>I've been reading this newsgroup (off and on, mostly on) for
>fifteen years, and I've never read any of the Lutefisk threads...

Chris,

Just for fun I did a search. Lutefisk first showed up in 1991; then it
skipped a few years until 1995, and has been a perennial (usually under
the heading of 'foods I will never eat') ever since.

Oh, the memories...

Karen MacInerney
Kitchen experimenter, family chauffeur, and culinary mystery author