Thread: Swedish Fish

Originally Posted by Baxxer

Or surströmming which is even more notorious.

Sort of ..... ..... but not really considering the Swedish fish angle ...... but surströmming is a new one on me .........

Surströmming - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Originally Posted by rolodave

Lutefisk

Cod soaked in lye. You would see it in the stores around the holidays. Looked like a big, dead, decaying hunk of yuck. People who admit eating Lutefisk say it is OK if smothered in butter or something else to kill the taste.

I never tried it and won't.

Dave

They also have the notorious surstromming, a herring. They remove just enough of its stomach/intestinal tract is removed to stop outright rotting, but enough remains to allow fermentation. It is canned, and the can bulges with the gases, etc, released during fermentation.

It is banned from being eaten inside in many places, so traditionally it is eaten outdoors, just as well as it reportedly has one of the most putrid smells known in a foodstuff.

Below: a well expanded can of rotten baltic herring:-



I never tried that - and I won't!

Regards,
Neil

Originally Posted by Neil Miller

They also have the notorious surstromming, a herring. They remove just enough of its stomach/intestinal tract is removed to stop outright rotting, but enough remains to allow fermentation. It is canned, and the can bulges with the gases, etc, released during fermentation.

It is banned from being eaten inside in many places, so traditionally it is eaten outdoors, just as well as it reportedly has one of the most putrid smells known in a foodstuff.

Below: a well expanded can of rotten baltic herring:-



I never tried that - and I won't!

Regards,
Neil

Neil let me know your adress and i will send you some of that viking food.

surstromming

This sounds worse than the Italian cheese riddled with worms.

I had to read this just before dinner. Hope it is not fish or mac and cheese.

Dave

Well, it arrived already. Somewhere between 11/16 and 6/8, and the corrosion is a lot less bad than it looked on the picture online. It's too late today for me to get a decent picture, so all I've got is the blinding glare of the flash. It'll be an easy clean up. I'll take after pictures in natural light. Figure setting the bevel will nearly remove the rust itself, and just a little bit of sanding and autosol on the rest of the razor (I have lower restoration standards than most).

A bit shorter than I expected, I think it might be a quarter inch shorter than my daily shaver. Kind of an unassuming looking razor up close.



Again, apologies for the picture quality, in the glare you can make out the troubles at the front and see that they're minor troubles.

Originally Posted by MrMagnus

Neil let me know your adress and i will send you some of that viking food.

Magnus - I'm not liking that viking herring... besides, I have moved...