Hei hei! Since folks were interested in the follow up, here’s some pics from the Norweigan festival at a local “Sons of Norway” lodge here in the U.S. for your judging 😅 Thanks for your tips on what to buy!

This is a very small event the group hosts once a year to open up the lodge to guests and sell imported Norweigan or other Scandinavian goods and homemade treats. “Lodges” in the U.S. are an interchangeable term both for a cultural group run by 2nd+ gen immigrants and expats, and the houses or buildings they’re run out of that are usually renovated with cultural flourishes. This one is a renovated house in a random neighborhood. There is no major Scandinavian population here but this is outside of Washington, DC, where there are expats and small pockets of ancestry from everywhere.

Of course this is not going to be completely authentic because…this isn’t in Norway 😂 Yes, the almond cakes were there again but I didn’t get to ask anybody what they’re about since y’all said they’re not a thing in Norway! You learn something new everyday.

Anyway — bought for home:
– Kransekake cookies
– Fattimann
– Solo sodas
– Nuggati
– Nora lingonberry jam
– Toro RømmeGrøt
– Gudbrand brown cheese
– 2 giant bars of Freida melkesjokalde😃😃😃

Ate there:
– Waffles with lingonberry jam (no brown cheese at the cafe this year!)
– Lefse with butter and cinnamon
– Hot dog in lefse
– Cardamom hot chocolate
– Norweigan coffee

The highlight of this festival are the things for kids: rides with a Fjord horse and petting the lundehunds and forest cats.

by Murky_Dragonfly_942

41 comments

  3. So cool to see the Lundehund! Such neat little dogs 🥰🐶🤩

  4. Finally, a place where Freia chocolate costs EVEN more than in Norway (11.50$ = 116 NOK)!

    All jokes aside, looks like a good haul

  8. Hm.. i really dont understand what those almond cakes are.. and the kransekake cookies, doesnt look like there is any kransekake there.. they look kind of like “berlinerkrans” i guess, but its a completely different thing.

  10. You don’t usually use tyttebærsyltetøy on vafler (if that’s what I see in the second picture?). Try butter and brunost instead! And make it a double decker! Or just do the traditional sourcream and jam topping. Tyttebærsyltetøy is usually used for dinner plates like kjøttkaker or stirred into brown sauce, either when making it or on-plate. But do whatever you like 🙂

    Also, fattigmann is the correct spelling (means poor man).

    Looks like I need to come over there to correct a few misunderstandings. Would be a decent reason to visit the US I guess!

  11. Nice! Did you put tyttebærsyltetøy on waffles? It’s usually used more like cranberry sauce would be used in the US.

    The christmas cookie is called FattiGmann btw, misspelled on the box. Means poor man. The kransekake cookies is probably not something any Norwegian born granny would make, but they probably taste good. Just look up what traditional kransekake looks like 🤤😋

  12. Why is everyone so wrong about brown cheese? Norwegians too. Ok they make good rauost in Gudbrandsdalen, but the Tine one is nothing like that and does not deserve the throne. The blue goat cheese pack does, it is way closer to the real thing.

  14. Mounted flagfarting even! 1st price trepartsamarbeid I assume..?

  15. I wonder who was in charge of the food as everything (not including the lefse baking) look incredibly messy.

  16. Nora jam is the best in the world. Have three jars in my fridge now that i brought home from Oslo last week!

  18. Looks like a Swedish Christmas glögg managed to sneak into photo 15, trying to infiltrate the Norwegian holiday spirit without us noticing

  19. As a Norwegian I can say, that is a real good Norwegian Christmas haul. Although I have never heard of that book, that might just be my interest

  20. freia isn’t even norwegian to begin with (not anymore)

    can’t find a more american product

  21. Fresh lefse

    «Sei mæ, e læmsa fersk? Villj itj eta nå gammellæms!»

  22. I bet for some of these things a lot of Norwegians wont really recognize unless they are older. Like the rosettbakels, those are not very common anymore, but my grandmother always had them around christmas. Serinakake and fattigmann is still well known as part of the “7 sorts” we traditionally bake for christmas (most people dont anymore).

  23. I’m impressed by the selection of goods! And by the presence of a fjording, that’s really cool. Looks like it was fun, op!

  25. Kransekake.. cookies? I’m offended and hurt, because that might actually work better than a sausage-roll.

  27. A fucking 70 NOK pølse and lefse!! I make those as the football canteen for 30! 🥰

  28. Freia was bought by Mendelez. As Norwegian as McDonalds these days.

  29. Looks like most of it is actually Norwegian and not «european stuff»! Nice.

    Where was this?

  30. Thanks for the pictures OP, really interesting.

    Also kransekake cookies sounds good – that’s some US Norwegian fusion food right there 🙂

  32. Really cool that they have some Lundehund dogs there. It’s a lovely breed, so full of life and character, even if their current natural habitat seems to be to run out into the road to chase after cars and get surprised that things don’t work out when they catch them.

  33. Legit, although it’s “fattigmann”. Directly translated to poor man, basically because the ingredients are expensive. Rømmegrøt is for Olsok, in the summer. Risengrynsgrøt is for winter, or the fjøsnisse

  37. Waffles with lingonberry jam? That can’t have been good. It’s usually used with savory dishes like meatballs.

  38. You’re not supposed to eat the lundehund. It’s not so many left

  39. Cool, lots of authentic Norwegian goodies, although I’ve never really had vanilla bread or hot chocolate with cardamom. Maybe it’s from some specific place and not where I live. Oh, and if you want the correct names Fattimann = Fattigmann, Haverflarn = Havreflarn.

  40. Not a kid, but the fjord horses are my favorite part of the DC market every year 🥰🥰

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