Re: Untasty Food

Lars Henrik Mathiesen wrote:
>
> > Date:         Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:08:45 -0000
> > From: Justin Mansfield <jdm314@...>
> >
> > How does that dish which Minnesotans pronounce ["lu4@fIsk] (I think the
> > original pronunciation was more like ["lytfisk]) fit in all this?
>
>That's a whole different kettle of fish. In fact, dried cod treated
>with lye, then boiled with salt, and it's suitable only for hardened
>Norwegians. (Danes did eat dried cod from Norway and Iceland earlier,
>as did most of Europe, but noone copied the lye treatment, I think).
>
>IIRC, the Norwegian pronunciation is something like ["lYt@fisk], with
>a falling tone on the first syllable and rising on the third.
The Swedish pronunciation is ["l}:tfisk]*. I'd describe the taste as halfway
between a wooden plank and hard vacuum, but evidently many people like it.
Unlike "surströmming", I see no reason why "lutfisk" (as we spell it) should
be classified as an NBC weapon.

* It's kind of a speciality of the province of Bohuslän, that belonged to
Norway until the 1600s.

                                                Andreas
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