Norwegian breakfast or lunch: biscuit (cracker) with salami and brown cheese
This is what I get to wake up to in the morning. I cannot stress enough how incredible the scenery is. After admiring the place I'll call home for the next 8 weeks, I ate some breakfast before embarking on my first day at a Norwegian middle school ( Ungdomsskule ). Food in Norway is insanely expensive due to a heavy consumer tax. Having said that, people in Norway are paid high wages. A starting teacher in Norway will make around 70,000 $ . In general, people eat much healthier in Norway, and I am hopping to do the same. The high prices work in my favor for that goal. An 12 oz Dr. Pepper costs 4$. Milk ( melk ) in Norway is a little strange compared to milk in the US. They differentiate milk by 1.5, 3.8, and 3.9 %. I'm partial to the 3.9 %. For breakfast and lunch, people generally eat fruit, a lean meat, ( mostly salami), cheese, and a hard bread or biscuit (cracker). There is a local cheese that is sweet, with a brown coloring. It is expensive, but very good. I'm attempting to learn Norwegian, but I get weird/confused looks from most people.
My mom wants to know what kind of fruit you are eating and if the cheese is goat/reindeer or cow.
ReplyDeleteThe brown cheese is from a cow. Most of the fruit is the same, I've had bananas, apples, and even some pineapple. However, there is a yellow berry that grows in the local mountains, which looks like a raspberry, but tastes quite a bit different.
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