Brit Reacts to A Traditional Swedish Christmas | JULBORD

[@thehoogard]

First plate: cold food. Second plate: hot food. Third plate: whatever you want. Then lie down comatosed in the sofa :)

[@ispbrotherwolf]

Totally agree 😁

[@_Kigge_]

The traditional Swedish Christmas buffet, or "julbord," is often enjoyed in seven distinct courses, a custom that allows you to savor the wide array of flavors. Here's a breakdown: Plate 1: Herring and Baltic Herring Start with pickled flavors. Enjoy various types of herring, including soused herring (matjessill), and perhaps some with mustard sauce. Plate 2: Salmon and other fish Continue with fish dishes. Relish gravlax (cured salmon), cold-smoked salmon, poached salmon, eel, and other fish delicacies. Plate 3: Cold Cuts Now it's time for the cold meats. This includes Christmas ham, different kinds of sausages, pâtés, liver pâté, and maybe even headcheese and pigs' feet. Plate 4: Small Hot Dishes Here come the warm dishes. Enjoy Swedish meatballs (köttbullar), small sausages (prinskorv), ribs, Janssons frestelse (potato gratin with anchovies), and other warm classics. Plate 5: Cheese Take a break from the heavier dishes and enjoy a cheese plate with different kinds of cheese, crackers, and marmalade. Plate 6: Dessert Time for sweets! Here you'll find rice porridge (risgrynsgröt), rice pudding (ris à la Malta), fruit salad, and perhaps some kind of cheesecake. Plate 7: Christmas Candy Finish with Christmas sweets. Enjoy toffee (knäck), fudge (kola), chocolate, marzipan, and other treats. Take small portions of each dish so you can try everything. Enjoy the company and the atmosphere! The "julbord" is a social event to be enjoyed in peace and quiet. But usually we mix all 🤣

[@JockenN]

Couldn't agree more. That's usually how it goes for me as well, weaved in with a christmas ham sandwich and beer. Once done, you lie down slightly buzzed in a delightful food coma and just enjoy existing. It is marvelous.

[@RoffePop]

@@_Kigge_ and before plate 1 we need our christmas breakfast and after Plate 7 at night we need our night food

[@david_drummer_sweden4329]

No its cold Fish, warm Fish, cold meat, warm meat, dessert and then cheese

[@thedryparn1279]

We traditionally don't mix everything. Traditionally you take 7 turns. 1. Herring of all kinds 2. Salmon of all kinds and other seafood 3. Cold cuts 4. Hot assortment 5. Cheese and crackers. 6. Desserts 7. Christmas candy

[@susannenymanback]

Du glömde varma rätter. Het skinka, dopp i grytan, köttbullar, prinskorv, julkorv, lutfisk, Janssons, revbensspjäll etc. För att inte tala om risgrynsgröt med mandel, olika varianter av apelsinris, risalamalta, vörtbröd och givetvis julmust...

[@thedryparn1279]

@@susannenymanback Varma rätter är punkt 4 och där ingår även lutfisk och de flesta andra varma sakerna. Gröten går under punkt 6, desserter. Detta är alltså det klassiska traditionella sättet att äta de 7 tallrikarna. //Gammal hovmästare.

[@rosemary5005]

​@@susannenymanbackwho's even doing "dopp i grytan" this day and age 😮

[@susannenymanback]

@rosemary5005 All my family still do.

[@winisle]

@@rosemary5005 I do

[@scyphe]

She's showing a fancy restaurant Julbord with hundreds of fancy-looking food items which isn't quite what we do at home. What ends up on the julbord is slightly different from family to family with some staples like christmas ham, red & green prepared kale etc. with a variety of classic and/or modern additions. In my family we always end the christmas dinner with ris-ala-malta (a kind of rice pudding) with strawberry/raspberry sauce. After that we sit down, stuffed with food and rest. After a while the coffee is served and all the christmas cookies, treats etc. are brought in.

[@susannenymanback]

Yep! And dont forget Don 10:08 ald Duck. We use to start 9.00. Always some kind of Christmas TV. Risgrynsgröt, ham, a mix of kaviar, union, whipt cream on vörtbröd. (Kaviargrädde!) And different chees. Children gets ONE present that can last a few hours. Family comes around 1. All helps with food, rapping, eat dinner. Donald Duck at 3. Santa comes. Presents. Candy. Glögg. More food. Risalamalta. Around 7 we say nighty and those who stay plays board games. Always someones drunk unkle gets sentimental. We sing. Watch TV. Christmas goes on.

[@tevlar]

Yea, gratin, ham, sausage and meatballs are staple. The rest varies. We have some small pieces of chicken to get something else besides pork.

[@LegoLazze]

She's wrong, we have plenty of veggies on the traditional Swedish Julbord., red cabbage slaw, red cabbage salads with fruits like apple and nuts, kale salad with oranges and walnuts, brussel sprouts prepared in a plethora of ways, beetroot salad (also more of a slaw), and the most classic dish of them all Brunkål (brown cabbage) which is a way of cooking white cabbage turning it brown, and within the large Finnish population it is very popular with Kålrotslåda (Swedish) / Lanttulaatikko (Finnish) which is a swede (rutabaga) casserole. These are only a few mentions of veggies on the Julbord and the idea that there are very few vegetarian or vegan options on the swedish Julbord is not accurate and won't hold up in food court. Sincerely the Swedish Chef

[@ngoeshere]

The christmas ham is the most important piece. You can have herring, Janssons, salmon, sausage etc but there is no christmas without the christmas ham!

[@tobbej380]

Once in a lifetime, everyone should experience a high-class Swedish Christmas dinner. It's fantastic. i hope u get to taste it some day.

[@darkiee69]

A 4-6 hour kind, with breaks between the sittings so you can move around a little to make more room for the next dishes.

[@architechproducer]

In the Northern half of Sweden we also eat a lot of flatbread during Christmas. And there is a huge difference in quality between the different varieties.

[@cynic7049]

5:25 That is the fish round. She seem to have mixed the two first rounds, I do nopt like herring so skips the first alltougether Julbord is traditionally eaten in several rounds, there are a few variations here is one: 1: herring 2: salmon and other fish 3: cold cuts 4: hot food 5: cheese 6: dessert 7: christmas candy But it is very much a buffet kind of meal.

[@Sakuyamon]

The reason why there isnt a lot of veggies on the christmas table is because the food is rooted in swedish history. People ate a lot of root veggies and bread back in the day, so when there was a special occasion, they brought out the meats and sweets that they could normally not have. We didnt have a lot of other veggies even during summer because of the climate, and they are even harder to store during winter.

[@selina5598]

thanks for the explanation

[@AnniCarlsson]

Yeah and it's just like cabbage. Carrot and beetroot and onions and potatoes we could even store this long so other veggies difficoult

[@darkiee69]

@@AnniCarlsson Kale too (grönkål)

[@nanirado5493]

It's NOT rice pudding that you bake in the oven and it doesn't taste the same!! Our classic is Ris à la Malta, a cold rice porridge that is mixed with icing sugar, vanilla sugar, lightly whipped cream, everything is mixed and decorated with orange wedges or clementine.

[@mikaelhultberg9543]

Hi Dwayne! Most grocery stores in Sweden close earlier on Christmas eve and are closed all day on Christmas day so when we cook our Christmas dinner, we cook for several days. Most people cook more than they need and therefor we have leftovers for days (not that anyone is complaining about it though lol) and we eat Christmas dinner for as long as it lasts. You should definitely go to a julbord if you're ever in Sweden in December. Just make sure to book it in advance because they fill up very fast.

[@Gunlott]

many ppl in Sweden start the day with Rice-porrige and a sandwich with christmas ham. You´re supposed to make a big pot of rice-porrige!! Then for the dessert-time on Christmas eve, you take the cold porrige and mix it with wipped cream and then serve it with fruit sause or Queen's jam (raspberry & blueberry-jam) , gooseberry jam or any other jam of your taste.

[@Soldrakenn]

Vegetables traditionally served on the julbord; Red cabbage Kale Brusselsprouts Potatoes Some varieties of beetroot sallad Simlsallad, rödbetssallad) Also lots of fruits, apples, oranges etc, dried fruit.

[@NerdFromNorth]

The goal is to eat so much, that you explode.

[@Sleepywalk112]

Yeah if you can get up and walk after a julbord you didnt do it right xD

[@Vintermys]

Yep, on Christmas Eve it’s the julbord, and then the days between Christmas and New Year’s (actually called “mellandagarna” or “the in between days” in Swedish) are all about the leftovers😅 Heads up if you’re actually planning to go to a julbord like this one: people tend to make reservations really early (sometimes as early as August if they want to go to a specific place on a specific date), so make sure you don’t miss out on that😊

[@whojanson6751]

Yepp, julbord on Christmas Eve, but let's not forget about the old tradition occuring on Christmas Day, the 25th... Besides the early christmas service in church, the "julotta", we have one specific fish dish we usually eat on this day. And on this day, alone. At least in my family, since generations back... Lutfisk! Or "lutefisk", actually "lye fish" which is dried whitefish usually cod, ling or burbot that is brined in lye, soaked and then steamed until it flakes. A truly delicious dish together with Béchamel sauce, allspice, green peas and boiled potatoe. 🥳

[@annahammarlund3856]

and "the in between days" (mellandagarna), is a perfect time to do "pyttipanna" 😄

[@helvete983]

Yes in a major city you need to book October, maybe before. Smaller towns like mine you're probably good to book around now (late Nov)

[@loris-bismar]

I see that lutfisk has been mentioned above. That is one piece of tradition that i will never do again 😂. My family did that once because my mom wanted to embrace the old traditions and afterwards we made a collective family decision that we would never try that again 😂. Absolutely disgusting.

[@petergustafsson1670]

2:04 - Christmas Eve is big dinner, Christmas day is leftovers, playing with toys, reading new books, socializing with family. Day after Christmas day is when the Swedish National Bandy league traditionally have a lot of games scheduled, so in towns with top-level teams that draws crowds wanting to get out of the house.

[@herrbonk3635]

5:43 Yes it makes sense. We have dishes that are very set like that as well. But the julbord is something of an exception, you could say. Same with the related smörgåsbord (and older brännvinsbord).

[@birgittae9046]

On Christmas day we used to eat another traditional dish. Lutfisk. stockfish? With a potatoes and a smoothe bechamel sauce with allspice. At boxing day we eat left over from the Julbord.

[@friswing]

'Julbord' (X-mas buffet) is served the whole of December in restaurants, many restaurants have deliciious food, just like this kind, more or less expensive. Almost all companies treaet their employees with this kind of Julbord, as a company-party, before Christmas. Or you can go with family and friends, that you won't meet during X-mas, but still want to celebrate with. But then on Christmas Eva we do almost the same thing at home. We make a lot of dishes, that we can't finish. Because then we can continue to eat this food for days afterwards - without having to do the job again! We are free, celebrating! Lazy Celebrating! Most people have homemade desserts, candy, chocolates etc. The ris-à-la-Malta (ricepudding), are served with wipped cream, and often Cherris, or Orange-pieces or Cloud berries. Which can be served any day, to variate all the chocolates.

[@Soldrakenn]

A Julbord is a specific type of smörgåsbord

[@jerrihadding2534]

I grew up in Southern California. My family was not so large, 3 kids, but my mother’s two brothers had eight children each. My mother’s parents were German immigrants. My father’s father had immigrated to the US from Kent, England when his father was 13. (Because of which, I LOVE suet pudding!) During the summertime we frequently gathered for lavish picnics. Fried chicken, ham sandwiches, barbecued ribs, two or three different kinds of potato salads, olives, sliced carrots, celery filled with peanut butter or soft cheese, pies, cakes, cupcakes and my mother’s rice salad. Rice, whipped cream and “cocktail salad” fruits from a can. When I was 40 I moved to Northern Germany because of work. Then, when I was 49, I moved to Sweden because of love. (My husband and I have now been married for 26 years.) Where, on my first Swedish Julbord, I once again encountered my mother’s rice salad. I cried. I don’t know where my mother had encountered ”Ris à la Malta”, but it had been a favorite of mine since my childhood. I believe that food and music, even beyond the sanctity of love, unite us, grant us a path to understand and embrace each other comfortably in a way that nothing else does. Thank you Sir!

[@90Pekkis]

In Finland our Christmas rice porridge(pudding) is served warm, with a single almond.

[@Sleepywalk112]

That is a old swedish tradition aswell and we used to give presents to the person who got the almond or they could wish for anything they would want. However I dont belive alot of swedish households does this anymore.

[@tevlar]

@@Sleepywalk112 I think alot still do. My family does it.

[@Upe-f9c]

And she didn´t even mention the kale boiled in cream!

[@hettitiern]

Långkål

[@AnniCarlsson]

She said creamed cabbage. She forgot brusselsprouts

[@Sakuraid]

In my family with have julbord during xmas lunch and we eat rice porridge for dinner. Then on chirstmas day we eat leftovers and make ris ala malta of the leftover rice porridge to have as dessert. So mulled wine -> xmas Lunch -> Donald duck -> xmas fika (xmas candy and gingerbread cookies with coffee/juice) -> Present handout and opening -> xmas dinner. It changes a bit from year to year tbh but mostly like that.

[@veronicalidstrom5424]

When you have a julbord at home it’s a lot of ingredients, work and costly, but absolutely delicious!!!

[@sinisterplank3113]

Swedish Julbord is the best meal you'll have all year. Great food, lots of family, good atmosphere. Christmas day (the 25th) is all about leftovers and not getting up from the sofa all day.

[@2121gul]

1. Kall fisk 2. Varm fisk 3. Kallt kött 4. Varmt kött 5. Efterrätt 🍻

[@Solus749]

or just eat whatever, you can go multiple times. Not everyone eat the cold fish and you don't expect them to sit with empty plates while you eat? I love christmas fish dishes but lets be honest you don't need to wait for things...also different people eat diferent amounts

[@jpettersson84]

I've had a proper British Christmas dinner at a British friend of mine, and while it was nice, it definitely doesn't live up to the Swedish julbord. 🙂

[@helvete983]

British Christmas dinner is over-rated. I think mainly because it's not really special, we often eat like that on a Sunday. (Sunday dinner) so you can literally go to a carvery and have the same kind of food pretty much when you want. A julbord just feels so much more special.

[@_Wolfsbane_]

I grew up with Swedish Christmas food on Christmas Eve, and English Christmas food and Christmas Day (thanks grandma!).

[@carro-xb9oz]

the christmas table is just yummy!!! eat so u burst and then eat again!! merry christmas

[@herrbonk3635]

12:20 We sure have rice-puddings, in savory and dessert form, but _ris a la malta_ is no pudding really. It's just whipped cream, mixed with soft rice and vanilla. It's eaten with figs and plums boiled in dark sugar and syrup/melass. Or sometimes with red jam, fresh berries, or sugar-dipped oranges.

[@Ferdawoon]

Blasphemy! Ris à la Malta should be (at least according to my granny and granny is always right) made from the leftover Risgrynsgröt. Re-heat it with extra cream, as you said maybe some vanilla, and then slices of oranges! Your sauce with figs and plusm is what we have with our Risgrynsgröt instead of cinnamon and sugar. So we have the same dishes but just re-arranged in a different way and maybe a different order.

[@herrbonk3635]

@@Ferdawoon That works, of course. But Ris à la Malta is best without milk and salt in the rice itself. Many people put milk in the risgrynsgröt (and salt, quite naturally). However, the salt, and most of the sugar, should be in the figs and plum /kompott (sauce), not in the rice. For best result :) I agree that slices of oranges is very nice on top though. We often have that as an alternative. Not all people enjoy figs.

[@Drastol]

​@Ferdawoon never eaten risgrynsgröt with plums or figs, always milk, sugar and cinnamon... in Sweden, Italy and in the states. Risgrynsgröt is rice porridge, and risalamanta is made of the leftovers

[@elizepalladium1215]

Depending on where you are from there is an old dish that I always bring, it's called äggost, or egg cheese. You slowly heat up milk, eggs and filmjölk until it curdles. After that is done you remove the curdles and put them in these star shaped moulds with small drip holes in the bottom where the rest of the liquid drips out from. You then eat it with whipped cream and jam like cloudberry jam, raspberry jam or strawberry jam. So it's kind of similar to how tofu is made, except it drips the liquid out, you dont press it, and its not vegan lol. The liquid that is left over is great to use in chocolate cakes to get a really moist, rich cake.

[@RuthlessMetalYT]

the christmas table is my favourite table. :D haha

[@helvete983]

As a Brit in Sweden Xmas day is basically our boxing day, just chill out, left overs, maybe rice pudding for breakfast, try to wake from the food coma. maybe go for a walk.

[@tommienholm3844]

Julbord starts from dec 1 to about dec 22.. and if your employed by a company you usually treated to some variant of it by the company

[@malinpeh]

There are Julbord at a lot of restaurants all around Sweden (huge amount of places in the bigger cities) and they are usually available from around the last weekend in November but some are earlier than that. You have to book it in advance though, especially the more popular ones you should try to book in October if you want a special date and are a a bigger group. In and close to Stockholm the price rages from £50 for the cheaper ones and up to £125-150 for the more expensive ones - depending on quality, location, popularity and time (weekday/weekend, lunch/dinner).

[@drigerdranzer7514]

12:22 Malta is actually rice porridge with whipped cream and vanilla.

[@StefanHedlund-r7z]

God jul och gott nytt år Mvh Stefan i Sweden 👍

[@BerishStarr]

Public Julbord can be found all over Sweden the weeks up to Christmas. The first ones have already started! I read somewhere that the average price for a Julbord is 440kr (38 euro), of course there is many way more expensive ones, like hers. For example the ones I've been looking at lately have been between 600-900kr (per person).

[@johankaewberg8162]

Skåne style, pickled herring, other cold fish, cold meats, warm cuts, ham, porridge, dessert.

[@axelanderberg3099]

Anderslövs gästis. det räcker. dom hade allt.

[@matshjalmarsson3008]

The most iconic food is the Roast Ham. Things that used to be popular are Pigs heads, smoked Eel, and Pigs feet, but not so much nowadays. For my 30+ years of working it was always one Jubord arranged by the company, and a couple of others paid for by partners/suppliers. Julbord is a "version" of the smörgåsbord.

[@tevlar]

Im half Icelandic, they still have that there, sheephead and such. My great grandfather used to eat the sheeps eye.

[@magnus_lundgren]

I've never seen a Julbord that impressive, with so many variants. Still, a "normal" one is still great.

[@heinzdoofenshmirtz5685]

The National Archives Julbord is very popular so a heads up if you want to visit next december. You have to book a table in like the late summer to get a reservation, it is crazy

[@birgittae9046]

Yes, Julbord is Christmas Eve dinner! 😋😋

[@AnneliFyhr]

You asked what we eat Christmas Day? We eat the leftovers, as there usually is plenty. We can eat it for days sometimes, but then we pick our favourites more, or just a few things. After that, we almost have to wait for Easter to start over with similar foods 😁it can get a bit too much...

[@BertKarlsson-s9e]

Going for a 24 hr "julbords" cruise where they serve a Christmas buffet this year

[@SteamboatW]

We'll book you a traditional Julbord for next christmas, Dwayne! After that you will be so stuffed that we just roll you aboard the ferry to Finland like a football! ;-)

[@cynic7049]

At least in my and my parents home we do exactly as you thought, we eat "Julbord" as early dinner on X-mas eve and then we eat left-overs the rest of the Holiday. Btw we also have Boxing day called "Annandag Jul" wich litterlayy tranlsate to second day X-mas (but also to another day of X-mas 😀).

[@giajensen1689]

You can book a julbord at most restaurants in most cities during december and of course most you book online! ❤❤❤🇸🇪 If you want to do it cheaper then you book Eckerölinjen (big ships between Norrtälje (north of Stockholm) to Åland (Finland) . They also have julbord and you travel back and forth during one day. And if you pay a little more you book a 24 hour tour Stockholm- Åland with one of the major cruise ship lines (several to choose from) and they will have a big julbord as well during december (might even start late november)…

[@pw5803]

You are right that we eat julbord at chistmas eve (24:th) and sometimes you eat the leftovers for days and days after that. In my family and in many familys you eat lutfisk (white fish, boyled with bechamelsauce with allspice and boyled potatoes) on the 25:th to get a break from the julbord stuff.

[@SaintlyTargs]

Christmas day ( the 25th?) is probably the biggest party day of the year, or atleast up there at least for the young adults. My family dont really have any tradition for the 25th, but i think we ate lutfisk that day when my grandparents (dads side) were alive

[@hson_hson9621]

exactly, Christmas day you go out and get drunk

[@jonathanerensjo3646]

Well that made me hungry. We often have fewer things on Christmas at home but on restaurants you will get many more options. We also eat Lussebullar/Lussekatter (a bun with saffon in it, rolled like an eight and two raisins but in either side) and Gingerbread for fika all december. Keep up the funny reactions.😀

[@Cecilia-f9k]

And after new years everyone is so sick of the "julbord" you can't stand the sight of it😂

[@incognition_]

As a fellow lover of food, I really really enjoy your reactions to food! Even more so Swedish cuisine!

[@Aopsh2]

In my family, until her departure in 1988, we celebrated Christmases at my grandmother's mansion, about 60-70 people, relatives in some way, we had soo much food that it could feed a whole town, and most of us had the Christmas day stock fish (like the portugiese Bacalao) with white sauce and allspice to easen our stommachs,

[@ProgMannen]

Risepudding with blueberry jam..... YUM YUM !!

[@dsludge8217]

5:20 Many countries have good food. Britain has good table manners.

[@ProgMannen]

Swedish julbord seems to be on a whole different level !!

[@larsdahlgren4125]

Does IKEA have a x-mas buffet or plate abroad in their resturant?

[@birger4788]

You would love this, the thing is you eat what you find the most appetizing. Two rules I follow: don’t eat anything heavy for at least 24 hours beforehand. You’ll benefit from an empty stomach since almost everything is so good. Second, be restrictive with veggies, they’re not why you spend quite a lot of money on a julbord 😂

[@dsludge8217]

12:20 A funny aspect of the Ris à la Malta is that the name is a distortion of Ris à l'amande ("rice with almonds") and has nothing to do with Malta.

[@NO-ux2xf]

Genreally during Chrismas you eat the same food for several days. (With some variation in different household) But most people have at their own table: Different pickled herrings, egg halvs, with major and shrimp or caviar (from a tube), cold ham, hot meatballs, little weaners, small potatoes. And different salads mix like beetsallad etc. Mostly cold things. Some have casserole and other meats or salmon and lutefik, but you generally find some of these things on the table. And it is usually a lot. So you eat it for several days until you are sick on it. In my family we generally had turkey dinner on the 26th mostly just to have something else. But traditionally we eat some variation of what we generally eat normally on every holiday.

[@ConfusioNIntrusioN]

jul = christmas bord = table

[@texnoti]

Yeah, I have to pause here. That starter plate is not mixed - it's cold fish and, ok, warm potatoes. Some will mix that with warm dishes, meatballs, sausages, ham, ribs, everything on one plate, - I dont. I take a plate of, cold, fish. Then cold meat, then I move on to the warm food. Not much room for desert but I don't mind. The venue, gamla riksarkivet, is probably one of the best places to experience a Swedish julbord - if you ever come here and want to try julbord. Just a tips (or is it tip?).

[@kerstinramstrom1912]

You go to a Christmas dinner really hungry. You put everything you want in very small portions (think baby) on the plate (you can always get more of your favorites if you can handle it). I don't take potatoes unless it is "necessary" for the taste experience. You go through all the "plates" up to cheese, crackers and fruit. If you can bear it, you will redo the favorites up to now. Cheese, crackers, fruit complete the actual meal with food. Then you enjoy coffee, desserts and the sweets table. In restaurants, you often have 2-3 hours at lunch but longer in the evenings before you have to finish, so make sure to arrive on time and make use of the entire period. If you can't afford a "Julbord-Christmas table" at a normal restaurant, there is a cheaper alternative if you have access to an IKEA restaurant (they serve "Julbord" in December), at least in Sweden.

[@m4em4e]

One of the more controversial parts of the julbord is missing. The smoked eel. It is a very fatty fish which for a long time was the highlight of the julbord... often together with a snaps or some other hard liquor. But irresponsible fishing has made the eel close to extinct and we do not have it anymore. Sometimes we try with other kinds of fat fish like clarias for example. It is good... but not the same as eel. :)

[@jb-im1ii]

The pig was the storage for leftovers in the old days... you gave the leftovers to the pig throughout the year. The pig got big and you ate it in the winter when there was no fresh produce. Hence ham, sausages, ribs and so on.

[@lifeofsaffran]

24th is our Christmas so 25 is just a normal day, you eat what you want but it’s often leftovers.

[@YehaaMaria]

We’re going to our traditional julbord on the twelfth of December, the food is so good and it’s in an old mansion (Herrgård) with lovely surroundings, different rooms and lovely decorations. We pay 770 Swedish kronor per person. My favorit on the julbord is the different pickled herrings, Jansson’s frestelse with prinskorv, ribs with red cabbage and for dessert, ris I la Malta and homemade toffees and Knäck 🎄🤗

[@scyphe]

Expensive but probably worth every öre from the sound of it.

[@perthyren601]

Same here, julbord first then leftover next couple of days. Love from Sweden

[@ItsMeYush]

By reading the comments i can see i know very little about our own swedish traditions lol , my family just eat "christmas" food on christmas eve, mix and match as u want to and then eat leftovers on christmas day ^^. The video seem to show just some super fancy very expensive posh resturant in stockholm haha

[@beardman2161]

On cristmass day the pubs and other places where you can drink beer and stuff is open, and you can met friends that lives in other part of sewden/world and hang with them, and 15:00 on christmas eve is time for Donald duck and his firends(kalle och hans vänner) and you dont want to miss it , i have watched every christmas för like 40+ years

[@mudshark5393]

Looks like they've just started serving Julbord this week, and it seems to end somewhere in the week before Christmas.

[@mr.sts.p]

Christmas buffe is served from 1 off December to 24 in resturant a cross Sweden 🇸🇪

[@OliviaSthlm]

Svensk särskrivning på engelska. Nice. 😊

[@vampitwine]

in our house we (me swedish hubby english) start on the 23rd really with jansons frestelse(jansons temptation) and dark rye bread. christmas eve we do a smaller version of the julbord(we dont eat herring) salmon, meatballs, prince sausages, rosted and glaced ham, beatroot salad, brown cabbage dish, red cabbage dish and creamed cale and ricepudding for dessert. on christmas day (also hubbys bd) we do roasted duck(we dont like turkey) potatoes, gravy, red cabbage - french style and of course sprouts... and if we can eat more... trifle and home made sweets :) THEN we eat leftovers up till new years hahaha

[@anderskarlsson-vm8kr]

Lovely comforting vid you really need to come here try the xmas julbord cheers

[@helenastanser9801]

The thing is, you can`t taste everything on a big Julbord like this or you going to throw up after! When i eat Julbord on a restuarant i only eat my favorite dishes! 😂😂😂

[@fredrikjohansson6225]

Swedish food were mostly porrige among the farmers untill the 20th century. We were a poor farmers country. Rice porrige was expensive and eaten in small quantities at celebrations. The pickled herring and meats were more the middle to upper class food. The christmas table is more or less a smörgåsbord, a decendant of the old tradition of potluck style feasts where the aquavit was the centerpiece and the traditional noble fingerfood you ate while waiting for people to arrive to large feasts

[@evelynlovgren7116]

Julbord is very normalized so it can both be specifically something you make for the family or eat out at fancy restaurants and almost every december you get at least two julbord. Since you get it at school, your place of work can often book and pay for a julbord at a fancier place and then the julbord you have on julafton( 24). The one in the video was of course not accurate to the entire country as it was first of all very fancy, and in stockholm. But there will always be variations on what you include. I wanted to contribute a few dishes that were either exempt in the video or just not named. Mimosasallad, is a really nice fruitsallad and is probably a newer edition to the traditional julbord. You make it with a bunch of citrus fruits like clementines, you also add grapes, pineapple and whipped cream Röbetssallad, is a sallad made from beetroot mixed with mayo and creme fraiche+ a few other things. Then you can serve it and eat it with almost anything. But mostly you eat it on a thin crispy bread called ljusugnsbröd, and on the bread you put a slice of ham, then some apple sauce and then the beetroot sallad. Dopp i gryta ( dip in pot) wich is when you reuse the broth from when you made the ham, heat up the broth, then dip bread in the broth and eat the wet bread with a bit of butter. This is a really weird one and the texture can fuxk with your head a little but its good

[@PUTDEVICE]

it was also usually different omelets. then we have the old traditional Swedish cheesecake "ostkaka" , which should not be confused with the modern one, which is an oven-baked cottage cheese cake served with jam and whipped cream. rice pudding is just cold porridge that has been mixed with whipped cream with a little fine sugar and cm-sized pieces of clementine or mandarin or orange

[@HenkeEdge]

9:45 Keep your head high and just walk out of the resturant if they serve prinskorv like that! The ends of the "Prinskorv" should be cut before cooked so it folds out like a crown.

[@ItsMandaBanana]

We used to spend Christmas Day with my grandparents on my dads side of the family, because we spent Christmas eve with my mums side. Now when my grandparents has passed, we are having tacos on Christmas Day to be like "We are done with julmat".

[@joakimkroon7774]

The price for the julbord at Riksarkivet is around 100-120 pounds. So, you would most likely afford to go there. 😁👌

[@helvete983]

Rule of thumb for every Swedish holiday, Usually ham, you must have Sill and Lingon jam and new potatoes. We also have a unique soda called must, we have Påskmust (easter) and Julmust (Xmas) it's identical, not really sure why we go through the facade of changing the labels at this point, it should just be available year round. We will also drink shots of Aquavit. Various flavours, vile stuff but it's traditional.

[@swedishmetalbear]

Julbord.. (Yule) Not to be conflated with Christmas really.. Its precursor is the Midvinterblot.. (Midwinterfeast). The Swedish one is probably the largest and most varied in the world. Finland.. Again.. Used to be a part of Sweden.. So they have the same traditions and similar foods in fact our foods here can be bought in Finland and theirs here. We have had a shared market since they became independant from Russia.. Albeit they also have some unique foods for their region which is the same all over Sweden. (There are unique dishes in most regions). Having a part Finnish family.. We combine our Yuletables.. I disagree with her about the vegetables.. We have several distinct vegetable dishes.. But they are traditionally usually made with vegetables that last into winter.. Like kale/cabbage/root vegetables.. Brussel sprouts.. Carrots.. Parsnips. Celeriac.. Pickled veg.

[@ingegerdandersson6963]

Ikea have a cheaper julbord with some of the food in there restaurant. At least they do in Sweden

[@stinanilsson8107]

Some people probably eat leftovers on the 25th, so do we at lunch. I don't know if this is usual for everybody but in my family we do turkey for the evening on the 25th!

[@carolagustafsson2614]

You can eat julbord on the ferry between Stockholm and Helsinki in december. 😋🥂

[@arthena2130]

Asia also has rice puddings, so it's a pretty global dish. I know both Japan and China and Thailand has it, and I am pretty sure there are more, but I can't remember.

[@NordicViking83]

There is something called Matkoma or Paltkoma it is like being exhausted of eating all the food you are completely full and tired from that.. that is Matkoma and it is very common on julbord

[@linnekholm2512]

So yes. You nees to go. Usually served december upp untill the 24th.

[@Aerox90]

On the question what we do on Christmas Day: we drink. A lot 😂 At least the younger generation. There's like a tradition to go out to the nightclub on Christmas Day. If you don't party then Christmas Day is just a regular weekend day. Some people celebrate Christmas again with relatives that they couldn't meet on Christmas Eve, basically a second Christmas. Common if your parents has separated for example. I'm sure it's the same in other countries.

[@Ajnaeckros]

I just thought of something; you said your word for a heavy meal is "Stodgy" (?? don't know the spelling) but it reminded me of the word we use in Sweden when we talk about a proper, heavy meal that will let you feel full for a long period of time = Stadig. It's also the word for firm/solid and the like. I guess you could say a meal is solid, I just thouhgt it was fun since I've never heard of the word you said before and you had that video about Britain using words from the Viking Age.

[@RidinWithMyLocsOn]

Swede here, all people I know eat this more or less the WHOLE of December, not just on or near xmas eve.

[@merjal.]

It's not cold rice pudding that we eat in Finland, it's actually hot rice porridge.

[@antheaxe7340]

Äter julbord med Edward Blom on Matgeek channel it very good video Eward blom food historien that know alot the food and tradisions but problem is that video is only in swedish with no sub titels so if some know how subtital stuff thinj the would be good video to

[@TheTheoriginaldakue]

funny thing is that chistmas eve is the day to celebrate ON, since christmas day is insinuating the "day" after christmas, wich is why it's celebrated in this way in sweden, it's pretty much: eat yourself sick on christmass eve, and be in a food coma all through christmas day.

[@jessicahedman3048]

you gotta come here in december!

[@hson_hson9621]

on Christmas day we go out and meet old friends and get drunk af...

[@AndreasKarlsson-w2b]

She forgot about the other drinks that you have after the mullet wine = Snaps ,must , xmas beers , eggnog and the special coffees etc etc