Azdeus

Oh, boy, I just realized that none of y'all likely know what a Swedish "special" is... Oh, this will be ABSOLUTELY GLORIOUS. You all are going to be soooo triggered; Behold... the magnificient "Hel special"; Hot dog bun with two hotdogs or a thicker variant typically with mustard and ketchup, with mashed potatoes with ketchup and shrimp salad ontop I'm not even joking though, it's amazingly good once you find the toppings you like.

Yeah, it's definetly noticeable, I grew up with Heinz ketchup, and Felix at the time had sucralose sweetener in it which tastes vile to my family. I'm far less picky with mayo though, but I definetly prefer homemade. I definetly would say that ketchup is easier to make at home though, that bloody emulsification drives me nuts...

Yeah, macaronis! That's what you have to macaroni! It's completely inedible, they even managed to make it even worse when they removed sukralose, somehow, but I guess that's why their tagline here is "Felix makes Sweden tastier". Heinz doesn't have a tagline, because they don't need to brag. There is a reason you don't get Felix' ketchup in fastfood stalls, because they'd be empty Helas curry ketchup is extremely popular with fries here along with "potato seasoning". Dammit, I'm getting cravings for a special now

Who's putting ketchup on noodles? What'd I miss? Do you really think we'd be the worlds biggest consumers of ketchup if we had good food? Also, there's exactly three kinds of ketchup to buy here, Felix (Which is vile), Heinz (Passable) and hela Curry ketchup. Sometimes not even curry ketchup https://www.ica.se/handla/sok/ketchup?s=maxi-ica-stormarknad-alingsas-id_01841

I did a quick look for funsies and nothing came up around here, and I'm honestly not surprised. I've got some Sweet Baby Rays bbq sauces available here, tabasco and then I'm drawing a blank on american foodstuffs that are here. The cola and such are here too ofcourse, but I doubt it tastes much the same, and I know there are some stores that sell "cheese" too, but I've never looked at them to see if it's from america or just something a local dairy copied and produced.

First, that is a damn dirty lie, it shouldn't be allowed to be shown without a trigger warning Secondly, we eat the most ketchup in the world over here, we know our stuff. Thirdly, we have eat the actual cheese here, instead of melting it into a homogenized gloop, you have no say about cheese, and for your information we used to be the second largest consumers in the world of milk, but even though we've dropped in ranking, we're still way above you! And we have better animal husbandry than you! So there! We typically don't have stuff like that here, I was surprised to find barbecue sauce show up a few years ago. I'd have to find some specialty store, or make it myself, I'd probably skip on the soy sauce though, never was my favourite. Y'alls have some frigging fantastic hot sauces though, hands down the best.

No. Also, yuck. And thirdly, we don't really have much of that stuff here. And what there is is vile. We don't really eat scrambled eggs here, but eggs sunny side up with ketchup? It's a thing. Mix it up and scoop with bread. My grandfather used to do it all the time, and it basically caused me to not eat breakfast every again.

Pfft, what in the Holy Emperors name are you on about? I can't even write down a description of what it looks like without driving people permanently loose their apetite for food Seriously though, that's literally what it is, it's a 5 minute meal, instant macaroni, looks like the guy went "fancy" and actually put the meatballs in a frying pan, I'm half surprised he didn't microwave them. He could've atleast used normal macaroni.

The meatballs look like "Mamma Scans" meatballs, and considering the size of the macaroni I'd say "snabbmakaroner" which is typically from kungsörnen, the colour of the ketchup would suggest Heinz, but colour is tricky.

It definetly looks more apetizing than mac'n'cheese

Wikipedia to the rescue

You clearly don't have good ketchup then I do remember Sweden was the top consumers of ketchup some year, a while ago, so clearly we know best! The only thing I buy ketchup for is macaroni to be honest, I never make mashed potatoes myself, but I do enjoy it on hotdogs, with mustard, dried onion and bostongurka ("Boston gurkin", has absolutely nothing to do with boston) My fav burgerjoint closed a few years ago after changing owners (And ditching ground chuck for just normal ground beef) but I think it was chili-mayo dip they had, or something very close to it. It was ****ing fantastic. I miss them so much

Hahaha! Technically thirty-eight is eight, so I'm most definetly excused! \o/ The ketchup isn't there for the meatballs though, they're good enough on their own, but it's for the mashed potatoes. Also something I'm not overly fond of, but it'll do in a pickle. Well, no, the gurkin needs pickling, mashed potatoes most definetly need ketchup. Lingonberries mixes well with meatballs though, if you ever get hold of some proper frozen lingonberries to make your own lingonberry jam, it's pretty amazing, especially with potato pancakes (Raggmunk) Thanks, that does read like a very promising recipe, I'm going to see if I can find something similar but for free

My bodyshape is practically the reverse of that. More like a cyclist or such, I was never ever able to build bodymass above the waist even when training professionally in my teens. Running around in the woods with an AK-74 clone airsoft rifle is much more fun Until all the **** with Ghille suits and sniper rifles show up.

Honestly, I've never met anyone here that makes meatballs in a sauce, what is typically done here is that you take the meatballs out of the skillet and then make a sauce from the gravy in the pan and then pour it over the dish afterwards. I find those sauces pretty icky though, mashed potatoes, meatballs and cream sauce? Nah, I'm good, I'll take mashed potatoes, meatballs and ketchup. Then again, I typically eat chicken ramen near daily, or soups/stews of different kinds. It has to be some sort of really thin sauce for me to be able to really like it. There's a paywall on that article sadly, but from what you write there it sounds like it could be interesting

I had a sort of similar experience when I got back to work, one of my colleagues that likes to complain alot about things but never actually reports faults with the tractors was complaining that the technician was useless and that he hadn't fixed the brakes in 8 attempts and such. Last friday that coworker wasn't in place, so I decided to try the tractor he normally drives, and sure the breaks were weak as hell, so I tried just pushing the brakepedal to the floor at which point a torrent of air started gushing out from underneath the floor instead of at the (air)brakes... It returned to normal duty after redlining the engine and compressor for about 5 minutes to fill up enough airpressure to overcome the leak and return to the base position. So it turned out that there was a leaking membrane in the brakevalve, but noone thought to test something like that and report it to the tech. It was fixed yesterday and the brakes are as new now. And at the same time I got him to fix a bunch of other things that noone reported to him that it needed fixing. 3 pairs of wing mirrors with new defrosters 2 New 1 inch round rail to mount wing mirrors (Imagine bending those truck moose killer bumpers... And not "noticing it") 1 leaking front window 2 new sets of washerfluid containers (Bad idea to put these behind the seats, in an unprotected area were people like to put things like crowbars and clawhammers, plastic containers + heavy metal moving about = bad) 1 new heated seat 1 new steering wheel 1 new controller joystick 1 new climate control unit and fan package for the heater 30 something side indicator lights 3 new sets of rear lights 1 entire new VBG tow hitch and ofcourse, a replacement for the ducttaped camera that's off to the side... 1 replacement cabling set for the entire back half of one of the tractors... that's got a bit of a wait list. New wipers and arms for all the tractors. And that's about what I can remember ontop of my head. And one of the tractors are completely bent in the frame after someone T-boned a parked 45foot trailer at 30kmh. Someone needs to get their fricking nose out of their phone. Me and the very nice Danish ( ) service technician had a nice chat. He was extremely happy to see me so that he could get clear word on what was broken and what was not since he's not allowed to search for faults by our contract..

I'm exactly the same, hence my annoyance that they won't let us use the money for airsoft or paintball. And it doesn't help at all that I used to lift stuff for hours on end as a job.

They're probably around, but the recipes that usually come up (In Swedish) have potatofiber, potato starch or breadcrumbs. I much prefer the oats for the consistency. I suspect the fact that oatgruel being a common sort of breakfast and oats being used in popular pastries such as chocolate balls and oatmeal cookies. I suspect this also has to do with my sister has celiac disease and gluten free bread being ****, we used oats instead and I'm used to it. Having them boil apart isn't much of an issue since I don't make any sauce or such for them. It depends alot on what meat and size I'm using and how I intend to use the meatballs. If I'm going to eat them immediately, iirc, they should be about 15-25 minutes in the oven at 175C, if I'm using beef instead of 50/50 mix I go for the lower amount, it's a whole lot of guesstimates involved unless one has a way of standardizing their size, I mostly look for the colour I want. I'm really bad at remembering recipies, I've got it written down but I can't find the recipe book at the moment. I'm generally pretty **** at cooking, so it's possible that the oats are what influences cooking time and such, I wouldn't be able to tell since I dare not mess with recipes. Unless we're talking spice, then I just add in 3-4 times the normal amount and a few fistful of chilipeppers. I'll be honest, I haven't actually thought much about how we make oatmeal here, but after looking through wikipedia it seems the correct translation would be rolled oats

I don't know if it's available through all employers here, but we get healthcare allowance here so that gym memberships and similar things that gives you exercise or "wellbeing" are free/cheap. Unfortunately it also gives alot of quacks leeway, and it doesn't include airsoft. Because my employers are Knobgoblins like that.

I intensly dislike cream sauce and similar so yeah, for christmas I usually eat it with beetroot sallad or red cabbage, if I eat it outside christmas it's usually ketchup on my macaroni or mayo on the sandwich. Or beetroot sallad.

Exactly, lho-sticks, recaf, corpserations and heavy physical labour wouldn't effect him

Heh, I might only be close to forty, but g'dammit, my medical journal is a book at this point, I'm fairly certain you're way, way healthier than me, and I'm definetly more bitter than the coffee I guzzle

Thank you for schooling them Gorth, this is an integral part for proper Swedish meatballs that cannot be substituted. .. On a more serious note, I've never seen a recipe online that matches the one our family makes for christmas, with oatmeal for one instead of breadcrumbs, and finishing them off in an oven is really important aswell.

I'm getting flashbacks to my childhood friend that had trains and trainsets worth more than I make in a year now. With 30 years of inflation ontop of that. And now I feel bloody old, god dammit.