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Finland Fact of the Day

In Finland, they call Swedish meatballs “Finnish meatballs.”

It brought to mind a very angry conversation I once had with a Greek fellow about my description of a particular beverage as “Turkish coffee.” He was quite certain that it was Greek coffee, thank you very much.

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