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Olafjoy

(937 posts)

5. Uff da is right!!

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Tue Dec 4, 2018, 12:38 AM

Dec 2018

I spent many a Christmas Eve as a child in Winona, Minnesota at Grandma’s house. In front of me on my plate, next to the lefse with butter and brown sugar, sat a hunk of lutefisk. My Grandma even had this little lutefisk song we had to sing in Norwegian. Lutefisk is just nasty! My mom would bribe me with $5-a lot of money, and 1 Christmas present to sing, not gag, and smile. Now we have cheese fondue and laugh about the lutefisk and sometimes attempt the song but our Norwegian is not good. I do not mourn for lutefisk. Good riddance!!!

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Minnesota church ends 70-year tradition of lutefisk dinner [View all] TexasTowelie Dec 2018 OP

YUK! chillfactor Dec 2018 #1

That does sound gross. TexasTowelie Dec 2018 #2

I had a Norwegian friend at university Haggis for Breakfast Dec 2018 #3

Aw Geeze say it ain't so. Wellstone ruled Dec 2018 #4

It's not just the old Scandinavians passing on dflprincess Dec 2018 #7

So true, Wellstone ruled Dec 2018 #10

Uff da is right!! Olafjoy Dec 2018 #5

But surely you must still have the lefse with butter & brown sugar dflprincess Dec 2018 #8

Aw. What's Minnesota without lutefisk? I tried it when we sinkingfeeling Dec 2018 #6

Years ago I was at a DFL dinner where it was served. dflprincess Dec 2018 #9