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	kookaburra 2008-07-20 09:57 pm UTC (link)
	This is only nominally on topic, but when I was younger I was very sensitive to dairy, and this was one of the most common conversations I had. The overheard quote reminded me of it. Me: Does this have dairy in it? Host/waiter/food service worker: Yes. Me: What sort of dairy? Host: Eggs. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	skeleton_key 2008-07-20 10:39 pm UTC (link)
	...ow, my brain. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	ari_o 2008-07-20 10:46 pm UTC (link)
	facepalm (Reply to this)(Parent)

mireille
2008-07-20 11:01 pm UTC (link)

But it's from the "dairy" section of the supermarket! (I have heard this. I'm not lactose-intolerant, but my SO is, and I was talking to someone about lactose intolerance and how remarkably decent Breyers' lactose-free vanilla ice cream is... and it came up.)

By this person's logic, other things that are dairy are: pre-made Jello gelatin cups, orange juice, bagels, "natural" peanut butter, shredded potatoes, and cans of whack-a-biscuit dough. They're all in the same aisle in my supermarket, and some are closer to the milk than the eggs are.

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	ari_o 2008-07-20 11:14 pm UTC (link)
	hummus and horseradish too. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	mireille 2008-07-21 12:14 am UTC (link)
	Depending on your supermarket, yes. Also packages of lutefisk that turn up at Christmas and don't have anywhere else to go. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	ari_o 2008-07-21 12:27 am UTC (link)
	We don't get that here in Boston at Whole Foods afaik. We do have 18 kinds of tofu and things made out of tofu though. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	mireille 2008-07-21 12:29 am UTC (link)
	And all of that (hummus, horseradish, tofu)--isn't in my dairy department. Lutefisk...no, you won't get that in Boston. The Midwest keeps it all to itself. Lucky us! (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	ari_o 2008-07-21 12:35 am UTC (link)
	Sometimes we have terriifying fish in our fish department. I hate when they hide a monkfish under the clams and oysters. It always scares the ever living crap out of me. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

mireille
2008-07-21 12:39 am UTC (link)

The fish in lutefisk isn't scary on its own--it's usually cod--but the texture it gets after being dried and soaked in lye (and then soaked in water to get out the lye) is fairly daunting, IMO. (And also the warnings like, "don't use silver utensils, because lutefisk ruins silver," and "do the dishes right away, because otherwise you'll never get the lutefisk off.")

Lots of people here like it. It doesn't taste bad. It's just weird.

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	ari_o 2008-07-21 01:28 am UTC (link)
	I've heard about it on PHC. I don't think I want it. I like fish. I like cod when it is broiled or made into fish and chips or something. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	mireille 2008-07-21 01:41 am UTC (link)
	I don't blame you. My ex-MIL threw a fit if someone didn't eat it at Christmas, so I ate it. I don't have to do that any more. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	krazycat 2008-07-22 02:10 am UTC (link)
	It is actually considered an acquired taste in Norway, too. It's not like the French and snails, most people I know have not had lutefisk, myself included. We have scarier food, though. Like smalahovud. I can't imagine eating it AT ALL. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

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	barankhy 2008-07-21 02:37 am UTC (link)
	I can't decide which I want to taste first; lutefisk, surströmming or hákarl o_O (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	mireille 2008-07-21 02:40 am UTC (link)
	Lutefisk is the only one available here (at least by those names), in small-town Minnesota. (And I'm a transplant, so I only know what stuff is called in the supermarket. I'm the one looking for collard greens and rutabagas.) But no matter what I think of lutefisk, I know it didn't come out of a cow. g (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

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	ari_o 2008-07-21 02:54 am UTC (link)
	I'm irrationally curious about the cheese and bacon paste you can get in tubes in Norway. (I may have gotten confused about the flavors or country here. But my brains says bacon and Norway.) (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

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	sequinedlizard 2008-07-21 03:26 am UTC (link)
	Hákarl tastes like strong cheese to me - not bad, but certainly nowhere near as tasty as skyr :) (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

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chibikaijuu, 2008-07-21 08:12 pm UTC

Possibly just your grandmother -

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	belafarinrod 2008-07-21 04:42 pm UTC (link)
	You're not missing out on the first two, I can tell you... Anyway, surströmming is mostly about the noxious smell, so you can often experience it just by standing near someone while they eat it ;) (Reply to this)(Parent)

	julesnoctambule 2008-07-21 05:34 pm UTC (link)
	Whichever one is the Icelandic air-dried putrefying shark! (Reply to this)(Parent)

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	gunshou 2008-07-21 01:29 am UTC (link)
	This is true. I was just there, along with possibly every resident of Brookline and their children, one of whom was screaming for Vitamin Water. They may have had V-Water made out of tofu, but I avoided that aisle. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	ari_o 2008-07-21 01:36 am UTC (link)
	I live in Cambridge, but it sounds like your WF and mine are the same. I miss my old neighborhood with the tiny Whole Foods that I could run to early or late. sigh (Reply to this)(Parent)

	kookaburra 2008-07-21 12:52 am UTC (link)
	I always had to suppress the urge to ask them what part of the cow they thought eggs came from. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	jrs1980 2008-07-21 06:33 am UTC (link)
	Would have liked my first job. The convenience store sign said BEER but we didn't sell beer anymore, so there was ICE and FROZEN DINNERS under it. (Reply to this)(Parent)

sudaki
2008-07-22 02:45 pm UTC (link)

I'm allergic to dairy (not lactose intolerant, they're different things, honest) and I have this conversation at least once a week.

I really want to sit them all down and teach a class on how eggs and milk can't come from the same place, unless it's a platypus.

(Also, I may be totally wrong, but isn't the dumbness of the overheard statement the eggs thing and not at all the fact that a lactose intolerant person is eating butter?...)

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	mireille 2008-07-22 05:28 pm UTC (link)
	Oh yeah. Definitely. That's the stupid in that conversation. (Reply to this)(Parent)

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