Lutefisk

When visiting my cousins in Finland, I joked about lutefisk, and I called it fish Jello. . . they didn't laugh. It's served on special occasions.

Do you know the difference between lutefisk and snot?





Kids will eat snot.

No. I had it once and that was enough.

We're not having lutefisk this year but it brings back memories from when I was a child. It was Christmas eve tradition to have it until us kids starting getting married and the new SIL's and DIL's turned up there noses at it. I'll give them credit- they tried it, but unless you are born a norskie your heart just isn't in it. Don't blame them and don't miss it- much. Now... lefse- gotta have lefse!

I have never tried it, and probably won't in the foreseeable future. I have been eating a lot of Kringle recently, however.

Miles

Tom N wrote:
My Minnesota snowbird friends love this stuff.

I was born and raised in MN; am of Swedish and Norwegian bloodlines; and I still won't eat it unless I was starving to death and there was no other food available. Even then I'd have to think about it or look for bugs to eat instead.

I am of Norwegian descent, have never tried lutefisk and don't intend to although some of the relys actually claim to like the stuff.

I had to look this up on the Internet. I had no clue what it was. After reading about soaking fish in water for several days, and it forms into a jello and then it's packed in lye for several days, it's like ... oh my!

Sounds interesting, but WAY too time consuming for me. I barely plan out what we're having in the next hour, let alone a week into the future! Maybe a special meal like Christmas dinner or New Year dinner? No doubt, that's what the OP is planning for, New Year. Now .. add the goat cheese and you might have a winner!

My Minnesota snowbird friends love this stuff.