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Pankake
Here's the meat pancake thing Johan made me. Allright so food warrants a separate entry. Swedish food is very different from home, though you can always find some standards. A note for those like me: Swedes cook. This means students too. Even guys! So yes, it is the general joke on my floor that I am the only girl and the only one who cannot cook. Imagine the hilarity that goes on. Anyway, so the grocery stores are smaller. They do have some of my favorites like: yogurt, jelly, peanut butter, bread, sandwich stuff, Coke, milk, orange juice, apple juice, frozen lasagna, frozen french fries, frozen pizza, and spaghetti mixes. I get a lot of cereal too.
They import fruits like bananas, grapefruits, kiwis, oranges, and grapes. Now, Swedish foods that I have noticed the boys eat alot: meatballs (known as kottbullar), spaghetti with ketchup and meatballs, pitti panna (onions, potatoes, and carrots sometimes), soup (chicken, lobster, leeks, etc.), and Swedish pancakes. They also eat cheese (they cut it themselves with a weird looking implement), peppers, hamburgers (thinner than our patties and always ready made), and sausage with rice. They drink a lot of milk. Maybe this is why they are generally taller than me?
Northern Sweden
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Well Johan liked it. Heh.. You can see the jelly he's putting on it too. does have some delicacies. You can find reindeer here, as well as moose. They have juice known as Jokk that's made of lingonberries (they also have lingonberry jelly). I've had salmon here and they sell caviar often. I see a lot of shrimp. I was looking in one of Johan's Swedish cookbooks and Swedes love curry. The Vikings stole it from India at some point. They also sell a lot of Chinese sweet and sour sauce for chicken (kyckling in Swedish). Another common thing is minced meat.
As far as drinks go-not many places offer free refills so don't expect it. Coke is big here, though I am able to get Pepsi. No Mountain Dew, no root beer, and no other such things. They have Loka water which is soda water with flavoring. They have juice mixes like passionberry and pear and apple juice. They also have something called Julmust which is a Christmas soda, but they have some left over. I've seen chocolate mix for hot chocolate. Now, a word on alcohol. Here, you buy alcohol in a special store. It is *very* expensive. They also have it at bars, pubs, and things of that nature. Everyone drinks. I think it's a European thing. This is also a necessity, because Swedes tend to open up more and become more friendly when they drink.
You can find apple sauce here, but don't expect any good Southern cooking. No biscuits, no grits, no green beans, no black eyed peas (the music group yes 😊), and no greens. I have yet to see fried chicken. And the BBQ sauce tastes different. However, they do have great baking skills. If you like bread, donuts, cookies, pastries, or sweet things-you're in for a treat. I actually had real French beignets made by a Frenchmen today. And since it's Fetistas or Fat Tuesday, they eat special cream bread rolls. Bread slices are usually smaller, but of a manageable size. Dinner rolls are great. Not many bread sticks to be found, though.
Pizza here is thin. They make italian pizza, not American pizza. So you cannot get pan crust unless you buy Billy's frozen pizza or go to a special pizzeria. They have Chinese restaurants too, but most are not like Chinese restaurants in American unless you go to the major cities, or here-in the City Center. Salad is different. Lettuce is soaked in dressing. It's very gloopy and peppered. You don't get to dress things yourself or pick your lettuce leaves. They eat it with olives and waterchestnuts, and other things. I ate some great baked chicken though. Now, they recycle here. So you will find most saving plastic bottles and the like. We do. There is what is called burnable trash. So that is my current take on Swedish food. But again, learn to cook!
Allright so-Johan let me try palt. It's a potato thing made into a roll. You put lingonberry jelly on it and there ya go. Sometimes, it has meat in it. So that was good. Then I had some flaskpankake, which he made for me. It was his first time making it, but he did good. We had to go to Kvantum to buy the stuff. So he makes it and all I had to do was wash his dishes. And it was good. Basically, it's fried bacon bits inside a pancake. Then, you put the lingonberry jelly (sylt in Swedish) on it and there ya go.
Mia and I made some Swedish cheesecake. It was *very* good. We had to go to Kvantum to get the strawberries and borrow Lukas' creme fraiche since we hadn't bought enough >.<. So, to get to Kvantum, since Mia hadn't brought her car, Johan actually let us have his keys, and Mia drove me to the store. Wow-that's trust. I'd never let a friend have my car. So we got there and bought the berries. Then, we gave him some cake in thanks. 😊
Now, that it's better weather-they have BBQs all over the place. Sausages, hot dogs, chicken, steaks, all so good... And I had some of the BBQ sauce too. It was good. We had some Swedes come down from the top floor and they had a guitar and sang for us too.
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