Ironically, the most popular frozen pizza in Norway, Grandiosa, is considered something of a national dish. It’s also one of the worst frozen pizzas you’ll ever try, and is mainly popular only because of nostalgia.
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I don’t know what it says about me and my love for pizza, but your comment makes me want to try it even more.
I’ve tried many a bad pizza, but I’ve yet to find one inedible, and that makes me curious.
It’s definitely not inedible. It’s just incredibly bland. Like most other Norwegian cuisine, unfortunately.
I made some sort of Norwegian dish for my ex (she’s Vietnamese, comes into play later) that she really wanted and missed from when she visited Norway. It was a casserole consisting of potatoes, cream, pickled Herring, and ground black pepper. Like, I’m pretty sure that’s every ingredient that went into this thing. I’m not even sure if there was any cheese or salt.
I thought I screwed up somewhere because it was not good. She loved it because it was so bland and apparently I made it perfectly. I do not understand how she could go from eating food like bun bo hue to whatever the hell I made and enjoy it.
TBH compared to the rest of SEA Vietnamese food is often relatively mild
That’s kind of sad. Is there some Norwegian food that you would recommend? I don’t know if I’ve ever had anything specifically from there.
Brunost, brown cheese, which is something of an acquired taste. Cherry cheese. Tubed caviar, which is not the fancy gourmet dish you’d expect from the name. Offhand that’s what comes to mind about uniquely Norwegian stuff.
This kind of shit, alone, should be enough of an argument in favor of multicultralism…
I’m sure they’re fine, but just reading the things you just listed made me lose my appetite lol
It’s not a great list, but alot has been left out.
We also have, sheep and cabbage, lye-fish, whale, and blood pudding boiled in milk.
You know what, yeah I’ll go get a Döner.
Luckily we are a pretty multicultural society at least in the cities and everyone has brought their delicious foods over. Shame that were so sensitive to spice that some people think salt is to spicy :D
Y’all still eat whale?
I saw the sheep and cabbage, and I was expecting more of a stew, but all the pics looks like meat cut a minimum amount to fit in the pot with a quartered cabbage head tossed in. I mean, I’m sure I’d still like it as I like lamb (never found mutton here) and cabbage, but they don’t really seem to have gone for any kind of enticing presentation.
The lye part of the lutefisk doesn’t turn me off so much, but the descriptions calling it jelly-like don’t make my mouth water. Especially as it has the bones still in it if I recall correctly.
Whale has always intrigued me, but I feel I’ve heard more bad than good about the taste, plus I’d probably feel really bad about trying it.
I hate to say this, but the delicious foods you’re getting in the cities, have mostly been watered down to suit the Norwegian palate 😂
I’d give that brunost a go, couldn’t find anything on cherry cheese, and the tubed caviar sounds like something my girlfriend would absolutely keep on hand. I’ll have to keep an eye out for these things.
Where do you live? I understand the states have a big Norwegian community.
I’m East Coast between Philadelphia and New York. I think of the center north (Michigan/Minnesota) as where all the Scandinavians are.
I saw some things say Ikea stocked the Kelles Kaviar, but now they either don’t have it or they have some inferior house brand.
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Can attest. Just visited Norway and although I wanted to eat authentic Norwegian cuisine, pizza was everywhere. Easier to find than seafood and I was staying in a port city.
Nothing like freshly fished pizza, that’s what I always say.
When I was in Iceland food was so expensive that I was happy to eat at a KFC because it was my first affordable meal.
lol
There’s Norway that’s true
I bet we can find out whose spreading this fake news if we Sweden the pot.
I hear Sweden puts bannana, curry, and ham on pizza. I like some weird foods, but I haven’t tried that yet…
Simultaneously?
Now that I think about it though, pizza with a curry sauce could be really good. No thanks on the banana though.
The banana was the main sticking point for me as well, but with all the other stuff, I can’t imagine you’d get much banana flavor coming through, just a sweetness and texture.
This just made me remember my brother used to do the thing Mr Rogers recommended: putting a slice of American cheese around a banana. There’s gotta be some weird food chemistry at work here if banana + cheese pops up multiple places…
Baltimore has palak paneer pizza. Squeaky paneer + mozzarella? Yes yes yes.
Which is crazy because pizza I’m Norway is not that good
It’s important to mention that the vast majority of pizza eaten in Norway is frozen pizza. Grandiosa is the most popular brand and it costs about as much as a restaurant pizza anywhere else
Some American frozen pizzas can be good, but at least in Poland/Czech Republic almost none of it is.
The gladiator frozen pizzas are the best in cz imho, but still like 5/10 in general
Can confirm. I worked at Peppes for 4 years. It’s trash.
Is it just a vehicle for eating fish with your hands though?
As is a fish taco.
I worked a Fish Farm for a few months. There were two things wrong with your sentence. ;-)
maybe that’s why they’re so happy
#2 is my house
Can you call it pizza, though? If it has kebab, and shrimp, and banana, and peanuts, and mayonnaise is it actually a pizza, or is it simply a scattering of food on a plate that happens to be made of bread?
I’d argue that as long as the base is a Margherita (dough, pizza sauce and cheese), anything you choose to put on top of it doesn’t take away from the fact that it is a pizza.
Substitute any of the ingredients of the Margherita though, and we’re in murky waters.
Ok WHAT. What do Italians eat then?
Pasta.
They’re mostly filter feeders, the constant hand movements are a dead giveaway
Oh, they have godly pizza over there. And gelato.
Yeah but they put like mayonnaise on their pizza and fish
My friend, I’ve had an abomination of a cheeseburger pizza (in the US) that used mayo like sauce.
And fish? You do know anchovies are an amazing (if somewhat niche, but archetypal) topping.
Heck, did you know pineapple is a common topping? oof. Of all things to put on a pizza!
Then there are those weirdly delicious mashed potato or Mac n’ cheese pizzas.
And let’s not forget the blasphemous Alfredo sauce “pizzas.” Get that as a surprise on a slice of what looked like pepperoni at the Pizza Ranch on the buffet and just try not to throw up.
I went on a first date with a girl who ordered a slice of “big Mac” cheeseburger pizza with McDonald’s secret sauce and American cheese
She wanted me to try a bite. I did. It was terrible. She loved it
No accounting for taste, I guess
Tuna pizza is the best, and Americans are so missing out on it with their bizarre narrowminded gatekeeping of pizzatoppings. Americans have like 3 things that are allowed as pizza toppings, which is so strange considering pizza should just be a vehicle for whatever goodness you want to put on it. Even the otherwise food conservative Italians have figured this out with their pizza al taglio.
No one gate keeping pizza toppings. It’s literally bread you can put anything in it. Calm down bro. We sell pizza with mustard and pickles on it in the south
This just tells me you don’t go to Norway and expect to be outside a lot =D
Is it because they are rich and dont want to cook?
I don’t think Norwegians are rich; just happy. I think they’re secure - food security, healthcare security, general safety, no lynching of gay people - in ways that other countries (ohai America and Somalia) may think is the kind of security only afforded to the very rich.
So, in this case, the people of Norway may appear rich to people who don’t have their basic needs covered, and it may be an enviable state to be in, just to be free of the daily worry and grind for the most basic of needs, but I’m sure the average Norwegian doesn’t identify as rich, and is not in a position to understand how well they have it in comparison to other countries.
Noone identifies as rich, because as you become richer, your social circle also becomes richer. So you never really feel rich, because there are other people who are, significantly, richer than you.
If you dont worry about food, shelter and healthcare then you are rich(or at least “middle class”), ie free to do whatever the fuck you want with no risk or fear. You can have very low personal net worth but if your family(and/or society) has your back, no matter what, then you are not poor.
And since Norway has one of the highest home ownership rates, among non shitty countries, then even from a networth point of view, most norwegians probably have 500k+ € networth. Most countries with high home ownership are poor countries, where houses are cheap and shitty(people are migrating out of the country, so a lot of houses are available). Or countries like China and Singapore, where housing is a major priority for the government.
And in before “communism”, Singapore is one of the most capitalistic countries on the planet. But providing housing is a big part of their social contract and how the dictatorship has managed to maintain control over the country for over half a century with minimum opposition. And tbh, the chinese government is similar. Authoritarian but provides economic prosperity/housing in order to keep society stable. Also communist mostly in name but actually capitalistic.
Doesn’t Norway also drink way more coffee than any other nation or was that Sweden? I know Sweden has Fika, but I feel like Noway had another ridiculous record like that.
That was Norway, yes.
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Doubt sweden is faw behind.
Fucking kebabsås .
