[HiramQuick]

Perhaps they drank anti freeze in the cold winter months.

I'm the Norwegian lefse/lutefisk/kringla eating boy that escaped. Perhaps they got a hold of some bad lutefisk (how would you tell?) Laars/Ole/Lena and Sven are my kin ... they weren't to bright but they had commonsense.

Perhaps the Darwin syndrome happened and they mutated .... good lord only knows .... but the two states are what they are. My body and dollars avoid both of them these days.

[Stentor]

"Lutefisk left overnight becomes nearly impossible to remove."

I looked up Lutefisk. Maybe they just weren't regular.