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Supposedly more Lutefisk is eaten in the US than in Scandinavia: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/scandinavians-strange-holiday-lutefisk-tradition-2218218/

Supposedly more Lutefisk is eaten in the US than in Scandinavia: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/scandinavians-strange-holiday-lutefisk-tradition-2218218/ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/scandinavians-strange-... Living in Norway, I can think of one person I know who likes it, and most others hate it, with a few being closer to neutral on it.

floren 7y ago
> I can think of one person I know who likes it, and most others hate it, with a few being closer to neutral on it. It's the same way in the US. My father enjoys it, my wife and I tolerate it, and the rest of my family mostly just chokes down a piece out of Christmas tradition (and to clear up the plate for Swedish meatballs afterward)
mattrp 7y ago
Growing up in the 80s In the US lutefisk was a rumor... supposedly it hadn’t been seen since my grandfather last made it when my parents were kids and he’d been banned since then. I asked some friends in Norway and then said theres a joke to the effect that all the real Norwegians moved to Minnesota long ago. In any case, no one they knew had ever had it! I do remember we would make lefse around the holidays... I made it for my kids and they said it tasted like wet newspaper with butter and sugar... Of course they still ate it all.
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- Fricken 7y ago
  My Norwegian Grandfather was born in Minnesota and migrated as a child to a Norwegian community in Alberta. In the 80s I went with my grandparents to an annual Lutefisk dinner, and they didn't eat the Lutefisk, nor would they let me try it. Too disgusting, they said. I've never actually tasted it. Lefse however is the most popular traditional Norwegian dish that we make at Christmas (Lefse is basically a tortilla shell made with potatoes instead of corn or flour). While we regard lefse to be some kind of sacrosanct traditional Norwegian cuisine, in Norway they sell hotdogs wrapped in lefse.
  - mattrp 7y ago
    So in addition to lefse and lutefisk, are there any other Norwegian foods you recommend? Ps, I’ve had a hot dog wrapped in lefse... it’s not bad.. especially with chili.
    - Fricken 7y ago
      Rumagrit

floren 7y ago

> I can think of one person I know who likes it, and most others hate it, with a few being closer to neutral on it. It's the same way in the US. My father enjoys it, my wife and I tolerate it, and the rest of my family mostly just chokes down a piece out of Christmas tradition (and to clear up the plate for Swedish meatballs afterward)

mattrp 7y ago

Growing up in the 80s In the US lutefisk was a rumor... supposedly it hadn’t been seen since my grandfather last made it when my parents were kids and he’d been banned since then. I asked some friends in Norway and then said theres a joke to the effect that all the real Norwegians moved to Minnesota long ago. In any case, no one they knew had ever had it! I do remember we would make lefse around the holidays... I made it for my kids and they said it tasted like wet newspaper with butter and sugar... Of course they still ate it all.

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Fricken 7y ago
My Norwegian Grandfather was born in Minnesota and migrated as a child to a Norwegian community in Alberta. In the 80s I went with my grandparents to an annual Lutefisk dinner, and they didn't eat the Lutefisk, nor would they let me try it. Too disgusting, they said. I've never actually tasted it. Lefse however is the most popular traditional Norwegian dish that we make at Christmas (Lefse is basically a tortilla shell made with potatoes instead of corn or flour). While we regard lefse to be some kind of sacrosanct traditional Norwegian cuisine, in Norway they sell hotdogs wrapped in lefse.
- mattrp 7y ago
  So in addition to lefse and lutefisk, are there any other Norwegian foods you recommend? Ps, I’ve had a hot dog wrapped in lefse... it’s not bad.. especially with chili.
  - Fricken 7y ago
    Rumagrit