Smörgåsbord

Smörgåsbord isn't that hard to explain/understand I believe.

It's a Scandinavian meal wich we use to eat at christmas and other times when we use the cellebrate something.

It contains of both hot and cold dishes.
The food on the smörgåsbord contains of different kinds of spread to put on the sandwich but also "normal" food like potatoes, Swedish meatballs, some sausages etc.

And I believe that it from the beginning comes from the poor swedish people in the past, which couldn't afford some real food so they just took what they have got and put it up on the table and ate a little bit of everything.