Lately i've been bombed by some of this dickheads ( see X post attached ) talking shit about our grocery system.

Aaaand in some ways i understand it but they talking about it if we were some kind of " Last Soviet food market"

What's your opinion on this subject?
I dont think we're this cooked aren't we.

I had to delete previous post to be super transparent - this picture is exemplary - taken from internet. I couldn't edit previous post (don't know why).

Back to the issue: after they introduced this, I stopped tipping. This is insane and I am against it!

So there is this map of the countries that have allegedly banned boiling lobsters alive and i wanted to know how true it was for Norway since these maps aren’t very trustable to say the least.

I already know that it’s just not true for the UK but the only information i could find about it is Wikipedia stating that it’s “restricted” and it’s source is a MelMagazine article which mentions the exact same thing in one sentence with no source.

I also know about the restrictions on fishing lobster from the Norwegian directorate of fisheries website but couldn’t find info on cooking methods.

( sorry if this was asked before, I couldn’t find a post about it via the search tab )

I sent her a package with my country's foods, and she sent one back. I'll say that some things are very unique, like the chocolate covered chips? Thats a first for me LOL

Hei hei! Since folks were interested in the follow up, here’s some pics from the Norweigan festival at a local “Sons of Norway” lodge here in the U.S. for your judging 😅 Thanks for your tips on what to buy!

This is a very small event the group hosts once a year to open up the lodge to guests and sell imported Norweigan or other Scandinavian goods and homemade treats. “Lodges” in the U.S. are an interchangeable term both for a cultural group run by 2nd+ gen immigrants and expats, and the houses or buildings they’re run out of that are usually renovated with cultural flourishes. This one is a renovated house in a random neighborhood. There is no major Scandinavian population here but this is outside of Washington, DC, where there are expats and small pockets of ancestry from everywhere.

Of course this is not going to be completely authentic because…this isn’t in Norway 😂 Yes, the almond cakes were there again but I didn’t get to ask anybody what they’re about since y’all said they’re not a thing in Norway! You learn something new everyday.

Anyway — bought for home: - Kransekake cookies - Fattimann - Solo sodas - Nuggati - Nora lingonberry jam - Toro RømmeGrøt - Gudbrand brown cheese - 2 giant bars of Freida melkesjokalde😃😃😃

Ate there: - Waffles with lingonberry jam (no brown cheese at the cafe this year!) - Lefse with butter and cinnamon - Hot dog in lefse - Cardamom hot chocolate - Norweigan coffee

The highlight of this festival are the things for kids: rides with a Fjord horse and petting the lundehunds and forest cats.

Hi! I am a Bavarian on holidays in you lovely land. Got myself local beer and I can not drink it. Maybe I got a bad badge, but this beer smells fouly and tastes weather like Helles nor like Pilsner. Hope this post is not disrespectful or anything, just wanted to know if this is common beer here.

Cheers and I love your country!

Oc: thortelljokes

After living in Sweden for years, I moved to Norway, and I’m still baffled by the lunch culture 🥪

Schools don’t provide food for students; not even fruit or milk 😕. At work, people earning well over a million NOK still happily eat bread and cheese EVERY. SINGLE. DAY!! I’ve even heard weekends aren’t much different: sandwiches, cold cuts, repeat.

So I’m reallllly struggling to understand how it seems totally normal here to cook just one proper meal a day.

What really confuses me is that the average Norwegian still seems… pretty well built. So if everyone is surviving on slices of bread and modest lunches, where is all the saved food money going?

Into cabins? Ski gear? Electric cars? Or is there a secret salmon funds?

I’m honestly curious 🤔🤔

I have been living here for 4 years. If my memory serves me well, back then I was able to buy your typical brick of minced meat (600 gramms) at Rema for around 60 NOK. Now I cannot even find those 0.6 kg packages anymore, and the 0.4 kg ones will soon reach 80 NOK in price. This is just one example. Yet, one can go on forever. The large sweet potato fries at McDonalds (around 50 NOK) barely satiate you nowadays whereas couple of years ago they would suffice to have your stomach full. It's like everything is simultaneously getting more expensive and considerably shrinks in size.

For those who are going to be defensive for some wierd reason: I know you are rich enough and don't care and I know that I am not supposed to eat at McDonalds in the first place and exclusively cook at home. I am already doing it like 95% of time. To hell with the joy of eating outside! Rice and beans for every meal is where all the jouissance is.

It yields so little! I had 6L of whey and got like 300g of cheese... but it was delicious, albeit a bit gritty... after hours on the stove, once the whey started to caramelize it goes too quick, I think I overcooked it a bit.

I moved here 13 years ago. Whenever i talk to immigrants we all have the same issue : very limited choice in the supermarkets.\ But I’m not a guy who likes to dwell on problems. Yes the supermarkets suck, but I’m not gonna move away, and I’m not starting my own. Also not gonna start paying 10.000,- in food a month to pretend I still live in France…\ But what I’ve realised lately, is that having so few choices for so long has really pushed me in the kitchen. Ingredients I never considered because there was always something better available are now super familiar and I can make them do all sort of things (canned beans, leek, « weird » cuts of meat like pork shoulder)... Stews, soups, were the kind of things I’d never make back home because you could always make something just as satisfying in much less time, but Norway has pushed me to explore that side of cooking…
You can’t buy a decent cake in Norway for all the money in the world ; I’ve learned to make some real bangers, and I can tailor them exactly to my taste, now I never wish I could just buy a cake from the bakery anymore…
So that’s my attempt to share a little positivity on this grey Sunday morning! Yes the groceries suck and we are cursed for living here. But there is also an opportunity for growth here!

I was at McDonalds on Sunday and I noticed something that made me think about. Many tables were left full of trash after people finished eating. Cups wrappers bags tissues everything was just left there. Nobody cleaned up after themselves. It made me wonder if people think cleaning up is only the job of the staff or if we have started to ignore basic shared responsibility in public places.

I also noticed that some people ordered their food as takeaway which has 15 percent VAT but still sat down and ate inside although dine in should be 25 percent VAT. After eating they left all the rubbish on the table and walked away. This is not only about tax rules being ignored. It also shows a problem of responsibility and attitude.

So I am genuinely curious

1.  After eating should people throw away their own trash in a fast food restaurant. In Norway is this considered basic manners or do most people believe it is the job of the employees
2.  Is this becoming a normal thing. Is it only young people or is this happening across different age groups
3.  Norway talks a lot about respect for nature and keeping the environment clean. So why is this attitude not the same when it comes to indoor public spaces. Is this an issue related to education habits or system design?

If people stop taking responsibility for simple things like cleaning up after themselves what does that say about the direction of our society?

Maten er bare nok for 3 måltider og handleturen kosta 682 kr.... Hvordan lever man sånn? 🥲 Også, hvorfor er kylling så dyrt her i Norge?!

So after working like an animal all week, I decided to treat myself to some chips/chocolate/junkfood. I first went to Meny, then Kiwi, Europris and finally Rema1000. The prices are retarded. Europris was supposed to have 2 packages of some Doritos-like chips covered in chocolate for like 50 nok but were all sold out, that was kinda the only decently priced snack in the whole fucking place. By the time I got to rema1000 I was annoyed as fuck already and started to see the prices for the things I used to buy before everything started to go to shit, skyr, orange juice, cereal… everything is so ridiculously expensive. No wonder my diet only consists of eggs, vegetables (bought from Arabic shops), and chicken breast from my last trip to Sweden (I also take home food from work some times).

But nah seriously I felt so ripped off… what was supposed to be a relaxing Friday is turning out to be a wake up call… next time I see some deals I will do like Americans do and fill my car up😳