This is a cute time-lapse video of what it might look like if baking cookies was like using PhotoShop. I’m neither a great baker nor a great PhotoShop artist, but I think my baking might turn out better if I had an Undo button! On the other hand, I’m glad I don’t have to pay [...]
For months (probably years now) I’ve been meaning to start a regular feature about some of the random products I pick up at the grocery next door to the office. We often head over to buy snacks and soda in the afternoon, and since the shop regularly changes part of their inventory, I’m often tempted [...]
I love food, and I love flags. So imagine my delight when I came across this article about the Sydney International Food Festival: National Flags Made Out of Food!
The creators used regional foods to recreate the flags of the countries participating in the festival. What a wonderful idea, and some of them were very well [...]
Lucas and I are in Stavanger for a class on geophysics for work, and last night we decided to have Chinese food for dinner. Since we can expense our meals, we opted to have a beer with dinner (a luxury we usually forgo at home). This was my bottle of TsingTao, which cost the equivalent [...]
Last night we went to dinner with some friends at Lorry, Oslo’s version of The Ginger Man. While Lorry’s variety is nowhere near The Ginger Man’s, they do have over 120 types of beer (mostly bottled). That’s a very respectable offering for Norway, where it sometimes feels like every beer is a pilsner.
Since Purdue didn’t [...]
BeijEnglish – Special Norway Edition!
It’s not often that I see amusing English translations around here, since Norwegians seem to speak better English than I do!
However, I have been notice a few oddities around our canteen lately. Usually it’s just little things that are a bit off, and even when they’re fairly bizarre, you can [...]
Back in the States, I never really lived in a place where single-packaged ice cream snacks were all that popular. We had them in the cafeteria in middle school, and I often treated myself to a Strawberry Shortcake bar for dessert, but the idea of grabbing an ice cream sandwich or an ice cream bar [...]
On nice afternoons, we take a walk over to the shop next door to buy soda and ice cream. Today was especially lovely, so on the way back, we sat on the office steps to enjoy our snacks, basking in the spring sunshine and joking around. At some point, I happened to take a look [...]
Today was a big occasion at work, because it was the first day that lunch was served in our new cafeteria!
I know that meatballs and mashed potatoes probably don’t sound all that spectacular, but everyone in our office was in heaven. New visitors to our office will probably think that our cafeteria is very lacking [...]
So there’s this candy/snack here in Norway called Smash that’s basically crispy Bugles corn snacks coated in chocolate. They’re pretty tasty, but more than the taste, I think it’s one of their commercials that endears them to us:
The ad has been running at the cinema for ages. So now it’s reached the point that whenever [...]