Listen, this video is great and all, but I'm still in my local IKEA. It's been 15 years! I can't find my way out! I've been surviving on meatballs, jam, and chocolates. Send another search party.
The kids' meatball and fish & chip got me through my university and night classes... I didn't live on campus. The commute to study was too long to study in the library, especially weekends. IKEA was closer. I would go to Ikea cafeteria to study, get a kids meal whenever I needed a snack, get free refill on fountain soda or caffeine, and take a walk in the Showroom whenever I needed a walk/ break. No one hassles you since you bust your own tray. It is very friendly for uni students on a budget plus you can't eat cinnamon rolls, get free refills in library ;)
Ikea is fun. It's like going to an amusement park. You go there a couple times a year, have a good time, probably spend more money than you intended, but it's worth it because you can haul away actual furniture, which most amusement parks won't allow you to do.
I never understood why people are so freaked out by horse meat when we eat cow, bison, buffalo, etc. Surely horse is leaner and therefore better for you.
the dark element is they destroyed the horse meat stuff, where they could've just sent them to the netherlands and belgium where we don't have much problems with eating horse meat :D
I'm starting to wonder if this has anything to do with how much I love putting together IKEA furniture. I honestly really like it, and I am dyslexic...
@@haileybalmer9722I was thinking the same thing!! I can follow the visual instructions way better than traditional instructions. Although I can never keep track of all the little pieces.
The nearest IKEA is too far away for me to go simply for the food. But I will admit that when I go to shop there for furniture, I do swing by their restaurant. It's inexpensive and tasty.
Can you make a video about Buc-ee’s mega travel stop chain? Which is a popular and well beloved chain in Texas and has spread to the Southeastern part of the country. It’s one or if not the biggest gas stations in the nation. It would be interesting if you made a video analysis over it 😅
Kamprad lived above Lausanne in Epalinges during his late life to avoid taxes on his billions, he left Switzerland just before he died to avoid paying successions taxes. He was always buying food in Denner in Epalinges, the cheapest discount in town. The guy really liked his money for sure.
ikea is like the home depot and at the thumbnail saying chance of meatballs i remembered the movie cloudy with a chance of meatballs, you should do a video about food-themed movies
I know ive lived in the woods for 30+ years, I've heard of ikea, never seen one, never been in one. I love puzzles the "harder" the better. Ikea sounds like a puzzle on steroids...with meat balls on the side!!
Would like to point that the 2018 Tweet came out it most of us had known it For YEARS in fact Ikea only came out with the Tweet after they were threatened with a lawsuit BY Turkey for claiming it were they original Recipe when in fact they stole it wholesale
A colleague goes to IKEA and her husband skives off to sit happily in the restaurant until she finishes shopping. Really a win win on both sides, until he finds out how many pieces of furniture she has bought and loads the car, but he was spared an hour or so tagging behind while she chose furniture or various knick nacks.
I heard once about the founder, of IKEA was once refused access to a big fancy part because he showed up to the party on the bus apparently he was so cheap and thirsty when he traveled he much rather take a bus or fly cheaply, then spend any money
Here in Sweden we mostly go there for the furniture, but my favorite thing from the restaurant here is that they have free ice-cream for the kids, and even jars of baby food.
My parents use to make me a similar meatball dish in a crock pot when I was a kid but used canned cranberries instead and would serve it with brown gravy, peas and potatoes or rice, it was very good and still is today!
I grew up in a neighborhood that was basically those of Scandinavian extract at the time. There were a few import retailers there. IKEA sells the basic imports in the Frozen and Food sections that are identical to my experience: Felix Lingonberries, Bond-Ost with caraway, and various stuff for fika. Perhaps Ingvar was doing what a lot of people did at the time- pretending to be a Nazi, even funding it, because he saw something down the road that might bring the Nazis back, and he wanted to keep an eye on things. Far-fetched, yet a lot of people did.
praise be to odin, master of ikea. we'll brush away the dark stuff, he's now a gentle god. no more war, just design of furniture, forging shelves with the hammer of thor.
Those names are not a product of his dylexia. They are actual names from cities, villages and rivers etc in Sweden. Each product line and category has their own name-scheme. Get your facts straight.
@@monkeygraborange www.today.com/home/how-ikea-products-get-their-names-t107753 Or alternativaly"I'm swedish and I know the names". Its not hard to google that shit.
Gotta say, I am surprised that IKEA serves food in their stores because our local store has none of it. As such, I could never taste those mouth-watering meatballs or any of the company's food that are served
I've heard it's Tom Blank actually, and Tom Blank on IMDB has credits for multiple Weird History videos so it seems like that's the right answer? Not sure why they don't credit the narrators on their weird history channels lol
IKEA is more "American" than Walmart. Its just cloaked in Swedish decor. Enormous stores selling cheap disposible furniture with cafeterias selling abundant food where they literally have a shopping cart for your hot food. The only thing not American about it is that its a well run store.
I disagree with the furniture being bad quality and not lasting. I have quite a few things that are over 20 years old and still look new. They've held up through several moves and rambunctious kids.
The names of their furniture are random Swedish, Norwegian or Danish city-/ village-names. But, yes, you could be forgiven for thinking the Swedish ones was dyslectic spelling, or lack thereof… 🇳🇴 😜👍
First of all...yikes...second of all this store has stressed me out the few times I've gone in, it's claustrophobic, overstimulating, and you have to follow the maze to get out. I might be one of the few that's not a fan
Now that you say IKEA is getting real heavy into eating bugs, I won't be ordering food there anymore. Considering their highly questionable and checkered past that you have thankfully brought to light in this video, I'm sure it won't be long before they're slipping cricket paste into the meatballs to increase profitability. Thanks for the history.
I hadn't been to one since the late 90s when I was helping someone decorate their apartment! It wasn't easy to get to without a car so I never have been back. Imagine my surprise when I heard one had opened up in my city; followed by the extreme disappointment that their merchandise now caters to the bland, colorless millennials that think "gray, on gray on slate" is the "hip" new way to live!🙄
Building furniture out of wood then burying that wood in a landfill is a form of carbon sequestration which is good. Wood grows on trees and we should not feel bad about maming things out of it.
Nope, they are the biggest deforestation company in the world, selling food as a side business. (Yes, I buy it too, but get it delivered, hate their shops) Their ideas & solutions are unbeatable, unfortunate.
Usually the narrator’s pronunciation of non-English names is quite good. However, this time I have to give him a D-. The pronunciation of the founder’s family name and home town were way off. Y sounds like a long U in Swedish.
I'm just glad this vid didn't come in 47 shorts that we have to put together ourselves.
🤣
I came in 47 shorts 😮
Listen, this video is great and all, but I'm still in my local IKEA. It's been 15 years! I can't find my way out! I've been surviving on meatballs, jam, and chocolates. Send another search party.
See this is why an Ikea GPS is needed
Do you have unlimited money?
At least the staff doesn’t attack you at night…right??
That’s crazy how you don’t know how to read a map that’s at the store
Bros stuck in Scp-3008
The kids' meatball and fish & chip got me through my university and night classes... I didn't live on campus. The commute to study was too long to study in the library, especially weekends. IKEA was closer. I would go to Ikea cafeteria to study, get a kids meal whenever I needed a snack, get free refill on fountain soda or caffeine, and take a walk in the Showroom whenever I needed a walk/ break. No one hassles you since you bust your own tray. It is very friendly for uni students on a budget plus you can't eat cinnamon rolls, get free refills in library ;)
Ikea is fun. It's like going to an amusement park. You go there a couple times a year, have a good time, probably spend more money than you intended, but it's worth it because you can haul away actual furniture, which most amusement parks won't allow you to do.
Don't forget the tasty snacks
My favorite response to the horsemeat in the meatballs controversy was someone going, "Well, this confirms it - horsemeat is DELICIOUS."
I have to say neigh
I never understood why people are so freaked out by horse meat when we eat cow, bison, buffalo, etc.
Surely horse is leaner and therefore better for you.
@@edselgreaves6503 It is not. Unprocessed animal fat is actually extremely healthy.
Major points for not glossing over the darker elements.
the dark element is they destroyed the horse meat stuff, where they could've just sent them to the netherlands and belgium where we don't have much problems with eating horse meat :D
Hearing that the founder was dyslexic it suddenly makes sense why the instruction manuals are so difficult to follow.
💀 💀 💀
I'm starting to wonder if this has anything to do with how much I love putting together IKEA furniture. I honestly really like it, and I am dyslexic...
@@haileybalmer9722I was thinking the same thing!! I can follow the visual instructions way better than traditional instructions. Although I can never keep track of all the little pieces.
There are almost no words in the instructions.
So dyslexia isnt the correct term if you are struggling with them.
There aren't many reliable ways to spot an idiot, but hearing someone say they find Ikea manuals difficult to follow, is up there.
I know they’re just frozen meatballs but they’re delicious and it’s tradition every time we go to IKEA to get them.
The nearest IKEA is too far away for me to go simply for the food. But I will admit that when I go to shop there for furniture, I do swing by their restaurant. It's inexpensive and tasty.
Can you make a video about Buc-ee’s mega travel stop chain? Which is a popular and well beloved chain in Texas and has spread to the Southeastern part of the country. It’s one or if not the biggest gas stations in the nation. It would be interesting if you made a video analysis over it 😅
Kamprad lived above Lausanne in Epalinges during his late life to avoid taxes on his billions, he left Switzerland just before he died to avoid paying successions taxes. He was always buying food in Denner in Epalinges, the cheapest discount in town. The guy really liked his money for sure.
All billionaires must take care to avoid excess taxes, as they all generate much, much more tax revenue than the average person.
I’ve never eaten food from IKEA, but have definitely gotten furniture from there. And it’s hit and miss. 😊
One of these days Jackie Chan needs to shoot a fight scene in an IKEA
6:15 Also know as Carolus Rex for all the Sabaton fans amongst us.
Costco has a similar strategy: $1.50 Hot dog and Coke. Originally a $1.00 served from a cart outside the front door.
ikea is like the home depot
and at the thumbnail saying chance of meatballs i remembered the movie cloudy with a chance of meatballs, you should do a video about food-themed movies
I know ive lived in the woods for 30+ years, I've heard of ikea, never seen one, never been in one. I love puzzles the "harder" the better. Ikea sounds like a puzzle on steroids...with meat balls on the side!!
Would like to point that the 2018 Tweet came out it most of us had known it For YEARS in fact Ikea only came out with the Tweet after they were threatened with a lawsuit BY Turkey for claiming it were they original Recipe when in fact they stole it wholesale
I love IKEA! It's the closest to Sweden as I can afford to get. I've been to Sweden twice because we still have cousins there and I miss it so much!
Hi 👋
Please do The Story on IKEA's Cakes
A colleague goes to IKEA and her husband skives off to sit happily in the restaurant until she finishes shopping. Really a win win on both sides, until he finds out how many pieces of furniture she has bought and loads the car, but he was spared an hour or so tagging behind while she chose furniture or various knick nacks.
I heard once about the founder, of IKEA was once refused access to a big fancy part because he showed up to the party on the bus apparently he was so cheap and thirsty when he traveled he much rather take a bus or fly cheaply, then spend any money
Maybe he was just frugal. Sam Walton famously drove around in a pickup truck despite being worth billions of dollars.
@@tremorsfan I dunno about frugal though
What's a "factor"?
@@MirzaAhmed89I think they meant founder. Autocorrect, I hope...
@@bubzilla6137 They also said "thirsty" instead of "thrifty" so, yeah, I think that might be it.
One of my favorite Sunday morning outings is grabbing breakfast at Ikea and then wandering around the store.
Didn't expect my favorite food trivia channel to also be where I discovered some of the less savory things about IKEA as a whole
Here in Sweden we mostly go there for the furniture, but my favorite thing from the restaurant here is that they have free ice-cream for the kids, and even jars of baby food.
Yeah the true meaning of IKEA just rolls right off the tongue, I wonder why it was never used?
My parents use to make me a similar meatball dish in a crock pot when I was a kid but used canned cranberries instead and would serve it with brown gravy, peas and potatoes or rice, it was very good and still is today!
Alas, no mention of IKEA's competitor STOR.
Thanks for usuful and valuable video as always ❤❤❤
My meatballs are Norwegian, and are much tastier. Served with Lefse, mashed potatoes and gravy. This usually our Christmas eve dinner.
Hi 😊
I've been to IKEA a couple times and I never knew they had meatballs nor did it ever cross my mind to go to the food section.
nope, they are a shark plushy store that sells unassembled furniture and food
All I know is, I always stop and get the meatballs and lingonberry jam.
Dang! I’m seeing IKEA in a whole new way.
Please do one on WAWA Gas Station.
Can't wait for the "Is Costco actually a hotdog vendor that just rents infinitely returnable stuff"
ua-cam.com/video/twUK5YreLWk/v-deo.htmlsi=pqEbCxKcE1_RBt4a
I grew up in a neighborhood that was basically those of Scandinavian extract at the time. There were a few import retailers there.
IKEA sells the basic imports in the Frozen and Food sections that are identical to my experience: Felix Lingonberries, Bond-Ost with caraway, and various stuff for fika.
Perhaps Ingvar was doing what a lot of people did at the time- pretending to be a Nazi, even funding it, because he saw something down the road that might bring the Nazis back, and he wanted to keep an eye on things.
Far-fetched, yet a lot of people did.
As I've assembled 100s of Ikea furniture, I've myself has never been to one... Probably will never as well.
This started out kind of tasty but ended pretty nasty.
After having tried real Swedish meatballs, IKEA meatballs just aren’t the same
I make them from scratch for my Dad, and can guarantee there is no comparison!
praise be to odin, master of ikea. we'll brush away the dark stuff, he's now a gentle god. no more war, just design of furniture, forging shelves with the hammer of thor.
I sometimes go for the restaurant not even byuing furniture
Heard, IKEA makes their meatballs of people who lost in their mazes...
I think they are. I ordered the Sklurg and they brought me a dresser.
Those names are not a product of his dylexia.
They are actual names from cities, villages and rivers etc in Sweden. Each product line and category has their own name-scheme.
Get your facts straight.
This is an ongoing problem with Ranker, the owner of the channel.
“Facts” are generally accompanied by source material, otherwise they’re just unsubstantiated opinion. Kinda like MS-NBC.
@@monkeygraborange www.today.com/home/how-ikea-products-get-their-names-t107753
Or alternativaly"I'm swedish and I know the names". Its not hard to google that shit.
@@Fenderbenne See… that wasn’t difficult, was it?
@@monkeygraborange Im not defending myself against challenged individuals o/
Horse meat and fecal matter - who’s ready to eat?? 🍴
I see you've been to Hardee's too.
@@misterhat5823 lol. Nope, we don’t have those in my neck of the woods… And it sounds like that’s a good thing
4:33 that Swedish drunk will fit nicely into Japanese Ikea marketing !
I love their breakfast. Their Swedish breakfast sausages are the best.
Never been to IKEA, but if there was an IKEA restaurant nearby, I'd go.
Gotta say, I am surprised that IKEA serves food in their stores because our local store has none of it. As such, I could never taste those mouth-watering meatballs or any of the company's food that are served
I do go to IKEA just to eat.
Have done it dozens of times.
I have lived near 4 Ikeas in the last 10 years.
"My uncle was eaten by a Giant Swedish Meatball" - Eddy, Ed Edd, n Eddy.
8:36 LOL! Might come in handy.
I swear I’ve never met anyone who was actually good at buying ikea stuff and assembling it properly. I think I’m the only one lol
I've never gone to IKEA for the food... only because I went during the covid era, so the restaurant was closed
Is the narrator Tom Zahner? Watching docs on "Most dangerous ways to school" an i swear its him!
I've heard it's Tom Blank actually, and Tom Blank on IMDB has credits for multiple Weird History videos so it seems like that's the right answer? Not sure why they don't credit the narrators on their weird history channels lol
Had no idea they had food… that’s awesome
I've never been to IKEA
I struggle with agoraphobia, so me neither! No way out (until you reach the end of the maze)!
@Garron Noone missed a trick man! Next time? 😅😅😅😅
IKEA is more "American" than Walmart. Its just cloaked in Swedish decor. Enormous stores selling cheap disposible furniture with cafeterias selling abundant food where they literally have a shopping cart for your hot food. The only thing not American about it is that its a well run store.
Thanks you for info! From now on. I wont be eating in IKEA!
💖 Weird History Food. Your Info are priceless 💖
💖endless thanks 💖 💋💋💋💋
Never seen an IKEA.
I think I have honestly never had IKEA meatballs. But I have certainy bought a lot of furniture an other stuff there.
I disagree with the furniture being bad quality and not lasting. I have quite a few things that are over 20 years old and still look new. They've held up through several moves and rambunctious kids.
the meatballs are an insult to swedish meatballs. Horribly bad!
We will not eat ze bugs.
The names of their furniture are random Swedish, Norwegian or Danish city-/ village-names. But, yes, you could be forgiven for thinking the Swedish ones was dyslectic spelling, or lack thereof… 🇳🇴 😜👍
First of all...yikes...second of all this store has stressed me out the few times I've gone in, it's claustrophobic, overstimulating, and you have to follow the maze to get out. I might be one of the few that's not a fan
Now that you say IKEA is getting real heavy into eating bugs, I won't be ordering food there anymore. Considering their highly questionable and checkered past that you have thankfully brought to light in this video, I'm sure it won't be long before they're slipping cricket paste into the meatballs to increase profitability. Thanks for the history.
Talk about a very Timely Meal!🤣
Lol this video title is amazing
i ate there once and it made me mega sick. i barely made it home without exploding.
bring the ikea restaurants to My country of Trinidad and Tobago 🇹🇹
Ehhrmuhgherd 😂 Whert dehr furhk?😂
Do the Crispety, Crunchety, Peanut-Buttery Butterfinger!
I second that.
I’m surprised half of the foods aren’t Swedish
I hadn't been to one since the late 90s when I was helping someone decorate their apartment! It wasn't easy to get to without a car so I never have been back. Imagine my surprise when I heard one had opened up in my city; followed by the extreme disappointment that their merchandise now caters to the bland, colorless millennials that think "gray, on gray on slate" is the "hip" new way to live!🙄
I still love Ikea and I'm excited to try those bug bites
the raw 3d printed vegan meatball looks like the 💩💩 emoji ngl lol
it's cheap frozen meatballs, no Swede with any self respect would call that proper meatballs
No smart person with any self respect would expect cheap food from ikea to be Michelin star cuisine
@@CB-sh9zz it’s frozen food, stop being cringe
@@noyourewrong599 ??? I've never denied it.
@@CB-sh9zz get a life
@@noyourewrong599 learn how to read English, your reaction is insane and makes no sense
I’m not eating bugs.
Building furniture out of wood then burying that wood in a landfill is a form of carbon sequestration which is good. Wood grows on trees and we should not feel bad about maming things out of it.
We're ikea guys! Of COURSE we ikenmajuuorgenhagen
The supercollider super-exploded! I need you to take it back and exchange it... for a wobbly C.D. rack and some of those rancid meatballs-Futurama.
Never been to one
I've never gone to Ikea and I think I was just given a few reasons to keep it that way
I love IKEA.
The random joy of clicking on a Weird History video and hearing the original narrator's voice
Too bad he announced he's quitting. He's tired of the narrator trolls giving his brother a hard time when he narrates.
What's wrong with finding horse meat in your meat ball's ? Hell that makes it better !!!!
good video
Am I the only one who thinks this host sounds exactly like Stephen Colbert?
It is Colbert and AI.
Lol you couldn't pay me to eat Swedish bug balls 😂
Welcome back to the best WH/WHF narrator @Tom Blank
He never left. You trolls act as if he's been gone for years. It's only been a couple of videos.
@@misterhat5823 not really no, but given how many « other » narrators they’ve tried using, it feels like they want to slowly transition Tom Blank out
Nope, they are the biggest deforestation company in the world, selling food as a side business. (Yes, I buy it too, but get it delivered, hate their shops) Their ideas & solutions are unbeatable, unfortunate.
I just eat the furniture.
It's the other way around, it's obvious
A+ video!
LOVE IT! I LOVE Swedish Meatballs and it is sounds like such a unique business!
I go there to eat meatballs and poop😂
Hi there
The poop is in the cakes, not the meatballs.
Thanks for this! 🪑
how much did y'all pay for the daft punk outro
Usually the narrator’s pronunciation of non-English names is quite good. However, this time I have to give him a D-. The pronunciation of the founder’s family name and home town were way off. Y sounds like a long U in Swedish.