{"id":94,"date":"2008-10-23T17:30:25","date_gmt":"2008-10-23T21:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/?p=94"},"modified":"2008-10-23T17:30:25","modified_gmt":"2008-10-23T21:30:25","slug":"the-diary-of-dairy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/the-diary-of-dairy\/","title":{"rendered":"The Diary of Dairy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2008\/10\/arla-ko-filmjalk-layglaktos-3-1l-tetra-brik.jpg\" aria-label=\"Arla Ko Filmjalk Layglaktos 3 1l Tetra Brik\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-95\"  alt=\"\" width=\"230\" height=\"340\" \/ src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2008\/10\/arla-ko-filmjalk-layglaktos-3-1l-tetra-brik.jpg\"><\/a>I am out of town for a while, actually I\u2019m out of Sweden for a week, and I\u2019ve been gone for only one day and my dearly beloved already managed to call me four times.<br \/>\n<em>\u201cI need milk,\u201d<\/em> he says, <em>\u201cI\u2019m at the store and I don\u2019t know what kind of milk to buy.\u201d<\/em><br \/>\nErrr\u2026 normal milk, I told him. He said there were many kinds of milk. The dairy section went on for miles and miles, he said. A few minutes later he called again to tell me that the milk he bought was sour. I asked him to read to me what it said on the carton. <em>\u201cSomething mj\u00f6lk,\u201d<\/em> he answered.<br \/>\nTurned out the poor dumbo bought <strong>filmj\u00f6lk<\/strong> and attempted to add it to his coffee. Foreign men, eh?<\/p>\n<p>A word of explanation is in order. My dearly beloved doesn\u2019t speak a word of Swedish, and as you can see, he doesn\u2019t do much shopping either. But he was right in noticing that Sweden has a dizzying varieties of dairy products, some of which would be considered unfit for human consumption anywhere in the world outside of Scandinavia.<\/p>\n<p>And this observation is shared by all newly arrived expats. Sweden loves dairy. Fresh dairy, sour dairy, yogurt dairy, strange yogurt dairy and every imaginable flavor of sour cream under the sun. What it lacks, in my opinion at least, is in the cottage cheese (<strong>\u201ckeso\u201d p\u00e5 svenska<\/strong>) and cheddar cheese departments. Fortunately, I\u2019m not a fan of cheddar, and I can live with only a couple kinds of <strong>keso<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>But just what is this mysterious <strong>filmj\u00f6lk<\/strong> that my not-so-smart half bought today? You can say that:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Filmj\u00f6lk (fil) \u00e4r en sorts tjock mj\u00f6lk som smakar lite surt.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Which is a very gentle way of explaining it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mini mj\u00f6lk<\/strong> is your garden variety skim milk.<br \/>\n<strong>L\u00e4tt mj\u00f6lk<\/strong> is low fat milk.<br \/>\n<strong>Mellan mj\u00f6lk<\/strong> (literally \u2013 middle milk) is milk with somewhat reduced fat content.<br \/>\nAnd then you have your standard <strong>mj\u00f6lk<\/strong> &#8211; full fat milk.<\/p>\n<p>Cheese is simply \u201c<strong>ost<\/strong>\u201d and there\u2019s again a mind-boggling array of varieties of kinds of types of flavores of it. The most popular (at least it seems so in our town) is <strong>hush\u00e5llost<\/strong>, which comes in huge plastic packages. And by \u201chuge\u201d, I mean really huge \u2013 the things are a kilo each, or more. I don\u2019t know about you, but it would take me about a year, if not longer, to eat a kilo of cheese.<\/p>\n<p>One of the largest producers of dairy in Sweden, and actually \u2013 in the world, is <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.arla.se\/ target=\">Arla<\/a><\/strong>. The company has a website in several languages, and the Swedish version makes for a surprisingly easy read. They even have a section where you can search for recipes (<strong>s\u00f6k recept<\/strong>) or if you\u2019re like me, too lazy to search, go straight to <strong>Arla K\u00f6ket<\/strong> to read about the new cooking ideas. Check it out!<\/p>\n<p>Now, let\u2019s see just what kind of mess my dearly beloved will make on Saturday when he\u2019s doing the laundry. I can\u2019t wait to find out! LOL!<\/p>\n<p><em>image: Arla Foods<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<img width=\"230\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2008\/10\/arla-ko-filmjalk-layglaktos-3-1l-tetra-brik.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><p>I am out of town for a while, actually I\u2019m out of Sweden for a week, and I\u2019ve been gone for only one day and my dearly beloved already managed to call me four times. \u201cI need milk,\u201d he says, \u201cI\u2019m at the store and I don\u2019t know what kind of milk to buy.\u201d Errr\u2026&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/the-diary-of-dairy\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":95,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[3,13],"tags":[3105,364862,3149,3303],"class_list":["post-94","post","type-post","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-vocabulary","tag-arla-foods","tag-culture","tag-dairy","tag-milk"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}