") is just a flat piece of plastic for your bum to sit on, and a little flat handle sticking out between your legs to hold on to. Super simple and portable. All children in Norway has probably used one or have one. Kindergarten and schools often have them for when they are out in the snow as well.
here in norway we start to learn english and norwegian in the first grade when you are 6 year old, so most of us can speak it. i can have a fluid dialog in English with my niece that are 10 year old
Interesting video. I have learnt spanish as an adult, and I have observed others doing it. Learning a language is a big project, but it is also really satisfying when you after a while are able to understand and express yourself in a new language. There will be a lot of errors and emissions, that is a part of the process.
There is a tradition of eating "smalahove". Sheeps head. The brave ones eats the eye. Just adding, it's not my favorite dish. Also it's more of a special occasion thing, not everyday food 😅
4:42 Hum, old people still eat pizza with a work and knife. Young ones rarely do so however, although we absolutely can do so and *will* do so in a more formal setting.
Oh we eat hamburgers with our hands, those we are able to eat with our hands. Also pizza. If we use fork and knife it's because it would be hard to eat it with hands without stuff going everywhere 😄. And rislunsj is great! It's actually riskrem (rice cream) with a berry sauce/ berry jam.
So Smalahove (sheephead) is ok i have at it on a few ocations, it is wierd if u think about it so it is better to just eat it and not thin about it beaing a head. the eye is considered a delicacy and tastes like a wierd pudding of some kind
In Scandinavia, we mostly eat things like hamburgers, pizza, and tacos with our hands, if it is at a fast-food place. However, if the place is not a fast food place, I eat my hamburger with a fork and knife as well as I can. I also eat thin pizza with a fork and knife too.
@3:20 called Rislunch has 2 comparments one with a dash of strawberry jam and a bigger one with rice pudding and yea it's a really good treat although it's a sugar bomb
There are some weirdoes eating pizza with fork and knife. same as there are some eating chicken legs, clubs and wings with fork and knife where half the meat is left.. But most use our hands, there are some food classified as finger food (chicken, pizza, nachos, tacos, hotdogs etc. (tho I once saw someone using fork and knife eating hotdog), but when it comes to like eating rice and other things, we use fork and knife as often as we can.. It also depends if you are alone or with company, alone you might for some things use only a fork, and use hand to help at end to get it on the fork instead of using a knife..
Salmon is cheaper in Norway because is farmed. And did not find particularly cheap when on holidays this year, but could be cause I was in a very isolated area without many options. About cheese and sweet, I am from Argentina and we have "Vigilante" which is a slice of cheese and a slice of sweet, like "dulce de batata" or "dulce de membrillo" (Sweet potato sweet or quince sweet). I am not much into chocolate but can try it. Here in the UK lamb is cheaper than cow. As a child I remember eating cow brains, and seen my aunt eating the eyes of a goat. I did not eat it.Previous generations where less picky about food, and they eat all the animal. For my grandmother was a sin waste food.
Being norwegian we do eat most stuff with forks and knives but I’ve never heard or seen anyone eat hamburgers with fork and knife but pizza depends on the type of pizza About the sled one i thought every country had them if they had snow and the picture you found is a more modern variant it seems as the ones i used a few years ago were only made of full plastic with 1 color. It’s all one big plastic piece so there is no extra parts connected like we saw in the picture you found. Those might just be more newer variants or spins on them i am not sure
The blue one is more common than the red sled("rumpeakebrett") . The lambs head(smalahove) is more common on mid West Coast and especially around voss, and you cinda have to know someone who can prepare it..
just a thought, would be fun if you added or shout out the channels from where you're watching from. As a Norwegian I want all the insights from foreigners, and I want to appreciate all of your content.
Although I grew up in Germany, from now on as a 20-year-old I fulfill my dream.I stand with my van directly at the North Cape and enjoy this magnificent nature with all its powers.Until May I will also stay in this region. When summer slowly arrives in Norway, I look for a small house in the middle of the wilderness and will build an existence here.I could not tell you 20 minutes about all the advantages and beauties of Norway, but for 20 years. You can watch thousands of videos about this magnificent country, and you will still be completely clueless. You have to smell, taste, feel and experience Norway.
Just stumbled upon this post of yours now and can’t help but wonder - how are you doing in Norway now, after 2 years time? Wondering in Kristiansand… 🤗
When I saw this I immediately thought of the time I was in Disney World (please don’t laugh). My husband took our 3 sons on an adventure & I went to Epcot (“everything from around the world”). We went to the NORWEGIAN buffet! I remember a lot of fish (which I love) and interesting dishes I never had before & I loved it! I don’t know how accurate the food was except it was great!❤
Using meat from an animal's head to make a dish, usually involving gelatine, is common in dozens of countries, even in N America, especially in Canada, Pennsylvania, the Upper Midwest, and in the South. Generally, pigs' head meats are used here, however. It's called Head Cheese, or sulze. In parts of Canada, meats from heads of game, such as moose and caribou are used.
@@t.a.k.palfrey3882 Well, Canada and the upper Midwest makes sense. Most of the Icelandic people that moved to the new world moved to Canada and they have the same tradition as us. And Norwegians and Swedes mostly moved to the upper Midwest if memory serves me right. As for the south... There I'm guessing it's from other cultures. Pennsylvania... I don't know... So many cultures moved through that area along the east coast, Norwegians included, that it's hard to tell...
The Sheapsheads are "comon" in western norway. I can buy them at the supermarkets in the fall. The meat is great, but you have to get over the sheeps face on your plate.
@@steinarhaugen7617 Yes, I live in the western part of the country too. Never tasted it myself and I can’t recall hearing anyone I know say that they have either.
@@steinarhaugen7617 Not true. It is not only those wit h "special Interests" that eat sheep's heads. But It has become somewhat rarer to eat sheep's head.
Smalahove (sheep's head) is really good, don't let anyone else tell you otherwise. At a restaurant you'd eat a burger with utensils, at home you do not.
Sort of a fun story from a couple years back when I still lived with my parents: I was staying at my fathers and my stepmom, she is from Indonesia but spoke fluent English. She wanted to learn the language so we spoke for the most part Norwegian, we would slow down, repeat ourselves and try to explain it in Norwegian if she didnt understand something, finally explaining in English if all else failed. One time I said “Eg går bare ned i frysaren for å hente eit brød og legge det til å tina”, translates to “I’m just going down to the freezer to get a bread and put it to thaw”. Coincidentally the Norwegian word for thaw “tina/tiny” is identical to the name Tina, and I have a sister named Tina😅. My stepmom was quite confused what my sister had to do with the bread, since she wasn’t living there anymore.
Love your videos 🙂 Regarding the small sled she was talking about it's called runpeakebrett literally meaning butt (ake) board. Ake is specifically for moving along the snow atop something, brett equals board and rumpe is butt. It was probably the one on the right of the one you chose to display.
We do eat pizza and hamburger with our hands. The only reason you'd eat a burger with a fork and knife, is because you'd be eating out at a place that has a somewhat more fancy burger, and those burgers are really hard to hold without everything spilling out. So it's just easier to use a knife and fork. You'd still feel kind of defeated that you'd have to eat it with a fork and knife, though.
4:40 we eat pizza with our hands... at least most people do... though I eat pizza with a fork and knife if it is really warm, and I don't want to wait.
A suggestion for a video you can react to: ua-cam.com/video/9tb2S4AYV4Y/v-deo.html It is Americans with Norwegian heritage that take part in a Norwegian reality show were they compete in order to meet their Norwegian families ....which they have never met or known about before. This time they shall experience a "typical" Norwegian vacation. The participants certainly was surprised of what they experienced. The reality show have about 10 episodes every year and it was broadcast for 8 or 9 years. The show was named "Alt for Norge" (all (everything) for Norway). You will learn quite a bit about some Norwegian ways of having vacation ...and you will be surprised.... There are some Norwegian language spoken, but most of the time it is in English.
Norwegians are good at English, because we learn in school, but more so because of American culture. Music, movies, books. Learning Norwegian for an English speaker is understandably much harder.
@@vadlasletta the internet is also in Norwegian if you know where to engage. I think roughly 30% of my Internet browsing is in English, the 70% being a split between Norwegian, German, Spanish and French
Smalahove (sheeps head) and the fermented fish (lutefisk) are both traditions that date back to when norway was a poor country, it's actually not that long ago. The head was to not waste anything that could be used as food. And the fermented fish was invented by accident when some guy had stored some fish that had gone bad, but because he was poor and had to feed his family they had to eat it anyway.
Smalahove (sheep's head) is a dish from the Hordaland area of Norway (possibly Sogn as well). They also eat this at the Faroe islands and on Iceland, so the tradition probably goes way back. When I was a kid hardly any Norwegians besides the locals knew the dish. The only way to get it was to make it yourself, which my sisters and I helped with at home. We butchered sheep at the farm back then, and our granddad would put the severed head on a spike and roast it over an open fire. The point of that is to get rid of the wool by burning it and then scraping it off with a knife. Us kids would do the same, only with a sheep's leg each instead. It does sound (and look) macabre, but when you're a kid everything you're taught is normal until someone else tells you it isn't. Later on a business not far from here started mass producing smalahove at a factory, and so many more has had the chance to try this old traditional western dish. At this point you can buy it packaged in halves at the supermarkets, and I think most Norwegians know what it is now even if they haven't tried it. Pinnakjøt (sheep's ribs) from the same area of Norway is a dish that is more agreeable to most, and has indeed become much more of a national dish these days. Many prefer it to regular ribs at Christmas actually.
Maybe norwegians and americans (and others) have a different definition of what a friend is. I know a lot people but I only see 3 of them as friends. The rest is just acquaintances.
People who don't live in cold climates, then vacationing or immigrate right as winter begins, and are either so full of wonder, over something so normal to me, or are so wildly unprepared because they underestimated winter, always seem to crack me up. As a canadian I'm so used to seeing people like that, but it's awesome that norway seems to get those people too. It seems like every video you react to where it's non-norwegean people talking about norway, I find their reactions to the climate to be pretty funny. That's the major culture shock I get from these
Every week on Sunday our (American) main dish was lamb. I remember as perhaps a 10 yr old watching Alfred Hitchcock’s “Lambs to the Slaughter”. I thought it was brilliant! “Would anyone like a leg of lamb?” It still makes me laugh except I don’t eat lamb anymore!
We eat mostly anything with a fork and knife because we don't want the mess, get sauce and stuff on our hands. We don't eat lamb heads; we have sheep heads. I have like 6 full sheepsheads in my freezer.
The slead she talj about is the blue next to it… more simple then the red. Im 🇳🇴 and i have never had sheep head… but pinnekjøtt , it simulare.. but not head.
I think that this woman is part of a group of americans that belongs to a church, and they spend some time in Norway (and other countries) and talk about God and so on .... not sure what the church is called tough. You have had several of them talking about their trip too ... not that it is wrong ofcourse 🙂 But they seems to have had a pretty good time while being here. Smalahove or the Lamb's head is still eaten at places, its more a delicatess but not all eat that ... like me, I have never tried it ... not that interested either 🙂
I'm 23 years old and have lived in Norway my whole life. I have never had lambs head, and neither gotten the opportunity to eat it. So it's really rare. I don't know why everyone keeps mentions it in these videos honestly.
Try the food in Northern Norway. I tell you, the people there are not wild, (as some may think) but they eat 'wild.' Last time I was there my cousins served up some very nicely roasted reindeer, elk, flash fried hvale steaks and one day we had poached Halibut, caught by one of the young guys in the family. As for sheep's heads. Yes, this is true. The heads are first boiled, the meat is rendered (removed) from the bones. This meat is then spiced with 'warm' picking spices, the heap of spiced meat now put onto a large boiled pig's skin (I think), then rolled into a large sausage. Savoury jelly is then poured into this sausage from one end, so as to hold the pieces of meat together. Leave to rest for a little while before putting onto a large serving plate, pressed down firmly (to squeeze out excess fluid), with a large plate on top, (or piece of wood) plus anything else one has to hand, so as to weigh this sausage down further. This contraption is then left in a cool place for a week or two, before taking out and sliced thinly. This is a real delicatessen meat, very nice on open sandwiches. However, English speaking people would understand northern Europeans better if they learnt German before trying the other languages.
Don't think its the easiest language to learn, I think most learn the bokmål Norwegian, but we do have some many dialects, bokmål is mostly spoken by citizens grown up in Oslo. In Oslo there are alot of people from other parts with other dialects. So it would be some differences to words and how fast we speak
Hey TYLER WALKER! I just watched the rest of her video, and FYI when she speaks Norwegian at the end there, it`s perfect bokmål Norwegian. The only hint she is`nt a native speaker is the fact that she`s thinking a lot as she`s speaking. To form the correct grammar. But that is definetly the most impressive norwegian spoken by an american ever. Knowlege, brains and skills are sexy. I think I`m in love :D
since you have gain a shit ton of norwegian subscribers we should have buyed you a candy bag with diffrent candys from norway and sodas so you could try those out on the channel it could be awesome. and yes when we are out on a like a little fancy local fast food chain we eat with fork and knife both pizza and hamburger when we eat on mc donlads no absoulutely no fork and knife there not home either xD
Ye salmon is normal like in norway we say that you shoud wat week ST least once a week my fam eats salmon 2 times a week and our fam get it for free Becuse we fish it and selll it😂😂
We do eat pizza with our hands, and burgers too. And kebabs. And tacos. The knife and fork thing comes into play if we sit down in a restaurant to eat these things, because for instance a "proper" burger is so stuffed with salad, veggies, dressing, etc it becomes next to impossible to eat without cutlery. Many Norwegians always use a knife and fork when eating at home as well, because it's convenient to absolutely fill your plate and then sit down and dig in (tools may come in handy).
agree that some fancy hipster impractical burgers can be aided by cutlery, but generally.. anyone eating a pizza or a burger with a fork and knife is either peerpressured into it or a plain psychopath.. imo-
@@avlinrbdig5715 i work at pizzabakern and you'd be surprised, almost EVERYONE eats with knife and fork
@@ratman9728 i still stand by my statement
Who the fuck eat pizza with fork and knife?
For me it depends, if its fast food, street food, etc.
I will always eat that with my hands.
If it is a restaurant, I would generally eat it with fork and knife, even if it is pizza, but that's only if they do not pre-cut it, that's a sign for me to eat it with cutlery.
Also as multiple people has already said, if the burger is next to impossible to eat with hands.
At the family, friends or similar dining table, it is always cutlery, just a basis of manners.
04:53 Norwegians eat their food with their hands when applicable and when in casual settings, Norwegians eat their food with fork and knife when in business or non-casual settings. Norwegians don't go to a 5 star restaurant and eat the burger with our hands, but they do go to a Burger King or Mc.Donalds - or other fast food/take-away places - and eat the burger with their hands. It's the same way as how you wouldn't go to a fancy setting dressed in your casual clothes.
Smalahove is the boiled sheeps head. It's only common in western Norway
I am almost 30 and I have never tried Smalahove/Sheeps head. Never had it offered to me either. It is definitely a (north?) western Norwegian tradition, which is where they traditionally had more sheep and a bigger reliance on them. When I grew up however one of my friends whose family was from Western Norway used to make it and I was at his house once when they were preparing it. It looked kind of macabre with a massive barrell they used to heat the head in outside and then a chainsaw to split them in half after.
Been living on the west coast all my life, never eaten sheeps head. I refuse to eat a face, no matter how good the meat is
I'm from Northern Norway and I never had sheeps head eiter. I think it more like from the western paret, but it's not very common (no wonder it looks disgusting!)
I'm a little older and never tried nor do I want to
My father used to make the smalahove and lutefisk himself. So when I was a kid this was usually eaten as ordinary weeknight dinner.
I live in Norway, but got Icelandic family.
Smalahove is definitely a part of the diet, especially for þorrablót.
me and my girlfriend are Norwegian. have watched all the videos on your youtube channel. I find it very interesting to hear what you think about Norway.
keep up the good work
Tyler, the sled you looked up was wrong, try looking up "hot sheet mini sled"
When it comes to the fluency. One major part is that people from Norway and me from Sweden consume a lot of content I English. It differs but I would say 90% of UA-cam, movies, tv-shows etc is in English.
I was once told that one of the best ways to learn a new language is to watch childrens tv programs. You`ll learn the ABC, 123 and how to talk/pronounce words. Never tried it myself, but I can kinda see how it could help.
Great video as always. Love to watch this while enjoying my morning coffe! Happy hollidays and a (early) Merry X-Mas ( God Jul ) to you!
Sesam stasjon!
Alfa lærte meg tall, som barn.
Try Peppa Pig in different languages.
You may be interested in the program Alt for Norge (All for Norway). It is a tv-show features Norwegian Americans participating in challenges relating to Norwegian history and culture, competing to win a reunion with their distant Norwegian relatives.
It has been ten seasons, with ten episodes each. Some of the seasons can be found at www.youtube.com/@Rowaryz/videos
As an Norwegian, i am proud of my country.But it is hard work and thanks to our parents, grandparents who made this country possible. Like your comments and reactions. Keep up the god work.
Best reguards TBS.
Create a go found me to save up money to visit Norway. Seems like you really want to go there. :D but check out further north in Norway. Troms and Finnmark. love your videos keep them coming
previous exchange student here. I still remember everyone looking at me when i ate pizza with utensils, after using napkins to remove all the grease from the pizza (was like small puddles). And the bread was sweet, like pastries, not anything like european bread. Still slowly working on the weight i put on in america, after 10 years LMAO
Hamburgers and pizzas are in general not eaten with fork and knife in Norway . . and It is not normal to put chokolate powder on chese either. Head of sheeps are called "smalahove" and is not a common dish to find everywhere in Norway . It is a tradition in Hordaland (west of Norway).
She mixed Nesquick/O’boy in Cottage Cheese to make a chocolate pudding. I don’t think it is that crazy of an idea, seems like a quick way to make something sweet for after dinner without too much work. And also, cottage cheese is a fresh cheese, so it would be a quite suitable product to use for something like that. I remember when it was new in the 70s, one of the first things people were told to use it for, was with mixed fresh fruits, as a fruit salad. Many others would maybe try to mix it in something like Kesam or Skyr, would make it more like a familiar pudding or mousse and if no one said anything, it would probably pass as some normal product. At least Skyr would be perfect, with it’s rich consistency and all… If you use milk products, I would’ve given Skyr Naturell a try with Nesquik or cocoa powder mixed with a sweetener and maybe a little vanilla and let it dissolve properly in a little milk maybe before cooling it down and mixing it with the skyr. Then cool that down before serving. Could be a better version of a chocolate pudding or mousse! And you get to control the amount and type of sweetener!!! Me however, I stick to vegan yoghurt which I mix with different things when I feel like something like that. I either make my own homemade (which I let ferment just with a couple of probiotic capsules, so maybe it shouldn’t be called «yoghurt», but it is darn yoghurty and very good for you! I usually use either only coconut milk or a mix with soy milk and I let it «hang» until Greek Yoghurt thickness, sooooo creamy!) or I buy a coconut yoghurt from Coop. It is very good too! Yummy! Sorry, I totally digressed and that on such an old video too… 😂😅😅 Sorry… But who knows, maybe someone can benefit from the info? ☺️🤗
The salmon thing is basically a freshness game. The fresher it is, the better it is. Unless you go for smoked salmon, that keeps. I'd recommend that btw.
Thats the case for most fish though. Used to live in main land canada and then moved out to newfoundland and the fish was 1 million times better. When you can get it same day, never frozen, it's always so much better
That snow sliding thing is known as a stjärtlapp in Sweden.
Pizza and hamburgers are normally eaten by hand in Norway, just like the rest of the world. In some restaurants(not the fastfood ones) we might use knife and fork if the burgers are too big or the restaurant just calls for a more civilized approach.
To say that Norwegians as a whole either eat lambs head (Smalahåve) or not is a bit flawed. It's a traditional dish, from the western part of the country (iirc). The older generations and people further from the cities might very well be more inclined to eat it, but it's not a everyday meal. More like on special occasions and such, not to mention this tradition stems in part from a desire and a need to utilize all parts of the animal. Younger generations and people in more urban areas will likely share your opinions on it, i know i do at least.
Regards, some guy from Bergen Norway
I have a fond memory from when I was little were my grandparents had served “Smalahåve” (sheepshead), for a nicer family gathering. I don’t remember everything that was served, and I was a bit to nervous to try it. But my grandpa had cleaned half of the jaw and gave it to me. I was fascinated by the sheep’s strange teeth and played with it for hours, coincidentally it had the same shape as a gun and it became my toy-gun for a couple of days/weeks.
Jeg skal ha smalahove med noen slektninger og vi skulle også ha væreballer, men det får vi ikke. (Heldigvis😳)
melted butter on potatoes and some fish and veggies = delicious ( though i don't like alot of fish dishes, some are too good to miss out on )
It looked like... something else. If you google "stjärtlapp" you get a simpler version that we used here in Sweden when I was a kid. Also "Stiga Snowracer" was a personal favorite because you could make quite big jumps. Some even switched to BMX handle bars.
I love my Country
lol, I'm eating pizza while WATCHING this - WITH my hands :D Love your content, btw.
Also, sidenote: I did eat hamburger with knife and fork when I was in the US - It did fly ;D
Norway fishes out large areas in the host with fine food fish, or good fish for special dishes, to grind down into feed for its salmon farms
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Yes, search for "smalahove"
"Smala" is a archaic Norwegian word for sheep.
And "Hove" is slightly archaic/new Norwegian word for head.
It's a traditional dish in Norway, the Faeroe islands and Iceland at least.
I don't know about Sweden and Denmark.
cottage cheese isn't like what one would think of as traditional cheese. Think cheese curds more than cheese slices.
The sleds is more like the teal one next to the red one you pulled up on google.
I'm from Lithuania and my grandma always has cottage cheese with homemade jams and berries but it always grossed me out like some other dairy products haha. Don't know why
I'm really looking forward to part 2!! :)
4:45 Most people eat hamburgers with their hands (at least I think so), but at least in my case, if it is really big, or has one of those wood things in the middle to hold it together, I use a fork and knife.
they eat lamb's head, or smalahove in Norwegian, in the south/west of Norway
08:22 That is one fancy "tiny Norwegian sled" lol
Normally the sled (called: "Akebrett") is just a flat piece of plastic for your bum to sit on, and a little flat handle sticking out between your legs to hold on to.
Super simple and portable. All children in Norway has probably used one or have one. Kindergarten and schools often have them for when they are out in the snow as well.
here in norway we start to learn english and norwegian in the first grade when you are 6 year old, so most of us can speak it. i can have a fluid dialog in English with my niece that are 10 year old
Interesting video.
I have learnt spanish as an adult, and I have observed others doing it.
Learning a language is a big project, but it is also really satisfying when you after a while are able to understand and express yourself in a new language.
There will be a lot of errors and emissions, that is a part of the process.
There is a tradition of eating "smalahove". Sheeps head. The brave ones eats the eye.
Just adding, it's not my favorite dish. Also it's more of a special occasion thing, not everyday food 😅
Just so it's stated, it's good.
People just have a weird mentality about it, as if they don't understand what "using all parts of an animal" means.
These occations usually comes with generous amounts of beer and cider,lol!
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Hum, old people still eat pizza with a work and knife.
Young ones rarely do so however, although we absolutely can do so and *will* do so in a more formal setting.
Oh we eat hamburgers with our hands, those we are able to eat with our hands. Also pizza. If we use fork and knife it's because it would be hard to eat it with hands without stuff going everywhere 😄.
And rislunsj is great! It's actually riskrem (rice cream) with a berry sauce/ berry jam.
So Smalahove (sheephead) is ok i have at it on a few ocations, it is wierd if u think about it so it is better to just eat it and not thin about it beaing a head. the eye is considered a delicacy and tastes like a wierd pudding of some kind
In Scandinavia, we mostly eat things like hamburgers, pizza, and tacos with our hands, if it is at a fast-food place. However, if the place is not a fast food place, I eat my hamburger with a fork and knife as well as I can. I also eat thin pizza with a fork and knife too.
@3:20 called Rislunch has 2 comparments one with a dash of strawberry jam and a bigger one with rice pudding and yea it's a really good treat although it's a sugar bomb
There are some weirdoes eating pizza with fork and knife. same as there are some eating chicken legs, clubs and wings with fork and knife where half the meat is left.. But most use our hands, there are some food classified as finger food (chicken, pizza, nachos, tacos, hotdogs etc. (tho I once saw someone using fork and knife eating hotdog), but when it comes to like eating rice and other things, we use fork and knife as often as we can.. It also depends if you are alone or with company, alone you might for some things use only a fork, and use hand to help at end to get it on the fork instead of using a knife..
Salmon is cheaper in Norway because is farmed. And did not find particularly cheap when on holidays this year, but could be cause I was in a very isolated area without many options. About cheese and sweet, I am from Argentina and we have "Vigilante" which is a slice of cheese and a slice of sweet, like "dulce de batata" or "dulce de membrillo" (Sweet potato sweet or quince sweet). I am not much into chocolate but can try it. Here in the UK lamb is cheaper than cow. As a child I remember eating cow brains, and seen my aunt eating the eyes of a goat. I did not eat it.Previous generations where less picky about food, and they eat all the animal. For my grandmother was a sin waste food.
Being norwegian we do eat most stuff with forks and knives but I’ve never heard or seen anyone eat hamburgers with fork and knife but pizza depends on the type of pizza
About the sled one i thought every country had them if they had snow and the picture you found is a more modern variant it seems as the ones i used a few years ago were only made of full plastic with 1 color. It’s all one big plastic piece so there is no extra parts connected like we saw in the picture you found. Those might just be more newer variants or spins on them i am not sure
The blue one is more common than the red sled("rumpeakebrett") . The lambs head(smalahove) is more common on mid West Coast and especially around voss, and you cinda have to know someone who can prepare it..
For information,,,,,in EUROPE,,, we use cutlery,,,, even with Pizza,,,
just a thought, would be fun if you added or shout out the channels from where you're watching from. As a Norwegian I want all the insights from foreigners, and I want to appreciate all of your content.
I am Norwegian. Fiske kaker is really good. Translated towards to Fish Cakes. It isn't a cake. It is basically like a flat meatball, but with fish
we dont eat lambs head much anymore, but some old ppl still do. i have tried it, its just smoked lamb meat on the head so its pretty good:P
My closest neighbor is American but he lived here for a long time. i know several Americans living up here North speaking very good Norwegian
7:50 no it more like the picture to the rigth of that cuzz that i have never seen in my life
Although I grew up in Germany, from now on as a 20-year-old I fulfill my dream.I stand with my van directly at the North Cape and enjoy this magnificent nature with all its powers.Until May I will also stay in this region. When summer slowly arrives in Norway, I look for a small house in the middle of the wilderness and will build an existence here.I could not tell you 20 minutes about all the advantages and beauties of Norway, but for 20 years. You can watch thousands of videos about this magnificent country, and you will still be completely clueless. You have to smell, taste, feel and experience Norway.
Just stumbled upon this post of yours now and can’t help but wonder - how are you doing in Norway now, after 2 years time? Wondering in Kristiansand… 🤗
When I saw this I immediately thought of the time I was in Disney World (please don’t laugh). My husband took our 3 sons on an adventure & I went to Epcot (“everything from around the world”). We went to the NORWEGIAN buffet! I remember a lot of fish (which I love) and interesting dishes I never had before & I loved it! I don’t know how accurate the food was except it was great!❤
We do not eat the head of a lamb, but of an adult sheep👍......not everyone in Norway likes and eats it😳
ja eg liker de ikke🤢 yes I don't like it
Using meat from an animal's head to make a dish, usually involving gelatine, is common in dozens of countries, even in N America, especially in Canada, Pennsylvania, the Upper Midwest, and in the South. Generally, pigs' head meats are used here, however. It's called Head Cheese, or sulze. In parts of Canada, meats from heads of game, such as moose and caribou are used.
@@t.a.k.palfrey3882 Well, Canada and the upper Midwest makes sense.
Most of the Icelandic people that moved to the new world moved to Canada and they have the same tradition as us.
And Norwegians and Swedes mostly moved to the upper Midwest if memory serves me right.
As for the south...
There I'm guessing it's from other cultures.
Pennsylvania...
I don't know...
So many cultures moved through that area along the east coast, Norwegians included, that it's hard to tell...
Am a German who got invited to try it. It does not look too good, but it's delicious. I did not try the eyeball though
@@romyhartenstein7779 Apparently the eyeballs are a delicacy...
I can't comment myself though...
The Sheapsheads are "comon" in western norway. I can buy them at the supermarkets in the fall.
The meat is great, but you have to get over the sheeps face on your plate.
I live in western Norway and most of us don't eat sheep's heads. Only those with 'special interests' eat such food.
@@steinarhaugen7617 snakk for deg sjøl siddis 😋😋
@@steinarhaugen7617 Yes, I live in the western part of the country too. Never tasted it myself and I can’t recall hearing anyone I know say that they have either.
@@steinarhaugen7617 Not true. It is not only those wit h "special Interests" that eat sheep's heads. But It has become somewhat rarer to eat sheep's head.
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We do still eat the traditional food. The fish treated with caustic soda is amazing!
Smalahove (sheep's head) is really good, don't let anyone else tell you otherwise.
At a restaurant you'd eat a burger with utensils, at home you do not.
I really like your videos.
Very few in my generation has had it, and I’m 38 years now. I doubt more than 1 % of kids today have tastes it. The lamb head,I mean.
Sort of a fun story from a couple years back when I still lived with my parents: I was staying at my fathers and my stepmom, she is from Indonesia but spoke fluent English. She wanted to learn the language so we spoke for the most part Norwegian, we would slow down, repeat ourselves and try to explain it in Norwegian if she didnt understand something, finally explaining in English if all else failed. One time I said “Eg går bare ned i frysaren for å hente eit brød og legge det til å tina”, translates to “I’m just going down to the freezer to get a bread and put it to thaw”. Coincidentally the Norwegian word for thaw “tina/tiny” is identical to the name Tina, and I have a sister named Tina😅. My stepmom was quite confused what my sister had to do with the bread, since she wasn’t living there anymore.
Fork in left hand, knife in right, yes, this is good, this is how we eat too. For formal meals anyway.
Lamb is SO NICE. Very worth having!
No it is a baby! dont eat a baby please!
Love your videos 🙂
Regarding the small sled she was talking about it's called runpeakebrett literally meaning butt (ake) board.
Ake is specifically for moving along the snow atop something, brett equals board and rumpe is butt. It was probably the one on the right of the one you chose to display.
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We do eat pizza and hamburger with our hands.
The only reason you'd eat a burger with a fork and knife, is because you'd be eating out at a place that has a somewhat more fancy burger, and those burgers are really hard to hold without everything spilling out. So it's just easier to use a knife and fork. You'd still feel kind of defeated that you'd have to eat it with a fork and knife, though.
people in small towns in Norway ALL know each other. No miracle what so ever :)
4:40 we eat pizza with our hands... at least most people do... though I eat pizza with a fork and knife if it is really warm, and I don't want to wait.
Lambs head"Smalahove" is a western norway tradidtion food, not something most Norwegians eat
now i’m going to say love in Norwegian. Elsker❤❤🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
The head of the lamb is called Smalahove :)
Eating the head of the sheep isn't very common anymore but many still do it. I've done it, and it was AMAZING
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It is Americans with Norwegian heritage that take part in a Norwegian reality show were they compete in order to meet their Norwegian families ....which they have never met or known about before. This time they shall experience a "typical" Norwegian vacation. The participants certainly was surprised of what they experienced. The reality show have about 10 episodes every year and it was broadcast for 8 or 9 years. The show was named "Alt for Norge" (all (everything) for Norway). You will learn quite a bit about some Norwegian ways of having vacation ...and you will be surprised.... There are some Norwegian language spoken, but most of the time it is in English.
Norwegians are good at English, because we learn in school, but more so because of American culture. Music, movies, books. Learning Norwegian for an English speaker is understandably much harder.
we start out terrible though we can understand and speak it well enough, but it takes some time to get the accents down properly
Well the internet is in english
@@vadlasletta the internet is also in Norwegian if you know where to engage. I think roughly 30% of my Internet browsing is in English, the 70% being a split between Norwegian, German, Spanish and French
Smalahove (sheeps head) and the fermented fish (lutefisk) are both traditions that date back to when norway was a poor country, it's actually not that long ago.
The head was to not waste anything that could be used as food. And the fermented fish was invented by accident when some guy had stored some fish that had gone bad, but because he was poor and had to feed his family they had to eat it anyway.
Would be fun to see your! reaction when you visit Norway😃 It would be interesting for your followers to see 🙂
4:00 honestly that's no excuse though, you can bake your own bread knowing 100% what's in it.
Smalahove (sheep's head) is a dish from the Hordaland area of Norway (possibly Sogn as well). They also eat this at the Faroe islands and on Iceland, so the tradition probably goes way back. When I was a kid hardly any Norwegians besides the locals knew the dish. The only way to get it was to make it yourself, which my sisters and I helped with at home. We butchered sheep at the farm back then, and our granddad would put the severed head on a spike and roast it over an open fire. The point of that is to get rid of the wool by burning it and then scraping it off with a knife. Us kids would do the same, only with a sheep's leg each instead. It does sound (and look) macabre, but when you're a kid everything you're taught is normal until someone else tells you it isn't.
Later on a business not far from here started mass producing smalahove at a factory, and so many more has had the chance to try this old traditional western dish. At this point you can buy it packaged in halves at the supermarkets, and I think most Norwegians know what it is now even if they haven't tried it. Pinnakjøt (sheep's ribs) from the same area of Norway is a dish that is more agreeable to most, and has indeed become much more of a national dish these days. Many prefer it to regular ribs at Christmas actually.
Maybe norwegians and americans (and others) have a different definition of what a friend is. I know a lot people but I only see 3 of them as friends. The rest is just acquaintances.
People who don't live in cold climates, then vacationing or immigrate right as winter begins, and are either so full of wonder, over something so normal to me, or are so wildly unprepared because they underestimated winter, always seem to crack me up. As a canadian I'm so used to seeing people like that, but it's awesome that norway seems to get those people too. It seems like every video you react to where it's non-norwegean people talking about norway, I find their reactions to the climate to be pretty funny. That's the major culture shock I get from these
Sheeps head was more common before, some still eat it. My 32 years in Norway never seen the dish with my own eyes
Every week on Sunday our (American) main dish was lamb. I remember as perhaps a 10 yr old watching Alfred Hitchcock’s “Lambs to the Slaughter”. I thought it was brilliant! “Would anyone like a leg of lamb?” It still makes me laugh except I don’t eat lamb anymore!
We eat mostly anything with a fork and knife because we don't want the mess, get sauce and stuff on our hands.
We don't eat lamb heads; we have sheep heads. I have like 6 full sheepsheads in my freezer.
4:15 Hey! I eat Smalahove (sheep head) every year.
love your vids
The slead she talj about is the blue next to it… more simple then the red.
Im 🇳🇴 and i have never had sheep head… but pinnekjøtt , it simulare.. but not head.
Never seen someone eat a hamburger with fork and knife in Norway and i`m old. but "karbonade" on bread is fork and knife
Sheapshead is a old culture thing when we were quite poor, why those away meat that could be eaten if prepared right?
Lambs head, or "smalahove" is really delicious. It sounds wierd, but it's so tasty and tender if you know how to cook it👌
I think that this woman is part of a group of americans that belongs to a church, and they spend some time in Norway (and other countries) and talk about God and so on .... not sure what the church is called tough.
You have had several of them talking about their trip too ... not that it is wrong ofcourse 🙂 But they seems to have had a pretty good time while being here.
Smalahove or the Lamb's head is still eaten at places, its more a delicatess but not all eat that ... like me, I have never tried it ... not that interested either 🙂
Church of the Latter Day Saints.
Church of the crazy loonies
Yes, you have that "Religious smile and nervous eyes" on their faces constantly. It's a dead giveaway.
The place where her distant relative lived, has 1500ish inhabitants I think, so it wasn't that much of a coincidence she ran into a friend of his :)
I'm 23 years old and have lived in Norway my whole life. I have never had lambs head, and neither gotten the opportunity to eat it.
So it's really rare. I don't know why everyone keeps mentions it in these videos honestly.
Try the food in Northern Norway. I tell you, the people there are not wild, (as some may think) but they eat 'wild.' Last time I was there my cousins served up some very nicely roasted reindeer, elk, flash fried hvale steaks and one day we had poached Halibut, caught by one of the young guys in the family.
As for sheep's heads. Yes, this is true. The heads are first boiled, the meat is rendered (removed) from the bones. This meat is then spiced with 'warm' picking spices, the heap of spiced meat now put onto a large boiled pig's skin (I think), then rolled into a large sausage. Savoury jelly is then poured into this sausage from one end, so as to hold the pieces of meat together. Leave to rest for a little while before putting onto a large serving plate, pressed down firmly (to squeeze out excess fluid), with a large plate on top, (or piece of wood) plus anything else one has to hand, so as to weigh this sausage down further. This contraption is then left in a cool place for a week or two, before taking out and sliced thinly. This is a real delicatessen meat, very nice on open sandwiches.
However, English speaking people would understand northern Europeans better if they learnt German before trying the other languages.
See deadliest catch the viking returns, they are in Norway now :D
Don't think its the easiest language to learn, I think most learn the bokmål Norwegian, but we do have some many dialects, bokmål is mostly spoken by citizens grown up in Oslo. In Oslo there are alot of people from other parts with other dialects. So it would be some differences to words and how fast we speak
Try to google "rompebrett". A tiny board to put under your bottom❤
I think that you should just take a trip to Norway. You will find it awesome.
pizza taco and hamburgers we eat with ouer hands but most diseshes we got is sause with and hot so you burned your fingers lool
Hey TYLER WALKER! I just watched the rest of her video, and FYI when she speaks Norwegian at the end there, it`s perfect bokmål Norwegian. The only hint she is`nt a native speaker is the fact that she`s thinking a lot as she`s speaking. To form the correct grammar. But that is definetly the most impressive norwegian spoken by an american ever. Knowlege, brains and skills are sexy. I think I`m in love :D
Congrats. 😄👢👢👜
Funny that she actually has Norwegian heritage. I suspected so right when the video started 😄
since you have gain a shit ton of norwegian subscribers we should have buyed you a candy bag with diffrent candys from norway and sodas so you could try those out on the channel it could be awesome. and yes when we are out on a like a little fancy local fast food chain we eat with fork and knife both pizza and hamburger when we eat on mc donlads no absoulutely no fork and knife there not home either xD
well, the reason Norwegian salmon is so expensive in the US might have something to do with the transport cost?
.... and import tax.
Ye salmon is normal like in norway we say that you shoud wat week ST least once a week my fam eats salmon 2 times a week and our fam get it for free Becuse we fish it and selll it😂😂
She used to have the American R, we pronounce the R's different in Norwegian.
Yep, sheepshead is very popular and typically we eat it in fall (I’ll eat it only if I’m starving -it’s disgusting)
You where so close on the "butt racer" or rumpe racer in norwegian (the sled thing), it was the turquoise one to the right