With a wide variety of fresh Swedish ingredients available, there are plenty of delicious traditional recipes to choose from. The most popular traditional foods include:
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Pickled herring has been popluar for ages becuase with a large amount of herring in both the North and Baltic Seas, Swedes have been pickling herring since the Middle Ages. Many swedes grew up with a tradition to eat pea soup and thin pancakes called pannkakor, (which resemble the French crêpes) every Thursday. This tradition has been upheld by the Swedish Armed Forces since World War II.
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