Does anyone know what they’re eating? (Photo credit: Reuters) (sorry if wrong flair)

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1. Waffles with brown cheese slices. Ultranorwegian stuff.

2. It’s the national waffle day tomorrow, and that’s a waffle with brown cheese on. Brown cheese can be made from both goat, sheep and cows milk, and it’s made from the whey left over from milk production. Boiled down to a caramelly mass and then poured into moulds to harden.

3. Waffle with brown cheese. 35 NOK from the petrol station, I’d been eating one every morning on the way to work whilst I grab a coffee.

   Started this not long after New Year, weighed myself the other day, I’ve put on 3-4Kg.

   TLDR : Lethal

4. You get most of the “brunost” story here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brunost – and the recipe for Norwegian Waffles (“vafler”) here: https://www.visitnorway.com/things-to-do/food-and-drink/the-norwegian-cookbook/norwegian-waffles/

5. The country 🤡

6. Rutatkak med ganklæbb

7. 25th of mars is national waffleday. So it’s waffels. And they are eating it with brown cheese/brun ost.
   https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=X48nK25EilM

8. You can buy this brown cheese at least in some parts of the US. It is marketed under the name Ski Queen.

   That said, nobody have Norwegian waffles and brown cheese for breakfast, this is more like something sweet you have with your coffee after a meal or like an afternoon snack.

9. Human flesh.

10. Brunost

11. rutatkak med ganklabb

12. Brunost is whey mixed with cream and (goat or cow) milk that is condensed until solid

13. Brunost on waffles or toast with strawberry jam.. is my jam.

14. That is Hvetekake with sweet brown cheese. Wheat cake is a sweet bread cake cut into loaves. It contained often raisins and succade but as very few loves succade it’s now baked without. Usually served with our sweet goat cheese or jam and of course our delicious butter.

15. Goat cheese Norwegian style looks like a brown hard cheese but this one is sugared so it resembles more sweetened condensed milk that you boil for 4 hours. It becomes caramel-ish.

    It used to be considered as ultra healthy as it was mixed with iron which is a necessity for humans. Then some decades ago two Norwegian scientists found out that there are as many having too much iron as those who has too little, and they get the exact same symptoms which is really bad, so it was decided that all food that had been enriched with iron should stop with that.

    Geitost is today not enriched with iron and you get more or less goat tasting versions of it.

16. Tears of taxpayers

17. The “bread” looks like Norwegian waffle and the toppings look like brunost (brown cheese, caramelised type of cheese popular in Norway). A pretty stereotypical Norwegian treat, but one piece of waffle isn’t considered a real meal. This is just for show.

18. Grilled cheese sandwich- the breakfast of diplomats

19. This is post dinner coffee. Am I the only one who grew up this way? I doubt that.

20. This is the traditional norwegian version of a waffle and it’s thinner and it has a different batter than the Belgian or American version for instance

21. Brunost, boiled down whey into toffee on wheat bran bread most probably. Brunost, also known in ancient times as Jernbaneskinke, is sky high in fat, protein and calories and was a good condiment for hard working people. Nowadays it’s considered lethal among the health aware. The bland and boring people on the picture has it just for show to make voters think they’re down to earth, they never eat it.

22. sushi?

23. They forgot the jam on top of it

24. Just be careful. “Goat cheese” is totally different from “brown cheese”. People keep confusing the two terms. You are not allowed to call it “goat cheese” if there is no goat milk in it.
    And honestly, if you pick the one with goat milk you will not be happy 🙂
    “Brown cheese” is the one Norwegians miss when they go abroad. Sweet, caramel brown cheese. Even if we don’t eat a lot of it when home in Norway.

25. Brunost (brown ‘cheese’), possibly the worst Norwegian invention after Vinmonopolet.

26. In some places of Norway they rather prefer having a hot dog in the waffle instead of that brown cheese.. It’s been that case of pride that places and people quareling about [who “invented” it](https://www.nrk.no/osloogviken/svenskene-hevder-de-fant-opp-polse-i-vaffel-1.12279056)… Even Norways most famous chef made claim of being “the father of the dish”..

    So maybe they should have had a bratwurst in that waffle instead of the brown cheese.. A merger of norwegian and german culture/traditions..

27. Essentially boiled condensed goat milk that you slice and use on bread or in this case waffles, brown cheese as i’m sure you’ve been told. Brunost in Norwegian, very traditional, stories say it originates from Gudbrandsdalen, i’ve been to a school camp in Fagerhøy, and they claim to be the first to discover it. Don’t know the validity of that claim however.