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Midsummer
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| Tidy | Date: Monday, 16 June 2014, 12:22 | Message # 1 |
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| 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:
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| Heitsh | Date: Monday, 16 June 2014, 12:48 | Message # 2 |
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| 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!
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| Lykane | Date: Monday, 16 June 2014, 16:00 | Message # 3 |
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| Silly swedes... :P
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| Talrak | Date: Monday, 16 June 2014, 20:26 | Message # 4 |
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| 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. |
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| Tidy | Date: Tuesday, 17 June 2014, 08:39 | Message # 5 |
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| Quote Talrak ( ) Nonono Norwegian strawberries is the ones that is the best ;) |
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| Tidy | Date: Tuesday, 17 June 2014, 08:41 | Message # 6 |
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| Quote Heitsh ( ) Are you going?
No, we'll actually stay in town. There are some celebration here as well though. 
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| Tidy | Date: Tuesday, 17 June 2014, 08:44 | Message # 7 |
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| 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? 
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| Cheiee | Date: Tuesday, 17 June 2014, 18:21 | Message # 8 |
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| Looks like a lot of fun!
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| Lykane | Date: Tuesday, 17 June 2014, 19:34 | Message # 9 |
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| 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. 
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