Pickled Herring

By Judith Leyster - http://www.rijksmuseum.nl/collectie/SK-A-1685, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=34313991
By Judith Leyster – http://www.rijksmuseum.nl/collectie/SK-A-1685, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=34313991

During my trip to Amsterdam, Zed and I visited the Frans Hals Museum in the nearby town of Haarlem. (Haarlem, by the way, super cute place.) This painting is not by Hals, but was originally attributed to him. It’s by Judith Leyster, a contemporary. The audio tour had this kind of adorable drinking song playing in the background for this painting.

It’s about how pickled herring is so good and salty and makes you drink a lot. So a few days later we had to get some.

The Dutchiest of lunches: pickled herring.

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It was pretty damn good.