Our lovely neighbours invited me out for lunch; partly to help me with my Swedish conversation skills, but also as I think they worry a little if they don't see me (but I'm a stealth ninja!)
They collected me, and off we walked. The conversation was a little bit stilted, but eventually we got into the groove, and chatted about my studying and how the kids are doing at school.
We arrived at Hemgården, which is sort of a community center type place, but has been run by a team of volunteers for the last 50 years, and given that some of the board members are over 90 yrs old, possibly they are the same volunteers.
They only do lunch on thursdays and the menu doesn't change. Yellow split pea soup with pork, followed by pancakes with strawberry jam and coffee.
*mine didn't look quite like this.
My neighbours explained that this is the most Swedish meal you can have. And then in corroboration, Ned's friend's mum explained that Thursday is soup day, and when you have soup, you have pancakes.
Even the Swedish army have soup and pancakes on Thursday's.
