I dont get it. Hownis it bad to eat raindeer? You eat pigs and stuff all the time. Its like saying you woud noy eat metworst on a bred just becouse it was a horse. And napoleon RIDED a horse. So obviously its vonnected and its baaad!. That woud be dumb. But the thing is, napoleon was real. And santa isnt. I grt that we finns have the nuber 1 educcation, but you guys are adult and you dont know the sircle of life?
Food from Lapland Bread cheese: Supposed to be eaten either with black coffee or cloudberry jam Swede casserole: Kinda only traditional Christmas food over here, also the one in the video was dry as all hell. It's never made that dry and usually is more like mashed potato consistency. Reindeer: We usually eat reindeer either cold smoked + cured or as sauteed reindeer or as a reindeer stew with lingonberry jam and mashed potatoes. Not as a salami like in the video. Salmon soup: Well, it looked like a milk-based salmon soup with dill and vegetables so that's a common food over here. You should try out Finnish treats, like Fazer chocolate, Salmiakki (salty liqourice), Karelian pastries, dried meat (preferably reindeer, air dried for long time, not jerky), or "lappapuuro/vispipuuro" (whipped porridge, made from semolina pudding and lingonberries)
Salmiakki ei ole mikään "herkku." Aika kummallinen tämä Torilla Tavataan-heimon taipumus tyrkyttää ulkomaalaisille jotain sellaista kokeiltavaksi, josta 90+ % suomalaisistakaan ei välitä.
No nyt kyllä vedit ton 90% aivan hatusta :D Mä en henk. koht. tunne yhtään ihmistä ketä EI tykkäis salmiakista, joten taitaa noi luvut mennä vähän toisin päin... Salmiakki on todellakin herkku, miks muuten joka kaupan karkkihyllyt ois täynnä sitä?
Are cloudberries really a thing? Because it sounds like something out of a fantasy video game. "Go to the Mountains of Despair, and high on the peaks, you'll find the mystical cloudberry bush, to cure the villain's magical plague."
Lol. "Hjortron" is it called in Sweden and grows often in wetlands like swamps out in the forrest. The Latin name is Rubus chaormaemus: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubus_chamaemorus
They also grow in Alaska, and pretty sure that's what the groundcover is outside my gyno's office in Washington State. Rubus chamaemorus. Could have sworn Raintree sells them, but not coming up. They sell about every other odd edible botanical! Ooh, they're dioecious...male and female on separate plants...
Aniyunwiya Ageya actually caribou and reindeer are different animals. Look it up. The size difference alone will tell you that. I have been to reindeer ranches in New Hampshire and in Michigan. When you live in the north you come to know the differences in deer, reindeer, elk, caribou and moose.
Oh, George, you've given me the biggest laugh of the week. The song you end with, "He knows when you are eating all his best friends off a plate"... is the BEST thing I've heard in a long time. 😂😂😂
you have black coffe togheter with breadcheese (atleast in the lapponian part of Sweden) its amazeballs! and dried reindeer that you chop of yourself with a knife
Im from Finland and finally see you guys taste bit of finnish food/drink...theres plenty more to discover than lapland...oh yeah they should of eaten that cheese with cloudberry jam thats the way to do it.
Lapland is an area spanning the northern parts of Norway, Sweden and Finland. It does extend to Russia as well, but only a small part of it in the north-western corner of it, close to the Finnish and Norwegian border. Bread cheese is traditionally eaten with cloudberry jam. People also eat it as is, but it has little taste. Just like condensed cottage cheese. Why does your cured reindeer look like reindeer salami sliced?
@@NaeniaNightingale Flora and fauna are the "scientific" (i.e. Latin) names for plant life and animal life. This is, within the context of biological life, in contrast to fungi and bacteria, but also excludes everything that's not a biological life form. The joke here was that, to highlight the absurdity in Ryan's statement, I was pretending to agree with the mindset he expressed, just to demonstrate how restrictive a diet without flora and fauna would be. Salt is a mineral that is widely used in the human diet, and I singled it out for comedic effect, but other aspects of our diet that I could've mentioned include various micronutrients like zinc and magnesium, and mushrooms. Hope that helps!
I'm from Alaska and love both reindeer and caribou. I once brought a reindeer sausage sandwich for lunch outside of Alaska and was shocked at how upset people were.
I am actually happy that you guys tried something that is more common to people from Lapland and even in the middle of the country and not just sweets or things that are more common from the South. Very interesting to see your reactions to these! Thank you for making this video! :D
"He knows when you are sleeping, he knows when you're awake. He knows when you are eating all his best friends off a plate." ~best line of the video. Thanks George!!
It has always puzzled me how sacred reindeers are in other countries, like, everyone gets sad if reindeers get eaten. It's facinating. Reindeers are not cute, there's a hell of a lot of them in Lapland and reindeers' delicious! :)
Well, for those of us in areas where we never get to see reindeer on a regular basis, the only representations of them are cute cartoon ones shown to us from our earliest childhoods as Santa's best friends who help him deliver presents. It's almost instinctive at this point. "Noooo, you've killed Rudolph!!!" (Now, I didn't say it was rational. Just one of those things.)
Also they roam around Lapland freely because they are not kept in pens or pastures so you see them everywhere. They like to come to my house and eat my hard grown vegetables! But they're skittish so they're easy to scare off.
What do you mean they are not cute? Of course they are. Doesn't mean you can't eat them It's also one of the most ethical meats you can eat. At least In Finland Reindeers are mostly allowed to roam free in the nature And they are then killed when needed.
The Finnish way of eating "bread cheese" is with cloudberry jam - also, not in my life have I seen "bread cheese" that chunky! :D Also, when you say Lapland, do you mean the Finnish, the Swedish or the Norwegian Lapland? ;)
What you could do is, you heat up the cheese and then put the sugary liqueur over it and eat it with a spoon. And you don't have a swede casserole plain, it's a side dish. That's like having mashed potatoes with nothing on.
@@antonwestman9094 lapland is In Finland (look it up, it covers nearly a third of Finland) but people like to say stuff like sweden's lapland or Norway's lapland but in reality they're talking about their northern regions that have sami people.
There's both a province in Finland named Lapland and a province in Sweden named Lapland. Until 1809 they were the same province, but that province got split up into a Swedish part and a Finnish part due to the victory of the Russian Empire in the Finnish War when Russia created the Grand Duchy of Finland from the territory obtained from Sweden in accordance with the terms of the Treaty of Hamina. Lapland is, in English, also often used as a name for the wider Sápmi region of northern Fennoscandia. Perhaps this is why the Norwegian county of Finnmark so often is called "Norwegian Lapland" by the travel industry.
thisdamnthingy actually we have a lot of finns in Australia. contact your local lutheran church and see if any finns go there and if they have finish markets. canberra has markets every fortnight.
Another thing that's wonderful is jam made of cloudberries (hjortronsylt in Swedish). Even here it's really darn expensive so it's nothing the average person buys everytime you need a new jar of jam, but wow... the taste is amazing! And I confess... I am weak for reindeer, hare and moose. Born and raised by the coast in Västerbottens län in northern Sweden (the 2nd northernmost county in the country) so it's always been close by, and the fact that my father-in-law is a hunter makes for fresh high quality meat every now and then. :)
Just learned that a swede is the same as a rutabaga. Had to look it up because of the swede casserole. Love learning from internet inspired tangents. Thanks!
Lapland is an area in the northern parts of all fenno-scandinavia, not just Finland. It's the area where the Sami people have traditionally lived, which they call Sapmi.
Alastair Ward fuck the Internet, nobody seen, it's a wonderful life, but yet were going backwards in society, cause everybody on the Internet has seen filthy frank eating hair and getting sick all over his friends, that's how far we've come
Sport HornetFTW I grew up on a lot of these foods, especially salmon soup, and I'm from north of Sweden with a finnish grandma. It's just that north and south of Sweden is very different.
Also, for some reason this was the funniest video in a while! Especially their reactions to the swede casserole! And I now really want to try that cloudberry liqueur!!!!!!
It's called Kainuun juustoleipä in these parts (Savo). And Kainuu may seem like way up north for peeps from inside Ring III, but it isn't in Lapland. (And yes, I know it's called leipäjuusto elsewhere and consumed also in actual Lapland.)
I just came here for a craic after hearing that a friend's dog just died and started crying like crazy and now I've seen people eat reindeer. Now I'm crying again, thanks guys.
You guys should try mead's ("honey wine") from all over! German, Scandinavian, Polish, English, American etc. Being a bit of a mead fanatic, I can even offer suggestions for each country. Thanks! Lapland is not only a region of northern Finland, but also a northern area that is in multiple countries (Fennoscandia & Russia) and home to the Sami people!
AntiqueUnicorn it is indeed a region in Finland, but can also be used as a term to describe where the indigenous people of Scandinavia(used to) live, which is Finland, Norway, Sweden and Russia. But I personally wouldn't call that area Lapland, at least not anymore as it is a region in Finland and "lapp" has been used as kind of an insult(at least in some places in Norway)for the Sámi people.
I love bread cheese (I call it tire cheese though because of the consistency). It is great with jam. Finns always served it with that for me, so I guess you eat it like that always.
Swede from Lapland here, you are not supposed to eat bread cheese cold (we call it Kaffeost) the texture is very coarse and grainy then. It's delicious when served in coffee or with cloudberry yam though. We usually eat reindeer meat cured, smoked, dried, sautéed, or as souvas (brined and lightly smoked reindeer meat in thin slices). Never had it as a salami though
How 'bout a version for 2018 with "Loimulohi" (salmon cooked nailed to a board next to an open fire, seasoned with seasalt, served with potato mash), "Poronkäristys" (really thin slices of reindeer meat cooked on an extremely hot pan served with what you served the cured version of it with), "Riisipuuro" (rice porridge, served hot with sugar and cinnamon sprikled on top) and "Glögi" (a spicy hot drink very common in Finland around christmas time) at least?
As a Finn, I'd say that bread cheese is way too thick to be served as is. Plus, after you cut it to suitable pieces, I'd definitely recommend you melt it a bit on a hot pan, and then enjoy it with cloudberry jam. The cooking and cloudberries practically make the dish. Without those elements, I'd hate it too - but with them, I love it!
What was with these foods though? You DO eat bread cheese with something on the side, not just plain cheese alone. Cloudberry jam (the same berry they had in the liqueur) is the most common one. The cheese also looked really weird. Secondly, the reindeer dish? That looked like jerky, but in reality you put tiny pieces of fresh reindeer meat in a cast iron kettle with lots of butter. It is served with mashed potatoes and lingonberry jam so that's what you did get right.
