I’ll eat anything once … and I have always wanted to sample that infamous Norwegian and Swedish fish dish known as lutefisk.
I got my chance last week when the Pioneer Press responded to an ice-bucket-challenge-for-charity-type dare from the Fargo-Moorhead Forum newspaper … except this involved eating the gelatinous, lye-treated cod instead of dumping freezing-cold water on ourselves.
Lutefisk has been called a “butter delivery system,” meaning butter is applied liberally so the supposedly vile fish is easier to eat.
Me? I thought the butter was worse than the lutefisk.
With a bit of salt, lutefisk is perfectly palatable, even enjoyable — though I am not a big fish eater in general, and this one definitely isn’t destined for my favorite-dish pantheon.
The lutefisk didn’t go over well with some of my colleagues:
Our lutefisk-eating event was the latest in a series of the spectacles, with one media outfit after another accepting and then issuing the cod-consuming challenges.
With its own challenge accepted and duly consummated, my newspaper then challenged Minnesota Public Radio to do the same.
C’mon, don’t be weanies.
I am completely rejecting the PiPress challenge. who do I make the check out to? https://t.co/nI14T5Zags
— Bob Collins (@MyLittleBloggie) December 23, 2014
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