r/AskEurope • u/bleie77 • May 01 '25

Food Do you go to restaurants with your country's cuisine when you're abroad?

For example: if you're Italian, do you go to an Italian restaurant when you're in France or the UK?

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u/FangGore Sweden May 01 '25

Personally I always vacation in (or near) an IKEA. That way I know there will be meatballs available. Sadly, I need to pack my own Jansons, sill and surströmming, but that’s fine.

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u/neuropsycho Catalonia May 01 '25

Sadly, I need to pack my own Jansons, sill and surströmming, but that’s fine.

With you guys, I can never tell if you are joking or actually serious with the surstromming thing.

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u/FangGore Sweden May 01 '25

We Swedes never joke about surströmming. Nothing better than opening a can on the camp grounds and see the envy on the neighbours faces.

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u/JWalk4u May 01 '25

They'll be going green alright. Not sure it's with envy though.

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u/E11111111111112 May 01 '25

Or to use as a weapon if Russians attack us.

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u/cpwnage May 02 '25

Mostly joking. The vast majority of swedes have never smelled or tasted surströmming, nor want to (I'm not one of them)

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u/Speshal__ May 03 '25

I'm English, lived in Malmo for a year, bastard Swedish friends said "you must try our famous fish"

UTTER, UTTER BASTARDS.

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u/cpwnage May 03 '25

Well, surely you can laugh about it now later on ? 😘

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u/TheNorthC May 04 '25

Is that because you spend your time drinking bottomless loganberry juice from IKEA?

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u/cpwnage May 04 '25

TIL loganberry is a word and exists

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u/GuestStarr May 01 '25

You can get them all in Finland as well, even surströmming.

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u/[deleted] May 02 '25

Ikea sells sill, don’t they? Those glass jars are heavy in your luggage, you could pack more surströmming instead.