<h1 class = "pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="1" > on the world's top ten most smelly food list, Sweden's canned herring, with a big smell of special odor long-term dominance of the list, this is a kind of food that can smell the stench across the screen, it is said that the first time to try the canned herring more than 90% of people will vomit more than once, if you open the canned herring indoors, it is guaranteed that the smell will go around the beam for three days. </h1>
Canned herring
Some people want to eat canned herring at home, will greet the neighbors in advance, it is said that in Sweden there was a landlord, in their own home will not eat the canned herring on their own balcony, the result was a complaint from the tenant, directly to the court, and the judge directly awarded the tenant to win, not only reduced the rent for a month, but also to compensate the tenant's mental loss, you can imagine how bad this herring is stinky!
In recent years, herring has been brought to fire by major variety shows and Internet celebrities, Huang Bo and Yu Hewei have challenged eating herring in the extreme challenge, a large group of people around to watch them challenge, as soon as the canned herring is opened, it stinks to the point that everyone covers their noses, Huang Bo ate a small bite of facial expression instantly distorted, Yu Hewei also went over to taste a bite, spit on the spot, open mouth straight out of the tongue, it is too difficult to eat.
Later, in the running bar brothers, the longing life, the actor stars and the major Internet celebrities challenged to eat herring scenes, one more exaggerated than the other, bringing the canned herring to the throne of the Internet celebrity's dark cuisine, is this canned herring really as hard to eat as they say so smelly? What exactly is this canned herring?
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="58" > what exactly is canned herring? </h1>
Canned herring is a traditional Swedish delicacy, and they are called the stinkiest delicacies in the world, which sounds paradoxical and smelliest, but it is a delicacy.
According to Swedish records, the history of canned herring dates back 300 years, and canned herring was native to Scandinavia, Sweden at that time, which was also very poor, unlike now, which belongs to developed countries, especially the poor, and in the era of food scarcity, herring was one of their food sources. Due to climate and seasonal problems, nearly half a year here is a very short day, the temperature is cold and can not be cultivated, naturally can not go out to sea to fish, so people here will catch a large number of herring in the summer, in order to be able to eat herring in the winter when there is a lack of food, people began to find ways to store herring. Therefore, people thought of salting, removing the fish and putting it in a sealed jar, waiting until the winter to open it and enjoy it. Although the taste is not good, it is better than eating no food, which has become a stable food source for the local poor.
Every year from April to June, the season when herring is the most produced, the Swedes fish hundreds of tons of herring, they simply treat the salvaged herring, then soak it in thick brine, cook it in warm water until the fish becomes a fluffy state, and then put the whole fish in a sealed can to ferment naturally.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="59" > where does the smell of canned herring come from? </h1>
It was a particularly strange smell, and someone had described the smell of canned herring in this way: it was the feeling of a dead rat in the flesh of the fish, in the toilet for a month, and the smell felt quite disgusting just by imagining it. So what makes canned herring so smelly?
The root of the problem lies in the natural fermentation of this step, although the herring itself has a fishy smell, after fermentation, it is not a simple chemical reaction so simple, herring canned, after removing the internal organs and after the head in the brine soaking, and in the process of soaking will produce an anaerobic bacteria, in the sealed environment, it will continue to grow, and in this process emitted acrylic acid and sulfur hydrogen, such a mixture of substances in the mixed taste of the substance, we smell the taste of the canned herring.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="60" > how smelly is canned herring? </h1>
A canned herring factory in Sweden, which specializes in canned herring, has been making for hundreds of years. A female worker who works here says that she has been working here for 7 years, and when she first came here, she would apply a pungent paint under her nose to reduce the smell of canned herring. In the second year, I stuffed my nose with a tissue, but I still couldn't hide the smell of the canned herring, and by the third year, I was used to the smell. Even the villages living a few kilometers away can smell the canned herring in this factory, and you can imagine that even the air is this smell.
Someone has specifically studied why canned herring is so smelly, because the herring will be put into the can to allow it to ferment freely, in the herring fermentation process anaerobic bacteria produced by anaerobic bacteria hydrogen propionate butyric acid sulfide, as well as this acetic acid and other odors, imagine butyric acid for the armpit odor, hydrogen sulfide for the smell of rotten eggs, acetic acid is the sour smell of kitchen garbage, and canned herring cleverly integrates these odors together. Think about how the workers at the herring cannery factory endure the world's foulest smell day in and day out.
Herring canning factory
There are many interesting stories about how bad canned herring is, in 1981, there was a hotel in Germany that was sued for canned herring, a tenant staying in the hotel opened the canned herring and put it in the stairwell, the huge smell spread throughout the hotel, in less than five minutes, all the tenants were smoked by the smell of the canned herring. And they also jointly sued the innkeepers. When the judge smelled the canned herring, he directly acquitted the landlord and arrested the tenant who put the canned herring.
Canned herring is also known as a biological weapon on the table, not without reason, it is said that in the United Kingdom, on a flight, there was once a passenger's canned herring accidentally fell out of the backpack, the strong smell spread throughout the aircraft, and even the captain said bluntly, the first time to open the plane is dizzy, the passengers are more because of these vomiting.
In 2014, a warehouse for canned herring on a street in Sweden accidentally caught fire, and thousands of fermented herring cans in the warehouse shot out like out-of-control small fireballs, and local residents, under the organization of firefighters, quickly made an evacuation. After 6 hours of extinguishing the fire, it was gradually extinguished. Surrounding residents called the smell unforgettable, and called it a small Chernobyl incident.
Japanese scientists have done scientific research on how smelly canned herring is, and the data they gave after the study stunned everyone, according to the test, the odor index of canned herring has reached 8070AU, what is this concept? For example, durian and stinky tofu are recognized as very special in China, some people even smell the smell of durian will want to vomit, some people smell the smell of stinky tofu and feel that they can't stand it, but this two things that everyone recognizes as bad smell are not worth mentioning at all in front of canned herring. According to the data tested out, the result is that durian and stinky tofu are 420AU, canned herring is 8070AU, not at all in a grade, you can imagine, than durian and stinky tofu smell dozens of times worse, how bad is it, probably the number in mind, right?
stinky tofu
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="62" > herring is so smelly, why do Swedes love it so much? </h1>
According to statistics, Sweden needs to consume about 800 tons of canned herring every year, which greatly proves that this food is very popular in Sweden, for more than 300 years, canned herring has become a traditional food for Swedes, and Swedes will organize a party of canned herring in August every year, inviting friends and family to share delicious canned herring. It is said that canned herring is the most delicious to eat at this time of year, of course, their eating method is also quite exquisite, not to open the can and eat it directly.
The traditional way for Swedes to eat canned herring is first to open the can in water so as to avoid the smell from affecting the neighbors around them, then wash off the brine and marinade on the fish with clean water, and finally sandwich the fish and vegetable slices together in the bread, you can also roll the herring and mashed potatoes together in the pancake for eating, if it feels too big, they will also add lemon juice to it.
Of course, there are many young Swedish people who can't accept such a taste, many speculations, the swedish people eat because of the bittersweet, even if the Swedes try to prove to the people of the world that this is a delicious food, but eating canned herring has become a challenge for many people, and it is even more impossible to recognize this as a delicacy from the heart.
Although canned herring is being challenged by more and more people to punch in, there may really be a deviation in the taste of food, which leads many people to not accept the smell, and perhaps the Swedes who eat it every day really feel that it is a delicious food. Just like many of us like to eat peeled eggs, there are peeled egg porridge, there are cold mixed peeled eggs, as well as raw peeled eggs, boiled soup with peeled eggs, etc., but do you know that peeled eggs are also rated as the most difficult food to eat in foreign countries, even Beiye, who loves to challenge wild survival, can eat all kinds of insects in the tropical rainforest raw, but even dare not challenge to eat Chinese peeled eggs.
preserved egg
Like durian and stinky tofu is the same, people who like to eat especially like it, and people who don't like it, smell the smell and feel very uncomfortable, in fact, it is the same truth, when we feel that this thing is a delicious thing for ourselves, we ignore its smell. And people who don't like to eat, the first feeling is that the smell is unbearable, and naturally they lose the desire to taste the food itself.
Maybe canned herring is really a different delicacy, do you dare to challenge it and try it?
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