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[–] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 112 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 children)

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

Also: Join us at !norway@sopuli.xyz

[–] anon6789@lemmy.world 32 points 3 days ago (2 children)

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

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

[–] WhiteRabbit@lemmy.today 31 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (12 children)

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

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

[–] frezik@midwest.social 16 points 3 days ago

It has the most important aspect of cheap frozen pizza. Which is the cheese having built up on one side because it was shipped that way in the truck.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 3 days ago (7 children)

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

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[–] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 14 points 3 days ago (24 children)

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

[–] Cenzorrll@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago (3 children)

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

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

[–] fushuan@lemm.ee 1 points 2 days ago

You dont need to euthanize the flavour of the ingredients by using a bunch of extra spices all around all the time.

Pickled herring already has a strong flavour, which with potatoes and cream will create a pretty smooth taste.

One of the most known Basque (north Spain) cuisines is cod, garlic, olive oil. That's it! And it's fucking delicious if done right (vacalao al pil pil if honest to search). A good steak is often seasoned with just salt.

I do enjoy heavy seasoned stuff, but sometimes enjoying the simplicity of non invasive flavours is cool too.

[–] Hoimo@ani.social 3 points 3 days ago

Sometimes it's more about the texture than the flavour and potatoes with cream sounds delicious in that regard.

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[–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 21 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 12 points 3 days ago (3 children)

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

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

[–] Frostbeard@lemmy.world 17 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Think he refers to rakfisk. Lutefisk is never buried. And rakfisk is fermented like kimshi, and definitely not eaten out of nostalgia. It's videly popular in Norway.

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[–] stinky@redlemmy.com 44 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Good title: Norway Eats The Most Pizza

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

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

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

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[–] aidan@lemmy.world 19 points 3 days ago (3 children)

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

[–] Holyhandgrenade@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago (3 children)

It's important to mention that the vast majority of pizza eaten in Norway is frozen pizza. Grandiosa is the most popular brand and it costs about as much as a restaurant pizza anywhere else

[–] winkerjadams@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Why buy a frozen pizza if I can get a restaurant one for the same price?

[–] GladiusB@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Snow is a thing

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Can confirm. I worked at Peppes for 4 years. It's trash.

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[–] Bubbaonthebeach@lemmy.ca 26 points 3 days ago (3 children)

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

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Nothing like freshly fished pizza, that's what I always say.

[–] MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 10 points 3 days ago

Just like mama used to make.

[–] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago (15 children)

When I was in Iceland food was so expensive that I was happy to eat at a KFC because it was my first affordable meal.

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[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 33 points 3 days ago (2 children)

There's Norway that's true

[–] wjrii@lemmy.world 11 points 3 days ago (13 children)

I bet we can find out whose spreading this fake news if we Sweden the pot.

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[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 18 points 3 days ago (3 children)

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

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[–] plumbercraic@lemmy.sdf.org 24 points 3 days ago (7 children)
[–] fujiwood@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago

PSO: pizza shaped object

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[–] lgsp@feddit.it 16 points 3 days ago

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

[–] BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] TomAwsm@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

I'd argue that as long as the base is a Margherita (dough, pizza sauce and cheese), anything you choose to put on top of it doesn't take away from the fact that it is a pizza.

Substitute any of the ingredients of the Margherita though, and we're in murky waters.

[–] doingthestuff@lemy.lol 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] LordWiggle@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago (2 children)
[–] Gold_E_Lox@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 days ago

pizza with spaghetti on top

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#2 is my house

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