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We tried ALL the Swedish Foods, and boy were we SHOCKED!

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Armed with our knowledge of Swedish food gathered from many lunches at IKEA, Alex and I set off on our own DIY food tour of Stockholm! We made a list of eleven traditional Swedish Foods to find and try, **other than meatballs**. We were shocked with what we discovered! 🥘🇸🇪

Filmed: December 2024

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⭐️Locations & Food⭐️

1. Östermalm Market Food Hall (no food)
2. Scandic Sjöfartshotellet (hotel breakfast)
3. Hot Dog Vendor at Berzelii Park (korv)
4. Pascal Cafe (kanelbullar - cinnamon roll)
5. Kajsas Fisk in Hotorgshallen Market (soup & fried herring)
6. Café Tårtan (chocolate ball)
7. Crazy Horse (raggmunk - potato pancake)
8. Pelikan - (dumplings)
9. Panem - (salmon toast & princess cake)

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20 Comments

@freewill8218 1 year ago

Americans handle their knife and fork the same way my 3 year old grandson does.😁

@deaodaggi 1 year ago

Funny how you describe the heaviest and sweetest of Swedish foods, like pancake with whipped cream+ jam and princess cake, like "light and not overly sweet", it really makes you wonder how sweet and heavy typical American food is 😄
Nice video!

@thatdudeinorange5269 1 year ago

Americans that like Kaviar! Wow thats something I'd never expected to hear 😅

@Korligan1 1 year ago (edited)

Gravad lax is not basically smoked salmon. It is salmon that has been cured with sugar and salt in an oxygen-deprived environment. Today this is typically a plastic bag, but in olden days it would be placed in a container and buried. This results in autolysis where enzymes inherent to the meat will break down the tissue and also prevent bacterial growth. "Gravad" means "graved", or "dug", as in, put into a grave. Graving is an old Nordic tradition for preserving and preparing food. Some spice is usually added, making it do double duty as a marinade.

You comment that a lot of the food taste light, or subtle, or even bland. The US uses a lot of sweetener, salt, MSG, and fat in most cuisine to "improve" it, which really can dull one's sensitivity to natural flavors and textures. My wife, who is US born, was unused to whipped cream that had not had sweetener added to it, and when she first arrived, she felt it had no taste at all. After 15 years in Sweden whipped cream, apples, and even carrots taste sweet to her.

@birgittae9046 1 year ago (edited)

The cake in the end is actually not a Princess cake! 🙂 It is an Opera cake.
Not big differencies though. The princess cake has a light green marzipan cover with a pink rose. And the operacake has a pink layer on top. The original princess cake has no jam layer, just vanilla cream.

@simonkullberg 1 year ago

It’s not bacon guys, it’s fried pork! Bacon is smoked porked belly and a lot thinner, fried pork is rimmed 😊

@kingvii7250 7 months ago

In Sweden we use fork AND knife in each hand, then you don't have to drop food all the time. Then you have two tools that is helpfull all the time

@Asa...S 1 year ago

You having all these things, like the pancakes, the jam, the cinnamon bun, the chocolate ball, things that I as a Swede think are really sweet, and saying "this isn't that sweet" makes me wonder how extremely sweet everything must be in the US.
Like would I even find anything that was eatable..?

@lottawiklund8606 1 year ago

That's definitely not mustard on the fish soup. It looks like saffron mayo, or maybe even saffron aioli.

@DriftComet 1 year ago (edited)

In general swedish food like Kroppkakor, raggmunkar etc (collectively dubbed "husmanskost", basically "every mans food" or "home food") is very rich in fat and has been eaten for a long time in sweden since people needed the extra energy to work on the fields and to make it through the cold winter. 🙂

@peter.Ingelsson 1 year ago

Those pancakes are made in a factory so i wouldn't call them Swedish pancakes 😅, they are very spongey and not at all like traditional homemade pancakes just so you know😅.

@carin4610 1 year ago

Well 'gravad lax' is not smoked! You make 'gravad' lax by letting fresh salmon rest in the fridge with salt, sugar, dill and white pepper for a couple of days.

A 'must' on our christmas smorgasbord!😋

@Komona 1 year ago (edited)

Knäckebröd is actually pronounced with a hard k sound in the beginning, and not just an n-sound. Regarding ä and ö, think of the vowel sound in the word "cat" or "bat", but pronounced a bit longer and more open. It’s like saying the "a" in "cat," but without tightening your tongue or jaw as much. Then for ö, this sound doesn’t exist in standard English, but it’s similar to pronouncing the "i" in 'sir'" or "u" in 'fur'" when spoken with a British accent, though the lips are rounded.

Also, the reason the bacon is so thick is because it's not bacon, but rather cured pork. Very similar, yet different. Cured pork traditionally have much thicker slices than bacon. We also like to eat it together with a sauce of brown beans, syrup and vinegar, or onion sauce.

@edouglasnilsson 1 year ago

"gravad lax" has not been close to any smoke. Raw salmon is preserved with a mix of sugar, salt, and some herbs like ex. dill, juniper berries or lemon.

@bingoberra18 1 year ago

The Raggmunk is a common lunch restaurant food on tuesdays. On thursdays usually pea soup is served together with pancakes, jam and whipped cream.

@anjajosefsson8262 1 year ago

A chocklad boll is definitely not a light treat 😂. Its got tons of butter

@igeekling 1 year ago

A lot of us have strong nostalgia about those chocolate balls.

Simply because it's The thing pretty much all of us first got to make in the kitchen. It's one of those perfect recipes to let toddlers get their hands into and make a big mess. And kindergarteners pretty much can manage to make 'on their own' (with just a little guidance to measure the butter)

@10mamar 1 year ago

In Sweden we use both fork and knife 🤗

@meteerbil2078 1 year ago

Cinnamon bun is good, Cardamom bun is to die for. So good.

@bullrun7961 1 year ago (edited)

The idea of the kroppkaka/palt is a meal that hard working persons easily can bring with them out in the forest, on the farm, or maybe hunting, in a situation where you may be away for a long time. You eat it to get energy, a lot of energy. You can reheat it in boiling water, fry it in fat, or even eat it cold like an apple. It is historically survival food for hard working Swedes.

There are a lot of different versions of it all over Sweden, in the north you can be asked .. “Do you want grey, red or mixed?” … Grey= normal Red= blood 🩸. And there are also my favorite where liver is mixed in the batter. 😮. Resulting a brown version compared with the grey