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[–] 60 points 2 months ago

That's much more than mildly.

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  • [–] 49 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    I mean, it's called a meatball sandwich, not a meatballs sandwich. You're lucky you got two of them! /s

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  • [–] 9 points 2 months ago*

    I ate at a restaurant that did this once. The kids menu had "spaghetti with meatball" which they got a kick out of.

    It was the size of my fist. They served my single-digit age children like a 3/4lb meatball each. They still tell tales of the legendary meatball to this day.

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  • [–] 96 points 2 months ago (25 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 2 months 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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  • [–] 17 points 2 months ago (11 children)

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

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  • [–] 14 points 2 months ago (9 children)

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

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    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 2 months 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 2 months 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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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago* (4 children)

    Or you know, watch the comment section of most Spanish omelette or paella videos. I'm there on the omelette comments btw, it's not that fucking hard why does everyone fuck it up.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago* (2 children)

    You know that there's basically one paella recipe per Spanish village, right (if not more)? It's probably the same for tortillas.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago* (1 child)

    I'm Spaniard, I know. The thing is that Spanish omelette is a potato omelette, even though people then add other stuff to the base. They don't call it tortilla de patata, they call it "tortilla de patata y X". The only variances are the density of the omelette and if it has a little bell peppers (or more than a little, goddammit Biscay) or not. Anything else isn't a "tortilla de patata".

    I'm not saying that it will taste bad, it just isn't the thing. There are plenty "tortilla de patata y chorizo" and such, but you would never add chorizo or chatka in there and call it a "Spanish Omelette".

    I would be surprised to find anything but the basic omelette if I order a "pincho de tortilla".

    Regarding the paella, I'm not from Valencia so I won't push back that much there, but I know that usually if you diverge from the standard Valencian paella, you state it in the name, like a galician "Paella de Marisco" and such.

    Dude, people claim that putting bacon on a paella is traditional. No it fucking isn't. It will taste fine but it fucking isn't.

    I'm sure you have a national dish known elsewhere that locally has plenty variations, but everyone agrees that the basic version is X.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    Reminds me of how Germans still have this image of America being full of cowboys with six shooters on their hips.

    Fellow 'muricans: if you ever get a visitor from Germany, take them to a Wild West reenactment. They will NEVER forget.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    If you served this in Sweden you'd get angry side glances and passive aggressive snorts.

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  • [–] 31 points 2 months ago (5 children)

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

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  • [–] 11 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    An American claiming America is better at scandinaviaing than Scandinavia, is the most American thing I've heard in my life.

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  • [–] 22 points 2 months ago*
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    Where to even start... Pathetic, overpriced and I doubt that the quality of the 'meat' balls meet even supermarket quality, or even IKEA. The garnish should be beetroot salad and the bread a baguette. At a minimum.

    A crime against common decency, a culinary affront and a cultural offence.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    So someone decided that this is the sandwich they would sell to the public and said this is fine?

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  • [–] 21 points 2 months ago

    That's not a sandwich. That's a piece of bread that got fucking trafficked.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 months ago (5 children)

    Non-existent portion aside, that looks disgusting.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    As a Swedish person I have no idea what that white goo is. I wouldn't touch it, and also I wouldn't touch that bread.

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    Yes, I think you're right, that's probably what they were going for.

    So Swedish meatballs is served with "brunsås" (literally "brown sauce") which is a gravy or roux made from the leftover fat in the pan after you're done cooking the meatballs. I've never seen anyone do a white roux for meatballs. This is then served with boiled potatoes, lingonberry jam, pickled cucumber and often steamed carrots.

    The gravy is however never served on a meatball sandwich! That's a completely different thing. Another user mentioned that it's supposed to come with a beetroot salad, which I'm personally not a fan of, but it would be weird if a "Swedish Meatball Sandwich" was anything other than that.

    In general though I'm fine with people taking creative liberties with food, but you'll have to put some heart into it.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 months ago

    That's just some bread with jizz on it

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  • [–] 27 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Well it’s got one meatball. Serves you right for not ordering the meatballs sandwich.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 months ago

    Frankly I think this would justify homicide

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago

    Assuming that's real, it would be totally justified to throw it against the wall and demand a real sandwich

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago

    This would be "midly" if it was a $5 gas station sub

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago

    This might give you botulism

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago

    Nahhhh please tell me the guy bought it back and asked for a refund, because that's terrible even for stadium food lmao

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago

    At this point they are trying to insult you.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago*

    To be fair, it only said "meatball" and there's at least two of them instead of only 1.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago

    that bread looks like foam

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago (5 children)

    Also mildly infuriating is the lack of crosspost button so I can add this to !mls@lemmy.world — I guess it only appears when the post originates from a piefed instance?

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    Crossposts is definitely an option for Lemmy posts as well. What client are you using?

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    Sorry, I have no clue what that is. Mobile or web?

    If it’s mobile it could be hidden behind the share button. If it’s web… idk tbh. I mostly use mobile. But I’ve got both Piefed and Lemmy accounts (been trying out Piefed on occasion) and I’ve been able to crosspost between the two, but I did notice federation is a bit slow

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    Guess beef prices have hit everyone

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    Feeding this little is a war crime in more civilized societies.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    What the heck is this shit!!just make ur own at this point

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    What is that even supposed to be? Even if the bread was full of whatever that is it would look disturbing.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago
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    #technicallycorrect

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    no no that's a mistake, they can fix it or take it back that's just insulting

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    Meatball sandwich. Singular. One meatball.

    Technically correct, but legitimately rage inducing if this is really what you get for 15 quid.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago