Pizzasallad was actually introduced by an Italian man from north-eastern Italy who owned a pizzeria in Stockholm. It's origins is from Croatia but apparently fairly common in the region he was from. From wikipedia: "År 1969 öppnades Pizzeria Piazza Opera på Gustav Adolfs torg i Stockholm av entreprenören Giuseppe "Peppino" Sperandio. Där föddes även idén att servera gratis sallad med pizzan. När Sperandio behövde en billig och mättande sallad att äta medan pizzan bakades kom han ihåg salladen "kupus salata" från sin barndom i nordöstra Italien, en sallad från angränsande Kroatien."

@anitalianinsweden8868

2 жыл бұрын

Very interesting! Thank you Erik! 😃

My mother is 100% Swedish and my father is 100% Italian. The difference is I received more Swedish influence because my mother lived in Sweden until she was 25. She visited an aunt living in the the U.S. and met my father. They got married a year later and settled in California. My father's parents are from Italy but moved to the U.S. before my father was born. They didn't teach him Italian because, "he might confuse the languages." - Which is ridiculous of course; children can learn multiple languages simultaneously. That's also why my mother never spoke to us in Swedish (I have an older sister and younger brother). I joke to my cousins and all of my Swedish family when I visit Sweden. I tell them I can only say two words in Swedish: Absolut and pepparkaka." My mother was always on the phone speaking her native tongue, or Swedish friends would come to the house and I would hear Swedish spoken quite often. Lots of Swedish books and magazines around the house. I grew up listening to the Swedish language, ate many typical Swedish foods while only getting the Americanized versions of Italian food (my father didn't cook at all). There was always news about Sweden we were hearing about while Italy...we knew was in our blood but not so much in our everyday lives the way Sweden was. That's the context I bring to your fine video. I can relate. My mother mixes food while my father likes things to remain separate on the plate. Also, my father always used paper towels once and threw them away while my mother would use the same cloth dishrag after rinsing it off between uses and placing it on the kitchen sink faucet. My father would say, "There's still germs and bacteria on it." (My father was a high school biology & health science teacher for 30 years). My mother would say, "Using paper towels is wasteful." And there are other cultural differences between my mother's Sweden and the U.S. You mention the long, Swedish winters. My mother always spoke so incredibly lovingly about her childhood in a small village in central Sweden (Nyhammar). Of course she wasn't in the far north where winters are harsher with less light. My mother said she had friends in Luleå who would say the winters are longer there. Yes, making friends - along those lines I compare my mom's Swedish friends who are wonderful people but less expressive and open than my father's family and friends. The Italians are more affectionate with many hugs and kisses. - Especially my grandmother when I was growing up, always pinching my cheeks and lovingly saying things in Italian that I didn't understand. My mormor loved me just as much I'm sure, but she never hugged me unless I hadn't seen her in a while or I was leaving. Political correctness. It's disturbing because in the quest to not offend (a good thing) in my opinion, my family and Swedes in general take that goodness too far and allow their culture to be taken over. You can't talk about rapes, who is committing the vast majority, etc....you will be seen as racist, or at the very least looked down upon, simply for wishing to talk about this truth and others. I won't elaborate except to say that I remember on one of my trips to Sweden, I brought a T-shirt with me. It simply said, "Absolutely Swedish" and with the Swedish flag. One of my cousins said I probably shouldn't wear it because it might be associated with "extremists" is Sweden. So I didn't, but joked that I would with a pair of black boots with it. He nervously laughed. I told him I was only joking. With regard to food...My grandmother was an excellent cook; her food was incredible. Ironically, my grandmother taught my mother how to cook other than Swedish foods. My mother learned well because her Italian food...first rate. Her lasagna was delicious as well as many other dishes both Italian and typical American. My father would never eat a pizza with pineapple, kebab or other such ingredients. He got the real deal during his upbringing. That's why we rarely bought pizza growing up, and if we did, he would seldom eat it even if it was without things like pineapple, etc. "Jim Anoots" is my gmail name. I have a very, very Italian first name, middle name, and of course last name while my brother and sister both received typical Swedish first and middle names. My mother wanted to name me, "Sven" or "Sven-Erik" but my father said no. He won. I was the first boy, so I was named after him: Vincenzo. Both my parents have passed away but I feel blessed to have received essentially two different cultures growing up. I am equally proud of my Italian and Swedish heritage.

@anitalianinsweden8868

2 жыл бұрын

Wow! Thanks for sharing your life! I found it beautiful and it beautify summarizes the two cultures from a personal and (almost completely) independent perspective. Sweden and Italy might be two of the most opposite cultures in Europe and that's why I believe they complete each other perfectly! I'm happy to have experienced both cultures and I can sense happiness and pride in your words too! Thank you for sharing all of this 😊

@krokodilen31

2 жыл бұрын

Very interesting to read 🤗

I used to have this half Italian friend. I remember having dinner with her and her very Italian father once when we were teenagers, and for some reason (probably being a stupid teenager), I told them how I made my spagetti and köttfärssås (Swedish version of spaghetti bolognese) and that it was great that I would have leftovers to just heat in the microwave. I will never forget the silence that followed and their horrified faces before saying "you reheat spaghetti in the microwave?". Well, after that I did start to think about what reheated pasta tastes like and I've never been able to go back. So at least something good came out of it. 😅 It's a beautiful thing. I feel my Italian friends appreciate and put more attention to ingredients and their cooking, they are so mindful about and experience their food in another way than most Swedes do. I've learned a lot from them. They do it right! :)

About making friends. As a native Swede, I can definately agree with you that it's super difficult to make friends here. I've actually always had a hard time making friends, and I've almost always felt like an alien or an outsider in any sort of company I've been in. I've always had a hard time CONNECTING with people for REAL, which is what I really want. But then again, I've never actually FELT like a stereotypical Swede. 🤷

"Here in Stockholm we only get 6 hour of light in the winter" Me studying in Kiruna: "You guy's get sunlight?"

Great video. I would love more content of this kind.

@anitalianinsweden8868

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the feedback! And more content like this will come!

Thank you very much for the video,very interesting.

@anitalianinsweden8868

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Roland! :)

Hahaha what a nice video! Especially when you talk about food! Imagine pizza with fries on...isn't that crazy?!

@anitalianinsweden8868

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Jane! The funniest thing in all of this is that one of the most popular pizzas for kids in Italy is... With fries and wurstel 😅 So strange and hypocritical 😂🇮🇹

@JaneG

2 жыл бұрын

@@anitalianinsweden8868 OMG no way..! haha

@anitalianinsweden8868

2 жыл бұрын

It's unfortunately true... 😂

Be proud of yourself as Italian ! You have probably saved the life of many young and also older Swedish people. How would we survive without our "versions" of your pizza and pasta dishes. It`s tough to eat "mashed potato and meatballs" every single day. Thank you very much from a whole nation.

@anitalianinsweden8868

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! I guess I will see it this way next time. Without us you would never have your pizzas (like I was the one inventing pizza) 😂

@gr8zongz

2 жыл бұрын

You really have to try other swedish dishes... porter-steak, järpar, salmon with lemonsauce, råkaka with pork and lingen. Sweden do have better food (in my opinion) than Italians. Even though Italian food is great.

Haha, number 5

@anitalianinsweden8868

2 жыл бұрын

Oh my god... 😂 Thank you!

@henriklarsson5221

Жыл бұрын

The worst i saw was the "Jul-pizza", with prins-korvar, meatballs, red-cabbage, brown-cabbage(Popular in Skåne in the christmas table) and christmas-ham.

I’m half Italian living in Sweden and YES TO ALL THAT! I can finally understand why some closer people seem to not understand my jokes or sarcasm. As a straightforward person I’ve been finding very hard to find people that are not afraid of expressing their opinions and honest thoughts (that includes the pc thing). But I’ve been noticing that this whole PC thing is happening worldwide (or at least in a lot of countries) since social media became a real thing. Since it lacks emotion (you can’t really decipher what people really mean through typed words instead a real face to face talk) leading to a lot of misunderstandings made people feel afraid to express themselves. So everyone is basically stepping on eggshells all the time (very annoying feeling). I won’t even start talking about food *cries in a dark corner*. I also lived before in Holland and it feels the same food wise. It’s a feeling that something is lacking and I know it’s not only about the restaurants and options but the food culture itself. It’s completely different (there’s nothing wrong about it, it’s just different). I get emotional with food and for me it’s my channel to express affection to people and ingredients and nature. If you don’t feel that or don’t like cooking or never lived in a country that food and cooking is so important than this will never make any sense. Like when I watch videos of Italian nonnas making fresh pasta and I literally start crying because it’s so beautiful and brings me memories. But I’m a weirdo so maybe it’s only me 😆 I said I would not talk about food and yet here I am 😂 thanks for the video, having a lot of fun watching your channel!

Pizza hawaii is from Canada, created by a Greek guy in 1962 Pizza Kebab is from Sweden, I noticed it first time in Denmark +20 years ago. Since Kebab in a bread roll (later came the way we eat it today in flat bread) is an invention from 1980 from Berlin by middle-eastern immigrants The worst pizza I ever tried was pizza with banana

@AnotherDuck

2 жыл бұрын

I like pizza with banana. With curry powder.

I recognize everything you talked about. I was born in Sweden. I lived in Rome in the 80's Moved to the US, Texas, late 80's. I was laughing at your comment about a specific pasta with the sauce. I told my colleagues in Rome that I had made a Tagliatelle carbonara and they said: "It's impossible" to which I said: "No I did". Come to find out that the impossible piece was the choice of pasta. I should have used spaghetti. The pizza places in Sweden were most likely run by former Yugoslavians and I guess that's where the pizza salad, kind of a coleslaw, came from. Ci vediamo.

My father was Swedish and my mother was Italian so the traits from both nationalities balance themselves out. My father's family came frome Gotebotg. Have you ever been there ? Your English is very good. You barely have an Italian accent. My mother's family came from Calabria. My grandfather came from the old country and had a very strong accent as well as some distant relatives of mine that came for a visit.

I’d say we’re a bit crazy when it comes to food. Not many combinations are “forbidden”. 😅 Every year there’s a new take on semla or saffron buns (one year Pressbyrån marketed saffron bun hot dogs 🙃) so we kind of butcher everything, including our own traditional pastries or dishes… I love your love your intro! So cute.

@anitalianinsweden8868

2 жыл бұрын

Haha my Italian soul fully ignores the "årets semla" that you talk about. 😂 Italians are annoying about daily food, imagine about traditional festivity food! 😅

Refreshing thoughts! :-) A swede who just started a ´prenumeration´ ;-)

@anitalianinsweden8868

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you and welcome! 😊

It's important to remember that pizza has been a part of Swedish cuisine for over half a century now (Introduced by Italian immigrants in the 60-ties). Combined with how easy it is to change them to customer taste well of course its almost unrecognizable to an Italian now.

@herrbonk3635

Жыл бұрын

It wasn't really italians that made them popular in Sweden though, during the 1970s and 80s. It was spanish people, later other immigrants. That's another reason for them being more tasty in Sweden.

What about the swedish coffe (bryggkaffe), is it to you as Italian like we think about American coffee (brown water)?

As a Swede who doesn't get out much, not only do you not make new friends, you lose your old friends. So now I only have like 3-4 Swedish friends left, and I almost never meet them in the physical world. It's self inflicted though, hoping to do better in the future.

The darkness makes us really love the summer time! Without darkness there can’t be any light, you know!

I totally agree on the first 3 things. Then I have to say that now I want to learn more about italian food... Not mixing everything up seems like a brilliant idea. I almost never go out for dinner or so, because it's so hard to find eatable food... Also I'm a vegetarian, and that makes it even more difficult. For some reason when you buy vegetarian food in Sweden, it's way to much spices in it. It's like you don't feel the tase of the food, only the spices and I really hate it. (maybe it's the same way in other countries as well... I don't know)

Having tried pizza in several different countries (unfortunately I never tried it in Japan, I don't know if I even found a pizzeria there), but I've never been to Italy, I have to say I find Swedish pizza pretty fascinating. And not really because of any particular thing we have on them, but the local variation. You can go to a town 50 km from your home town, and find things on a pizza that you've never seen on a pizza before, and nearly every pizzeria in that town will have that pizza. And even within cities. Pizza in Central Stockholm is not the same as pizza in the outer suburbs. Go to the north and you'll find reindeer on your pizza!

@anitalianinsweden8868

2 жыл бұрын

Now I want to go to the north and eat pizza there 😛

@emmamemma4162

2 жыл бұрын

@@anitalianinsweden8868 There's a famous reindeer Pizza called the Pizza Berlusconi, and it's one of my favourite pizzas. When Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi mocked Finnish food, the Finnish pizza restaurant Kotipizza responded by creating the Pizza Berlusconi, containing smoked reindeer meat, chanterelle mushrooms and red onion, which went on to beat the Italian Americans in an international pizza contest.

After watching Binging with Babish when he made a Italian dish, the comment section where full of Italian urging about the correct recipe and how to do it right. Italians really take Italian food seriously, and everyone had different opinions what was right! To be honest, you can get the same response in Sweden talking about the best recipe for meatballs, (though I know I make the best ones) I would guess everyone has their own “correct” recipe!🤣 (Hey, even my old mum thought mine was better then hers!)

Will Ketchup on pasta be on this list? :D

Hello, My goal is to study in Sweden-Gothenburg, gain some experience with an internship or entry-level job and then move to Italy, because of the weather and eventually an easier atmosphere for making friends. I am passionate about antenna and wireless engineering, and I know it is hard to find this kind of job in Italy when you have not worked before in the field, but if I already have prior 2 years of working experience in Sweden maybe it will be easier. And the way engineering is taught in Sweden(learning in periods with only 2 subjects) suits me better. I am willing to learn Italian so I can integrate into the community, once I have a job and relocate there. Do you have any advice regarding this plan and do you think it is achievable and a good idea? Thank you for your videos and wish you all the best!

@anitalianinsweden8868

2 жыл бұрын

Hej! Thank you for your comment! Finding job in Italy can be hard but not impossible if you have prior experiences. One way to easier find a job there could be to move within the same company. Let's say for example that you work for Ericsson in Sweden and ask for a transfer to Italy, that's the easiest way to move there. Also, learn Italian if you don't know it yet. I believe you will hardly fine any job without that requirement. Your plan sounds very good and you seem to know what the best way to get a job in Italy is and I agree with you that experience is most likely needed, but... Why not starting to apply for jobs in Italy straight away? Your chases are lower but not impossible. You might get lucky and get something there without experience 🙂 Of course, look for jobs in Sweden too at the same time and start profiling your cv while you look for jobs in Italy. Good luck! Wish you all the best! 😊

@inboccaallupo14

2 жыл бұрын

@@anitalianinsweden8868 Thank you so much for the reply. You are totally right. It is better to apply for jobs both in Italy and Sweden. About learning Italian you also gave a good advise, since I have just done my IELTS and as far as I know for studying in Sweden, English is probably enough with some basic phrases in Swedish . I will start learning Italian during my studies and hopefully speak it well enough when I finish my Master's degree. Again, I am grateful for your time. You motivated me a lot!

@anitalianinsweden8868

2 жыл бұрын

@@inboccaallupo14 Check the courses at the university you want to attend. Some courses might require Swedish if it's at Bachelor's level, but more and more scientific classes are given in English so I hope it works smoothly for you. Good luck and keep the goal in sight! It will motivate you throughout the studies ☺

@inboccaallupo14

2 жыл бұрын

@@anitalianinsweden8868 Hej/Ciao, I am planning to apply for a Master's degree, which is entirely taught in English. This means, once I have a sufficient score on the IELTS academic exam, I can start learning Italian. I will stick to the plan because as you said, following a dream is the best motivation. If I happen to land a job somewhere in Lombardia or Toscana, it would be amazing. Di sicuro, il cibo sarà il migliore 🇮🇹

So being a introvert Sweden is perfect to me but Italy will be kind of hard😂😂

About pizzas. I say pizza in Sweden, Swedish pizza, Pizza in India and Thailand so forth. They have different tastes, but they all celebrate pizza. !970 in Stockholm I ate pizza at a resturant called Mama Rosa, they actually served sallads white cabbage and red paprika. At that time only Italians make pizza in Sweden.

Hello! I am a teacher in sociology and I really enjoyed this clip. Mostly nummer 4. The Swedish culture is striving fore consensus. You called it politicaly correctness. I have been to Italy a coupe of times and I found out that in conversations with people the Italian culture gets energy in diversitys. The conversation gets energy when people think differently. Am I right?

@anitalianinsweden8868

2 жыл бұрын

I always use orchestras or music bands as comparison. In a band each instrument makes a different sound but you can't make a memorable symphony with one instrument. It's when you acknowledge and bless differences, making them work together that you achieve the best music. Could that work in society too? I wanna think so 😊

@Wloppish

2 жыл бұрын

@@anitalianinsweden8868 great analogy

Are there any pizza places in Stockholm that are decent? Perhaps you can make a video about that?

@anitalianinsweden8868

2 жыл бұрын

There are a few but I don't know how things are going after the last 2 years. I will make some video about them soon I guess. I need to do some "research" before 😁

@ingelajones3914

Жыл бұрын

@@anitalianinsweden8868 Yes, pizzeria Meno Male in Stockholm. Real pizza from Napoli! Finalmente!

Pasta with ketchup! Yummy! A dish from Sweden to Italy with love ❤ 🤤🤤🤤 Recepie: Any pasta of your choise. Boil it in plain water 'till soft. If you want your pasta spicy you can ad a careful ammount of salt. Once the pasta are boiled soft pour away the water. If you want your pasta spicier you can add barbequespice or mixed Italian herbs spice when the pasta is on the plate. Add ketchup. Enjoy your meal! 🤤🤤🤤

@anitalianinsweden8868

2 жыл бұрын

Sounds awfully accurate 🤣

My family are all from Italy. My Boyfriend is from Sweden. He doesn't like Italian food at all. He only like fish, particularly, Salmon. My family is hard to please as it is,they don't understand the Swedish way of doing things; theyare very outgoing , whereas my boyfriend and his family are very reserved. I really believe Swedish food is very health as he is all muscle and bone with no extra fat

Thankyou :-D #2 not even swedes have many swedish friends, #4 but with friends we can let go off our political correctness, Never in public though. #5 the pizza salad is sauerkraut if you think of it. Properly done it's a fermented cabbage salad. We're very picky about how it should taste. Besides, I once ordered a schnitzel from a hotel restaurant, it was served with bearnaise and canned cocktail fruit. Even I were stunned by this. The farther west, the worse the food gets.

Also isn’t the bottom of Swedish pizzas thinner then other countries? Heard a long time ago it hade to do with Turkish influence. They have a dish that looks like a small thin pizza.

About pizza. Pizza was introduced by Italian immigrants but most pizza places were then started and run by immigrants from former Yugoslavia and the "pizza salad", basically shredded cabbage with oil, vinegar salt and black pepper stems from that food culture. This is what was explained to me once. Kebab pizza or pizza with pine apple, pizza with curry, bananas and chicken etc are just cultural inspirations depending on who is running the pizza place.

Thank you for your video. some thoughts: I'm Swedish, w an Italian (from Trentino) wife. my daughters husband is from Campania, my nephews wife from Sardegna.my best friend is half Italian. Regarding friendship, how Italians are etc. I think there is also a difference between regions in Italy. People from the north of IT (polentoni) tend to be more "reserved" than the "terroni". Then your perspective of Sweden is (I presume)university in Stockholm region. I think there is quite a difference in making friends in Cities of Sweden compared to countryside. when it comes to political correctness. THANK YOU!. Its a universe between a Swedish dinner conversation and one in, say Campania.Being raised in a large family w tons of relatives, I feel more at home in the Italian way(though I'm Swedish). Then we have the food...phew. I totally agree w you. when you talk to a random Italian in my age (50-60) about food, the generally KNOW about the dishes.Know how they are made, what ingredients, when and how they are eaten. sorry fellow Swedes, we are NOT there. As for the pizza. well you have to separate them. There is Pizza Svezia (which can be good) and then there is Pizza. I have of course eaten lousy pizza in Italy as well as excellent( my son in laws) in Sweden. Someone said you can take any piece of bread, slosh some sauce and stuff on it and throw it in the oven. please don't call it pizza . So pardon my long comment, and once again thank you for your videos

@anitalianinsweden8868

2 жыл бұрын

I'll nominate you for the peace Nobel prize 2022 my friend (and for a honorary Italian citizenship if you don't have one yet) 😂 I really agree with you. I still find it weird to talk about "the Italian way". There is actually no Italian way. Every small town is different from its neighboring one and 100 km distance in Italy is like crossing a boarder to another country 🙂

Ciao io sono un ragazzo di 12 anni le volevo dire che io mi sono trasferito in Svezia nel giugno del 2020 ad Helsingborg in Skåne ed non avevo mai trovato un canale di uno KZreadr Italiano così informato le assicuro che lei è il migliore ed io sono italiano originariamente Bresciano ed mi fa venire il sorriso quando so che ci sono altri italiani in questo paese

@anitalianinsweden8868

2 жыл бұрын

Grazie mille! Spero tu ti trovi bene in Svezia! Fammi sapere se hai domande o dubbi! Ti aiuto volentieri se posso 😊

@italianrealmadridfan9432

2 жыл бұрын

@@anitalianinsweden8868 come trovare casa se ci puoi far un video grazie

I lived in Rome for 5 months, I ate suppli every day. Such a underrated gem!

@anitalianinsweden8868

2 жыл бұрын

Amen! 😁

Cultures are like their cars. Compare an Alfa with a Volvo. Completely different!

The weather: Weeel, it can't be helped Making friends: Swedes are Swedes The housing market: Not so bad Politicly correct: Well, that's how it is Food: NO. No no no. NO. Mixed food- WHAT IS THAT. WE CRY, WHEN YOU EAT PIZZA. Omg. I can't stop laughing. I love it when stereotypes come true. And i agree. Just stuffing every ingredient known to man in your food, doesn't make it better.

@anitalianinsweden8868

2 жыл бұрын

I'm glad you enjoyed the video 😊

We have many Turks in Sweden they do not care about Italy food culture or anyone else. Therefore, it is difficult to get one who knows the difference for different cultures when it comes to pizza.

I'm with you on the food. Thought you were gon a roast swedish food which is very common in these types of videos and was about to say "You should try home cooking from someone who *knows* how to cook" cuz Swedish food gets a really bad wrap, it's actually really friggin good if you get actual well made Swedish food. But the disrespect for foreign cousin, just throwing stuff together and calling it "Italian" or "Thai" or whatever is really bad. I only realize just how bad it was after I traveled a bit. But your 100% on the money. It's not ok.

Political correctness, yes. In the 90's many of friends thought that I was very fun, I could joke about everything. Now, not so much. People get offended no matter what I joke about.

You cannot say that pasta and tomato sauce is fancy food. If you make comparisons, then do it by living in a Swedish family. High quality food, menus seldom repeated. You are used to your Italian food then it is your problem. I have been many times to Italy and I have difficulties to get used to your strange food. Go to restaurants in Italy. The same menu over and over again in Italian restaurants. The only place you can have good food in Italy are Guide Michelin restaurants serving tasting menus. But even there you get a victim of some makaroni dish. For me, pasta is a proor man's food, EST BASTA. It seems that Italians are comforting themselves with respect to food. Pizza is also a poor man's food. It is just a piece of bread sprinkled with whatever you have at home. Second of all, I almost always got disappointed in Italian restaurants. Let me provide an example. I am in the best restaurant in Chioggia. We ordered grilled fish for 35 Euro about 20 years ago. We almost got shocked when we only got fish WITHOUT ANY SAUCE!!! So how elaborate was this meal? Dry grilled fish with only lemon for 35 euro 20 years ago. The waiter told us we should feel the taste of the fish and not of the sauce. Come on! Don't you Italians know that fancy food is a combination of meat with different other flavors? Anybody can grill and serve it with lemon. But very few can elaborate it to a higher level where you are a master of combining fish/meat with different sauces. Sometimes, to cook a sauce may take 12 hours. To grill a fish takes a few minutes. How fancy is it then? Finally, I lived in an Italian family. They had no tablecloths and they even had no idea what file de beef was. And this was a doctor's family. So before claiming that Italian food is the best, check what other nations say about food.. Get invited by Swedish families. And then do not ask students or poor people but people knowing what good food is.

I disagree with the “mixes everything together” notion. That salad you described, that is not what we cook and eat at home and I bet the person who sold it to you was not of Swedish origin. Do you put pasta on one side of the plate and the sauce on the other? I don’t think so? And what’s in the sauce? Vegetables, herbs, meats. All mixed together.

@anitalianinsweden8868

2 жыл бұрын

Interesting take, but I think you take the reasoning too far. Food is balancing flavors and textures so if I make a sauce by mixing ingredients in a specific way, that's cuisine. If I make 4 dishes singularly planned to taste good, but I now put them all in the same plate, that's to me a downgrade of the single dishes. But we can think differently about that 😉

@mockupguy3577

2 жыл бұрын

@@anitalianinsweden8868 , of course I did, Who has time to be nuanced on KZread?

@anitalianinsweden8868

2 жыл бұрын

Haha so true! 😂

Pizza = Thank you for that! But life moves on... What is good, is good! It must be a simple as that... I love all pizza! Let´s chill... We love you italians anyway! 🙂

@anitalianinsweden8868

2 жыл бұрын

😂😁

Political correctness.You got it right! Luckily I don't suffer from that, to my wife's horror...So, here it comes... Italians learned their/your cuisine from the French, that learned it from the Spanish, that learned it from the Portuguese, that learned it from... yeah, you get my drift and I hope that you take it with a grain of salt :-) The famous Swedish meatballs f.ex. comes from Turkey. I think it was Charles XII that brought it here, when he was licking his wounds in Bender (Turkey) after the/his defeat at Poltava (Russia), but I'm not sure. Friendship in Sweden, be careful, because if you manage to get to be friend with a Swede, you probably got him/her for life! So, be careful! :-) Take care now!

@anitalianinsweden8868

2 жыл бұрын

So true! I mean, each cuisine is influenced by other cultures and shaped by the availability of raw materials, so each country is influenced by its neighbors. We just like this game of being superior with our own food 😂 When it comes to friendships, that is so true! Swedish friendships are deep and forever. I really like that! 😊

Throwing prejudice around is perfectly normal but MIXING FOOD? Blasphemy xD Btw my Fav pizza is banana & curry. Omnom!

@anitalianinsweden8868

2 жыл бұрын

Hahahaha! That's the beauty of different cultures! I learned more about my own prejudices after a few years abroad. It's funny how different people prioritize different things 😂

@njorun1829

2 жыл бұрын

@@anitalianinsweden8868 Yeah having ones prejudices challenged is always fun and educational. We all have them to some extent, there's no denying it.

Funny :) remember Italy that they had i all separated on different plates.and dont remember something came later so had to wait to eat the first because I think the salat was missing. and the food became cold so hat to myself to get it all on one plate when I at last got it all :D I am Danish anyway. Just remember you are the guest ;) And pizza is not Italien anymore. you get it even in the Amazonia and greenland.all different. Love the way you do yours though in Italy :) first time I got cheese on a hot meal

@anitalianinsweden8868

2 жыл бұрын

Haha I'm sorry for that. I guess italians are more picky than they are organized in serving food (not surprising) 😂

I'm a swede but I'm not a big fan of Swedish pizza. I remember the first time my family visited Italy and had real stone oven baked italian pizza, it was heavenly! I started ordering Margherita only because putting anything on top of the cheese felt excessive . Also, I was lucky enough to grow up with a mother who boiled Barilla spaghetti al dente with just enough salt, & while she didn't add olive oil she always used butter & grated some quality cheese as well it was SO good. I could hardly believe how the other kids could eat the tasteless pasta with ketchup that was served at school and other places 😅

@anitalianinsweden8868

2 жыл бұрын

I'm trying to fix a honorary Italian citizenship for you! The olive oil thing might be a problem, but you might fit in the northern Italy requirements 👍

@hlagtrvenncvrenst5121

2 жыл бұрын

@@anitalianinsweden8868 oh haha I would gladly accept, with honor and gratitude! 😄❤ It might be helped by the fact that my dad used to pour a fair amount of olive oil into the boiling pasta water when he was making dinner (which wasn't often but it happened 😂😁)

@anitalianinsweden8868

2 жыл бұрын

Hmm irresponsible and excessive use of olive oil... That sounds waaay more Italian! 😂

The ketchup on pasta

Hahaha I looove that you actually talked for half an hour about food AND that you talked about political correctness in a very politically correct way :D

@anitalianinsweden8868

2 жыл бұрын

Haha! So true! 😂

And on the topic of Pizza. For me, the only real pizza is proper Neapolitan pizza. I've had "pizza" in both Rome and Tuscany, which none of them stod out as particularly great, even compared to the "pizza" commonly served in Sweden.

@anitalianinsweden8868

2 жыл бұрын

Someone gives this guy a Nobel peace prize! 😲

@SoftRainsofApril

2 жыл бұрын

@@anitalianinsweden8868 The nobel pizza prize!

@anitalianinsweden8868

2 жыл бұрын

@@SoftRainsofApril 🤣

@krokodilen31

2 жыл бұрын

Ive just eaten pizza in rome close to the vatican .....and well i hope there are better ones....because it tasted like "Billy's" pizza.....well i know there are better because italian friends made pizza in a regular oven at home here in sweden and it was delicious.....but still i want my swedish "pizzahak" pizzas with kebab and pork filet or fillet of beef and "bea" on top...... LOLOLOL

Haha good video! I didnt know that pizza salad was a Swedish thing! I think, as a swede, our society is very good. I think we could learn from italians (mainly collectivism). In Sweden, I think we are a bit too "egoistic" minded, so I think more helping/talking to each other would be a great thing! Also for mental health.

@anitalianinsweden8868

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! I believe every country can learn from other countries so I definitely agree with you! At the same time I can't help but seeing Italy as the more egoistic of the two countries, but not in the way we normally mean it. Italy is built around the family and italians would do everything to help friends and family, without thinking about the collectivity. Sweden is becoming more and more focused on the individual, as you say, but I still find a lot of collectivism. But I might be biased towards Sweden, strangely enough 😅

It's not only Italy but also the USA, UK and so on, Northern Sweden also hates southern Sweden during the winters it blows all the time. Helsingborg is the windiest city in Sweden when it is -5 degrees Celsius, so you go, we wise people from Skåne go to the main town, we use shorts and a t-shirt while the capital has winter clothes. Northern Sweden complained to southern Sweden that they think -5 degrees was nothing they had -20-30 minus degrees but when it was -2 degrees these people froze. Even Russia, which is used to the winter, froze in southern Sweden. In Skåne we have winter, but we also have coastal landscapes from three directions. Plus we live in a plain landscape. I myself was out when the temperature is -30 degrees and I wore a t-shirt, I did not freeze in 30 minutes.

@anitalianinsweden8868

2 жыл бұрын

Man, I freeze at +10...😂 But again, in my Italian hometown, if the temperature in the sea was below 25° it was too cold to bathe 😂

Have you tried Flygande Jakob Pizza?🤣

Italians and food.. it is interesting. I've found that Italians don't even agree, not even when they come from the same city. Sure, they agree in general. But task people from Bologna with writing down a recipe for Ragù Bolognese and ask them to grade the other recipes for authenticity.. You will start a fight! And in this specific case it is also interesting to look at historic sources, but don't tell the people from Bologna or you'd start a book burning riot ;) I have more examples. It is interesting though, being interested in food and having Italian friends. They really care, and they don't care if they are, in some sense, wrong. It is their way or the highway :) Except maybe for chefs. They tend to be more understanding when it comes to ingredients. Speaking of pineapple on pizza, there is at least on place outside of Naples that serves pineapple on pizza :) There is a video by Alex (food channel here on youtube) where he recently went there. Anyway, I love my Italian friends. And I love Italian food. And I love Italy. I am just very careful bringing up any specific details about Italian food IRL :)

@anitalianinsweden8868

2 жыл бұрын

I have a very simple explanation why italians can't even agree on food. Those who don't agree have different Italian grandmas. Each grandma's food is the best for every Italian. Of course we all know it's a lie because my grandma's food is the best. 😁

I agree on most things except for food culture. Swedish food is usually better, tastier imho.

I'm sorry about the pizza legacy that we have mistreated so badly. And pasta. And the refregerated Tiramisu at the supermarket. Happy to hear you like it here despite this!

@anitalianinsweden8868

2 жыл бұрын

I definitely love Sweden and it has taught me a lot about my own culture too! There is not much to complain about Sweden, especially coming from Italy 😅

@SoftRainsofApril

2 жыл бұрын

@@anitalianinsweden8868 🙏🏽

@krokodilen31

2 жыл бұрын

Hehe but those Tiramisus are usually made in Italy......ohh well

@SoftRainsofApril

2 жыл бұрын

@@krokodilen31 Well, we resell it, bad enough!

who have claimed that pizza sallad was italian? and as understand it, we enhanced the pizza to new hights :) but if someone preffered the italian ways it would be sold ...right? if its not... perhaps it's not appealing to aur tastebuds. or most likely, it is italian pizzamakers :) thanks for you insights :) always interesting to hear what others think.

100%right

It's not unlilely to befriend a Swede, it just takes a little longer. Also depends on the people, I'm probably more Italian than Swede. As long as someone is not a douch I'll be their friend... I think it's because friendship comes with alot of obligations to many people and Swedes in general has a very hard time saying no to a friend if they ask something of you. Swedes in general are people pleases by nature. I'm not, which I suspect is why I'm way easier to approach than the average Swede. If a friend asks me for a loan and I don't feel like I can afford it or maybe I just don't want to, I just tell them that. If they ask me to help them move, if I can't I'll tell them. Alot of people goes a long way around it "I am busy that day but I'll see if I can shuffle some things around", sometimes its true and sometimes it's an excuse cuz they don't want to, either way it's a lot of extra work because they are friends. I think this is atleast a part of why do many Swedes are hard to get close to. I'm a realist and rather direct in my communications, Im never mean on purpose (unless they deserved it) but I also avoid lying to maintain an image. If I tell them "no, sorry I can't do that" and they get pissed with me, that's on them... then And maybe they're not worth being friends with to begin with.

@avernion

2 жыл бұрын

Your way of describing yourself is quite literally every Swedish person I know. :/ If we can’t help, we say so. If there’s something we don’t wanna do, we say that too. That’s just normal :/

Just got back from Italy and i saw pineapple on the pizza menu and my friend ordered one. No one blinked an eye!

@anitalianinsweden8868

2 жыл бұрын

My friend, I'm sorry, but you got scammed at a touristic place then 😅

I knew you'd get lost in the weird pizza toppings and the dreaded salad... 🤣 I'm watching the "ITALIA SQUISITA" tv series on YT, while trying to pick up the lingo while at it... 😘 The "ITALIA SQUISITA" chefs first watch videos of famous foreign chefs and tv cooks insult italian food, by creating something barely recogniseable for themselves. Then the Italians show us how it's meant to be ! Anything from proper pesto to deep fried pizze. I also watch "Pasta Grannies". Those nonnas are all about 90 -100 years old, and share their own recipes, wich they were tought by their own grandmothers ! Their life stories are just as interesting as their pasta. 👵🍝🥟🍅🥚🍃

@anitalianinsweden8868

2 жыл бұрын

Ask any Italian and they'll tell you that there's no food like grandma's food. There's a reason for that 😁

@ninaelsbethgustavsen2131

2 жыл бұрын

@@anitalianinsweden8868 Point absolutely taken ! 😋 Just one little detail... Do italians really sometimes eat raw frozen pasta ??? (like ravioli) 😳

I was told as a child that I "ate like a Russian", because I hate it when things are mixed on the plate.

@anitalianinsweden8868

2 жыл бұрын

😂

You are totally right aout political correctness in Sweden. This is something that has grown to absolutelly madness the last decades. A lot of swedes don`t agree in this correctness.

The food thing... Well.. You italians simply got it wrong. ;) But really, you seem to think that you have reached peak food, and you seem to think that you reached peak food some 100 years ago or something. The world have gotten bigger since then, new spices, new things have come into our world. Why would you think that nothing can be improved? In this case I'm pretty proud of our swedish way. Yes, you invented some great stuff, but we improve them. It's extremely rare that things are perfect as they are invented. Everything can be improved. Even food. :) But the PC thing we have gotten wrong, luckily it has gotten better, a couple of years ago it really killed our possibility to solve some real problems and because of that, they just escalated. Hopefully not beyond our ability to get it under control again..

@anitalianinsweden8868

2 жыл бұрын

You know what? Despite agreeing with you on a conceptual level about food... I cannot agree after eating my grandmas food for half of my lifetime 😆 (This is the quintessential Italian answer to every discussion about food ). Thanks for watching! ☺

@jonashansson2320

2 жыл бұрын

@@anitalianinsweden8868 Nothing strange that one will always like what one grew up with. And you do have good food so that's perfectly natural. After all, there is a reason it's pizza and pasta we use as a base to improve, not fish and chips. :)

@krokodilen31

2 жыл бұрын

@@anitalianinsweden8868 i hope the future generations in Italy will keep on cooking like the "housewife" generations that is quickly disapearing.....we will see. And well i tasted a lot of tasty Italian food but if i get the recipe and i cook it for some years then i would for sure experimenting and it would probably not stay the same as from the beginning.....i guess thats the swedish way.....

Yeah I really dislike the pizza here too, after I went to Italy and had pizza I decided to only eat pizza in Italy or sometimes in France. I absolutely hate the political correctness too, because it keeps us from discussing important issues, preventing us from solving them.

@anitalianinsweden8868

2 жыл бұрын

About political correctness. Although I agree with you, I strongly believe that each country has its own way to discuss important matters. Without countries like Sweden we wouldn't have many of the social movements and innovations we had along the years. Also, Scandinavia is a very special reality that's hard to compare to other countries. Maybe somewhere in the middle would be the sweet spot for me, but I don't represent Sweden. I'm sure it'll be good anyway 😊

I love the fact that you did not mention the horrible "pizza" we Swedes have, chicken with banana and curry. I am born in Sweden and lived here most my life and agree 100% with everything you just said.

@ugo7395

Жыл бұрын

mums banancurry pizza

@Verumet

Жыл бұрын

@@ugo7395 haha det kryper i min kropp bara jag tänker på det!

@herrbonk3635

Жыл бұрын

@@Verumet Det kryper i min kropp bara jag tänker på torra italienska pizzor, eller deras tråkiga pasta.

Italian are the most politicaly correct when it Comes to food😂 its food.. 🙄.. eat it the way You enjoy it most.

You should come to Germany and try pizza with pasta or pasta with ketchup. I feel like vomiting when I read it in the menu, imagine trying it.

@anitalianinsweden8868

Жыл бұрын

Wait...you find those things in restaurants???? Haha! You convinced me. I won't ever come to Germany again xD

@WanderingTales

Жыл бұрын

As far as I know this happens in Sweden as well 😭

What’s wrong with pineapple on pizza? It’s also a favourite in Canada

My friend who is italian prefear swedish pizza so do I 🙈 i always get super disspointed on the pizza in italy. Specially in Milan.

@anitalianinsweden8868

2 жыл бұрын

Milano is not Italy. Just like NYC us not the US. They work. Italians don't work. Ever. 😂 And although I believe you, I really can't imagine an Italian preferring Swedish pizza 😳 where is he from?

@rightbackatyou6805

2 жыл бұрын

@@anitalianinsweden8868 tbh i find italians like french people to obsessed with theire food and can’t take some people do it better. You Are an example of that. Im from switzerland myself and I go to italy alot Because its cheap. Its not only Milan…. It’s the entire italy. And tbh I hear this alot that More then the majority is dissapointed of the food in italy…

Ed io sono d’accordo con tutti i punti ed per favore potrebbe fare il video sulla ricerca di case perché è il problema che sta soffrendo di più la mia famiglia

@anitalianinsweden8868

2 жыл бұрын

Sarà fatto! Purtroppo è difficile trovare case in affitto. Spero voi riusciate a trovare una sistemazione il prima possibile

@anitalianinsweden8868

2 жыл бұрын

Ciao, ecco il video su come trovare casa. Ho messo un po' di link su dove cercare casa nella descrizione. Spero vi sia d'aiuto! ☺ kzread.info/dash/bejne/q6lnmsWlo6fVc7A.html

@italianrealmadridfan9432

2 жыл бұрын

@@anitalianinsweden8868 grazie mille la ringrazio sinceramente dal cuore

Haha I'm laughing about your rant about food, and how you think we swedes mix flavors. Have you been to the US? They are WAY worse. I live in Texas and I really don't like their pizzas - they really put ALL ingredients on the entire menu on a pizza and they love it. It is Terrible! Like: chicken, pepperoni, pineapple, onion, pepper 🫑, artichokes, garlic, spinach, beef, cheese... On 1 pizza! it goes on and on 😂 Me personally love Italian pizzas the best, even while being used to the swedish versions. But nothing can beat a pizza in Italy according to me.

@anitalianinsweden8868

2 жыл бұрын

I lived in the US for a few months and, I agree with you. Their food is way worse. Borderline legal 😂

I live in 🇸🇪

@anitalianinsweden8868

2 жыл бұрын

Me too and I love it 😊

Hmm number four bothers me a lot. Primarily the Italians talking about people and complaining part. What I've gathered from this is go to Sweden not italy.

I will fight for my right to have pineapple pizza! But isn’t that wonderful, AWESOME mix from the US? I don’t think it’s a original Swedish blend, so to say. I only know if it’s superior flavour.

@anitalianinsweden8868

2 жыл бұрын

Get ready to be reminded by every Italian about how wrong that looks to us 😂

@avernion

2 жыл бұрын

@@anitalianinsweden8868 I will bring my pitchforks, laden with pineapples 😂

@anitalianinsweden8868

2 жыл бұрын

@@avernion 🤣

Kebabpizza

It will be mixed in the stomach anyway.

@anitalianinsweden8868

2 жыл бұрын

😂 True that! The problem is that we taste in our mouth 😅

Pizza salad is the best!!! And I am not Swedish

Maby italians could learn to not take there food so seriusly, have an italian friend who wants to try kebab-pizza

How about banana curry puzza lolool

Kebabpizza is fucking boss

I blame Italians for there is a pizza called grandiosa 😣 . Kebabpizza is not OK Quatro is the best👍

@anitalianinsweden8868

2 жыл бұрын

You would be right to blame italians for many things 😂 honestly, the best pizza for me is the margherita. No complex flavors, just good raw materials and perfect taste 😋

If you are young and live in Stockholm there are much more political correctness especially in university circles. Outside Stockholm people find this political corectness often rather irritating and too much.

@hnorrstrom

2 жыл бұрын

Very true. Most people that I know never use any political correctness when talking to people they know quite the opposite, but if talking to people they don't know everybody are extremely correct.

Swedish. Hate the anti-intellectual, common sense rules attitude that is very widespread; particularly the ahistorical view of the world. Hate the climate and the weather. Hate limited opening hours even if it makes for better working conditions in the retail and restaurant sector. Hate the Stockholm-centric situation where everything that is good must relocate to Stockholm. Hate that we do not have a natural way to address strangers-having lived in the U.K. I’ve come to appreciate the usefulness of sir/madam; much better than “eeeeh du”.

@anitalianinsweden8868

2 жыл бұрын

Moving abroad really teaches you a lot about your own country. I had the same experience with Italy and I really learned a lot about the things that I hate/dislike about my home country. I can understand if you feel the same. Your luck is that you have some fresh air to understand the Swedish culture more by comparing it to the UK. Both positively and negatively. Thank you for sharing this 😊

Yeah, about everyone know that Italian food is one of the best in the world, or they think its France, Spain, Greece, midle east, North Afrika, its around the Mediterranean see, kind of! Kind of trough, but then one neglect almoste any other continents, that altso have a lot of delicius food. Its rather this, every contry have there delicius artisane food.. even sweden, a lot of seafood and game, try "tjälknöl". In anyway, our Pizza is crossover food, im a proud that we invented Kebabpizza, Hawaipizza and even banana and curry pizza! Its this, swedes get dissapointed going abroad and then get a thin slice with almoste nothing on it.. and no pizza sallad!!!! One supose to eat the sallad when wating for the pizza to be baked.. and a pizza supose to be a whole meal for a grown up. You have to shape up, on making pizza! Then to the PK thing, its this that in my youth, I hade some second generation Italian friends, they was cald "Gipskatter", as a joke, later comes "juggar", later chileans, other south americans, "blattar" and even some Afrikans "Negros", I even hade a friend that was cald "negerjoe"! Probably it was that we get older, and understand that prejudiced expressions is not a joke. Soo what happened, probably mostly that we learned that there is a world outside sweden, and that being born in sweden is not a norm in the rest of the world, even if it comes to food, culture, religion, or any other things! Sweden is juste an unike places, for bad or good! In anyway, if you like to know your epitet, its "Gipskatt" its not that bad, its about craftsmen frome Italy that made a lot of "Stuckatur", Stucco work?

@anitalianinsweden8868

2 жыл бұрын

Very interesting! I didn't know italians were called "gipskatter"! Was it from the 70s when italians started to move to Sweden? I'm very aware of the incredible differences in food, culture and history in each country, shaping expression and adapting other countries culture (and therefore food). I think it's a thing of beauty! In fact this video might be saying more about Italian culture than Swedish. It's about things I got shocked about when in Sweden so nothing wrong with Sweden. I'm also trying to show both point of views (to the best of my understanding and of the short time available in a video) but don't worry, I have plan to punch back at Italy soon with upcoming videos 😉 Have a great day! 😊

😂🤣😂🤣😂!! I love your video and how honest you are. But for your mental well being, don't come to the U.S. We took the italian cuisine and totally over did it. You guys wouldn't even recognize some of your prized dishes. In our defense we used to be the land of plenty. So we over do everything. If a little is good, alot is not enough, we want more..lol..So, I have always wondered, who did it first? Pasta..they say the Chinese taught the Italians how to make it. Is this true?

@anitalianinsweden8868

2 жыл бұрын

Too late my friend... I spent a few months in NYC (if that can be count as US because it's its own universe), but what I've seen you guys do to food is amazing and borderline legal xD Well, I guess it depends on the definition of pasta. Apparently the chinese were the first to make noodle pasta, which might have inspired italian "spaghetti-like" pasta so if you consider noodles as pasta, yes, they were the first, otherwise I guess they were the first to invent wheat dough noodles and the italians were the first to invent pasta :)

@PxssyGalore

2 жыл бұрын

@@anitalianinsweden8868 😆😂 You're AWESOME!!!

@anitalianinsweden8868

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you my friend. Too nice of you 😅

I eat kebabpizza any day before an pizza in italy. Easy. The pineapple or fruit overall on pizza is an american thing, I don't get that, it is disgusting. :)

@anitalianinsweden8868

2 жыл бұрын

Well, I can't save everyone's life... But at least you're half way through the recovery process 😂

Look up the pizza Calskrove. 🤢

I think the term "politically correct" is overused. In this case it is more that in Sweden we dont think it is ok to punch down or step on those already on the ground. If you punch up, chllenging those in a position of power, that is a different matter.

@anitalianinsweden8868

2 жыл бұрын

Well said, but I think swedes are too nice even to punch up 😅

@torbjornlekberg7756

2 жыл бұрын

@@anitalianinsweden8868 That varies a bit. I, personally, have no problem doing so.

@k.j.hulander2204

2 жыл бұрын

Stating the truth can never be a problem in an intellectually honest society. Some truths are ideologically inconvenient-that’s just the way it is.

@torbjornlekberg7756

2 жыл бұрын

@@k.j.hulander2204 The thing with that is that truth is tricky. Not just in finding out, accepting and agreeing with it, wich can be hard enough, but it can look different depending on wich angle you look at it from. Not to mention we all have different biases, based on how we were raised and what we have experienced through life.

@k.j.hulander2204

2 жыл бұрын

@@torbjornlekberg7756 No, the truth is the truth, that’s why it’s called the truth. You are talking about accepted truths, which are a type of informed opinion. But I agree that context matters to nuance facts.

Maffia, bad politican and bad economy. EU pay much money to Italia

@anitalianinsweden8868

2 жыл бұрын

I can agree on some of those points unfortunately... But let's not touch politics on this channel 😊

@krokodilen31

2 жыл бұрын

Just a wierd comment Erik, but you proved something.....swedes are not so politically correct as we think.