Irrethegreat at 2024-03-27 16:54:05+00:00 ID: kwtmjiq

I get confused because swedish is not an ethnicity as comparable to african american for instance. That would rather be scandinavian. So if we are not talking about the language swedish, or an actual swedish person, the term swedish sure gets confusing.

But it is also understandable. I get annoyed that I can´t say ‘fika’ about eating an inbetween meal (sandwishes and fruit, sometimes yoghurt or porridge, stuff like that). To me, ‘fika’ applies to a wide range of meals with the common thing is that it is not a classical proper complete meal such as dinner or lunch traditionally is. I mean, a sandwich can be eaten like a meal but it´s still not the same IMO… Besides as a side dish of course. But during a ‘fika’ you sit down and eat/drink, usually more than one thing including the beverage if it is other than water, but not as many total ingredients/sides/total nutrition as one would normally have in a meal. So the exceptions would be if you clearly have just one snack on the go or in front of the TV, or just one cup of coffee in the break room without anything more. But where I live now they think ‘mellis’ (which for me is more like ‘snacks’) and ‘fika’ are different. No bun or cake, no fika lol. So if I say ‘fika’ the kids at work think they are getting cake rather than sandwishes. Every single time. Poor things lol. Because it is not ‘mellis’ to me, it’s ‘eftermiddagsfika’.