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Sent to Newfoundland by the New York Times Magazine, a famed Norwegian novelist has incensed the Atlantic province by reporting back that everyone was “fat.”

“Everyone in the place, except the waiter, was fat, some of them so fat that I kept having to look at them. I had never seen people that fat before,” wrote Karl Ove Knausgaard of a visit to a Jungle Jim’s restaurant in St. Anthony, Newfoundland.

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“The strange thing was that none of them looked as if they were trying to hide their enormous girth; quite the opposite, several people were wearing tight T-shirts with their big bellies sticking out proudly.”

The body fat index of Canada’s 10th province is actually one of Mr. Knausgaard’s few takeaways from his magazine-sponsored visit to the Atlantic Coast.

The strange thing was that none of them looked as if they were trying to hide their enormous girth

In the first installment of his account, published Wednesday, he also mentions the stress of tipping and his bafflement with “all those chicken wings and barbecue” at Newfoundland restaurants.