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   From: nikke.karlsson@gmail.com   
      
   On 2026-01-11, rbowman  wrote:   
   > On Sun, 11 Jan 2026 16:44:55 GMT, Scott Lurndal wrote:   
   >   
   >> rbowman  writes:   
   >>>On Sat, 10 Jan 2026 20:03:27 -0700, Peter Flass wrote:   
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   >>>   
   >>   
   >>>> People just kept heading west, and when they got to England they had   
   >>>> to stop.   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>   
   >>>He tells a plausible story. In 'Collapse' Jared Diamond claims that one   
   >>>of the reasons for the abandonment of Greenland along with climate   
   >>>change was an irrational reluctance of the Norse to eat fish. Excuse me?   
   >>>He bases that on the lack of fish bones in the middens. I've never had   
   >>>it but I think the process of producing hákarl might dissolve the bones.   
   >>   
   >> One word.   Lutefisk.   
   >   
   > Butter, lots of butter.  Big problem if the cows died off and there was no   
   > butter.  It shows up around here at Christmas time. I've been told by   
   > knowledgeable people Norwegians in the US eat lutefisk and Norwegians in   
   > Norway eat frozen pizza.   
      
   I am not that familiar with that aspect of our neighbors, but I can   
   believe it. We have lutfisk (yes, we spell it without the E) and I   
   certainly don't care for it. Fortunately, very rarely has anyone   
   attempted to serve it to me.   
      
   Niklas   
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