Tuesday, August 21, 2007

Brunost

I discovered today that a cheese shop near my office actually sells Norwegian brunost, or brown cheese! I had a brunost sandwich and just loved it, I enjoyed every bit. Brunost doesn't really look much like cheese, it really is brown. And it doesn't taste much like cheese either, it tastes a little like caramel. It's an acquired taste, when I first ate it, long ago, I didn't much like it. The man serving me at the shop looked rather shocked when I asked for it, he said I was the first customer who had ever asked for that type of cheese, and he almost tried to tell me not to do it. Maybe I should start a campaign to make brown cheese popular in the Netherlands.

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