My husband's been on a keffir kick. I still can't drink the stuff. - Anika

healthy. You will live long :) - Baard @ Pixum

I don't drink it, I use it as a yoghurt substitute. The tang is great. Or, milk substitute in cereal, etc. I now think our American yoghurt is hella sweet and cloying. - anna sauce

There's something interesting about the Scandinavian diet- lots of Omega 3's. You feel full, but you didn't eat much, and the tastes are more clear and bitter, tangy, than sweet and creamy (like French/American). I'm exploring all of hte fish options- herring, pickled, smoked salmon, fish paste, anchovies, etc. - anna sauce

She also served fresh currants with the keffir, which is interesting to me because it's so bright and tart. The rye caraway bread with goat cheese, or, Greek chese, and smoked salmon is great. The bread with fish paste or pate in the morning was also a really satisfying breakfast. - anna sauce

I ate that rye bread w/ smoked salmon for lunch for a week and was totally satisfied. - anna sauce

That is right, Anna. You feel satisfied after eating a Scandinavian meal, but not like you want to lie down and sleep (as after eating a meal here in Germany) - Baard @ Pixum

I eat salmon with rye bread every day at work :) - Baard @ Pixum

I'm not surprised... so I'm making my own rye bread Baard, top that! - anna sauce

I can't top that, Anna. I am impressed :) - Baard @ Pixum

I was really impressed with how slim everyone was in Stockholm, and how well they ate, despite huge portions at restaurants (though what's hte % of people who eat out, compared to US?) and also that Swedes tend to be shorter than other EU/US countries - anna sauce

Also how everyone was exercising all the time- SF is actually like that, people out jogging and walking all day, all hours - anna sauce

There's this US stereotype of Swedes that the're tall... - anna sauce

I have heard lots of people say the same thing. My wife used to say that she has never seen so many thin people as when she lived in Norway. Here in Germany they are, how should I put it, fatter :) - Baard @ Pixum

All Swedes are also blond :) - Baard @ Pixum

And love sex! With random non-Swedes! - anna sauce

:D - Baard @ Pixum

Yeah German food is an interesting, uh, thing. Sausage and biscuit for breakfast. The beer makes us appreciate the culinary culture. It's almost protecting the whole nation from criticism. - anna sauce

Baard have you ever seen this movie, the Commune? "commun" in Swedish I think. - anna sauce

@anna - I'd always heard from my great grandmother that one of the reasons the Swedes in the US were so tall is that they were too tall to work in the mines, which meant they'd have to be in the army... which didn't sound as much fun as moving to the US :) - Jennifer Dittrich

@anna, No, I don't think so. Do you mean the movie where they moved to live together in the 1970's? - Baard @ Pixum

@anna, that is true about German food. Exactly my thoughts on it. Beer saves the meal :) - Baard @ Pixum

@Baard - yes! It came out in 2000s but is about some kids who grow up in a commune in a track house in suburbia. There's a gay-female couple, and a straight couple with 2 kids. Maybe the straight couple moves in with them? - anna sauce

@Jennifer something about the US makes every immigrant's kids grow a foot. Hormones in the beef? No idea. - anna sauce

@anna I think maybe you mean "Tillsammans" / "Together". Great movie. :) - Baard @ Pixum

http://www.imdb.com/title... This is the movie :) - Baard @ Pixum

all Americans holding stereotypes about Swedes shall be sent to Finland for changing them to Finnish one's :) - A.T.

Where they have to run 3 miles every day and eat luftefisk and aquavit, with currants. - anna sauce

oh, yeah, lutefisk! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... A misconception is that lutefisk is most popular in Norway. In fact, lutefisk is today more commonly eaten by Norwegian Americans and Canadians of Norwegian descent than by their counterparts in Norway. - A.T.

That reminds me of how I wore my clogs out of the house and my auntie was all freaked out. Turns out American Swedish women in their 30s wear clogs. nobody else, really. (outside, it's a inside house thing, or gardening thing, I guess). - anna sauce

I can't believe how many weird Swedish anecdotes I've gotten out of a 3-day visit. must go back. - anna sauce