Talk:Meatball

message: 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)
thread_title: "World's Largest Meatball" references

message: 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? →AzaToth 08:37, 2 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Nah, I changed my mind, I throw it to the AFD so there will be some discussion. →AzaToth 08:39, 2 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Cleanup

message: 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. —Chowbok 02:27, 30 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: 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)
replies: text: 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)
thread_title: Photo

message: 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. —Leftmostcat 18:54, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Guy holding the meatballs pic

message: 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)
replies: text: Yah, there is no difference between them :-) Jotunn (talk) 15:59, 5 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Swedish/Finnish 

message: 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)
thread_title:  Meatballs and spaghetti dish popular in UK?! 

message: 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)
thread_title: UK Faggots

message: "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)
replies: text: 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)
thread_title:  Faggots 

message: 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)
thread_title:  Totaly confused listings 

message: 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)
thread_title:  "Small ball"? 

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

message: 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)
replies: text: 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)
thread_title:  Italian influences?