If you know someone from Minnesota, send them this lovely Biohazard Lutefisk teeshirt
headsup from the Viking lady.
For the rest of you: This is Lutefisk. It's rotten lye soaked whitefish globs. Wikipedia article has this joke to explain it's origin:
Folklore holds that lutefisk originated during the Viking pillages of Ireland, when St. Patrick sent men to feed spoiled fish to the Viking raiders. When the raiders were found to enjoy the spoiled fish, St. Patrick ordered his men to pour lye on the fish, with the hope of poisoning the Vikings. However, rather than dying from ingestion of spoiled fish, or of subsequent poisoning of the spoiled fish, the Vikings declared lutefisk a delicacy. This is obviously a fairy tale, since St. Patrick was in Ireland about three centuries before the Vikings' arrival.
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