- That's dangerous, actually. Get that away from me.
- I take back every scary thought I had.
This is so good.
♪ (French accordion music) ♪
- (FBE) So today, you're gonna be trying
Norwegian snacks. - Yay.
I love eating.
- Ooh, okay. That sounds fun.
I love tasting new foods.
- I'm worried it's gonna be extreme,
'cause I don't know that much about Norwegian food.
- The only thing that I think of when I hear Norway,
is the line from Book of Mormon when he's like,
"Norway, the land of gnomes and trolls."
So hopefully it's not gnomes.
- I've never even tried anything Norwegian at all,
so I'm kind of excited about it.
- Probably something a little bland.
Either that or salty. So, it'll be interesting.
- (FBE) So, there are a lot of snacks that
the subscribers have asked us to have you try,
so we got several for this episode and may
do more snack at another time. - I do like more snacks.
That's a good idea.
- I'm a little scared about this one, but yeah, let's do it.
- (FBE) Here is your first snack to try.
- Ooh, okay, so this is bread.
- It's a hard-boiled egg with something else on top of it.
- That's delicious. What is that on top, though?
I can't quite place it. It's like meat out of a tube,
but that sounds disgusting and this is delicious.
- For some reason at first, it kinda tasted like
a regular ham sandwich and the more it kept going,
it turned to fish.
- I usually like fish, but this is so salty.
Almost like a smokiness to it.
To me, the saltiness kind of overpowers everything else.
- It's very on the salty side and it lingers for a very long time.
- I don't know if I'd go out of my way to eat it,
but it's pretty good. It's mostly salty
and I'm into salty stuff, so it's fine.
- (FBE) So, this is a smoked kaviar paste.
It is made from cod roe. It is delicious on bread
or crisp bread that is especially good paired with an egg.
- So, this is what it's like to be rich.
This is really surprisingly good and the thing is,
if you had told me it was kaviar beforehand,
I probably would have hated it, 'cause I hate fish.
- I've never had kaviar and/or kaviar paste,
so it's exciting to try. I like it a lot.
Thanks, guys.
- (FBE) Okay, so here's your next.
- Okay, so I feel like this is gonna be fishy again.
It smells like tuna.
- This one looks more like cat food.
- It reminds me of third grade when we used to play
with molding clay and stuff.
- All right, here we go.
It tastes a lot like your typical French pâté,
so I actually kind of like it.
- It tastes oniony. I like it.
It's good.
- It tastes kind of like tortellini or ravioli gone bad,
but I'm not opposed to it.
- (FBE) So, this is a Norwegian pork liver pâté
and it's a popular kids' snack. - This is why I don't trust kids
in general. Why would you eat liver as a snack?
- It's good. I like it.
I would eat it if I was a kid. I would eat it right now.
Obviously, I had no problem with that one.
- (FBE) Here is your next snack. - Is it chocolate?
What's on the inside of the chocolate?
Is it kaviar?
- This looks real scary. I feel like they even knew
that this wasn't something that they'd want to eat
on their own, so they had to dip it in chocolate
to make it better.
- Are these chocolate covered Bugles?
- There's a little corn chip, but this has chocolate on it.
That's good.
- Yeah, these are good. A lot better than I thought
and the chocolate's really good, too.
- Very crunchy.
They taste like chocolate covered pretzels.
- Oh my gosh, this is wonderful.
I take back every scary thought I had.
This is so good.
- (FBE) This is called Smash. It is a lightly salted corn snack
covered in milk chocolate. - It's good.
I would eat that. That's dangerous, actually.
Get that away from me.
- This is a ten out of ten. I could see Americans
eating this constantly. I might just have to buy some
for myself. This is amazing.
- (FBE) Here's your next. - Obviously, it's a cracker
with mayonnaise? I don't know what those
little specks are.
- It looks like mayonnaise with bacon bits in it,
which bothers me, 'cause that doesn't sound
like it goes well together.
- Let's go.
It tastes like a melted string cheese.
I think if I kept eating it, I would grow to like it.
- It's really creamy. That tastes really cheesy.
Really light, too.
- It tastes a little bit like cream cheese,
but with an extra kick to it.
- (FBE) So, this is cream cheese with reindeer flavoring
called renost. It has mild gamy flavor to it.
- I'm so sorry, Rudolf. I'm sorry.
- I definitely would not have guessed that.
That really took me by surprise.
- Cheese and meat and crackers, that's my thing.
Maybe I'm a little bit Norwegian.
- (FBE) Here's your next one. - Yay.
Okay, this looks good. I love chocolate
and anything sweet.
- It seems to be just chocolate. It has some type of crane
or some bird on it.
- They have really good chocolate. American chocolate's
a lot more rich. I feel like this is more smooth
and less sweet.
- I'll eat the whole square.
That's good. There's a citrusy taste
in the chocolate for me. God, that's good.
It's like silky. It's so good.
- That is delicious and I'm taking all of it.
This tastes like the kind of candy that you would get
if you were touring a chocolate factory
and they were like, "Here's some free samples
of candy you'll never be able to afford.
And here, we have candy."
- (FBE) Okay, so this is milk chocolate
with chopped hazelnuts made by the company Freia,
but I might be saying this wrong. - I like it a lot.
Imported chocolates or chocolates from
a different country, it's really good,
'cause you can tell the sugar is different,
or what they use is different than it is here.
- That is some good chocolate and I don't even
like chocolate that much. I'm not a chocolate person.
- I feel like we as Americans are missing out
on a lot of really good snacks, because we're limiting
ourselves to our own waters. Explore the rest of the world
through food. It's a pretty fun adventure
and it tastes really good, too.
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- Hey, I'm Katie, a React Channel producer.
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