G-d help us.

[Sapiens]

You have had plenty of time to prepare. Take a long holiday... 10 months at least. G-d bless. -Sapiens

[pksubs]

Re: G-d help us.

You have had plenty of time to prepare. Take a long holiday... 10 months at least. G-d bless. -Sapiens

Do explain, what event triggered this post?

[jtabeb]

Re: G-d help us.

Do explain, what event triggered this post?

Objective Reality?:eek:

[Guest]

Re: G-d help us.

He inadvertently ate some herring for breakfast. That would do it to you, for sure.

[cobben]

Re: G-d help us.

"He inadvertently ate some herring for breakfast"

I beg to differ, herring is great any time of day.

Well, perhaps the fermented variety should be avoided during the indoor season, or when snaps is unavailable or inappropriate.

http://www.buy-surstromming.com/

"Real swedish surstroming from the north of Sweden. Surstromming is fermented baltic herring. This is a speciality from the north of Sweden.

Roda Ulven is probably the most famous surstromming in Sweden. It is sold in cans and because of the fermentation, they are under pressure. They have to be open outdoors and a towel is hold over. The smell of surstromming is very strong, never open a can indoors,

Here you can buy surstromming online. We ship this Swedish delicatessy world wide.

Click here to buy surstromming online "

[Guest]

Re: G-d help us.

I knew a Swede or a Norwegian would poke their head in for a comment on that - sooner or later. :rolleyes: [ Krakknisse is next probably - yum! What's wrong with salted herring for breakfast!? ]

[cobben]

Re: G-d help us.

Well, my favorite for breakfast is marinated herring, salt herring you have to put in water overnight to leach out the salt before you can fry it preferably for lunch the next day.

Then there is always the Latvian delicacy jellied grilled lamprey, that's the European river lamprey.

By the way, is Sapiens chiming in with Sinclair that "this is it, and it is now"?

[krakknisse]

Re: G-d help us.

Sorry, what's that? I was just in an urgent meeting with the Mogambo Guru in his particular place of residence. Or actually, I was dreaming I was.

We're toast, it's a given. But how much, when, where? All these doom warnings blend into one another. But I gather there's some significant speed bumps ahead.

I'm preparing for a diet of herring & potatoes. It built this country, and is actually not that bad compared to surströmming. Don't mistake surströmming (Swedish) from sursild (Norwegian) even though their names are similar. Surströmming is fermented (:eek whereas sursild is only pickled.

[Guest]

Re: G-d help us.

Swedes and Norwegians are all barbarians. Americans are civilized. We eat hamburgers. Anyone should understand this. Simple. I understand that some English people eat herring for breakfast too. They also eat fried kidney at breakfast time. These people are barbarians as well. Only we Americans are civilized.

Sorry, what's that? I was just in an urgent meeting with the Mogambo Guru in his particular place of residence. Or actually, I was dreaming I was.

We're toast, it's a given. But how much, when, where? All these doom warnings blend into one another. But I gather there's some significant speed bumps ahead.

I'm preparing for a diet of herring & potatoes. It built this country, and is actually not that bad compared to surströmming. Don't mistake surströmming (Swedish) from sursild (Norwegian) even though their names are similar. Surströmming is fermented (:eek whereas sursild is only pickled.

[Slimprofits]

Re: G-d help us.

You have had plenty of time to prepare. Take a long holiday... 10 months at least. G-d bless. -Sapiens

Where is your sense of adventure? F that, I'm diving head first into the belly of the beast.

10 months? I think you're jumping the gun. The time to issue a 10 month vacation warning is probably in June of this year. Just wait until next winter in the U.S. Months of layoffs piled up, after a hot summer with no jobs for teenagers, a fall with no jobs for college graduates or even high school graduates that might have gone to college if not for lack of financing. And than the cold weather sets in, millions of apartments and houses have to be heated. The map says, "we're fucked".

[cobben]

Re: G-d help us.

"Swedes and Norwegians are all barbarians. Americans are civilized."

Can't speak for the Norrbaggarna, but there are almost certainly more Swedish genes running around loose in America these days than in Sweden, as 1/3 of Sweden emigrated to the US in the 1800's.

Not being from northern Sweden, I don't take it personally that the whole world doesn't love fermented herring, though actually I suppose it is a healthy natural food, like sauer kraut, which is simply fermented cabbage.

Of course the Arlanda airport did ban it from being sold in the taxfree shops after some airlines complained about the difficulties of sanitizing an airliner from the stench after a can exploded on board.

Southern Swedes suspect I believe that the northern Swedes use surströmming as an excuse to drink moonshine, i.e. to disquise the terrible taste . . . . or was it possibly the other way around?

[Guest]

Re: G-d help us.

Now that northern Swedish moonshine is another story entirely. There you have piqued my interests. :rolleyes:

[ have we hijacked Sapien's thread thoroughly enough, or shall we take this for another couple of rounds? ]

"Swedes and Norwegians are all barbarians. Americans are civilized."

Can't speak for the Norrbaggarna, but there are almost certainly more Swedish genes running around loose in America these days than in Sweden, as 1/3 of Sweden emigrated to the US in the 1800's.

Not being from northern Sweden, I don't take it personally that the whole world doesn't love fermented herring, though actually I suppose it is a healthy natural food, like sauer kraut, which is simply fermented cabbage.

Of course the Arlanda airport did ban it from being sold in the taxfree shops after some airlines complained about the difficulties of sanitizing an airliner from the stench after a can exploded on board.

Southern Swedes suspect I believe that the northern Swedes use surströmming as an excuse to drink moonshine, i.e. to disquise the terrible taste . . . . or was it possibly the other way around?