{"id":18,"date":"2008-12-09T12:23:04","date_gmt":"2008-12-09T16:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/norwegian\/?p=18"},"modified":"2008-12-09T12:23:04","modified_gmt":"2008-12-09T16:23:04","slug":"freia-sjokolade-fabrikkenmmmmm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/norwegian\/freia-sjokolade-fabrikkenmmmmm\/","title":{"rendered":"Freia sjokolade fabrikken….mmmmm"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"sjokolade!\"<\/a>As an American student in Oslo, I had the pleasure of touring a chocolate factory-‘Freia Sjokolade Fabrikken<\/strong>.’\u00a0 For some reason, I was put in charge of navigating the way to the factory.\u00a0 There were about 15 of us in the group and I was appointed the navigator, which is hilarious because I am really terrible with directions.\u00a0 After a long, cold, and winding\u00a0walk from the\u00a0center of the city,\u00a0we finally arrived at our destination, tired, hungry, and salivating for sjokolade<\/strong>.\u00a0 I personally have never been a huge\u00a0sjokolade<\/strong> fan.\u00a0 I like it when it’s mixed with something else, such as peanuts (pean\u00f8tter<\/strong>),\u00a0\u00a0caramel (karamel<\/strong>), or is <\/strong>(ice cream), but usually I don’t like just plain sjokolade.\u00a0 <\/strong>However, on this day, at this time, with lots of friends on a cold winter day after a long hike, I was ready for all the sjokolade<\/strong> that I saw before me.\u00a0 The deal was that we each paid something like $15 for the tour and for MYE<\/strong> (a lot of) sjokolade<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

We were there for a couple of hours.\u00a0 We had a really great, charasmatic guide who gave us more information aobut the sjokolade-<\/strong>making process than we ever wanted to know.\u00a0 She literally walked us through the whole process and we got to watch people doing every part of it.\u00a0 It was actually kind of gross to watch how it was made.\u00a0 Huge vats of melted butter and giant containers of sugar.\u00a0 And to be eating it the whole time….in every single room we entered the guide would come around and give us several samples of a new kind\u00a0of sjokolade-<\/strong>dozens of kinds in all.\u00a0 There was godteri <\/strong>(candy) comparable to our kit-kats (Kvikklunsj<\/strong>-literally quick lunch), Daim <\/strong>(similar to our choclate toffee), etc.\u00a0 There were also kinds that none of us had tried before, or had tried, but thought little of, such as marzipan (which is apparently really popular in Norway)\u00a0or raisin\/nut filled\u00a0sjokolade.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I’ll give you a little history lesson about Freia<\/strong>.\u00a0 It is actually an American-owned Norwegian sjokolade <\/strong>brand that was founded in 1889.\u00a0 The Throne-Holst family, who took over management in 1892 and made it successful, started an additional\u00a0factory, Marabou,<\/strong>\u00a0outside of Stockholm, Sweden.\u00a0 The Freia <\/strong>name couldn’t be used because of Sweden’s trademark policies, so the Marabou<\/strong> stork was used as the\u00a0name and as\u00a0the logo imprinted in each piece of sjokolade.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n

Now I have to tell a little story about this stork.\u00a0 Of course Norwegian children love to eat Freia<\/strong> sjokolade<\/strong>, but there have been many instances in which they realize that the logo in the sjokolade<\/strong> is a bird and so they don’t want to eat it anymore.\u00a0 I worked for the Concordia Language Villages Pre-K program teaching 3-5 year olds Norwegian and one of the little native Norwegian boys started crying because he thought that he killed the stork because he ate a piece of sjokolade<\/strong>.\u00a0 It was quite cute.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In 1993 Kraft foods bought Freia.\u00a0 <\/strong>It is still the most popular sjokolade <\/strong>brand in Norway.\u00a0 It is truly delicious.\u00a0 So delicious that we all ate so much we almost vomitted after we left.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\"\"

As an American student in Oslo, I had the pleasure of touring a chocolate factory-‘Freia Sjokolade Fabrikken.’\u00a0 For some reason, I was put in charge of navigating the way to the factory.\u00a0 There were about 15 of us in the group and I was appointed the navigator, which is hilarious because I am really terrible…<\/p>\n

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