In the spirit of the season, you may have my share.

Have my sauerbraten too.

I love the stuff but it's nearly impossible to find the better stuff here.
There was a guy in MT that made it from Bering Sea cod but is no longer in business I guess.

There's probably a reason for that.

Wife likes it, I will pass

He was likely shot !

I'd put my money on him dying of a gagging fit after smelling it one too many times.

If you've smelled lutefisk,, you had a bad cook!

Every year we get our money's worth from the smelly fish with out tasting any.

The nice thing about lutefisk is that it makes you really appreciate good fresh fish caught out of cold water.

Good a'int all that bad. Bad ain't good at all. I know the difference , inlaws (now outlaws) were hardcore Dakota Norskies

Dont know what the difference is ,but my father in law was a 100% polack from Chicago. He had to have pickeled herring on January 1st every year. Is that the same kind of thing?

And don't forget to do the official lutefisk dance.

Tex,

Not similar at all.

Scandinavians also get into the pickled herring but lutefisk is cod fish fillets cured in lye [some claim Drano].
When I was a kid in Northern MN, the grocery stores had dried lutefisk fillets in a basket like French bread loaves. Lutefisk today
usually comes in frozen chunks and the little bit I've found in AK has skin and bones included at a very high price.

Grandma would break off chunks into boiling water for a very brief time [maybe three minutes]. If your lutefisk came out like
fish jello, it's overcooked. Boiling the the lutefisk can result in an odor much like boiling crab. A few drops of vinegar in the pot will
stifle that odor. The result should be chunks of white fish flesh that flakes easily. Some folks like butter on theirs [me] while others
prefer a white cream sauce.

The other traditional holiday food was lefse which is best described as a potato tortilla made from mashed potatoes.

I saw some today at the Fairway store. $16 a pound, I'm not that curious.