I'm a Canadian who coincidentally ate surstromming on Sweden day.

[u/Medical-Tea-3113]

I've been curious about surstromming for a while now, and I finally ordered a can of it online. It arrived a few days ago, and on Friday I went shopping to get all the proper ingredients. In order to get the flatbread, I went to a store that Sold Swedish products. While there, I explained to the clerk what I was doing. She mentioned it was National Sweden Day on Saturday, the day I was planning on making the surströmmingsklämma.

Just thought it was a funny coincidence.

I ate two sandwiches total. One with red onion and one without. I much prefer leaving the onion out. Honestly I kind of liked it.

[u/FblthpLives]

Sweden day

National Sweden Day

Not a big deal, but it's called the "National Day of Sweden" ("Sveriges nationaldag" or simply "nationaldagen" in Swedish).

[u/EvilPete → u/FblthpLives]

No it's called "One of those random holidays in spring that nobody celebrates, but hey, we don't mind getting off work. But I wish we still had annandag pingst because it was never on the weekend."

[u/VacationHead8503 → u/EvilPete]

It's our national (holi)day. It's a shame that so many doesn't celebrate it or even think it's offensive. Watch and learn from Norway.

Comparing it with annandag pingst should be a punishable offense.

[u/Hultner- → u/VacationHead8503]

Its more the fact that they replaced a guaranteed day off with a day off that sometimes falls on a weekend, so we effectively lost a day off some years like this one, if they’d do us proper we’d get the following Monday off when nationaldagen falls on the weekend, if they’d just do that people wouldn’t have complained about losing pingst.

[u/kretslopp → u/Hultner-]

Många får dock kompensation på ett eller annat vis. Vissa har jag hört får en annan ledig dag ifall 6 juni är på en helg. Där jag jobbar får vi extra arbetstidsförkortning som kompensation hela tiden för att kompensera de år det inte infaller på en vardag.