h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Now, since the editor first and foremost concentrates on two of the
norse countries, which have very similar languages, it can be a nice
little bit of annoying curiousity to point out the sometimes amusing,
or otherwise feeling-inducing, way two similar and indeed
related lanuages, at times radically differs.

Indeed, both Danish and Swedish use the same suffix to
indicate plural, but what about the word itself, as mentioned
casually in the text? Frikadell or meatball or Brockian ultra cricket?

Here's the story, for anyone in lack of anything better to do:

In Sweden, the mentioned mincemeaty tidbit is actually referred to
as a meatball. A frikadell is a very similar thing, but is spiced with
sage and boiled, rather than fried. It is usually served in soups.

The promised intresting bit (a matter of subjectivity), is that
this very thing, is, by the Danes, called a meatball.