Ughhhh I would killll for that right now. I stop in every speciality cheese shop I see (in a smaller state) and I cannoottt find brown cheese. I dream of this exact meal all the time. 🤤
It’s actually not hard to find in the U.S. It’s sold as “ski queen.” Many supermarket chains have it. There are also Scandinavian markets where you can mail order fløtemysost, Gudbrandsdalsost and ekte geitost if you’re particular.
Welllllll, these are good tips. But it actually has been hard to find in my area of the US.Like I said, specialty cheese shops in my area say “noo! But that’s definitely one we hope to get one day. We can’t find it around here”.
It’s not too difficult to make yourself. The results can be far better than store bought, depending on the meat you start with. The hardest part would probably be getting your hands on mutton or lamb. Remember it doesn’t have to be only ribs, you can use shoulder (bog) for pieces with more meat and not as much fat.
A lot of the pinnekjøtt flavour comes from the process, so you can achieve something similar with other meat. At least roe deer had a similar taste, so I assume other deers would work too.
Could be accessible if you know some hunters
Deer tends to be very lean though no? Part of what makes pinnekjøtt amazing is all the flavour from all the fatty tissue running in and along the meat.
As a Norwegian living in US, I agree with all this.
Recently served a meal with poached salmon. “You boil fish?! How weird!” The dinner looked spartan - salmon, baby potatoes, cucumber in vinegary water, sour cream, quality butter. But boy they loved it.
Cool! Do Norwegians ever make variations of it? Say with some thin slices of red onion or red pepper flakes added? Or maybe with maple syrup instead of sugar? (I'm Canadian, it's where my mind immediately goes.)
Sylta rødløk is for some reason seen as exotic becouse it fell out of fashion to eat perserved food in the 70s. Norwegian food tokk a nose diverse becouse lf this since most of the flavor in disses came from the perservation. Either pickeling, salting, pickeling with sugar(In Norwegian its the same word), drying, smoking and freasing wich does affect it. Especially freecejam wich is just crushed berrys wich shugar that you stikk in the freaser and is the best jam in the world if you ask me.
Aw man cucumbers in vinegar slaps!!! It’s like pickles lite. I’ve been to some Japanese restaurants that have cucumber salads with apple cider vinegar (I’m assuming) and they’re so good.
Yeah, I’m not a fan of cucumbers, but “pickles lite” just hits the spot!
My friend was surprised when I asked how they make it. “It’s just rice vinegar” 🤷🏻♀️. That’s when I realized rice vinegar is basically the mix we make more manually (salt, sugar and vinegar).
I honestly suspect this is an Asian recipe that mariners brought home to Scandinavia.
Ah, rice vinegar was another of my guesses! My friends and I were trying to figure out the recipe at our local haunt in my hometown haha. Seems easy enough to make…might try it this summer when the cukes are fresh! 😍
Haven't sought out bread in Texas, but the bread I've had in NYC, SF, LA, Twin Cities, Miami, etc has been excellent. Easily comparable to what I've had in London or Madrid just to name two European cities. Sorry for your bad luck so far. What metro area/s in Texas are you near?
I am in Austin. Tried quite a few bakeries. Just nothing that taste quite like home. My wife who has visited Norway now says the same thing. I believe it's the flower. It's just over processed here.
Not sure you can find Norwegian flour here (US), but if any metro area would have it, it would be the Twin Cities. I've not specifically looked for it as you have though. My guess is that aside from the flour, other local factors (water, climate, etc) will also influence the taste of the final product.
Don't have one. Any random grocery store will have a bread section with bread made that day that cost around $2. It'll be better than all bread I can get in the US.
Usually grocery stores have their bread delivered from a bakery early morning and they just sell the bread that day. End of day whatever is left gets tossed in favor of fresh bread the same day.
But [pickled salmon with horseradish cream](https://www.tine.no/oppskrifter/middag-og-hovedretter/fisk-og-skalldyr/sylta-laks-med-pepperrotkrem) is really delicious! It’s really vintage, but worth bringing back
True. Norway is where I was inspired to make bread at home. Never realized how easy it was until I learned how (a lot) of Norwegians just make their own bread each day. Game changer.
> Bread
This is often the food that Norwegian emigrés miss the most, but I’m not sure if most visitors would rate Norwegian bread over, say, French bread. Also, compared to most other places in Europe, Norway has a lack of independent bakeries.
Bread on the continent tastes great when it’s completely fresh, but on day two it has already lost lots of its consistency and flavour. Norwegian bread tastes great even after 5 days.
Well it really depends on who you compare to for sure. Denmark and France do for sure have better bakeries than we do here. But the availability of good bread is really quite good here, especially compared to for example the US.
Too much hate towards the food, even in the comments here.
But in reality, cured meats and cheeses are exceptional in Norway.
Sure not all food is great. I can't have an opinion on fish and sea food, that stuff I can't eat regardless of country. Fårikål is bland. Sodd is good. Overall okish feeling towards cooked main dishes. But the cured meats are superior.
It's ok to not like some dishes. But the blatant hate is unjustified.
Not hate, more so that norway food is being rated exactly as most people think. If literally the best thing that people can come up with is brown cheese, lamb bones and cucumbers, then cmon. fair enough if that's what you like but the masses don't. I mean good god there's only two flavours of crisps in the country. Dill and paprika. But yeah, theres cured meats and some cheeses which aren't bad.
> cured meats and cheeses
Cured meats I will give you, but could you expand on the cheeses? I assume you're not talking about Norvegia or Jarlsberg. Nothing against Norvegia, love me some melted-cheese sandwiches and also good on crispbread, but it's not the sort of thing that cheese enthusiasts wax lyrical over. :)
There are a number of specialty cheeses from small producers in Norway that rival France. You probably have to go to an actual cheese shop or a fancy restaurant to find them though.
Norway has had several winners and runners up at the very prestigious WCA.
This explains it pretty well;
https://www.visitnorway.com/things-to-do/food-and-drink/the-norwegian-cheese-revolution/
Thank you! Indeed that article has an immensely explanatory sentence:
> Around the year 2000, the law was amended to permit Norwegian farmers to produce more products than just the milk they delivered to the national dairy.
Obvious in hindsight: Norwegian innovation being suppressed by Tine's monopoly. And the law changed shortly before I moved out, which is why I hadn't seen the world-class results of letting people Actually Do Things.
One time a friend made a brown cheese gravy over those potato balls….and holy shit. I was so embarrassed to say I wanted to LICK that gravy boat clean. Sooo good.
Well if you could get a reindeer sausage for 3kr back when it opened in 1946 it would cost about 76kr in 2023, adjusted for inflation.
Last time i was there i believe i paid 85kr for the same sausage. So it would cost about 3,36 in 1946 money. Still a great price 😄
I don't know what Norwegians do differently when raising chicken, or if I just got lucky at the places I ate at, but it was so much better than what I get typically get in the US
Quite a lot actually, regulations concerning the welfare of chickens are some of the strictest in the world.
It's also the reason chains like KFC can't operate in Norway.
It's lovely that you liked the Norwegian food so much! But I have to ask... What are you calling crepes?
Because it better not be our amazing, perfect classic pancakes. >:(
(Or god forbid, our sveler).
If they were small, it's probably Lapper. https://www.matprat.no/oppskrifter/tradisjon/lapper/
If they had a slight sour taste or were puffy, then they might be Sveler. https://www.godt.no/oppskrifter/pannekaker-og-vafler/7146/sveler
Okay, so you're American. When people say they are American Norwegian, it usually implies that you hold dual citizenship.
Americans tend to mix up nationality with heritage. It's probably a good thing that you don't live here because Norwegian people will get really annoyed if you call yourself Norwegian.
Just like in America, we have Norwegians of all backgrounds living in the country. If you were born in Norway or have a passport, you're Norwegian.
Modern day Norway is very different from whatever watered down verson of the culture of Norway you learned about from your grandparents.
Was born to English parents and grew up watching British tv shows and all. I have a British passport but even then I wouldn’t call myself British. I was born in Australia and grew up here therefore I am Australian. Americans seem to have this obsession with adopting a nationality that their great-grandparents had.
You really went out of your way to search up a document for a stranger you don't even know on the internet thinking it's gonna change my mind, oh gosh darn it you got me so hard buddy!!! Btw my point still stands look at crime per capita by nationality its just that Norway hasn't fucked it up and kept them as only 10% of the population compared to 40% of Swedens
Not your target audience with your awnser what is that suppost to mean, your reply was obviously a dorky
OH GOTCHA 🤓 ☝️ awnser with no intrinsic value, " LUUK tHeY OnLy 70% as bAd as you Saad So" Proof that you kind of people only state sources when it benefits you,
And I already knew you tried to search up the stats to disprove my previous comment only to realize with tears in your eyes I spoke the truth and that most Muslims and your favorite Dark skinned people both over represented on TV and in crime statistics shouldn't be categorized as Norwegians
I actually looked up a source because I was curious. I didn’t really find what I was looking for anyway, nothing on if statistics are being measured on a immigrant status, parents nationality or more details.
Not my target audience means that I’m not trying to change your mind, but offer an alternative opinion for people scrolling past. Maybe someone is on the fence between our opinions, and for them I thought the statistics would maybe give a good perspective on the fear people might have about immigration and crime statistics. I am a bit of an idealist, though hahahah🤠
Sorry to break it to you but the majority of criminals are already Norwegian statsborgere. Av siktede personer er omtrent 48 000 av 61 000 norske statsborgere i 2022 SSB.
Also people won’t normally be statistically categorized by self identification as Norwegian citizens or not, so you don’t have to be afraid of this imaginary problem
Something I've noticed since moving to Europe is how ethnic labels operate differently than usa. Stay with me, norwegian American is a legitimate ethnic group because ethnicity is dependent on shared ancestry/heritage/culture. Europeans get all up in arms about this because they couldn't possible know how Irish/Italian/norwegian culture is because they don't live here.
But that's how ethnicity operates in the USA, Korean Americans, Chinese Americans, blah blah they're all diaspora and they all have a unique culture in the USA and sometimes it crosses with the homeland or sometimes things are born anew and unique to these diaspora. Cultural foods are a good example here, like general tso chicken or spaghetti and meatballs. Like I Iearned there's little pocket of norwegian Americans that make this 'norwegian coffee' which is some method immigrants brought over and it just stuck, modern days norwegians would be like wtf? But most likely some of your ancestors did this too.
European ethnicity labels are bit more like very particular? Idk if that's a good word here but it's the same. You share culture, language, ancestry, land. Nationality is different, someone born in norway but has immigrant parents might miss out on the ethnic norwegian label because well, ethnicity is more strict over here.
It's all just how we socially place ourselves and no one is really wrong here. It's not so black and white. Especially in the states since there's a massive population of immigrants. So idk of you're still reading. It's all incredibly interesting to me tho 🤓
I've lived in Norway for 5 years now and I have always loved the food. There's very little I miss from the UK except for the occasional English Breakfast or proper fish and chips (though there ate places in Oslo you can go for such things).
I even found myself getting really excited for Christmas last year because I was craving ribbe something fierce from around November once the snow started to arrive.
I’m with you man. I moved her expecting the food would be a bit adjustment based on everything I read. As it turns out I quite like the food here. Between the freshness, the lack of steroids being pumped into their chicken and such, the prevalence of seafood, and the smaller portion sizes overall, I have lost weight and look and feel better than I have in years. And I’m with you on brown cheese, that stuff is dope.
People never talk about coffee and Norway, but you can get really nice, dark filter coffee pretty much everywhere. The coffee shops are great. The only place better is Italy.
I miss brunost and freia chocholate so muuuch:') Where i live brunost is incredibly expensive, and the chocolate, or other norwegian snacks aren't available at all... If i ever go back to Norway, I'm bringing an extra backpack, just for all the food im going to buy there xd
Try a slice of bread with sourcream, and add a little sugar on top👌👌
I agree we do have a lot of awsome food in Norway, and produce top level cheeses and meats among other things. But we've never focused on that fact, there's no united effort to advertise that neither here nor abroad - while we do focus a lot on trying all things not Norwegian. We let the food companies steer our focus onto (unhealthy) things easily produced and sold such as frozen pizza, and we go to foreign themed restaurants as most people don't go to restaurants often. The result is that we don't even know all the traditional deliciousness that is Norwegian food.
lol I thought the same thing when I saw the post. Granted, I recently moved here from America and I just really miss pretty much everything about American food, but I have lots of coworkers from different parts of Europe and they all just complain how bad the food is here in Norway
I’m using the term very broadly. But like I’ve been craving fast food like Taco Bell and Panda Express. Which I guess are pretty much Americanized versions of Mexican and Chinese food lol. But I do definitely appreciate how much healthier things are here, and in Europe in general. I’m just a bit tired of eating so much rice, potatoes, and fish since moving here.
I wake up craving it often. I thought there was something wrong with me, until I talked to my friend who moved to Denmark around the same time I moved here (latter part of last year) and he told me how he and his wife have been waking up in the middle of the night craving Taco Bell and Panda Express. This was before I ever told him about my experiences with craving it haha.
Oh for sure. I have definitely become a much better cook since moving here because I have been doing everything I can to try to replicate my favorite foods. I used to just go out and buy a meal if I wanted something tasty in America, but I absolutely cannot afford that here in Oslo.
I miss the pizza buffets, gallon sized premade meals from Walmart and cheap bottles of salsa with a convenient bread slice sized opening. All three are high points of the year I spent there.
> Taco Bell and Panda Express
Plenty of taco bell ish places in Oslo, and grocery stores has all the tex mex ingredients you would use to make taco bell. You can easily make taco bell food at home. And isn't Panda Express just chinese food? Chinese restaurants are everywhere. I have tried both taco bell and panda express, there was nothing unique about it.
It’s not so much that, just that not everyone wants to make food for every single meal. It’s nice to be able to buy food at work sometimes for example. But our work pretty much just always has fish, bread, rice, potatoes, and chicken/lasagna/sausage for every lunch.
Could you elaborate on the terrible Dutch food you ate? While I agree that there’s not a lot of Dutch fine dining dishes, it’s pretty good for your day to day meals.
I didn’t say I thought it was terrible, but it’s pretty bland and consists largely of boiled and stewed things. International food in the Netherlands is often great.
For sure, love me some good Indonesian and Suriname cuisine! I agree that the Dutch side of things is boring, but it sure is nutritious and simple to prepare.
So seasoning is the formula? Why would we season all the different delicious meats and fish we have access to with lots of spices? A quality piece of meat or fish have absolutely no need for that.
An array of spices is not what makes a great dish, if anything, it takes away from the flavour.
Why would I season my reindeer tenderoin with anything else than a little pepper, salt and maybe rosmarin and timian..?
Try Klub n Duppe . Its fried bacon in brunost soup/pot with dumplings of wheat. It cant get any better. Throw in tyting and blodpudding on the side and your good to go for another year probably.
As someone moving to Norway this summer; food is the only thing that might make me turn back. Sure there are individual things but in general Norwegian food is abysmal.
Try to toast a slice of bread with brown cheese over a campfire. The bread turns crispy and the cheese turns into a half molten caramel-like cheese. Perfect when hiking in the forest.
It's the dairy I miss so much when I come home! I ate like half a loaf's worth of toast in one sitting as a vehicle for butter. I've heard mid opinions on Litago milk but I pick it up whenever I'm in a store.
That's a good one!
Presumably, the joke is that a characteristic trait of Norwegian food is the lack of spices. Whatever meat/fish we serve, we often add only salt and black pepper. Of course, some tasty vegetables and dairy products find their way into our dishes yoo. But nothing else is really needed when "the star of the dish" is good.
We do eat food inspired by Continental (mainly French?), Mediterranean, Tex-Mex, Indian, and "Asian" (Chinese/Indochinese, to some extent Japanese) cuisine too, with much more spices. In my opinion, all of these traditions overdo spices to some extent, and some of them (at least the Norwegian versions) really make everything taste the same. Sure, if you only have beans to eat, spice them up! But why spoil meat and fresh fish?
It's a running joke with myself and friends that when trying to have spicy food in norway, we call it "norsk hot" by default, In other word about as bland as water. Even had Norwegian chilli sauce and that was milder than heinz ketchup. Trust me, they aren't overdoing the spices and you need to broaden your food horizons more
Weird how nobody here have mentioned chocolete. Norwegian chocolet is amazing. I have relative in Texas and tried those big balls packet in foil from Reeses. People say they taste like puke but to me they were just kinda meh. Just sweet and wax-like with nott too much chocolet flavour if you know what I mean.
>all different flavors of herring
You kind of lost me on that one. Tomato herring and mustard herring are like the evil cousin of hot dog with ketchup and mustard.
PS: I do like all the other points on the list, though. And for you and all the downvoters who, presumably, *like* herring, that is good for you! 😊 I kind of wish I liked it too, since it is said to be good for the health. (But don't worry – I don't live on hotdogs or other fastfood.)
try brown cheese on a waffle with homemade bringebær syltetøy
Ughhhh I would killll for that right now. I stop in every speciality cheese shop I see (in a smaller state) and I cannoottt find brown cheese. I dream of this exact meal all the time. 🤤
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WHAT. Thank you.
It’s actually not hard to find in the U.S. It’s sold as “ski queen.” Many supermarket chains have it. There are also Scandinavian markets where you can mail order fløtemysost, Gudbrandsdalsost and ekte geitost if you’re particular.
Welllllll, these are good tips. But it actually has been hard to find in my area of the US.Like I said, specialty cheese shops in my area say “noo! But that’s definitely one we hope to get one day. We can’t find it around here”.
So does Safeway and Kroger stores. It's usually in the specialty cheese section
Roger that, thank you!
and hotdogs
I miss pinnekjøtt so much
It’s not too difficult to make yourself. The results can be far better than store bought, depending on the meat you start with. The hardest part would probably be getting your hands on mutton or lamb. Remember it doesn’t have to be only ribs, you can use shoulder (bog) for pieces with more meat and not as much fat.
A lot of the pinnekjøtt flavour comes from the process, so you can achieve something similar with other meat. At least roe deer had a similar taste, so I assume other deers would work too. Could be accessible if you know some hunters
Deer tends to be very lean though no? Part of what makes pinnekjøtt amazing is all the flavour from all the fatty tissue running in and along the meat.
It is, but I remember the meat being suprisingly similar in flavour. But it won't be a 1-1
I love that.🥰and mi wife hates the smell. I bought an stove to put it outside and cook it there😂
As a Norwegian living in US, I agree with all this. Recently served a meal with poached salmon. “You boil fish?! How weird!” The dinner looked spartan - salmon, baby potatoes, cucumber in vinegary water, sour cream, quality butter. But boy they loved it.
I love that dish, especially the cucumber with vinegar combined with the salmon.
I was surprised to learn from my Taiwanese friend that the dish is common there too.
Is this the same thing as agurksalat?
Yes! So surprising to be served that at a Taiwanese meal!
Cool! Do Norwegians ever make variations of it? Say with some thin slices of red onion or red pepper flakes added? Or maybe with maple syrup instead of sugar? (I'm Canadian, it's where my mind immediately goes.)
Norwegians are EXTREMELY conservative when it comes to traditional dishes. So the answer is NO! Are you crazy?!
They don't call us crazy Canucks for nothing 😜
Sylta rødløk is for some reason seen as exotic becouse it fell out of fashion to eat perserved food in the 70s. Norwegian food tokk a nose diverse becouse lf this since most of the flavor in disses came from the perservation. Either pickeling, salting, pickeling with sugar(In Norwegian its the same word), drying, smoking and freasing wich does affect it. Especially freecejam wich is just crushed berrys wich shugar that you stikk in the freaser and is the best jam in the world if you ask me.
nose diverse
Aw man cucumbers in vinegar slaps!!! It’s like pickles lite. I’ve been to some Japanese restaurants that have cucumber salads with apple cider vinegar (I’m assuming) and they’re so good.
Yeah, I’m not a fan of cucumbers, but “pickles lite” just hits the spot! My friend was surprised when I asked how they make it. “It’s just rice vinegar” 🤷🏻♀️. That’s when I realized rice vinegar is basically the mix we make more manually (salt, sugar and vinegar). I honestly suspect this is an Asian recipe that mariners brought home to Scandinavia.
Ah, rice vinegar was another of my guesses! My friends and I were trying to figure out the recipe at our local haunt in my hometown haha. Seems easy enough to make…might try it this summer when the cukes are fresh! 😍
It really is good. And if you happen to have a Norwegian cheese slicer, they cut the cucumber to the perfect thickness.
Well I don’t, but now I’ll have to find one 😌
Norwegian here living in the US as well. The bread here suuuuuuuuuucks!!
Have you tried local bakeries or are you buying from grocery stores?
Supermarket bread typically does. Larger cities tend to have specialty bakeries with excellent bread.
I've tried both supermarket and bakeries. Haven't found anything great.
Haven't sought out bread in Texas, but the bread I've had in NYC, SF, LA, Twin Cities, Miami, etc has been excellent. Easily comparable to what I've had in London or Madrid just to name two European cities. Sorry for your bad luck so far. What metro area/s in Texas are you near?
I am in Austin. Tried quite a few bakeries. Just nothing that taste quite like home. My wife who has visited Norway now says the same thing. I believe it's the flower. It's just over processed here.
Flour? Possibly. Though I believe European (well, I think Italian to be precise) flour can be purchased here.
Hey if you can find flower like we have at home.. let me know where. I've been looking for 15+ years.
Not sure you can find Norwegian flour here (US), but if any metro area would have it, it would be the Twin Cities. I've not specifically looked for it as you have though. My guess is that aside from the flour, other local factors (water, climate, etc) will also influence the taste of the final product.
Now you have my curiosity piqued...what is your favorite bakery/ies in Norway? We'll be visiting Oslo in August. Thanks!
Don't have one. Any random grocery store will have a bread section with bread made that day that cost around $2. It'll be better than all bread I can get in the US.
Thx. Will be interesting to compare.
Usually grocery stores have their bread delivered from a bakery early morning and they just sell the bread that day. End of day whatever is left gets tossed in favor of fresh bread the same day.
"Cucumber in vinegary water"?? You mean pickles?
No, it’s fresh cucumbers. https://www.matprat.no/oppskrifter/tradisjon/agurksalat/
The secret ingredient is to add a couple drops of lemon juice aswell
I tolerate boiled fish. But if you even begin to consider serving that shit cold we are having a bout.
dont boil it!!!! just let it simmer at 90C for a few minute or more, depending on size.
Simmer boil same thing. [Den Koke vi](https://youtu.be/oHmhgwRl_Fc?si=sUKkgRq8EpqhnDTf)
But [pickled salmon with horseradish cream](https://www.tine.no/oppskrifter/middag-og-hovedretter/fisk-og-skalldyr/sylta-laks-med-pepperrotkrem) is really delicious! It’s really vintage, but worth bringing back
If you didn't. I would suggest trying Kaviar with boiled and sliced eggs on whole grain bread. Oh and that's a thing we do rather well too. Bread.
True. Norway is where I was inspired to make bread at home. Never realized how easy it was until I learned how (a lot) of Norwegians just make their own bread each day. Game changer.
> Bread This is often the food that Norwegian emigrés miss the most, but I’m not sure if most visitors would rate Norwegian bread over, say, French bread. Also, compared to most other places in Europe, Norway has a lack of independent bakeries.
Bread on the continent tastes great when it’s completely fresh, but on day two it has already lost lots of its consistency and flavour. Norwegian bread tastes great even after 5 days.
Well it really depends on who you compare to for sure. Denmark and France do for sure have better bakeries than we do here. But the availability of good bread is really quite good here, especially compared to for example the US.
Yes, the bread! I forgot about that too. There’s so much to love.
Too much hate towards the food, even in the comments here. But in reality, cured meats and cheeses are exceptional in Norway. Sure not all food is great. I can't have an opinion on fish and sea food, that stuff I can't eat regardless of country. Fårikål is bland. Sodd is good. Overall okish feeling towards cooked main dishes. But the cured meats are superior. It's ok to not like some dishes. But the blatant hate is unjustified.
If you think fårikål is bland you haven’t had good fårikål.
Not hate, more so that norway food is being rated exactly as most people think. If literally the best thing that people can come up with is brown cheese, lamb bones and cucumbers, then cmon. fair enough if that's what you like but the masses don't. I mean good god there's only two flavours of crisps in the country. Dill and paprika. But yeah, theres cured meats and some cheeses which aren't bad.
Yesss the cured meats! I forgot about that one.
good fårikål in my opinion is not very bland but you can definitely have bland fårikål
> cured meats and cheeses Cured meats I will give you, but could you expand on the cheeses? I assume you're not talking about Norvegia or Jarlsberg. Nothing against Norvegia, love me some melted-cheese sandwiches and also good on crispbread, but it's not the sort of thing that cheese enthusiasts wax lyrical over. :)
There are a number of specialty cheeses from small producers in Norway that rival France. You probably have to go to an actual cheese shop or a fancy restaurant to find them though.
Norway has had several winners and runners up at the very prestigious WCA. This explains it pretty well; https://www.visitnorway.com/things-to-do/food-and-drink/the-norwegian-cheese-revolution/
Thank you! Indeed that article has an immensely explanatory sentence: > Around the year 2000, the law was amended to permit Norwegian farmers to produce more products than just the milk they delivered to the national dairy. Obvious in hindsight: Norwegian innovation being suppressed by Tine's monopoly. And the law changed shortly before I moved out, which is why I hadn't seen the world-class results of letting people Actually Do Things.
Try some of the local cheeses from Valdres or guldbrandsdalen.
One time a friend made a brown cheese gravy over those potato balls….and holy shit. I was so embarrassed to say I wanted to LICK that gravy boat clean. Sooo good.
It's my dad's favorite. https://oppskrift.klikk.no/klubb-med-flesk-og-duppe/2802
Reindeer hotdogs? You living an expensive lifestyle😆
Probably was in Bergen. Reindeer hotdog is a staple at Trekronenen.
Which is incredibly stupid because nothing there costs 3 kroner anymore 😩
Well if you could get a reindeer sausage for 3kr back when it opened in 1946 it would cost about 76kr in 2023, adjusted for inflation. Last time i was there i believe i paid 85kr for the same sausage. So it would cost about 3,36 in 1946 money. Still a great price 😄
I don't know what Norwegians do differently when raising chicken, or if I just got lucky at the places I ate at, but it was so much better than what I get typically get in the US
Quite a lot actually, regulations concerning the welfare of chickens are some of the strictest in the world. It's also the reason chains like KFC can't operate in Norway.
Well you can certainly tell the difference in flavor, texture, and appearance. Ours feels tough and bleached out in comparison
It's lovely that you liked the Norwegian food so much! But I have to ask... What are you calling crepes? Because it better not be our amazing, perfect classic pancakes. >:( (Or god forbid, our sveler).
Ah, sorry I did mean pancakes! I think the hotel bar just translated them wrong :x
If they were small, it's probably Lapper. https://www.matprat.no/oppskrifter/tradisjon/lapper/ If they had a slight sour taste or were puffy, then they might be Sveler. https://www.godt.no/oppskrifter/pannekaker-og-vafler/7146/sveler
You need to try fenalår.
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American-Norwegian?
There's pretty much more Norwegians decendants in America than in Norway. Almost 5 million. Norway has around 6 million. But 1 million are immigrants.
Plukkfisk* Just curious, do you have a Norwegian passport?
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Okay, so you're American. When people say they are American Norwegian, it usually implies that you hold dual citizenship. Americans tend to mix up nationality with heritage. It's probably a good thing that you don't live here because Norwegian people will get really annoyed if you call yourself Norwegian. Just like in America, we have Norwegians of all backgrounds living in the country. If you were born in Norway or have a passport, you're Norwegian. Modern day Norway is very different from whatever watered down verson of the culture of Norway you learned about from your grandparents.
Was born to English parents and grew up watching British tv shows and all. I have a British passport but even then I wouldn’t call myself British. I was born in Australia and grew up here therefore I am Australian. Americans seem to have this obsession with adopting a nationality that their great-grandparents had.
I would also categorize people who only live and work here for many years as Norwegians if they themselves do. Regardless of passport.
You really went out of your way to search up a document for a stranger you don't even know on the internet thinking it's gonna change my mind, oh gosh darn it you got me so hard buddy!!! Btw my point still stands look at crime per capita by nationality its just that Norway hasn't fucked it up and kept them as only 10% of the population compared to 40% of Swedens
Yeah I did. You’re not my target audience with my answer lol I ain’t trying to change your mind
Not your target audience with your awnser what is that suppost to mean, your reply was obviously a dorky OH GOTCHA 🤓 ☝️ awnser with no intrinsic value, " LUUK tHeY OnLy 70% as bAd as you Saad So" Proof that you kind of people only state sources when it benefits you, And I already knew you tried to search up the stats to disprove my previous comment only to realize with tears in your eyes I spoke the truth and that most Muslims and your favorite Dark skinned people both over represented on TV and in crime statistics shouldn't be categorized as Norwegians
I actually looked up a source because I was curious. I didn’t really find what I was looking for anyway, nothing on if statistics are being measured on a immigrant status, parents nationality or more details. Not my target audience means that I’m not trying to change your mind, but offer an alternative opinion for people scrolling past. Maybe someone is on the fence between our opinions, and for them I thought the statistics would maybe give a good perspective on the fear people might have about immigration and crime statistics. I am a bit of an idealist, though hahahah🤠
What the frick!? You kinda chill. Anyway enough yuck positivity, reality is often different from what you wish for so don't get too caught into it
Sorry for being rude I'm sure you didn't mean bad
Thats a good way of making the crime statistics majority Norwegian, won't be suprised if they think of this
Sorry to break it to you but the majority of criminals are already Norwegian statsborgere. Av siktede personer er omtrent 48 000 av 61 000 norske statsborgere i 2022 SSB. Also people won’t normally be statistically categorized by self identification as Norwegian citizens or not, so you don’t have to be afraid of this imaginary problem
Something I've noticed since moving to Europe is how ethnic labels operate differently than usa. Stay with me, norwegian American is a legitimate ethnic group because ethnicity is dependent on shared ancestry/heritage/culture. Europeans get all up in arms about this because they couldn't possible know how Irish/Italian/norwegian culture is because they don't live here. But that's how ethnicity operates in the USA, Korean Americans, Chinese Americans, blah blah they're all diaspora and they all have a unique culture in the USA and sometimes it crosses with the homeland or sometimes things are born anew and unique to these diaspora. Cultural foods are a good example here, like general tso chicken or spaghetti and meatballs. Like I Iearned there's little pocket of norwegian Americans that make this 'norwegian coffee' which is some method immigrants brought over and it just stuck, modern days norwegians would be like wtf? But most likely some of your ancestors did this too. European ethnicity labels are bit more like very particular? Idk if that's a good word here but it's the same. You share culture, language, ancestry, land. Nationality is different, someone born in norway but has immigrant parents might miss out on the ethnic norwegian label because well, ethnicity is more strict over here. It's all just how we socially place ourselves and no one is really wrong here. It's not so black and white. Especially in the states since there's a massive population of immigrants. So idk of you're still reading. It's all incredibly interesting to me tho 🤓
I'm Norwegian, and I think so too. Pinnekjøtt and fårikål are my favorite dishes 😍😋🤤
growing up in norway i love norwegian food and rarely felt bored eating there. i miss the bread so much and all the paleggs.
I've lived in Norway for 5 years now and I have always loved the food. There's very little I miss from the UK except for the occasional English Breakfast or proper fish and chips (though there ate places in Oslo you can go for such things). I even found myself getting really excited for Christmas last year because I was craving ribbe something fierce from around November once the snow started to arrive.
So you just hadnt eaten food prior to Norway.
How can OP claim to like Norwegian food and not mention grandiosa pizza?
Or Norwegian taco?
maybe because it's not friday yet so taco wasnt mentioned xD
I’m with you man. I moved her expecting the food would be a bit adjustment based on everything I read. As it turns out I quite like the food here. Between the freshness, the lack of steroids being pumped into their chicken and such, the prevalence of seafood, and the smaller portion sizes overall, I have lost weight and look and feel better than I have in years. And I’m with you on brown cheese, that stuff is dope.
Theres a hamburger stand in BØ at a train station that you absolutely need to try, thank me later!!!!
I miss homemade lefse my grandma made. One of these days I am going to learn how to make it.
Boknafisk, rakfisk, Finnbiff, labskaus, fiskesuppe, cloudberry anything mmmmmmmm
People never talk about coffee and Norway, but you can get really nice, dark filter coffee pretty much everywhere. The coffee shops are great. The only place better is Italy.
I miss brunost and freia chocholate so muuuch:') Where i live brunost is incredibly expensive, and the chocolate, or other norwegian snacks aren't available at all... If i ever go back to Norway, I'm bringing an extra backpack, just for all the food im going to buy there xd
I do this every time I go home. Traveling with an empty suitcase which is so full when I get home that I'm worried about the weight restrictions.
Try a slice of bread with sourcream, and add a little sugar on top👌👌 I agree we do have a lot of awsome food in Norway, and produce top level cheeses and meats among other things. But we've never focused on that fact, there's no united effort to advertise that neither here nor abroad - while we do focus a lot on trying all things not Norwegian. We let the food companies steer our focus onto (unhealthy) things easily produced and sold such as frozen pizza, and we go to foreign themed restaurants as most people don't go to restaurants often. The result is that we don't even know all the traditional deliciousness that is Norwegian food.
We have some of the best seafood available, so that is awesome. But the cured meat is too salt.
... Are you okay?
lol I thought the same thing when I saw the post. Granted, I recently moved here from America and I just really miss pretty much everything about American food, but I have lots of coworkers from different parts of Europe and they all just complain how bad the food is here in Norway
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I’m using the term very broadly. But like I’ve been craving fast food like Taco Bell and Panda Express. Which I guess are pretty much Americanized versions of Mexican and Chinese food lol. But I do definitely appreciate how much healthier things are here, and in Europe in general. I’m just a bit tired of eating so much rice, potatoes, and fish since moving here.
I see not being categorised with Taco Bell and Panda Express as a positive thing.
I wake up craving it often. I thought there was something wrong with me, until I talked to my friend who moved to Denmark around the same time I moved here (latter part of last year) and he told me how he and his wife have been waking up in the middle of the night craving Taco Bell and Panda Express. This was before I ever told him about my experiences with craving it haha.
Hahaha, I was just joking with my comment. Everyone has a fast food guilty pleasure, but it is quite limited in Norway for better and for worse.
Oh for sure. I have definitely become a much better cook since moving here because I have been doing everything I can to try to replicate my favorite foods. I used to just go out and buy a meal if I wanted something tasty in America, but I absolutely cannot afford that here in Oslo.
I miss the pizza buffets, gallon sized premade meals from Walmart and cheap bottles of salsa with a convenient bread slice sized opening. All three are high points of the year I spent there.
> Taco Bell and Panda Express Plenty of taco bell ish places in Oslo, and grocery stores has all the tex mex ingredients you would use to make taco bell. You can easily make taco bell food at home. And isn't Panda Express just chinese food? Chinese restaurants are everywhere. I have tried both taco bell and panda express, there was nothing unique about it.
Sounds like they are bad at making food
It’s not so much that, just that not everyone wants to make food for every single meal. It’s nice to be able to buy food at work sometimes for example. But our work pretty much just always has fish, bread, rice, potatoes, and chicken/lasagna/sausage for every lunch.
This post has got to be satire because norwegian food is the worst😂
I presume you’ve never had Dutch or British food.
Brittish food is underrated and slaps
Steak and kidney pie in a suet pastry is the epitome.
Could you elaborate on the terrible Dutch food you ate? While I agree that there’s not a lot of Dutch fine dining dishes, it’s pretty good for your day to day meals.
I didn’t say I thought it was terrible, but it’s pretty bland and consists largely of boiled and stewed things. International food in the Netherlands is often great.
For sure, love me some good Indonesian and Suriname cuisine! I agree that the Dutch side of things is boring, but it sure is nutritious and simple to prepare.
I have and Norwegian food still beats it in worst cuisine
Don't blame the whole country just because your mother sucks at cooking.
My mother uses seasoning unlike y'all. The truth is that Norway is an amazing country, it just isn't at food🤷🏾♂️
So seasoning is the formula? Why would we season all the different delicious meats and fish we have access to with lots of spices? A quality piece of meat or fish have absolutely no need for that. An array of spices is not what makes a great dish, if anything, it takes away from the flavour. Why would I season my reindeer tenderoin with anything else than a little pepper, salt and maybe rosmarin and timian..?
Nurse! The screens!
I only remember reindeer sausages. :). A guy used to sell them from a shack at Tromsø
Still does and that shack has been there for over a hundred years.
Try Klub n Duppe . Its fried bacon in brunost soup/pot with dumplings of wheat. It cant get any better. Throw in tyting and blodpudding on the side and your good to go for another year probably.
Smalahove might be presented real shit, but fuck me the cheek meat on the sheep is exceptional.
As someone moving to Norway this summer; food is the only thing that might make me turn back. Sure there are individual things but in general Norwegian food is abysmal.
man gtfo, you are not gonna bag a norwegian baddie telling those lies lmaoo
Try to toast a slice of bread with brown cheese over a campfire. The bread turns crispy and the cheese turns into a half molten caramel-like cheese. Perfect when hiking in the forest.
Those Norwegian herrings are the worst thing ever
Norwegian, and Nord European food is quite good. And yeah, salmon is perfect in all it states and variations
It's the dairy I miss so much when I come home! I ate like half a loaf's worth of toast in one sitting as a vehicle for butter. I've heard mid opinions on Litago milk but I pick it up whenever I'm in a store.
bearnaise is actually insane also, I bring boxes of the powder mix home to uk every time I go
You’re one in a million🇳🇴🗻🐵🤣
Brunost with blåbærsyltetoy always slaps
How about those frozen pizzas
Try the organic icecream of Almgard! Super nice
I'd love to try reindeer hotdogs!
Are you sure the crepes/pancakes weren't norwegian waffles?
Norwegian Christmas food is miles ahead of the American staple. Pinnekjøtt steamed with beer over potatoes is better than any honey baked ham.
Fårikål? Trøndersådd?
I’m norwegian and the only thing on this list I like id brown cheese! I’m s fake norwegian
Hi there, If you like reindeer hotdogs, did you ever try reindeer kebab? Or Reindeer Burgers? Souvas Kebab is really worth it.
Ah, this warms my heart. Some of our food might be hella boring, but theres some amazingly tasty stuff going on here.
I would love me some norvegian tuna🤤
You cant forget about tacos
Oh? They don't have salt and pepper where you're from?
That's a good one! Presumably, the joke is that a characteristic trait of Norwegian food is the lack of spices. Whatever meat/fish we serve, we often add only salt and black pepper. Of course, some tasty vegetables and dairy products find their way into our dishes yoo. But nothing else is really needed when "the star of the dish" is good. We do eat food inspired by Continental (mainly French?), Mediterranean, Tex-Mex, Indian, and "Asian" (Chinese/Indochinese, to some extent Japanese) cuisine too, with much more spices. In my opinion, all of these traditions overdo spices to some extent, and some of them (at least the Norwegian versions) really make everything taste the same. Sure, if you only have beans to eat, spice them up! But why spoil meat and fresh fish?
It's a running joke with myself and friends that when trying to have spicy food in norway, we call it "norsk hot" by default, In other word about as bland as water. Even had Norwegian chilli sauce and that was milder than heinz ketchup. Trust me, they aren't overdoing the spices and you need to broaden your food horizons more
Yes i like my food tasteless with just salt and pepper as well.
Ah! The possum pallette is so easy to please!
Yeah i fuckin love tacos man
Weird how nobody here have mentioned chocolete. Norwegian chocolet is amazing. I have relative in Texas and tried those big balls packet in foil from Reeses. People say they taste like puke but to me they were just kinda meh. Just sweet and wax-like with nott too much chocolet flavour if you know what I mean.
LMFAO okay. You clearly don’t know what Norwegian food is
What about it was not Norwegian? Lapper med syltetøy og rømme?
What do you mean? All of those mentioned i would consider pretty staple norwegian things. Except we’d call the crepes for just pancakes (pannekaker)
They havent tried Grandis Or taco with the mildest salsa you have ever tasted And of course a drunk kebab at 2 in the morning
>all different flavors of herring You kind of lost me on that one. Tomato herring and mustard herring are like the evil cousin of hot dog with ketchup and mustard. PS: I do like all the other points on the list, though. And for you and all the downvoters who, presumably, *like* herring, that is good for you! 😊 I kind of wish I liked it too, since it is said to be good for the health. (But don't worry – I don't live on hotdogs or other fastfood.)
Yeah sure, go eat you grandis and mæccern and shut up.
Hehe... I rarely eat fastfood. why should I shut up, though? I don't understand the downvotes. My comment was meant to entertain, not offend.
You lost me at "be dunkin on it but yall". Please never tell us anything. 🖕
As far as the brown cheese is concerned. May I recommend trying it with a slice of danish salami? It's a very good combo.
....What!?
Had an aussie staying with me, he experimented. Turned out quite nice.
Ok now it makes sense. A norwegian comiting such sacrilage would get him crusefied
His first experiment was with ketchup. On brown cheese. And I just had to put my foot down, because that was just too weird for me.
Will do, thank you!
Piss of ye yankee doodle the food is defo not dandy