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DrQ

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I was a midwestern kid from a poor family - I had zero knowledge of seafood. Aquatic food to me was pike, freshwater bass, crappie, and sunfish. Seafood was cod and halibut, and was largely beyond our means in any form except school lunch fishsticks. You forgot picked herring!(I hasten to add that although we poor, we weren't so bad off that we had to eat lutefisk):eek: My relations are from Minna-SO-ta, that's not poor food!
We would do a summertime trek for Walleye.
 

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I was a midwestern kid from a poor family - I had zero knowledge of seafood. Aquatic food to me was pike, freshwater bass, crappie, and sunfish. Seafood was cod and halibut, and was largely beyond our means in any form except school lunch fishsticks. You forgot picked herring!(I hasten to add that although we poor, we weren't so bad off that we had to eat lutefisk):eek: My relations are from Minna-SO-ta, that's not poor food!
We would do a summertime trek for Walleye.
I speak fluent Minnesotan. It's my native tongue.

Sill (that's pickled herring for those who don't speak Minnesotan) was a holiday "treat". I sometimes bring some back when I return from Alex (again for non-speakers, that's pronounced Alek, not Aleks), which is the wonderful western Minnesota lake country city of Alexandria where the pike (walleye and northern), bass, crappie, and sunfish thrive. In some stores there is as much as eight feet of aisle space devoted sill - like going into an Asian market and looking for rice noodles.

In my youth in Minnesota, lutefisk was eaten only by the desperate and the Norwegians. There was enough sense of community that when the Norwegian Lutheran men had their annual lutefisk dinner fundraiser, non-Norwegians would attend (including Scandinavian wannabes like the Finns, and avowed non-Scandinavians like the Germans) out of a sense of duty (or sympathy). And everyone would have a some lutefisk, because it wouldn't be polite to go to lutefisk dianner and not eat some of the lutefisk. But the ladies of the church knew enough to insist that the men also include some wholesome food on the menu as well, such as meatballs and fried chicken, and sometimes hot dogs for the kids. And just to be sure all bases were covered, the ladies would also bring hot dish (that's casserole in Minnesotan). And plenty of Jello salad.
 
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