Sweden is not flat. The south is. Where I live we've got a lot of snow still in mid April ( it snowed today ) but the snow has started to melt = most days. We don't have any trams, but have busses and trains that don't go as often as in the bigger cities down south. The south and north are very different.
12:28 - That's not a normal fika in Sweden. People usually eat a cinnamon roll or some other pastery along with a cup of coffee. Not a huge "Semla-pancake".
Classic architecture, Gamla Stan In Stockholm, Kristianstad, Ystad, the docks and inwards of Gothenburg, Gotland (everything), Öland (everything). Then it's everywhere all over the nation, we try to preserve. The house I live in is from the 1200's.
@@atvheads Well, you are not wrong. The difference between a berg and fjäll is that the fjäll goes above the tree line. (In my understanding) No trees up there. But also - My original reply was to the fact that there was a mention that there are no BERGS in göteBORG - as if Borg and Berg was the same thing.
@@atvheads Something else came to mind. You can run up a hill that is not a mountain - and that "Hill" would be a "Kulle". So Berg still means mountain and Fjäll are in the area that we in sweden actually call "Fjällen" - which is pretty much in the north arctic/tundra area.
Yes. "Berg" is also more about material than height or shape. So it's really more like wherever the bedrock happens to stick out of the ground, which obviously includes mountains, but also hills and cliffs and sometimes even on pretty flat ground. And that you can drill down into "berget" (the bedrock).
”Street cars”, trams, are not everywhere in Sweden. Most of them are in Göteborg (including Mölndal), Norrköping have them as well, and there are some in Stockholm (including Solna, Sundbyberg and a few more). Lund has had a few since 2020. As far as I know, no other citys have them. There have been trams in a few more Swedish cities before the late 1960's or something like that, but not any more. Cars drove on the left side of the road until late 1967. Some vehicles still drive on the left side today, like trains and trams from Angered to Hjällbo in Göteborg. Borg and berg are two different words, they don't mean the same. Berg=mountain, as he said, borg means fort. There is also a Swedish ”fort”, meaning fast. The Swedish word ”fast” means firm. Swedish ”firma” means ”company” … Ha ha ha, this was fun … 😁
Sigtuna is a great place to see older parts of Sweden. It's the oldest still existing town in Sweden and very easily accessible from both Stockholm and Uppsala.
Ive watched your reactions to Grotesco, now watching this - laughing my ass of to the 25 year old Grotesco clips, and honestly enjoy seeing you "get them", appreciate them... Watching more posts from you now, and I truly like watching you experience them... Thanx bro👍 Love from Sweden 💖
If it wasn't clear, he was talking about which side you sit on in the car, not which side you drive on. We drive on the right side of the road. He has missed that there is a difference between BERG (mountain) and BORG (fort). Göteborg (Gothenburg) definitely did not get its name from some small hill. I don't eat industrial meatballs if I can avoid it, I make my own, they are best homemade. I have never taken a driver's license, because I have never needed a car. The only time I miss a car is during the berry and mushroom season or if I want to buy a piece of furniture.
I think the main difference is the _kind_ of small talk we do. We don't ask anyone how they are, since if they're not doing so hot it can open a whole can of worms. The weather is always safe, especially since it's one of the few topics where everyone in Sweden will agree to disagree. Another safe topic is your favorite pizza topping, or an anecdote about how you went to Thailand and ran afoul of the spiciness of their food.
The thing is his entire perspective is from someone who's living in the city. Out in the countryside where I live you have to have a car to get around, that's why there has been a lot of uproar from the countryside vs big city on the issue gas prices.
Fun fact. The little stick at the register, with yellow bees on is very important in Sweden. When you have no more groceries you put it to show the next person they can start putting their groceries up. And if you forget it the person behind will slam it down and look at you with angry eyes, like you have killed someone. So don't forget about it.
Transportation works well in bigger cities, i moved to the boonies and we have 1 train each hour and 1 bus each hour. Usually very inconvinant times so car is a better option.
if you a "regular" shopper in a store you can exchange some words with the chashier otherwise it is basicly (hello, repeat the sum, say thank you for the transaction and "have a nice day" as you leave) public transport work pretty well in the cities - outside however you need a car and you need it more and more the futher north you go
The IKEA meatballs are ok, they include what should be on the plate, they're decent. But I think most ppl will agree that homemade ones are way better. They should be served with the brown gravy (black pepper, cream and beefbullion etc). Lingonberry jam, pickled cucumber and boiled potatoes. The meatballs should be medium sized and mainly beef based, but can also be made with mixed beef and pork as well as any game meat. Elk meat (moose?) is also quite common to use, esp up north. They can take some effort to do, so it's not really a mid week meal, we make them maybe once a month (at most) in a big batch so we can put many in the freezer.
Stockholm is by far the nicest and most beautiful of our 3 biggest cities in my opinion. If you like nice architecture especially. Uppsala is also very nice when it comes to architecture and cultural history. If you want to visit some cute and very picturesque smaller towns, visit Visby (on Gotland island), Norrtälje, Mariefred, Sigtuna (all 3 close and within reach from Stockholm) or Ystad (down south). Strömstad and Marstrand are nice fishing type of small towns on the south west coast, full of sailing and seafood enthusiasts in the summer. Regarding Visby on Gotland, it has a medieval week event every summer which attracts many tourists. The town has remnants from medieval times, for example the ringwall which surrounds the town. Gotland also has great beaches. Many Swedes might appear a bit reserved or shy but I don’t think we are quite as reserved as often described in these videos. It’s more a personal thing, all individuals are different, some introvert and some extrovert as always. We say here that Swedes like to talk about the weather. The weather is by far our most common small talk subject and probably the most common opening comment to make if you want contact. And no, our meatballs don’t contain cardamon, but sometimes allspice, which maybe is what this person in the video mistook for cardamon. Meatballs here are common food, lunch or family dinner type of food. Usually not served at fancy dinner parties but considered a more simple kind of food. They are very loved indeed and nowadays they can be made traditional with meat or modern with chicken or even vegan. If you prefer IKEA or any other supermarket brand of meatballs or homemade ones is totally a matter of taste over here. Some like their grandma’s ones, some IKEA’s or similar.
I always chat with strangers when I'm out shopping, at the gym and whatever..and people always chat back.. I have an ordinary Electric stove. And I have never ever seen a washmachine in the kitchen . We usually have them in a seperare room or in the bathroom.
Gothenburg has a lot of Scottish influence because of centuries of trade and immigration from Scottish merchants. The name Glen is popular in Gothenburg for this reason. Also, there’s a lot of architectural signs that people from the British isles settled there as well. And also a linguistic clues as well. People from Gothenburg tend to roll their R more than other swedes. Like a Glaswegian talking.
Dude... I'm Swedish, and I eat meatballs ALL the time. There is a massive difference between the IKEA ones and the one you make at home too. Night and day. It's like comparing a McDonalds burger with a proper artisan burger. Nothing wrong with Mcdonald's.... but...
If you like architecture, then the cathedral in Skara is quite nice. There's also a place nearby called Hjo which has one of the oldest remaining towns built of wood. If you travel more south you can find almost medieval housings that people still live in at Båstad and Torekov. I think Göteborg is quite nice too in how it reflects the economic crisis that caused it to become a ghetto and then boom into a city. Just a few places I could think of off the top of my head.
I've lived in Stockholm and I've visited friends of the family in Göteborg many times over the years. First impressions would be that Stockholm is very, very green, except for a handful of blocks in the absolute center, while Göteborg is a lot closer to the stereotypical concrete jungle. Public transportation is excellent in both places, with the subway in Stockholm and the streetcars in Göteborg, with busses supplementing. Personally I enjoyed living in Stockholm. There's a lot of little hidden gems in Stockholm if you get out of the central parts of the city, from tiny restaurants with delicious food to oddball stores. I haven't been in many years though, so I can't say if it's changed.
Petrol prices have gone down since he made that video (thank God). It has dropped, from 27 Skr, to 18 Skr now. A large part of the price is tax, which is why people who have to drive a lot complain.
Small talk is a thing in Sweden, but usually with friends and family, not strangers. There are of course people who are the exception, my brother is one of them.
Lived in Stockholm and Malmö, daughter living in Gothenburg, atm living in a small council w 7900 ppl. Not much differnce between the first 3, but in a small council, you will find a big differndce. Calm life and not much action. My favourite is the small council.
I have lived in Malmö many years, in summers in Gothenburg and now for a long time in Stockholm. I would say that in Malmö it is more affordable to live in the central part. Living there I could walk to most of my friends or go by bike. It’s a smaller city where everything is closer. While in Stockholm you have to count somtetimes one houer just to take a public transport where you’re going. Malmö It’s also more continetal with more happenings in the steets. I’ve seen people bring sofas in the steet to street preformances, that would’nt happen in Stockholm. Street art is more common and subcolutures seems more integrated in the city in Malmö. The climate is also different, white an earlier spring and warmer vinter. The outdoor season whith pubs having open outdoors is longer. Stockholm on the other hand has a real winter whit the possiblility to winter activites like skeeing and icescating while snow in Malmö is rear. Stockholm has manu cultural institutions, theater and ’scenes’ but there are not rare in Malmö and Copenhagen is quite close so you can reache the scenes in Copenhagen to… although the language can be a bit tuff beeing danish… I have less experience from Gothenburg but I say the feeeling of that city is closer to Malmö than Stockholm. Both Stockholm and Gothenburg have an achipelago you can easily reach… I loved living in Malmö but I have my all my family in the Stockholm aria so I try to getting along with Stockholm…
think i've had like 2 month of snow now, it's disappearing but for the past year it has only been a few days of snow at a time. with the occasional 1 snow in may for some reason
The rain is mostly where HE is, in Sweden. The west south side, closest to Great Britain. Vikings were from Norway.. heading west. While Swedes mostly went East.. called varyags..
Im Swedish and I eat like alot of the usual McD, BK, MAX, burgers, kebab rolls, hot dogs, pizzas, pan-pizzas, pasta Bolognese, meatballs with smash and lingon, steaks, chicken nuggets, rice, fried fish, sushi.. Salads some times. Drink: Soda, water, milk, coffee, tea, beer, wine, juice. Sometimes thai and chineese buffet. The usual stuff.
we now have one of the world's best creams, we don't pasteurize the cream but the flavors remain if you go to Spain, the cream doesn't taste as good as in Sweden, on the other hand, the downside is that it has a short shelf life before it goes sour
Well I rarely eat meatballs and the version at IKEA isnt really what I would say the defitiotion of Swedish meatballs. If you want to taste trully yummy meatballs you should visit the restaurants Tranan, Prinsen or Tures. All 3 in Stockholm.
Normal rent prices is between 5000-10000 kronor each month for 80 m². If you live in a newly produced apartment the rent is a bit higher for the most part.
I think the prices are off because you're watching a video from 2022 and the exchange rate was very different and prices and taxes have changed a bit. 5 SEK (the pastry in the video) is not one dollar. It's 0.64 as an example.
I think prices for food is a little different depending on where you live. In my area up north many stores in villages have higher prices for certain food compared to the ones in towns. You can get a membership in the bigger food chains and that gives a little back in terms of coupons or point you can use as coupon at the store or in other companys that co operate with that particular chain. You can also get certain products for a cheaper price if you are a member. Food of all kinds are pretty regulated to what it may contain and how animals are breeded and that probably also make our food more expensive, we also do not have those big animal farms they have in US (do not know much abour Canada though). Ecological meat and greens are also more expensive to buy. Living in a city is way more expensive due to the cost of renting an apartment or buying a house compared to a more rural area. But instead you maybe have to get 1-2 cars if there is no public transportation. Then of course, in my case and for most of the people in my very small village and the villages around we grow a lot of veggies, foraging and maybe fish a little. My hubby hunt moose in the autumn, costly but we sell of some of the meat, enough to get the money for the licence back and a little more so we can buy a lamb or half a pig. I love to fish in the river and foraging for berries; blueberries, lingonberries, cloudberries and mushrooms. I also grow quite an amount of veggies; potatos, cabbage, garlic, pumpkins, tomatoes cucumbers, peppers and chili, a lot of herbs and green leaves. This helps us to keep the outgoings for food down, but that not so easy if you live in an apartment in big citys. Making most of our food from scratch also helps and I do not eat other meatballs than homemade! 😄
This is so cool. This is the origanal way /lyric for a rather known song from the story Vikings but its sunged in the words that we spook during the viking-age. Words and themusic share procent he same mening. Thank you for your Chanel.💞
Ikea meatballs are crap. You may as well buy frozen ones from the store and heat them in the microwave. I don't usually make meatballs, I make "pannbiffar" which is basically the same but larger and in a patty shape, it takes less work
Hi and thanks for your nice covering of Sweden. One of the friendliest nations on the planet, no matter what some people say😊. Would love to see a video from Malaysia and from Ikea. Meetballs are moat allways on the christmas table, but in our family typically one or two times in a month. Ikea and some prefabricated meetballs are ok, but the home made one with higher percentage of meat are allways better. Tyoically they are made of a mix of beef and pig mincemeat, but sometimes you mix with deer or moose meet, and they become even more delicious.
Gothenburgh is very rainy but Gothenburgh is like britain. Lund and Uppsala has nice architecture. As well as Stockholm, Gothenburgh and many small towns scattered across the country. Norrköping has amazing beautiful architecture but it’s different because it’s 19th century Industrial buildings in red brick and they have such amazing design and they are standing in the middle of a water fall/ stream. They are no longer industrial But used for different purposes today. It’s gorgeous.
about the expenses of food, i had a lot of international friends complain that fast food places like mcdonalds, or burger king were more expensive than in other countries. that's mostly due to 2 factors: A: minimum wage. people here get payed properly, and almost every field of work has unions. B: ingredient quality/price. there are lots of regulations to ensure a certain quality in products (starting with livestock feed), so there is a higher value/price throughout the whole chain of supply. a few years ago, arla the biggest diary company tried to underpay farmers for their milk. it ended up with more than half the country (including grocery stores) boycotting their brand until they conceded right now there's a similar situation with tesla
also 1 thing to add about the gas prices; a large portion of it is taxes. every year when you send in the tax report, you can write down things like your daily car travel to and from work, and get a tax return for it. like the vlogger said, places like gothenburg have a great public transport infrastructure, and the high taxes on gasoline are 1 way to make people be more eco friendly. and those who need a car for work, get the tax return, so it doesn't become a punishment. it's not perfect, but better than the british red diesel situation for example
i've been to all of the bigger cities in sweden, and I would say i prefer Göteborg/Gothenburg, because it's close to water, people are kind, it's pretty everywhere and a cozy feeling. I also really like universeum science centre there and Liseberg amusement park. A tight second place would be Stockholm, it has some very lovely places to eat and stuff to do, lovely architecture, it's also really close if you want to travel on some other place. Stockholm is grander, but still have archipelagos close by and is beautiful, old town i really like as well as östermalm and i get my influencer on when i'm there. Last is Malmö, which is also kinda beautiful atleast where i've been, and got served a really nice ice cream and they had festivsls going on for everyone. But the people were kinda scary if i'm honest. I could go back though, maybee i was just unlucky to have strangers shout at me.
About the chitchat; I would say it depends on where in the country you are from. I grew up i western Sweden (Just below the lake Vänern), and I'd say we're kinda chatty. Now I live in the Mid-part, and people don't talk as much. The first couple of years I just thought that people were really rude, but now I knopw that they're just raised differently here. I even had a cashier (from the area where I grew up-based on her dialect) apologize to me for chatting with me. I had to reassure her that I did not mind, that I did in fact appreciate it a lot.
Within regions, it usually works very well. But train traffic has many problems that the politicians blame each other and at the same time private companies get involved. Sadly, the same with our schools.
The thing about Sweden is that it’s very long. To go from the very north of Sweden to the very south is the same as going from the very south of Sweden to the south of Italy. A k a, the rest of Europe. So the depiction you see here is very limited. Someone has probably already mentioned this, but the Sweden he presents is the “Big Town”- Sweden. Not the whole country Sweden. I mean I,who live in the countryside, sometimes can’t get the cashier to stop talking. There are NO trains, one bus per hour, have to drive most places, and my closest IKEA with its famous meatballs, is over an hour away. Two if I take the bus. And the landscape really isn’t that flat everywhere. We have a looooot of woods. And actual mountains. That was more of a hill.
Let me put it this way: IF you manage to open a conversation with a Swede? Then he/she will never be silent. Same between southern and northern Sweden. Where "northerners" are considered "silent", but if you open a conversation, you never silence them ;)
The nicest city achitectural-wise ive been to in sweden is visby. Feels like going back to the middle-ages. Btw kebabpizza is the best and im confused other countries dont have it.
Would be fun to see a malaysian IKEA, I don't eat meatballs as often as ones a week, but probably ones a month. The meatballs in IKEA are okay but I from a family where homemade is number one, so not big on eating out.
1. Small talking depends on the city but in general sweden are not keen on small talk especially with a cashier as you want the cue to run as smooth as possible. 2. Meatballs in IKEA is terrible. 3. If you want to see old culture I recommend gamla stan in Stockholm 4. The buses and trains works good in the big cities but here on the more of a countryside it doesn'tbcome that frequently and stations are not everywhere. You more or less need to have a car here, depending on your working place. 5. I do rarely it meatballs actually, maybe two-four times a month but it depends on the family. I think a kids family would eat it much more often. Most kids love meatballs!
I live in Stockholm and I sold my car. It is too expensive to have a parking or driving with the tull fee in and out of Stockholm. I can go where ever I like with the commune transportation. If you want to see the old Sweden, you need to go to old town in Stockholm. Coffee is very important in Sweden and it has to be strong!!!
Hi You All! Although not everything was absolutely correct in his comments, in total he gave a fairly good view of Sweden. And of course he chose the great city of Halmstad to live in, the city with three hearts as it´s symbol. Greetings from (you guessed it) Halmstad : ) /Ulf
The funny thing is that you can have some weapon in sweden you cannot have in the US even. Like fully automatic weapons. You need to show a need for it tho wich can be a problem.
The ikea metballs dont tast as good as homemade do . But yes most familys with kids eat metballs several times a month , not always homemde. It feels like everyone has a family recepy from a grandmother so it tast like "home" .
I´m a Swede, I do not eat meatballs as much as before, my grandma died a few years ago at an age of 97, i can still remember the taste of her cooking, and nothing comes even close anymore. Store-bought are usually shit, do not eat them(Not harmful, but not tasty)
on the countryside where i live there is one bus to the city in the morning and back in the evning for the high school students otherwise you have to go by car. in the good old times there was both trains and rälsbuss and buses often to the city, but the politicans dont like the country side and only put money in the cities
Canada allow hormones in their meat. In Sweden we use less antibiotics and we have less animal diseases. The cheaper price in Canada for chicken you can assume has hormones and a lot of antibiotics in it or has a less quality.
Fika can be anything thats not a full meal. From just a single cup of coffee all the way up to waffles or baguettes. There is no real rule for where it stops being fika and becomes a meal but generally, if it includes multiple food group, youve left fika and entered lunch. 🤣
If you like Ikea food you will love actual Swedish food, we consider Ikea food kinda basic. Ingvar Kamprad (founder of Ikea) came up with the idea of serving food in his stores because he realized that people who were shopping got hungry and left, so he started offering food in his stores extremely cheep, just to keep them in the store. Also he got that whole thing about Gothenburg wrong, borg means fort not mountain. Gaut (pronunced Göt) is another name for Odin, so it is actually OdinsFort. I am sure you will find alot of different explanation for the history behind the name, especially if you ask the church, but this stuff is literally older than jesus.
The South of sweden don't have much Mountains and is very flat. For me as a Swede from North is a very big difference when we have big Mountains all over and the climate is Day and night to we have much snow in the winter. North sweden is 2/3 of sweden but only 11% of the People.
The meatballs from IKEA are ok, but I prefer homemade meatballs. Since I started to make meatballs at home my kids don't want anything else. I also make meatballs for Christmas dinner.
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Sweden is not flat. The south is. Where I live we've got a lot of snow still in mid April ( it snowed today ) but the snow has started to melt = most days. We don't have any trams, but have busses and trains that don't go as often as in the bigger cities down south. The south and north are very different.
12:28 - That's not a normal fika in Sweden. People usually eat a cinnamon roll or some other pastery along with a cup of coffee. Not a huge "Semla-pancake".
I've NEVER before seen that pancake mountain with whip cream on top! And I've lived in Sweden for 34 years.
Classic architecture, Gamla Stan In Stockholm, Kristianstad, Ystad, the docks and inwards of Gothenburg, Gotland (everything), Öland (everything). Then it's everywhere all over the nation, we try to preserve. The house I live in is from the 1200's.
Well... Yes. Berg means mountain.. but it's GöteBORG.. not Berg. Borg means fortress/stronghold. Just saying. ;)
Berg is a hill for me in terms of names. Like last name Bergman becomes Hillman in English.
Fjäll for me is a Mountain.
@@atvheads Well, you are not wrong. The difference between a berg and fjäll is that the fjäll goes above the tree line. (In my understanding) No trees up there. But also - My original reply was to the fact that there was a mention that there are no BERGS in göteBORG - as if Borg and Berg was the same thing.
@@atvheads Something else came to mind. You can run up a hill that is not a mountain - and that "Hill" would be a "Kulle". So Berg still means mountain and Fjäll are in the area that we in sweden actually call "Fjällen" - which is pretty much in the north arctic/tundra area.
Yes. "Berg" is also more about material than height or shape. So it's really more like wherever the bedrock happens to stick out of the ground, which obviously includes mountains, but also hills and cliffs and sometimes even on pretty flat ground. And that you can drill down into "berget" (the bedrock).
And the word borg is related to berg. It is easy to see it as safe place ....
”Street cars”, trams, are not everywhere in Sweden. Most of them are in Göteborg (including Mölndal), Norrköping have them as well, and there are some in Stockholm (including Solna, Sundbyberg and a few more). Lund has had a few since 2020. As far as I know, no other citys have them. There have been trams in a few more Swedish cities before the late 1960's or something like that, but not any more.
Cars drove on the left side of the road until late 1967. Some vehicles still drive on the left side today, like trains and trams from Angered to Hjällbo in Göteborg.
Borg and berg are two different words, they don't mean the same. Berg=mountain, as he said, borg means fort.
There is also a Swedish ”fort”, meaning fast. The Swedish word ”fast” means firm. Swedish ”firma” means ”company” … Ha ha ha, this was fun … 😁
Sigtuna is a great place to see older parts of Sweden. It's the oldest still existing town in Sweden and very easily accessible from both Stockholm and Uppsala.
The raining is mostly in the south part of Sweden in the winter instead of snow as we have in the further north parts.
Ive watched your reactions to Grotesco, now watching this - laughing my ass of to the 25 year old Grotesco clips, and honestly enjoy seeing you "get them", appreciate them...
Watching more posts from you now, and I truly like watching you experience them...
Thanx bro👍
Love from Sweden 💖
If it wasn't clear, he was talking about which side you sit on in the car, not which side you drive on. We drive on the right side of the road.
He has missed that there is a difference between BERG (mountain) and BORG (fort). Göteborg (Gothenburg) definitely did not get its name from some small hill.
I don't eat industrial meatballs if I can avoid it, I make my own, they are best homemade.
I have never taken a driver's license, because I have never needed a car. The only time I miss a car is during the berry and mushroom season or if I want to buy a piece of furniture.
I think the main difference is the _kind_ of small talk we do. We don't ask anyone how they are, since if they're not doing so hot it can open a whole can of worms.
The weather is always safe, especially since it's one of the few topics where everyone in Sweden will agree to disagree. Another safe topic is your favorite pizza topping, or an anecdote about how you went to Thailand and ran afoul of the spiciness of their food.
The thing is his entire perspective is from someone who's living in the city. Out in the countryside where I live you have to have a car to get around, that's why there has been a lot of uproar from the countryside vs big city on the issue gas prices.
Fun fact. The little stick at the register, with yellow bees on is very important in Sweden. When you have no more groceries you put it to show the next person they can start putting their groceries up. And if you forget it the person behind will slam it down and look at you with angry eyes, like you have killed someone. So don't forget about it.
Transportation works well in bigger cities, i moved to the boonies and we have 1 train each hour and 1 bus each hour. Usually very inconvinant times so car is a better option.
if you a "regular" shopper in a store you can exchange some words with the chashier otherwise it is basicly (hello, repeat the sum, say thank you for the transaction and "have a nice day" as you leave)
public transport work pretty well in the cities - outside however you need a car and you need it more and more the futher north you go
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The IKEA meatballs are ok, they include what should be on the plate, they're decent. But I think most ppl will agree that homemade ones are way better. They should be served with the brown gravy (black pepper, cream and beefbullion etc). Lingonberry jam, pickled cucumber and boiled potatoes. The meatballs should be medium sized and mainly beef based, but can also be made with mixed beef and pork as well as any game meat. Elk meat (moose?) is also quite common to use, esp up north. They can take some effort to do, so it's not really a mid week meal, we make them maybe once a month (at most) in a big batch so we can put many in the freezer.
IKEA meatball is the industrial fake meatball.
You have to do them yourself. Totally different. And no cucumber!
@@carlw720 yeah, they're like school lunch level, but I didn't know how to explain that to ppl who doesn't even get proper school lunch so...
Stockholm is by far the nicest and most beautiful of our 3 biggest cities in my opinion. If you like nice architecture especially. Uppsala is also very nice when it comes to architecture and cultural history. If you want to visit some cute and very picturesque smaller towns, visit Visby (on Gotland island), Norrtälje, Mariefred, Sigtuna (all 3 close and within reach from Stockholm) or Ystad (down south). Strömstad and Marstrand are nice fishing type of small towns on the south west coast, full of sailing and seafood enthusiasts in the summer. Regarding Visby on Gotland, it has a medieval week event every summer which attracts many tourists. The town has remnants from medieval times, for example the ringwall which surrounds the town. Gotland also has great beaches.
Many Swedes might appear a bit reserved or shy but I don’t think we are quite as reserved as often described in these videos. It’s more a personal thing, all individuals are different, some introvert and some extrovert as always. We say here that Swedes like to talk about the weather. The weather is by far our most common small talk subject and probably the most common opening comment to make if you want contact.
And no, our meatballs don’t contain cardamon, but sometimes allspice, which maybe is what this person in the video mistook for cardamon. Meatballs here are common food, lunch or family dinner type of food. Usually not served at fancy dinner parties but considered a more simple kind of food. They are very loved indeed and nowadays they can be made traditional with meat or modern with chicken or even vegan. If you prefer IKEA or any other supermarket brand of meatballs or homemade ones is totally a matter of taste over here. Some like their grandma’s ones, some IKEA’s or similar.
And to me, not many open up in Stockholm. In my experience, go south and the people are nicer. Like Småland.
I definitely want to see your film from the Malaysian IKEA, very interesting for a swede ☺️ 🇸🇪
I always chat with strangers when I'm out shopping, at the gym and whatever..and people always chat back..
I have an ordinary Electric stove. And I have never ever seen a washmachine in the kitchen . We usually have them in a seperare room or in the bathroom.
Gothenburg has a lot of Scottish influence because of centuries of trade and immigration from Scottish merchants. The name Glen is popular in Gothenburg for this reason. Also, there’s a lot of architectural signs that people from the British isles settled there as well. And also a linguistic clues as well. People from Gothenburg tend to roll their R more than other swedes. Like a Glaswegian talking.
Dude... I'm Swedish, and I eat meatballs ALL the time. There is a massive difference between the IKEA ones and the one you make at home too. Night and day. It's like comparing a McDonalds burger with a proper artisan burger. Nothing wrong with Mcdonald's.... but...
If you like architecture, then the cathedral in Skara is quite nice. There's also a place nearby called Hjo which has one of the oldest remaining towns built of wood. If you travel more south you can find almost medieval housings that people still live in at Båstad and Torekov. I think Göteborg is quite nice too in how it reflects the economic crisis that caused it to become a ghetto and then boom into a city. Just a few places I could think of off the top of my head.
I've lived in Stockholm and I've visited friends of the family in Göteborg many times over the years. First impressions would be that Stockholm is very, very green, except for a handful of blocks in the absolute center, while Göteborg is a lot closer to the stereotypical concrete jungle. Public transportation is excellent in both places, with the subway in Stockholm and the streetcars in Göteborg, with busses supplementing. Personally I enjoyed living in Stockholm.
There's a lot of little hidden gems in Stockholm if you get out of the central parts of the city, from tiny restaurants with delicious food to oddball stores.
I haven't been in many years though, so I can't say if it's changed.
Petrol prices have gone down since he made that video (thank God). It has dropped, from 27 Skr, to 18 Skr now.
A large part of the price is tax, which is why people who have to drive a lot complain.
Small talk is a thing in Sweden, but usually with friends and family, not strangers. There are of course people who are the exception, my brother is one of them.
Lived in Stockholm and Malmö, daughter living in Gothenburg, atm living in a small council w 7900 ppl. Not much differnce between the first 3, but in a small council, you will find a big differndce. Calm life and not much action. My favourite is the small council.
The street cars is just in Göteborg and Norrköping.
The trams you mean ..and they are in Stockholm too
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No I mean street cars. Just the same thing, but different names for it. Another term is trolley.
I have lived in Malmö many years, in summers in Gothenburg and now for a long time in Stockholm. I would say that in Malmö it is more affordable to live in the central part. Living there I could walk to most of my friends or go by bike. It’s a smaller city where everything is closer. While in Stockholm you have to count somtetimes one houer just to take a public transport where you’re going. Malmö It’s also more continetal with more happenings in the steets. I’ve seen people bring sofas in the steet to street preformances, that would’nt happen in Stockholm. Street art is more common and subcolutures seems more integrated in the city in Malmö. The climate is also different, white an earlier spring and warmer vinter. The outdoor season whith pubs having open outdoors is longer. Stockholm on the other hand has a real winter whit the possiblility to winter activites like skeeing and icescating while snow in Malmö is rear. Stockholm has manu cultural institutions, theater and ’scenes’ but there are not rare in Malmö and Copenhagen is quite close so you can reache the scenes in Copenhagen to… although the language can be a bit tuff beeing danish… I have less experience from Gothenburg but I say the feeeling of that city is closer to Malmö than Stockholm. Both Stockholm and Gothenburg have an achipelago you can easily reach… I loved living in Malmö but I have my all my family in the Stockholm aria so I try to getting along with Stockholm…
think i've had like 2 month of snow now, it's disappearing but for the past year it has only been a few days of snow at a time. with the occasional 1 snow in may for some reason
Meatballs infused with cardamom?? That is NOT a typical Swedish seasoning of meat balls!! 😅 Actually never heard of it.
Transport is good in the bigger cities less out on the countryside where you need a car. Food has become more expensive but many look for sales.
For the real medievel architecture you should go to Visby on the largest swedish island Gotland. It's by far the best preserved city in the country.
The rain is mostly where HE is, in Sweden. The west south side, closest to Great Britain.
Vikings were from Norway.. heading west. While Swedes mostly went East.. called varyags..
Im Swedish and I eat like alot of the usual McD, BK, MAX, burgers, kebab rolls, hot dogs, pizzas, pan-pizzas, pasta Bolognese, meatballs with smash and lingon, steaks, chicken nuggets, rice, fried fish, sushi.. Salads some times. Drink: Soda, water, milk, coffee, tea, beer, wine, juice. Sometimes thai and chineese buffet. The usual stuff.
we now have one of the world's best creams, we don't pasteurize the cream but the flavors remain if you go to Spain, the cream doesn't taste as good as in Sweden, on the other hand, the downside is that it has a short shelf life before it goes sour
We use to say that Scotts and Duchmen built Gothenburg.
Niklas Alexandersson, scoring against England in the 1-1 game in the group of death in WC 2002. We should all remember and celebrate him!
Well I rarely eat meatballs and the version at IKEA isnt really what I would say the defitiotion of Swedish meatballs. If you want to taste trully yummy meatballs you should visit the restaurants Tranan, Prinsen or Tures. All 3 in Stockholm.
13:41 i pretty much only eat meatballs during Christmas or Eastern.
some places sells them though, i don't really eat at restaurants
Normal rent prices is between 5000-10000 kronor each month for 80 m². If you live in a newly produced apartment the rent is a bit higher for the most part.
:D It made me soo proud that he played in my home ice rink in Varberg
I think the prices are off because you're watching a video from 2022 and the exchange rate was very different and prices and taxes have changed a bit. 5 SEK (the pastry in the video) is not one dollar. It's 0.64 as an example.
Store bought meatballs are pretty good, but not even close to home made meatballs
I think prices for food is a little different depending on where you live. In my area up north many stores in villages have higher prices for certain food compared to the ones in towns. You can get a membership in the bigger food chains and that gives a little back in terms of coupons or point you can use as coupon at the store or in other companys that co operate with that particular chain. You can also get certain products for a cheaper price if you are a member. Food of all kinds are pretty regulated to what it may contain and how animals are breeded and that probably also make our food more expensive, we also do not have those big animal farms they have in US (do not know much abour Canada though). Ecological meat and greens are also more expensive to buy.
Living in a city is way more expensive due to the cost of renting an apartment or buying a house compared to a more rural area. But instead you maybe have to get 1-2 cars if there is no public transportation. Then of course, in my case and for most of the people in my very small village and the villages around we grow a lot of veggies, foraging and maybe fish a little. My hubby hunt moose in the autumn, costly but we sell of some of the meat, enough to get the money for the licence back and a little more so we can buy a lamb or half a pig. I love to fish in the river and foraging for berries; blueberries, lingonberries, cloudberries and mushrooms. I also grow quite an amount of veggies; potatos, cabbage, garlic, pumpkins, tomatoes cucumbers, peppers and chili, a lot of herbs and green leaves. This helps us to keep the outgoings for food down, but that not so easy if you live in an apartment in big citys. Making most of our food from scratch also helps and I do not eat other meatballs than homemade! 😄
I haven't eaten meatballs for years, at least not at home, but when I was in my 20's (in the 1980's) I ate meatballs several times a week.
This is so cool. This is the origanal way /lyric for a rather known song from the story Vikings but its sunged in the words that we spook during the viking-age. Words and themusic share procent he same mening. Thank you for your Chanel.💞
You should check out the small north town Östersund. It's amazing and represent Sweden for real 👌
12:21 think that's excessive for fika, it's not typical swedish pancakes either.
some restaurants have really big stuff though
Ikea meatballs are crap. You may as well buy frozen ones from the store and heat them in the microwave.
I don't usually make meatballs, I make "pannbiffar" which is basically the same but larger and in a patty shape, it takes less work
It was unfortunate that all the video sequences wasn’t filmed in summer (between May-September). Sweden and the west coasts shines in summer.
Hi and thanks for your nice covering of Sweden. One of the friendliest nations on the planet, no matter what some people say😊. Would love to see a video from Malaysia and from Ikea. Meetballs are moat allways on the christmas table, but in our family typically one or two times in a month. Ikea and some prefabricated meetballs are ok, but the home made one with higher percentage of meat are allways better. Tyoically they are made of a mix of beef and pig mincemeat, but sometimes you mix with deer or moose meet, and they become even more delicious.
Gothenburgh is very rainy but Gothenburgh is like britain. Lund and Uppsala has nice architecture. As well as Stockholm, Gothenburgh and many small towns scattered across the country. Norrköping has amazing beautiful architecture but it’s different because it’s 19th century Industrial buildings in red brick and they have such amazing design and they are standing in the middle of a water fall/ stream. They are no longer industrial But used for different purposes today. It’s gorgeous.
about the expenses of food, i had a lot of international friends complain that fast food places like mcdonalds, or burger king were more expensive than in other countries. that's mostly due to 2 factors:
A: minimum wage. people here get payed properly, and almost every field of work has unions.
B: ingredient quality/price. there are lots of regulations to ensure a certain quality in products (starting with livestock feed), so there is a higher value/price throughout the whole chain of supply. a few years ago, arla the biggest diary company tried to underpay farmers for their milk. it ended up with more than half the country (including grocery stores) boycotting their brand until they conceded
right now there's a similar situation with tesla
also 1 thing to add about the gas prices; a large portion of it is taxes. every year when you send in the tax report, you can write down things like your daily car travel to and from work, and get a tax return for it.
like the vlogger said, places like gothenburg have a great public transport infrastructure, and the high taxes on gasoline are 1 way to make people be more eco friendly. and those who need a car for work, get the tax return, so it doesn't become a punishment.
it's not perfect, but better than the british red diesel situation for example
Visby is the nicest town in Sweden, whit lot of old buildings and medival stuff.
Meatballs does not have cardamom. They sometimes have allspice, but that gives them a kind of christmas taste
Tack!
I would love to see you make a video about how IKEA is in Malaysia, terima kasih banyak 😊 love and peace from Sweden
If u visit Sweden. Stockholm is just amazing breathtaking! Dont miss Dalarna too. Tällberg is pretty beautiful
15:30 I went to town a sunday, apparently everything closed and some pigeon decided to look weirdly at me
Look at Old Town in Stockholm City. It’s amazing
You should look into the famous (in Sweden) TV-show "Allt för Sverige"
i've been to all of the bigger cities in sweden, and I would say i prefer Göteborg/Gothenburg, because it's close to water, people are kind, it's pretty everywhere and a cozy feeling. I also really like universeum science centre there and Liseberg amusement park. A tight second place would be Stockholm, it has some very lovely places to eat and stuff to do, lovely architecture, it's also really close if you want to travel on some other place. Stockholm is grander, but still have archipelagos close by and is beautiful, old town i really like as well as östermalm and i get my influencer on when i'm there. Last is Malmö, which is also kinda beautiful atleast where i've been, and got served a really nice ice cream and they had festivsls going on for everyone. But the people were kinda scary if i'm honest. I could go back though, maybee i was just unlucky to have strangers shout at me.
Gothenburgh has an archipelago too!! You can use your bus ticket to go on the ferry!
Oh no that sounded bad, your experience in Malmö. I used to like Malmö but I don’t know anymore.
That serving of fika is way bigger than normal.
We only have tram in Göteborg and Norrköping
Niclas Alexandersson scored against England in the 2002 World Cup
Now that you are doing sweden on christsmas there is one song that is a must.jussi björling and the song is o helga natt.greetings from Finland
About the chitchat; I would say it depends on where in the country you are from. I grew up i western Sweden (Just below the lake Vänern), and I'd say we're kinda chatty. Now I live in the Mid-part, and people don't talk as much. The first couple of years I just thought that people were really rude, but now I knopw that they're just raised differently here. I even had a cashier (from the area where I grew up-based on her dialect) apologize to me for chatting with me. I had to reassure her that I did not mind, that I did in fact appreciate it a lot.
I allways do my own meatballs , allways ! So good , bought in shops or IKEA are not as good , it's eatable 🙂
I live in Stockholm and public transport is fantastic compared to most countries I've visited (UK, U.S, France, Germany etc).
Within regions, it usually works very well.
But train traffic has many problems that the politicians blame each other and at the same time private companies get involved.
Sadly, the same with our schools.
Food prices have increased a LOT in recent months in Sweden!
The thing about Sweden is that it’s very long. To go from the very north of Sweden to the very south is the same as going from the very south of Sweden to the south of Italy. A k a, the rest of Europe. So the depiction you see here is very limited.
Someone has probably already mentioned this, but the Sweden he presents is the “Big Town”- Sweden. Not the whole country Sweden. I mean I,who live in the countryside, sometimes can’t get the cashier to stop talking. There are NO trains, one bus per hour, have to drive most places, and my closest IKEA with its famous meatballs, is over an hour away. Two if I take the bus.
And the landscape really isn’t that flat everywhere. We have a looooot of woods. And actual mountains. That was more of a hill.
I listen to your videos just to hear your awesome accent 😊
Let me put it this way: IF you manage to open a conversation with a Swede? Then he/she will never be silent. Same between southern and northern Sweden. Where "northerners" are considered "silent", but if you open a conversation, you never silence them ;)
The nicest city achitectural-wise ive been to in sweden is visby. Feels like going back to the middle-ages. Btw kebabpizza is the best and im confused other countries dont have it.
Would be fun to see a malaysian IKEA, I don't eat meatballs as often as ones a week, but probably ones a month. The meatballs in IKEA are okay but I from a family where homemade is number one, so not big on eating out.
1. Small talking depends on the city but in general sweden are not keen on small talk especially with a cashier as you want the cue to run as smooth as possible.
2. Meatballs in IKEA is terrible.
3. If you want to see old culture I recommend gamla stan in Stockholm
4. The buses and trains works good in the big cities but here on the more of a countryside it doesn'tbcome that frequently and stations are not everywhere. You more or less need to have a car here, depending on your working place.
5. I do rarely it meatballs actually, maybe two-four times a month but it depends on the family. I think a kids family would eat it much more often. Most kids love meatballs!
Chef-made meatballs? Maybe I eat them once a year or so. But frozen meatballs figure as padding in many of my frankenstein dinner mashups.
I live in Stockholm and I sold my car. It is too expensive to have a parking or driving with the tull fee in and out of Stockholm. I can go where ever I like with the commune transportation. If you want to see the old Sweden, you need to go to old town in Stockholm. Coffee is very important in Sweden and it has to be strong!!!
Hi You All! Although not everything was absolutely correct in his comments, in total he gave a fairly good view of Sweden. And of course he chose the great city of Halmstad to live in, the city with three hearts as it´s symbol. Greetings from (you guessed it) Halmstad : ) /Ulf
The funny thing is that you can have some weapon in sweden you cannot have in the US even. Like fully automatic weapons. You need to show a need for it tho wich can be a problem.
Take a look at Visby if you want to travel back in time :)
The ikea metballs dont tast as good as homemade do . But yes most familys with kids eat metballs several times a month , not always homemde. It feels like everyone has a family recepy from a grandmother so it tast like "home" .
I love to listen to your groundskeeper willie accent XD
Oh and BTW, that increase was because of Russia, it's down to 18.something now. Last time I filled up the Diesel was at 17.19kr.
I´m a Swede, I do not eat meatballs as much as before, my grandma died a few years ago at an age of 97, i can still remember the taste of her cooking, and nothing comes even close anymore. Store-bought are usually shit, do not eat them(Not harmful, but not tasty)
Funny pronunciations of place names in Swedish. But it is difficult to switch languages for a single word.
on the countryside where i live there is one bus to the city in the morning and back in the evning for the high school students otherwise you have to go by car. in the good old times there was both trains and rälsbuss and buses often to the city, but the politicans dont like the country side and only put money in the cities
I love My hometown gothenburg ,we Are more open than the people from Stockholm
Canada allow hormones in their meat. In Sweden we use less antibiotics and we have less animal diseases. The cheaper price in Canada for chicken you can assume has hormones and a lot of antibiotics in it or has a less quality.
To understand why someone ask how do yuo feel, takes a genius to understand.
Fika can be anything thats not a full meal.
From just a single cup of coffee all the way up to waffles or baguettes.
There is no real rule for where it stops being fika and becomes a meal but generally, if it includes multiple food group, youve left fika and entered lunch.
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I see my home town at #31 :)
We think ikea meatballs are servable for the occassion..but we dont recognize them as meatballs because they're not.
If you like Ikea food you will love actual Swedish food, we consider Ikea food kinda basic. Ingvar Kamprad (founder of Ikea) came up with the idea of serving food in his stores because he realized that people who were shopping got hungry and left, so he started offering food in his stores extremely cheep, just to keep them in the store.
Also he got that whole thing about Gothenburg wrong, borg means fort not mountain. Gaut (pronunced Göt) is another name for Odin, so it is actually OdinsFort. I am sure you will find alot of different explanation for the history behind the name, especially if you ask the church, but this stuff is literally older than jesus.
IKEA meatballs are the equivalent of a McDonalds cheeseburger. It should be homemade! :)
The South of sweden don't have much Mountains and is very flat.
For me as a Swede from North is a very big difference when we have big Mountains all over and the climate is Day and night to we have much snow in the winter.
North sweden is 2/3 of sweden but only 11% of the People.
Yes, probably eat meatballs at least once a week. Then usually you don't eat that much if you have coffee. A bun, or a sandwich or a cookie.
The meatballs from IKEA are ok, but I prefer homemade meatballs. Since I started to make meatballs at home my kids don't want anything else. I also make meatballs for Christmas dinner.
15:20 Rats with wings