this post was submitted on 13 Apr 2025
359 points (90.5% liked)

FoodPorn

17344 readers
547 users here now

Welcome to a little slice of culinary heaven where we share photos of our favorite dishes, from savory succulent sausages to delicious and delectable desserts. Made it yourself? We'd love to hear your recipe!

Rules:

1. BE KIND

Food should bring people together, not tear them apart. Think of the human on the other side of the screen, and don't troll, harass, engage in bigotry, or otherwise make others uncomfortable with your words.

2. NO ADVERTISING

This community is for sharing pictures of awesome food, not a platform to advertise.

3. NO MEMES

4. PICTURES SHOULD BE OF FOOD

Preferably good, high quality pictures of good looking grub; for pictures of terrible food, see !shittyfoodporn@lemmy.ca

Other Cooking Communities:

Be sure to check out these other awesome and fun food related communities!

!cooking@lemmy.world - A general communty about all things cooking.

!sousvide@lemmy.world - All about sous vide precision cooking.

!koreanfood@lemmy.world - Celebrating Korean cuisine!

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 
top 50 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] thatchemguy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

You can buy Swedish meatballs at IEKA??????

[–] Raiderkev@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] thatchemguy@sh.itjust.works 0 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Hey that's a bit rude there :<

But yeah I've never seen meatballs at Ikea. Very cool. Thanks for sharing :P

[–] PresidentCamacho@lemm.ee 0 points 50 minutes ago

Pretty sure the idea here is that it was outlandishly overreacting for humor.

[–] MehBlah@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago
[–] LoveSausage@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (2 children)

Did have them a week back. But IKEA is to Swedish cuisine what Taco bell is to Mexican.

[–] easily3667@lemmus.org 3 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

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. :)

[–] nednobbins@lemm.ee 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Rusty@lemmy.ca 1 points 58 minutes ago

IKEA started delivering furniture a long time ago, at least in Ontario.

[–] gnygnygny@lemm.ee 3 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

Anglais Ikea has marketed fecal-contaminated horse meatballs and chocolate pies. Bon appΓ©tit!

[–] Dhrystone@infosec.pub 1 points 7 hours ago

We in the US have gotten used to eating shit since January. Politics aside, I also still eat Chipotle.

[–] easily3667@lemmus.org 1 points 7 hours ago

Made of or made for?

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 2 points 17 hours ago

Only until you have watched Sebastian Lege analyzing it. Amazing documentation.

[–] MITM0@lemmy.world 1 points 15 hours ago

With some jam on the side

[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 5 points 23 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Slovene@feddit.nl 5 points 19 hours ago (1 children)
[–] MeThisGuy@feddit.nl 2 points 17 hours ago

ligma balls

[–] Strakh@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] OhVenus_Baby@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 hour ago

Bachans Japanese BBQ is so good. Getting expensive. But damn it's delicious.

[–] SouthFresh@lemmy.world 60 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Ikea is a meatball company that also sells furniture

[–] fubarx@lemmy.world 4 points 19 hours ago

VW is a sausage company masquerading as a car manufacturer: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_currywurst

[–] vaionko@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Do you get a Swedish flag on those in the states?

[–] Dhrystone@infosec.pub 3 points 1 day ago

Absolutely. This is the store in Tempe, Arizona.

[–] TimeNaan@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Their vegan meatballs are also excellent.

[–] curiousaur@reddthat.com 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (13 children)

Then you need to make proper Swedish meatballs. IKEA's stuff doesn't compare.

load more comments (13 replies)
[–] TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)
[–] tiramichu@lemm.ee 5 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

This photo has so little colour it's almost monochrome.

[–] TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.zip 2 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] tiramichu@lemm.ee 1 points 14 hours ago

I meant no offence to your balls :) The whole photo is like that. Could just be your camera, or your lighting.

[–] RagingRobot@lemmy.world 5 points 23 hours ago

I can't believe you would just post a pic of your balls like that

[–] PurpleTentacle@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I liked them better when they still contained horse meat.

Horse meat is delicious and idgaf what all the crazy horse girls say

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] Noit@lemm.ee 7 points 1 day ago

They haven’t been as nice since they took the horse out.

load more comments
view more: next β€Ί