American Reacts to Traditional Norwegian Food and Snacks
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 3 ส.ค. 2023
- As an American I am very interested in what kinds of unique food Norway is know for. Today I am very excited to learn about some of the most popular and traditional Norwegian foods and snacks. If you enjoyed the video feel free to leave a comment, like, or subscribe for more!
I was once told by an American that Norwegian chocolate is like going into Willy Wonka's chocolate factory and getting a piece of the world's best chocolate, which is so expensive that you can only try it once in your life and therefore spoils all chocolate for the rest of your life. . He is not wrong.
Det var jo litt morsomt da, med tanke på at Roald Dahl skrev Charlie og sjokoladefabrikken basert på Freia sjokoladefabrikk.....har jeg lest, sett eller hørt et sted :)
Funny, because i believe it is based on the freia chocolate factory in norway. The story was written by Roald Dahl.
I have tasted chocolate in America Try Belgium chocolate ps I have given Norwegian chocolate to a lot of people they all say it's among the best
American chocolate smells like vomit due to the butyric acid they use
Well I worked with chocolate making chocolates and I like Switzerland chocolate I not used Norwegian
Swede here. Sour cream porridge is delightful. I love it so much, and I first tasted it in norway.
Hei Hei 🇸🇪
Tyler, if you get a PO Box, I'm sure Norwegians would gladly send you Norwegian snacks
He’d get a lifetime worth of food and snacks. 😁
@@TomVestvik Send him some fish. haha
that be fun, though it probaly be a 50-50 spilt on him loving it or hating with passion.
cuz chololate is probably gonna grate as it's so good, but dundrsalt migth send him to the bin in a hurry.
I sent 10 kg of assorted norwegian food/snacks that he received early february. Hope there will be a video on it some day ^^
I'm an American that lives in Norway, I would gladly send him some of the amazing snacks we have here. The "school bun" is a bit of an acquired taste imo. It is bread with icing coated in coconut with a light lemony tasting cream center. Also the "porridge" is called rømmegrøt, and is it amazing with butter, sugar, and cinnamon. Super delicious and a great comfort food in the winter. The grandiosa pizza is OK, it is usually pretty cheap for pizza, but it has allot of varieties.
My grandfather was a famous kransekake maker he was one of a only a few that could make them huge i think the biggest one he made was like 1,5 meter tall and you can imagine how many rings etc etc that would be...not to mention the cost...
Can we talk about how thankful we are for this man’s videos
The dry fish was made as a way to preserve the fish for long transports. We've always been a huge exporter of fish, so we needed a reliable way to make sure the fish made it to the other side of the world.
A skolebolle/school-bun is white sweet bread, with a vanillacustard centre, and icing with coconutflakes in it. Quite tasty, but often too much bread compared to the filling/icing for me. 😊
Completely agree. I grew up with my mother baking them as regular-sized, homemade buns; much better custard-to-bun ratio.
Also didn't really bother to add coconut flakes, I think it's better without.
A must try when in Norway for sure ❤
They call hot dogs grillpølser (grill sausages). The video says shrimp salad instead of shrimp sauce. Shrimp salad is minced shrimp with mayo and some spices, maybe stretched with some diced, cold, boiled potato. Usually pretty mild. I loved it. I imagine it would be quite nice with a grillpølse.
Tørrfisk is a very traditional thing. They catch lot of fish in Norway. Drying it is a way to keep it from going bad. Top it with a little bit of butter, as it will be very dry and woody. Typically broken up with an axe, as most knives won't cut it (literally).
Brunost is made from cooking down the whey from traditional cheese. Hit the local cheese case at your major grocery store and look for something called Ski Queen. That's the "exported name" for brunost.
Kransekake is absolutely yummy.
Start with 1 pound of ground up almonds, coarse powder consistency.
Add 1 pound of powdered sugar.
Mix in 3 egg whites, warm it up, on the stove or in the nuker, enough that you can stir it easily. Mix well.
Cover it with a towel and let it cool / lose moisture overnight in the fridge.
Beat two more egg whites. Break up the hardened dough and mix in the egg whites. I find a dough hook in the mixer works best.
Roll or extrude into ropes about 1/2" diameter. Cut lengths starting with 3" and going up by 1/2". This will give you the rings of various sizes. I actually have specialized pans for baking these things.
Butter (extensively) your baking pan and dust with Cream of Wheat; no, I'm not joking. Turn your cut pieces into rings, place on the pan and bake at 350° F for about 25 minutes. If it turns brown, you're probably cooking it too long; you want them to stay pale but just STARTING to change color.
Remove from the pan and cool on a rack. Stack in a tower and drizzle with glaze made from a little bit of milk and some powdered sugar.
Don't eat too many at a time. Almonds, in significant quantity, are a natural laxative. Three people, eating an entire batch of kransekake in one evening, discovered this the hard way.
Grillpølser refers to sausages that are grilled, in the video they had boiled sausages which are usually called wienerpølser (Vienna sausages)
Some years ago some food writers from VG (a large Norwegian newspaper - the largest?) took Grandiosa to Naples, Italy for some local pizza makers there to try.
The Italians didn't even try to be polite about it... :)
Hehe, I bet. I am pretty sure grandis only got popular because of the price. I lived on grandis when I lived in Oslo and studied in 2000-2001
Kvikk Lunsj is the perfect chocolate for hikes in the wintertime as it has the layers of wafers that prevents it from freezing hard in cold weather. And yes, it is better than KitKat. Norwegian chocolate does not get the recognition it deserves. Nidar and Freia makes very high quality candy.
Hval and Brynhild are good chokolates too, especially Hval… 🍫😃🇳🇴
We have good chocolate. Other than that I would not say there is anything remarkable.
Edit: We eat raw/smoked salmon on slices of bread, often with eggs and caviar. It may sound fancy, but it fairly common and relatively affordable. Its all about geography and thus availability of the products.
Makrel i tomat seems to be the most popular bread snack by kids all over Scandinavia. We all had that at 4-5 the last 60 years or so... Its the topping that every get together always has at the dinner table. Apart from anything cheese or Leverpostej it's sort of the regular go to snack by a lot of people. I still buy it today when I'm in the mood for rugbrød.
When I was a kid I ate Makrell I tomat straight from the box I loved it
Tørrfisk, dry fish, is moore like dogfood in Norway.
But it's also used in Lutefisk.
And it's a big export article used for bacalao and so on down in southern Europa.
Not accurate
Lefse is not really flatbread. It usually has some volume, like yeasted bread, but it's still kind of flat, as it was baked to be that way...
The ancient Norwegians never knew about cinnamon, but today you can usually find two slices of lefse with either sugar and butter between them, or sugar, cinnamon and butter.
I've always thought of this as quite close to what Americans think of as cinnamon-rolls, actually! Bready thing with butter, sugar and cinnamon!
Kransekake is pretty much almond flour, powder sugar, and eggs. You can buy a pan set, which comes with bunch of baking "sheets" that are round with grooves on them for all the circles. You make the dough then roll them our in to long pencil strips and lay them in the pans and bake them. I make one every Christmas Eve feast we have being Norwegian American. And since being almond flour, makes it so our gluten free guests have baked goods they can have. They are actually pretty good.
Heck yeah! You need to try mackerel in tomato sauce💪☺️ it is fantastic. The Salomon is usally salted and cold smoked to give it some flavor and it gets a little dryer than raw. So it is not the same as if you catch a salmon and just start eating on it. Im was hoping they would try out the traditional meal called (mølja).
When eating Kransekake at a party, you are not allowed to start at the top, the normal thing to do is to take of the rings at the bottom and breake them in to smaller pieces and the serve.
Yes! It palmer me to see them start at the top
Kransekake is made of powder sugar, grated almonds, egg whites. The egg-whites whipped. Then add the sugar-powder and make it all fluffy. Then add almonds. Then when the dough is thick, you either roll it with your hands and putt it into a mould. then put in the oven til it's starting to get slightly light brown color. Then you cool them down and put them into airtight boxes. And store them for weeks. If the get dried and become a jawbreaker. Then just put a slice of white bread in the box for couple of hrs. Then it's yummy.
The Mackrel in tomatsauce comes in a tube, but not this one. The most popular form of this pålegg is tinned sliced mackerel in sauce, like this one.
Yepp and we call it Plane crash.
Dried fish are usually not eaten dry. It is re moisturised and steamed/cooked , served with potatoes, mashed root wedgeables and bacon butter.
The Grandiosa pizza is cheap 4-5 US dollars while ordering pizza at a pizzeria can be 30-50 US dollar. That explains it's popularity quite a bit.
50$ for a pizza!? Here in Italy you would buy 4 to10 pizzas with that amount, depending on the level of the pizzeria you go to.
@@solaccursio yeah, if you eat at a restaurant it can easily be 50 bucks. but there are cheap places with takeaways where you can get a pizza for like 15 dollars.
The Grandiosa (original) tastes like cardboard with tomatosauce and cheese and paprika and something that is supposed to be ham, I never liked it when I was a kid, but I do est the version with just 4 types of cheese, it's a little to salty though, but it's allright if you don't want to make a big dinner but need something to eat. The Grandiosa comes in a lot of different types, but I think all of them have some kind of meat exept the 4 cheese.
the salmon is usually smoked for preserving.
About the hotdog with the shrimp salad; yeah, it's salad and not sauce. The thing about... uh, gas station hotdogs.... is that they usually come with a large variety of additions that you can have with it: shrimp salad, potato salad, raw onion, stir-fried onion (I think it's called in English?) and probably a lot of other stuff that I can't recall offhand since I don't eat them often. I would honestly be very surprised if you don't have something quite similar in the US. (Not necessarily in gas stations, though.)
The mackerel in tomato sauce thing I actually ate as a kid, despite not exactly being a huge fan of fish dinners at the time. I guess a lot of things can be improved with a good tomato sauce.
Kransekake is DELICIOUS! I really, really feel sorry for people who are allergic to almonds and can't eat this because... well.
It's also common to give dried fish to dogs as a treat. They love it, and it's good for their teeth.
I would love to send you some Norwegian candies/treats/cheese/etc for you to do a reaction video of norwegian goods. would love to hear what your reactions to these things would be when trying them for yourself :)
Tyler, try some food with your brother, that would be hillarius 😅
All I need is a po box and I'll make it happen
I sent 10 kg of assorted norwegian food/snacks that he received early february. Hope there will be a video on it some day ^^
Lefse is made with boiled potato, flour, salt and then rolled into big round flat dough. Like Tortillas. Then put on a warm pan and cooked.
The wrap around the sausages are almost the same as the lefse. Just adding more potato.
It's not shrimp sauce, it's shrimp salad 👍🏻
The majority of these dishes aren't snacks Ty, but condiments like mackerel in tomato sauce, desserts, or cake. And Skolebolle isn't bread, but pastry. Sour cream porridge is my favorite, and is a traditional dish, and we eat it for dinner.The aged and dried meat and flatbread are side dishes, and the thing in the middle is butter. I personally don't put butter on mine as I don't like a buttery pool in the middle of my porridge.
Norwegian cakes and such is superior to almost anything in the world...
makrell i tomat is not from a tube (usually.) they come in tins. its a tinned spread. its good.
Also in tube….😃
fun fact ababut hotdog. on 17 may ouer National Day it got sold ababut 20 mill hotdogs
Skolebolle is after school. Its a bun with vanillacream in the middle with sugarflour and coconutt.
you can't have makrell i tomatsaus without milk to wash it down with. something about the taste mixing when washing it down makes it even more delicious :)
Lefse with no brunost is madness 😱
Tørrfisk is actually a very good snack. And that made me instantly crave some tørrfisk.
I have to insist. That most of norway. Probably more than 99% don't have Grandioza for christmas dinner. Those few that do, are considered seriously weird. But the rest of the year, it is okay, hehe.
Hotdog in lompe. Lompe is the thing you put around the hot dog. It’s made out of potato and flour
Oh, and about the grandiosa pizza.... It sucks 🙈 tastes like cardboard with wannabe cheese and cheap tomatosauce to me. (And i am 40something norwegian.) I used to eat it years ago. I prefer making my own pizza. 😊
I would totally curate a bunch of things he has reacted to and send him a pacakage so he can try everything
Inside the quick lunch wrapper you get hiking suggestions
Grandiosa on chrismas eve is eaten earlier in the day becouse we eat chrismas dinner later in the day.
3:14 a lompe is like if you made a tortilla smaller and out of potato instead of corn
Kransekage is normal in Denmark too, we eat it at new years evening ond for big celebrating, like confirmations or weddings
If you have tasted macaroons, those tiny round colorful thingys, that's about the same taste and consistency as a "kransekake". Much easier to make than it looks. :)
The thing about pizza on christmas, i`m pretty sure it just started as a marketing campaign by the producer. Not by commercial, but rumors and BS, but this actually caused people to belive it, and try it for themselves. It is extremely popular though.
School bun is a cardamonbun with cream in the midlle and icing with coconut.
I use to have sourcream pudding with raisins, butter and cinnamon on top in one plate eaten separate from the rest. You have the crisp bread and meat together for it self.
Actually the kransekage is danish. You put the almond dough in metalrings in the different sizes. When baked you asemble it with a speciel glaze on top of the other. Often used at new year evening or celebrations. You can also make it in a horn so the hollow middle is shown and you fill it with wrapped chocolates......and always decorate little flags on it. For new year evening there is some new year dekorations on besides flags. Very festive. Some use the same almond dough and make small Cates with cocktailberries, hazelnuts or walnuts in the middle, which you serve besides the kransekage. You can make it yourself or buy it at a bakery.
You're correct that kransekake is origianlly Danish, but the Norwegians have made it our own. And it tastes (and looks) quite different in Denmark vs Norway.
Also, as a country that lived under Danish and Swedish ruling for so many years, all the experts, education and development of high class foods and items happend close to the king. So Norway really didn't have the opportunity to develope such things for houndreds of years. I know kransekake was invented long after the break of the union, but it did set a tone of development. Therefore you'll see a lot of cakes and foods that we consider Norwegian, but may have originally come from Sweden or Denmark.
NO it is NOT a KitKat!!!! NOPE! Nada!
Comparing a kvikk-lunsj with kitkat is how you get banned from Norway
God forbid! Pizza Grandiosa on christmas.... i wouldnt even have it if i had to celebrate alone. Thats baspemy:P
Very few people snack on dried cod/ pollock. It has other uses. As is it's a popular dog treat though...
Lefse is NOT bread. It's like a cake, that looks like a pancake. 😋
I don't know where she got Shrimp SAUCE from, it's shrimp salad.
Skolebolle is filled with egg cream, powdered sugar, and sprinkled with coconut.
Tørrfisk (dried fish) are often given to your dog like a snack. And later your dog have a fish smelling breath.
love dried fish
Lefse you put something on it can be allot of stuff.
shrimp Salat is not a sauce
I like shrimp salat but no on hotdog but its an option
Makrell i tomatsaus is among my favorite also have sardines in tomatosusce or Olive oil
Kransekake usually. For birthdays new year always and sometimew Christmas..
Salomon often smoked
The hot dog was also with "lefse"- not tortilla bread... If I remember correctly the word "Lefse" WOULD be properly used for tortilla bread aswell as it primarily means a flat and soft piece of bread. There is a flat hard type of bread called "flatbrød" as well..
... and.. Now I may be going out on a limb, but.. The latter is a bread that is made on potatoes, and I THINK the same is true with the ~traditional~ Norwegian "Lefse".
Hotdoogs (and other types of sausages" has a VERY long history; Starting before Columbus found the americas.. Heck, possibly even before the Vikings found "Vinland".. which is THEIR word for.. The Americas..
The thing is that it takes a lot of effort and resources to actually raise cattle so anything that CAN be used for something WILL be used for something.. so.. In addition to boil glue from hooves of horses, and so on, a lot of food-stuffs (hot dogs being one) was made using things that aren't really.. "quality beef".. just.. mince it all together filll it with salt, put a "skin" on it and boil it.. and.. not only will you have used gristle and parts of the animals that people wouldn't eat, but.. The way to cook it also work as preservative, so.. it will last through winter. A lot of the foodstuffs that are made to last through a frozen winter are traditional Northern Christmas food. In the middle of winter there was just not so much fresh food that was considered delicious enough to be food fit for a celebration (Though you can slaughter pigs the year around, thus the "Christmas ham"). In Sweden we have a specific type of hot dog that we call "Prince sausage" which is very small.
NOT tortilla bread, but thinn potato bread and NOT shrimp sauce! shrimp salad, very good.
We exsport most of the dry fish, to Brasil, Spain, and Portugal. They make mostly Backalao... 🤓
You should order snacks from Norway. There is a reaction channel in US that did taste Norwegian snacks
When it comes to kransekake: The chewier the kransekake, the better. :D If it gets old and/or stale, not so much.
The mackerel in tomato sauce comes in cans, not tubes, if that makes a difference.
Hotdogs in ooold days was like salami but made of dear, elk, raindear etc.
Pizza for x-mas is more like a lunch snack than anything else.
The only thing good about grandiosa is its cheaper than other brands. I mostly just buy one of the peppes pizza frozen ones
When eating norwegian waffles for the first time just add butter or jam. Then after that u can experiment with adding brown cheese. But usually better with jam or butter only since brown cheese is unusual for foreigners
a slice of wholegrain bread with makrell in tomato sauce, with boiled on top of it all.
Never heard of grandiosa to Christmas 😂
Dry fish with butter is the best
I love tørrfisk, and was just about to say the same. Most people in the south of the country see it as dog food, they don't know any better. I once tried giving tørrfisk to a school class down here in the south - half the class loved it, the other half didn't. No one liked the smell, but almost everyone took a bite. There were only a few who showed disgust. Children are more open to what is new and unknown than adults are.
lol, I just had mackerell in tomatosauce on my breakfast roll today, it was yummy :D
The pizza for Christmas thing is a myth, created by misread statistics. During Christmas there is a significant increase in the sales of frozen pizza, BUT it is not because people eat it as a Christmas dinner. The stores are closed for several days between Christmas Eve, and New Years Day, so many families buy frozen pizza in order to have a quick meal on hand in case something unexpected happens, or simply as a break from the heavy Christmas food.
Tørrfisk (dried fish) is the base for Lutefisk. They put the dried fish in water for 6-7 days, then in lye (traditionally made with water and ash from burnt birch trees) for 2 days, then in water again for 4-6 days.
It's not very common to eat dried fish as a snack, but cats and dogs love it. Drying it concentrates the fish taste and smell, so if you're not very excited about fish, you will definitely not like it.
It depends on where you comes from. I comes from the northern part of Norway and dried fish was and still is snacks for humans - and dogs!
We definitely have dried fish. We hang them out to dry ourselves, or buy them in the grocery store.
It’s like 97 % protein, so it’s very nutritious.
Dried fish used to be northern Norway’s most exported goods, and the market were Africa and Spain. Probably some other countries too.
We always treat our foreign guests, and also guests from the south of Norway with high quality dried fish 😊
The dried fish is usually called stockfish when it is the whole dried fish. It is also very popular in iceland. They eat it with butter on.
IT is not bread but a sort of cake 😊
14:53 I definitely know this.
As a Norwegian i love lefse
As a norwegian, I've NEVER heard of "sourcream porridge".
Rømmegrøt
it's about 8 per person a year ( pizza grandiosa ) but some people eat more and some eat less grandiosa.
Wasn't it a general "frozen pizza" number? It will still be a crazy amount of grandiosas, but at least there are some others that may kinda pass as a pizza
It's probably healthier to have trail mix on a hike -- as many Americans do.
On a good hike, chocolate gives the same to you as it does to Harry Potter after he meet dementors. Have some chocolate. For your healt, it'll make you feel better.
No we don't go out to restaurants, we eat the frozen pizza. It is just a thing that norway loves frozen pizza
Sour cream porridge 🤤 Rømmegrøt with spekeskinke 🤤
Lefse is like a semi-healthy Poptart ;)
Noo. So wrong, even when split, you should always save the egg for last when eating skolebrød
As Pondus has decreed.
That norwegians eat pizza for christmas is bulls**t, it's a urban legend set in motion by a company (don't remember witch, Stabburet?).
Some do though.
I have a friend who doesn't like Norwegian Christmas food, so his Christmas dinner every year is grandiosa, and that's the only time he eats grandiosa every year. He's done this since he was a kid. He is now in his thirties.
When hearing about this the first time, I figured that some ppl are just buying a pizza to shove something into their kids pie holes to keep them happy while mom and dad are cooking the real deal (which is served pretty late compared to when we usually eat our dinners, btw). But I agree with your sentiment and I’m kind of offended by it because X-mas is when our food culture finally shines.
@@rytterl Low class! Subclass! One of a thousand!
"Ska' vi itt heller ta en slik en Pizza Grandiosa?"
@@DivineFalcon Yeah I think it is sometimes used as a sort of break from Christmas food, since that can be quite an effort to eat
i love your videos and a am norwegian and you pronuons evry word right
The hot dog, with what they called Shrimp sauce got lost in translation.
it's not sauce, it's a "salad", in the same manner as you have ''Potato salad"
Pizza at christmas no..the days after its ok..
Raw salmon is at the very least common in my household! Snacking on it as we speak 😂 We usually have some lying around in the fridge
Same. I'm a fishoholic.
Him in Blue are good TH-camr in Norway
Now you should try REAL Norwegian food, like Fårikål ( sheep with cabbage, our national dish), komle (dumplings), smalahåve (sheep's head), lutefisk (stockfish diluted in lye, pinnekjøtt (lamb ribs), steak of whale, creamed fishsoup, rakfisk (fermented fish) and much more....
Mmmmmmmmmm
Kransekake 😋 (Im allergic to mandler)
Kitkatt is a 3th cousin of kvikklunch😂
Fun Fact about Kvikk Lunsj: Kvikk Lunsj got sued of Kit Kat becasse of the shape of the chocolate. And Kit Kat lost offcouse becase of their claim was yust stupid.
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- It could have very easily gone the other way around, if you take into account that 'KitKat' launched first, and not to mention that the 'Kvikk Lunsj' looks remarkably similar to a 'KitKat'.
People have been sued for a lot less and lost...
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@@BizzyX78 Ye that may be true. But for me that lawsuit is yust as insain as a potato chip company sued another potato chip company because their potato chip was shaped the same way as the other one.
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- We live in a very competitive world...
If the company suing the other could have proved that they came up with it first and had filed a patent on the very shape of their chips/crisps.
That could have won them the lawsuit...
Acquiring a certain patent from someone else is totally legal, but copying a patent from someone else, on the other hand, is very illegal and as such can get extremely costly if they get caught.
It's kind of like that 'Fortnite Dance'-thing a few years back...
A person sued the company behind the game for using dance moves he claimed that he had made up long before 'Fortnite' even was a thing.
I can't recall if he won that fight or not, but if he had filed a patent for the moves in question, he could have made it big.
By not only winning the lawsuit in question, but he could've struck a pretty lucrative deal with that company if they wanted to continue to use his moves in the game.
Conversely...
No patent, no issue, no problem!
There is an even crazier story than that chip/crisps one...
A woman actually sued 'Starbucks', because of the coffee she ordered was hot.
She accidentally spilled some on herself and got burned, so she sued them for serving her hot coffee.
That's crazy as anything...
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You know, You might have a norwegian sailor church in a town neer by you or somthing like that. They might be making waffels there or have some norwegian food.
Tyler lives in Indiana and that state is far from the coast. You won't find a sailor's church there. Not even close.
Hah, I ate rømmegrøt yesterday and I´m eating bread with makrell i tomat now :)
Alaska king salmon is pretty damn good.
Pacific salmon cannot be used for sushi. That is the reason why Japan imports Norwegian Atlantic salmon. Japanese Pacific salmon is considered too lean to be used as sushi. It is also known to contain a dangerous parasite, and this means that the Japanese only eat it boiled or fried. The farmed Norwegian salmon does not contain these parasites and is therefore safe to eat raw. The Norwegian salmon also has a very nice red colour which the Japanese love.
The water in Alaska is obviously colder than in Japan. Whether the fish this far north contains the dangerous parasite is unknown to me, but it is still Pacific salmon, and therefore too lean for sushi.
Before oil, fish and agriculture was the Norwegian livestock
How Norwegian make a Kransekake: th-cam.com/video/qCzKJjHv4WQ/w-d-xo.html (Video is on english so you understand everything)
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Mackerel in tomato sause - is a love hate for those in norway as well. I personally hate it. The smell could kill...
It's not shrimp sauce, it's shrimp sallad on the sausages.
Tyler, check “heather abroad”!
My favourite. Espescially since I'm from Stavanger....
You have canned Tuna - we have Makrell i Tomat :p
People who eat grandiosa for christmas is the poor or the people who dont celebrate