May 27, 2012
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Sales of Swedish foods in the UK have shot up by 30 percent in the last five years with Brits' fascination with meatballs, herring, and crisp bread showing no signs of letting up.
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Dishes from the UK can probably become populare in Sweden aswell, since we can also produce the same food products locally. I know I love Fish n chips, Shepherds pie, Ulster fry and Cawl.
I'm no environmental freak, I eat what I want. This just goes out to all the hypocritical environmentally aware city dwellers who eat their sushi, curry and moroccan stew. I bet they are just as many inte the UK as in Sweden.
And there are more products like that. The computer you use to view this article was made in China.
ICA sell Norrlands mandel potatis. If sold in Malmö, they will have travelled more than if they had been grown in the UK.
As far as sushi, curry or Moroccan stew is concerned. just because they are foreign dishes, does not mean that the ingredients are imported from the country that the dish originates from.
Well if you wanna be enviromentally smart then you start growing mandel potatis outside Malmö. If you can`t then you shouldn`t buy it if you live in Malmö. Swap it out for some locally produced potato.
Some foreign ingredients can be produced in Sweden and some dishes can also be produced if some ingredients are switched with locally grown ones. But that`s not how it looks like today and you know it Rick. Ingredients are produced in some third world country, very cheap but environmentally costly, and then shipped here. Take the Tiger Shrimp that`s used for Sushi.
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I'm saying that it's hard to eat foreign dishes and be environmentally smart at the same time. For that to happen then theingredients need to be produced locally. Costs will then rise and a new market will flourish. Some ingredients can`t be produced in Sweden and need to be replaced with some local ingredients. But then the food won`t be authentic. So it`s a dilemma. A dilemma these young, modern and environmentally aware leftish hipsters ignore while gobbeling down their african okra. Shouting that we live in an open and globalized world without borders!
Hypocrites
Sweden does make some nice dishes, but I wonder what the Brits would think after trying blood pudding. That is just nasty. Or what about "surströmming" or pickled herring? I've heard of Swedes abroad being evicted after having opened a can of that in their apartment. Even if the story was made up I bet it wasn't far from the truth.