I have never tried it, but considering the fact that I can't even eat a fishstick without throwing up my guess is, yes, it really is that gross.
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Lutefisk: is it really as gross as people say?
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I have never tried it, but considering the fact that I can't even eat a fishstick without throwing up my guess is, yes, it really is that gross.
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Yes. It is.
You either love it or you hate it.
I'm of the mind that after going to a Lutefisk meal it is wise to smoke a cigarrette afterwards so your clothes don't stink so much.
You either love it or you hate it.
I'm of the mind that after going to a Lutefisk meal it is wise to smoke a cigarrette afterwards so your clothes don't stink so much.
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Not to come across as unadventurous, but doesn't sound like something I'd like to try...
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Actually it is not nearly as bad as many people make it sound. Now that t.v. dinner won't fly.
Anyway, I married into a family who had to have it on Christmas Eve. I grew to like it. Hubby expects it each year at Christmas, though I usually do it on New Years.
Bring water to a boil, put the fish into it and bring back to a boil, maybe takes about 5 minutes. We serve it with boiled potatoes, peas, melted butter and white sauce. I usually eat mine in one nice stack. I layer it, potatoes, butter, lutefisk, butter, peas and then white sauce on top of it all. Salt to taste and it is good.
Like doulos says, it is something you either like or you hate. My sons eat is, my daughter does not.
Anyway, I married into a family who had to have it on Christmas Eve. I grew to like it. Hubby expects it each year at Christmas, though I usually do it on New Years.
Bring water to a boil, put the fish into it and bring back to a boil, maybe takes about 5 minutes. We serve it with boiled potatoes, peas, melted butter and white sauce. I usually eat mine in one nice stack. I layer it, potatoes, butter, lutefisk, butter, peas and then white sauce on top of it all. Salt to taste and it is good.
Like doulos says, it is something you either like or you hate. My sons eat is, my daughter does not.
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lux et lex
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We used to have it every Christmas when I was young until my grandfather passed away. We haven't had it since. I never tried it as a kid, and I still haven't tried it. I'll try anything once, so I'm open to it.
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No! My mom & aunts still make lutefish for Christmas.
I'm thinking that my American Lutheran friends here who think lutefisk stinks have had an unpleasant encounter with another Swedish spécialité, surströmming, soured herring (read: stinky rotten fish). Most airlines consider surströmming a weapon of mass destruction. I'm not kidding. It's a stinky bomb of rotten fish in a tin can about to explode. And those crazy Swedes eat it.
In fact, only the Swedes eat it. Ask the Danes and Norwegians. We may speak Swedish over here and we may share a bit of history together, but we are not crazy enough to touch that stuff.
I'm thinking that my American Lutheran friends here who think lutefisk stinks have had an unpleasant encounter with another Swedish spécialité, surströmming, soured herring (read: stinky rotten fish). Most airlines consider surströmming a weapon of mass destruction. I'm not kidding. It's a stinky bomb of rotten fish in a tin can about to explode. And those crazy Swedes eat it.
In fact, only the Swedes eat it. Ask the Danes and Norwegians. We may speak Swedish over here and we may share a bit of history together, but we are not crazy enough to touch that stuff.
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Speaking of gross food does anyone here have any experience with Hákarl? Is that as gross as people say?
Or maybe even seagull wine? I am betting that is definitely a no.
Or maybe even seagull wine? I am betting that is definitely a no.
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Speaking of gross food does anyone here have any experience with Hákarl? Is that as gross as people say?
Or maybe even seagull wine? I am betting that is definitely a no.
Why, you are practically baiting me to mention our very own national Easter delicacy, mämmi!
Looking like a bad case of diarrhea, it's a classic dish to treat our foreign exchange students and visitors to. Oh those horrified faces!
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lux et lex
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My grandpa was part Swede and got me into eating pickled herring. mmmm SO GOOD!
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Not people. Swedes.
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hey, watch it there - i'm swedish....
no really, i am, LOL.....the only swedish thing i can ever recall eating is vita brod, which has become a Christmas/New Year's tradition in my family since i was old enough to chew solid food and before.....Or maybe even seagull wine? I am betting that is definitely a no.
you're making that up, right?? right??? there can't possibly be such a thing.....oh i don't think i even wanna KNOW what "seagull wine" could possibly be, and raising the possibility of chucking on my computer.....
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.....oh i don't think i even wanna KNOW what "seagull wine" could possibly be, and raising the possibility of chucking on my computer.....
You don't want to know, trust me.
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Kalevalatar said:Why, you are practically baiting me to mention our very own national Easter delicacy, mämmi!
Looking like a bad case of diarrhea, it's a classic dish to treat our foreign exchange students and visitors to. Oh those horrified faces!
I heard a story about mämmi, wether it's true or not I have no idea. It was an american who visited Finland right after the war and was served mämmi. In a letter back home he wrote that the finns indead are really poor after the war, they serve the dinner twice.
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SyntheticPaper said:Speaking of gross food does anyone here have any experience with Hákarl? Is that as gross as people say?
Or maybe even seagull wine? I am betting that is definitely a no.
I think that håkarl actually is the same thing as surströmming, but made from shark instead. So it's not only we that eat this the most disgusting food, the icelandic do it as well.
As a matter of fact, what is today called gravlax originally was made that way as well. Salmon was dug down and fermented, thus the name which literally mean buried salmon in swedish. Today gravlax is raw marinated salmon.
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lux et lex said:
Pickled herring is really good, especially with potatoes, a good lager and some snaps. The best pickled herring is the one that is called matjes and usually is sold in tin cans. That one with potatoes, raw onion or chives, gräddfil (creme fraiche or smetana) crisp bread and västerbotten chese and the above mentioned drinks is absolute best food you can eat. And it's the basis for all swedish seasonal festivals. From the food you could never make any diference between christmas, easter, pentecost or midsommer, they are all based on pickled herring and snaps.
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Too true!
Lutefisk, pickled herring and gravlax are the three traditional fish dishes on our Christmas menu, just as essential as ham.
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