Sweden - the FIKA nation

The average Swede consumes about 20 pounds of coffee a year.  That's about twice the US average, even though only two thirds of what the average Finn sloshes down. 

You can't consume that much coffee by simply drinking a cup of Joe with breakfast and after lunch and dinner. You need to find additional occasions to have a cup. Hence: fika. 

FIka usually happens either late morning, early afternoon, or if someone comes to visit your house. Think of it as the British five-o-clock tea but with coffee instead of tea and cookies and pastries instead of finger sandwiches. 

The boys quickly got used to this daily ritual.  Eating cookies comes easy to them...