# Snaps

> <p><strong>What's in it:</strong> A small chilled glass of aquavit (caraway-flavoured spirit) downed in one, traditionally several times during a meal of pickled herring and rye bread.<br><strong>Where it's from:</strong> Denmark, Sweden, Norway. The Danes will fight you over whose Aquavit is best. (It's Aalborg. We can say it now.)<br><strong>When to drink it:</strong> Easter lunch, midsummer lunch, Christmas lunch. Any lunch involving herring, basically.<br><strong>The case:</strong> It's not really about the drink. It's about the singing of skål-songs between rounds. You don't drink snaps. Snaps drinks you.<br><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akvavit">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akvavit</a></p>

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