Man tried to fry eggs in carton. Hold muh eggs Alert!

A young Norwegian, hungry after a night on the town in Bergen, decided to fry himself a few eggs when he got home. The next thing he knew, his apartment was full of smoke and angry firefighters.

The young man, apparently in an alcohol-induced stupor, forgot a few elementary things while attempting to satisfy his hunger. Like taking the eggs out of the carton, for starters. Fire alarms went off in his building on Tartargaten in Bergen after the egg carton started burning up in the frying pan. Firefighters rushed to the scene around 4am and broke their way into the man's smoke-filled apartment.

Meanwhile, the man had fallen asleep during his late-night cooking session. He got a rude awakening.

"He'd forgotten to take the eggs out of the carton before frying them," fire brigade leader Harald Norvik of the Hordaland police district told newspaper Bergensavisen.

The firefighters weren't amused. They find themselves responding to alarms several times a year that are set off by drunks preparing late-night snacks.

"It can be life-threatening when people pass out while cooking," said Harald Skaalvik of the fire department.

I've been on several "drunken stupor" cooking calls.

My favorite was the drunk who wanted to make a pizza.
He took it out of the box, still in the clear wrapping
Put pizza in oven, then passed out on the couch.

Theres nothing like the smell of a shrink wrapped "charcoal"
pizza at 3am to bring joy into a firefighter's life.
(and the lives of the residents of the Apartment building too!)

Square headed Norwegian joke. (I'm half-wegian)
Three constuction workers are sitting on top of a building having lunch.
The first man, Chinese, opens his lunch box, and says, "Egg roll again! If I get egg roll one more time, I shall kill myself." The second man, an Italian, opens his lunch box, and says,"Pizza again! If I get pizza one more time, I shall kill myself." The third man, a Norwegian, opens his lunch box, and says, "Oofta! Lutefisk agin! If'n I git lutefisk vun more time, I vill kill myself too!"
The next day the three men open their lunch boxes, and sure enough, they all have the same lunches. Together, they jump off the top of the building to their death.
At the funerals, the wives are sitting together, talking. "If only I hadn't packed an egg roll in his lunch again", said the Chinese man's wife. "If only I hadn't packed pizza again." said the Italian's wife.
"Don't look at me", said the Norwegians wife. "Olie packed his own lunches!"
For those of you that don't know what lutefisk is: It's dried cod, cured in lye. To prepare it, the lye is rinsed out in cold water, and then it's boiled, wrapped in cheese cloth. Yum!!!
As a child, I had many a Christmas ruined, by this dish. Lutefisk is penitential food not even fit for death row inmates.

But Norvegian's still eat it, for a holiday dish. Go figure!

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