WEIRD THINGS SWEDES DO #2 

I am studying SFI in Stockholm,but they don't tell us so many funny and interesting things like you do!😀 Great job!😊

Jordgubbstårta! Om inte midsommar fanns kunde vi inte äta JORDGUBBSTÅRTA!!!

It is called Hans in Norwegian because Hans is short for Johannes = John.

Glad I'm not the only one who says knäckebröd like that 😂

Allemansrätten isn't weird. It's awesome. That translates into English as 'everyone sucks.' NO! That's not true. It translates as 'The rights of Everybody.' The more you know.

I went to a Waldorf/Rudolf Steiner school as a kid and we called it St. Jan. We jump over a fire and sing (not weird at all) and wear flower crowns as well, eat special cake and fruit punch or whatever. Nowhere else in the Netherlands it’s celebrated as far as I know...

In Scotland there is no laws of trespass, so you are allowed to walk where you want (within reason) as long as you don't damage anything. I think we can light fires too, and swim wherever we want, although it's always too cold for much of that.

If we had 'Allemansrätten' in Slovakia, there would be no forests left, no flowers, no mushrooms, no nothing 😆

Yes "Allemansrätten" really is awesome! in my opinion you dont live in a free country without it. -Nature is for every one, it is not just a piece of land for someONE to own.

You legit make my day when I watch your videos 😂😂😂 ‘You gotta be somebody someday’ Love from Ireland

Snus is indeed quite popular in Finland, even though it is illegal to sell it here. If you want to obtain it legally, you have to import it yourself which basically means buying it from the ferries between Turku and Stockholm or either driving up north and over the border to Haparanda. And you're only allowed to bring a 1000 grams. But of course that's just what the law says: there's a thriving black market and it seems that 35€ (330 SEK) per "tower" is a decent price to pay even if it's the cheapest sfuff which costs something like 20€ (190 SEK) in Sweden. The premium brands can go up to 70€ (660 SEK) in here.

5:14 JOKAMIEHENOIKEUDET

England has a traditional midsummer celebration with a maypole too but it's rarely celebrated these days. We have a traditional song called Maypole too that was featured in the 1973 film The Wicker Man.

Alex skarsgard explains midsummer celebration better and also demonstrates the frog dance. Quite a sight!

Does our over usage of swear words count as something weird we do?

Midsummer is a big thing also in Estonia and Latvia.

Ok. I'm going to write this in english because I want to clarify something for your non-swedish followers. There is one thing you forgot to mention about the "ring-games" around the pole. It's for kids. Adults do it to show the kids how it's done and it's also a form of security for the kids to have grown-ups near. And of course, sometimes the grown-ups will drink a little to much Snaps and. . . well.

Yeah, American's call it chew. I was so confused in another video when someone said it! I'm studying abroad in Sweden in Fall, I'm very excited! You're videos are great, good job!

John the Baptist on the 24th of June is our national day here in Quebec (French part of Canada). We also celebrate on the 23rd at night

You have Surströmming for Midsommar and we in Minnesota have Lutefisk around Christmas time. Nobody except the elder Scandinavians eat (or like) the stinky stuff!!

Finland har allemansrätten också, det är "jokamiehenoikeudet"

Swedish are great People especially some with traditional cultural heritage background like few of my own teacher's! They were so kind to us me and my brothers ....and that was long time ago 1980s ....I remember one of my teacher was so characteristic personality Viking Tall and huge long blond hair and strange blonde mustage ...if you didn't know him you would be scared by his look!! He was a Giant Kind Person.... Like all Real Swedish People.

Snus is NOT popular in Denmark. I live in Sweden and work in denmark (for 33 years now), and i promise it's impossible to find snus in Denmark. 90 % of the danes don't even know what snus is.

That Allemansratten thing though does not work everywhere I think, for example if you're on someone's property you can build a tent but not really on the guy's front yard. I think you need to be out of sight or in comfortable distance not to bother the owners to do it.

In Algeria ........Snus is called "Chemma" الشمة Algerians consume 700 million bags (20 and 30 g) of "Chemma" (Snus) per year, according to statistics from the National Tobacco and Match company (SNTA).

Hellooo Me and my boyfriend love your videos! Greetings from Brazil. 💚💛💙

State of Iowa, America snus is called ‘chew’. I’m really surprised snus is so popular with Swedes...

We have May Day which is May 1st in the US. Kids used to make May Day baskets and put flowers in them at school and leave them on people's doorsteps as as a surprise. We also celebrate Mid Summertime Festival with Maypoles that we dance around after making flower crowns, but all these are pagan traditions and few people do this any more. They have nothing to do with John the Baptist or any saint. Maybe the Missionaries in Scandinavia blended the two together in an effort to keep people's traditions but morph them into Christian ones.

3:30 that song is also translated to finnish!! "Pienet sammakot, pienet sammakot, ne lystikkäitä on" THAT SONG IS DOPE

3:25 is same in finland, the whole list is same here

Thanks 👍 ☺️ you are so right on what real Swedish People do!

How come your channel doesn't have more subscribers? The info is great and the number of views is also good. 🤔

Putting up a tent in the middle of nowhere for one day is pretty nice i think. When you want to walk in to the nature and you are able to camp there... Thats so cool! I would love to do this sometimes, but in germany the laws for "wild-camping" are so weird and it's almost completely forbidden. :] So be happy to be allowed to put so many tents possible wherever you want for a day :DD

Snus is called Dip in America. You kinda have to specify that it's the tobacco kind and not a dip for your chips though. 😅

In some towns in the south of Germany we also put up a pole and dance around it. xD I hope that in the near future cash will extinct in Germany, too. I hate that I have to carry extra cash on me, in case you cannot pay with card. I also love the idea of „Allemansrätten“ :)

Jag ska flytta till Sverige och jag älskar din videor! Grattis!!

Snus and surströmming, two things that both smell and taste really bad, haha! Also, I used to listen to "the frog song" when I was a kid, ah so many memories.

3:28 oh I know this song! "pienet sammakot, pienet sammakot, ne lystikkäitä on..." Wait, you sing a children's song like that on Midsummer... I knew you sing and dance with the pole thing, I just never knew what kind of songs. also: lystiga = lystikäs. Talking about swedish loanwords in finnish I guess. :)

I have started to watch your videos just now and man the longer i am watching more i want to see and meet some Swedish :D And we had Surstroming with my friends and it was worst thing we ever tried... couple of years later we bought it again :D

John and Hans (and Ivan, Juan, Sean etc.) come from 'Jo(h)annes'

In Azerbaijan it is also welcomed to tent where u want, but picking up flowers and mushrooms are vandalims for people. That is why it can be applicable by rule, but point of view of people it is neglected. However, people generally do basic fishing for satisfaction. In here Azerbaijan, Caucasia it is also must do to take off shoes when entering apartment. Host generally gives slippers for guests. In some schools for children it is required to bring indoor shoes and change it due to hygine. Staring at the someone's eyes can be end serious argue, it is not publicly accepted in Azerbaijan. However, people dont love this, they smiled and ask gently and madly that if person stares someone it is for sex or killing, what's your idea... Our cultures are similar.

First and only time I ever saw snus was when I was at university. There were a lot of Norweigians there and they were doing it all the time. Very strange.

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For the Allemansratten law, do that mean you can make a tent on someone's property and eat their berries? - I'm from Los Angeles.

That is a good and informative video. Btw, my friend often uses this thing called snus. I read that it is from Sweden and my friend loves that stuff. It smells really good, though. I can't say the same about surströmming, lmao :D

UK finally has snus. Only taken 10 years

Even if it's done in US and Russia, it's nowhere near the extent of it in Scandinavian/Nordic region I'd say. Some people do it in my country Latvia too, but mostly because they have been exposed to some Nordic country and its culture...

Debitcard hörru du. För vem köper jordgubbar på kredit?

Drink snaps, which is awesome.

When you said Knäckebröd, it sounded exactly like knekkebrød, the Norwegian word for it

Det är så kul att kolla på folk från andra länder som babblar om Sverige! Allt du sa är heeelt normalt! Midsommar är inte konstigt! Om du vore svensk hade du inte tyckt det var konstig! Översätter du detta?

oh, ours older classes was open surströmming in our high school...

put a tent anywhere in the nature wherever you want? You can only dream of that in germany

Snuff is also American fine/long/wide cut smokeless tobacco leaves that you put behind your lower lip then spit the juice whenever you need/feel to. You can swallow if you want though, but if you swallow the juice you're probably packing fudge in your boyfriends butt too xD Grizzly Wintergreen and Mint are my favorites. I'm probably in the very minority of Swedes that do snuff.

I don't know why,but this lad looks Canadian.

We celebrate the feast of St. John the Baptist in the Philippines (also June 24) by throwing water at random people on the street.

from norway here and ayy i was named after john the baptist (johannes), also we have an app like swish too exept its called Vipps

Midsommar kommer från före & under vikingatiden (och är INTE en kristen högtid). Midsommarstången va ursprungligen en symbol för fertilitet (en ring på en stolpe) och inte korset som är idag. Samma som julafton. *Fakta är viktigt.* Midsummer comes from pre viking age (and is NOT a christian holiday). The midsummer pole was originally a symbol for fertility (a ring horizontally on a pole) and not the cross that is today. Same as christmas (jul). *Facts are important*

4:30 In Norway we have a similar app called vipps. It's basicly the same thing.

Surströmming, hahahaaaaaaaaaa !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What about all the random things we celebrate

I believe most Swedes don't like surströmming.

why wasnt majbrasan here? its really weird how we burn things to welcome the summer

Haha. Interesting video! Bill note almost extincts, so can we still exchange Swedish Currency at our bank before we go to Sweden for traveling? I think China is also on its way to the e-currency era, now we just carry our phone to pay everything via Wechat pay or Alipay. And one question: Does local supermarket also accept credit card like Visa Card or Mastercard? Cuz when I was in The Netherlands, the local supermarket only accept local debit card, so I had to pay in cash... And nice to see how snus looks like! Cuz I was talking about the Swedish tabacco with a English friend! And I didnt know what that was. Haha I thought it would be like herb or weed which you can buy at Coffeeshop haha. Where you can buy the Snus?

I wonder if Snookie like Snus lol

Hahaha när han sa knäckebröd 🤣🙏🏻

Hej, sma grodorna's melody is the same as the French Onion song :D

den här videon är L A G O M

Hej! How is your day?

We also have snos in Finland, just with the name nuuska... To me it's hella disgusting :P

What's that song at the end?

What do you understand the most? Svenska eller engelska?

4:50 oh god i don’t know one person WHO likes surströmming, euw

Haha They sell “snus” in Finland !!!

You're gorgeous

Oh sh**.... I'm a cash-loving German and will live the next six month in Sweden... think I will have to get a credit card. :(

Midsummers Day is in very early summer, though

I don't think eating rotten fish is safe for health

Cutie!

why are your eyebrows on your chin (ooo)

Ja man får plocka blommor och svampar men det är bara om den inte är utrotningshotad

The cashless places in Sweden made being a tourist very difficult for me. I can't get a travel card that I can put krona on (I can only get euro or UK pounds for the european countries...) so I had a few awkward moments where I would try to buy something only to be turned away. I could have used my credit card, but then I'd have transaction fees + foreign currency conversion fees every time and when I was just buying a coffee or something I didn't fancy the coffee costing twice as much... luckily most of the time I was with my Swedish boyfriend so he would use his card and I could just pay him back later. But still, please think of the tourists Sweden and don't remove cash option from all your stores!! Or, if you know of a solution for something where a person that doesn't have a Swedish bank account could get a card without crazy fees every time I use it then please let me know!

St. Hans; nothing to wonder about. Johannes ==> John, Hans and more. Just like Georg is transformed to names like Jørgen (scandinavian) or Jorge (spanish). Carlos/Carl/Charles is also the same name. Nothing magical.

Ha! Knew those all :)

Banan. Apelsin. Kokain

Mitt fritids heter s:t Hans gården som ligger nära s:t Hans backar som ligger nära Backaskolan fäladsgården och fäladsskolan. The more u know BOOM.

I think Allemans is good

Yeah....snuff. Snuff=Snus

Så söt haha

0:38 NUUSKA

Ja, jag har inte ätit surströmming Heller 🤚 jag har hört att det e så äckligt så jag vågar inte prova 😫

Can you plz do a Q&A

Our midsomer celebration here with my family is to put our pole (mother who is Polish) in the middle of the backyard.....she holds long ribbons and each person in the family takes a ribbon and we sing and dance around her.... we call it dancing around the May Pole.

i dont even have a kreditcard, i only have my normal ec card

*totally dosent have A+ in allemansrätten*

Fête de la Saint Jean in French (: !

Det e bara barn (som mig) som använder pengar.

Could I find some vegan starch-type food if I ever come to Sweden? cuz i'm quite surprised of how much dairy and fish you eat LOL ciao from Italy :) I need my wheat pasta stash to survive

Yes, it makes you less swedish. 😶

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