its the season

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last name: Olson
Nationality: Swedish
Church: Lutheran
Raised in North Dakota

Heck yah, Love that "Stuff"
Cleans your aluminum pans real shiny too.

Hell no.

quote Savage Voyageur: "Let's see...
last name: Olson
Nationality: Swedish
Church: Lutheran
Raised in North Dakota


Heck yah, Love that "Stuff"
Cleans your aluminum pans real shiny too. "

Good one.

One of the largest communities of Swedish immigrants in the US, is down here in Rockford, Illinois. Thousands of Swedes came here in the early part of the 20th century.

I've always thought that most of these fine folks left Sweden in order to get away from lutefisk and salt herring.

uh.....no.

I always thought it best served with another favorite entree, roast Merganser, and a bottle or two of any 100 proof or greater alcohol?

Good stuff! Just call it Draino for humans.

No

No

only one time

TGO will give you a choice prime smallmouth bass or lutefisk?

Not sure what the big deal is. It is ok, once a year but needs to be prepared right.

Used to take my dad to 3 or 4 places a year to eat lutefisk. He loved it. He passed away in September but I still went to one Lutefisk lunch. Just a way to remember him.
I don't mind it. I'll keep going to one a year.

quote JJ396: "Used to take my dad to 3 or 4 places a year to eat lutefisk. He loved it. He passed away in September but I still went to one Lutefisk lunch. Just a way to remember him.
I don't mind it. I'll keep going to one a year."

Its bringing back a lot good family memories for you and tradition.

I think lot of it is tradition and culture and connecting to the Old country overseas. Also to many brave soles eating it so they can say I ate it.

Actually somebody must like it,they been eating it for centuries. Just a lot of fun about lutefisk goes on.

Not happening!

no, bacalao is enough trouble here in New England

Does fruitcake fit into the same category ??
dr bob

Dam straight! We roll it up in lefsa then smoke it!

If it's made right. Some church groups who have been doing it for decades know what they're doing.

Lutefisk.....just say no....

Winter pot hole patch.

quote awbrown: "One of the largest communities of Swedish immigrants in the US, is down here in Rockford, Illinois. Thousands of Swedes came here in the early part of the 20th century.


I've always thought that most of these fine folks left Sweden in order to get away from lutefisk and salt herring."

I'm married to a second generation Swede from Rockford. His mother had a stove and sink in a small closed room in the basement which was vented to the outside. The room was only used for preparing lutefisk as it smelled so bad. However we all enjoyed eating it. I acquired a taste for it while a student at Swedish American Hospital... it was served every Christmas Eve. Oh, and his mother wasn't Swedish, but was taught to cook many things Swedish by her mother-in-law.

quote old_salt: "Winter pot hole patch."

No wonder the roads are so squishy down there in Rochester Rich.

oh my!!! NO!

I cooked hundreds of pounds of it when I was a teenager. Could never bring myself to eat it. Tastes worse than loon.

There may be only 5 out of 100 that know how to prepare it which is why many can't hack it. It was always on the Thanksgiving menu while I grew up so I will eat it if done right.

U ETCHA! Make one dinner with lefse once a year just before Christmas, family tradition forever. Treasure Island also has a pretty good version on their Wed. buffet.

quote PortageKeeper: "There may be only 5 out of 100 that know how to prepare it which is why many can't hack it. It was always on the Thanksgiving menu while I grew up so I will eat it if done right. "

Very true.

A little (clean) limerick that I "learnt" on long bus ride as a kid. Why it stuck with me versus the not so clean ones from that trip is beyond me.

Lutefisk, Lefse, Copenhagen snuff, we're from Minnesota and made from damn good stuff.

As for this German, it ain't happening. Ever.

quote QuietWaters: "

quote awbrown: "One of the largest communities of Swedish immigrants in the US, is down here in Rockford, Illinois. Thousands of Swedes came here in the early part of the 20th century.



I've always thought that most of these fine folks left Sweden in order to get away from lutefisk and salt herring."

I'm married to a second generation Swede from Rockford. His mother had a stove and sink in a small closed room in the basement which was vented to the outside. The room was only used for preparing lutefisk as it smelled so bad. However we all enjoyed eating it. I acquired a taste for it while a student at Swedish American Hospital... it was served every Christmas Eve. Oh, and his mother wasn't Swedish, but was taught to cook many things Swedish by her mother-in-law."

Half of Rockford's phone book is Anderson's, Johnson's and Swanson's. Like you mentioned, so many Swede's they even have a hospital named for them. Lot's of Sven and Ole jokes abound.

Lefse: yes
Pickled herring: yes
Lutefisk: nope

And this is my yearly plug for my hometown, Madison, MN: Lutefisk Capitol, USA!

quote awbrown: "

quote QuietWaters: "

quote awbrown: "One of the largest communities of Swedish immigrants in the US, is down here in Rockford, Illinois. Thousands of Swedes came here in the early part of the 20th century.



I've always thought that most of these fine folks left Sweden in order to get away from lutefisk and salt herring."

I'm married to a second generation Swede from Rockford. His mother had a stove and sink in a small closed room in the basement which was vented to the outside. The room was only used for preparing lutefisk as it smelled so bad. However we all enjoyed eating it. I acquired a taste for it while a student at Swedish American Hospital... it was served every Christmas Eve. Oh, and his mother wasn't Swedish, but was taught to cook many things Swedish by her mother-in-law."

Half of Rockford's phone book is Anderson's, Johnson's and Swanson's. Like you mentioned, so many Swede's they even have a hospital named for them. Lot's of Sven and Ole jokes abound."

Sven and Ole jokes are good and about the only ones you can tell. The Swedes love them and joke about themselves-great.

quote Pinetree: "

quote awbrown: "

quote QuietWaters: "

quote awbrown: "One of the largest communities of Swedish immigrants in the US, is down here in Rockford, Illinois. Thousands of Swedes came here in the early part of the 20th century.




I've always thought that most of these fine folks left Sweden in order to get away from lutefisk and salt herring."

I'm married to a second generation Swede from Rockford. His mother had a stove and sink in a small closed room in the basement which was vented to the outside. The room was only used for preparing lutefisk as it smelled so bad. However we all enjoyed eating it. I acquired a taste for it while a student at Swedish American Hospital... it was served every Christmas Eve. Oh, and his mother wasn't Swedish, but was taught to cook many things Swedish by her mother-in-law."

Half of Rockford's phone book is Anderson's, Johnson's and Swanson's. Like you mentioned, so many Swede's they even have a hospital named for them. Lot's of Sven and Ole jokes abound."

Sven and Ole jokes are good and about the only ones you can tell. The Swedes love them and joke about themselves-great."

There was a legendary Swedish police officer in Rockford in the 1920's whose name was Erikson. One of the stories they tell about him goes as follows:

A horse died one day on Kishwaukee St. Erikson couldn't complete his report because he didn't know how to spell Kishwaukee St............... So he dragged the horse around the corner to 5th Ave.

Our church does the annual feed with four servings. I went down and washed dishes for almost five hours a couple weeks back. I don't know how many pounds of meatballs they went through but I do know that they used 300 pounds of fish and 120 pounds of butter, but you need melted butter on rommegrot as well. Also had rutabaga, corn, mashed potatoes, as well as lefsa, kringla, and everything else.

Had folks that drove from North of the cities, South of Iowa City, Omaha, and Sioux Falls drive to Hanlontown,Ia to eat it - many traveling four hours. I had my one bite of that jello like fish and I'm set for a few more years.

We gave my Swedish mother such a hard time about her Lutefisk that she burned her recipe before she died. Since then, my younger brother has spent years unsuccessfully trying to duplicate the stuff.

Just say "NO" to Lutefisk!!!!

Pretty sure it's why my grandparents left Sweden.

For the newbies to the delights of Lutefisk........It is literally whitefish soaked in lye.....

My Mom and Dad both Norwegian. My mom up on The Range, Biwabik to be exact. As a kid we had to eat Lutefisk every Christmas. When my parents passed, eating pasties and picked Herring are traditions that survived. Eating Lutefisk did not. I know some folks who live in Norway, and they don't eat it. Cod cured in lye hmmm

Tried it once when I moved to MN. Didn't know better. I didn't inhale though.

In KS we had a Christmas treat of raw hamburger with a bunch of spices mixed in it. Ate it on crackers. That was a definite hell no.

If lutefisk is outlawed, only outlaws will have lutefisk.

quote schweady: "If it's made right. Some church groups who have been doing it for decades know what they're doing.
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that is key. my grandmother , who has passed, from norway, always brought the water to a boil, shut down the heat, the when small bubbles would come from the bottom of the pan, she would lie the fish in the hot water until done. she never boiled the fish, or used frozen fish. it came right from the wood barrels.
to much lutefisk is over boiled.

I'd rather eat a skunks butt. FRED