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| cathrynm Senior Member United States junglevision.co Joined 5925 days ago 910 posts - 1232 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Finnish | Message 33 of 64 09 December 2011 at 8:22am | IP Logged | |||||
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Hmm, I've had the lutefisk conversation with a few Finnish people online, so I think at least some Finns eat it, but I'm not sure how common this is. But sorry, I don't mean to steal the lutefisk spotlight away from Norway. For lutefisk, Norwegian is the obvious language of choice.
Finland, my food impression just based on old memories. Hardtack with unsalted butter, coffee. Overly boiled vegetables and more butter. Although, Finnish people tell me that only old people ate so much butter, and that the butter intake of modern Finns is much reduced. Odd brands of beer, that no one has heard of with nearly zero alcohol in it. My mother was always complaining about this. 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| jdmoncada Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 4834 days ago 470 posts - 741 votes Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, Finnish Studies: Russian, Japanese | Message 34 of 64 09 December 2011 at 6:48pm | IP Logged | |||||
It was my grandmother's go-to Christmas meal of choice. (We're Norwegian and Swedish on that side of the family.) The rest of us couldn't stand the smell. One year as an adult I finally tried it to be sure whether or not I liked it, and I didn't. It wasn't the smell, though that's pretty bad, but the consistency of the fish. The texture was like sucking on gobs of fat, and fish isn't supposed to feel like that. So that was the true turn-off for me. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| mick33 Senior Member United States Joined 5724 days ago 1335 posts - 1632 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Finnish Studies: Thai, Polish, Afrikaans, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Spanish, Swedish | Message 35 of 64 09 December 2011 at 9:19pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I would have said that the stereotypical reason to learn Norwegian was to eat lutefisk until I found out that lutefisk may be more popular in North America than in Norway. Oh well, I'll have to go with this: You learn Norwegian (and Swedish or Finnish) because you are obsessed with Nordic heavy metal bands. Edited by mick33 on 09 December 2011 at 9:21pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5134 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 36 of 64 09 December 2011 at 9:28pm | IP Logged | |||||
Obviously I cannot exclude that there are Finns eating lutefisk, but it is a Norwegian specialty. But hey, the only thing some of my Indian pupils and I had in common in the way of food, was that we both loved pizza, and it seems like 50% of the population of my area eat taco for dinner every single Friday, so food travels. I can for the life of me not understand why anyone would fall for anything as revolting as lutefisk, though. I do not know of any food which is worse, in both texture and taste. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Isabliss_27 Diglot Groupie Brazil Joined 4545 days ago 68 posts - 74 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, English Studies: German, Russian, Latin, French | Message 37 of 64 09 December 2011 at 11:42pm | IP Logged | |||||
True! 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Mihoki Newbie United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4538 days ago 1 posts - 2 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Korean | Message 38 of 64 10 December 2011 at 8:00am | IP Logged | |||||
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when I tell normal people I'm learning japanese their either like, "your a weeaboo" or
"japanese? you mean like 'CHOO CHING WONG CHONG'" yeaaaaaaaaaaaah >_> 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| tractor Tetraglot Senior Member Norway Joined 5253 days ago 1349 posts - 2292 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English, Spanish, Catalan Studies: French, German, Latin | Message 39 of 64 10 December 2011 at 8:17am | IP Logged | |||||
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Lutefisk is also eaten in Sweden, but maybe it's not as popular there as in Norway.
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| cathrynm Senior Member United States junglevision.co Joined 5925 days ago 910 posts - 1232 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Finnish | Message 40 of 64 10 December 2011 at 8:41am | IP Logged | |||||
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One might simply judge language learners based on the target language nation's Eurovision song entry. If the song is in English, then there's no practical reason for learning the language.
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