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It's Feb. 22, and three men dressed in dapper brown suits gather on a stage in Malmö, Sweden. One of the men begins rapping in Finland-Swedish, one plays accordion, and the other grills a (very real) falukorv sausage over a (very real) fire. Background dancers fill in, pantomiming chopping wood in front of a woodshed that later converts into a replica of a Finnish sauna.


