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Originally Posted by shalym
...have you eaten Norwegian food? Fish stored in Lye and then boiled doesn't appeal to me, either.
Shari
(Note: I'm being facetious. Please don't be offended if you are Norwegian, or if you like Norwegian food. I know that there is good and bad food in every culture, and what I consider to be "good food" may be what others consider disgusting. Tastes vary.)
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I'm not Norwegian but we used to joke about lutefisk (which I think is what you're referring to). And you're right, it would be "misery" to eat that – at least for me.
The food she would cook would always be bland. My dad would try to spice it up a little and she would say "too hot, too hot." She was a rarity in her family, not a triplet or a twin. In her family there were three sets of twins and two sets of triplets (maybe only one set of triplets?) but a LOT of multiple births and a big family. Maybe that's why it was a "misery" for the dad.
My wife and I read a novel together when we first got married (it was one of her favorite writers at the time) and it was about a woman who became a school teacher in Norwegian country of North Dakota (and, of course, found someone, fell in love and got married). And she mentioned in that novel how the Norwegian family that she lived with never talked at dinner either – and she kept trying to change that. So, I think, it's kind of tradition.
Sorry to ramble.