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# I agree, I guess vikings were tough
but I do fail to see why anyone would eat it these days.
(I helped save b3ta! Smallbrainfield, 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
(I helped save b3ta! gronkpan @vomitinglarry.bsky.social, 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.
(I helped save b3ta! Smallbrainfield, 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
(I helped save b3ta! gronkpan @vomitinglarry.bsky.social, Fri 5 Nov 2010, 13:35, archived)
# Faaahking Nordic pikeys!
(I helped save b3ta! Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...", Fri 5 Nov 2010, 13:40, archived)
# Salt was an expensive commodity if I remember
my junior school history lessons properly.
(I helped save b3ta! Smallbrainfield, Fri 5 Nov 2010, 13:44, archived)
# NOT FOR THOSE SEAFARING VIKINGS
(I helped save b3ta! gronkpan @vomitinglarry.bsky.social, 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?'
(I helped save b3ta! Smallbrainfield, Fri 5 Nov 2010, 13:49, archived)