Fika is really between main meals.
So, it's that you have during the day
which is not breakfast, lunch or dinner.
It's a fika, or could be a fika.
the time, it would be a sweet pastry like
a bun or something like that with a cup of coffee.
And, potentially, in the afternoon you have a bit more, maybe a sandwich as well.
I sometimes think that people, like, too much into
the, sort of, idea of fika, especially outside of the Nordics now,
because it's such a trendy thing to talk about.
But, it's just a name of a snack in between meals.
It to be that in the workplace, these sort of moments
to snack, which are usually like right the main meals, like breakfast and dinner,
has become like the time where you socialize with your colleagues.
It isn't more than that actually.
It's like the uh..I don't know, the uh.. Scandinavian afternoon tea, you know?
I think that the fika came in the past,
you know where people worked really long days in the fields.
They had to work really long days to out of all the sunlight in the summer.
You essentially had to fuel yourself for a 16-hour farm shift.
So, you had fika, breakfast, fika, lunch, fika, dinner, and fika again.
Today, it's more of a social thing, something that you do in the workplace with your
friends when , y' know, meeting for a cup of coffee and a snack between the main meals.
Not six times a day!
Fika is also, I mean, a Swedish ; it exists only traditionally in Sweden.
The other countries might have their equivalent, but the word fika is Swedish
and it's a Swedish cultural phenomenon.
And then it depends sort of... a bit
in Sweden what kind of fika you will have.
But the things that..like the common denominators would be the buns; for example, like or cinnamon buns..uh. would be very common.
(It) would be perhaps some biscuits .
Nordic baking culture has a lot of biscuits in it -- hundreds of sweet biscuits.
And if it's.. sort of more...if you're looking for a more one then it would be open-face sandwiches.

"Sju sorters kakor"

means ' kinds of cookies' or 'seven kinds of biscuits' if you take it literally.
But it's considered the appropriate amount of sweet pastries to offer someone if they come
to visit you for a fika.
And I mean...eh...like my grandparents' generation, they would still do that, definitely.
And I don't think it's quite as common today or it isn't quite it used
to be.
I think today you're perfectly fine if you only offer a bun, too.
But that considered a bit cheap.
But I mean, most of those biscuits and things, they keep .
So, you would have those in tins.
And then maybe one cake and one bun, always fresh.
That's the way it used to be and it is still is.
Like at my parents house, there be buns, for example.
They'll have them in the freezer and they defrost them, y'know?