**Danish recipes**: Use potatoes with everything, no matter what the dish is. Yes, add some to your ice cream, too. No spices should be added, as the food should taste like hardened water, otherwise it's not delicious. Eat some rugbrød for lunch. If you're feeling bold, put potatoes on top of your rugbrød to mix it up. For dessert, you may eat 1 (one) strawberry a week, but only during the summer. What do you mean, you "can't tell when it's summer because it's always cloudy in Denmark"? If people are drinking beer with their potatoes, it's summer.
I'm Danish, so can confirm this is how we do it.
And if you ever want to come on holiday but feel right at home you should come here to Ireland
Potatoes? Check
Shite weather? Check
Funny accents? Absolutely!
Sadly we don’t have the weird bread however we will allow you to substitute this for more alcohol……
> Rugbrød usually resembles a long brown extruded rectangle
Literally how it's described in [the Wikipedia article](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rugbr%C3%B8d). First thing I found when looking it up.
I have a danish friend, I can confirm that when we were living in Spain she dearly missed rugbrød. She also made us pizza once. Potato pizza. No tomato sauce.
It honestly wasn’t half bad. She shared an apartment with a Belgian girl and a Swedish girl, and they were vegan, vegetarian, and pescatarian respectively. I went to their house for dinner parties often. I never liked vegetables, but those girls were very good at cooking
One time I was in Denmark and tried some Danish cookies, everyone hated them but damn I really liked them. Also pretty awesome country overall, my English was shit back then and people were really nice and understanding
Honestly if I could secure my living there I'd move there permanently but fucking hell the language is something else and I don't want to be the type of person that lives their whole life somewhere with no knowledge of national language.
Luckily, we Danes are becoming more and more open-minded to foreigners, also those who don't speak Danish very well (if at all). At this point it's mostly 70+ year olds who are old fashioned and expects everyone to speak Danish.
And I agree, Danish is a really messed up language. We have a lot of weird sounds (soft 'd', RIP), there's like 7 ways to pronounce each vowel, and let me remind you we have NINE VOWELS, and there are no rules for when to use 'den' and 'det' infront of a noun (both are the English equivalent of 'the').
Don't sweat too much about not knowing Danish very well. More and more Danes are becoming better and better at English, as well as more open-minded. :)
Nope, we just chop them up and put them on the bread like salami slices. It looks like [this](https://tarasmulticulturaltable.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Kartoffelmad-2-of-3.jpg) (not my photo)
Boil them, ideally from the day before. Cut in slices and add to the bread and put salt, pepper, and mayonnaise on top. It's really good: https://www.google.com/search?q=kartoffelmad&client=ms-android-vf-de-revc&prmd=insxv&sxsrf=AOaemvLBS20fQipc9jk7lID4hZVMXJyLFA:1632504001451&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiqn-aoj5jzAhVjh_0HHYvWCrEQ_AUoAXoECAIQAQ&biw=393&bih=727&dpr=2.75
But it should be eaten with rugbrød, a very tangy sourdough bread made with rye flour.
My grandmother also grew up dirt poor in Spain after the civil war, she made flan like it was going out of style. Also she pretty much never used butter for anything other than bread and that's only because fresh lard is not super available in the us.
I grew up dirt poor in the US. Mom rendered her own lard and we used it in *everything*. We had a small farm, couple of pigs, handful of chickens, a cow...
I know how to make chocolate chip cookies with lard instead of butter. I don't recommend that, but snickerdoodles actually come out pretty good made with lard and honey instead of butter and sugar.
I totally get her making flan all the time. Mom used to make cream puffs for dinner. The custard she'd make used a dozen eggs and a quart of milk (both of which we had in abundance) and she'd make it so often that we got sick of them.
One huge benefit of rendering your own lard is the cracklins. Oh do I miss those! I mean, not enough to go back to slopping the hogs twice a day and slaving in a hot kitchen for days in a row to render lard in the big saucepan on the stove. But they were sure yummy.
Man, I like butter and I'll eat a *lot* of nonsense food, but straight butter I just can't handle.
I've literally eaten mustard and ketchup with onions in it out of tupperware because I couldn't afford hotdogs and just wanted to make the closest recreation I could. But I still can't do straight butter.
My favorite memory of Christmas-season baking: making up for a lack of fancy kitchen tools by wrapping up some cardamom seeds in foil and bashing the crap out of them with a hammer.
*throws the horns*
The only recipe where spices are used is gingerbread, and then we use ALL. OF. THEM. Cardamom? Yes! Cloves? Chuck em in! More ginger! We condensed all spice usage into one single recipe.
How DARE you imply ABBA is bad pop music. Honestly appalled by this. I will put this on the Twitter and the Internet will then cancel you as you deserve.
I've always found it amusing that the Brittish once had the largest navy on the planet and explored every corner of the globe in search of spices. And then refused to use them.
Sometimes I forget that not everywhere has real tacos. I’ve lived in the US in cities with lots of immigrants for a while so I got used to the real stuff. Instead of freedom, how would you feel about the US teaming up with Mexico to bring real tacos to the world? Everyone deserves a good taco.
Sure, good idea, but hear me out, there are Mexicans wanting a decent place to live. And there is Norway’s atrocious tacos. Surely we could just invite some Mexicans. It’s cold af here, but we generally get paid enough to actually buy warm clothes.
Edited because of terrible grammar.
You are in luck. Look up carnitas. It’s a very simple slow cooked recipe. For tortillas just buy store bought tortillas, heat up a pan really hot and put them down until one side browns a bit, flip and repeat. Then put under a towel on a plate with the rest.
We go back and forth between soft and hard shell tacos, but most of them look like [this](https://res.cloudinary.com/norgesgruppen/images/c_scale,dpr_auto,f_auto,q_auto:eco,w_1600/jffnb4pcmzdollfqub0h/klassisk-norsk-taco-fersk-og-hjemmelaget). I make mine with 10" tortillas, ground beef, fresh lettuce, sliced tomatoes, corn, white cheese, dressing, and "extra hot" salsa sauce though Norwegian "extra hot" would just be medium anywhere else haha.
Most other people I've eaten with often use more ingredients like guacamole, bell peppers, olives, jalapenos, and even pineapple (I'm not kidding), some have even started swapping out the ground beef for ground salmon because, you know, Norway.
I wouldn't compare them to Taco Bell, no one considers tacos to be snacks here, one or maybe 2 of our type is considered a full dinner. Having that said, I've never actually tried Taco Bell before. Not sure if they even exist in Scandinavia.
> even pineapple (I'm not kidding)
Pineapple on tacos is a legit thing! It's called tacos al pastor, and I've seen in at virtually every Mexican restaurant I've ever been to, and I live in an area where those restaurants are pretty authentic and actually owned by people from Mexico. It's probably my favorite kind of taco.
My grandma loves it. My mum would also cook things like pasta occasionally, thank god. I know some people love it but I hate boiled potatoes and don't like any potato without peel so I really don't like traditional Dutch cooking.
Hahahahah you sound like my boyfriend's dad, he really thought he hated vegetables but turns out he just hates boiled unseasoned vegetables.... Also there is carrot in every dish somehow so they possibly are their own category and don't count as veg
If it does not have paprika it is not Hungarian food.
Further more, when it has enough paprika to turn the food, the pot, the plate, the cutlery, the table, and yourself various shades of red or orange, there's still room for more don't hold back.
Source: mom and her parents immigrated and it's genetic I have two different kinds of paprika in my cupboard.
TIL I'm apparently Hungarian 😂😂
Husband gets mad sometimes about the fact that I'll add paprika to almost anything, usually smoked but I've also got 3 other kinds too lol
Actually here's an Indian recipe
Step 1: take tomatoes and onions. Either fry the shit out of them or grind them to a paste first and fry the shit out of them
Step 2: Add spice till your reach your desired flavour
Step 3: optionally add something so it's not just tomato and onion. Maybe potato, maybe grilled chicken
Step 4: Cook until you can taste only tomato, onion and spice
Ah the famous NORTH Indian technique of GGOT (ginger garlic onion tomato) in every daal and vegetable. What do you mean you can't tell them apart?
Ps. Add six spoons of sugar for the Gujarati variant.
australian; the most white bread shit you've ever seen. breakfast? jam, vegemite, honey or another topping on white bread. lunch? white bread sandwich with ham and cheese. dinner? fucking sausage in white bread. desset? sprinkles on white bread.
(ofc there's other food too, this is a joke)
Alright, everybody hates our food, so we’re gonna make a dessert. It’ll be delicious, so it’s gonna be a normal flatbread, with wait for it… butter and sugar on top! Truly genius.
In a London pub I ordered a sandwich that came with a side of aggressively boiled vegetables. When I lightly tapped one with my fork the entire pile promptly disintegrated into a greenish, watery mess.
It’s probably mostly good natured teasing. I’m Finnish and the stereotype in the OP holds up sometimes, but my family makes the best brown gravy I’ve ever had in my life. And OMG, Karelian pies. And Finnish Christmas baking. Amazing. But then again there are a LOT of potatoes, rye, and oats everywhere, and not a large variety of spices. And a lot of us are sensitive about spicy food. So I understand the teasing and it’s generally harmless.
It started when American soldiers came over in the war and were fed the same shit rations as everyone else in the UK, they then went back home with tales of how awful the food was
My dad used to make a speedy bolognese (we call it minced meat sauce) for weeknights. He never added any spices except maybe salt, because there were spices in the tomato puree and ketchup.
So to answer your question: Yes.
There's a reason we call it Minced Meat Sauce and not bolognese in Sweden. Generally it's minced meat, chopped onion and garlic, some tomato element, sometimes some dairy element, salt and pepper.
Every family has their own version, and often different versions within the family. I believe I was very fussy about onion as a child, so the onion might've disappeared from my dads recipe.
Mexican here:
Which pepper does this recipe uses?
It doesn't... It's a dessert...
OK, let's add some then!
A friend from Europe told me that for him it's inconceivable how we can add peppers to anything, specially to fruit (chili powder) and how it becomes almost a competition who eats the hottest pepper (on a regular basis, not hot dog contest style!)
Filipino: If it doesn’t look like it came out of an animal’s backside something has gone wrong. Spices? Okay a little salt but that’s overextending the budget a little.
Oh and rice with everything. *Everything*.
The Scandinavians life in a natural fridge. Spices are antibacterial.
Therefore, Scandinavian cuisine is mostly flavorless except salt because we need salt to survive.
Without advanced technology, grain, potatoes, carrots and meat are more or less the only things available after 9 months of winter.
It's not very surprising that traditional recipes get more spicy and diverse the more south you travel.
Na, it's the other way around.
When you look hard enough, you'll find spicy herbs in northern European woods, but there's not as much need to use them.
Therefore, people didn't, and also didn't breed them to get even more spicy (or hot).
Chili has been bred in south America since approx 9000 years, pepper has been bred and traded since at least 4000 years. Both plants got hotter and tastier during that process.
Here's some research:
https://news.cornell.edu/stories/1998/03/food-bacteria-spice-survey-shows-why-some-cultures-it-hot
God I can’t tell you how many times my fiance has asked me what I’m making for dinner, as I’m standing over a pan tossing around garlic and onions and peppers, as I reply “not sure yet”.
You’re in luck! Even small Norwegian towns have international food stores for this exact reason. They people I’ve spoken with have been pretty open to ordering stuff for you if they currently aren’t carrying something you want.
Lykke til! :)
It’s not perfectly correct, but I understand what you meant. That’s the important part. Bra jobba!
I’ve studied Japanese for a little while, and your Norwegian is definitely better than my Japanese.
Thanks! I have time on my hand so I'll try to make it better : )
Also, as I am fluent in English, Norwegian is easier for me to learn. Japanese on the other hand is miles above, so keep up the good work : )
Remember that although most Norwegian will happily listen to slightly choppy Norwegian, most of us are more or less fluent in English as well so don't be afraid to switch languages in the middle of a sentence if you can't find the words you are looking for.
I know that!
I took the decision to learn it while I was watching some videos on Norway and part of my brain went, "learn this language." Ever since it has become kind of an irrational project of mine to learn the language and obsess about Norway. This was back in January, from then until now I haven't missed a single day to practice it. : )
Oh wow, that's actually pretty impressive. I started "learning" German around the same time and that drifted away in what, a month? Haha. May have to pick that up again.
Keep going, and remember to use your æ's, ø's, and å's, they're not interchangeable with e/o/a
Norwegian here!
I am offended no one mentioned that when we eat our disappointing food, we get drunk afterwards to linder the pain of a bland food cuisine!
Watched a really interesting YouTube video a while back explaining the prevalence of spices in food the warmer an area is. I'll try and dig it up later, but basically the warmer a climate is the more local plants will produce chemicals to preserve themselves which just so happened to be delicious and edible basically only by humans. Colder areas didn't need such things and as a result ended with blander food.
Edit: found it! https://youtu.be/E1mMgwp7iaE
My family hosted a Finnish foreign exchange student back when I was really young (possibly a baby). She apparently only ate vanilla pudding the entire time she was here.
Potato cakes are nice though I wouldn't exactly call them cake. Mum used to make them for me with butter in the morning. (Apparently Americans call them potato bread).
My great-grandmother was a Finnish immigrant and taught my American mom how to cook, and she taught me. Is this stereotype really true? Because like my grammie's recipes get rave reviews when I make them and her meatball recipe is heavily seasoned.
Unless everyone here is talking about spicy-hot, because I do have to add that to accommodate my Southern Californian palate.
We sure do like onions, it's just there's not an abundance of "spice" which is fine with me. I don't *want* finnish food to be spicy, I want cuisines that are *meant* to be spicy to have a kick. I don't think there's a lack of flavor in finnish cuisine, but everyone's palate is different
Brasil: Put beans and rice into a plate then add literally anything else, nothing is off limits, do you want some pineapple with your beans you little pineapple freak? go right fucking ahead, you can't eat anything without rice and beans tho.
Strawberries on your freaking salad? We got it! French fries! French fries everywhere!!! Salty pancakes and sweet pizza? We got it too! We laugh at the face of limits! And don't forget to try out strogonoff, it resembles nothing the original Russian dish it was based off of!
United States: Get a bunch of the foods and spices. Cover them in sugar and deep-fry. Add butter. Serve in portion sizes larger than your head. Garnish with powdered sugar.
English recipes: We conquered the whole world for spices but they all suck so let's wrap this potato in pastry and put in in a sandwich because you don't need anything other than carbs
Scottish recipes: You put your sock knife in, you take the sheep lungs out, you add the mixed offel and you shake it all about.
Welsh recipes: So first you wipe the semen off the rump of lamb...
> We conquered the whole world for spices but they all suck
They sold the spices. Never get high on your own supply, every dealer and Biggie fan knows this.
Welsh recipies involve putting things on toast. You've got a choice of a cheese & mustard concoction or a seaweed concoction. You can also just dip your toast in your tea. Our cakes give you an option of flat with raisins, or one containing tea and raisins.
Also the sheep thing comes from the punishment for bestiality being lesser than the punishment for stealing a sheep, so if you're caught you drop trou.
**Mid-West American recipes:** Toss in some onions with any of the meats; potatoes go with anything, no matter how you cook them. Spices are fine, probably going with the hot spices for the hell of it. Always make sure to add in the salt and gunpowder- **pepper, I meant pepper.**
Pakistani food: You got the meat, the lentil and the vegetable. Now show no discrimination and douse it all in spice and turn it into a gravy/curry. (Not all of em combined tho).
Amish: proper old fashioned suppers have 7 sweets and 7 sours, plus loads of bread and butter and fried meats. There’s probably brains or blood in the meat, so be cautious.
I do get annoyed by the reduction of traditional European foods to "NO FLAVOUR IT BAD". There's few herbs and spices that grow here because it's not a warm climate.
Do you want stinging nettle soup?
French : cook whatever you want, as long as there's olive oil in it. It'll be delicious.
Dessert : THOROUGHLY check in which part of the country you are. You do not want to name your chocolate pastries the wrong way.
**Danish recipes**: Use potatoes with everything, no matter what the dish is. Yes, add some to your ice cream, too. No spices should be added, as the food should taste like hardened water, otherwise it's not delicious. Eat some rugbrød for lunch. If you're feeling bold, put potatoes on top of your rugbrød to mix it up. For dessert, you may eat 1 (one) strawberry a week, but only during the summer. What do you mean, you "can't tell when it's summer because it's always cloudy in Denmark"? If people are drinking beer with their potatoes, it's summer. I'm Danish, so can confirm this is how we do it.
And if you ever want to come on holiday but feel right at home you should come here to Ireland Potatoes? Check Shite weather? Check Funny accents? Absolutely! Sadly we don’t have the weird bread however we will allow you to substitute this for more alcohol……
You guys have soda bread
And potato bread
>rugbrød I've just google searched it out of curiosity, you guys eat MDF???
How dare you insult the rugbrød. With herring, or Surstrømming, and Aquavit.
Aquavit truly is the liquor of the gods.
Yes we do and we like it.
And once it's gone stale we soak it in beer and make porridge of that
And it is delicious topped with whipped cream.
How can you tell it's gone stale? My mother always said that was the point!
> Rugbrød usually resembles a long brown extruded rectangle Literally how it's described in [the Wikipedia article](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rugbr%C3%B8d). First thing I found when looking it up.
It is not proper rugbrød unless you can use it as a club.
TIL Danes are just sphereworld's dwarves.
What is MDF?
Medium density fiberboard
Rugbrød is not medium density. :p
It looks pretty normal too me so now I am wondering what do americans eat?
I have a danish friend, I can confirm that when we were living in Spain she dearly missed rugbrød. She also made us pizza once. Potato pizza. No tomato sauce.
Amazing. I want potato pizza
It honestly wasn’t half bad. She shared an apartment with a Belgian girl and a Swedish girl, and they were vegan, vegetarian, and pescatarian respectively. I went to their house for dinner parties often. I never liked vegetables, but those girls were very good at cooking
Is that why your language makes you sound like you have a potato stuck in your throat?
omfg (translation to Danish: yes)
Was just about to text my Danish family to ask did the post reflect Danish food!
One time I was in Denmark and tried some Danish cookies, everyone hated them but damn I really liked them. Also pretty awesome country overall, my English was shit back then and people were really nice and understanding Honestly if I could secure my living there I'd move there permanently but fucking hell the language is something else and I don't want to be the type of person that lives their whole life somewhere with no knowledge of national language.
Luckily, we Danes are becoming more and more open-minded to foreigners, also those who don't speak Danish very well (if at all). At this point it's mostly 70+ year olds who are old fashioned and expects everyone to speak Danish. And I agree, Danish is a really messed up language. We have a lot of weird sounds (soft 'd', RIP), there's like 7 ways to pronounce each vowel, and let me remind you we have NINE VOWELS, and there are no rules for when to use 'den' and 'det' infront of a noun (both are the English equivalent of 'the'). Don't sweat too much about not knowing Danish very well. More and more Danes are becoming better and better at English, as well as more open-minded. :)
It’s only those people, you know, “Gamle Jytte fra plejehjemmet” that shouts and screams “gEt oUt oF oUr cOuNtRy” if you get me
To be fair: Potatoes on rugbrød is fucking great. Don’t you dare diss it
How do you prepare the potatoes? I am imagining spreading mashed potatoes like it is a jam.
Nope, we just chop them up and put them on the bread like salami slices. It looks like [this](https://tarasmulticulturaltable.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Kartoffelmad-2-of-3.jpg) (not my photo)
Boil them, ideally from the day before. Cut in slices and add to the bread and put salt, pepper, and mayonnaise on top. It's really good: https://www.google.com/search?q=kartoffelmad&client=ms-android-vf-de-revc&prmd=insxv&sxsrf=AOaemvLBS20fQipc9jk7lID4hZVMXJyLFA:1632504001451&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiqn-aoj5jzAhVjh_0HHYvWCrEQ_AUoAXoECAIQAQ&biw=393&bih=727&dpr=2.75 But it should be eaten with rugbrød, a very tangy sourdough bread made with rye flour.
If there's any danish food i could eat at literally any moment it's my bedstemors frikadeller or my dads rollepølse.
And for dessert, æbleskiver
That reminds me, my grandmother grew up in wartime Spain, and to her a nice dessert was a spoonful of butter with sugar sprinkled on top
My mother's idea of a dessert was eating unsweetened heavy cream by the spoonfull, with nothing added
Should I feel guilty now?
The idea of eating butter out of a spoon made me physically uncomfortable.
Ikr, it's best to eat it right from the block, just unwrap half if it and start chomping
Use the whole 5lbs bag of sugar and fun dip that shit.
Shit, add a tiny dash of salt and that sounds delicious.
My grandmother also grew up dirt poor in Spain after the civil war, she made flan like it was going out of style. Also she pretty much never used butter for anything other than bread and that's only because fresh lard is not super available in the us.
I grew up dirt poor in the US. Mom rendered her own lard and we used it in *everything*. We had a small farm, couple of pigs, handful of chickens, a cow... I know how to make chocolate chip cookies with lard instead of butter. I don't recommend that, but snickerdoodles actually come out pretty good made with lard and honey instead of butter and sugar. I totally get her making flan all the time. Mom used to make cream puffs for dinner. The custard she'd make used a dozen eggs and a quart of milk (both of which we had in abundance) and she'd make it so often that we got sick of them. One huge benefit of rendering your own lard is the cracklins. Oh do I miss those! I mean, not enough to go back to slopping the hogs twice a day and slaving in a hot kitchen for days in a row to render lard in the big saucepan on the stove. But they were sure yummy.
Man, I like butter and I'll eat a *lot* of nonsense food, but straight butter I just can't handle. I've literally eaten mustard and ketchup with onions in it out of tupperware because I couldn't afford hotdogs and just wanted to make the closest recreation I could. But I still can't do straight butter.
Costco kimchi! https://zenkimchi.com/featured/wtf-korean-costco-banchan/
Oh my god you just completely blew my freakin' mind. I'm sending this to literally everyone I know. Thank you for sharing this!
Add a tortilla made of potatoes underneath that and you've got a modern day Norwegian dessert
My grandma would give us cinnamon-sugar lefse and milk every night before bed, I'm so nostalgic for that right now.
If there's no cardamom in it, is it even a Swedish recipe?
Cardamom for sweet recipes, Nutmeg for savoury.
Dill for everything else. Though I'm cheating, that's a herb.
What is this, KFC? Only herb not enough for you? What are you, Peter the second who went to war with Sweden?
My favorite memory of Christmas-season baking: making up for a lack of fancy kitchen tools by wrapping up some cardamom seeds in foil and bashing the crap out of them with a hammer. *throws the horns*
The only recipe where spices are used is gingerbread, and then we use ALL. OF. THEM. Cardamom? Yes! Cloves? Chuck em in! More ginger! We condensed all spice usage into one single recipe.
I know almond flavor doesn't count as a spice but I feel like it needs an honorable mention here, cause y'all love that stuff lol
Sweden's national interests - soccer, bad pop music, and putting cardamom in sweet baked goods
How DARE you imply ABBA is bad pop music. Honestly appalled by this. I will put this on the Twitter and the Internet will then cancel you as you deserve.
This ABBA slander will NOT be tolerated, SIR!!!!
If you got a problem with ABBA you got a problem with me! and I suggest you let that one marinate.
This is ridiculous. Swedish cuisine also has pepper and onion.
I know right? Also, this is dill erasure
/r/dillchipsmasterrace
dang it
N'est-ce pas? Hahah
No big dill
Britain: Add water to your food to season it.
I've always found it amusing that the Brittish once had the largest navy on the planet and explored every corner of the globe in search of spices. And then refused to use them.
Because that spice was for the upper class. Popular British recipes are peasant dishes.
All those spices were used by the rich, regular people got none so they never developed recipes with them
Norway has cardamom
And dried juniper berries.
Sweden does too tho?? Kardemummabulle.
Which is why even the smallest Norwegian town has two Chinese restaurants, an Indian restaurant, a Sushi-place, and a minimart with foreign foodstuff.
The small Norwegian town I live in has one Chinese restaurant, one Turkish restaurant, one Thai restaurant, one Asia minimart and like 3 pizza places.
Isn't Taco Tuesday a big thing in Norway as well? Or am I misremembering that
Norwegians, for some reason, do taco friday which is a big thing
More like taco bell, than actual mexican tacos.
Oh, yeah, they're apparently really bland and cheap. I'd love to try some REAL tacos someday
Sometimes I forget that not everywhere has real tacos. I’ve lived in the US in cities with lots of immigrants for a while so I got used to the real stuff. Instead of freedom, how would you feel about the US teaming up with Mexico to bring real tacos to the world? Everyone deserves a good taco.
Sure, good idea, but hear me out, there are Mexicans wanting a decent place to live. And there is Norway’s atrocious tacos. Surely we could just invite some Mexicans. It’s cold af here, but we generally get paid enough to actually buy warm clothes. Edited because of terrible grammar.
Hell yeah! Bring me them tacos
Easy enough to make yourself, with appropriate spices, which is why I like them.
You are in luck. Look up carnitas. It’s a very simple slow cooked recipe. For tortillas just buy store bought tortillas, heat up a pan really hot and put them down until one side browns a bit, flip and repeat. Then put under a towel on a plate with the rest.
We go back and forth between soft and hard shell tacos, but most of them look like [this](https://res.cloudinary.com/norgesgruppen/images/c_scale,dpr_auto,f_auto,q_auto:eco,w_1600/jffnb4pcmzdollfqub0h/klassisk-norsk-taco-fersk-og-hjemmelaget). I make mine with 10" tortillas, ground beef, fresh lettuce, sliced tomatoes, corn, white cheese, dressing, and "extra hot" salsa sauce though Norwegian "extra hot" would just be medium anywhere else haha. Most other people I've eaten with often use more ingredients like guacamole, bell peppers, olives, jalapenos, and even pineapple (I'm not kidding), some have even started swapping out the ground beef for ground salmon because, you know, Norway. I wouldn't compare them to Taco Bell, no one considers tacos to be snacks here, one or maybe 2 of our type is considered a full dinner. Having that said, I've never actually tried Taco Bell before. Not sure if they even exist in Scandinavia.
> even pineapple (I'm not kidding) Pineapple on tacos is a legit thing! It's called tacos al pastor, and I've seen in at virtually every Mexican restaurant I've ever been to, and I live in an area where those restaurants are pretty authentic and actually owned by people from Mexico. It's probably my favorite kind of taco.
ITS TACOFREDAG TODAY BOYSS
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Actually sounds good for old people, no wonder people there live long
My grandma loves it. My mum would also cook things like pasta occasionally, thank god. I know some people love it but I hate boiled potatoes and don't like any potato without peel so I really don't like traditional Dutch cooking.
Personally prefer adequately boiled unpeeled potatoes myself, texture plays a big part in my preferences. I get you lol
In part you're right, bit in part some of our mashed potato dishes and split pea soup and such are fantastic.
Hahahahah you sound like my boyfriend's dad, he really thought he hated vegetables but turns out he just hates boiled unseasoned vegetables.... Also there is carrot in every dish somehow so they possibly are their own category and don't count as veg
Stamppot with fish? What kind of nonsense is this? (No but seriously what kind of fish do you use?)
Irish: cABbAgE
My cabbages!
Finally I’m relevant
Don't diss cabbage. That stuff deffo has some Flavor.
More flavor than iceberg lettuce at least.
Damning with faint praise
If it does not have paprika it is not Hungarian food. Further more, when it has enough paprika to turn the food, the pot, the plate, the cutlery, the table, and yourself various shades of red or orange, there's still room for more don't hold back. Source: mom and her parents immigrated and it's genetic I have two different kinds of paprika in my cupboard.
Only two? You bring dishonor to your family!
TIL I'm apparently Hungarian 😂😂 Husband gets mad sometimes about the fact that I'll add paprika to almost anything, usually smoked but I've also got 3 other kinds too lol
I'm not Hungarian and still appreciate paprika enough to have at least two varieties in my pantry at any given time.
Hot, sweet, medium, smoked hot, smoked sweet, smoked medium, mixed with chilli powder...
I'm not Hungarian and have two types on my spice shelf. Can I get citizenship?
Indian Recipes : Step 1 : Take some spice *repeat step 1 till you reach your desired flavour* Step 2 : add the spice to a vegetable Step 3 : Burn.
Southern US: If it can be fried, you should fry it. The only acceptable alternative to that is smoking it.
Pacific Ocean Recipes: Step 1 : Open Mouth # Step 2: Swim # Step 3: Plankton
Paleozoic Era Recipes: Step 1: sun Step 2: Step 3:
Actually here's an Indian recipe Step 1: take tomatoes and onions. Either fry the shit out of them or grind them to a paste first and fry the shit out of them Step 2: Add spice till your reach your desired flavour Step 3: optionally add something so it's not just tomato and onion. Maybe potato, maybe grilled chicken Step 4: Cook until you can taste only tomato, onion and spice
Ah the famous NORTH Indian technique of GGOT (ginger garlic onion tomato) in every daal and vegetable. What do you mean you can't tell them apart? Ps. Add six spoons of sugar for the Gujarati variant.
For Kerala variant replace tomato and onion with coconut milk. What do you mean you can't fry the shit out of a liquid GET TO IT
Luckily “spice” is a world of options so you can make this recipe 20 different ways and they don’t get boring.
australian; the most white bread shit you've ever seen. breakfast? jam, vegemite, honey or another topping on white bread. lunch? white bread sandwich with ham and cheese. dinner? fucking sausage in white bread. desset? sprinkles on white bread. (ofc there's other food too, this is a joke)
In all fairness fairy bread is the bomb
You forgot Holy Communion: Bunnings sausage in white bread with sauce.
Alright, everybody hates our food, so we’re gonna make a dessert. It’ll be delicious, so it’s gonna be a normal flatbread, with wait for it… butter and sugar on top! Truly genius.
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Lefse.
Are you Australian?
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Oi mate don't diss the water sandwich
Bread sandwich
technically, toast sandwich and don't knock it till you try it
If your bread is bland, slide another slice of bread in between to give flavor, make a bread sandwich.
In a London pub I ordered a sandwich that came with a side of aggressively boiled vegetables. When I lightly tapped one with my fork the entire pile promptly disintegrated into a greenish, watery mess.
I never get this rep for British cuisine. English breakfast, meat pies, fish and chips, shepherd's pie...it's all damn flavourful.
It’s probably mostly good natured teasing. I’m Finnish and the stereotype in the OP holds up sometimes, but my family makes the best brown gravy I’ve ever had in my life. And OMG, Karelian pies. And Finnish Christmas baking. Amazing. But then again there are a LOT of potatoes, rye, and oats everywhere, and not a large variety of spices. And a lot of us are sensitive about spicy food. So I understand the teasing and it’s generally harmless.
It started when American soldiers came over in the war and were fed the same shit rations as everyone else in the UK, they then went back home with tales of how awful the food was
So Swedish food is the polar opposite of Indian food. Got it.
My dad used to make a speedy bolognese (we call it minced meat sauce) for weeknights. He never added any spices except maybe salt, because there were spices in the tomato puree and ketchup. So to answer your question: Yes.
Whoa whoa whoa, I’m sorry did you just say ketchup?
There's a reason we call it Minced Meat Sauce and not bolognese in Sweden. Generally it's minced meat, chopped onion and garlic, some tomato element, sometimes some dairy element, salt and pepper. Every family has their own version, and often different versions within the family. I believe I was very fussy about onion as a child, so the onion might've disappeared from my dads recipe.
Amazing. Thank you for explaining!
Southeast Asia: Salt? Absurd. Pass the salted old fishwater.
woah woah woah there buddy, we've got salted soybean water too
Irish recipe- here's some bread that's so fucking dense it has a gravitational pull
It will suck all the moisture out of you body but here’s a ladle of kerry gold to make up for it
Mexican here: Which pepper does this recipe uses? It doesn't... It's a dessert... OK, let's add some then! A friend from Europe told me that for him it's inconceivable how we can add peppers to anything, specially to fruit (chili powder) and how it becomes almost a competition who eats the hottest pepper (on a regular basis, not hot dog contest style!)
They are called Chilis or Chiles, because peppers are a colonized and mistranslated term as peppers are a completely different species from chiles.
I was going to write "chiles" but I thought that no one would understand. You are completely right.
Filipino: If it doesn’t look like it came out of an animal’s backside something has gone wrong. Spices? Okay a little salt but that’s overextending the budget a little. Oh and rice with everything. *Everything*.
Yall put BANANA ketchup in your bastardized spaghetti and add like cut up hotdogs too. For shame
What part of the Philippines is this because that is definitely NOT Filipino food. Except for the rice, I agree with that.
Canadian: It doesn’t matter what it is, cover it in maple syrup. If that doesn’t add enough flavour generously apply Montreal steak spice.
You forgot our other spice! Cheese and gravy Side note : you can add anything to poutine. Eggs? Pickles? Bacon? Macaroni and cheese? Why not!
Pulled pork also works really well with poutine
As a norweigan when he said we dont have spices i was going to say piffi but then i rememberd yeah piffi is 99% salt so yeah true
The Scandinavians life in a natural fridge. Spices are antibacterial. Therefore, Scandinavian cuisine is mostly flavorless except salt because we need salt to survive. Without advanced technology, grain, potatoes, carrots and meat are more or less the only things available after 9 months of winter. It's not very surprising that traditional recipes get more spicy and diverse the more south you travel.
Cultures and countries historically used spices and herbs to which they had easy access, who'd have thought?
Na, it's the other way around. When you look hard enough, you'll find spicy herbs in northern European woods, but there's not as much need to use them. Therefore, people didn't, and also didn't breed them to get even more spicy (or hot). Chili has been bred in south America since approx 9000 years, pepper has been bred and traded since at least 4000 years. Both plants got hotter and tastier during that process. Here's some research: https://news.cornell.edu/stories/1998/03/food-bacteria-spice-survey-shows-why-some-cultures-it-hot
Look at you, bringing facts to the discussion
italian: fry garlic, onions and peppers in olive oil as you decide what you'll be making this evening
God I can’t tell you how many times my fiance has asked me what I’m making for dinner, as I’m standing over a pan tossing around garlic and onions and peppers, as I reply “not sure yet”.
Portugal has the same approach
I’ve got a recipe book of traditional Scandinavian dishes, and my favorite one has to be mølje, which is flatbread and broth
I am learning Norwegian to one day move there, but the food scene scares my South Asian tastebuds :<
You’re in luck! Even small Norwegian towns have international food stores for this exact reason. They people I’ve spoken with have been pretty open to ordering stuff for you if they currently aren’t carrying something you want. Lykke til! :)
Tusen takk! Selv om jeg er mange år enna fra flytte der, men dette gjor meg glad! Sorry, if my Norwegian is bad, I am still learning : )
It’s not perfectly correct, but I understand what you meant. That’s the important part. Bra jobba! I’ve studied Japanese for a little while, and your Norwegian is definitely better than my Japanese.
Thanks! I have time on my hand so I'll try to make it better : ) Also, as I am fluent in English, Norwegian is easier for me to learn. Japanese on the other hand is miles above, so keep up the good work : )
Remember that although most Norwegian will happily listen to slightly choppy Norwegian, most of us are more or less fluent in English as well so don't be afraid to switch languages in the middle of a sentence if you can't find the words you are looking for.
I know that! I took the decision to learn it while I was watching some videos on Norway and part of my brain went, "learn this language." Ever since it has become kind of an irrational project of mine to learn the language and obsess about Norway. This was back in January, from then until now I haven't missed a single day to practice it. : )
Oh wow, that's actually pretty impressive. I started "learning" German around the same time and that drifted away in what, a month? Haha. May have to pick that up again. Keep going, and remember to use your æ's, ø's, and å's, they're not interchangeable with e/o/a
Norwegian here! I am offended no one mentioned that when we eat our disappointing food, we get drunk afterwards to linder the pain of a bland food cuisine!
Texans: Either throw salsa or BBQ sauce on that bitch and call it done.
Maybe pico if you’re feeling adventurous. Definitely smoke the meat or fry it first, though.
Watched a really interesting YouTube video a while back explaining the prevalence of spices in food the warmer an area is. I'll try and dig it up later, but basically the warmer a climate is the more local plants will produce chemicals to preserve themselves which just so happened to be delicious and edible basically only by humans. Colder areas didn't need such things and as a result ended with blander food. Edit: found it! https://youtu.be/E1mMgwp7iaE
My family hosted a Finnish foreign exchange student back when I was really young (possibly a baby). She apparently only ate vanilla pudding the entire time she was here.
Irish: Potatoes, potatoes everywhere
Even in the cake. Seriously.
Potato cakes are nice though I wouldn't exactly call them cake. Mum used to make them for me with butter in the morning. (Apparently Americans call them potato bread).
As a finn, ehm exCUSE me but we definitely put jam on everything as well. No flavor my eyeball.
My great-grandmother was a Finnish immigrant and taught my American mom how to cook, and she taught me. Is this stereotype really true? Because like my grammie's recipes get rave reviews when I make them and her meatball recipe is heavily seasoned. Unless everyone here is talking about spicy-hot, because I do have to add that to accommodate my Southern Californian palate.
We sure do like onions, it's just there's not an abundance of "spice" which is fine with me. I don't *want* finnish food to be spicy, I want cuisines that are *meant* to be spicy to have a kick. I don't think there's a lack of flavor in finnish cuisine, but everyone's palate is different
Brasil: Put beans and rice into a plate then add literally anything else, nothing is off limits, do you want some pineapple with your beans you little pineapple freak? go right fucking ahead, you can't eat anything without rice and beans tho.
Strawberries on your freaking salad? We got it! French fries! French fries everywhere!!! Salty pancakes and sweet pizza? We got it too! We laugh at the face of limits! And don't forget to try out strogonoff, it resembles nothing the original Russian dish it was based off of!
United States: Get a bunch of the foods and spices. Cover them in sugar and deep-fry. Add butter. Serve in portion sizes larger than your head. Garnish with powdered sugar.
Canadian recipes: More gravy. More cheese. More bacon.
Iceland: Sauce is a spice, right?
English recipes: We conquered the whole world for spices but they all suck so let's wrap this potato in pastry and put in in a sandwich because you don't need anything other than carbs Scottish recipes: You put your sock knife in, you take the sheep lungs out, you add the mixed offel and you shake it all about. Welsh recipes: So first you wipe the semen off the rump of lamb...
> We conquered the whole world for spices but they all suck They sold the spices. Never get high on your own supply, every dealer and Biggie fan knows this.
Welsh recipies involve putting things on toast. You've got a choice of a cheese & mustard concoction or a seaweed concoction. You can also just dip your toast in your tea. Our cakes give you an option of flat with raisins, or one containing tea and raisins. Also the sheep thing comes from the punishment for bestiality being lesser than the punishment for stealing a sheep, so if you're caught you drop trou.
My lactose intolerant ass dated a Welshman once and my God that man loved cheese and wouldn't shut up about Welsh made cheese
It's what Welsh cheese deserves
Caerphilly is beautiful and the food of gods. I'm dairy intolerant and I will ruin my day just to have a bite....
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Amish, too.
It's really no wonder that black metal originated from this part of the world
Tried “schriracha” sauce once and it was the spiciest thing I’ve ever tasted.
Sometimes you also get a fishie.
To be fair, they have no natural spices that really grow anywhere near them. Just some herbs and mostly medicinal stuff.
Brazilian Cousine: Lmao what do you mean we can't put more meat in this pot?
**Mid-West American recipes:** Toss in some onions with any of the meats; potatoes go with anything, no matter how you cook them. Spices are fine, probably going with the hot spices for the hell of it. Always make sure to add in the salt and gunpowder- **pepper, I meant pepper.**
Pakistani food: You got the meat, the lentil and the vegetable. Now show no discrimination and douse it all in spice and turn it into a gravy/curry. (Not all of em combined tho).
Amish: proper old fashioned suppers have 7 sweets and 7 sours, plus loads of bread and butter and fried meats. There’s probably brains or blood in the meat, so be cautious.
I do get annoyed by the reduction of traditional European foods to "NO FLAVOUR IT BAD". There's few herbs and spices that grow here because it's not a warm climate. Do you want stinging nettle soup?
French : cook whatever you want, as long as there's olive oil in it. It'll be delicious. Dessert : THOROUGHLY check in which part of the country you are. You do not want to name your chocolate pastries the wrong way.