Great Soup From an Unlikely Place

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Great Soup From an Unlikely Place; Ikea
Topic Started: Dec 15 2012, 03:47 AM (885 Views)
Olive Oil	Dec 15 2012, 03:47 AM Post #1
Gold Star Member Posts: 4,747 Group: Member Member #785 Joined: June 10, 2010	Ikea just recently opened a store in our city. My daughter and I decided on a fast meal and I saw some soup in the cafeteria line that looked very good but didn't have a name on it. It turned out to be one of the best soups I have ever had. It was a curry type soup, perhaps Indian with spinach . I could live on the stuff. It was that good. Also not too shabby are their meatballs and mashed potatoes. I brought some frozen to make at home. I have never had frozen mashed potatoes before but am curious. I also bought a jar of berries much like our cranberries which Ikea serves with their dinner. Not fine cuisine for sure but great comfort food for a cold winter night when you don't feel like cooking.

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Dana	Dec 16 2012, 05:47 AM Post #16
WWS Hummingbird Guru & Wildlife photographer extrordinaire Posts: 13,054 Group: Member Member #830 Joined: March 23, 2011	I thought of this one when I read the 1st post. It's the curry. Many variations apparently. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulligatawny Mulligatawny was featured in the hit American sitcom Seinfeld in episode 116 entitled "The Soup Nazi". Jerry, George and Elaine go out to a new soup stand Kramer has been raving about; its owner is referred to as the "Soup Nazi," due to his temperament and insistence on a strict manner of behavior while ordering. The episode repeatedly describes mulligatawny as one of the Soup Nazi's tastiest soups.



Deleted User	Dec 16 2012, 06:49 AM Post #17
Deleted User	OK, I am a sometimes hypocrite. I truly almost never buy any prepared food, but there are exceptions. I do not know what the Supermarket chain called "Safeway" is in Canada or even other parts of the US. It is Ralph's in California and Genuardi's in Pennsylvania. My point is that they have a soup bar and their soups are quite good. and so inexpensive when combined with specials, that one could not make the soup for what they cost to purchase.
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Kahu	Dec 16 2012, 08:38 AM Post #18
Posts: 31,109 Group: Administration Member #150 Joined: December 14, 2005	I thought that Ikea was a flatpack scandinavian furniture store ...... we don't have them here. Do they sell food too?



heatseeker	Dec 16 2012, 09:10 AM Post #19
Veteran Member Posts: 10,320 Group: Member Member #713 Joined: March 30, 2010	Kahu, they're not really in the food sales business except for a few items -frozen Swedish meatballs, cinnamon rolls, and now, I guess, soup.



angora	Dec 16 2012, 09:39 AM Post #20
WWS Book Club Coordinator Posts: 14,494 Group: Member Member #717 Joined: March 31, 2010	Kahu, when you wrote flatpack, I read flapjack and I thought well, that's food isnt it? It took me a few reads to get it straight. lol



heatseeker	Dec 16 2012, 09:50 AM Post #21
Veteran Member Posts: 10,320 Group: Member Member #713 Joined: March 30, 2010	Don't give IKEA any ideas or you will be eating flat pack flapjacks with lingonberry jam. Edited by heatseeker, Dec 16 2012, 09:50 AM.



Kahu	Dec 16 2012, 09:52 AM Post #22
Posts: 31,109 Group: Administration Member #150 Joined: December 14, 2005	heatseeker Dec 16 2012, 09:10 AM Kahu, they're not really in the food sales business except for a few items -frozen Swedish meatballs, cinnamon rolls, and now, I guess, soup. Thanks for the info Heat ...... there was some talk about Ikea setting up in Auckland in 2010 - 2011 but it came to nothing. I guess the market's too small. However, there are importers of Ikea products from Melbourne, and if you take a grabaseat flight on Qantas or AirNZ it's a reasonably affordable option to arrange to ship it yourself. (no duties or licences needed between Australia and NZ). The closest similar homegrown venture is Danske Mobler..... but the furniture is not kitset, and from what I've seen of Ikea products, Danske Mobler is of a higher quality. angora Dec 16 2012, 09:39 AM .......when you wrote flatpack, I read flapjack and I thought well, that's food isnt it? ....... I find myself doing the same thing quite often these days .... usually on advertising hoardings along the motorway into town, where you just get a flash of a word before your brain registers! biggrin 04 Edited by Kahu, Dec 16 2012, 09:57 AM.



heatseeker	Dec 16 2012, 10:03 AM Post #23
Veteran Member Posts: 10,320 Group: Member Member #713 Joined: March 30, 2010	Much of IKEA's furniture is flimsy, and doesn't last long. But it suits a lot of people, because it is cheap and they are furnishing an apartment for the first time. The genius of IKEA is good design.



Kahu	Dec 16 2012, 10:33 AM Post #24
Posts: 31,109 Group: Administration Member #150 Joined: December 14, 2005	heatseeker Dec 16 2012, 10:03 AM The genius of IKEA is good design. As with Danske Mobler ...... a clean, minimalist 'scandinvian' style.



Olive Oil	Dec 17 2012, 05:37 AM Post #25
Gold Star Member Posts: 4,747 Group: Member Member #785 Joined: June 10, 2010	I always thought of Ikea furniture as flimsy but was quite surprised to see solid pine wood pieces, superior to the Leons, Defresne, and like stores in our area. . There is the putting together part but that sounds like it could be fun. Their kitchens show a wide range of prices and finishes. I like the idea of couches with removable covers that can be changed seasonally or whenever. If I was young and setting up a home, I could have a lot of fun with their selection . While the grocery selection in our market is not huge, they do offer a wide range of products, many involving herring and salmon. What I've tasted is quite good.



Dana	Dec 17 2012, 05:50 AM Post #26
WWS Hummingbird Guru & Wildlife photographer extrordinaire Posts: 13,054 Group: Member Member #830 Joined: March 23, 2011	I remember hearing something about this store in the news lately. I don't think I'll be shopping there any time soon. No doubt they are deeply regretful that this history has come to light. http://scrapetv.com/News/News%20Pages/Business/pages-7/IKEA-deeply-regrets-getting-caught-using-slave-labour-in-Germany-Scrape-TV-The-World-on-your-side-2012-11-17.html IKEA is well known for its stylish, affordable, lightweight, somewhat-easy-to-assemble furniture and creatively cool knick-knacks. What is less well known is how this highly successful international company has built its furniture empire through a long, sordid history of worker exploitation and human rights violations. IKEA employs roughly 123,000 workers worldwide, mostly in Scandinavia and the low-countires of northern Europe, in sweatshop and even slave-labor conditions that border on genocide and are rivaled by nothing in the Third World. http://www.mediabistro.com/prnewser/ikea-sorry-for-using-east-german-slave-labor_b50615 Ikea Sorry for Using East German Slave Labor By Patrick Coffee on November 19, 2012 11:40 AM A recent report on Ikea�s past practices by auditor Ernst and Young�which the company requested after outside parties accused it of using slave labor�revealed that the workers who made some of the company�s signature furniture in its East German factories didn�t work by choice: they were prisoners who�d been sentenced to hard labor due to their political beliefs, which in most cases amounted to opposing the Soviet-backed Communist government after the post-war division of Germany. Seems like Ikea had a �don�t ask, don�t tell�-style arrangement with its Eastern partners. Ikea can�t claim ignorance either; the Ernst and Young report found that company executives received tip-offs about the practice but did nothing to curb it.



Trotsky	Dec 17 2012, 07:19 AM Post #27
Big City Boy Posts: 38,319 Group: Member Member #79 Joined: September 8, 2005	Dana Dec 16 2012, 05:47 AM I thought of this one when I read the 1st post. It's the curry. Many variations apparently. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulligatawny Mulligatawny was featured in the hit American sitcom Seinfeld in episode 116 entitled "The Soup Nazi". Jerry, George and Elaine go out to a new soup stand Kramer has been raving about; its owner is referred to as the "Soup Nazi," due to his temperament and insistence on a strict manner of behavior while ordering. The episode repeatedly describes mulligatawny as one of the Soup Nazi's tastiest soups. I hope we all know that the SOUP NAZI actually existed. Friends waited in long lines. I of course never partook becasue I HATE lines more than I like soup. It was owned by Aleg Yeganhi: Posted Image Quote: According to Nora Ephron's DVD commentary, the first pop culture reference to Yeganeh (though not by name) seems to have come years before the Seinfeld episode, in the 1993 movie Sleepless in Seattle. In the film, a magazine writer discusses writing a story: "This man sells the greatest soup you have ever eaten, and he is the meanest man in America. I feel very strongly about this, Becky; it's not just about the soup." Edited by Trotsky, Dec 17 2012, 07:26 AM.



Bitsy	Dec 17 2012, 07:36 AM Post #28
Veteran Member Posts: 31,383 Group: Member Member #267 Joined: March 11, 2006	We furnished my grandson�s first apartment from Ikea while in college about 4 years ago and to our surprise it has survived 3 moves, lots of parties and still look presentable. He is getting a new chest for his bedroom but only because he needs more space; his old chest is being gifted to a friend�s girlfriend. Their store layout is an example of mareting genius.



helen_t	Dec 17 2012, 08:13 AM Post #29
Red Star Member Posts: 2,767 Group: Member Member #712 Joined: March 30, 2010	I remember hearing something about this store in the news lately. I don't think I'll be shopping there any time soon. The little monkey was found in the Ikea store a few days ago biggrin 04



goldengal	Dec 17 2012, 09:06 AM Post #30
Mistress, House of Dogs Posts: 11,674 Group: Member Member #715 Joined: March 31, 2010	I have 3 sections of Ikea Billy Birch Bookcases - 2 straight sections and a corner unit. They are not bolted to the wall, but rather bolted together and are very secure and house hundreds of books. While they might not be the best bookcases, they blend in with the rest of the furnishings, and I would not hestitate to purchase them again. Incidentally, they are 16 years old. Take care, Pat



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