Tee-hee, ok. I should specify that it's a shameless joke intended to make fun of the, um, stereotypical attitude of Norwegians towards food preparation, at least when compared to other cultures where ready-made meals are consumed (supposedly!) less frequently.
The recipe says "take a cake and put blueberries on top", followed by nonsensical instructions that would best fit the package of an instant soup ("let it simmer for five minutes", etc).
I remember that during my first week in Norway - at the time I was an exchange student there - I attended a presentation on the local culture and customs. It was tailored to be entertaining to us foreigners and meant to be both true and facetious at the same time. It was combining suggestions on how to spend our free time, like "we're all about winter sports and chess, you should join!", and silly random facts, like "we invented the
cheese slicer" (or the
paperclip, I'm not sure at the moment). At a certain point we were told that [a
certain brand of] frozen pizza was Norway's most typical dish, and that Norwegians usually try to prepare food as fast as possible, and eat equally fast, in order to
save time to go and enjoy life(!).
There I sat, squeezed between a French student to my left and a Spanish student to my right, all coming from places where the concepts of "enjoying life" and "eating food" are basically one and the same... looking at each other very confused and wondering whether we had heard that right. (:
To my Norwegian friends' credit I have to say that most of them actually do know their way around the kitchen, and regularly try to eat healthy food.
Still, it's completely true that most often they choose to do something else than cooking and baking, and they make way less of a deal about meals and stuff than, say, your (stereo)typical Italian.
I hope the joke did not come off as insulting. It was written in jest.
Norway's traditional cuisine is actually very enjoyable.
