• Raiderkev@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      U been living under a rock or something? Fuck yes you can. They even have vegan (maybe vegetarian) ones too, and chicken Strips for kids and a few other things. Their restaurant is not bad, sometimes I’ll take the kids there to get something I could easily grab at Walmart/ target just to get some swedish meatballs.

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    6 months ago

    Me too. Quick story time. It was the day before COVID lockdown. My now wife and I had just moved in together the day before and were at IKEA buying furniture for our new apartment. Being at IKEA, knowing the new fridge and freezer at home were empty, and having poor impulse control, I threw three bags of frozen meetballs with sauce and fixings into the cart near checkout.

    The following day lockdown was announced with all restaurants to be closed, and stores to enforce limited occupancy with lines down the block waiting to get in. We feasted the first two weeks.

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      6 months ago

      It was all I could do not to buy a couple bags of the meatballs and gravy at the checkout. Something about the flavor, don’t know what it is but I was stuffed after 16 meatballs and STILL wanted to eat more.

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    6 months ago

    Twice now on my ikea trips the restaurant has been so jampacked that I could not fit even if I shot myself in there with a cannon. ◕︵◕

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      6 months ago

      Find yourself a minimalistic-yet-sturdy bench from some nearby display space and use it as a battering ram to force your way to the food.

      EDIT: Apparently they sell bags of frozen official meatballs that you can do yourself:

      https://www.ikea.com/us/en/cat/meat-25217/

      EDIT2: Apparently despite the fact that they deliver the furniture, they won’t deliver the frozen meatballs. You have to go to the store for them. I guess just make one large trip.

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        6 months ago

        They probably deliver many orders on one trip and it would require a truck with a refrigerated box to be up to food safety standards.

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    6 months ago

    They got the vegan option too. If you don’t want to think about the poor horse that gave his life for you, go eat vegan stuff. Often times vegan options are just a bridge. There are other ways to eating healthy nutritious foods.

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      6 months ago

      The vegan alternative tastes terrible.

      And the meatballs are a blend of beef and pork in most countries. In Muslim places it’s beef with chicken, in Sweden you sometimes get moose variants for special occasions.

      Horse is not typically used for meatballs since the meat is too lean, you need fat as a binding agent and to prevent it from drying out.

      • GreenMartian@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        6 months ago

        The horse joke was a reference to the massive recall a decade ago, when they found horse meat in their balls and sausages.

        Also, as a non vegan, I find the veg balls to be as good as their meat ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯ As long as one doesn’t expect it to taste anything like meat…

    • Alk@sh.itjust.works
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      6 months ago

      Wait aren’t you in the foodporn community? Is this not the purpose, to post pictures of food that the OP finds delicious? Either you’re very lost or you misinterpreted the “porn” part of the community name and wanted the mashed potatoes to take their pants off.

      Surely you don’t simply disagree that it’s delicious, because you’re blocking them. Even a downvote isn’t appropriate for a well framed and high quality photo of food that you personally don’t enjoy, but is enjoyed by many. In that case a user would simply not upvote. So that can’t be it.

      • Pfeffy@lemmy.world
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        I am indeed in the food porn community and generally enjoy it. I said something negative about something as stupid as mass-produced meatballs in consumer market that doesn’t even operate as a restaurant. There’s virtually no difference between this and posting a picture of a crunchwrap. Hit me up with your sous videes and your pan sauces and your other things that you actually do that are impressive. Not your shopping trips.