Yeah, if you don't have a cafeteria at your work/school the meals of your day will probably look something like: Breakfast - Bread Lunch - Bread Dinner - The only hot meal of the day Supper (Kveldsmat) - Bread So, lots of bread. But considering the variety of things we have to put on our bread it really isn't so bad. And we also have lots of different kinds of bread.
Ok, in order, skipping a lot: * the 5 dollar guy picked the most overpriced items in an overpriced store. * the goop is almost certainty sour cream porrige, it is like oatmeal, but instead of oats and butter you use sour cream and white flour. If you are more than 5 years old, you would not mix the cinnamon into it but leave it on top * in general you are able to return unused goods within reasonable time * the sayings lady has a pretty thick dialect * norwegians will object to this, but we are relatively formal in social settings, its nor about slotting into the calendar, it is about having time to tidy, clean, and set the table with appropriate servings * that norwegian breakfast is 99% representative, cucumbers are a bit fancy
1:35, this honestly depends on where you live :) i live in oslo, i don’t experience any small talk here, but whenever i visit the smaller towns i find myself getting into some conversations. If you’re looking for small talk you kinda just have to be at the right place haha :)
Why is it that almost all those complaining about how expensive Norway is goes to the most expensive stores and restaurants and buy the most expensive items? 🤔🥴
They act like tourists. I visited France during its bicentenniel, and though I did visit the Louvre and Moulin Rouge, I walked the city, and took the metro. You don't get a real feel for a country's culture until you go to places the locals frequent. I wish I'd had more time there. By the way, only visit the Eiffel Tower at night, because it's ugly af during the day. 😂
Our 4 meals is breakfast, lunch, dinner and “kvelds". Kvelds is a tiny meal before bedtime. Also it’s not normal for regular Norwegians to eat out every single day. Everyone make food at home and only eat outside if it’s a social gathering with friends and family.
The bottle of water for 50 NOK/5 USD was some rare, smaller, and therefore more expensive brand, that only selected stores carry. It's mostly aimed at tourists, as most people in Norway already have perfect tapwater at home, or will buy waayyyy cheaper water at the store. The Arizona ice tea is imported all the way from the US, so ofc it will be more expensive over here. The price in the tiktok clip was quite high even for what I've seen though, and those were the largest cans. It's better to get the smaller ones or the bottles, which will usually be somewhere between 20Kr to 30Kr. And the store he visited was joker, which isn't the cheapest store in Norway anyway. In particular when it comes to less common products like these.
Yes, bottled and canned water is about a dollar to two dollar depending on brand and store. They dont seem to have gone for cheapest, just the expensive tourist or import products in that regard. Same with Arizona ice tea, its an import product so its pricier for that reason.
The shopping list for $5 was quilte exaggerated. It was special products and you get the best water in the world for free as tap water 😂 Edited: Yes, many Norwegians eat seafood a lot more than the young fellow imagines. He is probably talking about dishes only, but we eat a lot of it on bread as well. He will probably eat more sea food when he grows up as well 😂 Yes, Norway consume a lot of pizza. Grandiosa is the kid’s favourite because of it’s mild flavour, but most prefer real stuff at the restaurants or just homemade, but there is a lot of variations of frozen pizza. So yes, pizza is the everyday winner while tacos are a great number two on Friday’s (13.5% vs 12.5%). But dishes with pasta beats them both. When it comes to breakfast many eat egg and bacon, cereals, pancakes or waffles or whatever they prefer, but bread is probably important for most Norwegians. I drink a couple cups of coffee and I’m done.
Yeah. That water was some rare, smaller, and therefore more expensive brand, that only selected stores carry. It's mostly aimed at tourists, as most people in Norway already have perfect tapwater at home, or will buy waayyyy cheaper water at the store. The Arizona ice tea is imported all the way from the US, so ofc it will be more expensive over here. The price in the tiktok clip was quite high even for what I've seen though, and those were the largest cans. It's better to get the smaller ones or the bottles, which will usually be somewhere between 20Kr to 30Kr.
Norwegian breakfast: whole corn, oat or rye bread with meat or jam, cheese or fish. Healthy!! Minerals and vitamins. Protins and aminoacid. A good start of an day. Not all fat and sugar...
@@leodahood2150 I think that would have a bit more texture. What you see in that video is probably just because of the cinnamon that they stir around. Also, Rømmegrøt is a lot more common and loved than Semulegrynsgrøt. I know, Semulegryn, I´m sorry. It´s just the facts of life... ;/
5:00 "It looks like goop" haha yes it does! That is probably "Fløyelsgrøt / Smørgrøt" (Velvet Porridge / Butter Porridge) or "Rømmegrøt" (Sour Cream Porridge). Fløyelsgrøt is technically just a really thick Béchamel sauce with cinnamon, sugar and butter on top. Fløyelsgrøt is a variation of the more classic rømmegrøt. Rømmegrøt is also very close to how a Béchamel sauce would be made, just with high-fat sour cream instead of milk. Usually served with fenalår, which is a salted and dried lambs leg.
Regarding planning things, it is not that we are busy or are doing something important... it is that it is an interuption to our plan for the day combined with the fact that when we DO socialise we want to be able to give our friends all of our attention when without "squeezing it in" .... for sure we do also catch up with friends over a quick cup of coffee if we have a small break and happen to be near eachother .... but travel or anything requiring an effort .. it would seem as we would be causing an inconvinence for the one having to travel even if they offered up front.
Or simply more bread, like breakfast. To be fair, Norwegians probably vary in number of meals as much as in any country. I have met people who only eat 1 or 2 times a day, and you might eat 5 or 6 times on occation. Anything between 2 and 5 meals are not too uncommon, but my guess is that 3 meals is the most common, though 4 is quite common too, counting a "late night snack".
In Norway, most get 24 sickdays a year. Most u can go within any doctors sick leave paper is 8 days straight using sickdays. If it last longer, u need sick leave from ur doctor. If u spend up all these 24 days within a year since u first started using them, u need sick leave every time u get sick from ur doctor. Basically, u can just call ur boss, and say, ur sick, u cant come to work. Without any questions asked. Depends on ur boss ofc, some are a**holes tho, and will try everything to get u to go to work.
No, it's not 5 bucks for water. Jesus, this guy was going all out to shock viewers with bs. You can get oats way cheaper too. The guy who wants an American breakfast can just make it :) It's not like it's difficult to get the ingredients ;P Aaaand the kid who said seafood isn't that popular is really going full anecdotal. Never go full anecdotal. It is popular.
Norway has: Breakfast 6-10 (depending when you wake up) usually week days is sluce of bread or cereal, maybe warm breakfast in the weekends. Lunch: 10-12 am depending on work and school lunch breaks. Usually a packed meal. We always pack our meals, maybe some places has a cafeteria but dont bet on it. Dinner: 17-18 pm the big meal we all know as dinner, usually always homemade, we dont eat out much compared to america Supper: 20-22 pm It is usually the same as one would eat for a cold breakfast, slice of bread or cereal
Regarding checks, I'm 39 and there is only ONE instance in my life where I've even seen a check in my life (and it wasn't even a checkbook type of check, but a bank issued check to make an international payment - long story short, I was ordering an event ticket at age 19 and my bank card at the time didn't have a card number attached, so my dad who worked at the bank decided the safest option was to send a check to the event organizer) that is how unheard of check payments are over here. For people my age and younger, checks are this ancient relic of the past that we cannot believe people still actually use somewhere...
American breakfast is either a very unhealthy dinner or a dessert with all the bacon and hashbrowns (that are basically french fries dont @ me) and pancakes with syrup lol
The "goop" you saw was something we call rømmegrøt. Directly translated to english it means sour cream porrige. My family eats it at the midsummer night. You can put cinnamon, sugar and mår. It is an ok food for me, but if you come to norway, try it🤩
Checks was a big thing in Norway between 1960 to mid 1980's. Since plastic cards came in the 80's, they literally took over for checks. Most Norwergians stopped using checks in early 90's. However, it didnt go completely away until mid 2010 for public use.
Love your videos! You should make more videos about Bergen. People from Bergen are the people from norway who loves their city the most. Bergen people hate Oslo city. I think it would then be really cool if you made more videos about Bergen.
Fish is very popular, just cos that guy doesn't like fish doesn't mean that's the norm. But yeah we do eat a lot of pizza. Googled statistics, and found one that said 7/10 Norwegians eat fish or other seafood 2 or more times a week.
When I grew up (at a coastal farm), the meals were: 1: Frokost-Breakfast (before work) 2: Formiddagsmat-Pre-dinnertime food (10 o'clock) 3: Middag-Dinner (12 o'clock) 4: Ettermiddagskaffe-After dinner coffee (14 o'clock) 5: Ettermiddagsmat-afternoon meal (17 o'clock) 6: Kveldsmat-Supper (19 o'clock) Not very unlike the Hobbit meals When I started at school, it became: 1: Frokost-Breakfast (0730-0800) 2: Duggurd/Lunsj- Lunch (1130-1200) 3: Middag-Dinner (started to eat somewhere between 1600 and 1700) 4: Kveldsmat-Supper (1900) PS: Supper is the English name on the evening meal. The Britts use this still today, but it seems like Americans have forgotten. Fun fact, today as I'm not working I usually have my meals like this: Coffee Coffee Coffee Coffee Coffee Coffee Coffee Hot meal Coffee Coffee Snacks Coffee And btw, I was born in '77😅
Yes, you can return used products in Norway, IF you feel there is something wrong with it. You can't just change your mind though (in most cases). We have 14 days to return an unused product - no questions asked. Sometimes more if the store decides to expand this right.
The difference is that in the US you can return used and opened goods. In Norway you can't, especially with skincare, makeup and food, unless all tags still on, clean, and in the same state that you got it.
5:04 Sourcream Porridge!!! Most Norwegians loves this stuff. I never had it while growing up, and it is not for me. We also have «Velvet Porridge» which I think may be Cream of Wheat in the US? Looks pretty much like this too… 🤗
Our four meals per day is as follows: Breakfast, usually bread with cheese, sandwich meat, mayo, etc. Lunch, usually packed sandwiches, very reminiscent of breakfast. Basically second breakfast, really. More and more common with hot lunches. Dinner, traditionally the only hot meal of the day, but more and more are eating hot lunches these days. Evening meal, basically same as breakfast.
Erm, breakfast, lunch, dinner, that is (or at least, WAS) the old and normal progression, even in Norway. And most of those meals used to be a bit lighter than what people normally would think. So there was usually a much lighter evening meal, normally consisting of 2-3 slices of bread with some appropriate topping before bedtime. The English Breakfast of heavily digested stuff was very unknown in Norway. So according to this, the Brits started heavy, then got lighter as the day progressed. Supper was traditionally thought to actually be Soup (thus Supper...)! Norwegians normally started with a light meal in the morning, and then it got more substantial as the day progressed, I seem to recall.
In 1898, the steamship Manitoban sailed from Alta. On board were 113 Norwegians, most of them Sami or Kven, and they had with them a reindeer herd of 539 animals. William Kjellmann, who was from Finnmark, but living in the USA, had taken on the task of traveling to Norway to hire Sami people and buy reindeer for Alaska.
Saw the documentary on NRK. Their descendants still live in Alaska. Sadly it didn't go very well due to the local indigenous tribes,and the Siberian Inuit on the Russian side who saw them as competition. Fun fact: The Sami, Finns and Estonians are all distant related to all indigenous Americans as they all migrated from Siberia during the Last Ice Age. The Proto Finns brought blonde hair to Northern Europe Scandinavia.
17:00 I’m watching this while eating fiskegrateng😂 everyone has grown up with eating fish atleast two times or more a week even though I’ve only had fish dishes this month because there’s so many varieties of fish here 19:00 most people I know here are blonde, but the reason for many to color their hair blonde or lighten it, is because they may have grown up as blonde and then eventually become brunette when they grew up.
We don't eat 2 dinners no lol Generally, we eat breakfast and/or lunch(around 6-7 am for breakfeast and/or around 12 am for lunch), dinner(between 3-5 pm is the average), and then kveldsmat(evening meal) which is more or less like breakfast and/or lunch. Something light to not go to bed hungry.
@@marinxaep I've never heard of anyone in or outside of Norway who eats before 3 PM. My grandmother eats between 3 and 4 PM, but other than that, 99% of people I've heard eats around 4-6 pm. Although, the norm could be different in a different part of Norway
The scheduling part is so interesting! Ive never really thought about it, but me and my friends(im from Norway) NEVER plan things the same day. Like NEVER(it just seem stressful idk). Funny how the culture is different there compared to America:)
about the make up part (I'm a dude so correct me if I'm wrong ladies) there's samples you can try on most things in Norway (before you buy it). so it's more like "your own fault that you bought something you do not like" I might be mistaken here, but seems to remember that's a thing.
I'm pretty sure that samples or "testers" as they are usually called, of makeup/cosmetics and perfume is the case anywhere in the world, including the US. So it's still different how you can basically return anything in the US, but here in Norway you can't.
The water is some expensive, overpriced brand. Normal water usually costs around 2 dollars. The ice tea is imported from USA, therefore it is really expensive. The store he went to, "Joker", also tends to be more expensive.
we eat at 6 or 7am, 9 or 10am, 12 or 1pm, and 4 or 5pm,some even eat at 7 or 8pm,besides the dinner,most of the meals is bread with cheese,brown cheese,jam,liver pate,salami,mutton sausage,bologni with vegetable toppings and hard boiled sliced egg.
Norway eats breakfast like it is a chore, quick to get it done, run out the door to work. The american breakfast is more enjoyable, fancy, which is more similar to our weekend breakfasts, though morning waffles and breakfast pancakes isnt a thing in norway sadly We do have a different dessert type waffle and a thin tortilla sized pancakes that is eaten for dinner that goes great with bacon or butter or jam.
Joker is one of our most expensive grocery stores btw. And for example food coupons, which are normal in the US, and the UK, are not a thing here. Neve seen or used one. And certain foods are crazy expensive due to import taxes/fees. That's why.
You can still have an American breakfast. We do have sausages, eggs, bacon, maple syrup and ingredients to make American pancakes. 😅 We usually just have cereal or bread with different spreads or "pålegg" (I do not know if there's a word for it in English). So, if you're staying over with a Norwegian, do not expect warm food. Unless eggs.
the first one is very accurate. I could spend several weekdays in the city without overhearing a single small-talk conversation, but when I worked at a hikers' cabin for my summer job, I would overhear snippets of the deepest conversations between people who just happened to have met on the trail. The beginning of the trail was only a 40 minute bus ride from the city centre. Nature changes norwegians DNA or something I'm sure of it
TRUE LIKE HALF OF THE PEOPLE I KNOW IS NATURALLY BLONDE But my sister colored her hair blonde my other sister colors her hair a lot but actually colored it yellow only once but never blonde
THE PART WHERE YOU DIDNT KNOW IS “rømmegrøt” also known as sour cream porridge in English it’s delicious it’s normally used to be eaten at Christmas with some BRUH I FORGOT THE NAME IN ENGLISH “kanel” and butter sometimes we put “forgot the name again” “Mandel” in one of the people’s porridge without telling them and when they find the “Mandel” or accidentally eat it they get a price🙃
No, I'm sorry, that's wrong. You are thinking about riskrem (rice cream). Which is rice porridge with added whipped cream. We don't eat rømmegrøt (sour cream porridge) for Christmas. Rømmegrøt was more used during festivities like baptisms, confirmations, weddings and funerals. And earlier it was also a tradition to eat sour cream porridge when you had finished mowing (etter slåtten). It was also a common food to eat during St Hans. It's more of a summer food, rarely eaten during the winter time. To find the blanched almond in the porridge, we use rice porridge or rice cream. (Added whipped cream, not sour cream to the porridge). And whoever finds the blanched almond get a prize, the traditional prize is a marzipan pig. But this tradition with the blanched almond in the porridge isn't actually Norwegian, it's originally from Denmark. Rice porridge is eaten just like you said with cinnamon, sugar and butter. Served with red juice, mainly with black currant juice. And rice cream is mainly served with sugar and red syrup (condensed juice - often raspberry). Rice cream is Norwegians' favorite dessert on Christmas Eve. And many add the blanched almond game into the mix, it's a fun game for the whole family, not matter the age. But it's mainly the rice porridge (christmas porridge) that you add the blanched almond to. Some eat the rice porridge with the blanched almond for lunch before the Christmas Eve officially rings in at 5pm. And some have the rice cream with the blanched almond for dessert after the big Christmas dinner. It depends from family to family. The blanched almond rice porridge is also something that is common to see in both the kindergarten and at school festitivies leading up to Christmas.
We have Breakfast around 6-8 in the morning (bread) Lunch 11-13 (more bread) Dinner 16-18 in the evening (normal dinner food) And "Kvelds", evening food some time before bed (again, more bread)
bare in mind, the Arizona Tea is imported, local produced drinks are cheaper. The bowl of "goop" is called Grøt, and is the Norwegian equivalent of porridge, usually made from wheat or rice boiled in milk, and served with cinnamon sugar and a lump of butter. To be honest, the grøt in that tiktok was waaay too fluid :P I often meet friends on the same day, but a lot of people will wait for the weekends, this is often due to people needing to pick up the kids from kindergarten after work, then spending the rest of the day with their family.
Yes, the thing I miss most from the Philippines (were I holiday a lot) is the social life. In Norway we are so comfortable in our homes that we tend to love our sofa, movie and good food - life. This means your friends will not allways be available! In the Philippines they knock on your door daily....ok, maybe a middle solution would be nice! ;P As for seafood - YES it is popular in Norway (but meat is still on too for most). It varies from where you are in Norway.
Ive noticed smalltalk has gotten way more frequent after I got a dog. People love to stop for a chat and to try to be friends with my dog (who hates strangers) 😂😂
4:56 it is gråt in norway we eat it in chrismas time and we hide a nut in it and try to find it and the winner gets like chocolate or somthing we do it in desember it is crazy you guys dont to it for me it is but i just wanna explain what it was
You can return some used goods, but in practicality only if it retains value. Clothes that have just been tested and were too small or big. Gaming console or PC etc. However used consumer goods or food can not be returned if used unless there is something wrong with the product.
The name of the food is Rømmegrøt. It is a warm dish made from sour cream, milk and flour. It is smoother than cream of wheat, more like a sauce by US standards.
There are more blonde Swedes than Norwegians. It's a genetic thing, based on where the first people migrating into the Scandinavian peninsula migrated from when the ice retreated. In Sweden all came from south - those were the ones with blue eyes and blonde hair. In Norway some came from south, and some migrated from east, north of the ice cape, along the coast. They had dark hair, brown eyes and fair skin. In a few generations the Swedes also will have to dye their hair blonde, since they have accepted so many immigrants from far away in recent years.
the estimated percent of natural blondes in Norway is 75%, and Swedistan its at 78. theres more blondes in sweden sure, but 3% is not exactly bragworthy lol. there are more blonde blue eyed people in Finland than there are in Norway and Sweden anyway so who cares.
@@muninn9674 Some of us are interested in history, even as far back as human migration routes. What we then find out tells us something about people and society today. That you don't care can be your business.
@@muninn9674 And by the way - that the number you refer to shows that Sweden still today has more blonde people than Norway underlines my point considering that the number of immigrants in Sweden is much higher than in Norway, also seen in relation to the rest of the population. Unless the figure is based only on ethnic Swedes and ethnic Norwegians, of course.
@@ahkkariq7406 "considering that the number of immigrants in Sweden is much higher than in Norway" The immigration percentage in Sweden is about equal to Norway, at about 80%. the number of immigrants in pure numbers is obviously going to be higher there than here, but thats purely because sweden has double the population than us.
Regarding blond hair, it's at the most frequent along the southeastern coast of the Baltic sea, but also prevalent in Norway although less so then there.
The 4 meals are Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, and Supper (yes, thats the actual English word for it as far as I know) The 5 usd/50 crowns guy went into an already expensive store "Joker" to buy an _even more expensive_ type of bottled water just to prove a point essentially, its a nothing burger as far as I know As a Norwegian, I'm not supposed to say this, but that meal is "rømmegrøt" (its definitely grøt, but other comments say its rømmegrøt specifically), which is sour cream porridge. But we also have porridges without sour cream as well, so you aren't stuck with sour cream (Personally I believe that was "smørgrøt" which is butter porridge made without the sour cream, and _imo way way better)_ Also note: You aren't supposed to mix in the cinnamon, its supposed to sit on top! That breakfast guy tho, I dunno entirely what he's on about, bread is nice, but also, he can still just make some of the American things... I mean sure it won't taste as _artificial_ as it would in America, but you know, would still work ... Wow was that guy trying to claim Grandiosa is better than Italian pizza? what a sham Also a lot of Norwegians do eat a lot of fish, in various different ways, some eat it on bread for breakfast, many eat for dinner multiple times a week, and other various combos you can imagine, there are multiple condiments you can have on breakfasts that are fish based as well
Also, I just wanted to say that the popularity around eating fish in Norway really depends on where you live in the country. For example, in the East (Oslo, Lillehammer, Fredrikstad, etc) it is not so common to eat fish. But if you live in the West (Bergen, Stavanger, Geiranger) people almost eat fish weekly, or even daily (depends on age as well). My hometown, Florø, is the most Western town of all of Norway, and people here absolutely love fish.
The porridge is a traditional staple dish made from a specific kind of soured milk. These days it's more of a luxury. But nobody does to it what this person did! 😱 Seven out of ten Norwegians eat fish in some form twice a week. We have a lot of different spreads and dishes - and also snacks - made from fish and other seafood, that a lot of people don't think of as fisk. Only around one third of Norwegians are naturally blond. Most of us are actually "ash blond" or have so-called "rat coloured" hair. Then we have all other colours from black through browns and reds to white.
In sweden we enjoy alot for breakfast as well but we dont have time or energy for making pancakes or eggs for breakfast, and we dont eat out for breakfast thats expensive and wasteful. So usually we do something fast and simple like yoghurt or cereal or open sandwiches with butter and ham.
Our four meals (not everyone eats that way to be fair) are breakfast, lunch, dinner and a tiny meal before bed more akin to breakfast (like having a sandwich). We also have sick leave quotas like the states, not even that far off. Where the US typically have around 8 sick leave days, most Norwegian companies allow for up to 12 days throughout a year (without a doctor's notice). Not sure what that girl was on about. Also we eat way more fish than that guy said, even if we do love our selection of pizzas.
we do eat a lot of fish.. but some people have "americanized" eating habits to some degree. thus there is also a lot of burgers, pizza and that sort of food here too.. also.. pizza is quick and easy, and after a hard day of having norway and all it's beauty forced in your face all day via horizontal rain, snow, fog, hail and scorching sun. when you sit there and watch the news. and realize you probably have to evacuate, again... because of avalanche, rockfall, mudslide or flooding.. then your car won't start and your cat is missing.. then sometimes a quick pizza is just the ticket :P
Seafood is easily accessible which is why we do eat more of it than for example central America which is farther from the sea. It is all about accessibility. We have a ridiculously long coast line so of course we make use of it. I am from stavanger, while some up in the north might eat whale or reindeer, here further south almost at the bottom, I don't see that on the meny in restaurants often if at all. It is all about using what is available in the area👌
As a swede I am so sad that norwegians always bring up that frozen pizza, because norway has a lot of great food _actually_ but I think younger people like to troll themselves. At least if you travel to western norway they have a lot more pride in their actual food and will happily serve it.
Because they are addicted to sugar. After all, they are ingrained from childhood that dessert for breakfast is normal. It's pretty obvious why 75% of Americans are overweight.
Frokost = Breakfast. Lunsj = Lunch. Middag = Dinner. Kveldsmat = almost the same as breakfast. Only you eat it around 18.00-21.00++ it depends on how late you ate and how much you ate for dinner that day. And some do only eat frokost and not kveldsmat and vice versa.
Norwegians asking if someone wants to hang out and they schedule it for next week or whatever is a real thing. We need to prepare mentally to break our social distancing.
You can get American pancake mix & sirup and stuff in a bunch of places in Norway. So if you miss it, you can make some more American breakfast. And well you can buy eggs and bacon ^^ Nobody is gonna stop you from making a more American breakfast. Most people I know eat anything from bread over smoothies, oatmeal to warm dishes. Totally depends on your taste. And yeah we should eat more fish, but most people I know don't. It depends on the region though. In big cities Sushi etc is more popular.
4:56 what the... you are not supposed to mix the porridge like that. that is sacrilege! there is sugar and cinnamon on top and an eye of butter in the middle. you take a spoonful of porridge from the edges and dip it in the butter to eat, work your way around the porridge and inwards.
What you see at 4:50 are wheat flour, milk , and butter porridge. Put a butter eye in it, sprinkle sugar and cinnamon on top. It taste good, and the video maker are obviously trying to make it look as disgusting as possible.
We have 4 meals - Frokost/Breakfast Lunsj/Lunch Middag/Dinner and Kveldsmat (Idk what it in english) Kveldsmat is more like a breakfast for the night kinda?
4th meal is more like breakfast than dinner.
Supper is the word for kveldsmat in English.
Breakfast, lunch, dinner, supper.
Yeah, if you don't have a cafeteria at your work/school the meals of your day will probably look something like:
Breakfast - Bread
Lunch - Bread
Dinner - The only hot meal of the day
Supper (Kveldsmat) - Bread
So, lots of bread. But considering the variety of things we have to put on our bread it really isn't so bad. And we also have lots of different kinds of bread.
@@Hammer1987we dont eat bread we eat whaver we feel like eating
@@FatCatThe1AndOnly As does most people, but we Norwegians often feel like eating a lot of bread.
@@Hammer1987 Depends on you as a person too
Edit: and age
Ok, in order, skipping a lot:
* the 5 dollar guy picked the most overpriced items in an overpriced store.
* the goop is almost certainty sour cream porrige, it is like oatmeal, but instead of oats and butter you use sour cream and white flour. If you are more than 5 years old, you would not mix the cinnamon into it but leave it on top
* in general you are able to return unused goods within reasonable time
* the sayings lady has a pretty thick dialect
* norwegians will object to this, but we are relatively formal in social settings, its nor about slotting into the calendar, it is about having time to tidy, clean, and set the table with appropriate servings
* that norwegian breakfast is 99% representative, cucumbers are a bit fancy
1:35, this honestly depends on where you live :) i live in oslo, i don’t experience any small talk here, but whenever i visit the smaller towns i find myself getting into some conversations. If you’re looking for small talk you kinda just have to be at the right place haha :)
Why is it that almost all those complaining about how expensive Norway is goes to the most expensive stores and restaurants and buy the most expensive items? 🤔🥴
EXACTLY.
Yeah! Like a liter and a half Pepsi max is like 3 dollars at most!
@@pemanilnoob Still expensive compared to america.
They act like tourists. I visited France during its bicentenniel, and though I did visit the Louvre and Moulin Rouge, I walked the city, and took the metro. You don't get a real feel for a country's culture until you go to places the locals frequent. I wish I'd had more time there. By the way, only visit the Eiffel Tower at night, because it's ugly af during the day. 😂
Our 4 meals is breakfast, lunch, dinner and “kvelds". Kvelds is a tiny meal before bedtime. Also it’s not normal for regular Norwegians to eat out every single day. Everyone make food at home and only eat outside if it’s a social gathering with friends and family.
The bottle of water for 50 NOK/5 USD was some rare, smaller, and therefore more expensive brand, that only selected stores carry.
It's mostly aimed at tourists, as most people in Norway already have perfect tapwater at home, or will buy waayyyy cheaper water at the store.
The Arizona ice tea is imported all the way from the US, so ofc it will be more expensive over here.
The price in the tiktok clip was quite high even for what I've seen though, and those were the largest cans.
It's better to get the smaller ones or the bottles, which will usually be somewhere between 20Kr to 30Kr.
And the store he visited was joker, which isn't the cheapest store in Norway anyway.
In particular when it comes to less common products like these.
Yes, bottled and canned water is about a dollar to two dollar depending on brand and store. They dont seem to have gone for cheapest, just the expensive tourist or import products in that regard. Same with Arizona ice tea, its an import product so its pricier for that reason.
5 usd not 50
@@DraslyThe1 Yup, that's what I meant.
but it feels like 50usd I can´t lie xD@@ludicolo378
@@DraslyThe1 Yeah, it does😆
The shopping list for $5 was quilte exaggerated. It was special products and you get the best water in the world for free as tap water 😂
Edited: Yes, many Norwegians eat seafood a lot more than the young fellow imagines. He is probably talking about dishes only, but we eat a lot of it on bread as well. He will probably eat more sea food when he grows up as well 😂
Yes, Norway consume a lot of pizza. Grandiosa is the kid’s favourite because of it’s mild flavour, but most prefer real stuff at the restaurants or just homemade, but there is a lot of variations of frozen pizza. So yes, pizza is the everyday winner while tacos are a great number two on Friday’s (13.5% vs 12.5%). But dishes with pasta beats them both.
When it comes to breakfast many eat egg and bacon, cereals, pancakes or waffles or whatever they prefer, but bread is probably important for most Norwegians. I drink a couple cups of coffee and I’m done.
Imported goods tend to suck no matter what country imports the imported crap ;) but yes, Jeg er enig! *ler i brønnvann fra springen*
Yeah.
That water was some rare, smaller, and therefore more expensive brand, that only selected stores carry.
It's mostly aimed at tourists, as most people in Norway already have perfect tapwater at home, or will buy waayyyy cheaper water at the store.
The Arizona ice tea is imported all the way from the US, so ofc it will be more expensive over here.
The price in the tiktok clip was quite high even for what I've seen though, and those were the largest cans.
It's better to get the smaller ones or the bottles, which will usually be somewhere between 20Kr to 30Kr.
he also went to one of the most expencive chain of stores in Norway. that being said, everything is expencive in Norway currently.
@@UngodlyTurnip
Yes, but not that expensive. You can get a couple of beers for $5.
The porridge is a traditional sour cream porridge! ;) A small portion of it is quite nice!
We use it together with salty and dryed ham/lamb and flat hard bread.
Norwegian planes! Exept people in their 60's
Norwegian breakfast: whole corn, oat or rye bread with meat or jam, cheese or fish. Healthy!! Minerals and vitamins. Protins and aminoacid. A good start of an day. Not all fat and sugar...
It looked like semulegrynsgrøt
@@leodahood2150 I think that would have a bit more texture. What you see in that video is probably just because of the cinnamon that they stir around. Also, Rømmegrøt is a lot more common and loved than Semulegrynsgrøt. I know, Semulegryn, I´m sorry. It´s just the facts of life... ;/
5:00 "It looks like goop" haha yes it does! That is probably "Fløyelsgrøt / Smørgrøt" (Velvet Porridge / Butter Porridge) or "Rømmegrøt" (Sour Cream Porridge).
Fløyelsgrøt is technically just a really thick Béchamel sauce with cinnamon, sugar and butter on top.
Fløyelsgrøt is a variation of the more classic rømmegrøt.
Rømmegrøt is also very close to how a Béchamel sauce would be made, just with high-fat sour cream instead of milk.
Usually served with fenalår, which is a salted and dried lambs leg.
«What 5 dollars can get you in norway»
*goes into the most expensive store*
sugar tax also raises prices. it's so we buy less junk and more heatly stuff.
Regarding planning things, it is not that we are busy or are doing something important... it is that it is an interuption to our plan for the day combined with the fact that when we DO socialise we want to be able to give our friends all of our attention when without "squeezing it in" .... for sure we do also catch up with friends over a quick cup of coffee if we have a small break and happen to be near eachother .... but travel or anything requiring an effort .. it would seem as we would be causing an inconvinence for the one having to travel even if they offered up front.
Nahhhh The 4th meal tend to be a late night snack only. Like a warm ham and cheese sandwhich. :)
Or simply more bread, like breakfast. To be fair, Norwegians probably vary in number of meals as much as in any country. I have met people who only eat 1 or 2 times a day, and you might eat 5 or 6 times on occation. Anything between 2 and 5 meals are not too uncommon, but my guess is that 3 meals is the most common, though 4 is quite common too, counting a "late night snack".
In Norway, most get 24 sickdays a year. Most u can go within any doctors sick leave paper is 8 days straight using sickdays. If it last longer, u need sick leave from ur doctor. If u spend up all these 24 days within a year since u first started using them, u need sick leave every time u get sick from ur doctor. Basically, u can just call ur boss, and say, ur sick, u cant come to work. Without any questions asked. Depends on ur boss ofc, some are a**holes tho, and will try everything to get u to go to work.
The porridge is something called risengrynsgrøt and we eat that when its christmas and some people eat it for dinner sometimes
sent men, det var ikke risgrøt, om du ser etter så er det ikke tegn til ris. Det er enten fløyelsgrøt eller rømmegrøt:)
The porridge is "RØMME GRØT" traditional sour cream porridge, add salted & dried meat on the side.
And topped with cinnemon and sugar.
No, it's not 5 bucks for water. Jesus, this guy was going all out to shock viewers with bs. You can get oats way cheaper too.
The guy who wants an American breakfast can just make it :) It's not like it's difficult to get the ingredients ;P
Aaaand the kid who said seafood isn't that popular is really going full anecdotal. Never go full anecdotal.
It is popular.
Norway has:
Breakfast 6-10
(depending when you wake up) usually week days is sluce of bread or cereal, maybe warm breakfast in the weekends.
Lunch: 10-12 am
depending on work and school lunch breaks. Usually a packed meal. We always pack our meals, maybe some places has a cafeteria but dont bet on it.
Dinner: 17-18 pm
the big meal we all know as dinner, usually always homemade, we dont eat out much compared to america
Supper: 20-22 pm
It is usually the same as one would eat for a cold breakfast, slice of bread or cereal
The fourth meal is like breakfast but right before you go to bed.
Regarding checks, I'm 39 and there is only ONE instance in my life where I've even seen a check in my life (and it wasn't even a checkbook type of check, but a bank issued check to make an international payment - long story short, I was ordering an event ticket at age 19 and my bank card at the time didn't have a card number attached, so my dad who worked at the bank decided the safest option was to send a check to the event organizer) that is how unheard of check payments are over here. For people my age and younger, checks are this ancient relic of the past that we cannot believe people still actually use somewhere...
American breakfast is either a very unhealthy dinner or a dessert with all the bacon and hashbrowns (that are basically french fries dont @ me) and pancakes with syrup lol
The "goop" you saw was something we call rømmegrøt. Directly translated to english it means sour cream porrige. My family eats it at the midsummer night. You can put cinnamon, sugar and mår. It is an ok food for me, but if you come to norway, try it🤩
Checks was a big thing in Norway between 1960 to mid 1980's. Since plastic cards came in the 80's, they literally took over for checks. Most Norwergians stopped using checks in early 90's. However, it didnt go completely away until mid 2010 for public use.
Love your videos! You should make more videos about Bergen. People from Bergen are the people from norway who loves their city the most. Bergen people hate Oslo city. I think it would then be really cool if you made more videos about Bergen.
Fish is very popular, just cos that guy doesn't like fish doesn't mean that's the norm. But yeah we do eat a lot of pizza. Googled statistics, and found one that said 7/10 Norwegians eat fish or other seafood 2 or more times a week.
When I grew up (at a coastal farm), the meals were:
1: Frokost-Breakfast (before work)
2: Formiddagsmat-Pre-dinnertime food (10 o'clock)
3: Middag-Dinner (12 o'clock)
4: Ettermiddagskaffe-After dinner coffee (14 o'clock)
5: Ettermiddagsmat-afternoon meal (17 o'clock)
6: Kveldsmat-Supper (19 o'clock)
Not very unlike the Hobbit meals
When I started at school, it became:
1: Frokost-Breakfast (0730-0800)
2: Duggurd/Lunsj- Lunch (1130-1200)
3: Middag-Dinner (started to eat somewhere between 1600 and 1700)
4: Kveldsmat-Supper (1900)
PS: Supper is the English name on the evening meal. The Britts use this still today, but it seems like Americans have forgotten.
Fun fact, today as I'm not working I usually have my meals like this:
Coffee
Coffee
Coffee
Coffee
Coffee
Coffee
Coffee
Hot meal
Coffee
Coffee
Snacks
Coffee
And btw, I was born in '77😅
Yes, you can return used products in Norway, IF you feel there is something wrong with it. You can't just change your mind though (in most cases). We have 14 days to return an unused product - no questions asked. Sometimes more if the store decides to expand this right.
We have much more rigid consumer laws to protect the people, rather than the corporations.
We have a consumer council, the US does not.
The difference is that in the US you can return used and opened goods. In Norway you can't, especially with skincare, makeup and food, unless all tags still on, clean, and in the same state that you got it.
5:04 Sourcream Porridge!!! Most Norwegians loves this stuff. I never had it while growing up, and it is not for me. We also have «Velvet Porridge» which I think may be Cream of Wheat in the US? Looks pretty much like this too… 🤗
Our four meals per day is as follows:
Breakfast, usually bread with cheese, sandwich meat, mayo, etc.
Lunch, usually packed sandwiches, very reminiscent of breakfast. Basically second breakfast, really. More and more common with hot lunches.
Dinner, traditionally the only hot meal of the day, but more and more are eating hot lunches these days.
Evening meal, basically same as breakfast.
Erm, breakfast, lunch, dinner, that is (or at least, WAS) the old and normal progression, even in Norway. And most of those meals used to be a bit lighter than what people normally would think. So there was usually a much lighter evening meal, normally consisting of 2-3 slices of bread with some appropriate topping before bedtime. The English Breakfast of heavily digested stuff was very unknown in Norway. So according to this, the Brits started heavy, then got lighter as the day progressed. Supper was traditionally thought to actually be Soup (thus Supper...)!
Norwegians normally started with a light meal in the morning, and then it got more substantial as the day progressed, I seem to recall.
In 1898, the steamship Manitoban sailed from Alta. On board were 113 Norwegians, most of them Sami or Kven, and they had with them a reindeer herd of 539 animals. William Kjellmann, who was from Finnmark, but living in the USA, had taken on the task of traveling to Norway to hire Sami people and buy reindeer for Alaska.
Saw the documentary on NRK. Their descendants still live in Alaska. Sadly it didn't go very well due to the local indigenous tribes,and the Siberian Inuit on the Russian side who saw them as competition. Fun fact: The Sami, Finns and Estonians are all distant related to all indigenous Americans as they all migrated from Siberia during the Last Ice Age. The Proto Finns brought blonde hair to Northern Europe Scandinavia.
17:00 I’m watching this while eating fiskegrateng😂 everyone has grown up with eating fish atleast two times or more a week even though I’ve only had fish dishes this month because there’s so many varieties of fish here
19:00 most people I know here are blonde, but the reason for many to color their hair blonde or lighten it, is because they may have grown up as blonde and then eventually become brunette when they grew up.
We don't eat 2 dinners no lol
Generally, we eat breakfast and/or lunch(around 6-7 am for breakfeast and/or around 12 am for lunch), dinner(between 3-5 pm is the average), and then kveldsmat(evening meal) which is more or less like breakfast and/or lunch. Something light to not go to bed hungry.
Dinner at 3-5 PM is very early! I think the average is closer to 5-6PM. Also, kveldsmat I think is becoming increasingly rarer. I don't eat it anyways
@@VENO5407 Maybe I should say avarge family that have children that are younger than late teens eat around that time.
@@VENO5407older people is Norway it dinner super early most of the old people I know form Norway eat around like 1-3 pm
@@marinxaep I've never heard of anyone in or outside of Norway who eats before 3 PM. My grandmother eats between 3 and 4 PM, but other than that, 99% of people I've heard eats around 4-6 pm. Although, the norm could be different in a different part of Norway
The scheduling part is so interesting! Ive never really thought about it, but me and my friends(im from Norway) NEVER plan things the same day. Like NEVER(it just seem stressful idk). Funny how the culture is different there compared to America:)
Breakfast, lunch, dinner and supper
about the make up part (I'm a dude so correct me if I'm wrong ladies) there's samples you can try on most things in Norway (before you buy it). so it's more like "your own fault that you bought something you do not like" I might be mistaken here, but seems to remember that's a thing.
I'm pretty sure that samples or "testers" as they are usually called, of makeup/cosmetics and perfume is the case anywhere in the world, including the US.
So it's still different how you can basically return anything in the US, but here in Norway you can't.
The water is some expensive, overpriced brand. Normal water usually costs around 2 dollars. The ice tea is imported from USA, therefore it is really expensive. The store he went to, "Joker", also tends to be more expensive.
5:15 Only children mix it like that
5:00 it look like "mannagrynsgröt" in swedish and in english its call "semolina porridge" from a man living in sweden
Meal 1: frokost=breakfast meal 2: lunsj=lunch meal 3: dinner meal 4: kveldsmat= evening meal
we eat at 6 or 7am, 9 or 10am, 12 or 1pm, and 4 or 5pm,some even eat at 7 or 8pm,besides the dinner,most of the meals is bread with cheese,brown cheese,jam,liver pate,salami,mutton sausage,bologni with vegetable toppings and hard boiled sliced egg.
1. Breakfast
2. Lunch
3. Dinner
4. A small light meal.
Norway eats breakfast like it is a chore, quick to get it done, run out the door to work.
The american breakfast is more enjoyable, fancy, which is more similar to our weekend breakfasts, though morning waffles and breakfast pancakes isnt a thing in norway sadly
We do have a different dessert type waffle and a thin tortilla sized pancakes that is eaten for dinner that goes great with bacon or butter or jam.
Joker is one of our most expensive grocery stores btw. And for example food coupons, which are normal in the US, and the UK, are not a thing here. Neve seen or used one. And certain foods are crazy expensive due to import taxes/fees. That's why.
You can still have an American breakfast. We do have sausages, eggs, bacon, maple syrup and ingredients to make American pancakes. 😅
We usually just have cereal or bread with different spreads or "pålegg" (I do not know if there's a word for it in English).
So, if you're staying over with a Norwegian, do not expect warm food. Unless eggs.
the first one is very accurate. I could spend several weekdays in the city without overhearing a single small-talk conversation, but when I worked at a hikers' cabin for my summer job, I would overhear snippets of the deepest conversations between people who just happened to have met on the trail. The beginning of the trail was only a 40 minute bus ride from the city centre. Nature changes norwegians DNA or something I'm sure of it
TRUE LIKE HALF OF THE PEOPLE I KNOW IS NATURALLY BLONDE
But my sister colored her hair blonde my other sister colors her hair a lot but actually colored it yellow only once but never blonde
Breakfast, lunch, dinner, maybe icecream, pudding or strawberry with sauce if its a special day and whatever you call food before you sleep
THE PART WHERE YOU DIDNT KNOW IS “rømmegrøt” also known as sour cream porridge in English it’s delicious it’s normally used to be eaten at Christmas with some BRUH I FORGOT THE NAME IN ENGLISH “kanel” and butter sometimes we put “forgot the name again” “Mandel” in one of the people’s porridge without telling them and when they find the “Mandel” or accidentally eat it they get a price🙃
No, I'm sorry, that's wrong. You are thinking about riskrem (rice cream). Which is rice porridge with added whipped cream. We don't eat rømmegrøt (sour cream porridge) for Christmas. Rømmegrøt was more used during festivities like baptisms, confirmations, weddings and funerals. And earlier it was also a tradition to eat sour cream porridge when you had finished mowing (etter slåtten). It was also a common food to eat during St Hans. It's more of a summer food, rarely eaten during the winter time.
To find the blanched almond in the porridge, we use rice porridge or rice cream. (Added whipped cream, not sour cream to the porridge). And whoever finds the blanched almond get a prize, the traditional prize is a marzipan pig. But this tradition with the blanched almond in the porridge isn't actually Norwegian, it's originally from Denmark.
Rice porridge is eaten just like you said with cinnamon, sugar and butter. Served with red juice, mainly with black currant juice. And rice cream is mainly served with sugar and red syrup (condensed juice - often raspberry).
Rice cream is Norwegians' favorite dessert on Christmas Eve. And many add the blanched almond game into the mix, it's a fun game for the whole family, not matter the age. But it's mainly the rice porridge (christmas porridge) that you add the blanched almond to. Some eat the rice porridge with the blanched almond for lunch before the Christmas Eve officially rings in at 5pm. And some have the rice cream with the blanched almond for dessert after the big Christmas dinner. It depends from family to family.
The blanched almond rice porridge is also something that is common to see in both the kindergarten and at school festitivies leading up to Christmas.
Right before you started the TikTok about seafood, I got an ad for Findus fish sticks lmfao
Sour cream porridge/ rømmegrøt and smoked raindeer hart on sankthans just hit different
05:00, thats called Semule grøt (Semolina porridge)
Other comments are saying different stuff, and I have no idea what to believe now
No idea what other comments state, but, this is what Norwegian call it.@@pemanilnoob
We have Breakfast around 6-8 in the morning (bread)
Lunch 11-13 (more bread)
Dinner 16-18 in the evening (normal dinner food)
And "Kvelds", evening food some time before bed (again, more bread)
bare in mind, the Arizona Tea is imported, local produced drinks are cheaper. The bowl of "goop" is called Grøt, and is the Norwegian equivalent of porridge, usually made from wheat or rice boiled in milk, and served with cinnamon sugar and a lump of butter. To be honest, the grøt in that tiktok was waaay too fluid :P
I often meet friends on the same day, but a lot of people will wait for the weekends, this is often due to people needing to pick up the kids from kindergarten after work, then spending the rest of the day with their family.
There are many types of grøt, I really don’t think that was a ris grøt lol
@@pemanilnoobagree, it was obviously rømmegrøt
Yes, the thing I miss most from the Philippines (were I holiday a lot) is the social life. In Norway we are so comfortable in our homes that we tend to love our sofa, movie and good food - life. This means your friends will not allways be available! In the Philippines they knock on your door daily....ok, maybe a middle solution would be nice! ;P As for seafood - YES it is popular in Norway (but meat is still on too for most). It varies from where you are in Norway.
Just moved to Norway from Denmark 3 weeks ago so beautiful place
There are many roads like that in Norway that's one of the reasons the speed limit is like it is!
3:33 He should have gone to somewhere more common like kiwi or bunnpris lol
Ive noticed smalltalk has gotten way more frequent after I got a dog. People love to stop for a chat and to try to be friends with my dog (who hates strangers) 😂😂
4:56 it is gråt in norway we eat it in chrismas time and we hide a nut in it and try to find it and the winner gets like chocolate or somthing we do it in desember it is crazy you guys dont to it for me it is but i just wanna explain what it was
You can return some used goods, but in practicality only if it retains value. Clothes that have just been tested and were too small or big. Gaming console or PC etc. However used consumer goods or food can not be returned if used unless there is something wrong with the product.
The name of the food is Rømmegrøt. It is a warm dish made from sour cream, milk and flour. It is smoother than cream of wheat, more like a sauce by US standards.
Breakfast is bread at morning before work but at weekends we do have egg, bacon and tomato beans and ofcourse...bread.
There are more blonde Swedes than Norwegians. It's a genetic thing, based on where the first people migrating into the Scandinavian peninsula migrated from when the ice retreated. In Sweden all came from south - those were the ones with blue eyes and blonde hair. In Norway some came from south, and some migrated from east, north of the ice cape, along the coast. They had dark hair, brown eyes and fair skin. In a few generations the Swedes also will have to dye their hair blonde, since they have accepted so many immigrants from far away in recent years.
the estimated percent of natural blondes in Norway is 75%, and Swedistan its at 78. theres more blondes in sweden sure, but 3% is not exactly bragworthy lol. there are more blonde blue eyed people in Finland than there are in Norway and Sweden anyway so who cares.
@@muninn9674
Some of us are interested in history, even as far back as human migration routes. What we then find out tells us something about people and society today. That you don't care can be your business.
@@muninn9674
And by the way - that the number you refer to shows that Sweden still today has more blonde people than Norway underlines my point considering that the number of immigrants in Sweden is much higher than in Norway, also seen in relation to the rest of the population. Unless the figure is based only on ethnic Swedes and ethnic Norwegians, of course.
@@ahkkariq7406 "considering that the number of immigrants in Sweden is much higher than in Norway"
The immigration percentage in Sweden is about equal to Norway, at about 80%. the number of immigrants in pure numbers is obviously going to be higher there than here, but thats purely because sweden has double the population than us.
@@muninn9674 Andelen innvandrere i Sverige er 20%. I Norge er det 16%, så du tar feil.
Its called sourcream porrage. 5:33
eating a grandiosa on a sunday afternoon is nostalgic
wtf breakfast? You can just make your own. My breakfast is less then that. I usually go with like 5 cups of coffee before I start on any food.
Regarding blond hair, it's at the most frequent along the southeastern coast of the Baltic sea, but also prevalent in Norway although less so then there.
The 4 meals are Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, and Supper (yes, thats the actual English word for it as far as I know)
The 5 usd/50 crowns guy went into an already expensive store "Joker" to buy an _even more expensive_ type of bottled water just to prove a point essentially, its a nothing burger as far as I know
As a Norwegian, I'm not supposed to say this, but that meal is "rømmegrøt" (its definitely grøt, but other comments say its rømmegrøt specifically), which is sour cream porridge.
But we also have porridges without sour cream as well, so you aren't stuck with sour cream
(Personally I believe that was "smørgrøt" which is butter porridge made without the sour cream, and _imo way way better)_
Also note: You aren't supposed to mix in the cinnamon, its supposed to sit on top!
That breakfast guy tho, I dunno entirely what he's on about, bread is nice, but also, he can still just make some of the American things... I mean sure it won't taste as _artificial_ as it would in America, but you know, would still work
... Wow was that guy trying to claim Grandiosa is better than Italian pizza? what a sham
Also a lot of Norwegians do eat a lot of fish, in various different ways, some eat it on bread for breakfast, many eat for dinner multiple times a week, and other various combos you can imagine, there are multiple condiments you can have on breakfasts that are fish based as well
The way you said "lutefisk" really impressed me, damn
Also, I just wanted to say that the popularity around eating fish in Norway really depends on where you live in the country. For example, in the East (Oslo, Lillehammer, Fredrikstad, etc) it is not so common to eat fish. But if you live in the West (Bergen, Stavanger, Geiranger) people almost eat fish weekly, or even daily (depends on age as well). My hometown, Florø, is the most Western town of all of Norway, and people here absolutely love fish.
The one that looks like oatmeal is what we in norway call Smørgrøt = butter porridge ;)
The porridge is a traditional staple dish made from a specific kind of soured milk. These days it's more of a luxury. But nobody does to it what this person did! 😱
Seven out of ten Norwegians eat fish in some form twice a week. We have a lot of different spreads and dishes - and also snacks - made from fish and other seafood, that a lot of people don't think of as fisk.
Only around one third of Norwegians are naturally blond. Most of us are actually "ash blond" or have so-called "rat coloured" hair. Then we have all other colours from black through browns and reds to white.
This is something I loved with americans. You don't have to plan so far ahead of time. They are more spontaneous, just like me. 😅
9:21 would be better translated to "It's not just only" or "It's not just just".
16:04 Assuming those 50 minutes are driving, it is NOT"near Bergen".
In sweden we enjoy alot for breakfast as well but we dont have time or energy for making pancakes or eggs for breakfast, and we dont eat out for breakfast thats expensive and wasteful. So usually we do something fast and simple like yoghurt or cereal or open sandwiches with butter and ham.
Our four meals (not everyone eats that way to be fair) are breakfast, lunch, dinner and a tiny meal before bed more akin to breakfast (like having a sandwich). We also have sick leave quotas like the states, not even that far off. Where the US typically have around 8 sick leave days, most Norwegian companies allow for up to 12 days throughout a year (without a doctor's notice). Not sure what that girl was on about. Also we eat way more fish than that guy said, even if we do love our selection of pizzas.
Norway invented Salmon Sushi. Yes, we sell allot of salmon. :)
Water from tab is for free! Taste like amazing fresh and natural.
bottled water is a scam here, the tap is just as good. taste and quality.
we do eat a lot of fish.. but some people have "americanized" eating habits to some degree. thus there is also a lot of burgers, pizza and that sort of food here too.. also.. pizza is quick and easy, and after a hard day of having norway and all it's beauty forced in your face all day via horizontal rain, snow, fog, hail and scorching sun. when you sit there and watch the news. and realize you probably have to evacuate, again... because of avalanche, rockfall, mudslide or flooding.. then your car won't start and your cat is missing.. then sometimes a quick pizza is just the ticket :P
Yeah food/drinks cost a lot here. We pay a higher salary to those selling it, AND pay our farmers a little extra to keep farming.
Seafood is easily accessible which is why we do eat more of it than for example central America which is farther from the sea. It is all about accessibility. We have a ridiculously long coast line so of course we make use of it.
I am from stavanger, while some up in the north might eat whale or reindeer, here further south almost at the bottom, I don't see that on the meny in restaurants often if at all. It is all about using what is available in the area👌
As a swede I am so sad that norwegians always bring up that frozen pizza, because norway has a lot of great food _actually_ but I think younger people like to troll themselves. At least if you travel to western norway they have a lot more pride in their actual food and will happily serve it.
In the thumnail We call that «grøt»
Breakfast, lunch, dinner, supper (before bed), but a lot of people skips supper).
Why do the Americans miss breakfast in Norway? In Norway you eat 3-4 breakfasts a day and no dinner or lunch.
Because they are addicted to sugar. After all, they are ingrained from childhood that dessert for breakfast is normal. It's pretty obvious why 75% of Americans are overweight.
Frokost = Breakfast. Lunsj = Lunch. Middag = Dinner. Kveldsmat = almost the same as breakfast. Only you eat it around 18.00-21.00++ it depends on how late you ate and how much you ate for dinner that day. And some do only eat frokost and not kveldsmat and vice versa.
Norwegians asking if someone wants to hang out and they schedule it for next week or whatever is a real thing. We need to prepare mentally to break our social distancing.
Hahahaha. "The Reindeer sausage ..And it's really big! As well....." 😇😇
5:13 christmas this year is gonna be good hohoho
You can get American pancake mix & sirup and stuff in a bunch of places in Norway. So if you miss it, you can make some more American breakfast. And well you can buy eggs and bacon ^^ Nobody is gonna stop you from making a more American breakfast. Most people I know eat anything from bread over smoothies, oatmeal to warm dishes. Totally depends on your taste. And yeah we should eat more fish, but most people I know don't. It depends on the region though. In big cities Sushi etc is more popular.
4:56 what the... you are not supposed to mix the porridge like that. that is sacrilege! there is sugar and cinnamon on top and an eye of butter in the middle. you take a spoonful of porridge from the edges and dip it in the butter to eat, work your way around the porridge and inwards.
Not all of us take a lot of time me and my best friend take abouth 5 minutes to plan a sleep over or a normal visit
11:36
We don’t eaven have Sephora in Norway 8:07
What you see at 4:50 are wheat flour, milk , and butter porridge.
Put a butter eye in it, sprinkle sugar and cinnamon on top.
It taste good, and the video maker are obviously trying to make it look as disgusting as possible.
He must have picked the most expensive water and drinks, water would cost 2-3 dollars
Just one dinner and late night snack.
Joker is more expensive than average
The Hummus as you call it is what is Norwegian's call grøt, its very delicious
We have 4 meals - Frokost/Breakfast Lunsj/Lunch Middag/Dinner and Kveldsmat (Idk what it in english)
Kveldsmat is more like a breakfast for the night kinda?