/ck/ - Food & Cooking

It's not a revelation, but they're pretty good. Most people haven't eaten much Swedish food so it sort of functions as a form of culture promotion as well.

>>4709618
Yea, they had a whole section of Swedish foods and stuff, I found it very strange. They had those salmon roe things in the toothpaste tubes that I've seen posted here, I almost got one. They also had a whole row of refrigerated jars of preserved herring and shit in different sauces. I'll look around more next time I'm there, I really just wanted to try some meatballs and it was very busy, my anxiety was beginning to be too much to bear. Any essential swiss shit I need to try other than the meatballs?

Im Danish and my girlfriend often drag me to IKEA. To be honest, the meatballs is no diffrent from a danish dish, but its cheap as fuck and a decent meal.
Its not the best in the world, but for the price and the selection they have, its pretty darn' good.. Also, coat those damn meatballs in the berry sauce.

I eat them in the cafeteria when ever I go there, they are a cheap lunch and pretty good, like $4 for a whole bunch of meatballs with potatoes and sauce and the jam

I always grab some of the jam on the way out, I have bought the meatballs and gravy which I cooked at home and they were pretty much the same as in the cafeteria.
just make sure you are really hungry because there are a lot of meatballs in that bag, I managed to work my way through the whole thing but I was really pushing myself to the limit

>>4709683
It's cod roe, salmon roe is at least ten times bigger per egg.

I eat at Ikea all the damn time. Their ginger cookies are awesome, their fries are awesome and yes, their meatballs with lingonberry shit it's awesome.

Their hot dogs are ok

Weren't those meatballs made of horse?

>>4709683
>Swedish foods
>essential swiss shit
>swiss shit
>swiss

'murica!

I serve food in the "restaurant" part-time, and most of the menu is actually decent. If you live in Norway, working in IKEA Food is one of the best places to work that kind of job. Lots of events and going out trips payed by IKEA, pay is pretty good compared to other part-time jobs (I get $25/h weekdays, $29/h saturdays), discount on everything and free food for workers.

>not complaining about your job on /ck/

I love swedish meatballs but I eat them american style with egg noodles

>>4710530
Also, I'm not sure what you guys have on the menu in other countries, but here I recommend the meatballs, falafel, spareribs and the baked saithe. Also, the crayfish party that is coming up is pretty good too.

>>4710530
I applied for a job at ikea last week, I received an email saying I should call to make an interview appointment
then I got another email a couple hours later saying the job is now on hold

think they actually gave the job to someone else in that time or was it like an automated thing because I took to long to respond?
I wanted that job pretty bad too

>>4710564
snooze loose nigga in this conomy

>>4710564
I can't say for sure, but they probably gave the job to someone else. I would try to call them anyways and ask.

Here, they tend to prefer giving the jobs to friends and family of the people that already work here.

>>4710572
>>4710578
the email started with "timing is everything, unfortunately the job is now on hold" and blah blah blah saying they will keep my application on file in case something opens up

>>4710564
On hold generally means someone decided that filing the position is not something they want to do right now (dollars to donuts done form of reporting period is close to over for them and they blew their budget for done sort of personnel cost/had shitty revenue and want to try to make out not look as bad by saving money here). Even if the first interviewee were perfect they would still do the rest of the interviews for form's sake.

>>4709613
They are fucking awesome OP, best food ever.
They suggest to use their strawberry jam as fucking sauce for them, and I can assure you it's fucking great.

God damnit I want it now

The cafeteria is pretty great but I think the snack bar next to the registers is where it's at. Fucking dollar hot dogs, dollar drinks, dollar soft-serve, and all that. Way cheap. The food isn't amazing or anything but jesus christ for a dollar who gives a shit?

>>4710616
I always forget about that and fill up on meatballs and princess cake before making it down to that floor

>buy köttbullar
>hello, Willbur

Has anyone noticed that whenever the concept of meatballs from Sweden is brought up, someone will always say, in a ridiculous accent, "svedish meatballs!". With no context or anything, not like a sentence, just those words, in that accent, as an entire statement on its own.

It's utterly retarded. I don't understand it. It's like whenever Jack Nicholson or The Shining are brought up, someone will always say "heeeeere's Johnny!". Without fail. Why do people do this? Why is it so utterly ubiquitous? Neither of them are funny. And yet in both cases, someone will ALWAYS do it. It's like a compulsion, like you can't bring these things up without acknowledging the 'joke' that everyone is expecting to come with it.

>>4711052
I reckon it's possibly influenced by http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sY_Yf4zz-yo

>>4711052
Well aren't you a fun person? Really though, it sort of bothers me. But alot of things people do sort of bother me, no need to fret over it.

#suckingeverydollaroutofyou
#shittyfurinture
#shittyfood

>>4709613
>how is this stuff

Why don't you just fucking eat it you shit stain

no dawg the frozen ones aren't really as good as the ones at the cafeteria ya fucked up boi

>>4709613

Try their prinsesstårta as well. Fucking GODLY.

>>4709683
>refrigerated jars of preserved herring and shit in different sauces
They got that in american ikeas? Here in Sweden we've pretty much only got meatballs and veggie pizzas. But the herring is absolutely delicious. Eat them with just boiled potatoes.

And, yeah, Ikea meals are decent enough, espcially for the price. Average diner quality.

>>4710596
Are you saying that they serve strawberry jam with their meatballs? Because it's lingonberry jam. Strawberry jam would be absolutely disgusting.

>>4711521
Oh yeah, we have all that. I love the pickled herring and herring in mustard sauce. Actually, most grocery stores (at least where I live, in NorCal) carry some type of jarred marinated herring. We eat it pretty frequently. I prefer eating it on crackers or bread, though. (with onions and pickles)

>>4711587
Well, you've got some great taste in herring then. Pickled and mustard are my favorites too, aside from the weird ones you can only buy from farmer stores. Blueberry sauce is way better than it has the right to be.

I thought the old addage was the Swedes put Dill/Caraway and Mayo on everything to kill the terrible flavor of whatever they were serving

Pretty hard to fuck up meatballs though

>>4711052
stop conversing with mental retards

Alright guys, OP here. I said yesterday I wanted to make them for dinner tonight with the IKEA gravy and mashed potatoes. I still might do that. I got home starving from work a little while ago though and saw them in the fridge, I couldn't resist. Plopped six or eight on a couple paper towels and nuked them til hot all the way through. Instead of making that gravy I just dipped them in that lingon berry stuff they gave me. The meatballs were good! The lingon berries were awesome on them. Do you guys prefer them w the gravy or the berries? Maybe you mix them?

>>4711483
I did, just didn't want to yesterday :)

>>4711518
And what is that?

>>4711521
I didn't look that closely because it was getting crowded, I'm pretty sure they had a whole bunch of different types though. Food court food looked as good as places that charge double, hoping to make it in this week.

>>4710511
Deal with it.

>>4711514
They really that different? I figured the ones at the cafeteria are the same thing, eh? Or do they make them fresh?
Pic related, mfw eating dem balls and lingon berries.

You better have bought the rum babas

If anyone is ever in Shanghai, go visit the ikea there. It's surreal. Chinese people spending all day there snapping photos of themselves, and the cafeteria functions as a hook up spot for elderly Chinese.

>>4711713
And what is that?

>>4711699
Always mix. Meat loaf and potato pancakes are great with lingonberry jam too.

>>4709613
You need brunsås
Don't know what its called in english but its the shit.
Im from Sweden and when i was a kid i loved going to IKEA just to eat those meatballs and it was the awesome every time.

>fucking fucking fucking fucking
You are very hard, OP.

>>4711752
Flotesaus is better than brunsaus on those meatballs. We once ran out of flotesaus and used brunsaus instead, and all the customers were bitching about it.

>>4711762
I dont know about that but if you say so.

I just remember that i fucking loved brunsås as a kid.

>>4711707
this

>>4711752
Doesn't Ikea use gräddsås? Been a while since I ate there though. And I'm pretty sure they both go as gravy in english.

I really like the baked saithe.

>>4711707
The meatball that they sell in the restaurant and the frozen ones are the exact same, we take it from the package and bake it in the oven. They taste much better that way.

>>4711658
>Pretty hard to fuck up meatballs though
It is. Even the really cheap ones we got in school were great.

>>4711752
Whats brunsas?

>>4711762
Whats flotesaus, why is it better?

>>4711758
Fuck you.

>>4711790
Thats what I figured, that guy doesn't know what he's talking about. When I'm not starving and have time to prepare it later I'll bake them in the oven for a nice browning. They were still tasty in the microwave tho.

>>4711808
It's two different sauces.

>>4711790
I always do them in a frying pan since it's quicker than heating the oven. I guess the taste isn't quite the same though. I always thought fish sticks and bacon made in oven always tasted weird.

>italian boy from Jersey

My grandmother would slap the taste outta my mouth if I bought frozen meatballs

>>4711909
John, is that you?

>captcha

>John elmsess

>>4711916
That guy died in a car accident back in 2007. lel.

Their meatballs are the best.
I had an ikea meatballs,bacon and mustard sandwich for lunch today.

what i like too do is that i mash the potatoes with the gravy on my plate, then take take that on the meatball with berry sauce on top
>mfw

Swedish guy here

Homemade meatballs are the best, dont eat meat tho.

Always eating with lingonberry jam, potatoes and "brown sauce" (brunsås) or sometimes called "creamsauce" (gräddsås) often made with just adding cream when you fry the meatballs.

>>4709613
>So bizarre I actually went there and bought a bag today. Along with the recommended gravy, frozen red mashed potatoes, and this lingon berry sauce stuff.


Yfw you now realise you are just another sap that fell for the hype and propagated it.

>>4711052
This is what memes were before they started putting captions on cats.

If you are at home just make your own homemade swedish meatballs with cream sauce. IKEA is great because u can get a cheap (real porcelain) plate of the stuff for cheap.

Skwissgar is that you

Enjoy your horsemeat balls OP.

>>4712456
why do you think they are so good? seabiscuit has a good flavor

They have some decent ribs and fries. Breakfast is good. I love when they have an "eat for free" promo, just pig out.

>>4709613

It's surprisingly good, for the price and setting.

>2013
>not eating at Ikeas food court constantly contemplating your lonely sad existence

I go to Ikea for the food, not the furniture.

Shit's cheap, yo.

>>4712784

It's pure trash. As a matter of fact, that's where most IKEA furniture ends up, that's the main advantage of it, it's disposable. You can furnish a room rather well for $1,000.00.

It's disposable furniture, but some people...it's all they have, and it's in fact quite OK. I have IKEA furniture myself. If I can, I won't buy IKEA furniture again, but it might be some time before I get to buy real furniture.

I know where to buy it, now, though, assuming I remain in this city. Last time I bought furniture for my whole place I had such a hard time finding pieces.

>>4712801
perfect for college. if i went to school closer to an ikea, i would have eaten so many meatballs...

>WHAT
>IN
>THE
>FUCK

...THOSE MEATBALLS TASTE LIKE FUCKING CHEAP BARF FLAVORD HORSE SOFT DOFOOD COVERED TESTICLE SWEAT, CREAM AND DIRT. IN I ALMOST VOMIT WHEN I GO INTO IKEA THE STORE DUE THE THE TROUGH BASED FAT PERSON FEEDING FREENZY AND THE ROTTING SEMEN SMELL IT CREATES. READ THIS AS YOU EAT YOUR DOG FOOD COVERED IN HORSE SEMEN GRAVY WITH A LAYER OF SWEETENED AFTERNORTH JELLY

gawker com/5988669/ikea-recalls-almond-cakes-after-realizing-they-might-contain-poop

>>4712820

I don't think it's perfect for college, but if you need to furnish a room with disposable furniture, then it's the place to go.

>>4712894
but if you only need cheap furniture for four years, then perhaps? i still have an ikea wok and pizza cutter from maybe 8 years ago...

>>4712903
Dnt doityou little faggot.

>>4712909
whoa. ok

>>4712903

Most of their furniture doesn't withstand that much wear and tear. Two year, three at most is probably what you can expect to get out of it.

They have some nicer accessories, but all in all, it's just garbage. IKEA is to furniture what H&M is to clothing.

>>4712912
No horse cum DOOKIE pastrie place should be able to see you chink made cardboard furniture, only you can non-fag yourself, you have the power.

>>4711052
Its funny for people that dont have autism

The Ikea balls smell kinda plasticky. Lidl (at least in Germany) sometimes has a "Swedish week" and sells Sodergarden (?) brand meat balls, those taste miles better than Ikea's.

Also they're best with spicy potato wedges and no sauce.

I've only eaten there once, but every time I'm leaving I walk past the food aisle thing and want to buy one of each of the pickled herring. I love dat shit.

>>4711052
These people are the normalfag equivalent of meme-spouting retards.

>eurotrash have to get their horse meatballs at a home furnishing store

>>4715555
It's not funny. It's never been funny.

>implying I give a fuck if it has horse in it

Even if they were advertised as "Horsemeat Balls" i'd still eat them.

>>4716665
the issue was the questionable origin of the horse meat, not the meat itself, because horse is fucking delicious.

Guys, I checked my meatballs and they are made in the Murrica. Calm those tits, horsefags.