Non-existent portion aside, that looks disgusting.
As a Swedish person I have no idea what that white goo is. I wouldn’t touch it, and also I wouldn’t touch that bread.
At this point they are trying to insult you.
#technicallycorrect
This might give you botulism
that bread looks like foam
So someone decided that this is the sandwich they would sell to the public and said this is fine?
Billionaire stadium owner showing how much he cares about the fans.
If it had more meatballs, sauce and such, it has a chance. But the picture is sad and dismal, why not complain?
Where to even start… Pathetic, overpriced and I doubt that the quality of the ‘meat’ balls meet even supermarket quality, or even IKEA. The garnish should be beetroot salad and the bread a baguette. At a minimum.
A crime against common decency, a culinary affront and a cultural offence.
What the heck is this shit!!just make ur own at this point
I mean, it’s called a meatball sandwich, not a meatballs sandwich. You’re lucky you got two of them! /s
I ate at a restaurant that did this once. The kids menu had “spaghetti with meatball” which they got a kick out of.
It was the size of my fist. They served my single-digit age children like a 3/4lb meatball each. They still tell tales of the legendary meatball to this day.
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It looks like there’s 3 to me. Practically gluttony.
What is that even supposed to be? Even if the bread was full of whatever that is it would look disturbing.
Swede here, no one in Sweden has ever served meatballs with white sauce of any kind (no idea what it is) and dill… Highly doubt the meatball ingredients are even close to correct either.
Any food in the US that’s qualified with <nationality> will typically baffle anyone of said nationality.
That’s true in every country, you should see “pizza Americana” or “American fried rice”.
Or you know, watch the comment section of most Spanish omelette or paella videos. I’m there on the omelette comments btw, it’s not that fucking hard why does everyone fuck it up.
You know that there’s basically one paella recipe per Spanish village, right (if not more)? It’s probably the same for tortillas.
I’m Spaniard, I know. The thing is that Spanish omelette is a potato omelette, even though people then add other stuff to the base. They don’t call it tortilla de patata, they call it “tortilla de patata y X”. The only variances are the density of the omelette and if it has a little bell peppers (or more than a little, goddammit Biscay) or not. Anything else isn’t a “tortilla de patata”.
I’m not saying that it will taste bad, it just isn’t the thing. There are plenty “tortilla de patata y chorizo” and such, but you would never add chorizo or chatka in there and call it a “Spanish Omelette”.
I would be surprised to find anything but the basic omelette if I order a “pincho de tortilla”.
Regarding the paella, I’m not from Valencia so I won’t push back that much there, but I know that usually if you diverge from the standard Valencian paella, you state it in the name, like a galician “Paella de Marisco” and such.
Dude, people claim that putting bacon on a paella is traditional. No it fucking isn’t. It will taste fine but it fucking isn’t.
I’m sure you have a national dish known elsewhere that locally has plenty variations, but everyone agrees that the basic version is X.
Bacon does seem a bit extreme, I’ll grant you that.
They’re only fucking it up if they’re trying and failing to make a specific thing, not just because they thing they make offends you.
Hell, it’s true just traveling across the US. Try “Phildadelphia Cheeseteak” a few hours’ drive out of Philly. They’ll ask if you want marinara.
Accurate but I was trying to expand beyond “Americans using food words wrong”. (Also, “wrong” is culture purity nonsense in this context. Food and language evolve and that’s fine.)
You’re right that prescriptivism is fundamentally nonsense, but it’s been more than a decade and I still put airquotes on “pizza” when referring to it around Pittsburgh, because I don’t want to mislead visiting relatives
Can verify, extremely baffled.
It’s Minnesota, they are more scandanavian than Scandinavia, I don’t trust you
An American claiming America is better at scandinaviaing than Scandinavia, is the most American thing I’ve heard in my life.
Boo, Swedish meatball sandwiches have meatballs and beetroot salad.
That looks so good. Definitely another Swedish meatballs I’ve tried. That looks 100x better.
Seems like they probably skipped the broth. Looks basically just beschemel, though, being generous, it may have a bit of mustard, sour cream, and/or some herbs mixed in.
bet it’s the same cum they put on their cinnamon buns
I’m guessing it’s a white gravy instead of a brown gravy, so colored from cream and flour. I’ve only ever had brown gravy and lingonberries with my swedish meatballs, but then I’ve also only ever had them at Ikea which I’m sure isn’t the best representation.
If you served this in Sweden you’d get angry side glances and passive aggressive snorts.
My bet would be just plain confusion - “why are you calling them Swedish meatballs if you don’t make them like meatballs are made in Sweden?”
I’m assuming the same can be said about USA with this particular sandwich lol
Looks like a Polish thing, pulpety w sosie koperkowym.
That’s much more than mildly.
Guess beef prices have hit everyone
That’s not a sandwich. That’s a piece of bread that got fucking trafficked.
