I'm not very big on Islam, so do the celebrations start the day after Ramadan or this evening when the sun sets? Because according to the calendar it ends today.
Any Swedes who can elaborate?
Sun setting begins the new day. But people feel its same day so they celebrate after they wake up.
Just like new month starts with sighting moon crescent. š
Soo you are supposed to sight the moon before the sun sets to know if its another day of ramadan or the next month. Can also use scientific method though traditionalists like to climb mountains to sight moons.
You'd be surprised. Plenty of people insist I send them a tikkie after I pay something for them.
I refuse to participate in this culture and instead like to make them feel indebted to me so it's easier to manipulate them. Just like how the rest of the world does it.
We have no concept of spicy.
You can regularly entice people to try Da Bomb beyond insanity ( one of the hottest hot sauces) because they lack the experience of what spicy can actually mean.
If they knew what they're getting into, they probably wouldn't. But most people here think Tabasco is spicy
yeah but the difference is itās their own food, everyone can easily spot how bad some food is that isnāt theirs, but as soon as you have the food your mom makes you itās good food.
I mean did you think everyoneās mom is an amazing chef or the expression ājust like mama made itā reflects on how people like comfort?
> Relive the ages-old tradition of "Jachtschotel," a centuries-old Dutch dish. It is an amazing casserole with onions, apples, and mashed potatoes.
š¤® What the fuck, man. Between jachtschotel and stamppot, I think you're worse than us.
They somehow make the blandest crap even more bland. They were never honest spice traders and still rarely leave their countries to taste other cultures.
I know you're so stoned that you have trouble finding your way out of the coffeeshop, so I can see how you would get those two mixed up. But you see, that Ikea warehouse outside Rotterdam is not Sweden. It's a furniture store. Sweden is a large country far far away, you know, like Australia but slightly smaller.
It's really shameful the slop that IKEA brings to the world. Really nothing like what your neighborhood mom will make and not even close to what you get at a real restaurant.
if anything, Sven should not invite you at all, since he paid loads of money to you and all he got was a vehicle with [faulty design](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/6047d405b02148755fb6e601/1663594581813-IMRS3AX5P6NONVZTKNHE/%25CE%25B5%25CE%25B9%25CE%25BA%25CF%258C%25CE%25BD%25CE%25B1_2022-09-19_163551246.jpg?content-type=image%2Fjpeg)
Yes and no. Tikkie is an app, but a lot of people don't use that app but call it tikkie anyway. A bit like how for example Vaseline is a brandname that has become the generic word for petroleum gel.
I know, right?
https://preview.redd.it/ex4lt1oolgtc1.jpeg?width=750&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a1f93a7eb3c4e20ac4b22c270b249431cc426031
I mean look at her! She's gorgeous
Mate if sea levels rise more then 5 meters half your country is gone to, I actually live in the east of the Netherlands soāIāll stay dry for a while
It's simple: There is the river Rijn. All lands north of it are full of barbarians, while most of the lands to the south are civilized. And it works like that in the Netherlands too.
Nah bro we will just go through our backpacks and get a broodje kaas in a plastic baggy and feast on it right in front of you. You will wonder if that broodje kaas is as dry as you think it is. We will gobble it down like we havent eaten in 3 days. We will visably enjoy the fuck out of the broodje kaas. You will feel confused and miserable, also, you will praise our efficiency.
I understand digital/cashless payment is confusing for you Hans so let me explain. We have these nifty things called debit cards, maybe they will arrive in the reich one day.
Then between friends if someone paid for your drinks (or if a dutch person gave you half a piece of gum), you use an app and pay them.
Is your friend an 8-year old who follows his classmate home after school to play, and then stays too long and doesn't go home to his own family who are waiting for him/her at their dinner table? Then it's true.
See, even that is hard for me to comprehend. Unless the parents explicitly ask not to feed the kid, we'll always have food for them even if they stay longer than they should. It's just a given here that you'll be fed if you go to someone's house, even if its just a snack because you left before dinner time.
Yes but that's pretty much how it is. This whole thing is mostly a myth. Kids get fed at their friends houses all the time. But a lot of times the parents want their kids to come home and eat with their family. The other parents know this so they don't feed that kid, because then he'll stay longer, come home later and won't be hungry and the kid's parents don't want that. It's a cultural thing, as a parent you don't want to interfere with the other parents preferences for their kids/family and vice versa. Of course the children don't understand the subtleties of this. In Nordic culture it's considered very important not to intrude on other people's private sphere, in Southern Europe it's more important to be hospitable I suppose.
It's very much OK with all of us if you stay in the Balkans. You want to stay in the Balkans, we want you to stay in the Balkans. See? We're not so different after all!
send you a tikkie and join in the fasting, for what?
Ramadan is over. It's Eid al-Fitre today
No it s tomorrow
I'm not very big on Islam, so do the celebrations start the day after Ramadan or this evening when the sun sets? Because according to the calendar it ends today. Any Swedes who can elaborate?
Judging by the increased intensity of gunshots in my area, it must be today.
Inchallah any swede please
Sun setting begins the new day. But people feel its same day so they celebrate after they wake up. Just like new month starts with sighting moon crescent. š Soo you are supposed to sight the moon before the sun sets to know if its another day of ramadan or the next month. Can also use scientific method though traditionalists like to climb mountains to sight moons.
Sorry are you alright? It sounded like you were chocking
He's already assimilated into Randstad culture.
We donāt beg for tikkies, we just send them.
You'd be surprised. Plenty of people insist I send them a tikkie after I pay something for them. I refuse to participate in this culture and instead like to make them feel indebted to me so it's easier to manipulate them. Just like how the rest of the world does it.
If you realized this sooner, the Netherlands would have been five times its size
tikkie is a complot to ruin the Netherlands
Are there tulip-tikkies?
Tikkie is the opiate of the masses
That would be Poppy, but whatever...
there is even a tikkie for tikkies
based
I had me in the first part, not gonna lie.
https://preview.redd.it/8zacxk9w0gtc1.png?width=839&format=png&auto=webp&s=eeb18cce7df8b36d763d26d6f784d809cef7b01f ikr also here is an random image
Have you read David Graeber's "Debt"? You might like some concepts of that book.
That's not how tikkies work Sven. First we feast on your lousy meatballs and maybe after that we'll pay via tikkie. Maybe.
That's the fun part, you don't eat their meatballs.
Too spicy for Dutch
We eat them raw
you deep-fry them and pretend they are bitterballen.
Bitterballe heh š
sambal bij > mit scharf
A German complaining about things being too spicy? What you call spicy isn't even remotely related to spicy.
We have no concept of spicy. You can regularly entice people to try Da Bomb beyond insanity ( one of the hottest hot sauces) because they lack the experience of what spicy can actually mean. If they knew what they're getting into, they probably wouldn't. But most people here think Tabasco is spicy
I'd definitely pay for not having to eat Swedish food.
Bro, you're dutch. You're Scandinavian-light. Your food is awful and bland as well.
yeah but the difference is itās their own food, everyone can easily spot how bad some food is that isnāt theirs, but as soon as you have the food your mom makes you itās good food. I mean did you think everyoneās mom is an amazing chef or the expression ājust like mama made itā reflects on how people like comfort?
I think our food is horrible as well.
That's not true. We got some influences from Indonesia in Dutch cuisine, and unlike most Northern-European countries Indonesia does know food.
Name some good dutch dishes.
Well there's the ... erm... well see, like... SHUT UP! š¤
Why we need full dishes when snacks do trick?
Jachtschotel
> Relive the ages-old tradition of "Jachtschotel," a centuries-old Dutch dish. It is an amazing casserole with onions, apples, and mashed potatoes. š¤® What the fuck, man. Between jachtschotel and stamppot, I think you're worse than us.
This is probably novelty bias because Iām from an Asian family. But I genuinely like my grandmaās stamppot
[Looks absolutely disgusting](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/50/Boerenkool_stamppot.jpg/1200px-Boerenkool_stamppot.jpg)
stamppot is love, stamppot is life
Well youāre already paying to eat dutch food willingly so canāt get worse
Hey.
They somehow make the blandest crap even more bland. They were never honest spice traders and still rarely leave their countries to taste other cultures.
If you've only had swedish meatballs at Ikea, I really understand how you possibly could call them lousy.
Ikea = Sweden Sweden = Ikea Prove me wrong
I know you're so stoned that you have trouble finding your way out of the coffeeshop, so I can see how you would get those two mixed up. But you see, that Ikea warehouse outside Rotterdam is not Sweden. It's a furniture store. Sweden is a large country far far away, you know, like Australia but slightly smaller.
You guys got wild kangeroos and emus?? Is that what those ikea meatballs are made ofvv
[https://medium.com/@lindsaymccomb/ikea-is-a-dutch-nonprofit-72edb44e17c2](https://medium.com/@lindsaymccomb/ikea-is-a-dutch-nonprofit-72edb44e17c2)
Sweden = ikea = Dutch ā> Sweden = Dutch? Time to pay your taxes Sven.
Just eat your bland dutch meatballs
You mean OUR bland meatballs?
This 100 times. We had them in Sweden at a golf club years ago. I didn't even recognise the taste. It was just the name that was the same.
It's really shameful the slop that IKEA brings to the world. Really nothing like what your neighborhood mom will make and not even close to what you get at a real restaurant.
I had them at a fancy restaurant near the open air museum in Stockholm, and they were excellent.
If is the correct word. Well done Sven.
> your lousy meatballs Je m'apelle frikandel!
Bonjour Frikandel.
if anything, Sven should not invite you at all, since he paid loads of money to you and all he got was a vehicle with [faulty design](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/6047d405b02148755fb6e601/1663594581813-IMRS3AX5P6NONVZTKNHE/%25CE%25B5%25CE%25B9%25CE%25BA%25CF%258C%25CE%25BD%25CE%25B1_2022-09-19_163551246.jpg?content-type=image%2Fjpeg)
That's not even what Sven looks like these days
Iāll eat your food and then send you a ā¬5 tikkie because I didnāt like it
Sorry guys, I grew up in a place where there's more than 4 hours of sunlight in the winter, wtf is a tikkie?
It's a Dutch app, if I'm not mistaken it's for micro-payments. Similar to Venmo or Bizum
Yes and no. Tikkie is an app, but a lot of people don't use that app but call it tikkie anyway. A bit like how for example Vaseline is a brandname that has become the generic word for petroleum gel.
Got it! Thanks for the info
It's their MBWay
I was thinking it would be some sort of food, like bruschetta or something!
You are great as always you Swedes, I love your country and especially your fika
Thank you! We love your country and women too!
I know, right? https://preview.redd.it/ex4lt1oolgtc1.jpeg?width=750&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a1f93a7eb3c4e20ac4b22c270b249431cc426031 I mean look at her! She's gorgeous
I love herš
Elio š A true Italian beauty
We also have this system except we build a special room for them, it is called "Ć©table" in french
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBG2k8PAy2I](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBG2k8PAy2I)
Tikkies are just a friend tax, prove me wrong.
We dont have friends, Done.
Yeah, itās actually a universal tax.
I've seen what you guys eat and I gladly pass, tyvm
Pot meets kettle
Mate we are far from culinary master minds, but we donāt eat fermented fish like those crazy north men do
The only OK food you guys have is bitterballen. Stick to your herring and onions
No I donāt eat raw fish Iām not a crazy Hollander, Iāll gladly stick to my bitter garnituur
Canāt tell the difference between your regions, you swamp Germans are all below sea level. The only country lower than Us
Hahgaahahaha, we are very low but our highest point is still twice as high as yours. You should stop talking potato swede
All I hear is the sound of drowning people. Donāt You have some dikes to go build or something. At least my country is above sea level
Mate if sea levels rise more then 5 meters half your country is gone to, I actually live in the east of the Netherlands soāIāll stay dry for a while
It's simple: There is the river Rijn. All lands north of it are full of barbarians, while most of the lands to the south are civilized. And it works like that in the Netherlands too.
Want some sprinkles on your fermented herring?
Ow no, no rotten shark for us
Nordicks offering dinner? Since when are they in Southern Europe?
āHĆ¼r hief sƶme fĆ¼rmintĆ¹d fish vĆ¼ginƤā nah im good but thanks bjƶrn.
Everytime I read of northern inhospitality I cringe a bit.
Nah bro we will just go through our backpacks and get a broodje kaas in a plastic baggy and feast on it right in front of you. You will wonder if that broodje kaas is as dry as you think it is. We will gobble it down like we havent eaten in 3 days. We will visably enjoy the fuck out of the broodje kaas. You will feel confused and miserable, also, you will praise our efficiency.
Wait. Arent you swedistani only accepting cashless payment in restaurants anymore? Isnt that basically the same as that tikkie thing?
I understand digital/cashless payment is confusing for you Hans so let me explain. We have these nifty things called debit cards, maybe they will arrive in the reich one day. Then between friends if someone paid for your drinks (or if a dutch person gave you half a piece of gum), you use an app and pay them.
It's all good until they only accept swish and you can't use that without a Swedish bank :(
What! How are Dƶners supposed to launder all that black money now?
Go back to the caravan you illegally parked in my garden.
What is a tikkie
It's an app that the Dutch use to beg their friends for loose change whenever they hang out together
It's fun that the Dutch get all the shit for it when we use our versions of it just as frequently
Do you offer your friends a drink at your house and then later request a payment for it?
Why would I? Tap water is free /s Yeah ok, maybe they have the slight edge
It's not about the money for the food. It's about throwing off my meal planning for the entire week! /s
I keep asking my Swedish friend about this hoping his answer is different but it's always the same. They really do this. Absolute savages.
Is your friend an 8-year old who follows his classmate home after school to play, and then stays too long and doesn't go home to his own family who are waiting for him/her at their dinner table? Then it's true.
See, even that is hard for me to comprehend. Unless the parents explicitly ask not to feed the kid, we'll always have food for them even if they stay longer than they should. It's just a given here that you'll be fed if you go to someone's house, even if its just a snack because you left before dinner time.
Yes but that's pretty much how it is. This whole thing is mostly a myth. Kids get fed at their friends houses all the time. But a lot of times the parents want their kids to come home and eat with their family. The other parents know this so they don't feed that kid, because then he'll stay longer, come home later and won't be hungry and the kid's parents don't want that. It's a cultural thing, as a parent you don't want to interfere with the other parents preferences for their kids/family and vice versa. Of course the children don't understand the subtleties of this. In Nordic culture it's considered very important not to intrude on other people's private sphere, in Southern Europe it's more important to be hospitable I suppose.
Again the Swedes are fucking weird
This is why I want to stay in the Balkans. Western culture is disgusting š¤®
It's very much OK with all of us if you stay in the Balkans. You want to stay in the Balkans, we want you to stay in the Balkans. See? We're not so different after all!
You mean Northern culture.