The Story of How One Man Ate a Donut and It Changed His Life. Forever.

[Teleku]

There cannot possibly be a more expensive place in the entire world than Norway.

[Signe]

Well, there is Japan.

[Teleku]

No, I lived in Japan for a year.  Japan is cheep utopia compared to Norway.  Japan is Somalia cheep compared to Norway.

[Strazos]

So, what ever happened to Photek? Die from kidney failure or sugar overload?

[Oban]

Japan is cheep utopia compared to Norway. 

What the fuck are you buying?

[Teleku]

A bottle of coke was $4.  A pizza was $35-40.  I got a Donner Kabab from a greasy corner stand and it was $13.  A can of beer from the supermarket was $5 (and it was just a light lager).

Japan can be pricey on some things, but lots of stuff can also be as cheep as it is in the US.  You always have options.  Not in Norway.

It's like as if Disneyland was an entire country.


Fake Edit:  But lest it sound like I'm bitching to much, I had a great time and really loved the country.  Its just the prices.....dear god.

[Oban]

A bottle of coke was $4.  A pizza was $35-40.  I got a Donner Kabab from a greasy corner stand and it was $13.  A can of beer from the supermarket was $5 (and it was just a light lager).

I admit I am not an aficionado of coke, but four dollars sounds about right for a two liter bottle.  Pizza, that is about the same price as Dominoes in Japan.  Donner Kebab in Canada is thirteen dollars plus tax, so that sounds right.  As for beer, five dollars sounds about right for a bottle of Grolsch.

What are you bitching about again?  Exchange rates?

WHERE ARE THE NORWEGIAN DONUTS?

[IainC]

I have bad news I'm afraid. Photek was found dead behind the counter of his doughnut shop covered in whipped cream, caramel icing and hundreds and thousands. The Norwegian police are not treating the death as suspicious, according to the coroner he topped himself.

[Teleku]

A bottle of coke was $4.  A pizza was $35-40.  I got a Donner Kabab from a greasy corner stand and it was $13.  A can of beer from the supermarket was $5 (and it was just a light lager).

I admit I am not an aficionado of coke, but four dollars sounds about right for a two liter bottle.  Pizza, that is about the same price as Dominoes in Japan.  Donner Kebab in Canada is thirteen dollars plus tax, so that sounds right.  As for beer, five dollars sounds about right for a bottle of Grolsch.

What are you bitching about again?  Exchange rates?

WHERE ARE THE NORWEGIAN DONUTS?

The bottle of Coke was 500 ml's   .  Your right about the pizza in Japan being about that high, forgot about that (but its still ass fuckingly horrible either way).  I refuse to believe you pay $13 for a Donner in Canada.  I got big nice ones in Paris for $6.  I even got one in Japan in Harajuku for $8.  Grolsch for $5 is a crime.

Either way, your having to take the highest prices from around the world to try to match all that Norway has, so I think my original statement still stands 

I guess it could be the exchange rate hurting things worst, but even if it was better I've still never seen prices so broadly inflated.  Luckily, it turns out that several of my Norwegian friends come from insanely wealthy families, so I mainly mooched the entire time I was there.

I'd have eaten the damn donuts, taken pictures for F13, etc., if I could figure out what happened to Photek, but no word yet in time. 

[schild]

I admit I am not an aficionado of coke, but four dollars sounds about right for a two liter bottle.

Try $2, if that.

[fuser]

 Donner Kebab in Canada is thirteen dollars plus tax, so that sounds right.  

No way, in KoD land(Nova Scotia, it gets harder to find the further west you go). a good donair will run you 1/2lb "medium" will run you $7. If you want to go hog wild for 1lb its $11.

[Oban]

Donner Kebab is not the same thing as your sugar laced vile piece of shit in a pita donair.

[Hoax]

The fuck is a Donner Kebab?  I'm so lost, I also wish Photek would reappear, this was one of my all time favorite things that have happened on f13.

[Tarami]

A bottle of coke was $4.  A pizza was $35-40.  I got a Donner Kabab from a greasy corner stand and it was $13.  A can of beer from the supermarket was $5 (and it was just a light lager).

Japan can be pricey on some things, but lots of stuff can also be as cheep as it is in the US.  You always have options.  Not in Norway.

It's like as if Disneyland was an entire country.

Fake Edit:  But lest it sound like I'm bitching to much, I had a great time and really loved the country.  Its just the prices.....dear god.

Bad luck with your choices of food there. Pizza, kebab and similar are for some reason outrageously expensive in Norway. I'm not sure why. Had you gone across the border to Sweden, you would have got a pizza for about $8 which I imagine is more in line with the American pricing. Norway -is- also otherwise very expensive, but you really cherrypicked some of the most extreme things, even by Scandivanian measures (all the Scandinavian countries are in the top-20 of most expensive countries to live in.)

Döner Kebab is what you get if you order kebab here and it looks something like this:

And it is awesome.

[lamaros]

The bread looks a bit dry.

[fuser]

Donner Kebab is not the same thing as your sugar laced vile piece of shit in a pita donair.

Christ whats the hate on donairs for? Gyro's next?

Btw the sugar is in the sauce which you don't have to get

[Broughden]

Donner Kebab is not the same thing as your sugar laced vile piece of shit in a pita donair.

Christ whats the hate on donairs for? Gyro's next?

Btw the sugar is in the sauce which you don't have to get

You put icing on your meat? wtf?

[Tarami]

Donairs are typically topped with sauce made from condensed milk. So it ought to be sweet as all hell, but I have no first-hand experience.

[CmdrSlack]

Donner Kebab is not the same thing as your sugar laced vile piece of shit in a pita donair.

Christ whats the hate on donairs for? Gyro's next?

Btw the sugar is in the sauce which you don't have to get

You put icing on your meat? wtf?

If it's anything like the sauce that goes on gyros, it's pretty much cucumber and yogurt. I miss getting kebabs in Dublin. I also miss the now-closed kickass gyro shop that was down the street from my old place in Wrigleyville.

Meats shaved off of a vertical spit and served on pita w/ sauce, tomato and onion = win.

[rattran]

...according to the coroner he topped himself.

You are a very bad man.

[Oban]

Donairs are typically topped with sauce made from condensed milk. So it ought to be sweet as all hell, but I have no first-hand experience.

No no, in Canada they put sugar in to the sauce.

Fucking disgusting.

Also, why the fuck are you eating pizza, kebabs and coca-cola in Norway?

[Signe]

Yes.  You should be eating sardines and only sardines!

[Teleku]

Trust me, I ate plenty of scary Norwiegan food.  Its just that it was all eaten at houses (or on a 7 masted yaht one of my friends family owns  ) prepared by my friends, so it was all free and I never saw the prices.  In their words, its to expensive to go out for dinner in Norway, so they almost always eat at home.  I only paid for food when I needed to grab something to snack on while I was running around (and a man can only stand a slice a bread with random shit put on top of it for so long).  We ordered out for pizza the last day because everybody was too tired/hungover to cook, and the supermarkets were all closed because it was Sunday (the day Norway shuts down).


Also, the only real reason to visit Europe is for Donners.  Everything else is just pretext.

[Oban]

Lies. 

You are one of those Americans that goes to Japan and complains about the price of hot dogs at the big egg.

[Teleku]

It's the natural past time of Exchange Students in Japan to bitch about the cost of everything.  However, I lived there a year and never once bought a hot dog, so   

About 3/4 of the way through, however, I broke down and hunted down the one and only Costco in our region, just so I could sneak in and order a slice of greasy ass pizza from the food court.  It tasted just like back home!

[Lantyssa]

Has anyone tried e-mailing him instead of asking in the thread he's not reading?

[schild]

Has anyone tried e-mailing him instead of asking in the thread he's not reading?

Yes.

But, hell, I'll do so again.

[Tarami]

No no, in Canada they put sugar in to the sauce.

Fucking disgusting.

I'll take your word on that.

[Bunk]

No no, in Canada they put sugar in to the sauce.

Fucking disgusting.

I'll take your word on that.

I wouldn't. In Vancouver I survived a year on chicken and mushroom donairs for under $6, and there sure as hell wasn't sugar in the tzaiki, err tsik... white greek cucumbery sauce.

You want to talk disgusting prices... I walked through Pike Place Market today.

[Oban]

I wouldn't. In Vancouver I survived a year on chicken and mushroom donairs for under $6, and there sure as hell wasn't sugar in the tzaiki, err tsik... white greek cucumbery sauce.

Ah, according to Wikipedia Donair has not made it out to BC.  Apparently it is in Alberta though, slowly creeping west from the Atlantic since 1973...

[WayAbvPar]

No no, in Canada they put sugar in to the sauce.

Fucking disgusting.

I'll take your word on that.

I wouldn't. In Vancouver I survived a year on chicken and mushroom donairs for under $6, and there sure as hell wasn't sugar in the tzaiki, err tsik... white greek cucumbery sauce.

You want to talk disgusting prices... I walked through Pike Place Market today.

Hopefully you grabbed some Market Spice tea. That stuff rules and is worth whatever they ask.

[Bunk]

I'll remember that if I stop by before I leave. You know, you should really be out here showing people like Ookii and myself what we should be doing in your town...

Though to be fair, the only time I haven't been in the convention so far was to grab dinner at the Tap House last night - a whole 200' from the convention center.

[Xuri]

[Also, why the fuck are you eating pizza, kebabs and coca-cola in Norway?

Yes, this.

You should drink Urge instead of Coca-Cola.

Edit: Also, Photek (or someone with the same nick) has a forum account on RunUO, which shows "Last Activity: 08-18-2009 04:52 AM".

[schild]

[Also, why the fuck are you eating pizza, kebabs and coca-cola in Norway?

Yes, this.

You should drink Urge instead of Coca-Cola.

Edit: Also, Photek (or someone with the same nick) has a forum account on RunUO, which shows "Last Activity: 08-18-2009 04:52 AM".

Urge is just coca cola's answer to Mountain Dew. Or it was, until it failed and then got replaced with an actual green drink, Vault, which did just fine. I prefer Surge to Vault but I think Mountain Dew tastes like ass.

[Xuri]

Actually, Urge didn't fail and get replaced. Urge was released in Norway + some other Scandinavian countries before a renamed version called Surge was released in the US - which then failed ;P Urge, however, is still going strong in Norway =P