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High school Norwegian here, I try to bring "matpakke" every day to school, and often I don't have the time - though really I just don't take the time - or ingre
by Jenz 8y ago
High school Norwegian here, I try to bring "matpakke" every day to school, and often I don't have the time - though really I just don't take the time - or ingredients to put together a very good meal, but of course, it'd be much better to have a great lunch!
- "... it should be a disappointment." No ... it shouldn't.
- "First, the base must consist of boring brown bread; custom dictates that only the highly processed supermarket kind will do," What? I'm shocked, while it's true that it's very common to use supermarket bread, it's an absolutely ridiculous statement to say that it must do so... I mean, why?
- "It’s also taboo to add salad or slices of delectable cured meat," Nope.
- etc.
Absolutely agree the article contains some bullshit.
- vidarh 8y agoIt's particularly ridiculous to talk about "highly processed supermarket kind" in a BBC article. I'm Norwegian. I live in the UK. Hardly a week goes by when I don't miss Norwegian supermarket bread - to get bread of that quality in the UK you mostly need to take time to go to a proper baker, and finding decent bakers (no, to anyone from the UK, Greggs is not a baker by any reasonable standard) in the UK is hard many places. It's common to use supermarket bread in Norway because supermarket bread in Norway is nowhere like the "highly processed supermarket kind" you can typically expect in the UK. And, frankly, what is generally a disappointment to me is when I for whatever reason doesn't have any alternative but the ubiquitous pre-made sandwich packs from UK supermarkets, that people here seems to accept as decent sandwiches. The bread is usually bland and awful, and they manage to make all kinds of combinations of nice ingredients into a stereotype of why British cuisine has a poor reputation.