Oh dear..... Regional cuisine at its most primative
Last year on a visit to my girlfreinds freinds in the north of sweden, we were lucky enough to arive for one of their birthdays. This was the first and with any luck the last time that I experienced Surströmming. This is the most putrid foodstuff I HAVE EVER tasted. Or smelt. Take one herring and then ferment it with a little salt and can it. When you open the can, or someone near you opens one you experience the most nausiating smell of rotting fermented fish, imagine a rotting fish smell and then imagine it worse. Then your expected to eat it. Raw. Its so putrid you dont drink carbonated drinks with it (like beer)coz it knocks the CO2 out of solution in your guts. nice. The only mercy is that you can try to anialate your taste centers and brain with copiose ammounts of vodka schnaps.
(Nicky Nacky Noo... Scratch and Sniff Please, Mon 12 Jul 2004, 15:47, Reply)