Buttermilk and absurd questions

[pengolodh_sc at yahoo.no]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., Meredith Wilson 
<aviationoutreachcoord at m...> wrote:
>  
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> As someone from Kentucky, I think buttermilk is utterly vile.  
> Truth be told, I've never tasted any, but it looks so horrible that 
> I can't even imagine putting it in my system!  My dad used to drink 
> it, too, but bleh!  

We have foods like that in Norway too:  lutefisk, smalahove, codfish-
tongue...  And of course the codliver-oil, which is very healthy, and 
tastes accordinlgy.  And the Swedes of course have their surstrømming 
(which is some sort of freshwaterfish, which has been allowed to 
ferment in a brine, I think).

> As for buttermilk pop... I have no idea either and I was born and 
> raised in KY as was my dad and my mom grew up there.  It's probably 
> one of those stereotypical Kentucky things.  There are tons
> of 'em.  I live in Seattle now, and I don't have an accent and 
> people always are amazed that I come from Kentucky.  It's right 
> after the 'do you wear shoes' question. :)
>  
> Meredith

As a Norwegian in Kentucky, the first question was 'do you have VCRs 
in Norway?' (There are more VCRs compared to the population in Norway 
than in USA), followed by 'do you have cars'.  No questions about 
polar-bears, oddly enough, and nobody even knew what whaling was (I 
wrote my English III research-paper on whaling).