{"id":20701,"date":"2025-06-20T21:03:21","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T20:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=20701"},"modified":"2025-06-23T21:15:24","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T20:15:24","slug":"daily_3762_-_midsummer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2025\/06\/20\/daily_3762_-_midsummer\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 3762 &#8211; Midsummer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_4\/3762_midsummer_1.jpg\" class=\"x45y6\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Midsummer, with herring, new potatoes, and strawberry cake. No devilled eggs this year, since I&#8217;ve had quite enough of them with all the leftovers from Ingrid&#8217;s graduation party.<\/p>\n<p>Strawberries are always kind of expensive this early in the summer, but the price this year was truly eye-watering. 90 kronor per litre in our local supermarket; 100 kr in Uppsala where my mum bought hers. That&#8217;s about 5 kr a bite. And I used to think that 50 kr a litre was expensive. <\/p>\n<p>According to media, frost nights in May killed a lot of strawberry blossoms, and the cold weather after that delayed the harvest. There just aren&#8217;t enough strawberries.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_4\/3762_midsummer_2.jpg\" class=\"x45y6\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ingrid shared a Tiktok video joking about strawberry prices. 35 kr in 2015, 70 kr in 2025, and then 700 kr in 2030 with &#8220;we can set up a loan for you with automatic wage garnishment for the next three months to pay for these&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Midsummer, with herring, new potatoes, and strawberry cake. No devilled eggs this year, since I&#8217;ve had quite enough of them with all the leftovers from Ingrid&#8217;s graduation party. Strawberries are always kind of expensive this early in the summer, but the price this year was truly eye-watering. 90 kronor per litre in our local supermarket; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[790,18,745,795,768],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebrations","category-dailies","category-food_and_cooking","category-midsummer","category-photography-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20701"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20703,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20701\/revisions\/20703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}