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Posted on 12/01/2006 12:55:15 PM PST by ecurbh
IMHO, lutefiske at our gatherings died with the last of the last generation... :~P
~sigh~
You younguns don't care much for tradition.
We on the other hand, didn't want to bring any family traditions into our house. They were just weird.
Like my stepdad insisting that you MUST have oysters on Christmas Eve. Problem is, no one in his family likes them. So Christmas Eve dinner consists of sitting around eating oysters and talking about why you don't like them.
It's positively joyful.
How 'bout collards and peas on New Year's Day?
I'm OK with tradition... it's the stench of rotting fish soaked in lye that's more of a problem... :-)
If I can get a ride.
That's from the wife's family. We don't do that neither.
Lots! :o)
You want coins and folding money, don't you?
We kept the lefse.
Lutefisk is just like the oysters. No one likes it but we made it anyway. Like ecurbh said, it's more of a dare than a food.
Whats a lefse?
I see they're made of rice, but what are they?
They're made of potatoes... the potatoes are riced, meaning they're run through a ricer.
It's a Norwegian tortilla-like thing, beyond that, it's pretty well explained in the pictures :~)
(Among the German immigrants)
Or smoked salmon on New Years Day, a family tradition from my mom's days growing up in Saskatchewan.
Or leiberclay (sp?) soup on Christmas Eve. :o)
That could explain a lot...
Yummy!
Can you get train from where you live? I love taking it when I am in DC..I often stay in Rockville/Gaithersburg area & it is a nice ride in. why don't you post on the thread & see if anyone can give you a ride. Not sure where everyone lives (or you).. well, I do know where a few live!
Kind of like haggis, from what I've heard.
Link to DC party thread
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1741648/posts
Joshua sat on a pencil. Hard. Got him pretty good under his right cheek. A stab/scratch combo.
3 inches to the left and I would've been calling 911.
He seems fine now...I feel like I'm gonna be sick. I kid you not, I feel absolutely sick.
At least it didn't involve spittle. :~)
The MARC trains from Baltimore to DC don't run on the Weekends
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