February 12, 2012
Published: 1 Dec 10 12:31 CET | Double click on a word to get a translation
Online: http://www.thelocal.se/9242/20101201/
If the darkness of winter's already starting to get you down, the light and merriment –not to mention the calories and alcohol – of a Swedish Advent should help pick you up.
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fin
adjective
Fin means anyhting from sweet to proper. When someone says, Du är så fin it's quite a compliment.
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Also, a personal favorite of mine would be the GB Glace Pepparkakor Sandwich.
Glögg with lussekatter and pepparkakor and maybe some smoked fish sounds pretty good right about now....
I don't know about the kind of Advent calendars that you get, but the pathetic excuse for chocolate they put in all of the Advent calendars I have seen/received/eaten only net 16 calories and less than a gram a fat each... Probably not going to fatten you up that much! However, if you eat each day all at once, it is almost 500 calories and 22 grams of fat... now were talking! ( :