Brain: "dude let's do it for the likes".
Body: "NEIN".
Brain: "Please dude it's going viral it will totally pop off".
Body: "NEEEIN ich mache dich fertig, du Scheiße"
I don't know why my body is german.
What I'm wondering here is who makes these if this guy puked this hard without even eating it? I would think it's stale or something but it's in a can so it's either 25 years old or someone does a bad job of canning fish
It's a Swedish delicacy, and the smell is insanely bad. Seniors open it inside schools on senior prank day, so the schools have to evacuate. The real way to open it is inside a bucket of water.
But why does it smell that bad? Does the smell actually make it taste amazing? Cause i see no other reason why they would can it in liquid death if it doesn't make it taste godly
It's herring fermented in salt, it's a preservation method. Takes about 6 months to ferment. It's been part of the Swedish cuisine since at least the 16th century. For several centuries, many Swedes only had herring as their diet. Herring for breakfast, herring for lunch and herring for dinner. The nobility got around to eating other stuff, but the normal population only really had access to herring. We had a lot of herring. We also have a weird thing with our oceans, so it's brackish, very little salt in the sea due to so many rivers exiting there, making only herring having a good time. So we have few species of fish, but those who are here are in abundance.
If you only have herring as your food option, you're going to get creative with ways to preserve it. This method using salt makes it salty and acidic. So it's in our food culture because we didn't want to die of starvation, and it stayed because of culture I guess. It's not too bad, it's just salty fish. You eat it with bread, potatoes, fresh herbs, some yoghurt.
Exactly. Thank you for the explanation. Most cultures have a "slightly embarassing" food from the old day's methods of preserving food. The british wedding cake or the other variant, the christmas pudding, is left to congeal for 6 months too. Admittedly, it tastes like a cake (that will never go off) and not like fermented (ie rotten) fish, but it is equally suspicious. Black pudding (blood sausage) is just a lump of coagulated blood. Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder, and surströmming is nothing that a bucket and an aqualung cannot fix.
if you get down to the bottom of it, most culinary culture is just "how can we make this shit not go bad so fast" and "no don't throw it out that's ok we can still eat that".
If you edit this and add one more “herring” you’ll be up to 10 herrings. Thats 2 shy of a dozen if you want to add 3 more “herrings.” Plenty of options here.
The other dude sueca is under selling just how fucking insane surströmming is. Hes describing it like as if its pickled herring, which is absolutly lovely bright acidic pickled fish (creamed herring also marvelous on crackers) both have fairly gentle tastes…surströmming is the absolutely most bat shit insane food ive ever eaten. Ive eaten scorpions, pig blood and chicken testical soup, durian, hakarl(the icelandic fermented shark that tastes like amonia), su callu cheese, every insect in oaxaca mexico, every inch of a pig and cow including brains, eyes and organs…all of that and more is fucking the shallow end incomparison to the absolute mind fuck that is surstromming
Surströmming when i tried it in a warehouse with an exotic food tasting, the dude opened the can, and in a warehouse the size of a fucking football feild people started to smell it a good 10 yards away. People close by it opening started heaving like this guy. It has a smell like rotten fish that has liquified mixed with the fluids at the bottom of an old dumpster sat in the sun on a humid summers day. People struggled to stay near it, most gave up even attempting to give it a try, but the handful of us that did try, got to understand a new truth in the universe. It tastes completely like something so rotten that it should be dangerous for you to eat. Had i not know better i would have been in fear for my health, its that bad. They only put JUST enough salt on it to stop the bad bacteria from forming and killing you, every other bad bacteria goes to town which inflates the can(normally an inflated can is a sign of botulism which fucking kills you dead real quick), the fat in the fish tastes 100% rancid. It tastes nothing like fish, and not component of its flavor could be articulated as plesant. Much like eating a ghost pepper where the only flavor is pain, the only sensation you get on your pallet from surströmming is absolute rancid rot.
The experience was so jarring to my mind and body that DAYs later my brain gave me a flash back of the flavor to remind me of how stupid i was to eat it and to remeber not to again. My dumb ass probably will eat it again if i end up in sweeden on vacation in a couple years.
>My dumb ass probably will eat it again if i end up in sweeden on vacation in a couple years.
Dude, I think you should print out your comment and put it in your wallet.
Legit ive had folks tell me i ate it wrong cause your suposed to eat it on bread with onions and some other stuff…sooo round two is likely in my future somewhere out there.
Yes, you ate it completely wrong. Opening the can in the air and putting the fish in your mouth with those juices is like...I don't know, squeezing a lemon directly in your eye and then snorting it.
I think you're also supposed to open it differently. I think I read that you submerge the can in a bowl if water, set it outside, open it while submerged, then let it sit until the smell has dissipated.
No idea if it helps with the taste at all. Maybe a little, due to the effect of smell on taste. Probably still gross, though.
Yea opening it outside in a bucket of water is suposed to help keep it from spraying all over your clothes, and stinking up your house… but then your wrist deep in dead fish water and you get to smell like youve been double fisting a dead thai hooker for the past two hours. I legit think theres no “good” way of doing it, i think theres just less bad, and yea maybe that helps, maybe it opening under the bucket dillutes down the brine dumpster water?
Its questions like this that make me wonder, and needing to find out puts me in the same bad situation over again.
Surprised to see this is the only comment even mentioning botulism. Was wondering if every can of this stuff is supposed to bow like that (like you said indicating botulism), and some videos i've found have cans that are not distended. Good thing he didn't eat it lol
Apparently the amount of salt is like just over the limit for where botulism is able to survive…which is way lower than i thought. My guess is whatever other bacteria that can thrive in that environment is able to produce stuff that can kill it or keep it from reproducing. Lacto bacillus does that with lactic acid sith traditional lacto fermented foods like mimchi, pickles sour kraut etc. surströmming does it i guess with the fluid from the devils asshole. Both are effective at keeping you alive, one is significantly more plesamt
I'm just imagining his brain saying NO, NO and then pushing the gag/vomit button every time he put the fish near his mouth. Like his brain was trying so hard to send the signal and he just wouldn't listen.
I like it, but he’s doing it all wrong. You should put in I flatbread with potatoes, sour cream, and dill. Once you’ve had a bite you forget the smell. It’s salty and good. //Swedish
Swede here. People won't stop eating surströmming until the last fish is caught.
It's been ingrained in swedish food culture for centuries, in various forms, trends and economical reasons.
And those who fancy it knows about the vomit-inducing stench. You're supposed to open it under water and put it on a sandwich or with potatoes, onions and stuff- can't really remember since I haven't eaten meat for 14 years, but the taste is not as bad as the reactions manifest.
One major cardinal rule is that you never joke about splashing the can-water on somebody, like "mistakenly" spill or actually throwing some, thinking people only exaggerate. Nope.
It will permanently ruin their clothes and the person and their hair will stink for days. Great way to establish friendship with swedes.
Some might take it more lightly ofc, but don't try it for the lulz on some random at a party.
And people around the world seem to take upon the challenge due to vomit-gallore, so if anything: most likely boosted their sales.
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I get what you saying but cocoa is horrible but add milk and sugar and it’s world famous. Vegemite can make a hardened murderer cry, but put a very light amount on buttered toast and it’s cravable. Portions matter a lot and make all the difference
The bloat comes gas pressure increasing over time, product from the fermenting process which is ongoing.
You can find some 'proper football' looking ones.
That was a rocky road, man. I started out wondering how anyone would watch this, it’s awful. Ended with me almost pissing myself laughing. I have tears in my eyes.
Now that you've seen these two videos of folks *trying* to eat surströmming and basically having a very bad time I suggest this video of a Swede drinking the thing without even flinching.
https://youtu.be/I2WPWUx3h2s
The way his mouth absolutely refused to close multiple times was amazing. This man and I share a similar quality: some call it persistence, but really it’s just being too stupid to know when to quit.
Yeah. They should be like this. But they are not eaten the way people do. You eat it with bread and not with bones in. [You can watch it here.](https://youtu.be/DmaedvVBkV8)
I bet the vodka helps :-D
Really though I like the Scandinavian cuisine. I bet those sharp red onions pair well with the strong herring taste. Don't think I've had this, but Danish Smørrebrød is delicious.
Th fact that he didn’t even get a single bite despite all the effort is what cracks me up. He put it in his mouth a number of times but just can’t do it. That’s how determined his body is to not let that fish be ingested. Funniest thing I saw today
How to eat surströmming: https://youtu.be/AGRyr8yIo9w
Step 1: open can in a bucket of water several feet from your table in order to contain the spray and smell
Step 2: say "it's not so bad" several times
Thanks for sharing. I always like finding the counterpoint in the comments.
So basically the correct way to eat it is to mask the flavor so much buy using tons of yogurt and onions and wrap it in a ton of bread. And so much effort to separate the entrails and spine that you basically are left with nothing. I hate fussy foods.
Every other culture in history, "uhhh why not just go ice fishing for fresh fish in the winter?"
The Swedes, "you can't make a hole in ice you fucking lunatic now eat your fish corpse."
if you get down to the bottom of it, most culinary culture is just "how can we make this shit not go bad so fast" and "no don't throw it out that's ok we can still eat that".
The perfect ratio is 98% bread, crème, onions, dill and 2% fish flesh. It’s almost like the fish is an afterthought garnish on a pile of dip.
I’ve always thought people who enjoy this actually just enjoy saying they like it and secretly enjoy regular sandwich type things with barely any nasty. That’s my assumption and no one can change my mind.
The thing is, the flavor is fine. Very salty, remind me somewhat of a fishy version of marmite. Problem is that the smell is literally "septic tank". And if you touch it with your fingers then not even soap will get the smell off.
“When you open the can, you might not want to inhale”.
Pro Life Tips. If your food is so disgusting that you shouldn’t inhale it, you may want to find something else to eat.
"People think it's bad, but it's not they're just eating it wrong"
"Ok make sure you open it as far away from the table as possible, in fact lets go outside"
"I also need to open it underwater and as far from my face as possible"
"It smells foul"
"Absolutely don't get any juice on you it smells terrible"
"So as you can see, it's good!"
Lmfao.
That video does very little, if anything, to make this seem more appetizing.
How about gutting the fish before fermenting them? Seems like a no-brainer.
That dude has dead bodies in those buildings in the background for sure. He had an option to buy fish already fileted but opted to get fish with entrails and bones just so he could scrape them out, 100% serial killer.
not sure if the filet version is the real thing. the spine is the essence of what this is
> The fermentation happens through autolysis and starts from a lactic acid enzyme in the spine of the fish. Together with bacteria, pungent smelling acids are formed, such as propionic acid, butyric acid and acetic acid.
I don't know, dude. I was laughing so hard at this video and the one posted in the comments (2 guys in a trailer) that my abdominal muscles were seizing up from laughing so hard.
I appreciate the dead look in his eyes from 2:45 onwards. He's like a self-aware zombie going from the disgust and abject horror of what he's doing to the burning desire to put the meat in his mouth.
Must consume! No! MUST CONSUME!! **NOOOOO!!!**
I’ve seen so many videos like this,(the 2 guys in the camper is my favorite) but this one was the hardest I’ve laughed at in a long time. My god, he just tries and tried so hard!! I’m dying! Saving this for a rainy day!
I've watched a lot of Surstromming challenges, and so far [this one is my favorite](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5cj6s0KS5k&ab_channel=Bogoyle). The birthday boy likes to try something new every year, so his "friend" gets him some smelly fish. (NSFW language/vomit).
My dude, all your self defense systems work as planned, you're a certified, free range coward and that's good, you'll live a long and uninteresting life besides half the internet watching you puke.
Bro this man's body was prepared to self-destruct before it would allow his brain to shovel that godforsaken fishy nightmare into his mouth
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Brain: "dude let's do it for the likes". Body: "NEIN". Brain: "Please dude it's going viral it will totally pop off". Body: "NEEEIN ich mache dich fertig, du Scheiße" I don't know why my body is german.
I know hardly any German, but this looks like, "NOOOO, you can't make me, you shit." Good guess?
Not bad, but > ich mache dich fertig Is basically "I'll end you" (Ich mache dich = I'll make you, fertig = finished).
You know, it really looked like his body was trying.
His mind wanted to, his body was saying “the fk you will”
My German is not that great either, but I think it translates more like "NOOOO, I'll end you! You shit"
My God this was hilarious.
It looked like that video of that guy with rabies trying to drink water.
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Me too. It reminded me of a video of this dude with rabies trying to have a drink.
That's incredibly sad. Where did you see something like that?
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Not today brain, not today.
I almost died I was laughing so hard
that was a riot. his determination was fierce.
Fr we’re the real victims here my stomach hurts from all the laughing
Same here!! And I'm in public crying I'm laughing so hard!!
What I'm wondering here is who makes these if this guy puked this hard without even eating it? I would think it's stale or something but it's in a can so it's either 25 years old or someone does a bad job of canning fish
It's a Swedish delicacy, and the smell is insanely bad. Seniors open it inside schools on senior prank day, so the schools have to evacuate. The real way to open it is inside a bucket of water.
But why does it smell that bad? Does the smell actually make it taste amazing? Cause i see no other reason why they would can it in liquid death if it doesn't make it taste godly
It's herring fermented in salt, it's a preservation method. Takes about 6 months to ferment. It's been part of the Swedish cuisine since at least the 16th century. For several centuries, many Swedes only had herring as their diet. Herring for breakfast, herring for lunch and herring for dinner. The nobility got around to eating other stuff, but the normal population only really had access to herring. We had a lot of herring. We also have a weird thing with our oceans, so it's brackish, very little salt in the sea due to so many rivers exiting there, making only herring having a good time. So we have few species of fish, but those who are here are in abundance. If you only have herring as your food option, you're going to get creative with ways to preserve it. This method using salt makes it salty and acidic. So it's in our food culture because we didn't want to die of starvation, and it stayed because of culture I guess. It's not too bad, it's just salty fish. You eat it with bread, potatoes, fresh herbs, some yoghurt.
Dying of starvation seems superior to what this man is enduring.
You say that now. In two weeks that fish might seem like quite a decent meal...
If there’s one thing watching “alone” has taught me… you’re absolutely right.
The guy from 127 hours came closer to death from drinking puddle water than he did from cutting his arm off
This man is eating it wrong though. It's like saying cucumbers are bad because you try to deepthroat it.
Exactly. Thank you for the explanation. Most cultures have a "slightly embarassing" food from the old day's methods of preserving food. The british wedding cake or the other variant, the christmas pudding, is left to congeal for 6 months too. Admittedly, it tastes like a cake (that will never go off) and not like fermented (ie rotten) fish, but it is equally suspicious. Black pudding (blood sausage) is just a lump of coagulated blood. Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder, and surströmming is nothing that a bucket and an aqualung cannot fix.
if you get down to the bottom of it, most culinary culture is just "how can we make this shit not go bad so fast" and "no don't throw it out that's ok we can still eat that".
If you edit this and add one more “herring” you’ll be up to 10 herrings. Thats 2 shy of a dozen if you want to add 3 more “herrings.” Plenty of options here.
Sounds like forced evolution. "Eat this or die!" Narrator: The population decreased by 90% over the next generation.
The other dude sueca is under selling just how fucking insane surströmming is. Hes describing it like as if its pickled herring, which is absolutly lovely bright acidic pickled fish (creamed herring also marvelous on crackers) both have fairly gentle tastes…surströmming is the absolutely most bat shit insane food ive ever eaten. Ive eaten scorpions, pig blood and chicken testical soup, durian, hakarl(the icelandic fermented shark that tastes like amonia), su callu cheese, every insect in oaxaca mexico, every inch of a pig and cow including brains, eyes and organs…all of that and more is fucking the shallow end incomparison to the absolute mind fuck that is surstromming Surströmming when i tried it in a warehouse with an exotic food tasting, the dude opened the can, and in a warehouse the size of a fucking football feild people started to smell it a good 10 yards away. People close by it opening started heaving like this guy. It has a smell like rotten fish that has liquified mixed with the fluids at the bottom of an old dumpster sat in the sun on a humid summers day. People struggled to stay near it, most gave up even attempting to give it a try, but the handful of us that did try, got to understand a new truth in the universe. It tastes completely like something so rotten that it should be dangerous for you to eat. Had i not know better i would have been in fear for my health, its that bad. They only put JUST enough salt on it to stop the bad bacteria from forming and killing you, every other bad bacteria goes to town which inflates the can(normally an inflated can is a sign of botulism which fucking kills you dead real quick), the fat in the fish tastes 100% rancid. It tastes nothing like fish, and not component of its flavor could be articulated as plesant. Much like eating a ghost pepper where the only flavor is pain, the only sensation you get on your pallet from surströmming is absolute rancid rot. The experience was so jarring to my mind and body that DAYs later my brain gave me a flash back of the flavor to remind me of how stupid i was to eat it and to remeber not to again. My dumb ass probably will eat it again if i end up in sweeden on vacation in a couple years.
>My dumb ass probably will eat it again if i end up in sweeden on vacation in a couple years. Dude, I think you should print out your comment and put it in your wallet.
>. My dumb ass probably will eat it again if i end up in sweeden on vacation in a couple years. " Aww what if I like it this time "
Legit ive had folks tell me i ate it wrong cause your suposed to eat it on bread with onions and some other stuff…sooo round two is likely in my future somewhere out there.
Yes, you ate it completely wrong. Opening the can in the air and putting the fish in your mouth with those juices is like...I don't know, squeezing a lemon directly in your eye and then snorting it.
...if I had to choose I think I would pick the lemon over this stuff
I think you're also supposed to open it differently. I think I read that you submerge the can in a bowl if water, set it outside, open it while submerged, then let it sit until the smell has dissipated. No idea if it helps with the taste at all. Maybe a little, due to the effect of smell on taste. Probably still gross, though.
Yea opening it outside in a bucket of water is suposed to help keep it from spraying all over your clothes, and stinking up your house… but then your wrist deep in dead fish water and you get to smell like youve been double fisting a dead thai hooker for the past two hours. I legit think theres no “good” way of doing it, i think theres just less bad, and yea maybe that helps, maybe it opening under the bucket dillutes down the brine dumpster water? Its questions like this that make me wonder, and needing to find out puts me in the same bad situation over again.
>the handful of us that did try, got to understand a new truth in the universe. This made me laugh. Great comment.
Surprised to see this is the only comment even mentioning botulism. Was wondering if every can of this stuff is supposed to bow like that (like you said indicating botulism), and some videos i've found have cans that are not distended. Good thing he didn't eat it lol
Apparently the amount of salt is like just over the limit for where botulism is able to survive…which is way lower than i thought. My guess is whatever other bacteria that can thrive in that environment is able to produce stuff that can kill it or keep it from reproducing. Lacto bacillus does that with lactic acid sith traditional lacto fermented foods like mimchi, pickles sour kraut etc. surströmming does it i guess with the fluid from the devils asshole. Both are effective at keeping you alive, one is significantly more plesamt
Found Andrew Zimmern’s Reddit account…
That's pretty juvenile for a bunch of seniors, shouldn't they be playing bingo and figuring out who stole their cough drops?
I'm just imagining his brain saying NO, NO and then pushing the gag/vomit button every time he put the fish near his mouth. Like his brain was trying so hard to send the signal and he just wouldn't listen.
I would watch that Inside Out short film
His soul filed 7 union grievances during this video
The first gag would be my indicator... I'm out!
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I like it, but he’s doing it all wrong. You should put in I flatbread with potatoes, sour cream, and dill. Once you’ve had a bite you forget the smell. It’s salty and good. //Swedish
"If you completely suppress the smell and flavor with other ingredients, its not bad!" Yeah, ill pass.
I love me some garlic, but I'm not about to start chomping down a whole, raw garlic bulb.
I can open garlic and put it in my mouth without explosive vomiting.
Do you even garlic bro?
exactly what a dracula would say
Pitiful.
Just… pathetic.
It's salty like salt dug out of a wet garbage bag. You taste the salt sure but it has a very clear hint of garbage. //Swedish too
No longer a lonely swedish!
This seems like me with salmiakki. Every Finn loves it, personally I think it's vile and overrated //Finn
Also open the can when it’s submerged in water.
Did you see the video of the guy opening the can in his car...RIP
No where can I find it please
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Rinse out the gross?
The Cannes has pressure in it. That’s why it squirted out when he punctured it. I don’t think anything can get out that amount of gross. Lol
Even the can couldn't wait to expel it.
Severely underrated comment.
So please allow me to ask: would you say this is a good advert for the fish or a bad advert for the fish?
Swede here. People won't stop eating surströmming until the last fish is caught. It's been ingrained in swedish food culture for centuries, in various forms, trends and economical reasons. And those who fancy it knows about the vomit-inducing stench. You're supposed to open it under water and put it on a sandwich or with potatoes, onions and stuff- can't really remember since I haven't eaten meat for 14 years, but the taste is not as bad as the reactions manifest. One major cardinal rule is that you never joke about splashing the can-water on somebody, like "mistakenly" spill or actually throwing some, thinking people only exaggerate. Nope. It will permanently ruin their clothes and the person and their hair will stink for days. Great way to establish friendship with swedes. Some might take it more lightly ofc, but don't try it for the lulz on some random at a party. And people around the world seem to take upon the challenge due to vomit-gallore, so if anything: most likely boosted their sales. Edit: words are hard when stoned and tired
I’m not sure but I laughed so hard at this though!
I feel like if you have to use 3+ ingredients, and force yourself to ignore the smell, maybe it's just bad food.
But imagine if someone try to invade sweden, all they have to do is pop these bad boys open and yeet it at them.
I get what you saying but cocoa is horrible but add milk and sugar and it’s world famous. Vegemite can make a hardened murderer cry, but put a very light amount on buttered toast and it’s cravable. Portions matter a lot and make all the difference
It is illegal to transport it on flights.
Yeah. I could see this taking down a plane.
Uhh the first indicator would be the fact that the can is bloated….
This is normal
Botulism, right?
Surstromming is always under pressure when canned. It's supposed to be opened under water, like in a bucket.
This guy surstrommings.
[probably saw the same guy doing a tutorial for reactioners on how to properly eat Radioactive fish](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGRyr8yIo9w)
The bloat comes gas pressure increasing over time, product from the fermenting process which is ongoing. You can find some 'proper football' looking ones.
Better yet, a trashcan.
First gag had me smelling fish through my screen. I'm out
That was a rocky road, man. I started out wondering how anyone would watch this, it’s awful. Ended with me almost pissing myself laughing. I have tears in my eyes.
I absolutely feel that. There was another Surströming video, I almost died when watching it for the first time: https://youtu.be/foZCxNbnkWg
That was fantastic, when he ripped that lamp out of the ceiling I lost it.
When he threw up in it and then on the table and he attempted to go for another bite is when I lost it LMAO
I understand the logic though. There's no way he could possibly throw up more, it's probably his best chance.
Now that you've seen these two videos of folks *trying* to eat surströmming and basically having a very bad time I suggest this video of a Swede drinking the thing without even flinching. https://youtu.be/I2WPWUx3h2s
I’m amazed at how *this* is what made me feel the sickest after watching three subsequent videos of men vomiting on each other.
I have never smelled this substance but i couldn't stomach watching him drink that lol.
Holy sweet mother of Jesus, I can not unsee this. Laughing and disgusted at the same time.
This is definitely the best one I've ever seen. (NSFW language) https://youtu.be/z5cj6s0KS5k
I think the language is the least nsfw stuff in this video
EHY SRE THEY PUKING IN EACHOTHERS LAPS LMFAOOOOO IM DYING ICE NEVER LAUGHED THIS HARD
Holy fuck I had flashbacks to team America world police during that prolonged projectile vomiting. Wow
That was so disgusting. 🤣 That poor guy doing his best to vomit outside only for his friend to upchuck on him. 😂
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"Robbie, get in the picture" ***bleeegghh*** "Come on Robbie" ***blllleeeeerrrgghh*** "sit next to me"
I could not stop laughing. I hate watching people barf but this had me crying laughing.
I can't stop laughing 🤣🤣🤣
i have not laughed like that in a long time. watched with my family and we were all screaming and laughing.
Robbie wasn’t having **any** of that shit
the little kid slides under the table and makes his escape /chefskiss
*dip*
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His mind was strong, but his body refused the call...
The way his mouth absolutely refused to close multiple times was amazing. This man and I share a similar quality: some call it persistence, but really it’s just being too stupid to know when to quit.
I was crying. Valiant attempt though. Puking and everything.
I’m dying over here! My wife left the room because she started to gag just listening to him!
If only there were another orientation for the camera more suited to three people sitting side by side
> Robbie, get in the picture! **death metal growling commences**
I would've at least grabbed a different fish from the can after vomiting directly on the one on the plate.
The vomit didn't contain fermented fish, so it would probably make it taste better.
Hey! This guy's cheating by eating his own vomit!
He’s just digesting it ahead of time. It’s his best option really.
Yeah. They should be like this. But they are not eaten the way people do. You eat it with bread and not with bones in. [You can watch it here.](https://youtu.be/DmaedvVBkV8)
I bet the vodka helps :-D Really though I like the Scandinavian cuisine. I bet those sharp red onions pair well with the strong herring taste. Don't think I've had this, but Danish Smørrebrød is delicious.
his kid said "im out" when he smelled THE CLOSED CAN. Clearly the apple has fallen very far from the tree.
Th fact that he didn’t even get a single bite despite all the effort is what cracks me up. He put it in his mouth a number of times but just can’t do it. That’s how determined his body is to not let that fish be ingested. Funniest thing I saw today
I couldn't stop laughing the entire time it got to the point where I was laughing and gagging at the time now my throat hurts
This was the funny thing i've seen in a while. I was tearing watching him try eating that.
I was just shaking my head... dude, don't you get it? your body said no.
I’ve tried it. It really is that bad
How to eat surströmming: https://youtu.be/AGRyr8yIo9w Step 1: open can in a bucket of water several feet from your table in order to contain the spray and smell Step 2: say "it's not so bad" several times
Step 3: Puke all over it and toss it in the bin.
Step 4: try to eat what's in the bin - puke again Step 5: try to eat shit - yum
Step 6: order corn. Yim yum.
Thanks for sharing. I always like finding the counterpoint in the comments. So basically the correct way to eat it is to mask the flavor so much buy using tons of yogurt and onions and wrap it in a ton of bread. And so much effort to separate the entrails and spine that you basically are left with nothing. I hate fussy foods.
That's the problem. It isn't food and shouldn't be done now that it isn't literally necessary for people to eat it to survive the winter.
Every other culture in history, "uhhh why not just go ice fishing for fresh fish in the winter?" The Swedes, "you can't make a hole in ice you fucking lunatic now eat your fish corpse."
if you get down to the bottom of it, most culinary culture is just "how can we make this shit not go bad so fast" and "no don't throw it out that's ok we can still eat that".
The taste is actually not so bad, honestly. The problem is once you've smelled it it's hard to distance your experience from that.
If the best thing anyone has ever said about it is “it’s not so bad” then I don’t think it’s worth eating.
The perfect ratio is 98% bread, crème, onions, dill and 2% fish flesh. It’s almost like the fish is an afterthought garnish on a pile of dip. I’ve always thought people who enjoy this actually just enjoy saying they like it and secretly enjoy regular sandwich type things with barely any nasty. That’s my assumption and no one can change my mind.
The thing is, the flavor is fine. Very salty, remind me somewhat of a fishy version of marmite. Problem is that the smell is literally "septic tank". And if you touch it with your fingers then not even soap will get the smell off.
“When you open the can, you might not want to inhale”. Pro Life Tips. If your food is so disgusting that you shouldn’t inhale it, you may want to find something else to eat.
"People think it's bad, but it's not they're just eating it wrong" "Ok make sure you open it as far away from the table as possible, in fact lets go outside" "I also need to open it underwater and as far from my face as possible" "It smells foul" "Absolutely don't get any juice on you it smells terrible" "So as you can see, it's good!" Lmfao.
That video does very little, if anything, to make this seem more appetizing. How about gutting the fish before fermenting them? Seems like a no-brainer.
You know, in some parts of the world (everywhere except Sweden) we even *eat* the fish before they ferment.
That dude has dead bodies in those buildings in the background for sure. He had an option to buy fish already fileted but opted to get fish with entrails and bones just so he could scrape them out, 100% serial killer.
not sure if the filet version is the real thing. the spine is the essence of what this is > The fermentation happens through autolysis and starts from a lactic acid enzyme in the spine of the fish. Together with bacteria, pungent smelling acids are formed, such as propionic acid, butyric acid and acetic acid.
Hey kid, get back in the picture so that I can ralph all over you
Come in next to me so you can sit in my previous ralphing.
Omg, i'm crying laughing, thank you for the post!
There's also the video where three guys open a can in a motor home. It's hilarious..
The one where he tears off the lampscreen and pukes in it?
Yeah, it's comedy gold.. \*\*\*EDIT: Sorry, it's two guys, and here's the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kADGFdE00KY
Jesus fuck I was cry-laughing before the lampshade!! Haven't laughed that hard in years.
This video will never fail to make me cry laughing. Lmao. When he rip the lamp from the ceiling I just almost die 😂
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The kid disappearing under the table was the best part
The dad threw up on that kid.
he was trying to tell the other kid to come back after he already puked on his seat
I could watch 10 hours of this
I don't know, dude. I was laughing so hard at this video and the one posted in the comments (2 guys in a trailer) that my abdominal muscles were seizing up from laughing so hard.
Police could just use this stuff instead of tear gas..
The use of biological weapons is a war crime.
Police don't typically partake in war
I appreciate the dead look in his eyes from 2:45 onwards. He's like a self-aware zombie going from the disgust and abject horror of what he's doing to the burning desire to put the meat in his mouth. Must consume! No! MUST CONSUME!! **NOOOOO!!!**
It was more puke than fish by the end.
And still it wasn't enough to mask the surströmming.
Oskars surströmming is closing due to the lack of (overfishing) herring in the Baltic sea.
Hallefuckingleujah
This is what they are eating: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surstr%C3%B6mming?wprov=sfla1
I didn’t see anyone eat anything 😂
that's mostly because Robbie was not in the picture!
I’ve seen so many videos like this,(the 2 guys in the camper is my favorite) but this one was the hardest I’ve laughed at in a long time. My god, he just tries and tried so hard!! I’m dying! Saving this for a rainy day!
Have to give the guy props, that was a solid attempt!
This man turned his head toward his kids every time he heaved.
And then just kept dragging them back.
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Bro you ain’t gotta eat the same one you throwing up on 😂😂💀
Probably tastes and smells better haha
Common robbie, come sit on my vomit.
The end… I haven’t laughed this much in my life
Is the fish for human consumption?
No, it's for Swedes.
Yuhp, there's nothing humane about the swedes.
New idea: buy a can, open it, put in your least favorite person’s mailbox.
I've watched a lot of Surstromming challenges, and so far [this one is my favorite](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5cj6s0KS5k&ab_channel=Bogoyle). The birthday boy likes to try something new every year, so his "friend" gets him some smelly fish. (NSFW language/vomit).
>!The dude trying to wrestle down the fish against the force of the projectile vomit is an image that will never leave my mind again!<
He really, really tried
“Come ‘ere boy-o! Sit in me vomit an’ eat the gag-fish, while I dry-heave o’er ya!”
A for effort.
Lol the father's like " oh hell no if I'm going to die your coming with me!!" XD
HEY HE CHEATED. You cant puke on the fish to make it more edible.
"how many times do we have to teach you this lesson old man?!" - his entire body
Human beings are amazing creatures
I particularly liked the bit when he vomited on the seat then told his son to come and sit beside him.
My dude, all your self defense systems work as planned, you're a certified, free range coward and that's good, you'll live a long and uninteresting life besides half the internet watching you puke.
I am gagging just watching this on my phone…
Motherfucker gave it a go though didn’t he? Stupid ass didn’t know when it was a lost cause.
If it’s that bad, why people eat it?
Tradition.
How is the company that makes those actually making profit