[HairOfTheDog]

So you are familiar with Lutefisk?

Then you know that it is just a ritual that Norskies perform every year to keep the strangers out? We invite all the outsiders that have been hanging around all year over for dinner and serve them lutefisk.

[g'nad]

So you are familiar with Lutefisk?

I'd heard rumors... dark, disturbing rumors of the existence of a foul substance called lutefisk... then one Christmas party back in the early 90s, I came face to face with the horror...

The Norwegian exchange officer that lived on our block invited us over... when I saw the lutefisk, I said "This is some kinda joke, right? You don't really eat this crap?"... And thus evaporated any chance I had at ever working for the Diplomatic Office or State Dept...