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   L:

   I’m pretty sure the Swedish Chef is from the Muppet Show :’D

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   Joy Schumacher:

   Great list… but I have one correction. The Swedish Chef was never on Sesame Street. He was on The Muppet Show.

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   Joel Williams:

   I can not believe you didn’t list Saab….. ONe could argue they’re Dutch, but I guess Volvo is Chinese…..

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   Matteo:

   Socialism is not Swedish, neither in the theory nor in practice (There are arguably countries were the social state is stronger)…plus one needs to make place for bandy, which it’s a must in any list of Swedish things.
   “Lagom” is not a thing but it’s the Swedish-est thing of them all, I’ll drop snow for the list for that.
   Also, snabbmakkaroni, samlor, Lättöl and andra hand lägenhet…people, come on! 🙂

   Har det bra,

   Matteo

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   Angela:

   That looks like a pretty good list! If I asked my father to name Swedish things, he’s probably start naming hockey players.

   The Swedish Chef was from The Muppet Show, but since it’s all Jim Henson’s work- close enough. 🙂

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   goldvisa:

   Wait a sec, what about the horse? I’m not remotely Swedish, but even I know about the horse. Maybe it was number 16.

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   Isuru:

   Lagom
   Fika
   Ice Hokey

   🙂

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   Dionne:

   I agree with most of these but would also add:
   Lagom
   Kräftor
   Skansen
   Midsommar

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   mina:

   no köttbullar!?

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    Matteo:

    My comment on this post went lost somewhere in the internet, but I agree with everyone here that there is not thing more Swedish than “lagom”.

    Bandy (and by association Innebandy) should be in, as samlor, snabbmakkaroni and Lättöl. Dalahäst is also something I associate to something typical Swedish, rather than Socialism, which I don’t get in the list. Theoretically it has no Scandinavian origin and there are arguably stronger social states than Sweden. Same for snow.

    Fika is another great Swedish thing, I don’t know how I could forget it before.

    The first words I’ve learn in Swedish though were tvättstuga and andra hand lägenhet. The latter maybe is only a Stockholm thing, though…

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    Efrutik:

    wow so Absolut vodka is not Russia 🙁 I thought it was Russian. Definitely agree about IKEA and Abba 🙂

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    Anton85@nyc.rr.com:

    The Swedish Chef wasn’t on Sesame Street, but here’s something Swedish that was, at least partly:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UI5aDUflRcE
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rf19cLIBveI
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qZGc6Vopm0
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MI5i9Tyk7Tg&feature=related
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpQ_8xMdcCs&feature=related
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Je1RAo47dXc&feature=related
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2EztU_qzK8&feature=related
    http://www.youtube.com/user/stoofepoof2#p/search/2/jAQNT3vb-Hk

    This series, “Five Ants are More than Four Elephants,” was inspired by Sesame Street and some of its animated segments appeared on Sesame Street, but I need more info about the deal between their producers and CTW.

    Here are two more interesting things about Sweden: they outlawed corporal punishment and they also eat their pasta with ketchup.

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    ipek:

    Taking out the shoes while entering to home also a kind of swedish rule and I like it.It looks like in Turkey.
    Ipek Uyuklu

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    sweden:

    gamla stan ?? nooo.. have u seen the old town in Tallinn

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    Shapla Amin:

    good to know about Sweden, i would like to go Gamla Stan.

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    Lisa:

    Thanks for the list of the best of Swedish. I used it for my latest blog post. Check it out here:
    http://wordfromoursponsors.blogspot.com/2012/02/gevalia-wants-you-to-fika-with-johan.html

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    Julie:

    Lingonberry jam is very Swedish.

    The Dahl horse.

    door harps