Comments on: How to Eat Pølse – Norwegian Style

By: vick

vick — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 22:13:04 +0000

can anyone suggest how to buy norwegian food especially polsers lompe brod etc or if there is any norwegian restaurant beside ikea.. i live in washington dc area

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from L-Jay:

Ok – I’m going to say it before a Norwegian does…lol – Ikea isn’t Norwegian, it is Swedish. Swedes don’t have lompe and their sausages aren’t like Norwegian ones. Try a specialty goods market – usually those markets that sell butchered meats, farm produce and fresh dock fish can have a continental small goods section too.

By: Beth

Beth — Sat, 09 Jul 2011 14:25:58 +0000

So happy I actually found crispy onions in the shops a couple of days ago which got me thinking.. What are the various white sauces called that you have with pølse/burgers? It’s been two years since I was last in Norway. I want to see if I can recreate the experience here.

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from L-Jay:

Thousand Island dressing which is pinky-orange is the most popular for burgers. (It is generally called ‘hamburger dressing’. White sauces are generally garlic dressing, ‘hotdog’ dressing, Sour cream dressing, Bearnaise. They are almost all the same (white sauce/cream/mayo base) but with one different ingredient to call them different.

By: David

David — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 17:43:38 +0000

I can’t believe I had to wait until 2011 to discover the joys of pølse! There’s nothing in Britain that can match a lovely baconpølse from a kiosk after a hard day’s hiking. I’m quite partial to the crispy onion too, although I had no idea what it was when I first saw it

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from L-Jay:

If you don’t already know, you can buy the crispy onion by the bag at the supermarket. It is called Sprøstekt løk, and is usually near the powdered potato/spice section. It is only about 12kr too. Go mad!

By: Joshua

Joshua — Mon, 30 May 2011 22:13:20 +0000

Pølse are absolutely no different than a hotdog you buy in any store in north america, the UK etc. They are the lowest form of “meat”. They should never be mixed up with Sausage (real meat grounded and mixed with various spices).
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from L-Jay:

Hence the first line of the post: ‘pølse’ is just sausage similar to a Hot Dog or Frankfurter’. The Norwegian word ‘pølse’ directly translates to ‘sausage’ even though this ‘sausage’ is not the same understanding of ‘sausage’ as in the UK or US. It is the same difference with ‘thong’. In Australia it means a thin rubber shoe for the summer but in the US (and Norway) it means an underwear that has a string between the butt cheeks. It doesn’t mean one is right and the other is wrong – just different understandings. But if you think like a Norwegian ‘sausage’ would certainly not be wrong.

By: George Lindell

George Lindell — Sat, 02 Apr 2011 22:27:20 +0000

I would like to add that this recipe goes back the late 1800′s when my relatives came over from Norway.