Tuesday, April 03, 2007

"fika" in the US

I visited Craig and Rachel (and David) before coming to South Africa. They live in California. We were driving down 101 and I saw the sign for a local amusement park/games place called "Scandia Fun Center." The sign in front had the word "fika." So of course I had to check it out.

It's a small amusement park with video games and amusement arcade games inside, go-carts, baseball hitting, and other games outside. Nothing like Sweden. Checked out the menu for the snack bar. Nothing at all like a Swedish snack bar. The closest was that Häagen-Dazs was available for sale. That ice cream name is a made-up word and sounds very strange if I try to pronounce it as if it was Swedish.

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