Norway hotel chain bans bacon from breakfast

One of Scandinavia’s biggest hotel chains has banned sausages and bacon from the menu after its billionaire owner yielded to the influence of his environmental campaigner wife.

“This is a new breakfast concept for our Comfort hotels,” Petter Stordalen, the billionaire owner of Norway’s Nordic Choice Hotel Group told the Norwegian news site Hegnar.no, about the new green, healthy menu.

“The focus on sustainability permeates what we do in Nordic Choice.”

The menu, which has been developed in collaboration with Dr Gunhild Stordalen’s EAT Food Forum, offers healthy, plant-based alternatives to the greasy breakfast some see as one of the perks of business travel.

As well as removing sausages and bacon, the menu has also been stripped of any cereals or cheese which include palm oil among their ingredients, to reduce the destruction of the rainforest,

According to Sweden’s Västerbottens Kuriren newspaper, the change has not gone down well with some travellers to the Hotell Winn in the northern city of Umeå.

“There are mixed reactions,” says Ebba Kohl, who runs the restaurant. “Some are upset and some understanding.”

Kenneth Hultgren, a press officer for the Comfort chain in Sweden, said that the chain was trialling the idea, and would decide whether to abandon it or extend it to other chains in the coming months.

“We want to challenge and break down many of the traditional conventions around hotels,” he said. “When guests check out of our hotel they will feel that we have helped them to make good and healthy choices, that our food has been tasty and healthy.”

"It is not what goes into a man that defiles the man; but it is what comes forth from the man that defiles the man. From the black human heart."

And sometimes it's what the man's gettin' into:

Don't know if I'd give up bacon for it, but not bad.

“when ya got his kind of money, there’s PLENTY more where that came from... “

Yeah, tell that to Charlie Sheen; although when you’re talking Billions, I guess they’re a little cleaner.

Well personally I'm offended by small fish served for breakfast. Which, having been to Norway many times, their buffet's are absolutely stuffed with. Ewww.

To be consistent, they need to now ban them in sensitivity to my feelings. Otherwise they're just a bunch of cowards.

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