| Little annoying Norwegian store |
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| Contributed by Livgivare Sweden | ||
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As a Swede I always like to travel, and one of my favourite destinations are Norway. The country is beautiful, have loads of good people that likes to be nice to you. (Maybe that is because they think Swedish is so sexy, but I do not know). One of the good things about Norway is that you do not have to really make such an effort to learn their language if you are Swede. You see Swedish and Norwegians are so similar that most of the words do sound or look the same. Up to 80% of the languages are the same and that is really fun. You feel good when you learn Norwegian because it is such a little input and such a huge reward. But back to the basic story. While you visit Norway you always find things that annoy you to bits. Mainly in stores. 1) Smaller food-chain stores do not take Master Card, so the "international all use card" you thought would be safe to use everywere is not worth a dime. Try to take an Visa card instead that is all you can use. 2) Lactose intollerant? Or just very into what you put in your mouth? Be aware, the ingredients list do not tell you all what is in the food. Very unuseful and dangerous for some of you. If you still have questions about this, better be really hard with your questions to the people that works in the store. In Sweden and the rest of EU this would be illegal to not list all the ingredients of the food. 3) All food that is supposed to be healthy is twice as expensive as the rest of the supplies that you can buy. Chicken saucage, vegables that are tasty and fun in packages of many types in the same bag, lactose-free milk, bread with fibre you name it is hard to find at the same prize as other food. And in Sweden lactose-free milk is just slitghly more expensive like: one litre of milk with lactose costs 6 SEK and the lactose-free milk costs only 7 SEK. 4) Do not think that there is very much to choose from in the store if the store is small. The more exotic food you like the more expensive they get if you ever find it. The shelves feel full of food but when you look a bit closer it is all the same. Take for instance you are into mustard. In Sweden you would find 10 different types in the small store. In Norway you only find 3 of them. 5) Take this rule down a peice of paper if you'd like to travel. Everything is expensive. After all the annoying small stuff you get from the food store you are not happy to shop elsewere. So keep you day plan simple. All the fun stores first and the food store last or better wait til the store almost open in mornings and get the annoying feelings in the morning. Then you can go home take a nap. Then you go out and have fun. Remeber to take your medicine with you if you are allergic of anything and get real into the asking business when you are in a store. Otherwise take the big wallet with you or get to a spot near the border of Sweden and buy food over there. If nothing works, get friendly with the Norwegians and ask for help. Only registered users can write comments.
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