And Make Them Eat the Maggot Cheese Like Normal Children

Humans are like goats. We'll eat any damned thing. Just ask the people who make PowerBars.

In fact, you'll find foods in this world that don't even seem possible. Not just that they could exist, but that people would actually stick this stuff in their mouths without a gun to their head.

We've found six dishes that seemed to have sprung from Satan's own cookbook. …

#4. Lutefisk

From: Norway.

What the hell is it?

Ahhh, Lutefisk. After the larvae-ridden cheese, it's a blessed relief to sample a clean, down-to-earth Scandinavian recipe.

A little too clean.

Lutefisk is a traditional Norwegian dish featuring cod that has been steeped for many days in a solution of lye, until its flesh is caustic enough to dissolve silver cutlery.

Wait, it gets worse …

For those of you who don't know, lye (potassium hydroxide/sodium hydroxide) is a powerful industrial chemical used for cleaning drains, killing plants, de-budding cow horns, powering batteries and manufacturing biodiesel. Contact with lye can cause chemical burns, permanent scarring, blindness or total deliciousness…. Or, so the lutefisk industry would have us believe.


I live in the Norwegian section of Seattle, where every year, we celebrate Norwegian Constitution Day with a big festival that is capped off by a Lutefisk-eating contest, which is inevitably won by the sweetest little girl you could ever imagine. That's right: they let children eat that drain-cleaning fish.

Before next year, people, think of the children. Someone, please, think of the goddamn children?