• Ephera@lemmy.ml
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    2 months ago

    Damn, never seen the fabled IKEA meatballs before and aside from the meatball sauce, it looks like what you’d eat in college when the fridge is nearly empty.

    I can imagine that lingonberry jam works well with the savory, but does that make up for the sadness on the left half of the plate?

    • JennyLaFae@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      2 months ago

      It’s really not bad, good quality and cheap for what you get (at least here in the states). A bit on the cafeteria food end of things, but quite servicable.

      I imagine the arguer’s partner ordered their plate because i remember other, more visually appealing vegetables as options.

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        2 months ago

        You see, I 100% agree with you that it shouldn’t be called “jam”. I would call it a compote, if I had a say in the matter. But I specifically looked up what it’s called in English and, well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lingonberry_jam

        I think, some folks also call it “Lingonberry sauce”. If you’re one of those people, then we’ve got something we can disagree on.
        Jam and sauce are both smooth, which this Lingonberry stuff is not.

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            2 months ago

            Ah, in my research, I did also come across this specific meal being a traditional Swedish meal, which I guess, they chose to emulate:

            In Sweden the traditional Swedish meatballs are served with lingonberry jam alongside boiled or mashed potatoes and gravy sauce.

            Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaccinium_vitis-idaea

            Could be that IKEA replaces the lingonberries with cranberries in some regions of the world, since they’re not too different taste-wise, but I have no idea, if they actually do that.

  • JohnSmith@feddit.uk
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    2 months ago

    Few people know that the IKEA floor planner is a physicist who has access to additional dimensions.

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      5 days ago

      I actually prefer horse to pork, definitely. Almost prefer it over beef as well, but for some things horse is a tad lean.

      But meatballs and bologneses and whatnot, it’s fucking great.

      Also I seriously doubt this is actually from an Ikea restaurant, I’ve eaten at them plenty and this just looks too good vis a vis the plate being full, actually sauce and lingonberry jam there.

      Nah. Seems like someones’s just made similar ones at home. Now I’m hungry. Gah.