American Reacts to Why Norwegians LOVE Bread
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As an American I have heard about how important bread is in Norwegian culture. Today I am very interested in learning about why Norwegians seems to love eating bread so much. If you enjoyed the video feel free to leave a comment, like, or subscribe for more!
I was born in America and my norwegian mother always baked bread. The white bread you have in America, you cant even call bread. In Norway we dont eat much white bread, which we call loff.
Yes, I can't remember the last time I ate white bread. It was certainly many years ago, perhaps more than a decade. As a child, the only time we had this, was for a shrimp party. White bread is good with shrimp.
Then your not Norwegian. White bread is the best!😂
@@majorerr0r840 No, white bread is rarely used in Norway. Usually when it's shrimp season people eat fresh shrimp with loff and mayo. That's the only time i can think of that norwegians use white bread, and that's only once each year.
My bet is that you are from Oslo area and not Southcoast then. Loff is always sold out, every day in every store here.
I buy "loff" sometimes to have with warm foods, like soups and the like. I buy the more rough breads with more fiber and so on. Very nice!
If you had ever eaten fresh bread you wouldn't be so surprised.
Greetings from the Black Forest.
Freshly baked bread can still be of poor quality. What you need is a tasty 90%+ wholegrain.
So true!
Nothing is better then my father fresh bread from the oven.
Tyler! You should make your own bread!?
Here’s the recipe for one loaf of bread.
5 dl water - room temperature
1 ts of salt
3 ds of olive oils
5 dl of wheat flour fine grained
2 dl of wheat flour poorly grained
1 ds of dry yeast
2 ds of sunflower seeds
2 ds of pumpkin seeds
2 ds of linseeds
Mix it all together, by hand or in a mixer, in a bowl, for 5-8 minutes. If the dough is too liquid to poke your finger into, without being sticky, add some more flour.
Let it rise for 60 minutes.
Knead the dough on the table, and shape it into a bread like form. Use flour so the dough won’t stick onto the table. Put the bread on a baking sheet, and let it rise for 30 minutes. Then put it into the oven, preheated to 180 dg Celsius. Fry the bread for 45-50 minutes.
Let the bread rest for 30 minutes before you cut it into slices.
Ts - teaspoon
Ds - dinner spoon
Good luck, Tyler 😊
Bread food is not just a couple of slices you put something on. Because there are, last time I was in the store, 22 different types of bread to choose from, and all have their own pungent taste. You get bread with nuts and much else in . We use to buy sunflower bread, because it stays fresh for several days (2-3 days). And when we buy bread, we can buy up to 5-6 loaves, and we often put them in the freezer, until the day we need the bread, that way we have fresh bread almost every day.
I myself have always had a packed lunch, and my children have also grown up with it, so it has probably become a tradition, which many people enjoy, even though today we are offered both fresh salads and other things, I know most of you have bread in the lunch box almost every day.
I'm fromnorway and I have never tasted bread I like. Maybe just some with garlic oil/olive oil and a bunch of spices and Aioli. Garlic cream and so on
One detail you should keep in mind is that in Norwegian workplaces, you have a half-hour lunch break, where Americans often have an hour lunch break. So you have much less time to eat. Therefore, it is beneficial to have the food package easily accessible, so you have time to eat. And many people also just want to have a smoke or a coffee before starting work again, and then a 30-minute lunch break is just what you need. In the 80s, there were places where you had to sign out at lunch, and sign in again after lunch. Craftsmen often start the day very early (07.00), and they often have breakfast at 09.00, and again lunch at 12.30, and they are done for the day at 15.30.
This one is a bit weird as normally the Americans say THEY get only 30 minutes in the US and danes always got an hour. Many yanks talk about the longer break in Scandinavia so idk about this statement. Im used to an hour in school and an hour or so when i was studying and also in jobs. It was never 30 minutes. We didnt rush.. wr get hot meals in the cantina if its a fancy school and the que was 12 minutes to get that at least so you need an hour to eat..
Bread is importent to us norwegian. They taste very good to in general. White bread the one we call loff is best with peeled shrimps on as a type of sandwich
Hei . In the US bread have so much suger in it,it is cake. Norwegian bread is wery healthy.eggs,chees ,meat and fish as topping is good for you.
Fruit,and vegetables next to is normal.
We have so many different types of bread in Norway. White bread is not so popular in the weekdays and perhaps more at the weekend. That is because white bread is not very nutritious.
It's the spread that make it worth calling a lunsj.
In Norway we have a 4 grade scale on all bread. Going from 1/4 witch is white bread and not a healthy option but more for a "treat" in the weekend (This is what i am guessing most of the american bread is made like). This is like what kids might ask for when its breakfast time in the weekend with some chocolate spread on it. Most of the breads in Norway are graded 3/4 and 4/4. Its is basicly how healty / coarse(amount of grain there is in the bread).
Even 1/4 isn't necessarily white.
It's just easily digestible.
Even a 1/4 is far healthier then anything Americans call bread.
And often more nutritious then French breads.
My favorite is bread graded with 3/4 !
The US bread is known for being like a tasteless sponge that even mould won't touch. I was able to find ok-ish bread in US (30 years ago when I lived in Pittsburgh, PA for 1,5 years), but most of it was that white stuff that did not resemble food. I eat either crisp bread or bread for most meals (and a slice of bread with a thick layer of butter is nice to soups, so it can be part of dinner as well). If eating on the go, a double slice of bread is practical, but when eating at home or work, a single slice with something on top is what is commonly used.
At my first workplace, we were 5 people,
and 1 of us bought bread, cold cuts, spreads etc. twice a week,
then we split the bill on payday,
worked out fantastically, we had fresh or close to fresh bread every day.
Because we were 5 people buying food together we had a wide selection,
our spreads / cold cuts usually consisted of ham, salami, gouda, brown cheese and
different spreads (liver pate, cheese spread etc.)
I'd say open face sandwich is more common then a sandwich.
Norwegian here. I ate three hotdogs for lunch while watching this so i wouldnt have to throw them away later. Made me feel like I was breaking the law xD
are u 60+`
Yes its true.
Breakfast, lunch and after dinner snack is usually 2 slices of bread. Maybe in the weekend we would have something like egg or bacon with hot buns for a fancy weekend breakfast.
We have a great hot homemade dinner we look forward to all day since it is the one hot meal. Usually around 16-18pm
I remember many years ago when I was shopping in a Norwegian store, called KIWI, and there was a guy who had a full basket of bread. he was Swedish, and in Sweden the bread is sweet, so that's the reason.
We have family in Sweden, and they buy armfuls of kneippbrød when they visit. It's very suitable for freezing.
Kneippbrød, which is the most common bread in Norwegian stores, is named after the German doctor Sebastian Kneipp, and was introduced in Norway in 1895.
Originally it contained mostly wholegrain wheat, but now they usually mix in white flour as well, to make it lighter.
We really don’t think about the fact that we eat so much bread! Norwegians can eat bread with the same spreads every day for months or even years at a time, and we don’t really consider the fact that it’s boring to only eat bread with cheese or ham. I remember watching American films as a child and being so confused about having a cafeteria even as we ate in our classrooms and for children buying food at school is not available. Where I work now most people buy warm food, and quite a few of my colleagues have that as their dinner and eat bread for their actual dinner.
Btw, “pålegg” is the word we use for spreads. We only eat open face sandwiches and call them “brødskive” which just means “slice of bread”.
Yeah. We just eat that without thinking. It is just to fill our stomachs and then it becomes a habit
I eat a lot of bread,I like my food cold.I altso eat a lot of salads,tomatoes,feta cheese,olives,and fresh herbs from my garden + homemade jam with it.Tortillas,pira bread,bagettes,whole graun bread,flatbread,knekkebrød.Garlic bread.
Yes, there are so many types of bread, and so much you can do with it. The variations is almost endless.
You mean "grain", not "graun" I assume?
@@Luredreier two mistakes in there.I know. It happens,even to native speakers.
From the 16th - 17th century bread was an important source of nutrion in Norway. The country was geographically quite remote from the continent, and because of the cold winters not many things could be agriculturaled here. Originally oat, rye and barley would grow here, while wheat was introduced far later. It's all about recourses. The bread is very good here btw.
I haven't had a matpakke since I was in the army 30 years ago, and all the jobs I've had have had hot lunches. You can still buy bread and spread there.
True, some jobs are offering that to attract employees.
Its not a bread if there is sugar in it tbh.
We don’t do sandwiches its usually 1 as a default. 2 single slices of bread, with whatever you want on top, cheese slices or thin slice meat or some paste. Anything on top of bread is called: “pålegg” as a generalization of toppings.
Yes!! We usually have open faced sandwiches and very rarely closed faced sandwiches
@@Henoikrugbrød cant be a sandwich. Lets not teach them wrong things here...
@@ebbhead20 Ahaahahah rugbrød as a sandwich is wiiiiild 💀💀💀
That's my main go to thing now.. yanks that call what Scandinavia has open sandwiches.. whis ever said we ordered a lot of open sandwiches for the party anywhere in Scandinavia ? Im like..fuck off with your open sandwiches..we dont eat them. 😅
Bread in Norway was not invented for lunch-packs, it existed long before the parents were told to send it with their kids to school. Norwegian bread may taste very good, but it is also important that the bread is not sweet, so the same bread can accomodate various types of spread. Very common spreads are salami(in many variations), liverpaste (in many variatiobns), cheeses (and brown cheese), jam, "plane crash" (mackrel in tomato sauce), egg, and so many others. If you get tired of it you don't change the bread necesarily, but the spread. A slice of bread always has a bottom layer of butter or margarine, and the most modern is a mixed goop of butter and vegetable oils. Norwegians are often kind of "purists" about bread, and even Swedish people stock up on bread in Norway sometimes. But the swedish is big on "crisp bread" which is also popular in Norway. Crisp bread is so dry (but crispy) that i lasts for months in room temperature, so it is also practical that way.
Bread in Norway, isn't particulartly good. There are many countries with vay better bread.
@@humushumus2219
Many I don't know about that...
I agree that the Germans might have us beat.
They have a much healthier bakery culture with most people visiting a bakery regularly.
While we usually buy breads in stores that buy them in bulk from bakeries that deliver them fresh the same day.
There's also some other breads out there that's really nice.
But while breads descending from the Roman empire might *taste* good they're generally not healthy, so I'm not a fan of French bread or anything in the Spanish colonies etc...
I think I have heard that there is a brown cheese in the USA that is from Norway, it is called Ski Queen Cheese. so if you want to taste it buy it. and if you want a good bread, you can easily bake one yourself 😊
It is called «Brunost»
I have also heard about the Ski Queen brown cheese. But it was only one place that sold it🤔
This guy cant bake fuck all.. he doesnt even know anybody who uses an oven for baking. He said that over a year ago.. like who bakes in their home, maybe your nan at Christmas he said ... Americans dont bake ever according to him.
In the shops here, you get fresh bread every day, and you can then plop the bread you choose into a machine that slices it for you before you go pay for it. So you get fresh bread, but can also get it sliced. The bread bags are also marked with a percentage of how much whole grain flour it contains, from 0% to 100%, allowing you to choose healthy bread. A lot of bread also come with flavorful and nutritious seeds and nuts. Whole grain, seeds and nuts are also slower to digest and help you feel sated for longer!
When it comes to toppings, the area of the grocery shop with cold cuts or cheeses or other bread toppings (pålegg - directly translated it means "on-put", cause you put it on the bread) is also pretty large, so you tend to have a lot of choice. And there's always a lot of new products in this segment too. So yes, bread meals are popular!
I don't think this is necessarily very related, but historically, dinner staples like the potato didn't come to Norway until the 1800s, and although rice has been imported since medieval times, it was historically a quite expensive, luxury item for the rich and/or for very special occasions. Grain and grain-based meals were always a huge part of the diet up here in the old days, and therefore many of the more traditional dishes from here are based on that. Havregrøt/oat porridge, bygg-grøt/barley porridge, rømmegrøt/sourcream porridge, a whole lot of variants of breads, lefse, flatbread, knekkebrød/crisp bread (which originated in Sweden) +++
06:50 This perception of warm lunch being seen as dinner may stem from how many - if not most - of the older generation tend to eat dinner between 12 and 13.
Something that is not mentioned is that Norway only has 3% arable land. Therefore, we have to import a lot of the food we eat, unless we are going to eat dried fish - which is probably at least as healthy as bread, but which has an odor that many would say stinks. Norwegians (from the southern part of the country) who are not used to dry fish have no desire to learn to like it because of the smell.
Most of the vegetables grown in Norway are suitable for winter storage, and there is not enough space to grow vegetables for more than one meal a day. This is probably the reason why the soups served at schools were of poor quality when the authorities began to encourage parents to send wholemeal bread with their children to school. If you go back a couple of hundred years, most Norwegians lived on "vassgraut", a porridge cooked in water and the cheapest flour, barley and/or oats. People ate to survive, not for taste. Not everyone could afford butter, sour cream or syrup on the porridge, and most people probably went hungry for large parts of the day. Fish was therefore a welcome and nutritious addition to the diet. You can not only fish in the sea and fjords in winter, you can also fish on lakes by cutting holes in the ice.
It can also be mentioned that the cows did not give milk in the winter, at least in parts of the country, so the milk you drank in the winter was sour.
Like everyone else, Norwegians like the food we are used to, and especially now that we have the opportunity to cook or bake good and nutritious food.
I'm a norwegian living in Germany. My kids grew up with "matpakke" 😂. They loved it! Homemade bread with "pålegg" (something on on top). Butter, salad, cheese or remainings from last evenings dinner (meat or fish). They were the kings and queens inbetween their friends. Mostly they swapped it against "Süssigkeiten" (sweets) and everybody were happy 🥳
Bread meals in many varieties has been used as everyday meals like breakfast and lunch for millennia’s, we know that they grained different grains, nuts, everything bark during starvation periods, all the way back to the Iron Age. It’s easy to just bake your own bread to get the taste of what we eat here in Norway 🥰
As an swedish half norwegian. I was introduced to Sjokade and Nugatti... not healthy at all, but nice on toast bread as a snack.
love wholemeal bread with protein-rich topping❤ Greetings from Trondheim, Norway ❤
Yes, we often have slices of bread with f.ex salami,tomatos and cheese with a little bit of salt and pepper on the top.We warm it for 10 min in the oven or in the micro.We call it Fattigmannspizza (Poor mans pizza) This is a typical Norwegian dinner (at least if you are singel and dont bother boiling only two potatos,1 sausage etc.
Yeah it's a common practice in the nordic and surrounding countries to eat bread for breakfast and lunch, in a lunch box or madpakke.
Pålæg is the word we use mostly for sliced things, cheese, ham, sausage, etc, to put on the bread, but also generally for spread as well.
Also bread is not white bread only, we have that too and mostly for breakfast, if not cerial and again mostly with options for healthy varients, yes we also have low qality, mostly air toast bread, for cheap bad choices.
In nordic countries we have dark bread called rugbrød, in Denmark, which is hole grain, different kind of grains in, bread with different seeds, sometimes nuts, made to be more healthy and nutritious to be able to sustrain you through a hard days work. And yes quite often its 1 slice of bread with pålæg or spread on, though varies if its 2 slices to make it easier to stack it.
Standard dark bread for lunch is from 1-3$ for a pack with around 8-20 slices.
It sounds like what you call bread in USA, we would call a cookie
Norwegian bread isn't different. What americans calll bread is whats different, from basically anywhere else in the world.
Exactly.
The quality of the bread you find in Norwegian groceries are on another level than what you find in most countries. In many countries you have to find a bakery for quality bread. Look no further than Sweden. That said, the US "bread" is a joke, but still maybe better than the serials they eat for breakfast, lol,
@@okklidokkli true, but that is mostly because the grocery stores replaced bakeries. Bakeries are few and far between now, in norway. Same with butchers.
@@okklidokkli true, but that is mostly because the grocery stores replaced bakeries. Bakeries are few and far between now, in norway. Same with butchers.
@@trulybtd5396 Bread bought in shops in Norway is baked overnight, but the dough is made industrially in large quantities, frozen and thawed slowly before baking. (Google "Ahh, - duften av nybakt brød på hjørnet!" by Opplysningskontoret for brød og korn).
This applies if you do not buy "store-baked bread", which is not fresh. They arrive at the store half-baked in molds, probably frozen. This applies for less than 10% of bread sold in Norway.
some friends off mine went to the us to backcountry snowboarding. they bought like half a m breads, squished em down to like 5cm, taped em up, and packed em. when they needed it, open in up, and instant half a meter "bread"
03:33 I think this depends on the school, I know the high school I went to back in the day was pay to eat lunch, but I think some schools provide free lunch for students, some I think even provide breakfast if you come before classes begin? I'm not sure these days, though, this was 15+ years ago.
Pålegg is the general term for what we put on bread. It's everything from spreads to cheese or ham or whatever😊
It's not true. Bread is often a side for dinner as well. Like a good piece of bread with butter to soup
Yeah, bread with stuff on top for breakfast, lunch and evening meal, and just bread with butter as a side for dinner.
It is true. No one has bread for dinner, just like no one has rutebaga mash for dinner. A side dish is just that, a side. If someone asked me what I had for dinner, you would never say "bread", unless they specifically asked what sides you had. Bread with soups or stews is also not unique for Scandinavia.
@@Henrik46 i never said it was exclusive, and you are assuming scemantics i never stated. We do eat bread for dinner, even if it's not the main dish. Do we some times eat bread at dinner? Yes we do. Arguing whether it is the main dish is ridiculous hair splitting.
Edit: by your logic we don't eat potatoes, if it is a side dish.
«Uteskive», is two pieces of bread on top of each other, with jam, or peanut butter in between. “Uteskive” is translated to “outdoor sandwich”. We make them when the children are outdoors, and they don’t have the time to come eat, when hungry. “Mom! Make me and outdoor sandwich”!
Norwegian here, i like to fill tortilla wraps with cheese and ham with a bit tomato paste and toast it for lunch. Bread is a bit expensive, so when i decide to have bread i usually bake it myself.
I went from 4th to 6th grade in Norwegian schools. 4th grade was in Oslo, 6 days a week. Saturday was a half day. 5th and 6th grade was at the grade school across the street from Sgaugum's main gate with gaurds. We ate mat pakker every day and liver paste was popular among all.
School in saturday? Not a thing i have heard of..
Most primary schools (1-7th grade) and lower secondary schools (8-10th grade) do not provide food for students and students must pack their own lunch. Most upper secondary schools (11-13th grade) usually have a cafeteria where you can buy meals, but not all.
The direct translation of "pålegg" would be "onlay", or something you lay on top of the bread. Translates to "topping". I think there might be a slight misconception that we use a lot of spread or paste on the bread, as we often use slices of cheese, ham, meat etc. To be a little bit extra fancy we also like to put slices of cucumber, bell peppers or a leaf of lettuce.
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Yep, it's true
I love dark bread whit kaviar and makrell in tomatsaus. I love. ❤
I usually pack 5 slices of bread with salami or cheese and probably 2-3 slices in the evening. And dinner in-between, everyday. We just change our toppings like different meats, cheeses and jams. Warm lunch is absolutely dinner, only warm lunch on Fridays sometimes😂It's all normal here in Norway, we we're born that way
There are two kinds of people. Those who eat the same bread with the same spreads every day, and then there are the rest of us who get tired of the same thing. Our “nistepakke” (packed lunch) is only as boring as you make it. I vary between different high-quality bread, sliced and buttered, and then top my open-faced sandwiches with an endless variety of cheeses, tomatoes, cucumber, liver pate with pickles, cured meat, ham, lettuce, eggs and roe, or eggs and ham, omelettes, scrambled eggs, salmon and cream cheese, mackerel in tomato sauce, a slice of leftover Sunday roast or fish, topped with some vegetables or cottage cheese, avocado, and red pesto… I mean, to me, it’s not mundane at all. We have a cafeteria where I work, and sometimes I buy a salad or soup, but if I buy a full warm meal, I get so tired and would like to nap, not work. 😄 Also, I actually prefer to spend my 30-minute lunch eating and talking to my coworkers, not standing in line half the time.
we love bread in Belgium to why it´s not sugared flour like in the US
Maybe, but are you talking about the Flemish or Walloon areas?
The white breads descending from the Roman tradition isn't well suited as a main meal, being more of a side dish to a hot meal.
Germanic breads by contrast is designed to be a main meal on its own.
And I suspect that the same is true for the Slavic world?
I don't know, but I'm definitely more in favour of "barbarian" breads then "civilized" breads.
@@Luredreier i´m Flemish and the bread variations we can get here are even from Germany, France and we eat at least 2 times a day bread
Pålegg is a norwegian word that can't really be translated to english. The best translation for it I guess will be spread, but pålegg is much more than spread. It's anything you can put on a slice of bread, not just the spreadable options. In norway we have a lot of meat products presliced from the factory to put on our bread, and ofcourse different cheeses we slice with our bad ass cheese slicers.
We also use a lot of different topping to make our bread slices a little more exciting , like sliced bell peppers, tomato slices, cucumber slices (both raw or pickled), beets or onions (both raw or pickled) just to mention a few.
Bread for everything except dinner, want something good? bread with chocolate spread. Want some food? Cheese on bread. Thats what i got on repeat. If i want different flavors i pick another type of bread, i work at a regional sized bakery so its all free for me. And yes, warm foods are basically reserved for dinner.
I just never thought that it could be different for others, when me and my friends go out to eat, we even consider subway as a potential dinner option, but when i was in the US it was more of a breakfast/lunch thing according to the people i went to school with. It was actually hard to acquire what i consider a proper breakfast meal in the US if i didn't make it myself.
Yeah, I have been to America twice, and I soo missed real nutritious bread there. I finally found a nice sourdough at Whole Foods, but in most store they only sold airy fluffy crappy bread which most of us Norwegians would not even touch.
It's especially hard to have celiac's here in Norway.... There is so much deliscious bread and baked goods everywhere! It's even harder to get diagnosed at age 25, and get told to never touch all that yummy bread ever again.
I remember during the world Cup 1998 in France, Norway brought its own flour from Norway and as well as some norwegian bakers to prepare nowegian style breads. After 2 days most of the norwegian team prefered the french breads to the norwegian ones prepared by their own bakers. The whole norwegian-bread-show made many french journalists smile quite lot.
Norwegian here, I stopped eating bread this year. Oatmeal with milk is quicker and healthier for getting those fibers :)
Also, I generally don't eat breakfast or lunch, just warm dinner and some fruit and oatmeal for supper in the evening.
Pålegg = spread
Norwegians bread doesn't have sugar, usually..but all kinds of nutrient grains, so it's good for You ☺️
Sort of, pålegg is a wider term then spread is.
@@Luredreier it's the best translation I could find, and it gets the mening out there...
I think both open sandwich and sandwich are normal. We use open sandwich with ham and chess but also for sandwich witch we toast. It all depends on what you are in the mood for. And where you're at. If you are at school atleast younger kids may get sandwich so they dont spill. Or maybe not a "topping". at home you can have a plate and "dress" up the open ended sandwich (withc we call bread slice (brødskive) And we normally dont call it any diffrent unless we Toast it or make it into a sandwich. So pannini would be a form of "toast" to us. pålegg btw is anything we have on the bread, cheese ham, nutella etc. guess closest direct translation is "lay on"
På means "on" and pålegg means on bread - everything you can put on the bread!
My dad's most common reply when mom asks what to do for dinner: "We can just have slices of bread" (no joke, that really is a common reply from him, lol)
i have always had bread everyday of the week my entire life. i always just assumed that the entire world also ate bread.
Norwegian here, I went to USA many years ago but i still remember clearly the difference of the breads.
I've always been buying and grew up on the cheapest breads (so not the healthiest but standard fine) so i didn't originally have any criteria when I was gonna buy bread in USA... UNTIL i went into the american grocery stores looking for one.
When looking for bread one of my first thoughts were "why is there so much white bread? where are the normal ones?" and then proceeding picking out one that looks the closest to normal and reading on the package what it contains; "it has sugar in it? WHY IS IT SO MUCH SUGAR?" then proceeding reading all the packages and choosing the bread with least sugar in it.
Got to the place I was crashing in, and was looking forward to make a sandwich. And let me tell you; despite being the super sweet tooth I am, the bread was so sweet and sickening to me that i couldn't eat it.
In kiddie school and highschool you have to bring your own food to school here in Norway.
Danes have the same tradition with a matpakke, but the Danes usually eat Rye bread. Most white bread in Denmark is wrapped in plastic bags and does not taste good. Like rubber. The Swedes prefer hot meals. Norwegian bread is healthy, fresh baked, tasty and comes in a lot of different varieties. Norway is a great bread country. I just love Norwegian bread.❤️❤️❤️
BGood nordic bread with for exsample ham and chees is a good combo to stay full and get all you need for your helth.
I bake my bread myself , love it..
On the West Coust where I come from, a "double Sandwich" is regarded slightly vulgar. It is what you make and wrap in paper and carry in your jacketpocket
when working in the woods or on the fields and need some nourishment on the spot. (called "Blings" in Norw, not a complemetary term.)
Sandwihes (Smoerbroed in Norw.) fall into 3 categories:
1. Blings.
2. Smoerbroed, (Open Sw) single slice of bread with topping, meat cheese, pickeld herring smoked salmond, or tasty combinations not all mentioned here.
Making tasty & decorative O Sw is almost considered an art.
3. Tall Sandwiches. (Hoeye smoerbroed) What you get in restaurants and high end cafeterias; they are always eaten with knife and fork.
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Pålegg = topping (in simple terms)
Pålegg is a collective term for food products that are placed on top of a slice of bread, a crispbread, or similar. Common pålegg include jam, cheese, and cold cuts. Pålegg is derived from 'to lay on,' (å legge på) referring to the function of the food product, which is to lay it on bread, thus defining what pålegg is.
I know you’ve got a bit stuck on some of the pastes and spreadables, but it can be anything from ham, chicken, jam, cheese, banana … whatever… it’s not just pastes or pâtés. People also might eat bread as a side for their dinner some days, whether it is to soup, salads, or as garlic bread etc. or foreign breads such as pitas, naan etc.
I think it was Negley Farson who wrote: "American bread; you can pee on it, you can let your dog play with it, but you can't eat it."
Ah, I’ve also seen that discussion on Reddit, and I answered too. I don’t eat bread every day. And bread isn’t only bread, if you know what I mean. I see a lot of folks have commented on this video as well. I often make a salad for lunch, or make some soup. I really like coocking stuff , and as I’m living on my own , I don’t have to make a lot, (as I hate throwing away food) as it’s only for 1 person.
we also have whitebread, but its not considered "food"
Bread is very healthy and good for health and digestion. Especially coarse bread...lots of fibre.
At work I usually never bring bread. If I bring lunch it is usually something warm to microwave, or like a salad. But many still eat their hour old matpakke like they have no love for fresh nice food, but the matpakke-generation is fading away. Slowly but surely. Its a poor mans lunch in my opinion, for someone who find no enjoyment in the little things in life. Like a tasty and fresh meal (and sometimes hot). If not I buy like a sandwich with cheese and ham, or roastbeef, chicken mayo, or something warm from the cantina. I enjoy bread very much, but im kinda picky and I like it fresh no matter the if it is fine loaf or darker bread with seeds, so I pre-slice all bread at the store and freeze it and only take out the slices that Im gonna eat for that particular meal, usually within 15 min. Always fresh bread. I love norwegian culture in many ways, but I think a saggy old matpakke (you can absolutely make good ones though) is just a sad thing and enjoy a little extra enjoyment. It may cost 7$ it in is well worth the money in my opinion.
You got to understand that when American think bread its white bread with hardly any value to it. And when Scandinavians talk bread to have for 95% of their meals they talk ryebread aka rugbrød. And those 2 things are so different that you might as well try and compare t bone steaks with ice cream. They both go in your mouth, but thats where the similarities end. They dint even have the same feel, taste or benefits, so a bit pointless to try and understand if you haven't had them. Im always up for some white bread specially if its English brwad loke Hovis or Kingsmill or whatever. But rugbrød takes a Special kind of mood for me. I only buy it once or twice a year thats how different the texture and taste is. Even after being in Denmark since i was 3 years old, its still something that i hardly want to eat. Thats not a thing with white bread. So i dont even see them as the same thing. But once in a blue moon i get the need for a rugbrødsmad with german bierwurst and remoulade all over, and then i get it. Or a karrysild aka herring with curry..and some rugbrød always around Christmas for some reason. I have even been know for having pikantost on rugbrød when im really fucked up.. i havent turned into my counsins that had ostemad med syltetøj or rullepølse med syltetøj since they was 5 years old. I guess im just too English to get the cravings like a dane. But ita dead good when you do have it. And lets not forget Roastbeef and ristede løg and remoulade on newly bought rugbrød.. yummy. But only because i dont have it once a month. 😊
I'm from Norway and I really hate bread in general. It is even this thing in Norway called cafes where they serve bread with some stuff in between and they sell it for over 10$. It is crazy to me
Yes we eat a lot of bread, from childhood. Myself I dont eat white bread only oat bread for breakfast, lunch, supper. 1,5 slices each meal with various spread like fish, cheese, liver paté, caviar, egg, slices of various meat etc. Hot meal for dinner with much vegetables. Fish, seafood, white meat. Rarly red meat as I dont like it that much😊
Bread with spread are easy and fast. Sometime ive had it for dinner😅 You can do so much with it. But i would normally just have it once a day. Ekstra tired amd sick or something i eat more🤪
more normal to have openface, we give klappskive (clap slice) or sandwitch to children going out to play and want food with them. one slice of bread with some topping and fold it in two, that is what i got when i was a kid. Oh how i miss those times
I am both norwegian and french, and I can assure that -by far- french bakeries really sell much better breads than the norwegian ones. Therefore, as a french/norwegian I am not crazy about norwegians breads and/or pastries. Maybe, if I would have not known the french alternatives I would have thought differently about norwegian breads. Where I say we (norwegians) are really excellent at, is definitively fish.
Johnny Harris made two great videos related to this subject: "How the US Ruined Bread" and "Why Americans Eat Dessert for Breakfast".
Schools usually do not have cafeterias
Yup yup! Bread all day
I never put two slices together . One slice with pålegg (pålegg = what you put on like cheese, ham and different other thinks )
Norwegian bread is really really good. Thats why people eat it imo
Norwegians has the best bread in the world.
Bread in Norway, isn't particulartly good. There are many countries with vay better bread. In Europe we probably have the worst.
I love our breads, but saying that we got the best breads just isn't true.
The Germans have slightly better breads then us I'd say.
But I definitely believe that we beat anything descending from the Roman empire, be it from the anglophone world or the Latin world.
I'm not familiar enough with Slavic breads to comment on those.
I got pre-diabetes and actually removed bread from my diet until I found protein breads. Basically has the feel of regular Norwegian whole bread, but with much lower carb count. If I where to eat American white bread I would probably just die :S
Sidenote: We also eat bread with dinner. It might be less common now, but it was very common to always serve bread with most dinners back in the day, especially with soups or stews. It was uncommon to not find bread served as a side. However, with taco/pizza culture that died down, at least with such dishes.
I usually have bread when I eat soup, or Lapskaus..
The School was NOT responsible for food. Its about tradition, and what farmers did. Vegetables was a vert rare thing.
What you call white bread is not considered to be bread in Norway. We do not use sugar for making bread either. We often use wholegrain in bread, seldom oatmeal, but sometimes a mix, but oatmeal is never the main ingredient.
I am from Norway and i am iting bred at al mens bat diner
I eat bread for breakfast and supper:)
Å/å is pronounced as an english O. The o in port, to be specific. So pålegg would be "polegg" instead of "palegg".
"Loaf of bread" => LOFF 🤔
Think it originated from Norwegian Americans.
Note that white bread (loff) is seldom sweet in Norway.
Sugar in bread was/is used around holidays (xmas) and special occations, it's not supposed to be everyday food.
God morgen☀️ her blir det rugbrød med ost og skinke nam nam ❤
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Definitely one slice of bread.
My mother made only rye bread.
Only norwegian bread i eat is my wifes. Love warm food/ meat/ fish/ eggs etc
Norway have Industrial bread, not much fresh bread baked on the bakery at the same night.
Bread bought in shops in Norway is baked overnight, but the dough is made industrially in large quantities, frozen and thawed slowly before baking. (Google "Ahh, - duften av nybakt brød på hjørnet!" by Opplysningskontoret for brød og korn). Those breads are in the ultra-processed category. Bread that ends up in this category usually contains the additives E300, E471, E472, enzymes and wheat gluten. For more information, google "Brød er fortsatt sunt og bærekraftig" from "Baker og konditorbransjens landsforening. In the same article you can read (in Norwegian): - If you buy bread in the local artisan bakery, the probability is high that the bread will be in the category processed, not ultra-processed. In artisan bakeries that bake using traditional methods, the bread is made from water, flour, yeast and salt. Many bakeries also use sourdough instead of yeast. In the artisanal bakeries, the doughs often have a long shelf life, and additives are not necessary in the same way as in the industrial bakeries.
This applies if you do not buy "store-baked bread", which is not fresh. They arrive at the store half-baked in molds, probably frozen. This applies for less than 10% of bread sold in Norway.
It can also be mentioned that many Norwegians still bake their own bread at home.
I bake my own bread, i really wish i could make you a good norwegian sandwich 🤗
Norwegians aboslutely do NOT eat bread for "most meals"" outside of dinner, breakfast yes, lunch, quite often, especially as kids, but nobody I know is eating bread all the time.
Personally I`ll have bread and spread for breakfast about half the time, and something like 4 Korn, a grain mixture, with milk and either strawberry jam, banana or berries.
With regards to lunch I tend to go with hot meals outside of summer, and when it`s hot I`ll get a chicken salad or a baguette (which is bread yep).
This whole bread for everything except dinner is just nonsense imho.
I've always wanted to know, what is the average American diet in a day? What do they eat as average? 🤔
You have to eat bland so you don't become spoiled. If you start eating salads or hot meals each day, you'll end up spending 7-10 $ for lunch every day.
99.999% of the people eat slices of bread with spread on top. The double sandwich thing is something people only eat if they happen to be Americans or something. And we always eat them cold. Toasted bread is very uncommon.