Well this is just amazing. This is the first episode ive seen and you are camping literaly one kilometer from my house - on the sandbank where i stand and fish.
And you shouldn´t smelled the faul smell from the Surströmming when she opened it. If I was there. I would emidetly gone to check who´s that idiot was who did something like that. surströmming really do smell. She are not overexadurate the smell. Poor Ronin who had to go trough something like that.
Really impressed how well you did your research. You cleaned the fish and ate it with bread, potatoes and red onion. Some like it with sour cream as well. And you approached it and tried it like an adult, not like many other foreigners have, and you expressed a nuanced opinion. Finally! Having said that, I think you appreciate it more than I do, which is to say I can't stand the stuff. 😄
Oh gosh, you have to love UA-cam (and Noraly), now there is an experience I don't have to experience. Thanks Noraly - really appreciate you taking one for the team.
Beautiful campsite!!!!! I have to apologize to you. Sorry, but I have not laughed so hard in a long time. The faces you made preparing your Swedish delicacy were priceless. They could not have been rehearsed. You always try to bring us reality in your videos, and this time you outdid yourself! I am of Polish and Ukrainina ancestry, but luckily I never had to experience something similar. Be safe and may a following wind be at your back!
13:43 protip: always walk away a distance from where you eat to open the can, and clean out the fish there. This will not only allow you to eat your fish free and far away from the bits we don't eat, but it will also lure in most of the flies
Don’t worry about the speed cameras, they only photograph from the front and they don’t measure average speed. They need to see your face + license plate to give you a fine. Just enjoy the Swedish landscape :) / Swedish biker
Yeep, that's right. If they also had taken a pic from behind the film rolls (ehmmm, disco duros, cloud, whatever) would have been speckled with wayyyy too many fine arses ....
😊 Yes. Thats how it is for us in Sweden on motorbikes. So it is only maybe if the police stay somewhere irl and have control for speeding you could get a ticket if you speeding to fast.
@@Sgt.Snorkel They used to be that way before when people had to manually collect the images. But these days they are all digital and send in the images electronically, so every one of them are active these days.
fantastic production values, wonderful & engaging narration, beautiful scenery, sympathetic accompanying music and thank you from the bottom of my soul for explaining and trying out Surströmming, so that we don't have to. I can barely imagine how gross it must have been. thank you @Itchy Boots 💖
I think the weirdest thing about the food for me when I tried it several years ago was how relatively normal the texture is of the fish. But then it is of course terrible, I could only handle about ⅔ of a portion kindly prepared by some Swedes for me and had to give up 😂
You are one of the bravest persons I know! I Experience this canned fish back in the 90's. At the time my Norwegian girlfriend,s brother brought some back to Berlin were we where living at the time. He was not known to volunteer to cook , when he suggested dinner and had the chairs and table outside I suspected something fishy! I can honestly say this is one of the worst smells I come across. It reminded me of the smell of rotten intestines Your cameras and sound are of great quality. Thank you.
Really impressed you gave surströmming a real try. I would mix in some gräddfil with the surströmming (would help with the acidity) and ditch the kaviar. The kaviar is best used with bread and butter alone, or even better with eggs.
You are the bravest girl I know. One day You travel around in the most challenging parts of the world alone on a motorcycle. The next day you dare open a box of Surstrømming. Quite impressed!
Noraly is tough. She also has a profound likeable personality. I think this is how she avoids becoming a victim. She has a natural radiating internal beauty for sure.
Oh - I thought you were going to say the process of fermenting herring started with that 16th century war because they realized they could completely defeat the enemy by catapulting it all over them. So glad it tasted better than it smelled - LOL! More lovely countryside, drone footage and interesting history of the place. Thank you! Wow - I look forward to the Swedish Tet!
I remember when I worked in a nursing home and the old people living there had a surströmming party indoors. When it was time to help them back I had to go down some stairs and open a closed door. It smelled like they had opened a mass grave in there, it really isn´t for the faint of heart. I´m really impressed you took on that challenge, this kind of thing grows hair on your chest (hopefully you don´t have to experience that)
I fell into this when seeing a UA-cam clip with someone that was about to test surströmming, and I was totally and completely hooked within 30 seconds. I still have a few episodes to watch (I'm all over the place when it comes to watching), but I enjoy this far more than any TV show I have seen in the last 5 years. You go, Noraly S! I love your drive, gumption, fearlessness and general attitude. I promise to be watching until the bitter end (that should take some time, I hope)!
It seems there are places around the northern American continent named after the home towns of the immigrants. There is a village called Oulu in Wisconsin. Village has less than 1000 people, and the city of Oulu in Finland has nowdays around 200 000 population. Map of of Oulu of Wisconsin shows a lot of Finnish surnames as street names.
I am Polish and I love surströmming. In fact I love loads of fermented food as this is also tradition in Poland. However I am not allowed to open sour herring in home 😂
fun fact! you were talking about odin and freya. our weekdays are named after the Old Norse gods, Monday is called "Måndag" and is named after Måne or Máni. Tuesday is called "Tisdag" and is named after tyrs, son of odin. Wednesday is called "Onsdag" and named after Odin. Thursday is called "Torsdag" and is named after thor. Friday is called "Fredag" and is called after Freya. Sunday is called "Söndag" and is called after Sunna or Sunne, She is also sister to Måne.
The campsite is very nice . I lived in Sweden for a year and they have a very nice nature . We used to swim in the sea during summer school break . Thanks for sharing 🤗😘
You are the toughest person, not just man or woman, but person i’ve ever seen. 😁💪 The way you handled that Surströmning was fenominal. Amazing. Noraly, I salute you 🤘 Love your views of Sweden. Should I ever get tired of being Danish, as if, Sweden would be the place to go. Lovely landscape and “trevliga” people
I love that you actually looked up what to have with and how to deal with the surströmming, like every other "look i tried surströmming" they just open the can (often spraying themselves with the contents) and then proceed to just take a bite even when its the whole fish...... Full disclosure i haven't eaten it but i do know a bit about it from family, friends and some info online. I have wanted to try it for a while but never really got the chance.
You are so brave…smelly food eating is waaaaay more scary than riding a motorcycle. That 🏕 is mwah!! Perfect! I’ve been jumping around watching the seasons again while I wait for your latest video. Stay safe! 💕
It blows me away time and again how professional your vids are! This is part of the world I have never been too but really want to! Thanks to you I feel I'm along for the tour despite the current situation. Thank you
There is a French saying "Chacun a son gout " which simply means everyone has their own taste. When I was first introduced to blue cheese I wasn't sure but I've developed such a palate for it I can distinguish different types. Good on you for trying that herring. There is more to food than Pizza Pops.
One of the best presentations of your experiences. We can see what you do, we can hear what you do and we are glad we can't smell it from here but just laugh at your reactions. Love it. Glad I never tried it when I was there.
I can´t believe that my favorite youtuber now have traveled on my favorite roads in Dalarna Sweden, I even knows where that camping site is, nice place. Keep up the good work Noraly!
I as a swede loves this clip. You educate me about my beautiful country. The view of a tourist is refreshing. Strong work with the Surströmming! Thank you and I will sub
Outstanding work right there, probably the best "foreigner tries spooky foods" ever, approaching the surströmming with most proper accessories and opening the can the best way. As a surströmming-lover, I would recommend opening the can a bit away from where you eat it, most flies are drawn to the bouillon and not the rinsed fish. Filets are most popular by rookies, but female whole fish usually have the delicious caviar - there are even special cans with ONLY "lage females with caviar". A bit pricier but I prefer them that way. Akvavit and beer are normal drinks to surströmming, but some (like myself) also enjoy them with milk (takes some of the acidity away), and have some sweet "messmör" on the bread or on the side. Great episode - as always!
You are such a good sport! Cultural Cuisine sampling, what a great concept, and I learned something about the history . As a member of a Swedish heritage family, I can appreciate how bad that food smells! Made me laugh and remember my childhood. Thank you thank you thank you
O.O Non-Swedish, tries Surströming for the first time, actually gets to eating it and even smiles soon after. Noraly, you are ten times tougher than I'll ever be. o.0 And I have been through hell and back.
My thoughts exactly. I will sample any food (maybe except Balut) and when confronted with Surstrømming I was determined to try it. That stopped immediately after just puncturing the can. Absolutely vile. She is one tough lady.
@@pistolpete9548 A few years ago I saw a documentary about the Thirty Year War where Swedish troops were involved. Apparently all other troops were scared of the Swedes for being able to survive on that food, and some historian said that, judging by the reports from back then, Surströming could be described as an early form of biological warfare.
I ate surströmming back in the seventies. It was so "done" that it had turned into a very smelly grey mass. It didn't look like fish anymore. Great experience and laugh for every one.😉😉👍👍
Noraly, two of the things I enjoy most about your vlogs is your scientific and cultural observations. Your background as a geologist shines through! I checked out Lake Siljan, which was new to me. What a fantastic impact crater and lake! You probably know that the formation of these craters from impacts was not widely accepted by the geologic community until after 1960 - and then, largely because of PhD work done by your namesake - Gene Shoemaker.
Such mounds are also found in Assam, a north eastern state of India you drove through when you were going out of India on Basanti. The kings of Ahom dynasty were laid to rest in those.
We are old indo-european cultures founded when the old "aryan" tribes wandered west and south to what is today europe, persia, india. We share some cool history.
@@niharkashyap3897 They looked pretty similar to the moidams in Charaideu, right? These are older, however, than those of the resting place of Ahom chiefs. Jai aai Axom!
One more video to say you are the bravest woman l know not only for riding your bike alone around the world but being able to taste that kind of food. You just put your tent in the middle of paradise. May God be with you, Noraly.
I guess the Swedish "sur" part is akin to Dutch "zuur" or English "sour" - the "strömming" being the fish. Wiki: German food critic and author Wolfgang Fassbender wrote that "the biggest challenge when eating surströmming is to vomit only after the first bite, as opposed to before". Wolfgang Fassbender in Swiss newspaper [Neue Zürcher Zeitung], August 2011. Wiki: Due to being made from herring from the Baltic sea, surströmming today contains higher levels of dioxins and PCBs than permitted in the EU.
@@toqtoq3361 - as a scientist I object against your transitive reasoning. Somewhere you - generatio spontaneoso - pull to the qualification out of thin air. Measurements an data may be based in science. What comes next is opinion. P/fun intended
All comment fun aside, Noraly's performance was pure sitcom. And considering her grown up eating, she was a trooper at it. I would need a bathroom, sitting on a porcelain throne, pants down, next to a sink as this food might trigger the same response in me as English tea with milk does when it comes out on both ends of the digestive tract.
@@toqtoq3361 - I am always prepared to take risks when I have a notion of chances they materialize and the subsequent impact. This here is a case of "over my dead body". No, I don't like to eat animal corpses too, but when fresh and well prepared I can be tempted.
This video definately deserved a thumbs up. I am officially impressed with how well you took on the first meeting with Surstrõmming. You passed with flying colors..
Found recently this channel and got totally soaked in to it. Just watched, and still following, the recent season 7 and the adventures in West Africa which is just amazing. Being a Swede I’m now doing a recap of this season 3 and it is really awesome to follow the trip across Scandinavia. Pity you didn’t stay longer in Stockholm (where I live) but nice that you tried out Swedish food traditions such as fika, pea soap and pancakes, and surströmming!! Love your channel, cheers and greetings from Sweden ❤️🍀✨
I was worried about you as i follow your rides from Patagonia. I realized how awful and dangerous are off-roads of South America. You've been mostly alone negotiating the various types of terrains. Your courage is incomparable: you're very brave for a woman. God watches over you up to Alaska, and all your life. God bless
Noo don't say it like that. It's like saying "you express feelings well for being a man" which isn't really great D:.. Don't separate qualities to the genders, there are brave men and women, coward men and women, good nautral and bad, coming from different backgrounds, we are all nuanced people! 😀 But yes! She is a brave woman! You are correct 😇
Native swede here. I've never eaten surströmming in my life, apart from one bite once as a kid. Never again xD But i must say, EVERY youtuber who tries it, just eats it straight off the can. That's even worse. It really should be prepared properly. Almost every food can be disgusting if you just eat it straight from the package. Except surströmming is always disgusting xD
6:17 speed cameras in Sweden do not take photos from the back, nor will they send any fines home if they can't identify the rider and they are not on all the time. So next time you visit you can rest a bit easier 😊😊
I love your motorcycle videos. They kind of grow on me the more episodes I watch. By the way, while growing up as a Swede, we always ate surströmming with sour creme (and red onions). It neutralises some of the foul taste...😁
I had Surstromming a couple of times in Sweden, once you get past the smell (the hard part) it really doesn't taste that bad if prepared and eaten as described. It is illegal to open in an apartment. They have areas in the corner of the complex where you have to go to open and eat the fish. All remains have to be thrown away in that area also. You are a true trooper to try it. Take some time each day to try the pastries, you will be glad you did and they travel well. Hope to see you on the Dalla horse in Nusnas. It is very interesting to watch them make the horses. Have a safe trip.
Me too, I had painted a lot of Dalarna wooden horses by myself in Lund, visiting my best friend in Max lab in rainy November 15 years ago. I visited him often in Uppsala and we went to Stockholm. The museums are beautiful. - Years later my neighbour showed photos of my horses in the factory in Nusnas; they said they would give me a job. - And as a teenager I drove Honda Enduro 125 ccm.- It´s always nice to see Noraly´s filming with the drone ...
Hi! Love to see you riding in Sweden, a warm welcome! Btw the traffic cameras can’t catch motorcycles today, they take photos of the front only. Happy ride! Hope you get good weather on the way.
Wow! You are the first foreigner that I have seen on UA-cam that has tried Swedish surströmning and done it the correct way (although I would have added some sour creme as well)! Many just open the can and start trying to eat it, even without cleaning it first. It is not really my favorite dish at all, but it does have it's traditions. Nicely done! 🙂
You are officially the coolest--and bravest--motorcyclist on UA-cam, and quite possibly the bravest UA-camr ever because you actually got the surströmming down the hatch without gagging up your toes!! Skål!!
Priceless expression on your face after puncturing that can and getting a whiff of the smell 😂😂 Awesome countryside and camping spot! 😍 Loved the music and drone footage as well!
There's a thing in Sweden called Allmänsrätt, which give people the right to go or camp virtually anywhere in the country. I've seen people camping next to the roads in Halmstad where I live.
My hat goes off for you Noraly. I have lived 35 years in Sweden (not anymore for 12 years) and not even all Swedes can tolerate surstrømming. I personally enjoy it with a clothespin in my nose. (once a year) ;) Keep up the good work of educating ignorant people of each others. We are all of the same human kind so lets be more tolerate for our differences.
Noraly : Hey Stone Cold, what you doin'? Austin : Just opened a can of whoopass on a clown, wbu? Noraly : Oh! Well I just opened a can of Surströming. Austin : Damn! You are one tough woman and that's the bottomline
The reason why everyone finds joy in this and adventurous traveling is because the nature of reality is that when we desire something and think we will be happy once we aquire it, more often than not the attaining of it doesn't bring the happiness we expected. That's how we learn and evolve. We get something we think will make us happy but afterwards we find it doesn't. What's different about traveling is that each day there is something new and unexpected
I learned two things today! 1.) Surströmming exists 2.) Following up online, there also exist Surströmming Snobs, who are happy to tell others that if they didn't try Surströmming according to their exclusive set of circumstances, you've never tried it at all! Anyway thanks Noraly, an interesting episode!
This is September 11, 2022… I wanted to go back and look at some of the old videos and this is the one that I picked first. The video was very good as usual but absolutely hilarious with the testing of the fish… I also love going back and looking at some of the places that you have been and where you are today… I’ve been here since the beginning and what a wild ride!
Hi Noraly I am second generation Swedish/American. It is neat to see the homeland through your eyes and the beauty of Sweden. I have never been myself, but am enjoying it through you. Also, you couldn't pay me enough to eat that Herring, again I will do it through your experiences...lol...thank you so much for the awesome content.
I'm Swedish and I usually don't eat fish at all, but I've eaten surströmming a few times - and like you mention in the video, the taste is far better than the smell. Most Swedish people complaining about eating it are NOT from the northern parts of Sweden; but they have no problem eating disgusting things like clams and crayfish. Yuck!
One of the best videos of your series (and I started watching them all). 30 plus years on submarines, I have eaten some pretty crazy food......but listening to your commentary and watching your facial expressions while preparing your Surströmming was priceless. LOL!!!
Eating Surströmming is much more brave than traveling the world solo on a motorbike! I don't know if I could do it, and I have eaten a lot of strange things in different lands, but the look on your face says it all!
Noraly: Brings a tin of rotten Fish and eats it on a beautiful pond full of ...FRESH FISH . ... ohhh the Irony ! lol . Awesome foodwise braveheart Episode ! Thumps Up , Itchy Boots ;-)
For your info the speed cameras only takes a picture of the front and they are mounted near by road crossings. But the one on the other side are for the incoming cars so they don’t measure the speed of going car only the incoming cars
You are so brave and so lovely. The barns along the river were beautiful but your water gathering in the rain was spectacular. I loved seeing the rain drops. Glad you avoided the wires with your drone.
I'm new to your videos, I have to say I really appreciate that you inject a bit of history in your videos. And that you at least tried to do Surströmming the "right" way. I don't like it, but it's not as bad as people often portrait. Great videos!
Noraly, your reaction while opening the can of surströmming was priceless 🤣🤣🤣 ! However, I have to say that you're sooo brave to try that Swedish special delicassy 🤣🤣🤣 !
I've watched countless videos on UA-cam about Suströmming. Apparently, it smells ten times worse than shit. That's due to the fermentation in the can. The smell is so strong that you're not allowed to open a can of Suströmming indoors. I've seen videos of people throwing up once they open the can. That said, kudos to you for been such a trooper and eating putrid fish. Also, you opened that can like a champion, stabbed it like you did not wanna miss a bite of that rotten thing.
Tim Summers the fish is not rotten, it is fermented. It is like calling beer rotten crop. Surströmming is really tasty. I had surströmming yesterday evening with my wife who grow up in east Africa - she likes it too (but not as much as I do). Edit: typo
@@Sauromannen I understand it's fermented, not rotten. I guess you didn't understand the language nuance. If English isn't your first language, don't worry about it.
She actually opened it correctly, in comparison to 90% of people eating it on utube - under running or still water, this helps SO much with the stench. The smell is mostly the pressurized can itself, once opened the smell (hopefully with wind) goes away, once you eat it (at a seperate location than when opened) it wont smell that bad unless you stick it under your nose. :) But opening it when it's that pressurized makes it go all splashy everywhere and 100% concentrated.. that's why people throw up, and so would we if we'd do it like that, lol.
OH and she also had it with all the correct parts! The dish is not only fermented herring, it's like saying sushi is only the fish (nigiri - rice) so real kudos to her, anyone that actually wants to try surströmming should watch this video.
As far as I know the speed cameras on the left side of the road does not track your speed. Only the oncoming traffic, so you can go above the speed limit after passing the first camera.
When I did my military service we did a little prank on our officers. In the early morning we snuck into their room where they were sleeping soundly. Opened one of those cans, rushed out and barred the door. When we got back from breakfast (across the yard) we could smell it across the whole base. xD
I love the smell of Surströmming!!!!!! My personal opinion is that you can only love Surströmming if you grew up with it, I did. My father learned to eat Surströmming, but he never reached my and moms level :-) By now you can figure out who brought Surströmming to my family.
Rudolf Abelin I think i can eat that in an instant, no acquired taste need. We ate worse than that i think back home. My culture love the most odorous food there is. So maybe our ancestors were once related?🙃
@@linusfotograf Min farfar ville ta med sig surströmming ner till Stockholm när vi skulle fara från Luleå flygplats. Personalen började rannsaka hans väska och tog 4 vällagrade burkar och 3 moraknivar. Varför han i helvete skulle ha med sig det förstår jag icke, haha! Hur som helst, burkarna såg ut att sprängas vilken sekund som helst. Det hade nog inte blivit en kul resa om de inte hade lagt märke till knivarna som låg i väskan.
Brave indeed! There is a reason the surströmming tradition is strongest along the norther Swedish coast: The Baltic sea may be technically part of the oceans, but the northern part of it is nearly fresh water. Thus, salt was expensive and the Swedes of old were dirt poor so they could not afford to use as much salt as they should and neither could they throw away food even when it had gone bad. So, they accepted it found that it was not poisonous after all and today it is really a cultural marker of those parts of Sweden. I have tried it and it is NOT worth the trouble. If you want good, traditional, Swedish food you should try the cured salmon!
I was in Stockholm 37 years ago. The cars are newer albeit still few, the tram newer but what hasnt changed is the sparse population in town. However, during holidays its quite crowded. Sweden, Denmark and Finland are listed as three of the best countries to live in 2021.
Surströmming should be treated like nuclear waste. It should be stored deep down under ground, never to see the light of sun again if you ask me. You are very brave Noraly :) I guess that pea soup and pancake was a little bit more pleasant experience :D
In sweden the cameras never take pictures from behind "yet". only front so as a motorcyclist we can just drive as fast as we want and never get a ticket if we get on camera.
Since it's the driver that commits the speeding offence and not the owner of the vehicle, it's no use to take a picture from behind since it won't show the driver. And with the helmet, motorcyclist won't be identifiable anyways.
I’m a member of the don’t like smelly fish club. It was good of you to take a hit for the team, thank you 🙏 A lovely days riding, thanks for sharing :)
This is so funny my mother was Norwegian once a year at Christmas she would cook lutefisk chunks of slimy fish soaked in lye along with turkey, ham and all the trimmings. We would always get a laugh over that smell. My dad was Irish, English and Dutch not really a conacre of Norwegian lutefisk. He claimed you nailed the lutefisk to a board to leave it standing out in the sun light for 7 days. Then throw the lutefisk in the garbage and eat the board! They have since passed, I still actually get a craven over the holidays having acquired a slight taste for a ton of salt and butter trying to eat around that smell.
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Well this is just amazing. This is the first episode ive seen and you are camping literaly one kilometer from my house - on the sandbank where i stand and fish.
That's crazy!!!!
Nils Holgerson? I heard about you?
no hasardous
And you shouldn´t smelled the faul smell from the Surströmming when she opened it. If I was there. I would emidetly gone to check who´s that idiot was who did something like that. surströmming really do smell. She are not overexadurate the smell. Poor Ronin who had to go trough something like that.
Because she is Dutch and not American I guess. Follow her journey through Africa. Very interesting
Really impressed how well you did your research. You cleaned the fish and ate it with bread, potatoes and red onion. Some like it with sour cream as well. And you approached it and tried it like an adult, not like many other foreigners have, and you expressed a nuanced opinion. Finally! Having said that, I think you appreciate it more than I do, which is to say I can't stand the stuff. 😄
I think she might also like hollands nieuwe, Dutch herring with onions
Lol😂
Oh gosh, you have to love UA-cam (and Noraly), now there is an experience I don't have to experience. Thanks Noraly - really appreciate you taking one for the team.
Beautiful campsite!!!!! I have to apologize to you. Sorry, but I have not laughed so hard in a long time. The faces you made preparing your Swedish delicacy were priceless. They could not have been rehearsed. You always try to bring us reality in your videos, and this time you outdid yourself! I am of Polish and Ukrainina ancestry, but luckily I never had to experience something similar. Be safe and may a following wind be at your back!
Glad you were outside.
13:43
protip: always walk away a distance from where you eat to open the can, and clean out the fish there. This will not only allow you to eat your fish free and far away from the bits we don't eat, but it will also lure in most of the flies
Don’t worry about the speed cameras, they only photograph from the front and they don’t measure average speed. They need to see your face + license plate to give you a fine. Just enjoy the Swedish landscape :)
/ Swedish biker
Yeep, that's right. If they also had taken a pic from behind the film rolls (ehmmm, disco duros, cloud, whatever) would have been speckled with wayyyy too many fine arses ....
Also like 80% of them are disabled.
😊 Yes. Thats how it is for us in Sweden on motorbikes. So it is only maybe if the police stay somewhere irl and have control for speeding you could get a ticket if you speeding to fast.
You should see the cameras in South East Europe. Croatia, Serbia etc. They photograph you from every damn side and measure average speed :D
@@Sgt.Snorkel They used to be that way before when people had to manually collect the images.
But these days they are all digital and send in the images electronically, so every one of them are active these days.
fantastic production values, wonderful & engaging narration, beautiful scenery, sympathetic accompanying music and thank you from the bottom of my soul for explaining and trying out Surströmming, so that we don't have to. I can barely imagine how gross it must have been.
thank you @Itchy Boots 💖
I think the weirdest thing about the food for me when I tried it several years ago was how relatively normal the texture is of the fish. But then it is of course terrible, I could only handle about ⅔ of a portion kindly prepared by some Swedes for me and had to give up 😂
You are one of the bravest persons I know! I Experience this canned fish back in the 90's. At the time my Norwegian girlfriend,s brother brought some back to Berlin were we where living at the time. He was not known to volunteer to cook , when he suggested dinner and had the chairs and table outside I suspected something fishy! I can honestly say this is one of the worst smells I come across. It reminded me of the smell of rotten intestines
Your cameras and sound are of great quality. Thank you.
I have followed your channel for quiet a while. You are without a doubt the coolest woman alive!!! May all your travels be safe!!!
Really impressed you gave surströmming a real try. I would mix in some gräddfil with the surströmming (would help with the acidity) and ditch the kaviar. The kaviar is best used with bread and butter alone, or even better with eggs.
On a knäckemacka with bregott and a slice of hushållsost!
Dutch food is just horrible so if she can eat that then she can handle most.
@GotWood? Bushcraft and more Gmail Ost och kaviar är faktiskt gott, ingen anledning att förolämpa någon på det där viset
@@Nen_niN Jag förstår dig. Att bli anklagad som stockholmare är över gränsen.
You are the bravest girl I know. One day You travel around in the most challenging parts of the world alone on a motorcycle. The next day you dare open a box of Surstrømming. Quite impressed!
Noraly is tough. She also has a profound likeable personality. I think this is how she avoids becoming a victim. She has a natural radiating internal beauty for sure.
Brave indeed. As a nearly 70 year old Swede I will never try it.
Oh - I thought you were going to say the process of fermenting herring started with that 16th century war because they realized they could completely defeat the enemy by catapulting it all over them. So glad it tasted better than it smelled - LOL!
More lovely countryside, drone footage and interesting history of the place. Thank you! Wow - I look forward to the Swedish Tet!
hahahha I can imagine a rain of fermented herring, and everybody running away
I remember when I worked in a nursing home and the old people living there had a surströmming party indoors. When it was time to help them back I had to go down some stairs and open a closed door. It smelled like they had opened a mass grave in there, it really isn´t for the faint of heart. I´m really impressed you took on that challenge, this kind of thing grows hair on your chest (hopefully you don´t have to experience that)
2 people were actually dead for a week already but nobody noticed it
😂😂😂😂😂😂
I fell into this when seeing a UA-cam clip with someone that was about to test surströmming, and I was totally and completely hooked within 30 seconds. I still have a few episodes to watch (I'm all over the place when it comes to watching), but I enjoy this far more than any TV show I have seen in the last 5 years. You go, Noraly S! I love your drive, gumption, fearlessness and general attitude. I promise to be watching until the bitter end (that should take some time, I hope)!
Surströmming is for the Swedish the same as Durian is for some Asian countries. ;) Great you are open for this kind of things. Respect
Durian is a fruit!
@@NayanJB you missed my point.
We have a town in northern Ontario Canada called Upsala, it was named after Uppsala Sweden by Swedish immigrants in the 1880s.
thats nice dear
It seems there are places around the northern American continent named after the home towns of the immigrants. There is a village called Oulu in Wisconsin. Village has less than 1000 people, and the city of Oulu in Finland has nowdays around 200 000 population. Map of of Oulu of Wisconsin shows a lot of Finnish surnames as street names.
There is one Upsala in Minnesota too. With one p is the old spelling before 1907 or so.
Hehe, seems as if your great great grand parents didn't have a good sense of imagination 😂
@@loris-bismar every immigrant group did this all over the USA and Canada
That was one of your most entertaining vids. Best camp site ever
My grandmother was Swedish and studied at Uppsala. Thank you so much for showing me her country in such a perfectly insightful way😊
I am Polish and I love surströmming.
In fact I love loads of fermented food as this is also tradition in Poland.
However I am not allowed to open sour herring in home 😂
fun fact! you were talking about odin and freya. our weekdays are named after the Old Norse gods, Monday is called "Måndag" and is named after Måne or Máni. Tuesday is called "Tisdag" and is named after tyrs, son of odin. Wednesday is called "Onsdag" and named after Odin. Thursday is called "Torsdag" and is named after thor. Friday is called "Fredag" and is called after Freya. Sunday is called "Söndag" and is called after Sunna or Sunne, She is also sister to Måne.
The campsite is very nice . I lived in Sweden for a year and they have a very nice nature . We used to swim in the sea during summer school break .
Thanks for sharing 🤗😘
You are the toughest person, not just man or woman, but person i’ve ever seen. 😁💪
The way you handled that Surströmning was fenominal. Amazing.
Noraly, I salute you 🤘
Love your views of Sweden. Should I ever get tired of being Danish, as if, Sweden would be the place to go. Lovely landscape and “trevliga” people
Best Surströmmning test i've seen yet, others are so cliché. This was great :)
I love that you actually looked up what to have with and how to deal with the surströmming, like every other "look i tried surströmming" they just open the can (often spraying themselves with the contents) and then proceed to just take a bite even when its the whole fish......
Full disclosure i haven't eaten it but i do know a bit about it from family, friends and some info online.
I have wanted to try it for a while but never really got the chance.
You are so brave…smelly food eating is waaaaay more scary than riding a motorcycle. That 🏕 is mwah!! Perfect! I’ve been jumping around watching the seasons again while I wait for your latest video. Stay safe! 💕
Stabbing a pressured can of Surströming with a knife. What could possibly go wrong?
I love it, more of this please...
I was holding my breath through that, and not because of the smell! :)
Of the thousands and thousands of reasons I love you, your honestly and adventure are near the top!
It blows me away time and again how professional your vids are! This is part of the world I have never been too but really want to! Thanks to you I feel I'm along for the tour despite the current situation. Thank you
Hats off to you Noraly for trying that Swedish delicacy. You researched that so well and did it justice. Thanks for educating me.
There is a French saying "Chacun a son gout " which simply means everyone has their own taste. When I was first introduced to blue cheese I wasn't sure but I've developed such a palate for it I can distinguish different types. Good on you for trying that herring. There is more to food than Pizza Pops.
One of the best presentations of your experiences. We can see what you do, we can hear what you do and we are glad we can't smell it from here but just laugh at your reactions. Love it. Glad I never tried it when I was there.
I can´t believe that my favorite youtuber now have traveled on my favorite roads in Dalarna Sweden, I even knows where that camping site is, nice place. Keep up the good work Noraly!
The feeling when you recognice every little red house by the road she has travelled😁😎👍.
Noraly thank you for the history lesson about gods and kings in the early years of Sweden and thumbs up for eating that "Surstromming herring".
We need more and more of those stories !
Vincent Velazquez only from Noraly.
I as a swede loves this clip. You educate me about my beautiful country. The view of a tourist is refreshing. Strong work with the Surströmming!
Thank you and I will sub
Outstanding work right there, probably the best "foreigner tries spooky foods" ever, approaching the surströmming with most proper accessories and opening the can the best way.
As a surströmming-lover, I would recommend opening the can a bit away from where you eat it, most flies are drawn to the bouillon and not the rinsed fish.
Filets are most popular by rookies, but female whole fish usually have the delicious caviar - there are even special cans with ONLY "lage females with caviar". A bit pricier but I prefer them that way.
Akvavit and beer are normal drinks to surströmming, but some (like myself) also enjoy them with milk (takes some of the acidity away), and have some sweet "messmör" on the bread or on the side.
Great episode - as always!
You are such a good sport! Cultural Cuisine sampling, what a great concept, and I learned something about the history . As a member of a Swedish heritage family, I can appreciate how bad that food smells! Made me laugh and remember my childhood. Thank you thank you thank you
O.O Non-Swedish, tries Surströming for the first time, actually gets to eating it and even smiles soon after.
Noraly, you are ten times tougher than I'll ever be. o.0
And I have been through hell and back.
100% true she is much more tough than many of us.
And she opened the can with a knife! Impressive! I done it, it's hard to do! Just another thing for her!
My thoughts exactly.
I will sample any food (maybe except Balut) and when confronted with Surstrømming I was determined to try it. That stopped immediately after just puncturing the can. Absolutely vile.
She is one tough lady.
@@robertb2444 I wonder how long her dish bag will maintain the smell.
@@pistolpete9548 A few years ago I saw a documentary about the Thirty Year War where Swedish troops were involved. Apparently all other troops were scared of the Swedes for being able to survive on that food, and some historian said that, judging by the reports from back then, Surströming could be described as an early form of biological warfare.
The expression look on your face told me everything I needed to know about that food. You are one very brave woman!
I ate surströmming back in the seventies. It was so "done" that it had turned into a very smelly grey mass. It didn't look like fish anymore. Great experience and laugh for every one.😉😉👍👍
Noraly, two of the things I enjoy most about your vlogs is your scientific and cultural observations. Your background as a geologist shines through! I checked out Lake Siljan, which was new to me. What a fantastic impact crater and lake! You probably know that the formation of these craters from impacts was not widely accepted by the geologic community until after 1960 - and then, largely because of PhD work done by your namesake - Gene Shoemaker.
Spectacularly made episode Noraly! Bravo!!!👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼And again, thank you for the tour!🍻🍻🍻
Such mounds are also found in Assam, a north eastern state of India you drove through when you were going out of India on Basanti. The kings of Ahom dynasty were laid to rest in those.
I am glad you said it. Joi aai Axom
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We are old indo-european cultures founded when the old "aryan" tribes wandered west and south to what is today europe, persia, india. We share some cool history.
@@niharkashyap3897 They looked pretty similar to the moidams in Charaideu, right? These are older, however, than those of the resting place of Ahom chiefs. Jai aai Axom!
@@phogelbice Yeah man. Such similarities so far across the planet is really mind blowing
its fun to see you and your journey
Finally someone who tries this the right way with the right condiments instead of trying a hole fish as it is. :-D
it really smells like death ,BUT! as you say, it is really good to see a person trying it the RIGHT way 😂👍
and she couldn't find her can opener, so had 2 use a knife 😂 yummy
good thing she remembered opening the Can in water
but it tastes better than it smells👍
I love Surströmming and i love the smell...
One more video to say you are the bravest woman l know not only for riding your bike alone around the world but being able to taste that kind of food. You just put your tent in the middle of paradise. May God be with you, Noraly.
A good way to clear the campsite :)
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Thanx for the tip!
I guess the Swedish "sur" part is akin to Dutch "zuur" or English "sour" - the "strömming" being the fish.
Wiki: German food critic and author Wolfgang Fassbender wrote that "the biggest challenge when eating surströmming is to vomit only after the first bite, as opposed to before". Wolfgang Fassbender in Swiss newspaper [Neue Zürcher Zeitung], August 2011.
Wiki: Due to being made from herring from the Baltic sea, surströmming today contains higher levels of dioxins and PCBs than permitted in the EU.
It's correct that Swedish "sur" is cognate and means the same as English "sour".
JP dJ hahhahahahhaahahahahahhahaahahahahahahah
@@toqtoq3361 - as a scientist I object against your transitive reasoning. Somewhere you - generatio spontaneoso - pull to the qualification out of thin air.
Measurements an data may be based in science. What comes next is opinion.
P/fun intended
All comment fun aside, Noraly's performance was pure sitcom. And considering her grown up eating, she was a trooper at it.
I would need a bathroom, sitting on a porcelain throne, pants down, next to a sink as this food might trigger the same response in me as English tea with milk does when it comes out on both ends of the digestive tract.
@@toqtoq3361 - I am always prepared to take risks when I have a notion of chances they materialize and the subsequent impact. This here is a case of "over my dead body".
No, I don't like to eat animal corpses too, but when fresh and well prepared I can be tempted.
RESPECT. I've been through this a year ago and must say: you nailed it perfectly.
This video definately deserved a thumbs up. I am officially impressed with how well you took on the first meeting with Surstrõmming. You passed with flying colors..
Found recently this channel and got totally soaked in to it. Just watched, and still following, the recent season 7 and the adventures in West Africa which is just amazing. Being a Swede I’m now doing a recap of this season 3 and it is really awesome to follow the trip across Scandinavia. Pity you didn’t stay longer in Stockholm (where I live) but nice that you tried out Swedish food traditions such as fika, pea soap and pancakes, and surströmming!! Love your channel, cheers and greetings from Sweden ❤️🍀✨
So entertaining and informative :) Noraly's adventures proving the saying that "Life begins at the edge of your comfort zone".
Surströmming: The only can in the world that has no expired date on it, but a “Do not open before” date.
@Xavier Finley And what does that has to do with Surströmming?
I was worried about you as i follow your rides from Patagonia. I realized how awful and dangerous are off-roads of South America. You've been mostly alone negotiating the various types of terrains. Your courage is incomparable: you're very brave for a woman. God watches over you up to Alaska, and all your life. God bless
"you're very brave for a woman." Haha. We can't say that any more.
Noo don't say it like that. It's like saying "you express feelings well for being a man" which isn't really great D:.. Don't separate qualities to the genders, there are brave men and women, coward men and women, good nautral and bad, coming from different backgrounds, we are all nuanced people! 😀 But yes! She is a brave woman! You are correct 😇
Native swede here. I've never eaten surströmming in my life, apart from one bite once as a kid.
Never again xD
But i must say, EVERY youtuber who tries it, just eats it straight off the can.
That's even worse. It really should be prepared properly.
Almost every food can be disgusting if you just eat it straight from the package.
Except surströmming is always disgusting xD
But you should never try it alone! Although after trying it noone wants to stay with you anyways 😆
6:17 speed cameras in Sweden do not take photos from the back, nor will they send any fines home if they can't identify the rider and they are not on all the time. So next time you visit you can rest a bit easier 😊😊
I love your motorcycle videos. They kind of grow on me the more episodes I watch.
By the way, while growing up as a Swede, we always ate surströmming with sour creme (and red onions). It neutralises some of the foul taste...😁
I had Surstromming a couple of times in Sweden, once you get past the smell (the hard part) it really doesn't taste that bad if prepared and eaten as described. It is illegal to open in an apartment. They have areas in the corner of the complex where you have to go to open and eat the fish. All remains have to be thrown away in that area also. You are a true trooper to try it. Take some time each day to try the pastries, you will be glad you did and they travel well. Hope to see you on the Dalla horse in Nusnas. It is very interesting to watch them make the horses. Have a safe trip.
Me too, I had painted a lot of Dalarna wooden horses by myself in Lund, visiting my best friend in Max lab in rainy November 15 years ago. I visited him often in Uppsala and we went to Stockholm. The museums are beautiful. - Years later my neighbour showed photos of my horses in the factory in Nusnas; they said they would give me a job. - And as a teenager I drove Honda Enduro 125 ccm.- It´s always nice to see Noraly´s filming with the drone ...
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Hi! Love to see you riding in Sweden, a warm welcome! Btw the traffic cameras can’t catch motorcycles today, they take photos of the front only. Happy ride! Hope you get good weather on the way.
Wow! You are the first foreigner that I have seen on UA-cam that has tried Swedish surströmning and done it the correct way (although I would have added some sour creme as well)! Many just open the can and start trying to eat it, even without cleaning it first. It is not really my favorite dish at all, but it does have it's traditions. Nicely done! 🙂
Eating with sour cream is for the amateurs. Lol!!
You are officially the coolest--and bravest--motorcyclist on UA-cam, and quite possibly the bravest UA-camr ever because you actually got the surströmming down the hatch without gagging up your toes!! Skål!!
Priceless expression on your face after puncturing that can and getting a whiff of the smell 😂😂
Awesome countryside and camping spot! 😍
Loved the music and drone footage as well!
There's a thing in Sweden called Allmänsrätt, which give people the right to go or camp virtually anywhere in the country. I've seen people camping next to the roads in Halmstad where I live.
@@bagadonicz that's really nice 😁 i hope they leave the place as clean as they found it
@@reginalda350 Swedes wouldn't consider anything less.
My hat goes off for you Noraly. I have lived 35 years in Sweden (not anymore for 12 years) and not even all Swedes can tolerate surstrømming. I personally enjoy it with a clothespin in my nose. (once a year) ;)
Keep up the good work of educating ignorant people of each others. We are all of the same human kind so lets be more tolerate for our differences.
Congratulations! Of all the UA-camrs I have seen attempting the surströmming you by far handled it the best, and with the least fuss!
That small church, 4:20, is the old Uppsala principal cathedral from the 12th century. Anders Celsius is buried there
Nobody travels adventure bikes better than Noraly! I love cultural immersion over the technical component of riding!💝
Well done, every experience of another culture is good for understanding the people and making friends.
If that can help us understand the Swedish people, perhaps we should all eat it...from DK with love...
Noraly : Hey Stone Cold, what you doin'?
Austin : Just opened a can of whoopass on a clown, wbu?
Noraly : Oh! Well I just opened a can of Surströming.
Austin : Damn! You are one tough woman and that's the bottomline
I am totally fascinated by your stories. Thanks a lot. Greetings from Brazil
The reason why everyone finds joy in this and adventurous traveling is because the nature of reality is that when we desire something and think we will be happy once we aquire it, more often than not the attaining of it doesn't bring the happiness we expected. That's how we learn and evolve. We get something we think will make us happy but afterwards we find it doesn't. What's different about traveling is that each day there is something new and unexpected
I learned two things today! 1.) Surströmming exists
2.) Following up online, there also exist Surströmming Snobs, who are happy to tell others that if they didn't try Surströmming according to their exclusive set of circumstances, you've never tried it at all!
Anyway thanks Noraly, an interesting episode!
I ate Surstroming in Austin, Tx in the middle of the summer with a Root Beer. Somehow I survived.
sounds like u shuld get a T-shirt or someting says "i survived the Surstroming challange!"
Try Hákarl (fermented flesh of Greenland shark) in Iceland, and you will love Surströming
ROFL...🤣🤣🤣
Always a smile and a laugh, even in difficulty ! 😄
This is September 11, 2022… I wanted to go back and look at some of the old videos and this is the one that I picked first. The video was very good as usual but absolutely hilarious with the testing of the fish… I also love going back and looking at some of the places that you have been and where you are today… I’ve been here since the beginning and what a wild ride!
Hi Noraly I am second generation Swedish/American. It is neat to see the homeland through your eyes and the beauty of Sweden. I have never been myself, but am enjoying it through you. Also, you couldn't pay me enough to eat that Herring, again I will do it through your experiences...lol...thank you so much for the awesome content.
Now I need to try a can of Surströmming. Sounds wonderful. Thanks for sharing, keep safe and keep the rubber side down.
Wow you open a can with a knife? You go girl! I am impressed! You continue to amaze!
I'm Swedish, and let me say this, there is no gun big enough to make me eat Surströmming, hats of for you for trying.
I have tried one time when i visit a friend in Piteå. Never again!!!!!!!
I'm Swedish and I usually don't eat fish at all, but I've eaten surströmming a few times - and like you mention in the video, the taste is far better than the smell. Most Swedish people complaining about eating it are NOT from the northern parts of Sweden; but they have no problem eating disgusting things like clams and crayfish. Yuck!
Haha, then you’re NOT a swede! 😉👍🏻
@@Thellbro Alla Svenskar är inte tokiga.
One of the best videos of your series (and I started watching them all). 30 plus years on submarines, I have eaten some pretty crazy food......but listening to your commentary and watching your facial expressions while preparing your Surströmming was priceless. LOL!!!
Eating Surströmming is much more brave than traveling the world solo on a motorbike! I don't know if I could do it, and I have eaten a lot of strange things in different lands, but the look on your face says it all!
The Swedes seem to like doing unusual things on a Thursday. Clearly heavily influenced by what Thor told them to do all those centuries ago 😉
Well itchy publish new video on Wednesday and Friday and we have a whole thursday to kill with boreness...
I think I like the sound of coffee and cake better than smelly fish!
Nope,its the weekends the crazy stuff begins..Trust me on this one.
Noraly: Brings a tin of rotten Fish and eats it on a beautiful pond full of ...FRESH FISH . ... ohhh the Irony ! lol .
Awesome foodwise braveheart Episode ! Thumps Up , Itchy Boots ;-)
"Oh....that's really really bad......" - I hit the thumbs up button knowing what she was trying :D then continue on with the vlog.
Same
I did the same. That’s brave.
You are so brave. I wouldn’t touch it with a 10meter pole.
For your info the speed cameras only takes a picture of the front and they are mounted near by road crossings. But the one on the other side are for the incoming cars so they don’t measure the speed of going car only the incoming cars
You are so brave and so lovely. The barns along the river were beautiful but your water gathering in the rain was spectacular. I loved seeing the rain drops. Glad you avoided the wires with your drone.
I'm new to your videos, I have to say I really appreciate that you inject a bit of history in your videos. And that you at least tried to do Surströmming the "right" way. I don't like it, but it's not as bad as people often portrait.
Great videos!
Noraly, your reaction while opening the can of surströmming was priceless 🤣🤣🤣 ! However, I have to say that you're sooo brave to try that Swedish special delicassy 🤣🤣🤣 !
I've watched countless videos on UA-cam about Suströmming. Apparently, it smells ten times worse than shit. That's due to the fermentation in the can. The smell is so strong that you're not allowed to open a can of Suströmming indoors. I've seen videos of people throwing up once they open the can. That said, kudos to you for been such a trooper and eating putrid fish. Also, you opened that can like a champion, stabbed it like you did not wanna miss a bite of that rotten thing.
Tim Summers the fish is not rotten, it is fermented. It is like calling beer rotten crop. Surströmming is really tasty. I had surströmming yesterday evening with my wife who grow up in east Africa - she likes it too (but not as much as I do). Edit: typo
@@Sauromannen I understand it's fermented, not rotten. I guess you didn't understand the language nuance. If English isn't your first language, don't worry about it.
She actually opened it correctly, in comparison to 90% of people eating it on utube - under running or still water, this helps SO much with the stench.
The smell is mostly the pressurized can itself, once opened the smell (hopefully with wind) goes away, once you eat it (at a seperate location than when opened) it wont smell that bad unless you stick it under your nose. :) But opening it when it's that pressurized makes it go all splashy everywhere and 100% concentrated.. that's why people throw up, and so would we if we'd do it like that, lol.
OH and she also had it with all the correct parts! The dish is not only fermented herring, it's like saying sushi is only the fish (nigiri - rice) so real kudos to her, anyone that actually wants to try surströmming should watch this video.
We are allowed to open those indoors. That’s a myth.
As far as I know the speed cameras on the left side of the road does not track your speed. Only the oncoming traffic, so you can go above the speed limit after passing the first camera.
The red colour on the houses is called Falun red, the reason why there are so many houses painted red is that it was the cheapest paint.
When I did my military service we did a little prank on our officers. In the early morning we snuck into their room where they were sleeping soundly. Opened one of those cans, rushed out and barred the door. When we got back from breakfast (across the yard) we could smell it across the whole base. xD
lmao, my officers were pure sadists. We would never have dared todo that. (We did throw one of them in the water same day as "M.U.C.K." tho.) ;)
Bet you were popular. Did you get caught?
@@BunnyKingHogs In a way, but we made sure to do it the same day we were finishing our service. Would not have dared do it mid service. 😆
@@BerishStarr Same as us then, haha. :D
A school had to close since someone put some surströmming in the ventilation intake.
I love the smell of Surströmming!!!!!!
My personal opinion is that you can only love Surströmming if you grew up with it, I did.
My father learned to eat Surströmming, but he never reached my and moms level :-)
By now you can figure out who brought Surströmming to my family.
Rudolf Abelin I think i can eat that in an instant, no acquired taste need. We ate worse than that i think back home. My culture love the most odorous food there is. So maybe our ancestors were once related?🙃
@@fridakahlua6674 Hi! Cool! What area on the planet are you from? Long back, we are all related!
Surströmming is forbidden in airplanes. Just for the record. And there is a good reason for this 🤭😉
The cans can explode too
@@linusfotograf that's why they are forbidden.
@@linusfotograf it depends on how old it is.
@@AndersJackson Indeed. I've ordered surströmming from Sweden to Canada and I was surprised it was shipped by plane.
@@linusfotograf Min farfar ville ta med sig surströmming ner till Stockholm när vi skulle fara från Luleå flygplats. Personalen började rannsaka hans väska och tog 4 vällagrade burkar och 3 moraknivar. Varför han i helvete skulle ha med sig det förstår jag icke, haha! Hur som helst, burkarna såg ut att sprängas vilken sekund som helst. Det hade nog inte blivit en kul resa om de inte hade lagt märke till knivarna som låg i väskan.
Brave indeed! There is a reason the surströmming tradition is strongest along the norther Swedish coast: The Baltic sea may be technically part of the oceans, but the northern part of it is nearly fresh water. Thus, salt was expensive and the Swedes of old were dirt poor so they could not afford to use as much salt as they should and neither could they throw away food even when it had gone bad. So, they accepted it found that it was not poisonous after all and today it is really a cultural marker of those parts of Sweden.
I have tried it and it is NOT worth the trouble. If you want good, traditional, Swedish food you should try the cured salmon!
I was in Stockholm 37 years ago. The cars are newer albeit still few, the tram newer but what hasnt changed is the sparse population in town. However, during holidays its quite crowded.
Sweden, Denmark and Finland are listed as three of the best countries to live in 2021.
Surströmming should be treated like nuclear waste. It should be stored deep down under ground, never to see the light of sun again if you ask me. You are very brave Noraly :) I guess that pea soup and pancake was a little bit more pleasant experience :D
Well done with the Swedish canned herring, which is something out of normal foodstuff for human beings!
In sweden the cameras never take pictures from behind "yet".
only front so as a motorcyclist we can just drive as fast as we want and never get a ticket if we get on camera.
Since it's the driver that commits the speeding offence and not the owner of the vehicle, it's no use to take a picture from behind since it won't show the driver.
And with the helmet, motorcyclist won't be identifiable anyways.
I’m a member of the don’t like smelly fish club. It was good of you to take a hit for the team, thank you 🙏 A lovely days riding, thanks for sharing :)
This is so funny my mother was Norwegian once a year at Christmas she would cook lutefisk chunks of slimy fish soaked in lye along with turkey, ham and all the trimmings. We would always get a laugh over that smell. My dad was Irish, English and Dutch not really a conacre of Norwegian lutefisk. He claimed you nailed the lutefisk to a board to leave it standing out in the sun light for 7 days. Then throw the lutefisk in the garbage and eat the board! They have since passed, I still actually get a craven over the holidays having acquired a slight taste for a ton of salt and butter trying to eat around that smell.
Lutfisk is a breeze compared to surströmming, not even close with regards to smell. 😊