I thought it was completely normal to eat caviar from a squeeze tube. I genuinely didn’t realize how strange that sounds until I saw the reaction from people abroad. Turns out, not everyone associates fish eggs with toothpaste packaging.

by snouskins

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  1. What most people think of when they think “Caviar” outside of Norway is like, the black russian caviar (or similar), this is *veery* different indeed

  2. Hang on! Is that caviar on cheese? That is what i thought was strange on that picture

  4. Most older norwegian food culture fr; smalahove, lutefisk, pinnekjøtt, fårikål, kaviar, torskerogn, svolværpostei etc are all very specifically norwegian that fucks people up when you explain it to them

  5. My dad always took us on summer holidays to monestaries to rape and pillage. I was well into my 20ies before realising this was a specifically Norwegian pastime. 

  7. Norwegians don’t spread cheese/caviar/mayonnaise from a tube after they have put it on their bread (as can be seen in the picture above).

    I personally find that strange, but all of my Norwegian colleagues do it.

  8. Black licorice. Though not only Norwegian, very Scandinavian. It’s my favorite candy and I thought pretty much everyone liked it. But when I moved to Oklahoma I could barely find it, and most people there considered it foul. And I had to do some mental inventory and be like: Wait… Are WE the weird ones?

  9. I was shocked about all the tinny packages of butter, honey and that caviar. Unbelievable waste of plastic.

  12. Off topic: It’s delicious! I’m from Italy and quite a “Norvegiophile” (I apologise for the awful attempt at a neologism) so every time I visit Norway I take back home a few tubes.

  13. Full name displays on your front door, and an open online registry of adresses + phone numbers

  14. The weirdest wtf moment for me was when I realized how very Norwegian “boller” is! It is such a simple concept, yet it’s not common outside Norway. Especially skoleboller!

    Semlor and kanelboller is common in Sweden and Denmark, but to my knowledge, ordinary boller is not. Mind blown.

  15. Påskekrim. 🐣🕵🏼‍♀️ Helt normalt å bruke hellidagene i påska på å lese påskekrim, se påskekrim og tenke på påskekrim vel…?

  16. Lol I’m literally eating this browsing reddit this morning. Kinda freaky. [https://imgur.com/a/qbxLOMT](https://imgur.com/a/qbxLOMT)

    Having a Norwegian parent growing up meant:

    – Always Brunost in the fridge.

    – At least 5 ostehøvels (cheese planers) in the drawer.

    – Wood clogs next to the front door.

    – Dual comforters, no top sheet, window open

    – Irrational craving for Salmon whenever I see it

  17. Påskekrim/Easter crime. We love watching crime shows and reading crime books during easter holiday.

  19. Pizza Grandiosa. Don’t serve this shit to Italians. Or anyone else for that matter. Or Joikaboller, marketed as meat balls from reindeer, The reindeer meat content is a whopping 11%. Other meat is 25%….

  20. When I was a kid in 80/90s it was totally normal to just wait in your friend’s room while they went to eat dinner with their parents. Most of the time the parents didn’t offer a plate, so you just awkwardly waited while they ate so you could continue to play afterwards. 

    My adult brain don’t get this at all.

    Nowadays my kids bring home kids almost every day and we always feed them. Of course. And my kids get food at their friends house too. 

    I hope this specific Norwegian thing is dead and buried. 

  22. Christmas sodas, every person I’ve asked from a different country has no idea what that is. And get weirded out when I explain it in detail.

  24. Skattelistene. I have yet to find anything similar anywhere. Probably is though, not dug **that** deep in it.

  25. Closing the country down the week before Easter and all of July….

  26. Eating bread for 2 meals every day, if not 3.

    Avoiding eye contact with strangers.

    Solo! No other orange sodas can compare to that liquid sunshine. Why it hasn’t gone global like Guarana or Gazoz is beyond my comprehension.

    Cross country skiing being the standard kind of skiing. When people talk about skiing in other countries, they don’t mean langrenn.

  28. Eating soft boiled eggs out of the shell with a spoon, and owning egg cups and a cheese slicer in the US. My grandpa was Norwegian.

    Eating soft boiled eggs is very much a European thing. I learned that many years later when a British friend living on Hawaii asked me, now living in Norway, if I could send him egg cups.

  29. Does anyone know where I can buy this in Canada or somewhere online that can ship it to Canada? I tried some in Iceland last year, and it was so good.

  31. Taco Friday, Saturday sweets, and Saturday pizza.

    Celebratory porridges- rømmegrøt med spekemat and risengrynsgrøt. Mmmm!

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