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^ I have no idea if it's sold abroad. From what I hear, it's unusual to like it if you didn't grow up eating it.

okay, I just did a search and found that brunost is sold in at least 3 countries (Canada, USA and Australia), under the name Ski Queen.


Krabo, I don't see why you wouldn't get a chance at some point to pop over the border and get a sample of Gudbrandsdalsost G35. Personally I recommend Tine, and not Synnøve.

lol while searching this, I found this site which sells Norwegian food to Norwegians abroad. If anyone is curious about some of the stuff we eat, you can take a look at their products.

I've definitely heard of gjetost, just not sure if it was a Scrabble word or in the culinary sense...

It can't be that dissimilar to ricotta or even Gouda sweetmilk: I would imagine if you like those you'd like the Tine?

I wonder if it was named after Marit Bjørgen.

^ I have no idea why they picked Ski Queen, Krabo. I tried googling it, but didn't find the answer.

I had no idea 'gjetost' was a Scrabble word!
Gjetost is a rather old-fashioned name, by the way. Most people in Norway today would say 'geitost' or 'brunost'. My grandfather said gjetost. It's from Danish, I guess.

I've only had Gouda cheese on pizza (which was good), and I've never tried ricotta, so I can't say if they're similar. Both ricotta and brunost are whey products. I was very surprised some months ago when I found that brunost was a whey product and not a real cheese! I just found out that Amazon sells Ski Queen. That's a safe place to get it for those who wish to try it.

Wine and brunost??

Hey Skilpadde,

Norwegian was released today on Duolingo. I did the first two lessons, lots of fun!

It was? Yay, that's great!

This series look pretty good.

Thanks for posting that, Skilpadde!

Years ago a friend of mine whom I've since lost contact with, (a very fast runner) went to Norway as part of the South African diplomatic staff there and met and married a Norwegian lass while there.

Glad you liked it, Enviro!

That's nice about your friend

^ooh, I'll have a look at that series later Skilpadde, thanks. I've had a week from hell, so I need to zone out for a day or two before I explode. I'm looking forward to doing a bit more Norwegian. Probably not too much, or it will interfere with my Finnish. But I find Duolingo sooo much easier than other methods. And Norwegian is a breeze compared to Finnish.

YW, I was hoping you might find it helpful. Each episode is about 3 minutes, so it's manageable and doesn't just drown you in way too much info.
Huh, now you've made me a bit curious about how Duolingo works...

Of course it is! Anyone would see that. Right, Krabo?

I'm sorry your week was so bad. TGIF. Zone out and relax and take good care of yourself.
and enjoy these dogs

Thanks Skilpadde. I'm probably going to head to bed soon. I'll see you tomorrow.

Okay, good night then. See you tomorrow

one more dog...

Just wondering if Duolingo can squeeze Danish into 3-minute episodes since it takes 3 minutes to learn to pronounce "ja"

Maybe, if it's one word per episode.

Sooo excited. I've done the first five or so units of Norwegian on Duolingo. I just did animals, and rather fittingly crabs and turtles were in the same lesson.

Jeg har en skilpadde. Krabben spiser.

You can't believe how excited I was when I first saw Skilpadde come up.

Congratulations! Soon you'll be able to read comics and cartoons in Norwegian, which could be much fun.