A must when you rent a cabin in Sweden for your holiday, is to have a fika. Having a fika is a deep rooted social tradition in Sweden and probably takes place in most people’s cabins and homes around Sweden every single day. It is a phenomenon that baffles tourists from all over the world as it is almost holy to the Swedish people, but also the tradition that is most appreciated by foreigners and have also now been copied to big cities like New York City and London.
The term fika refers to having a break to drink coffee, tea or some other beverage, often in combination with "coffee bread" in the form of sweet pastries. Common features of sweet pastries of Swedish fika culture are the cinnamon bun, pound cake and various types of cookies. Sometimes the coffee bread can be replaced by a sandwich or fruit.
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The word "fika" comes from an older distortion of the word coffee. The name arose in the 19th century in Sweden, when it was popular to jokingly speak "back slang", a slang language where syllables were thrown around. Coffee, which was dialectally called kaffi, then became fika. From there, the word "fik" has since emerged as an alternative name for a patisserie or cafe.
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Interesting fact: The countries that consume the most coffee in the world are Finland, Sweden, Norway and Denmark. Sweden comes in second place with 3.2 cups a day. In Finland, people consume 3.5 cups a day, and in Norway and Denmark respectively, a person consumes 3.1 cups a day.
You too can now participate in this Swedish tradition, while you’re on your vacation here in your rented cabin, you can either bake something yourself in the cabin or you can purchase coffee bread (sweet pastries) at any grocery store or bakery and bring back to the cabin, then sit down, relax and just enjoy this peaceful and restful time that we call fika.
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