American Reacts to Why Norway is Amazing (Part 1)
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This is a video about an American's experience living in Norway and all of her amazing experiences. As an American myself I am very interested in learning about the experiences of other Americans in Norway as I think it is one of the best ways for me to learn and relate to it. If you enjoyed the video feel free to leave a comment, like, or subscribe for more!
We do eat pizza with our hands, and burgers too. And kebabs. And tacos. The knife and fork thing comes into play if we sit down in a restaurant to eat these things, because for instance a "proper" burger is so stuffed with salad, veggies, dressing, etc it becomes next to impossible to eat without cutlery. Many Norwegians always use a knife and fork when eating at home as well, because it's convenient to absolutely fill your plate and then sit down and dig in (tools may come in handy).
agree that some fancy hipster impractical burgers can be aided by cutlery, but generally.. anyone eating a pizza or a burger with a fork and knife is either peerpressured into it or a plain psychopath.. imo-
@@avlinrbdig5715 i work at pizzabakern and you'd be surprised, almost EVERYONE eats with knife and fork
@@ratman9728 i still stand by my statement
Who the fuck eat pizza with fork and knife?
For me it depends, if its fast food, street food, etc.
I will always eat that with my hands.
If it is a restaurant, I would generally eat it with fork and knife, even if it is pizza, but that's only if they do not pre-cut it, that's a sign for me to eat it with cutlery.
Also as multiple people has already said, if the burger is next to impossible to eat with hands.
At the family, friends or similar dining table, it is always cutlery, just a basis of manners.
Hamburgers and pizzas are in general not eaten with fork and knife in Norway . . and It is not normal to put chokolate powder on chese either. Head of sheeps are called "smalahove" and is not a common dish to find everywhere in Norway . It is a tradition in Hordaland (west of Norway).
previous exchange student here. I still remember everyone looking at me when i ate pizza with utensils, after using napkins to remove all the grease from the pizza (was like small puddles). And the bread was sweet, like pastries, not anything like european bread. Still slowly working on the weight i put on in america, after 10 years LMAO
I am almost 30 and I have never tried Smalahove/Sheeps head. Never had it offered to me either. It is definitely a (north?) western Norwegian tradition, which is where they traditionally had more sheep and a bigger reliance on them. When I grew up however one of my friends whose family was from Western Norway used to make it and I was at his house once when they were preparing it. It looked kind of macabre with a massive barrell they used to heat the head in outside and then a chainsaw to split them in half after.
Been living on the west coast all my life, never eaten sheeps head. I refuse to eat a face, no matter how good the meat is
I'm from Northern Norway and I never had sheeps head eiter. I think it more like from the western paret, but it's not very common (no wonder it looks disgusting!)
I'm a little older and never tried nor do I want to
My father used to make the smalahove and lutefisk himself. So when I was a kid this was usually eaten as ordinary weeknight dinner.
I live in Norway, but got Icelandic family.
Smalahove is definitely a part of the diet, especially for þorrablót.
me and my girlfriend are Norwegian. have watched all the videos on your youtube channel. I find it very interesting to hear what you think about Norway.
keep up the good work
You may be interested in the program Alt for Norge (All for Norway). It is a tv-show features Norwegian Americans participating in challenges relating to Norwegian history and culture, competing to win a reunion with their distant Norwegian relatives.
It has been ten seasons, with ten episodes each. Some of the seasons can be found at www.youtube.com/@Rowaryz/videos
Create a go found me to save up money to visit Norway. Seems like you really want to go there. :D but check out further north in Norway. Troms and Finnmark. love your videos keep them coming
As an Norwegian, i am proud of my country.But it is hard work and thanks to our parents, grandparents who made this country possible. Like your comments and reactions. Keep up the god work.
Best reguards TBS.
The salmon thing is basically a freshness game. The fresher it is, the better it is. Unless you go for smoked salmon, that keeps. I'd recommend that btw.
Thats the case for most fish though. Used to live in main land canada and then moved out to newfoundland and the fish was 1 million times better. When you can get it same day, never frozen, it's always so much better
We do not eat the head of a lamb, but of an adult sheep👍......not everyone in Norway likes and eats it😳
ja eg liker de ikke🤢 yes I don't like it
Using meat from an animal's head to make a dish, usually involving gelatine, is common in dozens of countries, even in N America, especially in Canada, Pennsylvania, the Upper Midwest, and in the South. Generally, pigs' head meats are used here, however. It's called Head Cheese, or sulze. In parts of Canada, meats from heads of game, such as moose and caribou are used.
@@t.a.k.palfrey3882 Well, Canada and the upper Midwest makes sense.
Most of the Icelandic people that moved to the new world moved to Canada and they have the same tradition as us.
And Norwegians and Swedes mostly moved to the upper Midwest if memory serves me right.
As for the south...
There I'm guessing it's from other cultures.
Pennsylvania...
I don't know...
So many cultures moved through that area along the east coast, Norwegians included, that it's hard to tell...
Am a German who got invited to try it. It does not look too good, but it's delicious. I did not try the eyeball though
@@romyhartenstein7779 Apparently the eyeballs are a delicacy...
I can't comment myself though...
I was once told that one of the best ways to learn a new language is to watch childrens tv programs. You`ll learn the ABC, 123 and how to talk/pronounce words. Never tried it myself, but I can kinda see how it could help.
Great video as always. Love to watch this while enjoying my morning coffe! Happy hollidays and a (early) Merry X-Mas ( God Jul ) to you!
Sesam stasjon!
Alfa lærte meg tall, som barn.
Try Peppa Pig in different languages.
There is a tradition of eating "smalahove". Sheeps head. The brave ones eats the eye.
Just adding, it's not my favorite dish. Also it's more of a special occasion thing, not everyday food 😅
Just so it's stated, it's good.
People just have a weird mentality about it, as if they don't understand what "using all parts of an animal" means.
These occations usually comes with generous amounts of beer and cider,lol!
Oh we eat hamburgers with our hands, those we are able to eat with our hands. Also pizza. If we use fork and knife it's because it would be hard to eat it with hands without stuff going everywhere 😄.
And rislunsj is great! It's actually riskrem (rice cream) with a berry sauce/ berry jam.
Sort of a fun story from a couple years back when I still lived with my parents: I was staying at my fathers and my stepmom, she is from Indonesia but spoke fluent English. She wanted to learn the language so we spoke for the most part Norwegian, we would slow down, repeat ourselves and try to explain it in Norwegian if she didnt understand something, finally explaining in English if all else failed. One time I said “Eg går bare ned i frysaren for å hente eit brød og legge det til å tina”, translates to “I’m just going down to the freezer to get a bread and put it to thaw”. Coincidentally the Norwegian word for thaw “tina/tiny” is identical to the name Tina, and I have a sister named Tina😅. My stepmom was quite confused what my sister had to do with the bread, since she wasn’t living there anymore.
Norwegians are good at English, because we learn in school, but more so because of American culture. Music, movies, books. Learning Norwegian for an English speaker is understandably much harder.
we start out terrible though we can understand and speak it well enough, but it takes some time to get the accents down properly
Well the internet is in english
@@vadlasletta the internet is also in Norwegian if you know where to engage. I think roughly 30% of my Internet browsing is in English, the 70% being a split between Norwegian, German, Spanish and French
Pizza and hamburgers are normally eaten by hand in Norway, just like the rest of the world. In some restaurants(not the fastfood ones) we might use knife and fork if the burgers are too big or the restaurant just calls for a more civilized approach.
Although I grew up in Germany, from now on as a 20-year-old I fulfill my dream.I stand with my van directly at the North Cape and enjoy this magnificent nature with all its powers.Until May I will also stay in this region. When summer slowly arrives in Norway, I look for a small house in the middle of the wilderness and will build an existence here.I could not tell you 20 minutes about all the advantages and beauties of Norway, but for 20 years. You can watch thousands of videos about this magnificent country, and you will still be completely clueless. You have to smell, taste, feel and experience Norway.
Lambs head"Smalahove" is a western norway tradidtion food, not something most Norwegians eat
I have a fond memory from when I was little were my grandparents had served “Smalahåve” (sheepshead), for a nicer family gathering. I don’t remember everything that was served, and I was a bit to nervous to try it. But my grandpa had cleaned half of the jaw and gave it to me. I was fascinated by the sheep’s strange teeth and played with it for hours, coincidentally it had the same shape as a gun and it became my toy-gun for a couple of days/weeks.
Jeg skal ha smalahove med noen slektninger og vi skulle også ha væreballer, men det får vi ikke. (Heldigvis😳)
melted butter on potatoes and some fish and veggies = delicious ( though i don't like alot of fish dishes, some are too good to miss out on )
For information,,,,,in EUROPE,,, we use cutlery,,,, even with Pizza,,,
cottage cheese isn't like what one would think of as traditional cheese. Think cheese curds more than cheese slices.
The sleds is more like the teal one next to the red one you pulled up on google.
I'm from Lithuania and my grandma always has cottage cheese with homemade jams and berries but it always grossed me out like some other dairy products haha. Don't know why
Norway fishes out large areas in the host with fine food fish, or good fish for special dishes, to grind down into feed for its salmon farms
In Scandinavia, we mostly eat things like hamburgers, pizza, and tacos with our hands, if it is at a fast-food place. However, if the place is not a fast food place, I eat my hamburger with a fork and knife as well as I can. I also eat thin pizza with a fork and knife too.
I'm really looking forward to part 2!! :)
Salmon is cheaper in Norway because is farmed. And did not find particularly cheap when on holidays this year, but could be cause I was in a very isolated area without many options. About cheese and sweet, I am from Argentina and we have "Vigilante" which is a slice of cheese and a slice of sweet, like "dulce de batata" or "dulce de membrillo" (Sweet potato sweet or quince sweet). I am not much into chocolate but can try it. Here in the UK lamb is cheaper than cow. As a child I remember eating cow brains, and seen my aunt eating the eyes of a goat. I did not eat it.Previous generations where less picky about food, and they eat all the animal. For my grandmother was a sin waste food.
we dont eat lambs head much anymore, but some old ppl still do. i have tried it, its just smoked lamb meat on the head so its pretty good:P
There are some weirdoes eating pizza with fork and knife. same as there are some eating chicken legs, clubs and wings with fork and knife where half the meat is left.. But most use our hands, there are some food classified as finger food (chicken, pizza, nachos, tacos, hotdogs etc. (tho I once saw someone using fork and knife eating hotdog), but when it comes to like eating rice and other things, we use fork and knife as often as we can.. It also depends if you are alone or with company, alone you might for some things use only a fork, and use hand to help at end to get it on the fork instead of using a knife..
here in norway we start to learn english and norwegian in the first grade when you are 6 year old, so most of us can speak it. i can have a fluid dialog in English with my niece that are 10 year old
just a thought, would be fun if you added or shout out the channels from where you're watching from. As a Norwegian I want all the insights from foreigners, and I want to appreciate all of your content.
It looked like... something else. If you google "stjärtlapp" you get a simpler version that we used here in Sweden when I was a kid. Also "Stiga Snowracer" was a personal favorite because you could make quite big jumps. Some even switched to BMX handle bars.
Smalahove is the boiled sheeps head. It's only common in western Norway
I am Norwegian. Fiske kaker is really good. Translated towards to Fish Cakes. It isn't a cake. It is basically like a flat meatball, but with fish
Maybe norwegians and americans (and others) have a different definition of what a friend is. I know a lot people but I only see 3 of them as friends. The rest is just acquaintances.
people in small towns in Norway ALL know each other. No miracle what so ever :)
I love my Country
When it comes to the fluency. One major part is that people from Norway and me from Sweden consume a lot of content I English. It differs but I would say 90% of TH-cam, movies, tv-shows etc is in English.
Fork in left hand, knife in right, yes, this is good, this is how we eat too. For formal meals anyway.
Lamb is SO NICE. Very worth having!
So Smalahove (sheephead) is ok i have at it on a few ocations, it is wierd if u think about it so it is better to just eat it and not thin about it beaing a head. the eye is considered a delicacy and tastes like a wierd pudding of some kind
Love your videos 🙂
Regarding the small sled she was talking about it's called runpeakebrett literally meaning butt (ake) board.
Ake is specifically for moving along the snow atop something, brett equals board and rumpe is butt. It was probably the one on the right of the one you chose to display.
Interesting video.
I have learnt spanish as an adult, and I have observed others doing it.
Learning a language is a big project, but it is also really satisfying when you after a while are able to understand and express yourself in a new language.
There will be a lot of errors and emissions, that is a part of the process.
Smalahove (sheep's head) is really good, don't let anyone else tell you otherwise.
At a restaurant you'd eat a burger with utensils, at home you do not.
Being norwegian we do eat most stuff with forks and knives but I’ve never heard or seen anyone eat hamburgers with fork and knife but pizza depends on the type of pizza
About the sled one i thought every country had them if they had snow and the picture you found is a more modern variant it seems as the ones i used a few years ago were only made of full plastic with 1 color. It’s all one big plastic piece so there is no extra parts connected like we saw in the picture you found. Those might just be more newer variants or spins on them i am not sure
Eating the head of the sheep isn't very common anymore but many still do it. I've done it, and it was AMAZING
7:04
Yes, search for "smalahove"
"Smala" is a archaic Norwegian word for sheep.
And "Hove" is slightly archaic/new Norwegian word for head.
It's a traditional dish in Norway, the Faeroe islands and Iceland at least.
I don't know about Sweden and Denmark.
@3:20 called Rislunch has 2 comparments one with a dash of strawberry jam and a bigger one with rice pudding and yea it's a really good treat although it's a sugar bomb
4:45 Most people eat hamburgers with their hands (at least I think so), but at least in my case, if it is really big, or has one of those wood things in the middle to hold it together, I use a fork and knife.
To say that Norwegians as a whole either eat lambs head (Smalahåve) or not is a bit flawed. It's a traditional dish, from the western part of the country (iirc). The older generations and people further from the cities might very well be more inclined to eat it, but it's not a everyday meal. More like on special occasions and such, not to mention this tradition stems in part from a desire and a need to utilize all parts of the animal. Younger generations and people in more urban areas will likely share your opinions on it, i know i do at least.
Regards, some guy from Bergen Norway
We do eat pizza and hamburger with our hands.
The only reason you'd eat a burger with a fork and knife, is because you'd be eating out at a place that has a somewhat more fancy burger, and those burgers are really hard to hold without everything spilling out. So it's just easier to use a knife and fork. You'd still feel kind of defeated that you'd have to eat it with a fork and knife, though.
04:53 Norwegians eat their food with their hands when applicable and when in casual settings, Norwegians eat their food with fork and knife when in business or non-casual settings. Norwegians don't go to a 5 star restaurant and eat the burger with our hands, but they do go to a Burger King or Mc.Donalds - or other fast food/take-away places - and eat the burger with their hands. It's the same way as how you wouldn't go to a fancy setting dressed in your casual clothes.
The blue one is more common than the red sled("rumpeakebrett") . The lambs head(smalahove) is more common on mid West Coast and especially around voss, and you cinda have to know someone who can prepare it..
they eat lamb's head, or smalahove in Norwegian, in the south/west of Norway
We do still eat the traditional food. The fish treated with caustic soda is amazing!
Every week on Sunday our (American) main dish was lamb. I remember as perhaps a 10 yr old watching Alfred Hitchcock’s “Lambs to the Slaughter”. I thought it was brilliant! “Would anyone like a leg of lamb?” It still makes me laugh except I don’t eat lamb anymore!
Would be fun to see your! reaction when you visit Norway😃 It would be interesting for your followers to see 🙂
I think that this woman is part of a group of americans that belongs to a church, and they spend some time in Norway (and other countries) and talk about God and so on .... not sure what the church is called tough.
You have had several of them talking about their trip too ... not that it is wrong ofcourse 🙂 But they seems to have had a pretty good time while being here.
Smalahove or the Lamb's head is still eaten at places, its more a delicatess but not all eat that ... like me, I have never tried it ... not that interested either 🙂
Church of the Latter Day Saints.
Church of the crazy loonies
Yes, you have that "Religious smile and nervous eyes" on their faces constantly. It's a dead giveaway.
That snow sliding thing is known as a stjärtlapp in Sweden.
08:22 That is one fancy "tiny Norwegian sled" lol
Normally the sled (called: "Akebrett") is just a flat piece of plastic for your bum to sit on, and a little flat handle sticking out between your legs to hold on to.
Super simple and portable. All children in Norway has probably used one or have one. Kindergarten and schools often have them for when they are out in the snow as well.
I'm 23 years old and have lived in Norway my whole life. I have never had lambs head, and neither gotten the opportunity to eat it.
So it's really rare. I don't know why everyone keeps mentions it in these videos honestly.
Very few in my generation has had it, and I’m 38 years now. I doubt more than 1 % of kids today have tastes it. The lamb head,I mean.
Smalahove (sheeps head) and the fermented fish (lutefisk) are both traditions that date back to when norway was a poor country, it's actually not that long ago.
The head was to not waste anything that could be used as food. And the fermented fish was invented by accident when some guy had stored some fish that had gone bad, but because he was poor and had to feed his family they had to eat it anyway.
My closest neighbor is American but he lived here for a long time. i know several Americans living up here North speaking very good Norwegian
now i’m going to say love in Norwegian. Elsker❤❤🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
We eat mostly anything with a fork and knife because we don't want the mess, get sauce and stuff on our hands.
We don't eat lamb heads; we have sheep heads. I have like 6 full sheepsheads in my freezer.
Tyler, the sled you looked up was wrong, try looking up "hot sheet mini sled"
When I saw this I immediately thought of the time I was in Disney World (please don’t laugh). My husband took our 3 sons on an adventure & I went to Epcot (“everything from around the world”). We went to the NORWEGIAN buffet! I remember a lot of fish (which I love) and interesting dishes I never had before & I loved it! I don’t know how accurate the food was except it was great!❤
lol, I'm eating pizza while WATCHING this - WITH my hands :D Love your content, btw.
Also, sidenote: I did eat hamburger with knife and fork when I was in the US - It did fly ;D
4:00 honestly that's no excuse though, you can bake your own bread knowing 100% what's in it.
Smalahove (sheep's head) is a dish from the Hordaland area of Norway (possibly Sogn as well). They also eat this at the Faroe islands and on Iceland, so the tradition probably goes way back. When I was a kid hardly any Norwegians besides the locals knew the dish. The only way to get it was to make it yourself, which my sisters and I helped with at home. We butchered sheep at the farm back then, and our granddad would put the severed head on a spike and roast it over an open fire. The point of that is to get rid of the wool by burning it and then scraping it off with a knife. Us kids would do the same, only with a sheep's leg each instead. It does sound (and look) macabre, but when you're a kid everything you're taught is normal until someone else tells you it isn't.
Later on a business not far from here started mass producing smalahove at a factory, and so many more has had the chance to try this old traditional western dish. At this point you can buy it packaged in halves at the supermarkets, and I think most Norwegians know what it is now even if they haven't tried it. Pinnakjøt (sheep's ribs) from the same area of Norway is a dish that is more agreeable to most, and has indeed become much more of a national dish these days. Many prefer it to regular ribs at Christmas actually.
I really like your videos.
The Sheapsheads are "comon" in western norway. I can buy them at the supermarkets in the fall.
The meat is great, but you have to get over the sheeps face on your plate.
I live in western Norway and most of us don't eat sheep's heads. Only those with 'special interests' eat such food.
@@steinarhaugen7617 snakk for deg sjøl siddis 😋😋
@@steinarhaugen7617 Yes, I live in the western part of the country too. Never tasted it myself and I can’t recall hearing anyone I know say that they have either.
@@steinarhaugen7617 Not true. It is not only those wit h "special Interests" that eat sheep's heads. But It has become somewhat rarer to eat sheep's head.
@@palmarolavlklingholm9684 🐑🐑
Oh yes! Again a typical member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon) that has been on a 'mission' in Norway. Refreshing that it was a woman this time, but I don't think that a mormon from Salt Lake City is a typical American and I don't think they mingle with typical Norwegians when they are in Norway. But....good to hear that she loves Norway. 😀
4:42
Hum, old people still eat pizza with a work and knife.
Young ones rarely do so however, although we absolutely can do so and *will* do so in a more formal setting.
love your vids
Sheeps head was more common before, some still eat it. My 32 years in Norway never seen the dish with my own eyes
People who don't live in cold climates, then vacationing or immigrate right as winter begins, and are either so full of wonder, over something so normal to me, or are so wildly unprepared because they underestimated winter, always seem to crack me up. As a canadian I'm so used to seeing people like that, but it's awesome that norway seems to get those people too. It seems like every video you react to where it's non-norwegean people talking about norway, I find their reactions to the climate to be pretty funny. That's the major culture shock I get from these
Lambs head, or "smalahove" is really delicious. It sounds wierd, but it's so tasty and tender if you know how to cook it👌
The head of the lamb is called Smalahove :)
Try the food in Northern Norway. I tell you, the people there are not wild, (as some may think) but they eat 'wild.' Last time I was there my cousins served up some very nicely roasted reindeer, elk, flash fried hvale steaks and one day we had poached Halibut, caught by one of the young guys in the family.
As for sheep's heads. Yes, this is true. The heads are first boiled, the meat is rendered (removed) from the bones. This meat is then spiced with 'warm' picking spices, the heap of spiced meat now put onto a large boiled pig's skin (I think), then rolled into a large sausage. Savoury jelly is then poured into this sausage from one end, so as to hold the pieces of meat together. Leave to rest for a little while before putting onto a large serving plate, pressed down firmly (to squeeze out excess fluid), with a large plate on top, (or piece of wood) plus anything else one has to hand, so as to weigh this sausage down further. This contraption is then left in a cool place for a week or two, before taking out and sliced thinly. This is a real delicatessen meat, very nice on open sandwiches.
However, English speaking people would understand northern Europeans better if they learnt German before trying the other languages.
See deadliest catch the viking returns, they are in Norway now :D
The slead she talj about is the blue next to it… more simple then the red.
Im 🇳🇴 and i have never had sheep head… but pinnekjøtt , it simulare.. but not head.
7:50 no it more like the picture to the rigth of that cuzz that i have never seen in my life
Hey TYLER WALKER! I just watched the rest of her video, and FYI when she speaks Norwegian at the end there, it`s perfect bokmål Norwegian. The only hint she is`nt a native speaker is the fact that she`s thinking a lot as she`s speaking. To form the correct grammar. But that is definetly the most impressive norwegian spoken by an american ever. Knowlege, brains and skills are sexy. I think I`m in love :D
Congrats. 😄👢👢👜
4:40 we eat pizza with our hands... at least most people do... though I eat pizza with a fork and knife if it is really warm, and I don't want to wait.
Your observation that your mouth doesn't make the right movements to pronounce the correct sounds is absolutely correct. The human speech apparatus is capable to produce all the different sounds in all of the thousands of different languages spoken all over the world. And little children try out very different sounds while learning how to talk. By listening to the adults and older children the spectrum of sounds gets reduced to the sounds used in their native language - like a narrow path through the grass: like there is no grass left there are no other sounds left but the ones used in your native language.
In order to train your speech apparatus you have to challenge it, the earlier the better. That's why most kindergartens in Germany sing songs in other languages than German, some even have native speakers of English, French, or other languages as teachers. That's why in most German states either basic English or French is taught in elementary schools (colors, numbers, seasons, months, days of the week, items, simple sentences, small poems, and songs). One second language is mandatory in secondary school (5/6 years). But depending on which type of high school you visit there may be two or three second languages mandatory. From my experience I can tell you, that most students start learning a second language like Americans - just do the minimum to pass the tests, but you'll soon find the motivation to "really" learn that language. Maybe you want to understand the newest song from your favorite band, you're on vacation in a different country and there are children from yet another country you want to communicate with. I found the drive to really learn English because my neighbors' granddaughter (my age) was from the US and only spoke English when she first visited Germany and we couldn't talk at all as I had just begun to learn English. But she came back every other year and each time we had a better time together because we could talk to each other. My son had problems in elementary school and was in a special program to help him, unfortunately, that program didn't contain lessons in English. So when he started high school he was at a disadvantage. First, he was totally discouraged and wouldn't even touch his textbook. But then he wanted to watch a specific anime, but the only way to do so was with English voice acting. So I told him to switch on captions, pause whenever he didn't understand anything, and look up the words in the dictionary. When he finished high school he was among the best in English.
My takeaway from many remarks of American YTrs on American high school is: Lessons in a second language start too late, are not intensive enough, and are too short to leave an impression. I learned French in grades 9/10 as my fourth language (after English and Russian). So, if I'm correct, the same age as most Americans start their second language. It was enough to cover the basics but I'm nowhere near understanding or even talking in French. I can read and understand directions while traveling and order food in a restaurant without embarrassing myself too much.
Sheapshead is a old culture thing when we were quite poor, why those away meat that could be eaten if prepared right?
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It is Americans with Norwegian heritage that take part in a Norwegian reality show were they compete in order to meet their Norwegian families ....which they have never met or known about before. This time they shall experience a "typical" Norwegian vacation. The participants certainly was surprised of what they experienced. The reality show have about 10 episodes every year and it was broadcast for 8 or 9 years. The show was named "Alt for Norge" (all (everything) for Norway). You will learn quite a bit about some Norwegian ways of having vacation ...and you will be surprised.... There are some Norwegian language spoken, but most of the time it is in English.
Just one thing; public transportation. In cities is good. But you don’t have to really go to any «rual» place for it to be bad. I grew up with more or less no public transportation; but 10 min drive by car and I was in the city. The buss company’s reason for not giving us busse; every family has 2 cars there, so you don’t need it.
Norwegians love Americans , they will treat you like a star
Never seen someone eat a hamburger with fork and knife in Norway and i`m old. but "karbonade" on bread is fork and knife
We usually don't eat lamb head's, but I must admit, talking about it does make me hungry.
Come on... its a HAMburger, not HANDburger !!!! depends really on what type of burger you eat, some burgers are so big that you have to cut it with a knife and fork.
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Some burgers are best eaten with a fork and knife, but those are big boy burgers, and not the horrible abominations from McD's or BK and the like.
Also, most of us use our hands anyways, because (even though it's messy) because it's kinda the normal thing to do.
If your mates eat burgers with a fork and knife on the regular, you might have some snobby-ass friends, lol
As far as the lamb's head (Smalahove/Saudehaud/Sauehau/etc) is concerned, it's not an uncommon dish, especially in Western and Northern Norway. It used to be extremely common everywhere in Europe back in the day because you don't throw away something edible.
It's just lamb meat, tastes more or less the same as the rest of the animal. It's just "weird" because we're no longer used to utilising the whole animal we kill to survive like they had to do in the past.
I can agree with you about MacDonalds being a burger abomination, but I do not agree with you on the Burger King. They are quite decent. At least at the local BK where I live. But yes, what you call Big boy burgers are way better.
Yep, sheepshead is very popular and typically we eat it in fall (I’ll eat it only if I’m starving -it’s disgusting)
As a norwegian I have never heard of someone eating a lamb head. you may look at it as a traditional meal, although someone do eat it it is not normal for every norwegian to eat it.
I think that you should just take a trip to Norway. You will find it awesome.
Yes, Norwegians do eat sheep heads "Smalahove"
Lambs head is very tasty, but the head looking at you while you eating is off-putting to many, me included. Where im from it's very common to have parties in november- december where they serve lamb head. Its half the head of a lamb on your plate, some eat tounge and eyeballs too.
She used to have the American R, we pronounce the R's different in Norwegian.