Is this Lump Out of My Head? I Think So.
Mar. 14th, 2021 12:56 pmThis week's Resolution Recipe: Tjälknöl. ("Frost Lump")
Invented in '80s Sweden, apparently. Unlike the usual "this was invented by accident" folk story (also known as "fakelore"), this seems genuinely to be the case. Unlike the usual bullshit stories of such-and-such having been discovered by accident in the 1700s or 1500s or by somebody's great-grandma, this one is recent enough to be documentable.
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Invented in '80s Sweden, apparently. Unlike the usual "this was invented by accident" folk story (also known as "fakelore"), this seems genuinely to be the case. Unlike the usual bullshit stories of such-and-such having been discovered by accident in the 1700s or 1500s or by somebody's great-grandma, this one is recent enough to be documentable.
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