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I am more of a fish and chips on the side of a mountain kind of girl 
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why do people hate it so much ?  It's a Scandinavian kinda thing.. But for most people it takes a while to develop a taste for it.. The odor can be somewhat offensive to most people when it's cooking and the completed dish has a texture that takes getting used to. I love the stuff - but it's gotten so expensive I can have lobster for about the same price... And I can't afford THAT either.. 
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My answer to lutefisk is deepfried crappie. I tried pickled herring the other day for the first time, hate it. I like grilled and baked fish to, but bleached, embalmed or pickled, O my gag I'll pass.
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Must not be many Scandinavian's down south or we'd have deep fried lutefisk for sure.
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I'll be having my 3rd lutefisk feed of the season at my house this weekend. My neighbors honestly flock towards my place on those evenings.
I can get it right out of the barrel at one of our local stores.
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Must not be many Scandinavian's down south or we'd have deep fried lutefisk for sure. There's a whole lot of Swedish folks settled just north of us about 12 miles in Elgin Tx. They Lutheran churches there have the stuff every Christmas! Most of the younger folks do not care for it either. I stays down here on the river with the yellow cats and gaspers.
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I can get it right out of the barrel at one of our local stores.
There's something you hear down south...never.
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Salt cod w/ gravy on potatoes....Mmmmmmm! (How could one not acquire a taste for that? It smells like fish; it tastes like fish)......lots of people seem to gravitate toward fish that isn't 'fishy'. What's that all about? (I'd like some deep-fried batter with a lump of protein inside, please!) Next wimpified metro-sexual, please. My mothers side of the family was from Prince Edward Island. We ate fish a lot ,growing up. She used to make a mean fish chowder also! Her favourite fish was horned pout when I'd catch a mess of 'em, it was feasting time!
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I'll pass on the lutefisk, but kumle and risengryn are some of the best food there is. Also love pickled herring and smoked oysters. Lefse is alright, I ate it until I got sick as a kid and sort of ruined myself on it.
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Lefsa is good though, if you can find someone willing to go through the hell needed to make it just right. Lefse is excellent....unfortunately its getting harder and harder to con my mom into making it so have had to slum with store bought stuff for the last two years....im about to the point ill pay good money for some proper homemade stuff....Wader's wife makes excellent lefse, he sent me some 3 or 4 years ago.....
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You guys got some pretty good food out there. The first time I had Kneffla, was in Bellfield ND. Damn that stuff is good! My buddy still talks about it. His wife keeps threatening to try making it but hasn't yet.
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Why would anyone subject themselves to something so obviously putrid and toxic ? Ever heard of Taco Bell? Or cigarettes? Not much inclined towards Taco Bell  , and I am not a smoker, and it seems now I am not a Lutefisker either  +1
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Lutefisk is pure ambrosia but it ain't for the panty clad girlie man crowd. You gotta be a tough old scandahoovian to really appreciate it.
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I am more of a fish and chips on the side of a mountain kind of girl You need to head down here to Tasmania then. Yum.
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I'll be having my 3rd lutefisk feed of the season at my house this weekend. My neighbors honestly flock towards my place on those evenings.
You must gots seagulls fir neighbors! 
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I bet the gulls would ignore it. (When my hunting partner hunted in Newfoundland they fed him seagull and tried to pass it off as duck; I believe that he would have preferred lutefisk.)
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Lefsa is good though, if you can find someone willing to go through the hell needed to make it just right. Lefse is excellent....unfortunately its getting harder and harder to con my mom into making it so have had to slum with store bought stuff for the last two years....im about to the point ill pay good money for some proper homemade stuff....Wader's wife makes excellent lefse, he sent me some 3 or 4 years ago..... We have lefse "factories" in just about every small town around these parts. Some with up to 10 employees working steady through the Holiday Season.
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I bet the gulls would ignore it. (When my hunting partner hunted in Newfoundland they fed him seagull and tried to pass it off as duck; I believe that he would have preferred lutefisk.) Reminds me of the time a buddy of mine went to a redneck neighbors "wild game feed". He was chowing down on this meat and went to stab his fork into another piece and pulled out a cat paw. Claws and all. Yes. A. House. Cat. The rednecks sure got a kick out of his gagging and wretching.
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Yup, seasonal "factories" of female friends and relatives gossiping and using lefse production as an excuse.  Funny how they all specialize. We have to invite Nancy because she rolls them to just the right thickness. And Velois because she cooks them browned just right.
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It's fish that's been treated with lye and dried, then re-hydrated with extensive rinsing to bring the concentration of the lye down to non caustic levels. It really doesn't have all that much flavor. The texture is flakey when done right and slimy or rubbery when not done right. Traditionally, it is buried in mashed potatoes where one doesn't notice it and eaten in order to establish or preserve one's Scandinavian credibility every year or so.
There are better ways of preserving fish now, so one needn't preserve one's fish with liquid plumber anymore. It's a fairly involved process that doesn't produce a product that's worth writing home about. Many are likely put off by the process, the texture when done wrong, or the smell. My very Norske uncle used to say lutefisk was made by soaking cod in lye, nailing it to the shingles on the side of the barn and letting it dry. He went on that it didn't matter if you patched the roof with the cod and ate the shingle or vice versa as they tasted about the same. It is also one reason all us grandkids eating my Norwegian grandmother's cooking learned the dinner prayer started "Dear Lord, vat is dis schidt?"
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