American Reacts to Traditional Norwegian Cuisine (with Gordon Ramsay)

[@oh515]

The cowboys didn’t eat burgers and pizza. You should try to find the old American recipes, and you will probably find out there’s not so many differences. Because most of them were migrants from Europe.

[@kendexter]

100% lapskaus street

[@MultiGhostslayer]

Corn and potatoes came from America to Europe on year 1600 . So guess you find some food 😂

[@oh515]

@@MultiGhostslayer We didn't use so much corn in Norway for 100+ years ago, so that makes a difference.

[@andreassagen3965]

"What is this!?" It's a fish, my guy.

[@davidmalarkey1302]

Just shows what insular lives Americans lead. They have absolutely zero idea of life outside of their bubble hence they have zero social awareness of their surroundings

[@sindrek632]

yeah was thinking the same, like he never saw a fish before?!

[@Lillehund]

A fish its normal

[@TheSurvivor1963]

In my childhood (I grew up on a farm with horses, cows, sheep and goats) we had blood-pancakes and blood-waffles, bloodloaf (almost the same as meatloaf, but with blood instead of meat), livers, salted and cooked sheep-heads, salted and fermented goat- and sheep-legs, stews with different meats and vegetables, salted and pickled herring. I still miss many of these dishes still.

[@tubekulose]

You are freeked out by non-American food? Well, if there is any food on this planet that has the potential to freak ME out it might be the American one. Honestly! 😂

[@Lleanlleawrg]

So, yes. Gordon is very famous here in Norway as well. When you say the Sami are the indigenous population here, that's only half true. Both populations have been here for many thousands of years, and both cultures have existed simultaneously since forever. The Sami were nomadic and followed the wild game like reindeer up north. They share many cultural traits with for example several native american indian tribes. The southern populations were more stationary, and relied more on fishing and farming to sustain themselves through the winter. There's been interaction between the two for ages, but at some point the colonial attitude infected us and we started trying to subjugate the Sami peoples. This only really halted in the 1990s, and is a pretty dark stain on our history in my opinion. Edit: As for the food traditions here - like everywhere really, you only ate what you harvested or killed. There was no supermarket in 8000 BC where you didn't have to see the whole fish or animal be killed and processed. So on a show about traditional food, it wouldn't really make sense to not show those parts. But I find many people don't really seem to have a conscious relationship with where their food comes from. So that's not just a (sub)-urban American thing.

[@ShadeOnTheUtube]

While you are mostly right, the Sami actually are the indigenous population. They roamed the tundra long before our viking ancestors ever set foot in Scandinavia. So much like the nomadic American tribes, they should not be discounted by not calling them indigenous just because they did not lay claim to territory beyond where they roamed, if at all.

[@odinmarkussen6421]

@@ShadeOnTheUtube They are not indigenous...not more than us who are not sapmi. Btw...mine ancestor came before sapmi people...

[@ahkkariq7406]

@@ShadeOnTheUtube Both the Sami and the Norwegians are ancestors of the original population. The only thing that differs between the two, is that the Norwegians have their own state, which give the Sami political protection as indigenous people. According to historian and gene researcher Sturla Ellingvåg, who has the YT channel Viking Stories, Sami and Norwegians share a large proportion of DNA. Linguists believe that both Sami and Norwegian languages ​​carry remains of languages ​​that were spoken before the Germanic language Norwegian and the parts of Sami that come from Uralic languages ​​spread. Sami contains a much larger proportion of the old language(s?) than Norwegian, though.

[@Jakuri93]

@@ShadeOnTheUtube The Sami lived in Fennoscandia first, while the Norse/Scandinavian came first to Norway.. The Sami is indigenous to the north yes but not all of Norway.

[@andersgulowsen2814]

And yet we tried to Norwegianify the Sami. And tretaed them almost like USA to The Natives. Not Quite as harsh I think but still pretty bad. So yes, they do have a reason to be pissed off. They dont blame me, a man from oslo born in 1975. But They claim their rights. Some of of spite, but also alot of of need. And of course some of greed. We are all human after all. Same in USA.. The children of the slaves don't blame all of Europe and Africa for it. But they sure as hell blame USA for the treatment later. Slavery has been around for thousands of years. But never because of color. I did not google this, but the basics are correct.

[@sigrunwestrus68]

If I remember correctly, about 20 US states have access to the sea and I'm sure people living in those states, eat a lot of fresh seafood if they live close to the coast. I know that for a fact in states as Alaska, Washington state and Oregon, where I have family living. You really need to travel more, Tyler.

[@steinarhaugen7617]

Tyler is an average American. Therefore he cannot afford to travel outside his own state.

[@ysteinfjr7529]

He is a KZbinr. He can travel all over his own country and abroad if he wants and make reportages.

[@jollyo9276]

@@ysteinfjr7529 Just on point there, I guess😄 He`s visiting at least Britain and Norway, anyway. I think he is great fun to watch. Almost 2 years by now, doing "trips" to Norway ☺

[@sigrunwestrus68]

@@jollyo9276 I think he great fun to watch as well. I can't blame him for not knowing a lot about Norway or Europe in general (why should he), but he doesn't seem to know a lot about his own country either and that makes me worry about the level of education in the United Stats.

[@Allrights]

@@ysteinfjr7529 oh yeah; with a +1M subs maybe

[@evamayakornstad2576]

Well, eating blod is normal in the nordic countries. In Denmark we eat blod sussage, with pigblod. We put flour, raisins and spices in the sussge and fry it on the frying pan with cinnamon and cooked mashed appels, its a speciel delight at Christmas. And - there are food from ingitinios people in America, the food from the indians

[@presignum9015]

Blood-cake and blood-pudding were common dishes when I grew up in the 1970s in Northern Norway. My mother fried the blood-pudding in a pan, drizzled it with sugar and then served it. The taste was actually quite good, although very different from meat. I think the supermarkets stopped selling it in the 80s and 90s due to low demand.

[@monican5047]

They still sell blod sausage at Kiwi,I bought it last week!

[@Arbaaltheundefeated]

@@monican5047 I should buy some soon, I remember loving it as a kid, but it's been maaany years since I had it last!

[@Gazer75]

Burning the sheep head is to get the hair off of it. It is then boiled for hours. Some areas simply skin the head and then boil it. Not a favorite of mine, but pretty good actually. The tongue is actually pretty good after the boil when skinned and sliced for topping on bread. My dad used to have that for his lunch pack at work if we had bought a head.

[@sondrejrstad7147]

Salmon on sushi is a Norwegian invention

[@olenilsen4660]

Yeah, and it´s the worst thing ever that happened to sushi. I hate Salmon sushi.

[@Koreviking]

@@olenilsen4660Then don’t have it.

[@Ragatokk]

@@olenilsen4660 It's the best sushi, that's partly why many places give you mostly salmon sushi when you order a mix.

[@NorwegianPlanes_andstuff]

Eating horse is quite common in Norway, usually in the form of sausage. Often used as a topping like salami or used as a form of a snack type of sausage.

[@Miamia_01]

Well it’s more a hidden ingredient in stuff than anything.

[@NeroNORirl]

True, and the all time favorite fårepølse used to have horse in it.

[@slythawyrda]

thats not true, lol. most people here are very grossed out by the thought of eating horse. There was uproar when it was discovered that there was horse meat in some pre-prepared grocery store meal a few years ago. Personally, i like horse, but i think its difficult to get horse meat (except maybe some expensive butcher shops, maybe?). edit: i suppose that traditionally it was common

[@cecilierooos]

I love eating Rakfisk. Every December 23,the whole family meets up and eat ALOT of Rakfisk, fermented trout 🥰

[@RonnyWilhelmsen1001]

This was a promo from National Geographic, Gordon Ramsay: Uncharted - Season 2, Episode 7 Norway's Viking Country, 45 minutes long. I have tried most of these foods, except for the sheepshead. Even had the Sami-shoes, as a kid.

[@Mag-V]

Reindeer is probably the best meat in the world, not boiled, but fried, grilled, or barbecued.

[@andreehobrak1425]

totally agree

[@avonthefoxboi1391]

But everything can still be boiled; that's tradition

[@notlyxu]

Well blood pancake is thick and dense like a normal pancake because . . . it's a normal pancake, just that you add blood to it. Just like how you would add milk to it.

[@Andrine-xk7jt]

Yeah you just ditch the eggs

[@SarajevoShotz]

1:11 yanks when they encounter non-ultramegaprocessed food heated in the microwave after being shipped frozen from China

[@runeingebretsen8378]

in norway you can buy a whole fish in the store,cleaned of course.

[@ShadeOnTheUtube]

This video is probably more of a feature or recap/highlight from a full episode. I would recommend watching the full 9 minute(almost) video on Gordon Ramsey's KZbin channel. I found it with a simple Google search.

[@Allrights]

did a search as well but went for the torrent, oops

[@Myrkish]

Yes, we still salt a lot of meats. A lot of it is now part of traditional Christmas food, as it's what was always eaten during winter.

[@hwplugburz]

The sheaphead on a stick in open flames is just to burn off the wool on the head as a first step. Smallahove is actualy smoked and salted as preperation. Not burned in open flames on a fire.

[@turidboholm2587]

Yes, Tyler. I grew up with several of these foods. Fresh and salted fish, smoked fish, and “stew”, which actually is a meat and vegetable soup. In Sami, we call it Bidos.

[@pegasus210563]

What you in the US call Carabou is just a slightly bigger version of a Reindeer. And you got lots of them In Alsaska and Canada ( I know, Canada is not a part of the US, but it is a part of the natural grounds for Carabou), In the 50s and 60s US even paid for Sami people to come over to Alaska to show howe they could be herded, just like the sandinavian Reindeers, but it all failed due to the Carabou is and allways will be an wild animal not response to human command. The Scandinavian reindeer has been hurded for thousands of years and somewhat has been "kind of" domesticated.

[@davidmalarkey1302]

The insular life he leads he has zero social awareness of his surroundings and zero awareness of life outside of his bubble. He has 3 KZbin channels and does the average willfully ignorant American across all 3 with the memory of a goldfish to play the algorithm and boost revenue. Or genuinely has ADD or ADHD because he watched a video 10 days ago about foods that are banned in America and black pubbing was on the list along with Haggis Haggis and blackcurrent

[@ahkkariq7406]

The caribou tribe in Alaska was almost extinct in the 19th century. At the end of the century, 539 castrated reindeer and 113 Sami traveled with the ship Manitoban from Alta. The destination for the trip was Alaska, and the plan was to train the indigenous population in reindeer husbandry. Only one reindeer died during the crossing. They were transported on by train, but unfortunately the staff on board the train thought the reindeer lichen was a form of packaging, so they threw a lot of it off the train. Most of the reindeer died. Only 114 emaciated animals reached Alaska. The Norwegian Lomen family from Minnesota moved up to Nome to start a factory producing reindeer meat in 1913. The family business got slaughterhouses, freezes and distribution centers all across USA, and they were the first to connect reindeer and Santa Claus together with their commercials from 1925. This became a huge success, and the company owned more than 10 000 reindeer in that decade. In 1937, Sámi and all other non-Native Alaskans were banned from owning reindeer through The Reindeer Act. The act was passed by the Congress to make the indigenous people in Alaska self-sustained. The new group of Sami arriving in this decade were forced to sell their reindeer to the government, and most left Alaska. This also marked the end of reindeer ownership for Sami immigrants. Some of the Sami returned to Norway, but some remained, and were absorbed into the indigenous population of Alaska. Most of those who remained went to live with other Norwegian immigrants in Seattle. The indigenous Inuits could however not fully transform into reindeer herding, and so the long-term implementation did not succeed.

[@FrankShortt]

Yes, eaten all these many many times. Also easy to get today. My uncle salts and smokes his fish and meats from hunting and fishing

[@kevincasey5035]

Lived for a while on a Norwegian island of 100 souls. We had two food festivals per year. 1. Sea food night and 2. Sheep’s head night. Sheep’s head night was in January as the folk had eaten the rest of the sheep previously and were just left with the head to do something with. Normally served with boiled potato and rutabaga. Best bits eye, cheek meat and tongue. Avoid anything green coming out of the nostrils but that’s rare.

[@NG290584]

Hundre sjel eller hundre skjell?

[@m4rt_]

Where is the Soppa (flat bread, milk, and salted meat... it's like cereal), Sodd (a soup with mutton, lamb or beef meatballs, potatoes, and carrots), Lapskaus (a stew with meat, carrots, and potatoes), and Klubb / Raspeball?

[@Arbaaltheundefeated]

Never even heard of that "soppa", and I'm Norwegian born and raised xD

[@Loopydude80]

boiled reindeer meat,marrow bones, tongue and gumppus (boiled blood balls) is probably the best meal in the world

[@SeriesSeriesClips]

the Sami people are not the OG people of Norway. the sami are from the urals. they walked from Russia to Finland and then to Sweden. They settled in the north of Norway after the Stone Age when the ice melted. the OG people are the Stone Age people who lived in southern Norway. they developed into the Norse people and then into the Vikings. The Norwegian language comes from Germanic origin and mixed with the Norse language.

[@Henoik]

Both Norwegians and Sami people are descendants of our original settlers.

[@TheCrazyker]

The sami has lived in norway over 10k years 🎉

[@SeriesSeriesClips]

@@TheCrazyker no

[@MichaelEricMenk]

Norway was settled from the south and the north when the ice retreated 10000 years ago. The Germanic tribes in the south and the Sami tribes in the north. Both peoples are indigenous to the Scandinavian Peninsula. They both immigrated into empty land when the ice retreated. Some ras!st people on both sides claim that they are the "true indigenous people". We both are indigenous to this country, and that is OK.

[@SeriesSeriesClips]

@ the sami people came after the german tribes

[@MrLasox]

For those who are asking about the shoes. They have the highest quality of the winter shoe you can ever get in the whole world. I got one similar of them my self. I will never be freezing ever again. I have tested it about 30 minus celsius (minus 86F) and i'm still really warm. Having the Norwegian best quality winter clothes helps you alot. You have no idea how many times young teen ladies have laughed at me because i'm wearing the winter clothes (because they haven't seen high quality clothes before), but i don't care. No matter what i know i'm much warmer then them. Had alot of people asking about the shoes where i got them and i'm telling them that i bhought them from a shoe store in Larvik, but just a few people are still seriously wondering about it after hearing the price, but the best part is that the shoes are netrual (both gender can use it). So alot of dudes and females have asked me and tested them, and they are all getting very suprised how warm they are.

[@Miamia_01]

Selskinnsko?

[@MrLasox]

@@Miamia_01 Yes. I have tried too reply this three times now, but for some reason it won't accept it. I'm having: Art. 50 Sami Natur Dame - To If you are looking at the three photos, on the right side from topas. I haven't testet the website personally. Remember too convert the norwegian kroner too usd or too your currency and remember it will be having some extra fees for exporting too your country.

[@MrLasox]

@@Miamia_01 Yeah. That's the one.

[@amajjaapajja819]

The shoes shown in the clip are made of reindeer. I would argue they are warmer than those made of seal, but the seal ones resist water better. I can wear my reindeer shoes in -50°C without freezing, though I haven’t tested them many times in such low temperatures. They are mostly used between -15°C and -35°C. In combination with one specific type of grass, that shoe is by far the warmest.

[@anamuklos_]

I am currently living and working in "Finmark" Norway which is where the Sámi population is. It is very nice up here.

[@Steve19055]

If you like to grill. I can absolutely recomend to try salmon or cod in the grill. Just have salt, pepper and some vegetables and a little cooking Oil in a bowl made of something that doesent burn and cover the top with tinnfoil. Let it cook for like 40 to 50 minutes. Its really simple and my experience is that fish on the grill is just as good as hotdogs or burgers.

[@ahkkariq7406]

Totally agree. School classes on excursions by the sea often make fish and vegetable packages with spices in foil and roast them in the embers. Most children love it.

[@maritrasmussen9023]

Everyone in the 1980s and 90s in Norway ate lots of blood pudding, animal lungs mash, and animal liver. Blood tastes sweet and lungs taste like meat and peas. Liver taste a bit bitter but we served it in a cream gravey. Also, I have eaten lots of fish, some ready made filets but a lot of them were whole fish. I know how to kill, gut and filet fish too. We also ate whale sometimes. And fermented fish, smoked fish, smoked meat, dried meat. I dont like dried fish very much except for in bacalao, but some nibble on it as a snack.

[@LunarisArts]

Oh, blood sossage with lingonberry jam was my childhood favourite.

[@Emperor_Nagrom]

The ethnically norwegian population is the indigenous population. The sami came after, through the north. We came through the south as soon as the ice disapeared

[@steinarhaugen7617]

Correct.

[@harald-ingepaasche6923]

For ganskje nøyaktig 2500 år siden. kom noen små familigrupper fra øst og bosatte rundt om på det vi i dag kaller karelen. Den miksen som fremkom av disse familiene dem neste 500 år er det vi i dag kaller samer.. Så ca 2000 år siden første...Så etter det begynte dem og spre seg litt rundt om på nordkalotten. Enda den dag i dag er dem ikke mer enn 70-80k i antall.. Ellers kom dem første menneste til N for ca 11k år siden, inn fra syd og etter ca 200år spredd over hele landet..

[@lillia5333]

Not 😂😂😂

[@ahkkariq7406]

Both the Sami and the Norwegians are ancestors of the original population. The only thing that differs between the two, is that the Norwegians have their own state, which give the Sami political protection as indigenous people. According to historian and gene researcher Sturla Ellingvåg, who has the YT channel Viking Stories, Sami and Norwegians share a large proportion of DNA. Linguists believe that both Sami and Norwegian languages ​​carry remains of languages ​​that were spoken before the Germanic language Norwegian and the parts of Sami that come from Uralic languages ​​spread. Sami contains a much larger proportion of the old language(s?) than Norwegian, though.

[@josteingravvik2381]

You do have masses of reindeer in the USA. The state of Alaska is still a part of the USA, no?

[@RoyCurly-r3t]

Caribou in USA are more or less extinct....

[@josteingravvik2381]

@@RoyCurly-r3t Really ? www.adfg.alaska.gov/static/species/speciesinfo/caribou/images/caribou_herds.jpg

[@olenilsen4660]

@@RoyCurly-r3t Extinct?? According to www.adfg.alaska.gov/index.cfm?adfg=caribou.main, the Alaskan population is 750,000...

[@mikalanglevik4735]

Me and my family still salt and smoke our fish the old way, this is the best snacks. You should look up lubbesild, that is my favorite.

[@Passioakka]

I live up north in Sweden (in a very small municipality town) and love food/cooking. I grow up with a mum making food as her mom had done, buing a whole pig and splitting it up (my granny raised pigs herself and slaughtered them). I do the same and also make blood pancakes and "maeliklubb" , a sami dish like a sort of blood dumplings (my grannys maternal side comes from sami). Eating food made out of blood was neccesary way back, you had to use everything from an animal and not only the sami did that. My non sami heritage were settlers coming here around 1550, where from I do not know. It was a hard life and you had to do everything to survive. As today many swedes have some sami heritage from ancestors due to marriage between sami and "swedes", especially as sami has been living way down south in Sweden as hunter/gatherers. Now I live in a small village with 28 inhabitants, growing our veggies, foraging for berries and mushrooms, fishing in the river and my hubby hunts for moose every autumn. This is the normal way to live for us, our children has been with us throught splitting moose, chicken slaught, fishing for dinner and picking berries for making jam for their panncakes... They live in town now but I hope they will keep on the tradition of getting some of their food the "traditional" way. Sheeps head; animals have more or less "fur", by burning the skin (or scald the animal in hot water) you get rid of it. There is often quite a lot of meat on the head, my mum boiled the pig head and made a wonderful aspic from the meat, my dad loved to eat boiled pig feets. We often eat "köttsoppa"/meat soup - boiled meat on bones, then deboned and put into the sifted bouillon with veggies; potatoes, carrots, swede, maybe a little celeriac and spice it with allspice and salt. Another delicacy is "lungmos", made from grounded heart and lungs or "pölsa" made the same way. Small pieces of meat and fat (to small to make something else with), grounded and blended with barley grain. There are different recipes of that but simple is the best in my opinion. You may compare it to the Scottish "haggis" and we eat it with pickled beetroots and boiled potatoes. Boiled tounge is so tasty and my fav is cracked boiled or grilled long bones, putting the bone marrow on thin flatbread with some salt, very fatty with a deep meaty fat taste and extremely nutricious. Eating cereals in older days was mostly in form of porriges, hard bread or flatbread. Salted fish and meat, often smoked or dried, was a staple and yes, we also do that from time to time.

[@667buddy]

Never gone fishing as a child?

[@whengrapespop5728]

Fun fact; Norway introduced the concept of salmon sushi to Japan as a means to popularize Norwegian salmon globally. Before this, salmon wasn’t really eaten along with sushi in Asian cuisine.

[@tntfreddan3138]

Blood is quite common in traditional nordic foods. Blood pancakes and blood pudding is something you'll also find in Sweden and Finland. Blood pudding is usually served with potato buns and lingonberry jam, or with bacon, fried eggs and lingonberry jam. Edit: Horse meat is not as common, and it was a bit of a scandal when it came out that a food company had horse meat in their meatballs, but it's fucking delicious.

[@herrbonk3635]

Also hamburgers were originally horse meat.

[@runeingebretsen8378]

norwegians hang up cod to dry outside we have done that for about 1000 years,and at christmas we eat reindeer.

[@runearntzen6499]

Eating blood is quite common. Usually as black pudding though.

[@peacefulminimalist2028]

Not common at all. Maybe it used to be back in the days or in certain areas. I've never tasted food with blood in my entire life.

[@Sakk_lakrazt]

Blood pancakes are so good

[@sobroc]

A blood pancake is a meal for the autumn, i.e. During the slaughting. I think it is like regular pancakes, but blood instead of milk. We also ate blood pudding. Delicious. Ate it since i was a kid!

[@gjareva]

You actually have Reindeer in the US, but they are often called Caribou. Still part of the same genious though.

[@Jakuri93]

The Sami lived in north of Norway while the Norwegians lived in rest of Norway until we claimed north of Norway as ours. so in reality the Sami was forces to be a part of Norway. So not sure if it is right to call them indigenous to Norway but indigenous in the north for sure. The Sami settlements does not predate Norse/Scandinavian so they where only first in the north.

[@mikaelmilo]

The sheep head is hold over fire to burn of all the hair. Its coked for hours in a pot before eat.

[@mortnil24]

I have been working on making blood sausage which tastes very good.

[@ngaourapahoe]

Do you remember courageously trying the English black sausage ? I suppose the blood pancakes' taste is quite similar to them.

[@Vazlist]

Blood food is huge in Scandinavia. Well, at least it used to be. Blood sausages, blood pancakes, blood soup, blood dumplings, blood bread, you name it.

[@Dovayofnature]

13:33 its very common with salted meat in norway, especialy during celebrations like christmas and easter

[@coldwhitespring5004]

5:00 You have a reindeer cousin in the U.S., they're called caribou! Or are they only in Canada and Alaska? And you can buy shoes made of reindeer in the store here actually. 7:20 Blood pudding or sausage is not that uncommon, they also have it in the English breakfast for instance. 9:30 You can buy horse meat in some stores actually. And some sell it privately. I used to have a supplier who delivered horse meat for my cats.

[@Smouchieification]

Yes they do still do this, actually that is the same old plastic bucket they used back then.

[@Acaerwen]

Don't worry about the reactions haha. Gordon Ramsay had quite the reaction when smelling the salted fish inside the barrel that you saw shortly here, meanwhile the old guy sitting there thought it smelled amazing. I would probably side with Ramsay on that one.....

[@jandmath]

Ramsay is Scottish, so is probably used to ‘esoteric’ food :-)

[@bentmelholtandersen7057]

Hard to understand : Why did'nt US just send shiploads of Burgers to Norway and Denmark during the Viking Eira, it would have been so much easier for the Vikings. (OBS : Ironi can happen)

[@davidmalarkey1302]

Maybe because America was only founded in 1776 . A bit difficult don't you think .

[@bentmelholtandersen7057]

@@davidmalarkey1302 OK - No Humans in Amerika before july,4 - 1776 ??? - if yes, did those Humans not eat Burgers or Pizzas ??? (And, once again, Ironi can occur)

[@sigursyvertsen2540]

I,m a Norwegian but this short video gave only a small fragmented picture of our ancient food tradition. I didn't learn much myself, and you foreigners about nothing. Not all Norwegians eat all this, but we still eat raw fermented fish, which is my favorites and goat head, smalahove, which is first seared over an open fire, and then dried for six months or so, and then boiled and eaten at Christmas time, also the eyeballs. I've never eaten it, even though my mother is from western Norway, where it's still a big tradition. But we have many other traditional dishes, which were not mentioned. Many of the videos you send can often give a slightly skewed picture of Norway. We are a long country with many different traditions, and people are different there as everywhere else.

[@paulgudedeberitz2335]

Gordon Ramsay and Jamie Oliver are very well known in Norway.

[@jandmath]

Apparently never heard of Black Pudding

[@GuinevereKnight]

He has, in several videos on Norway and the UK. Doesn't seem to have left much of an impression...He was just as shocked then. 😜

[@svensvanes8963]

Funny. Tyler, now you've got an Norwegian follower on your channel👍🤗🎄Awsome

[@kendexter]

Living in beautiful Vesterålen is like being at an exotic resort all year round , cod right outside my door.. and rudolf taste great..best meat there is

[@slythawyrda]

blood pancake means regular pancakes with blood added for extra nutrients

[@laupert9021]

I'm quite sure I've seen whole fish in the US as well, but even in Norway most fish you buy in the stores are cuts or filets. Lot's of the food you see here you can get in the us as well, but perhaps on at Walmart.

[@polarViking]

Blood pancakes as so good. When i was a kid and geowing up on a farm we used to freeze ox and pig blood for pancakes. It is really healthy food.

[@Koreviking]

The Sami are indeed indigenous, but so are the Norwegians, Swedes, Finns and Russians. Both cultures settled in the area pretty much at the same time, but in different parts.

[@herrbonk3635]

Not fully true, as the Sami actually came in several thousands of years later. Genetically a mix of people from the Siberian tundra and the Iberian peninsula (now Portugal).

[@Koreviking]

@@herrbonk3635 Several thousands of years later than who? We are not the same people who first arrived in Scandinavia.

[@herrbonk3635]

@@Koreviking In that case other groups are not "the same" either. You cannot have this separate standard for scandinavians, while arguing totally differently when it comes to other tribes...

[@Koreviking]

@@herrbonk3635 Scandinavian isn’t a tribe. And what different standards are you talking about? Like I said, the first people who settled in Scandinavia and hence could be called Scandinavian, weren’t us. They were a different culture, nomadic, with a different culture and language. We don’t have common standards because we were never part of that group.

[@herrbonk3635]

​@@KorevikingTribes or not, the reason I used that particular word was that is usually passes the AI censor. (80% of my comments are deleted.) But of course they were mostly us, genetically. Again, if they were not, the Sami wasn't themselves either, being *heavily* mixed with Swedes, Norwegians, Finns and Russians... Scandinavians were until very recently one of the most homogenous peoples in Europe. And still more closely related to the old northern european population before written history, but after the ice sheet retracted, than in (the modern) neigbour countries to the south. This is because most of the immigration for thousands of years were from closely related tribes. That includes Low Germans and people from Holland that came in during the Hansa period (1300s-1600s). Practically the same people as us at the time. The famous Valon immigration that always cames up as counter example in this context was less than 900 individuals, i.e. that decided to settle here for good.

[@Marcpowers]

In Norway horsemeat isn't the most popular choice of meat by any means, as by today's standards it's cow like in US, but it's found in most common grocery stores, and it's been a big source of meat during the times you explored today

[@tordlindgren2123]

after looking at what americans often view as american food, i've come to realize that practically all of it is traditional foods from europe. With the exception of cola. Of course there's a spin on most of the things, and some of the things are just removed due to various reasons. However i don't think there would be too many surprising things. The blood food and usage of organs in some dishes is probably the most adventurous ones if i were to guess, but there's really no need to worry as they're not in any way actually extreme. Do show some caution to some of the fish things however, as those do become a little bit surreal and is often more of an acquired taste. Most of the fish stuff is just pretty normal and safe food, but the ones that have a storage method sometimes is funky. also nowadays if you wanna make a stew the way norwegians do, get yourself two kinds of potatoes. One kind that is flour like after being boiled and one kind that doesn't break apart. the potato that breaks apart creates a thicker consistency. You'd also wanna use cubes of beef that's from a cut that's tough, sear it first and then boil it for a long time. the boiling will tenderize it. other things that are normal to put in are carrots, clery roots, sometimes leek (put that in about 20 minutes before serving). Goes well with buttered craft bread.

[@coldwhitespring5004]

What, you don't see a fish in the U.S.? I had no idea, that sounds so odd! Here in Norway we can buy them whole in the grocery store or at the fish store. Also a lot of us grow up fishing, and then you have to kill it etc. I did that already when I was 12 and went fishing with my aunt and uncle. And remember, we have a very long coastline! We also buy whole plucked chicken in the store, that's without the head and the intestines though. And turkey, but you have that in the U.S. as well, so you definitely see the animal!

[@tntfreddan3138]

My mom: "WHY DO YOU TAKE SO MUCH SAUCE?!" Meanwhile, chefs: "WHERE'S THE LAMB SAUCE?!!!!!" "You can't have too much sauce. It lifts the entire meal." "I love sauce..."

[@arnehusby1420]

Sheep's head is good, but it's a bit strange when the food is looking at you. The eye is a delicacy for many.

[@sirkaimetall6007]

as an Norwegian no I havent tryed all Tradition for some are for different places in Norway as well but you need to try blood pancakes most of us use ox blood its make the same way as pancakes just with blood in it too, and you get iron and vitamins and all of it, so its good for you,

[@runearntzen6499]

Tre problem with sheep head is the presentation, not the taste.

[@pegasus210563]

Never tasted the bloodpancake (its like what you americans call a crepe, but sligtly thicker( same recipe though)) with reindeer blood, but my mothers boyfriend in the mid 80s, made them with pigs blood when we slaughtered a few pigs before Xmas. Its just a small amount of blood (aprox 5 to 10%) of the liquid thats actualy blood.The taste as I remeber it was a little iron, slightly sweet and salty.

[@John_1920]

03:20 And this is what I get for not watching the video to conclusion before commenting, they covered exactly what I wrote below xD 03:16 Yes and no, Sami were a nomadic people, they primarily traveled across northern Norway, Sweden, Finland, and north-western Russia. They were not tied down to any one location, and stayed that way until - if I remember correctly - around the end of WW2 when some of the Sami people at that time decided they wished to be seen as Norwegian to an extent, and be given rights to some of the northern Norwegian lands, etc. So, while the Sami did travel through Norway and he other countries, I wouldn't call them the indigenous people of Norway, as you'd have to call them the indigenous people of Sweden, Finland, and Russia, too.

[@Mother_nature19]

You don't make blood into pancakes, you blend it in with the pancake

[@NeroNORirl]

My grandma used to make blood pancakes. It's very uniq in taste and far from everyone like it. Taste a bit like iron milk cakes. oh and sheep heads are amazing. What you are missing in the process is the boiling. We burn off the hair and burn the skin black before we boil them for hours. We do not eat the brain, but we do eat ears and fat storage in the eyes. What you called the volcano was the ear of the sheep. Everyone say the brain can make you sick so we throw it away. The video is from my hometown. My family also make some other traditional foods trough the year, my least favorite is pigs feet. Taste like salty jello fat, not my type of food.

[@Luredreier]

3:24 The situation is a bit different in Norway to the US. The Sami are no more "original" then the Vikings. Both migrated into the country about the same time, but from different directions, and both displaced or assimilated the original population of the country. Both cultures also developed within the borders of what's today Norway and both includes cultural elements and DNA from the original population. The difference is that the Sami where hunter gatherers and fishermen when we meet them, while we had influences from continental giving us access to agriculture, more advanced metal work etc. Not to mention that we had a warrior culture. Both populations had to adapt to the other being there though and had to coexist to some degree. What became the Norwegians just happened to have a edge the whole way.

[@TheDarkSaplings]

7:13 Blood pancakes, it is actually a thing in Norway. I don't even eat it self then.

[@zapple5319]

horse is great, very different

[@mari-annsle9518]

Yes I have tried sheep head once. It was very good but I didn't eat the eye balls. Rein dear is lovely to eat. ❤

[@herr007v9]

Blood pancakes is probably the best you have tasted in your entire life. And very healthy 😊

[@The-master-baiters]

We don’t only see the dead fish. When I was around eight years old I went fishing a lot with my grandfather and my dad and they taught me how to Kill the fish.

[@NapoleonPicard]

Are you gaslighting when you said you thought reindeer didn't exist? That's funny as hell

[@TomKirkemo-l5c]

I'm 52 years old...I will be very hungry to eat anything with blood in it again. Late fall we would have like 15 litres of pig blod in the frezer. Blodklubb was a really big thing...for most of my childhood. I'm done with blood.

[@Passioakka]

As an amateur genealogist I am a little curious, do you know your heritage Tyler? That could be fun for you to explore and then learn more about that culture. It would be more exiting for you than it was for me when I found out we have been living almost the same way in the same area for at least almost 500 yrs!

[@TheYouNorway]

My grandmother tricked me into thinking it was chocolate pancakes. I liked it until one of my siblings told me what it really was. I don't think that the taste's so bad, but the smell. You don't forget the smell. Even writing about it now makes me gag. Other than pancakes we also have blood sausages, blood pudding and something called a blood club. Usually made out of sheep's blood.

[@martinmoss3791]

Blood pancake, blood sausage and blood pudding. All very very good😊 and yes. Contains blood

[@stianalmen5055]

If you think about it. Norway id a parfevt place for a vampire. At least in the winter. No sun, and blood everywhere🤪 not a lot of People eat it. But its ok. Nice with sugar😆

[@davidmalarkey1302]

Can you even eat blood he has seen black pudding on a full English breakfast which is made from blood hence it can be called blood pudding.He can't remember that he had the memory of a goldfish.

[@84com83]

11:38 Do You mean inland or indoor American?

[@Cineres]

The sami are indigenous people of *Northern* Norway. Not all of it. Also, cereals does not mean breakfast cereals. The most common cereal in viking times was likely oats.

[@TomKirkemo-l5c]

4 sec in...in english I belive it's called a char (røye in Norwegian), it's just an F'n fish.

[@Lunchpacked180]

10:32 probably misspoke, but it's 900 years, not 900 centuries

[@robertoberg8593]

Blood Pancake is very good.We also eat it in Sweden

[@pepsimax8078]

There is a lot they did not show; like Gordon gagging on the fish 😅I think this is a shorter version of the longer episodes. Showing just a small version of it all.

[@nettnett63]

The sami in this is close to my hometown. And the vikings is close to where I live now 😂 I like all the food showed, except the sheeps head 😮

[@trumpetscall8910]

My favorite Norwegian food is "blodklubbe" or "gompa", its like a big meatball of blod.

[@2handsomeforlaw]

Now I am a norweigan reaction to an american reacting to an englishmans reactions to Norwegian cuisine. My first reaction is; try it yourself!

[@m4rt_]

We didn't invent sushi, but we invented salmon sushi (the salmon close to japan isn't very safe to be eaten raw... but norwegian salmon is safe.)

[@kathryndunn9142]

I was raised on reindeer soup my mother gave it me and my brother

[@mr-steve-kuling]

Bidos is the best meat soup. And it is even better the next day when re-heated

[@Lleanlleawrg]

@@mr-steve-kuling Most soups and stews are better the next day, after the flavors have had time to mingle overnight.

[@kathryndunn9142]

​​@@Lleanlleawrgyeah I love it when your pototes need extra one the next day as your stew is thicker and eat it with some unbuttered bread😋 or a pastry top my nana always put a pastry top on her stew's for each person

[@andreashakestad9013]

In Norway many families eat fish 2-3 times a week

[@PierreSimonsson]

Gordon Ramsey is Known Evrywhere he is the Rockstar of Chefs :D