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lollontee
Nov 4, 2014
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o hey ligur, what's up

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Ligur
Sep 6, 2000

by Lowtax

Friendly Humour posted:

o hey ligur, what's up

I HAVE BEEN KNOWN TO HAVE OPINIONS THAT PERHAPS DO NOT PLEASE PERSONS OF THE SWEDISH PERSUASION IS WHAT IS UP

HOW ARE YOU, FRIENDLY HUMOUR?

lollontee
Nov 4, 2014
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Oh nothing much, just reading Mein Kampf again here.

Ligur
Sep 6, 2000

by Lowtax
DO YOU FIND IT TO YOUR TASTES

cinci zoo sniper
Mar 15, 2013




Ligur posted:

DO YOU FIND IT TO YOUR TASTES
Like people in Northern Europe are capable of tasting.

Ligur
Sep 6, 2000

by Lowtax

kalstrams posted:

Like people in Northern Europe are capable of tasting.

What do you mean with this peculiar sentiment?

punk rebel ecks
Dec 11, 2010

A shitty post? This calls for a dance of deduction.
I've heard that the president of Iceland is nothing more than just a figure head. Is that true?

A Buttery Pastry
Sep 4, 2011

Delicious and Informative!
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punk rebel ecks posted:

I've heard that the president of Iceland is nothing more than just a figure head. Is that true?
Iceland is not covered by the topic of this thread. Please obey the strict regulations of the thread, lest it fall into chaos.

cinci zoo sniper
Mar 15, 2013




Ligur posted:

What do you mean with this peculiar sentiment?
Blandness of domestic food in Greater Scandinavia.

punk rebel ecks
Dec 11, 2010

A shitty post? This calls for a dance of deduction.

A Buttery Pastry posted:

Iceland is not covered by the topic of this thread. Please obey the strict regulations of the thread, lest it fall into chaos.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scandinavia

Iceland is to Scandinavia as "Y" is to vowels.

Ligur
Sep 6, 2000

by Lowtax

kalstrams posted:

Blandness of domestic food in Greater Scandinavia.

Don't eat at bad kitchens then.

Local stuff like reindeer and salmon (nevermind other fishes) are not bland.

We have potatoes, others have maize, wheat. Blandness: similar.

Mediterranean food is often superior to others I can attest.

A Buttery Pastry
Sep 4, 2011

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punk rebel ecks posted:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scandinavia

Iceland is to Scandinavia as "Y" is to vowels.
No. Iceland is no more part of Scandinavia than the US is part of the British Isles.

cinci zoo sniper
Mar 15, 2013




Ligur posted:

Don't eat at bad kitchens then.

Local stuff like reindeer and salmon (nevermind other fishes) are not bland.

We have potatoes, others have maize, wheat. Blandness: similar.

Mediterranean food is often superior to others I can attest.
I mean it's ok, Latvian food is also poo poo, but it'll take a Christmas miracle for me to accept what Sweden calls a potato salad.

Ligur
Sep 6, 2000

by Lowtax

kalstrams posted:

I mean it's ok, Latvian food is also poo poo, but it'll take a Christmas miracle for me to accept what Sweden calls a potato salad.

Potato salad is awsome, what is wrong with the Swedish version?

Alhazred
Feb 16, 2011




punk rebel ecks posted:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scandinavia

Iceland is to Scandinavia as "Y" is to vowels.

But then you also would have to include the Orkney Islands, the part of UK that was under danelaw and Newfoundland. Its slippery slope and the end result is finns and estonians coming to post in the thread.

punk rebel ecks
Dec 11, 2010

A shitty post? This calls for a dance of deduction.

Alhazred posted:

But then you also would have to include the Orkney Islands, the part of UK that was under danelaw and Newfoundland. Its slippery slope and the end result is finns and estonians coming to post in the thread.

Okay fine. So I assume noone will answer my question. :(

cinci zoo sniper
Mar 15, 2013




Ligur posted:

Potato salad is awsome, what is wrong with the Swedish version?
The whole dish is wrong to my sensibilities.

A Buttery Pastry
Sep 4, 2011

Delicious and Informative!
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Alhazred posted:

But then you also would have to include the Orkney Islands, the part of UK that was under danelaw and Newfoundland. Its slippery slope and the end result is finns and estonians coming to post in the thread.
Well, they do anyway. Might as well rename it Nordic Politics.

punk rebel ecks posted:

Okay fine. So I assume noone will answer my question. :(
I'm not sure anyone here knows more than you can find in a wikipedia article, unless you manage to get Deceitful Penguin to post in this thread.

lollontee
Nov 4, 2014
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I'm going to post in this thread and not the Finnish politics concentration camp thread.

Ligur
Sep 6, 2000

by Lowtax

kalstrams posted:

The whole dish is wrong to my sensibilities.

Now look, how is this possible?

A thing which contains chopped boiled potatoes, spring onion, pickled cucumber, vinegar, and sour cream with salt black pepper and such - and depending on the recipe, perhaps lime, apple, capers and even anchovies cannot be wrong in any format.

I judge you to be a xenophobe, and a hitler. And suffering from other phobias too, just to be sure.

Alhazred
Feb 16, 2011




A Buttery Pastry posted:

Well, they do anyway. Might as well rename it Nordic Politics.


That's not a very helpful attitude:saddowns:

Alhazred
Feb 16, 2011




kalstrams posted:

Blandness of domestic food in Greater Scandinavia.

Have you ever tasted Rakfisk or gamalost,? Because that poo poo is not bland.

cinci zoo sniper
Mar 15, 2013




Alhazred posted:

Have you ever tasted Rakfisk or gamalost,? Because that poo poo is not bland.
It's bland compared to southern food, I'm sorry.

Ligur posted:

Now look, how is this possible?

A thing which contains chopped boiled potatoes, spring onion, pickled cucumber, vinegar, and sour cream with salt black pepper and such - and depending on the recipe, perhaps lime, apple, capers and even anchovies cannot be wrong in any format.

I judge you to be a xenophobe, and a hitler. And suffering from other phobias too, just to be sure.
My problem with it is that it is called salad. It tastes very good, not arguing that.

Alhazred
Feb 16, 2011




kalstrams posted:

It's bland compared to southern food, I'm sorry.

So you haven't tasted it or even been in same vicinity of it then.

Cerebral Bore
Apr 21, 2010


Fun Shoe
Scandinavian cuisine as a rule is either bland or a failed attempt at making biological weapons.

Alhazred
Feb 16, 2011




Cerebral Bore posted:

Scandinavian cuisine as a rule is either bland or a failed attempt at making biological weapons.

To be fair, we got really loving close when we invented lutefisk.

doverhog
May 31, 2013

Defender of democracy and human rights 🇺🇦
Is smoked or cured fish bland? It's pretty common around these parts and good.

Lutefisk is something else...

cinci zoo sniper
Mar 15, 2013




Alhazred posted:

So you haven't tasted it or even been in same vicinity of it then.
Yeah I just live in Sweden.

Cerebral Bore
Apr 21, 2010


Fun Shoe

Alhazred posted:

To be fair, we got really loving close when we invented lutefisk.

The swedes also have surströmming and bäska droppar, which I've always suspected to be a sneaky way of convincing the russians that Sweden just isn't worth conquering.

Nice piece of fish
Jan 29, 2008

Ultra Carp

Alhazred posted:

To be fair, we got really loving close when we invented lutefisk.

Depends. Most people are used to traditional lutefisk with piss-poor quality fish. If you make lutefisk starting from really fresh, high quality fish that isn't cod, it can taste amazingly great.


doverhog posted:

Is smoked or cured fish bland? It's pretty common around these parts and good.

Lutefisk is something else...

Nah. Proper smoked wild salmon straight from the river is something along the lines of the most tasty thing in the world. Combine it with sourcream and flatbread and that's just heaven.

Of course, you can't buy it, but you have to cathch/make it yourself. Or know a fisherman.

Andrast
Apr 21, 2010


Nice piece of fish posted:

If you make lutefisk starting from really fresh, high quality fish that isn't cod, it can taste amazingly great.

No.

Angepain
Jul 13, 2012

what keeps happening to my clothes
Sandwiches with one piece of bread aren't real sandwiches

fight me

lilljonas
May 6, 2007

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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Debate & Discussion: You Are Racist > Scandinavian Politics Nordic Food Court

Buller
Nov 6, 2010

Angepain posted:

Sandwiches with one piece of bread aren't real sandwiches

fight me

Thats why they are called smørrebrød.

Angepain
Jul 13, 2012

what keeps happening to my clothes

Buller posted:

Thats why they are called smørrebrød.

this I'm fine with. But I've been learning swedish for some reason and people keep translating smörgås as "sandwich", I've seen your smörgåsar I know what they are and what they aren't and I won't stand for it this poo poo is important dammit

MRLOLAST
May 9, 2013
I for one miss my Thursday yellow pea soup with bacon served with a side dish of pancakes. But then again it has been a long time since I lived in Sweden :)
Btw, Iceland is definitely part of Scandinavia. Just not geographically part of the peninsula.

MRLOLAST fucked around with this message at 12:45 on Jul 2, 2016

Baudolino
Apr 1, 2010

THUNDERDOME LOSER
For time to time someone raises the question. Why not a new Kalmar Union?
Personally i don`t think that is good idea, plus it is redundant since we are all under tyrannical thumb of Brussels anyway.
On the other hand who will avenge the crimes of the Greedy Hansa against the Nordic kingdoms if not us? The North remembers.

A Buttery Pastry
Sep 4, 2011

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Baudolino posted:

For time to time someone raises the question. Why not a new Kalmar Union?
Personally i don`t think that is good idea, plus it is redundant since we are all under tyrannical thumb of Brussels anyway.
On the other hand who will avenge the crimes of the Greedy Hansa against the Nordic kingdoms if not us? The North remembers.
We also need to avenge the crimes of the British, though they seem to be doing a good job of it themselves at the moment.

MRLOLAST posted:

Btw, Iceland is definitely part of Scandinavia. Just not geographically part of the peninsula.
No

doverhog
May 31, 2013

Defender of democracy and human rights 🇺🇦

What are you arguing? That Iceland isn't culturally a part of the Nordics? Next you will be saying the same thing about Finland. Crazy talk.

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Debate & Discussion: You Are Racist > Scandinavian Politics: Not a part of Scandinavia

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