The lutefisk blues
by Solomon Gundy and the Ingonberries
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On the dish that inspired the song:
"Well, we tried the lutefisk trick and the raccoons went away, but now we've got a family of Norwegians living under our house"
The Ole and Lena joke book

"Lutefisk is not food, it is a weapon of mass destruction. It is currently the only exception for the man who ate everything. Otherwise, I am fairly liberal, I gladly eat worms and insects, but I draw the line on lutefisk" Jeffrey Steingarten, author of The Man Who Ate Everything

"Lutefisk is cod that has been dried in a lye solution. It looks like the desiccated cadavers of squirrels run over by trucks, but after it is soaked and reconstituted and the lye is washed out and it's cooked, it looks more fish-related, though with lutefisk, the window of success is small. It can be tasty, but the statistics aren't on your side. It is the hereditary delicacy of Swedes and Norwegians who serve it around the holidays, in memory of their ancestors, who ate it because they were poor. Most lutefisk is not edible by normal people. It is reminiscent of the afterbirth of a dog or the world's largest chunk of phlegm" Garrison Keillor's book Pontoon: