{"id":1183,"date":"2010-12-15T04:43:17","date_gmt":"2010-12-15T03:43:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swedishfreak.com\/"},"modified":"2018-07-04T10:00:22","modified_gmt":"2018-07-04T17:00:22","slug":"alcohol","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.swedishfreak.com\/culture\/alcohol\/","title":{"rendered":"Alcohol"},"content":{"rendered":"
| Norrland<\/a> | Hunting<\/a> | Personality<\/a> | Style<\/a> | Food<\/a> | Alcohol<\/a> | Tobacco<\/a> | Loppis<\/a> |<\/h5>\n
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Swedes might be best described as binge drinkers, culturally speaking.<\/p>\n

\"Drinking<\/a><\/p>\n

For example, and almost to my surprise, it is frowned upon to drink during the week, and having a glass of wine a night is just as bad. Which might lead one to think that Swedes moderate their alcohol intakes when they do drink.<\/p>\n

Wrong.<\/p>\n

Systembolaget<\/h2>\n

Swedes buy their alcohol at the Systembolaget, the state-controlled alcohol stores, and the taxes that they pay on alcohol are extremely high. These stores typically open only from 10 am – 6 pm during the week and until only 1 pm on Saturdays. While this may seem depressing to those live in more alcohol free countries, compared to drinking alcohol at a restaurant or a bar, the Systembolaget is the cheaper option.<\/p>\n

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The beer section at the systembolaget<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Even so, alcohol is still cheaper overseas, thus many Swedes opt, depending on their geographic location, to travel to Finland<\/a>, Denmark, and even Germany to stock up on booze. Even after paying for the costs associated with the trip many Swedes come out ahead. And it’s not restricted to the Swedes; the Norwegians also travel to Denmark to buy alcohol, and the Finns cruise over to Estonia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

| Norrland | Hunting | Personality | Style | Food | Alcohol | Tobacco | Loppis | | The Little Things | Gambling | Quotes | Winter Sports |\u00a0Pippi Longstocking | Swedes might be best described as binge drinkers, culturally speaking. For example, and almost to my surprise, it is frowned upon to drink during … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":248,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"yst_prominent_words":[1063,1663,1664,1662,1649,1665,553,1661,1234],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swedishfreak.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1183"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swedishfreak.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swedishfreak.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swedishfreak.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swedishfreak.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1183"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.swedishfreak.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32855,"href":"https:\/\/www.swedishfreak.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1183\/revisions\/32855"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swedishfreak.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swedishfreak.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swedishfreak.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=1183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}