Check in here if you're Norwegian and can't figure out why no one observes Syttende Mai.

[Left Is Write]

It's only two months after St. Patrick's Day!

:P

[ZombieNixon]

1. Fordi ingen liker lutefisk?

:shrug:

[Lydia Leftcoast]

6. Men vi spiser ikke lutefisk i mai

Bare til jul. :-)

[ZombieNixon]

7. Ja, men lutefisk var den eneste Norsk met jeg trodder av for øyeblikket.

:P

[Hand]

8. That sounds a lot like one of Monty Python's Funniest Jokes in the World. nt

[ZombieNixon]

10. Der ver zwei peanuts valking down der straße...

und vun vas assaulted...peanut. Ho, ho, ho...:P

[Hugin]

2. Do they have green beer?

Can't do it if there's no artificially colored beer.

[youthere]

3. I grew up in Wisconsin and we used to go to the Syttende Mai festival

in Stoughton every year. It was awesome!

[momophile]

4. we used to wear purple in WI for some Norwegian day

is this the one?

[Beausoir]

5. We used to have a special meal on Syttende Mai.

Romegrot with some kind of flat bread made of rye.

I grew up on lutefisk every Christmas Eve.

[Left Is Write]

11. My dad and I used to go to a luncheon every year with our work friends -

They always served torsk and boiled new potatoes.

One year our guest speaker was a contractor for Norway; he joked about our meal, saying that the folks back in Norway were eating hot dogs and ice cream!

[Beausoir]

12. Or pizza!

I still love boiled new potatoes. Torsk...not so much.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

19. Fortunately, I'm only half Norwegian, and my dad (the Norwegian half of

my parents) hated lutefisk, so I never ate it until I was in high school, and the church where my dad was pastor somehow managed to draw people in from all over the Twin Cities by holding a lutefisk dinner.

After tasting lutefisk, I decided that there must be an awful lot of masochists in the Twin Cities. :-)

By the way, some Norwegian exchange students at the college I attended said that modern Norwegians think of lutefisk as strictly old-fashioned peasant food, something that no one would eat if they had an alternative.

[Burma Jones]

9. The Middle of May is an excellent time for a boozefest......

I say we go Norse......

[WritingIsMyReligion]

13. What is lutefisk? I've always wanted to ask.

:crazy:

[Left Is Write]

14. Dried cod preserved in lye.

[Poiuyt]

15. I usually try to avoid foods soaked in drain cleaner

but lefsa is good!

[Left Is Write]

16. Yes, I love lefse!

The first year my husband and I were married, I taught him how to make it. :)

[grannylib]

22. Lefse and krumkake! My granddaughter loves to make krumkake, it's

kind of a pain but she has so much fun...

[grannylib]

17. I actually do observe it, in my own little way! I always wear my soljer

from my dad, and have occasionally gone to work in my bunad, just for shits and giggles.

[Sabriel]

18. My kids have bunaden for special occasions...

...and my partner doesn't like to be touched in public. In fact, I've never seen any of my partner's family members touch or display affection toward anyone. Does that tip you off? Norwegian all the way.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

20. I visited Norway recently -- does that count?

[Qanisqineq]

21. I am and the church my mom goes to celebrates it

I always loved all the food (mainly baked goods). No lutefisk for me though!

[Manifestor_of_Light]

23. Che cosa giorno e? Una festa?

Me not Italian but me LOVES Romance languages.