"jacqui{JB}" > wrote in message
. dk...
> "Shaun aRe" > wrote in message
> eenews.net...
>
> > http://netnet.net/~pineaire/Lutefisk.html
> >
> > And it's all true too.
> > Here is some more truth about caustic cod:
> > http://www.ecst.csuchico.edu/~atman/ic/lutefisk.html
> >
> > Ya wanna know a way to do this dish from scratch? Well heretisthen:
> >
> > http://www.geocities.com/NapaValley/...es/luteing.htm
> >
> > Have fun and please all - let me know *how yours came out?
>
> I doubt I'll ever make it at home, but if I have the opportunity to try
> lutefisk, I will (actually, I can't figure out why people get their
knickers
> in such a knot about it).

And so my dear, would I! And please don't get the nature of my post wrong -
no knickers here at all, in a twist or otherwise ',;~}~

I just knw how strongly people on both sides of the fence feel about it,
happened to do a google search, and found some rather humorous writing - I
posted it for that humour, really ',;~}~


> Ditto surstromming:
> http://www.enat.org/~aribob/fermentedfish.html -- actually, I'll be trying
> surstromming before I get around to lutefisk, since we have Swedish
friends
> who regularly partake during the proper late-summer season.

Now I must admit, that does not sound appealing to me...

> I probably wouldn't pass up the Islandic version, made with shark, either:
> http://www.simnet.is/gullis/jo/shark.htm

Now that one does not sound near as bad.

> A friend recently forwarded to me an amusing article entitled "Some
Bravery
> as a Side Dish" -- http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9687163/ -- let's count
down
> the dishes, shall we?

Took a look - thanks!

> 7. Spiders -- especially tarantulas, apparently. Completely off my list,
> unless I'm dying of starvation. I do *not* do spiders.

I would have less than no problem with this.

> 6. Sea Cucumber -- I'm not seeing an issue with this, for me.

Me either - they sound delicious.

> 5. Ortolan -- I'm not seeing an issue with this either; the author's issue
> seems to be how humanely (or not) the bird is prepared. I have less an
> issue with that than the fact that people have so overindulged that the
> bird's endangered.

I'm more or less with you here.

> 4. Lunchmeat, particularly "luncheon loafs" -- eh, this is something of a
> spurious diatribe against poorly made lunchmeats, versus well made
processed
> meats. I don't think bravery enters into the picture at all.

Me either, but I generally despise the majority of them.

> 3. Hakarl -- Icelandic putrefied shark, as above. Again, I'm not seeing a
> problem with trying this.

Me either, apart from possibly any stench - I've gotten to be a bit
sensitive to bad stenches while eating, heheheh...

> 2. Cobra Heart -- Thank you, Anthony Bourdain. :P I believe I'll skip
this
> one. Yes, I'd eat snake, but I think I'll stop short of reveling in the
> creature's death by downing its still-beating heart followed by a glass of
> its blood.

Again, I'm with you - kill the snake humanely, I'll eat the damned heart
then, even raw.

> 1. Monkey Brains -- I'll pass. Monkeys are too genetically close to
humans
> for me to be comfortable eating them.

If the monkeys are a safely plentiful kind, don't think I'd have too much
trouble with that one...

> Four out of seven ... I think that's not so bad.
> -j

Indeed, but I think I have you beat by a couple ',;~}~

Thanks!


Shaun aRe