I watch this show on the Travel Chennel called "Bizzare Foods with Andrew Zimmern" They usually feature exotic foods that you usually wouldnt feed to a goat. Some of the things this guy eats is disgusting. They start out with the tamer stuff and by the end of the episode, the guy is basically eating chum, roasted Yak vomit or worse. Anyway, they did an episode about Minnesota. Yah, you betcha! The most hideous food was something called lutefisk. Basicaly, cod soaked in caustic soda (dont they clean engine blocks with that?)then rinsed. He also tried something called blood sausage and some brown cheese called gamalost that he said tasted like bad meat. Some of the other foods were syltebrag (pigs foot), porcupine meatballs, fish balls (must of been big fish) wild boar testicles, and suckerhead soup I didnt realize Minnesota had such a large Norwiegan and Scandinavian population. Interesting episode. I learned a lot. Didnt see any Buicks on the show though... (just trying to keep it Buick related)
http://kingofthehill.wikia.com/wiki/Revenge_of_the_Lutefisk Revenge of the Lutefisk is the fifty-sixth episode of King of the Hill. It was first aired on April 20, 1999. Synopsis: Bobby consumes the new reverend's lutefisk and inadvertently burns down the church. ElectraJim
Mmmm. Lutheran church basement Tuna Noodle Hot Dish donchya know. What? No Eelpout? or Booya? Egg coffee? My Mother used to make Lutefisk for my Uncle during Christmas when I was a kid. Just seeing it was enough to convince me not to eat it. And no one else in the family would touch it. What's wrong with porcupine meatballs? Hamburger, rice meatballs in a tomato sauce. It's not really porcupine. I haven't heard of some of the other things you mentioned. One of my favorite meals is pickled herring and boiled potatoes. Or Sylta. (kind of a head cheese.) Lefse, Lingenberries. Andrew is a cool guy. He used to be head chef at a fancy shmancy bistro (Cafe Un Deux Trois) that was next door to where I worked in downtown Mpls. back in the 90's. We would go over there after work and sit at the bar and get hammered, where he would use us as guinea pigs. "Hey man! try this! and this! what do you think?" He also made the best potato chips! It's good to see he made the big time with his TV show. It was the owner of that restaurant that taught me that "F you!" means I Love you in New York. The guy always treated me like sh*t until I lost it one day, and put my Minnesota nice away for a moment. (He was a customer of mine also.) After I laid into him, he looked at me and said, "your all right Dale!" :TU: :laugh: Here is a Buick in the snow.
What is that crazy fruit thing that he just cant stomach? LoL Ive seen his show a bunch of times and that nasty stinky fruit thing is his Kryptonite! Funny to watch him finally get sick. ...And that is saying something because Zimmern eats about anything, and almost always at least two helpings. great show!
I thought it was that rancid green cheese that he was eating in one of the Asian countries? I wouldnt eat most of that stuff on a bet....drunk. Pretty cool you know him Dale. He mentioned that Minnesota was him home state
Although I'm not a native Minnesotan, I live 65 miles from there, and have eaten plenty of fish balls over the years. :laugh: The best ones are those cooked over a real fire as a shore lunch. OK, maybe they were fish fillets cut into small pieces, coated with a beer batter, and deep fried.:grin: They were still darned delicious. I also seem to recall eating blood sausage when I was just a youngun. My dad worked at a meat packing plant in those days, so he used to "experiment" with different meat varieties, using us kids as his guinea pigs of course.:grin:
Jason, shouldn't the name of the football Minnesota Vikings have tipped you off on all the Scandanavians living in the State? Didn't you ever see the Movie Fargo? it actually takes place in Minn. and very little in ND Watch it you will laugh your ass off. Actually the entire Great Lakes region was a main settling area for Scandanavians 1800' though early 1900's.
Ha! Im not much of a football fan. If a sport doesnt involve an internal combustion engine, I dont consider it a real sport! Im watching Andrew Zimmern right now. The dude is in Chile eating bull scrotum stew and "rocky mountain oysters" uuuugghh! I saw the movie Fargo. Funny as hell. When I went to the BCA nats in Rochester, I thought everyone was going to speak like that! ou: The only one that did was the little hottie bartender at TGI Fridays. She was talking all Minnesotan at me. :grin:
I don't mind the movies exaggerating and poking fun at our accent. All in good fun. There is a new one out called "New in Town" that is set in New Ulm, MN. (Mostly a German settlement) But was filmed in Canada. Same here. The best part of football season for me is when it is all over and I don't have to listen to talk about it. I've never understood the attraction to it. :boring: But, that's ok. :beer
but come summer when the parkas come off its all about the blonde haired blue eyed women and the wild boar testicles:Brow:
Just like the sticker on the rear window of my GS says: "Racing; becasue football, baseball, bowling, and golf only require one ball"
That movie was filmed in Winnipeg last winter. Local papers did a story about it this past weekend. It is very doubtful that I will go to see it though.
Aw, c'mon Jason. Oysters are good, breaded, deep fried and dipped in salsa. At least until you get a stringy one!!!:eek2:
Jason; "You crazy Minnesotans!" Thank you.... Anything you put in a large glass bowl, and put in the oven. Is a "casserole." My wife does a tuna, noodle, veggies, and potato chips on the top. Add some shaker cheese (parmesan cheese). with :beers2: Your good to go. If your ever in the area. Please stop by for dinner...:TU: Just for the record. I do not eat Lutefisk thanks eh.
I dunno about that guy, I think his sexual lifestyle [not there is anything wrong with it] allows him to put nasty things in his mouth n think its yummy. Though I still watch. That other guy the tall skinny one with the earring is ok all except for that thumb ring he wears. Like a weeding band but on his thumb. I could ignore everything but that and would have to ask. Only time you see rings on a mans thumb if all the other fingers are full. Not just 1 earring add a thumb ring. I see a trend on these guys who will put anything in their mouth.
A casserole is the bakeware you put the hot dish into. :beers2: My wife, who is from Iowa, refuses to put potato chips on tuna noodle hot dish. (casserole) :rant: I think most of the Lutefisk eaters are dying off from old age.
Thats just wrong, has to have chips 2nd would be using a real good chunk tuna like Kroger. My canned tuna review. http://viragotech.com/tuna/tuna.html
Okie dokies fine den! I nebber did likes to eats da lootie fisks nor da blood sausagies (dad would have to have them for the holidays)but gimme some tater tot hot dish and mmmmm look out you. ya sure you betcha!!!The worst thing i saw him eat was an eyeball right out off a sheeps head. HONESTLY!!! he peeled back some slimey part, popped it in his mouth, says mmmm, then proceeds to say the only bad part was there was only two!!! he was up in alaska one time with some inuets(eskimos for you southerners be low ioway). they ate something called stink fish. they buried it for 6 months, dug it up and ate it! He says if it looks good eat it!o No: :bglasses: is he blind?
the stink fruit he cant stand is durian, i saw him again last night and he was in new york. He had that anthony bordain on with him(guy with thumb ring). I had heard zimmern was from duluth minnesota, but last night he said he was born and grew up in new york city. just a little update. here is a link to the stink fruit. http://www.durian.net/
