Everything That Makes Zara Larsson Proud to Be Swedish | Going Places | Condé Nast Traveler

hi I'm Zar Larson and today I'm going to be showing you some of my favorite things from Sweden and what makes me proud to be a sweet I'm going to show you some snacks some foods talk to you about places you can visit and show you how to celebrate Midsummer like a true Sweet let's go so first off we have a classic Fila which is basically the time where you don't eat like the real meals no breakfast lunch or dinner it's all that you snack on between those meals and usually it's some sort of pastry or you know like this a can and the Swedish cinnamon buns which this is are quite different than the American ones because we have this pal which is these big like sugar things instead of that frosting I've never had an American cinnamon bun I think they look so scary okay okay mhm what I like is uh cardamon bun they're very yummy and then this is a semla which is very seasonal you would only have this in the month of February I'm not a huge fan of it because inside of it you see this is all this is all like cream and that's all very nice and that and a bun so this is kind of like um marcien but it's weird cuz I really like marpin but I don't like this but they're like cousins but this is the cousin that I don't like very much so I'm going to I'm going to do this you can put this in a bowl with warm milk you would eat it as a soup you put it in the bowl with the warm milk then we're we're over to this little very excting exciting thing when I grew up I was only allowed to have it on Saturdays because Saturdays is the candy day every Saturday I got to pick like 10 pieces of candy and it's like a pick and mix and it's in every single store in Sweden and I am a such a big licorice fan so I'm so happy to see one of my absolute favorites ever which is the salt Paton oh oh sorry I'm going to pick it up okay Sal Pon this one is just oh it's so good this one's so good also this one is amazing in Krypton this one's my favorite it's like raspberry and licorice also this one's really good hick salty these ones are absolutely the the worst candy you could ever have this is some old people candy but you know what that's the beauty of it you can pick and mix whatever you like this one I haven't seen this in so long this is a gum and I'm going to save that I'm actually going to bring this home thank you can thank you so much this one you could also havea you would you would have this on um some bread with a lot of butter maybe some some of this which is uh K the hard bread it's like a cream smoked fish row and I I would understand that you might not love this if you didn't grow up on it but to me this is just like the most amazing flavor it's it's giving like Umami to me I am way more of a salty Savory type of person than I am with this the sweet stuff like even the sweets I would like enjoy a licorice nice nice a lot of people know Swedish food from the food court at Ikea and that is pretty accurate as you know we got the Swedish meatballs here but we also have some other things to try and let's start with that so so on this little plate this actually would look like a typical Midsummer I don't know what it is about the Swedish holidays maybe it's the same for you guys but we do the exact same menu on every single holiday Midsummer Christmas Easter like it does not matter what kind of holiday we have the same menu period on this one right here I see we got the pickled herring I would have it with some sour cream Shives perhaps it's like being at home this is my favorite I would have it just like this toast gon is also very easy to make at home just shrimp some mayo Dill onion mhm it's like the sweets we love a good pickled something pickled fish it doesn't sound very nice we don't have a lot of seasoning so you do let the ingredients or the fish or you know whatever kind of be the star of the show staple Staple in Swedish culture Swedish Cuisine Swedish survival honestly the star the Queen the Swedish dish if you will she's simple she's elegant she's classy four things meatball mashed potato pickled cucumber and Ling and berries and with a yummy yummy brown sauce for the meatballs this combination I don't know who came up with it I would say a genius it's just like it just hits it just hits oh my God this is like been out for a long time you're in the mountains it's windy it's freezing and then you see it you see a cottage and in that Cottage this is what's waiting for you also part of Swedish tradition we just get shitfaced on every holiday and this Glass is very big but what's nice about it is that you don't need to drink the whole thing it is not like a shot sometimes with the people you're around you say okay let's just have half and then you would sing a song about drinking half of it cuz that is part of the fun I'm going to sing a song for you guys I'm going to do my dad's [Music] favorite you know what that was really nice that was really nice I don't know if it's because I'm grown now I'm like 26 I can handle a liquor but this was actually really nice so whoever wants to have a taste of Swedish akavit shout out to op Anderson it's Midsummer time can't you see I'm sitting here with the beautiful flower crown which is something that you would wear on Midsummer my favorite holiday in Sweden it is celebrated in the middle of summer usually on the very lightest day and night of the year and we dance around this pole which looks like this and then it's almost like a cross and then it hangs two round things on the pole that lays horizontally and what what does that look like that is a penis my ladies and and and gents that it's it's it's what we do we dance around the green penis and we thank the penis for impregnating the Earth and making it green and Lush and we dance like frogs around it sometimes like mus which is a little guy who cries out for his mom like every other holiday there's a lot of alcohol involved Midsummer is probably the holiday where people would go the most like they would go in for it it's just so be like people just look beautiful people are off work and can just like celebrate the fact that at least we have hopefully two more months of warmth and and sunlight so as you can see here this is Sweden this is Norway this is Finland this is Denmark this is Scandinavia Finland is actually not a part of Scandinavia but a part of the Nordic so I would start my journey here from Stockholm if it's summer down south winter up North so I would take my car and I will go R all the way down to here estam it's absolutely stunning white beaches beautiful Cliffs when you are down south here you could also go to malma which is the third biggest city in Sweden and from malma you can take a train that takes about 20 minutes and you can go over to Copenhagen and just like spend the day there or have a little beer just chill in Denmark and then you go right back and just enjoy your evening here but south of of Sweden is just absolutely gorgeous in the summertime winter time I would do the opposite I will go up north to go skiing here with Norway they have the fjords and they have a lot of mountains and up here you're most likely are going to see the Northern Lights and there's a lot of reindeers up here maybe Rudolf is from here somewhere last show that I did actually was here Ino and it's really really fun to come here it's an amazing crowd you could um go on a sled with some dogs it's cold though but it's so stunning and up here they have a really funny accent I think just like they do down down south here also summertime I like to go here to goland which is a super old Island a lot of Rich history over here I would say it takes about 4 hours with a fairy Limestone City baby a lot of limestone over here and that does for beautiful places to swim Sweden in general we have so many islands we have about 220,000 Islands if you hear about Greece having a lot of islands you should come here to the Stockholm archipelago which is just so so stunning My Favorite Things in Stockholm would be I like youone a lot it's in Stockholm City so Stockholm is small right you can walk basically anywhere where and you're always close to water but youon it's just so beautiful cuz it's in the city but it's like super green and not a lot of people live there I think like the king's friends live there and like people like that but it's just very nice and we also have this thing in ween Al which means that you can basically Camp wherever you want there's no such thing as like a private owned area even though it is you are still allowed to be there you're still allowed to exist and do your unless it's on someone's like backyard the old town I really love I really really love the Swedish archipelago and like I said there's hundreds and thousands of islands so wherever Island you go to I bet it's lovely thank you so much for watching and I hope to see you soon in Sweden bye

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Length: 11min 52sec (712 seconds)

Published: Wed Feb 28 2024