I’m surprised nobody mentioned "taco friday". Many Norwegians eat tacos and tortilla wraps on fridays, to the point that it has turned into a cultural term: tacofredag.
Any idea where this "tradition" started? Does it have anything to do with the Old El Paso brand? In Germany they have an Old El Paso commercial with the slogan "Freitag ist Fajita Tag."
I'm from Denmark and the most surprising thing for me was how early dinner is in Norway. Here i'ts normally around 6 or later in the evening, but not 4-5
I thought the same thing! What time would breakfast and lunch be? What’s the go-to-bed time? It seems all the eating takes place in the first part of the day, like a traditional version of intermittent fasting.
@@iamalmetal Fish 4 times a week isn't necissarily too healthy either, considering how the toxins in fish has sky rocketed. Specially big fish, like Atlantic cod and farmed salmon.
@@flakey-finn How do you define "healthy"? Is it what makes you live longer? Is it what makes your body stronger? Because both of those contradict each other. Protein and carbs which we need to be stronger are known to increase the speed of aging, and people with low protein diets are known to live way longer and stay "younger" longer. See my point? There isn't anything that is "healthiest". It all depends on your point of view and what you want to get out of food. You want to increase your cognitive functions? Increase your omega 3 and eat more fatty fish. You want to decrease toxins? Stop eating fish more than once or twice a month, or eat fish with less known toxins(usually smaller fish like mackerel, sardines, anchovies, herring). It all depends on how you define "healthiest" and what you want to get out of your food. And certainly if you care about food safety and toxins, fish is not the healthiest food. Not at all.
In Portugal we eat “lanche” which can be translated as having a snack, around 4 to 5 pm and we have dinner between 8 and 9 pm, and we have “ceia” in the evening (light meal in the evening).
I am a Norwegian and this is my usual dinners every week: *Monday* Emmer spaghetti with fermented sauerkraut (usually made out of red cabbage), some vegetables, some chicken, and a glass of kombucha. *Tuesday* Homemade organic tomato soup (with some eggs and vegan meat) and a glass of kombucha. *Wednesday* Grated cauliflower with some black rice, sauerkraut, fried fish (usually Scottish mackerel) and kombucha. *Thursday* Homemade organic vegetable soup (with some meat, either chicken or lamb) and a glass of kombucha. *Friday* Usually taco made out of 10-20% chicken meat and rest beans (like pinto beans) or a bean mix (like black beans, kidney beans, chickpeas, etc) which I make the rest of the taco meat out of. Vegetables and taco shells and taco sauce with lots of spices. All organic and made from GMO-free corn. And a glass of kombucha of course ;) *Saturday* Third soup of the weekday, with soups that vary from week to week... Or if I am lazy, just a pizza ;() *Sunday* Same as Wednesday, grated cauliflower with some black rice, sauerkraut, fried fish (usually Scottish mackerel) and kombucha. As for the sauce, I usually use olive oil (with Demeter quality) with lots of different spices. (All ingredients on this list is made of organic ingredients)
I'm Minnesotan of mostly Norwegian decent. I think my family eats more traditional Norwegian food than most Norwegians do. 🙂 And not just lutefisk on Christmas. 🙂
Norwegians are nicest travelers I meet. I only met a few. 3 were the nicest crazy people I met. Crazy but super smart and kind. That is why I love Norway and hope to visit it in the future.
I live in a fishervillage so fish is quite often on the table in various ways but you got like cod-tounge (Fried), lightly salted cod (boiled), Seibiff (fried Saithe/Coalfish) also Haddock can be fried. Fishcakes (Haddock mixed with flour and other ingredience and fried).. Fishballs (Haddock mixed flour and other ingredience and boiled)... often served with potatoes and various sauces. Then you got lots of various meat like Meatballs, Får i kål, Ribbe (for me mostly at christmas), pinnekjøtt... there just is so much food to choose from... but ofcourse also some foreign type is normal.
its not that common, but I remember I used to as a kid stand in a leash outside the house, and if my mom where going to the centrum she used to have me in a leash, but that was because I had a tendency to run after cars, and atleast once got run over by one (no harm to me, but today feel sorry for the driver ofcourse).
Of traditional dinner they didn't mention porridge (like rice porridge and sour cream porridge) and sodd (specially for Trøndelag) mentioned. "Potetball" (a mix of potato and flour) was mentioned. Other words for that is "klubb" (northern Trøndelag), "raspeballer" (Bergen/western Norway), "komla" (South West I think) and maybe other words. There are different ways to serve it.
I’m American, but my dad’s family grew in a town that was exclusively settled (and inhabited) by Norwegian immigrants and their descendants until maybe the 1970s or 1980s. As a kid, I ate plenty of kumla growing up. I’d heard of raspeballer but I could never tell the difference. Now, I finally know why! Thanks for the info!
Traditional working hours in Norway are from 08-16 :) Families usually have kids with organized activities in the late afternoon/evening, so early dinner, followed by supper in the evening before bed.
They eat more pizza in Norway than in any other country. They eat 5,4 kilo (ca 12 pounds) pizza per person/year, and most of it is frozen pizza 4,7 kilo (10 pounds). In comparison, in Sweden people eat 1,1 kilo (2,5 pounds) pizza per person/year.
Wow actually that sounds very nice. I worked in a semi-fancy Norwegian restaurant and i wish they would serve something like this..most of the menu was "italian" 🤔
@@babyramses5066 Ah Ha. I know the problem. Th restaurant was too fancy. Try going up north and heading off the beaten trail. Go into home-stays and people's farms and you'll get this food every night of the week.
@@adelarsen9776 Yes I think that you are right. All of this fancy pretending just to serve fake italian food like every other restaurant on the same block and not one of them thought that a traditionally inspired menu might be a big hit and could actually bring something different? It makes no sense..especially considering that local cuisine can rely on local fresh ingredients. Thank you for the tip about going up north and trying homestays. I enjoyed visiting Trømso and Senya two years ago and I will be back in the north again when i get the chance. :)
Great videos, please continue to produce this amazing stuff. I love Norway since always and I have travelled there many times. Greetings from Athens, Greece.
Not only Trondhjem, its common in all of Norway. I love the ones with cheese in them! We also love "Wienerpølse" (Vienna sausage / Frankfurter Würstel). Is it an Austrian or German sausage? We call it Vienna sausage but on wikipedia it says Austrians call it Frankfurter Würstel.
Nina K., by the by, Wiener Schnitzel is just the same thing as our own "Cutuleta a la milanesa" (Ital.: "cotoletta alla milanese"; Deutsch: "Mailänder Schnitzel")! I think it has something with "unser König(in)" Maria Theresia to do… Grüsse aus Mailand.
I am not 100% sure, but I think it is an Austrian sausage. We also have the "Sacher Würstel". Sacher is a famous Hotel in Vienna and also known for its Sachertorte (with a lot of chocolate). Sacher has his own coffeebrand too.
I think Norwegian food (not talking about international restaurants) is very much like British and Australian food when it comes to using spices or rather the lack thereof. They cook meat, fish and poultry "as is" without marinating it. No spices, no garlic, no chili and if there is anything there might be a tiny bit of salt. In Norway frozen Grandiosa (one of their brands) pizza is a huge thing but not the variations of that you find in Sweden with loads of different toppings...no just the plain with no taste is the popular one. So if you're in Norway and want to your food to taste anything, then go to the international restaurants.
For me, Torsk Tunge, Whale stew, Moose cakes and sodd is normal food. Traditional norwegian farm food is best and most healthy. Everything from Finnbiff to Smalahova is normal food for me. Every family needs a farmer.
What is considered traditional foods in Norway rarely coincides with common foods. Common foods are cheap and fast to make - because we Norwegians value everyone's time, and the more time I use on maling food, the less time I'm available for others. Traditional foods are usually just served for festivities such as a family gathering or Christmas.
This is interesting. They have different dialects just like in America. They all eat varities of food. For my family here in the U.S., our dinner time is between 4-6pm.
A question for the Norwegians - what time do you sleep? Do you not start to feel hungry again before bed time? I suppose it's what you're used to and it is certainly a healthier way of living!
Sleep mostly at night :) In Norway it's pretty common to eat dinner between 17.00 and 18.00, so we basically freestyle the rest of the day, probably eat again around 23.00'ish :)
Norwegians have dinner so early ! Aren't they hungry later ? In France we have a snack between 4 and 5 and we have dinner between 7 and 8. Maybe the Norwegians do the opposite ? They have dinner at 4-5 and then a snack between 7 and 9 ?
I worked on a farm inland from Bergen a half day on train. 35 years ago, very traditional. Lamb, blood sausage, boiled potatoes, not as much fish as coast, some beef and reindeer. Hardy bread. We ate middag at 3:30. Not chicken very often. Main meal of the day. Wonderful cakes on special occasions at 6. Visiting coastal areas, lots of fish. Awesome fresh food. Big cities, American pizza.
Norwegians eat a small lunch at around 11:00-12:00, so around 16:00-17:00 we start to get hungry again. When is it usual to eat dinner in your country? :)
Because we eat dinner early almost all of us eat an evening snack 1-3 hours before we go to bed. Which is called "Kvelds" or "Kveldsmat". I'm under the impression other countries have dinner as their last meal and that's why you eat later.
It must have been Saturday. When I lived in Norway 30 years ago, everyone ate homemade pizza on Saturday. Although, going to a restaurant back then was super special. The kjottballer were fantastic, but the fish -the way they make it with few spices- was difficult to eat. And the potatoes! Always potatoes!! All that said, the very best food in Norway is their bread (local favorites in every region) and their heavenly Hvitost!! When I go back to visit, I usually eat a block of cheese and bread withing 2 days. It's so good, yum.
When my great grandfather was a working man, he ate dinner at home at 12 in the afternoon, then he went back to work, when he got home for the day, he ate supper. In Norway the Norwegian word for "afternoon" can be directly translated to after dinner (after 12.00) because that was dinner time back in the day :) Also remember, we don't have siestas in Norway, so dinner is early, usually followed by organized activity like football, cross country skiing etc, and at night time there's supper.
@@lisenormann4102 Thank you for your explanation. I first discovered the "super-early dinner time" in Finland, then successively in other Nordic countries while I travelled there. It was kind of a cultural shock because I thought after 7pm for dinner was the norm (Many French restaurants will only serve dinner after 19h/19h15).
Will you be filming in some other Norwegian cities oslo for an example , i studied Norwegian with you in your channel I’m still a beginner and this trondhiem accent is kind of confusing
@@lestatschlongh8065 I mean… some legit Italians who own restaurants in Germany put fruit jam in spaghetti to please the local costumers, potatoes on pizza isn’t even that bad, we do it too here.
It’s fun to see the differences between the Germanic languages. I speak German and Afrikaans, so I can guess the meanings of some Norwegian words, but in Norwegian “kak” means “cake”, and in Afrikaans it means “shit”. In German there’s the similar “Kacke”, meaning “crap”
I was shocked at how much my Norsk cousins loved frozen pizza!!! They can bake bread too, but they love the frozen and eat it with a knife and fork. Popular topping is hamburger. Wow
@@LinniC93 This is Flekkefjord maybe my cousins are “small town” 🙂The pizza was in a little shopping mall. Everybody ate with the tiny plastic forks and knives. I went with the veggi one. Mad Cow is still around in the US anyway, so was being paranoid.
As a Sicilian/Southern Italian I have always had my dinner at around 20:00 or so and I wonder if the Norwegians having their dinner at 16:00 or 17:00 get hunger pangs between dinner and bedtime? And how do they fight these?
@@WyrdHag Ha! So Norwegians do get hunger pangs! And they fight these with small late-evening meals! Well that's only natural. But what do Norwegians eat during these meals? You didn't say Snerkepasan!
@@WyrdHag I live in Northern Italy and I usually have dinner at 19.00 - 21.00. My favorite hour for dinner is 19.30/20.00.. Well, yes eating a meal before going to bed could be unhealthy especially when it comes to digestion. But I think eating at 20.00 and going to bed at 23.00 is ok.. I have a question: how is possible having dinner at 16.00 or 17.00? Don't people work at these hours? Usually people works in the afternoon..
I liked hearing about the traditional Norwegian food. They still are reaping the benefits of those generations that ate like that and the genes they passed on. Go back again in a couple more generations with the Americanized western diet that they have now of pizza and fries and it'll be just like here. Diseases and obesity skyrocket.
@@WyrdHag Yes I know that eating close to sleep is not healthy, but we don't sleep right away, in Brazil on average we sleep around 10 pm normally, but there are people who sleep much later. we don't usually sleep early hahaha
@@WyrdHag yes, but not everyone sleeps 8 hours, and here in Brazil we usually sleep about 2 hours after lunch to rest. which completes the rest time, and unfortunately most here do not have the privilege of getting home and going to sleep, we have many things to do. If people in your country are able to rest as long as necessary, good. Because here, unfortunately, not everyone has fair jobs that allow them to always have a healthy sleep. ;-) many, sometimes they have two jobs to earn enough income to support themselves. And you can be sure that between choosing to sleep eight hours, and having food on the table, people choose to have something to eat. unfortunately it is like that, and not always everyone has the time and the privilege to think "I have to sleep 8 hours because it is healthy" and yes "I have to work because otherwise I will not have anything to eat at the end of the month"
I’m an American from the Midwest. At my Nana’s house, we’d have lefse with meatballs, kumla, cod, mashed potatoes and Kringle for dessert. She had since phased out lutefisk from her culinary offerings. I noticed actual Norwegians don’t eat like this anymore. If you’d like, you can have your traditional food back. Especially the lutefisk. In return, I’ll take that pizza and those burgers off your hands.
Norwegian eat dinner at 4 or 5? That is so early. What time do they go to bed? Edit : i was reading other comments said dinner is not the last meal of the day. So do norwegian eat after dinner? Or just like night snack?
How they be eating pizza and burgers… born and raised in Norway and I’ve been eating salmon, and chicken my whole life
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It seems like the Norwegians dont have any national dishes that they wish to admit to. It doesn't look like they are passionate about food and drink unlike the Italians or French for example.
Italian food is objectively amazing. We're not too proud to admit that. And we're descendants from Vikings after all, we love to take the good stuff from other countries. ;)
I somewhat find what norwegians eat as a food to be very similar to what Estonians eat. I once took a look at Estonian cuisine and i found a lots of cuisine made of potatoes and meat.
Traditional food is becomeing extinct and bad food replace it because of both parents work and dont have time to prepare norwegian food anymore. Lamb, sheap, fish, moose, hen, chicken, whale, shrimp, shell, biff, steak, pork was typical. Served with boiled potatos or smashed. Vegetables was a must. Stews and all in a pot was common. Often with flat bread. We had many lovely and comfy dishes on the menue.
A lot of pizza ... Norwegians seem to like frozen pizza. Quite early to have dinner at 16 or 17. In Sweden it is probably 18-19 that is normal. But I think Swedes generally work longer days and quit their jobs later.
Every time i've been to norway i've been sort of surprised by Norwegians choices in food. It must be all them hills and mountains keeping them in shape because their eating, and food habits would certainly not qualify as good. Soo much snacks, junk food and bread. Plus no real lunch.
@I like Potatoes meat can be healthy, you are right! but, vegetables are very healthy as well, and any excess nutrients you have from consuming vegetables your kidney will filter out and will leave through waste. there are no "anti-nutrients" in vegetables, the worst you can get is a stomach bug or salmonella from eating raw or unwashed veggies :)
Hello i'm from Italy : i know in Bergen you can eat lot of fish specialty but also meat ? Infact that's the city i'd like to visit - i also think you have like the best salmon qualities ? And sushi with Norvegian salmon
There are big issues with the norwegian farming of salmon, I don’t recommend “farmed” salmon in general. Canada has the best salmon in the world, sockeye salmon, although it is considered an endangered species in certain places
BS. 7% of your genes do not make you norwegian. that your genes make you who you "are" is a racist thought. your ethnicity matter the most, but most people don´t know the correct definition of "ethnicity". one of my relatives is of american origin, but have now lived the majority of her life in norway. she has assimilated well. that makes her quite norwegian, but she is not of norwegian descent. americans need to stop obsess over race and biology, but it´s deeply intertwined with usa´s history
@@themetricsystem7967 Wow, you protest too much. Many of us with deep roots in the US know very little for certain about our ancestors overseas. It's fun to get some information and imagine what life might have been like. I fully realize the information is imperfect and uncertain. Of course I'm not Norwegian in any meaningful way. I didn't imagine anyone would take what I said literally.
I don't think the subtitler understands the Sunglasses-guy so well. When talking about time of day he ate Middag as a child, I hear him say clearly - "Æ vet jo at.. det BRUKTE JO i hvert fall -Å- vær det når æ var ONGE..." "heim ATT TE.. f-foreldran min og sånn som -det- der" "det når æ va ong da va det viktig at vi kom inn te... OG ÅT MEDDAG, når det var MEDDAG." They translated it as- "da va det viktig at vi kom inn te.. Å ET middag..." (the speaker kept it past tense - "å eta/ ÅT/ har æti", liksom). Would love to hear from some ekte Trøndere if I got his Orkdalsk right (akkurat 😅) . (I kept my edits in ALL-CAPS and omissions in -strikethrough- ;)
I’m surprised nobody mentioned "taco friday". Many Norwegians eat tacos and tortilla wraps on fridays, to the point that it has turned into a cultural term: tacofredag.
Komle on thursdays too! Idk if it's every part of Norway tho.
Det er fantastisk :0
Thanks for sharing this kind of videos about your culture, greetings from Argentina 👋
Any idea where this "tradition" started?
Does it have anything to do with the Old El Paso brand?
In Germany they have an Old El Paso commercial with the slogan "Freitag ist Fajita Tag."
A question why double Norwegian Subs? Can you explain me thatvpart thanks!
@@thomasjefferson6225 Wasn't me :)
Today I learned that Norwegians eat more Italian food than Italians do.
We usually eat some sort of Italian food or tacos
It’s really common here 😂 But my family personally often have more traditional food because of my mormor (grandma)
THE IMB not much culture there? Nope
THE IMB dais pena 😭
Victoria Norway is not a «food country»
I'm from Denmark and the most surprising thing for me was how early dinner is in Norway. Here i'ts normally around 6 or later in the evening, but not 4-5
Yeah I'm from Iceland and 4-5 is very early. We usually eat it between 6-8. Usually around 7 PM
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Surprisingly
My mom insist that is normal to eat at 3 pm 💀
I thought the same thing! What time would breakfast and lunch be? What’s the go-to-bed time? It seems all the eating takes place in the first part of the day, like a traditional version of intermittent fasting.
norway has the longest coast line of europe. my mom grew up by the coast and she says she had fish for dinner 5 days a week
I eat fish 4 days a week. I dont eat so mutch meet. I eat homemade dinner. I dont eat fast food.
@@randihansen3347 very good. fast food meals are unhealthy
@@iamalmetal Fish 4 times a week isn't necissarily too healthy either, considering how the toxins in fish has sky rocketed. Specially big fish, like Atlantic cod and farmed salmon.
@@Nabium Isn't it like healthiest type of meat?
@@flakey-finn How do you define "healthy"?
Is it what makes you live longer? Is it what makes your body stronger?
Because both of those contradict each other. Protein and carbs which we need to be stronger are known to increase the speed of aging, and people with low protein diets are known to live way longer and stay "younger" longer.
See my point? There isn't anything that is "healthiest". It all depends on your point of view and what you want to get out of food.
You want to increase your cognitive functions? Increase your omega 3 and eat more fatty fish. You want to decrease toxins? Stop eating fish more than once or twice a month, or eat fish with less known toxins(usually smaller fish like mackerel, sardines, anchovies, herring).
It all depends on how you define "healthiest" and what you want to get out of your food.
And certainly if you care about food safety and toxins, fish is not the healthiest food. Not at all.
In Portugal we eat “lanche” which can be translated as having a snack, around 4 to 5 pm and we have dinner between 8 and 9 pm, and we have “ceia” in the evening (light meal in the evening).
Portugal is a third world country, can't compare it with Norway
it is like the hobbits♡
I am a Norwegian and this is my usual dinners every week:
*Monday* Emmer spaghetti with fermented sauerkraut (usually made out of red cabbage), some vegetables, some chicken, and a glass of kombucha.
*Tuesday* Homemade organic tomato soup (with some eggs and vegan meat) and a glass of kombucha.
*Wednesday* Grated cauliflower with some black rice, sauerkraut, fried fish (usually Scottish mackerel) and kombucha.
*Thursday* Homemade organic vegetable soup (with some meat, either chicken or lamb) and a glass of kombucha.
*Friday* Usually taco made out of 10-20% chicken meat and rest beans (like pinto beans) or a bean mix (like black beans, kidney beans, chickpeas, etc) which I make the rest of the taco meat out of. Vegetables and taco shells and taco sauce with lots of spices. All organic and made from GMO-free corn. And a glass of kombucha of course ;)
*Saturday* Third soup of the weekday, with soups that vary from week to week... Or if I am lazy, just a pizza ;()
*Sunday* Same as Wednesday, grated cauliflower with some black rice, sauerkraut, fried fish (usually Scottish mackerel) and kombucha.
As for the sauce, I usually use olive oil (with Demeter quality) with lots of different spices. (All ingredients on this list is made of organic ingredients)
I'm Minnesotan of mostly Norwegian decent. I think my family eats more traditional Norwegian food than most Norwegians do. 🙂 And not just lutefisk on Christmas. 🙂
Mine too
my dad is too! from Thief River Falls
it's already 2 AM for me and i'm about to sleep but then this was recommended to me, and i am not mad about it.
Same here 12 hours later
Apparently most norwegians eat dinner, when im eating lunch.
It depends a lot. Most families with teenager eat between 1700-1800
The guy at 2:04 is always clueless and I find it adorable. He never says anything firmly and is always full of doubt
I used to live in Norway for 10 months.🇳🇴 I miss there and I definitely go there again!!
Why did you leave?? Is everyone really always super happy? I'm so intrigued by it , I need to go there!!
Nina Marise I used to live in Norway for studying abroad! I didn’t want to leave there😢
@@JanineBelle1 of course we're not "always super happy"... Omg😂
@@rie3791 did you know Norwegian? What level were you at? Was it difficult to make friends? I'm thinking about studying there so I'm curious! Takk!
Thanks for putting these great little videos together so I can learn and practice the language of my ancestors! Tusen takk!!!
Norwegians are nicest travelers I meet. I only met a few. 3 were the nicest crazy people I met. Crazy but super smart and kind. That is why I love Norway and hope to visit it in the future.
I live in a fishervillage so fish is quite often on the table in various ways but you got like cod-tounge (Fried), lightly salted cod (boiled), Seibiff (fried Saithe/Coalfish) also Haddock can be fried. Fishcakes (Haddock mixed with flour and other ingredience and fried).. Fishballs (Haddock mixed flour and other ingredience and boiled)... often served with potatoes and various sauces.
Then you got lots of various meat like Meatballs, Får i kål, Ribbe (for me mostly at christmas), pinnekjøtt... there just is so much food to choose from... but ofcourse also some foreign type is normal.
0:22 I couldn't help noticing the kid in a leash throughout the video
its not that common, but I remember I used to as a kid stand in a leash outside the house, and if my mom where going to the centrum she used to have me in a leash, but that was because I had a tendency to run after cars, and atleast once got run over by one (no harm to me, but today feel sorry for the driver ofcourse).
Of traditional dinner they didn't mention porridge (like rice porridge and sour cream porridge) and sodd (specially for Trøndelag) mentioned.
"Potetball" (a mix of potato and flour) was mentioned. Other words for that is "klubb" (northern Trøndelag), "raspeballer" (Bergen/western Norway), "komla" (South West I think) and maybe other words. There are different ways to serve it.
I’m American, but my dad’s family grew in a town that was exclusively settled (and inhabited) by Norwegian immigrants and their descendants until maybe the 1970s or 1980s. As a kid, I ate plenty of kumla growing up. I’d heard of raspeballer but I could never tell the difference. Now, I finally know why! Thanks for the info!
Pizza ? I was not expecting that. Dinner at 4 or 5 ? In New York city we are still at work at that time.
Traditional working hours in Norway are from 08-16 :) Families usually have kids with organized activities in the late afternoon/evening, so early dinner, followed by supper in the evening before bed.
They eat more pizza in Norway than in any other country. They eat 5,4 kilo (ca 12 pounds) pizza per person/year, and most of it is frozen pizza 4,7 kilo (10 pounds).
In comparison, in Sweden people eat 1,1 kilo (2,5 pounds) pizza per person/year.
True but my famely often eat 18:00
In my house we eat dinner at 3
In spain we take dinner at 9:30 many people work until 7-8
Monday : Whale stew
Tuesday : Cod Tongue stew
Wednesday : Lamb chops stewed in cabbage
Thursday : Meat cakes
Friday : Steak night
Saturday : Reindeer stew
Sunday : Pork Roast - pork ribs roasted.
@I like Potatoes Any night. Just come around 4pm with a bag of Mandel potatoes.
Wow actually that sounds very nice. I worked in a semi-fancy Norwegian restaurant and i wish they would serve something like this..most of the menu was "italian" 🤔
@@babyramses5066 Ah Ha. I know the problem. Th restaurant was too fancy.
Try going up north and heading off the beaten trail. Go into home-stays and people's farms and you'll get this food every night of the week.
@@adelarsen9776 Yes I think that you are right. All of this fancy pretending just to serve fake italian food like every other restaurant on the same block and not one of them thought that a traditionally inspired menu might be a big hit and could actually bring something different? It makes no sense..especially considering that local cuisine can rely on local fresh ingredients. Thank you for the tip about going up north and trying homestays. I enjoyed visiting Trømso and Senya two years ago and I will be back in the north again when i get the chance. :)
@@babyramses5066 Excellent. Welcome back to the north :-)
Skål
They eat a lot of pizza LoL
Hi, I'm from Brazil and I realy liked to see the way of life in norwegian streets. By the way, jeg studerer norsk og snakker litt norsk.
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Take a look on "Alt for Norge," så kommer du til å lære mye.
Great videos, please continue to produce this amazing stuff. I love Norway since always and I have travelled there many times. Greetings from Athens, Greece.
As an Austrian: I am glad people of Trondhjem know Wiener Schnitzel 😂
I love your Trondhjem videos and I really appreciate it! Takk for det!
PS.: I like the elder man and the boy with the dove 😍
Not only Trondhjem, its common in all of Norway. I love the ones with cheese in them! We also love "Wienerpølse" (Vienna sausage / Frankfurter Würstel). Is it an Austrian or German sausage? We call it Vienna sausage but on wikipedia it says Austrians call it Frankfurter Würstel.
Nina K., by the by, Wiener Schnitzel is just the same thing as our own "Cutuleta a la milanesa" (Ital.: "cotoletta alla milanese"; Deutsch: "Mailänder Schnitzel")! I think it has something with "unser König(in)" Maria Theresia to do… Grüsse aus Mailand.
@@Cromag3 😂 yes, that's right. In Austria it is a "Frankfurter", in Germany they named it "Wiener Würstel". I don't know why 🤔😂
I am not 100% sure, but I think it is an Austrian sausage.
We also have the "Sacher Würstel". Sacher is a famous Hotel in Vienna and also known for its Sachertorte (with a lot of chocolate).
Sacher has his own coffeebrand too.
I think Norwegian food (not talking about international restaurants) is very much like British and Australian food when it comes to using spices or rather the lack thereof. They cook meat, fish and poultry "as is" without marinating it. No spices, no garlic, no chili and if there is anything there might be a tiny bit of salt. In Norway frozen Grandiosa (one of their brands) pizza is a huge thing but not the variations of that you find in Sweden with loads of different toppings...no just the plain with no taste is the popular one. So if you're in Norway and want to your food to taste anything, then go to the international restaurants.
Why do some people don’t know traditional food of Norway? That’s kinda sad.
Yeah, cause we feel like eating salted meat for lunch and smalahove for dinner.
I think it's because if something is so common to you, you don't expect to have the proper information when anyone asks you about it.
@@kundetjenesten smalahove tend to be eaten for breakfast
For me, Torsk Tunge, Whale stew, Moose cakes and sodd is normal food.
Traditional norwegian farm food is best and most healthy.
Everything from Finnbiff to Smalahova is normal food for me.
Every family needs a farmer.
What is considered traditional foods in Norway rarely coincides with common foods. Common foods are cheap and fast to make - because we Norwegians value everyone's time, and the more time I use on maling food, the less time I'm available for others. Traditional foods are usually just served for festivities such as a family gathering or Christmas.
Eksepsjonelt godt jobba med subtitles i disse videoene!👏🏻
This is interesting. They have different dialects just like in America. They all eat varities of food. For my family here in the U.S., our dinner time is between 4-6pm.
A question for the Norwegians - what time do you sleep? Do you not start to feel hungry again before bed time? I suppose it's what you're used to and it is certainly a healthier way of living!
Sleep mostly at night :)
In Norway it's pretty common to eat dinner between 17.00 and 18.00, so we basically freestyle the rest of the day, probably eat again around 23.00'ish :)
I like how you placed the pizza image so it looked like the pigeon was pecking at it 🤣😂
That frozen pizza is so unhealthy ☹️
I enjoyed watching the video and I hope a day will come and I understand Norwegian
Norwegians have dinner so early ! Aren't they hungry later ? In France we have a snack between 4 and 5 and we have dinner between 7 and 8. Maybe the Norwegians do the opposite ? They have dinner at 4-5 and then a snack between 7 and 9 ?
@@WyrdHag I mean if you sleep at 23:00 and eat dinner at 19:00 it's not unhealthy at all. What time do you go to sleep?
I worked on a farm inland from Bergen a half day on train. 35 years ago, very traditional. Lamb, blood sausage, boiled potatoes, not as much fish as coast, some beef and reindeer. Hardy bread. We ate middag at 3:30. Not chicken very often. Main meal of the day. Wonderful cakes on special occasions at 6. Visiting coastal areas, lots of fish. Awesome fresh food. Big cities, American pizza.
Hi Scott how do you apply in the farm job in Norway.Im interested to work in the farm in Norway.
For me the surprising part is that they have dinner at 4/5 and little mentin of fish in traditional cuisine.
Norwegians eat a small lunch at around 11:00-12:00, so around 16:00-17:00 we start to get hungry again. When is it usual to eat dinner in your country? :)
@@Cromag3 Actually I imagined something like that. In Italy dinner is usually after 7 pm or even later.
Because we eat dinner early almost all of us eat an evening snack 1-3 hours before we go to bed. Which is called "Kvelds" or "Kveldsmat". I'm under the impression other countries have dinner as their last meal and that's why you eat later.
@@kristiansundsfjord4095 Yes I actually thought there might be some habit like that. Thanks for the clarification👍
Yeah I think it's also because it gets darker sooner in the North
It must have been Saturday. When I lived in Norway 30 years ago, everyone ate homemade pizza on Saturday. Although, going to a restaurant back then was super special.
The kjottballer were fantastic, but the fish -the way they make it with few spices- was difficult to eat. And the potatoes! Always potatoes!!
All that said, the very best food in Norway is their bread (local favorites in every region) and their heavenly Hvitost!! When I go back to visit, I usually eat a block of cheese and bread withing 2 days. It's so good, yum.
Veldig kult at du lager sånne videoer fra Trondheim, og spesielt gøy at du spør hvor dialekta til folk er fra :)
Make a video about which tradional norwegian food is their favorite and why.
Mine is kjøttkaker because they are tasty. :) great video takk skal du ha
I really love Norway but as a french their food makes me wanna cry 😭
@@WyrdHag who talked about cooking for hours ?
@@lylyd5391 If you don't have time to cook, you have to choose something premade or simple.
Det er så bra. Jeg liker veldig med spise dette. Jeg bor i Surabaya, Indonesia.
Hallo! Du snakke norsk?
0:58 Pigeon fortunately not too enthusiastic about that pizza.
I am surprised that they don't mention a lot fish or seafood since tjey are just next to the ocean.
People can eat dinner as early as four in the Afternoon ? For me who is more accustomed to Southern European dinner time, that is so shocking. LOL
When my great grandfather was a working man, he ate dinner at home at 12 in the afternoon, then he went back to work, when he got home for the day, he ate supper. In Norway the Norwegian word for "afternoon" can be directly translated to after dinner (after 12.00) because that was dinner time back in the day :) Also remember, we don't have siestas in Norway, so dinner is early, usually followed by organized activity like football, cross country skiing etc, and at night time there's supper.
@@lisenormann4102 Thank you for your explanation. I first discovered the "super-early dinner time" in Finland, then successively in other Nordic countries while I travelled there. It was kind of a cultural shock because I thought after 7pm for dinner was the norm (Many French restaurants will only serve dinner after 19h/19h15).
As a Norwegian, I usually eat dinner at 21-22 a clock in the evening.
@@PrinsRupert That is quite Italian and Spanish, hahaha
here in America our family eats at 5 pm so 7 pm dinner sounds crazy to me. I know many Americans eat that late, but we never do.
Will you be filming in some other Norwegian cities oslo for an example , i studied Norwegian with you in your channel I’m still a beginner and this trondhiem accent is kind of confusing
yes yes...thats me, an Italian, about to open a pizzeria up in Norway
smart..
great business choice. add special potatos menu, they'll like it
@@lestatschlongh8065 I mean… some legit Italians who own restaurants in Germany put fruit jam in spaghetti to please the local costumers, potatoes on pizza isn’t even that bad, we do it too here.
Having dinner at 4 or 5 ?? Too early for a Portuguese ahaha here in portugal we have dinner around 20:00 until 22:30 or late
to me, 8 0r 8 :30 dinner sounds way too late... would be belching it up all during sleep .
Cute and weird people. I like them a lot.
Good job bro! I always like your videos from TRONDHEIM!
The dude at 1:12 isn't a Norwegian
I love this type of video, keep doing it
It’s fun to see the differences between the Germanic languages. I speak German and Afrikaans, so I can guess the meanings of some Norwegian words, but in Norwegian “kak” means “cake”, and in Afrikaans it means “shit”. In German there’s the similar “Kacke”, meaning “crap”
Think this video was filmed on a Sunday, because almost everyone I know eat Pizza, spaghetti or lasagne on Saturdays. 😂
Close, it was a Monday :)
@@SimpleNorwegian Really? Then I'm surprised so many people said pizza! In my experience, pizza is typically a Friday or Saturday meal.
I was shocked at how much my Norsk cousins loved frozen pizza!!! They can bake bread too, but they love the frozen and eat it with a knife and fork. Popular topping is hamburger. Wow
I can't speak for others, but I usually eat pizza with my hands, and I've never seen anyone put hamburger on top of pizza!
@@LinniC93 This is Flekkefjord maybe my cousins are “small town” 🙂The pizza was in a little shopping mall. Everybody ate with the tiny plastic forks and knives. I went with the veggi one. Mad Cow is still around in the US anyway, so was being paranoid.
As a Sicilian/Southern Italian I have always had my dinner at around 20:00 or so and I wonder if the Norwegians having their dinner at 16:00 or 17:00 get hunger pangs between dinner and bedtime? And how do they fight these?
@@WyrdHag Ha! So Norwegians do get hunger pangs! And they fight these with small late-evening meals! Well that's only natural. But what do Norwegians eat during these meals? You didn't say Snerkepasan!
@@WyrdHag I live in Northern Italy and I usually have dinner at 19.00 - 21.00. My favorite hour for dinner is 19.30/20.00.. Well, yes eating a meal before going to bed could be unhealthy especially when it comes to digestion. But I think eating at 20.00 and going to bed at 23.00 is ok..
I have a question: how is possible having dinner at 16.00 or 17.00? Don't people work at these hours? Usually people works in the afternoon..
@@WyrdHag ok I understand. People wake up in the morning here too. But usually we also work in the afternoon
Norwegians eat a better balance of protein and carbs in their meals than Italians, so no excessive hunger pangs.
Veldig bra video 👏 Keep it going :)
I liked hearing about the traditional Norwegian food. They still are reaping the benefits of those generations that ate like that and the genes they passed on. Go back again in a couple more generations with the Americanized western diet that they have now of pizza and fries and it'll be just like here. Diseases and obesity skyrocket.
Dinner at 4-5pm ! Still three hours of work left then travel home in UK ! No wonder Norwegians are happy 😃
8:50 I thought in Norwegian 'halv sju' should be 6.30, not 7.30?
they have dinner very early, I'm from Brazil and here we have dinner around 7 or 8 pm or even later.
@@WyrdHag Yes I know that eating close to sleep is not healthy, but we don't sleep right away, in Brazil on average we sleep around 10 pm normally, but there are people who sleep much later. we don't usually sleep early hahaha
@@WyrdHag yes, but not everyone sleeps 8 hours, and here in Brazil we usually sleep about 2 hours after lunch to rest. which completes the rest time, and unfortunately most here do not have the privilege of getting home and going to sleep, we have many things to do. If people in your country are able to rest as long as necessary, good. Because here, unfortunately, not everyone has fair jobs that allow them to always have a healthy sleep. ;-)
many, sometimes they have two jobs to earn enough income to support themselves. And you can be sure that between choosing to sleep eight hours, and having food on the table, people choose to have something to eat. unfortunately it is like that, and not always everyone has the time and the privilege to think "I have to sleep 8 hours because it is healthy" and yes "I have to work because otherwise I will not have anything to eat at the end of the month"
0:58 bird had him a bite of that pizza
I’m an American from the Midwest. At my Nana’s house, we’d have lefse with meatballs, kumla, cod, mashed potatoes and Kringle for dessert. She had since phased out lutefisk from her culinary offerings. I noticed actual Norwegians don’t eat like this anymore. If you’d like, you can have your traditional food back. Especially the lutefisk. In return, I’ll take that pizza and those burgers off your hands.
If you are returning from work at 4-5, how early do you go there?
Thanks, I would like to see a video about northern Norway like Alta. takk igjen.
Norwegian eat dinner at 4 or 5? That is so early. What time do they go to bed?
Edit : i was reading other comments said dinner is not the last meal of the day. So do norwegian eat after dinner? Or just like night snack?
smaller children in norway go to bed at 7-8 pm. most office hours start at 8 am
How they be eating pizza and burgers… born and raised in Norway and I’ve been eating salmon, and chicken my whole life
It seems like the Norwegians dont have any national dishes that they wish to admit to.
It doesn't look like they are passionate about food and drink unlike the Italians or French for example.
Italian food is objectively amazing. We're not too proud to admit that. And we're descendants from Vikings after all, we love to take the good stuff from other countries. ;)
different variations of pork and lamb, reindeer and elk is traditional food in norway. Along with a variety of root vegetables
Friday taco and Saturday pizza are the best
I somewhat find what norwegians eat as a food to be very similar to what Estonians eat. I once took a look at Estonian cuisine and i found a lots of cuisine made of potatoes and meat.
0:57 - Is that pigeon eating pizza? :P
thats the bad thing about north european countries, the food
Traditional food is becomeing extinct and bad food replace it because of both parents work and dont have time to prepare norwegian food anymore. Lamb, sheap, fish, moose, hen, chicken, whale, shrimp, shell, biff, steak, pork was typical. Served with boiled potatos or smashed. Vegetables was a must. Stews and all in a pot was common. Often with flat bread. We had many lovely and comfy dishes on the menue.
Fascinating, thank you. I don't know why I thought Norwegian people ate a lot of fish.
They do though, at least some places. It was a bit strange that it didn't come up so much when interviewing these people
We do. I eat fish 4 days a week. I dont eat so mutch meet.
Wow they eat fast food more frequently than I previously imagined
A lot of pizza ... Norwegians seem to like frozen pizza. Quite early to have dinner at 16 or 17. In Sweden it is probably 18-19 that is normal. But I think Swedes generally work longer days and quit their jobs later.
potatoes have only been in Norway and Europe for about 400 years.
Would be curious to know if norwegians have a pallet for Indian food. Spicy curry dishes (chicken, beef, goat, pork), tandoori, dals or biryani.
Norwegians can’t handle much spice. But I personally freaking love indian food
Halv sju means '6:30' not '7:30'. It's different to English.
Usefull outstanding videos.
Every time i've been to norway i've been sort of surprised by Norwegians choices in food. It must be all them hills and mountains keeping them in shape because their eating, and food habits would certainly not qualify as good. Soo much snacks, junk food and bread. Plus no real lunch.
Norwegia looks like a lovely place - but the people are not into vegetables and healthy food.
Yes you are right ...
@I like Potatoes meat can be healthy, you are right! but, vegetables are very healthy as well, and any excess nutrients you have from consuming vegetables your kidney will filter out and will leave through waste. there are no "anti-nutrients" in vegetables, the worst you can get is a stomach bug or salmonella from eating raw or unwashed veggies :)
@@avaheheh6724 scandinavians need fish cuz of the lack of sun
LizardKing fish is very healthy too, with lots of Omegas, but you could also supplement sun exposure with vitamin d vitamins :)
I agree, Norwegian makes often easy food, like frozen pizza or boiled hot dog😅
This must have been recorded on a Saturday, since everyone had pizza the day before. But I'm surprised no one said taco.
It was a Monday or Tuesday if I’m not mistaken. But it was during summer
lady: most traditional foot meat patties and potatoe
me: HOLY COW I ATE THAT FOR DINNER TODAY!! im closer to norway now ..
lol
Hello i'm from Italy : i know in Bergen you can eat lot of fish specialty but also meat ? Infact that's the city i'd like to visit -
i also think you have like the best salmon qualities ? And sushi with Norvegian salmon
There are big issues with the norwegian farming of salmon, I don’t recommend “farmed” salmon in general. Canada has the best salmon in the world, sockeye salmon, although it is considered an endangered species in certain places
There is a restaurant named Dimmu Burger.
Just goes to show you that what's easy available just like anywhere.
Is kjøttkak anything like frikadiller?
Yeah, pretty much the same thing
@@SimpleNorwegian Thank you.
Wow Pizza is so popular there?
Frozen pizza is extremely popular in Norway
hey, I'm Hermela , I was born in Norway but now I'm living in Ethiopia but I want to back to Norway Trondheim and I want to learn norsk , so help me
Iam also learning norsk here in Oslo first come and then you can learn easily ;)
lots of corona please dont travel
I want to chill with that pigeon
Rice porridge! 10/10
chips in norwegian means like lays and stuff not french fries
There are lots of food for dinner in China.rice noodles soup vegetables meat
anyone else always skipped to the last lady in green jacket who was utterly informative?
This is a real find for me. Ancestry.com says I'm 7% Norwegian, so I need to learn what Norwegians actually do.
BS. 7% of your genes do not make you norwegian. that your genes make you who you "are" is a racist thought. your ethnicity matter the most, but most people don´t know the correct definition of "ethnicity". one of my relatives is of american origin, but have now lived the majority of her life in norway. she has assimilated well. that makes her quite norwegian, but she is not of norwegian descent. americans need to stop obsess over race and biology, but it´s deeply intertwined with usa´s history
@@themetricsystem7967 Wow, you protest too much. Many of us with deep roots in the US know very little for certain about our ancestors overseas. It's fun to get some information and imagine what life might have been like. I fully realize the information is imperfect and uncertain. Of course I'm not Norwegian in any meaningful way. I didn't imagine anyone would take what I said literally.
Jeg er ikke fra Lofoten
For me maybe the love takos and pasta 👍
6:57 mans put the english subtitles in norwegian
I like Norway but there food isn't very tasteful, i miss fresh salads, olive while when i am there .....
This is mostly junk food.
Most people work full time and has kids to take care of. No time or energy to spen hours cooking.
Pizza? Hamburgers? Sounds like they're describing the American diet.
4-5 PM?? So early!!
Ingen som sa raspeballa?
Potetball er vel det samme
@@SimpleNorwegian på d tradisjonelle, sa noen d då?
@@rosee9923 Ja hun blonde jenta med brillene nevnte potetball
I don't think the subtitler understands the Sunglasses-guy so well. When talking about time of day he ate Middag as a child, I hear him say clearly - "Æ vet jo at.. det BRUKTE JO i hvert fall -Å- vær det når æ var ONGE..."
"heim ATT TE.. f-foreldran min og sånn som -det- der"
"det når æ va ong da va det viktig at vi kom inn te... OG ÅT MEDDAG, når det var MEDDAG."
They translated it as- "da va det viktig at vi kom inn te.. Å ET middag..." (the speaker kept it past tense - "å eta/ ÅT/ har æti", liksom).
Would love to hear from some ekte Trøndere if I got his Orkdalsk right (akkurat 😅) . (I kept my edits in ALL-CAPS and omissions in -strikethrough- ;)