I love the Ikea plant "meatballs" - very nice with a tomato sauce and served on rice.
However, I also used to love their "seaweed pearls" - really delicious imitation caviare made of seaweed, so nice on buttery toast with lemon juice. And I loved their "Kalles Kaviar", a tube of sweet and savoury pink paste, based on salted cod's roe with this and that - really nice with a fried egg. And their "Knäckebröd" - big wheels of rye crispbread.
But there seems to be a worldwide policy in Ikea to stop stocking these foods. Ikea has always had a policy, too, that food will not be listed when available in the shops' online sites. It's a mad policy in these days of automatic, internet-based restocking…
Now, I don't know what the story is about these particular foods - the "seaweed pearls" seem to have simply disappeared; Knäckebröd is now sold in small packets; the Kalles Kaviar may be no longer stocked because, madly, cod, the fish that fuelled the great European expansion, the fish that was once the reliable food of the world, the fish that was once normally two metres long and 1.5 metres around the centre, is now an endangered species. Perhaps Kalles Kaviar is simply no longer made?
Ikea's policies on food are deeply odd. You'd imagine that Scandinavian foods would be a loss leader - on my trips to the shop to buy these, I'd often spend a few quid on a duvet cover or some glasses or, indeed, a kitchen trolley or table.