How Nordic Are You? with Mads Mikkelsen and Jonas Åkerlund | Netflix | Teacher Paul Reacts Nordic

Original: How Nordic Are You? with Mads Mikkelsen and Jonas Åkerlund | Netflix

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[TullaRask]

I'm Norwegian, Sauna comes from Finland, we might use it if it's available, but very often it isn't.

[BrimirMe]

In old days, servants would work weekends and get Wednesday off. So, they would party like it's saturday on wednesday, hence "Lille lørdag" (little Saturday). It's used when we talk about having a party or doing something extra on a Wednesday, the excuse being: "It's little Saturday". Little Friday is Thursday (I think just for being the day before). So if you can only party in the weekend, you will party little saturday, little friday, friday and saturday.

Danish Vienna-sausage (Frankfurter) are full of red dye. They were illegal in Norway, but were popular among kids becaus of their colour, so many would buy a pack in Denmark and save for birth-day parties. Unfortunately, the red dye leaves an unfortunate after-taste for me.

You need to wash off after the sauna anyway and stop the sweating-process. I store heat well, so I can swim for 5-10 minutes, if I've been in there long enough. You feel like superman, impervious to cold, but it's smart to retreat from the water while you still have some surplus heat stored. Also, it creates endorfines and other hormones, that can be beneficial (unless you get a heart-attack). Some people claim that ice-bathing treats revmatism, I don't know if the effect is ruined by taking a sauna first, but that would certainly ease the process for me.

2:00 First sentence is Swedish, second is Danish. Mikkel didn't understand, because when the weather is bad the Danish go inside to get beaten up by their wives who on the next day tell their girlfriends about how much hygge they had last night. JK, but unlike Swedish and Norwegian, it doesn't rhyme in Danish ("der er ikke dårligt vejr, men forkert påklædning!") and that is perhaps why it's not so commonly used.

Snaps (schnaps in German, Schnapps in English), is a small glass of aquavit, gin, brandy or similar, that is drunk in one go (effectively a shot). It's sometimes drunk seperately, sometimes as an apetizer or sometimes to food. I usually prefer to drink my aqauvit slowly, but if someone offers me such a drink and calls it a Snaps, I drink it in one go. So, by (my) definition, you always drink Snaps in one go (if you drink it at all). I'm about 100% Nordic if you accept my definition of Snaps.

[eldridbakk]

sauna when it's cold is about getting the blood circulation activated. From hot sauna to shockingly cold.

[Mochi]

You should definitely react more
to Ylvis!💫

[matshjalmarsson]

Quite Nordic, but since I'm Nordic I don't want to say 100%

[TullaRask]

The red Danish sausages looks horrible, so I have never tasted them.