Fredagsmys

Fredagsmys

I’m going to tell you about a Swedish tradition called ”Fredagsmys” or ”Friday cosiness” as you would say it in English. Every friday, when we swedes come home from a long week in school or at work, we gather friends and family (or are by ourselves) to celebrate the arrival of the weekend. All you need for this celabration is your most comfortable clothes, drinks, dinner and snacks of your choice and your favorite movie or game. The friday cosiness is the best time of the week. Everybody is exited and relifed over the fact that they have a whole weekend in front of them and they celebrate this by relaxing.

The moast common meal to eat on a friday in Sweden is not a swedish meal, it’s a mexican. Tacos, wich is a dear favorite in many cosy familys, is a dish with meat and lots of vegetables. (But I think that you already know about that, since you have TacoBell in USA).

Friday cosiness has been a tradition in Sweden for many years now, and the thing that I personally think is responsible for making all the swedes addicted to these fridays, is the darkness. We swedes like to be out in the sun, when it’s shining. Unfortunaly, the majority of months are dark here. This means that when have our free time, it’s completely dark outside and to make the situation better, we hang out with our nearest to have a cosy evening.

The thing that I love the most about ”Fredagsmys” is that almost everyone loves it. There is not many people who don’t like to watch a movie and relax with friends, food, snacks and drinks. I mean, what is there not to like? There is a group on Facebook for all the ”Fredagsmys”-lovers called ”Vi som älskar fredagsmys” (We who love friday cosiness) wich contains 2% of the whole swedish population. (24% of the swedish population has Facebook).

There are some smart companies that have takened advantage of the ”Fredagsmys”-tradition to sell more of their products. The company who succeded best with this is OLW. It’s a company who sells chips and other snacs wich you often eat during ”Fredagsmys”. This snac-company created the song that would start to represent ”Fredagsmys”. The song was made for OLW’s commercial, but now you can hear it from at least one exited person every friday. You can listen to the song here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2qjjoA2N_g

It’s in swedish, but I hope that you’ll enjoy it anyway.