Midsommar hot take
Listen, I'm just sayin'. But anybody who willingly goes to a NINE-DAY FEAST in SCANDINAVIA is either too naive to last long in this world anyhow, or has such an unnaturally bland palate that death is something they'd probably fail to notice—even enjoy. Once you've eaten nothing but turfisk, blodpalt, and smörgåstårta for a week and a half, euthanasia is probably gonna sound like a pretty sensible path.
I mean, I'm Italian. I used to spend a lot of time in the North End of Boston during festival season. We got all kinds feast days. Practically every day of the week. And I never once saw a pig trotter or a piece of fair food that was >50% mayonnaise. They had better options if they wanted a nine-day feast, is all I'm trying to get across here.
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@zebratron2084 this sounds like someone just threw whatever they had around into a casserole
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@zebratron2084 I'm dying, and this recipe description was the murder weapon.
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@zebratron2084 you could make that work, and I don’t just mean “with enough beer;” it’s got chili sauce.
Midsommar hot take
@zebratron2084 I...I love smörgåstårta. 😅 And mustamakkara, lohikeitto, cabbage rolls, dark unsweetened rye bread...
God help me, I even like mämmi. I was clearly made for this weird, cold place.
Oh, and my mother-in-law makes a smoked reindeer stew that I guarantee would make Nordic cuisine seem a little less like an oxymoron. :> At least until you're done eating it and you remember surströmming is a thing which, criminally, is also allowed to exist.
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@Sig Freak. :D <3
Nah, I'm just taking the piss here! Any country that eats that much fish can't be all bad. 
I might even be one of those rare people who is actually fit to eat surstromming—it can't be THAT much worse than Marmite, right? And I eat that stuff with a spoon. Absolutely love fermented foods in general.
Though I do absolutely loathe mayonnaise which I get the impression might be a bit of a dealbreaker...
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@Sig *looks up mämmi*
Okay, you may have won a concession here. That looks really good, actually. I would never have thought of rye and orange pudding on my own, but...
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And don't you even think about trying to defend Scandinavian cuisine. Don't you even think about it.