Scandinavian festivals have booths to sell lefse, and it can also be ordered online. World's largest lefse The town of Starbuck, Minnesota, is the home of the world's largest lefse. It was made on July 1, 1983. Celebrations and festivals Lefse is celebrated in cities and towns with large Scandinavian populations. Fargo, North Dakota, hosts the popular Lutefisk and Lefse Festival in August each year. Fosston, Minnesota, invites area lefse makers to compete for the title of Champion Lefse Maker at its Lefse Fest in November. In Mankato, Minnesota, Minnesotans of Scandinavian descent celebrate lefse day, a day for cooking lefse, on the Sunday after Thanksgiving. The Potato Days festival has been taking place in Barnesville, Minnesota, since the early 1930s; this festival also takes part in the National Lefse Cookoff. Rumors and jokes Rumors surrounding the initial use of lefse are the claims by Norwegian Americans that it was made by and used to sustain the Vikings, but potatoes were not introduced into Norway until long after the Vikings' time. Although many Scandinavian-Americans do enjoy and eat the foods of their ethnic traditions, there is no shortage of tall-tales and jokes surrounding certain food, as well. Lefse was not excluded from these rumors. Among other things, lefse has been said to be "so tasteless that many mistakenly eat the paper doily under the stack and do not know the difference." Integrating lefse into other foodways Sometimes Norwegian foods are integrated into other ethnic foodways. For example, one may use lefse to make enchilada. American lefse is sometimes served with butter, cinnamon sugar, brown sugar, or lingonberry jelly before being rolled, to be eaten like a crêpe. One may also add eggs, sausage, and cheese to make it into a breakfast burrito. One may even roll smørrebrød into their lefse. See also Chapati Farl Flatbrød Potato scone Svele Tunnbröd References Other sources Legwold, Gary (1991) The Last Word on Lefse (Adventure Publication) Ojakangas, Beatrice (1999) The Great Scandinavian Baking Book (Univ Of Minnesota Press) External links Lefse Fest Lakeland News at Ten (PBS) clip of Lefse Fest A New Cook in the Kitchen A Lefse Recipe for Thanksgiving By SAM SIFTON, NOV. 20, 2014, NY Times Potato dishes Flatbreads Norwegian cuisine Cuisine of the Midwestern United States Christmas food Cuisine of Minnesota