[Charles Henrickson]

When I was in Korea for four months in 1988, I ate every manner of food that grows or swims in the sea. Also, with every meal, Koreans eat rice (not weird) and kim chi (weird, but good--fermented cabbage, etc., in hot red pepper paste). The weirdest thing I ate in Korea--just once--was . . . dog!

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."

[PJ-Comix]

The main course was lutfisk, a bland, gelatinous whitefish, served with a cream sauce.

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.

[LeeMcCoy]

"The main course was lutfisk, a bland, gelatinous whitefish, served with a cream sauce."

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).

[aposiopetic]

For most people, though, lutfisk is "the piece of cod that passes all understanding."

ROTFL! Phil. 4:7 bump plus unofficial nominee for Quote of the Day.

[The Energizer]

Re lutfisk, until recently I saw a car regularly in East Lansing, Michigan, the this bumper sticker: Legalize Lutfisk.

I used to chuckle every time I saw it.

[Dan Day]

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."

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.