How could I have forgotten!
After all Ancestry.com has told me I'm something like 80 percent Norwegian.
And my late uncle, Zenas Howland Taylor, celebrated his birthday on this day.
This is called in Norway, Norwegian Constitution Day because the constitution of the country was signed on May 17th, 1814.
So what do we eat to celebrate this great day?
Norwegian meatballs. These are served in gravy.
And lefse!
That's a soft Norwegian flatbread made of flour, butter and milk and the best kind includes mashed potatoes.
It's delicious buttered, sugared and rolled into a tube.
But while many Norwegians eat this, you can leave it out of my diet.
The legendary Lutefisk!
It's a dried whitefish like cod that is brined in LYE, then soaked (allegedly) to get rid of that taste, then steamed until it flakes.
It smells horrible and it may be the reason that Norwegians who eat this stuff accompany it with generous topes of beer and Aquavit.
But that's just me.
I have heard that many people of Norwegian ancestry in my home state of North Dakota love the stuff.
There's just no excuse for some people.
