American Reacts to "Only in Norway" TikToks (Part 10)
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As an American I really enjoy watching TikToks about Norwegian culture. The internet has a funny way of creating the most random, entertaining and educational videos about Norway. If you enjoyed the video feel free to leave a comment, like, or subscribe for more!
Tyler: calls Lefse flat bread
The norwegians: nobody tell him we have flat bread too
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Lefse is kind of a tortilla, except we use potaoes instead of corn. They’re soft and can contain anything. Flatbread is dry and flaky, often served with cold cuts («spekemat»), rømmegrøt or lapskaus.
Jeg skal ikke
@@adrianmyhren4777 snaker + k
As a Swede, Norway is awesome. ❤
As a norwegian i cant say the same about sweden 😭
@@orb5045 Thank you for your humble opinion ❤
I still love Norway...
@@orb5045bruh, Sweden is awesome. We love you sweden
As a swede I like norway
Ar you swede cool i am Norwegian
01:32 It's a joke based on reality in Norway, I'm a Norwegian and have also experienced seeing hail like that during summer, so I can confirm that this does happen.
But we are very lucky. Hail in other countries can be seriously dangerous, where I as a kid would always run outside when it was hailing, never once worrying that might be deadly.
but it does happen other places too so it isnt specifically a norwegian phenomenon tho. alot of the things in this video isnt rly what makes Norway the country it is.
Stores without employees enable smaller communities up in the mountains and far from cities to have stores. They are filled up and managed by one person normally, but they can be open whenever cause you get a card to clock in and out kindof. It makes so much sense. And obviously, there's cameras everywhere so you're not gonna get away with anything anyway ;)
The reindear and northern light is real. The northern part of Norway. Finnmark
The light conditions at night in the north in winter when there is snow, full moon and northern lights are spectacular. Add a reindeer or two and you have Fairytale nights.
Reindeer in Norway and Sweden are domesticated by the Sami people, so they are not afraid of people when they are wild and free, as they are used to getting herded around in specific seasons. Like sheeps or mountain goats that also run freely around in the wilderness of Norway, they aren't wild animals but belong to a herder.
Depends on where in Norway you are.
In southern Norway they're often genuinely wild.
@@Luredreier yes Trondheim (middle of Norway) and south they are mostly wild, and they are flock animals so they are usually several hundred together.
@@Luredreier Cool, I never knew. Thought all of them were domesticated.
Guys im from norway and im sami😅❤🐶🇳🇴☺️
clearly you aren't norwegian. lol. there are most definitely wild reindeer here
You can recognize a norwegian. Or finn, or alaskan I guess, by their ability to sleep in daylight.
Yup. And they can sleep anywhere, as well. After a festive summer night in Finnmark, I found one of the party-goers sleeping in an open trailer.
Norwegian here! You can basically put whatever you want in a lefse, but I personally grew up with sweet lefser! My grandma would make thin lefser, which she would fill with butter, sugar, and cinnamon.
Where I'm from (Northern Norway), we also enjoy møsbrømlefse, which is lefse filled with warm, runny brown cheese, and sour cream.
I’m from northern Norway too 😄
I’m from southern Norway 🙃
Im from middle norway🦧(cant find fitting emoji:(( )
Oh dang that sounds amazing!
about the lefses, they're pretty delicious. you usually add butter, sugar and cinnamon. brown cheese is also popular on them. you can buy them with butter, sugar & cinnamon already added in stores.
And are made with potato 😂
I usually use them for hotdogs as well, but guess lompe is more Common with that, also nice with leftofters after Christmas and rakefisk nom nom
Lefse with Snøfrisk, smoked salmon and scrambled eggs... Best in the world. By the way, hail only occurs in warm weather, so the guy eating in the hail is probably not freezing.
Life hack in Norway you can drink tap water 😂😂🎉
The weather in Norway can be cold and wet in the summer, and with a lot of snow in the winter.
But the summer can also be warm and sunny.
Sometimes it has been warmer in Norway than in Spain 😎☀️👍🏻
0:35 I must say that this first TikTok dosen’t tell the truth about the Norwegian summer. It’s not always as nice as this 😂
A 1000 years ago we lived in houses without windows
Talking about the weather is common because it traditionally, and still, is very important. Many times every year I will change my plans for the day based on the weather or weather forecast, since there is a lot of stuff you have to do when it is dry/light/not windy/wet/windy/dark/warm/cold.
The unsupervised shops are real.
In summer and autumn I also see unsupervised stands along the roads with different fruits and berries from farms. The farmers place them there next to a sign with prices and payment information. Than you can just stop your car when you see one, pick up what you want and place money in a box or pay with an app 😁
Human development index measures a countries average achievements in health, knowledge and standard of living.
The "Egg" restaurant is called Iris/Salmon Eye and it's very new, had to look it up, damn now I wanna go there some day !
In Skandinavia, especially Denmark, Therese is no such Thing as bad Weaver but bad clothing.
“Der findes ikke dårligt vejr kun dårlig beklædning” 😂
@@Rcb0"Det finnes ikke dårlig vær, bare dårlige klær" is ours. It's really funny to me that yours doesn't rhyme. Good to know you're also not afraid of weather though.
yes, in Norway we have stores without employees
All of Norway have lights all night middle of summer. Just a couple of hours that it’s darker some places, but not dark 😍looking so forward too it. We are at the darkest at the moment 😢
Was gonna type something about that . Tnx for doing it. No fun when it's dark from 04 in the afternoon til bed. And in summertime if I can't sleep cause its to light I just use my light-proof curtains comment in different percents think mine is 100% atm
16:00 There's a reason why full light blocking curtains or blinds are popular in Norway ^^
We Americans from Norwegian ancestors make lefse here every year for special occasions and holidays. They are delicious. They are made from potatoes, butter, cream and flour.
Lefse can be baked with potatoes, wheat flour or both. If it is baked with potatoes, it is used as bread, for cured meats, sausages, smoked fish (or rakfisk) and the like. It can also be served with butter, sugar and cinnamon. In some parts of the country there is no tradition of potato lefse. There they are baked with wheat flour. They are sweet and filled with butter, sugar, cinnamon and sometimes brown cheese.
Hi im from Norway and i like whatching your videos
I studied in Trondheim, and we were looking forward to the bicycle escalator being finished. Unfortunately it didn't open until shortly after we had moved out of town. Since Trondheim is a student city, there are many cyclists in the city, and the largest residential area for students, which consists of apartment blocks with dormitories for students, is located on that hill. Every time we had been in the city with a bicycle, it was hell to tow the bicycle up that hill. It is very steep. We could of course choose another route, but we had a friend living right on top of the hill who we wanted to visit on our way home.
5:30 you put butter, sugar and cinnamon and it tastes REALLY good. and yes you can also make taco and other stuff with it
I’m a Norwegian, and these TikToks are so relatable!!
Ja
2:35 yes there are stores like that but you must scan your receipt to open the door
Not sure if you already have but a video on the single car width roads might be interesting. As an American used to big roads it was quite the experience driving these narrow roads and contending with oncoming vehicles
1:00 Even though it can look like this in summer in Norway. it doesn't mean we dont get really hot summers. Cause trust me it can get so hot u can't walk your dog without some sort of dog boots.
About the bicycle lift: on holiday in Italy a waiter asked where we were from and when we said Trondheim he got really excited and said he wanted a bicycle lift like Trampe. I haven't tried it myself, but I assume it will take an attempt or two before you're able to use it properly.
Im from Norway and those flat breads is for taco. U roll it like a pancake. And i love that ur making videos abt my country❤
The meals at the restaurant cost around $320 per person, which is not too bad by Norwegian standards. Only 3 times what I would normally pay for a 3 course meal at a "normal" restaurant.
Im from Norway to but where do you pay 3200kr to eat!??!?!
I kept hearing this as well but was just in Norway and meals at restaurants were significant cheaper there than here in Colorado. 320 a meal is over 4x the highest prices I saw
@@andrewduncan6587: Norway is extremely cheap for Americans right now because the dollar is historically strong and the NOK is historically weak. You get about 30% currency discount, which helps.
@@hannah_ezniat a Michelin star restaurant, like the one in the video. My father is going to one next week and it will cost about 3000kr, I could come but then it would count as a xmas present and I'd rather have a present.
@@hannah_ezni At the Iris restaurant in Hardangerfjord mentioned in the video.
As a Norwegian I remember one day in the spring when it started with shining sun, it started blowing, then raining, then hail started to fall, then it started to snow, then it turned back to rain, and at last the sun started shining again. This happened in the spand of less then half an hour, in May. 1:47
The drone video is in Henningsvær, a very small town or as we call it bygd. It live around 500 people ther. Its located in the same island as i live on in Lofoten.
5:31
The "e" in "lefse" is spoken, unlike in the video.
And we have several different traditional flat breads (including some made from potato) as well as several non-flat ones.
Lefse is used as a treat, you have butter cream and sugar on them. or sugar and cinnamon, or jam, or you know the drill.
they are like Norwegian pancakes, except we have a potato based one (potet kake/potato cake, or Lompe) which we use to roll around hotdogs instead of the bread.
And about reindeer !! We have about 250,000 of them in Norway!
And zero reindeer can fly.🤣
Another thing about norway to claim a table at a resturant you simply lay your phone on the table
You have to scan the receipt to get out of the store after you have paid. There are these small "gates" that won't open if you don't. I guess you can go over them if you really want to. :)
Love this video!!
I know about things in Oslo you've never heard of! We have bowling alleys, we have indoor go-cart tracks that you can drive. And you can "jump" in Holmenkollen in the summer.? You can sunbathe naked in one place in Oslo. You can even swim in the center of Oslo by the Opera House, and go into a sauna after swimming, both in summer and winter.
In most places in the USA you have to be 16 years old before you can get a driver's license, but in some states it is actually legal to get behind the wheel already as a 14-year-old, in Norway it is 16 for practice driving and 18 for a license
We had a habit of doing barbecue during rainy weather. Mum sometimes opted for it by saying "It`s raining, let`s barbecue!"
Lefse can be used for almost anything and is made from potatoes. We even use them on hotdogs. My grandma used to make them all the time.
Lefse can probably be described as a sort of potato based tortilla or soft flat bread. There are variations where you'd just eat it together with like a sweet cinnamon and butter mix, but at least where I live it's commonly made as a traditional christmas food/snack. You make lefse and then you can use it to roll up all kinds of christmas sausages, "ribbe" (basically pork belly) or most commonly, "sylte" which is usually made by pressing together mainly meat and fat from a pigs head, using gelatin layers in there as well so it all stick together and usually an outer layer of skin.
I am Norwegian, and I don't know if stores without employees are normal, but it is normal with registers and self-check-out
I’m a southern Norwegian and at summer me and my family travelled all around Norway when we came to the north my body had to get used to the sun but it didn’t it ruined my sleep schedule and I always went to bed 3 am or some everyday bc I couldn’t sleep even though I’ve been in bed since 11 pm it was horrible sometimes bc I could barely walk sometimes bc I was so tired I got sick for almost a week bc I couldn’t sleep anything
the herds of reindeer are often owned by the people in northern norway, so they know their owners and are usually not afraid of people
hehe, a "lefse" is basically a very flat thin and soft tortilla, and you can roll up anything in it, meat, sugar, cheese, butter, or just anything you want to consume :P
About saying hi to strangers: Ive done them all and saying hi and wave if passing a boat is most common. On the streets? Almost never
only time i allow people with shoes in is a day before i clean the floor, though they have to avoid the carpets
The lady @ 16 minutes is a wimp :P
If you're from up north, you really don't notice it, though, we do sleep a lot less during the summer time(late spring until early fall). Being from up north, but moved down south, i still struggle with the nights being dark when it's warm outside :(
that restaurant was actually the inspiration for the movie The Menu its sooo cool and very famous in Norway and also the fjord
Famous amongst those who have heard about it maybe…..😉🇳🇴
4:58 You pronounced it better than the robot voice. Slight accent but correct.
no such thing as lefs.
Lefse is a norwegian flat bread, it's soft, you can buy lefse, this type you can by in dry squares you put in water then you can put what ever you like on it, butter and sugar is common. You can buy mini lefse bars too, that are already prepared with butter and sugar. But htere are other typrs of lefse, some are more like a cake sand which, some have cream, some cinnamon. These are very different in taste.
But Norwegian flat bread is not the only traditional food, there's also norwegian pancakes (svele), it looks like a american pancake, but a bit different.
Also there's potato flat bread (lompe), various types exist, some with some without potato, it's usually eaten with sausages. It's taco bread basically.
Norway is just the best. About the grocery stores, yes isn’t that many fully automated grocery stores, however most have both
I was at the bicycle escalator in Trondheim this year. I even was by bike, but the thing was out of duty. I don't think I would have used it. It looks rather scary and the road is very steep, more than can be seen.
I was there with an RV which can't be completely dark and it was no problem sleeping during midnight sun.
the gorcery stores do have people but they also have those like thingies and on the receipt you got for paying you can put on a scanner wich opens the door and if u go under or over the alarm will go off and they do also have normal thingies where casheirs are
Hail does actually occur, rarely, during summer. Had it last summer where I live, just a quick short little hail session tapping away on my windows.
02:24 Just once, just once in my life, would I love to experience this kind of shopping in Norway, where I live we don't have this, we have the self-checkout areas that are constantly monitored by the staff, which means there are still workers around and manning the registers as well. I've repeatedly heard of these unmanned stores from Tyler's videos, but never once seen one of them in my life, so I can only assume they must be in more rural areas where the people know each other and trust each other enough that even the stores don't mind not having workers monitoring things.
You can find them in both Oslo, Bergen and Trondheim, but also in rural areas.
Also one in Sandnes sentrum
There is one between Bø and Seljord in Telemark
as a norwegian, NORWAY IS THE BEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD
TRUE!!!
As a "Svalbardianer" (people from Svalbard, the Norwegian island group at 78° north) I find this very interesting too see other peoples reaction to Norway's culture.
Hey Tyler, you're Norwegian at heart. Come here, I'll show you around.
Nice thunder season serving you some summer hail haha This is not unusual to happen after having some hot days and the thunder enters with some hail
Hey, man ! Love your videos of Norwegian stuff, I know it, I live here!! 😁Yeah, last year on the 17. of May (Norways national day) I woke up to snowy weather, and actually had to heat my house with my wood stove (right word?), so a Norway summer day CAN look and feel quite cold. On lefse you put butter,sugar,cinnamon, then roll it up (or fold it like you want) and eat it. You can also have brown cheese on the lefse. Jam is another choice. but the most usual thing is the lefseklining, with butter,sugar and cinnamon. So good, soft and sweet. If you would like to taste, there is a thing called "Vestlandslefse", and you can buy it done, just to eat as a snack with tea or coffee. You should try it sometime. Thank you for your kind words about my Country.
You can wrap lefse around sausages it is really delicus👍🏼
It’s true that in Norway we have stores without security guards 💅 And yes in Norway we make lefse, and it is traditional but it’s not tortilla’s, it’s like a very thin cake and it’s SOOO FREAKING DELICIOUS 🤤 it’s also thick lefse but you can buy that in stores
11:37 same thing with Denmark and Germany. A lot of things, such as alcohol, sodas and candy, are cheaper in Germany and some people drive down there to buy it instead of buying it in Denmark
There are reindeer in america. In Europe, they are called reindeer(Reinsdyr). In North America, the animals are called caribou if they are wild and reindeer if they are domesticated :)
Never knew that. Where do you find them in the U.S.? I'm guessing the upper northwest?
@@mmstrux think they are most common In Alaska and Canada :)
the bread is like flat bread viking style ! been around for along along time .... Denmark dont really do it any more sadly . But we do have the hard version still like a bread cracker styled version of it ,Sweden do the same . in the old days snuss was also tobaco but to day they call it the same as the old version , its kinda weird tbh snus is also a nick name for speed/coke XD so you need to know what content the word is used in .
Many of these things you'll find in the upper Midwestern part of the U.S. Including lefse sold in stores. No Reindeer, fjords, or midnight sun, though. Unless you're in Alaska.
Reindeer are domesticated animals. The roam around quite freely, but they still are owned and have keepers and are led from summer grazings to wintering areas by them. As far as I know there are no wild reindeer left in Europe. I think there might be some wild ones still in Siberia or caribou in Canada.
I run an unmanned store in Norway. We have employees there between 9 and 17 and otherwise it is self serve the rest of the day. Open 24/7 except Sunday.
Norway has a pretty unique relationship with the sun.
Reindeer in the road looks like it would be pretty awesome, but i would be PISSED if i had to wait for some stupid reindeer to move out of the way.
i love the happines this guy has
0:33 North Norway has more stable weather, but colder temps, longer winter, east Norway has less stable, and shorty, but can be very varied in temps and weather.
But summer usually does not have hail, but there can be hail in autumn, as it's summer one day and winter the next and back to summer again and then full on winter.
Sometimes it's a very gradual transition, sometimes not so much.
Usually down to -10C here, sometimes -15C.
But in the summer it's up to 30C, sometimes above.
As a Norwegian I can say this is so true 😂😂
5:14 Well you could say that lefse is some kind of norwegian tortilla in looks, but it is much thinner and sweeter.
As a Swede when it is light outside and it is midnight and im going to bed I just close my eyes no blinds needed
We do have the registers without cashiers. But they are watched from the side lines.
Not wearing shoes inside in Norway is just more practical. We have snow or rain most days = dragging in wet or muddy shoes....
A proper mudroom and not wearing shoes inside just makes sense
The first clip is true almost but the winter goes in to like may sometimes😂
as a norwegian i can assure that there is always employees in the grocery stores! they’re just not watching you 24/7. 🤓
sweden also have those stores, they are called 24/7 stores here ^^
as a norwegian, we love to pour oil on our food and slurp it up like spaghetti
You say "I swear" a lot in this video 😂 To me, all i hear is "Jeg sverger brur, heeelt ærlig"
It's so funny to hear an american say "snus" haha
I gotta laugh more than a little at that Canada vs Norway "geological" maps. Canada is 9 985 000 km², while Norway is 385 207 km², aka, less than half the size.
"When you marry Norwegian you make LEFS" 🤣🤣🤣
At the local... uh... wood products sales store place, where you buy building materials and stuff, I load my trailer by my self from the different shelves etc. then go into the store and tell them what I bought and how much, I then pay and drove holme without anyone checking.
At the store we have employees, but I can use the self service option and shop with no interaction if I choose.
20:24 Hey! I just wanted you to know that ive done some research and found out that This is northen lights and white raindeer, and i also found out you Can only find This in a verry small part of norway called Tromsø and that is comes around 40k ppl yearly in the winter to wach the northen ligths and it rlly close to the north pole! I just thougth you wanted to know! 😊 btw please answer, i did so much reaserch😅
the reindeer under the northern lights, is most likely real. most of the reindeer in north of norway are domesticated, so they dont fear you, or your car, or other stuff you try to scare them off with.. they are herd animals without many natural predators hunting them.
In Norway with the check out system for food n such there are security watching you trough cameras and they will catch and identify you if you steal ... because after all thieves exists in Norway too lol
as a norwegian i love norway and amercia and almost every contry. ✌💕☺😊
the first one was winter breh
As a Norwegian, I would just like to clear up that yes, you can say hi to someone on a hike, in a boat or while skiing (cross country, not downhill), but that doesn't not mean small talk is OK. It will be a simple "hei" or "morn" and then you keep moving. Any more and we think you're weird and get really awkward. At least where I'm from.
Lefse is made from potatoflour, and is popular with sugar and cinamon.. Or with leftovers from christmas with mustard.
11:00 There is no rule against washing your Russe Pants, but there is a Hat Tail Knot you can earn that does say you can't ever take off the pants, not even for washing them.
I was never a Russ myself, though, so I don't know the specifics of the knot, whether you are allowed to take the pants off to shower/bathe and/or sleep, or if you are expected to even wear them for those things, too.
As a Norse/Norwegian, Norway is awesome 🇳🇴
There are employees around, they’re around refilling shelves and coming to check your age if you buy alcohol (