[Fictionary] jinkim

[lindafowens at netzero.com]

When David I were in Iceland a few years ago, visiting some relatives of friends, Trudy showed us a place  (far away from houses) where some sort of fish parts were hanging from  branches lashed together like an old fashioned jungle gym.  It was so stinky that I did not venture close enough to see exactly what kind of fish or parts were involved, but I was told it was a delicacy drying for the winter.  Trudy's husband Dave was once feted by her family with a cooked sheep's head, complete with eyes and brains, of which he ate only a tiny part, to be polite.  Well, it's a long winter there, and they don't have a lot of gardens.  Wildflowers are particularly abundant, though, growing even on newly cooled lava.  Linda

---------- Original Message ----------
From: J-J Cote <jjcote at alum.mit.edu>
To: fictionary group <fictionary at swarpa.net>
Subject: [Fictionary] jinkim
Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2011 21:04:14 -0500

Eeliioot wrote:
> I can just about believe that you can
> ferment fish, but would anyone eat it afterwards?
Duuuuude... ain't you never heard of surströmming?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surstr%C3%B6mming

In Iceland, they also have a related delicacy that may smell worse:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%A1karl

And it looks like Hutch's fish definition is actually close to something 
real, though he got the type of fish wrong:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hongeohoe

Meanwhile, a little web searching suggests that my idea that people used 
to chew whalebone is pretty doubtful.  Despite this weird page:
http://www.e-synonym.info/62441-whalebone.html

Jean-Joseph


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