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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

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Post by atomwaffel »

cylinder wrote: post #283
ChuckNorris89 wrote: post #276

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Is the workday 6 hours in Norway? When I was there it was 8. What you said makes no sense to me.

I'm highly sceptical of this meme online that office workers in Scandinavia, Germany etc quickly get their work done and focus on productivity and leave as early as they can each day instead of waiting till 1730 or whatever. I know better now that this doesn't actually exist anymore these days.

Nope, working in Norway, I can confirm that the office gets very empty very quickly after 16:00, and more than once have I been reminded not to stay all day when I was still at my desk around 17:00.

Re: How to pack a Norwegian sandwich, the world’s most boring lunch

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Post by vidarh »

Broken_Hippo wrote: post #184
Moru wrote: post #46

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Warning, Kalles Kaviar actually contains sugar and lots of it. It's horrible, and I'm swedish. They actually make ads on the TV with people from other cultures trying to eat it. It's not as bad as surströmming but ew...

I can believe they have those ads! To be fair, though: My spouse, the resident Norwegian, really likes it. Soetimes with a sliced, hard-boiled egg. But he's also been eating it since he was a child as it is a cheap and easy thing to make children. It is more akin to American children with peanut butter. I, however, being the import to Norway, find it fairly disgusting.

As a Norwegian, I agree with you it's disgusting.

Re: How to pack a Norwegian sandwich, the world’s most boring lunch

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Post by Vaskivo »

camillomiller wrote: post #137
opdahl wrote: post #16

I'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

As a Portuguese, I feel you.

For us meals, especially lunch, are of the utmost importance.

And it's a crucial element at work. It's a moment of bonding and team-building. If you want to make a team-building activity in Portugal, forget all those annoying and stupid activities. Just gather everybody around a table with food.

Re: How to pack a Norwegian sandwich, the world’s most boring lunch

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Post by phonypc »

flurdy wrote: post #232
Smithalicious wrote: post #85

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This post is kind of offensive to me, as if we're all corporate slaves who skip """proper""" lunch for "productivity". Most of us eat that way even during weekends and holidays, so it's clearly not true. I wouldn't eat elaborate meals at lunchtime even if I never had to work at all. The last thing we need is people in other countries who have nothing to do with us telling us our food culture isn't "proper".

As a Norwegian that worked abroad, then back in Norway for 6 years before going abroad again, one thing I do not miss from Norway is the work lunches. God that was depressing, and stressful. The mad rush to the compulsory office canteen, buy some basic food, throw the food in, and run back to your desk as you only have a 30 minutes lunch break. No chance of going outside for a short walk to get some oxygen, little ch…

Different strokes.

Having mostly worked in an industry where formal breaks largely don't exist, I find returning to work after more than 10 minutes painful. I hated the one place with mandated 30 minute lunches because I'd be completely unwound by the end of it and just wanted to go home.

Re: How to pack a Norwegian sandwich, the world’s most boring lunch

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Post by Vrondi »

opdahl wrote: post #16

I'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…

It is lovely that you have that option. For many American workers, if you work through your lunch, you do not then get to leave early. You've just donated your lunch hour as extra work time to the company, and you will often not get it back. It does vary, of course.

Re: How to pack a Norwegian sandwich, the world’s most boring lunch

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Post by wavefunction »

2rsf wrote: post #277
YeGoblynQueenne wrote: post #243

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In the Mediterranean, where we pretty much all have a variant of the siesta, it gets very hot [1] around the middle of the day. At that point, you have two options: a) You can stay on and try to work in the heat. b) You can go home, have lunch, take a little nap and return in the evening when it's cooler. Option (a) means you spend the next three or four hours in a zombie-like state with your brain addled by the heat…

Shops being closed 14-16 used to be a thing in Israel when I was a child, now with the introduction of air conditioning and modern work ethics it's not really a thing anymore.

>modern work ethics

Don't kid yourself when comparing the present to the past (and for some, still present) with sun-up to sun-down manual labor.

Re: How to pack a Norwegian sandwich, the world’s most boring lunch

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Post by ChuckNorris89 »

atomwaffel wrote: post #321
cylinder wrote: post #283

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I'm highly sceptical of this meme online that office workers in Scandinavia, Germany etc quickly get their work done and focus on productivity and leave as early as they can each day instead of waiting till 1730 or whatever. I know better now that this doesn't actually exist anymore these days.

Nope, working in Norway, I can confirm that the office gets very empty very quickly after 16:00, and more than once have I been reminded not to stay all day when I was still at my desk around 17:00.

Ok, but everywhere in Europe people start leaving after 16 the question was whether the working day is 6 hours or 8 in Norway?

Re: How to pack a Norwegian sandwich, the world’s most boring lunch

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Post by mcv »

Still fancier than a Dutch sandwich, which is just two slices of buttered bread with some cheese or something in between. Or just one slice which is folded.

(Although in recent years a lot of Dutch workers have discovered the fancier lunches from foreign traditions.)

Re: How to pack a Norwegian sandwich, the world’s most boring lunch

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Post by mcv »

username90 wrote: post #176
arcosdev wrote: post #144

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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.

Being happy eating boring food is a superpower, lets you focus on more interesting parts of life.

I agree with the first part of that sentence, but good food is absolutely one of the more interesting parts of life. It's just that it can be very convenient if you can eat without it having to be an interesting meal.
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