Talk:Fika
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In the previous vesion of the article, there was a claim that Swedes were second in per capita consumption of coffee to the Finns. I did a quick web search and found that the World Resources Institute ranked them 6th in 2003, which is the last year with complete data. The last time that Swedes were second was in 1994. (One must take the WRI data with a grain of salt because Aruba has wildly fluctuating consumption, according to them. For example in 1974, the WRI counts Aruba as consuming 121.4 kg/person, which is over 300 g/day -- an impossible quantity.) I changed the page to reflect this and added the references. 217.162.119.17 22:46, 3 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Noun usage
The noun usage paragraph was wrong. Fikabröd is actually a compound word (not "combined noun") consisting of a verb and a noun, so I edited that out. Fika can be used as a noun, but that refers to the noun, as I wrote. --83.255.57.191 20:19, 14 November 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Fika and Coffee
Actually you don´t have to consume any coffee to have a fika. I actually would translate fika to: "Anytime and place non-alcoholic bewerage break/party". This is the most correct translation of the word that I have seen in English so far. I never translate the word in to English, I just use fika when I want to talk about fika in english. It´s like the Swedish words lagom, smorgasbord and ombudsman.
Peter a Swede from Växjö. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.84.40.8 (talk) 08:14, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Did you know what "fika" means in Hungarian? :)
Amusing fact: "fika" is also a Hungarian slang term for "snot". It can also be verbed (as in "fikázni"), and the resulting verb means "to criticize [sg or sy] heavily, possibly disproportionately or without real reason" (probably the intent is to evoke the image of smearing something with snot). Maybe the English slang verb "to knock" means something similar, I'm not entirely certain.
This is just so you Swedes know why you get smirks from your Hungarian immigrants when you talk about a "lovely fika". :)
--195.56.53.118 (talk) 14:37, 4 June 2008 (UTC)
