Ballard Seafood Fest Lutefish Eating Contest

The Ballard Seafood Festival is this weekend July 15 - 17, 2022 after a two year covid break. The signature event in this formerly Scandinavian Seattle neighborhood is a lutefisk eating contest. What is lutefisk? Knowing that, who would compete to eat four pounds of lutefish as quickly as a possible? How does the crowd react? What’s does the winner of a lutefish eating contest say? It’s all revealed in this feature from a lutfisk eating contest in the mid 1990’s.