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.
Chris Nelder 🤘
W6KME@chrisnelder @dan @ai6yr I can't imagine living in the dark subsisting on lutefisk and akvavit. Those people are tough.