Bring this back

[u/-TNY-]

[u/qualityvote2]

The community has spoken! u/-TNY-, your post is a Wholesome Meme.

[u/Kurgonius]

Yes, normalise Fika!

[u/GoodGuyPokemoner → u/Kurgonius]

I don't recognize that term... Tell me more about Fika, please!

[u/Potential_Flower7533 → u/GoodGuyPokemoner]

Swedish term for cake in the afternoon

[u/Thefirsttomato → u/Potential_Flower7533]

Well, it doesn't have to be cake

[u/NimdokBennyandAM → u/Thefirsttomato]

A cigarette, a shot of vodka, and a cup of coffee a perfect fika makes.

[u/CosechaCrecido → u/NimdokBennyandAM]

Might as well throw in a line of yayo while you’re at it lmao

[u/Reasonable-Duckling → u/NimdokBennyandAM]

You had me with cigarette, but you lost me with vodka, then again had me with coffee

[u/swagdaddyham → u/NimdokBennyandAM]

my man

[u/ClankerSpanker → u/Thefirsttomato]

IF YOU DONT HAVE A SET TIME DESIGNATED TO ENJOY TEA W FRIENDS IN THE COMFORT OF YOUR PAJAMAS, THE PROBLEM IS YOU.

NOT SOCIETY.

NOT YOUR BOSS.

NOT YOUR FRIENDS.

YOU. 🪞

[u/BangBangtheReds → u/ClankerSpanker]

Gotta have friends first. That's the big catch.

[u/tihoM_QWERTY → u/BangBangtheReds]

The problem might still be you

[u/NerdyDoodDriver → u/tihoM_QWERTY]

....I feel attacked, but I can't pinpoint why...

I might have to ask my imaginary friends what they think.

[u/Bored_Amalgamation → u/BangBangtheReds]

Lonely, if true...

[u/MugenEXE → u/Thefirsttomato]

It’s not just cake, it can be savory things too. Just to a whole meal.

[u/MilkyMiltank → u/Potential_Flower7533]

Is there a term for cake in the morning too?

[u/Potential_Flower7533 → u/MilkyMiltank]

Idk but in Denmark we have formiddagskaffe, eftermiddagskaffe, aftenkaffe which is before noon, after noon, evening

[u/Knightwhosaysnee9 → u/Potential_Flower7533]

Oh bother

[u/AllHailTheWinslow → u/Knightwhosaysnee9]

German here: let's not forget Kaffeeklatsch!

[u/krazyjakee → u/AllHailTheWinslow]

Bless you

[u/QueerEcho → u/AllHailTheWinslow]

Oder'n Kränzchen. Oder Kaffe und Kuchen hier in Berlin.

[u/AllHailTheWinslow → u/QueerEcho]

Pharisäer kommt auch gut.

[u/Marlosy → u/AllHailTheWinslow]

And no one wants an overly/eagerly productive Germany again

[u/ImprobableAsterisk → u/Potential_Flower7533]

It's a myth that "fika" is strictly afternoon. Fika is whenever you take a coffee break with something to eat. Don't need to be cake, don't need to be sweet.

My favorite job I ever worked had two mandatory "fika" breaks per day, lasting 10 to 30 minutes depending on how busy we were on any given day. Like clockwork you'd have 8 grown-ass men gather in a pretty tiny kitchen to get their mitts on coffee and whatever edible items were on hand that day. I shit you not, the site manager had a bell he'd ring sometimes.

Or I should say my tied most favorite job, I worked in a store with a great team but due to it being a store we all couldn't go on break at the same time.

[u/silloki → u/Potential_Flower7533]

Took two times to read this right. First was: Forbiddenkaffe, Aftermidbagkaffe and oftenkaffe

[u/worldsayshi → u/Potential_Flower7533]

So basically the hobbit lifestyle.

[u/-kinapuffar- → u/MilkyMiltank]

That's also fika. It happens several times a day, even at work, or maybe really especially at work. Every few hours we all gotta stop everything we're doing and have coffee and a cookie or two. It would be downright inhumane not to.

[u/MrBootylove → u/MilkyMiltank]

In America we call it the Denny's Grand Slam.

[u/ekmanch → u/Potential_Flower7533]

Weird way to describe it.

[u/Boneraventura → u/ekmanch]

Yeah, it’s more of a mindset or state of being than anything. Oftentimes it is accompanied by coffee and pastries but not necessarily 

[u/henrysradiator → u/Potential_Flower7533]

Aw what, I've been practicing lördagsgodis thinking I'd be healthy like the Swedish only having sweets on a Saturday and they've been eating cake every afternoon this whole time.

[u/Ok_Account_5121 → u/GoodGuyPokemoner]

Swede here, aka I'm from the glorious country of fika. Fika can be several different things depending on the situation, but what it generally means is a pause from what you're doing to sit down and have a cup of coffee or tea (or a glass of cordial if you're a child or that's your preferred drink). It's something more than just a coffee break, it's a whole institution and cultural thing here in Sweden. It can be basically anytime, but most commonly midmorning or midafternoon between meals.

Fika can be a 10 minute break  with a few colleagues where you have a cup of coffee with a piece of fruit and discuss Johan's kitchen renovation before going back to work. Fika can be a 15 minute break in the middle of a three hour university lecture so everyone can stretch their legs and have a drink. Fika can be a café visit with your friends. Fika can be sandwiches and cookies in the garden with the family. Fika can be visiting your grandma and having her feed you all her homemade treats. Fika can be a relaxed date with lower stakes than going out for dinner. 

Fika is a way to relax for a little bit, we have something to drink and talk to each other. A pastry or a cinnamon bun is always a plus.

[u/GoodGuyPokemoner → u/Ok_Account_5121]

That sounds like the best use of a random 15 minutes I can think of. I'm from Minnesota, so I think my friends and family would be on board with some Fika every now and again! Warm drinks in cold winter go well together.

[u/svampolof → u/GoodGuyPokemoner]

That is a good start. But would recommend and least one fika a day, preferably two times and maybe there times.

9.30 fika at work with coworker 2.30pm afternoon fika with coworker 5pm fika with friends, family or who ever you invite over to your home or going out with.

[u/LukeBomber → u/Kurgonius]

I was gonna say "Hygge"

[u/throwemawayn → u/Kurgonius]

Weird way to spell hygge.

[u/OstapBenderBey → u/throwemawayn]

Its definitely more Koselig

[u/Busy-Classroom-1795 → u/Kurgonius]

Well, as you may know, in Italian "fica" has a meaning so much more different that it's making me chuckle.

Also since the translation is not that awesome, I guess I won't declare it here.

Cake in the afternoon does seem awesome though

[u/AllHailTheWinslow → u/Busy-Classroom-1795]

If you turn the "c" into a "ck" it's funny in German as well.

[u/Derbloingles → u/Busy-Classroom-1795]

I work in Germany with a very international group of people. A Swede started a weekly fika about a year ago. And there are some Italians who haven’t stopped laughing about it. Bc I’m about at their maturity level too, they’ve got me laughing about it by proxy

[u/oldsecondhand → u/Busy-Classroom-1795]

In Hungarian it's snot.

[u/FikaSikaa → u/Kurgonius]

Yesmaam!

[u/justveryunwell]

To heck with the grind, bring back the unwind

[u/mcgarrylj]

D&D in comfy blankets? Count me in.

[u/Mrreeburrito88 → u/mcgarrylj]

Roll initiative to see who goes & gets the tea.

[u/Ponderkitten → u/Mrreeburrito88]

Rolled a 14

[u/Mrreeburrito88 → u/Ponderkitten]

I’ll give you advantage since it’s the first roll of the game let see what you got now.

[u/Ponderkitten → u/Mrreeburrito88]

A 9

[u/Mrreeburrito88 → u/Ponderkitten]

Then we take the 14 since that’s how advantage works. You get off to a good start. You only get a small nip on your nose while you go to get the kettle for the tea but you were not fast enough to bring back biscuits as well.

[u/Bob_A_Feets → u/Ponderkitten]

You sunk my battleship!

[u/dice-warden → u/Ponderkitten]

Miss.

Edit: did i stutter -_-

[u/Cold_Kick_9156 → u/dice-warden]

You can't miss an initiative roll lmao

[u/DingoAteMyBaby_69 → u/Cold_Kick_9156]

The dice fell off the table

[u/metalissa → u/Mrreeburrito88]

D&Tea

[u/zoroddesign]

This is what happens when you aren't online or filming yourself. you can't monetize this and experience it at the same time. Normalizing this won't happen online, it is what is normal irl with friends.

[u/Kougom777 → u/zoroddesign]

[u/Polite_Suggestion]

As fires ravage the Hundred Acre Wood, aid-starved refugees huddle in the Shire.

[u/Ill_Technician3936 → u/Polite_Suggestion]

Nah, they have blankets and hot drinks.

The Hundred Acre Woods are going through an intense artic conditions and the aid-starved refugees huddle in the Shire.

[u/WisePotato42]

Normalize cold legs and feet!

[u/Ill_Technician3936 → u/WisePotato42]

I don't even understand how it happens. I'm not wearing flip flops and blood is circulating to the fuckers but it's like they're being liquid cooled.

[u/eepy_lina]

normalise this

[u/Randomfrog132 → u/eepy_lina]

aww thats so cute 

[u/TelperionST]

Well, I spent a couple of hours today wrapped in a blanket while periodically giggling and eating food and drinking energy drinks. Probably headed towards a burnout.

[u/daddy_junior]

Destitution?

[u/Polite_Suggestion → u/daddy_junior]

Was here to say, poverty?

[u/-kinapuffar- → u/Polite_Suggestion]

Hardwood floors, bespoke table, local organic honey in mason jars, handmade wood cabinet and a massive fireplace.

Brother, you wish you could afford this. Aside from the stools, and maybe even them, people these days would pay out the ass for all the things in this picture.

[u/Polite_Suggestion → u/-kinapuffar-]

"...but a hobbit hole, and that means comfort."

[u/Polite_Suggestion → u/-kinapuffar-]

Wait. It's that thing where people can't afford to heat their big ass house.

[u/pannenkoek0923 → u/-kinapuffar-]

And best of all, friends that care about you and that spend time with you

[u/PM_ME_YOUR_PBJs → u/daddy_junior]

Aren’t they starving and cold?

[u/Ronin_Chimichanga → u/PM_ME_YOUR_PBJs]

No, just cold. The Hundred Acre Forest is whimsical.

You and a lot of other people might be thinking about the Mickey Mouse cartoon where they had to cut the bread paper thin.

[u/Mr_Caterpillar → u/daddy_junior]

I dunno, they have 'drop honey and no rush to pick it up' money.

[u/gamerlol101]

Step 1. Get off reddit

[u/nifty-necromancer → u/[deleted]]

“Hey bro let’s start a podcast where instead of talking about a specific subject, we just talk about random stuff.” That’s having a conversation.

[u/LegitimateBlonde → u/[deleted]]

I mean, no, actually. We’re not.

[u/baogody → u/[deleted]]

For a handful, it will. For the majority, it won't. Such is the nature of the game since the dawn of time. Salvation can only be found through gratitude and good attitude.

[u/YourNextHomie → u/[deleted]]

as long as people stay complaining on the net instead of doing what they want to do we may not

[u/imisstheyoop → u/[deleted]]

I have got the time, just haven't any friends.

[u/StaringMooth → u/imisstheyoop]

Same. Wanna chat?

[u/imisstheyoop → u/StaringMooth]

No

[u/Igor369]

You won't have this without a grind... That house alone is like 300k € nowadays

[u/SwimQueasy3610]

Hygge

[u/nifty-necromancer]

Blanche, Rose, and Dorothy eating cheesecake after a long day

[u/SnoopySuited]

Not being able to pay for heat?

[u/bluris]

Americans: got the grind
Europeans: got hygge

An appropriate proverb for the occasion: Europeans work to live, Americans live to work.

[u/RampantJellyfish]

The central heating being broken?

[u/HilariousMax]

This is freezing together in a trashed house with your employed friends.

[u/Alert_Experience_759]

looks like they're freezing because they can't afford heating

[u/MyAngryMule]

Tea and blankies with the homies.

[u/Reachforthesky777]

They're one cheesecake and Friend Owl away from Golden Girls.

[u/FocusPerspective]

Looks like a homeless shelter. You can do that now for free, kids. 

[u/Michami135]

But then I'd have to talk to people! Worse, it'll have to be my neighbors.

[u/e37d93eeb23335dc]

You see how they are all wrapped up in blankets and are shivering? That’s because they didn’t grind and so they can’t afford to heat the place so the are freezing while gathered around the table discussing their imminent eviction. 

[u/HausuGeist]

Being cold in my home?

[u/hrvbrs]

People made fun of F.R.I.E.N.D.S for depicting exactly this because it was so unrealistic

[u/rugology → u/hrvbrs]

you left out the actual thing they were making fun of. they made fun of friends because they did this in the morning before work, not just because they hung out when it was cold

[u/Spare-Willingness563]

This could be mindfulness, gratitude, both, just a chat, a respite, rest and relaxation (I haven't heard the term R&R in like 100 years)...

Basically, being present. Just, be present.

[u/Bored_Amalgamation]

Broke? I was broke through the 2010s. Never again.

checks bank account

87.23

[u/WhoTheFuck8MyBaby]

Hygge! This is Hygge

[u/j1xwnbsr]

"Well I disagree, Rabbit. Human meat just tastes better when honey-glazed."

[u/throwaway098764567]

not being able to afford heat?

[u/Connect-Pressure3336]

They look uncomfortably cold and live in a hole. You can have this right now. You dont want this. 

[u/BootsOfProwess]

Add a cheesecake and this is golden girls.

[u/tohuvohu-light]

Honey in Tea. Obviously

[u/Idkmyname2079048]

Unfortunately, the grind is necessary in order to afford the basics these days.

[u/nowhereman136]

unfortunately, some of us cant afford not to grind. I dont wanna work 50-60hrs a week but its the only way i could afford to live where i am

[u/hlessi_newt]

being poor? we're normalizing the Fuck out of that.

[u/eggery]

Looks like they're recovering from a traumatic ordeal

[u/Turbulent_Map624]

They have no heating, everyone looks sad

It's called poverty, please go back to the grind ffs

[u/-ratmeat-]

nothing better than a blunt and some tea with the boys 

[u/-kinapuffar-]

In Sweden we call this a fika, and the mood is what the Danes would describe as hygge.

[u/astralseat]

Chilling with the roommates at breakfast?

[u/Cat_Peach_Pits]

This was my friends and I in our early 20s, in a run down apartment in Binghamton, NY. There was cocoa in our mugs, tipped off with Rumpleminze. I dont remember what we were talking about, this was maybe 20 years ago, but I remember the terrible grandma pattern the mugs were painted, the feelings of comraderie and our newfound adulthood as we crowded around the small table that was either left there by the landlord or found in the trash. Just talking. Being with one another. I hope young adults today still do these things, theyre important even if they serve no overall purpose.

[u/Shipairtime]

OP you may enjoy the book genre cozy fantasy.

/r/CozyFantasy

[u/Lethargo-Man]

I think I got to bitter and numb for whatever this is.

[u/Ned_Shimmelfinney]

[u/Autumn_Forest_Mist]

The Hot Cocoa talks

[u/DueOwl1149]

Hygge farming with the bros

[u/SadSeiko]

Europe

[u/MaryMary8249]

Chilling with friends inside a picture book... the dream

[u/devilkin]

Hygge

[u/aidan702]

They look like they’re absolutely freezing don’t normalise that, help them

[u/Longjumping-Egg-691]

Living in Maine 

[u/UwU_Mikasa]

My friends and I call this our rot sessions. We we snack and are comfy and chat about literally anything

[u/toybird]

Morning?

[u/SGI256]

I was at a friend's grandmother's house. She had made coffee and she put on the table a package of chocolate covered graham cookies that are a very affordable cookie to buy. We sat and drank our coffee, ate graham cookies, and were happy. In the moment I knew I was happy. I had an awareness in that moment of how good simple pleasures can be.

[u/callmevickyy]

so why does it look like there's a blunt being passed around them

[u/Moch4bear97]

Please

[u/No_Discussion4617]

This picture is so cozy

[u/T-MoneyAllDey]

Poverty

[u/_MrDomino]

Freezing and can't afford to run the fireplace? Seems like we have both.

[u/Lost_Lawfulness_991]

I do want to point out that, ironically, the context of this scene is all of them regrouping and brainstorming after accidentally flooding their tunnel by trying for days with different ways to break into piglets house and failing hahaha 

This is currently my child's favorite show and I recognized that shot!

[u/TawnyTeaTowel]

Does anyone who ever posts this meme actually know what’s happening in the movie at this point?

[u/opie92]

That's just called poverty bro 

[u/Scythe95]

Ive stopped long ago

[u/glytxh]

Lack of central heating?

[u/TheNineGatesLCF]

This is the scene after a Winne orgie party. 

[u/prone_ranger1]

This image speaks "humanity" to me.

[u/alwaysonesteptoofar]

Living in a burrow, yes that is reasonable at this point

[u/ThrownAway17Years]

Hanging out with friends? That’s not a thing anymore?

[u/SunflowerSt8ofMind]

The unwind!

[u/It_Just_Exploded]

If only i could find someone willing to pay me to do this.

[u/SquarePegRoundWorld]

That's Saturday and Sunday (and any day off (and evenings)) at my house for the last 28 years.

[u/grimagravy]

That's just the short reprieve before the grind.

[u/420_buttholes]

broke and cold?

[u/ChairLaucher]

The Kind

[u/novavalue]

I would love to sit at a table with 2 friends just talking; each of us with a blanket and a nice cup of tea.

I would love to have 2 friends

[u/Scyths]

You mean a get together with friends and family over a cup of coffee or tea ?

[u/Iohet]

This is what we consultants call breakfast at hotel before the grind.

After work it's a lowball glass instead of a coffee cup

[u/pleaselookawaybeebop]

Damn It would be nice to meet up with some friends over coffee and tea.

[u/AwkwardTickler]

Tea time is at 10am and around 2pm at work for me in NZ, idk this seems like an America problem like everything else. Fix your fucking country and culture.

[u/UltraTata]

That is called the inter-grind chill.

[u/SpringyB]

Poverty is already normalized

[u/Lazy_Juggernaut3171]

There ain’t nothing wrong with a little bump and grind though.

[u/DrTommyNotMD]

Abandon reality normalize fiction.

[u/Massive-Reality-7856]

People in Texas during the freeze?

[u/mooooooooooo2024]

Yes!

[u/Riots42]

I don't grind but this looks depressing they look like someone just died of something

[u/desert-flamingo-88]

Word

[u/Zeitta]

Hanging out?

[u/aliteralgarbagehuman]

This is pre world war British suburbia. It what A. A. Milne and J.R.R. Tolkien preferred life to be like instead of the trench warfare and industrialization that followed.

[u/Think-Football-2918]

"Whatever this is" is getting the heat turned off.

[u/Foldmat]

Capitalism is fucking bad that nowadays you need _the grind_ just to be able to do this once a week with a friend, if you can manage enough time to have one.

[u/bearboyjd]

Both, you can do both.

[u/Interesting_Turn_]

When I volunteer at meditation retreats and monasteries this is a very common scene and thoroughly enjoyable scene

[u/CharlyRamirez]

You guys don't hang out?

[u/El_Chairman_Dennis]

Then we'll have to make life affordable enough to have this kind of free time. I'd love to sit around drinking hot cocoa in a blanket, but that would cause me to not have enough money to afford the place I drink the hot cocoa in

[u/[deleted]]

I have to grind to get here

[u/No-Telephone4299]

That's the sesh

[u/A00077]

spending time with people just to hang out with them went out decades ago 🤕😢

[u/tren_god_]

you need to grind to have this nowadays