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| MAGGIES IN THE FOG |
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| ANNUAL LUTEFISK DINNER |
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| SKOAL! |
The trip to Duluth yesterday was a foggy drive but was not dangerous if one paid attention to speed and visibility, and we were back in time to go to the annual lutefisk dinner at Maggie's restaurant, which we missed last year.
Lutefisk is Arctic Circle winter starvation fare; dried cod which has been reconstituted into a quivering, gelatinous mass by soaking it in lye. Drowned in cream and melted butter it is somewhat palatable. Die hard Scandinavians claim it as a culinary icon. I eat it out of respect for my Nordic friends and neighbors, and because the free meal also has Swedish meatballs, boiled buttered potatoes, salads and a number of delicacies such as leffsa, a Norwegian tortilla-like flat bread sprinkled with sugar, and rice pudding with lignon berries. And of course there is the Norwegian liquid fire, aqavit.
Comment: 1.2 Billion dollars, has disappeared from and is unaccounted for by M F Global Corporation. Investors money was illegally commingled with other funds and is gone without, evidently, a trace. All the top executives, including John Corzine, a former US senator and New Jersey governor, testified before Congress, claiming they know nothing.
The Chinese would simply shoot them. Congress ought to at least water board them until they tell the truth. Fat chance of getting to the bottom of this, as Corzine is one of their own.
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