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"
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
Tony Yarusso