Fika is a Swedish thing, and it’s something you do - as in “Let’s have a fika” or “You up for a fika?” It doesn’t translate well, but the activity itself is when you sit down and have a coffee with a few of your friends, and share some pastry as well - cinnamon buns, maybe some nice chocolate, perhaps a piece of apple pie. For many, it’s something you do instead of seeing your friends at a restaurang, go to the movies or whatnot. It’s that integrated into our culture.
The entire ritual is charged with the idea that you’re taking a break, together with others - it’s close to ceremonial, almost ritual, while the event itself is just as casual as it sounds.
It’s so rooted in our social structure, you can expect that in any formal context - longer meetings, seminars, lectures - there’s a fika scheduled. As in -
0900 - the President talks about climate crisis and the pandemic
1000 - Fika
And if you miss the 0900, people might go “Oh, okay, well, life happens”, but if you miss the 1000, people “Oh no! You did not! Oh, it was the best! The cookies today … and the coffee, dear lord the coffee. But look, I saved you a bite. Here you go.”
And if you’re the arranger and don’t schedule a fika, the people that got cancel cultured, they’d be popular compared to you.
And since Elektron is in Gothenburg, you better mean it when you say “god fika” “god” means “tasty” or “delicious” or “good”, in this case