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How to pack a Norwegian sandwich, the world’s most boring lunch
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Re: How to pack a Norwegian sandwich, the world’s most boring lunch
#142Serious question: how is this enough calories for lunch? Assume you need 2,500 calories/day. Suppose you need a third of those at lunch, that's 830. (And given the traditional light continental breakfast, I'd expect an even larger lunch to compensate, so probably closer to 1,000.) A single sandwich with three layers of bread and three single layers of cheese or meat, can't be over 400 calories. I'd be starving and un…
Supper/dinner is normally larger and not late in the evening. Many make it right after getting home from work at 16-17. Your body is adaptive and get used to when you eat and how much you eat at any meal. Try to skip a meal and you will notice that the hunger feeling goes away around 1 hour after your normal meal time
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#143Earlier quoted context omitted.
One of the chain supermarkets I go to has a big sign announcing the time the next batch of fresh bread will come out of the oven. So, yes, in spite of the typical HN US-bashing, fresh bread is available in America.
This isn't even mentioning: 1. The chain of Brazilian bakeries around me 2. The fresh bread loaves baked at multiple larger Asian grocery stores. 3. The awesome Vietnamese bakery that sends out fresh baguettes daily. 4. The multiple dedicated Japanese bakeries making fresh bread. 5. The multiple dedicated Chinese bakeries making fresh loaves of bread. 6. The multiple local American bakeries that deliver fresh bread t…
I should have been clearer, with "good bread" I meant dark whole-grained bread, not white stuff like loaf and baguettes. Sorry, just my Norwegian bubble I guess.
Re: How to pack a Norwegian sandwich, the world’s most boring lunch
#144I'm a Norwegian, and where I work I have the option of eating a big warm lunch, but I very rarely do. I've noticed that eating a big lunch makes the following hour extremely unproductive, so for the last year I have made a matpakke with 3 slices of bread. Normal _pålegg_ is liver paste, cheese or peanut butter. I can easily go through my lunch in just few minutes, and even while working at the same time. My thought p…
As an Italian, I am profoundly offended by this statement and most of the comments in this thread :D
Italian Canadian, living in Norway. You have no idea the level of mangia cake going on here. It's like no one's palate evolved past preschool.
Re: How to pack a Norwegian sandwich, the world’s most boring lunch
#145Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 3 slices of bread ... liver paste, cheese or peanut butter ... waste 2 hours in the middle of the day on a heavy calorie lunch How many calories are in your sandwich though?! Sounds extremely calorie dense!
It's a single slice of cheese or meat. American deli-style sandwiches where there is more filling than bread are not a thing in Scandinavia. Also, if you were wondering what's up with "caviar" as a topping, it's this stuff made from cod roe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalles_Kaviar
The filling is not what adds to the calories though, it's the bread.
Re: How to pack a Norwegian sandwich, the world’s most boring lunch
#146This is the lunch I grew up eating in the U.S. Personally, I much prefer it over all the crap most people eat for lunch. But then again, my family is Swedish, so no surprise I guess.
Interestingly, Sweden and Norway differ a lot when it comes to lunch culture. Here, people generally bring leftovers of yesterday's dinner in boxes to heat up at work or they go out to a lunch restaurant. Almost invariably proper, hot meals. If you bring just a sandwich or two to work people will kind of look at you funny like "that's not REAL food"
Re: How to pack a Norwegian sandwich, the world’s most boring lunch
#147Serious question: how is this enough calories for lunch? Assume you need 2,500 calories/day. Suppose you need a third of those at lunch, that's 830. (And given the traditional light continental breakfast, I'd expect an even larger lunch to compensate, so probably closer to 1,000.) A single sandwich with three layers of bread and three single layers of cheese or meat, can't be over 400 calories. I'd be starving and un…
Supper/dinner is normally larger and not late in the evening. Many make it right after getting home from work at 16-17. Your body is adaptive and get used to when you eat and how much you eat at any meal. Try to skip a meal and you will notice that the hunger feeling goes away around 1 hour after your normal meal time
Yeah, and we often eat the additional meal "kveldsmat" (evening food) right before bedtime, which is often just another pair of brødskiver or left-overs.
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#148In Chile, eating this kind of sandwich is also very common. Not so much for lunch but for dinner. Sometimes even just bread and butter. I feel in the US people are obsessed with eating "nice and flavorful" stuff instead of eating something because you actually need to eat.
Butter is riddled with controversy in the American mind. However, I think many people whip up PBJ on the fly pretty frequently. Lots of protein, carbs for brain fuel, and a hit of sugar to perk you up and tide you over. Throw in a banana sliced longwise and it can become a meal.
Re: How to pack a Norwegian sandwich, the world’s most boring lunch
#149Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's a single slice of cheese or meat. American deli-style sandwiches where there is more filling than bread are not a thing in Scandinavia. Also, if you were wondering what's up with "caviar" as a topping, it's this stuff made from cod roe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalles_Kaviar
Yes I'm European as well. Still seems like an extremely hefty sandwich from the video...
British slices of bread are usually far larger than Norwegian ones.
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#150Clearly the author has never been to the Netherlands.