You can buy Swedish meatballs at IEKA???
U been living under a rock or something? Fuck yes you can. They even have vegan (maybe vegetarian) ones too, and chicken Strips for kids and a few other things. Their restaurant is not bad, sometimes I’ll take the kids there to get something I could easily grab at Walmart/ target just to get some swedish meatballs.
Hey that’s a bit rude there :<
But yeah I’ve never seen meatballs at Ikea. Very cool. Thanks for sharing :P
Pretty sure the idea here is that it was outlandishly overreacting for humor.
Anglais Ikea has marketed fecal-contaminated horse meatballs and chocolate pies. Bon appétit!
We in the US have gotten used to eating shit since January. Politics aside, I also still eat Chipotle.
Did have them a week back. But IKEA is to Swedish cuisine what Taco bell is to Mexican.
Ikea really managed to pull off a magnificent marketing stunt.
They have the same furniture quality that you can get off of Amazon, Wayfair, or Walmart but you have to go get it out of their warehouse and deal with the logistics of getting it to your house. But they hand out some meatballs and give everything funky Swedish names; so people get the impression that it’s a fancy European experience.
China is the single largest manufacturer of Ikea products. I found that when I went directly to the source, I could get the same item cheaper or a better item at the same price. That deal is likely to die with the new tariff regime but that same regime will have similar impacts on Ikea.
IKEA started delivering furniture a long time ago, at least in Ontario.
Started in 1950 sometime in Sweden I believe
Delicious when high?
Nah but my home made meatballs with proper mashed potatoes, pickled cucumber, lingon rawstir (not jam) with 60% lingon, cream sauce with a kick ( using mango chutney instead of classic black current jelly) with sage and rosemary definitely is. :)
Id chow down on your meatballs, lovesausage.
Only until you have watched Sebastian Lege analyzing it. Amazing documentation.
With lingamberries yum!
Ligmaberries
ligma balls
I need to go back to IKEA. But I need to make my own too.
Do you get a Swedish flag on those in the states?
Absolutely. This is the store in Tempe, Arizona.
Homemade
This photo has so little colour it’s almost monochrome.
I’ve made much better, these ones don’t have much colour because I made them in bulk to freeze. It was the only picture I had of my balls tho
I can’t believe you would just post a pic of your balls like that
Their vegetarian hot dogs are worth a try. I only got one because it was cheaper than a standard hot dog, but was surprised how much I loved the taste.
Note that there are two similar sounding products. A friend tried the plant balls and enjoyed them, but then bought the bag of vegetables balls to take home and was disappointed
https://www.ikea.com/ca/en/p/huvudroll-plant-balls-frozen-90508221/
https://www.ikea.com/ca/en/p/huvudroll-vegetable-balls-frozen-70487795/
Next time I go I promised myself I would try some of the plant meatballs instead.
The plant balls are amazing. Can’t say how they compare as I’ve never had the meat ones, but they’re tasty and savoury and delicious.
Their veggie dogs (not meat like, just veggies) were surprisingly good! I assumed the regular hot dog would be similarly good but it was hands down the worst hot dog I have had in my life.
Their plant based meatballs are good too. I pan fry them then toss them into a slow cooker with some bachans barbecue sauce, green onion, and sesame seeds for parties and potlucks.
Bachans Japanese BBQ is so good. Getting expensive. But damn it’s delicious.
Their vegan meatballs are also excellent.
Twice now on my ikea trips the restaurant has been so jampacked that I could not fit even if I shot myself in there with a cannon. ◕︵◕
Find yourself a minimalistic-yet-sturdy bench from some nearby display space and use it as a battering ram to force your way to the food.
EDIT: Apparently they sell bags of frozen official meatballs that you can do yourself:
https://www.ikea.com/us/en/cat/meat-25217/
EDIT2: Apparently despite the fact that they deliver the furniture, they won’t deliver the frozen meatballs. You have to go to the store for them. I guess just make one large trip.
They probably deliver many orders on one trip and it would require a truck with a refrigerated box to be up to food safety standards.
Me too. Quick story time. It was the day before COVID lockdown. My now wife and I had just moved in together the day before and were at IKEA buying furniture for our new apartment. Being at IKEA, knowing the new fridge and freezer at home were empty, and having poor impulse control, I threw three bags of frozen meetballs with sauce and fixings into the cart near checkout.
The following day lockdown was announced with all restaurants to be closed, and stores to enforce limited occupancy with lines down the block waiting to get in. We feasted the first two weeks.
It was all I could do not to buy a couple bags of the meatballs and gravy at the checkout. Something about the flavor, don’t know what it is but I was stuffed after 16 meatballs and STILL wanted to eat more.
Ohh it’s been long time i went there and had their meatball. I just went there to buy their currypuff.
I didn’t see that on the menu! Which country?
Malaysia! They have local food menu like fried flat noodle and nasi lemak and curry noodle, i assume every country have local food as their special as well
