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amelia_petkova ([personal profile] amelia_petkova) wrote2011-12-03 05:26 pm
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have a drabble

Title: Weapon of Mass Destruction

Fandom: Golden Girls
Summary: Rose makes lutefisk.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Rose or Dorothy.
Author’s Notes: I have never tried lutefisk and I don’t plan to. Lutefisk is a traditional Scandinavian dish. It is said to have a strong odor and is the topic of many jokes. The title comes from some of the jokes that can be found in the Wikipedia article.


“My God, what is that reek?” Dorothy asked when she walked into the kitchen.

Rose looked up from the stove. “I’m sorry but I haven’t had a chance to take the garbage out yet.”

“Not that smell. What in the hell are you making?”

“Lutefisk! We always had it in St. Olaf at Christmastime.”

“You cannot possibly eat something that smells like that,” Dorothy said, despite her sense of self-preservation peering into the pot of simmering water and…something that quivered. “What’s it made of?”

“Dried whitefish and lye. And of course we eat it! What else would you do?”

“Anything.”
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[identity profile] ashkitty.livejournal.com 2011-12-04 01:52 am (UTC)(link)
Bury it? Kill it? Burn it?

(It is kind of a rite of passage for Scandinavian-descended children to have to try the horrid stuff at some point. Especially in the PacNW.)

[identity profile] amelia-petkova.livejournal.com 2011-12-04 02:04 am (UTC)(link)
...to have to try the horrid stuff at some point.

Nooooooo! You can't make me! (I'm roughly 25% Swedish, although all my ancestors came to the U.S. long enough ago that we don't have any living relatives who were born there.)
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[identity profile] ashkitty.livejournal.com 2011-12-04 02:14 am (UTC)(link)
I wouldn't dream of making you.

(Though do you get to call yourself a Real Swede if you haven't tried Lutefisk...?) ;)

[identity profile] amelia-petkova.livejournal.com 2011-12-04 02:40 am (UTC)(link)
I've eaten Swedish fish. :) (They might be a purely American invention.)

A few years back my mother found a Scandinavian Christmas bread-type recipe that involves cardamom, candied cherries, frosting glaze, and all sorts of other yummy goodness.
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[identity profile] ashkitty.livejournal.com 2011-12-04 02:44 am (UTC)(link)
Julekake! I like rosettes the best.

[identity profile] amelia-petkova.livejournal.com 2011-12-04 02:46 am (UTC)(link)
It's awesome. I think I need to nag remind her to make it now.