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Podcast: Today In History with The Retrospectors
Episode: The Swedish Meatballs Controversy
Description: Where are meatballs from, and why does it matter? Social media users frenziedly grappled with these very questions on 29th April, 2018, when Swedenâs official Twitter account proclaimed: âSwedish meatballs are actually based on a recipe King Charles XII brought home from Turkey in the early 18th century. Let's stick to the facts!âDoes this tale about the Royal family bringing meatballs back from the Ottoman Empire check out? And doesnât every culture in the world have some form of meatballs? Youâd think these would be innocent questions - but they ended up overhauling Swedenâs s...