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When most people hear mash-up they think of something like the JayZ|Niles Barkley remix combining their songs, which, not that it matters, I rather prefer to either of the songs alone. But there is another, more established, form of the mash-up. In more classy establishments it might be called fusion.

Then there are those dishes, now famous, that seem to come from one country but were invented in another such as chop suey, which was invented in San Francisco. Crypto-cuisine being my neologism for such creations.

And so we come to my story of the Tikka Masala Calzone I had for dinner in the mall after buying a simple iron for the equivalent of the GDP of Peru. Tikka Masala having been invented in Glasgow in the 60s or 70s and not a strictly Indian dish and the Calzone, a staple of Italian American pizza shops.

A beautiful example of a crypto-cuisine mash-up in a handy portable and quite palatable form.

Speaking of Norwegian cuisine, my immigration consultant came by yesterday and was talking to me about all the things we need to do when she got on the subject of food. She said, "if there is one staple in the Norwegian diet, it's the frozen pizza." She said it is a matter of great national pride and you must never mock it.

I think we'll do OK here.