Similarities And Differences Of German and Swedish Food 

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I totally agree when it comes to bread. Growing up with friends in Bremerhaven.....the bread is heavenly. Back then always with Nusspli or Nutella.

Actually you might enjoy it.. In general people who like things like kalles kaviar might enjoy Surströmming. I had a friend from Poland visit and invited her to some friends who was going to have a surströmmingsfest.. She quite liked it, but the thing is the smell, you absolutely have to do it outdoors, and try find some people who knows how to do it properly with all the surrounding things. I grew up with it, and happily eat a filet straight from the can, but that is NOT for everyone.. :D

I can't believe no one mentioned that Smörgåsbord is now an international word smorgasbord/Sammelsurium

Cool video, i would like to see one with England food aswell, we all know about full english breakfast but other food would be interesting aswell.

Kavli, the producer of that cheese in a tube, is Norwegian though.

Well we have the "knäckebröd" . a lot of soft bread are imported recipes

Smörgåstårta (made the right way) is pure heaven!! 😛Surströmming devides the country I would say, some totally love it and some runs away from it ´cos of the smell.... 😂 It needs to be eaten in the proper way I think, on "tunnbröd", with potatoes, creme fraiche/sourcreme and dill... I tried it once like that, and it was ok! 🙂You are doing a great job Julie, love watching your videos - good energy! Thank you! Keep it up!

I love the buffet style lunch as well! It works really well when you don't wanna cook one day and just take your family there for lunch and everyone is happy! 😁😉

Great video! I guessed that both countries eat a lot of potatoes. Thank you for remembering my comment. Erfolg für Sie 🇧🇷🌻

You are in for a treat when trying smörgåstårta 😊 but surströmming is optional. I have opted not to try it all my life. It is more a of a thing in the north not where I live. Perhaps the loss is on me 😢.

Surströmming skall du äta med en person som visar dej hur man gör. Annars blir det bara fel, har sett dom som äter den hel på RU-vid ..galet. Man måste äta den med rätt ingredienser.

My father is the child of eastern European Jewish immigrants, so I grew up with pickled herring and smoke whitefish and, of course, smoked salmon. And also gefilte fish. But I think that most of these (aside from smoked salmon) are not that common in the US outside of New York City.

Have you tried "Hasselbackspotatis"? That is fantastic!

You should have mentioned the cheese slicer and how big pieces of cheese we buy, you don't do that do you? Love that you love kaviar. You gotta try smörgåstårtaaa, so good!

Loved the “next level” parts, haha. Those are things you never really reflect on when you’re born here. One tiny little correction is that we have moose and not elk. Elk are much smaller and looks a little more like a deer. Thanks for great content!

Lutefisk at Christmas (sometimes called drain-cleaner cod) and pizza topped with banana/curry powder/mozzarella (from a tube?) I've heard about in Sweden but not had in the UK. They sound "another dimension". 🥴😵

I think we have a wide variety of bread in Sweden 💯 Although quite a few Swedes favour shitty white bread without nutrients. Just like in the UK😉😄

I'd probably say that Sweden has no "bread culture" or whatever you want to call it. Especially if you compare it to countries like Germany or France. We walked in the trap of mass produced/industrialised bread and we buy it at the supermarket. I've never eaten surströmming and I don't really know anyone that does it as a tradition either. I'd say it's more of a thing on the east coast than it is here on the west coast.

I find it great and somewhat surprising that you actually love kaviar and all of our salty food. Usually people outside of the Nordic countries don’t.

What seems to be the big difference between German and Swedish food is that in Sweden there is a tradition of going to other countries to develop as a chef and then people have mainly gone to France to develop in the finer restaurants. Then you watch food competitions, the Swedish national chef team ranks high in these competitions and often takes medals. You don't hear anything about Germany having this or that it's even going well for them. So Sweden is good at adopting new dishes and what they do is of high quality precisely because of all the competition. Because Sweden's chefs also compete to be the chef of the year in Sweden, this affects everything in the way of food. When it comes to sour strömming, many people are scared by the strong rotten smell BUT people don't understand that the strong smell tells that the fish has fermented well and the taste of the sour strömming is not at all bad as the smell. For many people who taste surströmming but missed feeling the smell when the can is opened, like surströmming. What I can mention to your followers on RU-vid and if they want to visit a good restaurant for fish, it's Gothenburg. In Gothenburg, there are the best restaurants when it comes to fish and all Swedes know that if you are from Gothenburg, you can do it with fish. Artists and actors around the world know that the best restaurants when it comes to fish dishes are in Gothenburg. So many of them go to Sweden only to eat fish but also eat at other restaurants. Tip when you love caviar, what is very popular up in Lappand is to take a hard bread and on it you slice a cold potato that has been boiled and put it on the hard bread and on this you put caviar, it is also popular to change out the boiled cold potatoes against hard-boiled egg to put sliced on the sandwich and then kaivar on this. Regarding bread, there is a big difference in taste in how bread tastes up in Norrbotten and then all the way through Sweden down to Skåne. We in Norrbotten like sweet bread and the further down through Sweden you go, the less sweet the bread becomes. So in Sweden, bakeries around the country adapt to what people like. If you want to learn new bread recipes, sandwich cakes, pastries, regular cakes and other things to go with coffee or tea, buy the magazine Hembakat. When you're going to taste sandwich cake, find out who in Stockholm makes the tastiest and best sandwich cakes, because there is a big difference in how well these are made. Once you've tasted a good sandwich cake, you're hooked.

Have you been to any kräftskiva yet?

I sometimes hear Germans complain that it's impossible to find unsweetened bread in Sweden. However I think that has started to change. Is this something that has bothered you?

I am born and raised Swedish, but I do not eat raw animals! This goes also for fish. So no pickled herring or cured salmon. And of couse not raw animals that have gone off (fermented herring). I think I will rather starve to death before eating those things. I am also not much for snaps. I also do absolutely not drink coffe. Otherwise Swedes are known for beeing the second heavies coffe drinkers in the world, after the finns. But there are also a lo of great things. One of the you mentioned is "smörgåstårta". The food I have eaten in Germany was good. Except knödel which I found too heavy. My UK customers have often said that they doubt that I am at all Swedish because I am different from the rest. I see myself as typhically Swedish, but perhaps they do have a point here😀

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Vill du att man svarar på svenska eller engelska ? för jag klarade inte tyskan i skolan 🤔 eller ska man blanda ?

Yeah.. its this concept of "husmanskost" and on top of that "smörgåsbord"! In anyway.. moste swedes eat international and crosower food on a daily basis! Many lunch resturants serves kind of traditional swedish "husmanskost" as a base and tops it up with international/medeterainian/vegetarian alternatives! Its kind of a lie about swedish "husmanskost".. its rather this that it have changed by every decade/every evolvment in trade/influence of other countrys! However I like to highlite a few "traditionals", its potato based, (befor it was rutabaga and bread based) fish and pork based, lingon berrys and green peas.. and red beats for some dishes! And then.. how have it evolved.. yeah, Kebab pizza with pizza sallat as a side (a balkan cabbage sallat) is a cross over! Tex/Mex.. is cosy friday food.. for familys with children.. kind of resembling tacos/burritos.. the thing is.. children can play with the food! In anyway.. we are europeans, we influence each other, and every country kind of preserve at least a minor of specialitys! And top of this.. there is traditions.. how to eat at a christmas table, whats to eat at "midsommarfirande", make it a barbecue, but one have to at least taste the "Matjees sill" to be qualifyed! And in autum, there is this crawfish party, (kräftskiva), its kind of a neighbour/friends gathering thing! One where stupid hats, eat a lot of crawfish, sing stupid songs and take a lot of snaps! In the same season, there is "surströmingskiva".. stinky fish party.. dont try this at home.. only if you get invited to sombody that know how to handle and served it! Im actualy can eat it.. becuse im know how to handle it and how to serve it, I dont like it that much, but if one handle it in the right way, it taste a lot better then it smells! Most swedes dont like it, its only a tradition!

Just a quick question, is there a thing for women to stop dye thier hair?, I see alot of women who are like 35+ stop doin it, is it a new trend?