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betsuni

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3. My mother bought some every year but just for herself. I don't remember ever tasting it.

Reply to Ocelot II (Reply #1)

Sun Dec 21, 2025, 02:57 PM

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Christmas Eve dinner was lutefisk and boiled potatoes with butter for her and oyster stew for the rest of us. Soft potato lefsa spread with butter and sprinkled with sugar, sugar cookies from my grandmother's recipe. My mother's favorite snack was soda crackers and milk. Literally a white Christmas, food wise.

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The Mystique of Lutefisk, a Christmas tradition, from John Louis Anderson's "Scandinavian Humor & Other Myths" [View all] betsuni Sunday OP

It's kind of what you'd imagine fish jello to be like. Ocelot II Sunday #1

My mother bought some every year but just for herself. I don't remember ever tasting it. betsuni Sunday #3

They'd rather eat the lutefisk than the fermented shark. I know I would. ... marble falls Sunday #2

The winner, right there. betsuni Sunday #4