Well, I’ve tried everything on this list cause… I am Swedish🇸🇪 And let me correct one thing: we don’t eat pea soup that often anymore. And basically never in school. I’ve only got it once or twice in school, and in my opinion, it’s kinda disgusting. But that could be cause I hate peas lol😅
well, as a half-german growing up in Munich Germany, köttbullar were always my favourite food! My mother always said that I am more swedish than her because of that 🤣
@@AlterSchwede73There is a popular song about a half german swedish boy who keeps putting meatballs in his nose. Search för "köttbullar i näsan". They sing with a pretend german accent. Now you know 😂
In my Swedish holidays I ate köttbullar, lax, sill, ren...and even älg! Of course, lyngon and potatis everywhere!! In my next trip in Sverige, I must trie all the rest of these food :-)
Husmanskost is definetly not vegetarian friendly. But Sweden has embraced many other kinds of food nowadays. And there are always plenty of vegetarian and even vegan alternatives everywhere you go!
I would say that a bit simpler husmanskost is very friendly with vegetarians. In older times all farmers rather sell their pigs, geese, calves and steers for cash. Current husmanskost looks like feast which old swedes ate one time in year, not like daily basis. They ate a lot of surkål, rödbetor, kålrot etc, hard bread, some greens from garden from backend of their house, honey instead of sugar and eggs instead of meat. But everything edible is always good, I'm not Picky. I eat everything and it's possible to see it on me,,what a pity.
I’ve been to Sweden twice and tried köttbullar, gravadlax and herring. And we brought home some älg products such as pâté and sausage. Our cat tasted it first, lol. Everything was delicious and surprisingly affordable.
Very helpful video. I was wondering what else Swedes are eating than what is served in IKEA. I am making a Swedish Christmas this year. I am living in the UK and I was born in The Netherlands and just don't like the traditional English Christmas Dinner. So I was looking to Sweden. I think my kids and myself will enjoy it.❤💕
I'm the granddaughter of 2 Swedish grandfathers living in Canada and I've had Swedish Meatballs and lingonberry sauce etc and the peas soup meal...I LOVE your videos!!!
Tack så mycket för videon! :) Jag kom ihåg en av den bästa måltiderna jag hade i Sverige: potatisgratäng med lake. Oj det var så så så gott! Jag var i Ammarnäs på Lakafestival... och nu känner jag mig nostalgisk :(
Oh! I am glad you think so :) As a Stockholmer myself I get extra proud of hearing this even though there are SO many other beautiful cities in the world.
I am American but my parents were both Swedish as well as all my relatives and a month wouldn't go by without kroppkaka or during XMass kula korv being served. Have you heard off these Swedish meals ? I make my own Kuttbullar from my mother's recipe and they are damm good. Especially with the gravy.
Those are definetly well known Swedish meals 😊. In the example of Kroppkaka... I am going to dare say it is dying out 🙈. Not that people won't eat it anymore for any particular reason... but it is just not as popular as it once was. So it is not eaten that ofter anymore. Or not that widespread. But of course, every family has it's own traditions. You can leave grandma's favourite out of the Xmas table 😁.
@@FunSwedish It's not dying out at all, ppl eat it all the time. Vetefan vart du fick det ifrån. Kolla bara hela norrland o halva skåne. för o inte tala om alla i sthlm som äter det.
Fun Swedish you was saying that we eat pancakes and ärtsoppa every thursday it is not true and we can eat international food in school. We can eat food from all around the globe in our Schools 🇸🇪❤️🇸🇪 even on thursdays it can be it but not every today in 2023 it is no longer true. I live here in Sweden and is true booth we don’t eat international ore the thursday thing! 💚🤍💙💙💛
Lingonberries (or rårörda lingon as it's called, which means stirred raw lingonberries) is the best thing. And it's so easy and much more tasty to make yourself! Just stir raw lingonberries with sugar until the juices and the sugar mix together and let it sit for a few hours. Delicious!
Those are great as well! Thanks for adding them to the list. We didn't include Jansson's Frestelse since we eat it mostly for Christmas but we do talk about it in our Christmas videos.
Yuck! Meat balls with ketchup!? No way! I make my own meat balls, though not very often. They are a must on the Christmas table, though. Toast Skagen is really more fancy food than "husmanskost". I would say that the same goes for Västerbottenspaj. Falukorv (not served in my house) is missing from the list, meatloaf too.
Makes me wonder what you all were eating before potatoes were brought over from the Americas, if potatoes and peas are all you can grow. Was it turnips? Could that be why the Brits call them 'swedes'?
When I visited my niece in Stockholm, we had reindeer pizza. I enjoyed it for the first slice, but it was too rich for me. I don't eat a lot of meat, so I think it was too much. I can't eat beef, but I hear IKEA has veggie meatballs. My Swedish grandmother used to make kötbullar when I was a kid (she died in 1975, so I only have the memory of the meatballs). I can't wait to get back to Sweden and try some more food... EAT ALL THE POTATIS!!!!
Oh wow! I think you ate something very exotic here, reindeer pizza. I have actually never tried it myself (just heard about it) but totally understand what you mean about the taste. Hope you can come back soon to try more food and all the potatis! haha PS. Thanks for all your comments and positivity!
In Husmanskost there if for sure very limited choices. But Sweden has embraced a lot of new food cultures and there are often lots of vegetarian and vegan alternatives everywhere you go!
@@erikandersson6145 Look beyond generalisations. In a highly diverse country of 300+ million, you'll find plenty of people in the US who only eat veggie burgers or no burgers at all! 💚
That is a great question. I have now idea to be honest. I didn't even know it was a thing with new vs old potatoes. I hope someone else can can answer this question? :) Sorry!
I don't eat much even here at home (very picky eater). It looks like I'll be living at Max Burgers and Subway if I ever do move there. I'm heading over in February for my third visit in 10 months. It's good that I'm now learning the language!
I'm not sure why, maybe because we are such a small country, but we are very much outward facing in many ways. We consume a lot of foreign media and not least of all food. Many of the most popular swedish dishes are inspired by, or are, foreign dishes. Sushi, thai, mediterranean and middleeastern are all very popular in Sweden. And let's not forget the "mexican" food, takos/tacos.
Lingon... Yuck! I'm as Swedish as can be, but I hate it. I don't even eat it with blodpudding - I eat that with strawberry jam or nothing at all instead. Sometimes I feel like the only Swede who dislikes lingonberry jam though. :) Sometimes I also wonder what on Earth everyone sees in it. Have eaten everything on this list - without lingonberries, of course. :P
