Seriously. Is the smell that bad? Funny how it is regarded as a delicacy.
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Yes, it's horrible. Part of the process of making it is burying it underground for six months.
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I'm not sure where you got that information, but surströmming isn't made by burying it underground at all. It is however fermented in barrels for 1-2 months after which the fermentation is let to continue in tin plated sheet metal cans making the total fermentation process take from 6 months to a year.
I wonder if you mistook it for Hákarl, an Icelandic delicacy that is made from the Greenland shark (Somniosus microcephalus) by first removing its head and intestines and burying the corpse in a gravel pit on a gently sloping hill with rocks on top to squeeze the excess liquids out. Its fermentation takes from six to 12 weeks depending on the season. (In case you were wondering, I freely paraphrased these from the Finnish Wikipedia article.)
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I did not mistake surströmming for something made from shark but I probably did confuse the details of the fermentation processes of the two delicacies. :)
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Both of these fermenting fish dishes sound totally disgusting.I only mentioned surströmming because I saw a programme on it . The can was swollen as the fermenting gasses expanded.
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Yeah, that's microbiology and physics for you. :D
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