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   Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 06-Sep-2026 01:45:31 JST Adrianna Tan

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   @USelaine @kimlockhartga most of the other immigrant groups opened restaurants simply because there weren’t other jobs they were allowed to do. I imagine there is far more assimilation into local life for the Nordic folks outside the home and more cultural stuff inside their home. Even in their home countries up until very recently they also tended to be more ‘eat inside’ type of people so restaurant-owning didn’t seem like a thing.

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     U.S. Elaine (uselaine@mastodon.online)'s status on Sunday, 06-Sep-2026 01:45:32 JST U.S. Elaine

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     I imagine it has to do with the recency of immigration, and where in the States they went. No waves of Scandinavians in the last hundred years, who would want to preserve their foodways with eateries to gather together in. My Danish ggps came to San Francisco in the 1870-80s. By my childhood, we still had pickled red cabbage with holiday dinners. No more. Maybe in Minnesota?

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     Kim Possible :kimoji_fire: (kimlockhartga@beige.party)'s status on Sunday, 06-Sep-2026 01:45:34 JST Kim Possible :kimoji_fire:

     They are rare where I live, but you can occasionally find German restaurants. And though no one says "Let's go out for British food," we do love them Fish 'n' Chips, Y'all. What I don't see are any Scandinavian food restaurants. I ate at a Norweigan-themed place at Epcot, because it was the only place that had any reservations left. It was mostly a buffet of coldwater fish and a lot of rutabagas. Surely there is more? And why is this one of the few regions that has never caught on? Even in Atlanta, we can get interesting fare: Peruvian, Ethiopian, Moroccon, Mayan, Brazilian, Persian, Togolese, Bohemian (Czech), Turkish, Filipino fusion, even Halal Indonesian.