(edit title) Kötbullar accompaniment: chips, mash or boiled? Is Ikea letting the side down? Options

[mikewhite]

I thought Dill was more associated with poached salmon ?

[chazza]

Nobody has mentioned boiled potatoes with dill...with the meatballs...why?????????????????

because that's what goes with fish.

[Gamla Hälsingebock]

And other things.

[entry]

Did any boiled potato people mention Swedish brown sauce?

[mikewhite]

Ikea does supply the brown gravy/sauce with its chips ...

Don't say "brown sauce" to a British person, they will think of HP Sauce.

[entry]

Did any boiled potato people mention Swedish brown sauce?

Ikea does supply the brown gravy/sauce with its chips .... Don't say "brown sauce" to a British person, they will think of HP Sauce.

I have known some limey in my days but neither they nor any of my UK friends here in Sweden with a bowl of Swedish Brown Sauce and a bottle of HP Sauce(which I love very much) on the table would ever ask for Swedish Brown Sauce when they meant HP Sauce.

"HEY Yank, Hand me the HP and some more piss @ss Swedish beer" is pretty explicit and something I am quite familiar.

As a side note: In the past, I have interrupted compliments of my fish and chips by Englishmen who were extolling the greatness of my fish and how the vinegar really added to the taste by removing the bottle of oil from their hands and giving them a bottle of actual vinegar with the suggestion that it might taste even better now.

[mikewhite]

I have known some limey in my days but neither they nor any of my UK friends here in Sweden with a bowl of Swedish Brown Sauce and a bottle of HP Sauce(which I love very much) ... (show full quote)

I have known some limey in my days but neither they nor any of my UK friends here in Sweden with a bowl of Swedish Brown Sauce and a bottle of HP Sauce(which I love very much) on the table would ever ask for Swedish Brown Sauce when they meant HP Sauce. ... (hide full quote)

Which all goes to show that context is everything.

If you said 'brown sauce' to an arbitrary adult in the UK they would assume you meant HP or possibly Daddies.

Which they would not if in Sweden, familiar with Swedish sauces and with several types of the latter on the table in front of them.

[AW1]

Brunsås is made with milk and Gräddsås with cream.

[BritVik]

Ahh Bisto.

[skogsbo]

If you said 'brown sauce' to an arbitrary adult in the UK they would assume you meant HP or possibly Daddies.

Totally agree, I think any Brit over 12yrs old would consider brown sauce to be HP,daddies.. other brands do exist. Ketchup is always red or tomato sauce.

I suggest to Entry that you haven't been around enough Brits or we were being polite enough to call it something other than brown so as to not cause confusion.

[AW1]

Ahh Bisto.

Funny enough, replace water with single cream in Bisto and you'll be pretty close.

[entry]

Which all goes to show that context is everything.

I suggest to Entry that you haven't been around enough Brits or we were being polite enough to call it something other than brown so as to not cause confusion.

Brown sauce at a Swedish table, a UK table or in a military latrine mean completely different things depending on the cook...

It just struck me that in a thread discussing Swedish meatballs & potatoes that Swedish Brown Sauce had not been mentioned.

Points taken.

[skogsbo]

Yeah its all about the right context.
If I'm sitting there with my lightly toasted bun, thick cut oak smoked bacon, proper sausage, fried sliced mushrooms and raw sliced tomato, don't offer me the bland as dish water Swedish brown sauce!

[byke]

This is one of those times where popularity and knowledge of such products show which is more popular.Simply the fact that most people from outside of Sweden wouldn't know what Swedish sauce is (sounds dodgy already) indicates its position and value against brown sauce. Which is known of in a much greater manner because of its popularity.

[entry]

Heck, I take the meat drippings, fry up onions in it, add some flour, 40% fat cream if I have it, milk if I don't, a bit of flour, grated cheese, maybe some mushrooms, maybe some bell peppers if I feel like it, a bit of corn starch mixed in cold water if I want it to thicken faster, salt, pepper, cayenne and anything else that I think of and afterwards I might put a splash of Druvan Guldsoya Såskulör to give it the brown color. When I serve my food that is it and I expect everyone to clean their freaking plate(most do with little complaint, or need of rebuke or retribution).

It is time for breakfast. So I normally say SHUT UP AND EAT!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGu9yxdbFio