Just one more mimosa before I head out to rape and pillage.

January 28, 2009 11:34 AM

Once you've slept like/as a Viking, brunch like one.
posted by GrammarMoses to MetaFilter-Related at 11:34 AM (38 comments total)

Viking is a word that occurs multiple places on the internet and in print. Yes.
posted by Wolfdog at 11:50 AM on January 28, 2009 [2 favorites]

What is best in brunch? To cure your salmon, to feel Glögg dribble down your chin, and to smell the fermentaion of your herring.
posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 11:54 AM on January 28, 2009 [3 favorites]

Chat like a viking
Make films like a viking
Dress like a viking (warning: Yahoo answers)

What's your point?
posted by desjardins at 12:01 PM on January 28, 2009

Actually, that is the best Yahoo Answer I've ever seen.
posted by desjardins at 12:01 PM on January 28, 2009 [1 favorite]

Oh, I've pillaged many an omelette station.
posted by Joe Beese at 12:02 PM on January 28, 2009

Tandoori smoked salmon is traditionally Swedish?
posted by CKmtl at 12:03 PM on January 28, 2009 [1 favorite]

Oh good, this thread again. No, seriously--this is where I'm a Viking!
posted by DU at 12:06 PM on January 28, 2009

Best answer: Dress however you want, I don't care, but if you try to get in front of me at the Ensiferum concert you will suddenly gain a deeper understanding of Blood is the Price of Glory.
posted by Wolfdog at 12:09 PM on January 28, 2009 [2 favorites]

In order to be consistent with the Viking theme, brunching like a Viking should entail attending a Þorrablót. Anything less is just eating with enthusiasm.
posted by Marisa Stole the Precious Thing at 12:14 PM on January 28, 2009

Fight aliens like a viking.
posted by homunculus at 12:23 PM on January 28, 2009

You're Thor? You're Thor? I'm tho thore I can't even pith!
posted by dirtdirt at 12:30 PM on January 28, 2009

They call them Vikings, but I never see 'em vike.
posted by Metroid Baby at 12:55 PM on January 28, 2009

How to brunch like a viking: You die (in battle), go to Valhalla, there's Särimner and you eat him. He's basically regenerating bacon, you know. Pretty darn hip.
posted by soundofsuburbia at 12:58 PM on January 28, 2009 [1 favorite]

vikini vikidi vikici
posted by cortex (staff) at 1:31 PM on January 28, 2009 [1 favorite]

In Japan, "viking" means "buffet".
posted by KokuRyu at 1:35 PM on January 28, 2009 [1 favorite]

I thought bacon was sides, belly, or back.
posted by ersatz at 1:41 PM on January 28, 2009

I once tap-danced like a Viking. That was fün.
posted by Blazecock Pileon at 1:47 PM on January 28, 2009

vikini vikidi vikici
posted by cortex at 8:31 PM on January 28

Wow. Now I want to see cortex in a vikini.
posted by MrVisible at 2:03 PM on January 28, 2009

So am I the only one for whom the "brunch like one" link goes to https://secure.metatalk.metafilter.com/registration/?rPage=login&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmetatalk.metafilter.com%2F17289%2FJust-one-more-mimosa-before-I-head-out-to-rape-and-pillage&eRightsSessionExpired=true&forced=true ?
posted by Godbert at 2:06 PM on January 28, 2009

I've had many a brunch among Vikings, but I have never truly brunched *like* a Viking because that requires either being hungover, or still drunk from the night before. Preferably on Brennivín.
posted by grapefruitmoon at 2:08 PM on January 28, 2009

but I have never truly brunched *like* a Viking because that requires either being hungover, or still drunk from the night before.

Fool! That's the point of brunch! Hair of the dog after waking up hungover/drunk at noon and scarfing down eggs and potatoes or french toast with people who told you the dumb shit you did the night before (also, telling them the dumb shit they did). And a bottomless cup of coffee.

I fucking love brunch!
posted by piratebowling at 2:25 PM on January 28, 2009 [3 favorites]

Brunch is an excuse to drink before noon.

And that is why I love it.
posted by mrzarquon at 2:28 PM on January 28, 2009

piratebowling: Well, I think my main problem is I've never been hungover. I'd say that I'll work on that... but that'd be a total lie.
posted by grapefruitmoon at 2:35 PM on January 28, 2009

It's not quite breakfast, it's not quite lunch, but it comes with a slice of hallucinogenic mushroom at the end.
posted by Potomac Avenue at 3:08 PM on January 28, 2009

So am I the only one

Nope.
posted by mediareport at 3:11 PM on January 28, 2009

hiking biking viking
posted by Combustible Edison Lighthouse at 3:47 PM on January 28, 2009

people who told you the dumb shit you did the night before

There is a special place in Helheim reserved for those people.
posted by Bango Skank at 4:20 PM on January 28, 2009

Ve vill go viking in the vilderness!
posted by turgid dahlia at 5:47 PM on January 28, 2009

Brunch is an excuse to drink before noon.

And that is why I love it.

I just thought this could use repeating.
posted by supermedusa at 6:07 PM on January 28, 2009

Your search - "fuck like vikings" - did not match any documents.

You suck, memes on Metafilter.
posted by Ambrosia Voyeur at 12:15 AM on January 29, 2009

Dress like a viking? go to the store.

Thanks, Yahoo answers!
posted by Devils Rancher at 3:59 AM on January 29, 2009

Your search - "fuck like vikings" - did not match any documents.

Once google gets hold of this thread, it will have one result.
posted by ersatz at 4:10 AM on January 29, 2009

"It's not quite breakfast, it's not quite lunch, but it comes with a slice of cantaloupe at the end. You don't get completely what you would at breakfast, but you get a good meal!"
posted by plinth at 5:56 AM on January 29, 2009

I like brunch. I'm just glad they didn't call it leakfast. I don't think I'd enjoy it as much.

Now, if you'll excuse me, it's time for my linner.
posted by trip and a half at 6:28 AM on January 29, 2009

In Japan, "viking" means "buffet".

Sorry, you lose, "viking" means "smörgåsbord" in Japan. But thanks for trying.

This is where Robert Plant is a viking. ROCK ON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
posted by Meatbomb at 10:17 AM on January 29, 2009

Dating a Viking Woman
posted by not_on_display at 11:58 AM on January 29, 2009

Longboat Spore Creature
posted by not_on_display at 11:59 AM on January 29, 2009

What was really the point at the top post on brunch? Since when were modern people in Sweeden considered "vikings" any more than people in Nevada considered "pioneers?" Or is it just because vikings are like pirates, but not nearly as tired a meme?
posted by mccarty.tim at 2:01 PM on January 29, 2009