Happy St. Urho's Day!

[Henry Musikar]

For those of us unacquainted with the mindful pleasure of lutefisk, it is the fish version of hominy, i.e. it is predigested (yum!) by the lye:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lutefisk 
"Lutefisk (lutfisk) (pronounced [lʉːtəfɪsk] in Southern Norway, [lʉːtfɪsk] in Central and Northern Norway, Sweden and the Swedish-speaking areas in Finland (lipeäkala in Finnish)) is a traditional dish of the Nordic countries made from stockfish (air-dried whitefish) or dried/salted whitefish (klippfisk) and soda lye (lut). Its name literally means "lye fish", because it is made using caustic lye soda derived from potash minerals."

Henry Mu

-----Original Message-----
From: Heikki Raudaskoski
Sent: Monday, March 16, 2009 12:30 PM
To: Bekah
Cc: pynchon -l

Good for you!

Lutefisk, lipea"kala in Finnish (the direct translation is "lye fish")
*is* actually quite good; and yet, the obligation to eat it at Christmas
dinner - in white sauce, at least in Finland - has horrified thousands
of kids up here.

Joining you and Dave in celebration,
Heikki

On Mon, 16 Mar 2009, Bekah wrote:
> And same to you -
>
> My mom and I are having lutefisk to celebrate -  (my dad the Finn
> liked it)
> http://www.geocities.com/napavalley/3227/ 
>
> Bekah
> who found lutefisk in the grocery store last week!  (An error on
> their part, I'm sure.  Someone thought it looked like tripas?)
>
> On Mar 16, 2009, at 7:01 AM, Dave Monroe wrote:
>
> > http://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/11468 
> >
> > http://www.theminx.com/iss3vol2/sturho.htm 
> >
> > http://www.sainturho.com/index.htm