TIL the country that eats the most pizza per capita is Norway.
TIL the country that eats the most pizza per capita is Norway.
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Can attest. Just visited Norway and although I wanted to eat authentic Norwegian cuisine, pizza was everywhere. Easier to find than seafood and I was staying in a port city.
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Nothing like freshly fished pizza, that's what I always say.
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lol
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Grandiosa shouldn't count
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PSO: pizza shaped object
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title didn't say most good pizza per capita
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NO frozen pizzas should count
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I don't really mind a Red Baron or Tony's. I think frozen pizza fails most dramatically when it forgets what it is. A home oven can manage a cracker-style crust kind of okay, and within the category of frozen pizza it can be better or worse. It's the rising crust and "gourmet flatbread" and the overly-topped nonsense where frozen pizza just becomes a sad mush of unfulfilled ambition.
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Which is crazy because pizza I'm Norway is not that good
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It's important to mention that the vast majority of pizza eaten in Norway is frozen pizza. Grandiosa is the most popular brand and it costs about as much as a restaurant pizza anywhere else
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Can confirm. I worked at Peppes for 4 years. It's trash.
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What they call pizza here is more like frozen cardboard. No, it's really "not that good" at all
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Is it just a vehicle for eating fish with your hands though?
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As is a fish taco.
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We Italians eat too much pasta to be able to top the pizza rankings!
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Can you call it pizza, though? If it has kebab, and shrimp, and banana, and peanuts, and mayonnaise is it actually a pizza, or is it simply a scattering of food on a plate that happens to be made of bread?
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I'd argue that as long as the base is a Margherita (dough, pizza sauce and cheese), anything you choose to put on top of it doesn't take away from the fact that it is a pizza.
Substitute any of the ingredients of the Margherita though, and we're in murky waters.
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Ok WHAT. What do Italians eat then?
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They're mostly filter feeders, the constant hand movements are a dead giveaway
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Pasta.
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they for sure dont prepare a pizza after work nor buy frozen ones.. so the competition is a bit unrelateable. Compare pizzas made, italy would be #1 because tourism
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Oh, they have godly pizza over there. And gelato.
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With Møøse salami?
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Well they are right next door to the country that made an award-winning reindeer pizza out of spite, so probably
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Mynd you, møøse bites Kan be pretty nasti ...
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A møøse once bit my sister.
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maybe that's why they're so happy
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#2 is my house
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This just tells me you don't go to Norway and expect to be outside a lot =D
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Is it because they are rich and dont want to cook?
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A stupid combination of
lazyness, a very successfull ad campaign long ago and nostalgia.Same thing why they have taco friday (only due to texmex ads) or why they still stick to the absolutely boring bolle (rasinbreads) as main food for schoolkids.
Sorry for the rant, i just hate the food "culture" here..
Edit: ok lazyness is an unbased accusation, scratch that..
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Mama Mia!
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who would have known that Italians prefer to eat some weird bologna thing instead
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Doesn't Norway also drink way more coffee than any other nation or was that Sweden? I know Sweden has Fika, but I feel like Noway had another ridiculous record like that.
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That was Norway, yes.
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I bet I eat more than they do.
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But are you eating enough to be a country?
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I’m trying!
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It is easy to get most per capita if you are a small country
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Yes, it is a well known fact that Americans have more people per capita.
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America is fairly spread out with lots of unique places. The US population density is fairly low.
Some parts have nots of pizza and others have almost none
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This tracks. Two of my great-grandfathers were Norwegian, and one of my grandmothers was Italian. I love pizza.
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🎵You think you had a pepperoni, well not like this🎵
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The real question is... Do they have Transilvanian Hunger?
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I visited Norway once as a child and saw the biggest pizza of my life in a restaurant in Oslo. I didn’t get to eat one, though, I was only allowed to order the “small” pizza, which was the size of what I’d call a normal pizza, that is to say, quite big.
I didn’t eat so much pizza in the end, mostly hot dogs, so many hot dogs, like, almost every day? I don’t know if hot dog is that popular in Norway or if all this just happened to me for some mysterious reason.
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Pizza and hot dogs is like incredibly common here in Norway.
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That's so Texas of them.
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Ironically, the most popular frozen pizza in Norway, Grandiosa, is considered something of a national dish. It's also one of the worst frozen pizzas you'll ever try, and is mainly popular only because of nostalgia.
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I don't know what it says about me and my love for pizza, but your comment makes me want to try it even more.
I've tried many a bad pizza, but I've yet to find one inedible, and that makes me curious.
Mmmm apparently this is a Grandiosa. I’d eat that.
Looks like a Celeste frozen pizza. Ate those when we were poor and broke. I buy Screamin’ Silician nowadays, but the Celeste supreme one is still one of my guilty pleasures lol no joke.
It's definitely not inedible. It's just incredibly bland. Like most other Norwegian cuisine, unfortunately.
I knew a guy from Norway on a hostel in Argentina, I asked him what was their national dish and he told me that frozen pizza. I didn't believe him and forced to give me a Real answer and he show me the Wikipedia article of some fish buried on snow for 3 months.
Hah! Lutefisk, yet another dish that exists today purely for nostalgia. It would also probably fail every food safety test in existence today if it wasn't grandfathered in.
For those not in the know, it's fish preserved in lye, which is an extremely toxic substance. Preparing the dish involves cooking it for long enough to fully neutralise the lye, and any failure to fully do so results in poisoning, which can range from mild to extremely serious. I also hate to imagine what byproducts might be left behind as a result of the lye.
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