The country of stockfisk

Norway is a multinasjonal country with inhabiants from all over the world, therefore we also have a huge range of different foods and drinks inspired by different cultures. We eat everything from classy sushi to the less- classy, more nasty hot-dogs in thermos. Some people say that we Norwegians have lost our traditional food culture in all the pizza, sushi and noodles. What do the Norwegians really eat, and is their anything left of the original food traditions?

We Norwegians like to think it is typical Norwegian to eat milk-chocolate, oranges and drink black coffee or cacao. But, we need to remember that neither chocolate, oranges, coffee or cacao is very Norwegian.On Friday nights it is approximately a law that says every family with a children needs to eat pizza, most people then reach after the ever popular frozen pizza «Grandiosa».  The Grandiosa is often called the norwegian national dish, becouse we eat 9 milion Grandiosa`s every year.  Bearing in mind that Norway only have 5 milion  inhabitants, thats a lot. According to Norskgallup, ”Grandiosa” is also the most eaten dish on Chrismas eve. 

(Grandiosa.no) One of the Grandiosa ads.

In Norway we also eat a lot of tacos but it`s not the original tacos you get in Mexico, we have our own variant, «the spice mix».  This basically consists of salt and sugar but, if you mix it with minced meat, some vegetables, cheese and a little guacamole it tastes great.

   (frkbilmerke.blogg.no) Typical Norwegian tacoes

In Norway we also eat a lot of noodles, sushi, hamburgers and hot-dogs. Hot-Dogs is perticuraly eaten a lot on our national day, the 17 of may. We often combine it with Norwegian cream cake, ice cream and shrimps 

 (Ica.no) Norwegian cream cake

 We eat a lot of Tacos from Mexico, pizza from Italy, hamburgers and hot-dogs from America and sushi and noodels from Asia but we also got some typical Norwegian food. We have our own kind of bread, like most nations have. This is called "flatbrød",  it baseically means flat bread , and has been eaten by norwegians for generations. Other ”tasty” Norwegian dishes are «bruonst» (brown cheese made of the goat’s milk), «får i kål» (lamb- in- cabbage stew), «Lutefisk» (fish that are soaked in water and lye), «Stockfish» (dried, unsalted fish», «smalahove» (salted, dried and then cooked sheep head) I think we can say that some of the mentioned foods are not regular dinner dishes, but can be called a part of our cultural heritage. 

Stockfish (nrk.no) 

 

"brown cheese" on waffels (blogg.ostenssons.se)

 

"lufefisk" (www.aperitif.no) 

"smalahove" (http://www.matprat.no) 

"Får i kål"  (www.stabburet.no)

"flatbrød" (nrk.no)

That was some of our norwegian food traditions, I hope you liked the post and return to our blog soon.

Do you have any wierd or perticular dishes in your county? Or if you live in Norway is there any other foods you would like to add? Share your thoughts in the comment section!

Written by Lea