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Norwegian cheese that tastes like caramel, breaks knives, and is technically barely cheese at all.
means A Norwegian brown whey cheese, made by simmering whey until its sugars caramelize, giving it a dense, fudgy texture and a sweet, toffee-like flavor.
from From Norwegian, literally "goat cheese" — gjet meaning "goat" (related to English goat and German Geiß) plus ost, "cheese" (a cousin of the same Germanic root behind Old English and the cheese-words across Scandinavia). The name persists even though much modern gjetost is made wholly or partly from cow's milk, so the "goat" is now more heritage than ingredient. You may also see it spelled geitost, reflecting the same word in a different Norwegian dialect.
- not cheese
- Made from boiled-down whey, not curds
- color
- Brown from caramelized milk sugars
- national pride
- Norway eats it on bread for breakfast
- slicer tool
- Norwegians invented a slicer just for it
- texture
- Dense fudge that resists most knives
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