Two morning things

[mrissa]

1. I have misjudged the opening time of the massage place. It opens at 9:00, not 8:00. Ah well. One will get by for another hour, drinking the last of the white cranberry peach juice and perhaps reading a bit more of Moonwise.

2. I got lefse spam in my inbox this morning. Lefse spam. From Colorado. Let's think about that, shall we? I own a lefse roller and a lefse turner. I live in the Promised Land. And I should order lefse from Colorado? Um, no. No, and also no.

Still, lefse spam. It was kind of neat.

Unlike spam lefse, which is horrible beyond anything I want to contemplate.

Comments

[brithistorian.livejournal.com]

What is lefse?

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

It looks something like a tortilla but is made out of potatoes. It's one of the foods ScanAms brought with us from the old country, and for the most part the old country stopped making it. Hot lefse with butter is heavenly.

[brithistorian.livejournal.com]

Sounds yummy!

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I wish I thought we'd have time to make lefse this year, but alas; I am somewhat dubious. But because I live in the Promised Land, I can buy a comparatively acceptable substitute at the grocery store of my choice.

Do we have a state anthem? Because I would really like to sing it about now.

[pameladean]

"L.A.'s got the climate,
Boston's got the sea,
Denver's got the Rockies,
Minnesota's got to me."

Works for me, anyway.

Pamela

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

You'll have to sing me the tune for it on Sunday, if you sing tunes, because I don't know that one.

[pameladean]

Nate Bucklin claims to have once heard me singing on key, but mostly it's not guaranteed, though it happens unexpectedly.

I did Google for it, which got me the name of the composer but not any lyrics. I don't know them all. But it has mosquitoes in it.

Pamela

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

So a high-pitched whining sort of song, then, with the mosquitoes? Too bad I'm an alto.

Well, if you know anybody who sings tunes and will sing it for me, that would be nice.

[dd-b.livejournal.com]

So yet another "old country" food that depends on new-world produce to make.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Yep. Sorting out what they actually ate before the New World produce got to be widespread always boggles me.

[flewellyn.livejournal.com]

Lutheran latkes. Just plain weird.

I don't even like the Jewish ones...

[songwind.livejournal.com]

lefse turner? Isn't that just a paint mixing paddle? :)

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

You have not witnessed the glory that is my lefse turner. I can turn lefse with it and then turn around and stake vampires and then go back to turning the lefse.

The lefse tastes a little funny after that, though, so mostly I don't.

Also it's rosmaled.

rosmaled

[dlandon.livejournal.com]

My grandmother does rosmaling. It's just beautiful.

So you know I'm going to start begging for an invitation to come over for lefse soon, right? *g*

- D

Re: rosmaled

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I will gladly share lefse with people who appreciate it. People who look at it funny are invited to pass and leave more lefse for me!"

[scottjames.livejournal.com]

Is lefse the flat pancake-y things with potato-y stuff, that the Swedes put sugar on them? Is that lefse? Are those lefse? What's the plural of lefse? If those aren't lefse, what are they?

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

You have that substance correct; it is lefse. Lefse is the collective term. The singular is "a piece of lefse" or perhaps "some lefse." (My dad would argue that lefse doesn't come in units of fewer than three pieces.)

[wilfulcait.livejournal.com]

Sorry to hear that the relief of a good massage has been delayed.

"My dad would argue that lefse doesn't come in units of fewer than three pieces." My husband makes a similar argument to explain why Canadians believe that the collective noun for beer is beers. I would say, "bring in three beers," meaning "three bottles or cans of beer" but "we drank some beer." He says "we drank some beers," and explains that in the quantities beer is consumed in Canada, the "s" is necessary. Although sometimes he grounds his argument in higher alcohol content (of Canadian beer, not Canadians.)

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Hmmm. I'm apparently with your husband on everything but the pronoun (the proper formulation is "they drank some beers" or possibly "you drank some beers," "she..." etc.).

"Some beer," in my head, is part but not all of a unit. Halfway through dinner, markgritter and Ceej have sometimes had some beer, but then they usually finish their bottles by the end of the meal. If you have a pitcher, you can offer somebody, "Ya want some beer?" because they presumably are not exhausting the beer-unit in question (the pitcher).

[songwind.livejournal.com]

Ah, but from a philosophical standpoint, any episode of drinking beer is only part of the ultimate beer unit, All Of It. Thus, "some beer" is almost always correct.

Of course, I use all three plurals depending on my mood.

[scottjames.livejournal.com]

The Great ComplicaTOR strikes again!

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

The Great ComplicaTOR always gets caught, because she can't just shout, "Muwahahaha!" and run off into the night. She has to muwaha with footnotes.

This is why my other superhero names are better.

[scottjames.livejournal.com]

This is why my other superhero names are better.

So stop making things so complicated, then.

Unlike spam lefse, which is horrible beyond anything I want to contemplate

[dlandon.livejournal.com]

*snorts tea out her nose*

Don't make me laugh like that when I'm drinking! *g*

Hope your back feels better soon -

D