Most of the swedish food is, for the lack of better word, “imported”. The majority of food actually comes from another country. Although it may come from another country it is “remade” and is now unique for Sweden. Pizza in Italy is not the same thing as the pizza you would normally eat in Sweden and it is not very usual to find as many pizza restaurants in another country as you would here. Many families enjoy eating rice or noodles with any kind of meat or vegetables, the rice/noodles is mainly from China and or other asian countries. It is the same thing with spaghetti and meat sauce or pizza from Italy. How about kebab from Turkey or hamburgers from Germany. You get the point. Traditional cooking is very old but still a very usual thing in Sweden. I mean traditional cooking as translated into husmanskost. Husmanskost was the only food the needy farmers could make or afford. It was not the most luxury food, but it did contain a large amount of vitamins and other materials the body needs. Nowadays husmanskost is usually referred to as typical Swedish food, such as potatoes, meatballs, gravy and lingonberry jam.
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Yes, pizza has become a very integrated food type. No matter where you go, you’re bound to find at least one restaurant within 2-3 kilometers.