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[Montegriffo]

Got a seat in the longboat for me? I've always thought the Danes were cooler than my Anglo-Saxon ancestors anyway.

Fuckin' sword whore.

My german forebears chased your pale asses into the ocean several times in the past, and stand ready to do so once again, if given the chance.

Many more towns and villages with Viking names than Anglo-Saxon ones and they taught us how to farm too. Even the Normans were Viking pirates from Ireland so you Anglo thugs didn't leave half the mark of the Danes.

[pettertb]

Oh, and "sylte" with "lefse" on the morning on the 25th.

Sylte (translated to head cheese on wikipedia) is pork meat, traditionally from the head, pressed together with spices and some aspic. Nice, spicy taste to it. Usually served on bread or rolled in "lefse" (soft flatbread, kind of Norwegian potato tortilla) with mustard.

We make it from scratch at my parents', boiling the pig heads and all, in the traditional way.

Man was I mad the first time dad used my beerbrewing kettle to boil pigs heads.

That was a pretty metal sentence.

[SuburbanFarmer]

Doesn't sound very difficult.. Just heat up a frying pan and sear the fatty part, no?

Sylte (translated to head cheese on wikipedia) is pork meat, traditionally from the head, pressed together with spices and some aspic. Nice, spicy taste to it. Usually served on bread or rolled in "lefse" (soft flatbread, kind of Norwegian potato tortilla) with mustard.

We do have this in the meat markets - called Souse or simply 'Head Cheese' here. Definitely not a popular item, though.

[Montegriffo]

Man was I mad the first time dad used my beerbrewing kettle to boil pigs heads.

That was a pretty metal sentence.

It sure was.Could only be improved with someone biting the head off a bat.
Your tasteless lager could do with some added flavour anyway.

[pettertb]

Man was I mad the first time dad used my beerbrewing kettle to boil pigs heads.

That was a pretty metal sentence.

It sure was.Could only be improved with someone biting the head off a bat.
Your tasteless lager could do with some added flavour anyway.

Fat is actually pretty bad to beer, kills the foam.

Homebrewing lager is hard, you need temperature control in the fermenting room. I should try doing it one winter, by turning down the thermostat in our garage-room.

Besides, I really like hops, so there was enough flavor, all right ;P

[Montegriffo]

Man was I mad the first time dad used my beerbrewing kettle to boil pigs heads.

That was a pretty metal sentence.

It sure was.Could only be improved with someone biting the head off a bat.
Your tasteless lager could do with some added flavour anyway.

Fat is actually pretty bad to beer, kills the foam.

Homebrewing lager is hard, you need temperature control in the fermenting room. I should try doing it one winter, by turning down the thermostat in our garage-room.

Besides, I really like hops, so there was enough flavor, all right ;P

Foam is over rated and you only use the female hops, we use the male plant too, that's one of the main differences between ale and lager. I used to make beer too.
Lager is nice on a hot day but if you want flavour you drink a nice warm flat beer in front of a roaring fire.

[pettertb]

Sweet! (or bitter, as the case may be)

I was at my GFs cabin a few summer to last. Basking in the sun reading and drinking the beer available. Turborg light.

And it fit the circumstance.

Tuborg light.

Still a bit freaked out

[Montegriffo]

Sweet! (or bitter, as the case may be)

I was at my GFs cabin a few summer to last. Basking in the sun reading and drinking the beer available. Turborg light.

And it fit the circumstance.

Tuborg light.

Still a bit freaked out

Is Tuborg Danish?

[Otern]

Many more towns and villages with Viking names than Anglo-Saxon ones and they taught us how to farm too. Even the Normans were Viking pirates from Ireland so you Anglo thugs didn't leave half the mark of the Danes.

Now you're just trying to trigger the Norwegians here.

Norwegians started stirring up shit in Ireland, not Danes. Viking is not synonymous with Dane.

The Normans who invaded Ireland in 1169 were led by a Dane, but Norwegians had settled there hundreds of years before that.

[Montegriffo]

Many more towns and villages with Viking names than Anglo-Saxon ones and they taught us how to farm too. Even the Normans were Viking pirates from Ireland so you Anglo thugs didn't leave half the mark of the Danes.

Now you're just trying to trigger the Norwegians here.

Norwegians started stirring up shit in Ireland, not Danes. Viking is not synonymous with Dane.

The Normans who invaded Ireland in 1169 were led by a Dane, but Norwegians had settled there hundreds of years before that.

That's why I said the Normans were Vikings and not Danes. To me Danes and Norwegians are both Vikings. Is that wrong?