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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, fun, and educational videos about Norway. If you enjoyed the video feel free to leave a comment, like, or subscribe for more!
Montain water like that is the best ever!
Yeah you are right
This is the correct answer :)
Voss water is best
@@user-se4ip7mv8g It's tap water... but yes it is good
@@user-se4ip7mv8g we actually got better or the same in our homes. Tap water
We have clean water, and yeah mostly everywhere in the country
Ground water is clean, and is actually our biggest source for tap water as well
Bilingual Norwegian: ‘it’s not the fart that kills you, it’s the smell.’
Norwegian ‘fart’ means speed and Norwegian ‘smell’ means ‘bang,’ but associated with driving it can mean ‘crash.’
Love this!!
Also "In Norway we usually rape after dinner".
'rape' meaning to "burp"😂
@@Emperor_Nagrom My mother always says that: Oops, I had to rape. xD
8:29 LOL YEAH she’s gonna be okay, that’s better than sink or store bought water if you ask me
Him being surprised you can drink water from a stream...
Me being surprised by him being surprised you can drink water from a stream...
Having seen many of the reaction videos I often hear "is this safe" about things that are normal and perfectly safe, or mostly safe anyways... And I think this represents a defining cultural difference.
Saft is basically a fruit syrup that you drink with water. It used to be mostly made from berries, but now there are a lot of different flavors
There’s even sugar free cotton candy💀
18:15 Ofc we have. Even the Killerwhale from the movie Free Willy went to Norway to live out his retirment
It's a domesticated reindeer and looks like it is shedding its winter coat.
In the USA, the concept of Saft (in the Norwegian sense) is less well known. Americans would probably think of something more similar to fruit juice (juice) when they hear the word "juice". Their closest equivalent to Norwegian juice might be something like "fruit punch concentrate," which is also a syrup mixed with water. However, the American "concentrate" is usually already sweetened and sometimes has other flavors or preservatives added.
In Norway, we understand "Saft" as a concentrated "syrup" that is mixed with water to make a sweet drink. This type of juice often comes in flavors such as raspberry, blackcurrant and orange, and is a popular way to offer a refreshing drink, especially to children.
The whirlpool is Saltstraumen, near Bødo. It is caused by massive amounts of water trying to make it through a very narrow passage between two bodies of water with the ebb and tide. The water moves as fast as 20mph with whirls 30 feet wide and 10 feet deep. If you swim, you may very well die. The water flow can be as heavy as 33.000 cubic meters (9 million US gallons) pr second.
You mean Bodø?
@@redthemodern7771 heh, yes
12:47 These are tame reindeer, they're friendly.
There's also wild reindeer, and they are *VERY* rare (at least in the southern half) and you can find them as far south as Telemark if you are lucky. They are very shy and will remove themselves from any human noise and presence. If you are lucky you can go on a long trip and happen to see them, even get a majestic moment.
This one looks like it is shedding its coat.
I cannot be arsed going through the cesspool that is TikTok myself, so thanks for doing it for me :P
Ive never been on it, FB and Instagram is more than enough.. And insta might go soon.. I dont really need it 😊
My mom used to make "saft" from Blackcurrant. We had several bushes in our garden.
It’s so yummy. Same with «rips» no idea what that is called in English.
@@mari97216 red currant
@@trulybtd5396 ah thanks!
Oh, same. Throug it was a struggle for mum to keep us kids from cleaning out the bushes before it was time to pick and make jams and saft from them. She even tried to make wine without the proper yeast, it did not go well 😂
It wasn't a clamshell shaped dish. It was a clamshell. Traditionally used when serving... clam.
We have this rallycross driver in Norway who had this quote; 'It's not the fart that kills you, it is the smell'. This mix of Norwegian and English would translate as ' It's not the speed that kills you, it's the crash. =)
It's not only only, but but!
Eeehhhy! A person of culture. You know I think Petter Solberg was on the news yesterday.
It is a reindeer shedding its winter fur
from white fur to brown fur, it is highly likely that it is owned by the Sami, the Sami are the indigenous people of Northern Europe, specifically in the region known as Sápmi, which stretches across northern parts of Norway, Sweden, Finland and the Kola Peninsula in Russia. they engage in traditional reindeer herding, fishing and handicrafts
Saft is super popular here. It’s concentrated fruit or berry juice then delude it with water when poring into a glass. It comes in many flavors and is super delicious, also fun to delude it with sparkling water or sprite soda.
Water from springs and lakes are safe as long as they're flowing, the moss, algea and marsh areas filters the water.
The only places you can't drink water directly from springs abd creeks is around farm areas.
If you're still unsure if it's safe, you can always just boil it.
You have reindeer in Idaho, Washington and Alaska.
This reindeer is shedding fur and it’s domesticated.
Thanks, that's interesting, I didn't know that. (I'm Norwegian)
Are they the same underspecies?
@@SebHaarfagre Reindeer and Caribou are actually the same species, "Rangifer tarandus", but there are differences between the two. Caribou are large, wild, elk-like animals which can be found in northern parts of America, Greenland and have never been domesticated. Reindeer are slightly smaller and were domesticated in northern Eurasia. Subspecies yes to both.
Hmmm, shedding fur and domesticated, sounds like me!
@@jayjaygothic Thanks!
@@jayjaygothic 😂😂
Fart is speed, demper is limiter
Saft is the best! In old tradition, people would pick fruit and berries from their kitchen gardens and/or from the forest/mountain and boil them with sugar into a concentrated syrup, which you then drink by mixing it with water. Nowadays, there's a ton of sugar free versions and a lot more flavor variatons. Husholdningssaft (household-saft) and solbærsaft (blackcurrant-saft) were probably the most popular originally. Solbærsaft is also popular to use in winter as solbærtoddy, a heated drink, optionally spiced with cinnamon and cloves, which you can bring with you on a thermos when out in the cold, skiing.
Usually, you can drink from streams, but you have to be smart about it. Always use a clear bottle so you can check if the water is clear and not contaminated. Also, always check a little ways upstream to make sure that there isn't a rotting animal carcass in or around the water. You never know if, for example, an animal has taken a shit in the water upstream and drinking contaminated water, even small amounts, when you're hiking for a long period, is dangerous.
Short trips are usually okay, though.
Grocery store manager here.
Sugar free drinks are more popular than the original.
I just checked out sales this week, we sold more coke zero than regular coke. We also sold more Pepsi max (by a lot... A LOT) than regular coke. It's not a competition, which is good, because coke would lose 10 out of 10 times.
Norway is the biggest comsumer of Pepsi Max in the world, so that sounds right
Saft is a juice concentrate. Evaporating (or otherwise removing) the water from berry and fruit juices prevents bacterial and mold growth and is a means of food preservation. Traditional saft would typically be made out of a single kind of berry, but the modern industrial varieties are often a combination of fruit, berry and vegetable extracts and concentrates.
You'll find various types of concentrates made in various ways with various names throughout the world, it's not a particularly norwegian thing.
Speaking for myself, and some of my close friends; yes we are aware of the different meanings some of our words have in English (or even other languages), and we sometimes use it for a bit of fun. Being speakers of such a small language though, it will often remain as internal jokes because it is rare that speakers of other languages need to take Norwegian into consideration.
The whirlpools are fairly safe to traverse by boat, just don't fall into them, and listen to the locals who actually know what they are doing! 🙂
The "burger" with the egg on top is most likely steak tartare, which is basically raw, ground/minced beef, with some seasoning, and a soft yolk egg on top.
Killer/Orca whales are often indifferent to humans in the water, so you will likely be fairly safe if you are careful. But these are large animals that kill seals, fish, rays, dolphins, and even white sharks on occasion, so as with all wildlife; err on the side of caution.
I wonder if Orcas call us Killer Apes 🤔
12:29 yes it's a reindeer either losing it's winter fur coat or getting it ready for a winter
You can drink water most everywhere in the nature when hiking. We have a lot of mountains, and the water are filtered through stones. Ice cold mountain water is the best.
The drink is called : Saft , its basicly consentrated fruitjuce to mix with water
Iditarod the worlds moest famous dogslede race goes in Alaska(US) each year..
Drinking from the stream.. dont do it close to farmland or civilization would be my advise
Yes, its a domesticated raindeer (like moest of them are, it belong to someones herd)
The wirlpool is in vesterålen Norldand, not far from Bodø
No, not Vesterålen. It's Saltstraumen in Bodø municipality.
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As a Norwegian, I think you should visit Denmark and Sweden too.
If you like Norway you should like them too and vice versa. And you'll notice the differences and similarities. You can travel freely between either (some places may have toll stations/booths though)
Seriously, where can you not drink the water in nature? Where do people think water comes from.
Water is filtered though. You can’t drink water from everywhere. She was drinking running water, not water that lay still.
@mari97216 yes, I assume it to be common knowledge not to drink standing water
@@mari97216 like we don't drink water from puddles that's common sense but we drink water from rivers, creeks and sometimes lakes, it is just as clean as tap water often cleaner.
I allways drink water right from the rivers when I hike. Never gotten me sick doing it.
08:27 It is *generally* not recommended to do that, as you never know what could be in the water out in nature. But the general rule of thumb if you absolutely feel like drinking water in nature anyway, is to only drink water from areas where it is in motion, the faster the motion the better, and the more rocky the area the water the better it is.
08:55 Yes, you can do it pretty much anywhere in Norway, and the stones do function as a basic natural filtration system for the water.
Almost all households have saft I believe. In my household we use blackberry and blueberry syrup/saft, highly concentrated, but we don’t drink the sugar free saft, because of the sweetener have ugly side effects. While hiking in nature, most streams are healthy and clean and we drink it, it’s the best water.
the best funny word comparison from english to norwegian is "Computer science" - directly translates to "datafag" in Norwegian.
As a kid, in Norway, I grew up in the mountains. And I was taught to find the water source. So while most places it's safe to drink from streams, it's still best to find the source.^^
Looks at Steak tartare and calls it a burger. i get the confunsion but that doesn't stop it from feeling like stertypical joke about amaricans.
like it's that meme about a guy looking at a buetterfly and going: is this a burger. 🤣
About the mountain water from the rocks, the general rule is "running water is fine". And you have never tasted better water in your life :)
The whirlpool is close to Bodø, north Norway. Its the most powerful watercurrent in the world. (Saltstraumen) Seawater goes in a narrow path, making these whirlpools, same when water flows back to the ocean/ North sea. You can dive there when the current "stands still", aprox a 2 hour window. You will find alot of cod, herring and Big Wolf-fish down there. Its an awesome dive.
6:48 You can take a trip to Alta, at the very top of northern Norway, Finnmark. There they have dog races (Finnmarksløpet) once a year in the winter, 14. mars.
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Fart means speed😂 14:19 😊
Farts dumpere is like speed bumps to slow down your speed and the 30 is how many miles per hour you can go😊❤
you can drink the water from lakes that are running down rocks we often use it if we get thirsty whilst we’re out hunting
water constantly crushes onto the rocks and cleans itself and if it's running and you don't see the actual dirt coming you know this to be the case its clean this what we learned and we never got sick from it
You can drink all water form moving water but be careful with still water😊😊 8:45
Yes, some parts of Norway its to bunad as you said, - we use in ouer national day 17 mai (today) We have many different ways style hair
As we say "Hipp Hipp Hurra" and gratulalationa 🇳🇴
Its so beautiful cus spring and the green after Winther are soooo beautiful to ouer flag 🌲🍀🇳🇴
Much fun for the kids
Adding water before saft is the equivalent of adding milk before cornflakes.
As long as the water is moving, you can pretty much drink it everywhere. But I wouldn't do it near cities unless it is high up.
These videos are great
1. The hair thing is a very old bunad tradition indeed. You very seldom see this.
2. We have several really cool toilets for tourists. Usually along the most popular tourist roads.
3. I'm shocked you don't have this juice. It's often one part joice and seven parts water. It means that one litre will give you seven litres of juice.
4. Yes, we have many natural water sources. Some filtrated through the mountain, and some on top of the mountain. But no. You can't dring from any water source.
5. I'm sure the skii jumper is OK, but I wouldn't go so far as to say OK. haha
6. Yes you could easily make a video about really strange mini hotels in nature. They're amazing.
7. That was a raindeer indeed. The indigenous people - the Same people - take care of most of them. That one was tame, though.
8. Fart means speed in norwegian. So speed "lowerer" (bump).
9. The wirlpools make me nervous too. They are indeed dangerous if you go swimming.
10. Norwegians love eating food from all over the world, so you'll find restaurants from most countries.
11. The orcas are quite safe. But don't dress up like a seal for fun. haha They are very intelligent, which avoids accidents.
12. Denmark is very flat. Sweden has an ok coastal line and a really beautiful capital. Norway do have an unbeatable nature, but quite expensive. I do feel people in Norway are very friendly. I like getting a nod and a smile when meeting someone's eyes when passing them. I never got that in Stockholm, but I'm sure the smaller towns are better.
Sweden and Finland is the best neighbours we could ask for.
Russia, not so much
@@vikinnorway6725 once it was. Theres a statue of a red army soldier in Kirkenes.
Its true you can drink water like that!! When I’m at my family’s cabin in Norway and we go swimming, if we get thirsty we drink the water from the water we’re swimming in. There’s a rule, well not a rule but a fact. The water is safe to drink if it’s running, not if it’s still.
Saft is more like a sirup than juice. Like cola sirup, you add water (but without the bubbles)
5:11
Not exactly.
You essentially use the process of making juice, except you don't add back the water.
Being concentrated you get a product that lasts longer both in terms of more drink or liter and longer time before it goes bad.
6:00
Not just sugar free, it contains nutrients and is healthy.
8:27
It's sort of true.
We don't have any severe issues with doing that.
But depending on the weather and the location you may get a temporary diarrhea from doing so.
Nothing truly dangerous.
That said in many places it's genuinely true and you can drink the water with no ill effects.
you can drink water directly from streams almost everywhere. but some places there are sheep out in the mountains and thats when you get diarrhea. Or maybe there is a dead moose in the river above you that you dont know about. but 99,9% of the time it is 100% clean
@@mr-steve-kuling Yeah 30 years of hiking and I've never gotten sick once. And I hike long trips...
I think the most important part to be aware of is lemming year combined with still water. But that is kind of common sense. If there's no poop around, you're good, drink from streams not small ponds, lakes are 100% fine unless you can literally smell something rotting nearby.
Edit: I do have a -good- -great- weirdly good immune system though.
17:02 The ‘bubbles’ is rice
8:23 Streams like this is no problem at all, so yes.
There are two main things you need to know:
1. Lemming years. Every 3-4 years there will be an explosion of Lemmings, and they'll poop all over certain places. Still water areas can be "victim" to this and you should watch out for poop before deciding to refill a bottle in some still water. Again, streams are okay.
2. Glacier water (if you're at or just near one - I mean 100 m. or less). I was completely fine doing it but animals may die in the glacier.
Bottom line: If the water has travelled a bit, it's fine.
Edit: It is crazy/insane that you should *NOT* be able to drink anywhere. And yes you can do this anywhere in Norway... anyways, forgot to mention glacier water does not taste good straight from it so there's no point unless you are desperate. It taste like iron, or one of those old batteries you could stick your tongue out with the connectors and harmlessly get a weird "taste".
Saft is concentrated juice from berries and fruits etc that you then mix with water to make a drink. So such a bottle can last a long time. You typically mix it with one part of the saft to 9 parts of water to make it into something you can drink. It comes in a variety of flavors.
You can drink fresh water from rivers and streams almost eveyrwhere. There are some places that are polluted and there is often a sign about that, but if you stay away from industrial areas and close to farms, you should get clean water - especially if you pick the water from a waterfall, that is almost always clean. Just make sure you never drink still water, it must be running water. Streams are ok, waterfalls best, but pools and lakes are generally not ok unless you filter or boil the water somehow.
The longest ski jump was just recently made at almost 300 meters, 296 meters if I remember correctly.
I probably wouldn’t drink from Akerselva (a river in the middle of Oslo) or other rivers in cities, but in the forest all water is clean.
12:34 it’s a domesticated reindeer and it is currently changing fur from brown to white that’s the reason for the pattern.
That was super duper good pronaunciations on the saft
its a raindeer probably owned by one of the saami tribes. the reason it looks like that is cuz its like shedding its winter coat i believe
14:45 i know this video is old but, yes you are correct "farts dempere" is actually speed bumps. Ive thought about this once and forgotten about it. Sometimes i think about the word "and" in english meaning "og" but "duck" is spelt "and" in norway (this is confusing i know)
the main thing with drinking water from nature is you want water that is flowing not still standing water.
the Whirlpool is in saltstraumen in nordland it is in the middel of norway give or take, it can be dangurus if u fall in whit the whirls you will get sucked down and drown. and what it is, it is a maelstrom and it is swirling water that is formed when two opposing currents meet.
Mountain water like that is the best water you can get, I promise you 8:18
Thanks!
When summer is short and winter is long, you have to find ways to conserve nature's abundance. Boiling saft is one such method. You boil fruit or berries with a little water, strain it in a clean cloth and fill it in sterile bottles. There is a limit to how much fruit we can grow in Norway, but the forest and mountains are full of wild berries that anyone can pick. Many also have berry bushes in the garden. Berries are good for saft/juice or jam.
Today, most of the saft is produced in factories, and sugar has been replaced with artificial sweeteners as an alternative.
About 70% of the soda sold here is sugar free now. I think this is the highest in the world, but for sure the highest in Europe
The water thing, you can do it anywhere! I do it often when hiking.
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- True, although I would be a bit more cautious about drinking stillwater when out hiking or camping...
Then at least boiling it first would be a good idea to be on the safe side.
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The saft is very very strong before blending it out in water (its also sugarfree)😂
That wirlpool is Saltstraumen tidal current. Its a few kilometers east southeast of Bodø.
Sugarfree stuff is very popular. You have sugarfree jelly, ice cream, pudding, vanilla sauce, ice coffie and muchmuch more. I go for sugarfree everytime, it tastes as good as with sugar on many products.
As long as the water is moving, it's mostly safe to drink
You can do it basically anywhere that’s in a mountain or a forest. 8:56
Used to drink water from a stream all the time as a kid.
Make sure you're not down stream from a farm to avoid any 🐂💩
I live 1 hour from Oslo and Maaemo is obviously the best restaurant I have eaten at there. I would say it is objectively the best restaurant. It has 3 stars in the Michelin guide.
Hi im from Norway. Yes you can drink water almost anywhere in nature and from taps (sinks). Farts dempere means speed bumps here lol. Whirlpools yes that too😊 wild animals are somewhat tame. But are they tagged they are owned by someone😊
You can drink most of the water in from fast running streams. No problem.
Fartsdemper=Speed Bump
I've rowed next to killer whales far in the Trondheim fjord a couple of years ago. A flock of at least 5 whales roamed around my small fishing boat. Amazing
There has as far as I know not been a recorded human death related to killer whale attacks outside captivity. But, it's worth knowing that there are two groups of killer whales.
The first group is the Resident Killer Whales that live closer to land and primarily eat fish. They also live in groups or pods, often consisting of 20 animals, sometimes more.
The other group is the Transient Killer Whales who live farther out in the open ocean who hunt and feed on hefty marien mammals, like seals, dolphins and juvenile whales. These whales are typically not interacting much with other killer whales, and if possible avoid them.
These two groups are separate species that parted long ago, and their behavior and lifestyles are quite different. If you want to swim with killer whales, the first groups would be your choice...
Gåte will preform in the Eurovision next Thursday 🎉
Yes it is a reindeer 12:46
Speed bump is an excellent translation. Fart mean speed
I wouldn't drink the water next to a farm, a church yard nor in cities, but anywhere else in nature, it is clean!
It's not expensive in Norway anymore. It's way cheaper here than some places in USA for sure. Denmark is expensive, and they have the highest salaries. Better climate also, better roads, better cities, are more centralized.
[proper] saft isn't consentrated, it's just juiced berries with a lot of sugar, so you need to dilute it so it's not too strong. It's called squash in English. There's versions of this all throughout the Nordic, the British Isles, the Low Countries Central Europe and Eastern Europe. Cordials, syrups, lemonades are versions of this drink.
The Nordic saft is very berry heavy. Black currant, bilberries, raspberries, red currants, strawberry.
There’s hundreds of flavours which are sugarfree.
@@henriz.l Traditional saft has been made with sugar for hundreds of years, these new stuff aren't proper saft. They're not made the same way at all.
That fjeld water is 100 % gonna be better than any Water you can buy in The states.. So there..
Yes our water has been known to be one of the cleanest ones in the world (if not the cleanest one). VOSS is making millions selling normal spring/tap water to you.
5:14 I remember I drank (a lot of) pure saft in kindergarten and threw up because of it
Talking about joking about "fart" in norwegian. My wife and I walk with different speeds, she walks much faster than me, while I tend to be slow. So often we agree that ew each go with our speeds and then she can wait for me at some point in the path, so I may say "Jeg går med min fis, og du går med din fis" + literally translated this means "I walk with my fart and you walk with your fart" which makes little sense until you realize that fart means speed in norwegian.
There are 5 versions of the Norwegian language.. Bokmål and Nynorsk are the official ones. Some people do not accept the attempts to merge the two versions and insist to use the original vérsions, i.e. 8:21 Landsmål and Riksmål. Some people did not accept that the project of merging the two versions were given up, i.e Samnorsk.
Saft is concentrate from berries and fruits, way too strong to be drunk on its own. Two common strengths; mixed with water 1:4 and mixed 1:9. It is much cheaper than most other drinks per consumed unit. Even so it is losing terrain to soft drinks.
Mountain springs are upstream from everything and we have too cold a climate for streams to have parasites. I bet you could do the same high up in US mountains. The pre-requisites are altitude, cold, and no settlements up the stream.
The animal is a reindeer shedding its winter coat. And yup, domesticated.
Yes, literal translation would be "Speed dampeners" and yes I've thought about the English meaning.
as long as the water is moving. river etc. it the most healthy thing you can drink..
Saft is defenetly not juice. Its a concentrated fruit drink that you add water too so its not too strong. They came in all sorts of flavour. I think the most popular one i Norway are black currant. You can get orange, aple, pineapple, melon, red currant… you name it. Many different brands as well.
Probably helps to know that "fart" in norwegian means "speed", the sign is not about farting but speeding. You cannot drive faster than 30 kilometers per hour and there are bumps in the road to enforce that.
04:09 Imagine if Koolaid was in liquid form, and all you had to do was add 1/2 cup of this per 3.8 cup plain water. That's basically what this is, it's a flavor additive.
Saft is soda without the bubbles and you ad water and you drink it
Saft is same as lemonade, just mixing..
Its berries, fruits whit sugar and you add water..