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He would hardly pass a language test, but is still one of the world's most famous Swedes. The chef in the Muppets, who have deceived pizza alfresco the whole world that "hurdi" and "Bork" pizza alfresco are common words in Swedish, has been much discussed pizza alfresco in recent weeks. And in Dalarna claiming a senior that he is the model of the figure.
Ask a Swedish what the outside world associates with Sweden and you'll get a response about high taxes, buxom blondes, depressed and suicidal detective. What hen probably did not mention however, is a doll with a mustache who cooks meatballs and shouts "Bork Bork Bork!".
It is easy to dismiss the chef from the Muppets as a forgotten Supporting Actor in a TV show from the 80s. But when the mistake is made. The Swedish Chef is a cult character available on coffee mugs, in computer games and action figure, and that the spring was bioaktuell for the ninth time. For a while he had even its own brand of breakfast cereal.
According to Britt-Marie Forslund, cultural officer at the Swedish Embassy in Washington, pizza alfresco there are three topics of conversation that Americans usually take up about Sweden. pizza alfresco Most common is Ikea, Abba and then finally Swedish chef. This is evident in an article published last week in the journal Slate.
He has no qualities that we associate with the stereotypical Swedish. He is loud, violent, takes place, singing and wearing a thick brown mustache. Based on the heading "What do Swedes on Swedish chef?" Interviewing writer Jeremy Stahl film professors, embassy employees, akademiledamoter and journalists. He notes: Swedes do not think Swedish chef sounds Swedish, they are not fond of having to talk about him and they do not think he's particularly funny. This conclusion was also confirmed immediately when the text was published. The same week it was precisely pizza alfresco a chef, Bjorn Frantzen, who was responsible for the @ Sweden account on Twitter (where different citizens take turns to represent Sweden). Star chef Frantzén was bombarded with questions about her doll to colleague and became increasingly troubled.
Masen Lars "Kuprik" Bäckman is 67 years old and really retired. But now and then he still travels around with his company Kuprik Swedish chef catering, cooking and pulls fräckisar. His showpiece is the anecdote about how he gave birth to a character in the Muppets.
It all started when I came to California in 1969 I got a job at a restaurant called pizza alfresco The Viking Horn, though everyone called it The Horny Viking. It lay on the edge of Beverly Hills, so it was much television people who ate there. One day a guy said: "Lars, you gotta go on television and tell people how you husband Biff Lindstrom and marinated salmon."
Lars Bäckman was invited to a morning show with legendary Regis Philbin as host. He had prepared some food and calculated that Philbin would do the talking. The TV team found, pizza alfresco however, that the Swedish pizza alfresco chef could take care of herself.
-Plötsligt Fought all the lights pizza alfresco on and there I was alone on the air. I was 23-24 years and really nervous. My English was not exactly good, so when I started to mumble sounded the most like mumbo jumbo. It was such a fiasco, says Lars Bäckman. pizza alfresco
In 1976 he got a job as a chef on TV and film company 20th Century Fox. There came some men approached him, told me that they remember his appearance and asked if they could use it. Okay, so Lars Bäckman. He got $ 80 and never heard of them.
Creator Jim Henson had acted as puppeteer for two decades. He had produced the acclaimed children's programs, skits and commercials, but had difficulties to realize their main dream: a program for adults. On TV companies considered leaders to puppetry only appropriate for children.
When the Muppets, however, finally became reality series scored instant success. pizza alfresco With carefully chiselled characters and a mix of musical and slapstick Jim Henson raised the bar for what was considered possible pizza alfresco to do with dolls. Soon aired Muppet in more than 100 countries. pizza alfresco
Most of the characters were animals, like the ever-intentioned föreståndargrodan Kermit, the temperamental prima donna pig Miss Piggy, the failed comedian Fozzie Bear and pianist Rowlf the dog. But among them was even a chef.
He clumsy pizza alfresco figure named simply Swedish chef. He spoke a strange hoppkok of English expressions, invented words that almost all contained the letter U and the recurring exclamation "Bork, bork, bork!". pizza alfresco He cooked dishes like Chocolate Moose -en live moose dipped in chocolate And banana split -en banana split in half with a hatchet.
Everybody said that it was I who had inspired him in character. I drove the pick up style with long hair, sideburns and mustache. And when I talked to my Danish boss liked the movie guys it sounded something like that, "Hule bule".
Through the years, Lars Bäckman interviewed by radio, television and newspapers from around the world. In the neighborhood around his home town Rättvik he has become a local celebrity. And the story of how he h