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Norway v Thailand Open Thread – Better Late Than Never

by Randinho|  June 7, 20151:55 pm| 19 Comments

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Oops, I lost track of time. In any event, Norway is pummeling Thailand 3-0 at the half. The Thais can take some comfort in knowing their food is better. Add your thoughts.

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  1. 1.

    Baud

    June 7, 2015 at 2:00 pm

    I don’t think I’ve ever eaten Norwegian.

  2. 2.

    Misterpuff

    June 7, 2015 at 2:01 pm

    Pad Thai FTW. I, however, am having Pho.

  3. 3.

    Randinho

    June 7, 2015 at 2:04 pm

    Baud, I have. Thai is way better.

  4. 4.

    Thor Heyerdahl

    June 7, 2015 at 2:30 pm

    @Baud: I had a reindeer steak once in Oslo with cranberry sauce…wasn’t bad.

    But you’ll find more Thai restaurants in Oslo and worldwide than Norwegian restaurants.

  5. 5.

    Bruce Webb

    June 7, 2015 at 2:37 pm

    I was a loyal member of the Normanna Lodge of the Sons of Norway for over ten years and went to the Lodge every day they were open. Because the Lodge Bar served really strong and cheap drinks. And during that time I saw more Norwegian dinners and banquets and Ladies lunches and wedding receptions and monthly Swedish (sic) Pancake breakfasts than you can count. So I know from Norwegian food, at least as prepared by those who emigrated to Minnesota and North Dakota and later to Washington State.

    It is white. Not just culturally ‘white bread’ white but literally white. Potatos and cod fish. With tasteless white sauce. White cheese. Color at a Norwegian buffet means a pimento on an open face sandwich (on white bread) or the festive orange and green of a carrot jello salad. Not everything is tasteless. For example you have lutefisk, or cod soaked in lye (the ‘lute’) and then boiled until you ALMOST can’t taste the lye any more. Also my lodge made EXCELLENT pickled herring, I used to try to sell tubs at our Annual Christmas Bazaar by telling the kids it was “fish candy”. Yumm! But also a color between off white and haze grey.

    Oh and forget spices. They would have to have come to Norway or North Da-KOH-tah from somewhere on the other side of the world (say just south of Thailand) and would have been too expensive and frankly too different for your fish and potato man. You want good Scandi-hoovian food? Go to Denmark. The Danes KNOW from smorgasbord. But from a culinary perspective Norway is a great place to be FROM. Though beautiful. And some of the friendliest people I know, both Norwegians and Norwegian-Americans. Maybe because they are not so distracted by their food that they can’t talk to you and tell stories. I mean you got to do SOMETHING around the table except drink. Which they also do very well.

  6. 6.

    Randinho

    June 7, 2015 at 2:41 pm

    And don’t even think of lutefisk.

  7. 7.

    Bruce Webb

    June 7, 2015 at 2:42 pm

    To be fair not every protein dish was cod. You had a very good chance of also being able to pile your plate with sliced roast pork loin. Also white.

    Oh and Norwegian-Americans like berries and berry pie. And berry syrup on those Swedish pancakes. Which are white.

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    Randinho

    June 7, 2015 at 2:51 pm

    Norwegian sweets are very good.

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    satby

    June 7, 2015 at 2:58 pm

    @Bruce Webb: @Randinho: Well, if it wasn’t for lutefisk I wouldn’t be able to get the food grade lye I use making soap.
    Which to me is what lutefisk tastes like.

  10. 10.

    John Revolta

    June 7, 2015 at 3:13 pm

    Mike Royko used to complain that there were no good ethic slurs for Norwegians. He concluded that they were just too nice.
    Some Swedish guy finally told him that they call the Norskis “Herring Chokers”. It’s not much, but in Chicago, ya gotta call a guy something when you’re arguing with him in a bar.

  11. 11.

    John Revolta

    June 7, 2015 at 3:15 pm

    Ethnic slurs, I mean. Stupid Mick.

  12. 12.

    A guy

    June 7, 2015 at 3:32 pm

    There’s frickin baseball on!

  13. 13.

    Tokyokie

    June 7, 2015 at 3:44 pm

    @Baud: I have. Pretty much all Norwegian food is boiled and gray. But Norway has excellent dairy products, and Norwegians like their beer and sodas really cold.

  14. 14.

    grrljock

    June 7, 2015 at 3:45 pm

    I was cheering for my fellow Southeast Asians. Hope they bring home great lessons that the rest of the region’s female athletes can apply.

    15 minutes to Germany vs Cote d’Ivoire!

  15. 15.

    Tokyokie

    June 7, 2015 at 3:49 pm

    @Tokyokie: Although Norway is one of the few places where one can get whale steak in a restaurant. When I was a kid, I had the chance to do so, but thought it was too wrong, so I didn’t. Afterward, I realized the whale from which the steak had been cut was dead whether I ate the steak or not, and I’ve regretted not having tried it ever since. Probably tastes like chicken.

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    Tokyokie

    June 7, 2015 at 3:57 pm

    @John Revolta: I remember reading that column and thinking, “Mike, the pejorative for Norwegians is ‘squareheads!’ ” Although I suppose it’s equally apt for other Scandinavians, so it’s not all that great, either.

    The oil company for which my father worked moved him to Norway before my senior year in high school, and I must agree with the previous post that Norwegians are possibly the nicest people in the world. Sadly, once North Sea oil exploration resulted in an influx of Americans, crime, which was previously largely nonexistent (although Jo Nesbø’s novels might make you think it’s a dangerous place), increased dramatically.

  17. 17.

    SRW1

    June 7, 2015 at 4:05 pm

    Cote d’Ivoire down by one after three minutes against RFA.

  18. 18.

    John Revolta

    June 7, 2015 at 4:21 pm

    @Tokyokie: “Square-headed herring choker” has a nice rhythm going. Now we’re getting somewhere!

  19. 19.

    MomSense

    June 7, 2015 at 4:46 pm

    @Thor Heyerdahl:

    The elk stew with potatoes and Brussel sprouts was also surprisingly tasty.

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