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[–] 117 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (58 children)

Ironically, the most popular frozen pizza in Norway, Grandiosa, is considered something of a national dish. It's also one of the worst frozen pizzas you'll ever try, and is mainly popular only because of nostalgia.

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  • [–] 34 points 1 year ago (49 children)

    I don't know what it says about me and my love for pizza, but your comment makes me want to try it even more.

    I've tried many a bad pizza, but I've yet to find one inedible, and that makes me curious.

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  • [–] 34 points 1 year ago* (20 children)

    Mmmm apparently this is a Grandiosa. I’d eat that.

    Looks like a Celeste frozen pizza. Ate those when we were poor and broke. I buy Screamin’ Silician nowadays, but the Celeste supreme one is still one of my guilty pleasures lol no joke.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    I was going to say, that's Celeste pizza if I've ever seen it. Which I get the nostalgia for. So bad, but even just seeing that photo is making me want what is essentially a large cracker with cheese on it.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    It’s like Taco Bell for pizza😂

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (27 children)

    It's definitely not inedible. It's just incredibly bland. Like most other Norwegian cuisine, unfortunately.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I made some sort of Norwegian dish for my ex (she's Vietnamese, comes into play later) that she really wanted and missed from when she visited Norway. It was a casserole consisting of potatoes, cream, pickled Herring, and ground black pepper. Like, I'm pretty sure that's every ingredient that went into this thing. I'm not even sure if there was any cheese or salt.

    I thought I screwed up somewhere because it was not good. She loved it because it was so bland and apparently I made it perfectly. I do not understand how she could go from eating food like bun bo hue to whatever the hell I made and enjoy it.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (22 children)

    That's kind of sad. Is there some Norwegian food that you would recommend? I don't know if I've ever had anything specifically from there.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (21 children)

    Brunost, brown cheese, which is something of an acquired taste. Cherry cheese. Tubed caviar, which is not the fancy gourmet dish you'd expect from the name. Offhand that's what comes to mind about uniquely Norwegian stuff.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago* (7 children)

    This kind of shit, alone, should be enough of an argument in favor of multicultralism...

    I'm sure they're fine, but just reading the things you just listed made me lose my appetite lol

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    It's not a great list, but alot has been left out.

    We also have, sheep and cabbage, lye-fish, whale, and blood pudding boiled in milk.

    You know what, yeah I'll go get a Döner.

    Luckily we are a pretty multicultural society at least in the cities and everyone has brought their delicious foods over. Shame that were so sensitive to spice that some people think salt is to spicy :D

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    I knew a guy from Norway on a hostel in Argentina, I asked him what was their national dish and he told me that frozen pizza. I didn't believe him and forced to give me a Real answer and he show me the Wikipedia article of some fish buried on snow for 3 months.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Hah! Lutefisk, yet another dish that exists today purely for nostalgia. It would also probably fail every food safety test in existence today if it wasn't grandfathered in.

    For those not in the know, it's fish preserved in lye, which is an extremely toxic substance. Preparing the dish involves cooking it for long enough to fully neutralise the lye, and any failure to fully do so results in poisoning, which can range from mild to extremely serious. I also hate to imagine what byproducts might be left behind as a result of the lye.

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    [–] 46 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Good title: Norway Eats The Most Pizza

    Bad title: You won't believe which country eats the most pizza!

    Ragebait title written by and for idiots: This skinny people country eats more than this fatty people country!

    Please don't consume shitty media folks. It exists because you consume it.

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    [–] 35 points 1 year ago (15 children)
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    [–] 28 points 1 year ago (20 children)

    Can attest. Just visited Norway and although I wanted to eat authentic Norwegian cuisine, pizza was everywhere. Easier to find than seafood and I was staying in a port city.

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    [–] 25 points 1 year ago (7 children)
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    [–] 19 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    Which is crazy because pizza I'm Norway is not that good

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    [–] 19 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Is it just a vehicle for eating fish with your hands though?

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    [–] 17 points 1 year ago

    We Italians eat too much pasta to be able to top the pizza rankings!

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Can you call it pizza, though? If it has kebab, and shrimp, and banana, and peanuts, and mayonnaise is it actually a pizza, or is it simply a scattering of food on a plate that happens to be made of bread?

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    #2 is my house

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    maybe that's why they're so happy

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Is it because they are rich and dont want to cook?

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I don't think Norwegians are rich; just happy. I think they're secure - food security, healthcare security, general safety, no lynching of gay people - in ways that other countries (ohai America and Somalia) may think is the kind of security only afforded to the very rich.

    So, in this case, the people of Norway may appear rich to people who don't have their basic needs covered, and it may be an enviable state to be in, just to be free of the daily worry and grind for the most basic of needs, but I'm sure the average Norwegian doesn't identify as rich, and is not in a position to understand how well they have it in comparison to other countries.

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    [–] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    When it's cold AF you love turning on the oven. My family eats crazy pizza, but not in the summer. The take out places near me aren't great. Of course cold places love pizza!

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    [–] 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Ok WHAT. What do Italians eat then?

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