Lister

Translated by Ida Mari Dreijer

Chili John and his mate, Harly poke their noses into the homemate Scandinavian dishes and taste the variated selection. This is something the rock-cook and the Roskilde-veteran, Chili John – stage manager and chef at Arena respectively and famous for his Texas Chili – appreciate. This year’s winner can be found by the Sails.

Sausage with actual meat

”It’s a good sausage with taste and it seems like it’s made of actual meat,” Chili John says. We are sitting at some more or less sticky wooden tables in an almost full hall with loud lounge music while eating herbal soup with grilled sausage from Mona’s Kitchen. Or rather, we thought that we had ordered herbal soup.
”It is beef soup, so it would be more appropriate to name it goulash. It reminds me of something you can buy along the German freeways,” Chili John says and explains that it is a compliment. If anyone should be in doubt.
Harly also enjoys the soup with sausage and appreciates that both are warm and perfectly spiced.
”On top of that, the price is nice and the presentation awakes your appetite,” he says.

Chilis: 4.5
Price: DKK 55 (approx. € 7)

Empty ol’ fashioned feeling

At the end of the hall, a huge, yellow sign promotes Bay of Pigs with roast pork, gravy and potatoes, so that is what we buy.
”It looks a bit pale,” Harly says.
”The potatoes are not good. They have been vacuum packed and lack salt,” Chili John says and pours two small packets over the paper plate. There are several pieces of roast pork, but the crackling – according to Harly – is too hard, together with a small portion of red cabbage and gherkins.
”The food is institutional, and when served for senior citizens, they will say: It didn’t taste like this in the ol’ days,” Chili John says.
”Almost everything comes from cans, apart from the roast pork, which is okay,” Harly finishes.

Chilis: 3
Price: DKK 75 (approx. € 10)

Freshly made summer soup

”Mmm, it tastes delicious, and it’s suitably warm and salty,” Harly says and takes another spoon of the green, thick soup with a topping that looks like rusks. We have bought pea soup at Manfred’s, and the two Roskilde-veterans think it is very refreshing.
”It’s a very positive experience. Especially the nice price. And then it works extremely well with the homemade croutons,” Chili John says, but apart from that comment, the food must be good, because the two gentlemen are for once quiet slurping their soup happily.

Chilis: 4.5
Price: DKK 35 (approx. € 5)

Delicious meatballs

In Delleboden, the steam is so thick, that – while wainting in the queue - one can already get a teaser of the food experience coming up. We buy a menu 2 with garlic meatballs, Chili meatballs, tzatziki and roasted potato pieces.
”The Chili meatball can wake up even the dullest festival-goers,” Chili John says, which are appreciative words from a man having cooked with Chili before the hot, red spice became common.
”The tzatziki is deliciously creamy and not watery, and the potatoes taste great. They are salty and spicy,” Harly says.
The two gentlemen agree that we can be proud to present the national dish á la Delleboden to the international festival-goers.
”It is the best and biggest meal, which we have consumed at the festival and that for a reasonable price, presented appetizingly,” Chili John concludes.

Chilis: 5
Price: DKK 50 (approx. € 7)