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Norway’s unofficial national dish

Norway’s unofficial national dish is a pizza. Frozen pizza is a thing invented by Americans, and brought to Norway in the seventies. But in Norway, we don’t just eat any frozen pizza. We eat Grandiosa. It is a Norwegian invention with a mild pizza sauce, and every new generation of Norwegian is raised on it. And as a student in Norway, you inevitably end up eating a lot of cheap food – in Norway that means Grandiosa. It is probably the most ubiquitous food eaten amongst Norwegian students.

So what does the plate look like when you return home from a semester in Russia? It looks like this:

Grandiosa
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