Surströmming is made from Baltic sea herring, which is fermented in a weak brine for at least six months. It’s lightly salted in the can to prevent it from rotting.

Fish caught off the Gulf of Bothnia coast are packed into a barrel with salty brine, ... Sweden, to eat fermented fish known as Surströmming. WSJ's John Stoll tries out the notoriously smelly fish.

More than a decade ago, NPR's Ari Shapiro attempted to eat a fermented Swedish herring called surströmming, one of the most pungent foods in the world.It did not go well. Twelve years later, on a ...

There's spectacle: opening each can is fraught with danger. Self-discovery: can you stomach this slimy, stinky fish? And all that snaps and singing too. Surströmming parties beat crayfish ones hands ...

Swedish fermented fish dish, surstromming, much more than just a ‘dare food’ The various YouTube videos on the subject, almost all of them hailing from the U.S. Chris Dagenais Oct 18, 2019 1:27 PM ...

A Swedish man participating in a contest organized by the Disgusting Food Museum ate 13.85 ounces of fermented fish in one minute, earning him a Guinness World Record.

The fermented fish erupted in northern Sweden during a salt shortage in the 16 th century. With harsh yearly winters, fermenting fish was a preservation technique that proved crucial for survival ...

At summer's end, more than a thousand locals gather in Alfa, Sweden, to eat fermented fish known as Surströmming. WSJ's John Stoll tries out the notoriously smelly fish.

Sweden's national dish is an acquired taste, to say the least. Some say surstromming, a fermented herring, smells like rubbish left out in the sun for days. But now the fish has been banned from ...

Roman salting plants processed fish so thoroughly that researchers struggle to identify the species once used in ancient ...

A Swedish man participating in a contest organized by the Disgusting Food Museum ate 13.85 ounces of fermented fish in one minute, earning him a Guinness World Record.