TIL the country that eats the most pizza per capita is Norway.
Have you ever wondered which country consumes the most pizza? No, it's not the United States or Italy, but Norway — and it's not even close.
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.
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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Good title: Norway Eats The Most Pizza
Bad title: You won't believe which country eats the most pizza!
Ragebait title written by and for idiots: This skinny people country eats more than this fatty people country!
Please don't consume shitty media folks. It exists because you consume it.
The country where nobody can cook and have no choice but to order pizza every day!
Like NYC. Every fridge has nothing but a couple of beers, a bottle of ketchup and some Chinese takeaway containers.
Boo! Down with Reddit!
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.
Nothing like freshly fished pizza, that's what I always say.
Just like mama used to make.
When I was in Iceland food was so expensive that I was happy to eat at a KFC because it was my first affordable meal.
lol
Grandiosa shouldn't count
PSO: pizza shaped object
title didn't say most good pizza per capita
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NO frozen pizzas should count
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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Is it just a vehicle for eating fish with your hands though?
I worked a Fish Farm for a few months. There were two things wrong with your sentence. ;-)
So they don't drive pizzas?
As is a fish taco.
Which is crazy because pizza I'm Norway is not that good
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
Can confirm. I worked at Peppes for 4 years. It's trash.
What they call pizza here is more like frozen cardboard. No, it's really "not that good" at all
We Italians eat too much pasta to be able to top the pizza rankings!
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?
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.
#2 is my house
maybe that's why they're so happy
When it's cold AF you love turning on the oven. My family eats crazy pizza, but not in the summer. The take out places near me aren't great. Of course cold places love pizza!
What is a crazy pizza?
pizza with spaghetti on top
(not sure if anyone will understand this reference, but here goes)
"If you want something crazy, like pineapple, I'LL KILL YOU!"
Is it because they are rich and dont want to cook?
I don't think Norwegians are rich; just happy. I think they're secure - food security, healthcare security, general safety, no lynching of gay people - in ways that other countries (ohai America and Somalia) may think is the kind of security only afforded to the very rich.
So, in this case, the people of Norway may appear rich to people who don't have their basic needs covered, and it may be an enviable state to be in, just to be free of the daily worry and grind for the most basic of needs, but I'm sure the average Norwegian doesn't identify as rich, and is not in a position to understand how well they have it in comparison to other countries.
Noone identifies as rich, because as you become richer, your social circle also becomes richer. So you never really feel rich, because there are other people who are, significantly, richer than you.
If you dont worry about food, shelter and healthcare then you are rich(or at least "middle class"), ie free to do whatever the fuck you want with no risk or fear. You can have very low personal net worth but if your family(and/or society) has your back, no matter what, then you are not poor.
And since Norway has one of the highest home ownership rates, among non shitty countries, then even from a networth point of view, most norwegians probably have 500k+ € networth. Most countries with high home ownership are poor countries, where houses are cheap and shitty(people are migrating out of the country, so a lot of houses are available). Or countries like China and Singapore, where housing is a major priority for the government.
And in before "communism", Singapore is one of the most capitalistic countries on the planet. But providing housing is a big part of their social contract and how the dictatorship has managed to maintain control over the country for over half a century with minimum opposition. And tbh, the chinese government is similar. Authoritarian but provides economic prosperity/housing in order to keep society stable. Also communist mostly in name but actually capitalistic.
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..
Ok WHAT. What do Italians eat then?
They're mostly filter feeders, the constant hand movements are a dead giveaway
Pasta.
Oh, they have godly pizza over there. And gelato.
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
This just tells me you don't go to Norway and expect to be outside a lot =D
With Møøse salami?
Well they are right next door to the country that made an award-winning reindeer pizza out of spite, so probably
Mynd you, møøse bites Kan be pretty nasti ...
A møøse once bit my sister.
who would have known that Italians prefer to eat some weird bologna thing instead
Mama Mia!
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.
That was Norway, yes.
Yeah but they put like mayonnaise on their pizza and fish
Tuna pizza is the best, and Americans are so missing out on it with their bizarre narrowminded gatekeeping of pizzatoppings. Americans have like 3 things that are allowed as pizza toppings, which is so strange considering pizza should just be a vehicle for whatever goodness you want to put on it. Even the otherwise food conservative Italians have figured this out with their pizza al taglio.
No one gate keeping pizza toppings. It's literally bread you can put anything in it. Calm down bro. We sell pizza with mustard and pickles on it in the south
Pizza a taglio is actually something almost exclusively found in and around Rome.
BTW even regular pizzas have various toppings, they just need to make sense (for example tuna and onions is a possibility).
My friend, I've had an abomination of a cheeseburger pizza (in the US) that used mayo like sauce.
And fish? You do know anchovies are an amazing (if somewhat niche, but archetypal) topping.
Heck, did you know pineapple is a common topping? oof. Of all things to put on a pizza!
Then there are those weirdly delicious mashed potato or Mac n' cheese pizzas.
And let's not forget the blasphemous Alfredo sauce "pizzas." Get that as a surprise on a slice of what looked like pepperoni at the Pizza Ranch on the buffet and just try not to throw up.
I went on a first date with a girl who ordered a slice of “big Mac” cheeseburger pizza with McDonald’s secret sauce and American cheese
She wanted me to try a bite. I did. It was terrible. She loved it
No accounting for taste, I guess
I bet I eat more than they do.
But are you eating enough to be a country?
I’m trying!
This tracks. Two of my great-grandfathers were Norwegian, and one of my grandmothers was Italian. I love pizza.
Akvavit and pizza
Doubt sweden is faw behind.
Fucking kebabsås .
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.
Pizza and hot dogs is like incredibly common here in Norway.
In Alsace they had their version of a pizza, a tarte flambée or flammekueche. Basically a pizza with onions and cheese.
The real question is... Do they have Transilvanian Hunger?
That's so Texas of them.
It is easy to get most per capita if you are a small country
Yes, it is a well known fact that Americans have more people per capita.
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
