Brit Reacts to Iconic Swedish Foods You Need To Try Before You Die 

No she did not pronounce Ärtsoppa & Pannkakor (Pea soup & panncakes) nowhere near correct. That was actually painful lmao

They mix up pickled herring with the stinky and nasty surströmming (literally "sour herring"). Pickled herring isn't fermented, just pickled. Putting surströmming on a smorgasbord (smörgåsbord) would ruin it completely...

No no no, you shall not dip the pancakes in the peasoup as she said in the video! :D First you eat the peasoup and afterwards the pancakes! Me myself always make the peasoup from yellow dry peas that are allowed to boil in water together with bouillon from chicken (the proper way would be to use broth from boiled pork meat) and then use the spices salt, pepper and thyme. When I eat the soup I love to have a dollop of mustard from Skåne in the soup. This is a very classic swedish meal!

Did she say pyttipanna for breakfast? Absolutely not! It's for lunch (or maybe dinner).

Just as you’ve guessed, your pronunciation is much better than the presenter’s! And like others have commented, a few facts are wrong in this video: Pickled herring (sill) and fermented herring (surströmming) are two completely different foods made from the same ingredient and eaten in similar ways. Pyttipanna is lunch/dinner food, not breakfast. Don’t eat soup and pancakes together, soup first and pancakes after. There not served together-together. (The reason they’re often paired together is because soup on its own isn’t hearty enough whereas pancakes on its own contains mostly flour. You need something more to feel full!) It’s gravad lax, not gravlax. (Unless you’re saying something like “en gravlaxsmörgås” - a sandwich with gravad lax.)

smörgåstårta is absolutely the best!!

Smörgåstårta literally translates to sandwich cake.

Sigh! Second comment. Ostkaka is not comparable to cheesecake. They are two completely different things. Both the texture and the flavour is completely different! They really didn't do enough research before making the video. Both cheesecake and ostkaka is delicious though!

She (and you) Said smörgåstårta pretty good! She however butchered ärtsoppa! And yes, you eat the soup first and after that the pancakes.., don’t know why but it’s amazing

First you eat the soup then you have the pancakes

Dwayne, you should do a "Dwayne tries to cook [insert food here] from [insert country]" episodes !

Pytt-i-panna is for lunch... You should try "Beef Rydberg"... It´s the "deluxe-extra-all-top-of-the-pops" version of a Pytt. A real gourmet treat....

Real Swedish meatballs are kind of hard to find. Restaurants usually don't serve them. They make them too big and put in spices that aren't traditional. (Not saying it's bad) You don't dip the pancake into the Pea Soup! They are eaten seperatly, pancakes are the desert. If you like chrimp, or lobster, crayfish should be right upp your alley. Pickled Herring is not the smelly stuff, it's just Herring cured in Vinegar and things like Mustard, Fish Roe, Onions, or whatnot. You can find them in any grocery store, and there are probably 100 different kinds.

i actually died from the pronunciation of ärtsoppa och pannkakor at 10:24 . that's the funniest thing I've heard in a while lol

It's said that the tradition of pea soup and pancake on Thursdays originates from a time when the Swedes fasted on Fridays for religious reasons. Therefore, there would be extra filling food on Thursday. The pea soup is the main course and pancake is dessert. When we were children, we had strong warnings that it was forbidden to eat the pancakes until we had eaten the pea soup.

i make my own Smörgåstårta every year for my birthday. It is not the easiest thing to do but totally worth it.

Noway you’re not dipping the pancake in the pea soup!!😂😂 They are 2 separate dishes. But it’s a classic thursday lunch dish. Split pea soup with mustard, and then pancakes with jam and whipped cream. Maybe they are paired because peasoup is too frugal on it’s own?

The stinky fish (surströmming) is not pickeled, its fermented.

Ärtsoppa is almost 1000 years old, it was made because swedish farmers was producing an abundance of yellow peas, so it was ordered by the church (if i remember correctly) that we must eat it every week. at some point in history it was eaten 2 times a week. It was a common food during times of war because of the long shelflife, and the military kitchens still serves it every thursday. Dont forget the mustard :)

Believe me, you love the Swedish marzipan, it don’t taste like you think it will. And the pancakes… you don’t eat them together and you don’t dip it in the soup! You eat it after the soup, like a dessert

I know some people may alternate between soup and pancakes during a meal, but I've never heard anyone dipping one in the other. They go well together as a light main dish and dessert, but just about any soup could do just as well.

Pickled herring: The herring are first salted and then they are pickled in a mixture of vinegar, water, sugar and spices. It's readyy to eat after a few days. Surströmming : Small Baltic herring are caught in the spring, salted and left to ferment at leisure before being stuffed in a tin about a month before it hits the tables and shops. The fermentation process continues in the can - 'souring' as the Swedes refer to it - and results in a bulging tin of fermented herring

I'd say Jacob Flygare is a Swedish dish you need to try before you die (and Kebabpizza)😅 Her saying Ärtsoppa och Pannkakor is so wrong I can't 🤣I barely understood what she said! Also, I was served this dish in the military, every Thursday!

panncakes and peasoup(with mustard) on a thursday is a military tradition. The officer also got punsch in their peasoup. And since the officers often came from universities so the tradition is also strong there. That´s the origin. I don´t think that it outside of the military became popular at homes and schools until maybe the late 70s. Maybe even mid 80s.

I also not so in to marsipan but there is only a thin layer and it taste delicious when it blends with the heavy cream, vanilla cream, jam and cake in your mouth.

Lutfisk is probably more popular in Minnesota than here in Sweden. I don't know anyone who eats it. Not sure though.

All of this is pretty common in Finland too, with the exception of ostkaka and kladdkaka. Lutefisk on Xmas was our family tradition, but died off 😅 If you put enough sauce and pepper on it paired with potatoes it’s ok.

Ryvita actually started out as imported Swedish knäckebröd but they later decided to make their own to cut costs. It's not the same but its pretty close. Oh and regarding humans being resourceful and knowing different techniques that may seem impossible to find by chance... Well, not everyone was that crafty, they died. A milion years of not so crafty people dying and here we are.

You're right about pickled herring being a bit vinegary, at least the most basic variants, but it's not salty at all, there actually isn't any salt at all in most recipes. Commonly it's pickled in sugar and vinegar, with some spices and herbs added (mustards seeds, onions etc). After pickling it is also very common to put the herring in for example a mustard sauce or a sour cream based garlic sauce. There are probably hundreds of different versions of picked herring. None of them salty or stinky, all of them are delicious! 🙂 Not to be confused with Surströmming (sour herring) which is simultaneously very stinky and salty.

Smörgåstårta is like you said sandwiches stacked and covered with mayonnaise or cream cheese. It's decorated with basically the ingredients of a salad. And most of the ones I've seen had scrimps and smoked ham on top as well. It's a very fancy triple or quadruple huge layered sandwich. And it's delicious!

I don't usually eat marsipan, but on Prinsesstårta I appreciate it. It's often a very very thin layer on top with the marsipan. Try it when you visit, you can buy it in every grocery store as a one piece or two pieces in a box. The bakery sections in the stores are often as good as in the "real" bakery, and often much more affordable. I am Swedish and have never tried Lutfisk, my mom has always stated that it's disgusting so I grew up without it on the Christmas-food menu. 😀

Mate. You are more than welcome to spend christmas with me and my family. You seem like a really nice guy to hang around with. Greetings from Sweden 🇸🇪

Freely translations: Pyttipanna ~ various (stuff) in pan. Smörgåstårta ~ sandwich cake I don't like lutfisk, but pickled herring is good and there's a lot of different flavorings like mustard herring or onion herring to name a few. Ärtsoppa (pea soup) is the main dish, and the pancakes are eaten afterwards.

I Love Smörgåstårta!!!!!! ....And she actually pronounce it very well !

Smörgåstårta is basically the worlds biggest sandwich. It's the final boss of sandwiches. It's a sandwich in the shape of a cake. You have five layers of bread and between those layers you put shrimp, liverpaste, relish, salmon, ham, mayo, cucumber, cheese, mustard and stonebit-caviar and you make it look fancy. It's just pure wholesomeness that makes you feel ashamed for eating so much of it all.

You should visit the ice Hotel in Jukkasjärvi Sweden when you is around Lappland. Its amazing, and the ice Hotel is rebuilding each year from ice off tornedal river sp its never the same as the year before.

Also, I recommend a Semla with vanilla custard filling instead of almond paste filling (especially if you don't like marzipan) x

What Susanne said. Pickled herring are derived from salted herring fillets that are then put in some other more or less viscous concoction. I like the vinegary type the most and they are often quite sweet combined with the vinegar zing. There are variants like "senapssill" (mustard herring) and "skärgårdssill" (archipelago herring) that are more sticky and opaque. Yoghurty stuff...

Agree, I'm not much for marsipan, but for some reason it works with princesscake.

her preonounciation of Smörgåstårta is pretty good actually. So hello, here comes them wacky swedish characters and how to pronounce them, in a slightly macabre style: Å sounds like the O in Gore, Thor, Bore Ä sounds like the A in Damn, Scam, Cram Ö sounds like the U in Murder, Burn, Turn From Sweden with Love - Kami

We humans have a lot of ways to preserve food, pickling, saltcuring, smoking, drying... for fish and meat, milk we have cheese and different types of yoghurt... then the fermentation like for grapejuice (wine) and vegetables (kimchi, sauerkraut...), and honey (and later sugar) has been used for jams, and even sliced meat

You will love "kräftor". Its way better than you think! Basically you only eat the tail of the "kräfta", like you eat the tail of the shrimp/prawn. Pann-kakor and ärt-soppa is a awesome dish on a thursday -with some "punsch".

There is a clear distinction between pickled herring and fermented herring(stinky fish) Pickled hering isnt stinky at all. Many are made with a brine of 1 part vinegar 2 part sugar and 3 part water or as we call it 1-2-3 brine.

Ärtsoppa och pannkakor is a centuries old tradition started in the Swedish army where they had this every Thursday. During the 1900's, when free hot school lunches started, they took a page from the army (because you know, serving hundreds of people is the same regardless of age) and the schools served it every Thursday too. This was popular and spread to most restaurants serving lunch and into the Swedish homes.

Also: one doesnt dip the pancakes into the soup.. You eat the soup first and then enjoy the pancakes.

6:05 She actually says _smörgåstårta_ pretty right, and better than the other stuff she mentioned (that was surprisingly correct as well).

Pickled herring and the ”stinking fish” aka Surströmming are two completely different dishes. And you don’t used to combine them. 🤣

If you like shrimps, you will most likely like kräftor (crayfish). You eat the tail and the claws (the meat inside), and throw away the rest. They might not look pretty at a first glance, but think of them as small lobsters (lobsters are often served with the shell too, but rarely with the head). One have to crack the crayfish open (there are many techniques), so it is a pretty messy eating. If you can´t stand the crayfish look, there is often good bread, cheese, pies and some other food around at a "Kräftskiva" (crayfish party). Just don´t try the frozen crayfish - it should be freshly caught and homecooked ones! That makes all the difference in the world.

Just don't buy a 'semla' in Finland and expect the same thing, you will just get an ordinary small french bread. The bun with filling and whipped cream is called a 'fastlagsbulle' here.

The pancakes are usually served as a dessert after the peasoup

I've never heard of anyone dipping their pancakes into the peasoup. The pancakes is for desert. You could eat either as standalone dish though.

Traditional swedish foods roughly consist of combinations of pork, potatoes, fish (fresh or pickled), shellfish, Dairy, cabbage and berries, combine as desired

I like your Sweden Day-videos. It's so nice of you to share some Swedish dishes and culture with the internet. And no, she doesn't pronounce the words correctly, but I don't expect anyone to, because it's not that easy. 😅

Smörgåstårta isn't a cake. I get so tired when youtubers always thinks it is a cake just because of the name. It is a multi-layered huge sandwich! The multi-layered part is what we in Sweden call tårta. Which is sometimes translated to cake but it is 100% correct. It can also mean just something that is layered. It is a BIG sandwich! Usually comes in either seafood (shrimp, salmon) or meat (roastbeef, liverpaté, cheese). They usually have a lot of mayonnaise. It is delicious!

Ok, so we DO NOT dip pancakes (pankakor) in pea-soup(ärtsoppa)! You start with the soup, then eat the pancakes as a sort of desert.

usually peasuop is eaten by itself but in schools its always served with pancakes at lunchtime peasoup also usually has salted pork in it making it a complete and very healthy meal by itself

Yes. I wouldn't say I like lutfisk at all, but some people do, in America in Swedish societies over there it has been said that this is Swedish so we need to eat it even though most Swedes don't However some people over here in Sweden still eat lutfisk around Chrismas time. But never as a daily meal.

about the meatballs, the real thing is homemade. it is so easy. give them love and prepare before frying. and have lingonberry or another slightly sour jam. when you serve. Fry onion translucent to yellow, mix with ground beef salt and pepper. fry DONE. Tip use a plastic bag to sprits ball sized and form. for me this is base home food. smörgås tårta (sandwich cake) is deliCIOUS. it is perfect as it is food not only sugar. keeps guests at for example wedding fed.

Lutfisk is only for Christmas. But it was a staple in the middle ages due to the churches ban on eating meat on Fridays. She forgot to say about Pytt i Panna, that it should also be served with sliced red beets. And the dish itself is meat, potatoes and some onions. And for Ärtsoppa, it traditionally included pieces of ham, should be served with good hot mustard. And the Pancakes are a dessert eaten after the soup.. And the soup is traditionally only served in the months that have an "R" in the name. In some cases also served together with Punch (an Arrack-based liqeour, that can be served either hot or cold. Very popular in student circles)

Pancakes and peasoup began beeing served together at train resturants. It was two meals difficult to charge full price for. As the military started transporting troops with trains, they picked up the combo.

This is obviously personal preference but if you have the chance try to eat homemade kladdkaka instead of the stor/cafe bought ones. As a kid I got disapointed so many times when ordering kladdkaka, they were never good! It's probably just because its not what I was used to but to this day the ones made at home are always so much better, and as she said it's not hard to make either.

Pickled herring comes in all kinds of flavours. Some are delicious and some not so much. 😉 But all in all it’s a great dish. We swedes love it so much that most of us serve it at all kinds of holidays (Easter, Christmas and Midsummer) and anytime in between. 👍🏻🫶 The most common ones are not salty or too vinegary but packed with flavour. Great as a snack on a slice of knäckebröd. 😋

Cheesecake was originally made from yellow raw milk, that is, the milk taken after a cow has calved - the raw milk was used to make cheesecake. One of my favorite delicacies, if you have the opportunity to taste a real cheesecake, I recommend it. The cheesecake shown in the video is made in a completely different way.

Smörgåstårta tastes amazing, it's typicaqlly white bread in layers with typical sandwich items spread and topping it. for a spread liver paté and mayo mixed with creme cheese or creme fraiche and lemon and dill. as a topping you can use: shrimp, cucumber, tomatoes, lettuce, boiled eggs, pickles, grapes, orange slices, lemon slices, ham rolls, cheese rolled up nicely, salami. and some people even crush cheeze doodles and decorate the sides of the dish. The wet spread soakes the bread a bit and makes it into this cohesive dish instead of just a sandwich. it's the king of sandwiches i would say.

The stinky fish is Surströmming , not pickled herring 😊

For me traditionally smörgåstårta is eaten on new years eve with a glass of wine or champagne

Pickled herring doesn't smell bad at all, you thought about sureströmming, which is fermented herring which is completely different.. We also enjoy breaded fried herring served with mush potatoes and lingon berries and best served on knäckebröd. the cracker bread you saw earlier in the video.

Pretty much all of these foods are also staples in Finland. In the Finnish military there still is pea soup (ärtsoppa) and pan cakes (pannkaka) every thursday.

you were right about the pickled herring it is very vinegary and is mostly eaten at christmas and midsummer and easter there are alot of varieties like mustard herring and lingonberry herring and i as a swede strongly recommend you to try alot of different kinds until you find one or two that you enjoy and lutfisk is almost tasteless but its served white a simple white sauce made of buttter flour and milk then you crack white peppep onto it and serve it with boiled potatoes and lingonberry jam

Thanks, Dwayne, for this overview of Swedish foods! Many of these I grew up with, being third-generation Swedish born in America, but some of those desserts you feature look heavenly. Now, ostkaka I could eat every day, and it's not as calorie-heavy as cheesecake. One thing or so about lutfisk: it is bland as anything you can imagine. It ties with tofu and poi, and we had to eat it during Christmas, in a cream gravy over mashed potatoes. Yeah, you can sorta imagine. Also lutfisk does not stink that badly; when it's cooked it no longe smells. But good luck and happy feasting in Sweden next year. Try to go to an authentic smörgåsbord! I got to when I was there.

The pickled herrings can probably be had in about 100 different flavours now. The latest ones even comes in Whiskey flavour. Other classic pickling is mustard, garlic, onion or saffron. So you can definatly find your favorite.

You start with the yellow peasoup (with pork in, and served with mustard), and then the pancakes as a dessert.

räksmörgås is white toast (untoasted) boiled eggs, mayo and shrimps...and squeezed lemon on Top

A tip for you if you do try the knäckebröd! get the ones that looks like pillows "rågrutor knäckebröd" and break the pillows into individual segments and put them in your yogurt and or sourmilk with some jam or berrys, i prefer something thats not very sweet because it tast very fresh! best breakfast cereals ever! if youre feeling sandwich spread butter on them and eat with chease maybe some kind of thinly sliced deli meat and cucumbers and possibly bellpeppars! My favourites are "delikatess knäckebröd", "frukost knäckebröd" and the "rågrutor knäckebröd"! Smörgåstråta is like the best food ever created! but for the love of god, dont put whip cream on it! some people do and its so wierd and uneatable! its suposed to be mayonase mixed with creme fraiche or cream chease! you can put a little bit of cream in the mix just to make it smoother but its not a desert!

7:05 "Smörgåsbord" is a Swedish word that literally means "sandwich table", I think many Americans (and British) don't know this.

Pickled herring is not fermented herring (surströmming), they mixed those up. Pickled herring is not stinky.

Sandwich cake top layer is whipped cream and mayo. And yes, her pronounciation is quite near how we say it. But she wasn't even near with the pronounciation of ärtsoppa and pannkakor haha. And no, we do NOT dip the pancakes in the soup! First we eat the soup, then then pancakes after. I have no idea where she got that weird dipping idea from! I also noticed that when they talked about the pickled herring, they also showed fermented herring, which is something else. Not something we typically eat at a smörgåsbord. Fermented herring has its own place and its own parties due to it smelling sooooo much. They are also wrong about the ostkaka. They said it's not as heavy as the american cheesecake, but I would argue it is heavier. It's very filling and just a little bit, served with whipped cream and raspberry jam, will keep you full for a while, that's for sure! And to get things right about the semla: it is not split in half. You cut out the top of the bun, to create that hat. Putting half a bun on top would be too heavy with the whipped cream in between. I have a few more tips on iconic Swedish foods and desserts you need to try (I'll skip the kanelbulle, since you already have a video out about it). * Chokladbollar (chocolate balls) * Falukorv med mos/makaroner (a special thick sausage served with mashed potatoes or macaronies) * Dammsugare/punschrullar (a small sweet soft "cookie" rolled in marzipan, but the inside is made of sponge cake mixed with arrak and lemon juice. It's dipped in chocolate on two sides). * Biff Rydberg (a more luxurious type of pyttipanna). * Flygande Jacob (Flying Jacob. A chicken dish with bananas, peanuts and bacon, served with rice). * Stekt sill med potatismos (fried herring with mashed potatoes. A classic with a long history). * Kroppkakor (a thick potato bun type of thing with pork inside. Served with lingonberries and butter). * Pitepalt (kind of like kroppkakor, but made differently. Also served with lingonberries and butter). * Kalops (a meat stew we often have in the fall and winter. Can be done with both beef and wild meat). * Ägg- och kaviarmacka. (Egg and kaviar sandwich. The kaviar is not like caviar at all. We have this thing called Kalles Kaviar, which is a staple in most people's homes. The bread is typically a soft rye bread or knäckebröd topped with sliced boiled eggs and kaviar on top). * Kåldolmar (ground beef wrapped in cabbage). * Renskavsgryta (thin deer meat in a stew. Served with boiled potatoes and of course lingonberries.) * Fläskpannkaka (pork sheet tray pancakes. Mainly a sheet tray pancake with pork or bacon in it). * Fläsklägg med rotmos (Pork knuckle with mashed vegetables. The mash contains of potatoes, carrots, rutabaga and parsnip). * Lussebullar/lussekatter (traditional Swedish Christmas saffron buns). * Midsommartårta (midsummer's cake. A cream cake with strawberries on top, typically eaten on Midsummer's eve). I have lots more to put to this list, but I bet this list would be too long then haha.

The crayfish is actually really good but it is a hassle to peel off all the shell. Therefore we always eat cheese pie, sallad and bread with the crayfish. The cheese pie is amazing and always made with a special Swedish cheese called Västerbottenost.

If you are traveling to sweden during the winter, I would reccomend the ice hotel in Jukkasjärvi. I have never been able but it is on my bucketlist. A memory for life.

I don't like marzipan either, so I bake my own semlor, i shred the almonds and mix it with whipped cream and fine grounded sugar. Smörgåstårta usually are made with seafood or with meat, I prefer to make my own so that I know what is in it, then the filling is mainly fish and shellfish and mayo, cream fraiche, a small amount of cream, cheese, vegetables. A lot from the Christmas table fits on a smörgåstårta, so I usually make one on the 25 of December.

pyttipanna is a good relic from the past, it is kinda translated to putt in a pan (altho not exactly since pytt aint a real word used anymore) in older times it was made from left over food, instead of throwing potatos and meet away the diced it down and threw in a pan, usually served with beetroots and egg (also 2 ingreadents that was/is common in sweden) and also like some one pointed out, its nott for breakfast its more like a lunch thing

Thing about the princess cake, it's a very thin layer of marzipan so it works out, i'm also not a fan of marzipan at all but can still eat the cake without noticing it too much.

If you're going in the winter, go northern sweden. Highly recommend the Jukkasjärvi Ice Hotel.

I have a finish parent and lutfisk have only been served at hollidays, like easter and christmas at my dads gathering with my old finish grandmom doing the cooking. Haha.

Try a saffranssemla in December when you are here.

I don't like marzipan either but I love princesstårta! It is really good, even the green marzipan. It tastes nothing like other marzipan stuff.

It is very rare to find a semla during christmas. The common period for selling semla is from around february to easter. According to the tradition, we eat semla every tuesday from the tuesday before Lent up to Easter. So from 40 days before Easter and until Easter. But of course some cafés starts selling semla much earlier and every day as many people demand it earlier.

Homemade meatballs are the best there is. but I don't eat it all the time. Of course you can eat Ikea's, but homemade is the best :)

In my house you can not celebrate Christmas without lutfisk. We eat it on Lucia (13/12 and Christmas day). The fish do not taste very much so you need to mix it with potatoes, béchamel souse, salt, allspice and in my family bacon and peas it is so good.

These foods are very popular in Finland too.

You actually pronounced the words better then the narrator every time. 👍About the pickled herring I've don't recall having it on a smörgåstårta (for myself or in the family) but then again I wouldn't even care to look - if there's smörgåstårta I'm busy emptying plates. 🤤I would however put some pickled herring on more or less the same plate if available at the same time. I wish you a great time in Sweden when you come to visit! - and Sweden at winter, especially up north like Lappland, are magical and the aurora borealis can add a trillion ton to that magic.

pickled herring can varry a bit depending on method... but generally its sweet and sour using a distilled white vinigar. usually we get these in 24%-12% whichb if you drank it would chamically burn the throat... so we typically dilute this assuming a 12& concentration the usual solution is something like 1 part distilled vinigar 2 parts water 3 parts sugar then you would layer the cut up pieces of herring fillets in a yar with onion and carrot and repeat those layers putting in some speices like all spice etc as you go then toip it up with the liquid once its cooled then leave it in the yar in a fridge for at least a week or so...

In the old days Pittipanna was leftovers now you'll see store bought, dice potatoes, onions, beef, etc, topped with a fried egg or two and beetroot. But it is not severed as a pancake like Bubble and Squeak

Lutfisk is something we eat at christmas, never ever heard of anyone eat it at any other day.. I dont like it but my grandmother do it every year and you eat it with potatoes and my mom loves when it is ALOT of white pepper in the sauce..

Nice video!

You should definitely come here to Lappland if you're gonna come during the winter! It is really beautiful! You should visit the ice hotel at Jukkasjärvi!

Lutfisk is a dish you typically eat once a year, mostly at christmas time.

Bubble and Squeak is more akin to Raggmunkar(pancake mix and potato hash browns and can have a lot more stuff tossed in) or Rårakor(thinly sliced potato, mixed with various vegetables, to make something like a hashbrown) We have a lot of so called Left-Over dishes in Sweden and in Scandinavia altogether, I mean, Rusk om snusk, pyttipanna, raggmunk, råraka, etc...

Yeah the Marzipan on the Tårta is thick but the sponge is like a light Victoria sponge, you are not missing out dude

The pickled herring from the clip is not the same as the stinky "Surströmming". We have a bunch of varieties of "sill" pickled with different flavours and as she said they're a must-have during christmas or midsummers eve. You typically eat them on either knäckebröd or with boiled potatoes, butter or sourcream. My personal favourites are the standard "inlagd sill", "senapssill" (pickled in a mustard sauce) and a newcomer that is a mixture of wasabi and lime that I tried last christmas.