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Brilliant film but what is 'prim'?

posted 13 years ago by spyott
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I loved this film, as I generally do most Scandinavian films, and I even identified with its subject matter somewhat, having been an academic in the field of Home Economics for most of my professional life and recognising the basis of the time/motion observations in the kitchen. However, what is 'prim'? I must have missed the part where they explained what it was even though I've seen it a couple of times. Cheers, Steve

"Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book" Cicero

[–] kiwi_ange 13 years ago

A kind of whey cheese from memory :)

[–] spyott 13 years ago

Many thanks for putting me out of my misery! I should have looked it up myself and I don't know why I didn't. 'Prim' seems to have been invented in Norway but is produced in the different Scandinavian countries with different names which is presumably why it is a kind of joke between Norwegians and Swedes. I can think of other similar examples of this sort of thing between other countries and cultures. Cheers, Steve

"Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book" Cicero

[–] kiwi_ange 13 years ago

No worries :) NZ & Australia is one example ;) Thanks for the explanation about prim too :)

[–] spyott 13 years ago

My pleasure - we originally came from the UK - specifically from the north of England with various food and other cultural differences/similarities between Lancashire, Cheshire and Yorkshire in our families, as well as the whole North versus South thing in the UK. This was before we migrated to Australia in 1981 so we had lots of fun with UK versus Australian similarities/differences when we first came here. We've also visited NZ on several occasions for holidays and the similarities/differences between Oz and NZ are also fascinating, as well as the similarities/differences between the UK and NZ. Scandinavia must be full of all this type of stuff with all their subtle similarities and differences between their various cultures. Cheers, Steve

"Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book" Cicero