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  • To me (a woman with not much in the way of family ties and whose smorgas have probably ended up on more floors than have yours – not that it's a competition) friendships are exceptionally important.

    Can you be just good friends? Kathryn Flett 2010

  • Instead, the problem with piling allegedly platonic relationships on to a table already heaving with an all-you-can-eat smorgasbord of modern emotions is that (and I shall see this metaphor through to the end if it kills me) a plateful of delicious herring smorgas is very likely to end up all over the floor.

    Can you be just good friends? Kathryn Flett 2010

  • To achieve better metrics we'd need to tolerate a lot more (smorgas) boredom.

    With Best Countries Like These… 2010

  • (Not to be confused with the Swedish smorgasbord, which means the sandwich (smorgas) plus the table (bord).)

    Pickled Pepper, Anchovy & Egg Sandwich on Rye 2010

  • Or speshul kitteh smorgas .. uh – snorgabor.. uh – catferteria!

    one hole 4 sit - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • From ancestral roots almost 300 years ago, the smorgas -- literally a slice of bread -- and bord -- a table -- grew into an elaborate presentation of 60 to 70 dishes that, after an international odyssey, evolved into today's enormously popular salad bars.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Rozanne Gold 2012

  • From ancestral roots almost 300 years ago, the smorgas -- literally a slice of bread -- and bord -- a table -- grew into an elaborate presentation of 60 to 70 dishes that, after an international odyssey, evolved into today's enormously popular salad bars.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Rozanne Gold 2012

  • From ancestral roots almost 300 years ago, the smorgas -- literally a slice of bread -- and bord -- a table -- grew into an elaborate presentation of 60 to 70 dishes that, after an international odyssey, evolved into today's enormously popular salad bars.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Rozanne Gold 2012

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