Talk:Meatball

"World's Largest Meatball" references
The referenced article on sweden.se has no informationon the record-setting events. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.191.230.222 (talk) 09:01, 2 May 2013 (UTC)

Cleanup
There aren't a lot of references here no. It mmust be cleaned up, or we can throw this to the AFD. Also, why is Swedish meatballs specific typed? → A z a  Toth 08:37, 2 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Nah, I changed my mind, I throw it to the AFD so there will be some discussion. → A z a  Toth 08:39, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

Stop removing the meatballs plate people!

..But I'm allergic! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 150.131.64.98 (talk) 00:09, 14 July 2008 (UTC)

Friesland section in the list of countries is vandalism — Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.54.77.74 (talk) 03:49, 2 June 2011 (UTC)

Photo
I may be biased because I took the photo, but I think my image is more appropriate than the one that replaced it. If nothing else, mine had the meatballs more prominently featured. Since I'm not neutral here, I'll leave it for others to decide. &mdash;Chowbok 02:27, 30 August 2006 (UTC)


 * I agree. For the first and most prominent photo in the article, it would make sense to use a photo which prominently features meatballs.  Looking at the picture and the caption, you would still have to read the article to figure out that the meatballs are the reason the picture is there.  For such a simple concept, the picture should be able to stand on its own. PubliusFL 17:38, 27 December 2006 (UTC)


 * The Koettbullar stockholm2006 image isn't great, because the meatballs are cut off, but it may be useful to show the typical accompaniments. --Macrakis 18:24, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

Guy holding the meatballs pic
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Meatballs.jpg

If American Meatballs are generally larger than Italian metballs then I'd imagine American Meatballs would be the size of a volleyball. very misleading. i assume that they are american meatballs and the person in said picture is american. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Matstars (talk • contribs).
 * This photograph is very obviously edited to add the meatballs. It seems like replacing it with a more appropriate image would be a good idea. &mdash;Leftmostcat 18:54, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

Swedish/Finnish
I see no difference between the description of Swedish and Finnish meatballs at all. Indeed we probably had meatballs while Finland was a part of Sweden... I find that section difficult to handle. It is kind of ridiculous to expect every country to have their own variant of meatballs. // habj 09:38, 3 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Yah, there is no difference between them :-) Jotunn (talk) 15:59, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

Also, it says traditional Swedish meatballs are one half inch in diameter. That sounds really small, ive never seen them that small. I mean, they are bigger than grapes. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 137.120.65.180 (talk) 20:57, 29 March 2010 (UTC)

Swedes must have copied the meatballs. There is no reason to expect they were invented in Sweden. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.148.29.104 (talk) 15:58, 6 September 2013 (UTC)

or see MeatballWiki for the article about the wiki about communities.
Y'wot?:) Could someone who knows what is trying to be said rephrase that obscene sentance at the very top of the page to make sense?

Meatballs and spaghetti dish popular in UK?!
The US Italian-style dish of spaghetti with meatballs is in fact almost unheard-of in the UK. Spaghetti bolognese is the most common pasta/sauce combination and has been a popular home-cooked meal since the 1960s, after its introduction to the public in cafes run by Italian post-war immigrants. There was comparitively very little Italian immigration to the UK before this, so the conditions did not exist for the food to develop in the same way it did in the USA (as a result of large numbers of immigrants at the turn of the 20th c.). I've altered the statement piece in the article (viz. that it is a common US/US dish) as it is so very incorrect. Plutonium27 (talk) 00:20, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

Please do not make generalised statements for an entire nation - as a born and bred British citizen myself, spaghetti and meatballs is one of my favourite dishes and was a popular option for school dinners. Either homemade or served from a can, this may not be as common in the UK as it is in the USA, but it is by no means 'unheard-of'. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.179.101.136 (talk) 10:02, 23 November 2011 (UTC)

Merger proposal
There seems to be multiple regional articles about basically the same thing. Should they all be merged into this one Meatball article? --NJR_ZA (talk) 09:10, 29 November 2008 (UTC)
 * YES! YES! YES! Kofta is the same. Must be merged! In other case (now) we have incorrect interwiki links. E. g. en:Meatball link to ru:Тефтели, but (!) ru:Тефтели verse link to en:Kofta. --= APh =-- 22:25, 16 October 2009 (UTC)


 * I disagree, some may be the same but Frikadeller are not the same as meatballs, they are cooked in a different way and a different shape as well. 86.10.116.61 (talk) 17:14, 24 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Correct, Frikadeller are different, starting with them not being balls at all. The shape is different.  Meatloaf shares some of the same ingredients, but we don't consider that with meatballs - the shape matters.

—Preceding unsigned comment added by APh (talk • contribs)


 * I support this merger. Obviously things that are not meatballs should not be merged, but minor variants can be included in the main article. DJ Clayworth (talk) 17:17, 24 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Kofta has been merged. Gigs (talk) 19:18, 24 November 2009 (UTC)


 * No clear concensus. It distinct type meatball. Bagel an ka'ak not merge into Bread just because they be type bread. Same exist here. Ani medjool (talk) 19:24, 24 November 2009 (UTC)


 * Merge that. Meatball is such a generic term, it covers all varieties. Just make sure the differences are explained. Alternative: cut down the Meatball article, then expand the specific articles. --G-41614 (talk) 11:54, 9 April 2010 (UTC)


 * I completely disagree with the merge. Meatballs and Frikadeller are two separate items.  If I wanted to have a meatball I would go to Meatball, when I want Frikadeller I go to Frikadeller.  20:11pm PST January 22, 2011

They are two different things, as a dane I grew up with frikadeller and they are not the same as meatballs. They are made two different ways and with very different ingredients. I can also tell you that the Swedish kodboller is also different than the two other ones. In regards to the picture it is exactly like looking at a big bowl of frikardeller. — Preceding unsigned comment added by DanskeViking (talk • contribs) 21:36, 25 February 2011 (UTC)
 * In preparation/ingredients, no, they're not much the same, but the main ingredient is still a minced/ground meat which gets shaped into a ball(yes it gets flattened, but still into a ball form at some point) Hell, most of the list of "meatballs" are different in one way or another. Actually, except for how they're cooked, my mothers' meatloaf recipe is about the same as the frikadeller and the picture of the final result is how her home-made hamburgers looked.  Either way the Frikadeller article isn't very large and if merged with Meatballs it is unlikely that it would have just 2-3 lines of mention.   In short, I support the proposed merger.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.201.238.78 (talk) 21:36, 12 April 2011 (UTC)

I disagree with this proposal. Variations on the meatball and other, similar forms of food such as the Frikadeller are unique to different cultures, each deserves their own page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.179.101.136 (talk) 09:53, 23 November 2011 (UTC)


 * If we would merge 'Frikadellen' we could make the same case and merge (ham)'burgers'. Would that make sense? Don't think so.TMCk (talk) 17:34, 23 November 2011 (UTC)

UK Faggots
Can anyone justify the statement that 'A popular brand of meatball, known as John Cowards' can be purchased in supermarkets. I've never heard of the brand. I'd have thought Brains Faggots were much more popular and certainly more notable. Antsnest (talk) 00:16, 3 May 2009 (UTC)

Argeed. This silly statment, which sounds more like advertising, and was wrong (Faggots are normaly served in gravy, not tomato, and are nothing like "subway" meatballs) has been removed. Now, can we do something about the description of what they are made of.

I say now, don't go dragging sexuality in to this bro!--24.177.6.38 (talk) 01:16, 30 June 2013 (UTC)

Faggots
"A popular brand of meatball, known as John Cowards, can be bought from local supermarkets, and are based on the "Subway sandwich" type meatball, in a tomato-based, meat-managed sauce." This is wrong. I romoved this, and someone felt they should revert is back. Unless you can provide some proffe that this is true please do not change back. The changes made were to give a little more depth to the artical. It was changed to " A faggot is traditionally made from pig heart, liver and fatty belly meat or bacon minced together, with herbs added for flavouring and sometimes breadcrumbs." in line with the other descriptions.

Again "A popular brand of meatball, known as John Cowards, can be bought from local supermarkets, and are based on the "Subway sandwich" type meatball, in a tomato-based, meat-managed sauce." has been added. Please explain why. This is wrong. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.155.183.204 (talk) 13:06, 21 June 2009 (UTC)


 * Please also explain why you think these are "test edits" on a subject you know nothing about?

If you have infomation to show this is true please provide evidence —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.155.183.204 (talk) 13:09, 21 June 2009 (UTC)

Please note "If you are undoing an edit that is not vandalism, explain the reason in the edit summary. Do not use the default message only." It is not acceptable to just say something is vandalisum because you don't want to explain an edit. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.155.183.204 (talk) 13:19, 21 June 2009 (UTC)

"Meatballs in America are traditionally extremly high in carbohydrates and low in protein due to process of taking the best from each country. "

I don't understand that line at all.

Totaly confused listings
Hi! This article is absolutely messed up. Either it needs a far more broadly defined new header/title, representing ALL forms of minced meat dishes or it needs to be thoroughly cleaned up.

You can't explain that a meatball is a kind of small roundish chopped meat dish and then stray into the list things like german/austrian Frikadellen/Fleischlaiberl and greek Koefte that are not even close to SMALL or ball-shaped. (A Frikadelle is pretty much the original from which a burger patty derives its size and shape. Totally NOT the same as "Meatballs and spaghetti" and then there are the complicated and only vaguely definable differences to similar dishes like "Hacksteak" (lit. "Minced steak" which can be simply a slice of Meat Loaf or be a single small loaf coming close to some forms of Frikadelle/Boulette. The french use the related name "Beefsteak" for a kind of tartar in roughly the patty shape/size, greek bifteki is cooked again, but with the small distinction of often being filled with goat or sheeps' cheese not much different from a Hacksteak.) Finally... IF you make this into the collective description of all these roughly handsized or smaller dishes out of ground meat, then why are Frikandel (Speciaal) or Cevapcici not part of the list but exceptions? Just having a finger/sausage shape isn't enough of a difference if you have thrown in all sizes of ball, patty and filet shaped minced meat dishes into one and the same category. Even Koefte that ARE in the list are kind of cigar shaped... As i've said... it IS a mess.--5.146.47.110 (talk) 23:20, 25 June 2016 (UTC)

"Small ball"?
My family's usual "Sunday" meatballs (in the Italian-American way, though we're from Montreal) are a fair bit bigger (~3 inches dia.) than the comically small ones at Subway, Ikea and the like, and the ones the caterers do for our events now (aunties used to do it all) are the size of a softball. Does the definition of a meatball necessarily include "small"? Are my family's meatballs not in fact meatballs? Should I start calling them meatglobes? 174.115.100.93 (talk) 19:07, 26 August 2019 (UTC)

Serously
Someone redirected this page to Stupid that’s weird Chronickidneydisease (talk) 22:10, 30 September 2019 (UTC)

Slovenia
In Slovenia, a "polpeta" is more like a hamburger patty. The dish with meatballs which is typically served in tomato sauce and with mashed potatoes, which is mentioned in the article, is referred to as "čufti" or "čufte."

Italian influences?
In Brazil, meatballs are called almôndegas, derived from Italian influences -- unsigned


 * Really? What are meatballs called in Italian? 213.106.201.216 (talk) 22:25, 30 November 2021 (UTC)


 * Wiktionary: From Arabic البُنْدُقَة‎ (al-bunduqa, “hazelnut”), from Ancient Greek Ποντικόν κάρυον (Pontikón káruon, “hazelnut”).[1] Compare Spanish albóndiga. --Macrakis (talk) 23:02, 30 November 2021 (UTC)