This paper is based on the results of the completion of a Master degree in Cultural Encounters, coordinated and supervised by the Department of History at Volda University College, Norway. The overall aim of the research was to shed light over cultural encounters and their resulting processes of cultural hybridisation. Specifically, the objective was to analyse the "Friday's taco", a wide spread food habit practiced in many Norwegian homes, from a socio-anthropological point of view. Thus, the paper presents an ethnographic approach to what Norwegians have come to call the Friday’s taco (tacofredag). The practice of “tacofredag” in Norway is analysed as a cultural hybrid which introduces us to complex ongoing socio-cultural processes in modern societies, and their strategies to deal with those processes. Ubiquitous to all social classes and considered part of a mainstream culture, "tacofredag" turns into a representation of a modern national identity. Further, framed and equalised within the meal pattern of Norwegian households, this practice becomes ritualised and constitutes a social arena for the strengthening and negotiation of values, roles, and norms. Hence, once adapted and ritualised, already part of the social imaginary, Friday’s taco symbolises a modern ideal of what it means to be a Norwegian.