IKEA-Style Eating Guide Will Teach You Your Manners, Young Man

An illustrated crash course in tough-to-eat foods

By The Editors
April 13, 2016 9:00 am EDT

You likely don’t need advice — or a miniature metal wrench — to eat IKEA’s Swedish meatballs.

But there are culinary situations when having one of the chain’s pictographic guides could come in handy.

Recognizing this, British kitchen device dealer Ship It Appliances came up with a set of nine IKEA-style infographics that show how to make short work of hard-to-eat foods like lobster, coconuts and an entire fish.

And use a napkin, champ.

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