• Swedneck
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      2 days ago

      i mean maybe that’s what made it well known outside sweden, but meatballs are also a bog standard thing inside sweden.
      Meatballs with mashed potatoes, gravy, and lingonberries is the “default food” basically, like fish and chips in the UK.

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          4 days ago

          The statue was given by the french, but the USA started by giving one to France IIRC (they paid for the first one in Paris if I got that correctly). It’s obviously smaller, you can see it on one of the bridges in Paris.

          Actually there are a whole bunch of them in Paris, that’s a little rabbit hole if you’re curious.