[ New messages · Members · Forum rules · Search · RSS ]
  • Page 1 of 1
  • 1
Archive - read only
Midsummer
TidyDate: Monday, 16 June 2014, 12:22 | Message # 1
/Whisper
Group: Site Initiate
Messages: 37
Reputation: 3
Reproofs: 0%
Status: Offline
Swedish Midsummer by Colin Moon

     This is celebrated on the weekend coming closest to the real midsummer day, 24th of June. A mass exodus takes place just before with thousands of Swedes evacuating the towns and cities and heading for their weekend cottages in the country. They erect a maypole, erect being the operative word as in fact it is a pagan symbol of fertility. It looks like a long thing with two round dangly bits! They dress it up in leaves and flowers (the maypole, that is) and then spend the afternoon dancing around it pretending to be small frogs. It’s true.
     
     Swedes eat new potatoes and pickled herring (of course). Before long, it is not only the herring which is pickled as they do end to imbibe large quantities of beer and akvavit. No wonder they dance like frogs afterwards. Another important dish on the menu is fresh strawberries and cream. No foreign watery, tasteless EU-regulated strawberries, but large, curvy, juicy, sweet Swedish ones.

Learn more at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midsummer



Happy Holiday!!  :laugh:
 
HeitshDate: Monday, 16 June 2014, 12:48 | Message # 2
/Officially left their shell
Group: Site Initiate
Messages: 45
Reputation: 2
Reproofs: 0%
Status: Offline
Quote Tidy ()
Another important dish on the menu is fresh strawberries and cream. No foreign watery, tasteless EU-regulated strawberries, but large, curvy, juicy, sweet Swedish ones.

This made me drool .. YUM!

Are you going? Enjoy your holidays!
 
LykaneDate: Monday, 16 June 2014, 16:00 | Message # 3
/Officially left their shell
Group: Site Initiate
Messages: 42
Reputation: 2
Reproofs: 0%
Status: Offline
Silly swedes... :P
 
TalrakDate: Monday, 16 June 2014, 20:26 | Message # 4
/Whisperest
Group: Site Initiate
Messages: 36
Reputation: 1
Reproofs: 0%
Status: Offline
Quote Tidy ()
Another important dish on the menu is fresh strawberries and cream. No foreign watery, tasteless EU-regulated strawberries, but large, curvy, juicy, sweet Swedish ones.
Nonono Norwegian strawberries is the ones that is the best ;)
 
TidyDate: Tuesday, 17 June 2014, 08:39 | Message # 5
/Whisper
Group: Site Initiate
Messages: 37
Reputation: 3
Reproofs: 0%
Status: Offline
Quote Talrak ()
Nonono Norwegian strawberries is the ones that is the best ;)
Yes, the further north, the sweeter strawberries. The local strawberriers when we lived in Umeå was crazy sweet. Never tasted anything like it again here in the south.
 
TidyDate: Tuesday, 17 June 2014, 08:41 | Message # 6
/Whisper
Group: Site Initiate
Messages: 37
Reputation: 3
Reproofs: 0%
Status: Offline
Quote Heitsh ()
Are you going?

No, we'll actually stay in town. There are some celebration here as well though. smile
 
TidyDate: Tuesday, 17 June 2014, 08:44 | Message # 7
/Whisper
Group: Site Initiate
Messages: 37
Reputation: 3
Reproofs: 0%
Status: Offline
Quote Lykane ()
Silly swedes... :P

Hehe... indeed. But isn't the most silly part that we sing the same songs as during the dance at christmas?  tongue
 
CheieeDate: Tuesday, 17 June 2014, 18:21 | Message # 8
Guild Leader
Group: Administrators
Messages: 1488
Reputation: 11
Status: Offline
Looks like a lot of fun! 

holiday
 
LykaneDate: Tuesday, 17 June 2014, 19:34 | Message # 9
/Officially left their shell
Group: Site Initiate
Messages: 42
Reputation: 2
Reproofs: 0%
Status: Offline
Although i'm born and raised in Sweden, I've never actually celebrated midsummer in this traditional sense. But I do enjoy the food. Although I don't eat most of it anymore since i'm vegan. wink
 
  • Page 1 of 1
  • 1
Search:

Color Legend: [Administrator] [Moderator] [Officer] [Raider] [Social] [Guild Initiate] [Site Initiate]