Yum, Surströmming!

[deathstar461.livejournal.com]

Surströmming is considered a delicacy, and the smelliest, stinkiest canned fish in all of Sweden. And in a country known for its obcession with canned food and stinky fish culinary atrocities, that's really saying something!




https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surstr%C3%B6mming

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[pronker]

Ew, to do this to delicious herring ... ick. It's likely something noxious like lutfisk.

[calzephyr77.livejournal.com]

Ugh, hubs brings this up now and then. Some distant relation of his mother was supposed to have been a Swedish princess. Anyway, this and silsalot were a staple at the Christmas dinner his aunt made. Ugh...ugh...a whole lot of nope!

[shortsweetcynic.livejournal.com]

so i have a fun story about this!

4 or 5 years ago, my husband - during a night of drinking - was reading a story that led him to buy a can of this FROM SWEDEN to try for himself. which was, at first, a funny, ha ha, hide-the-credit-cards-hubby's-had-cider type moment; i don't like seafood, but he does, and i figured what the hell, if he wants to try it, what's the harm?

it arrived a few days later, and took up residence on our kitchen counter.

and over the course of the next month or two, the can expanded. and expanded. and expanded until it no longer sat, it wobbled; both ends were visibly distended. and at that point, i told him in no uncertain terms "if this thing explodes in the house, i will serve you divorce papers from my hotel room at the beach."

an impromptu party/bonfire was organized around the opening of this monstrosity and i can confirm:

1. the can was so pressurized we saw it spray all over the faces of both people at ground zero.

2. even from the table 50 feet away we made sure this was opened at, the smell was still enough to make all of us - a dozen or so observers - dry heave.

3. none of it was actually consumed, even on a $100 dare to take a sip of the liquid. pictures of what it's SUPPOSED to look like have been reviewed since then and they said it was nothing like that, not even close - it was basically just a gray shapeless goo.

4. we've had no repeats of situations like this since then; if hubby's had anything to drink, he now mostly sticks to ars technica and youtube. :)