On a current journey to the Nordics I got here throughout one of many best examples of how a lot many international locations in Europe hate one another. This will seem to be an odd subject for a weblog about snacks and sweet, however this feud was demonstrated to me by way of meals, extra particularly strawberries. Our Nordic journey took us by means of Finland, Sweden, and Denmark.
After simply having loved our cease in Helsinki Finland, Allison and I have been planning on what to do for our lengthy ferry journey to Stockholm. We had an in a single day ferry booked with breakfast, however we did not have any dinner plans. We have been pondering of simply consuming on the boat, however the worth of dinner was astronomical, and with all of the superb markets and eating places close to the waterfront we thought we might make a picnic dinner and eat it on the boat. We discovered some splendidly recent salads at an area retailer, and determined {that a} field of recent strawberries from the market can be the proper technique to end our meal.
We wandered by means of the market till we got here throughout a stall stuffed with each type of berry you could possibly think about. Every berry regarded superb, however a pal had steered that it was strawberry season, and that might be the way in which to go. The great woman on the stand helped us choose a pleasant field of strawberries that might be able to eat tonight. We had a little bit of a debate about what number of strawberries to get, so we thought we might ask the woman what she thought. We informed her we have been taking these strawberries on the ferry to Stockholm and he or she immediately modified her tune.
As soon as we talked about we have been taking these strawberries to Sweden, she congratulated us on our option to deliver End strawberries to Sweden, because the Swedish strawberries have been terrible. She went on for a couple of minutes about how nice the End strawberries are and the way horrible Swedish strawberries have been. It was a bizarre tonal change within the dialog, and we determined to not inform her that the one purpose we have been shopping for these strawberries was as a result of we needed to eat them on the boat, and we weren’t constructing a stockpile of strawberries to maintain us going for the remainder of our journey.
I’ll say that End strawberries are tasty. We did take pleasure in our field of strawberries on the ship, and low and behold just a few did make it onto Swedish soil. This is not the one incident of aggression that we had between these neighbouring international locations on our journey. We have been speaking to a person working at a grocery retailer about our journey, and he requested us what we thought of Sweden. We informed him we favored it, however we additionally favored Finland too. His total demeanor modified, and he steered that he hated Finland.
As a observe up, whereas we have been driving by means of the southern a part of Sweden close to a city referred to as Ystad, we found a highway aspect stand promoting strawberries. The minute we noticed the stand we knew that we needed to pattern Swedish strawberries. Had that woman in Finland not been so aggressive, we would have handed this stand by, however understanding that there was a rivalry, we needed to see if the End strawberries have been truly higher than the Swedish. We did purchase a field on the stand, and I’ll say that these berries have been completely different, however simply to maintain relations equal, I am not going to speak about which have been higher.
We tried to discover a fruit stand or farmers market in Denmark promoting strawberries, however we had no luck. That is in all probability a very good factor since I am all about conserving the peace, and we do not want any extra international conflicts proper now.
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