• Fonzie!
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        21 month ago

        Oh? Like the US and their statue of liberty? Or the Dutch and their tulips?

        • @Valmond@lemmy.world
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          31 month ago

          The statue was given by the french, but the USA started by giving one to France IIRC (they paid for the first one in Paris if I got that correctly). It’s obviously smaller, you can see it on one of the bridges in Paris.

          Actually there are a whole bunch of them in Paris, that’s a little rabbit hole if you’re curious.

    • @Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de
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      21 month ago

      i mean maybe that’s what made it well known outside sweden, but meatballs are also a bog standard thing inside sweden.
      Meatballs with mashed potatoes, gravy, and lingonberries is the “default food” basically, like fish and chips in the UK.