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Is Surströmming the most horrible and horrifying food mankind has ever produced?

For those who don't know what it is, it's Swedish/Finnish traditional food, consisting of year old rotten baltic herring and salty water it has been the year in.

>> No.4425369

Not even close. Look to Asia, friend.

>> No.4425373

>>4425369
I can't even think of anything worse from Asia.

The only time I dared to face Surströmming, I did it on a parking lot with few of my friends. One was 15 meters away from the small can and still vomited due to the horrible smell of dead and rotten fish.

>> No.4425381

What the fuck is wrong with the Nordics

>> No.4425386

>>4425381
Sweden had very little salt production during medieval times, so the fishermen who poached Baltic Herring had to find a way to store fish to get it inland; Surströmming proved to be rather efficient way of doing it, consuming very little salt and being easy to do.

>> No.4425391

>>4425373
You and you're friends are fucking retarded then. You're supposed to open it under water since you're gonna rinse it anyway and eat it with onions.

>> No.4425392

>>4425386

Sweden has a huge amount of coastline. How could they not have much salt production?

>> No.4425394

>>4425362
No, there's much worse. Much, much worse.

Like the idea of eating maggots? LIVE maggots?

How about animals that have been beaten to death, butchered alive (and I'm talking about mammals, not lower-order life like crustaceans).

>> No.4425409

>>4425392
Baltic Sea isn't an actual sea when it comes to Salt: It's only 0,5%-0,8%, when average seas are 3-4%.

Just by being next to sea isn't an instant way to infinite salt; refining it takes a lot of time and is inefficient. That's why China's salt came from Inlands Salt Springs, for example.

>> No.4425411

>>4425394
Are live maggots a food somewhere?

I mean I guess it's nice to create hypothectical foods, but thread is about actual foods that are actually eaten.

>> No.4425421

>>4425411
fuck off, newfag

>> No.4425423

>>4425394
>implying it's maggot, not larva
>implying it's worst than rotten fish
>implying they are not a godtier source of protein and will become a major food source in the future
>implying Europeans don't eat maggot filled cheese
Go eat some rotten fish

>> No.4425434

>>4425411
Casu Marzu
http://www.cooksinfo.com/casu-marzu
http://heart.okwave.com/notes/2081/en

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>>4425362
>>4425362

I like it actually.

But then again I live in the area where that stuff is made. I'm biased.

>> No.4425461

>>4425454
It's not the taste as much it is the smell.

If I'd open a can of it in airport, I'd be suspected of using chemical weaponry.

>> No.4425477

It's pretty much just Swedish. Finns don't eat that shit, most people don't even know that horrid shit exists. And I don't know where to find it in Finland. Not that I'd want to try it.

Obligatory:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvAYkY9lfrw#t=233s

>> No.4425487

How about you go back to reddit, OP?

>> No.4425551

>>4425373
You've never heard of balut, then.

That, my friend, is one of very few foods I refuse to eat.

>> No.4425564

>>4425409
Couldn't you just boil the water and collect the salt crystals left behind?
>>4425461
So it's the durian of Europe?

>> No.4425568

>>4425564
Yeah you could boil the water. But since you'd need to condense the water to 1/42th of what it was, it would take enormous amount of energ/fuel.

>> No.4425579

>>4425568

You don't need to condense the water at all. You just let it boil off and collect the salt left behind. Or, you could simply let it evaporate on its own.

>> No.4425588

>>4425579
I meant that boiling the water will take too much firewood.

Seriously, there are lakes saltier than Baltic sea - It's not efficient.

>> No.4425603

>mfw people think it's common Swedish food

I've never heard of anyone I know ever trying it.

>> No.4425615

>>4425603
It's not even Swedish, it's from Åland

>> No.4425661

How can you have trouble obtaining salt? Just take some water and fucking boil it off. Or let it evaporate if you don't feel like maintaining a fire.

>> No.4425663

>>4425588
evaporation

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4425666

>>4425661
>I don't know what I'm talking about, but everyone else except for me is doing things wrong.

>> No.4425676

>>4425588
>too much firewood.
Wouldn't people have regularly been using fire for warmth? Just toss a pot over it the fire whenever you light one.

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4425691

You guys are small time.
>Kiviak is a traditional Christmas dish from Greenland. It consists of whole small auks birds which are put in a greasy seal skin and buried in the permafrost, under a flat stone, for seven months, then dug up around Christmas. Then they bite the heads off and squeeze out the tart guts, which are slightly toxic.

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>>4425691

>> No.4425735

Why do they even make the thing anyway?

Is there actually a market?

>> No.4425752

>>4425434
I knew about jumping cheese but this is silly:

>People consuming it reputedly run the risk of the larvae, which can remain unaffected by stomach acids, taking up residency in the intestines and boring through their flesh.

>> No.4425850

>>4425551
But balut is actually delicious. Not this stuff though.

>> No.4425892

>>4425676

Firewood still needs to be chopped, it would be more efficient to make it into coal and just import the salt instead.