# What do Swedes think of the Swedish Chef?

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [December 17, 2006, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-swedes-think-of-the-swedish-chef/384529 "2006-12-17T18:52:59Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 19, 2006, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-swedes-think-of-the-swedish-chef/384529/41 "2006-12-19T19:17:51Z")

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[QUOTE=cactus waltz]  
I think they could have given him any nationality and it would have been funny still.  
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I agree. Most of what made the Chef funny was the visual puns (“chickey in de baskey,” “chocolate moose”), the silly things that happened (the spaghetti crawled away, the cake started to talk, Mexican lobster banditos who rescue a lobster from the pot), and the chef’s own silly miming and throwing stuff and making a mess. Very little of that required _any_ language. 🙂

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