craigb
Carissa's from Noway.  

Who's Carissa?

ProjectM

Old55

I always wondered who was the first one to try Lutefisk.  Let's soak this stuff in one of the most poisonous elements on the planet.  "Hey Leif, give this a try."  
 
I'm one of the few Norwegians that doesn't like fish all that much, so I'm staying way from Lutefisk and that other stuff.  My mom used to make sursild (pickled herring) when I was young and I'd eat all the onions and leave the herring.  I'll have tuna salad, fish and chips or a fish taco once in a while.  I negate and health benefits by adding too much mayo or tartar sauce; so I don't even do that so often.  
 
 

 
My Guess is that there once was a woman who wanted to kill her husband and prepared and served a piece of fish like this, hoping that he would die a horrible and very ugly death. BUT the guy didn't die and actually yelled at his wife:
"This, I will eat, but get me some potatoes, bacon and peas! And pass the mustard that we stole from some unsuspecting English guy!"
He ate up and was probably a little nicer to his wife so she decided to make it for Christmas (or juleblot as it was called back then before Christianity) every year, to have a bit of piece and quiet for the holidays. Of course, women like to talk and back then there were no such thing as "Sex and the city" or "Desperate Housewives" so she shared this knowledge and the dish spread of natural causes.
 
I am probably entirely wrong but I will always see it as an attempted murder weapon
 
Wasn't much of a fish eater my self, never really liked it until I discovered sushi some years ago. That's the only fish dish I'd eat and actually enjoy. The past 8 months or so I've been having a harder and harder time eating meat, pork and chicken so I discovered some ways to make fish that I actually enjoyed. I'm getting there. But I'm not much of a Norwegian to be honest, so I eat it and be happy afterwards. Heck, it only took me 31 years!

That's as good a scenario as I've come up with.  I have had Sylteflesk and Pinnekjott, usually at Christmas time.  I don't remember which one it was, but one of them was so salty, it could raise your blood pressure just by being in the room!  I liked the polser(sausage), though.  Sometime they had it like a hot dog on a bun, other times it was more of a dinner meal with mashed potatoes or kumle(potato dumplings).  I loved that stuff.  

sharke

Old55

sharkeLutefisk...wasn't that the subject of an episode of King Of The Hill, the one where Bobby ends up with gout?

I remember that there was an King Of The Hill episode with Lutefisk.  I don't remember the part about the gout, but I wouldn't doubt it.   "That boy just ain't right."  

Oh right. I'm getting it mixed up with the episode where Bobby gets gout from eating too much deli food. The lutefisk one is the one where he burns down the church.

That sounds more like it.  

ProjectM

craigb
Carissa's from Noway.  

Who's Carissa?

She was a fellow forum-user for a while Marius.
 
And quite popular with the gentlemen as I recall

SteveStrummerUK

ProjectM

craigb
Carissa's from Noway.  

Who's Carissa?

She was a fellow forum-user for a while Marius.
 
And quite popular with the gentlemen as I recall

Concensus is that another name for him/her was "Bobby."

sharke
Is it Norway where they eat those cans of fermented fish that make normal people vomit, or is that Sweden? 

"Surströmming" is a traditional dish from northern Sweden and the Swedish-speaking parts of Finland!

My father would eat pickled herring all of the time, I could never look at the stuff … but pickled herring certainly wasn’t lutfisk.
 
My mother made cookies called pepperkakker.  It was a gingerbread cookie and I could eat a dozen of them in one sitting.
 
We would have something my family called Korv at Christmas time which was a potato sausage.  The version of the sausage we ate had a very unique flavor and I found out much later in life that cardamom was one of the ****es used to make it.  Cardamom is great in breads but in my opinion, an acquired taste in savory.  (as a side note, nobody from NJ had ever heard of it but everybody from Jamestown, NY, a Scandinavian stronghold and my place of birth and place of residence for the first six months of my life, claimed it was a traditional Swedish dish.  But since moving out here to MN I have not heard anybody refer to the sausage as “Korv” … I suspect the sausage is truly a traditional Swedish dish but the name “korv” is an American invention)
 
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Definition according to Cakewalk:
****es -  Any of various pungent, aromatic plant substances used to season or flavor foods.
 

Old55

That's as good a scenario as I've come up with.  I have had Sylteflesk and Pinnekjott, usually at Christmas time.  I don't remember which one it was, but one of them was so salty, it could raise your blood pressure just by being in the room!  I liked the polser(sausage), though.  Sometime they had it like a hot dog on a bun, other times it was more of a dinner meal with mashed potatoes or kumle(potato dumplings).  I loved that stuff.  

 
Pinnekjøtt must be the salty one. It's salty alright, but delicious and a big thing during Christmas time.
 
I'm actually having kumle for dinner tonight actually, with Pølse of course!

craigb

SteveStrummerUK

ProjectM

craigb
Carissa's from Noway.  

Who's Carissa?

She was a fellow forum-user for a while Marius.
 
And quite popular with the gentlemen as I recall

Concensus is that another name for him/her was "Bobby."

Actually I think I remember that one... Well, no wonder she was popular with the gentlemen around here 
 
 
So, who's got her address?
 

SvenArne

sharke
Is it Norway where they eat those cans of fermented fish that make normal people vomit, or is that Sweden? 

"Surströmming" is a traditional dish from northern Sweden and the Swedish-speaking parts of Finland!

 
Ah, Surströmming! I couldn't recall the name. Yeah, disgusting stuff. Whoever ate that the first time must have been raging hungry! I'm pretty sure I'd rather eat a rock!