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In Videos: Bizarre Swedish McDonald's Coffee Commercials

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These advertisements might be meant to encourage Swedes to wake up from their absurd dreams with coffee from McDonalds. They might simply be the product of a deranged mind. Either way, Sweden could evidently use the caffeine. Video after the jump.

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Serious Sandwiches: Östermalms Korvspecialist

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Photograph by Sarah Brooks

Much like most big cities here in the U.S., the streets of Stockholm are littered with stands selling their version of the hot dog. They call them "French hot dogs" or korv (from korvar, the Swedish word for "sausage"), and it is essentially a sausage stuffed into a French bread roll. Most stands in the city serve a generic-looking hot dog version, but for a real homemade sandwich, there's only one korv stand to visit—Östermalms Korvspecialist.

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