10 Swedish Foods you CAN'T Find in America 

I've been living in Sweden for 3 months now, and I already am dependant on most of those things! I don't understand lingonberry jam and salted licorice, but OMG. Kalles kaviar is incredible.

I just learned that halloumi was cheese this month. I always thought it was tofu! I said to my bf "it's cheese?! You know I love cheese, why didn't you tell me?! All those times we went to Max I could've gotten that!" and he said "how I am supposed to know you don't have that in America!" Speaking of cheese, one thing I always bring back with me is Västerbottensost. It's the best and it's banned in America because of the nitrate content. 😕

Fil och gräddfil.......salt lakrits är typ det konstigaste ever att de inte fattat "over there";)) Jag saknade svenska chips också.......tycker lätt Sverige har världens bästa chips....

Lingonsylt är lika beroendeframkallande som heroin... Typ. Nästan. Älskar det. Lingonsylt alltså.

Loved this video! Especially the salty liquorice part haha. The “sill” Lisa is missing is not fermented though I guess. Then it will be surströmming 😂 Can’t wait for the video when it’s the other way around. Cheers guys!

Sjukt roligt som svensk att se det här klippet! Kram på er!

Jag bodde utomlands i 6 år och det jag saknade var fan prästost

My mom is a swede living in Canada and my Mormor literally mails her all of these things, plus Swedish magazines. I love salty hard licorice and the shrimp cream cheese spread, but not the pickled herring....ew haha. Great video! 🇨🇦

You are making me miss all of these things! I’m literally making my partner take a trip from Vancouver to Toronto, Canada because I found one bakery that make traditional semla, kladdkaka och kanelbullar.

You too are amazing. I learn a lot of things from your videos in the most entertaining way possible

I have been living abroad twice so I know how it is to miss Kalles kaviar. I love you two ladies and enjoy your videos very much. Stort tack.

Agree totally. I am Norwegian/ Canadian and thank goodness we have a Viking Foods store in Toronto with Scandi imported foods🇸🇪🇳🇴

Most of your videos are very interesting to watch.Useful and talented.Thank you.Excellent week end from Dordogne France

I think black liquorice is an european thing. Or at least nordic. Don't see anyone from utside Europe liking that. My swedish favorites are Risifrutti manna, kladdkaka, gifflar and lussebullar. Greetings from a norwegian who travels to Sweden 3-4 times a year to stock up on food, drinks and candy

I've been to Sweden twice. I'm glad you mentioned risifrutti. We have milky Rice here in Spain, but not with Jam.

Louisiana Land of Crayfish The expression there is, snap it, pull it, suck it , lingam berry aka cowberry or fox berry These plants thrive from Massachusetts to Alaska, Can't help with the rest.

You can get Halloumi in most grocery stores! I even used to buy it in a grocery store in Juneau Alaska. I live in LA now, and it is everywhere here, including in dishes in many restaurants! Most Mediterranean restaurants have a dish with it for sure! I’m also a Swede who loves halloumi!! (And kalles kaviar and salty black licorice)

AAAAA i live in Louisiana, USA and i went to sweden for the first time in July! I absolutely fell in LOVE with KEX Choklad!!!! Also, we eat crawfish religiously here!

I lived in the UK for 7 years but luckily there were a couple of Swedish /Scandinavian shops around. I always missed proper smoked ham, kaviar and salty liquorice - yup all the salty stuff😊

I am a half swedish, half mexican, living in México. And I misssssssss all the things you said!!!! My mouth is watering!!!!!

watching this and eating semeltårta is the best thing you can do after school!

Hi those are awesone n everything else don't know but good to know n YALL ARE SO BEAUTIFUL N THANKS FOR THE VLOGS!

Omg I understand you so much! When I lived in Spain (even if it only was for 5 months) I missed Kalles on hardboiled eggs so freaking mutch!!!!

I'm from the UK and we eat pickled herring here, but we actually call it a roll mop, and I love it! Salted liquorice sounds ghastly though, but I bet my Mum would love it lol

Many of them are available in Minneapolis, MN! We have a shop called Ingebretsen's Gifts and Foods. All of our grocery stores have pickled herring, and many of them have halloumi.

Vilken rolig video!!❤️❤️😋😋

You have such nice videos, thanks for making them! I'm a Finn and all that stuff is very popular here as well, apart from the saffron ice cream. There's a lot of similarities in our cultures, and not just when it comes to food but a bit of everything. :)

You might know this by now since I’m watching this video so late after it was published but IKEAs in the US (at least in Dallas) have Kalles, lingonberry jam, and many Swedish candies my Swedish boyfriend is obsessed with! So if you’re craving it you might try there☺️

I've found a few of these in the US through Ikea, European Food Stores and by Ordering Online.

Pretty awesome video. Thanks!

If you’re in Los Angeles you should check out Olson’s Deli. They make fresh semla on weekends and have other tasty Scandinavian dishes on their menu. They also have candies, breads and other Swedish goods to buy. :)

I looove pickled herring! So yummy... my boyfriend's family have it with their Norwegian Christmas Eve meal

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Love you guys!! :D :D

The swedish pronunciation in the beginning is great! :D It's just a matter of time before this is a Huuuge channel!

I'm from Seattle Washington. In a town called Ballard there is a grocery store called scandanavian specialities. You can find them online Not sure what exactly they ship and they are often out of stock because they are so popular, but you can get a lot of good food. They have pickled Herring, salty licorice, real swedish fish, kex bars and all kinds of godis. They also have swedish coffee, fisksoppa, fiskbullar, lingonberries and lingonberry jam, knäkebröd etc. You should check them out.

Looove both. Also that food 💐💐😍😍😜😜not all but some Vielen Danke herzliche Grüsse aus ecuador

Haloumi is awesome. Ate it all the time when I was in Cyprus.

Describe Lisa with one movement: *pickle dance*!!! 😂😂👌

lingonberry are available in eastern Canada (Newfoundland), but are called Partridge berries.

We have semla in Italy too... in fact in Boston we have a neighborhood called North End is very Italian. They have it there all year long

While living and studying in Japan for a year, one of the things I found I REALLY missed was Gräddfil....

Just came across your video really like it now going to watch your other ones hope you get to do video of what Lauren Misses when your in Sweden

Hilarious, fresh, super cute, Lauren speaking Swedish - precious, Lis smiling nonstop & explaining it all in such an adorable way! Poor Button with these salty liquorish candies hahaha I relate to most of the food, Europe is Europe, but fish out of a tube is too much hehe. Love you, sweethearts 😘🙏😂

Nando a southafrican burger joint/chain has it. They have some resturants on the us east cost. The pickeled hering and kalles kaviar you can get in Ikea in the usa ( in their food section ) also lingonberry Jam.

I know they eat a lot of crayfish in the southern states, perhaps you can find a local Southern style restaurant that serves crayfish and ask them where they get theirs. Sometimes it's not there but I usually see linden berry jam in the jam section of Safeway. Since it's impossible to find fresh or even frozen linden berries what I will do is pour the linden berry jam over some frozen cranberries sprinkled with sugar, sometimes with orange rind and a shot of some type of effervescence, and smash it up with the back of a fork. It's the next best thing to fresh linden berry jam.

I love the beginning 😂

You need to come to Illinois we have all those things !

Currently have spent 4 months away from Denmark in the US and my salt liqourice cravings are crazy!!! Also really miss danish rye-bread - I'm gonna have the people who picks me up at the airport when I go home in 1 month bring me "Smørrebrød" (Open faced sandwich)

im swedish and i lived in socal for 4 years and had no problem finding most of these sure it might me a bit more difficult but you can find it. and for the things you cant find you could easily get the ingredients to find.. don't be discouraged yall. sil, and kalles kaviar is available at ikea then theres a specific candy store in La with a bunch of swedish candy called Sockerbit.

I always stock up on Kalles at IKEA! Even if the cafeteria food is subpar, they still have Lordagsgodis, lingonberry, pickled herring same as in Sweden! (:

Wow, you two are soo cute!! It's a great joy to listen to you two. Good luck in the future!! Hugs!!

Hi! I live in Los angeles and most of these things are available!! Hallumi cheese is in whole foods and omggg if you want an amaazing zaffron icecream you have you MUST try saffron and rose on westwood blvd.

Lauren’s Swedish pronunciation is so insanely good! I wish I could pull it off, too, but no. I lived in Växjö for five months in 2007 and Göteborg for two months in 2008 but the accent, if you will, didn’t stick at all. I might not sound mega Finnish when I (try to) speak Swedish but I definitely don’t sound anything like Lauren, either. PS: SEMLOR 😍! DJUNGELVRÅL 😍!

Defenetly miss kladkaka-frozen cakes.And Marabou chocolate with peanut caramel 👍🏻😁 I tasted caviar and it was soo salty.Wasnt bad but too salty 😂

Maybe someone already said this but you can order Kalles from Amazon. I hear Whole foods and oddly Walmart may have it too. I'm almost out of my tube so need to get more very soon. I love this stuff, I think Americans if given a try would love it too.

I remember watching a documentary on a famous swedish hockey player (believe it was Markus Näslund) and in his garage he had a fridge filled with Fjällbrynt messmör xD. I don't eat it myself but that's probably the most swedish thing i've seen on television

OMG. I am Swedish. When I was in USA for eight months the thing I missed most of all was coffee! Especially Gevalia. Even when my family sent me coffee, it never tasted the same. I also missed our thin awesome pizza and of course Swedish meatballs and Swedish butter, like Flora! But most of all my family :)

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Saltlakrits is the best thing ever, my partner hates it as well so at least I get to have it for myself! (It is always fun to trick him into tasting a new kind of licorice though lol) I'm surprised Halloumi hasn't made it to the states when I've been visiting I'm always looking for it and is always so surprised when I can't find it it is a really great substitute for meat. Also something I miss when I go to the states is swedish pizza (it is really a distinct kind of pizza) and kebabtallrik, I love my fast food

Omg I miss Kalles kaviar so much 😩😩 especially with egg for breakfast!!

Good video! :) :)

As a Dane.. I'm willing to forgive past grudges .. Love our cuisines, (my family have a HUGE hunting area up in Sweden, so spend a lot of time there.. And yes, Lingonberry and Salt licorice are a staple.. (both can keep their pickled herring tho..

The "Semla" is traditionally eaten on the Tuesday before the beginning of lent. Nowadays you can find and eat them any time of the year.

I am surprised you can’t find lingonberries and pickled herring. Both are easy to find in New England. I have a Norwegian background but the pickled herring is not just Scandinavian. The last time I bought some the woman at the check out was so psyched to see it and she was English/Irish background and it reminded her of her grandfather. What I get is from Maine. I usually get imported Lingonberries (hard to get Norwegian so I have to settle for Swedish ha ha ) but I think they grow it some in Wisconsin and Minnesota. When I was a kid it was harder to find cardamom in the pod for baking, but with a larger southeast Asian population in my area it can be found in most grocery stores now.

Jeg elsker de spøkelse salt snopet! Favoritten her i hus sammen med masse annet salt snop🙌🏽 Så heldig jeg bor i Norge så det meste fra Sverige er ganske likt her

Just found this video. My mother was born in Sweden and I spent a lot of time there as a kid so I know most of these. Mama used to love mesmor, no clue if that is still a thing. And I can't do proper vowels but I miss a good honokaka.

Greeting from Turku Finland. This is kind of funny. I am a finn who speaks also swedish and works at the ferry between Stockholm and Turku (Åbo). I really love all those 10 swedish foods and we can get each of it from finland too. Eventhought these might be swedish not finnish. Inform if you are coming to this side of the world soon again!

Love black salty licorice, now I need to try the Swedish kind, need a brand to search for :)

You can definitely get crawfish in the State. They are huge down south especially in Louisiana🦐 and you can find frozen in the grocery stores

Senapssill!! Skulle nog ta med mig 100 kg. Överblivna kokta potatisar från igår med senapssill på mackan! Jag dräglar när jag skriver... Funkar med kaviar också. Eller sill på kokt ägg. Ahh..

Love the video! But, we can get pickled herring here. The brand we see most often is "Vita". Is it different from Swedish pickled herring?

could not agree more about meatballs. I am American and have been to Sweden many times, actually was adopted by a Swedish family when I was about 45 years old lol. Had meatballs at my friends/families house in Svenljunga while playing cards(ploomp) later on that trip I had meatballs in Stockholm at an expensive restraunt......home made ones killed the one in Gamla Stan by a mile!

Svensk potatis, svenskt knäckebröd, lingon, svenska havregryn. Swedish potatoes, Swedish crisp bread, picking lingon berries and Swedish rolled oats. And Czech beer and Swedish snaps! That's what I miss if I'm in the States for an extended time! Comfort food in general, without added sugar ;)

I happen to have a half finished bag of nappar, an unopened bag of djungelvrål, and I just finished eating two two sunny side up eggs on toast, topped with some Kalles Kaviar. Only about a third of a tube left from my last resupply, so I guess I'll be going through withdrawal soon enough ☹️.

Hi. I am an American who lived in Sweden for one year. It was a great experience, and I love Sweden and Swedish people (though there are some things I found odd, it wasn't perfect/all rainbows, etc...) What do I miss from Sweden? NOT Kalles fish eggs in a toothpaste tube! This was one of the weirdest things I'd ever seen... I miss goodis. Candy in general was just higher quality, and I did very much enjoy the salt licorice. My favorite was Turkish Pebber, which I don't think was made in Sweden, but it was everywhere. I miss the bread. Here, you just can't find that kind of bread... and the cheese, same thing. Breakfast: Bread with butter, cheese, and liver paste. I miss the liver paste, which was similar to the Kalles caviar in presentation. I miss fillmjolk and musli, the Swedish version of 'pancake', and yes the lingonberry jam (but you can definitely find that here in America). I wasn't a fan of Kex, but I did like Diam, which I don't think is Swedish but which was everywhere in Sweden. I also miss the cakes, marzipan, and butter cream frosting stuff. More than anything though - the thing I miss the absolute most is kebabrulle. Sweden has the New York pizza version of Kebab. I've had kebab/schwarma/gyros in a lot of different places, but it's never even close. For reference, I lived in Lagan, near Ljungby, near-ish Vaxjo. sunnerbo samhällskunskap. Please forgive my spelling, as it has been a while. Oh, and also saft, and that fuit yogurt you can buy in a carton. Still, kebabrulle is the absolute top thing I miss. What I do not miss from Sweden, food wise: lutfisk (or most fisk-related dishes), Kalles caviar, bloodpudding (a regular item on the school menu), the general blandness and no salt or pepper. I did not try surstromming, and I don't think I will. In general, while there aren't a lot of horrible food things, I can say the food is very different from what I was used to. The breakfast foods I came to love were and probably would be horrifying to any American at first, so there is that... maybe 'Stockholm syndrome' could be applied to the situation of acclimating to Swedish food - the real origin of the term. What I missed from America when I was in Sweden? Peanut butter. Mexican food. Year round access to certain spices like chives (Spring onions). Most of the cheeses I am familiar with. Things like mac and cheese, which seemed to be frowned upon. BBQ, especially and including BBQ sauce, which seems like something Swedes might not like because it's so sweet. Coffee that was not Gevalia. Maple syrup. Any syrup or sauce which was not lingon berry flavor. Chili peppers, salsa, or hot spices in general. Flavor in general which was not due to some intentional degree of spoilage or fish. Food and food culture/preferences are just different. In my experience for example, in Sweden, boiled noodles + ketchup = spaghetti... and that's tragic... and uh, their version of pizza is really not that bad, but um, a little different. Food in Sweden. I'm sure in a big city that one can find all the things they are used to, but in general I think Sweden has a fairly unique food culture. If you come from America, it takes some getting used to. I'm fairly sure a Swedish person might have a similar experience upon living in America (or any other place for that matter). Konstig? Different taste preferences and habits. Kebabrulle is the best.

Ikea sells Scan meatballs, and all grocery stores sell the ingredients to cook them. They sell crawfish all over America in resturants & in grocery stores, fresh and frozen. Yes, while lingon jam is hard to find, cranberry sauce isn't. Cranberry sauce is basically cranberry jam, used in the same way, with the same taste, just using a different berry. They're almost identical. They sell Kalles caviar on Amazon. Just have that delivered, np. Hope that helps you feel a bit more at home while in the states.

Crayfish are a big thing in the south, I was shocked to find anyone anywhere ate them because I grew up in the north in a big city and they were sold as pets in pet stores hahaha. So go to some place like Louisiana and you'll find places serving it all over. I was raised eating pickled herring and never knew it was a Swedish thing until I met my boyfriend and he was stunned to learn an American ate it haha. I've always eaten fish eggs, but never in paste form.

We have almost all of these in norway too :3

When I was in america ( Texas) for three weeks back in 2011, the one thing I missed the most was a-fil. A-fil med bananer i, sååå gott!

a cold boiled potato sliced in about 5mm in between, then drowled in kalles on a good piece of bread, you are into a real swedish treat early in the morning!😀 yummy yummy its beyond belive in taste with a good serious cup of swedish coffey

Well, not swedish, but norwegian! When I was in the states I missed bread. And knekkebrød. And all the different things we put on bread. It was also oh so very sad to celebrate christmas without my norwegian traditions! On new years I actually went to an IKEA and found knekkebrød, so I went to the grocery store, found Jarlsberg (Norwegian cheese) and bell peppers, so on new years I ate knekkebrød with cheese and bellpeppers, lol :P

I'm Swedish that food is very normal here:)love the video!

There is a porridge made of lingonberry and semolina (I guess). I svensk mannagryn. Sugar in the mix. Sour and salty candies are also my favorites. Though you didn't ask from Finnish people. Kalles is absolutely good. Of Swedish food I've also tried surtsrömming. Sour herring. Not my cup of tea. Or herring in this instance. Also. I like to make my own meatballs. Everything in any store is just second best.

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So right! I totally agree. And isterband with potatoe stew.

deffinetly not alone. I'm finn but missing those samething.. the salty liquorice :P the dracula piller :P that is so hooking thing. Pickeled herring in tomato sauce with ryebread ( darkest what can find) with sauerkraut :D I know but it is so freeking good :D ( hope you have good air condition :D )

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Abroad I sometimes miss "Budapest bakelse", which is a totally Swedish thing. I once tried to find it in Budapest itself, bud nobody had aclue.

I'm Swedish and I currently live in England, have for 2 years and something I really miss is Smörgåstårta! I also really miss all the kind of candy and chips Swedes offer, England don't really have much. :(

Try Olsons Scandinavian Delicatessen - Los Angeles for most of the Swedish food. I know they sell semla. Everything else you can buy from Amazon. Louisiana produces about 150 Million pounds of Crayfish a year. Crayfish are very common and cheap in the US. If you are having a party most crayfish companies will overnight ship 50 pound (about 23 kg) bags of live crayfish.

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Y'all! Time for a road trip down South to get your crawfish fixin'. :D

Hej hej. I like your movies a lot! Thanks and keep making them please! One small remark though, the Dutch liqorice which you get in most foreign countries is absolutely terrible, it is like saying swedish meatballs aren't great because I have eaten them at Ikea. (i know how good Swedish meatballs are, I am a big Sweden fan and had them from a local person in Sweden). I would even dare to say that you might like good Dutch liquorice as much as the Swedish ones or even more. I love most Swedish food a lot aswell and I miss those fresh kanelbullar, lingonsylt is great on food I would not even had imagined before coming to Sweden. Ficka is the best way to spent your afternoon! Something I find weird is taste differs from countries with a brand. I mean Dutch cheese brands in other countries taste terrible, while they taste great here. So for example you guys have a lot of "Gouda" cheese, even saying on the package it is "Svensk Ost", but Gouda is a city in The Netherlands where the cheese brand is from. It tastes good here, but I have tried many different packages in Sweden and I wondered how you can get that stuff through your mouth, it is bad, taste like plastics, not the full creamy and ripen taste it is supposed to have. Which makes me wonder, why is that? Why do brands taste way better in the country they are originally from? Maybe something for a new video?

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Asså semlor! Älskar semlor ❤️❤️. Längtar så mycket 😘😘😘😭.

10. Kräftor/Crayfish - It's all right, I enjoy them once or twice per year. No more than that though. 9. Halloumi - I love it. Everyone enjoys it, vegan or not. It's great. 8. Köttbullar/Meatballs - Homemade meatballs are amazing. It's also interesting to eat other people's meatballs because everyone makes them diferently. 7. Semla - I CAN NOT LIVE WITHOUT SEMLA. I AM EATING ONE NOW. 6. Lingon - It goes with everything. You gotta love it. 5. Saffron Ice Cream - I've only tried it once. It was pretty good. Saffron is always good. 4. Saltlakrits/Salt Licorice - It works if there's no other candy around but I'm not a big fan. Never buy it myself. 3. Kexchoklad - This is a great candy. It's really nice. 2. Sill/Pickeld Herring - I hate it. It's plain disgusting . (Did I lose my swede card now?) 1. Kalles Kaviar - Not a fan. It's "meh" at best.

I am an American and have been living in Sweden for 8 months and I LOVE (almost all) the things you mentioned. I hated licorice before moving here, and now I love Swedish and Finnish licorice . It is not the same in the states at all! But I have yet to try Kalles. It turns me off. Why are so many things in a toothpaste tube!? Lol.

I miss these foods so muchhh I haven't had them since last year :(

I agree with every single one of these. Living in Cambridge I can order some of it from Occado or go to the Scandi kitchen in London but the prices to get these items abroad is just not sustainable:P