Surf ‘n’ Turf: Norwegian Style
Even though I’m getting used to Norwegian food, every now and then I’ll discover the weird and the weirder. My family, (aka Moose), has some awfully strange eating habits.
It’s very usual to have fresh chicken eggs on bread for breakfast… with caviar on top! Eggs with eggs, hmmm – this must be the Norwegian version of the Surf ‘n’ Turf: ‘the menu is guided not by aesthetic concerns, but for the sake of vulgar display’ (wikipedia).
But I think the strangest thing is that the caviar comes in a tube. It is squeezed out like toothpaste on top of the eggs. You can get different varieties of flavour too – mayonnaise, cheese and… egg! So, egg with egg and egg for breakfast! Well, that’s one way to get your protein fix in the morning.
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Gosh, it certainly looks different. I’m going to ask my dad to visit your blog to check it out. I remember having bread and hard boiled eggs for breakfast but…caviar, I don’t think so.
Ha! We buy this from ikea all the time. I like the cream cheese one.
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from L-Jay:
You know that is one thing we don’t have here in Tromsø – an Ikea. Even though we live right next door to the country who invented it, there is no Ikea in all of Northern Norway. So we have to travel across the border to Sweden if we want cheap and colourful stuff.
i. can’t. stand. the. caviar. in. the. tube. thingy.
yuck yuck yuck.
funnily enough my mum loves it so i bring it back to indo whenever we go there.
btw, would it be ok if i add you to my blogroll?
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from L-Jay:
Ive never actually eaten it myself…lol. I think any food that fits in a spray can or tube has somehow past the stage of being food
Sure, you can certainly add us to your blogroll
We haven’t got one as yet – it’s one of the things on our ‘to-do’ list.
Tubed caviar was a mainstay for me while in Norway, nothing better than Mills (pink tube, not blue) on Wasa with a slice of Jarlsberg. Here, at the IKEA, you an get the Kalles in the blue tube, but I find that without some cream cheese mixed in, it can be a bit strong. Egg goes very well with it, either boiled and sliced, or scrambled, as it does with most seafoods, (smoked salmon of course).