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pacman357 wrote:#5 Warm beer. That should be against the Geneva Convention and just about every other international law. If I was on a desert island and dying, and a case of warm beer landed onshore one night, I'd push it back in the water. I mean, what were they, raised by wolves?
#6 My first serious long-term girlfriend is Norwegian. We dated something like 3-4 years, but drifted after I went off to law school. Her parents emigrated to this country, so food from home was big. This was about a thousand years ago. I still cannot get the smell of lutefisk out of my memory banks. Wait...urp, sorry, threw up in my mouth a bit. Fish in a tube is another gem (I used to call it Aquafish, borrowing from a similar-sounding toothpaste of the day). Not even sure what gjetost is, but...damn, that is awful, too. Seems to me the cuisine is largely made of white or off-putting-color food, but the baked goods are unbelievably delicious. Christmas around a Norwegian household is a very good place to be for a meal. Just as long as you save all your room for dessert. And take off your shoes in the house. haven't seen it in a while but I used to buy a cheese by that name. I'd slice it paper thin and let it just melt on my tongue...sort of had a peanut butter taste, not exactly but reminiscent of peanut butter. wife hated it.
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