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Location: South Wales, UK
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01-12-2012, 10:18 PM
The world's smelliest fish
..would you eat it?
Take a selection of over-ripe cheeses. Place them in the midst of a pile of dirty, wet soccer kit. Leave for a week. Now you have the nose-numbing smell of rakfisk, one of the great Norwegian delicacies.
I am in the small town of Fagernes, about three hours from Oslo. There is snow, spectacular scenery - and that odour, ever present, hangs in the air.
Rakfisk is trout sprinkled with salt and fermented in water for - depending on how smelly you like your fish - up to a year.
As the dark sets in and the weather turns cold, Norwegians flock to a festival here in Fagernes devoted to this most, well, captivating of foods.
"You eat it raw, and then swallow a glass of aquavit," says Havard Halvarsen, full-time local firefighter but also the so-called "Rakfisk General", in charge of running the festival.
I think I'd like to try it
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02-12-2012, 01:42 AM
Originally Posted by Azz 
..would you eat it?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-20543802
I think I'd like to try it
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Location: Cheshire, UK
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02-12-2012, 03:20 PM
Originally Posted by Azz
..would you eat it?
Not a hope in hell! Nothing that smelly is ever getting inside this house.
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03-12-2012, 06:53 PM
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04-12-2012, 01:59 PM
Old saying.. fish and guests smell after three days
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