Posted on 02/04/2013 12:44:50 PM PST by WesternCulture
Tack!
I don't visit KFCs or any other fast food establishments, thank you. Having worked abroad for many years (8 countries, to be exact), there is a wide spectrum of cuisine to which I have exposed my curiosity. A comment about lutefisk bringing about a smart a@#ed remark from you is rather amusing. Go back to your trailer and take a nap.
- I sure hope so. I wasn’t offended and I, furthermore, didn’t mean no harm, but for some reason people in the US seem to prefer KFC over seafood. Perhaps frutti di mare is too expensive, I don’t know. Anyhow, in Sweden we don’t have KFC.
“Go back to your trailer and take a nap.”
Trailer parks is another thing we don’t have in Sweden.
“Tack”
- Det var så lite så/You’re welcome. Trevligt att höra av dig igen/Nice to hear from you again.
Hälsningar från Västkusten (i gamla Sverige)/Greetings from the West Coast (of old Sweden)!
- They’re not Norwegians, Swedes and Danes. They don’t belong here. It’s not like the case with Mexicans in California who were there before the white Anglo-Saxon protestants arrived.
“However, the average level of intelligence concerning China, Gabon and India is comparatively low, yet these nations sure enjoy high GDP growth rates.”
How sustainable are those growth rates, assuming reliability of the statistics? Also, especially in the case of Gabon, how much of a factor in those rates are foreign companies from Europe or from countries founded by Europeans?
Some say the Black Irish have ancestors who were shipwrecked Spaniards, who managed to swim ashore, e.g., when the Spanish Armada was destroyed in Elizabethan times.
Don't know if any Spanish galleons ever foundered off the coast of Norway.
Varsågod.
You still in Gothenburg? I used to live near Haga. At the corner of Gotabergsgatan and Storgatan.
Now in Naples, Florida and Cincinnati, Ohio.
Planning a summer visit to G-borg to look for a summer home in Eriksberg. You didn’t like my other choices for a home!
I’ll Freepmail you in advance and buy you dinner at Fond!
If you go to the Opera House, ask for Peter Hansson. Past Volvo VP of Sweden and now chef of the Goteborg Opera. A friend of ours.
No, I don’t think so. “Lutefisk” is more or less tasteless. You were probably exposed to the fermented herring that is popular along the coast of northern Sweden. I use to say that I have eaten it twice in one go - first and last time.
Still, there is a reason behind it. The northern part of the Baltic has very low salinity, it is more or less freshwater. Thus, salt was expensive and frequently when people tried to store herring they had to use as little salt as possible, often too little. The result was that the fish was not properly conserved but started fermenting in the jar but poor as the people were they could not afford to throw away food and had to make the best of it.
It then became a tradition and is now mostly a cultural marker. Still, some claim to like it. They are welcome to it, we have better cuisine. Like the Swedish version of sushi, cured salmon. You should try my version... :-)
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