Did you know the cheese slicer was invented in Norway? It was invented by the Norwegian carpenter Thor Bjørklund in 1925. The 100 years’ anniversary will, according to a Norwegian Labor Party politician, be celebrated by erecting the world’s largest cheese slicer in Norway, in the town of Lillehammer.
Thor Bjørklund was a great innovator. When he realized that he could not cut thin enough slices of cheese with a knife, he used his knowledge as a carpenter to solve it.
“If Lillehammer wants to be an innovative city, we should focus and think like him in the years to come: Identifying a problem, and then using the knowledge we have to solve it,” said Knut Arne Vassdokken, a politician in Lillehammer, to the newspaper Gudbrandsdølen Dagningen. He will propose his idea to the local authorities in the near future.
Lillehammer celebrates its 200 years’ anniversary in 2027, so perhaps a statue of the world’s largest cheese slicer will be a new tourist attraction there by then.
The idea is, however, not new. When the cheese slicer celebrated its 90 years’ anniversary in 2015, a slicer measuring two by five meters, and half a meter thick, was erected in Ringebu where cheese graters from Bjørklund have been produced since 2010. Feature image (on top) shows the 2015 ‘statue’.
The news was first presented by NTB.
World’s Largest Cheese Slicer in Norway, Tor Kjolberg reporting.