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1. clacke (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Sunday, 13-May-2018 04:40:05 EDT clacke
   I am in the country of my birth and all the hydrocarbons are arranged in just the right way. It's just amazing.
   
   The cheese, the butter, the milk, all the little things taste in exactly The Way That Is Right And Proper.
   
   brb consuming all of my parents' knäckebröd
   1. clacke (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Sunday, 13-May-2018 04:43:16 EDT clacke

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      the cheese omg the cheese
      
      *drowning in tears of happiness*
      1. iona 🐝 (iona@social.coop)'s status on Sunday, 13-May-2018 04:46:32 EDT iona 🐝

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         @clacke Is it nicer than the (already nice) Swedish cheese they sell in Ikea?

         I have been known to go into Ikea just for cheese. (I live half a mile from an Ikea.)

         1. clacke (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Sunday, 13-May-2018 05:02:57 EDT clacke

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            @iona There are dozens of brands of cheese that are similar but not quite like it. The IKEA cheese is a good, if a bit bland, representative, but it's not my particular favorite. In HK I buy Dutch Edamer, which is basically inside the range of what Swedish cheeses are like, and it's better and cheaper than the IKEA cheese.
            
            My parents have some new brand that is called Storsjö, which has the connotation that it would be made in Östersund. Maybe it is. It's pretty similar to hushållsost, but even creamier and richer.
            
            My favorite is herrgårdsost (or even better, kungsgårdsost from Åland). But if you want to just gobble up slice after slice, hushållsost is the thing.
            
            I need to remember to buy a bunch of cheese slicers to bring back home. I have one and it's not amazing. Not even IKEA has cheese slicers in HK.
            1. clacke (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Sunday, 13-May-2018 05:12:28 EDT clacke

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               @iona Herrgårdsost is kind of a slightly maturer and richer Emmentaler. It's hard (but not cheddar hard), large-piped and very slicable.
               1. iona 🐝 (iona@social.coop)'s status on Sunday, 13-May-2018 05:43:20 EDT iona 🐝

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                  @clacke I must look out for all these cheeses! Swedish cheese has never really caught on here, though. We have shops where you can get hundreds of different cheeses from all over the world, 12 different sorts of paneer, but very rarely anything from northern Europe.

   2. clacke (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Sunday, 13-May-2018 04:53:55 EDT clacke

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      The Netflix app is an intriguing mix of Swedish, English and Chinese.
      
      Just like us.