Life in the Land of the Ice and Snow
Infiltrating Sweden one cinnamon bun at a time
I’ve been so busy with work and the podcast that I just realized I haven’t written in a while. Time to remedy that! The podcast I’m doing about people from other countries that have moved to Sweden (Life in the Land of the Ice and Snow) has been so much fun. Being one of these …
For the first time ever, I read about an expat to Sweden who thinks Swedes are “too friendly!” In our local paper’s letter section, a person identifying themselves as having a foreign background states: Staff at stores, I am not your friend! Quit saying hello to me when I come up to the cash register. …
Plus, it’s the woman’s toilet.
The Swedes know he rest of the world would never define this fusion of substances that were never meant to be served together as “cake.
A follow-up to my daring feat of eating blood pudding last week. When I informed my family in Texas, they were all horrified. In fact, one of them was very concerned and told me, “You need to watch out for Ebola eating that stuff!”
Many of us foreigners who move to Sweden like to tell stories of the horrible mistakes we’ve made in the grocery store. Two of my friends made a cake with yeast because they couldn’t tell the difference between that and baking powder. Besides making mistakes in good and bad food products, my most memorable mistake …