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(, Fri 5 Nov 2010, 13:07, archived)
# Trust me, I have read all about lutefisk, rakfisk, surstromming and all the wonderful variants.
I got a can of surstromming a while back but I don't understand why someone would put that in their mouth, even if they were starving. It smells of death.
(, Fri 5 Nov 2010, 13:12, archived)
# Step 1 : attach detonator
Step 2 : retreat to safe distance
Step 3 : Remotely activate detonator
Step 4 : Allow stench to clear
Step 5 : Advance slowly with gasmask, crispbread and salad
(, Fri 5 Nov 2010, 13:14, archived)
# That's the thing
there's the initial stench, which I had been warned about. Then there's the actual stench.

DISCOVERY: THE ACTUAL STENCH IS IN NO WAY MORE PLEASANT THAN THE INITIAL ONE.
(, Fri 5 Nov 2010, 13:16, archived)
# As is often observed,
it is not an indoors food.
(, Fri 5 Nov 2010, 13:18, archived)
# it is not an in-mouth food.
THEY COULD HAVE DONE NICE THINGS WITH THAT FISH.
(, Fri 5 Nov 2010, 13:21, archived)
# Pervert.
(, Fri 5 Nov 2010, 13:23, archived)
# I agree, I guess vikings were tough
but I do fail to see why anyone would eat it these days.
(, Fri 5 Nov 2010, 13:16, archived)
# The part that I don't get
is that the vikings had access to fresh fish, at worst they might have to deal with frozen seas for 3 or 4 months at a time.

What posessed them to do this?

WHAT
(, Fri 5 Nov 2010, 13:17, archived)
# Ancestors eh?
Anglo-saxon peasants used to enjoy rancid bacon for lunch when they were toiling in the fields. The key word there is enjoy.
(, Fri 5 Nov 2010, 13:25, archived)
# well it is certainly worth stating that hunger is the best sauce
also that salty fatty food was a rarity for all of human development except for the last 60 years. Maybe salt was a novelty.

NOT FOR THOSE SEAFARING VIKINGS
(, Fri 5 Nov 2010, 13:35, archived)
# Faaahking Nordic pikeys!
(, Fri 5 Nov 2010, 13:40, archived)
# Salt was an expensive commodity if I remember
my junior school history lessons properly.
(, Fri 5 Nov 2010, 13:44, archived)
# NOT FOR THOSE SEAFARING VIKINGS
(, Fri 5 Nov 2010, 13:45, archived)
# Perhaps they had enough of salt at sea.
'NOT SALT AGAIN WOMAN! STAND AGAINST THAT SHIELD WHILE I THROW MINE AXE AT THINE PIG-TAILS! WHERE IS MINE LUTEFISK?'
(, Fri 5 Nov 2010, 13:49, archived)