What Norwegians Eat For Dinner

Random strangers on the streets of Trondheim, Norway, tell us about Norwegian dinner. The subtitles are in their dialect, the equivalent in Bokmål, and then translated to English.

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00:00 Intro
00:15 What did you eat for dinner last night?
01:25 What's a typical Norwegian dinner?
04:20 How's the Norwegian dinner culture?
07:44 When do you eat dinner?
09:00 Where does your dialect come from?

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[SimpleNorwegian]

I’m surprised nobody mentioned "taco friday". Many Norwegians eat tacos and tortilla wraps on fridays, to the point that it has turned into a cultural term: tacofredag.

[OpgevoedeBarbaar]

Today I learned that Norwegians eat more Italian food than Italians do.

[bahars]

The guy at 2:04 is always clueless and I find it adorable. He never says anything firmly and is always full of doubt

[alvegutt]

norway has the longest coast line of europe. my mom grew up by the coast and she says she had fish for dinner 5 days a week

[unitedastronomer]

it's already 2 AM for me and i'm about to sleep but then this was recommended to me, and i am not mad about it.

[ElReyGarcia]

I'm from Denmark and the most surprising thing for me was how early dinner is in Norway. Here i'ts normally around 6 or later in the evening, but not 4-5

[noodlechan_]

In Portugal we eat “lanche” which can be translated as having a snack, around 4 to 5 pm and we have dinner between 8 and 9 pm, and we have “ceia” in the evening (light meal in the evening).

[bashnagata]

I'm Minnesotan of mostly Norwegian decent. I think my family eats more traditional Norwegian food than most Norwegians do. 🙂 And not just lutefisk on Christmas. 🙂

[SeekingSnow]

Thanks for putting these great little videos together so I can learn and practice the language of my ancestors! Tusen takk!!!

[rie]

I used to live in Norway for 10 months.🇳🇴 I miss there and I definitely go there again!!

[PrinsRupert]

I am a Norwegian and this is my usual dinners every week:
*Monday* Emmer spaghetti with fermented sauerkraut (usually made out of red cabbage), some vegetables, some chicken, and a glass of kombucha.
*Tuesday* Homemade organic tomato soup (with some eggs and vegan meat) and a glass of kombucha.
*Wednesday* Grated cauliflower with some black rice, sauerkraut, fried fish (usually Scottish mackerel) and kombucha.
*Thursday* Homemade organic vegetable soup (with some meat, either chicken or lamb) and a glass of kombucha.
*Friday* Usually taco made out of 10-20% chicken meat and rest beans (like pinto beans) or a bean mix (like black beans, kidney beans, chickpeas, etc) which I make the rest of the taco meat out of. Vegetables and taco shells and taco sauce with lots of spices. All organic and made from GMO-free corn. And a glass of kombucha of course ;)
*Saturday* Third soup of the weekday, with soups that vary from week to week... Or if I am lazy, just a pizza ;()
*Sunday* Same as Wednesday, grated cauliflower with some black rice, sauerkraut, fried fish (usually Scottish mackerel) and kombucha.
As for the sauce, I usually use olive oil (with Demeter quality) with lots of different spices. (All ingredients on this list is made of organic ingredients)

[kangawroon]

0:22 I couldn't help noticing the kid in a leash throughout the video

[eduardochavacano]

Norwegians are nicest travelers I meet. I only met a few. 3 were the nicest crazy people I met. Crazy but super smart and kind. That is why I love Norway and hope to visit it in the future.

[theodorep.]

Great videos, please continue to produce this amazing stuff. I love Norway since always and I have travelled there many times. Greetings from Athens, Greece.

[tronda.efraimsen]

I live in a fishervillage so fish is quite often on the table in various ways but you got like cod-tounge (Fried), lightly salted cod (boiled), Seibiff (fried Saithe/Coalfish) also Haddock can be fried. Fishcakes (Haddock mixed with flour and other ingredience and fried).. Fishballs (Haddock mixed flour and other ingredience and boiled)... often served with potatoes and various sauces.

Then you got lots of various meat like Meatballs, Får i kål, Ribbe (for me mostly at christmas), pinnekjøtt... there just is so much food to choose from... but ofcourse also some foreign type is normal.

[joaoleiteneto]

Hi, I'm from Brazil and I realy liked to see the way of life in norwegian streets. By the way, jeg studerer norsk og snakker litt norsk.

[oksemoerbrad]

Apparently most norwegians eat dinner, when im eating lunch.

[ysteinfjr]

Of traditional dinner they didn't mention porridge (like rice porridge and sour cream porridge) and sodd (specially for Trøndelag) mentioned.
"Potetball" (a mix of potato and flour) was mentioned. Other words for that is "klubb" (northern Trøndelag), "raspeballer" (Bergen/western Norway), "komla" (South West I think) and maybe other words. There are different ways to serve it.

[parykoye]

I enjoyed watching the video and I hope a day will come and I understand Norwegian

[seanodonnell]

I like how you placed the pizza image so it looked like the pigeon was pecking at it 🤣😂