Swedish food at... IKEA?

[Dinner]

Strange but true. Before today I had only been inside an IKEA once or twice in my entire life and during those two trips I decided I didn't like the style or the quality of furniture sold there. Recently, however, I've found myself faced with bare walls in my house and a dire need for home furnishings but a shoe string for a budget thus I decided to check out our local purveyor of Scandinavian designed, Chinese built assemble yourself home furnishings.

The designs were still nasty modernist stuff and the quality was still crap but the prices most certainly could not be beat. Looking around I actually found a few passable pieces which didn't make me want to hurl when I looked at them so it seems I might become an IKEA shopper after all. While I was walking out I noticed that IKEA had a built in Swedish restaurant and much to my surprise many of the staff and patrons were actually Swedish/Scandinavian. I never knew there were so many Sweds in southern California.

Since I'd never eaten at a Swedish restaurant before I decided to give it a try. Turns out IKEAs food is better then its home furnishings; true, the menu could be described as more sensable then exciting but it was cheap and not to shabby. Hormone free meatballs with lingonberry, salmon plate with potatoes and broccoli, Gravad Lax Plate (seasoned salmon, and e shrimp open-faced sandwiches to just name a few. The prices were actually pretty reasonable too. Who would have thought decent food could be had a IKEA?

[DRoseDARs]

So very, very wrong...

[Chemical Ollie]

I've only been at IKEA twice in my life. The first time I bought a sofa that broke one week later when a 55 kg (100 pound) girl sat down too hard in it at my house warming party. The second time I went to the original IKEA store in Älmhult (which is also the closest from where I live) and I was annoyed by the fact that the only way to leave, once I had entered, was to walk through the whole store. There was only one possible path through the maze, so that you must see everything on display before you could walk out of the store.

IKEA
A niggardly Swede from my region being the richest man in the world
Swedish food Gravad Lax is our Sushi. I like it very much.

[Asmodean]

Originally posted by DRoseDARs
So very, very wrong...

Erm...what? That IKEA sells low quality furniture? That their Swedish food is good? What?

Asmodean

[Pekka]

Swedish food is good but I wouldn't hold my breath when eating in IKEA.. It's like saying you eat Scandinavian food when you fly with SAS.

[Chemical Ollie]

SAS
Finnair

[Pekka]

Finnair -> MEGAPUKE! Man, it's the most expensive airliner EVER that updates their services and planes the last. Just not worth the money you'll be spending on your ticket..

JetBlue

[Asmodean]

IKEA actually made front page news in my country a couple of years ago. Food related, that is.

In most christian countries, there is a tradition of companies throwing a christmas party for the employees. In Denmark, we call this "julefrokost" which means christmas luncheon. This is because at a julefrokost you eat mostly fish and cold cuts on rye, which is the traditional lunch meal here. The fact that a julefrokost almost always takes place in the evening carries no weight in that equation.

Now then IKEA decided to cancel any future christmas luncheon's on the basis that IKEA had many moslem employees, and that moslems don't celebrate christmas. This sparked an outrage in the media, and one tabloid paper actually initiated a "Don't shop at IKEA" campaign. IKEA held on to their position, and eventually the media shifted their attention elsewhere.

Asmodean

[Footie Mad]

My sister who lives in England actually goes to IKEA to shop some familiar "home food" such as Kalles Kaviar.

[Pekka]

Kallen Mätitahna? They sell it in here in grocery stores... it tastes like old man's poo after really bad week of drinking and fast food.

[laurentius]

I cant resist gravad lax...i could eat only that the rest of my life

[MarkG]

Now then IKEA decided to cancel any future christmas luncheon's on the basis that IKEA had many moslem employees, and that moslems don't celebrate christmas.

stupid corporate decision to cut a meaningless amount of $

they should just add a party for muslems as well!!

[Pekka]

THese things are stupid. If someone doesn't celebrate Christmas, then stay home!! How hard is that? We don't have ramadan, but do we ***** and whine about it? Is it offensive? hell no! Stupid.

[laurentius]

And its bs anyway that muslims dont celebrate christmas...they actually do...

And what religious is it about a christmas party anyway. Every firm does it here...people eat well and get very very drunk and the following days police gets a lotof sex. harrasment suits...

[Footie Mad]

Originally posted by Pekka
Kallen Mätitahna? They sell it in here in grocery stores... it tastes like old man's poo after really bad week of drinking and fast food.

I don't have your experience in pootasting but it goes well with boiled eggs on sandwiches