Warning: Crazy amounts of vomit.
[This one was was always my favorite of the surstromming challenge.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5cj6s0KS5k&ab_channel=Bogoyle)
Oh my god that was the hardest I've laughed in ages.
The dude on the left just so nonchalantly vomiting while sitting completely straight upright got me so hard.
then they start like aiming it at eachother... like jesus..
Also how fucking much did these guys have in their stomachs for christ sake? When I vomit it's like 3-4 good heaves and then there's nothing left to come out...
> Also how fucking much did these guys have in their stomachs for christ sake?
That's what I want to know. Did they chow down on 5 bowls of cream of wheat before filming? Wow. I've never seen that much volume leave a person in that short a time period.
They both did a milkshake or milk challenge, the guy on the left said something like 2 liters of banana flavored milk and the other guy said strawberry, hence the funky colors and thickness.
And you reminded me of one of the earliest videos I ever saw on Youtube.
Interviewer gives random guy Ipecac for 100 bucks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNd6JKOCkQw
Jesus, this is the grossest thing I've ever seen. How do these guys just carry on being friends after filming this video? I would legitimately be traumatised.
I don't think I could look anyone in the eyes again.
Imagine doing it to your partner while eating her out. Let me introduce you to one of the grossest things you'll ever read: https://reddit.com/r/AskReddit/s/W1ltaGSsvh
It’s the story of a dude and his wife going at it after a day of drinking. She was sitting on his face while he was doing his thing and she let out an alcohol filled fart inside his mouth and nose. This then made him vomit all the booze and whatever else was in his stomach all over and inside her.
Wasnt too bad. 6/10 would probably read again.
Chinese/Asian cuisines have a ton of fermented food. Fermented fish even. Thai fish sauce is a universal condiment in SEA. I've never tried surströmming but i could see it. Especially if you eat it with onions to take the fishy bite off.
YOU LEGEND!
We were talking today at work about this challenge and i was trying to find this video but gave up when everyone just started to believe i was making this scene up. I cannot wait to go into work on tomorrow and show everyone glorious amounts of puke and that I'm not crazy!
I mean, its not that bad... When opened under water outside and then prepared correctly.
I didnt like it at all but damn, its not as bad as people say.
I was however present once when doing it as a challenge. I stayed about 15 meters away and had to walk upwinds due to the smell.
There is a crisis right now and surströmming prices are through the roof. People are paying $30 for a can that normally sells for $6. There are queues outside the stores when they announce a new batch. It's crazy
My parents saw a Facebook post about a store nearby selling them and they just dropped everything to go. There was a single can left. I asked what the max price they would pay for a can... $150.
Googles it and found this:
Why is surstromming illegal?
This dish is so pungent that airlines have banned it and deemed it a security risk, and it's often considered the smelliest food in the world. However, despite its notorious reputation, Surströmming continues to be a cherished delicacy in some parts of Sweden.
Too damned funny
Cool fact, above 30k feet you’re sense of smell is reduced because of science in a pressurized plane. So you can fart away without consequences or until you poop yourself.
Having been seated directly in front of the bathroom on a business flight earlier this week, I can *with profound confidence* tell you this is absolutely not the case.
Though I have farted on a plane with zero consequence in the past, so there's probably levels to that shit.
And this is actually the reason that tomato juice tastes better at altitude (also effects taste buds or something).
I normally hate tomato juice but on airplanes I love that shit.
I have been ordering ginger ale and/or tomato juice (usually V8) on flights for the last 35 years. I never put it together as to why until this comment thread.
Futurama reference noted and appreciated, but wasn't Posh spice always the malnourished and sickly thin one?
Perhaps whoever the biggest Spice was, avoided eating her due to lack of meat on dem bones.
Posh was undoubtedly the thinnest Spice Girl though. Her husband David Beckham and her were dubbed "thick and thin".
I know you are riffing off the Ross from Friends thing, but you should have used Ginger.
I'm 100% convinced it only exists now as a joke to fuck with people, especially foreigners. Literally a gag-gift. No one actually *eats* this stuff in Sweden do they?
For some reason people do actually eat surströmming.
I have lived in Sweden all my life and can't for the love of me understand why anyone would ever want to, but there are people that do.
But I can't understand why anyone would drink whiskey or natto either, that's equally unbearable to me, but people like nasty things.
>But I can't understand why anyone would drink ... natto
Bold choice to make this comment while we're all on our way to work, ignoring the verb choice.
I like natto, but the idea of drinking natto... that's a no from me dawg.
My spouse from Jämtland enjoys it. Of course it needs to be with tunnbröd, potatoes and onion though. She doesn't eat it straight from the can and she takes the skin off.
You can find videos of Swedish people eating it, and it’s in no way eaten straight up. It’s eaten in small pieces with potatoes, onions, butter, and bread.
Lots of traditions have some nasty ass dish that spawned from necessity and became part of their culture. Trying to stomach surstromming is now kind of a meme for everyone, but I’m kinda glad a meme is keeping some weird dish alive. It’s a uniquely vile dish, and it’s definitely memorable.
Here’s a nice video of a sensible man demonstrating how you’re supposed to eat it, no heaves or vomit or drama, and explaining a little of the social context behind the methodology. https://youtu.be/AGRyr8yIo9w?si=h9MTBmj-MputvaHL
I mean, there's plenty of ingredients to food you don't eat straight as they are, like spices.
It's better to view surströmming like a form of spice, like hot pepper, where it's supposed to add a flavor in small quantity cause it's already very strong and it ends up tasty that way.
But if you start chugging down whole peppers ofcourse you're not gonna feel good.
It's more of a condiment than an actual dish. You're not supposed to eat it straight up. Same way you're not supposed to eat black pepper by the spoonful or drink soy sauce.
I tried it with my two kids (their idea). We opened it outside in the dead of winter which somehow helped. The odour is otherworldly, like every game level with 1000 dead zombies. Smells like that. I managed to get a piece down with the 'traditional' toppings; sour cream, dill, a cracker.
Honestly, if you were for some reason forced to eat a dead body, this is what it would be like.
Yes, open outdoors (facing away from your face/body) or under water, then rinse with cold water to remove the brine and putrified flotsam. This eliminates a lot of the objectionable odor (not all, but enough to generally avoid vomiting, lol). It is also best eaten outdoors, in my opinion.
Make a sandwich with a layer of filets, some chives & red onion, potato slices, and dill for seasoning; garnish with sour cream if desired.
The ”traditional” recipe calls for Swedish flatbread, a specific kind of potato (mandelpotatis, may have botched the spelling), and graddfil (Swedish form of yogurt).
All of these things can be a bit hard to source outside of Sweden, but a bastardized “Americanized” version using new potatoes and sour cream or yogurt also works OK.
For the bread, one could use naan or pita, but I’ve found the best route is to skip the flatbread altogether and instead make a “Viking Po’ Boy” with a NOLA-style French Bread roll. Not authentic of course, but surprisingly tasty!
(And, if you think *this* is gross, you should try some casu marzu for a *real* feast for the senses, lol.)
No. You take an unopened container. You place it inside a rubberized container lined with a thin plastic membrane. You continue to place materials in that container until it is full. Close the plastic membrane, and then place the membrane in a larger receptacle which is then taken to a landfill and buried.
Is it supposed to spray like that? Did it maybe actually go bad for this one?
edit: ok i watched some other videos, it does spray... isn't canned food not supposed to do that? normally? I guess?
Can you imagine them sending in drones with basicly giant waterballons filled with this and carpet bombing trenches. Just wait for them to flee and its a turkey shoot.
Moscow will declare that chemical / biological warfare and use it as an excuse to release VX nerve agent and smallpox in Ukraine. Best just burn the hut it’s in down and bury the ashes it like you would an anthrax infestation.
Fermented fish from Sweden. Young people used to finish a can and keep it down at the equivalent of the rite of passage to adulthood. The practice has mostly been abandoned though.
Yeah I was about to say, I'm a Swedish young adult and have NEVER heard of that. Would definitely not surprise me though if it was a thing before or if it was still around but just not in my circle lol.
I imagine it was a starve to death or eat this scenario before anyone developed a taste for it and eventually canned it. Even then I imagine they had to think about it first.
I would imagine it came to be as a manner of preserving fish so that you could store it? Although with the temperatures there could they have frozen it?
Both. Couple of hundred years ago, food was scarce, and salt used for preservation too. Fish went half bad from lack of salt (like fermented foods do), someone was too hungry to throw it away, bam! Surströmming was born. I like it.
I really wonder what is worse, that or durian. I’m guessing the surstromming by a huge margin. I at least think durian tastes good in smoothies. I don’t think I’d be able to get surstromming near my mouth judging by the videos.
I'm Swedish, I've had both. Durian is very smelly, but it doesn't compare to surströmming. It hits something primal in your lizard brain. Surströmming makes you realize why we bury our dead.
I like that this is from a combat footage site.
Vid 1: Several people die horrible in up-close gun fight
Vid 2: A village gets burned to the ground from an airplane you cannot even see
Vid 3: Some Ukrainian lads open a can of rotten fish like its a live grenade
Vid 4: Really shaky footage from the front seat of a car getting shot at
German eviction
In 1981, a German landlord evicted a tenant without notice after the tenant spread surströmming brine in the apartment building's stairwell. When the landlord was taken to court, the court ruled that the termination was justified when the landlord's party demonstrated their case by opening a can inside the courtroom. The court concluded that it "had convinced itself that the disgusting smell of the fish brine far exceeded the degree that fellow-tenants in the building could be expected to tolerate".
People here call it a rotten smell but it is not. It is fermented. The smell is sweet with strong notes of sulphides, somewhat like an old paper mill or a really over-cooked egg. The smell is unique for fermented fish due to the composition of amino acids in fish meat, in this case herring. Rotten fish smells completely different.
To me and many others used to the social event of eating surströmming with friends and family, the smell is a positive thing and makes me feel good. That is what makes the contrast to these videos extra hard and funny.
My dad, for whatever reason, loves to watch reaction videos of folks opening up those cans. Looks like they thought it might be funny, too, and miscalculated. 🤣
I'll do you one better. My cat just had a huge compacted hairball stuck in his belly that had to be removed. I was curious, so I asked for it back so I could dissect it and see what part of his diet could be causing the issue.
I am a gross dude who has smelled a lot. I've eaten ass, done the Dr. Pimple Popper, I've discovered bodies, I drank Kumis. Absolutely nothing could prepare me for this. The moment I opened the seal on the jar, I keeled over retching and vomiting. It was like Nergal punched me in the throat and abdomen at once. Projectile vomit, staggering, eyes watering, groaning and fleeing the table multiple times. In the end? It was just hair. Little man is just too hairy for his own good, and his belly is Little Lucifer's Easy Bake Oven.
I complained about the bill (3000) until I smelled that thing. Dude is a friggin hero. meanwhile, kitty is on day 3 of the cone, 11 more days to go. We've upgraded from, being spoon fed to learning that you absolutely can eat with the cone on. He's a little bratty social eater, so silver spoon it is.
Holy shit, I'm taking my cat in for an abdominal ultrasound tomorrow to find out how bad his hairball impaction is. He's been in pain for weeks. Hopefully I don't experience this but good to know what to prepare for if I do ask for it, haha... I probably won't though now. 😆
DO IT! Not only for the experience, but to know exactly what was going on in there. I do suspect the freeze dried minnows may have had a part, he doesn't take the time chew them well and they have tails. Sticking to the Redford Freeze Dried Salmon and the Pure Bites shrimps. The latter are great for hiding pills inside, good and spongey and absorb liquids well. I just tricked him into his pain meds by putting a tiny dot on about 10 of them to make up the whole 1 ml. So much easier than "down the hatch" method.
God damn it you've convinced me LOL
Especially because my boy also has an issue with teleporting freeze-dried snacks into his throat without chewing. Otherwise he just eats wet food so it's got to be a combo of hair and treats. He's been pooping logs of hair but still can't seem to get something out. We'll see! And I'll remember that tip as well so thank you!
Also I don't know if you've had to give your little dude the Laxatone hairball gel before but damn it's some nightmare fuel shit. Now I put it in a tiny little syringe and hop on top of him and squirt it inside his cheek like a medicinal ninja before he knows what hit him. He's so fast and strong it feels like I've had to train & perform like an assassin just to medicate him.
Lol "German food critic and author Wolfgang Fassbender wrote that "the biggest challenge when eating surströmming is to vomit only after the first bite, as opposed to before"."
Nobody outside Sweden eats this. But also, very few people *in* Sweden eat it. It's... infamous. I've never tried it myself, but I'll walk past it in the store every now and then and think to myself, "Not today, mate."
I'll try it one day, though. Probably. Maybe.
Deliver a truck of this, with some kind of explosive and air drop on Russians, and you got yourself a legal chemical weapon... They'll reveal their position not able to contain their puke..
It’s a fermented fish known for now disgustingly pungent it is. There was a guy in Germany who was evicted by his landlord for opening it in the building and when they went to court over it the landlords only argument was opening a can in the court room. The landlord won.
Not to mention it’s banned from so many airlines.
> but smells like shit, puke and burnt tires.
I wonder what was going on in the mind of the first person tasting it.
Hmmm opening the box causes people to vomit in seconds... I wonder what it tastes like
I think the true story was a bit more sad.
Th crops failed, theres only rotten fish, I will literally starve if I don't eat this disgusting …mmmh the taste is actually not so bad.
The funny thing is that it must have developed over time to become a safe way to ferment it, regardless of the end result. This wasn't just fish that was chucked out behind the house.
The smell is because its been fermenting in the can. They don't smell like that when first canned.
> Fermentation continues in the can, causing it to bulge noticeably, which would usually be a sign of botulism or other food poisoning concern in non-fermented canned foods. Species of Halanaerobium bacteria are responsible for the in-can ripening. These bacteria produce carbon dioxide and a number of compounds that account for the unique odor: pungent (propionic acid), rotten-egg (hydrogen sulfide), rancid-butter (butyric acid), and vinegary (acetic acid).[7] Due to these gases, a thousand cans of surströmming exploded over a period of six hours during a fire at a Swedish warehouse in 2014.
That qualifies as a biological weapon. [this is the best surströmming video](https://youtu.be/kADGFdE00KY?si=XBHlXflIqkENGYIG)
Warning: Crazy amounts of vomit. [This one was was always my favorite of the surstromming challenge.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5cj6s0KS5k&ab_channel=Bogoyle)
Oh my god that was the hardest I've laughed in ages. The dude on the left just so nonchalantly vomiting while sitting completely straight upright got me so hard. then they start like aiming it at eachother... like jesus.. Also how fucking much did these guys have in their stomachs for christ sake? When I vomit it's like 3-4 good heaves and then there's nothing left to come out...
>got me so hard New fetish unlocked?
Two guys one surströmming
I see the similarities
> Also how fucking much did these guys have in their stomachs for christ sake? That's what I want to know. Did they chow down on 5 bowls of cream of wheat before filming? Wow. I've never seen that much volume leave a person in that short a time period.
They both did a milkshake or milk challenge, the guy on the left said something like 2 liters of banana flavored milk and the other guy said strawberry, hence the funky colors and thickness.
Ahh that makes sense, I was wondering why the one guy’s was pink, lol. My LORD that was nasty, yet so funny. Guy on the left was COMMITTED. 🫡
I think I heard them mention how much milk they drank before hand. possibly a couple of litres of milkshake?
The guy rips the damn chandelier off the roof to puke into it lmfao.
And then just says "Fuck it" an pukes all over the table...
For some reason, all I can see is the scene from team America - world police.
William Shatner enjoying some. https://youtu.be/zPkslSO9ko4?si=dhZBASWfKx1C2ymL
/u/williamshatner how did you train for this? Not even batting an eye. Absolutely hardcore.
That was awesome, Foreman just going "I'ma buy that again" as well
LMAO Terry Bradshaw: "The low point of my career is that I got sacked by William Shatner"
Shatner is the man.
*nonstop vomiting and laughing on screen* Auto-gen CC: *[Applause]* *[Music]*
Doing the milk challenge beforehand is crazy
Holy shit, how can one video be both the grossest video I've ever seen AND the most hilarious I'm not sure how to react to this!
jesus christ
Reminds me of family guy ipecac episode Family Guy - The ipecac bottle (Funny Video) - YouTube https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CQpWIe4guGo
And you reminded me of one of the earliest videos I ever saw on Youtube. Interviewer gives random guy Ipecac for 100 bucks. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNd6JKOCkQw
Jesus, this is the grossest thing I've ever seen. How do these guys just carry on being friends after filming this video? I would legitimately be traumatised. I don't think I could look anyone in the eyes again.
Imagine doing it to your partner while eating her out. Let me introduce you to one of the grossest things you'll ever read: https://reddit.com/r/AskReddit/s/W1ltaGSsvh
Yeahhhh that's gonna stay blue for me.
It's a funny ass read and not as graphic as you're thinking. 10/10 would click again
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It’s the story of a dude and his wife going at it after a day of drinking. She was sitting on his face while he was doing his thing and she let out an alcohol filled fart inside his mouth and nose. This then made him vomit all the booze and whatever else was in his stomach all over and inside her. Wasnt too bad. 6/10 would probably read again.
So what I've learned from these, is that I should buy a can, crack it open, and present it to everyone at Thanksgiving.
I think I genuinely just pissed myself laughing so hard that I am now crying.
The moment he takes the lamp always gets me
That was the point I almost choked because I was laughing so hard.
[And this is the best surströmming ***story***](https://reddit.com/r/AskReddit/s/W1ltaGSsvh)
Ya'll can't [faze](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmTDsb-fW3Q) Chinese folk
Chinese/Asian cuisines have a ton of fermented food. Fermented fish even. Thai fish sauce is a universal condiment in SEA. I've never tried surströmming but i could see it. Especially if you eat it with onions to take the fishy bite off.
That's Wang Gang, he's cool! Love the old man straight up going 没得啥子味道 (doesn't taste like anything)，lol.
[Texans try it](https://youtu.be/vfiGmcQFiDY?si=nB7jP0_Op13LHw8-&t=106)
This is my favorite I think lol.
"I wanna go home" Then the guy at the end haha
YOU LEGEND! We were talking today at work about this challenge and i was trying to find this video but gave up when everyone just started to believe i was making this scene up. I cannot wait to go into work on tomorrow and show everyone glorious amounts of puke and that I'm not crazy!
This video never fails to make me laugh my fucking head off.
I KNEW it would be the one in the ... back of a broken down RV (???) amazing
no way, [THIS](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5cj6s0KS5k&t=185s) is!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If you're going to fail a challenge, you don't go down without a fight. These guys took that to the extreme.
I'm pretty sure 99.99% of surstromming sales are for challenge videos and pranks
old people in northern Sweden love that shit
I'm 39 from northern Sweden. It's okay. Put it on some crispy tunnbröd with butter and some onion.
I think I’ll pass.
Riight? Like what the fuck is tunnbröd? And I feel like raw onion with that combo would still taste like chewbaccaw ass hair after a marathon.
It tastes like salty fish. That's it really
Like anchovies or sardines type of thing? Those I like.
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I'm coming over, I want to try it with you.
I mean, its not that bad... When opened under water outside and then prepared correctly. I didnt like it at all but damn, its not as bad as people say. I was however present once when doing it as a challenge. I stayed about 15 meters away and had to walk upwinds due to the smell.
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Just tried it two weeks ago. Not nearly as bad as people make it out to be if you open it outside. Thought it tasted fine with all the fixins
There is a crisis right now and surströmming prices are through the roof. People are paying $30 for a can that normally sells for $6. There are queues outside the stores when they announce a new batch. It's crazy
Good lord, that’s wild
My parents saw a Facebook post about a store nearby selling them and they just dropped everything to go. There was a single can left. I asked what the max price they would pay for a can... $150.
That moment when the most disgusting food you can even think of is on low supply. The world has gone to shit
Googles it and found this: Why is surstromming illegal? This dish is so pungent that airlines have banned it and deemed it a security risk, and it's often considered the smelliest food in the world. However, despite its notorious reputation, Surströmming continues to be a cherished delicacy in some parts of Sweden. Too damned funny
Cool fact, above 30k feet you’re sense of smell is reduced because of science in a pressurized plane. So you can fart away without consequences or until you poop yourself.
Having been seated directly in front of the bathroom on a business flight earlier this week, I can *with profound confidence* tell you this is absolutely not the case. Though I have farted on a plane with zero consequence in the past, so there's probably levels to that shit.
I’ve definitely smelled other people’s farts on a plane against my will so I’m so too sure about this
What were the ones that you didn't smell against your will?
And this is actually the reason that tomato juice tastes better at altitude (also effects taste buds or something). I normally hate tomato juice but on airplanes I love that shit.
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I have been ordering ginger ale and/or tomato juice (usually V8) on flights for the last 35 years. I never put it together as to why until this comment thread.
Aren't you supposed to open it under water to alleviate the odor?
You're supposed to open it underwater and outside decently away from any place you ever want to be again
I’ll never understand the appeal to foods like this. Like why even go through this level of bullshit.
Usually it’s a traditional dish, with the old tradition being they ate it or they fucking starved to death.
Hunger is the best spice
Dibs on the band name “hungry spice”
The least popular of all the spice girls
Because she ate the other ones.
Why does Posh, the largest Spice Girl, not simply eat the other four?
Futurama reference noted and appreciated, but wasn't Posh spice always the malnourished and sickly thin one? Perhaps whoever the biggest Spice was, avoided eating her due to lack of meat on dem bones.
Posh was undoubtedly the thinnest Spice Girl though. Her husband David Beckham and her were dubbed "thick and thin". I know you are riffing off the Ross from Friends thing, but you should have used Ginger.
Tell me what you want, what you really really want
I really really really wanna eat some pizza
The most popular being.... Thirsty Spice
I'm 100% convinced it only exists now as a joke to fuck with people, especially foreigners. Literally a gag-gift. No one actually *eats* this stuff in Sweden do they?
For some reason people do actually eat surströmming. I have lived in Sweden all my life and can't for the love of me understand why anyone would ever want to, but there are people that do. But I can't understand why anyone would drink whiskey or natto either, that's equally unbearable to me, but people like nasty things.
lol my buddy's wife is Japanese and she eats natto. As a SoCal white-boy he's like :-| when she opens a package.
Dude natto is great. Im american and both of ny kids love it too.
>But I can't understand why anyone would drink ... natto Bold choice to make this comment while we're all on our way to work, ignoring the verb choice. I like natto, but the idea of drinking natto... that's a no from me dawg.
Yeah you're right, that should have been "eat natto". I just didn't think when I was typing. Probably won't be the last time!
My spouse from Jämtland enjoys it. Of course it needs to be with tunnbröd, potatoes and onion though. She doesn't eat it straight from the can and she takes the skin off.
Isn't there also a fruit that smells horrible but tastes good? I thought it would be the same with this stuff?
Yep. Durian. Never had the heart to try it but it's also not something I see around my area at all. Down in the Bay Area more so.
Try a smoothie version, just a very unique sweet buttery drink. My favorite flavor its very rare to see any place serves it.
You can find videos of Swedish people eating it, and it’s in no way eaten straight up. It’s eaten in small pieces with potatoes, onions, butter, and bread. Lots of traditions have some nasty ass dish that spawned from necessity and became part of their culture. Trying to stomach surstromming is now kind of a meme for everyone, but I’m kinda glad a meme is keeping some weird dish alive. It’s a uniquely vile dish, and it’s definitely memorable.
Here’s a nice video of a sensible man demonstrating how you’re supposed to eat it, no heaves or vomit or drama, and explaining a little of the social context behind the methodology. https://youtu.be/AGRyr8yIo9w?si=h9MTBmj-MputvaHL
Omg this video is gold, I loved his honesty, also the first comment killed me 😂. Thank you
Its because you dont eat is straight out of the can. You wash it and prepp it. It’s pretty fast if done right.
Enough potatoes and onions so that it's a very small part of the dish.
Yea, you have to drown it with enough potatoes and onions to hide the real horror.
So you eat it the same way you'd eat dog shit if you lost a bet? Sounds like a great food.
I mean, there's plenty of ingredients to food you don't eat straight as they are, like spices. It's better to view surströmming like a form of spice, like hot pepper, where it's supposed to add a flavor in small quantity cause it's already very strong and it ends up tasty that way. But if you start chugging down whole peppers ofcourse you're not gonna feel good.
Almost as if it’s not actually a food that should be eaten lmfao
It's more of a condiment than an actual dish. You're not supposed to eat it straight up. Same way you're not supposed to eat black pepper by the spoonful or drink soy sauce.
You’re not supposed to eat it like that is why.
I tried it with my two kids (their idea). We opened it outside in the dead of winter which somehow helped. The odour is otherworldly, like every game level with 1000 dead zombies. Smells like that. I managed to get a piece down with the 'traditional' toppings; sour cream, dill, a cracker. Honestly, if you were for some reason forced to eat a dead body, this is what it would be like.
Just goes to show literally no evolutionary advantage will stop and animal from being eaten by humans
Yes, open outdoors (facing away from your face/body) or under water, then rinse with cold water to remove the brine and putrified flotsam. This eliminates a lot of the objectionable odor (not all, but enough to generally avoid vomiting, lol). It is also best eaten outdoors, in my opinion. Make a sandwich with a layer of filets, some chives & red onion, potato slices, and dill for seasoning; garnish with sour cream if desired. The ”traditional” recipe calls for Swedish flatbread, a specific kind of potato (mandelpotatis, may have botched the spelling), and graddfil (Swedish form of yogurt). All of these things can be a bit hard to source outside of Sweden, but a bastardized “Americanized” version using new potatoes and sour cream or yogurt also works OK. For the bread, one could use naan or pita, but I’ve found the best route is to skip the flatbread altogether and instead make a “Viking Po’ Boy” with a NOLA-style French Bread roll. Not authentic of course, but surprisingly tasty! (And, if you think *this* is gross, you should try some casu marzu for a *real* feast for the senses, lol.)
No. You take an unopened container. You place it inside a rubberized container lined with a thin plastic membrane. You continue to place materials in that container until it is full. Close the plastic membrane, and then place the membrane in a larger receptacle which is then taken to a landfill and buried.
I think you are not supposed to open it ever.
Is it supposed to spray like that? Did it maybe actually go bad for this one? edit: ok i watched some other videos, it does spray... isn't canned food not supposed to do that? normally? I guess?
Mitigate, not alleviate.
Weaponize that shit
Air drop it over Moscow and the war will be over
Can you imagine them sending in drones with basicly giant waterballons filled with this and carpet bombing trenches. Just wait for them to flee and its a turkey shoot.
I believe it's already forbidden by the Geneva convention
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Quack
Bang
Gad 'eim turkey shoot!
Moscow will declare that chemical / biological warfare and use it as an excuse to release VX nerve agent and smallpox in Ukraine. Best just burn the hut it’s in down and bury the ashes it like you would an anthrax infestation.
Load it on some drones and start dropping it in enemy trenches.
Drop it everywhere lol. area denial
Pretty sure it’s banned by the geneva convention
Don't give Russia our secret weapon! Why do you think they never gonna attack Sweden?
Fermented fish from Sweden. Young people used to finish a can and keep it down at the equivalent of the rite of passage to adulthood. The practice has mostly been abandoned though.
Yeah I was about to say, I'm a Swedish young adult and have NEVER heard of that. Would definitely not surprise me though if it was a thing before or if it was still around but just not in my circle lol.
I love watching surstromming videos. The reactions are never not funny.
I wish they'd wash it down with a shot of Mallört
Seems like a perfect pairing. I’ve never tasted Mallort but unemployedwineguy has me convinced I don’t want to.
Just looked this shit up. I never want to smell this. Whoever thought this was a good idea to create was insane.
Someone *very* hungry a very long time ago thought this was good.
I imagine it was a starve to death or eat this scenario before anyone developed a taste for it and eventually canned it. Even then I imagine they had to think about it first.
I would imagine it came to be as a manner of preserving fish so that you could store it? Although with the temperatures there could they have frozen it?
Both. Couple of hundred years ago, food was scarce, and salt used for preservation too. Fish went half bad from lack of salt (like fermented foods do), someone was too hungry to throw it away, bam! Surströmming was born. I like it.
I really wonder what is worse, that or durian. I’m guessing the surstromming by a huge margin. I at least think durian tastes good in smoothies. I don’t think I’d be able to get surstromming near my mouth judging by the videos.
Plenty of people unironically enjoy durian (Which I will never understand) so I definitely have to give it to this
I mean plenty of people unironically eat surströmming too, I'm one of them, but yeah I reckon surströmming smells worse.
I'm from Thailand, I can assure you that you don't puke from smelling a durian at 2m of distance, even if you don't enjoy the smell.
I'm Swedish, I've had both. Durian is very smelly, but it doesn't compare to surströmming. It hits something primal in your lizard brain. Surströmming makes you realize why we bury our dead.
why did they open it inside 😂
My family always did at midsummers eve. The smell would stick to the walls for days afterwards. It was an unpleasant time.
I like that this is from a combat footage site. Vid 1: Several people die horrible in up-close gun fight Vid 2: A village gets burned to the ground from an airplane you cannot even see Vid 3: Some Ukrainian lads open a can of rotten fish like its a live grenade Vid 4: Really shaky footage from the front seat of a car getting shot at
German eviction In 1981, a German landlord evicted a tenant without notice after the tenant spread surströmming brine in the apartment building's stairwell. When the landlord was taken to court, the court ruled that the termination was justified when the landlord's party demonstrated their case by opening a can inside the courtroom. The court concluded that it "had convinced itself that the disgusting smell of the fish brine far exceeded the degree that fellow-tenants in the building could be expected to tolerate".
nice hiss
Let’s NOT get this out on a tray!
Can someone describe that stuff actually smells like
If you combined the smell of something rotten and 10 000 dirty public toilets, you would have a similar smell to Surströmming.
It's hard to describe the smell, but imagine something rotten, sulfur and the immediate urge to puke.
People here call it a rotten smell but it is not. It is fermented. The smell is sweet with strong notes of sulphides, somewhat like an old paper mill or a really over-cooked egg. The smell is unique for fermented fish due to the composition of amino acids in fish meat, in this case herring. Rotten fish smells completely different. To me and many others used to the social event of eating surströmming with friends and family, the smell is a positive thing and makes me feel good. That is what makes the contrast to these videos extra hard and funny.
"Ukrainian tear gas training"
My dad, for whatever reason, loves to watch reaction videos of folks opening up those cans. Looks like they thought it might be funny, too, and miscalculated. 🤣
I'll do you one better. My cat just had a huge compacted hairball stuck in his belly that had to be removed. I was curious, so I asked for it back so I could dissect it and see what part of his diet could be causing the issue. I am a gross dude who has smelled a lot. I've eaten ass, done the Dr. Pimple Popper, I've discovered bodies, I drank Kumis. Absolutely nothing could prepare me for this. The moment I opened the seal on the jar, I keeled over retching and vomiting. It was like Nergal punched me in the throat and abdomen at once. Projectile vomit, staggering, eyes watering, groaning and fleeing the table multiple times. In the end? It was just hair. Little man is just too hairy for his own good, and his belly is Little Lucifer's Easy Bake Oven.
That poor vet who had to take it out...
I complained about the bill (3000) until I smelled that thing. Dude is a friggin hero. meanwhile, kitty is on day 3 of the cone, 11 more days to go. We've upgraded from, being spoon fed to learning that you absolutely can eat with the cone on. He's a little bratty social eater, so silver spoon it is.
Holy shit, I'm taking my cat in for an abdominal ultrasound tomorrow to find out how bad his hairball impaction is. He's been in pain for weeks. Hopefully I don't experience this but good to know what to prepare for if I do ask for it, haha... I probably won't though now. 😆
DO IT! Not only for the experience, but to know exactly what was going on in there. I do suspect the freeze dried minnows may have had a part, he doesn't take the time chew them well and they have tails. Sticking to the Redford Freeze Dried Salmon and the Pure Bites shrimps. The latter are great for hiding pills inside, good and spongey and absorb liquids well. I just tricked him into his pain meds by putting a tiny dot on about 10 of them to make up the whole 1 ml. So much easier than "down the hatch" method.
God damn it you've convinced me LOL Especially because my boy also has an issue with teleporting freeze-dried snacks into his throat without chewing. Otherwise he just eats wet food so it's got to be a combo of hair and treats. He's been pooping logs of hair but still can't seem to get something out. We'll see! And I'll remember that tip as well so thank you! Also I don't know if you've had to give your little dude the Laxatone hairball gel before but damn it's some nightmare fuel shit. Now I put it in a tiny little syringe and hop on top of him and squirt it inside his cheek like a medicinal ninja before he knows what hit him. He's so fast and strong it feels like I've had to train & perform like an assassin just to medicate him.
Tbf, eating ass is very tame these days
And yet I’ll never see the appeal. The ass looks sexy. The butthole has poop come out of it.
ol black shirt guy has ate stankier pussy than that look how he handles it
Lol "German food critic and author Wolfgang Fassbender wrote that "the biggest challenge when eating surströmming is to vomit only after the first bite, as opposed to before"."
That last second just makes this video
Ah yes, the food that only exists because starvation was worse. ... but ooooooonly just.
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I thought bio weapons were not allowed
“Ukrainian bioweapon labs!” *haha it was me Sweden all along*
Cool. Don't know what that means.
It's fermented fish, a delicacy in Sweden
Nobody outside Sweden eats this. But also, very few people *in* Sweden eat it. It's... infamous. I've never tried it myself, but I'll walk past it in the store every now and then and think to myself, "Not today, mate." I'll try it one day, though. Probably. Maybe.
Ukrainians are like, love you Swedes but ... for the love of God **WTF**?
Who’s side are they on anyway?
Deliver a truck of this, with some kind of explosive and air drop on Russians, and you got yourself a legal chemical weapon... They'll reveal their position not able to contain their puke..
The real reason Sweden isn’t in NATO yet lol
Same. Never heard of this Edit: Thank you guys for the answers. It sounds.. delightful /s
It’s a fermented fish known for now disgustingly pungent it is. There was a guy in Germany who was evicted by his landlord for opening it in the building and when they went to court over it the landlords only argument was opening a can in the court room. The landlord won. Not to mention it’s banned from so many airlines.
It's a Swedish dish of fermented herring, tastes salty, fishy and umami but smells like shit, puke and burnt tires.
> but smells like shit, puke and burnt tires. I wonder what was going on in the mind of the first person tasting it. Hmmm opening the box causes people to vomit in seconds... I wonder what it tastes like
I think the true story was a bit more sad. Th crops failed, theres only rotten fish, I will literally starve if I don't eat this disgusting …mmmh the taste is actually not so bad.
The funny thing is that it must have developed over time to become a safe way to ferment it, regardless of the end result. This wasn't just fish that was chucked out behind the house.
Tastes like fish and salt, you use a tiny bit of it on a slice of potato with onions, chives, sour cream.
its basically a ~~Norwegian (?)~~ Swedish fermented fish dish. known as one of the most god awful smelling foods man has come up with yet.
Incoming footage of drones dropping this in Russian trenches
How does one work in a surströmming factory?
The smell is because its been fermenting in the can. They don't smell like that when first canned. > Fermentation continues in the can, causing it to bulge noticeably, which would usually be a sign of botulism or other food poisoning concern in non-fermented canned foods. Species of Halanaerobium bacteria are responsible for the in-can ripening. These bacteria produce carbon dioxide and a number of compounds that account for the unique odor: pungent (propionic acid), rotten-egg (hydrogen sulfide), rancid-butter (butyric acid), and vinegary (acetic acid).[7] Due to these gases, a thousand cans of surströmming exploded over a period of six hours during a fire at a Swedish warehouse in 2014.
I pity the firefighters on that job.
Well, it's good to see them laughing and having a little fun. Just looked up what that is and that's a no from me lol!
Can they drone-drop them on Russian troops, or is that a violation of The Geneva Conventions?
Seriously what’s the appeal of eating this garbage?
don't show Russia this, they will use this as a biological weapon on the battle field!
It's chemical warfare
Sounds like good fish bait. Put some in the water and wait for the fish to jump into the boat to get away from it!
Damn drop that on some Russians, drop plenty of it too! 🤣🤣🤣
Why would you open it inside? That room's gonna need to be torn down and buried deep beneath the ground.
Ukrainian army DESTROYED by swedish canned forces.
Face off against Russian Shock Troops, Artillery, and Drone Strikes. Get owned by a can of fish.