Sweden, land of Abba, Vikings, Meatballs and let’s not forget Ikea - I only had an hour to get to know you, a few minutes in Stockholm airport while passing through on a flight from KL to NYC.
We should mark our encounter with something small and sweet, something we’ve shared since my childhood.
“Where are the Swedish Fish?” I ask the clerk. She points to a fridge filled with a strange variety of foul smelling tinned fish. I chuckle; she must pull this with tourists all day and still thinks it’s funny. “No, I mean the candy”
Her look said it all. I haven’t fallen for a ruse like this since I was six. First Santa Claus, then the tooth ferry and now Swedish Fish; I’m thirty-something and still dispelling childhood myths.
These candy fingerlings were, invented by a Swedish company in the 50’s for export to the US. Today they are made in Canada by Cadbury. Swedes would need to import them.
American, like Chop Suey, in my book. What's your take - are they truly Swedish Fish?
2006-07-11
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