Hello beautyloving unicorns and welcome to this video all about Christmas traditions in Sweden. I thought I’d take this day, the 24th, to chat about how we celebrate Christmas, since this is the day we do celebrate.
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I am so excited to hear that there are different kinds of christmas foods in US too! I only had the turkey for christmas and it's the only food they served then and I'll be fair, and this is coming from a Swede, we get told that Americans eat turkey for both Thanksgiving and Christmas. And when they then served that too me in US I kinda just thought "well look at that, they were right" haha 😛 But do tell me more about your traditions in the comments, I love reading it! 😀 <3 And a merry christmas to you all!
Most Americans seem to be more creative with Christmas dinner than just turkey and potatoes. What you got was just a crap meal. my family immigrated from Sweden, and we keep some of the traditions, including celebrating on Christmas Eve. My husband and I do a large gathering on Christmas Eve with guests, and we give gifts to them after dinner, usually an ornament that goes with my theme for the table decorations, and some candy and small things like that. Then my husband and I exchange our gifts to each other on Christmas morning as a nod to his family traditions also. My husband likes a ham for Christmas, as that's what his family always did, so we combine some American items into our smorgasbord dinner. Ham, Swedish meatballs, faux Lutefisk, boiled potatoes, green bean casserole, and other people usually bring dishes too. We've made non-alcoholic glogg a few times, and I love it! We do a dessert that is steamed cranberry pudding, and I'm not sure if it is Swedish, but it is a recipe handed down in the family.
Wow …it all looks delicious!
I'm from the UK and live in Sweden. I have to say that most of the Swedish Christmas food is quite nice but the combinations are very questionable. Who ever thought eating Johansson's Temptation (potato and anchovy gratin) along side meatballs, sausages, herring and pickled cabbage was a good combination. Everyone always ends up feeling a bit sick and that's not even mentioning the next day. 🚽 Even my Swedish wife prefers the English Christmas roast. And the point you make about it being eaten all year round is very wrong. The Christmas roast dinner has so much more to it. The Swedish Christmas food is also eaten at Easter and again for midsommar so it actually feels less exclusive to me.
Also, you failed to mention Lucia. This is a huge tradition in Sweden so it's surprising that you neglected to mention that.
I appreciate you sharing. We celebrate it differently throughout USA. For example, we have tamales in Los Angeles, and perhaps other types of Latin/Mexican foods. Couples with other types of American foods.
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I live in NJ in the U.S. and just came across your video as I am starting to get organized for Christmas 2019. I am 25% Swedish, 25% German and the rest is British, Irish and Dutch so growing up we had a conglomeration of traditions from many of these nationalities. In December my Sister belonged to the VASA Swedish dancing club so we used to go to the St. Lucia celebration at VASA Hall in Budd Lake NJ every year. VASA owns the lake and park there as well as a large indoor/outdoor dining hall on the grounds. As with many Holidays at Christmas many of my memories and traditions revolve around the special foods. My Mom was half Swedish so at Christmas we has several Swedish food traditions. We had Limpa bread, Saffron buns, rice pudding, Almond tarts, which are also a Dutch tradition. Pepparkakor ( which are also a German tradition), Kringler and a coffee cake which we called Swedish braid.We also had plenty of Glogg and for some reason my Swedish relatives loved lots of scalding hot coffee. On the German side we had Baked Ham, Gluhwein( which is much like Glogg), Lebkuchen ( which are a variety of gingerbread cookies), Pfeffernusse, another ginger and honey soft cookie that is covered with icing or powdered sugar. stollen ( which is a buttery, almond paste sweet fruit cake variety)
As for how we celebrated, we usually went to Christmas Eve service at church . It was usually a candlelight service. When we came home we exchanged gifts between family members and then had a cold buffet. We then used to watch Charles Dickens" A Christmas Carol". It usually came on about midnight and lasted about 2 hours. On Christmas morning the children opened gifts from Santa Claus. Later in the afternoon we had a large Christmas dinner with Turkey, mashed potatoes, gravy, creamed onion, fresh string beans, beets and stuffing. For dessert we usually had Pumpkin and apple pie along with German Strudel, stollen and an assortment of Swedish and German sweets and cookies. We usually had Lingonberry sauce to drizzle over many of the treats.
Just as an added tradition, Several times we went to the Holy Trinity Lutheran Church in New York City, on St. Lucia day evening. They have one of the most beautiful services I have ever attended there. It is so popular you have to buy tickets to attend and it is sold out every year. It is a candlelight Service in a very large church near Central Park in New York City. They have a large procession of the St. Lucia for that year with all the attendants all in white gowns. They parade into the Church while singing Sankta Lucia and the whole service is accompanied by Swedish choral music.
I hope to visit Sweden around the time of Christmas in the coming years, are there any places I should visit that have special significance that time of year?
I think your opinion of American Christmas is wrong. American Christmas tradition is in many ways very similar to the British Christmas. Do your research and try again. The Swedish Christmas which I am familiar with is not entirely amazing.
Mmmm. Swedish cheesecake. With cloudberries…. 😍
Okay I'm coming to Sweden for Christmas meals next year 😉
I don’t think I ever got back here to tell you how much I appreciated you sharing your traditions with me. I am half Swedish even though it is more than 100 years since my ancestors immigrated to the United States. I know precious little of my heritage, at this point. So it was fun to hear something detailed about Swedish tradition. Thank you! 😊💐💕
I love hearing about different traditions in different countries.
I love your cultural videos. Your Japan vlogs were great. And now your Swedish Christmas traditions videos are sooooo awesome. I love make-up but spicing things up with culture is so nice. Thank you. And Merry Christmas!
Christmas food in Sweden. Looks tasty.
Puerto Rican American here… we have Ham, rice and beans, plantains and so much more. I haven’t had a Puerto Rican Christmas in so long. 😫
And oh my Swedish Christmas food looks amazing! ❤️❤️
No that’s just part of the American Christmas meal and even that part is very delicious. Mashed potatoes are awesome so is cranberry sauce. It can be buffet style with lots of courses as well. I’m actually low key offended 😝, because American Christmas food is one of my favorite meals. It’s actually so good. Far from sucks.
Also not sure why ppl are bringing up all the diff cultures having diff Christmas foods as I’m sure you meant “traditional” Christmas food and there is definitely a traditional Christmas food here (maybe not everyone does it but it is the most predominant one). Me and some of my friends are not white and we still have the traditional Christmas food.
Our Christmas as a kid was ALWAYS on the 24th. There was always a huge spread of food, and there was ALWAYS Santa pulling the gifts out of his big red bag and handing them out. My grandparents are of German descent so now I am thinking that maybe German traditions are similar to Swedish traditions. My cousin's birthday is the 25th, so at midnight the party morphed into cousin Steve's birthday party and out came the birthday cake! It was such a blast! My hubby and I will be at your house for dinner next year! Get ready! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🎅🎅
Only slightly related but I recently fell in love with biskvi and think the world needs to know how delicious it is!
Some of the feasts sounds delicious to enjoy of course but I have a small family and it sounds like a nightmare to prepare all that food, clean it up, and store it in the fridge. 🤷🏻♀️
(In other words I want an invite but not to host😂😂😂)
Do you serve herring? My Grandmother who was partly Swedish always served pickled herring at Christmas. When I was in Finland the smorgasbord at the hotel was amazing. I wish I could find a comparable one here in WI.
We make&eat lasagna every year on Christmas! We watch the old original cartoon grinch movie & A Christmas Story on Christmas every year
This was sooooo interesting! Thanks!
In Hungary one of the most popular commercial TV channels aires Home Alone every christmas time. It is almost a 30 year old movie, so it's been on for a while. They even joked about it that there's no Christmas without Kevin. 😊 But it would be nice to watch a Disney special every year 😊