Bubbles said:OK. My gran is actually staying at my house this week so I was able to ask her last night. We have 4 main family names. The first, Von Krogh is the aristocracy. The others are Harsteaad (as in Harsteaad County in Wisconsin), Halverson, and Fulsaas.
Oh...and interesting fact......one of the ancestors won the Nobel Prize in 1926 for his study of the capillaries.
edit: I have never tried ludafisk, but I asked because my gran used to tell me funny stories.......she said that it was made by hagning a salted fish outside of the house and all the neighborhood men would come by and pee on it through a time period of a week...thereby curing the fish.
Very interesting! I love hearing about other peoples' family histories. Harsteaad county, huh? My relatives all moved to northern Wisconsin, in the Superior/Duluth and Green Bay areas. I think it was an immigration stipulation that if you came over from Scandinavia you had to settle in the Wisconsin/Minnesota/North Dakota area.
Lutefisk is....horrible. I've never tried haggis, but I'd venture to say that lutefisk is the worst thing ever devised by man. Unless you're really, really into jellied cod that has been soaked in one of the primary ingredients of drain cleaners. Its taste and texture are indescribable. You really just have to try it for yourself. And yes, lye used to be made out of human urine, among other things, so your gran's tongue-in-cheek description is pretty accurate.