Sorry... not really... just wanting to know if D in St Pete has been there.

It is Friday night... sort of like making crank calls on the board.

If you DO go to Iceland.... I don't know if sheep testicles and putrified shark are in the WW points data base. You will have to guesstimate at the calories and fat grams.

Singed sheep head jam is making poi in Hawaii sound better and better.

from Wikipedia:

Iceland offers wide varieties of traditional cuisine. Þorramatur (food of the þorri) is the Icelandic national food. Nowadays þorramatur is mostly eaten during the ancient Nordic month of þorri, in January and February, as a tribute to old culture. Þorramatur consists of many different types of food. These are mostly offal dishes like pickled ram's testicles, putrefied shark, singed sheep heads, singed sheep head jam, blood pudding, liver sausage (similar to Scottish haggis) and dried fish (often cod or haddock) with butter.

Night, Night!

One of my high school classmates married a man from Iceland and now lives there. She has sent me photos, and it is absolutely gorgeous! I would love to visit her there someday, but for now I'll settle on seeing her once a year when she comes home to California to visit her family

As for lutefisk....I've tasted it before. It isn't horrible. Not something that I'd eat on a regular basis, or even an annual basis, but it isn't horrible.

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Originally posted by Nbox:
There's a funny movie called "Reykjavik 101" and if that's anything to go by they party a lot! My guess is they can hold their liquor too.

The Iceland Board of tourism plays commercials on the radio every now and then.

They promote the nightlife as much or more than the natural beauty. Sort of like "Come to Iceland to Party!!!!! We do it WELL!!!!"

Dh went to Iceland and thought it was very cool -- but also very expensive. I wanted to go to Reykjavik a few years ago but my gf bailed out so I didn't go.

There's a funny movie called "Reykjavik 101" and if that's anything to go by they party a lot! My guess is they can hold their liquor too.

As for the lutefisk, it's not just a Norwegian thing - it's an Xmas staple in Sweden and Finland too. Luckily I don't know what it tastes like because I've been severely allergic to fish all my life

I shouldn't make fun of putrified shark.

My family, in the not so distant past, has taken cod and soaked it in lye for like 3 months and thinks it a special treat at Xmas. Lutefisk.

I think Sheltie's eaten it.

From Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lutefisk

Lutefisk eaters thrive on quotes and jokes from skeptics of lutefisk comparing it to everything from rat poison (which has a hint of truth to it, because of the traces of unnatural amino acid lysinoalanine found in lutefisk due to the reaction with lye) to weapons of mass destruction. A few examples are:

Quote from Garrison Keillor's book Lake Wobegon Days:
"Every Advent we entered the purgatory of lutefisk, a repulsive gelatinous fishlike dish that tasted of soap and gave off an odor that would gag a goat. We did this in honor of Norwegian ancestors, much as if survivors of a famine might celebrate their deliverance by feasting on elm bark. I always felt the cold creeps as Advent approached, knowing that this dread delicacy would be put before me and I’d be told, "Just have a little." Eating a little was like vomiting a little, just as bad as a lot."

Interview with Jeffrey Steingarten, author of The Man Who Ate Everything (translated quote from a 1999 article in Norwegian newspaper Dagbladet)

"Lutefisk is not food, it is a weapon of mass destruction. It is currently the only exception for the man who ate everything. Otherwise, I am fairly liberal, I gladly eat worms and insects, but I draw the line on lutefisk."

"What is special with lutefisk?"

"Lutefisk is the Norwegians' attempt at conquering the world. When they discovered that Viking raids didn't give world supremacy, they invented a meal so terrifying, so cruel, that they could scare people to become one's subordinates. And if I'm not terribly wrong, you will be able to do it as well."
"But some people say that they like lutefisk. Do you think they tell the truth?"

"I do not know. Of all food, lutefisk is the only one that I don't take any stand on. I simply cannot decide whether it is nice or disgusting, if the taste is interesting or commonplace. The only thing I know, is that I like bacon, mustard and lefse. Lutefisk is an example of food that almost doesn't taste anything, but is so full of emotions that the taste buds get knocked out."

The Ole and Lena joke books make frequent references to lutefisk, for example:
Well, we tried the lutefisk trick and the raccoons went away, but now we've got a family of Norwegians living under our house!

Or this variation of O Tannenbaum:
O lutefisk, O lutefisk, how pungent your aroma / O lutefisk, O lutefisk, you put me in a coma

Glad I gave us all (or some of us...) a chuckle.

I've seen photos of iceland and it would be a VERY cool place to go!

That is why I don't eat offal!

Now that's funny!

OMG---- your are hilarious!

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Originally posted by Brie:
rotflol....... : )


PS I saw Samatha Brown in Iceland and it actually looked like a pretty cool travel destination!

I thought the exact same thing after seeing Cash Peters there and Anthony Bourdain.

Dawn

rotflol....... : )


PS I saw Samatha Brown in Iceland and it actually looked like a pretty cool travel destination!

Ergh...I shouldn't have read this before breakfast...