#christmas in norway

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Hei! What kind of foods you eat at Christmas in Norway? Are there some traditional foods, some new favourites? Are there regional changes?

This is a pretty good article on Christmas food in Norway, complete with regional variation. They get some things not exactly wrong, but odd, like "meatballs" - no, they're more like small patties. We have medisterkaker (pork suet patties) and medisterpølser (pork suet sausages) or saucisses with the pork rib, not meatballs. Also we serve a lot more veg with it than the article says.

I definitely prefer pinnekjøtt, by the way, although I'm born and raised in a pork rib region. I think most Norwegians have tasted most Christmas food and many aren't stuck on tradition, although it can be a right bother to change something. I never got my in-laws to understand that saucisses (what I grew up with) are vastly superior to big thick pork suet sausages (what my husband grew up with), for instance.

We don't have rice pudding for dessert, although I get why the writer calls it that. It's rice cream, rice porridge (leftovers from dinner on the 23rd or lunch on Christmas Eve) mixed with whipped cream/vanilla/some sugar. I prefer Danish risalamande with finely chopped almonds mixed in. Swedish apelsinris is really good, too.

The article fails to mention that nut roast is the go-to for vegetarians and vegans. It's tasty and it goes well with the traditional sides for both pork and lamb rib.

Wildly un-traditional Christmas foods here are venison, turkey or duck. I prefer duck to everything else, I love duck. Wouldn't mind goose either. One year I had hare on Christmas Eve, because I was visiting a relative who lives in a hunting area, and that was great too.

Side note for people in other parts of the world: Norway is one of the countries that has the Big Celebration on Christmas Eve, not Christmas Day. On Christmas Day and Boxing Day traditions vary enormously.

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Anticipating the magic of Bergen, Norway blanketed in snow! ✨❄️🌃 By @kumaran.photography

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by mountainsofnorway

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Christmas 'Comet 46P/Wirtanen' Tree l Tommye Liassen

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Christmas Party

— by Lars Jorde

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Bodø Airport, Norway, 1954.

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Røldal Cabin, Norway - Reiulf Ramstad Arkitekter

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Evening in Helsinki, Finland

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friendly reminder the opening song to Frozen was originally a Christmas hymn sung to the tune of Fairest Lord Jesus

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Instagram credit: greengrid__

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can I request a mistletoe with gerita, one with fruk and one with scotnor?❤️❤️❤️

I suppose - since it's Christmas soon 🤔💖✨

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Walking through the forest, Åndalsnes, Norway. 

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honestly they were disrespectful to themselves. they let it get completely out of hand for a MONTH. the palace did this to themselves

yeah... look nobody will get me to agree with people being like 'conspiracy theorists have gone too far' 'you've all been disrespectful towards catherine' 'there was never a reason for any of this' 'you should be ashamed for what you said' etc etc etc. because like... first of all, again, i hold zero respect for these people. why the fuck should i. but even if i did... it's their own fucking fault???? the fuck?????? lmao?????????? literally only a handful of people gave a fuck until that doctored photo. and then they just kept making it worse. and i'm sorry but i actually don't think they're entitled to their privacy when their entire job is pr and they're blatantly lying in all their pr shit like ? what else are you good for lol. but then that also makes me angry because as much as i don't like kate for several reasons i'm still a bit genuinely offended at her behalf for how they've handled all this shit.. like making her take the blame for the photoshop (i hope for her sake it was her own idea, because otherwise........), having her appear alone in the video announcing her cancer (why tf isn't william there when she's talking about how he's by her side lmao), the general just lack of giving a fuck about anything whilst the world went wild theorising about her.... i can't tell whether she's taking the fall to cover for something else or if they're just all absolute assholes ?? again like. i don't like kate middleton. for many reasons. but i like william and charles a whole lot less and it's infuriating that they're making me feel like she's been wronged lmao