They’re going balls to the mall.
Are Swedish meatballs too scrawny for your liking? You’re in luck because IKEA is supersizing its food offerings this Christmas by releasing a jumbo, “turkey-sized” meatball.
“It’s big. It’s tasty. It’s a proper Christmas showstopper,” announced the Scandinavian furniture giant on Instagram. “Introducing the IKEA Turkey-Sized Meatball. Find out how to get your mittens on one soon.”
One caveat is the giant meatball will only be sold in UK stores.
Accompanying footage shows someone drizzling gravy atop the behemoth brown protein sphere, which looks cartoonishly huge like the boulder Indiana Jones fled from in “Raiders Of The Lost Ark.”
Or perhaps a regular Swedish meatball after a few hits of the basketball pump.
This particular specimen — which is a speedball of both beef and pork — is nestled atop a veritable mattress of mashed potatoes.
Like with its normal-sized counterparts, the jumbo version will be accompanied by the signature lingonberry jam and creamy sauce.
Best of all, this belle of the meatball comes in a box, making it convenient to shove in the oven for a “Lazy girl” Christmas dinner.
Although, given its colossal proportions, people will likely be clamoring to crash on IKEA’s display beds after having a ball.
Needless to say, viewers were awestruck by the colossal Christmas centerpiece.
“Didn’t realize it was the 1st of April,” quipped one incredulous viewer, while another wrote, “This is it. This is how Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs begins.”
A third wrote, “We didn’t factor giant meatballs into our Christmas food safety guide, so.. follow the cooking guidance on the packaging!”
Others couldn’t wait to get on the ball with one fan writing, “Please say this is real.”
Of course, not everyone was so enamored with the Bocci Ball-sized eat. “It really bugs me, more than it should, that the gravy doesn’t drip down all sides like the icing you see depicted on Christmas puds,” lamented one armchair epicure.
Speaking of mammoth meatballs, an Australian food firm seemingly defied nature after devising a prime-eval meatball from the resurrected flesh of — wait for it — the long-extinct woolly mammoth.
Alas, it will likely be a while before this Jurassic pork is available for human consumption.
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