AI6YR BenHmm, ham radio potluck picnic list has items they want people to sign up to bring . What the heck is "Surströmming" and what joker inserted that in the spreadsheet? #potluck
LOL... I am curious if you can even buy that here. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surstr%C3%B6mming
I'm guessing not, from Wikipedia:
"German food critic and author Wolfgang Fassbender wrote that "the biggest challenge when eating surströmming is to vomit only after the first bite, as opposed to before"
Adrianna Tan@ai6yr I just saw a documentary about this. It’s a very strong flavor but it’s meant to be eaten like anchovies, balanced with something else. I would do it in the right context (as part of a visit to the country, perhaps in visiting certain restaurants as part of the festival that celebrates it).
@skinnylatte The question is, does Ikea stock it? 🤪
Salty@ai6yr @skinnylatte there’s several videos on utube of people opening cans of it and it will usually spray fetid rancid fish juice everywhere.
Dan Ports@ai6yr I am fairly sure that surströmming exists primarily to make those of us with vaguely Norwegian heritage feel better about lutefisk
@ai6yr I will also share the classic explanation of lutefisk I read on Usenet a long, long time ago
> The moment every traveller lives for is the native dinner, where, throwing caution to the wind and plunging into a local delicacy that 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 one's culinary horizons to include surprising new smells, tastes, and textures.
> Lutefisk is not such a dish.
> Lutefisk is instead pretty much what you'd expect of jellied cod; it is a foul and odoriferous goo, whose gelatinous texture and rancid oily taste are locked in spirited competition to see which can be the more responsible for rendering the whole completely inedible.
@ai6yr I should also mention that my family is divided into three warring factions: the ones who love Norwegians, the ones who hate Norwegians, and the ones who *are* Norwegians.
...and for decades they have been fighting by mailing lutefisk to each other.
Karl Statz
John Regehr
Michael Busch
Tony Yarusso
Timjan
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arclight@dan @ai6yr In related news, I tried nattō today. Not recommended. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natt%C5%8D
rk: it’s hyphen-minus actually
groxx@rk @arclight @dan @ai6yr nattō is a very special consistency
* stirs it a bit, producing something reminiscent of spiderwebs mixed with snot mixed with gobs of more snot *
(I actually kinda like it too, but it is less an acquired taste and more a "does not vomit when it touches your tongue" genetic trait)
Chris Nelder 🤘
W6KME@chrisnelder @dan @ai6yr I can't imagine living in the dark subsisting on lutefisk and akvavit. Those people are tough.
AMS@ai6yr A German food critic deriding a cultural dish from another country? Hard to believe.
bse@ai6yr Can't be any worse than that Icelandic delicacy Hákarl (fermented shark) - best taken with a chaser of aquavit. Yikes! I agree with the Wikipedia article: "Those new to it may gag involuntarily at the first attempt to eat it because of the high ammonia content."
Larry Anderson 🕊️@ai6yr My great-grandparents were from Sweden, and surströmming is what my people eat to remind themselves of why their forefathers left the old country. I refuse to have anything to do with it.
Lenora
FreddyB Aviation Photography@ai6yr this is basically lutefisk on steroids with rotting durian thrown in
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Endy@ai6yr You used to be able to import it. I don't know what the situation is currently with the repeal of de minimis. The idea is to open it outside in a well-ventilated area, preferably where you can be upwind of it for several minutes.
Stuart Longland (VK4MSL)@ai6yr Given they confiscate Vegemite at the border…
@stuartl LOL really? I was thinking it belonged in the Vegemite category, ha ha! (I mean, Vegemite is not bad if you enjoy really salty stuff and only eat tiny amounts LOL)
Wenslauw@ai6yr I know someone who knows how it tastes: @avelthuis
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mirabilos@ai6yr 🙀 I hope your picnic will be outdoors if someone brings THAT…
I am told that surströmming stopped being sold in the airport at Stockholm because of fear of a can exploding on an airplane.
George BThe Egyptian version is fesikh. Notably the only named section in the wikipedia article is about hazards when it's improperly prepared
