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Ironically, the most popular frozen pizza in Norway, Grandiosa, is considered something of a national dish. It's also one of the worst frozen pizzas you'll ever try, and is mainly popular only because of nostalgia.
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I don't know what it says about me and my love for pizza, but your comment makes me want to try it even more.
I've tried many a bad pizza, but I've yet to find one inedible, and that makes me curious.
Mmmm apparently this is a Grandiosa. I’d eat that.
Looks like a Celeste frozen pizza. Ate those when we were poor and broke. I buy Screamin’ Silician nowadays, but the Celeste supreme one is still one of my guilty pleasures lol no joke.
It has the most important aspect of cheap frozen pizza. Which is the cheese having built up on one side because it was shipped that way in the truck.
I was going to say, that's Celeste pizza if I've ever seen it. Which I get the nostalgia for. So bad, but even just seeing that photo is making me want what is essentially a large cracker with cheese on it.
It’s like Taco Bell for pizza😂
Taco Bell is so good, as long as you just don't consider it "Mexican food."
If I'm in the mood for Mexican food, I've got a ton of options for authentic Mexican food. But sometimes I'm in the mood for Taco Bell specifically.
It's when you conflate the two that you start running into problems.
Celeste was right where my mind went as well! The article said nostalgia was supposedly a big part of it, and I will eat a Celeste or even some Elios if I need a real throwback and I feel like I have a strong stomach that day!
Let's air mail some Celeste over in exchange for some Grandiosa. 😆
It's definitely not inedible. It's just incredibly bland. Like most other Norwegian cuisine, unfortunately.
I made some sort of Norwegian dish for my ex (she's Vietnamese, comes into play later) that she really wanted and missed from when she visited Norway. It was a casserole consisting of potatoes, cream, pickled Herring, and ground black pepper. Like, I'm pretty sure that's every ingredient that went into this thing. I'm not even sure if there was any cheese or salt.
I thought I screwed up somewhere because it was not good. She loved it because it was so bland and apparently I made it perfectly. I do not understand how she could go from eating food like bun bo hue to whatever the hell I made and enjoy it.
That's kind of sad. Is there some Norwegian food that you would recommend? I don't know if I've ever had anything specifically from there.
Brunost, brown cheese, which is something of an acquired taste. Cherry cheese. Tubed caviar, which is not the fancy gourmet dish you'd expect from the name. Offhand that's what comes to mind about uniquely Norwegian stuff.
This kind of shit, alone, should be enough of an argument in favor of multicultralism...
I'm sure they're fine, but just reading the things you just listed made me lose my appetite lol
It's not a great list, but alot has been left out.
We also have, sheep and cabbage, lye-fish, whale, and blood pudding boiled in milk.
You know what, yeah I'll go get a Döner.
Luckily we are a pretty multicultural society at least in the cities and everyone has brought their delicious foods over. Shame that were so sensitive to spice that some people think salt is to spicy :D
I knew a guy from Norway on a hostel in Argentina, I asked him what was their national dish and he told me that frozen pizza. I didn't believe him and forced to give me a Real answer and he show me the Wikipedia article of some fish buried on snow for 3 months.
Hah! Lutefisk, yet another dish that exists today purely for nostalgia. It would also probably fail every food safety test in existence today if it wasn't grandfathered in.
For those not in the know, it's fish preserved in lye, which is an extremely toxic substance. Preparing the dish involves cooking it for long enough to fully neutralise the lye, and any failure to fully do so results in poisoning, which can range from mild to extremely serious. I also hate to imagine what byproducts might be left behind as a result of the lye.
Think he refers to rakfisk. Lutefisk is never buried. And rakfisk is fermented like kimshi, and definitely not eaten out of nostalgia. It's videly popular in Norway.
I mean, pretzels are also made with Lye.
Good title: Norway Eats The Most Pizza
Bad title: You won't believe which country eats the most pizza!
Ragebait title written by and for idiots: This skinny people country eats more than this fatty people country!
Please don't consume shitty media folks. It exists because you consume it.
There's Norway that's true
I bet we can find out whose spreading this fake news if we Sweden the pot.
I hear Sweden puts bannana, curry, and ham on pizza. I like some weird foods, but I haven't tried that yet....
Can attest. Just visited Norway and although I wanted to eat authentic Norwegian cuisine, pizza was everywhere. Easier to find than seafood and I was staying in a port city.
Nothing like freshly fished pizza, that's what I always say.
Just like mama used to make.
When I was in Iceland food was so expensive that I was happy to eat at a KFC because it was my first affordable meal.
Grandiosa shouldn't count
Which is crazy because pizza I'm Norway is not that good
It's important to mention that the vast majority of pizza eaten in Norway is frozen pizza. Grandiosa is the most popular brand and it costs about as much as a restaurant pizza anywhere else
Is it just a vehicle for eating fish with your hands though?
I worked a Fish Farm for a few months. There were two things wrong with your sentence. ;-)
So they don't drive pizzas?
We Italians eat too much pasta to be able to top the pizza rankings!
#2 is my house
Can you call it pizza, though? If it has kebab, and shrimp, and banana, and peanuts, and mayonnaise is it actually a pizza, or is it simply a scattering of food on a plate that happens to be made of bread?
maybe that's why they're so happy
Is it because they are rich and dont want to cook?
I don't think Norwegians are rich; just happy. I think they're secure - food security, healthcare security, general safety, no lynching of gay people - in ways that other countries (ohai America and Somalia) may think is the kind of security only afforded to the very rich.
So, in this case, the people of Norway may appear rich to people who don't have their basic needs covered, and it may be an enviable state to be in, just to be free of the daily worry and grind for the most basic of needs, but I'm sure the average Norwegian doesn't identify as rich, and is not in a position to understand how well they have it in comparison to other countries.
Noone identifies as rich, because as you become richer, your social circle also becomes richer. So you never really feel rich, because there are other people who are, significantly, richer than you.
If you dont worry about food, shelter and healthcare then you are rich(or at least "middle class"), ie free to do whatever the fuck you want with no risk or fear. You can have very low personal net worth but if your family(and/or society) has your back, no matter what, then you are not poor.
And since Norway has one of the highest home ownership rates, among non shitty countries, then even from a networth point of view, most norwegians probably have 500k+ € networth. Most countries with high home ownership are poor countries, where houses are cheap and shitty(people are migrating out of the country, so a lot of houses are available). Or countries like China and Singapore, where housing is a major priority for the government.
And in before "communism", Singapore is one of the most capitalistic countries on the planet. But providing housing is a big part of their social contract and how the dictatorship has managed to maintain control over the country for over half a century with minimum opposition. And tbh, the chinese government is similar. Authoritarian but provides economic prosperity/housing in order to keep society stable. Also communist mostly in name but actually capitalistic.
When it's cold AF you love turning on the oven. My family eats crazy pizza, but not in the summer. The take out places near me aren't great. Of course cold places love pizza!
This just tells me you don't go to Norway and expect to be outside a lot =D