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Merdo the Grey, Patron Saint of fuzzy thinking Started conversation Nov 7, 2000
The important thing to remember about eating lutefisk is that you need lost of other things to make it palateable.
My theory is that a gang of drunken vikings about a thousand years ago in a famished stupor, mistakenly put their dried fish in the lye barrel instead of the water barrel. Still hungry when the mistake was discovered, they ate it anyway. Still in a drunken stupor, they liked it.
Traditions have a way of continuing long after their usefulness passes, and therefore the scandinavians still eat the stuff.
But the Icelanders do a nice one by marinating shark-meat in amonia ...
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Monsignore Pizzafunghi Bosselese Posted Jul 16, 2002
Great entry, btw! 
Lutefisk without the lutefisk
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