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Love it or loathe it, lutefisk still a popular holiday meal
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| 11-26-03
| Heidi Clausen
Posted on 11/26/2003 4:32:37 PM PST by SJackson
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To: dalereed
Note to self: lutefisk causes German measles in children....
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posted on
11/26/2003 7:09:00 PM PST
by
ChemistCat
(Hang in there, Terri. Absorb. Take in. Live. Heal.)
To: ChemistCat
Attending school causes German measles in children!
Especially the ones that went to school before they invented vaccine!
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posted on
11/26/2003 7:16:40 PM PST
by
dalereed
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To: dalereed
Oh man.
I knew there had to be a connection to vaccines and public schools. I just knew it.
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posted on
11/26/2003 7:23:38 PM PST
by
ChemistCat
(Hang in there, Terri. Absorb. Take in. Live. Heal.)
To: Charles Henrickson
I somehow thought there are a lot Swedes in the Chicago area. I guess the Germans got to name most of the streets in the Chicago area, though. I was in Hanover, PA a few weeks ago and I would have thought I was in a Chicago suburb from the street names.
To: SJackson
some retirees even take the pungent product with them to Florida for the winter I'm assuming they DRIVE to Florida. In this day and age of heightened national security, I doubt they'd let an unstable substance like lutefisk on board an airplane.
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posted on
11/26/2003 8:59:04 PM PST
by
Choose Ye This Day
("The Pinedale Shopping Center has just been bombed by live turkeys!")
To: SJackson
I've tasted it. It's has a fishy soapy taste to it, and a consistency that is somewhat gelatinous.
"Fisk" == fish. It's codfish preserved with lye. The fish has some oil or fat in it. Lye + fat == soap. Soak it real good before cooking or you'll get alkali burns all down your esophagus.
And I thought baccalà (or bacalao) was hard to deal with, but that's just codfish with too much salt to be soaked out. Stewed with vinager and onions it's an A-OK southern Italian treat. Or battered and fried as the Puerto Ricans do it is also good.
Provided it was soaked enough first, of course. Soak, throw out water, repeat. Then cook.
I have this idea of preserving fish by soaking it in paint. I call it "paintfisk". Before you cook it, you have to soak it in turpentine.
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posted on
11/26/2003 11:53:26 PM PST
by
Salman
(Mickey Akbar)
To: SJackson
From this picture, it's impossible to determine whether the stuff is going into or coming out of the kid's mouth.
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posted on
11/26/2003 11:56:16 PM PST
by
Salman
(Mickey Akbar)
To: Nachum
Every "ethnic" cuisine has:
- Dishes with wide appeal.
- Dishes which are generally edible.
- Dishes that when you pull a upon face tasting them, folks say "you'll develop a taste for it".
- Dishes which amount to an initiation.
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posted on
11/27/2003 12:04:17 AM PST
by
Salman
(Mickey Akbar)
To: Bogey78O
After reading this thread I have come to the conclusion that if I were to be served lutefisk the first thing I would grab for is the McIlhenny Co. Tabasco Pepper Sauce. Anything is edible with that stuff on it.
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