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Ikea is a meatball company that also sells furniture
I liked them better when they still contained horse meat.
I would 100% eat those. Even more likely to if they officially advertised them as being made from horse.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I disagree - I thought the vegan ones were fine! Cheapest meal out I’d had in a long time. They also had a lots of beds in their restaurant, so I could relax and let my food go down on-site.
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…
IKEA breakfasts slap.
Didn’t know they had breakfast!
Do they have lunch there?
They do. The one near me has a whole menu that changes regularly, aside from a few permanent options. Some of the items can be very good.
It’s a whole cafeteria setup with trays and a line with workers dishing out different things. Then you pay at the end of the line.
Their vegetarian hot dogs are worth a try. I only got one because it was cheaper than a standard hot dog, but was surprised how much I loved the taste.
Their veggie dogs (not meat like, just veggies) were surprisingly good! I assumed the regular hot dog would be similarly good but it was hands down the worst hot dog I have had in my life.
Next time I go I promised myself I would try some of the plant meatballs instead.
The plant balls are amazing. Can’t say how they compare as I’ve never had the meat ones, but they’re tasty and savoury and delicious.
They are fucking ugly though which makes the first bite difficult. Good after that.
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. ◕︵◕
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.
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.
The meatballs were actually located right before the main checkouts. 2 lb bags of regular or chicken for $15 each. Very tempting but I had already gone last month, bought items frivolously, and did the same thing again today. By the time I got to the end I knew I had to just shut it down, pay and get out of there. Got 3x chocolate bars for $5 though. Couldn’t help it.
It was pretty packed today - went there around lunchtime, but the line moved fairly quickly and we were at the checkout in maybe 15-20 mins. There are some premade items already on plates right at the start of the line and I’d imagine if you just wanted one or two of those you could skip past the people in front of you waiting to be served meatballs or whatnot and checkout faster.
Then you need to make proper Swedish meatballs. IKEA’s stuff doesn’t compare.
Do you have an authentic recipe? It’s always hard on the web to find out which “true 100% reals straight from grandma” recipes are the right ones.
Niklas Ekstedt’s recipe is authentic, Swedish, and tasty AF. If you can’t find venison, beef will do.
They haven’t been as nice since they took the horse out.
So good! But I always think they might have just a little bit of horse in them. 🐎
I need to make a trek to the giant blue box. Lingonberry Master Race!
Don’t @ me cranberry peasants.
The nearest IKEA to me is about 5,000 miles away. This picture makes me feel all of them.
Ohh it’s been long time i went there and had their meatball. I just went there to buy their currypuff.
I didn’t see that on the menu! Which country?
Malaysia! They have local food menu like fried flat noodle and nasi lemak and curry noodle, i assume every country have local food as their special as well
I love blocking people that post stuff like this.
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.
Look at their comment history. Par for the course. They don’t seem to have a positive comment for anything.
And they received a 1-week ban for this behavior. Rule 1 is literally hear “be kind” and that certainly wasn’t.
That being said, I’m giving them the benefit of the doubt. They can come back in a week and are welcome to be kind. But any further disrespect will get them permabanned and their comments removed.
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.
I can make a sous vide that makes a crunchwrap look like it is ambrosia.
Lol ok
