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The Art of Photography => The Coffee Corner => Topic started by: Robert Roaldi on November 04, 2020, 10:49:05 am
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I happily came across this series of videos that I originally saw several years ago on Vimeo about a Swedish coffee drinking ritual/habit/tradition called "fika". There are 6 videos, each about 4-5 minutes long, but this is the trailer, https://vimeo.com/165865791 (https://vimeo.com/165865791).
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Fika rhymes with flika (girl).
Flika dricker fika - girl drinking fika coffee.
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I guess I am just a hack. This morning I followed my usual routine. I ground up some beans, threw them in the coffee maker, added water in the designated slot, and pressed go. While I was waiting for the coffee to brew, I warmed up my milk in the microware, and then just stood there staring at the coffee maker until it had finished. Then I poured the coffee in my cup and walked to the family room, sat down, and started reading the news on my laptop. I don' think I could make one 4-5 minute video, much less six, about it. Think of all the things you could do during those five extra videos. But every culture, and every person in every culture, is different, and it is interesting to find out how other people do things. It is the sort of learning experience that comes to mind when someone on the internet makes a sweeping generalization.
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I guess I am just a hack. This morning I followed my usual routine. I ground up some beans, threw them in the coffee maker, added water in the designated slot, and pressed go. While I was waiting for the coffee to brew, I warmed up my milk in the microware, and then just stood there staring at the coffee maker until it had finished. Then I poured the coffee in my cup and walked to the family room, sat down, and started reading the news on my laptop. I don' think I could make one 4-5 minute video, much less six, about it. Think of all the things you could do during those five extra videos. But every culture, and every person in every culture, is different, and it is interesting to find out how other people do things. It is the sort of learning experience that comes to mind when someone on the internet makes a sweeping generalization.
I usually stay in bed until I smell the coffee my wife is making...:)
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I usually stay in bed until I smell the coffee my wife is making...:)
Let’s just say I make the second pot.
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Fika rhymes with flika (girl).
Flika dricker fika - girl drinking fika coffee.
Not really - fika has a long "i" and flicka (note spelling) has a short one. Also, for what it's worth, I've never heard "fika" used as a synonym for coffee, it's usually used as the verb 'att fika' for "take a cosy snack break".
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Sitting in coffee shops sipping cappuccino is one of the things I have missed most this year.
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Sitting in coffee shops sipping cappuccino is one of the things I have missed most this year.
I miss that too, but subscribing to a coffee bean delivery service and learning about and appreciating different coffees has been one of the few benefits of the lockdown for me.
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Not really - fika has a long "i" and flicka (note spelling) has a short one. Also, for what it's worth, I've never heard "fika" used as a synonym for coffee, it's usually used as the verb 'att fika' for "take a cosy snack break".
Thank you for the correction, Jeremy. It's been a long time since I've been with a svenska flicka.
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Thank you for the correction, Jeremy. It's been a long time since I've been with a svenska flicka.
Probably your thoughts were not on grammatical niceties :-)
(p.s. thanks for your gracious reply to my somewhat snotty comment)