Ikea is a meatball company that also sells furniture
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VW is a sausage company masquerading as a car manufacturer: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_currywurst
Did have them a week back. But IKEA is to Swedish cuisine what Taco bell is to Mexican.
Delicious when high?
Nah but my home made meatballs with proper mashed potatoes, pickled cucumber, lingon rawstir (not jam) with 60% lingon, cream sauce with a kick ( using mango chutney instead of classic black current jelly) with sage and rosemary definitely is. :)
Id chow down on your meatballs, lovesausage.
Ikea really managed to pull off a magnificent marketing stunt.
They have the same furniture quality that you can get off of Amazon, Wayfair, or Walmart but you have to go get it out of their warehouse and deal with the logistics of getting it to your house. But they hand out some meatballs and give everything funky Swedish names; so people get the impression that it's a fancy European experience.
China is the single largest manufacturer of Ikea products. I found that when I went directly to the source, I could get the same item cheaper or a better item at the same price. That deal is likely to die with the new tariff regime but that same regime will have similar impacts on Ikea.
IKEA started delivering furniture a long time ago, at least in Ontario.
Started in 1950 sometime in Sweden I believe
Their plant based meatballs are good too. I pan fry them then toss them into a slow cooker with some bachans barbecue sauce, green onion, and sesame seeds for parties and potlucks.
Bachans Japanese BBQ is so good. Getting expensive. But damn it's delicious.
I liked them better when they still contained horse meat.
Horse meat is delicious and idgaf what all the crazy horse girls say
I would 100% eat those. Even more likely to if they officially advertised them as being made from horse.
Me too. Quick story time. It was the day before COVID lockdown. My now wife and I had just moved in together the day before and were at IKEA buying furniture for our new apartment. Being at IKEA, knowing the new fridge and freezer at home were empty, and having poor impulse control, I threw three bags of frozen meetballs with sauce and fixings into the cart near checkout.
The following day lockdown was announced with all restaurants to be closed, and stores to enforce limited occupancy with lines down the block waiting to get in. We feasted the first two weeks.
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Then you need to make proper Swedish meatballs. IKEA's stuff doesn't compare.
Do you have an authentic recipe? It's always hard on the web to find out which "true 100% reals straight from grandma" recipes are the right ones.
I improved the taste of my version a lot by making my own Piffi Allkrydda mixture fur the sauce. Its a spice mixture that goes really well with the taste of the berries!
Niklas Ekstedt's recipe is authentic, Swedish, and tasty AF. If you can't find venison, beef will do.
EDIT: I imagine this is one of those things where there are 1,000's of different "proper" recipes. I shared this one as the guy who wrote it is Swedish, so I thought there must be some authenticity there, and I've made it, so can testify that it's good. Not saying it's the best or the most authentic, so slightly confused by the commenters saying it's somehow wrong?
Beeing Swedish I can confirm that a recipe by Ekstedtβs is not only authentic but probably really really good as well. Heβs gotten a few Michelin stars over the years.
Proper Swedish meatballs are easy to make. Wtf is this fancy stuff? Nah man... Source: I'm Swedish.
Only needs minced meat, bread crumbs, eggs, onion and some spices. Source: am Finnish, we do meatballs too.
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Ikr where's the frozen meatballs and powder mashed potatoes?!
Also needs more ketchup.
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You can buy Swedish meatballs at IEKA??????
U been living under a rock or something? Fuck yes you can. They even have vegan (maybe vegetarian) ones too, and chicken Strips for kids and a few other things. Their restaurant is not bad, sometimes I'll take the kids there to get something I could easily grab at Walmart/ target just to get some swedish meatballs.
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Anglais Ikea has marketed fecal-contaminated horse meatballs and chocolate pies. Bon appΓ©tit!
We in the US have gotten used to eating shit since January. Politics aside, I also still eat Chipotle.
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They havenβt been as nice since they took the horse out.
Their vegetarian hot dogs are worth a try. I only got one because it was cheaper than a standard hot dog, but was surprised how much I loved the taste.
Note that there are two similar sounding products. A friend tried the plant balls and enjoyed them, but then bought the bag of vegetables balls to take home and was disappointed
https://www.ikea.com/ca/en/p/huvudroll-plant-balls-frozen-90508221/
https://www.ikea.com/ca/en/p/huvudroll-vegetable-balls-frozen-70487795/
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Their vegan meatballs are also excellent.
Homemade
I can't believe you would just post a pic of your balls like that
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