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But all those pet chimps become so aggressive because they are pets. Because for a primate to be a pet is torture. These are extremely intelligent, emototive animals that NEED a troupe, a chimp family. Most pet chimps are smuggled from the wild, with their parents usually killed. That's an insane trauma. They need to live with their own, not in a house dressed in human clothes eating candies. They go quite literally mad. The work zoos put in to keep them happy and healthy is insane, no private could do It.

The Ottolenghi - it is vital that you use 1g of this very expensive ingredient. It comes from a 500g bag with a one-week shelf life.

The time machine - 15-minute recipe! First, leave to marinate overnight...

The dishwasher - one-pot recipe! Now decant your ingredients and wipe out your pot. And again. And again. And again.

The optimist - cook the onions until caramelised (2 minutes).

The kindergarten teacher - get one nommable little tree of broccoli and bosh that into boiling water. Delish!

The brand names only - ingredients: Ritz crackers, Philadelphia cheese, Cool Whip, orange Jell-o...

The 1950s palate - use one (1) clove of garlic and a small pinch of chili flakes (omit if preferred).

In the English language media I’ve seen trolls are generally depicted as big and stupid, though occasionally they’ll just be small and primitive.

And don’t get me wrong, we also have that here in Scandinavia as seen in the Norwegian movie Troll Hunter.

But trolls from nordic folklore are a lot more nuanced than what modern English language media would lead you to believe.

In folklore they are a sort of hidden nature people with cultures that varies between countries and towns. They can be cruel or kind. In Norway they can smell the blood of Christians and eat people, while in Denmark they don’t mind Christians but can’t stand the sound of church bells and will often move at the first sign of a church being build.

They’re also closely entangled with humans. Trolls steal human babies so they can raise them to go places trolls can’t (in Denmark at least), but leave their own babies with the humans assuming humans would find use for someone with a troll’s strength and abilities.

And that’s why in more modern troll media for adults they’re often used as a sympathetic allegory for people who feel wrong and out of place.

You got the Swedish movie Border from 2018 about a woman who couldn’t feel more wrong. People think she’s ugly and weird and she can’t even have sex because there’s something wrong with her genitalia.

But then she meets a man who looks like her and he slowly reveals that they’re both trolls and the only reason she feels weird is because she’s trying to live the life of a human. She’s a perfectly normal troll. It even turns out that troll men give birth and her “weird genitalia” is meant to impregnate, not be pregnant.

There’s also the band De Underjordiske (The Underworldly which is an old Danish word for otherworldly people that live under ground like trolls and dwarves) from Denmark who have the song Trold about Nordic people in general feeling off because we’re forest trolls who long to return to nature, but also Under Skyggernes Kniv (Under the Knife Of Shadows) about a person asking a troll that has lived their whole life under ground to not be afraid and come up into the sunlight and meet people and the video shows a person who appears to be dressing up as a woman for the first time and trying to live an authentic life.

So trolls are often very queer coded in modern Scandinavia which might sound insulting if you’re an outsider who’s only familiar with the English language version of them but makes a lot of sense in context.

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