"I see that we are going to have to-day for dinner onion-milk, one of our most delicious national dishes, and my favourite eating."
"Usch! One gets quite stupid and sleepy when one only thinks on your national dishes. And still more horrible than your onion-milk, and more unnatural too, is your fruit-soup with little herrings."
"Fruit-soup with little herrings! Nay, that is the most superexcellent food on the earth, a food which I might call a truly Christian dish."
"And I might call it a heathenish dish, which no true Christian man could eat."
"From untold ages it has been eaten by free Norwegian men in the beautiful valleys of Norway."
"That proves that you free Norwegians are still heathens."
"I can prove to you that the Norwegians were a Christian people before the Swedes."
"That you may prove as much as you like, but I shall not believe it."
"But I will show it to you in print."
"Then I shall be certain that it is a misprint."