@alvdansen7172

1 month ago

The same food on every holiday is sort of true but not totally true, it can differ but will be served in similar or in the same way as tend to have common food on the table, like it will be potatoes and herring because that is what a typical smörgårdsbord looks like, it will include the same type of drinks, the same type of liquor no matter what smörgårdsbord it is and we always sing a little fun song before drinking our strong liquor, that is what happens when having a traditional smörgårdsbord as the smörgårdsbord is a tradition in itself and it will be a thing for every holyday. It will involve herring, hard bread with probably some strong swedish cheese on and potatos no matter what holyday but what we celebrate will differ. Also the rest of the food on our table outside the typical food will be the main dish that does show the differece of celebration. So it's the warm food and then theres and cold food. The cold food usually stays the same and the warm food is what differs the most. Like on christmas it will be served prince sausages, home made meatballs, Janssons frästelse and christmas ham with mustard on. It's normal to have white rice porrage with cinnamon and milk due to the fact that we believed in small creatures called "Hus tomte" later called "Jultomte", that is mixed up for Santa now days as we are getting more Americanized, but the original Tomte not Santa is a different magical creature that looks like a very small person and who is 10 times as strong as a human so this creature would want rice porrage and beer at christmas day and we give this Tomte this porrage and add butter in it too to make sure we get this creature on a good mood and also as a thank you for helping taking care of the house hold and feeding our animals. Well we believed this creature did our job lol but we also believed that this creature would hit us hard in the face if we did not do our job right at the house hold. During Midsummer we will go for a lot more fish than usual and be more creative with our potato dishes as me could go for a potato salad and other fish dishes than just herring, like eating shrimps or salmon. Summer is for cold food mostly and way less intended for warm food, I believe less meat too aswell, so no prince sausage, no Janssons frästelse either as that is a potato dish only for the christmas), I think meatballs is also more for christmas, so midsummer is mostly just fish and potatoes and hardbread, maybe a different type of meat would be a thing, usually grilled meat as it's during the summer. For liquor it's traditionally Akvavit (Aqvavit), Absolut Vodka and beer typically for any smörgårdsbord. In another holyday we only eat crayfish and nothing else. It's crayfish party and the drink is just strong liquor. We Eat crayfish and celebrate the crayfish just for the fact that it's a good season for crayfish and that is it. It's kind of dark during that time so it's common to lit lanterns and light candles, some even put on stupid crayfish hats on just to look extra silly. Lucia is also a fun little tradition during winter so go check that one out. Other traditional and common everyday dishes in Sweden would be like Pyttipanna, is a left over dish made of diced meat, potatoes, chopped onion, fried eggs layed over and sliced beets on the side. On thursdays it's tradition to eat pancakes and peasoup, so even if it's not eaten at home it will be served in schools and at restaurantes. The swedish Taco is also a thing but not as old, that one is eaten on Fridays. Potatos is the most basic food we have in Sweden and is eaten in any season, all the year around. It's what rice is for the asians. It's the sort of food that we survived on during the poor and famine days.

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