As soon as things had got thus far, I began to feel rather jerran, as the blacks say, (i.e. timorous).

“Foodie” has now pretty much everywhere replaced “gourmet”, perhaps because the latter more strongly evokes privilege and a snobbish claim to uncommon sensory discrimination—even though those qualities are rampant among the “foodies” themselves.

Some brands of breakfast cereal contain a lot of sugar.

“We Norwegians are great readers,” Mrs. Nygren took the opportunity to remark. “And great yakkers,” Mr. Söderblad muttered.