Swedish shopkeepers capitalise on Finnish food strikes
Striking food workers in Finland have sent the purchasing public scurrying across the border to Sweden for supplies.
PM: Food prices in Iceland increasing too much, too fast
Iceland’s Prime Minister Johanna Sigurdardottir, believes that food prices have increased too quickly in the last year or two. She told reporter...
Sweden finds meat glue unsavoury
The Swedish Consumers’ Association has joined politicians in criticising the government’s approval of thrombin, known colloquially as ‘meat glue’, cla...
Denmark seeks cheese protection
A leading Danish gastronome has called for the country’s famous Havarti cheese to be protected under copyright laws.
Icelandic farmers suffering high energy costs
Market gardeners in Iceland distributed vegetables outside parliament yesterday as part of their protest at the high cost of electricity. The protest ...
Helsinki Zoo feeds bunnies to the lions
Helsinki has found a novel solution to the age-old problem of urban rabbits. They will soon be on the menu for the city zoo’s vultures, wolverines and...
Beware of pizza in Halmsted, Sweden
After conducting standard food safety inspections at restaurants in the Swedish city of Halmstad, it was discovered that nearly 90 per cent of establi...
Carrot bombs strike fear in Swedish town
An art project in the Swedish town of Orebro went awry when locals mistook clusters of carrots for bombs, prompting police to step in an attempt to di...