The Xenophobe's Guide to the Swedes (Xenophobe's Guides) by Peter Berlin

Author:Peter Berlin [Berlin, Peter]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781906042493
Publisher: Oval Projects
Published: 2008-03-10T00:00:00+00:00

A Swedish coffee party is a noisy affair, a reckless feast of extortionately expensive bakery delectables. The cakes are covered with green marzipan, or sliced almonds (‘toenails’), while the pastries have gobs of vanilla and strawberry jam in the middle (‘grandmother’s cough’). Dunking biscuits in the coffee is considered bad manners but is done anyway, with apologies; pieces that fall in are systematically tracked down and rescued with a spoon.

Drinking

It is often said that the Swedes have a drinking problem. This sweeping generalisation seems to stem from observations that Swedish pedestrians sometimes cling to lampposts, and that Swedish package tour travellers occasionally have to be disembarked on stretchers. However, as a matter of official fact, Swedes consume less alcohol than most other nations within the European Union (less than 5 litres per annum, in terms of pure alcohol, compared with more than 11 litres in France and Portugal).

“The most effective deterrent against alcohol consumption in Sweden is the state monopoly of its sale.”

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