November 17, 2005

Lutefisk Returns!


I read this site and laughed until I cried. It's really pretty funny, and I've never even eaten the stuff. Obviously written by a professional.

http://www.ecst.csuchico.edu/~atman/ic/lutefisk.html

Some especially 'delicious' excerpts...

  • "Nonononono," she said, "you must have your own lutefisk. It would be rude to bring you to Norway and not give you your own lutefisk."
  • If you can taste the difference between caviar on a cracker and ketchup on a Kit-Kat while blindfolded, you have not had enough aquavit to be ready for lutefisk.
  • The moment every traveller lives for is the native dinner where, throwing caution to the wind and plunging into a local delicacy which ought by rights to be disgusting, one discovers that it is not only delicious but that it also contradicts a previously held prejudice about food, that it expands ones culinary horizons to include surprising new smells, tastes, and textures.
  • I think my mistake was in using the dishtowel: you need to drink enough aquavit so you can't tell the difference between caviar on a cracker and ketchup on a Kit-Kat with your eyes open

1 comment:

Elindomiel said...

All I'd need is a bottle of Sobe. ^^