Things I LOVE about Norway!

[@johnnymartinjohansen]

I almost fell out of my chair laughing when you praised "kneippbrød", because it's the simplest, cheapest bread you can buy :D Such a great video, you're so passionate in the way you tell about your experiences, and have this great charisma. Really enjoyed watching it.

[@McGuffy]

How do I know the internet is still amazing? I´m watching an american pay tribute to the kneipp-bread.

[@therealrgt6956]

Det var kult gjort av han 😁

[@afrog2666]

Kneip er life hehe ;)

[@pernille1914]

Great to hear you had a good time in Norway and still have a lot of good memories. You still speak Norwegian very well! Best regards from Haugesund

[@Henoik]

Wow, I've never heard someone speak so highly of kneippbrød before. I guess it's because we consider it as a really generic type of bread.

[@safe-keeper1042]

I worked at a hotel until recently, and when corona hit and we stopped getting foreign guests, and instead had mostly Norwegians travelling in their own country, one of the really noticeable differences was we had to make much more wholemeal bread ("grovbrød") and a whole lot less white bread ("loff"). It's one of those things you don't think about, but apparently Norwegians eat much more of the former, and a whole lot less white bread.

[@Henoik]

@@safe-keeper1042 Cuz loff is cheap as heck, doesn't fill your stomach, and tastes of cardboard 😁 The history of bread is quite an interesting one though. Like hundreds of years ago, white bread was expensive af and only eaten by the elite, whereas wholegrain was for poor people. These days, that's kinda flipped around.

[@lv8pv]

Reindeer is much more "gamey" then red deer. I think you was thinking about pinnekjøtt (traditional norwegian dish) That is made from lamb or sheep. Not reindeer. Some places in the north of norway where Im from, we do make pinnekjøtt from reindeer, but that is low volume and special interest food. And it is very gamey in taste

[@ThomasGabrielsen]

Thank you for your kind words. It's very interesting to hear an American's view of Norwegians and Norway as country. :-)

[@pim6970]

I thank you so much and i love norway so much😊🇧🇻from thailand🇹🇭🤭😊

[@hansmonsen1359]

Just for the information - pinnkjøtt is made from ribs of lamb, salted and dried - sometimes also smoked. You water it out av slow-cook.

[@Jeppe.P.Bjerget]

So great to hear your history from Norway. I am happy you enjoyed the time you had here. The way you see shop-opening is right, and that we try to use more car than driving. I see al this change, but this is how it was before. I wish you all the best, and hope you get to come back again. Best wishes from Jan In Norway

[@TheEminemOwns]

18:00 It took me an embarrassingly long time to figure out he was talking about pike/pikk here, but it was funny to envision how an interaction like that might've gone down!

[@lv8pv]

tror heller det var jeentee fiiitee siden han pratet om hvor lenge man holder på vokalene

[@AgentRafa]

@@lv8pv Jammen de to ordene likner jo ikke hverandere i det hele tatt. "Jeentee/fiiitee" lol

[@TomIversen-fx1hu]

A good paperbag-kneipp picked in the shop early with Jarlsberg, jalapeno-ham and spiss-paprika (kind of bell-pepper). Yumm!!

[@trolldayahoono]

pinna kjøtt is sheep ribs that are salted and smoked (some places we eat it at xmass) - Reinsdyr is game meat that cost a lot

[@AntonioAio]

Fantastisk historie, fantastiske broder. Velkommen tilbake til Norge!

[@heibybello8864]

Me and my daughter are trying to learn norwegian. She wants to go to college there, it is all she talks about 🥰🥰🥰

[@henningfuruseth5872]

welcome, guarantees that she will enjoy herself here. easy country to get to as a youngster, everyone speaks almost fluent English

[@trinewestbyejrgensen4838]

I agree. We go to Sweden for our grocery shopping.

[@MrErikchaugen]

Nice norsk,dude!!Would love to have you back!

[@howardinothegreat136]

Its nice to hear so much nice things about our country, cause we are good at complaining 🤣

[@torgrimhanssen5100]

Lutefisk is not a fermented food, it is Lut as in caustic soda. So fish filet treated in an Alkali bath.

[@nerd_in_norway]

Nice video. The good gentleman seems to be talking about when he was in Norway in his teens. He mentions grocery stores closing at four in the afternoon. That was like in the 1980s. Already by the late 1980s the at the time ruling conservatives changed rules so that shops could finally stay up late and by the 1990s it was common for more and more supermarkets etc to stay up late in the evening. Nowadays my local grocery stores opens at 06 in the morning and close at midnight six days a week, so a lot of what is described here was only true back in the old days. Same goes for the amount of cars. It is now common for a lot of families to own multiple cars. Not so much 30+ years ago. Other than that he is spot on about most stuff. I hope he gets to revisit the place. Peace.

[@ragnhildwenes7797]

Kneipbrød, the bread he talks about, is the cheapest sort. So much other bread goodness out there! Lutefisk is just for Xmas. And pinnekjøtt is not reindeer, it's lamb..

[@anitamrk2901]

Hello from Haugesund!❤

[@afrog2666]

FRESH KNEIPBRØD BEBE!:D With butter and goat cheese or regular cheese and salami, or liverpaste and cucumber slices.. Kneipbrød is the GOAT! Love me some kneip, the history of the bread is quite interesting btw ;)

[@allanbarsness6076]

My dad is from Norway

[@HopefullyHopeful]

I'm from Sandefjord, and I never hear about people going there! I'm so happy to hear you did :)

[@wohasl4128]

Im from Rakkestad :)

[@Jimmy_Salvesen]

Takk for at du snakker så bra om oss Nordmenn ! Du virker som en veldig bra mann. Hilsen Jimmy ifra Norge.Og en stor hilsen til deg og din familie,ifra en glad Nordmann.

[@hakonkvande6767]

7:30ish I once heard an American describe the different work ethics with "Americans live to work, Norwegians work to live"

[@bell4textu973]

This is not true. Norwegian in general love their jobs and do not work to live.

[@hakonkvande6767]

@@bell4textu973 Not saying they don't. But the quote was from an American that worked in Norwegian offshore during its beginning. Personal experience can't be used as evidence, but I will still say that if I compare the "homegrown" Norwegians I worked with with our new country men (and women), generally, not always the impression was that our new workforce worked harder.

[@Henrik46]

Grocery stores are now generally open until 11 pm, a few have even turned 24/7. We have gotten a lot closer to America in this regard.

[@heinthepain]

Fun story to listen to! You said you went to Haugesund, did you ever cross the bridge over to Karmøy?

[@CoolKD2005]

That is some good Norwegian for not speaking it actively. Hi from a Norwegian :) Det var en fin video.

[@megler121]

12:23 "We went to Haugesund, this little fishing village on the west side of norway". Yeah, only the 12th bigget city in Norway haha

[@hratgard]

Pinnekjøtt (literally STICK MEAT because the meat is prepared with birch sticks in the water to add flavor) is not from reindeer, it's from regular old sheep, and is one of the two most traditional dishes for Xmas - that and Rib (from pigs). Some do have Lutefisk for Christmas. The best dish you can ever eat from reindeer is Finnbiff - it's like a forest pot /stew, but with reindeer. Is one of the best dishes you can eat.. period.

[@sihaso9272]

You're not supposed to just add the birch sticks to the water. You're supposed to place them in the bottom of your pot, so that you can place the ribs on top, above the waterline, and steam them in stead of boiling them.

[@sveinatlefjellstad2577]

Kneipbread is the cheapest bread you can buy in Norway :). Happy to Know you liked it

[@Marius-vw9hp]

LOL kneipbrød is the cheapest bread you get, my mom used to buy it when I was a kid.

[@kraketuss2600]

Pinnekjøtt is made from sheep, not raindeer

[@mdalawadh]

so am planing to buy house there for my summer vacations and my retirement plan and many ppls told me its very expensive and the people are close to eachothers after this vid i will go ahead and buy house there

[@Surdeigt]

It is expensive but it also depends on where you settle ☺️

[@RubyRay8888]

You are so sweet. Thank you so much. My early life as a child and youth I lived in Veitvet. 🙂I have been in America four times in Montana. I love America also. Du snakker flott norsk. 🙂

[@neoxenia7014]

We love Americans to, met many great tourists from the US around Norway. :)

[@knutnygard9695]

lutefisk.. NOT fermented !, but the fisk spend some time in a solition high pH...

[@andreix123]

Lutefisk is my fav. food! We always eat it Christmas evening

[@Storyraymond]

Pinnekjøtt is not made by reindeer. It is made by lamb. It is smoked, salted and dried. Somebody may make something similar of reindeer, but I haven't heard about that. And I have a large family spread through out Norway. But a stew or a steak made of reindeer is really tasty.

[@themetricsystem7967]

Another benefit from walking is the health effect

[@frankbg1]

Pinnekjøtt usually is made from lamb and not reindeer. Lutefisk is mostly eaten in winter. Norvegia is nice, but Jarlsberg is better ;-)

[@bjarnefiska-andersen1785]

Kneipbrød🤣🤣🤣 legit d mest plain brødet me har🤣🤣 jaujau

[@SCHTRAM]

Also the tastiest tbh though I never eat it anymore due to it not being the healthiest

[@SunGem]

Pinnekjøtt is usually sheep/lamb ribs. 😉

[@daginn896]

Pinnekjøtt is lamb meat :)

[@Loggins1969]

Oh my brother worked at Kolsås at Oslo

[@nicolaifr4905]

17th of may isnt our independence day but rather ouer constitution day, the union with sweden was technically abolished on the 26th of october when the king of Sweden (Oscar ii) renounced the Norwegian crown. The dissolution of the union was approved by the Storting on 7 June. So the confusion is totally understandable

[@therealrgt6956]

Love from Kirkenes😊

[@Anitha-Rusdal]

In my grandmothers garden there is a big rock. The story is that a troll in Stavanger threw the rock in a fude with the troll at Hommersåk 🤣😂. And by the way pinnekjøtt is lamb.😊

[@loveisthelaw7705]

Hilser fra Norge. Kom tilbake da vel. Flott video

[@stonesnorthfield7807]

grocery stores are open from 07:00am to 11:00pm ;)

[@kristiansundsfjord4095]

didn't use to be, it seems he was here a while ago. And we have allways been a overly regulated country. E.xample before we weren't allowed to buy milk on saturdays

[@troillmainn]

Hey, Norwegian here. Regarding the word for girl you were referring to, I guess you're talking about "pike"?🙂 I know what other word you're talking about which means something very different indeed😂 You could do yourself a favor and use another word for girl so you don't have to worry about getting in an awkward situation. The word I would suggest is "jente". Means exactly the same as "pike" and lets you avoid any misunderstandings👍 Oh, and by the way: you do sound like an American speaking Norwegian, at least to me, but less so than a lot of other Americans I've heard through the years😉

[@labanslabedask2882]

20:15 With this high level of speaking Norwegian you'd have no trouble travelling and make yourself understood here. Your dialect sounded more like Oslo than Haugesund :-)

[@ovehall6359]

Av alle amerikanere jeg har hørt snakke norsk på u-tube, er du den beste! 30 år siden wow, you got a talent

[@gardini100]

well can say as Norwegian I like Americans as well, you folks have a nice way to include people you don't know, never been homesick on my trips to the US, been to California, Nevada,Arizona, and a little trip to Houston Texas, next on my list will be New Orleans , but really want to explore Montana and Oregon on a really long trip :)

[@ABCe_ow]

dont know what store you where at but most is open from 8-11

[@bjrnjensen7074]

"Grocery stores open from 8 to 4?" hmm.. I can`t remember ever seing a shop with such short opening hours .. I go to REMA1000 and KIWI quite often, and they are open from 7-23, (closed on sundays)

[@torgrimhanssen5100]

He hinted that he was a teen at the time, so probably in a rural spot in the 90's maybe early 2000.

[@unicornmaster7997]

Ja det var normalt på 70 og 80 tallet og begynnelsen på 90 tallet at matbutikker hadde åpent fra 09.00 til 16.00 og noen til 18.00. lørdager kunne gå fra 09.00 til 13.00 og noen til 15.00 husker godt den tiden der 😊 men så begynte noen folk å klage på at de ikke rakk å handle grunnet jobben sin, så siden 90 tallet har bare åpningstider bare økt 👍

[@westerneurope1752]

He is referring to the time he was there 30 years back or so - things have changed since then. Back in the 70 and 80ies short opening hours were normal.

[@johnmagnetrane6952]

En 30 år siden var det mere begrensede åpningstider, så det han sa var rett. I helgene, som da kun er lørdager, kunne jo butikker stenge både 3 og 1 på ettermiddagen.

[@unicornmaster7997]

@@johnmagnetrane6952 helt riktig. Det var gode tider i butikk det 😃 oppvokst med butikk i familien 😀

[@bobmalibaliyahmarley1551]

Love from Norway!

[@BuFuPaul]

Pinnekjøtt IS NOT REINDEER. it’s sheep ribs that are smoked and dried. The best food ever 😁👍

[@bell4textu973]

The 17th of May is the constitution day of 1814. So, it has nothing to do with independence day! As you know the union with Sweden (1814 - 1905) was just a personal union where we just shared the same king with Sweden. Everyone speak English in Norway, BUT if you speak Egnlish you are a foreigner and will never come that close to people, and the different kind of friendship you mention.. When you speak Norwegian, you have changed status, to be "One Of Us". Great video Sir. Btw, you speak fluent Norwegian. PS! Jeg burde skrevet dette på norsk. ;)

[@unicornmaster7997]

Ferskt kneipbrød er faktisk godt. Fresh kneipbread is actually good 👍 it is the cheapest bread in norway, and it taste good with butter and Norwegia chees 🤩👍

[@kickinthegob]

He forgot about skolekritt. Forget all the other stuff, skolekritt is where it's at.

[@JohnnyRoscoe01]

Have to say it: Pinnekjøtt is not reindeer, itˋs made from sheep.......😜

[@hrorm]

Get this man kjøttkaker og poteter i brun saus :)

[@ahkkariq7406]

Glem ikke tyttebær!

[@ovehall6359]

Pinnekjøtt is lam, you know sheep?

[@cl_nord77]

Your norwegian is very good..Skål !

[@MrKristianNorrman]

Pinnekjøtt is from lamb, not reindeer ☺

[@hbteb5356]

Veitvet is in Oslo

[@peacefulminimalist2028]

Pinnekjøtt is made of lamb - not reindeer lol

[@GrEEnfReAKXxX3]

◾How easy would it be to learn norwegian for a person who's speaks English & Spanish??? ◾Thanks in advance for any answers.....

[@torekristoffersen176]

Norwegian is very easy to learn for English speaking people.... compared to other languages.... good luck!

[@OddRagnarDengLerstl]

Kneip is nice fresh. But really the least good of all the nice bread we have.

[@larslarsen9204]

No

[@larslarsen9204]

Eller nei bør eg vel skriva

[@Gh0stHack3r.]

Wow 30 år, nå må du allt ta en tur til Norge..

[@VampyrMygg]

hmm... when were ya in Haugesund? Ya don't look too far off of my age really, and I'm in Haugesund... Ain't impossible we mighta been around the same circles.

[@lpdude2005]

Where does your friend live? It must be very desolate. Grocery stores and department stores are open from 06 - 24. Even in small towns 06-23. On Sundays, only smaller grocery stores are open - many of them 24/7. Now in December, all stores are open - but there is freedom of choice.

[@Gibberishus]

Han var her for mer enn 20 år siden sier han og ting var ganske annerledes fortsatt da. Hvertfall på 80 og nittitallet var d svært sjelden at en butikk var åpen lenger enn til fire på en hverdag. Og fortsatt er d vel kun bensinstasjoner pluss en og annen kiosk i store byer som er døgnåpne.

[@HrRezpatex]

hehe yes our bread is good, but don`t go for the "kneip" bread. Kneip bread is the cheapest bread both in prize, quality and taste. But on the other side, if you love our kneip bread, you will really love the quality bread we have. :) And just to be clear about this thing about troll`s, there is not a single Norwegian that use them to scare away evil spirits.. lol Yes, troll`s comes from a old traditional folklore, but nobody actually believe in it. But we do think they are funny and cosy, and they are part of our culture, so we love them. :) And when you see a lot of our landscape it is easy to understand how people believed in them in the ancient times. ;)

[@pigedehekkan]

Norwegians work to live whilst USAians live to work.

[@EasyonlineID]

Han elsker Kneip ^__^ thats pretty funny

[@KjetilBalstad]

HAHAHAHAHA, the KNEIPBREAD??? That's like, the cheapest bread we have, I think it's there only to offer a cheap alternative to the more expensive breads. That said, Prima Kneip from Rema 1000 is quite good, much better than say Coop Extra Kneip, so I'm not all that surprised you liked kneip, but I'm just surprised you mentioned that one....

[@hratgard]

Hah! Kneipbrød? Thats the cheapest bread you can find in norway. Its made from leftovers when making other kinds of bread!

[@ninaelsbethgustavsen2131]

Vel, når du tar i betraktning at amerikansk (og engelsk) brød smaker som badesvamp, er det lett å forstå begeistringen for kneippbrød.... 🍞🍞🍞🍞🍞🍞

[@Borrelaas]

I've never heard anyone say a postive word about kneipbrød before XD

[@janetdungan2878]

Mat-z-paan is how it is pronounced

[@Henrik46]

Norvegia is the name of the cheese. "Norvegen" sounds like German for "Norway".

[@unipett86]

I didnt know that Dana White had been in Norway

[@mrgrande70]

🇸🇯❤

[@BOI_B1]

4:45 no, they arent put there to ward of evil spirits. the trolls are the evil spirits

[@Henrik46]

17th of May is NOT independence day. It's Constitution Day.

[@ovehall6359]

If you love kneipp bread... there is a lot of better breads in Norway than kneipp :~)

[@Muchoyo]

Veitvet er en bydel nordøst i Oslo.

[@hadnils]

May 17th is not our independence day, but our constitusion day :-)

[@trinewestbyejrgensen4838]

Which religion did you do missionary work for? Sorry for my broken english 😂

[@heidifarstadkvalheim4952]

Kneipbrød!! Realy?🤔🤣😂🇳🇴

[@geirmyklebust]

Are you talking about Norway?

[@Fistfury42]

As a Swede I do find Norwegians.. Pretty hard to love. 🤔😉 Edit: I'd love me some warm moist kneipp! Haha

[@ahkkariq7406]

Hahaha...vanskelig, den søskenkjærligheten. Hehe

[@slitherking7822]

anyone else on a |Norway review/experience| spree just to stroke their massive Norwegian ego?

[@ifladog]

Hvor er de toppløse kvinnene

[@ahkkariq7406]

Det krydde av dem sent på 80-tallet. Helt vanlig å sole seg toppløs, men man tok som regel på seg overdel hvis man skulle bevege seg rundt.

[@CrimsonsDeath12]

You had me all the way til you said Norvegia, Jarlsberg all the way my dude! Just kidding obviously but for real, if you love Norvegia, Jarlsberg is gonna be like heaven for you. And last time I checked, they sell it in the states too, atleast in Texas. This comment was NOT paid for by Jarlsberg, I just can't get enough of the stuff :)

[@tweespider]

Norvegia all the way👌🏻 Klarer ikke smaken av jarlsberg☺️

[@SIeipner]

Usj, Jarlsberg smaker sur ost, Norvegia er mild og god. Men smaken er som baken, så har ingenting i mot at du liker Jarlsberg isteden for Norvegia

[@sveinatlefjellstad2577]

Bra Norsk :)

[@Kari.F.]

Pinnekjøtt is mutton, not reindeer. I know a lot of Americans think they've never eaten mutton, but you can tell people that you have! Bragging rights, I guess!? 😂

[@Henrik46]

Fun as in funny: morsomt Fun as in enjoyable: gøy

[@kungsverige1886]

Not so easy....