While I was growing up, every Christmas Eve Grandma Henrickson made a traditional Swedish dinner. The main course was lutfisk, a bland, gelatinous whitefish, served with a cream sauce. (Lutfisk is made gelatinous by soaking it for several days in lye!)
I actually like lutfisk! For most people, though, lutfisk is "the piece of cod that passes all understanding."
I never had lutfisk but when I was a kid in Puerto Rico I ate a lot of Bacalao Frito which is Fried Saltcod. Man that stuff was great! Also in Puerto Rico I loved when the roadside vendors sold green coconuts on ice. First they opened up little holes in them to drink from. Then they would cut open the coconut and chop off with their machetes a little wedge of coconut wood that you would use to scrape out the soft coconut meat (much better than the dried ripe coconut meat.) Also I absolutely LOVE coconut milk where they mix coconut juice with milk.
This modern Svenska flika won't cook lutefisk unless it's in a nifty little boiling bag! It's actually good this way (I think they leave out the lye).
ROTFL! Phil. 4:7 bump plus unofficial nominee for Quote of the Day.
I used to chuckle every time I saw it.
Lutefisk is popular in Norway, too.
I visited Norway several times on business and learned the details of it there, and upon my return it was my favorite food to make fun of.
Finally a Norwegian friend here in Texas made some for me, and... I liked it. Oh, the shame. Now I can no longer make fun of it.