#sosse

Regional German Food: Grüne Soße is typical for the Hessen-Kassel/Frankfurt region of Central Germany. The Frankfurt version is made from 7 fresh herbs, namely parsley, chives, chervil, borage, sorrel, garden cress, and salad burnet together with sour cream, oil, vinegar, mustard, salt, and hard boiled eggs. Variants of other local areas, often based on seasonal availability, include dill, shallots, lovage, lemon balm, even spinach. In more frugal times, daisy leaves, broad plantain leaves, and dandelion leaves were also used. While both Grüne Soße and mayonnaise have an egg base, there are differences. In Grüne Soße, the eggs are hard-boiled, then sieved or pureed before being mixed with sour cream to form the creamy sauce base. Freshly chopped herbs are then added. Some variations use buttermilk, quark, or yogurt instead of sour cream. In Kassel, a combination of sour cream and Schmand is used.

Sosse being used as a somewhat derogatory term for lefties is very common in Sweden. It refers to working-class people in general and the supporters of the left block which is led by the Social Democrats, the actual "sossar." People in the right use it to disparage the other side, people in the middle use it more neutrally, and people on the left may use it for the moderate end of their own block (a fiery young socialist dreads becoming a consensus-seeking sosse someday).

The reason the people at Hillerska only use it for Simon is that he's the only working-class non-res in his year and the only one we follow in the show. He also keeps expressing leftist views to them which spurs them on, but I think they would have used it even before they heard his views. They would probably use it for all the Marieberg students as well, just based on them going to a communal school and being mostly working class.

However, it is true that Vincent in particular gets nastier as the seasons go on. And as he does, he starts to use language that implies Simon is a communist instead of the standard sosse. That I think is more in line with the other anon's interpretation.

However, I think it's also something that became more pointed as they let Omar's background inform Simon's background in the later seasons. As we know Simon did not have a specific ethnicity when he was cast, and Linda being from Venezuela was also not canon until S2. By adopting those details, they also added this new intersection to Simon's character that the other anon described, but I'm not sure how much of that was intentional.