Death by Surstrømming..

[a_reader2003]

This post is especially for Boyd, who is currently feeling a little 
distressed at the degree to which this list can veer off topic..... 
(was it 14 posts on the dangers of tripping over Duplo bricks you 
found??)


Post 7210 OT Norwegian Christmas-sweets (long; includes cruel jokes 
directed at Swedes ;-) 

First of all, let me warn that anyone who mocks our great tradition of
lutefisk, will be forced to spend a Spitsbergen night in a closed 
room, the only company being an open barrel of Surstrømming... ;-)

(enormous snip of extensive Norwegian Xmas dinner details, including 
lengthy recipes)

Note: Surstrømming is, as far as I know, made from a Swedish
freshwater-fish, pickled and cured to the degree that it has started
fermenting (apparently the process includes burying it for a while in 
a wooden barrel, though I may be mistaken on this). Tehre was a
ferocious exchange of newspaper-articles between Danish and Swedish
newspapers some years back, over a Swedish nuclear powerplant. It
ended with the Swedish threatening to dump plane-loads of Surstrømming
over the Danes. The Danes maintained that this would be a warcrime
according to international conventions (falling under the definition 
of chemical warfare).


And believe me, folks, this thread goes on and on and on....it 
started with some idiot checking Brit Christmas customs for a fanfic..

Carolyn
Who actually thinks this an improvement on the current list 
discussions..