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Re: What did you eat today?
« Reply #3090 on: May 20, 2010, 06:10:48 AM »
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Pancakes with lingonberry jam. Typical Swedish Thursday food.  :viking:

Why do Swedes eat pancakes on Thursday? :blonde:

Because a Swedish King was once poisoned on a Thursday. He had pancakes and pea soup. At least according to the legend.  :orly:

Aha...so, did you have pea soup also? :laugh:
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Re: What did you eat today?
« Reply #3091 on: May 20, 2010, 06:12:02 AM »
No, not today, though Thursday is typically the day to eat pea soup too.

Tuesday is fish eating day and Saturday and Sunday are steak days.
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Re: What did you eat today?
« Reply #3092 on: May 20, 2010, 06:20:19 AM »
Quote from: TheoK on May 20, 2010, 06:12:02 AM
No, not today, though Thursday is typically the day to eat pea soup too.

Tuesday is fish eating day and Saturday and Sunday are steak days.

What are the stories behind those customs? :P
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Re: What did you eat today?
« Reply #3093 on: May 20, 2010, 06:22:17 AM »
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No, not today, though Thursday is typically the day to eat pea soup too.

Tuesday is fish eating day and Saturday and Sunday are steak days.

What are the stories behind those customs? :P

Traditions of some kind. They often had fish for Tuesday and steak for Sunday in the convents.

My favourite pizza place actually serves salmon pasta on Tuesdays. Yummy.  :viking:
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Re: What did you eat today?
« Reply #3094 on: May 20, 2010, 06:43:47 AM »
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Quote from: TheoK on May 20, 2010, 06:12:02 AM
No, not today, though Thursday is typically the day to eat pea soup too.

Tuesday is fish eating day and Saturday and Sunday are steak days.

What are the stories behind those customs? :P

Traditions of some kind. They often had fish for Tuesday and steak for Sunday in the convents.

My favourite pizza place actually serves salmon pasta on Tuesdays. Yummy.  :viking:

Donald Duck at 4pm on Christmas Eve is the weirdest one  :P
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Re: What did you eat today?
« Reply #3095 on: May 20, 2010, 06:46:11 AM »
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Quote from: TheoK on May 20, 2010, 06:12:02 AM
No, not today, though Thursday is typically the day to eat pea soup too.

Tuesday is fish eating day and Saturday and Sunday are steak days.

What are the stories behind those customs? :P

Traditions of some kind. They often had fish for Tuesday and steak for Sunday in the convents.

My favourite pizza place actually serves salmon pasta on Tuesdays. Yummy.  :viking:

Donald Duck at 4pm on Christmas Eve is the weirdest one  :P

Odd folk, those :viking: !
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Re: What did you eat today?
« Reply #3096 on: May 20, 2010, 06:47:38 AM »
Quote from: Eclair on May 20, 2010, 06:43:47 AM
Quote from: TheoK on May 20, 2010, 06:22:17 AM
Quote from: couldbecousin on May 20, 2010, 06:20:19 AM
Quote from: TheoK on May 20, 2010, 06:12:02 AM
No, not today, though Thursday is typically the day to eat pea soup too.

Tuesday is fish eating day and Saturday and Sunday are steak days.

What are the stories behind those customs? :P

Traditions of some kind. They often had fish for Tuesday and steak for Sunday in the convents.

My favourite pizza place actually serves salmon pasta on Tuesdays. Yummy.  :viking:

Donald Duck at 4pm on Christmas Eve is the weirdest one  :P

I think it's funny. They have sent it for over 50 years now. The oldest movies there are from the 1930's. Even if you can watch it all on Youtube today, most Swedes still watch Donald on Christmas Eve.  :viking:
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Re: What did you eat today?
« Reply #3097 on: May 20, 2010, 07:24:20 AM »
Quote from: Diesel on May 20, 2010, 06:02:20 AM
Rasin bland

What the hell is that?
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Re: What did you eat today?
« Reply #3098 on: May 20, 2010, 07:29:19 AM »
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Rasin bland

What the hell is that?

I think it's "raisin bran," with a little commentary on its lack of flavor. :zoinks:
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Re: What did you eat today?
« Reply #3099 on: May 20, 2010, 07:33:44 AM »
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Rasin bland

What the hell is that?

I think it's "raisin bran," with a little commentary on its lack of flavor. :zoinks:

Aha, well it serves him right for making food choices that are similar in taste to cardboard  :P
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Re: What did you eat today?
« Reply #3100 on: May 20, 2010, 10:36:56 AM »
chicken wings , green beans , slaw
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Re: What did you eat today?
« Reply #3101 on: May 20, 2010, 11:52:18 AM »
And you eat tuna in memory of this king because he was good, celebration because he was bad or just playing food russian roulette?

BTW I had a tuna sandwich today, just because it was in the house.
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Re: What did you eat today?
« Reply #3102 on: May 21, 2010, 01:47:24 AM »
Quote from: Weakling on May 20, 2010, 11:52:18 AM
And you eat tuna in memory of this king because he was good, celebration because he was bad or just playing food russian roulette?

BTW I had a tuna sandwich today, just because it was in the house.

We eat tuna because it's good.  :P

The story about this king is kind of cool. He went mad and personally killed some aristocrats he held a grudge against. So his two brothers, who also wanted to be kings, put him in jail. There he was supposedly poisoned by arsenic oxide, put in his pea soup. No one knows if it's true, but it's not impossible that it is:

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Re: What did you eat today?
« Reply #3103 on: May 21, 2010, 12:57:32 PM »
Quote from: TheoK on May 20, 2010, 06:05:52 AM
Quote from: couldbecousin on May 20, 2010, 05:53:57 AM
Quote from: TheoK on May 20, 2010, 05:49:13 AM
Pancakes with lingonberry jam. Typical Swedish Thursday food.  :viking:

Why do Swedes eat pancakes on Thursday? :blonde:

Because a Swedish King was once poisoned on a Thursday. He had pancakes and pea soup. At least according to the legend.  :orly:

I didn't know that. Or maybe I did but I certainly didn't remember. :plus:
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Re: What did you eat today?
« Reply #3104 on: May 21, 2010, 01:00:47 PM »
Quote from: couldbecousin on May 20, 2010, 06:20:19 AM
Quote from: TheoK on May 20, 2010, 06:12:02 AM
No, not today, though Thursday is typically the day to eat pea soup too.

Tuesday is fish eating day and Saturday and Sunday are steak days.

What are the stories behind those customs? :P

Steak is considered to be "better" food and Sunday dinners when you can indulge in something like that. Saturdays.have no special significance other than these days people have the time to cook during weekends.
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