Re: Untasty Food

 From Sally Caves:

>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.
Perhaps you're thinking of "sill"? "Sill" comes in both sour cream or
plain ol' some-sort-of-pickle-juice forms. My step-mother, a 3rd
generation American though of Swedish descent on her father's side,
noshes down on this regularly, especially at Xmastime, on crackers or
small pieces of pumpernickel bread. "Lutfisk" is the more traditional
Xmas fare, but I've neither seen nor tasted it (we've heard it's "an
acquired taste" [read: *nasty*], though).

Kou