Re: Untasty Food

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From: Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2001 1:14 PM
Subject: Untasty Food



> Ever heard of a Swedish dish that's usually called fermented herring in
> English? (The Swedish term is "surströmming", lit "sour herring".) I have
> never actually eaten the stuff, but the smell is intolerable 20m away.
>
> Some years ago, one of my classmates put an opened jar of it in a
> ventilation duct at school. He got fined the equavilent of a few dozen
> dollars, and was expelled from the school for the rest of that semester
> (which only was some week, but still). And of course, a few hundred people
> were very angry with him ...
>
>                                                   Andreas
Are you talking about pickled herring?  That's a staple in Swedish cooking!
We had a Swedish Restaurant back in Claremont CA and pickled herring
was one of the dishes.  It's in sourcream.  Am I thinking of something else?
At any rate, it was delicious.  The sourcream probably softens and contains
the smell.  Very salty.

About garum... I, too, wondered if it was related to Garam Masala.  Here
in the States you can buy it in powdered form.  It seems to consist of
ground cloves, ground ginger, ground coriander, cinnamon, and something
else I can't identify.  It's very intense and salty.

Sally Caves
scaves@frontiernet.net


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