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FILES – This picture taken on February 25, 2013 shows. Furniture
giant Ikea said on April 16, 2013 it was looking at selling or
giving away meatballs in its home country of Sweden that were
recalled after tests showed they contained traces of horse DNA. AFP
PHOTO / JESSICA GOW / SCANPIX Sweden/Sweden Out (Photo credit
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car park outside a store in Stockholm
Thursday, May 3, 2018 –
3:24pm
Sweden’s quintessential national dish, the meatball, was
actually pilfered from 18th century Turkey.
The Scandinavian nation made the unexpected confession on its
official Twitter account.
Smaller than their Italian cousins and usually
served with a creamy roux and lingonberry jam rather than tomato
sauce, Swedish meatballs – köttbullar – are synonymous with Sweden,
and have pride of place in Ikea cafes around the world.
According to the tweet, however, the recipe was
actually brought to Sweden from Turkey by King Charles XII in the
early 18th century:
Swedish meatballs are actually based on a
recipe King Charles XII brought home from Turkey in the early 18th
century. Let’s stick to the facts! pic.twitter.com/JuTDEjq9MM— Sweden.se (@swedense) April 28, 2018
The king fled to Moldova, then a territory of
the Turkish-controlled Ottoman Empire, following his defeat by the
Russian army in 1709, returning in 1714 with a taste for koftas,
the minced meat patties eaten across the Empire. Thus the “Swedish”
meatball was born.
The revelation, which came “abruptly and for no
immediately apparent reason”, says The Guardian, caused an instant uproar both at
home and abroad.
Some Swedes did not take the news well, to put it
lightly:
My whole life has been a lie https://t.co/tVcRmJx5By
— @sweden) April 28, 2018
Grandma’s has actually been #kofte the whole time!! https://t.co/t0bcLgWVo6
— Josh Coe (@JoshuaCoe) May 2, 2018
Which wasn’t helped by Sweden’s Norwegian neighbours
weighing in with some friendly ribbing:
All us Norwegians believe Sweden stole
everything from us anyway— Jeffrey Joneal Lunde (@JeffreyJLunde) May 3, 2018
In Turkey, however, the confession was met with
“undisguised glee”, says the Guardian.
Several national newspapers published gloating
coverage of the revelation, while news agency Anadolu even twisted
the knife by pointing out that two other Swedish staples – coffee
and stuffed cabbage – can also be traced back to Charles XII’s
sojourn among the Turks, CNN reports.
Yeah and I’m sorry to say that they are not that good, either.
The ones found all across Turkey put them to shame. Not being a
nationalist or anything (I could not care less) but the texture is
better and much more flavor as well.— ynrozturk (@ynrozturk)
Happily, some Turks were happy to take the high
road and offer their Swedish friends a culinary joint
custody:
No, it is yours! We have no problems sharing
a delicious dish with our Swedish friends.— Ertan (@ertanagaoglu) May 2, 2018
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