Tasting the best of Norway - Bergen Food Festival
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- čas přidán 7. 10. 2023
- We checked out one of Norway’s largest food festivals “Bergen Matfestival”. Norway holds some strange records for food, they are the largest consumers of Pepsi Max (in the world?!) and frozen pizzas - surely this can’t be all they eat…?
Join us tasting some of Norway’s best (and maybe strongest) foods and drinks.
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What a beautiful city and a great way to explore some of the interesting foods of Norway. The cider is definitely on my list to try, but fisken...kanskje 😊
Haha the fish actually was surprisingly good! We didn’t expect that either😅
Bacalao use to be eaten in Argentina for Easter. I do not know how much the tradition is followed this days. I am talking in the seventies. I was lucky we only have to eat fish the four days of Easter, but when my mother was a child, she has to go 40 days eating fish. That was in the '40 and '50. This days Easter is just another holiday...
Thanks a lot for the insight and also for coming back to one of our videos☀️
A very happy place to be x
Veldig fin video :)
You got a few things confused here, like the bacalao isn't a Norwegian dish, it's I believe Portugese or Spanish.
Yes but it uses the same dried fish.
Um, bacalao and stockfish is slightly different things.
Bacalao is the dish made from the stockfish rather then the stockfish itself.
Very true! We got things a bit confused
where was the food?
i hope this isn't another asian food and heart shaped waffles with gjetost cheese is the food scene of Norway. ridiculous
You’re a dumb Swede aren’t you?🤡
To a Brit and foodie, Norwegian cuisine is truly awful and an unfortunate reflection of Norway's dire lack of arable land and unforgiving climate on the periphery, geographically and culturally, which have failed to promote development of a healthy, enjoyable food culture. Romanticising crude traditional preservation methods (used to get through an impoverished winter) is a stretch, even for Norway. Good grief, nor can real cider be fermented from dessert apple juice! Cider is supposed to be cider, not "white wine". Local small-scale producers can sometimes offer something pleasing, but the harsh reality is that they generally don't have the natural resources available to make it "Norwegian". I'm still trying to figure out why it's so difficult to buy a nice piece of cod in Norway. Norway has a big cod fishery. What's going on? The best cod I've managed to buy in Norway was Norwegian and reimported by the UK supermarket chain "Iceland". Nice spuds (potatoes) are rarely available in Norway. Are the spud monopoly in Norway interested in producing spuds for aquavit rather than the table? The Swedes manage to grow good King Edward potatoes, so it's not Norway's climate that prevents a better variety of spud in Norway. I think it boils down to an uninspired Norwegian palate, lack of enthusiasm for enjoying food (our most valuable currency, as it happens) and reluctance of Norway's food mafia to not limit its profits and shareholder "value" at any cost to its hoodwinked consumers. Sorry, but Norway has the most depressing cuisine in Europe. Pretending otherwise is a very strange PR stunt that, like many, simply doesn't wash very well.
Bro wrote a book to display his ignorance.
Book? Great idea. And I challenge you to disprove anything I have pointed out here. Anything. Over to you.
I see some of your points but it seems like most of your experience are based on the bad stuff. I always have fresh seafood available near me. The cider is really good. We make great cheese, maybe not the best selection. I find the potatoes nice and in good quality, again maybe not the best selection, but it is possible to find what you want with som determination. I think the. Norwegian palate is fine but we may need some more influence from other great food countries. Most food cultures are based on preservation I think.
I've been living in Norway for over 10 years. Prior to that, from 1997, I traveled to Norway at least twice a year to visit my wife's family. As an open-minded foodie, I have tried most things in Norway. I quite like Norwegian aquavit, but my honest opinion is that Norwegian cuisine is boring to bland to over preserved/over processed. There's simply not much pleasure to be had eating like a Norwegian. Even shopping in Norwegian grocery stores is a thoroughly depressing experience. I prefer genuine cider made from fermenting cider apples, not dessert apples. There's a world of difference. Ask the Brits, French and Spanish, for example. I'm very confident that if valid comparisons were done to compare food items in Norway with similar food items other countries, e.g., potatoes for potatoes, Norway is going to get ranked bottom. Norway hasn't ever been a nation of productive farmers and grocery storekeepers competing for consumers enthusiastic about food. The lack of development in food culture in Norway cuisine is undeniable. Given that Norway is on the periphery, geographically and climatically, with a general lack of fertile arable land, which is why Norway is officially the world's least self-sufficient nation, this is hardly surprising at all.
Welcome back John, we are happy that you share your opinion even though some off them are a bit extreme. But exactly on food culture I would agree with you, coming from
Copenhagen, where the food scene simply is way bigger and the generall focus is on raw fresh made food and not hyper processed.
But exactly for that reason we need food festivals like these, so that frozen pizza consumption is brought waaaay down. You should try the cider though, we really enjoyed it.