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[HellEye]

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Well well well, isn't that weird

[George]

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Surströmming facial is weirder.

[Brisky]

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Surströmming and people's faces tend not to go together very well...

But speaking of fish, It's thursday, soo I might as well go get some that isn't fermented!

[HellEye]

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What's that thing?

[Cheza]

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The dangers of surströmming appear to be highly overplayed.
At least outdoors.


Won't doubt for a second that it's 9001 times worse indoors.

[HellEye]

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But what is it?

[Cheza]

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Pickled fermented herring.

[Brisky]

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Surstroming, danger and outdoors?

I thought surstroming was this rotten fish delicacy in Denmark or something. But dangerous?

[HellEye]

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Uhh... Doesn't sound too good. I'll pass.

[Cheza]

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It's a Swedish thing.
Translated straight from Swedish, it's "sour herring"


And the stench is quite unbearable, which means people generally open the cans outdoor, in a tub of water.


There's this one story of a can of surströmming exploding aboard a plane, and that caused them to have to do an emergency landing, as well as picking apart the whole plane to get the stench to go away.
That's why it's now banned from being brought aboard planes at all.


And, I can't say what it tastes like, but it most definitely smells off.
Friends say it tastes ok tho.

[Brisky]

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In Holland we just take the raw herring... No need to pickle it, or ferment it... :I

[Cheza]

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I don't eat fish at all >->'

[HellEye]

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We have it prepared somehow. Still, never really tried.

[Brisky]

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I occasionally eat fish. Because it's edible, and nutritious. But it's not like I speciffically prefer fish over other foods, no. That would be weird given that I live in a fishing town!

[HellEye]

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I eat it when someone gives it to me. Never make it or ask for it myself though