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[–] 86 points 1 day ago (7 children)

Swede here, no one in Sweden has ever served meatballs with white sauce of any kind (no idea what it is) and dill... Highly doubt the meatball ingredients are even close to correct either.

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  • [–] 11 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

    Any food in the US that's qualified with will typically baffle anyone of said nationality.

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  • [–] 7 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

    That's true in every country, you should see "pizza Americana" or "American fried rice".

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  • [–] 1 point 8 hours ago (1 child)

    Hell, it's true just traveling across the US. Try "Phildadelphia Cheeseteak" a few hours' drive out of Philly. They'll ask if you want marinara.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 hours ago (1 child)

    Accurate but I was trying to expand beyond "Americans using food words wrong". (Also, "wrong" is culture purity nonsense in this context. Food and language evolve and that's fine.)

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  • [–] 2 points 7 hours ago

    You're right that prescriptivism is fundamentally nonsense, but it's been more than a decade and I still put airquotes on "pizza" when referring to it around Pittsburgh, because I don't want to mislead visiting relatives

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  • [–] 30 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    It's Minnesota, they are more scandanavian than Scandinavia, I don't trust you

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  • [–] 11 points 1 day ago

    I'm guessing it's a white gravy instead of a brown gravy, so colored from cream and flour. I've only ever had brown gravy and lingonberries with my swedish meatballs, but then I've also only ever had them at Ikea which I'm sure isn't the best representation.

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