The Happy Food Festival

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Welcome you tourists some are here. This is the fifth deal of this years summer series of tourist guides to Stavanger, and today we shall see closer on The Happy Food Festival.

The Happy Food Festival is not really about eating, as much as it is about drinking. The festival is an excuse for the siddis to go out in the streets in the harbour and see how drunk it is possible to become, together with other drunk people.

So you might ask what that has to do with food and happiness, and let me tell you one thing: A really happy siddis is a really drunk siddis who sits newly arrested in the back of a police car and sings «Tore Tang» with his companions.

Most people who visit the Happy Food Festival, don’t care about food. They just want some cheap shit to fill up their stomach while they try to set a new personal record in drinking bubbling wine, that they up fat some an example of good taste.

If you come on a cruise ship this week, you come right to the festival. It is in small tents and buds around the harbour and is an excellent way for the city’s restaurants to get rid of some old rubbish for good money. If you are glad in food, maybe you should visit Stavanger some other week, fore we have some good restaurants here the rest of the year.

Then again, if you came on a ship in the harbour, maybe the best advice for this week is: Stay on the ship. Don’t even consider going in land.

If you are forced off the ship, the safest way to get by, is to just blend in with the locals, play drunk, sing «Tore Tang» and say «maaaaaagisk» if anybody asks you a question or puke on your shoes or something like that.

Have a nice festival!