Jn, be honest: how would you go about "improving" lutefisk?
Why I think that having the Griffon jump up and down on it and thwap it with her tail is about the best idea anyone has come up with so far.
Who came up with that idea, anyway?
Seriously, I've never eaten lutefisk. Never even seen it in real life. It is highly unlikely that I would eat a lutefisk if I encountered one, because I'm not in general a fan of fish.
The pictures of lutefisk make me think of albino gefilte fish. I would eat, on Passover, one grain of gefilte fish buried in a saucerfull of horseradish, just to be polite, until I was head of my own household and could banish gefilte fish entirely from the menu. Voronwe and I agree that the expression, "Oi Vey!" was invented by the first Jew to be confronted by gefilte fish.
Something about those Baltic countries and battered fish ... one wants to hit the fish on the plate one more time to make sure it isn't hiding something.
If our posters of Viking descent start to feel that the lutefisk is bearing too great a burden as the sole butt of our jokes, it is perfectly fine with me if we dance barefoot on little patties of gefilte fish as well. In such a case, when Anthy loads her cannon she has my permission to use real bullets.
Jn