I eat rotten & fermented fish once or twice a year.

In Sweden surströmming, and in Norway I eat rakfisk.

I prefer the rakfisk, its made of trout or salmon.
Its really good with red onions and sourcreme in a soft tortilla.. Mmm. Soon autumn and rakfisk

We have a weird local tradition called "conjugating irregular verbs."

Example, if a sentence's subject is singular, we say "is" but if it's plural we say "are."

And then only one of those will work in a contraction! It's crazy!

Lutefisk? My wife is of Norwegian ancestry, I had to be subjected to lutefisk (once, just once). Also, we occasionally have a family wide gathering to make Fishballs

Ya, you betcha. Cripes, yesterday I was going to come by, but I got stuck at the stop n' go light down by the tavern, and decided to just go up Nort instead.

Not lutefisk. Lutefisk is nasty stuff, made by treating cod meat with sodium hydroxide.

Steamed crabs, old bay and Natty Boh.

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If you see a Haint near your property you are going to have loss. Break in, fire, some type of tragedy.
A Haig nearby? Watch out close for your childrens well being.
Black Coach White Horse? Loss of someone near, usually witnessed at early morning before sunrise.
Two Crows over the starboard bow taking your boat out equals a good day of fishing. One Crow? Go back in.

Eating the animals on our Federal Coat of Arms.

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Dunno I'd call it a tradition. But we have a lotta "things" here in WNY. One of the main ones - wings should be eaten with blue cheese. Not ranch. Literally fighting words if you say they're better with ranch. Also - they're wings. Not Buffalo wings. We know we invented em.

Our local tradition was being a local. People identified with the many different beaches in town and you would be labeled by the beach or break. I liked the pier rats instead of the beach I grew up near, T street. So I was a pier rat. A guy from T street (600 yards away) would come surf the pier and you would hear, "what's the kook from t street doing surfing "our" waves. I always thought that was funny because I didn't surf and knew all those guys too. And of course all local surfers hated on anyone from out of town. It got serious a few times at Trestles which has world class waves, and sometimes world class idiots. Pretty much like right out of the Animal Kingdom show, as they film some surf sequences near Trestles. I probably got along with surfers from all beaches because I didn't surf, but always had pot.

A very Swedish tradition is pea soup and pancakes on Thursdays. This comes from that when your doing your military service, that was what you got on Thursdays.

I love pea soup.

Low country boil - Shrimp, potatoes, sausage, and corn.

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This was the Super Bowl party at my local bar in February. Seems like 'risky behavior' now.

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Pancakes are eaten after the pea soup, as a dessert sort of. Im not much of a pancake eater, but I love myself a large bowl of steaming hot pea soup with lots of pork meat and strong/sweet mustard.

Funny, in Norway its taco fridays.

If you can make it through a 4 minute video of Americans trying surströmming and not laugh...

Yeah, but had they been a few years more fully grown and eaten it like its supposed to be eaten..

That is, in a soft white tortilla(ish) bread with freshly boiled small springpotatoes, fine chopped onions and sour creme..

The factory, Röda Ulven, that made the box they are eating from was walking distance from where I grew up.