I know every country has at least one: Australians have vegemite, Americans have hamburgers, Danes have sylte (a gelatine loaf made out of pig’s hooves and unidentifiable odds and ends from the animal) and Norwegians have:
The wedge is self-explanatory (if you can’t read, the picture of prawns might help), but the first one: dead pig and cheese – in a tube!
13 September, 2010 at 6:30 pm
Had any of that brown cheese yet?
13 September, 2010 at 6:39 pm
Within the first couple of days, but it wasn’t quite as gross as the skinkeost.
13 September, 2010 at 10:40 pm
I think I just vomited a little in my mouth.
Also, there are many foods in America more disgusting than the hamburger. I mean, the variety of “food” that can be sprayed out of a can alone…
14 September, 2010 at 3:03 am
Point taken, Colin (and good to see you pop up again). The Danes even have a phrase for that little experience you have just had: surt opstød, literally ‘sour upthrust’.
17 September, 2010 at 11:45 pm
Yes, it is terrible, but that shrimp-”cheese” looks Danish to me?? (not that I need to defend Norwegian “cuisine”…
18 September, 2010 at 1:14 am
Actually, Erik, as you know better then me, most of these culinary delights are common across Scandinavia, but it is the tube that gets me, even caviar in a tube.
18 September, 2010 at 1:27 am
I think quotation-marks is needed also for the “caviar.” That said, there are minor differences between the Swedish and the Norwegian version of “caviar,” but that doesn’t take away your argument that this is Scandinavian.
29 September, 2010 at 7:43 pm
Aww come on! Don’t insult the dead pig! Skinke Ost is actually quite good! I like it!