Swedish Food & What You Should Eat in Sweden 

I think Mark should get a grant from the EU for all this excellent work he does promoting tourism in Europe.

7:47 That was probably the best pronunciation of "surströmming" i've ever heard from an American. Great vid!

I'm a swede but when I read the comment section i just realised how much "national" food we have that no one else have. This makes me kind of proud! 🇸🇪

This is kind of interesting to watch as a Swede, lol

One word, 4 syllables....... "smörgåstårta"!!!! As an American living in Sweden.

You forgot the most important food, biltemakörv.

Your pronunciations are fine! "Surströmming" is more of a cultural marker than a real food. I am glad that you mentioned "gravlax", which is very traditional. Mine is, of course, better than most... :) Normally served with potatoes boiled with a lot of dill. Some other things you might try here; Smorgasbord (one of the very few words English has picked up from Swedish!) Souvas and renskav if you are in the north (reindeer meat, smoked and not) Traditional Scanian goose dinner if you are in the far south Löjrom (caviar from a small fish, a lot better than Russian caviar). Expensive though! Pea soup with pancakes afterwards is a traditional meal on Thursdays. A little glass of "punsch" should go with it...

Those tiny potatoes are new potatoes or "färskpotatis" in Swedish. They're seasonal, and only available in early summer. We boil them in salted water with dill sprigs and serve with butter (accompanied by a cold beer) for the best taste. Anyway, great video and cheers from Stockholm.

It's worth noting that Sweden have five (5!) national days dedicated to different types of pastries/desserts. Starting in chronological order at the beginning of the year we have Fettisdagen which is the first day of the traditional fast, like Mardi Gras or Shrove Tuesday when you eat Semlor, which is sweat wheat bread buns filled with whipped cream and almond icing. Traditionally they are eaten in a bowl of warm milk. Then in late March there is the våffledagen or the waffle day which is a day dedicated to eating waffles with whipped cream and jam, though originally it had something to do with religion. Next is the 4 of October which is the day cinnamon bun or cinnamon roll because we swedes really like our cinnamon bun with coffee. Less well known, even among swedes, is the 6 of November which is celebrated to the memory of Gustavus Aloldphus or Gustav Adolf which is an old Swedish king but more importantly this is done by eating a special pastry that traditionally have a chocolate or marzipan portrait of that king. Last but probably the biggest day is Luciadagen or the Day of St. Lucia the 13th of December which is celebrated in the memory of an old Italian saint by having having boys and girls dress up in thin white nightshirts and going around in processions singing Christmas carols which in Swedish is called Lucia songs. While you watch this, and it is worth watching, you eat lussebullar or lusse buns which is sweet wheat bread buns flavoured with saffron and raisins. So we swedes really like our candy, pastries and desserts.

Good one. You've missed to mention the Swedish Fika ;-)

This is like the fourth (or fifth vlog) viewed as of like today --- which covered 'What to eat in Germany ... to ... in Sweden.' Really extensive. Greatly [nicely] filmed and its overall vantage points to content. Plus, reviews. Quite delightfully produced. Upbeat. And super easy to digest. Right 'on-the-Money' for prospective travellers and visitors alike to each other.

Yellow pea soup with pork and a dollop of mustard is a classic, and pancakes with jam for dessert. Traditionally you eat it on Thursdays.

Great video! Been living here for the past two years and recognized many of your suggestions

Hi mark, i really enjoyed this video. Please do more food themed videos. Food is definitely part of the cultural experience of visiting a new country for me. I always make it a point to visit a supermarket/foodmarket in any country i visit. I especially like the after drinks food / fast food part of the video. 😊👍

How can you not mention Semla once? When in Sweden you have totry semlor!

Smörgåstårta has been my favorite Swedish food so far! So good!!

Hey, there are like 50 varieties of black licorice and half of them are salt based and some are just sugary. Also, there is varying degrees to the intensity of the licorice flavor. And they can be soft and chewy to very hard.

If you can, try and eat Lufsa. I'm Swedish and I didn't encounter it until I was 32 years old, so it is not common all over the country. I think it is mainly from the south end, Småland or Öland region. It is kind of like a potato pancake with bacon on top made in the oven. With lingon to of course. Best Swedish food I've ever eaten, so I looked up the recipe and started making it myself. For another rarity, there is kroppkakor. More or less balls made out of mashed potatoes and flour with minced meat inside, that has been boiled. Again, with lingon.

I am Brazilian living in Sweden. Your channel is great! Thanks!

Blodpudding (or Black pudding as it's called in the UK) has always been my favourite dish. I don't remember it personally but when i was about 5-6 years old i got to choose the family dinner on a friday night, my parents took me to the store and gave me free reigns over the entire dinner. Ended up with Blodpudding, Lingonsylt (Lingonberry Jam), Grädde (cream) and Bacon. I would very much call it an aquired taste, but as someone who was born and raised in Sweden, i've always loved it.

great video, straight to the point and not mixed into a vlog or sth.

I’m from the US and I LOVE black licorice! 🖤

Sweden is a place I want to go too someday, the food looks amazing. Thanks for the video Wolter!

That pretty much sums it up, good one!

blood pudding with hard fried bacon and lingon....just sooo good!

Thanks +woltersworld !! I love your video's! I get so see a lot of places I visited when my family was overseas due to father being in the Army.

So excited for my trip! Doing the tri country tour as well as copenhagen and amsterdam! Gotgenburg, stockholm, oslo, tromso, kilsijarvi! Leaving in three days so excited

if you ask me, you did nail the pronunciation quite well on those Swedish words. just felt like add up a few things: sill=pickled herring surströmming=fermented herring many people have raisins and nuts in their glögg, which you mostly can't buy unless it is winter. you can actually eat these tiny potatoes as they are ;) yup, that's all I had to say, so ha en bra dag :)

I love herring. I've only had it here in the US from supermarkets, so I can only imagine it's even better I'm Sweden.

I really enjoy your videos from different countries. Im native swedish, some things i question, but mostly you are correct ;) Ive had some laughs... thanks! Keep it up

It’s good to see Fiskekyrkan in the background at the beginning! Greetings from Gothenburg!

Great video thank you!

I liked your video. Good pics of meals. 👍

First video viewed & I've definitely suscribed. Hello from Australia :)

so cool .I love swedish food

Mega super nice video, i really like it! 🤩

I love Swedish food😍😍 i used to work for Ikea for 2 years ate everything they had :)

Very rightly guided I must say...!

Sweden is so beautiful, I can't wait to go

Pickled herring...love it!

Loved the info. Tx

Very informative and good food to try😊

I definitely recommend the sill (herring). In my opinion it’s very Swedish so it might not klick for you right away but ones you get it you will probably love it

Looks delicious. I always wanna try western food..

2.58 "you want to have a snopp" lol Means a different thing in swedish

I can recommend Liver paste (leverpastej in swedish) with pickles on Knäckebröd! Max is awesome, but in Sweden we do have two other local fast-food burger chains: Frasses and Sibylla, Frasses goes for the size, and Sibylla goes for tasty burgers that Max and Frasses don´t have (I guess, unfortunately I haven´t visited Sibylla in a while).

A Smorgasbord in the Grand Hotel in Stockholm is SPECTACULAR! Many of the foods mentioned here and then some! In NYC the Smorgasbord at Aquavit at Holiday Time is also amazing, if very expensive.

...We have a Place in Canada called ...Bulk Barn store.....And you Can scoop Any CANDY you want...Even the Classic Swedish Berries.!

i think that the half of us who commentates are from sweden.

Thanks for the info and i think you look wonderful 😊

Great video!

another thing you should try is smörgåstårta it's absolutely delicious

You need to try the Kalix löjrom (Whitefish roe), which you can always find at better restaurants serving Nordic. To that a snaps that goes well with seafood, or a glass of dry champagne.

The tiny potatoes or "Nypotatis" (New potatoes) is mostly available during midsummer's eve and they are crazy expensive if you want to eat them before midsummer. After midsummer they drop in prize.

Mark, I just saw your "What to Eat in England" and you mentioned black pudding as a part of a full English breakfast. That’s also a “blood pudding”. When you are in Sweden you should experience the Swedish tradition of “Fika” which is coffee and pastries but is also the social event having coffee and pastries with your friends, family or colleges at a home, at a café or at work. “Fredags fika” is a Swedish tradition where colleges takes turns bringing home bakes to work for a late Friday coffee break before everybody goes home for the weekend.

Mark, I was just wondering, do you happen to remember what restaurant you went to for the herring sampler when you were in Stockholm? My girlfriend and I are backpacking in September and we would love to do a bit of a recreation of that. Many thanks, and keep doing what you're doing, we love your videos!

Delicious... I think for me kebab and mash potatoes goes wow

Max over McDonalds or Burger King anytime it's available and you want fast food! Julmust is also sold around Easter, then known as Påskmust (some say it's the same, some say it's almost the same, we really don't know, secret recipe ^^) In early summer, there are färskpotatis, which are the first potatoes of the season with the premier around midsommar. They are something special! Though you can't make mashed potatoes out of them. Summer is more of a färskpotatis season and winter is more a mashed potatoes season (there are other "normal" potatoes in the winter as well, but they aren't as good as färskpotatis!)

Everything looks good.

Very interesting video !

Another thing to try is ugnspannkaka, basically pancakes made in the oven. Not sure if it is swedish but we eat it alot so yeah

If youre curious about julmust and in sweden around easter, try påskmust. It's the exact same drink with a different lable.

Looks absolutely delicious and tasty 😊

When it comes to "Surströmming" a way to if you didn´t fancy going to school for at least one day. Was when we put 2 can´s of surströmming in the air ventilation system in our school and opened the can´s. It smelled so much they decided to close the school for the rest of the day so they could air the smell out. And they didn´t found who had done it. That´s the best part.

I come from Sweden and honestly, if I hadn't heard you speak I would probably assume you were Swedish too. I think you fit right in! ;) Also, fun and good list!

This was a great video. I noticed how many are British foods also. But as the swedes and British have a long history I'm not surprised. Liquorice, (I grew up with it. My mum used to chew on the actual wooden sticks!) black (blood) puddings, new potatoes and a good kebab after a few beers. 🤣 Love Swedish food though. Very healthy.

Lovley recomendations! Im from Sweden, and youre spot on with everything! And you are cute to :D

you should also try pyttipanna which is a mixture of diced potatoes, steak and hotdog sausage fried in butter with a fried egg on top served with beetroot and pickles :)

I recommend "Raggmunk", its like a potato pancake served with slices of pork (like thicker bacon) and lingonberry jam.

You pronunced "surströmming" quite well😉

I like your channll wolter love from sweden

If you visit Sweden you need to try Rotmos and Fläsklägg aswell as Semla if it's the period for it. Also if you try surströmming, don't just eat the fish itself. Eat together with Knäckebröd and butter, chopped onions and sourcream with dill.

Tunnbrödrulle, you'll find it in 'Sibylla' or other hot dog/hamburger stands. Flat bread, potato mash, fried or boiled sausage/hot dog, lettuce, tomato, pickled cucumbers, ketchup, mustard, and also ask for shrimp salad with it. Everything is put into the flatbread which is rolled around it as a cone and served in a paper. To drink, ask for a "Pucko" which is a chocolate milk drink. May seem like a weird mix, I couldn't tell, but it's perhaps the most Swedish meal you'll ever get next to meatballs and sill. There is also palt or kroppkakor which is a boiled potato mash ball big as a small apple, inside there's pork, onions and black pepper in the center. Served with lingon and melted butter. 2 or 3 should be enough to satisfy. Very yummy. Someone also mentioned semla which is a traditional pastry around easter but sometimes today can be found already from new year's eve and forward, but never beyond easter. A wheat bun with cardamom, the top is cut off, some of the bread are removed and replaced with almond chops (almost as marzipan), covered with whipped cream and then the lid of the bun is placed on top. To be really traditional it should be served in a bowl floating in hot milk which will turn the bun into snot, more or less, but it will taste even better. We had a king, Adolf Fredrik known to die in 1771 from eating too many semla's at a time. Smörgåstårta, or 'sandwich cake' which is something that looks like a sweet cake but is filled with 'food stuff'. White bread usually in Three layers and all goodies you could find in your fridge and then all the mayonnaise you could obtain within 100 miles radius. A good one does not contain any fruit but perhaps grapes and honeydew melon, if there's ham slices to go with it which it should be. There's always tons of shrimps sprinkled on top. There's always fresh cucumber slices involved. Probably tomatoes, maybe boiled eggs, likely dill, hard cheese slices and more. The better one's have liverwurst mixed with whipped cream and horseradish at the bottom layer. Besides that, creativity and good taste may rule. And Mayo. And no fruit, some jerks put fruit salad mixed with mayo in it, send it out immediately and act profoundly insulted if you get one of those. This is food, not dessert. The absolutely best one's have both White bread and a black rye bread called 'kavring' in it.The Vegemite of the north is Kalles Kaviar which you eat as a spread on a sandwich, it comes in a tube and you haven't truly lived if you haven't written your name on a sandwich by squeezing a Kalles Kaviar tube and then dipped the sandwich in hot chocolate milk. Knäckebröd, loaf, any bread, butter and Kalles. Or a boiled egg cut in half, one squeeze on the Mayo tube, one squeeze on the Kalles tube. There you go, it's party time. Kalles Kaviar is smoked cod caviar mixed with a kind of tomato relish. The taste will surprise you. Remember to be polite to your host. No, it's not dangerous, that caustic sensation will go away soon.

Blood pudding, lingonberry and potato buns are so good!!!!! Nom nom nom!!! :D

Marabou chocolate is addicting!

You should come visit the north of Sweden aswell :P

you dont need snaps for picked herring, you generally drink shots for surströmming (the fermented fish)

Your videos are great! It´s really fun to hear you talk about some things I´ve never thought of, like the lingonberries on everything, lmao :P However, as a Swede, there are some things I think you´re wrong about - like the food - and I realize it´s difficult to find the right place as a tourist but I really think u should come to my house next time you´re in Sweden and I´ll cook some traditional Swedish food, and bake and hopefully you´ll look at it differently ;-)

I really want to try licorice and fresh brew swedish beer. I bet it taste like heaven. 😄😄😄😄

Good

😋 Yum! I'm hungry already! .....I' 'll pass on the crayfish and the blood pudding though! 😮

If you came to Sweden you need to try swedish strawberry cake and you need to try kroppkakor.

You did really good. And btw. You DO look good.

I feel somekind of pride when someone talks about our food...

some other great meals to try in sweden are pölsa and peasoup with pork and flapjacks

This Herring reminds me of the Rollmops in Germany :). But this all sounds ok. ;)Nice Swedish food^^

You should also try _isterband_ which is something similar to a sausage

We put much more then butter on our knäckebröd. Cheese, ham, etc whatever you can put on a sandwich. And it's always snaps, not snap :)

one of my favorit meals is lingon, blodpudding and bacon (lingonberries, blood pudding and bacon)

I get meatballs and pickled herring from the Ikea :)

Yes to Swedish Food 🙂👍🏻

Russians also have pickled herring, and I think that it is AMAZING

Ok vad bra

*drooling*

you pronounced surströmming great

If you eat at Max, I suggest you have the Frisco meal, not the original. It has the same dressing but come with a rather unique tasty bun.

second cool video! 😊

if you go to max try Friscomål or go to burgerking and try WHOPPER PEPPER and try the Swedish mjölkchoklad thats the best milkchoklet you can buy in sweden and try the diffrent typs on chips and the cheesedoodles

What is that dish at 5:14? It looks AMAZING!

actually i am danish but the tiny potatoes are only available in summer times u can also get tiny ones in winter but not as tiny as ones in summer and no you dont need to mash them you cut a piece and eat it no need to mash. i love to mash them but its not what ur supposed to mostly kids do it.