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'My whole life has been a lie': Sweden admits meatballs are Turkish
Turks don’t mince their words as they relish news that Ikea’s famous dish is not Swedish
Turks have reacted with undisguised glee to what many have described as an official – and certainly long overdue – confession from Stockholm that Sweden’s signature national dish is, in fact, Turkish.
“Those famous Swedish meatballs you get in Ikea are actually Turkish, admits Swedish government,”*tweeted TRT World, Turkey’s publicly funded international television news channel.
“Swedish meatballs originally Turkish dish: Swedish government,” said*the headline in Hürriyet Daily News, after Sweden’s official national Twitter account, @swedense, came clean last weekend.
“Swedish meatballs are actually based on a recipe King Charles XII brought home from Turkey in the early 18th century,” the Swedish account*revealed abruptlyand for no immediately apparent reason. “Let’s stick to the facts!”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...een-a-lie-sweden-admits-meatballs-are-turkish