Culture: Swedish food

Hey again. I thought this post was lost, I wrote it this week and then I shut down my computer without thinking. But here it is:

When it comes to food, Sweden and Germany is very different.

Here are some things that I think are remarkable:

Milk:
Swede's drink a lot of milk with their food. In my school cafeteria there are 2 kinds of drinks that you can choose between. Water and milk. In my previous swedish school, there was another kind of drink. It's saft. And there's such a strange way of opening the milk package. It's so conplicated. I can't describe it because I can't open it either. But every Swede can. I really need to learn it to be swedish. 

Saft:
Saft is basically syrup with water. Swede's drink it a lot. It's very good. You can have it in different flavors, such as: Pear, orange, elderflower...
(Swede's like to have pear flavour in their drinks. They also have normal water with a little pear flavour in it. My hostmother loves it very much ;) )

time of the meals
Swede's eat early. Lunch between 11 and 12 o'clock. Dinner between 6pm and 7pm.
3 o'clock is Fikatime!

FIKA:
It's what german would call "Kaffee und Kuchen", something like teatime in England. In the classical way, It's drinking coffee and eating cake, or some bakery stuff. But now every snack you have together with someone is a fika. Fika is a meal that is about having a nice chat with someone

kanelbullar
It does not look as good as it tastes. But when I had my first kanelbullar, It was stunning. There's a special way to eat it. From the outside to the inside, in circles. Because in the middle there's the most cinnamon. 

Princesstarta

I just had it once, but it's very good :)

coffee
You can get coffee wherever and whenever you want to It's quite cheap in the most places. Swede's drink a lot of coffee and start drinking coffee at an early age.

Tack for maten.
You always say thank you for the food to the person who cooked. I think that is a nice gesture and I wish we'd do that in Germany more often.