Quilotoa@lemmy.ca to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 days agoTIL some Scandinavian countries eat blood pancakes. (made with whipped reindeer blood.)en.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square124linkfedilinkarrow-up1221arrow-down114
arrow-up1207arrow-down1external-linkTIL some Scandinavian countries eat blood pancakes. (made with whipped reindeer blood.)en.wikipedia.orgQuilotoa@lemmy.ca to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 days agomessage-square124linkfedilink
minus-squareDreamcatcher@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·11 days ago Scandinavian Half of the countries listed are Finland and Estonia lol.
minus-squaredarklamer@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·11 days agoBut they’re honorary Scandinavian, that’s an old tradition.
minus-squareifalas@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·11 days agoI don’t understand english-speakers’ enduring obsession with the term “scandinavia” anyway. What’s wrong with “the nordic countries” which is what they’re actually called and which isn’t culturally meaningless unlike some peninsula?
Half of the countries listed are Finland and Estonia lol.
But they’re honorary Scandinavian, that’s an old tradition.
We don’t want it >:(
I don’t understand english-speakers’ enduring obsession with the term “scandinavia” anyway. What’s wrong with “the nordic countries” which is what they’re actually called and which isn’t culturally meaningless unlike some peninsula?