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Pribnow · 3477 days ago · link · · parent · post: Tasting The World’s Foulest Food (hákarl vs. surströmming)
Why do people always test this by just eating it straight with a fork? I've seen Swedish people eat surstromming and none of them did anything close to that. I want to know what it tastes like as an ingredient with other things.
Yeah, I had a good chuckle when I read that the author ate the thing as-is. Someone should have told him that you're supposed to gut them, remove the bones and put the results fillets on tunnbröd or eat them with potatoes. As for the taste, it's mostly just very salty. You can perhaps compare it with pickled herring, which doesn't taste very much either (apart from the pickling itself).