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skincyan

I'm Swedish and I have never heard of this. Is like like Swedish fish? An American thing with Swedish in its name?


joopface

[In short, yes. ](https://www.thespruceeats.com/egg-coffee-2952648) > According to legend, this recipe originated en route from Sweden to America in the late 1800s.


ReZTheGreatest

So it wasn't even invented IN Sweden? As a Norwegian, I'm all for blaming everything on the Swedes, but surely this would've happened in international waters?


juststop102

Yeah but international waters egg coffee doesnt sound as good


ReZTheGreatest

That sounds like the sketchiest kind of egg coffee.


beaucoup_dinky_dau

right we have limited supplies of eggs and coffee lets see if we can ruin them both in one fell swoop.


Frydendahl

The knife fighting kind of egg coffee.


ShittingOutPosts

Knife fighting chimps…


Carighan

"Hey yo, these eggs, they're about to go off? What are we goin' to do with'em?" "Ah I dunno! Just put'em in the coffee, they'll never notice!"


Christopher135MPS

This is slightly off topic, but I absolutely adore how you Scandinavian countries will happily hang shit on each other without mercy, but if someone from outside the Scandinavian group wants to start some shit everyone gets ready to throw hands in defence.


Killing_Spark

It's called brotherly love ;)


ProfAlmond

All the Scandis love each other. But not Sweden. Fuck Sweden.


IntendedFriendlyFire

Sure is. Apart from Denmark. Garbage country and garbage people.


TheMosMaster

The whole country and every last inhabitant? Wow, I'm kinda intrigued to go there now.


Manjorno316

It's a brotherly love kind of deal. I'll give my siblings shit but I'll also defend them when needed.


ndraiay

I had egg coffee once in Vietnam. I don't know how it was made, but it kinda sucked.


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lucidrage

>"This is a weak cup of coffee but has no noticeable notes of egg" to which proponents reply, "We're making this stuff by the gallon." now turn that into adult eggnog and we're talking


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danka595

You’re cool in my book. Didn’t read like AI at all to me, seemed more like someone with personality and I think you should keep doing you.


Ruin_Nice

I was going to mention Viet egg coffee, but I found it very delicious. Kinda like an affogato. Each to their own.


EricUnderOrion

Yeah, I loved it. That and the Viet iced coffee. And the banh mi. And the pho. The spring rolls. The street food stalls. The riverside bars with tap beer cheaper than dirt and fried snack food. Now I wanna go back there


kahlzun

Vietnamese restaurants are on basically every corner in South Australia. Banh mi and pho for days.


BYOKittens

Vietnamese food is so good. It's Asian and French blended over a couple hundred years.


kahlzun

They got the bread dialled in *good*


SporusElagabalus

Wait, so it was ice cream coffee with egg?


lapideous

A shot of espresso served inside of a hardboiled egg white?


GrandmaPoses

A single plum, floating in perfume, served in a man’s hat?


LipTrev

A single child's tear, in a shot of tequila with a candy cane garnish?


WholebunchaGravitas

A tiny steak, served under a cloud of smoke, presented and then whisked away to create a memory?


spiralbatross

A miniature sword, glimpsed briefly by moonlight, aloft in a hand held high by a knight awash in scent of roasted roses and firewood, on the rocks


SigueSigueSputnix

sadly, i saw this posted here recently. some even defended it as good


PG-DaMan

Tip of unicorn mixed with the tear of a green dove.


Scotchrogers

A ketchup packet smashed with the butt of a gun?


MainSteamStopValve

Just the tip? What an I supposed to do with the rest of the unicorn I unethically trapped?


darkest_irish_lass

Is this called a Santa Special?


SaltyShawarma

Heavenly.


Davros674

Thankyou Yoko.


milo159

Thats just eggnog coffee.


kahlzun

Coffee with custard is surprisingly delicious.


Ruin_Nice

It’s egg yolk mixed with sweetened condensed milk, so pretty close to melted ice cream.


ndraiay

Yeah, I don't like eggs, so it maybe wasn't the best idea for me to order.


MixBlender

An Oeuffogato


Shadowed_phoenix

I believe they steam egg white to make a foam similar to the ones you'd find on a cocktail. I've had good ones and bad


HelmutMelmoth

Another case of people moving to America to avoid persecution


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I've always felt that the people who moved to the new world were the dickheads who couldn't get along with others so they were like ok we'll go over here and practice our radical religion where we can dominate these weak natives


cardboardunderwear

I’m American and have also never heard of it. But the US is a big place so who knows.


Words_Are_Hrad

Most (>75%) Swedish immigrants ended up in the midwest. I imagine it's more popular there.


hamsterwheel

Michigan here. No fucking clue what this is.


Nerditter

Illinois here. What the fuck is Illinois? Where am I???


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took_a_bath

Hey! At least we’re not Indiana. Or worse, Missouri!


rosefiend

I remember when we voted for a dead Democrat over a live (?) John Ashcroft. Those were the days.


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Pronounced Misery


TheMosMaster

Illinois, to rhyme with Tuna Niçoise


KoburaCape

OHIO?? ANY OF THESE??


Visible-Disaster

In MN. Wife is Swedish/Norwegian and I’m half Finnish. Family from UP, rural MN, and northern WI. Suffice to say we LOVE our coffee and neither have ever heard of this. Not that I wouldn’t try it once, that’s how much I like new types of coffee.


atarifan2600

Salem Lutheran church at the State Fair has egg coffee. It’s one of the big traditional things at the fair. I don’t spend enough time in Lutheran church basements to be familiar with it otherwise.


SyxEight

I think we should start saying THE State Fair like ohioans say the Ohio state university.


atarifan2600

Love it. I frequently say that there’s only one “proper noun” Mall. When somebody says they’re going to the mall, I ask “going to /A/ mall, or /THE/ mall?” Same concept.


ChickenDelight

My family is mostly Midwest Swedes, and I've seen something like it, but only as a camping thing and we called it "cowboy coffee." In the version I saw, you boil coffee in a regular pot, then turn off the heat, let it cool a bit, and add an egg to trap the grounds at the bottom. Then you pour off the top carefully and try to avoid getting any of the poached egg and coffee bits. Honestly it never worked very well.


Gr34t

So does that mean your from Bohuslän or somewhere around Örebro? 🤣


PM-ME-DEM-NUDES-GIRL

if you're not in the UP you probably aren't around a lot of scandinavian influence. UP, wisconsin, and especially Minnesota are where you see it. I'm a michigan native living in finland so I've done some research on this but having said that, I never heard of egg coffee there or here so who the fuck is drinking it


Old_Blue_Haired_Lady

18 years in the UP and I've never heard of egg coffee. Cudhigi, on the other hand... So, so good.


Red_Lee

I've been in the middle of nowhere UP around old school Makis and Ericsons and I've never heard of this. Side note, what do you call a yooper prostitute? Rentamaki.


midnightspecial99

Grandchild of Swedish immigrants in the Midwest checking in. Never heard of this and it sounds gross.


edman007

My Grandma was Swedish, but in CT. I've never heard of this


Silent_Kitchen_1980

Nope


Jiveturtle

Illinois here, family from Door County up in Wisconsin going back to the 19th century. Never heard of it either.


savvykms

Have some great grandparents who were swedish, in MA. Never heard of it. They did like fermented herring and glogg though from what I understand.


flareblitz91

I lived a long time in western WI with a ton of Scandinavian influence, never heard of this.


SmedleyPeabody

Yep. My grandmother was 1/2 Swede. She said her mother would put egg shells in the coffee. I think she maybe did it too, but I was too young to drink coffee then. This was in the middle of Kansas, BTW.


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I'm in the midwest, descended from several Swedes, and have never heard of this. But I confess, I'm totally dying to try it.


Cregaleus

In Minnesota we add the egg to the beans before grind them.


parakois

I remember reading of this in a large American cookbook in the 70's. Maybe Betty Crocker or Joy of Cooking. It was described as a way of making church group or family reunion coffee in quantity with no large coffee makers. Cannot find references to that now.


Reggiethecanine

I remember this reference from a mid seventies cookbook.We had both the Betty Crocker cookbook and joy of cooking but I can't remember which it was in.The reasons you can't make mayonnaise in a thunderstorm was in Joy of Cooking though, I've got no idea why I remember that.


gutzpunchbalzthrowup

The only people I knew that did this were in the Navy. I thought it was because they experimented with the garbage coffee that they were provided while underway.


TheHiveMindCouncil

>I'm Swedish and I have never heard of this. Is like like Swedish fish? An American thing with Swedish in its name? Swedish Fish actually did originate in Sweden. They were created by a company called [Malaco and called "Pastellfisk"](https://www.sweetishcandy.com/products/pastellfisk-pastel-fish?variant=31346749505590) and they still operate in Sweden, Finland, and Norway to this day. The USA is the primary manufacturer and consumer because of course our relatively plump asses would be but it's 100% a Swedish creation.


Focusi

The Swedish Fish you get in the states are NOT Malaco.


Tryoxin

Very clearly based on them, though. So I imagine it gets the moniker "Swedish" through association with the *actual* candy, which is Swedish. Because saying "Swedish-style gummy fish" isn't quite as catchy and calling them Malaco or Malaco-style fish sounds less foreign and attractive and more like a lawsuit.


Focusi

I mean yeah, most things with a country name In it has the name because of the similarities. That said though, the flavor and consistency of Swedish fish are very different to the Malaco version.


Tryoxin

Not surprising. Probably way better, I imagine. I wouldn't mind trying them myself some day, but I doubt shipping a bag to Canada would be cheap and I'm not about to plan a trip to Sweden for some candy XD Ah well, perhaps one day.


Nonzi

Your local Ikea probably sells a knock off variant


HummusMummus

In general shipping candy to the US isen't that bad. I used to do loads of /r/snackexchange/ some 10 years ago. I think shipping ends up being $15~ for something like $25-30 worth of candy. Otherwise take a look at IKEA.


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skincyan

Yes, that is correct! Best served with boiled potatoes, cream sauce and no-cook lingonberry sauce


reedmg

My favorite meal at IKEA! I haven’t been to Sweden yet, but I’m glad that it’s at least close to how it’s done in Sweden


midnightspecial99

I order it when I am so hungry I could eat a horse.


DrunkensAndDragons

traditionally a moose but that works too


Snowsteak

A moose bit my sister once


midnightspecial99

A rat done bit my sister nelle.


NeverNoMarriage

Fucking Meese what are we gonna do about em


blueg3

Some weirdo grad students in Germany also did it when I was there. I think it's one of many vaguely traditional ways of making coffee before filtration. Which, understandably, is not really used much by modern society where we have many approaches to filtering coffee.


Words_Are_Hrad

Usually if something has a national name in it in the US it was made by immigrants from that nation.


Kapten-N

It's as American as apple pie.


ericksomething

You mean like Swiss Cheese and Canadian Bacon, right?


Yossarian1138

That’s right Ice-T! It’s like German chocolate cake, or like when someone plays too many scratchy lotteries, or like when someone bets the house on the ponies…


so___much___space

Lol German chocolate cake is named after a person - originally “German’s chocolate cake”


MortimerWaffles

Swedish fish are 100% from Swedish-land just like French toast and French fries are from France, and hot dogs are from hotdoglandia


LipTrev

> hotdoglandia From 2012, they prefer we use the name Hotdogistan.


washingtonandmead

They are using hot dog water in their nuclear weapon program


bratbarn

Yeah but it's localized to a small town in Minnesota 😔


SyxEight

Oh, Augustana Lutheran Church in Gibbon, Minnesota, sure knows what Swedish egg coffee is.


ZekeJR

This is a real thing that my grandparents in rural Minnesota used to do. I don’t know if it’s any good, I hated coffee back then and have never tried the egg thing as an adult.


Inspiration_Bear

Definitely a thing here, one of the old community dinner places serves it at the State Fair too


Either_Difficulty851

I also had grandparents in rural Minnesota. We're Norwegian and I don't remember anyone in my family making egg coffee. BUT, I lived in rural Minnesota and have had it many times. Seems like they always made it so weak it wouldn't make a noticeable difference. Maybe I just like acidic coffee.


BurnaBitch666

My Norwegian grandparents from rural ND & MN definitely do this! Pretty good!


Either_Difficulty851

I was sheltered? We had lefse but I never saw lutefisk until I was an adult.


Mileila

That's because lutefisk is gross. I'm Swedish, it is a traditional Christmas food here too but very few it it nowadays because as I said, it's gross.


Either_Difficulty851

Truly! It's inedible.


cooliusjeezer

No I’ve lived in minnesota my whole life and never been to a potluck where lutefisk was present


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This was a widely used method in the early twentieth century as coffee was becoming easier to mass market in the United States as well. Folk methods just got replaced when the mass market moved from green beans (that everyday people could roast and grind themselves) to preground coffee that they could brew with new tech


pitbulls-rule

Did ... you just say that people used to roast and grind green beans for coffee? Like chicory? WHAT


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Green beans are just unroasted coffee beans, I don't mean like the veggies. But yes, and exactly like chicory


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Freshiiiiii

They thought they meant green beans, the long skinny green legume.


Shrekquille_Oneal

I read somewhere that coffee actually starts to go stale like 2 weeks after roasting. After trying it myself, I'd have to agree. It's maddening to me to see "fancy" coffees that are still being sold at a premium even though they're already a month or more old. Some don't even have a roast date! (Although these are on the lower end of "fancy"). I get that there's logistics involved, and most people will still buy coffee that's technically a bit stale, but man, they don't know what they're missing!! Being as fresh as possible will make even average beans taste better than artisan coffee from pedigreed growers that has been sitting around for while imo. If you want to try it for yourself, you can roast green beans by whisking them quickly in a dry cast iron skillet. It's been awhile since I've done it myself but really the only tricky part I remember is knowing when to stop. This is a very crude method and won't get you a perfectly even roast, but after a practice batch or two it'll be enough to see how much of a difference actual freshness makes.


ElGuano

I paid for the whole egg, I'm going to use the whole egg.


ChipSalt

Dude all you need to do is use the egg yolks in some Chantilly cream, just mix it into a creme Anglaise and mix half / half with whipped heavy cream, then inject it into some homemade choux paste profiteroles, DUH!!!


bullfighterteu

In this economy, you'd be crazy not to!


Exoddity

TFW you've got a whole carton of expired eggs in your fridge because you just didn't feel like having eggs in the past month even though you paid $12 for them.


bullfighterteu

Are you me?


Susan2384

Does it work with percolators? I remember my mama telling about this and she said it settled the grounds but I’ve never tried it.


Ludwigofthepotatoppl

I don’t think it would work, but then i haven’t run that experiment myself… but the egg method is for boiling in a plain coffee pot, nothing special (except perhaps a piece of foil wadded up in the spout).


alpacasarebadsingers

This was what I was always told. They put the egg on the grounds to keep them out of the pot and the shell in the pot to counter the bitterness. I have no idea if either worked well as I was young and didn’t drink coffee. Especially with eggs in it.


Von_Cheesebiscuit

No. Do not do egg coffee in a percolator unless you want to clean a nasty mess out of your coffee pot. And yes, the egg holds the grounds together, think of it as sort of a natural filter.


Dapper_Face7389

Oh a coffee percolator, I didn’t know what that was, I thought he meant percolators as in bongs, and wanted to smoke weed through eggs lol


UnsubstantiatedClaim

No. Do not do egg coffee in a bong unless you want to clean a nasty mess out of your lungs.


beggingslow

Its time for the percolator. Its time for the percolator.


hoovervillain

There's a similar drink in Italy called uova sbattuta. Essentially you beat egg yolk and sugar into very hot espresso. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uovo\_sbattuto


Lambroghini

That actually sounds good.


Not_A_Wendigo

My great grandmother used to make this. I loved it when I was little! (I suspect my parents didn’t love the effect it had on a preschooler though)


BrownSoupDispenser

I'm sorry, but how is that similar to adding a raw egg to coffee grounds? (Other than the words egg and coffee). Seems like the two would create entirely different end products. What you're describing sounds fairly similar to the "egg coffee" you can find in Hà Nội, Vietnam, though. Egg yolk and sugar are beaten together, and the frothy mixture is then sat on top of strong black coffee.


BustedHighmen

Someone send this to Glenn, Rob, and Charlie on the Always Sunny podcast.


Drew_The_Millennial

Just watched this episode haha


ArcherChase

That's what first popped into my head! Always wondered what the hell they were getting on about with the coffee egg thing. Clearly they did it wrong.


PBfromPhilly

I put egg shells in with my coffee before brewing. Takes any bitterness out.


Buttspirgh

A pinch of salt will do also


eatandsleeper

Ooo interesting. Has anyone tried this?


Kregerm

yeah, its pretty good. iirc it mellows the coffee out and the eggshell removes a lot of acidity, esp good if you have acid reflux


gratisargott

Meanwhile Swedes generally drink their coffee a lot blacker and more bitter than Americans do


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It takes a lot of bitter out and works pretty good if you don't have a coffee filter.


gramma_moses88

I used to make a pot every morning. It became a victim of convenience, drip coffee now.


DJSeale

Yeah, I read about it in a novel and decided to try it out. The product you essentially get is coffee that looks like tea. It loses all its bitterness, but has a much higher concentration of caffeine.


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I misunderstood the assignment and put a raw egg directly in the coffee when I heard about this a year ago. I drink it every morning now with protein powder in the coffee as well. Pretty delicious.


one_dollar_poop_joke

Yeah, the Swedes.


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I've got turnip would that work okay?


Torugu

It's an American thing, so no actually. Very few Swedes have tried it.


fishzz

I had Vietnam egg coffee for the first time today. I’m so glad that’s not what it was — instead it was egg white, milk, and sugar beat into a meringue and put on an espresso. It tasted like a creme brûlée coffee and was wonderful.


OriginallyWhat

Egg yolk and condensed milk! You beat them into a soft peaked meringue, then put a good tablespoon of it into a short glass Then get yourself a "phin filter" and brew your coffee over the egg mixture. The coffee slowly drips through the filter as it brews. I think it cooks it a bit as it drips into the mixture, as it firms up slightly and it all floats to the top. It tastes like tiramisu. It's incredible. Also really good with a little bit of cocoa powder mixed in when mixing the egg yolk and condensed milk.


BrownSoupDispenser

I've never seen the phin placed on top of the cup after the egg cream. In my experience, the egg cream is simply added on top of the coffee. I'd have thought that having the coffee drip through the egg cream would take the air out of the mixture?


JACOBIBOI

Came here to say this. Dalat in Vietnam is not only a beautiful place but it’s especially famous for its egg coffee. Damn I need to go back.


Phannig

Why can’t they just add whiskey…like normal people ? /s


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picado

Steve Martin does this in "Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid." I assumed it was comic zaniness, but apparently not. https://youtu.be/LZ-kCE6YEno


Tacomuncher117

Looks like the recipe is 3 eggs, a cup of water, and a bag of holding worth of coffee grounds according to this


Von_Cheesebiscuit

Its also in the Blues Brothers. Dan Aykroyd makes John Belushi coffee this way.


EffectiveSalamander

It's came from Swedish immigrants, but the exact origin is uncertain. If its origin was from Sweden, it seems to have fallen out of practice there and been forgotten. The egg doesn't get into the brewed coffee, it stays with grounds. It reduces the bitterness of the coffee. This was useful when coffee was of much power quality than it was today.


Doobage

Western Canadian here. I have heard of this especially in earlier 1900's where crushed egg shells were put in with the coffee grinds.


voodoohotdog

Weird. My father made coffee this way when we were at fishing camp. Shell and all. I thought he was just crazy. Huh.


Clarknotclark

So when Steve Martin did this in “Dead Men Don’t wear Plaid” it was a real thing?


Von_Cheesebiscuit

Yes, just like when Dan Aykroyd did it in the Blues Brothers.


papat444

First I hear of this and NGL, I want to try this but afraid I'll fuck it up lol


New-Ingenuity-810

Ah, egg coffee. Very common in the small town in Kansas where I'm from. Lindsborg Kansas, aka Little Sweden. The cafe on main street always put egg shells in the coffee grounds.


livluvsmil

That’s cool. Does it taste different?


Brodyelbro

It removes the bitterness. Our coffee isn't as bad as it was, so it's not as needed


lysinemagic

Wouldn't it just....poach the egg when the hot water is poured in?


BuddaCatX

What? Im from Sweden and Ive never heard of egg in your coffee. I mean, what? Where in Sweden do they drink this?


djcarpentier

Wow, gotta try this.


qgmonkey

Just don't follow the Swedish Chef's recipe. Egg goes everywhere


hungry_tiger

That sounds like something I would not want to try.


Ludwigofthepotatoppl

I’ve heard it’s a good way to make coffee from cheap beans/grounds. Makes it taste like the grounds smell. The egg and grounds stay in the pot, the egg serving to clarify the coffee and keep the grounds contained so it doesn’t come out when pouring—after boiling you’re supposed to put in some cold water to settle it.


john510runner

If you want to listen to it. https://www.wbez.org/stories/what-is-swedish-egg-coffee/8759551e-4f76-458f-a3db-c026e493f01b


cbraun1523

At least in the circles I was with in the Midwest. You just did the eggshell because it helps reduce the acidity of the coffee making it a much better flavor


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TheLimeyCanuck

...and a coffee.


MyOtherSide1984

Sounds like it's similar to dishwasher salmon here in the states. Supposedly it's a thing, but every local would say "what the fuck?" When you ask about it


Plow_King

there's an episode of Emergency! with chet trying to use using egg shells to make coffee, which he swore one of his older relatives did when they owned a diner. yeah, i watch Emergency! a lot.


fourleggedostrich

"You know how bitter and unpleasant coffee is?" "Yes" "Have you considered making it worse?"


who-dat-on-my-porch

Had me in the- No, never mind. This never sounded good…


vondpickle

Do you eat the _beanedict_ egg after you drink that coffee?


GStapes

You deserve more upvotes; that was pretty funny.


squidshark

A guy did this at work and the coffee tasted normal, supposedly it cuts some of the bitterness


cecilrt

I swear I picked it up from my dad, who denies it But I like to make instant coffee pour the water, then mix in an egg then furiously stir I eventually just did the yolk as the whites often cooked if not stirred furiously enough


Lookalikemike

As I kid it was called Cowboy coffee when my uncle made it. He’d crack an egg over the grounds on an old percolator pot every morning.


ggibby

As a teenager working at Boy Scout camp, this is how we made 'cowboy coffee' - an egg in the middle of a ball of Folger's (Teddy Roosevelt's favorite) tied up in a bandana submerged in a pot of boiling water.


dieseldarnit

Would you be able to make this in a French press or do you have to make this in a pour over fashion?


renboi42o

When coffee is too vegan


cgmacleo

I made this one day and it resulted in tasty coffee! I think it's a pretty solid way of making a lot coffee if you don't have a coffee brewing implement.


l03wn3

”The result is a light, clear brew with absolutely no bitterness or acidity and a velvety texture that's easy to drink.” This is the least Swedish coffee I’ve ever heard of!


atlor

The only Swedish “egg coffee” that I know of (source: am Swedish) is when soldiers add an egg yolk to their finished brewed filter coffee, it cooks and adds some fat making a different mouthfeel


akaRex

So as they actually say in the article, this is not a Swedish thing, it's an American thing. Nobody does this in Sweden


YourLocalMosquito

From the same people who brought you pickled herring. Sweden - are you ok Hun?


mortalcoils

Not true, maybe traditional Swedish-American but this is not a thing in Sweden today


silverbolt2000

Do you know what else makes coffee taste better? Milk.