# Moose in Sweden are called Elk. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 10, 2004, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moose-in-sweden-are-called-elk/274003 "2004-11-10T12:24:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![BJMoose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5fc32e/32.png) [@BJMoose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BJMoose)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2004, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moose-in-sweden-are-called-elk/274003/21 "2004-11-10T18:47:41Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > My friend’s parents once totalled a '69 Mercedes against a møøse. That’ll teach you to mess with us! So . . . when will this discussion finally turn to Moosehead? ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2004, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moose-in-sweden-are-called-elk/274003/22 "2004-11-10T21:48:49Z")
> [@BJMoose](#): > > So . . . when will this discussion finally turn to Moosehead? Your wish is my command! (Though with a name like BJ Moose, no wonder you’re interested in moosehead! ;)) [The Moosehead Messenger](http://www.moosemessenger.com/) [Moosehead Adventures](http://www.kynd.com/~kayak/) [Moosehead Motorsports](http://www.mooseheadmotorsports.com/) Employing a bit of discretion, I decided not to click on the link for “Sexy Moosehead Singles.” :eek: [Moose Factory](http://www.jamesbayfrontier.com/community/moosefactory.html) [Moose Factory Gallery](http://www.cpachter.com/moose_factory/moose_factory.html) [url=“[http://www.byways.org/browse/byways/13830/places/15022/photos.html?display\_mode=single](http://www.byways.org/browse/byways/13830/places/15022/photos.html?display_mode=single)”]Mooselookmeguntic – including a view of Toothaker Island! ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2004, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moose-in-sweden-are-called-elk/274003/23 "2004-11-10T22:25:40Z")
My wife used to work as a sous-chef. Her boss, the pastry chef, was a large Swede with limited command of English. Every time he said “chocolate moooouuuuuusse” she would break out laughing; sometimes she would make him say it just for kicks. She never managed to get him to say “bork bork bork”, though. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2004, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moose-in-sweden-are-called-elk/274003/24 "2004-11-10T22:28:09Z")
Link to a thread I started about the animal termed a polecat. [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=244303&highlight=polecat](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=244303&highlight=polecat) ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2004, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moose-in-sweden-are-called-elk/274003/25 "2004-11-10T22:30:47Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > My wife used to work as a sous-chef. Her boss, the pastry chef, was a large Swede with limited command of English. Every time he said “chocolate moooouuuuuusse” she would break out laughing; sometimes she would make him say it just for kicks. > > She never managed to get him to say “bork bork bork”, though. The Muppet Show actually _did_ do an episode in which the Swedish Chef was going to prepare “der chercalate moose” He had a moose brought in and was trying to spread melted chocolate on it’s nose. ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2004, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moose-in-sweden-are-called-elk/274003/26 "2004-11-10T22:32:45Z")
No realli! She was Karving her initials øn the møøse with the sharpened end of an interspace tøøthbrush given her by Svenge - her brother-in-law -an Oslo dentist and star of many Norwegian møvies: “The Høt Hands of an Oslo Dentist”, “Fillings of Passion”, “The Huge Mølars of Horst Nordfink”… ---
**Author:** ![Padeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@Padeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Padeye)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2004, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moose-in-sweden-are-called-elk/274003/27 "2004-11-10T22:35:43Z")
You obicously haven’t experienced the epitome of baltic cuisine, chocolate mousse and squirrel. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2004, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moose-in-sweden-are-called-elk/274003/28 "2004-11-10T22:37:20Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > The Muppet Show actually _did_ do an episode in which the Swedish Chef was going to prepare “der chercalate moose” He had a moose brought in and was trying to spread melted chocolate on it’s nose. That’s what my wife was referring to. Obviously they never showed the Muppet Show in Sweden, because he didn’t get the joke. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2004, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moose-in-sweden-are-called-elk/274003/29 "2004-11-10T22:51:35Z")
> [@Polycarp](#): > > European mustelids … [O]doriferous mustelid[s] Say it with me… BAND NAMES! \ If the apples are fermented, the moose who’s big and brown is in Cider Town! \ ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2004, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moose-in-sweden-are-called-elk/274003/30 "2004-11-10T23:23:54Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > That’s what my wife was referring to. Obviously they never showed the Muppet Show in Sweden, because he didn’t get the joke. Au contraire. When I visited Sweden, about 1979-80, they thought the Muppet Show was hilarious, specifically because of the Swedish Chef, who ironically, didn’t sound anything like the people in Southern Sweden. Still they thought it was a hoot. Maybe he just didn’t watch popular TV or was not old enough to recall that. ---
**Author:** ![Mehitabel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@Mehitabel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mehitabel)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2004, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moose-in-sweden-are-called-elk/274003/31 "2004-11-11T00:23:39Z")
I’m still waiting to hear about racoons and chipmunks. \ ---
**Author:** ![Spavined\_Gelding](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/958977/32.png) [@Spavined\_Gelding](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spavined_Gelding)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2004, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moose-in-sweden-are-called-elk/274003/32 "2004-11-11T02:17:21Z")
A couple or three years ago we had a young bull moose wander into the state from a province to the north - apparently it had been driven out by all the snowmobiles and a parasitic worm in its brain stem. Some jerk shot it out in the middle of a field of soy bean stubble where it had no cover. This ended our hopes of dumping the Tall Corn label for the title “Home of the Deranged Moose.” _Sic transia gloria_ (sic). ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2004, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moose-in-sweden-are-called-elk/274003/33 "2004-11-11T02:24:23Z")
> [@Shirley Ujest](#): > > Oooooh, I’ve never heard of a **stoat**. Tasmanian devils eat them. [Danger!!! Tasmanian Devil!! Eats aardvarks, armadillos, bears, boars, cats, bats, dawgs, hawgs, **stoats** , goats, yaks, and old gnus, but prefers ducks?!!](http://looney.goldenagecartoons.com/tv/bbrr/bbrrstage.html) [sub]I’m surprised **Wile E** didn’t point that out. 😉 [/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2004, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moose-in-sweden-are-called-elk/274003/34 "2004-11-11T02:31:59Z")
> [@Johnny L.A.](#): > > Tasmanian devils eat them. > > [Danger!!! Tasmanian Devil!! Eats aardvarks, armadillos, bears, boars, cats, bats, dawgs, hawgs, **stoats** , goats, yaks, and old gnus, but prefers ducks?!!](http://looney.goldenagecartoons.com/tv/bbrr/bbrrstage.html) > > [sub]I’m surprised **Wile E** didn’t point that out. 😉 [/sub] I may be a supergenius but I am not omnipotent. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2004, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moose-in-sweden-are-called-elk/274003/35 "2004-11-11T02:34:53Z")
> [@Wile E](#): > > I may be a supergenius but I am not omnipotent. 😛 Omniscient! D’oh! Okay, subtract the “super”. ---
**Author:** ![LilyoftheValley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/54ee81/32.png) [@LilyoftheValley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LilyoftheValley)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2004, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moose-in-sweden-are-called-elk/274003/36 "2004-11-11T02:50:18Z")
Moose in Sweden are called elk? Not if you’re speaking Swedish! And on that note, I’m off to eat a bowl of Chocolate Moose Tracks ice cream. Yum! (It’s älg, in case you were wondering.) ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2004, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moose-in-sweden-are-called-elk/274003/37 "2004-11-11T04:30:32Z")
> [@LilyoftheValley](#): > > Moose in Sweden are called elk? Not if you’re speaking Swedish! > > And on that note, I’m off to eat a bowl of Chocolate Moose Tracks ice cream. Yum! > > (It’s älg, in case you were wondering.) Alg( with umlauts) i s pronounced " Bork, Bork Bork!" ---
**Author:** ![Blake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a9a28c/32.png) [@Blake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blake)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2004, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moose-in-sweden-are-called-elk/274003/38 "2004-11-11T04:34:20Z")
And for most of the world kiwis are a flightless bird, not a gooseberry. ---
**Author:** ![Anastasaeon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Anastasaeon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anastasaeon)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2004, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moose-in-sweden-are-called-elk/274003/39 "2004-11-11T06:05:15Z")
> [@Blake](#): > > And for most of the world kiwis are a flightless bird, not a gooseberry. I think I got lost somewhere, forgive me… I thought a kiwi was a bird, but also known in some parts of the world as a fruit… but a goosberry is a small, tart, light green berry, and a kiwi fruit is a brown skinned, green pulp inside, full of tiny black seeds _fruit_. I think my head is about to explode again. Or I’ve been whooshed. Bud I am high od Nyquil. I hab a stubby node an idgy wadery eyeds. Do plead forgib me if I fugged id ub. ---
**Author:** ![Blake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a9a28c/32.png) [@Blake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blake)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2004, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moose-in-sweden-are-called-elk/274003/40 "2004-11-11T06:20:32Z")
A kiwi is only ever a bird outside the US. There are a great many types of gooseberries, some are green, some purple, some black, some brown. There is a large gooseberry, sometimes known as the Chinese gooseberry, which was marketed by New Zealand growers as a kiwi-fruit and the name stuck, hence the gooseberry became known as the kiwi-fruit over much of the world. Except in the US for some reason where it became known as a kiwi. Which is odd given the American propensity for overlabelling tuna with the redundant tuna-fish. What, like there’s a tuna bird out there somewhere. But in the case of kiwi where the identifier really is necessary it gets excluded. People are strange. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moose-in-sweden-are-called-elk/274003.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moose-in-sweden-are-called-elk/274003.md?page=3)