[Leica] Matjes & acquavit

[sethrosner at nycap.rr.com (Seth Rosner)]

Douglas, both my mother and dad were fluent in German so I knew the 
derivation of gaffelbitter as a kid. And in fact, I believe it was a tin of 
ABBA herring that I bought from the Seattle company.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Douglas Sharp" <douglas.sharp@gmx.de>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org>
Sent: Saturday, January 14, 2006 9:30 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Matjes & acquavit


> Hello Seth,
> sounds like your having withdrawal symptoms, here's a description of your 
> addiction.BTW,your spelling is correct
> Gaffelbitter is a Norse or Low German word describing marinated pieces 
> (bitter = bites or bits) of Herring in a (nowadays) dill and white wine 
> sauce, or wine, sugar and mild mustard. It's still a speciality in the 
> Netherlands and Scandinavia (Norwegian = Gaffelbiter). The word gaffel 
> means fork (High German =  Gabel), so these were fork sized bits of 
> herring.
> If I remember correctly, a Swedish company called ABBA also sells it in 
> tins (rumour has it that this company is where four musical Swedes 
> invested some of their millions to get them past the taxman)
> Douglas
>
> Seth Rosner wrote:
>
>>  In preparation for some client work this am, I browsed the archive and 
>> saw the exchanges on matjes. Immediately the insides of my mouth began to 
>> stream.
>>
>> When I was a kid, very occasionally my dad would come home from a trip to 
>> somewhere with a wooden bucket filled with something he called 
>> gaffelbitter (sp.?) = sliced bits of matjes herring. Last year, for some 
>> reason I thought of - and in my imagination tasted - matjes herring and 
>> googled it. Found a company in Washington State that sold it and 
>> ordered - I think it was a 1,5 kg container of the wonderful stuff. Which 
>> I rationed to myself through several months.
>>
>>
>
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