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LUPO. Only in Japan … hehehe. Just wait until IKEA sees this. And talking about IKEA, there was a lifestyle article on Yahoo yesterday: IKEA Keeps Homesick Swedes in Meatballs …

For Swedes far from home IKEA’s lines of herring, meatballs and lingonberry jelly provoke homesickness.

The company that gave the world affordable bookcases, sofa-beds and kitchen-ware sells 15 million portions of meatballs a year, making it one of Sweden’s biggest food exporters and restaurant chains.

“Not everyone can afford to travel to Sweden, but we can offer them a piece of Sweden,” said Jan Kjellman, chief executive of IKEA’s food division.

Besides adding to IKEA’s Swedish image, the restaurants and food shops boost its bottom line, as the food unit grows faster than the rapidly expanding group in general.

IKEA *will* take over the world one day. Hehehe.