# Ask the Swedish guy

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-swedish-guy/464659>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [September 22, 2008, 9:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-swedish-guy/464659 "2008-09-22T09:16:53Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Claptree](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58f4c7/32.png) [@Claptree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Claptree)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2008, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-swedish-guy/464659/101 "2008-09-26T15:20:44Z")

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> [@Priceguy](#):
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> **Claptree** : I agree that we’re not in general big fans of death metal, but it’s a lot bigger around here than anywhere else I know of. You seem to be talking about metal in general, or you have a strange collection of friends that includes 10% death metal fans.

Not death metal fans in the sense that they wear black, have hair to their ankles, paint their faces white and pretend to be satanists. Death metal fans in that they own an album or ten, and go to the occasional show. Like me.

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**Author:** ![flodnak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/838e76/32.png) [@flodnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flodnak)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2008, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-swedish-guy/464659/102 "2008-09-27T14:52:11Z")

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> [@Walpurgis](#):
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> This is where we divert your attention by pointing at the Icelandic dude nomming his [hákarl](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hakarl).

This just supports my theory that there’s a hierarchy of Scandinavian food weirdness. The rest of the world points at Denmark and says: “What’s with the pickled herring? It smells awful!”  
The Dane says, “Hey, at least it’s not lutefisk like those crazy Norwegians eat!”  
The Norwegian replies, “No fair! Swedes eat it too. _And_ they eat surströmming!”  
The Swede says, “We don’t really eat it, we just keep it around to scare people. Besides, nothing, _nothing_ we eat is as bad as hákarl!”

And the Icelander shrugs and says, “It’s not so bad if you get drunk enough first.”😛

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**Author:** ![WormTheRed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/bbe5ce/32.png) [@WormTheRed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WormTheRed)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2008, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-swedish-guy/464659/103 "2008-09-27T16:55:15Z")

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> [@flodnak](#):
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> This just supports my theory that there’s a hierarchy of Scandinavian food weirdness. The rest of the world points at Denmark and says: “What’s with the pickled herring? It smells awful!”  
> The Dane says, “Hey, at least it’s not lutefisk like those crazy Norwegians eat!”  
> The Norwegian replies, “No fair! Swedes eat it too. _And_ they eat surströmming!”  
> The Swede says, “We don’t really eat it, we just keep it around to scare people. Besides, nothing, _nothing_ we eat is as bad as hákarl!”
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> And the Icelander shrugs and says, “It’s not so bad if you get drunk enough first.”😛

This, is actually true. At least the last part 🙂

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