[Sca-cooks] And in the "Be Careful What You Wish For" department...
Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius
adamantius1 at verizon.net
Fri Dec 19 16:40:11 PST 2008
Hullo, the list!
Remember a day or two ago, when I joked about being threatened with
haakarl?
I just got a phone call from a friend of mine, who has been presented
with everybody's favorite fermented shark fillet, and is wondering
what to do with it, apart from burying it in the back yard (I pointed
out that that had evidently been tried already, and didn't work).
From what I can find online, the flesh is generally eaten trimmed of
all dark outer layers, cut into small cubes, and eaten with perhaps
dark bread and butter, and, of course, ice-cold akvavit or brannevijn.
Nanna Rögnvaldardöttir's book on Icelandic food says pretty much the
same, and doesn't give a lot of additional detail. It appears my
friend has a packet of already-trimmed, diced, white cubes of fish. Do
people agree that this appears to be as processed as it needs to get
before eating safely?
He's very smart, my friend. He says I have to come out and help him
eat the stuff, so I'd better be sure.
Adamantius
"Most men worry about their own bellies, and other people's souls,
when we all ought to worry about our own souls, and other people's
bellies."
-- Rabbi Israel Salanter
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