Ikea!

So, I was in Atlanta, GA last weekend and had my first eye-popping experience at Ikea! For those of you who have never experienced this phenomenon, you need to do it whenever the first opportunity pops up!Ikea exists of three different parts: the cafeteria where you can get fabulous cake for cheap and Swedish meatballs with mac and cheese and lingonberry jam (yes, it's really that awesome!), the Model floor where there appears to be an infinite amount of rooms with different themes (kids rooms, space efficient rooms, mod rooms, etc), and the fabulous, fabulous market place where there are thousands and thousands of items from spoons to comforters to paintings!

Where my largest question arose was when I was in their cafeteria and their little foody market place. They sale an array of Swedish foods and I really started to question the authenticity. Do Swedish people really eat stuff out of tubes? Do they really eat their daim chocolate candies, milk chocolate cylinder discs filled with bits of nut and toffee? How well do novelty stores such as Ikea represent goods in their home country? After talking to a friend who has visited Sweden, it was confirmed that Swedish people indeed to like stuff in tubes! I think it's great how you get little snippets of a different culture by experiencing some of their goods even if it is cheese and fish in a tube! I did thoroughly enjoy Ikea's Swedish milk chocolate encrusted with hazelnuts also!