• Raiderkev@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      U been living under a rock or something? Fuck yes you can. They even have vegan (maybe vegetarian) ones too, and chicken Strips for kids and a few other things. Their restaurant is not bad, sometimes I’ll take the kids there to get something I could easily grab at Walmart/ target just to get some swedish meatballs.

  • Random_Character_A@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Twice now on my ikea trips the restaurant has been so jampacked that I could not fit even if I shot myself in there with a cannon. ◕︵◕

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      1 year ago

      Find yourself a minimalistic-yet-sturdy bench from some nearby display space and use it as a battering ram to force your way to the food.

      EDIT: Apparently they sell bags of frozen official meatballs that you can do yourself:

      https://www.ikea.com/us/en/cat/meat-25217/

      EDIT2: Apparently despite the fact that they deliver the furniture, they won’t deliver the frozen meatballs. You have to go to the store for them. I guess just make one large trip.

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        1 year ago

        They probably deliver many orders on one trip and it would require a truck with a refrigerated box to be up to food safety standards.

  • curiousaur@reddthat.com
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    1 year ago

    Me too. Quick story time. It was the day before COVID lockdown. My now wife and I had just moved in together the day before and were at IKEA buying furniture for our new apartment. Being at IKEA, knowing the new fridge and freezer at home were empty, and having poor impulse control, I threw three bags of frozen meetballs with sauce and fixings into the cart near checkout.

    The following day lockdown was announced with all restaurants to be closed, and stores to enforce limited occupancy with lines down the block waiting to get in. We feasted the first two weeks.

    • Dhrystone@infosec.pubOP
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      1 year ago

      It was all I could do not to buy a couple bags of the meatballs and gravy at the checkout. Something about the flavor, don’t know what it is but I was stuffed after 16 meatballs and STILL wanted to eat more.