STAVANGER (daily newspaper) – Sometimes you get your point across better with humor, parliament representative and former MDG party leader Une Bastholm told Dagbladet.

On Friday, she posed a written questions to the Minister of Agriculture and Food Sandra Borch (Sp).

The question alludes to interviews Borch and parliamentary leader Geir Pollestad conducted with Dagbladet ahead of the National Center Party meeting in March. Here they go with Dagbladet for a steak dinner and Borch undergoes a sentence that will later lead to much debate:

– Meatless dinner? Then it’s not dinner.

The statement garnered attention, and when King Charles’s signature meal options for the coronation day recently became known, Bastholm jumped at the chance.

Meatless pie

This is the meatless cheese pie that people in the UK and Commonwealth will eat in honor of the monarch during Coronation Day on May 6.

“Instead of the more traditional quiche lorraine pie, which is made with bacon, the crowning pie will be filled with spinach, string beans, cheddar cheese and tarragon. The recipe does contain lard (lard), but many will probably substitute it with other vegetable fats,” Bastholm wrote before he asked the minister a question:

“Could King Charles III’s signature dish be characterized as a ministerial dinner”?

– When two top politicians invite the press to a posh restaurant with expensive steaks and wine, and unironically call it ridiculous when ordinary people choose not to eat meat, it’s hard to be taken seriously, Basthom told Dagbladet.

– Saying that a dinner without meat or fish is not a dinner also makes rice porridge with butter eyes very bad, he continued.

Laughed at: – Most boring

“Yes”

In a more serious way, Bastholm believes that such government action helps to stigmatize both those the Center Party claims to represent in the countryside, and all those who cut back on meat, for personal reasons or to reduce their footprint on the planet.

– This contributes to an increase in conflicts and prejudices between the city and the country in Norway, which is completely unnecessary. It’s good for the climate, nature, public health, food security and not least the animals if as many people as possible have a conscious connection to what kinds of meat and how much of it they eat. This is not moralism or mockery, these are cold facts, and should not be a problem for a food minister to deal with, said Bastholm and added:

– After all, it’s great that the British royal family dares to support it!

Vegans react: – Behind the target

Answers from ministers came much faster than written answers from representatives of parliament. But the task of formulating the answer is also not the greatest:

“Yes”, wrote Borch.

When asked if Bastholm was impressed by the response from the Minister of Agriculture and Food, he replied that the admission was true and “very well worded”, before adding his own conclusion about the king’s choice:

– Cheese pie with protein-rich nuts and spinach makes a great dinner for many.