It's most definitely real cheese in the tubes, they're vacuum sealed so they don't need to be refrigerated. You can not legally refer to things like American Cheese or String Cheese as cheese within the EU, it has to be clearly labeled as a cheese subsitute.
@@GoldScrapful American cheese is between 40-50 cheese and the rest is water with some emulsifier and stabilizer in there that are harmless. But it is still more water than cheese, so can't really call it cheese, but it's the water that makes so good at meting.
The mjukost isn't fake cheese, it's cheese that have been melted using salts. Why it's not stored in a fridge is due to that the tube is a preserve, so there is no need until it has been opened. That little fact makes it a popular product for camping, hiking and sailing. I always bring some and open it in the morning and eat it on some crisp bread (those round breads you didn't know what they were), then save some for dinner and use it as a pasta sauce. And you should have bought the jordnötsringar, similar to peanut cheetos, but far far far better. With the cheetos you know it's peanut flavoured, but with the jordnötsringar you kow they are made from actual peanuts.
The jam in the "tube" is for refilling a glass jar. You don't need to buy a new glass jar when you finished it. Just wash the old jar and buy a refill pack so you can save money and resources as the glass jar can last several years.
The prices of the meats are a bit wrong. You're reading it as the price per package (~500g), but it is listed as price per kilo. The tag for the pork says 84.95 and then it's a tiny text under it saying "vikt" which means "weight". In the bottom right corner of the tag it is more obvious where it says: "jmf-pris" which is short for "comparison price". There it is more explicit with "84.95 kr/kg". The same mistake was made with the ground beef, the kilogram-price was mistaken as per ~500g package. I think it is required by law to list all items as "price per weight unit" so it is easy to compare different brands against each other even though they have different unit sizes. Happy shopping ! :)
In Sweden the government owned store Systembolaget has a monopoly on the retail sale of all alcoholic beverages containing more than 3.5% alcohol. I think it's the same as Alko in Finland, but their limit is 5.5% iirc. You can still buy beer, wine and spirits containing more than 3.5% alcohol at bars, restaurants and other places with license to sell alcohol.
@@onlyu2high Nah its way better than private alcohol stores would be in every metric, if you dislike the opening hours you need to learn how to plan in your life, the selection and quality is consistent throughout the country as you have access to the same products in stockholm as you do in a tiny town and it also does fullfil its function of reducing spontaneous drinking and is a good check for alcoholism even if it cant solve that issue on its own. Name one private alcohol retailer that would be willing to act as an importer for you and do all the work completely free of charge for example.
swedish person here, the "jam section" isnt all jam. For example the glass jar you first picked up is raspberry marmalade and not jam. If you see the word "sylt" on the packaging that means it's jam and if it says "marmelad" its marmalade
Me just not get why not google when look on stuff in stores in countries you not understand the langue off. Even if marmelad not really difficoult. I do that all the time when travel. And missing when it say hg instead of kg is just bad
Just some clarification: X-tra is not a Finnish brand but a private label made by the Coop Supermarkets in Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland - but in Finland Coop is called S-market/Prisma. So you´ll find the brand in all Coop/S-market supermarkets in the Nordic countries, but there might be regional variations which products are available (for example I think only Finland produces X-tra Flour). Adding to the confusion Coop in Sweden has a discount store under it´s umbrella, named and spelled X:-tra but it has nothing to do with the X-tra private label, all though they of course have a lot of their products.
the salad bar is 13;90 kr/hg, it's per hektogram and not kilogram, so it's 139kr/kg (about $13.1/kg). If it was 13;90 a kilo it would be gone within the blink of an eye XD
They use exactly the same pricebanner in Finland and there the price is usually 13,90€/kg or 14,90€/kg. Maybe it's cheaper to change only one caharacter instead of many 😅
@@hyperionfin or cold cuts, or cheese, or candy, or... quite a fair bit of it s really. It can be deceptive if you don't pay attention. Hg/kg look very similar. Nowadays it's more common to find kg instead of hg though.
Fun fact. Stores have to post jämförpris (sometimes spelled jfr pris) which basically translates to compared price. It's based on weight. So looking at those loafs, even the cheapest price/item really isn't the cheapest, based on price/kg. Keep an eye out for it next time.
It's funny that in Sweden Friday is Taco day but in Finland a lot of people think Friday is Pizza day. Like how did that happen :D. But I think in both countries Thursdays are Pea Soup days :D
Leksand is the name of the town where that bread is made, so it doesn't mean "play-sand" per se, (unless that is somehow the origin of the name) but in this context it just refers to the town :)
The etymology of Leksand is play-sand or more exactly lek-sand in English too. Lek in the context of animal reproduction in this case Sik (Common whitefish). Lek or lekking is used in English too and comes from the Swedish word for play. The river exits into the lake that is where the fish was leaking have sandy shores and bottom.
In sweden, you will have to buy the alcohol from Systembolaget, their equivalent for Finnish Alko - both state monopolies. Sweden has lower percentage limits for store sold alcohol than Finland, basically you can buy just "folk öl" from stores in there.
If you are looking for "surströmming", it is in the refridgerated section (at least when in season). The cans of tuna, clams and sardines are stored at room temperature, but picled herring, smoked salmon, roe, and other seafood are kept cold.
Coop is a co-op and it has cooperation with S / Prisma shops in Finland which are also a co-op. Coop is actually a multi-national co-op "brand" - the name is same among countries but apparently each country operates individually. X-tra is a brand owned by Nordic Coops and the logistics company of S chain in Finland. So therefore you see the same brand there. Xtra products are definitely a cheap brand but in general everything in Nordic shops is usually good quality. Anyways, always check the ingredients for unhealthy crap. Some cheap brands' processed food is just cardiovascular time bombs, which is a disgrace and crime against poor people.
You have to try "mjukost", it's not cream cheese it's "soft cheese" = delicious! I always have 1 - 3 types in the fridge. Surströmming you find in the fridge section! Try "Hjortron Sylt" Cloudberry jam on your pancakes = delicious!
I think mexican food is big in finland and sweden just because it was some thing new in the 90s when santa maria company which is available in both just had good marketing and broke in to the market. It is so different then nordic food and made so easy with ready to eat sauces and spice mixes.
The whole Nordic "taco friday" thing would scarcely qualify as "real" Mexican food in Mexico. It's quite different, mostly. I guess you could say we've taken their stuff and made our own twist on it, like we have with pizza
@@TheLastCrusader22 Yes, the correct term is Tex-Mex. So its mexican influenced food, but with american flavor :D all those cheese sauces and mayos are 100% american additions to traditional mexican food.
Salmiak is popular in northern Europe, including Germany and the Netherlands, but salmiak black licorice is very different from country to country. Sweden does have some of the most hardcore salty licorice, like Svenskjävlar.
If I do remember right, here in Finland there's a law limiting the amount of it that product can contain for the fear of people poisoning themselves by eating too much. Wouldn't surprise if it would be the case in other countries too. I've also made and tasted it in pure form on school 7th grade chemistry class. I can understand limits as it tasted still great.
@@justskip4595 I don't know of a liqurice content limit. It does raise your blood pressure, so "lagom" is best. There, another good Swedish word that is both totally subjective and objective at the same tme.
@@justskip4595 we got that as a bribe for getting through chemistry lessons, until the school principle got news about it. It was the highlight of the chemistry lessons while it lasted.
The salmiak liquorice in Finland and Sweden are basically as pointed out in video though, a Finnish pick & mix candy section probably has about 30% of licorice, mainly salty salmiak licorice (lucky bastards!), while here in Sweden maybe 5% tops 😢 (Fun fact - in Sweden we eat the most candy per capita in the world...!)
It's popular in Iceland too and I heard from an Icelandic doctor that dangerously high blood pressure isn't uncover there. So who knows, maybe some limits were introduced.
@@onr-o1hit's used mostly for expensive things generally bought in smaller quantities ex. berries or candy. It's not super common, but you get used to it early as almost all candy is sold by hg so it's the first measurement children learn in practice 😂
Fun fact. Ärtsoppa is a common dish i USA too, in the areas with Nordic descendants. I ended up in a conversation online with an american woman that had made it and posted a picture where I told her about it's origin and that we have archeological proof that we were eating it even uring the Bronze Age in this corner of the world. So she renamed her soup to Viking soup. Her great grandmother were from Småland.
It should be noted that a shop in central Stockholm will be significantly more expensive than many shops elsewhere, and that it varies a lot depending on chain and exact location - Coop, that you went too, is generally much more expensive than the chain called Willys, for example. In the city of Malmö, where I live, you sometimes only have to walk a few hundred meters to find a much cheaper supermarket in a less popular (or more bohemian) location - or even just around the corner, in some places.
Quark is very common in Finland as well, and in some other European countries too. Surströmming, afaik, is a seasonal product, and I think the season is in the autumn. The mjukost stuff, we have some of that in Finland too, but our options are mostly in square-ish plastic tubs, but sometimes we have the squeezy tubes as well. Alcohol laws in Nordic countries are quite strict, I think they're more strict in Sweden than in Finland, though tbf our laws were more strict until a few years ago (like the original long drinks you tried out in Finland, we weren't able to buy the real stuff in grocery stores before, because of our laws). In Sweden systembolaget closes pretty early as far as I can remember, at least one British friend of mine likes to rant about it lol. In Finland we have Alko where we buy all the booze that's stronger than beer and long drinks, and on holidays they close quite early, they're never open on Sundays afaik, and on Saturdays they close at 6pm. Also in Finland shops aren't allowed to sell alcohol before 9am or after 9pm, dunno if they have similar laws in Sweden.
The traditional premiere for surströmming is the third thursday in august, it's not at all associated with autumn, rather late summer. You want to be able to sit outside because of the smell, so there's no way the "premiere" would be at a time when it's too cold to easily eat outside. Systembolaget is typically open 10-18:00 on weekdays in most places, Gothenburg's specialised beer store (so far the only one Systembolaget has, it's a concept store) is open to 20:00. On saturdays the norm is 10:00-15:00. In other words, like a lot if not most other stores that aren't supermarkets
Sweden used to have a huge issue with alcoholism back in the 19th centuary, like many other countries. The sollution was a state monopoly on the sale of beverages with higher alcohole content. Some people see it as an inconvenience, since its a a little more expensive, but all in all it works pretty well.
People tend to forget that the first organised "monopoly" was organised by consumers and "ordinary people" themselves, not the state (in Falun). Yes, a state decision was made but the initiative was taken by local miners. That's how what we today know as "Systembolaget" started. The people affected by the alcoholism wanted to regulate it, yet today Systembolaget critics like to talk of it as some kind of "oppressive state overreach". Alcohol was very nearly fully banned in 1922, and the regions where most people voted in favour of that (the north, primarily) were the ones most affected by alcoholism.
@@TheLastCrusader22 I am a critic of Systembolaget. I absolutely despise that monopoly. We always pretend to care about the climate and so on. If i want to have red wine in my food i have to travel 50 minutes with my car instead of walking literally 2 minutes to my nearest store. We can still have Systembolaget and at the same time let stores outside the big cities sell some wine and some beer stronger than 3.5%. We love symbolic politics in Sweden. Say things that feels good while ignoring reality. The state have no freaking clue how much Swedes drink because they only calculate how much alcohol is bought from Systembolaget and a guestimation that is baseless of how much is brought in from Germany for example. The majority of people i know buys most of their alcohol from people who bring it in from other countries. Systembolaget was established in 1955 when several local alcohol monopolies were merged into a nationwide company. At the same time, the rationing system (motboken) was abolished, allowing customers to shop at any Systembolaget store without formalities or controls. The only requirement was that customers had to be 21 years old. The year after, prices for alcohol increased. Getting a nationwide monopoly, formalities or controls completely removed and increase of prices. They don't give a crap about your health, it's about money. And lets not forget that Sweden is extremely odd when it comes to this system. There is not a single other country in the world who does this. Norway and Finland with their Vinmonopolet and Alko Ab don't even have such a harsch monopoly. In both countries you can buy a freaking beer stronger than 3.5 and wine in normal stores.
There is many categories in eggs affecting the price and it's mainly by welfare of animals. From caged, free roaming in factory farm to organic small farm. You pay on your conscience (and purse). Must be same in Canada.
The cheese in the tubes dont need to be in cold untill they are opened. The aluminum tubes are sealed and you only need to put them in the fridge after opening. I actualy make some of those tubes. The tube it self not the content. 🙂You would use that cheese to spread on a bread like butter.
Xtra is Coop's own brand. And Coop is a Swedish supermarket chain. One of the biggest actually with 800 stores in Sweden alone. The first store opened in 1899.
Surströmming is stored cold so you would find it with fresh fish. But it also out of season, season starts 15 of august. Yes its not popular in most of sweden. Mostly 300 km and further up north of Stockholm along the costline.
When I'm over in Sweden (I'm Finnish) I don't mind having the beer a little bit lighter 3,5% but it's cheaper than beer in Finland so it means you can just buy more. Overall thoughts about prices I feel like its kind of equal to Finland. Some thing are more expensive, some are the same and some cheaper. But overall its about the same.
As a Swede who's been on the oppsite end of this when visiting target in Florida years ago, it's interesting to hear your thoughts on products! When I was in the US I was blown away by the selection but I found the quality was often not as high.
Here’s a thought… If you guys are coming back to Tampere for the hockey finals, you might also be able to see Ilves play soccer at their brand-new, not-even-officially-opened-yet stadium. ⚽️ The Finnish soccer league season starts this coming Saturday, and Ilves is considered to be among the top three teams this year.
@@deadass1485another name for European football, used to not confuse it with Amercan football. Soccer is actually played with feet, so football is the more logical name for it.
Knacker bröd is also a type of bread but it is hard baked. Quite taste but can go with any spread or cold cuts. This is the place I go emergency shopping. Usually I go to Lidl for my shopping, more cheaper there. Prices of everything has gone up these 2 years about 15 to 20 %, Asian groceries can be found in Asian stores. Alchohol in supermarkets are only highest 3 1/2 %. In Sweden if you wnt to buy more than 31/2 %, you have to go to System Bolaget (special place for stronger alcohol) and you can find these special liquer shops every where
For real beer in Sweden you need to go to a goverment monopoly alcohol store called System Bolaget to get drinks over 3,5% beer, wine and spirits. In Finland we have similar system but the limit is at least 5,5% (unless they already bumbed it up as some politicians were planning to do) meaning that most beers and some low alcohol wines can be sold in the supermarket.
That's interesting that you guys are bumping it up now, there's no real debate on that here in Sweden afaik, the debate here has largely been on whether to allow limited "yard sales" for brewers, distillers and wineries. It's currently not allowed, though the current government is attempting to legalise it
You're not eating Leksand. Ps. Quark or quarg is a type of fresh dairy product made from milk. The milk is soured, usually by adding lactic acid bacteria cultures, and strained once the desired curdling is achieved. It can be classified as fresh acid-set cheese. Traditional quark can be made without rennet, but in modern dairies small quantities of rennet are typically added. It is soft, white and unaged, and usually has no salt added.
The prices vary significantly depending on where you shop. The bigger stores that are usually a little bit outside the city center are often a little less expensive. Meat is expensive, but you can find bargains if you check different stores. Sometimes you can also get membership discounts so it's manageable. However, 75 kronor for half a kilo of coffee is insane to me. Even at my small cornerstore it's cheaper than that.
Surströmming is a seasonal product, sold in autumn. It’s a traditional swedish dish from the northern part oft of sweden and it can be found in the freezer section.
@@Jonsson474 ah well! 🤣 We actually used to buy and eat the last year tins. And still have wonderful and warm summer evenings in Jämtland in the first half of august where we have our surströmmings”parties”. We do not wait for the formal premiere day for the years tins. But yes it can quickly turn into cold evenings in late august.
Something to bear in mind with Sweden is that the price of canned and plastic-bottled drinks includes the pant value of the container. Pant is basically recycling, and whatever the pant value is is how much money you get back by recycling the container. A can is typically 1kr pant, included in the initial buy price, and if you recycle it, you get 1kr back in the form of a receipt which you can give to the cashier at the checkout for that amount discounted from your total purchase.
Wow! The video made me remember how many products we have in common with Sweden. Enjoy your time in Sweden. A wonderful country and wonderful people. But in ice hockey, we Finns are better...😅
@@mitro72 Sabaton used to be great, but lately they've really been making the same record for at least 10 years. I wish they'd do more stuff in Swedish since the vocals on Carolus Rex are easily the best they've ever had. Generally I listen to more extreme stuff though. Doom and black primarily. You Finns have some really great doom, but I still prefer Draconian ;) I will seriously miss Heike Langhans in that band, like REALLY badly
The store you're at is called Coop because it's a cooperative run by a consumer organization and in theory is owned by its members(about 3.5 million or so) and have quite a lot of internal rules and regulations they have to follow about fair and equal pay and a large portion of good conscious sourced products + a lot of democracy initiatives, educational and NGO projects that these stores finance. Hence they tend to be a bit pricier than other places. On average about 15 %(which can be offset by member discounts a bit) than the two other big competitors Willys and Ica that are regular for profit businesses.
You came to Sweden in the middle of a huge economic recession. Grocery stores use this as a opportunity to raise the prices to squeeze a maximum amount of 💰 from the swedes. But Coop makes an effort to be a bit more pricier their main competitors ICA/Willys/Hemköp so the meat prices are a bit high compared to these other stores.
@@LoneWolf_RO The prices weren't entirely correct. The price they used was the comparison price (value per kilogram) where-as the packages where half a kilo, so the correct prices weren't in the 80 SEK range but the 40 SEK range. COOP in my experience usually justifies a slight mark-up on most products over other stores (emphasis on slight, usually the price is like 2-3 SEK higher from what I've seen) by being open for longer on holidays and in some places longer on weekdays in general.
ok, so you do NOT put lingonberry on bread :p It's a condiment. Knäckebröd (the big round "crackers") is hard bread and is eaten as bread. The tube cheese is not cream cheese, but more like "soft cheese" and should be in fridge after it's been opened. The rice porrage is the white ones, the yellow (that you picked up) is split pea soup and the brown is beans. "Salmiakki" in swedish would be "Lakrits" The meat prices are expensive. I see that alot of ppl already explained the alcohol laws - you can't buy stronger than 3,5 in a regular supermarket due to the state alcohol monopoly.
Great take out coffee from Hemkop, along with wonderful Dammsugare and choklabollar. The neighborhhood markets always have specials that are a steal..... I love them
The liquid "rice porage" is in fact "yellow peasoup" tends to have diced pork in it. Alchohol is primary sold in a spesific state owned store called "Systembolaget" only light alchohol is allowed to be sold in normal stores in sweden.
Salmiakki can be found from Nordic countries, you need to check also Denmark where seems to be even more variety than Finland. Regarding Beer and alcohol in grocery stores, Finland used to have limit of 4.7 which was raised to 5.5 few years ago. In both countries you can get stonger stuff mainly from government owned monopoly (Alko or Systembolaget).
No way Denmark has a broader selection of salmiakki candy than Finland. As a Swede I would say Finland is probably at the top, or maybe at the same level as Sweden, but I don't associate Denmark with salty licorice at all (I do however believe that my favorite "Turkish Peppar", or Turkish Peber" actually is Danish)
@@t-man78 Interesting... I just spent few weeks in Denmark and seemed there was not normal non-salty black licorise (lakritsi in Finnish) at all. All black licorise was salmiakki. Not just grocery stores, but also museums etc where they had branded candy for sale. This was in northern Jylland at least. I am Finnish btw.
2:30 is actually a hard kind of sandwich you put butter on and whatever you feel like on it. (Ham, cheese, ("kaviar" is very swedish), hard boiled eggs, there is also a bread called "polarknäcke" where you put the surströmming on at midsummer time with onion, sourcream and potatoes on it.
I have to say this. When I moved to Sweden and tasted Kalles Kaviar, it was VILE! Then I worked in nursing homes and the old people love knäckebröd with sliced boiled eggs and Kalles. They successfully converted me and I actually buy Kalles voluntarily now.
is it weird that I, a Swede, have literally never had it? my mom always preferred Svennes over Kalles so that was the only one we had at home growing up, and then I've just never bought any for myself lmao
Swedish beer is divided into three classes , Class 1 is called light beer lattol and it's 2.25 % and Class 2 is called peoples beer folkol and it's 3.5 % and if you want 5 % beer and up you have to go to the Swedish liquor store called Systembolaget have fun 😀
@larscederberg8564 Just a small correction,... you wrote that if you want to buy beer with a greater beer content than 5%, it was the system company that applied. It already starts with Middle Ale which is from 4.2%.. So technically there are four beer classes. Alcohol-free beer max 0.5%, light beer max 2.25%, folk beer max 3.5%, medium beer max 4.5% and finally strong beer which can go up to 14% and more.
@@RB_2Y Mellanöl som kategori finns inte längre, det togs bort 1977 för att alkoholkonsumtionen ökade så drastiskt bland ungdomar. "Sedan den 1 januari 1998 beskattas allt öl över 2,8 volymprocent alkohol i Sverige med samma belopp per liter och volymprocent, vilket innebär att "öl av mellanölstyp" som egen skatteklass togs bort. "
All hard liquor, like distilled spirits, aquavit, vodka, gin, whisky, rum, tequila and so on, as well as white, red and rose wine can only be bought at Systembolaget in Sweden. The state liquor store. There are, however, alcohol-free wines to buy in grocery stores. The highest alcohol content by volume (vol%) in regular grocery stores is 3.5%. Above that, it is again the Systembolaget, state liquor store you buy strong beer from.
Surströmming is always kept in the cold section. So as to slow down the fermentation process in the can.. It exponentially lowers the risk of the can exploding. Which could be bad.. Even deadly..
Coop is more expensive type of supermarket. I recommend going to willys for groceries and do check out if there is an middle east type of store that sells veggs and fruits, the price is often better than the mainstream stores! 🙌
Friendly tip: stay away from surströmming! It’s only for the enthusiasts! It smells and taste horrible for most people and you don want to open it inside your house or apartment!
the kvarg (quark) at 11:10 is protein rich and low to zero carbs. Lots of people eat it for breakfast or snack because of this instead of similar products.
Kvarg ---> Cheese : Kvarg / Curd is cream cheese made from sour milk coagulated with lactic acid bacteria, unlike cottage cheese, which is cream cheese made from regular sweet skimmed milk but also coagulated with lactic acid bacteria. Kvarg / Curd is similar to cottage cheese, but has a smooth and creamy texture and a more sour taste. Wikipedia
The Salad bar were in hg thats hekto gram in swedish, 100grams. the rice porridge were the white to the left. The brown one were pea soup with pork. Meat and eggs has gone up a lot lately. Very expensive now. The alcohol is regulated and only sold thru Systembolaget. they can only sell up to 3.5% in the normal grocery stores.
grocery shops in sveden have very good and affordable juices and cheeses in tubes very nice too. other stuff not that great in general (expensive or lack selection), but at least some of the finnish products are cheaper there than in finland.
Mjukost is creamy cheese in British English, you can find it the brand Primula, so no it isnt cream cheese, this like Velveeta on tube and it is made with cheese that cant be used for breakfast table, sometimes cheese crumbles or doesn't mature right but this way it get new life. Leksand knäckebröd is crispbread not biscuits, it used like normal soft bread.
The pricing for soda bottles and cans can be reduced by 1-2 SEK (depending on size) because you can take those bottles/flasks back to the store or a recycling place usually at the entrance by the store to get back that 1-2 SEK because you recycled them. The store (Coop) is also a bit more expensive from my perspective than like ICA or Lidl.
Xtra is the brand of the Swedish store Coop (founded in sweden 1899 and owned by the members of the store). Its the cheepest most budget friendly items you can find in Coop. Most store have a brand like that. Willys have eldorado ICA has basic and so on.
@@jps8678 Different store with the same name. The coop in Sweden is swedish. I think UK also has or had a store called Coop. Back in the days Coop in Sweden was called Konsum and before that it was Kooperativa förbundet.
@@saile-aep all is the real one. They started in different countries on their own. But the one in Sweden is from Sweden but they took the name Coop later then others. Different companys with same name.
Lets make it a competition. Which Coop is the first one? The winner gets a silent applause. Swedish Coop (Kooperativa Förbundet back then) was founded 1899. Switzerland, 1864, so they are in the lead as of now.
Näckebröd (näkkileipä in Finnish) is a flat dry crisp bread. You eat it generally just like a normal bread. Put some spread on it, cheese slice, coldcuts, surströmming (:D) and then just eat it like a normal bread. The only difference really is that it is really crumbly and thus a bit more difficult to eat. Cheap food. Edit: for the stronger beer you need to go to Systembolaget which is a state-owned company that is the only one allowed to sell anything beyond 3.5% ABV.
Estrella is definitely not from Åland. It has changed ownership a multitude of times and it's currently owned by a German investment group. Originally it is from Sweden. Taffel is from Åland but it's now owned by Orkla (A Norwegian company)
It should be enjoyed with some butter and Kalles Kaviar, should be plenty of different mixes in Sweden but I do prefer the original Kalles(you might put some cheese on it but I always ate näkkileipä, kalles with some Oboy milkchoco)
7:22 think surströmming tend to be stored in fridges, maybe near cured salmon or fresher fish rather than among other canned fish. it might also be a bit more seasonal
That's an inner city store though. Even the same franchise will be significantly cheaper once you get a bit outside the city centre or even in any city that isn't the capital.
You seemed to miss out on the asian shelf. Every store even the really small ones usually has a shelf for foreign flavours like chinese, japanese, Thai, Turkish or African. We are proud of our food blend and I even prefer indian food when I go out for lunch.
And might not be sold at all soon, at least one of the major producers here in the High Coast have closed down because there is no strömming. Finnish commercial fishing, which didn't use to fish the waters most local fishermen in Sweden fished to make surströmming, have started doing that and are depleting the population. They catch in days what small-scale fishing in the High Coast region catches in a year. Then they use it to make fish meal or to sell to mink farmers in Denmark as feed
The reason for the prices being moderate is that the exchange rate for SEK is low and has been low for the last 1,5 years. What i mean is that you get more SEKs than earlier for whatever currency.
Knäcke bröd esentially translates to cracker or cracked bread and you can do a dip for sure but the traditional way to eat it is as a open faced sandwich with butter, cheese and some veggie. But in reality most just put whatever you like on it. The yellow "rice porridge" was split pea soup with pork a traditional thing to eat as lunch or dinner on a thursday often before a serving or 2 of pancakes, while the white tube that was next to it was rice porridge, quick tip do not get these mixed up.
The surstromming is stored cold, so it's not in the canned fish section of the stores. Almost every store has surstromming, but it's located where the smoked salmon and pickled harring is. 👌😋
One thing to consider is that you're in a supermarket in the middle of Stockholm, so it's more expensive than if you go out in the suburbs or to smaller cities.
For the Tacos and why it's so popular. It started back in the 80s where there was a push for it. But it was only until the 2000s where it really blew up. It became the special Friday type dinner or for the weekend and it caught on like wildfire. Since then it has just stayed. As a kid it was lovely. Was relatively easy to make too. The hard shells where a bit annoying yes but it was tacos and you enjoyed it.
You can buy Quark cheese in Canada also fish paste, tomato paste and mayonnaise in tubes....shelf stable until opened/ exposed to air...I live in Montreal but still...
Next time you visit a Swedish shop, there is a section on each pricetag (the tag on the shelves) which is called some version of "Jämför pris" (meaning something like "compare price") and AFAIK it is mandated by law or at least industry policy. The price in that field should be in a common unit across all stores in the country, so the egg cartons would show you the price per egg, the milk would be price per Litre, cheese would probably be the cost of cheese per Kilogram, etc. So you don't have to do math when you compare a 12-pack eggs with a 10-pack eggs, the pricetag should tell you exactly the price-per-egg.
13:55 It's not a cap on what percentage beer you're allowed to drink, its a cap on what percentage beer retailers are allowed to sell. You can buy higher percentage beer at a liquor store. Not really an issue, just a hassle having to make an extra stop at a liquor store.
Google translate is messing things up. The "rice porridge" was actually pea soup prepared from dried yellow peas, onions, some kind of cooking oil, salt and spices. It often also contains salted pork. It's traditionally combined with pancakes for desert.
A good tip when Google translate doesn’t help. Try using Wikipedia (in what ever language you’re translating from), then use the change-language button to English. Doesn’t always work, but it has helped me out a lot of times.
I'm probably extremely late with this, but that knäckebröd ''Leksand'' is just the brand of that specific knäckebröd. There's also the brand Wasa, that also makes knäckebröd. Leksand's is definitely more premium though. Leksand is a town in the northern part of Sweden, btw! Also, the way you eat them is just snapping pieces of, spread some butter on and put on whatever things you like. Cheese, cucumber, or whatever you want pretty much. It's basically hard, crunchy bread.
As for the salad, hk is hektogram, which is 100g or 1/10th of a kilogram. :) Meat prices: yeah, it's gone up considerably. before Corona, i remember being able to buy 50/50 minced pork/beef for around 45 SEK (~4 USD) per kilo when on sale, it's about double now. In term of quality, the "good stuff" when it comes to lingonberry jam is called "Rårörda lingon", it's got a more mature taste to it as well.
the round things are rye bread. very common in scandinavia. there are alot of different sorts, i eat it for breakfast every day and almost never soft bread. the pre sliced bread is regular toast and you didnt pick the cheapest one per kilogram, there was one below in the shelf that is only 5 SEK more but twice the amount of bread
Someone probably already told you, but to buy anything with more then 3.5% alcohol you need to buy it in special stores (systembolaget) or at resturants that have license to sell it
Nice vid, Coop belongs to the more expensive supermarkets, especially the smaller stores. You can get 500g of pork mince for 38 SEK at Willys for example.
It's most definitely real cheese in the tubes, they're vacuum sealed so they don't need to be refrigerated. You can not legally refer to things like American Cheese or String Cheese as cheese within the EU, it has to be clearly labeled as a cheese subsitute.
Exactly, you only need to refrigerate it after you break the vacuum and open them.
It's actually more cheese in those then in processed American cheese.
@@znail4675 And processed american cheese is rarely actual cheese
And they were invented in Norway.
@@GoldScrapful American cheese is between 40-50 cheese and the rest is water with some emulsifier and stabilizer in there that are harmless. But it is still more water than cheese, so can't really call it cheese, but it's the water that makes so good at meting.
The mjukost isn't fake cheese, it's cheese that have been melted using salts. Why it's not stored in a fridge is due to that the tube is a preserve, so there is no need until it has been opened. That little fact makes it a popular product for camping, hiking and sailing. I always bring some and open it in the morning and eat it on some crisp bread (those round breads you didn't know what they were), then save some for dinner and use it as a pasta sauce.
And you should have bought the jordnötsringar, similar to peanut cheetos, but far far far better. With the cheetos you know it's peanut flavoured, but with the jordnötsringar you kow they are made from actual peanuts.
Don't forget some good ole Abba fish paste!!!
The jam in the "tube" is for refilling a glass jar. You don't need to buy a new glass jar when you finished it. Just wash the old jar and buy a refill pack so you can save money and resources as the glass jar can last several years.
Or if you have a old decorative jar it is easier to fill up then scooping it over from another yar.
If you don,t drop the glass jar.
The prices of the meats are a bit wrong. You're reading it as the price per package (~500g), but it is listed as price per kilo. The tag for the pork says 84.95 and then it's a tiny text under it saying "vikt" which means "weight". In the bottom right corner of the tag it is more obvious where it says: "jmf-pris" which is short for "comparison price". There it is more explicit with "84.95 kr/kg".
The same mistake was made with the ground beef, the kilogram-price was mistaken as per ~500g package.
I think it is required by law to list all items as "price per weight unit" so it is easy to compare different brands against each other even though they have different unit sizes.
Happy shopping ! :)
In Sweden the government owned store Systembolaget has a monopoly on the retail sale of all alcoholic beverages containing more than 3.5% alcohol. I think it's the same as Alko in Finland, but their limit is 5.5% iirc. You can still buy beer, wine and spirits containing more than 3.5% alcohol at bars, restaurants and other places with license to sell alcohol.
Soon the alcohol law will change in Finland and then you can buy up to 8% alcohol drinks outside of Alko.
And even in Finland the law changed only in 2018, which in my mind is quite recently.
Systembolaget is a joke tbh :(
@@onlyu2high Nah its way better than private alcohol stores would be in every metric, if you dislike the opening hours you need to learn how to plan in your life, the selection and quality is consistent throughout the country as you have access to the same products in stockholm as you do in a tiny town and it also does fullfil its function of reducing spontaneous drinking and is a good check for alcoholism even if it cant solve that issue on its own. Name one private alcohol retailer that would be willing to act as an importer for you and do all the work completely free of charge for example.
@@joojoojeejee6058hmm,as a swede im hoping they wild build the bridge between umeå and vasa soon xD
Systembolaget in Sweden
Alko in Finland
Vinmonopolet in Norway
Vínbúðin in Iceland
Diffrent names but essentially the same idea
Rúsdrekkasøla Landsins in the Faroe Islands.
@@vaultkeeper2
Wow !
Even to a Norwegian of Norse ancestry, that sounds like a tipsy curse....🤣 🍻
At least, norsk were honest, naming that- ”monopolet.”
Actually, 8 states in the US has stateowned monopoly.
@@meteerbil2078 And all provinces in Canada!
swedish person here, the "jam section" isnt all jam. For example the glass jar you first picked up is raspberry marmalade and not jam. If you see the word "sylt" on the packaging that means it's jam and if it says "marmelad" its marmalade
There are only sweed here! 😅 We can skip writing english
@@henrikjohansson9701 huh?
Me just not get why not google when look on stuff in stores in countries you not understand the langue off. Even if marmelad not really difficoult. I do that all the time when travel. And missing when it say hg instead of kg is just bad
that is true, but marmelad does get translated to jam...
@@gabrielarrhenius6252 I mean when I look it up it doesn’t say jam, besides translating apps can be wrong so
Just some clarification: X-tra is not a Finnish brand but a private label made by the Coop Supermarkets in Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland - but in Finland Coop is called S-market/Prisma. So you´ll find the brand in all Coop/S-market supermarkets in the Nordic countries, but there might be regional variations which products are available (for example I think only Finland produces X-tra Flour). Adding to the confusion Coop in Sweden has a discount store under it´s umbrella, named and spelled X:-tra but it has nothing to do with the X-tra private label, all though they of course have a lot of their products.
the salad bar is 13;90 kr/hg, it's per hektogram and not kilogram, so it's 139kr/kg (about $13.1/kg). If it was 13;90 a kilo it would be gone within the blink of an eye XD
Ah now I understand why I had to learn hecto in school. In order to buy salad in Sweden.
They use exactly the same pricebanner in Finland and there the price is usually 13,90€/kg or 14,90€/kg. Maybe it's cheaper to change only one caharacter instead of many 😅
Good to know, I thought it was the price for kg and was flabbergasted that it's 10 x cheaper in Sweden!
😂😂😂
@@hyperionfin or cold cuts, or cheese, or candy, or... quite a fair bit of it s really. It can be deceptive if you don't pay attention. Hg/kg look very similar. Nowadays it's more common to find kg instead of hg though.
@@Vapourized90 It's mostly for marketing reason. 13.9;- sounds cheaper than 139;-.
The "rice porridge" you picked up is actually pea soup. They tend to be put together with rice porridge due to the same kind of packaging.
And the one you picked ,in yellow ,tastes best,my opinion !
Fun fact. Stores have to post jämförpris (sometimes spelled jfr pris) which basically translates to compared price. It's based on weight. So looking at those loafs, even the cheapest price/item really isn't the cheapest, based on price/kg. Keep an eye out for it next time.
Same thing in finland with price per kg (eur/kg)
Or price per liter
Cried a bit when you said ” lingonberry jam on bread”😭😂
Yup, that one chilled me to the bone...! 😬
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four words horror story
We do NOT have lingonberry jam on bread! No, just no!
@@prageruwu69
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Not 9n bread. But on porridge it's fine!
The yellow "porridge" is pea soup. Some of those tubes are porridge, others are soups, mashed potatoes etc. Texmex is popular, we have "taco friday".
It's funny that in Sweden Friday is Taco day but in Finland a lot of people think Friday is Pizza day. Like how did that happen :D. But I think in both countries Thursdays are Pea Soup days :D
Leksand is the name of the town where that bread is made, so it doesn't mean "play-sand" per se, (unless that is somehow the origin of the name) but in this context it just refers to the town :)
The etymology of Leksand is play-sand or more exactly lek-sand in English too. Lek in the context of animal reproduction in this case Sik (Common whitefish). Lek or lekking is used in English too and comes from the Swedish word for play. The river exits into the lake that is where the fish was leaking have sandy shores and bottom.
To be fair, that bread really should be called Play-dough in that case...😂
In sweden, you will have to buy the alcohol from Systembolaget, their equivalent for Finnish Alko - both state monopolies. Sweden has lower percentage limits for store sold alcohol than Finland, basically you can buy just "folk öl" from stores in there.
If you are looking for "surströmming", it is in the refridgerated section (at least when in season). The cans of tuna, clams and sardines are stored at room temperature, but picled herring, smoked salmon, roe, and other seafood are kept cold.
Coop is a co-op and it has cooperation with S / Prisma shops in Finland which are also a co-op. Coop is actually a multi-national co-op "brand" - the name is same among countries but apparently each country operates individually. X-tra is a brand owned by Nordic Coops and the logistics company of S chain in Finland. So therefore you see the same brand there. Xtra products are definitely a cheap brand but in general everything in Nordic shops is usually good quality. Anyways, always check the ingredients for unhealthy crap. Some cheap brands' processed food is just cardiovascular time bombs, which is a disgrace and crime against poor people.
Anything made by xtra is a war crime
You have to try "mjukost", it's not cream cheese it's "soft cheese" = delicious! I always have 1 - 3 types in the fridge. Surströmming you find in the fridge section! Try "Hjortron Sylt" Cloudberry jam on your pancakes = delicious!
They was almost down to the tube of reindeer meat and cheese but missed it. 😢
I think mexican food is big in finland and sweden just because it was some thing new in the 90s when santa maria company which is available in both just had good marketing and broke in to the market. It is so different then nordic food and made so easy with ready to eat sauces and spice mixes.
But the ones that began with the 🌮 kits were actually Old El Paso
The whole Nordic "taco friday" thing would scarcely qualify as "real" Mexican food in Mexico. It's quite different, mostly. I guess you could say we've taken their stuff and made our own twist on it, like we have with pizza
@@marcusfridh8489 I Think you are right!
@@TheLastCrusader22 Yes, the correct term is Tex-Mex. So its mexican influenced food, but with american flavor :D all those cheese sauces and mayos are 100% american additions to traditional mexican food.
@@paterikki becourse i ate old el Paso taco allready in the 1980's, yes i am that old
Salmiak is popular in northern Europe, including Germany and the Netherlands, but salmiak black licorice is very different from country to country. Sweden does have some of the most hardcore salty licorice, like Svenskjävlar.
If I do remember right, here in Finland there's a law limiting the amount of it that product can contain for the fear of people poisoning themselves by eating too much. Wouldn't surprise if it would be the case in other countries too.
I've also made and tasted it in pure form on school 7th grade chemistry class. I can understand limits as it tasted still great.
@@justskip4595 I don't know of a liqurice content limit. It does raise your blood pressure, so "lagom" is best. There, another good Swedish word that is both totally subjective and objective at the same tme.
@@justskip4595 we got that as a bribe for getting through chemistry lessons, until the school principle got news about it. It was the highlight of the chemistry lessons while it lasted.
The salmiak liquorice in Finland and Sweden are basically as pointed out in video though, a Finnish pick & mix candy section probably has about 30% of licorice, mainly salty salmiak licorice (lucky bastards!), while here in Sweden maybe 5% tops 😢
(Fun fact - in Sweden we eat the most candy per capita in the world...!)
It's popular in Iceland too and I heard from an Icelandic doctor that dangerously high blood pressure isn't uncover there. So who knows, maybe some limits were introduced.
Fyi, the salad in the salad bar isn’t 14kr a kg, it’s 14kr a hg which is a tenth of a kg. The price per kg is 140kr :)
I've never seen hectogram used...well, anywhere! That's cool!
Was just about to write this =)
@@onr-o1hit's used mostly for expensive things generally bought in smaller quantities ex. berries or candy. It's not super common, but you get used to it early as almost all candy is sold by hg so it's the first measurement children learn in practice 😂
Why didn't you just write that hg is hectogram, which is 100 grams? haha, a tenth of a kg...so difficult 😜
@@senyor_artemis I wasn’t sure if everyone knew what a hectogram was 😭
That rice porridge is pea soup😊
Explains the pancakes
@@GoosterHiista after all, it is thursday thats the traditional day for pea soup and plättor
Fun fact. Ärtsoppa is a common dish i USA too, in the areas with Nordic descendants. I ended up in a conversation online with an american woman that had made it and posted a picture where I told her about it's origin and that we have archeological proof that we were eating it even uring the Bronze Age in this corner of the world. So she renamed her soup to Viking soup. Her great grandmother were from Småland.
@@MsAnpassad
That's really sweet !
(Sweet pea sweet...)
🫛🫛🫛🫛😘 🇸🇪
@@MsAnpassadVikingsoup thats a great name thx!
Another great grocery tour!! Keep safe, healthy and happy.
It should be noted that a shop in central Stockholm will be significantly more expensive than many shops elsewhere, and that it varies a lot depending on chain and exact location - Coop, that you went too, is generally much more expensive than the chain called Willys, for example. In the city of Malmö, where I live, you sometimes only have to walk a few hundred meters to find a much cheaper supermarket in a less popular (or more bohemian) location - or even just around the corner, in some places.
Quark is very common in Finland as well, and in some other European countries too. Surströmming, afaik, is a seasonal product, and I think the season is in the autumn. The mjukost stuff, we have some of that in Finland too, but our options are mostly in square-ish plastic tubs, but sometimes we have the squeezy tubes as well. Alcohol laws in Nordic countries are quite strict, I think they're more strict in Sweden than in Finland, though tbf our laws were more strict until a few years ago (like the original long drinks you tried out in Finland, we weren't able to buy the real stuff in grocery stores before, because of our laws). In Sweden systembolaget closes pretty early as far as I can remember, at least one British friend of mine likes to rant about it lol. In Finland we have Alko where we buy all the booze that's stronger than beer and long drinks, and on holidays they close quite early, they're never open on Sundays afaik, and on Saturdays they close at 6pm. Also in Finland shops aren't allowed to sell alcohol before 9am or after 9pm, dunno if they have similar laws in Sweden.
I only think its seasonal you eat surströmming but I see it all the time in the store. I dont eat it myself though because yeah...:D
The traditional premiere for surströmming is the third thursday in august, it's not at all associated with autumn, rather late summer. You want to be able to sit outside because of the smell, so there's no way the "premiere" would be at a time when it's too cold to easily eat outside.
Systembolaget is typically open 10-18:00 on weekdays in most places, Gothenburg's specialised beer store (so far the only one Systembolaget has, it's a concept store) is open to 20:00. On saturdays the norm is 10:00-15:00. In other words, like a lot if not most other stores that aren't supermarkets
Sweden used to have a huge issue with alcoholism back in the 19th centuary, like many other countries. The sollution was a state monopoly on the sale of beverages with higher alcohole content. Some people see it as an inconvenience, since its a a little more expensive, but all in all it works pretty well.
People tend to forget that the first organised "monopoly" was organised by consumers and "ordinary people" themselves, not the state (in Falun). Yes, a state decision was made but the initiative was taken by local miners. That's how what we today know as "Systembolaget" started. The people affected by the alcoholism wanted to regulate it, yet today Systembolaget critics like to talk of it as some kind of "oppressive state overreach". Alcohol was very nearly fully banned in 1922, and the regions where most people voted in favour of that (the north, primarily) were the ones most affected by alcoholism.
@@TheLastCrusader22 I am a critic of Systembolaget. I absolutely despise that monopoly. We always pretend to care about the climate and so on. If i want to have red wine in my food i have to travel 50 minutes with my car instead of walking literally 2 minutes to my nearest store.
We can still have Systembolaget and at the same time let stores outside the big cities sell some wine and some beer stronger than 3.5%.
We love symbolic politics in Sweden. Say things that feels good while ignoring reality. The state have no freaking clue how much Swedes drink because they only calculate how much alcohol is bought from Systembolaget and a guestimation that is baseless of how much is brought in from Germany for example. The majority of people i know buys most of their alcohol from people who bring it in from other countries.
Systembolaget was established in 1955 when several local alcohol monopolies were merged into a nationwide company. At the same time, the rationing system (motboken) was abolished, allowing customers to shop at any Systembolaget store without formalities or controls. The only requirement was that customers had to be 21 years old. The year after, prices for alcohol increased.
Getting a nationwide monopoly, formalities or controls completely removed and increase of prices. They don't give a crap about your health, it's about money.
And lets not forget that Sweden is extremely odd when it comes to this system. There is not a single other country in the world who does this.
Norway and Finland with their Vinmonopolet and Alko Ab don't even have such a harsch monopoly. In both countries you can buy a freaking beer stronger than 3.5 and wine in normal stores.
"Lingon jam on bread in the morning" 😂
Reacted to that too 😂
tänkte det med ba eeh nej tack x)
I think americans love jam on white bread but in the Nordic countries eating such sweet treats in the morning isn't that common
@@Jansk1h We have jam and marmalade, just not lingon jam on bread
@@Jansk1h lingon jam isnt very sweet
There is many categories in eggs affecting the price and it's mainly by welfare of animals. From caged, free roaming in factory farm to organic small farm. You pay on your conscience (and purse). Must be same in Canada.
Yes price for 1 egg can be as low as 2.4 sek and high as 5 sek depending on size of packet, how the chicken are kept and feed.
Look for the number on them. 0=free range/organic, 2=indoor, 3=caged
The cheese in the tubes dont need to be in cold untill they are opened. The aluminum tubes are sealed and you only need to put them in the fridge after opening.
I actualy make some of those tubes. The tube it self not the content. 🙂You would use that cheese to spread on a bread like butter.
Xtra is Coop's own brand. And Coop is a Swedish supermarket chain. One of the biggest actually with 800 stores in Sweden alone. The first store opened in 1899.
Surströmming is a seasonal product and it's kept refridgerated.
Surströmming should be kept well away from tourists....
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@@ninaelsbethgustavsen2131 Nej. Aldrig.
Disgusting food 🤮
@@ninaelsbethgustavsen2131nah, they should taste the real thing 😎
@@ninaelsbethgustavsen2131 It's delicious, can't have a proper august without it
Surströmming is stored cold so you would find it with fresh fish. But it also out of season, season starts 15 of august. Yes its not popular in most of sweden. Mostly 300 km and further up north of Stockholm along the costline.
It's not always the 15th, it's the third thursday in august :) Just for clarification.
You do these supermarket tours so well - fascinating stuff.
When I'm over in Sweden (I'm Finnish) I don't mind having the beer a little bit lighter 3,5% but it's cheaper than beer in Finland so it means you can just buy more. Overall thoughts about prices I feel like its kind of equal to Finland. Some thing are more expensive, some are the same and some cheaper. But overall its about the same.
palm oil is more of a industry thing for when you need the cheapest oil-type substance for making cookies or crips or vegetable bread spreads
Being a huge foodie, I am loving you are doing supermarket tours!
As a Swede who's been on the oppsite end of this when visiting target in Florida years ago, it's interesting to hear your thoughts on products! When I was in the US I was blown away by the selection but I found the quality was often not as high.
Here’s a thought… If you guys are coming back to Tampere for the hockey finals, you might also be able to see Ilves play soccer at their brand-new, not-even-officially-opened-yet stadium. ⚽️ The Finnish soccer league season starts this coming Saturday, and Ilves is considered to be among the top three teams this year.
wtf is soccer?
@@deadass1485another name for European football, used to not confuse it with Amercan football. Soccer is actually played with feet, so football is the more logical name for it.
@@onerva0001 I think you mean "world football", not "european football". :)
@@HenrikJansson78 of course, but i wished to simplify...
Knacker bröd is also a type of bread but it is hard baked. Quite taste but can go with any spread or cold cuts. This is the place I go emergency shopping. Usually I go to Lidl for my shopping, more cheaper there. Prices of everything has gone up these 2 years about 15 to 20 %, Asian groceries can be found in Asian stores. Alchohol in supermarkets are only highest 3 1/2 %. In Sweden if you wnt to buy more than 31/2 %, you have to go to System Bolaget (special place for stronger alcohol) and you can find these special liquer shops every where
For real beer in Sweden you need to go to a goverment monopoly alcohol store called System Bolaget to get drinks over 3,5% beer, wine and spirits. In Finland we have similar system but the limit is at least 5,5% (unless they already bumbed it up as some politicians were planning to do) meaning that most beers and some low alcohol wines can be sold in the supermarket.
That's interesting that you guys are bumping it up now, there's no real debate on that here in Sweden afaik, the debate here has largely been on whether to allow limited "yard sales" for brewers, distillers and wineries. It's currently not allowed, though the current government is attempting to legalise it
You're not eating Leksand.
Ps.
Quark or quarg is a type of fresh dairy product made from milk. The milk is soured, usually by adding lactic acid bacteria cultures, and strained once the desired curdling is achieved. It can be classified as fresh acid-set cheese. Traditional quark can be made without rennet, but in modern dairies small quantities of rennet are typically added. It is soft, white and unaged, and usually has no salt added.
The prices vary significantly depending on where you shop. The bigger stores that are usually a little bit outside the city center are often a little less expensive. Meat is expensive, but you can find bargains if you check different stores. Sometimes you can also get membership discounts so it's manageable. However, 75 kronor for half a kilo of coffee is insane to me. Even at my small cornerstore it's cheaper than that.
The Knackebrod is the big round bread and it's really great with liver paste
Surströmming is a seasonal product, sold in autumn. It’s a traditional swedish dish from the northern part oft of sweden and it can be found in the freezer section.
Not autumn. From august at least. 😋😋
@@birgittae9046 Well, the third Thursday in August is as close to autumn as you can come in northern Norrland. It’s definitely not a summer dish. 🙂
@@Jonsson474 ah well! 🤣
We actually used to buy and eat the last year tins. And still have wonderful and warm summer evenings in Jämtland in the first half of august where we have our surströmmings”parties”. We do not wait for the formal premiere day for the years tins. But yes it can quickly turn into cold evenings in late august.
Frigerated section.
Something to bear in mind with Sweden is that the price of canned and plastic-bottled drinks includes the pant value of the container. Pant is basically recycling, and whatever the pant value is is how much money you get back by recycling the container. A can is typically 1kr pant, included in the initial buy price, and if you recycle it, you get 1kr back in the form of a receipt which you can give to the cashier at the checkout for that amount discounted from your total purchase.
At 7:00 it's not per kilogram (kg), it's hektogram (HG). I hekto is 1/10th of a kilo or 100 grams.
Wow! The video made me remember how many products we have in common with Sweden. Enjoy your time in Sweden. A wonderful country and wonderful people. But in ice hockey, we Finns are better...😅
If it must be so, then we have better metal bands ;)
@@TheLastCrusader22 😅 As painful it is this Sabaton fan agrees...
@@mitro72 Sabaton used to be great, but lately they've really been making the same record for at least 10 years. I wish they'd do more stuff in Swedish since the vocals on Carolus Rex are easily the best they've ever had.
Generally I listen to more extreme stuff though. Doom and black primarily. You Finns have some really great doom, but I still prefer Draconian ;) I will seriously miss Heike Langhans in that band, like REALLY badly
The store you're at is called Coop because it's a cooperative run by a consumer organization and in theory is owned by its members(about 3.5 million or so) and have quite a lot of internal rules and regulations they have to follow about fair and equal pay and a large portion of good conscious sourced products + a lot of democracy initiatives, educational and NGO projects that these stores finance. Hence they tend to be a bit pricier than other places. On average about 15 %(which can be offset by member discounts a bit) than the two other big competitors Willys and Ica that are regular for profit businesses.
You came to Sweden in the middle of a huge economic recession. Grocery stores use this as a opportunity to raise the prices to squeeze a maximum amount of 💰 from the swedes. But Coop makes an effort to be a bit more pricier their main competitors ICA/Willys/Hemköp so the meat prices are a bit high compared to these other stores.
i knew something was sus with the prices....insanely high
Recession is global, especially in western countries so definitely in Canada as well
@@LoneWolf_RO The prices weren't entirely correct. The price they used was the comparison price (value per kilogram) where-as the packages where half a kilo, so the correct prices weren't in the 80 SEK range but the 40 SEK range.
COOP in my experience usually justifies a slight mark-up on most products over other stores (emphasis on slight, usually the price is like 2-3 SEK higher from what I've seen) by being open for longer on holidays and in some places longer on weekdays in general.
ok, so you do NOT put lingonberry on bread :p It's a condiment.
Knäckebröd (the big round "crackers") is hard bread and is eaten as bread.
The tube cheese is not cream cheese, but more like "soft cheese" and should be in fridge after it's been opened.
The rice porrage is the white ones, the yellow (that you picked up) is split pea soup and the brown is beans.
"Salmiakki" in swedish would be "Lakrits"
The meat prices are expensive.
I see that alot of ppl already explained the alcohol laws - you can't buy stronger than 3,5 in a regular supermarket due to the state alcohol monopoly.
surströmming is a seasanol food. comes out in stores in august.
and is usually stored in a fridge
I've always imagined it to midsommar parties.
@@Jay_Kay666 no its late summer parties food
@@Jay_Kay666 nah that's just herring, Surströmming is after crayfish-season.
kuark is basically a cottage cheese runny like yoghurt, it is a German/ Scandinavian thing, yummy and healthy.
Great take out coffee from Hemkop, along with wonderful Dammsugare and choklabollar. The neighborhhood markets always have specials that are a steal..... I love them
The liquid "rice porage" is in fact "yellow peasoup" tends to have diced pork in it.
Alchohol is primary sold in a spesific state owned store called "Systembolaget" only light alchohol is allowed to be sold in normal stores in sweden.
Salmiakki can be found from Nordic countries, you need to check also Denmark where seems to be even more variety than Finland. Regarding Beer and alcohol in grocery stores, Finland used to have limit of 4.7 which was raised to 5.5 few years ago. In both countries you can get stonger stuff mainly from government owned monopoly (Alko or Systembolaget).
No way Denmark has a broader selection of salmiakki candy than Finland. As a Swede I would say Finland is probably at the top, or maybe at the same level as Sweden, but I don't associate Denmark with salty licorice at all (I do however believe that my favorite "Turkish Peppar", or Turkish Peber" actually is Danish)
@@t-man78 Interesting... I just spent few weeks in Denmark and seemed there was not normal non-salty black licorise (lakritsi in Finnish) at all. All black licorise was salmiakki. Not just grocery stores, but also museums etc where they had branded candy for sale. This was in northern Jylland at least. I am Finnish btw.
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Oh, then I guess I have to revise my statement. 🙃 I have never thought of that when going to Denmark though 😮
2:30 is actually a hard kind of sandwich you put butter on and whatever you feel like on it. (Ham, cheese, ("kaviar" is very swedish), hard boiled eggs, there is also a bread called "polarknäcke" where you put the surströmming on at midsummer time with onion, sourcream and potatoes on it.
You should try kalles kaviar with that knäckebröd.
Kalles kaviar might be the best thing Swedes ever invented.
As a Finn, I agree. The best snack ever invented! Knäckebröd or hapankorppu.
@@pasip1974or näkkileipä. Hapankorppu is the really thin variant.
I have to say this. When I moved to Sweden and tasted Kalles Kaviar, it was VILE! Then I worked in nursing homes and the old people love knäckebröd with sliced boiled eggs and Kalles. They successfully converted me and I actually buy Kalles voluntarily now.
is it weird that I, a Swede, have literally never had it? my mom always preferred Svennes over Kalles so that was the only one we had at home growing up, and then I've just never bought any for myself lmao
Swedish beer is divided into three classes , Class 1 is called light beer lattol and it's 2.25 % and Class 2 is called peoples beer folkol and it's 3.5 % and if you want 5 % beer and up you have to go to the Swedish liquor store called Systembolaget have fun 😀
You could include alcoholic free beer to. its 0-0.5% alcohol.
@larscederberg8564 Just a small correction,... you wrote that if you want to buy beer with a greater beer content than 5%, it was the system company that applied. It already starts with Middle Ale which is from 4.2%..
So technically there are four beer classes. Alcohol-free beer max 0.5%, light beer max 2.25%, folk beer max 3.5%, medium beer max 4.5% and finally strong beer which can go up to 14% and more.
5 classes sorry! i wrote four...
@@RB_2Y Mellanöl som kategori finns inte längre, det togs bort 1977 för att alkoholkonsumtionen ökade så drastiskt bland ungdomar.
"Sedan den 1 januari 1998 beskattas allt öl över 2,8 volymprocent alkohol i Sverige med samma belopp per liter och volymprocent, vilket innebär att "öl av mellanölstyp" som egen skatteklass togs bort. "
All hard liquor, like distilled spirits, aquavit, vodka, gin, whisky, rum, tequila and so on, as well as white, red and rose wine can only be bought at Systembolaget in Sweden. The state liquor store. There are, however, alcohol-free wines to buy in grocery stores.
The highest alcohol content by volume (vol%) in regular grocery stores is 3.5%. Above that, it is again the Systembolaget, state liquor store you buy strong beer from.
Are you going to make a Tasting swedish snacks and candies video, like you did in Finland?
In Finland Quark is called Rahka! And it's delicious!
The salad bar Price was per HG (100g) not KG 1000g
Never seen it shown in this manner in Finland. In Finland this same kind of Deli salad shows xy.z€/100g.
@@rasmustoivanen2709 Yes, I don't think any other country than Sweden uses Hektogram as a unit. Suomessa se on kilogramma sillä jämpthi!
Surströmming is always kept in the cold section. So as to slow down the fermentation process in the can.. It exponentially lowers the risk of the can exploding. Which could be bad.. Even deadly..
Coop is more expensive type of supermarket. I recommend going to willys for groceries and do check out if there is an middle east type of store that sells veggs and fruits, the price is often better than the mainstream stores! 🙌
the surströmming is kept chilled by the fresh fish.
Friendly tip: stay away from surströmming! It’s only for the enthusiasts! It smells and taste horrible for most people and you don want to open it inside your house or apartment!
@@Hiznogood You buy surströmming in a tin. Open it under water. It tastes OK, not bad, not good
the kvarg (quark) at 11:10 is protein rich and low to zero carbs. Lots of people eat it for breakfast or snack because of this instead of similar products.
Kvarg ---> Cheese :
Kvarg / Curd is cream cheese made from sour milk coagulated with lactic acid bacteria, unlike cottage cheese, which is cream cheese made from regular sweet skimmed milk but also coagulated with lactic acid bacteria. Kvarg / Curd is similar to cottage cheese, but has a smooth and creamy texture and a more sour taste. Wikipedia
The Salad bar were in hg thats hekto gram in swedish, 100grams. the rice porridge were the white to the left. The brown one were pea soup with pork.
Meat and eggs has gone up a lot lately. Very expensive now.
The alcohol is regulated and only sold thru Systembolaget. they can only sell up to 3.5% in the normal grocery stores.
grocery shops in sveden have very good and affordable juices and cheeses in tubes very nice too. other stuff not that great in general (expensive or lack selection), but at least some of the finnish products are cheaper there than in finland.
Mjukost is creamy cheese in British English, you can find it the brand Primula, so no it isnt cream cheese, this like Velveeta on tube and it is made with cheese that cant be used for breakfast table, sometimes cheese crumbles or doesn't mature right but this way it get new life. Leksand knäckebröd is crispbread not biscuits, it used like normal soft bread.
the orange package is not rice, it is Pea Soup with pork, you cut it open in a cocking pot and heat it
The pricing for soda bottles and cans can be reduced by 1-2 SEK (depending on size) because you can take those bottles/flasks back to the store or a recycling place usually at the entrance by the store to get back that 1-2 SEK because you recycled them. The store (Coop) is also a bit more expensive from my perspective than like ICA or Lidl.
Xtra is the brand of the Swedish store Coop (founded in sweden 1899 and owned by the members of the store). Its the cheepest most budget friendly items you can find in Coop. Most store have a brand like that. Willys have eldorado ICA has basic and so on.
Coop is from Switzerland. Google says so.
@@jps8678 Different store with the same name. The coop in Sweden is swedish. I think UK also has or had a store called Coop. Back in the days Coop in Sweden was called Konsum and before that it was Kooperativa förbundet.
Majority of European countries have "coop" and im quite interested by which Coop is "the real one" I cant seem to find the answer online.
@@saile-aep all is the real one. They started in different countries on their own. But the one in Sweden is from Sweden but they took the name Coop later then others. Different companys with same name.
Lets make it a competition. Which Coop is the first one? The winner gets a silent applause. Swedish Coop (Kooperativa Förbundet back then) was founded 1899. Switzerland, 1864, so they are in the lead as of now.
Surströmming is a seasonal thing. It is avalaible only in the autumn, from August.
Näckebröd (näkkileipä in Finnish) is a flat dry crisp bread. You eat it generally just like a normal bread. Put some spread on it, cheese slice, coldcuts, surströmming (:D) and then just eat it like a normal bread. The only difference really is that it is really crumbly and thus a bit more difficult to eat. Cheap food.
Edit: for the stronger beer you need to go to Systembolaget which is a state-owned company that is the only one allowed to sell anything beyond 3.5% ABV.
Knäckebröd* :D
@@gustavn654 Lol yeah good point for you it's **K**näcke. I'm too used to it being **näkki**.
Estrella is definitely not from Åland.
It has changed ownership a multitude of times and it's currently owned by a German investment group. Originally it is from Sweden.
Taffel is from Åland but it's now owned by Orkla (A Norwegian company)
@@gustavn654 Yes. Knäcke, not näcke. Näkkileipä is knäckebröd in Finland, but Näkki is a condom brand, nakki is hot dog and so on.
It should be enjoyed with some butter and Kalles Kaviar, should be plenty of different mixes in Sweden but I do prefer the original Kalles(you might put some cheese on it but I always ate näkkileipä, kalles with some Oboy milkchoco)
7:22 think surströmming tend to be stored in fridges, maybe near cured salmon or fresher fish rather than among other canned fish. it might also be a bit more seasonal
That's an inner city store though. Even the same franchise will be significantly cheaper once you get a bit outside the city centre or even in any city that isn't the capital.
You seemed to miss out on the asian shelf. Every store even the really small ones usually has a shelf for foreign flavours like chinese, japanese, Thai, Turkish or African. We are proud of our food blend and I even prefer indian food when I go out for lunch.
Surströmming is very seasonal and is only sold for short while in the summer
And might not be sold at all soon, at least one of the major producers here in the High Coast have closed down because there is no strömming. Finnish commercial fishing, which didn't use to fish the waters most local fishermen in Sweden fished to make surströmming, have started doing that and are depleting the population. They catch in days what small-scale fishing in the High Coast region catches in a year. Then they use it to make fish meal or to sell to mink farmers in Denmark as feed
The reason for the prices being moderate is that the exchange rate for SEK is low and has been low for the last 1,5 years. What i mean is that you get more SEKs than earlier for whatever currency.
In general, COOP is the most expensive chain out of the supermarket chains we have here in Sweden.
Knäcke bröd esentially translates to cracker or cracked bread and you can do a dip for sure but the traditional way to eat it is as a open faced sandwich with butter, cheese and some veggie. But in reality most just put whatever you like on it. The yellow "rice porridge" was split pea soup with pork a traditional thing to eat as lunch or dinner on a thursday often before a serving or 2 of pancakes, while the white tube that was next to it was rice porridge, quick tip do not get these mixed up.
The surstromming is stored cold, so it's not in the canned fish section of the stores. Almost every store has surstromming, but it's located where the smoked salmon and pickled harring is. 👌😋
Leksand is technically "Lek-Play Sand-Sand" but its actually a small town and one of the teams in the highest hockey league.
Sadly the lost game 7 against Frölunda.
One thing to consider is that you're in a supermarket in the middle of Stockholm, so it's more expensive than if you go out in the suburbs or to smaller cities.
For the Tacos and why it's so popular. It started back in the 80s where there was a push for it. But it was only until the 2000s where it really blew up.
It became the special Friday type dinner or for the weekend and it caught on like wildfire. Since then it has just stayed.
As a kid it was lovely. Was relatively easy to make too. The hard shells where a bit annoying yes but it was tacos and you enjoyed it.
You can buy Quark cheese in Canada also fish paste, tomato paste and mayonnaise in tubes....shelf stable until opened/ exposed to air...I live in Montreal but still...
Next time you visit a Swedish shop, there is a section on each pricetag (the tag on the shelves) which is called some version of "Jämför pris" (meaning something like "compare price") and AFAIK it is mandated by law or at least industry policy. The price in that field should be in a common unit across all stores in the country, so the egg cartons would show you the price per egg, the milk would be price per Litre, cheese would probably be the cost of cheese per Kilogram, etc. So you don't have to do math when you compare a 12-pack eggs with a 10-pack eggs, the pricetag should tell you exactly the price-per-egg.
13:55 It's not a cap on what percentage beer you're allowed to drink, its a cap on what percentage beer retailers are allowed to sell. You can buy higher percentage beer at a liquor store. Not really an issue, just a hassle having to make an extra stop at a liquor store.
Yeah, the store you want to go to then is "systembolaget" to get stronger stuff and everything else normal stores arent allowed to see here.
Google translate is messing things up. The "rice porridge" was actually pea soup prepared from dried yellow peas, onions, some kind of cooking oil, salt and spices. It often also contains salted pork. It's traditionally combined with pancakes for desert.
A good tip when Google translate doesn’t help. Try using Wikipedia (in what ever language you’re translating from), then use the change-language button to English. Doesn’t always work, but it has helped me out a lot of times.
I'm probably extremely late with this, but that knäckebröd ''Leksand'' is just the brand of that specific knäckebröd.
There's also the brand Wasa, that also makes knäckebröd. Leksand's is definitely more premium though.
Leksand is a town in the northern part of Sweden, btw!
Also, the way you eat them is just snapping pieces of, spread some butter on and put on whatever things you like. Cheese, cucumber, or whatever you want pretty much.
It's basically hard, crunchy bread.
9:27 Rice porrage, usually eaten on vinter/Christmas but I eat it anytime, good for all meals and doesn’t really fast like rice, it s little bit sweet
Surströmming is not in season now. It's traditionally eaten at the end of summer. You can find them in some stores all year round.
surströmming is usually sold in August unless they have some leftovers from the previous year, which these days with the herring shortage they don't
As for the salad, hk is hektogram, which is 100g or 1/10th of a kilogram. :)
Meat prices: yeah, it's gone up considerably. before Corona, i remember being able to buy 50/50 minced pork/beef for around 45 SEK (~4 USD) per kilo when on sale, it's about double now.
In term of quality, the "good stuff" when it comes to lingonberry jam is called "Rårörda lingon", it's got a more mature taste to it as well.
the round things are rye bread. very common in scandinavia. there are alot of different sorts, i eat it for breakfast every day and almost never soft bread.
the pre sliced bread is regular toast and you didnt pick the cheapest one per kilogram, there was one below in the shelf that is only 5 SEK more but twice the amount of bread
9:29 Ärtsoppa och pannkakor (pea soup and pancakes) is traditionally a thursday dinner here in Sweden .
Samma här i Finland. Med pannkakor förstås!
Someone probably already told you, but to buy anything with more then 3.5% alcohol you need to buy it in special stores (systembolaget) or at resturants that have license to sell it
Nice vid, Coop belongs to the more expensive supermarkets, especially the smaller stores. You can get 500g of pork mince for 38 SEK at Willys for example.