Meme Girls - Ch. 54.1 - IKEA: The Anime

[MangaDex]

 

[Holyshitballs]

Meatballs are very good and cost effective

 

[AncientWatcher]

Can someone translate PewDiePie's statement to English?

 

[MrKawaii]

lmao wtf

 

[Ncararc]

If Skynet isn't lying to me about its translation, I have to wonder- how does extolling meatballs lead to IKEA self-assembly?

 

[Goldenzeal]

@AncientWatcher
@Ncararc

*edit: made a TLR at the bottom if you don´t want a mini lecture on how weird swedish can be * .


Swedish speaker here.

he is saying
"Köttbullar är väldigt goda och kostnads effektiva".
This translates into something like:
Meatballs are ("väldigt") good and cost-effective.

"väldigt" is a bit hard to give a direct translation to, course its meaning is dependent on the rest of the sentence.
But the closet translation I can think of would be "really" or "very" depending on in what sentence you use it in ( really would be the better one here ).
it's used to amplify the expression of the other words like how "this is really fucking good" is "stronger" then instead of "this is really good" , or just "this is good".


"Goda" also have a few diffrent meanings(again depending on how it's used), but the most commons one is "good" and "tasty" ( It's basically a way to express something as positive. )
for example, "goda mäniskor" ( this means good people or good humans ) where it's used as "good" meaning it describes something as the opposite of evil or bad, something "good"
or in this manga, he says "köttbullar är goda" ( Meatballs are tasty ) where it's used the same way as "tasty"


so TL: DR he is saying "meatballs are really good and cost-effective".

The thing here is that meatballs are famous for being one of the few foods people buy a lot of at IKEA´s mini restaurants as take out food.
( kinda like a hot dog stand in a city plaza for furnitures, some other foods you find there are hotdogs and sandwitches plus a few others typical swedish meals )
Usually the meatballs are served with mashed potatoes and lingonberry jam and/or brown sauce. ( not 100% if "brown sauce" is the correct translation, but its what we call it in swedish )

meatballs are also by themselves a super iconic Swedish food to the point that it's basically a meme.

 

[Ncararc]

@Goldenzeal
Thanks for explaining about IKEA cuisine. Skynet's translation was close enough to yours ("very" instead of "really").

 

[Goldenzeal]

@Ncararc

Happy too :>
And well, both are correct anyway.
Also, Pewdiepie likes to joke about IKEA in his youtube video´s, so there is that too.

 

[AncientWatcher]

@Goldenzeal

Thanks for the translation.

 

[ZdrytchX]

@Goldenzeal

kinda like a hot dog stand in a city plaza for furnitures

I thought that was an aussie thing D:

here in australia its a tradition where local primary schools (elementary schools as they call it in US) or other fundraising organisations set up a basic bbq stand in front of bunning's warehouse (which is a hardware store of all sorts: they sell plants, do key cut services, they have a kiddy daycare play area, except they also do workshop stuff like building toolboxes, and you can request an installation service after buying some products like doors, power tools and they even sell somewhat dangerous hydrochloric/oxalic acid bore stain removers etc. - Actually very much different to the generic hardware store like how ikea is unique with its fancy clean atmosphere and gets its customers navigate a circuit, while bunnings is usually just an oversized shop in a warehouse shed for accessibility convenience, and sells generally more out-door DIY focused).

I guess the main reason that the fundraisers became popular is because in the past they used to run a cafe in the warehouse, but that never took off maybe because they were expensive or something, but the fundraisers typically sell cheap and simple hot dogs (as sausage sizzles we call it here), which are either in a regular hot dog bun or quite literally a square slice of white toast, and you get the options for onion, bbq/mustard/tomato sauce and typically some selection of soft drink cans. There really isn't much choice, but honestly it's like the argument of "if you're going to ikea for the meatballs, why sell anything else?"

The fundraisers are usually only shown at schools on voting days and during special school events with very few exceptions. The only one I can think of aside from the bunnings tradition from the top of my head is when the city did a AC/DC highway to hell 10km long rock concert when the city councils blocked out an entire highway for the anniversary of the dead band member or something. The sizzle stand had a 50 minute long queue btw, but it was worth it. I dunno about sitting in the sun for 5 hours to listen to 20 variations of a few AC/DC songs though.

 

[Goldenzeal]

@ZdrytchX

well, it's not exactly the same, different foods and for different reasons.
But thanks for the info, was actually planning to go to Australia sometimes next year. ( was going to this year, but then 2020 happened )
As long as the pandemic/forest fires or spider rain don´t kill all of you first, I might just live long enough to stop by xD

 

[AMetroid]

Like the Costco hotdog & soda for $1.50.

 

[immortalartisan]

Ah yesh the ancient Finnish magic of instant furniture assembly which all Finnish know at the age of 5