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Norwegian Delicacies Foreigners Can't Stomach
The Local ^ | 16 Oct 2013

Posted on 10/26/2013 3:50:55 PM PDT by nickcarraway

Norwegian cuisine is generally sneered at by the country's Scandinavian neighbours. This is unfair, as some of it is very tasty. But here's a list The Local has put together of 15 dishes foreigners find particularly challenging.

The list, available here, mixes outlandish dishes made from things like sheeps' heads or fermented fish, with the boring but unpalatable, drawing on a group of Oslo expats for their opinions.

Feel free to comment on any glaring omissions or complain about unfairly maligned favourites.


TOPICS: Food; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: cuisine; fermentedfish; fermintedfish; haha; norwegian
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To: matt1234; a fool in paradise

As the Beetles sang, “isn’t it good, Norwegian boob!”


21 posted on 10/26/2013 5:09:05 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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To: nickcarraway
Good God in heaven help us, nick, what is that? What is it????
22 posted on 10/26/2013 5:10:54 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (Love, and let live.)
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To: nickcarraway

I just finished a helping of oxtail stew that my wife cooked for dinner. Delicious.


23 posted on 10/26/2013 5:11:19 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Revolting cat!

This from the country that gave us “What Does the Fox Say?”


24 posted on 10/26/2013 5:12:35 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Revolting cat!
“Norwegian and not blonde? Prolly mid-Eastern or Gypsy.”

All of my grandparents are Norwegian (and going back 700+ years). My one grandfather had dark olive skin, jet black hair, and dark brown eyes. My dad always figured he had the genes of some beautiful Mediterranean slave girl brought back from the Vikings.

That was, until he visited northern Norway and the Sami villages. Very dark features there too.

25 posted on 10/26/2013 5:15:31 PM PDT by 21twelve ("We've got the guns, and we got the numbers" adapted and revised from Jim M.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Or we always say

Friends don’t let friends eat lutefisk


26 posted on 10/26/2013 5:15:35 PM PDT by Nifster
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To: dfwgator; KC_Lion

You mean the Korean version wasn’t the original??

lol

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgoRpu1VrNs


27 posted on 10/26/2013 5:16:17 PM PDT by GeronL
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To: doc maverick

Growing up, the cat would leave home a week before Christmas and would not return until after New Year’s. She knew what was good for her....we on the other hand had no choice


28 posted on 10/26/2013 5:16:40 PM PDT by Nifster
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

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29 posted on 10/26/2013 5:17:01 PM PDT by B-Cause (The trouble with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money - Thatcher)
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To: Revolting cat!

they don’t look like that for long


30 posted on 10/26/2013 5:17:12 PM PDT by Nifster
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To: nickcarraway

Not bad, in limited quantities.

31 posted on 10/26/2013 5:17:48 PM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: ArmyTeach

I like haggis.... and head cheese too


32 posted on 10/26/2013 5:18:16 PM PDT by Nifster
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To: matt1234

Ski rack?


33 posted on 10/26/2013 5:18:37 PM PDT by RedMDer (http://www.dontfundobamacare.com/)
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34 posted on 10/26/2013 5:19:02 PM PDT by RedMDer (http://www.dontfundobamacare.com/)
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To: nickcarraway

35 posted on 10/26/2013 5:19:17 PM PDT by null and void (I'm betting on an Obama Trifecta: A Nobel Peace Prize, an Impeachment, AND a War Crimes Trial...)
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To: nickcarraway

out of the weeds came a thousand Swedes, chased by one Norweigian.


36 posted on 10/26/2013 5:22:58 PM PDT by GotMojo
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To: nickcarraway

I agree with the article’s premise.
Many ethnic dishes in America are “Peasant Food”.
Tripe and bracciole, Cantonese Chinese, krauts and wursts, dumplings and kreplach, brisket instead of loin, preserved vegetables and meats of all kinds . . .

And one of my favorite sandwiches is pastrami and tongue with course mustard and red-onion on pumpernickel, with pickled tomatoes & red cabbage on the side and an ice-cold Dr Brown’s Cel Ray!

BTW Balut crunches when you mash that first good mouthful. Bones and beaks givin’ up the ghost.

But Lutefiske, as well as Durian (from the PI). just can’t go there . . .


37 posted on 10/26/2013 5:28:40 PM PDT by Macoozie (1) Win the Senate 2) Repeal Obamacare 3) Impeach Roberts)
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To: Kip Russell

at least she knew what price she had to sell out her beliefs.


38 posted on 10/26/2013 5:30:08 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: null and void

Hilarious


39 posted on 10/26/2013 5:30:58 PM PDT by MaxMax (Pay Attention and you'll be pissed off too! FIRE BOEHNER, NOW!)
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To: Revolting cat!
As the Beetles sang, “isn’t it good, Norwegian boob!”

I was merely admiring her high cheek bones.

40 posted on 10/26/2013 5:35:06 PM PDT by matt1234 (Hitler blamed the Jews. Obama blames the Tea Party.)
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