#Fika

[vintage-sweden]

Coffee break, 1923, Sweden.

[mereljournals]

Stockholm, August 2023 (made by Merel Djamila)

[jeeklaart]

a breakfast spread 🥐

( find me here )

[turndecassette2]

[onlyhereforghost]

Any Stockholm based Ghesties here?

I’ll be in Stockholm for 2 weeks in April and really want to check out some Ghost locations! Year Zero church, Spillways video set etc.

Also, anyone want to join me for Fika?

[yes-itisautumn]

[eillanu]

Fpe fika oc new

Fpe fika co paper

:3

Oilver {hater) Zip {love} Edward {ok}

[isaarne]

Another tea party Links

[sonandheirofnothinginparticular]

[best-non-english-word-torunament]

Round one: Haikea vs Fika

(poll at the end)

Haikea (Finnish)

[ˈhɑi̯keɑ]

Translation: A feeling of quiet, melancholic, sometimes even mournful longing. "Wistful" comes fairly close as a translation, though it's not exactly the same.

Finnish is an Uralic language belonging to the Finnic branch spoken by 5 300 000 people in Finland, where it is one of two national languages (the other is Swedish though it is less used, Finnish is the main language).

Motivation: It's one of the most beautiful words to say in Finnish, IMO; it has a beautiful flow to the vowels, and it almost sounds like a sigh. It's also an emotion often associated with a lot of Finnish art, literature, music and culture in general, and thus it's a strong part of Finnish identity.

Fika (Swedish)

[fi:ka]

Translation: A light meal in between real meals, usually in the afternoon (before lunch it’s förmiddagsfika (late morning fika) and after dinner it’s kvällsfika (evening fika), you can say eftermiddagsfika (afternoon fika) but it’s implied without specification), usually consisting of something to drink and a baked sweet (cinnamon bun is the classic idea of fika). A prototypical fika is a social occasion and/or a break, some translate it as coffee break but that’s not it. Coffee is not needed. It doesn’t even have to be hot like tea, you can drink syrup or water! Anyway, it’s common to eat some kind of baked sweet for the more social occasions, but for the everyday fika (as in, it’s afternoon and you’re hungry) you can eat a fruit or sandwich alone and call it fika (or mellanmål). You don’t have to eat either, as long as you drink something with others. Taking a fika in a café is a common way to socialize.

Swedish is an Indo-European language belonging to the North Germanic/Scandinavian branch. It’s the national language of Sweden and spoken by 9,4 million people there, but 13 million people in total, many of them in Finland. Since Finland was part of Sweden for a long time, there is a big community of Swedish-speaking Finns, making it an official language taught in Finnish schools.

Motivation: I just think it sounds nice and is a nice concept

Note: The translation is entirely mine, as I am Swedish and the submitter is not (it was explicitly written in the submission)

[mfred]

We went to Hjo! And we saw bison! How in the heck did bison get to Sweden? We also had a lovely fika with kanelbullar and coffee. My last day in Jönköping!

[goeticarchaeologist]

Fika of the Day: Cinnamon Whiskey Walnut pie and an Iced Mocha

Its snowing and I've stayed inside cleaning my room and editing my thesis all day lol. But my dog is loving the snow.

[moyloi]

Day four: Cinnamon bun (or Swedish “fika”)

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IT IS CINNAMON BUNS DAY TODAY SO I JUST GAVE YOU A REASON TO GO GET A CINNAMON BUN/ROLL

Had to give some love to the half-orcs because my new durge is a half-orc and imma romance Halsin hehehehe

[so-much-for-subtlety]

It’s rainy stormy Sunday here and I’ve been doing cleaning/chores for about 3 hours now (in jock and very torn up crotch-holed sweat shorts) so I’m treating myself to a fika 😊

[cold-earth-connection]

The weekend is here

[niuniente]

Cat themed casseroles by FIKA brand, Japan.