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When you think of Sweden, what comes to mind? Ikea, Abba?
提到瑞典，你首先会想到什么？宜家？Abba乐队？
Maybe those delicious cinnamon rolls?
也许你想到的是那些美味的肉桂卷?
But what about these? Swedish meatballs.
那……瑞典肉丸呢？
Right? Well, maybe not.
对吧？呃，也许不会想到吧。
Welcome to the meatball mystery.
欢迎来到“肉丸之谜”。
Let's cut straight to the chase.
我们还是开门见山吧。
It's hard to make the Swedes angry, but on one fateful day, something happened that fired up the whole country.
让瑞典人生气是很难的，但是在一个宿命的日子里，发生了一件让整个国家都为之血涌的事情。
This tweet was sent from the official Sweden Twitter account:
瑞典官方的推特账号发布了这样一条推文：
Swedish meatballs are actually based on a recipe from King Charles XII brought back from Turkey in the early 18th century. Let's stick to the facts.
瑞典肉丸实际上是根据18世纪早期国王查尔斯十二世从土耳其带回的食谱制作的。大家就认了吧。
Yikes. Did you catch that?
哇喔。你听到了吗？
The tweet said that Swedish meatballs actually come from Turkey.
这条推文说瑞典肉丸实际上来自土耳其。
As you can imagine, the tweet went viral.
想想就知道，这条推文会被疯狂传播。
Swedes were up in arms.
瑞典人表示强烈抗议。
It was picked up all around the world.
全世界的人都看到了这条推文。
"The Swedish government has admitted Swedish meatballs are actually Turkish. What? What? "
“瑞典政府承认瑞典肉丸实际上是土耳其的。什么？说什么呢。”
"No, that's not a fact.
“不，不是真的。
The fact is really interesting.
事实真的很有意思。
Since we don't have any facts from that period."
因为我们并没有那个时期的史料。”
Wait, who are you?
等等，你是哪位?
"My name is Richard Tellstrom. I'm a food historian."
“我是理查德·特尔斯特罗姆。是一名食品历史学家。”
OK, here's what we know.
好吧，下面是我们了解到的一些信息。
In the 1700s, Swedish King Charles XXII lost a battle in the Great Northern War.
18世纪的时候，瑞典国王查尔斯二十二世在大北方战争中战败了。
He was forced to flee to the Ottoman Empire where for several years he negotiated his return.
他被迫逃到了奥斯曼帝国，在那里他谈判了好几年才得到了回国的机会。
The controversial tweets suggested that he brought back a local Turkish meat dish called koftas.
那些带有争议的推文说他带回了名为koftas的一种土耳其当地的肉食品。
"However, there is no documented interests from him in food.
然而，并没有史料提到他对食物很感兴趣。
No mentioning of the meatballs there.
也没有史料提到土耳其那边有肉丸。
They are not Turkish because we can't follow the original meatballs in the world.
它们并不是源自土耳其的，因为我们并不能追踪到瑞典肉丸最早的起源。
There is no zero meatball where everything started.
没有从没有肉丸到逐渐有肉丸这个么源头。
Most likely, origin of the meatball is a development in parallel ways in parallel food cultures.
最有可能的情况是，这种肉丸是在平行的饮食文化中以平行的方式发展起来的。
Therefore, meatballs are very different all over the world, but they exist all over the world."
这样，世界各地的肉丸才会不一样，但各个地方又都有肉丸。”
Today it's one of Sweden's most popular dishes.
如今，瑞典肉丸已经成了瑞典最受欢迎的菜肴之一。
Traditionally served with mashed potatoes, a brown gravy, and a sweet lingonberry sauce.
传统的吃法是搭配土豆泥、棕色的肉汁和甜甜的林贡莓酱食用。
Food gives us an example of how we are connected when it comes to culture.
谈到文化，食物也给我们提供了一个例子，说明大家是如何联系在一起的。
Food is a sort of cultural network.
食物也可以说是一种文化网络。
So take pride in your meatballs, Sweden.
瑞典，为你的肉丸自豪吧。
And so should Turkey, China, Italy, and every meatball rolling country.
土耳其、中国、意大利，每个有肉丸滚来滚去的国家都应该如此。
Because if there's one thing the world can agree on, it's that meatballs are delicious.
因为如果有一件事是全世界都同意的，那就是肉丸真的很好吃。
