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01-12-2012, 10:18 PM

The world's smelliest fish

..would you eat it?



Norway's five million people enjoy one of the highest standards of living, not just in Europe, but in the world. Could the secret of the country's success be connected to the local appetite for some exceedingly smelly fish?

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.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-20543802

I think I'd like to try it
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02-12-2012, 01:42 AM
Originally Posted by Azz View Post
..would you eat it?





http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-20543802

I think I'd like to try it
Not raw
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02-12-2012, 07:37 AM
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..would you eat it?



Maybe if I was starving...

But then again
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02-12-2012, 03:20 PM
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..would you eat it?

Not a hope in hell! Nothing that smelly is ever getting inside this house.
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02-12-2012, 05:26 PM
Lol, it would definitely be a challenge - but I'm willing to give (almost!) anything a go if it's meant to be good for you
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02-12-2012, 08:39 PM
Nope would not happen, I can not even be in the house when the OH is eating a sardine sandwich!

Now I do think my OH would tuck right in as he loves all fish (the smellier the better!) hahaha
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03-12-2012, 06:53 PM
Nope! couldn't go anywhere near it! I hate the smell of fish! There was a fish on 'An Idiot Abroad' in Japan that had been fermented for like 5 years, it looked awful!
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03-12-2012, 10:05 PM
Yuk no thanks
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04-12-2012, 01:59 PM
Reminds me of loooooooooog ago student days.. A girl who had fallen out with an unfaithful boyfriend moved out of his flat and left a piece of fish inside the hollow curtain rail.
Old saying.. fish and guests smell after three days
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