General DiscussionSurströmming

I have no idea what that is.

I opened it in the house before I went to Denmark to grab booze, and the house still fucking stinks holy mother of Christ.

i think its some kind of canned fish

Is it decent? Do you cook it or n?

i remember ate same kind of canned fish its good with some salad or greek raki drink u dont cook it

Is it worse than Lutefisk or Hákarl?

Sounds like tuna. I'd probably eat it with crackers and cheese or on a sandwich or something.

wikipasta

Just enough salt is used to prevent the raw fish from rotting (chemical decomposition). A fermentation process (which converts sugar to acids, gases, and alcohol) of at least six months gives the lightly-salted fish its characteristic strong smell and somewhat acidulous taste.

When opened, the contents release a strong and sometimes overwhelming odour; the dish is ordinarily eaten outdoors. According to a Japanese study, a newly opened can of surströmming has one of the most putrid food smells in the world, even more so than similarly fermented fish dishes such as the Korean Hongeohoe or Japanese Kusaya.[1]

Its pure rotten ass fish, smells so fucking foul!

So it's like sardines? Again, with crackers... probably cheese.

There are videos in youtube of people's reactions to opening a can of surtrömming and trying some.

Makes me happy to live in the land of dota2 eternal scrubyness and paradise of food. Fuck it Hákarl.

check raggmunk or something
swedes say ligonberries go with anything its like ketchup LMFAO

some people used to "prepare" food by burying it

hahaahhhh hahahaaha sorry but ahhahahaaahahaahahahahha

well apparently

" You open it under water in a bucket, to stop the gases from aerosolising in the air, and then take it out and get rid of the juices the fish is swimming in. Eat on crisp bread with some red onions, potatoes, and sour cream. It's quite tasty."

Informative but I doubt I'll be ordering it aha.

sounds delicious

why would you do that?

i know people who love this food, but im not one of them.

I think this kind of foods come from a time when food was both scarce and pretty shitty to begin with. Preservation processess make something edible last longer, so they used that, but we all know that preserved food is 90% of the time shittier than the fresh stuff.

So, when you take already crappy food and preserve it...

It's a delicacy. Like haggis.

omg i saw the SURSTRÖMMING in youtube :D. Laughed so hard thx havoc, sad no one recorded you :)

standard food here in sweden

This just made my day haha :D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vEl6Ey8Gdc

^hhaha, the dog aint want that shit

I'm sorry Havoc. Hope this didn't influence you.

http://www.dotabuff.com/topics/2014-10-31-swedes?page=1

You sound like a smart guy. I thought you would at least Google it before you bought a can.

my sister just moved from San Francisco to Copenhagen and she loves it but did say the food sucks in comparison. The only thing she said that's above average are the bakeries. Even the beer market is completely dominated by carlsberg (which I like but hey)

Sutrömming is fucking awesome (blixte gott köp det och ät det i bilen ni kommer älska det) buy it for the drive throu.

Havoc please , you are suposed to open it in like a pan filled with water. else it will stink as ****.
tastes really good tho ! gl next :)

SMELLS LIKE HAVOC'S ASS CRACKS O.o

how would you know

VACation REPORT PLS