@PaxRomana “Just do me a favor: look up into the sky right now. Higher. No, higher still. Do you see that? Way up there? Way up above the clouds? That’s rock bottom. And we are currently way down here.” - John Oliver
Funny thing is, that's a very Icelandic attitude. "I was going to eat that shark, so I WILL eat that damn shark - pee or no pee!" Pure Icelandic stubbornness. ^_^
One wonders just how many people died as they slowly figured out each step.
"1 month burial - everyone died"
"2 month burial - everyone died"
"3 month burial - everyone died, but it took longer. Let's try 4 months!"
"4 month burial - everyone got really sick but only old Ragnar died. Hm, let's try pissing on it and then hanging it to dry!"
You should see surströmming. It's banned on airlines because a can of it burst en route from Sweden to the U.S. and they made an emergency landing in Canada because it smelled so bad they thought it was a biochemical attack. Usually you have to open it outside and underwater. One time a can leaked all over my cousin's shirt and they had to burn it.
@GingerSwede
Indeed. Funny to see brother Norway wrinkling his nose given he just loves surströmming ("did anyone say rotten fish?" - the look said it all - as in http://satwcomic.com/nordics-like-fish).
I just wonder how drunk one has to get before they can actually eat the stuff - just cannot imagine doing that while stone cold sober.
@Fenniroz I eat surströmming while I'm sober (I'm not even allowed to drink)... and it's the only fish I like to eat, even tho I'm just allowed to eat it one or two times a year (because it's rotten)... Am I weird?
As a followup, I'd like to see how Norway came up with the recipe for lutefisk.
Seriously, there are a lot of dishes around the world where you might wonder who first thought of eating THAT.
Love the off-hand comment about demons in the bathtub. Only Iceland would baby-sit (demon-sit?) them because they can't swim and might drown. Subject for another strip ? Demons in a bath-tub? --Maybe they're good for clearing Icelandic drains. . . .
I'm missing demon-cat, who reminds me of my own evil kitty who shreds my furniture then always manages to be curled up looking angelic just where I want to sit down.
@Danelaw He's called the Christmas cat ( jólakötturinn) MY 5TH FAV FOLK LEGEND FROM ICELAND!!! My grandma used to talk about him if I didn't ask for any clothes for christmas
@frost Yeah, but when we REALLY want to scare children so they behave we pull out Grýla, the mother of our 13 santa clauses. Before christmas she goes during the night and takes the children that were naughty that year, puts them in her giant bag she carries around, goes to her cave and holds a feast with her husband, Leppalúði. Every child in Iceland knows this so we can use it as a warning any place, any time XD
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Norway: "So this is what Rock Bottom looks like ..."