Taste Test: Swedish Foods from the Magnus

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The Magnus sent me a great "Swedish Heritage Package" a while back and I'm still working my way through it all. This video features most of the food products from the box, as well as the two beers!

[@Marcusandersson1337]

for the pea soup 2,5 dl = 1 cup, so it should be a lot ticker, and we usually add mustard to the pea soup. For the surströmmig, open the can under water in a bowl (wash it at the same time) and serve it with potato, sour cream and red unions.

[@Morgan02]

Marcus Andersson I'm sorry but Thicker and onion*

[@Marcusandersson1337]

Thank you sir. No idea why I spelled it so wrong.

[@Morgan02]

Marcus Andersson No problem :)

[@brenyngrubic2853]

thank god i tried your trick with surstromming works like a charm. thank you

[@JARVImyFRIEND]

Red Soviet Union

[@mrbitbot]

Unlike so many Swedish food taste videos on KZbin you actually give a proper taste of everything included. And for that I respect you.

[@jagkanloggain]

The "Ärtsoppa" is a classical dish classically eaten on thursdays when youre in the military, with pancakes for dessert.

[@BasicEndjo]

HAHAH 7:10 "i don't know which is the top" in sweden we have big arguments on which side of different Knäckebröd (the hard bread) is the right side to put butter on

[@Diabolus1978]

Ofc the side with the holes

[@Templarofsteel88]

i don't,ends up with way to much butter.

[@hkkbs]

The Onsala sausage is usually sliced in thin slices before we put it on bread with butter. On the Wasa crisp bread we usually put margarine or butter on the bread before adding cheese, sausage, egg, or whaterever you want!

[@gundog4314]

You have to love a guy whom sends you beer, especially all the way from Sweden! Awesome stuff The Magnus! Cheers

[@joebryer]

i do aim to please! if i recal right you are of swedish desent to? Maybe i should hook you up whit a SHP to? ;)

[@gundog4314]

Pretty tempting, maybe we do a swap. You send me some Swedish stuff and I send you some American stuff. I'm Swedish on my Mothers side, both her parents are from there. Cheers

[@tangorenagade]

Oh you guys ;) This network of MREINFO is my favorite on the net!

[@user-my4wj3dy7f]

Too bad those beers are one of the worst xD

[@sannaerikssonaugustsson9124]

How's that sausage spreading going?

[@mrs7195]

Yeah, adding mustard to the pea soup makes it so much better.

[@aserta]

When you do get round to the Kalles (the Swede one) do a side by side comparison, i'm really curious to see if the taste is different.

[@manicdemise]

you're saving the salt liquorice for your kids? savage

[@Migustinder]

salt liquorice is awesome i would be mad if someone ate my salt liquorice.

[@manicdemise]

Migustinder same, but I don't imagine American kids would be to used to those kind of flavours lol

[@Migustinder]

well maybe not :D

[@chriskennedy6983]

:)People say that my Norwegian really shows. I tend to do things that other people here in the states consider strange such as put smoked or Kippered herring on toast in the morning etc. I wish that I could try some of this food though sounds really good. Of course if anyone wants to send me anything send me a message through youtube and ill pay shipping :).

[@terraincognitagaming]

You dont spread that kind of sausage, you cut it in thin slices.

[@Cabexer]

The best use of the surströmming is to hijack a plane with it (surströmming is considered a terrorist weapon by most airlines)

[@annmcdaniel1092]

😆😆😆😆😂😂😂😂😂😂😅😅😅😈😈😈😲😲😵😵😵😵😜

[@CuteLesbo69]

I absolutely LOOOOVE pickled herring, never tried it in mustard but I'm really curious to try.

[@kristofferlange6433]

Love the first person format, and the voice.

[@user-xz2yl9yl2f]

Don't waste that caviar! Send it off to Steve1989 AKA The Iron Gut.

[@yesimhuman]

Open the surstömming under water it might spray... clean it spread a little on the knäckebröd (crisp bread) with sour cream and chives

[@annajonsson9469]

The herring goes with new poatatos of the year, with sourcream, chives and for dessert, strawberries, whipped cream or vanilla ice cream.

[@heyall9717]

Heyy just a tip: "skål" you pronounce as "skal". Easy mistake for English speaker but a tip that helps to pronounce it right is that å is pronounced like the o in the word "Lord".

[@caturdaynite7217]

We love our fishy treats!! Pickled herring is quite popular here in Wisconsin.

[@ArneRagnarsson]

As long the food taste ok, you can eat it. The date on the poackage It's only best before date. Net the last date.

[@CaptainZZ700]

enjoyed the vid -thanks for sharing

[@gschultz9]

Glad you enjoyed it. I know the "different" videos aren't for everyone.

[@sharonmaurer2882]

Really good review i enjoyed it. Not sure i would try the cavier but everything looked really good.:)

[@NikEdw70]

The herring; we usually eat together with potatoes. There are variants of how its served, but mine is with boiled potatoes, boiled egg, cheese, sour cream and chives -and of course with some hard bread!

[@lukasdarnemyr2749]

We don't have cups in Sweden we have deciliter. One Cup is 2,3 dl

[@gschultz9]

I hate it when I make these translation mistakes (and then never hear the end of it!). On this one I didn't even try to figure out the measurement, I just used Google Translate, which of course saw the 2.5 dl and (for whatever reason) translated it to 2.5 Cups!

[@KuKuKuK69]

You americans need to learn the metric system... LOL... you are still living in the old days....

[@Mr_Seppo]

Coffe cup = 1,5 dl, tea mug = 3 dl.

[@maximilianvonspee9329]

I saw a bag of Salmiakki candy among the sweets, salty licorice. One of the most polarizing sweets in existence, you like it or it makes you cry. Anyway great video, nice to see your take on some of the things I grew up on

[@michaelwestman6272]

you'll have to try crispbread,sliced hard boiled eggs and kalles kaviar it is delicious!

[@KuKuKuK69]

Never eat knäckebröd without spreading some extra saltat smör on it...

[@deadpoetoftheyear]

KuKuKuK69 Americans as i understand it rarely use butter on bread and we use it always.

[@kurtsoderberg]

Snåla alldrig på smöret....

[@immDroidz]

för smör är fett, och fett är läckert ;)

[@m.d.z.2832]

Q&A! Gotta do it

[@BigSwede7403]

The trick with the Soldatens ärtsoppa is that you should add roughly half the can with water to the soup. It is meant to be rather thick as it is made the "soldier" way and keep you going through the day. (Hence the extra pork. :) )

[@rosenbergpetra]

The onsala korv we slice in thin slices and put it on a sandwich

[@2dividedby3equals666]

UTZ is certified to products that have been sourced from farm to shelf. improving farming workers conditions etc. Great video, a pitty that the caviar went bad!!

[@gschultz9]

Thanks for the information!

[@Statusinator]

Did you actually put two and a half cups of water in the soup, instead of decilitres as it it said on the can?

[@whiteedk]

Statusinator I was wondering about the same

[@EagleStrigi]

I think he did... And ate the caviar which was off... I would feel bad for him if he ate a lot of the caviar :|

[@gschultz9]

My mistake. Instead of looking and seeing the 2.5 dl I went right to Google Translate and for some reason that translated it to 2.5 cups. I knew that the measurement wasn't likely to be in cups, but went with it anyway. Luckily I used less that what I thought it called for--I ended up putting in less than 2 cups.

[@EagleStrigi]

Ey, that's some good gut feeling you've got there. I'm sure the caviar is no problem either then ;) Hope you're feeling well c:

[@KuKuKuK69]

And to eat it the Swedish way... have some Slotts Senap and Timjan in it... then to make it perfekt... knäckebröd med extra saltat smör.. :)

[@gejnormcswipe8435]

I like how you're comparing the peasoup to MRE's considering its called "Soldier's Peasoup" and is basically styled after the type of peasoup served to swedish soldiers.

[@Youtube_Globetrotter]

If you want to do a nice Kalles sandwitch use a white soft bread with butter, a hard boild sliced egg and a boild potato sliced. Mix egg and potato and put som kalles on top. Kalles is nice if it's the right amount and not to mutch.

[@annajonsson9469]

Peasoup with spicy mustard and with it panncakes and or crepés that you would call them, with jam on top.

[@Dronning10]

i never eat the vegetables in the sill only the fish, the other stuff is just to flavor the fish in my opinion

[@ocean91]

the IKEA caviar thingy is good with white cheese, like jarlsberg or something on top of it! Or boiled eggs.

[@sheribillett7800]

When I lived in Sweden, we ate pea soup with mustard (ärtsoppa med senap) on Thursdays. 😋

[@mumu135mumu554]

Pea soup with pancakes on Thursdays is a classic

[@jonas2895]

You open "surströmming" submerged under water. Just so you know.

[@gschultz9]

I will definitely keep that in mind, thank you!

[@flikka1985]

nah dont do it underwater do it outside in the yard. so you can smell it :D it does smell disgusting. or even better get your kids to open it :D haha

[@aldorias]

Lol sure if you are an amature and want to waste the brine, just tilt the can so the airpocket is at the area where you puncture the can with the opener.

[@annmcdaniel1092]

NO, I never open it under water!! Because I NEVER open it!!! Lol. Lol! 😷😳😲😵

[@erikhogberg1]

Try spreading some butter on the crispbread first and then spread some kalles kaviar over it. Makes it much less salty and much more enjoyable. Also less dry.

[@xtremeswe]

Nice Video. If you get the chance you should try the Risberrgs Onion Sausage. In swe (Risbergs Lökkorv)

[@marcussundbergnordstrom9480]

Hi. I liked your video. But some tips. Pour Mariestad in to a glass, that way you will get alot of more flavour out of it. We usually use butter on the breas which makes the Kalles abit more "washed out"and here we have both mild version and mixed with cream cheese. The herring comes to it's best with boiled potatoes, sour cream and some chopped red onions. Pea soup is for me, best served with a sweet and strong mustard, and traditionally in Sweden served with pancakes for dessert. A fun fact is that the groupe ABBA had to ask the abba-company to use the name.

[@gschultz9]

Thanks for the tips Marcus. I kind of think the fun part of doing videos like this is NOT really knowing exactly how it's "supposed" to be done. But I can imagine how frustrating it must be for Swedes to watch!

[@marcussundbergnordstrom9480]

@@gschultz9 I find it entertaining to see how ppl eat, in ways I never imagined. It's so easy to be narrowsighted and do things "the right way". I didn't want to "correct" just let you know how we do it.

[@TompasGuld]

Sill (herring) and (kalles)kaviar (caviar) is usually paired with boiled eggs :) And yeah, knäckebröd is quite dry without butter :)

[@nkari8971]

And with the pea soup, you REALLY should eat it with mustard. String lots of mustard on it, blend a bit, and eat.. makes it taste WAY better..

[@SwedePelle]

the black caviar lid is fine, all lid's are like that and it has nothing to do with it beeing "bad"

[@AzuriteCoast]

Heya gschultz! I was wondering, what would you say is the best MRE/Freeze dried bang for your buck meal?

[@alethacurrent8075]

pickled herring in sour cream is my favorite.

[@platez81]

Hmm Kalles is enjoyed pretty heavily on a bread :) it should cover it its not at all used like vegemite. I think its mostly that you need to learn to like it.

[@poppomatic]

One thing, the candy with red and white stripe paper called marianne is actually from finland, not sweden.

[@sheribillett7800]

Marianne candies are my favorite!!

[@kungsbackaboys8047]

Stämmer

[@jimalexander1896]

I give you a A for trying the fish eggs!

[@Jeff250lbc]

Nice

[@bostark7722]

surstromming, if i was you I'd mail it to Steve.i bet he'd try it. however,i think thats a food you have to grow up around to stomach. either way have a great day or night G-man. intresting review as always

[@stephainegoh9898]

I'm your fan i love to watch your video of MRE meal ready to eat 🖒🖒🖒🖒

[@whiteedk]

The caviar looks fine and it should taste very salty and a bit fishy. In Denmark we eat the picked herring and the pickled herring in mustard or curry sauce on our coarse rye bread

[@whiteedk]

Btw marabou is the best milk chocolate!!!!

[@magnusE7]

UTZ is not a company that makes potatochips, it is a program and a label for sustainable farming.

[@helenasplace]

You rock at speaking Swedish!!! 👍🏻👍🏻

[@gschultz9]

I appreciate you saying that, but needless to say I really have no idea!

[@Rikard_Nilsson]

kalles goes great with boiled eggs on a sandwich.

[@ebbahaidl]

Love this! Skål :)

[@gschultz9]

Skal!

[@HaviPavi]

gschultz9 try to say skhole (sk hole) then it should sound more swedish

[@kungsbackaboys8047]

Stämmer

[@jeb944]

im swedish but the only thing i would eat is the sausage, hard bread and the beers (even if there's better brand beer)

[@platez81]

Garant ( the brand of the caviar) is a known lowpricechain in Sweden.

[@rbwirth12]

I still can't believe you tried that caviar THREE times!

[@nemopettersson1239]

Sweet that you got a bottle of "Apotekarnes Julmust" Thats the most important for me at "The Julbord" at christmas. Be sure it is served Ice Cold. :) Magnus did a great job putting this together, the only thing i miss actually is a bag of "Ahlgrens bilar" wich is some yummy sweets that is really Swedish for me. If you find them at IKEA or elswhere so try them. :)

[@gschultz9]

I'll keep an eye out for them!

[@joebryer]

DAMN!! you´r right i did miss that......shame on me... :/

[@zvidanyatvetski8081]

Also, Apotekarnes is by far the best must (pronounced "moost") on the market! If you're to try any must from sweden - Apotekarnes is what you need.

[@Luggruff]

So, you never tried the surströmming?

[@fxpdaking]

Nöt Créme, made in my home town =)

[@BanHan]

I don't know why, but any time someone on the internet eats a national dish, I keep my fingers crossed they'll like it. Even though I myself might hate it. Like the pickled herring for instance. Terrible, terrible memories.

[@hamzakhamlichi190]

Hahahah nice video man i enjoyed it also even tho this is 480 p doesnt look 480 p but looks like 720p anyways nice vid (:

[@ImDembe]

Ärtsoppa is really nice i even have two cans of Soldatens at home because it takes to long to make and Soldatens is almost like my grannys except you need some more spices. and put some mustard in it. The black row you should put on eggs, boil eggs, cut them in half, put some mayo on and some black row. Abbas sill is kind of meh, we have ALOT better brands here, i can't eat Abbas but the good stuff is way better. Falukorv you cut in small pucks around a quarter of an inch thick and fry them in a pan and serve with mashed potatoes, it's really good to mix in some bits of bacon with the sausage to. The beer here is pretty good imo, never tried Stockholm but Mariestads is okay and this is our cheap stuff of lagers :D

[@anitawiqvist2473]

you don't need to open surströmming outside. Just open a window and open the can in water (a bowl filled with water or something).

[@gschultz9]

Thank you for the information. I'm starting to look into the "right" way to eat surstromming and may end up doing it as a straight-up review rather than a gross-out "vomit alert" video.

[@aptand]

Kalles Kaviar goes great with boiled eggs.

[@varg8696]

You can get wasa at walmart

[@Revener666]

Kalles and other brands is really nice with boiled eggs. Eggs with eggs :)

[@rosenbergpetra]

Put the Kalles Kaviar on a sandwich that you have boiled slices egg on. It’s so we eat it here in Sweden.

[@Ritaaw1]

Marianne is Fazers candy from Finland!

[@flawmore]

The pea soup is made from yellow peas, hence the color. Just thought I'd say that.

[@IronDeth95]

Spreading the sausage hahahaha...

[@HaviPavi]

Your trying to spread sausage and we eat the wasa knekebörd we usually put butter on it

[@gschultz9]

Part of the point of this video is that I'm not familiar with these foods and DON'T really know how they're supposed to be eaten. Trying out something new. It's not like I'm a Swedish person simply trying to mess with you by doing everything wrong. And I'm sure butter would have been great on the knekebord, but he didn't send me any. I was trying to just eat what was in the box.

[@BosisofSweden]

:) thats kind of sweet but a bit poor plate. Hard bread with extra salted butter and som strong, nice cheese. Then you boil eggs and add caviar to them. Mix sour cream with a bit of red onion and the black caviar. Boil fresh potatoes and eat them with the sill. The caviar is not bad since its so salty. You can also bil eggs and take shrimps and mayo on them and then top it off with some black caviar :) And put some mustard in that soup. It is yellow peas by the way.

[@Wolfy_80]

15:57 Best sound in the world :)

[@Revener666]

even though Kalles is the most well known sandwich caviar brand, it is far from the best. Coop, Kosterfiskaren, klädesholmen and Ejderns are much much better. Much more flavour instead of just being salty.

[@Frendh]

Caviar in swedish is more or less used universally for fish eggs. What you were actually eating was roe from this en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclopterus_lumpus

[@Jaglilpill75]

Dont forgett to put in veggie o chicken broth cuz u had to much water in it, dont forgett the mustards 👌🏻 Also always butter on the knäckebröd woth Kalles Use the roe, sour cream,chopped red onio and fresh dill ✨✨

[@perkelepower]

Onsala korv= best thing ever :D buy it every time i am at the supermarket, very nice smokey flavor, you are suppose to have it on a sandwich

[@gschultz9]

Ah, I can see that being good!

[@SteveB357]

Is the Swedish Royal Family still Wasa?

[@__-bc4bs]

Oh shit you got the surströmming in there? =X

[@Sushikocken]

You should use butter on the bread and then put Kalles on. Thats alot better.

[@Bengtssonsan]

About the picled herring (and the mustard-picled herring) your not actually supposed to eat the onion, carrots and mustard. They are there to give the fish some taste, but it is the fish that is important. And about the texture, I guess it is up to personal taste. Personally, I love the mustard herring. And about the fermented herring: If you want to wait a long time before opening the can, keep it cold. The fermentation is ongoing inside the can, and if you wait for too long the expanding gases could make the can explode. This doesn't happen very often so you should be fine, but now you have been warned :)

[@gschultz9]

Warning taken!

[@Thellbro]

I always eat the carrots and onion, it's delish!

[@Vollification]

6:31 You need some mustard with that.

[@annajonsson9469]

The surströmming should go with new potatos, sourcream, chopped red onion, on a flatbread.

[@gschultz9]

Do you rinse it in water first?

[@Necroticnarcosis]

marianne is finnish candy mint+chocolate

[@FranklyMyDearIDontGiveADamn]

Soldier's pea soup. Every Thursday in the army, the soldier's gets pea soup and pancakes. Historical dish Pea soup. We all seem to have some kind of relationship with it, you have not encountered it in the home so at school, and if not in school so in the military. And it is really not surprising that the moderate soup has been kept in view of its solid history. Did you know that August Strindberg's favorite dish was pea soup and that he called it goddess? In Sweden, the soup has been eaten since the 13th century. And that it became a traditional Thursday law is probably due to the fact that Friday was a fasting day during the Catholic Middle Ages, and that it was therefore loaded with a proper feast day before.

[@gschultz9]

Very interesting. Thank you for the information!

[@FranklyMyDearIDontGiveADamn]

@@gschultz9 You're welcome

[@kungsbackaboys8047]

Haha lyssna när han säger Onsala korv

[@johankarlsson7852]

Im so hungry right now

[@ulfandersson7510]

Cut down golden cloves on the sandwich if you are going to take a caviar it is so good

[@lksugen2127]

Your'e supposed to fry the sasuage before you eat it, however it is safe to eat it uncooked because they Cook it when they make it. But it problably tastes better if you fry it and season it with some salt and pepper ;)

[@lksugen2127]

Oh also, before you fry it you cut it into thin slices and fry them seperatly not the whole sasuage like it is :)

[@gschultz9]

I'll bet that would have tasted great!

[@jagkanloggain]

And you are supposed to slice and fry the sausage in a pan with some butter.

[@annajonsson9469]

The caviar tastes best with baked potato, sourcream, garlicbutter and chopped red onion.

[@nagromtw5673]

18:05 i cant say i love it, (almost starts to cry) its not bad.

[@Mamiya645]

IKEA stores, here in Sweden, have that very special section of Swedish foods. I react like Travolta in that scene of Pulp Fiction every other time I walk past. By the way, it's considered a warm romantic gesture to feed the Swedish candy Djungelvrål to your beloved, do not trust the many staged youtube videos, it is a perfectly normal not-dangerous candy.

[@ProteusMega]

Trying all of these at the same time :-/. The Onsala is supposed to be sliced. It' not a paste. Also the herring is supposed to be eaten with fresh early summer potatos, sour cream and fresh veggies (also boiled eggs).

[@nagromtw5673]

As a swede i crige so much watching this