Nordic noir might be popular with the rest of the world but the residents of the Nordic region are fed up. Even children’s cartoons are infected with the need to have a murder solved by a gloomy detective with a drink problem. TV adverts focus on cleaning products and how well they would clean a crime scene.
Nordicans are trying to get the message out that they like other things as well. Kittens, comedy, cooking, singing and sports. Cultural Attaché Magnus Magmasson explained, “we have a highly developed sense of humour and find all sorts of things funny such as amusing patterns in the tundra, the comic antics of Arctic Fox and jokes about reindeer pooh”.
There is a rich Nordic culinary tradition that many think could be used as a basis for cookery shows. Everyone loves Surstromming (fermented fish), salty liquorice (you can afford liquorice to anything), Hakarl (fermented shark), Smalahove (boiled sheep’s head) and many other delicacies. A Nordic cookery series would be a smash hit.
Fun Nordic facts
Ikea is a Swedish word meaning ‘that is three hours of your life you are not getting back’.
The manufacturer producing the highest volume of tyres is Lego in Denmark. They make about 1 million tyres a year.
Scandinavia is Denmark, Norway and Sweden, while Nordic is the Scandinavian countries plus Finland and Iceland.
Finland has twelve comedians.
All souvenirs in Iceland are made of lava. They even have lava salt.
Finnish people don’t have fins, but they do have vestigial gills.
ABBA were originally a comedy act and their Eurovision song entry was a pop spoof.